Let’s spend on schools + Reimburse the provincial govern- ments for the cost of hospitalization of all needy citizens. ; + In communities lacking modern hospital facilities, the federal govern- ment should undertake the construc- tion of hospitals and clinics. These while paid for from the federal treds- ury must remain community institu- tions, operated and administered by the respective municipalities. + In the campaign to assure bet- ter health for our people the federal government should establish a great medical research centre in which Can- adian medical talent, made world- famous by Osler, Best, Banting, Beth- une, Penfield and others, can be fully organized for an onslaught against such deadly enemies of mankind as cancer, heart disease and premature aging. + Funds should be provided for the immediate enlargement of medical training centres so that the need for doctors and nurses can be filled. Schol- arships for medical students, adequate payment to internes and nurses should be assured as part of the campaign for improved public health. Under the operations of the Nation- al Housing Act some steps have been made in the direction of satisfying the gréat need for low-rental housing. However, much remains to be done. 9 In urban centres there is a rash of speculative dealing in land and con- tractor squeeze on the house buyer. The use of sub-standard materials is common and as a result we are threat- ened with the emergence of new slum areas in’ the recently built sub-divi- sions. While the lowering of the down pay- ment under the NHA is to be wel- comed, the provisions as to which in- come groups are qualified favor the well-to-do and discriminate against jower paid and less regularly employ- ed ‘wage ‘workers and service employ- ees. Natural resources and _ nation-building projects The National Housing Act should be further liberalized and its administra- tors should cooperate with provincial authorities in the elimination of abuses in ‘the new areas under construction and the prevention of speculative buy- ing and selling of land for housing de- velopment; it should be directed speci- fically to the prométion of and partici- pation in the construction of low-rental homes. whigh can be purchased by application of rental payments to pur- chase. if the tenants so desire. The National Housing Act should provide credit for the purchase of a home at 3% ‘percent per year. The natural wealth of a country is the irreplaceable and therefore price- less basis of the survival of its people as a nation. At present Canadians are forced to witness an orgy of spoil- ation of some of the most precious re- sources of our country. While the control of natural resources belongs to the provinces and their authority must be respected unequivo- cally, there is need and room for a great deal more cooperation between provincial and federal governments, and between all governments, to bring about more considered, more rational and more fruitful utilization of the rich resources of our country, in the interest of her people. + While some of the agreements on natural resources now in force can- not be voided easily, the provinces should be urged to make certain that they derive an income from raw mat- erials exported commensurate -with the rate of depletion of these resources. An export duty on all raw materials should be considered as an encour- agement to native industry and as a discouragement to promiscuous deple- tion of resources. + The conference should adopt a national program for the development of energy in Canada and should set up a federal-provincial industrial en- ergy committee to popularize its im- plementation as one of the keys to Canada's future:. 3° + The conference should agree up- on the necessity for a considered pro- gram of public investment upon great nation-building projects similar in character and purpose to the proposal put forward by the federal govern- ment at the Dominion-Provincial Con- ference in 1945. The federal government, in close cooperation with the provincial gov- ernments directly concerned should initiate action to develop needed great nation-building projects like the St. Lawrence .Seaway. Such a project that Canada needs urgently today is the All-Canadian Trans-Canada Nat- ural Gas_ Pipeline. In addition, the’ federal government, This graph shows the steady growth of British Columbia’s school population. Working out of federal grants for education is necessary to relieve home owners of intolerable education taxes _ ” in cooperation with the governments~ concerned, should initiate action to develop industries in Canada to pro- ~ cess more and more of our industrial raw materials in Canada, to develop a great Canadian basic steel industry, a great Canadian machine-building in- USSR too, has a ‘Teddy Boys’ By RALPH PARKER A group of Czechoslovak mannequins recently demonstrated new fashions for men and women’s clothing in a hall: in the new university buildings in Moscow. — é There was more behind this than the desire of Soviet students to dress well. In approving the idea, the university authorities may well have had in mind the serious campaign now in progress agafnst the social causes of the phenomenon known as the “stil-— iagi.” : The term “stiliagi” is not reserved exclusively for those spoiled children of well-to-do and irresponsible parents _ to whose extravagant behavior there has been some reference in the press, lately. : Not all the young men with abun- dant hair brushed back, long jackets, drain-pipe pants and pea-knot ties whom one occasionally sees on Gorky Street have money in their pockets. And it is not only their flamboyant “ways of dressing that earn them the name “stiliagi.? They have their own code of behavior—a highly artificial, falsely romanticised way of speech concealing a crude attitude especially to women. - Soviet youth is healthy minded and studious. But although they are not numerous, there are enough “stiliagi” types for public opinion to be con- — cerned about the phenomenon and for the press to denounce it. 53 it x Each fall there come to Moscow thousands upon thousands of young students who have previously lived in small towns and villages. Their lleges and institutes are. often in’ the centre of Moscow; some of their hostels, in fact, are in streets close to Gorky Street and other main thoroughfares. These impressionable young people find many things in Moscow that do not exist in their native Armenia, in Smolensk, in Siberian market towns or the mining villages of the Donbas. Student, young building workers, industrial trainees—they will want to dress better. Of course, they will meet the sort of people who decry any care- ful attention to clothes. ‘But these will be dismissed as “leftist cranks,’ for this generation has a different attitude on the subject. Before the war youth was thinking too much about other things to worry about clothes, and since then the war and post-war shortages ruled out many ideas on the subject. But young Moscow — male and female—is defintely clothes conscious today.’ The “stiliagi” have gone to an extreme, but that doesn’t make every young man who likes to sport a handpainted tie or a: bright sports — . jacket into a “stiliagi.” soa sed 5 Of course, it is a question of far more than clothes, as many writers here ~ realise. Some of them are expressing their concern about the tendency of some novelists to make life dull and un- PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 30, 1955 — " ~cal industry, etc. S the present useless expé war equipment to the construct ‘function of building schools, osretter providing health insurance 28° " roads. : : te ea aree The 10 provinces of Canada un populated by Canadians who ares nis "anxiously await the outcome poets went to the bookshops aoe are a soy dustry, a great Canadian petro che Markets are available. for. the | ducts of such industries. THe ise of Canada would approve of under mation of Crown companies — nto! federal or federal-provincial °°) js t@ establish such industries necessary. _ ; amounts of taxpayers’ der our laws, all equal citizens © ryone great dominion. However, °%°. g knows that some of the province ces better endowed in natural re ace in population, in transportation “that ties and in’ many of ‘the things ~~ make up modern communities. — chal The conference faces a great sae lenge. Canadians as ‘a W t your important gathering. have taken recently in thelt Sous, to shape the minds of Moscoy poets 7 | “ 0. é people is to organise a “day no One Sunday dozens of We", ead {pis hy