Women’s news and viewpoint By PEGGY CHUNN. Now that you have the young- sters back in school, and you’ve had time to catch your breath, you’re probably wondering where all your money went to, Weren’t you angry at having to pay such fantastic prices for necessities (mot luxuries), such as shoes, jackets, boys’ pants, sweaters, girls’ outfits, coats and so on? Big business has long conduct- ed a deliberate campaign to mold the tastes andideas, of the young=- er generation in particular, and always to the advantage of the profit sheet, To be just like the rest of their contemporaries is pretty potent medicine as most parents have found out, All the logical reasons which may be advanced on style, quality, or suitability of articles falls on deaf ears if those items happen ’ to be “in” at the moment, There is one rule of thumb— “I don’t want to be different to the rest of the guys (or girls) in my class,” .The family pay cheque is on the losing end of that argument, and where there is more than one child attend- ing school from the same family, the burden is very heavy. Well, are high prices here for always—is there nothing that we can do about them? The Van- couver Sun’s business writer, Mike Grenby, in theissue ofSept. 4th, 1965, writes: “Sure Prices Shooting Up But Wages Rising Faster,” Do you agree with that statement? Grenby’s article ends by stating, “It looks as if prices will continue to increase about one and a half percent a year, with wages rising more,” accord- ing to Dr. Robert Clark, Econo- mics Professor at the University of B.C, “The alternative would be too politically unpopular,” Well, what are some of the alternatives? . . . Again quoting the article, “One alternative would be government - imposed curbs on instalment buying—re- quirement of 20% down payment, for example,* Another alterna- tive which occurs to me would be government imposed curb on corporation profits with the extra money being channelled to the_ consumer in the form of lower prices, We should demand immediate action at federal government level to reduce the cost of living before inflation has reached such heights that our economy is ruined, All of us have a tremendous opportunity in the next few weeks to make some very penetrating inquiries of those candidates who ‘are asking to be sent to Ottawa as our representatives in the next federal government, Let’s take advantage of it and extract a definite answer as to what they will do about the high cost of living before we ever give them our vote, . .<. And after the elec- tion, we’ll have to be sure and remind our M,P,’s that we don’t intend to allow the distance be- tween B.C, and Ottawa to come between us and an election * promise. * * * There is a cemetery in Lenin- grad which I visited while over- seas last spring. It is a special kind of cemetery, and one ex- periences a terrific emotional impact there. It does not contain the usual six-foot plots we usually associate with cemeteries, In- stead there are large green mounds, carefully tended, sur- rounded by flowers, which con- tain up to 10,000 bodies in a ° common grave. In this cemetery there are over 600,000 Lenin- graders buried, who died ofstar- vation during the German fascist blockade of their city during World War 2, I couldn’t help thinking of this cemetery when I read inthe paper the other day, that West German troops will undergo winter train- ing at Camp Shilo, Manitoba, as “suests” of the Canadian govern- ment, If ever the Canadian people, and especially Canadian women, needed to speak out against war, and preparations for war, it is now! Do, please, sit down right away and send a letter to the Hon, Lester B, Pearson, Ottawa, Ont., demanding that he scrap the agreement on the testing of West German Military equipment, and training of West German military forces on Canadian soil, Canada’s trade policies need drastic overhaul Cont'd from pg. 1! year, heavy reliance on selling raw materials cheaply to the U,S, and buying back expensive manu- factured goods, often made from Canada’s raw materials, In the last few years, and again this year, what has saved Canada from a catastrophic un- favorable trade balance has been the large grain deals with the Soviet Union, China and other socialist countries, This year’s trade pacts with the socialist world will again lessen the shock of Canada’s one-sided trade de- pendence on the U,S, But the question we must face is: How long can the socialist countries continue to bail Canada out by accepting a one-sided trade arrangement under which we do not reciprocate by buying goods from them? This is due-to increased — One thing pointed up by the © present situation is that in- creased trade with socialist countries is one of the most im- portant ways for Canada to avoid a serious deterioration in its economic situation, These latest figures show once again the need for new economic policies for Canada which would change the heavy reliance on the U.S, and turn Canada toward processing of raw materials at home, Along with this Canada needs to seek increased trade with all countries, including the socialist countries, ’ The latest figures from Ottawa indicate that if the present trend continues, Canada’s unfavorable trade balance will again reach “erisis proportions which will force inflationary measures on the country and aggravate our ec- -onomic difficulties, : “FOR SALE—Blueberries, OPERATE IN 40 LANDS PENTAGON'S SPY PLOTS EXPOSED The U.S, Pentagon has mili- ~ tary-espionage operations under way in 40 countries, This is the charge made by Democratic Sen- ator Wayne Morse in a speech in the U.S, Senate on August 25, He said that he had been ad- vised that in probably some 40 countries the U.S. “to its dis- credit is participating in an inter- vention.” This was being done “under the guise of conducting research projects in the field of social science,” He added that he “would not be surprised to be told that there may be as many as 40 or 50 military-sponsored research projects in foreign countries, any one of which could seriously dam- age our relations with these coun- tires if they were to become public,” The lid on the U.S. Defence Department’s world-wide mili- tary espionage program was lifted last June, when a document revealing its “Project Camelot” activities in Chile was uncovered, “I predict that more Camelot . projects will be discovered in Latin-America and elsewhere,” Morse said, He pointed specifically to Bra- zil, where “only recently our Am- bassador was unable to stop another of our military-spon- sored forays,” The counter - revolutionary preparations carried on by the Defense Establishment under the name of research, said Morse, . “is an extension of the police state tactics of the C.I.A, We have permitted the C.I.A. to de- velop its police state tactics, methods and procedures within the framework of American dem- ocracy,” he said. "WELL BOYS, BUSINESS IS GOOD ANYWAY. °? —U.S. Worker "there lies a “reactionary; )? - change, * concept of ‘counterinsur' “Had it not been for the secrecy under which the C.I.A. oper tes,” he added, “there newts would have been a Bay of Pigs.” Morse warned that the intervel tionist role of the U.S. military abroad is a warning to the Al» erican people of its threat * | home, «I am becoming increasing) | concerned about the growing &™ trenchment of the power of Y | military in determining the cv Se ilian policies of our government. ie I warn the. American people,’ he said, “get it out of your h if you think the military cal” take over in a democracy i? hour of crisis. : «Do not forget that before Hit ler, Germany was a democrat and then the military took oe Do. not forget that other demo cratic’ civilizations have f because the military have given too much power.” Morse’s charges followed * a prepared statement by Demo fee 3 cratic Senator J.W. 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