SENIOR CITIZENS _

British pensions too low

LONDON WAS recently

invaded by thousands of old

age pensioners from all parts of England, Wales and Scot-
land. They came to attend the biggest rally of aged people

ever organized in Britain and to lobby MP’s before pre-

senting their monster petition.

Some five million people signi-
fied their support for the pen-
sioners’ claim for £2 a week for
every man and’ woman at 60 years
of age by signing the petition.

Many individual branches of
the Old Age Pensioners’ Associa-
tion collected from 4,000 to 5,000
Signatures.

Heading the list of collectors of
signatures were the womenfolk,
who were determined that their
claim for the housewives pension
of 16s. to be increased to £2,

should receive a full hearing.

One 92-year-old Exeter woman
pensioner sent in 2,042 signatures
she has collected. Another 71-
year-old woman pensioner from
Pitsea, Essex was responsible for
3,040 signatures which she col-
lected on market days in the
owe é s

By married couple, under present
pension rates is receiving £2 2s. per
week—26s, for the man and 16s.
for the wife-—-ROSE SMITH.

ERIC A. WILDMAN, presi-
dent of the National Society for
the Retention of Corporal Pun-
ishment, was lecturing a class
at a “free education” boarding
school here on the advantages
of caning to maintain school
discipline

As this picture shows, a
number of the boys from the
Class rushed him, pinned him
.to the floor and gave him sev-
en whacking strokes with some
of his own canes.

Wildman picked himself and
his canes up and fled to the

STUDENTS CANE TEACHER

He makes the canes too

‘plans to launch a children’s

nearest police station to regis-
ter a complaint.

Robert Copping, principal of
the school, known as Horsley
Hall, said afterward that he

trade union for mutual pro-
tection against caning in all
schools. The union would work
for government legislation for-
bidding caning.

Besides his duties as presi-
dent of the Corporal Punish-
ment Society, Copping said,
Wildman manufacturers. the
canes whose use he so freely
advocates, ery i

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OUR CHILDREN
Parents
who fail

I DEVOTED my last column to
the ideal relationship of some
children and their progressive par-
ents, Unfortunately, there are
some parents in the progressive
movement who are not thinking
carefully enough about the educa-
tion of their own children There
are some who will not take a def-
inite stand, or discuss controver-

sial subjects with their children, ,

or even in their presence, other
than those subjects which relate
narrowly or directly to the family
group.

Too often this is sheer neglect.
or impatience with the young
mind. There is the odd parent
around who considers it a waste
of time to discuss “adult” sub-
jects with children. Then there
are those who follow this pattern
by careful conscious design,

This last group should re-exam-
ine the reasons they expound.
Many of them put forward the
theory that they have no right
to influence a child, that the child
has to make up his own mind.
The result of such “dream world”
reasoning is that these children
are being influenced continually
everywhere but in their own
home! It is almost absurd that
parents who never expect a: young
child to have enough sense to
chose his own food or clothes,
should expect him to distinguish
between a legitimate workers’ un-
ion and a company stooge one. .

From discussions I have had
with such parents I feel that the
real reason for their failure in
this regard is that they are not
convinced they are right..Exposed
for years to the mythical. “two
sides to every question” they stub-
bornly cling to this false notion in
the belief that eee are helping
their child.

Then there are the protective
parents who reason that since the
child must live in harmony with
his school-mates it’s wiser not to

let him know what is going on..

These are the “don’t bother your
pretty head, when you are old
enough you'll understand” par-
ents. Since, if the child it to grow
at all, he must have answers to
his questions, he simply learns
to take the questions elsewhere,
probably reasoning that his peo-
ple don’t know the answer
Ag ok, AS *

ALL OF these parents, either
consciously or unconsciously, are
actually harming their children.
No child living today can help
but come in contact with the per
plexities and complications that
surround him. He learns to play
war before he learns to read. He
glibly talks of “atomic bombs”
and “jet propulsion” long before he
can spell them. Yet he is still, and
will be for years, a dependent lit-
tle fellow. Quite comfortably he
leans on his family for all major
epinions and decisions.

The children of these parents
who are left to shift for them-
selves in the tremendous field of
world problems become muddled
and confused, and since they must
anchor their ideas and opinions
somewhere, use the drivel they
hear on the air or read in comic
books as their guide. For the sake
of his own security, the child has
the right to know what his par-
ents think and why.—_ VERA MOR-
RIS.

Ashamed-with good reason

These three women represent a particularly loathsome kind
of profiteer. They are accused of exacting bonuses from home-
less veterans in search of homes and, with seven others, have
been indicted by a New York grand jury.

THE LIVELY

their academic education _ still
ahead of them, are getting a pret-
ty good schooling in the workings
of the capitalist system, as this
story, told to me by.one of my
friends, goes to show. :

Her sister’s little girl, who's all
of six years old, went to the cor-
ner store and putting her nickel
on the counter, asked for a choco-
late bar.

“But we have no nickel bars,”
said the clerk.

“May I please have a soda pop?”

“But they’re seven cents.”

Puzzled for a moment, the girl

made a final attempt by ordering,

a popsicle.

When told they were six cents
she reached the sidewalk before
the clerk could remind her of the
nickel on the counter.

“That’s all right,” she said. “I
can't buy anything with it, any-
way.”

* ps oe
IF, ON one of these winter days,

PROTEST
when candy manufacturers first tried to increase the price
of chocolate bars was an indication that our youngsters can

show their elders a thing or two when it comes to fighting
for their rights, But even the. pre-
school youngsters, it seems, with

made school students

by

you despair of finding ways and
means of keeping your own—and
the neighbors’—small children en-
tertained around the house, give
them some home-made clay to
play with. The recipe is quite
simple. All the ingredients you
need are: 1 cup of flour, 3 tea-
spoonfuls of alum and half a cup
of salt. Sift the dry ingredients
and add water until the clay can
be kneaded together,

Another recipe calls for 1 cup
of flour and half a cup of corn-
starch, which should be mixed to
a paste with half a cup of water.
Four cups of water to which is
added 1 cup of salt, should then be
brought to the boil and added te
the paste, and the whole put in a
double boiler and cooked for 3
hours. If you want colored clay
this is the time to put in the col-
oring. Let the mixture set over-
night and then knead it in flour
until it’s no longer sticky. It
should be kept in a covered jar.

—B. G.

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