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REPORT ON EUROPE.

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THOSE WOMEN you occasion-
ally hear parroting the opinion,
“Oh, my dear, those dreadful
Russians—we'll have to fight
them some time, you know,”
might get a jolt if they could
tour Europe—the Europe that
now belongs to the people—as we
did this summer with other mem-
bers of the Canadian youth dele-
gation,

In Poland we talked with one
young woman who had been forc-
ed to witness the murder of her
family by the Nazis and then had
been taken to a concentration
camp as slave labor. Such women,
and there are few in Europe to-
Gay who have not some story of
horror to tell, know the fear, the
despair and terror of war because
they have lived it.

You cannot tell such women
that war is inevitable, that the
Russians menace their way of
life. Millions of them owe their
freedom to the Russians, without
Whose sacrifices they might still
have been slave labor in the
ghastly pattern of life planned by
the Nazis.

In a talk we had with one wom-
an worker in a large nationalized
factory in Czechoslovakia, she ex-
pressed the heartfelt sentiment
that you find everywhere among
the people in the New Demo-
cracies. “We do not want war,”
She declared. “We are too busy
working to rebuild our country.
We are working for our own fu-
ture and the future of our chil-
dren, There is no future in war.
War can only destroy.’
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TODAY, in Poland, Czechoslo-
vakia and Hungary, women are
taking a full part in. rebuilding
their countries and we were im-
Pressed by the new status they
have won.

Nursery schools, children’s cen-
ters, factory creches and can-
teens, cheap laundry and mend-
ing services—all these make it
Possible for women to work in
industry without sacrificing their
families and homes, Married
Women can obtain a wide variety
of part-time work. Opening and
Closing hours of stores are ar-
ranged to enable women workers
to do their shopping. These are
Simple things, perhaps, but they
Mean a lot of women who work.

No wonder, with the horrors of
War behind them and a new life
unfolding, the women of the new
Europe everywhere express their
fervent desire for peace.—ELSIE
BRANDON,

We Always Sell for Less

Army and Navy will never know-

—

Real estate board picketed

Members of New York City

Tenant Councils picketed the

Hotel Commodore, scene of a four-day meeting of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards, to prevent attempts to knife
rent controls and public housing.

OUR CHILDREN

Progressives children

THE CHILDREN of active progressives can be among
the most fortunate of children, and indeed hundreds of

them are. These are the child
jectives in life, and carry these
ship with members of their fam-
ily. ~

Many parents, concerned with
the changing world we live in,
and actively engaged in this
change, are the best there are.
These are the people who know

_the truth and help their children

to understand it, so that when
their turn comes, they too will be
ready to take up the fight for a
better world. These are the peo-
ple who understand and cherish
the rights of all individuals and
teach their children to cherish
them.

These people, because they be-
lieve in the rights of all human
beings, and have the desire to
live with them on the basis of
friendship and understanding,
start right in their own homes
to practice these principles.

These are the children, exposed
as they are daily to the conflicts
and uncertainties, the corruption
and the lies, who can bring their
problems home, confident of hon-
est, sincere and definite answers.
These are the children who are

ren of parents who have ob-
objectives, into their relation-

not falsely protected, or fooled in-
to believing that the outside
world is all stardust and wine,
but are given every encourage-
ment to explore for themselves,
to see life as it really is. When
the time comes for them as young
men and women to take their
place as citizens they can do so
with confidence, proud of their

parents who back them up.

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BECAUSE SUCH parents know
that neglect and lack of affection
breeds hate and resentment, two
qualities progressives
without in the future they are
planning, they give their children

all the love they need.

Fighting against inequalities
and racial prejudice outside the
home, no real progressive could
stand by and watch members of
his own family adopt these false
attitudes, so that these children
bring to their adulthood a genu-
ine respect and admiration for all
fellow men. :

Since these parents are concern-
ed with a future for all children,
their own grow up with a broader
conception of the needs of others.

and their own needs are given

consideration at home.

There are many children who
come from such homes, but un-
fortunately there are others,
whose progressive parents hever
stop to think of them as the
adults of tomorrow, and of these
people, more next week—VERA
MORRIS, .

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“CHRISTMUS ITH COMIN’, the goose are gettin tat,”
carols little John persistently as he busily cuts out pictures

for Christmas presents.
it these days, but if

wife you will still have that last
minute baking and shopping
to do.

I had the kids busy helping to
make colored pine cones for the
fireplace, and we are quite proud
of our accomplishment. For a
greenish blue flame you use cop-
per sulphate and coppér’ chlor-
ide; for red flames, strontium
chloride; for green flames, borax
or barium chloride; for orange
flames, calcium chloride and for
blue flames, copper oxide.

The cones should be dry and the
mineral salts finely ground, Melt
eight ounces of wax in a tin can
placed in hot water. Add six
ounces of salt and stir well. Re-
heat as wax cools and hardens.
Lay the cones on several thick-
nesses of paper and with a whisk
broom sprinkle the cones thor-
oughly, turning them over for
complete covering. .

You can also treat rolled up
magazines and paper in this
fashion too, and if you do hap-
pen to be short of presents this
year, these serve as a very wel-
come gift (for those with fire-
places, of course).

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IN ENGLAND a short time
ago, the labor shortage was so
acute that one progressive-mind-
ed laundry installed an up-to-date
nursery on the premises with a
qualified matron and two nurses
to look after workers’ children.
Now it has so many women ap-
plying for work that it has to
turn large numbers of them
away.

Nobody needs to be reminded of
you are anything like a normal house-

THE NEED for all of us keep-
“ng a critical eye on our school
boards is indicated by the actions
of a certain Tory school trustee
in Toronto.

When letters were sent in com-
plaining of a very dangerous fire
hazard in one of the schools—a
wooden fire escape was obstruct-
ed—this member passed it off as
“communists trying to stir up
trouble.” There was no investi-
gation, of ‘course, but ‘f a few
hundred children were caught in
that burning school there would
be more than Communists trying
to stir up trouble.

In another school there are so
many rats in the basement that
the janitor has to go down armed
With a couple of brooms before
lunch hour and recess to shoo
them off before the children come
down to eat their lunches or play.

When this situation was
brought to the attention of the
school board this self-same Tory
roared, “It’s the communist rats
we want to get rid of!” and the
matter was shelved.

However, we don’t have to look
at Toronto and their Tory rats in
civic offices. We have plenty of
our own kind and the sooner we
get rid of them the better.

You can use your last few days
before the civic elections well in
talking to your friends, neigh-
bors and relations. Get them to
vote for Effie Jones and ask them
to help by getting their friends
and neighbors out on. election: day,
If we all'do our bit, this time we
will win.—B.G. : cS

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