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CHILD CARE
Ruinous
Routines

MOST PEOPLE KNOW some-
one who is the counterpart of the
woman who spent a day visiting
us recently Exacting to the point
of hysteria, grimly keeping to a
pre-arranged schedule, never al-
lowing one detail to be different,
this visitor and her 18-month-old
daughter finally left, while we
sank exhausted after a nerve-
wracking day. :

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Everything went wrong, or
it seemed to that fussy female.
Kettles didn’t boil on time, peo-
ple locked themselves in the bath-
reom at precisely the wrong mo-
ment — there were no oranges,
only grapefruit, it was too windy
in the backyard,

on,

Here was a mother who had
worked out a series of routines
and rituals so inflexible, so right,

\ that even in the face of difficul-
ties presented by a strange house-
hold, and at the cost of every-
one’s temper, includirfg her own,
they had to be maintained.

Peculiarly enough this mother
is under the impression that she
is-doing the best possible job in
rearing her little girl. The results
don’t confirm this. There is a
pathetic and unnatural timidness
in the child as she submits to the
exacting schedule.

Mother, endlessly concerned
with the details and the slave-
driving clock has neither time

so &

too sunny in .
the front, and so it went on and §

nor thought for merely enjoying |

her baby.

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\Since even the “play period” is,

scheduled there is no spontan-
eity, no appreciation of -the
child’s growing ability. It is not
hard to see how, since there is no
real relationship growing between
“mother and child, it won’t be long
before one becomes a taskmas-
‘ter, while the child may “develop
in many different ways, none. of
them happy ones.

Fortunately for our children
_ there aren't many of this type of
mother. However, shg is a good
example of what happens when
rituals and routines become of
Paramount importance, and the
Srowing child is secondary.

Neither mother nor child will
remember this childhood with any

joy, and the marks it leaves on "

the little girl will probably be
a Fiemme aaa MORRIS,

Pensioners protest

Here French old age pensioners demand an increase a their
pension allotments to meet higher living gerne

WOMEN MLA‘s_ AIR RAL

IN THE RECENT ONTARIO elections the Tories
really took a beating in Toronto, managing only to take
three seats out of ee in that city. The success of the cam-
paign to take the “Tory” out of “Tory Toronto”—for good,
we hope—was due in no small part to the way the women

got out and worked.

In Bellwoods, for instance,
where A. A. McLeod was elected,
some energetic campaigning was
dcne by a women’s committee
headed by Dorise Neilsen, and I
thirfk: that all women might take
a tip from this committee and
study some of the effective meth-
ods it used in making MacLeod’s
campaign a people’s campaign in
every sense of the word.

A sound truck toured the streets
three or four days a.week for
three weeks and then every after-
noon during the last week before
the elections. Various women
leaders in women’s community
and other popular organizations,
spoke while other women went
along beside the truck giving out
leaflets at. shopping districts.
These leaflets stressed points of

' vital interest to all women—high

prices, health insurance, child-
care,—and on every one of them
the Drew government was vulner-
able A baby carriage parade

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Want woman on flood board

THE SPECIAL CONCERN OF
the two women MLA's during the
special flood session of the leg-
islature seemed to be that farm
women flooded out would not
want to go back to their homes
to face the heart-breaking job of
rehabilitation.

Mrs. Tilly Ralston and Mrs.
Nancy Hodges both urged that
“a practical farm woman be in-
cluded ’ the Rehabilitation
Board to present a woman’s view-
point in the difficult problems
that have to be faced.” :

‘I'm afraid,’ said Mrs. Ralston,
“that those women who have been
brought to the city after seeing
their belongings float down the
river are going to be very reluct-
ant to ee back and start all over
again.”

on

PIONEER. LABOR WOMAN HONORED

The nremiens refusal to in-
corporate in the Bill inclusion of
a woman on the Board was round-
ly condemned by Mrs, Hodges,
who declared it was “another ex-

ample of relegating women to the ,
kitchen to do the dirty work, such |

as canteens and working on the
dykes, and then refusing them
in the administration of
an important job.”

voice

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MRS. RALSTON, WONDER-
ING aloud whether the recent
two-cent boost in milk price was
going to be beneficial to the farm-
ers, remarked that she was afraid
not as much milk would be used
as “was necessary for people’s
health. She talked vaguely of the
law of diminishing returns and

~ Celebrates 80th birthday

IT’S NOT. EVERYONE who
finds it necessary to hold open
house for four days to celebrate
a birthday as Mis, Gertrude Har-
riet Henry of 1155 East 15th. Ave-
Mue did recently, but then, four
Score years is an age that rela-
tively few attain and Mrs. Henry
ds no ordinary person.

For one thing, she has ‘been a

supporter of every ‘progressive

Cause in this city for years, and no
One in the labor movement, seek-
ing her signature to a petition or
€ndeavoring to enlist’ her aid in
& campaign, has ever been re-
fused. i

_ Last fall, when he good friend
Effie Jones entered the Vancou-
ver mayoralty contest as the can-

_ didate of the Civic Reform Asso-

Clation, she had her neighbors
and a host. of friends throughout
the city all working for Mrs.
Jones. If sometimes organs of big

‘Dusiness like the Financial Post

-it hard to understand how

their

Mrs. Jones rolled up such a big
vote, it’s not only because they
fail to measure accurately the
strength of public opposition to
policies but because they

are incapable of understanding

the devoted work women like Mrs. ©

Henry— and not only womén —

give to campaigns et ies as”

their own.
* * * BAP:
IN HER 50 YEARS in Vancou-
ver—she was born in London,
England, and went to Toronto

with her parents. when she was

five years oid—Mrs, Henry has
seen the city grow and give rise

to what its people are wont to
boast is the finest labor+move-

ment in the country. Mrs, Henry
has cntributed to that aa
and imparted no little to hes
ture.

A talented artist, she was a

does sketches in water colors in
the time she can snatch from her
busy days. She comes from a

musical family — her father was

an honorary member of Trinity
University, and printed the first
Convocational Musical Journa) in
Canada—and has devoted her
talent and time to church choirs
in the city. She is also an active

worker in the B.C. Happy Friend-

ly Society and the Theosophist
movement here.
Among the many good wishes

‘she has received from attists,

musicians, members of the labor
movement and neighbors is one
from Effie Jones, stating: “Be-

‘cause of the tempo of life, we of
‘the labor movement are apt to

overlook the remarkable qualities

- of the ‘little people’ and reserve

member of the Studio Club which |

will go down in civic history as
being the inspiration of the Van-
couver Art Gallery, and she still

all praise until after they have
passed from thi§ life. We of the
labor movement wish Mrs, Henry
good health and happiness to
continue her useful work for

many years yet.”

asked whether the amount of milk
sold was going down.

Agriculture Minister Putnam

. warned that British Columbia’s

supply of dairy products would
suffer severely this year because
of flood damage, different feed
and quarters for cattle, and that
“we have to give every encour-
agement to-dairy farmers so that
Vancouver and adjoining areas
will have an adequate milk sup-
“ply this winter.” He did not, how-
“ever, point out that %-cent of the
two-cent increase went to the dis-
tributors to help maintain .their
profits in a wasteful and increas-
ingly costly distributing set-up.

. Consumers have to foot that bill,

but it hardly comes under the
heading of “encouragement to
dairy farmers.” — KAY ERICK-
SON.

Rann

Castle Jewelers
Watchmaker, Jewellers
‘ Next to Castle Hotel
752 Granville MA, 8711
A. Smith, Mgr.

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proved to be most effective al-

, though a little difficult to organ-

ize. Mothers were decked out in
signs and the carriages, tricycles
and ‘wagons also carried their
share of slogans. They had bal-
loons painted with aluminum
‘paint carrying the name of the
dandidate and stacks of leaflets
to distribute on the way.

From six to 12 teas were held
_in every sub-division with print-
ed. invitations being sent to
neighhors and other interested
women, so that they could have
an opportunity of meeting the |
tandidate, And almost every night
there were street-corner meetings
attended by anywhere from 50 to
100 people and sometimes as many

as 200,

Of .course, there was the day-
to-day canvassing house to house
and the giving out of leafle
Plant gates, in all of which ‘the
women's committee played quite
a part. On issues like high living
costs you don't have to do much
talking to the average house-
wife, whether in Toronto or Van-
couver, but you do have to ex-
plain the connection between high
prices and war-mongering and
red-baiting and that’s where the
women’s committee really did its
stuff. ;

It will only. be a few months
before we shall be having a Ppro-
vincial election here, and won’t -
it be an opportunity to get back
at. this «Coalition government.
Every time I dip into my purse
for another penny on the sales
tax, or put the milk bottle out, or
_get three instead of four street-
car tickets for my quarter, or#
heck, ‘the list is endless—I know
Im going to enjoy canvassing.
Little Katy and John don’t know
it, but they’re going to get their
first political experience. And
after all, they’re the victims of
the Coalition's policies—B. G.

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