WRITER LOOKS AT AMERICAN PEOPLE

‘You move away from freedom’

THE IMPRESSION that Amer-
ica makes upon most of us now
is completely bewildering, says J
B. Priestley, noted' English writ-
er, in an open letter to American
people. There is something call-
ed “the American way of life,”
which is not only what you want
but also something the rest of us
ought to have. But if this way
of life is a good and satisfying
way of life, why is it that Ameri-
can thinkers, artists, publicists

CHILD CARE

and others seem so profoundly
dissatisfied, so disillusioned, so
bitter?

For example, never has Ameri-
can fiction been more pessimistic
than it is now. Why are people
so miserable leading this good
way of life? Why is so much
that you do when the day’s work
is over an obvious escape from
your way of life? What compels
you to stare night after night at
all the glitering hokum that has

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MOST YOUNG MOTHERS face their first baby with

a grim determination not to
often results in a long series

“spoil” him. This attitude
of battles between the child

and mother over dry diapers, clean dishes after every meal,
thumb sucking, broken vases and so on. Crying is regarded
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as evidence of “temper.”

In his work, The Pocket Book
of Baby and Child Care, Dr. Ben-
jamin Spock shows the baby, and
later the child, is not a robot
. that can be run in such a fashion,
but a person who must be allowed
freedom to grow and develop in
his own way and at his own
speed.

If you think that this means
Dr. Spock is the cartoonist’s idea
of a child psychologist, one who
‘recommends that little Johnny be
allowed to do everything he
wants, you're wrong. Dr. Spock,
gives the fullest information for
guiding the child into being both
happy and well-behaved.

This book combines common
sense with the latest scientific
data on the physical and psycholo-
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Dr. Spock tells you what to do
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Don’t think that this book isn’t

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It’s a crime against your child
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SOVIET WOMEN

been deliberately put together for
you? Why do you want us to
accept something thatappears to
be driving you deeper and deeper
into despair? Why is everything
you accept with enthusiasm either
a bitter protest or an anaesthet-
ic? Why must the great roaring
carnival of quick drinks, adoles-
cent sex, bright lights and dim-
med thinking always go. faster
and faster?

What is the matter with
..-+ You boast bright lights,
uous automobiles, stockings
girls, pot roast and cream for
dinner, all the whiskey you can
buy, and yet you never show us
what is far more important — a
state of mind to be envied. Gn
the contrary, all the evidence in-
dicates a state of mind that calls
for pity.

Then there is this business of
freedom. You feel quite sincere-
ly, I believe, that you are the
guardians of freedom, of western
man’s essential liberties. But
you seem to many of us over
here to be deceiving yourselves in
this matter.

You are moving away from, free-
dom. All this red-baiting and ra-
dical witch-hunting All this
screaming about “un-American ac-
tivities.” All indirect pressure
upon radio and film script writ-
ers to produce what is acceptable
to rich, predatory men. It looks
at this distance as if a new in-
tolerance were sharpening the
American air.

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War heroines in civil life
NOT SO LONG AGO, when there was still a war to
be won and the Soviet Union was still an heroic ally to
politicians who ‘now talk only of the “Russian menace,” the

daily press was full of the exploits of Ludmila Pavlichenko,
crack rifle shot and heroine of the defense of Sevastopol,

who killed 310 Nazis.

“Now the daily press says no
more about her because her name
reminds women in this country of
the greater sacrifices Russian wo-
men made in a common cause.
But what about Ludmila Pavli-
chenko and others of the 63 wo-
men who were awarded the title
Hero of the Soviet Union in rec-
ognition of their bravery? Where
are thty now?

Ludmila Pavlichenko is study-
ing for her master’s degree in

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history, and her’subject is the his-
tory of the defense of Sevastopol
in 1854 and 1941.

Two Soviet women war fliers,
Ekaterina Ryabova and Natalia
Meklin, are students at Moscow
University. And Nadezhda Troy-
an, the daring guerilla leader
whose detachment wrecked 3
trains, is completing her

medical training. This spring she
will receive her doctorate:

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American way of life?’ ,

William Van Auken has a car but no place to live. When
his search for a home proved futile he and his family moved
into the auto, parked on a Los Angeles highway. Here his
wife Gloria, 4 month-old Mary and 1 year-old Billie arise after
a night’s sleep in the cramped quarters.

THE OTHER DAY I was talking ‘to Effie Jones and
what she had to tell me about the activities of some health
societies bears out the demand for a government investigation

of those that have folded up.

Here, for instance, is a letter she received from a woman

at White Rock, B.C,,. folowing
the publicity given to her attend-
ance at .the first meeting called
by the. National Health. Associa-
tion to submit the director’s pro-

posal that it be placed in volun-_

tary liquidation. _. :
The letter, addressed, simply
“Mrs. Effie Jones, Vancouver,
B.C,” read: sl

‘I am taking the liberty of
writing you because I feel you
are interested in justice being
done in the recent. National Health
Association | fiasco.

“Only a week before we -receiy-
ed notice of the proposed liqui-
dation two young men, one a Mr.

. Macdonald, literally combed White

Rock for membership in this as-
sociation,

“Neither my husband nor my-
self had ever before had any
health insurance, as we have al-
ways been very healthy. However,
the proposition was good and he
gave us evidence to prove :the
stability of the association. .

‘Now I am enclosing a notice

of meeting to be held April 19
and this letter is to be your au-
thority to act as proxy for Charles
F. Newman and Dorothy New-
man, if it is convenient for you
to attend.
“Thank you indeed for your
earlier attempt to help.”
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EFFIE JONES told me that

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she attended the meeting, a brief,
abruptly adjourned affair lasting
only 24' minutes at° which none
‘of the several hundred members
attending was given “any oppor-
tunity to voiee a protest. .

To the meeting itself Elmore
Meredith, the lawyer, presented a
financial statement showing as-
sets of $43,150 and liabilities of
$126,918. cee oe 4
. “Aren't -you obliged to send a
financial. statement to Victoria

every year?” Mrs. Jones asked.
“Wasn't one sent. last year?”

.; That's. .a question the govern-
-ment should be forced to answer.

If I remember -correctly, attempts

“Were made to cast doubt on the

activities of the B.C. Housewives’

-Consumer Association in fighting

for price controls because it was
not considered a-.“legal” organiz-
ation. The people who made
them might better have concern-
ed themselves with the fleecing
of working people conducted on
a “legal” basis—B.G.

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