LIVING COSTS
Feed (?) four
on a dollar

LAST MONTH in the U.S. the
National Association of Retail
Grocers came out with the glad
news that its experts had worked
up 25 menus, quote, to feed, un-
quote, four people for less than
a dollar and you don’t even need
to use your teeth in the process.

If YOU’RE anxious to break up
your home, try this on Dad and
the kids:

Vegetable soup, shrimp, peas,
plums, That’s all, sister.

Or, bean and bacon soup, devil-
ed ham, corn, green gage plums
and don’t ask for seconds at 99
cents for four,

Or apple juice, pork sausage,
sauerkraut, whole apricots.
There’s a dollar dinner fit for a
king—especially one who ate a
late steak lunch.

And how would you like to sit
down to a groaning table loaded
with black bean soup, tuna, mixed
vegetables and plums—99 cents
and that new lean look thrown in
for free.

One of the nicest things about
these menus is that you not only
save like mad on meat but also
beat the rap on furniture. A few
weeks on such a diet and a fam-
ily of four can sleep in a single
bed without crowding. Heck,
they can all sleep in a crib.

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WHEN THE GROCERS were
listing all these Meals to Hat
With a Spoon, they added as an
afterthought that they could be
“rounded out” with bread, butter,
potatoes, salad and a _ beverage
such as coffee or milk — if you
want to make a pig of yourself.
And at a slightly extra cost.

‘ The cost of enough of these
items to “round out” the meals
they’ve listed wasn’t mentioned, |
but PVE estimated it and it falls”
somewhere north of eighteen dol-
lars, And 97 cents. :

The thing that surprised me
most was the failure of the Retail
Grocers to put a finger on this
real root of the problem. You'd
think any.big time food distribu-
tor would be acquainted with the
fact that the Soviet Union was
recently able to cut prices near-
ly in half and at the same time
end rationing.

If the Retail Grocers really
wanted to help the steak-starved
“women of America, you'd think
they would have gone all out on
a resolution demanding national-
ization of the entire wholesale
meat industry as the one sure

way to feed four on steaks at less

than a dollar a meal.

But they didn’t, They believe in
quote, Free Enterprise, unquote.

Loosen up your belt and have
“some more soup.—_MASON ROB-
ERTSON.

; Upstairs
7220 W. Hastnigs
PA. 8059

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Picture of two tiny dots may prove to be the first clue to the
presence of polio virus inside a human nerve. Here Dr. Eduardo
De Robertis (left) and Dr. Francis Schmitt of Massachusetts
institute of Technology show the “movie” at a meeting of the

Microscopic Society of America,

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Sharing the joke

“I CAN GO along with the joke,
son,” is a current comedian’s ex-
pression .designed to get. laughs,
but I think it's rather “a neat
phrase to adopt at home, Sharing
children’s fun is one of the best
ways I know of to enjoy them,
but evens more important, ‘to
recognize their attempts at hu-
mor is to give them a helping
hand in the development of a
sense of -humor.

Bogged Gown as many parents
are with the serious business of
routines, explanations and_ in-
struction they are apt to forget
that silly phrases, incongruity
_and nonsense are often excruciat-_
ingly funny to children.

“‘T'm going to eat the chair,” a
pre-schooler says with a twinkle
in his eye. Instead of the answer-
ing grin or chuckle he expects at
this very funny idea, he general-
ly is brushed off with a cold

“Don’t be so silly,” or in some +

households he gets the patient
explanation, “The chair is to sit
on, the banana is to eat,” a fact
which he has known for several
years, : ;

Yet this Js humor to him; this
js as far as he has come in learn-
ing what is funny.

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. friendly

Sharing such a joke with a
child means meeting him on‘ his
own level. The shared joke, the
laughter - could mean
sharing an experience of warmth
and real pleasure. Instead of
that his joke falls down flat and
for the umpteenth time his be-
havior is misunderstood. fe

Sometimes it is pretty difficult
for an adult to work up a laugh
or even a grin at some of the silly
humor, but the least they could
do is to let the small fry enjoy
these jokes. without the sobering
comments of “Don’t be so silly,”
or “That’s not funny.”

Parents of tiny children should
get used to it, for the jokes get
“eornier’” as the child gets older.

He comes home from school
with all the old chestnuts. “Guess
who is in the hospital?” “Sick
people,’ he shouts in high glee.
He brings this bit of foolery home,
fully confident that it is as new
and shiny and hilarious to his
parents as it is to him.

It is especially cruel ‘to let him
down, especially since laughing
with him is part of loving him.—
VERA MORRIS.

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> WEEE; HERE I AM again, back to the daily round
aiter recovering from holidays. The family is. still slightly
paint bespeckled from our redecorating efforts in the kitchen
and although it turned out to be a much bigger job than

we anticipated it was worth the backaches.

who started the fallacious idea
that holidays were meant for rest,

However, we did manage to
squeeze in a few days up in the
Interior after packing the in-
fants and hound off to various
friends and relations, We were
lucky in having the only four
days of sunshine this summer for
our trip and the scenery was won-
derful.

I managed to work up a tre-
mendous appetite in the clear
smog-free air, but lost it again
when I saw the price of meals.
Bacon and eggs and coffee was
the least expensive meal at a dol-
lar. One restaurant even had the
gall to charge 10 cents for the
use of the ketchup bottle, I was
afraid even to look at it. -

What really burned me up was
that we were able to buy 35
pounds of tomatoes for $2.25 near
Ashcroft but when we stopped for
dinner at a nearby cafe they had
listed on their menu-—side order
of tomates—one tomato sliced up
--25 cents! You figure out the
profit. Between the condition of
the roads and the price of meals
it’s no wonder tourists become
slightly apoplectic. :

One would think that prices of
meat, dairy products, fruit and
vegetables would be lower in
some of ‘these farming regions
but, on the contrary, I found that
ihe average housewife has @
much harder time balancing her
budget than we in the city.

“Oh well, we had a good time
anyway and I nearly caught a
couple of trout, so I came home

NNN IIIS LG

COMMUNITY CHEST
PLEDGE

It’s the easy way of giving as much to
the Community Chest as you’d like to.

\ . By signing a pledge you spread your
\ donation over a whole year, through
\ monthly or quarterly payments. ;

When your canyasser calls, give her

At work, where there are twenty or
more employees, you can make your
pledge by pay-roll deduction.

Remember, this year, $775,000 must be
raised for 43 Red Feather Services for

a full year.

. So please’ ~
GIVE -- GIVE ENOUGH!

ISIS IINNIINNN.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 1, 1948—PAGE ll

what you can now .. . give her your
pledge for what you’d like to.

I. wonder

happy only to find that little John
had decided te become an advyen-
turer in our absence and had wan-
dered off one afternoon and it took
three hours and half of Mulli-
gan’s police force to find him. As
I've always said, it’s so nice to get
away for a holiday and not have
to worry about anything.

eS Ke

CATCHING UP with commun-
ity news, it appears that all the
parents in our district are up in
arms over the school swing shift
arrangements, and well they

might be. Last year the children

had to attend by shifts, but this
year it is doubly hard as we now
have the new housing develop-
ment for the ex-tenants of the
old Hotel Vancouver right next to
the school, so that even the base-

ment has to be used for class-

rooms now.

We were promised an addi-
tional nine rooms for the children
but there are no signs that any-

thing is being done about them. If

they don’t do something soon we
are all going to go on strike arid
refuse to send our children to

school until proper accommoda- _

tion has been arranged for
classes, It’s about time someone
gave our School Board something
to worry about, ds it takes half a

century for them to realize that oO

we have only half enough schools

for our children, Get busy in your ©

PTA now and let's all put some

pressure on the powers-that-be to

give our kids their rights to an
education.—B.G. ,

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