‘A majority of Vancouver house-
wives, to whom “austerity” means
even higher living costs and the
heed to watch every penny, will
echo the sentiment of the House-
Wives Consumer Association in
déscribing the proposal to increase
streetcar fares as “outrageous.”

- Executive members of House-
Wives Consumer Association
branches, meeting this week, de-
manded the right to present their
’ case against higher’ fares at a
public hearing before the Public
Utilities Commission and sent
telegrams to Premier John Hart
and Dy. Carruthers of the Public

Home “ Women’s Activities Family
HOUSEWIVES’ CONSUMER” ASSOCIATION

Describe fare increase as ‘outrageous’,
demand public hearing of application

Utilities Commission urging that
such a hearing be held.

It was reported to the meeting
that on November 17, in an inter-
view with the Harbor, Airport and
Utilities Committee of Vancou-
ver City Council, representatives
of the Housewives Consumer As-
sociation were assured by civic
officials that they would have
“full opportunity to present a
case before the Public Utilities
Commission in Victoria.” Alder-
men further assured them that
the BCElectric had made no ap-
plication for increased fares up
to that time.

“We were shocked to hear that

the increase was sanctioned at
a closed meeting of the city coun-
cil only a short time after we had
been given these assurances,” said
Mrs. Marion Parkin, HCA secre-
tary. . sept

“We are even more surprised to
learn. that the Public Utilities
Commission apparently intends to
hand down aé decision without
permitting the publie any voice
in that decision,” Mrs. Parkin
added. “That’s why we have made
our protest ‘to the government.
And we intend to let the council
know how we. feel about its
shabby actions with another dele-
gation on December 1.”

Eskimos learn scientific child care

» Cute, isn’t she—or he? The Na-
‘tional Film Board editor gives
‘only the baby’s name, Quaga. Any-
Way, the few Canadians who know
their Arctic regions will tell you
that the Eskimos are fine, very
‘indulgent parents. And here Soud-
Jo, an Eskimo woman from Baf-
fin Island, pours into sterilized

bottles the feeding formula she

has’ learned to prepare at St.
Luke’s Anglican Hospital, Pan-
gnirtung, one of two government-
subsidized hospitals in the Hast-
ern Arctic. Holding baby Quaga
and watching Soudlo is Nurse
Beatrice Kitchen of Toronto.

Training of Eskimo mothers in
scientific child care is part of a

program being undertaken by the
department of national health. and
welfare. But government meas-
ures to assist the Eskimos are still
pitifully inadequate and in strik-
ing contrast to the huge sums now
being spent on. military prepara-
tions that threaten to turn the
Arctic into a future battleground.

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had any luck yet, it’s all your
own fault. At least, that’s what
the landlords think. :

If so many people are living
in. housing unfit for health, they
are doing so because they have

|mo desire to better their position.

That is the statement made to
the recent convention of the
Ontario Proprty Owners’ Associ-
ation by Leonard Leger, past
president of the Montreal Prop-
erty “Owners' League, as reported
in Toronto newspapers.

At the same meeting, Harold
E. Manning, president of the as-

| sociation said: “I grow weary of
|listenirig to people talk about .what
they haven’t got when they have

never been so well off, in history.

| They are trying to grab what they
have not éarned and what we have’

made and created ourselves.” .

I IMAGINE there'll be a lot of women—and not only

women—in this city
Jones has entered the
Outsider to some of the
and certainly not on the list of

those who ‘try. to limit the entries
to their own exclusive circle, but

out in South Vancouver and in the |:
East End where she's best known, |:

there’ll be Plenty of working peo-

ple, pensioners and others to help |.

her campaign.

Over the back fence on ‘wash
day women will be asking each
other just what my neighbor re-

marked when she heard the news. |

“And why not a woman mayor?"

As president of the Tenants’ and
Homeowners’ League, Effie Jones
has fought too many evictions to
ignore the tragedy of broken
homes and broken lives, as the
Present mayor and_ his compla-
cent council have ignored them.
' A few years back, Jonsey, as she
is known to hundreds of People,
was actively campaigning for the
old Housewives’ League, and if
she. lacks “official” civic experi-
ence, she probably has had more
“unofficial” experience than most
of the aldermanic candidates.
She knows = civic problems ‘not
from the burocratic viewpoint of
the present incumbent, but from
the viewpoint of the little people,
you and I, who have to foot the
bill for them, although so far
we've had precious little say.

* * *

THE IMPORTANT THING, of
course, is what Effie Jones stands
for—and she seems destined to
go down in our civic history as
“Low Fare” Jones in contrast ta
her namesake and opponent,
Charles “High Fare’ Jones, who
will probably not go down in
civic hist@y. at all, judging by
his record, except (I hope) as
the defeated candidate in this
election,

Dr. Lyle Telford was the only
mayor this city ever had who
could claim with any justifica-
tion to represent the viewpoint of
its working people — and that’s
most of us.

The present acting mayor,
Charles Jones, was city clerk for
years, the instrument of the Non-
Partisan big business machine
rather than an important part of
it, as the late Senator. G. G.
McGeer, his immediate predeces-
sor, was. Before that,: Mayor J.
D. Cornett "and Mayor George
Miller were both businessmen re-
mote from the problems of or-
dinary citizens even if they had
shown any desire to fight for
their interests. What could they
know of relief lines and picket
lines? How could they appreciate
the feelings of people who went
without the things they needed in
order to meet the yearly tax bill

while big corporations talked
about good citizenship and evad-
ed their responsibilities? They

were on the wrong side of the
counter every time.

Charles Jones and the rest of
the boys the Non-Partisan clique
has picked to carry on in the
same  time-dishonored .. tradition
are on the wrong side of the
counter this time—or should :I
Say the wrong side of the tracks?

Where they should be fighting”

against the higher streetcar fare,

protecting our interests, they’re
in there  pinch-hitting:.. for... ‘the
BCElectric.

Well, Effie Jones wilt‘give ther
& good fight. The only regret
I have is that the late Mayor
McGeer vacated office when he
did. Effie, Jones had often ap-
peared before McGeer as a mem-

ber of housewives’ and taxpay-
ers’ delegations and more than
once McGeer had to use the

weight. of his: office .to »avoid :los-
ing the argument. On the plat-
form he would -have found that
he had more than met: his match.
But Charles Jones will find that
out.—B.G. Reece en

who'll be tickled to hear that Effie
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