Beatles — meet the Ladybugs!

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The High Park Ladybugs of Toronto have a ball as th
Organization for senior citizens. The mop-tops doing the

ey entertain the Second Mile Club, a social
take-off on the Beatles are, from left: Mrs.

Anne Tornby, 66; Mrs. Sybil Cludray, 70; Mrs. Marjorie Murphy, 68; Mrs. Ellen Adams, 74; and Mrs.

Lottie Brown, 73.

Teaching your children _
about money matters

AVE you noticed lately how
your children turn up their
noses at the 25-cent-a-week

‘allowance you used to get?

Most working-class parents
never get a chance to forget it.
Every day they’re badgered for
a “dime for pop” or a “quarter
for school” or “a dollar for the
show and things”. High prices

_and more things to be had make
today’s kids more demanding
than their parents were.

But a dollar will only stretch
so far and young couples have

to seriously cope with this as-
pect of their “financial prolem”.

How do they do it? According
to one survey conducted by an
American university they don’t.
Most, parents questioned didn’t
explain money matters to their
children, while the kids said
they wanted to be filled in on
the family budget and how to
spend money wisely. Here are

some suggestions of home econ-
omists for what they’re worth.

1. Let children sit in on budget
talks. When they know that the
money doesn’t really flow from
a bottomless well they’ll cooper-
ate in helping to save it ... or
at least spend it a little less
freely. Whether you're getting
rid of the old sofa or planning
to buy a new car, clue in your
kids. It'll help them develop a
sense of working-class values.

Personal suggestion: Discuss
the new car without them.

2. Give regular allowances. It
hastens responsibility. The re-
commended way to determine
the amount of allowance is to
work out with your child how
much he (she) actually needs
for school and other expenses
and how much he needs for free
spending. Don’t forget to con-
sider your child’s age. Your 14-
year-old daughter may have
more “needs” than her brother
of the same age. Extra house-
hold . chores sometime merit
extra cash,

Personal suggestion: Place
great emphasis on the word
“actually”.

3. Encourage them to earn
extra money. Psychologists feel
that the money a child earns
is the money he values most.
Part-time work for others is a
useful experience which gives a

—Vie Nouve, Rome

child an understanding of differ-
ent kinds of jobs.

Personal conclusion: It’s been
tried before.

4. Show them how to spend
money. Counsellors say _ that
children are genuinely interested
in learning efficient ways to
handle money. They advise
teaching these methods: How to
plan a budget, how much they
will spend for what, how much
they will save out of their com-
bined allowances and earnings;
how to keep a continuing record
of their spending in a notebook
so they know where their money
goes.

Such a record provides a fac-
tual basis for planning a budget
and also encourages controlling
unplanned spending for the sake
of more important goals.

Personal conclusion: Counsel-
lors don’t have children.

5. Practice money planning
yourself. The way you handle
money is a big factor in teaching
children the value of money.
Children of parents who have
no plan for spending and for
saving, and habitually buy on
the installment plan, tend to
adopt this lackadaisical attitude
themselves.

Personal conclusion: For most

people this last suggestion is
out. Just carry on as always and
remember—things won’t always
be this way . . . You just be-
lieve it!

while asleep:

dare—to go.”

So I’ll just say, and get ready to run: I wouldn't !#® |
to see my daughter the first to appear in a topless pathing
suit. Or my grandmother either, especially at midmlg?’
with or without her broom. And add, over my shoul a
today styles are designed for profit, with beauty, modes
and comfort only included if they can be made to Pay
The profit motive leaves the door wide open for the P4
philias: Pamphilias of both sexes and of none. And
marketing leaves the door open to sex incitement like t®

“A perfect look that fits in with all your plans g
Snare a man...frankly mischievous (lascivious) beguilit
. .. Don’Mills Centre says: bare your neckline to a beau!
low decolletage. Bare your back as low as you care—

J.$. Wallace

I think Pamphilia, the Greek prostitute,
should be honored for inventing a glass-like
transparent dress for women.

—PLINY

AS A YOUNGSTER of seven or so, I noticed that 1
only the worms but the town sports came out all?

a rain with hands in pants pockets, jingling coin
indicate affluence, they would wait at busy corners to wal ;
the girls cross the muddy streets. Skirts were so long i
they had to be lifted: and how the lads would leer wh®
they caught a glimpse of an inch of ankle: almost &
rewarding as a glance at the then stylish peekaboo wil

A little later skirts, after the silly hobble stage, dev®
oped a Chinese split. And then, inch over inch, they starte
to shorten. I highly approved, but you would never gues
it from the following verse, one of two I have compos?

s tO

What ho, my little lassie,
You certainly do look swell
You may strip, if you please,
From your neck to your knees
You'll be warm, dear:

in hell.

My personal view on the topless bathing suit is tat |
it is not what you wear; it’s why and how you wear I J
especially how. I said personal view: men must be ch ;
about laying down laws in the field of fashion. This appli |
even under socialism: the town fathers (and mothers) ie :
Yalta arrested the first girl who appeared in slacks on t |
sea-coast boardwalk. Izvestia laughed them out of it

like —

the

Book publishing in the USSR

CCORDING to recent Soviet
Statistics, one out of every
four books published an-

nually in the world is printed
in the USSR. By 1980 the book
output in the USSR is to reach

2.8 billion copies.

Each year the USSR publish-

es more than 9,000 books °
slated from other Jane"
into the various languaey
the peoples of the USSR.
1918 to 1962, the USSR 5 .
lished 6,000 translations 1 ip
tish and American auth®
245,000,000 copies.

Another Ball-Hitting Enthusiast

ad iim like (ke, claims
| Goldwater i=

~“ ECT MASEL +04 Gods,
Xs s

September 25, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE

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Franklin in the London DatlY

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