Teachers’ Mainly for Conducteg by WINNIE omen WILLIAMS All letters, articles, etc., for or concerning this page should be addressed to Winnie Williams, Pa- cific Tribune, 650 Howe St., Vancouver, B.C. “ Federation reveals low wage levels undermine profession Phe “alarming” need for government action and public pressure in improving the lot of the teaching profession was brought sharply to the attention of Canadian people when Statistics were revealed that 30,000 Canadian teachers have left the profession during the . ’ Urge _ out of Greece _ tican Aya MB eee Past five years—an average of 3,750 a year. ' Teachers’ Federation recently re- vealed the following figures cover- ing the field cf education, ‘ The teaching profession is rap- dly becoming depleted of an ade- ‘Wate supply of teachers through- Sut North America, due to poor remuneration and the social, work- ng and living conditions of tea- chers, The rumber of unqualified or sub-standard teachers in Can- ada has sharply increased — there were 3,719 unqualified tea- oe in Nova Scotia, Quebec, tario and Manitoba in 1944. A total of 120,000 Canadian _ School children were being taught US stay ay DON—Women from prac- every country in the world ined in the cheering when Mrs fone: Gimbel told an interna- appl conference here: “You have press the speaker who ex- rooned the hope that British eas will be withdrawn from + €ce. I hope that American OPS .will not go to Greece.” ag Gimbel represented the §Tess of American Women at Meeting, called to celebrate €rnational Women’s Day. . fi eeterence adopted a pledge ice t for disarmament, out- “all § of the atom bomb and trade measurer for securing sae friendship and peace be- “meen the nations of the world.” nee Mothers,” it says, “we will ‘va tana and work for the right fr Ting children into a world from fear of want and war ahte as workers, for the right to . Sinn all industries and profes- eo” 10 receive equal pay for ees work ... as citizens, for “ © right to vote, to serve as °Cmmittees, juries and public dies whet ional - nations ether national or inter Home recipes ‘Nuff said about main dishes, Says Viva Flood, member of © newly-formed editorial staff of the Women’s Page. How *bout after the main dish, What then? : Well, we said, dropping the Subject right back in Viva’s lap; how about what comes nee the main dish. You tell So, Viva commenced to tell Us, like so. FRUIT LOAF 1 cup ‘brown sugar. 1 cup brown flour. l cup white flour. teaspoon salt. 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 cup boiling water. 1 egg (optional). ' 1 cup fruit (raisins, dates, or fruit mix). ® tablespoons shortening. ip Cream shortening and sugar, beat in the egg. Add flour and Salt, also boiling water with Soda in it, and fruit. Put in a loat pan with a butter paper in the bottom. Bake about an our in a slow oven. This loaf, concludes Viva, is -} £Conomical, and (what is most ‘Mportant) it keeps well. ee RL, ‘sae aS a FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1947 ; hee eae The certification committee of the B.C. by unqualified teachers in the year. There is an alarming drop in the number of prospective teach- ers for the future. University of profession. Only then will it be feasible to demand a-more vigor- ous training of teachers.” Advice from the Southam experts Who gets the pork chops? At last, someone has managed to create chaos out of slight confusion, which is no mean accomplishment these days. The accomplisher of this task is none other than Margaret Henderson, home adviser of the Vancouver Daily Province’s broadcast for women. Now, before anyone gets too ex- citeq about the fact that I have been listening to the Province news, just think back a little and remember how it creeps up on you on the radio while you're getting the baby’s formula ready. “Maggie,” in explaining the rea- sons for the high-priced meat which is all that is obtainable on the markets these days, made the following bright remark—in sub- stance: “Of course we might experi- ence a lot of difficulty in get- ting cheaper cuts of meat on ‘ Jusing brooms and bamboo sticks B.C. Teacher Training Department issued 60 teaching certificates in 1940, but only 26 in 1945. Reasons cited by the B.C. Tea- chers’ Federation for the critical situation stated above include — low salaries, high training expenses, unfavorable conditions of work and living accommodations. The Committee revealed that one-half of Canada’s teachers in 1945 were earning only $960 a year, or about $20 a week; the average was only $1,000 a year in 1946, whereas ordinary laborers earned an average of $1,400 and industrial workers earned $2,400. Current salaries do not compen- sate for the training time and cost necessary to become a qualified teacher, for a high schoo] teacher must take a four or five year train- ing course at a cost of $600 to $1,000. ; Classrooms are becoming increas- ingly overcrowded ,teachers’ duties ‘are being expanded unreasonably. There is no systematic provision made to give teachers comfortable quarters and teachers have to hunt for their own quarters, which is a deterent when they often' must take jobs in outlying communities. In order to overcome these con- ditions, the Teachers’ Federation, has adopted a long-range program. calling for the reorganization of the entire teacher training program to bring it in line with existing conditions. As an initial step, it will recommend this year that the teachers’ organization, press for ‘a single salary schedule, based on qualifications and training, for all elementary and high school teach- ers.’ : : “However, the first step toward improvement of the existing teach- er crisis,” the Federation states, “is ‘the adoption of a salary policy that will attract men and women to the The Jewish Family and They need your help Child Service of Toronto is appealing to all citizens interested in aiding some dis- tressed child for help. The war and its aftermath has left countless thousands of these little people homeless and destitute. Anyone interested should communicate with the editor of this page. ‘housekeeping room to Danish housewives demonstrate for strict rationing, price control COPENHAGEN—Fifteen thousand Danish housewives staged an impressive demon- 'lstration here to demand stricter enforcementof price control, more effective rationing of scarce meat and fats, bigger allocations of soap and government supervision to insure that the textile industry produces necessities only. The women paraded through the Copenhagen streets in bitterly cold weather, : : ending up at the Parliament build- ing where a mass meeting was held while a delegation visited government leaders. The delega- tion demanded formation of a consumers’ council with a direct voice in decisions about import, export, production and distribu- tion of all essential products. A” highlight of the march came when a group of women paraded by with a long clothes line laden with dirty, mended underwear. Alongside were plac- ards calling for soap and lower _clothing prices. The housewives’ - demonstration was the first of its kind ever held here. , # Soviet science uses ‘Lidol’ drug New ‘painless childbirth’ MOSCOW-—Soviet scientists are experimenting suc- cessfully with ‘painless childbirth’ through the use of hypnosis and a new drug called ‘Lidol,’ according to one of Russia’s most popular illustrated magazines. “The hypnotized state did not prevent me from straining,” one mother was quoted as saying, “but I breathed easily and did not feel pain.” Another woman said she slept so soundly under hypnosis that she dreamed of her native village while her child was born. Ogoniek. The Soviet gynecol- ogigt Malinovsky, said physic- jians also were using barbite acid, Etheroil, vitamin B-1, and a new preparation known as ‘lidol’. Malinovsky said the spinal in- jections used by some American doctors’ were “not always safe,” - BENGAL—“Arrest all women carrying broom handles’ is a new police order in the rural Midnapore district of Bengal, In- dia. : Three Soviet doctors reported but. that Soviet’ “obstetricians Peasant women have been fight- || successful experiments with hyp-| were able to “give artificial deep ing side by side with their men sleep.” ‘ nosis in the weekly magazine as weapons of defense. ; ; 3 the market. We would have to ask a lot of questions, for after all, the butchers will not want to put their cheaper cuts on the counters, for naturally that would mean that the better Priced meats and cuts would be left in the butcher shops.” _ And when our informant of the above news phoned up “Maggie” to protest against such _ state- ments, Anderson, manager of the Province made another bril- liant remark in keeping with the festivities, that the “hotels and restaurants should have the choice of poorer cuts.” ‘Helpful Hattie’ on current ills Question: My husband and I can find only a ten by fifteen. live in. There is on sink and the room is so dark that we have to keep the light on most of the time. Should we go home and live with mother? Answer: No. It’s every woman’s dream to have a nest of her own and be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home, you know. Why, real happiness doesn’t have anything to do with your living quarters—it springs from the heart. It may be found in the lowest dwelling while it escapes the richest mansion. Let your place act as a challenge to you— anyone can make a new bunga- low homey but it takes real home- making ability to make a room like yours cosy. A tin of paint and a stronger light bulb can work wonders. Question: My husband is so worn out from riding home on BCElectrie street cars from work that I have to chop the kindling at nights. What should I do? Buzzer” regularly you’d know that Dal Grauer’s wife probably has to cut her own kindling too, as her husband is so worn, out at nights figuring out how much the company is going in the hole and having nightmares about col- ised to streamline its whole trans- of twenty years, please feel free to write again. Meanwhile, your husband to move up to th front of the car. =. Question: I have been a junior clerk for thirty years ang al- though I have been promised a promotion several times someone else is always given the _ job. What do you think is wrong? Answer: Somehow you are let- ting down the company. You can’t be living up to your boss’ expectations. Do you honestly try ‘|to do just a bit more and better work than the next fellow, vol- unteer for extra work, accept overtime without pay cheerfully, show your boss that you’re always loyal to the company? Try smil- ing in any contact you have with the manager. If none of these trouble may simply be S.O. (sock in Lux. LONDON—Government housing that four and one-half percent of his wages for rent, according to an English language broadcast from Moscow. The percentage is cal- culated not on the total earnings of the family but on the wages of the highest paid member alone. according to the floor space oc- under which the tenant comes. - PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7 lectivists and public ownership. — Besides, the company has prom- — portation system. If the promise | .|hasn’t been fulfilled at the end odor) cured by washing your socks cupied, with kitchens, bathrooms — and hallways not counted. It is also subject to the classification - _ Answer: Now if you read “The — serving the people of Vancouver, © ask — tested methods are effective, your — Rents in the USSR. regulations in the Soviet Union ~ ensure that no worker pays more The amount of rent paid varies PB