VACATION PLANS

By EILEEN ROBINS

Whatever we may feel about the
result of the election—and there is
no doubt that most of us are very
concerned that, as a nation, we
didn’t make a real decision about
our Government—I would take a
large bet that everyone of us is
very glad that the campaign is over.
Summer is here, the children, with
a whoop and a cheer, have finished
school, and the holidays will rolf
on until September.

I expect that most of you have
already made your vacation plans.
Some of you will be travelling to
your cottages, for sun and fun; a few
of you will travel by plane to faroff
places; more of you will go by train
to visit relatives or friends, But most
of you—like our family—will climb
into your cars and drive, comfort-
ably or uncomfortably, depending on

the ages of your children, to near

or distant points.

It is difficult, with young children,
to travel very far. But I wonder—
when our children are older, shall
we do any differently?

Don’t Travel

Thousands of Canadians who
don’t have young children still don’t
travel much further than the next
city. If they do travel any distance,
it's usually in a Southern direction,
into the United States where, in
recent years, Canadians have made
a habit of spending far more than
USS. visitors have spent in. Canada;
or in a trans-Atlantic direction, to-
wards the exciting sights and sounds
of Europe.

Yet, nowhere in the world is there
any place which surpasses Canada
in its wealth of tourist attractions.
From the Reversing Falls in the Bay
of Fundy, through the lush fruitland
of Southern Ontario and the end-
lessly stretching golden prairies to
the mountains and sea of British
Columbia, Canada is rich with in-
terest and experience for the travel-
ler.

How sad it is that so many Cana-
dians have never seen any of the
sights mentioned above. I well re-
member my astonishment some years
ago when a young Canadian friend
remarked that, at the ripe old age
of 20, she had never been on a train.
Now, having lived in Canada for
over ten years, I can readily under-
stand. Our six-year-old has travelled
across the Atlantic twice, but IT can’t
remember that she has ever been
in a train—we bought our first car
just after she was born.

Valid Reasons

There are, of course, valid reasons
for Canadians apparently ignoring
their own country; the main one
obviously being the distances and
length of time involved in travelling
between places. About the only form
of travel that overcomes both time
and distance problems is air travel.
But in Canada it remains expensive
and, in a sense, a luxury way of
travelling. Where there is no time
element, vast distances can be trav-
elled comfortably by train. Again,
costs are high and, where children
are concerned, the facilities on trans-
Pontinental trains are not so won-
derful,

It seems logical, then, that Cana-
dians, most of whom own at least

one car, should use these chariots-
of-all-work for vacationing, too.
However, travelling long distances
by car is not the best way to spend
a vacation and it is the rare family
which attempts to see Canada by
automobile.

Notwithstanding all the reasons
why Canadians don’t do so, there
is a tremendous need for them to
travel around their country and meet
each other.

Student Exchange

It is a need which has been met,
to some extent, by the student ex-
change programs between Quebec
and other provinces, which have
been arranged mainly along the lines
of language differences. It would
seem that similar exchange programs
with a geographical or social basis
would be an equally good idea—stu-
dents from Vancouver visiting Hali-
fax, for instance; from Newfound-
land visiting Saskatchewan.

Air travel should be made more
economical: Canada’s airline com-
panies should be making a bold effort
to attract more travellers from the
middle-income group of the popula-
tion. It seems possible that in a
country of Canada’s size, with Can-
ada’s problems of transportation, the
airlines may never make any money.
If so, the Government ought to be
ready to accept this, and to subsidize
the airlines to an extent which would
make air travel attractive and pos-
sible for the majority of Canadians.

Above All

Above all, there must be a real
effort to encourage Canadians to
leave their own provinces from time
to time, and see what the rest of their
wonderful country is like. In other
words, a much stronger program of
promoting tourism by Canadians in
Canada.

Of course, we want people from
other countries to visit us. More im-
portant in the long run, though, is
that Canadians know and understand
their fellow Canadians, all across the

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Sisters Pat All and Helene Lamont of
the WA of Local 1-80, IWA, visited the
following patients in the King’s Daugh-
ters Hospital July 12, distributing candy,
cigarettes and copies of the Western
Canadian Lumber Worker.

Mike Bosson, Westholme; Mike Kral,
Youbou; Mrs. Robson, Duncan; Subedar
Sarwan Singh, Mesachie Lake; Hector
Irving, Lake Cowichan; C. McMurtrie,
Lake Cowichan; Mr. Foucher, Duncan;
J, Coleman, Cobble Hill; Mrs. Flotta,
Lake Cowichan; Mrs. J. Graham, Honey-
moon Bay; Mrs. Moffet, Duncan; Mrs.
Dodd, Dunean; Mrs. Tibbut, Sooke; Mrs.
J. White, Duncan; Mrs. Wikkerink, Dun-
ean; Mrs. K. Smiley, Port Renfrew;
Mrs. Turcotte, Duncan; Mrs. Charlie,
Dunean; Mrs. F, George, Duncan.

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The beauty of furniture can be

accentuated by painting the walls a
color most flattering to the wood.

Blond woods are enhanced by
such warm quiet colors as salmon,
rose, honey beige and cinnamon.
Chartreuse, aquamarine and moss
green are also attractive paint colors
for this light wood.

The rich tones of mahogany fur-
niture look best against such colors
as antique gold, deep red and royal
blue.

Walnut furniture looks very hand-
some against a background of
cream, grey-blue, nile green, desert
pink or grey-beige.

Most complementary colors for
white furniture are turquoise, violet,
periwinkle blue, mauve and ger-
anium pink.

Black furniture looks well against
a background of any light color or
vivid hue, depending on the prefer-
ence.

An estimated 70 mink pelts are
needed to manufacture a mink coat.

Ten miles of thread and two
weeks of work by 20 to 25 people
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coat, the Emba Mink Breeders’
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“The following list contains the names of all camps, sawmills
and Plywood operations where all members will receive full
Union Coverage both as to wages and Health and Welfare
Protection.

Before hiring out to West Coast Vancouver Island Camps,
loggers should make certain that a Union Contract is in effect.
Medical Coverage and Group Insurance Coverage can ‘lapse
where no Union Contract has been signed.

UNION CAMPS:

All MacMillan, Bloedel & Powell River Operations.
All Tahsis Company Operations.

E. J. Eason Trucking, R. B. McLean Lumber Company, Milli-
gan Brothers, M. & M. Pole, Taylor Way Logging, Craig &
Bond Logging, Stoltz Logging, Green Logging, Mars Contract-
ing, Hamilton Logging, Rayner & Bracht Ltd., J. W. Arden,
A. N. Mangles, Wamac Logging, Grossleg and Trueman,

Braithwaite & Son, Northern Hemlock, O & W Contractors
(Fedge), North West Cedar.
Certifications granted but no contract:

Brentwood Logging, Kyoquot Logging and A. F. Barker
Logging Ltd.

NON-UNION CAMPS:

Freill Lake Logging.
Inlet Contractors Ltd., Amai Inlet (Jorgenson Bros.).
Jorgensens’ want and are maintaining a non-Union Camp.
Bunkhouse conditions poor; one building used as combination

bunkhouse and repair shop; working facilities poor. Fallers not
receiving daily guarantee. No Health and Welfare Coverage.”

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asked her husband to do. —Ledger, Fairfield, Iowa
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she knows of keeping the youngest child from being spoiled.
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