i -V.D: we WOMEN COLLECT 6,000 SIGNATURES TO PETITION Mary Gawrycki, with 580 names, tops list of women peace workers A GROUP OF PEACE workers _ Stopped for a cup of tea after a busy afternon the other day and compared notes. They made an amazing discovery—added ‘to- gether the names collected by them on peace petitions amounted to 6,000! Each woman had thought her total a small one. Only three or four were large, but taken to- gether how imposing the number Seemed — and was. This im- mediately created new enthusi- asm for collecting a lot more sig- natures, and the group decided to organize their work and to challenge each other for names. Mary Gawrycki headed the list With 581 names, These represent many miles of walking, for most of her names were collected from housewives and mothers in Van- couver Hast. And Mary is keeping right on from door to door and in the next three weeks expects to gather at least 200 more. Then there were May Leniczek and Audrey Brandon, who each had well over 300 and have since added to them considerably. Aud- rey, who is from North Vancou- ver, reported that over there the women are out every day and that both men and women in their peace group are determined’ to cover the whole of North Van-_. couver. Many fine examples can be cited to show how keenly women ' WHY IS TOMATO JUICE 10 CENTS A GLASS? feel about peace. But best of all is the resolve made .by these women over their teacups. “All except real essential home tasks ‘can be put aside until November 6,” said one of them. “If we get lots of signatures and show our government we ‘mean business when we talk about peace, we'll have plenty of time for house- work,” she added. “But if we fail ' to work hard enough for peace and war comes, ‘where will our homes be then?” Every Tuesday and Friday morning will see these women out with their petitions in their own localities. They appeal to any who can join them to do so. Please phone Mrs. J. Power, FA. 7642M _ —MONA MORGAN Cost of school lunches higher, so how about a wage increase? LAST MONDAY morning I was Siving Joan her usual allowance of $125 flor her ‘week's jlunch money when she reminded me that: prices had gone up in all the schools. “Are you getting more food for your money?” I asked, “Heck no! You know the small dinner I used to buy last year for 12 cents—a small scoop of pota- toes and vegetables and a bit of meat—well, it’s twenty cents now. And the casseroles of macaroni and cheese or shepherds pie cost two cents more. You have to have one or the other. Nobody is buying tomato juice any more now that it’s a dime. None of the prices have gone down and _ there are no large dinners like there were last year. “How much more need?” I groaned. : “How much can you spare, Mom?” “Good heavens, I haven’t any to spare. It just means we cut will you _ down somewhere else—rob Peter to pay Paul.” “Well, if I had another twenty cents that will give me enough for dinners twice a week and, cas- ‘Seroles the other three days. Heck, Maybe I should take my lunch this year.” We talked this over a bit but both of us know from experience that sandwiches just stave off your hunger until you can have a decent meal, whereas a hot lunch renews your energy. “You take the extra twenty cents dear, I’ll just have to get a bigger raise this year than I got last year. That two and a half . Cent an hour raise was eaten up ages ago. It’s taking one day’s increase for your lunches alone, ' another for the increase in the telephone bill, another for meat and soap and coffee and—Heav- ens! Look at the time! We'll both be late if we don’t dash.” On the streetcar going down to work I began wondering about the prices being charged by the Schoo] board. Serve tomato juice for less than ten cents. What about the PTA? Were they doing anything about it? TThat’s it, I decided, I'll go to the next meeting and see if we er. How about the rest of you Can’t work something out togeth- Mothers, won’t you come too? » Surely they could” I NEARLY HIT the roof last week when I read what Dr. Norman H. -Gosse, president of of the Canadian Medical Association, had to say at the jubilee convention here of BC. doctors. “Doctors should be eratetale for time to organize ° \ against control, he stated. “If the noise of battle postpones the evil day, “doctors should be grateful. for the extra time in which to marshal opposition to bureau- cratic control of medicine. So, not only does he think that war- fare, (in which thousands of Can- adians—-men ,women and children —would die) is preferable to wel- fare, but his declared opposition to socialized medicine means only one thing—he is condeming thous- ands of Canadians to death now. This is not idle talk, for any doc. ° tor can tell you that patients consulted their doctors_ before they became seriously ill their lives could be saved. Every school child can tell you that the school doctor and their rules of health advise a yearly check- up with the doctor. Every health — “bulletin printed by the various governments of our country ad- vise a yearly check up with the doctor. Every health bulletin printed by the various govern- ments of our country advise the same thing, but who can afford | iWigeeten pee eee Dr. Gosse condemned socialized medicine in Britain and the fact that the general practitioner must have 4,000 patients on his panel. But if he wants to talk about fig- ures then here are some pertin- ent oneg about Vancouver. There are approximately 400 doctors in Vancouver and North Burnaby, / including _ specialists. The total population is well over 400,000, which means that if every person obeyed the health rules set down by the medical profes—_ sion, every doctor would have a panel of at least 1000. Now what do the figures show us concerning the first year’s op- eration of health insurance? One out of every six British Colum- f if many | bians was hospitalized jn 1949 and . many more would have been had 'there been enough hospital beds. | Surely ‘this must be some indica- tion of the medical needs of our population. \ ‘Yet Dr. Gosse has the nerve to urge an organized fight by Can- adian doctors against the “threat” of state medicine which he claims “prostitutes” the office and posi- tion of doctors to a serfdom of unscientific practise. What we need are more psychiatrists who could examine the heads of some of our doctors! } * * Kats WITH WINTER days ap. proaching, mothers are taking stock of clothing needs for the cold’ months. Those nice plaid woolen skirts are way too short for daughter, and as for the win- ter coats—did the children really grow that much in the summer time? Overshoes are too smal] for the new shoes and sweaters and mittens will never stretch over all that additional weight and height. I guess all of us are in the same predicament having clothes that are still good yet too small to be of any use. Isn't it about time we ' got together on this clothing. problem and started a clothing exchange? It has been worked out successfully in other cities and,.towns and involves very little work if everyone co-operates. Everybody brings in their child- ren’s used, but still good cloth- in, and receives a small sum for it. The clothing is sent to the cleaners and resold at the price charged. In this way a child’s winter coat would cost only three or four dollars at the most. How about it, readers? Why not save some money? 375 SUBS IN- 18 DAYS LEFT LITTLE PEETEE SAYS: “From hefe on in, our press >» groups will have to place the job of getting subs smack on top of the agenda, or else we'll never hit that 2,000 target! “Seems to me this is a good ‘time to remember that in the fight for peace, our most pow- erful single weapon is the pro- gresive press, and in B.C. that means our Pacific Tribune. Every new reader won means ‘another woking recruit for the peace camp. So let’s go out and get those subs!” ‘10 TOP VANCOUVER PRESS GROUPS PSiedana aR co ha SUa ra 55k etic se OA RN 5 Gen de 23 Grandriewo se ae Se ee 4 oe 14 Shin; andeoteel 6 cote he et ee ce 14 North=Vancouver™ (area)! 20 13 Nortiiaye 8 Tce teen a akc 12 Commercial Drive ih a sol 12 WERE Pde ee ates 2 nels ee Se ee 10 Renfrew! (2500 207 gage ea Sie si eeiae Nera 10 Bilectracalige 4s ee oo Oe ey 9 Victory Square Rae Nei has te GN oie Sines, 9 10 TOP PROVINCIAL PRESS GROUPS New. Westminster: (area) = 3.2 18 Nanaimo. 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