5 LIVING COSTS Housewives to | hear Bjarnason Pians for participation in the nationwide campaign of Canadian housewives for 1,000,000 signa tures to back the demand for an immediate roll-back of prices to 1946 levels will be discussed by members of the Mount Pleasant, Housewives’ Consumer Association when they meet this coming Wed- nesday afternoon, February 11, at 4 West 11th Avenue here In line with this campaign, the hew popular booklet, The Case of the Dwindling Dollar will be reviewed by one of its authors, Emi) Bjarnason, co-director of the Trade Union Research Bureau. Housewives and consumers in this district who are interested in find- ing out where their housekeeping money goes are invited to attend this meeting, which will open at 2 p.m. PATTERN FEATURE 8198 23652 Z7 Perfect foundation for your . Prettiest frocks, Pattern 8189 Comes in sizes $6 to 52. 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The best literary works, both Rus- sian and international, are at their disposal. “At Bolshevo, one of the boys has constructed a local transmit- ter. station for the school over which the young Spaniards (or ganized in their school Soviet) daily give their own program of concerts, speeches, and entertain- ment.” Carrillo described how he sur- prised a group of boys and girls having a heated discussion, not, music, but on the relative merits of the great Russian writers Pushkin and Lermontov. How proud their parents would have been. could they have observed with what authority their chil- dren of 16 years discussed topics such as few adults in Spain could handle, he added. F Describing the children’s art display, he said that many of the pictures showed real artistic tal- ent. Spain was the favored sub- ject of the pictures, for the art, songs and dances of Spain play an important part in the cultural activities of the children. In the artistic display during the 10th anniversary celebration at the Stanislavsky Theater in Moscow last July, songs and dances from Viscaya, Asturias, Castillo and Andalucia and a scene from a modern Spanish play, alternated with dances from the Ukraine and Moldavia. Vicente Delgado, speaking for the Spanish students on that oc- casion said: “We shall try to. make the best of our opportuni- | ties in the USSR, thinking not merely of our own careers, but of the Spain we shall have to rebuild. Let us not forget that we are being educated in the land of socialism and that we are sons of the working class and’ must study more and more in order that we may the better serve our country in that day not far distant when she will again Pre, ‘be free.” come Da a Good . ) Suit or Overcoat OLD ESTABLISHED RELIABLE FIRM ~ REGENT TAILORS $24 West Hastings Street to the ~ EVERY GARMENT STRICTLY UNION MADE Spanish children in USSR ‘hope of Spain’s future’ By DULCE SMITH In four residential schools in the Soviet Union, at Bol- shevo: Sosniesnogors, Navajino and Tarasenko, 500 Spanish children are growing up under conditions and in surround- ings far different to the poverty-stricken, fear-ridden exis- tence of thousands of children in their unhappy homeland. They are the youngest of the 2,500 children who, 10 years ago, found a haven from Franco’s fascist regime in the Eloina Rapp, an. Asturian girl student in Moscow University, aptly described the young people now studying in the Soviet Union as the “germ of the future in- telligentsia of Spain.” * * * q Carillo reported that he was proud of the young students’ in- terest in Spain and in their com-! patriots in France, their con- cern with the life of the people and the financial and political situation in their homeland. Their questions were so pene- trating that he was often at a loss to answer them, he said. Everywhere in the Soviet Union, Carrillo found the young Spani- ards active, in socialist produc- tion, in cultural activities, in sports and politics. Of the 750 already working in great modern factories, many of them were highly qualified technicians and} Stakhanovites continuing their) studies while at work. One Maur- ice Garudo, a noted Stakhano- vite, had become famous among his countrymen, as well as among: his Soviet fellow. workers, as a political worker and speaker. Summarizing his impressions, Carrillo said he was struck by the high moral atmosphere in which the young Spaniards, as all children in the Soviet Union, were being brought up. Nowhere else, he said, had he seen more purity, more honesty in the relations among the young. “These young people are the best hope for Spain’s tomorrow when a liberated Spanish people can echo the slogan that decor- ated Stanislavsky Theater, ‘Thank you, Stalin, for having made our children, men and women.’” Scales can’t keep. ‘up with prices TOLEDO, 0.—Take it from the Toledo Scale Company— inflation is here. . : One of the largest manu- lacturers of scales in the United States, the company discovered that the automatic Housing hold-up in a wall by a boy who tossed a Many American veterans who managed to get didn’t get very much, as this photo-exhibit shown ‘gressional housing commission proves. On the left is _porch breaking: away and a foundation falling apart. a to a a baseball. Other pictures show a the Western Producer, it’s the even the most apathetic into action: eigh hogs “With Christmas and. New Year over I can get a little time to write and ask the $64 ques- tion. _Where are the. women when. meetings are being . held? Why aren’t there more at these meetings taking an active part? I can hear some of the. ex- cuses: We had to .bake bread, iron, sew, scrub, But ask your- portant than the family? Or you forgotten? pute seat “There must be. thousands that ‘went through the hungry. thirties as I did. When we were raising our families we’ had to turn.and make over clothes, .mend. and skimp, and..when buying, grocer- ies, hardware and dry: goods, try to stretch: that - wonderful. relief cheque to go around. Ours was eight dollars and .some cents. for the nine of us. : ae ee “Of course -we were farmers and we were supposed to have our own meat, eggs, vegetables and milk. But the government gave only enough feed for two computing chart on its butch- er shop scales figured only as high as 75 cents a pound.” rhat wasn’t high enough; prices had climbed above that, forcing store workers to, figure with a pen and paper, The concern indulged in a few mental acrobatics and de- cided to run the charts up to 95 cents a pound on the theory that “we didn’t think meat would go much higher, anyhow.” What’s what they thought. Soon after, better grades of meat hit the $145 a pound mark in some Ohio cities and neared the $2 mark in deli- catessen stores, ‘ Toledo upped the charts to $L75 a pound, It hopes prices ‘won’t go up again. So do _housewives—and they’re do- ing something more about _ high prices than hope. , ZENITH CAFE. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1948 E x f f cows and everyone knows they don’t milk all the year round. So when they were dry there just wasn’t. any milk and. we didn’t have any money -to buy or-trade for a fresh cow. © . “Vegetables, including potatoes, just don’t grow without rain. If one did skimp and save a few dozen eggs or a pound of butter to sell’ we got such a low price we couldn’t buy very much with the money. Prices for livestock and grain were just as ridiculously low, 40 cents for _Wheat, 15 cents for barley and imagine selling a cow cents per pound. : “Have you forgotten the school lunches? Bread spread with lard, By just keeping cookies or cake for the school children we were able to add a cookie or a piece of cake and: with thanks to the ‘for 1% kind people that sent. free apples we could give them an. apple sometimes. Vitamins. were not ‘heard of in those days. “Or the times our husbands Sot ‘up at two o’clock: in” the morning to get in: town. in: time to. stand in line. and wait for their turn get a few bushels. of feed or bales of hay which often turned out musty and moldy. so if. you. fed..your..horses with it rh * aad ow Se Bye aah “eng ‘family could have’ Selves, are. those things. more im-}: haye - ||,Sons, and: daughters: tramped the _ THIS WEEK I am giving my column over to a letter written by Mrs, F, Eliason, secretary of the Women’s Sec- tion of the United Farmers of Canada. First published by kind of letter that should stir they died? Often the men. would have to come home late at night without. having had anything to eat, for. who. had. the ‘price to eat. in .a, cafe..these days, Or -re- member -waiting for .a. councillor of the municipality to sign. for your hospital and doctor. bili be- fore you or someone jin ‘your medical "or hospital care no mattér how ur- streets looking for :work?. How the boys rode the freight trains asking’ only to work for a_liv- ing and received’ tear bombs and jail sentences instead? But when war was started and they were ‘needed: for war they were fed and. @ressed..in- ‘the’ best of clothing. Only -by -joining our farm or- ganizations, attending - meetings. and getting our neighbors to do: likewise can we be strong-enough: to demand .a. square deal for alk so there -won’t be a repeat of | the hungry thirties. So, ladies, how about ‘it, let's get up and fight -now, before our sons or sons’ sons are called upon to fight again. ~ “As soon as war was declar- ed food and clothing appeared in abundance because people were provided with money wherewith __ to purchase their requirements. Public debt we were told at that time was high, and we were warned that every child was born with avery high mort- gage attached to its life. : “There was danger of infla-_ tion and we could not possibly — afford to keep men and women at work, as we were faced with the problem of over-production. — “After war: was declared .we heard very little of public debt. The authorities are not ing and inflation is work at full speed. Only the people in the lower income. brackets are suf- fering, but their numbers are increasing rapidly. Shall we meet with our neighbors ‘in an organ- ized way, to discuss our many _ problems or shall we drift and allow the powers that be to or- ganize for another war?” Think this letter over, . and then think back. There’s a rea} danger that the future will be like: the past—unless we act to- ‘gether to..prevent it—B.G. : , PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7 bj