WHAT'S DOING?— LABOR SUPPORTER Dr. Douglas -: opens office READERS OF the Pacific Tri- bune who subscribed to the old People’s Advocate will welcome a | return to practice, after an ab- sence of three years, of Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas, the popular Vancouver dentist whose assist- anee to their paper during the thirties deserved the support it brought him. It was Dr. Douglas who helped to give the People’s Advocate a broader audience by sponsoring the paper’s weekly labor news broadcast over station CKMO. Starting in 1937 with Hal Griffin and Al Parkin as commentators, the broadcast proved so popular that it soon became a twice-week- ly program. Despite the pressure exerted by pro-fascist interests chagrined by | the publicizing of their subver- sive activities, and particualrly the Japanese consulate here, and influence brought to bear by anti- labor employers, Dr. Douglas maintained the broadcast for three years until the outbreak of war and tightening of radio regula- tions forced its suspension. In addition to sponsoring the broadeast, Dr. Douglas was also one of the first advertisers in the - People’s Advocate and other labor weeklies here. He has now opened new offices at the corner of Carrall and Hastings streets. equipped to give. the same high standard of service as in the past, and he wants bis to be known that he will be glad to see his many friends in the labor movement, Classified A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column, No notices will be accepted later than Monday noon of the week of publication. Oldtime Dancing To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra Every Wednesday and Saturday Hastings Auditorium Phone HAstings 1248 Moderate Rental Rates “Yor socials,’ weddings, meetings Russian People’s Home— available for meetings, weddings and banquets at reasonable rates. 600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087. Dance, Clinton BHal— 2605 Hast Pender. Saturday night. Modern and Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra. Hall is ‘available for rent, Hastings 8277, SALLY BOWES— __ INCOME TAX PROBLEMS. MA, 9965. WANTED— yee ene Boys and girls to sell the Pacific Tribune each week. Earn pocket money after school Friday or Saturday. Start a bundle in your neighborhood. Phone MaArine 5288 or write to 650 Howe St.. Vancouver, B.C. CRYSTAL STEAM) cee ca Open every day. ew Mod Beauty: Salon—1763 E. Hastings. HAstings 0094. MEETINGS— Swedish-Finnish Workers’ Club meets last Friday every month at 7:30 p.m., in Clinton Hall. — Room 20, 9 East Hastings: ATTENTION VICTORIA— “Dusty Greenwell, V. I. miner, will tell of his experiences in Burope as member of the eS ver Brigade, 1948, Sunday, ee 6, .8 pm., Williams Bldg., ‘Broughton St.. ‘ Dance every. Spot polio virus Another step on the road to cure of infantile paralysis is the discovery of a new strain of polio virus by. Dr. John P. Kessel (above) and Dr. Charles Pait of the University of Southern California. OUR CHILDREN .. DORISE NIELSEN, A. A. MacLEOD REPORT: ERP impoverishing Europe “BY THE GRACE of the Mar- shall Plan,’ the government of France is fighting the people of Viet-Nam, Dorise Nielsen told a public meeting in Toronto’s Mas- sey Hall at which she and A. A. McLeod, MPP, reported on their recent trips to Europe. A study . in contrast was drawn at the Congress of the Women’s Inter- national Democratic Federation, Mrs. Nielsen said, the French women delegates reported when they were raising money to aid the women of Viet-Nam in their struggle against French imperial- ism. “Women of Holland, 100.000 strong, are also collecting money to aid their sisters in Indonesia,” she stated. Delegates. from these and other western European emphasized the hard- ships their countries were suffer- ing, she said, pointing out that . countries ‘Competition’ at schoo| MANY PEOPLE rightly object to the undue emphasis placed on the ‘‘competitive spirit” in our modern school system. ‘There are - a few—teachers who are endowed with real understanding of children __who help and encourage the slower ones, rather than shaming them. More frequently teachers resort to the extreme in recognition of the “best’ either scholastically or in behavior, while the “worst” are held up as horrible examples. Generally speaking, in all areas of school life, whether it sports or other programs, some is stress (greater or less, depending . on the teacher) is laid on so-call- ed “healthy competition.” This type of training is, I suppose, considered necessary to fit the individual into the highly com- petitive society present day edu- cators are so enamored of in our free enterprise - society. Despite the objections to such training, many parents, by their actions at home, put their stamp of approval on the school set up. The child may be quickly learning that only the success- ful have the right to approval, and that individual success means. beating the next fellow, and yery frequently the attitude of the parent bears them out. * * * VERY OFTEN it is these very antics which are keeping a scho- lar from working to the best of his ability. So much stress is put on marks, such excessive de- mands are made on him, that he cannot relax and learn in his own way, at his: own speed. When a parent is satisfied that a child is happy, and doing the best he is able, his efforts should be accepted as_ such. If his grades are too low, perhaps he is in the wrong class, but if his marks are acceptable there is_ no need to continue the impres- sion that he is less important as a human being than any other child, however brilliant he may be at school. When the child is not working at the full level of his . ability, then the parents’ job is to find out why, not to make further impossible demands. Y : Children are more likely to ’ aecept all people as important, rather than only the “success- ful’ ones, parents’ approval and acceptance regardless of personal achieve-_ ment.—VERA MORRIS \ 100 young Canadians ' of Youth Students. tion work lands. Twenty of them will be if they have their YOUTH | Plan. world peace rally THE WORLD Federation of Democratic Youth will convene the second World Youth Congress at the beginning of September in Budapest, with a World Fes- tival of.Youth and Students planned for the three weeks im- mediately prior to it, according to an announcement, made by the Canadian committee in To- ronto. The Federation is the -ohly representative mass organ- ization of the democratic youth of the world—uniting in its ranks over 50 million young men and women of 68 countries. It is comprised of youth of all coun- ‘tries in the cause of peace, free- dom. and national independence. “The Canadian Committee of the WEDY announced that the Beaver Brigade 1949 will be made up of a. representative group of drawn from all sections of the country. It will attend the World Festival It will par- ticipate in helping in reconstruc- in war-devastated entitled to attend the World Youth Congress as official dele- gates. : : “In preparing for. this,” said the WEDY office, “we call upon the youth organizations of Can- ada to: (1) Elect delegates and raise money to send them over. (2) Organize meetings, gather- ings and distribute materials. publicizing’ the activities of the WFDY and the meaning of these two events. (3) Express + your solidarity with colonial youth on February 21 which has been set aside as the International Day of Solidarity with Colonial Youth. (4) Celebrate World Youth Week March 20-27. ° “Join together with the youth | of other lands to keep the peace, to protect and strengthen inter- national friendship, to protect and strengthen our political and economic rights.” Marshall “aid” was in reality im- poverishing their people, much of the so-called “mercy money’ be- ing earmarked for war and po- lice purposes against the interests of the people of Western Europe. “It has now become illegal to propagandize for in France,” Mrs. Nielsen reported.’ She related how one French dele- gate described the assassination of peace a worker who was attempting to put up a poster calling for peace. “The worker had just begun to place the poster on the wall of a building when a group of spe- cial police stepped forward and shot him,” she said. And while | the police forces of the Marshall- ized countries grow, their people starve. unemployment increases, and. inflation is rife. “By comparison,” she said, “the nations that refused Marshall ‘aid’ are prospering and rebuilding their countries.” oe * * A. A. MacLEOD, reporting on his recent visit to France, declar- ed that the French working class was confident the “day is not far off when they will be able to re- claim their country, and rebuild it.’ MacLeod, in attending a world conference dedicated Free Spain Week in Paris, was given ample opportunity to speak with labor leaders of France, among them workers in the coal miners’ to union. French coal miners receiving. $2.50 a day, underground, when they have to pay $40 for a suit of clothes, take a dim view of the: French teqvernment’s actions in spending a million dollars a day to shoot down the workers of In- do-China, he said. ¥ In repeated references to Mar- shall ‘aid’ in Europe, the Toronto MPP described the frantic machi- nations of the Marshallized gov- ernments to retain their positions. The British people are compel- To make B.C. tour WORD WAS ceckgeds: in this: week that Dorise Nielsén, former © MP, recently’ returned from Europe after attending the peace congress held in Buda- . pest by the Women's Inter- national Democratic Federa- ' tion, will visit B.C. next month. Mrs. Nielsen, is well- lnvown here, will tour the pre- vince from March 1 to 1, speaking at the. following points: Vancouver, Westview, Campbell River, Alberni, Nan- aimo, Cowichan Lake, Victoria, Burnaby, North Vancouver, Westminster, _ Vernon and Trail. Vancouver who who New Surrey, led to suffer a standard of living one third below even the inade- quate Canadian level, he declared. “And yet they are forced to wit- ness their government selling Bri- tish coal in. Berlin at $15 a ton—~ coal that costs the British people $175 a ton to air-lift to Berlin.” NOW THAT MARGARINE is likely to be appearing in the stores soon we shall again have something to put on our bread, that is, if we can afford to buy bread. And this brings up the point of what has happened to the recommendation handed. down by the parliamentary committee on prices concerning the operations and profits of a number of bakery concerns. As some of us may recall, the committee advised ‘Victoria to let Ottawa take action against those bakeries whose ramifications ex- ‘tended to the Coast. Attorney General Gordon Wismer reported- ly approved this step and now its up to Ottawa again. Only it ap- pears that every one has become so worn out by all this investigat-_ ing and procrastinating they're all too tired to do any more, . The Housewives’ Consumer As- sociation isn’t asleep though. It’s members are busy trying to get something done, and in a hurry too, to end this rank profiteering on bread—and that’s the only ' way to describe it. o), Burity Flour Mills, for instance, increased its profits 166 percent in a single year. And that’s not all. Purity Flour Mills also con- trols General Bakeries and sev- eral subsidies, including Robert- Purity Its son's Bakery, Brosseau, Bread and Bryce Bakeries. first year’s | operation of these bakeries netted around a quarter ‘ef a million dollars. But to get to the really big money you have to go to Robin Hood Flour, which made a profit of $3.500,000—and that in 1946. No wonder the management can toss a few thousands away to re- dio listeners for goodwill. It will have to part with a lot more than that to deserve the goodwill of most of us, especially when we remember that bread prices went up three cents to compensate for removal of a subsidy equal to one and a half cents a loaf. Maybe letters to Victoria and Ottawa from a few of us might re- mind vote-conscious governments of the unfinished business on hand—B.G. _ 2 Ag PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 4, 1949 — PAGE Il C4