i“ ’ PLANNING FOR PARENTHOOD Clinics to.aid childless couples (THE problem of childless cou- ples is more common and more complicated than most peo- ple realize. Unless you have been close to the problem, it is hard to imagine the sense of shame it too often bears. Couples who-have been unable to produce children GUIDE TO GOOD READING Buck writes new pamphlet T Canada is going to feel the full impact of the crisis now developing throughout the capitalist sector of the world has become very evident to most of us in the last few months. But the full significance of this fact now that our country has been “hitched to the war chariot of Wall Street” is clear- ly shown by Tim Buck, in his latest pamphlet, Keep Canada Independent, a summary of his report to the LPP national com~ mittee last month. “pPwo world wars and & great depression have so shaken the big business profit system that it is breaking down, staggering under the weight of its internal contradictions,” Tim Buck states in the pamphlet. “In the last short period of time world re- lationships’ have changed (and) the policies of the labor move- ment in Canada as in other cap- italist countries have also chang- ed.” “The program of big business is profiteering, crisis, militariza- tion and national subervience to the foreign power of Wall Street. Far Ep Seer GY ee ts i SALLY BOWES Let Me Solve Your INCOME TAX PROBLEMS Room 20 — 9 East Hastings MAr. 9965 ities ee aa st ed al 10% Discount With every purchase at OA CLOTHING 6 West Cordova WORK & DRESS WEAR “Phe program of the united labor and people’s movement is the growing demand for price control, a curb on profits and a new national policy to raise liv- ing standards and uphold the economic and political independ- ence of our country.” The Abbott plan, described by “prime Minister Mackenzie King as “merely a detour” clearly in- dicates the way “in which the King government proposes to subordinate Canadian economy to monopolistic United States finance capital” Buck says. “It is, a plan to wipe out Canadian sovereignty by giving ‘the United States government a. direct vote in deciding the direc- -tion and level of Canada’s econ- omic development.” : Pointing out that, far from being an economic Rock of. Gib- raltar, the U.S. is, of all capitalist countries, the one in which the national economy “oscillates through the wildest swings,” Tim Buck remarks that the U.S. has boasted of the biggest booms and suffered the worst slumps of any capitalist country. Outlining LPP policy to unite the people for election of pro- gressive candidates in coming elections, Tim Buck declares that “the over-riding need today “is unity—to defeat reaction and open the road to democratic ad- vance. Therefore in the event of elections, provincial or dominion, during 1948, the Labor-Progress- ive’ Party will subordinate all other immediate considerations. to the need for unity at the polls of those democratic voters who want governmental policies aim- ed at peace and democratic pro- gress,” ; A full outline of the LPP'’s proposals for reshaping Canada’s _ national policies is included in Buck’s pamphlet, which should be read and studied by all those people interested in Canada’s future as an independent nation. Vancouver readers will have an opportunity of hearing Tim‘ Buck elaborate on this policy when he speaks at Exhibition Gardens on Sunday, March 14.— KAY ERICKSON, : Come and See “Journey for Peace” And Other Films . Thursday, March 18, 8:00 p.m. Pender Auditorium, $39 W. Pender St. Admission 50 cents . 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' It is probably not realized by most people that it isn’t necessar- ily the wife who is at fault. In an average 100 cases, about 60 are mainly due to difficulties of the wife and 40 are mainly due to the husband. In many of them both partners have something wrong. THs is the reason it is very important that when medical advice is sought, both husband and wife must be prepared to undergo examination and treat- ment. It would help many a hus- band to get to the doctor if he understood clearly that his man- hood is not being questioned. For success it is also important that a couple seek medical atten- tion early in marriage. It has been found harder to help women over 30 years and men over 40 because of the changes that begin to occur in the vital sex organs _ at that time. ‘As to the choice of doctor, it should be remembered that, ac- cording to one estimate, there are over 300 possible causes for ster- jlity. It’s important to choose a doctor who has taken the time to find out about a goodly number of them. The gynecologist, or woman's specialist, and the urologist, or specialist in men’s dseases, are the ones most likely to be con- cerned with this problem. Fre- quently they work as a team, one examining and! treating the wife, the other the husband. Because this is a field that re- _ quires special knowledge, because a thorough knowledge eans @ number of visits at each which a different test is done, and be. cause the treatment is often long and drawn out, the ‘cost in the paSt has béen too high for most people. Proper treatment, with the notable exception of a very few hospital clinics, has been available only to the well-to-do. e IN the United _States, Plan- ned Parenthood, a nationwide organization, has now begun to set up low cost clinics for this purpose, In these clinics, the at- mosphere is purposely calm and unhurried—unlike the usual clinic —because these are delicate and complicated problems that must be handled properly to get the best results, And it’s a good thing to have a clinic entirely for this purpose, so that all the work can be done under one roof, so that all the specialists can work together as a team, and so a patient has no need to sent off in ten different directions for ten different tests with ten different doctors. At present, there are such clin- ics in New York City, Washing- ton, D.C., Louisville, Ky., and Wilmington, Del., and they are on the way in a dozen other cities. HAST, 0340 766 E. HASTINGS © Hastings Steam Baths Expert Masseurs In Attendance OPEN, DAY and NIGHT Vancouver, B.C. = —~ ee She went on a food strike | To demonstrate her protest against high living costs, Mrs. Ruth Berber went on a _bread-and-milk diet for two weeks. ' Unfortunately, even such spirited individual protest won't solve the problem. What is required is concerted consumer pressure upon the government, such as that provided by the Housewives Consumer Association’s current petition campaign. Mrs. Berbes’ huspand, you'll note, didn’t join the “hunger strike.” ‘ i EAST END TAXI. UNION DRIVERS HA. 0334 Fully 24-Hour Insured Service 618 East Hastings, Vancouver THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS are full of the two Van- couver women who have flown to Australia to take cancer treatments from John Braund, the Sydney man who claims to have been curing cancer for 50 years, and now a Van- couver man plans to join them, using a legacy to finance his trip. What struck me most forcibly was his statement that he had never had an operation because he couldn’t afford it. How many people are there in this Province, I wonder, for whom an operation to relieve suffering, a treatment to restore health, is bound up in that tragic state- ment: “I can’t afford it’? And how many more must constantly _ worry about making another pay- ment on _ hospital and doctors’ bills of long standing. K. K. Reid, chairman of the board of directors of the Royal Columbian Hospital, New West- minster, reported to Burnaby Hospital Society the other day that one in every four hospital bills was uncollectable. When you consider that one illness may cost a working family all its savings and still leave it ‘heavily in debt, the wonder is that three out of four people do contrive to meet their bills. ; Sickness strikes hardest at the lowest paid workers. They can least afford decent housing. They can buy least of the health-giving’ foods they should have, especially in these days of inflated prices. New treatments and new drugs are available, but only at a cost far beyond the means of most of us. * * * THE LOGICAL solution to this problem is a comprehensive sys- tem of health insurance, a social _ reform long promised and long ~ overdue. But in the speech from the throne read in the legislature this week the Coalition govern- mcemt made no mention of the previncial health inSurance scheme approved 10 years ago and never put into effect. Mount- | ing school, hospital and other so- cial service costs are on the agenda, but the government’s an- swer for this, as for all such questions, is to put another tax on the péople—this time a three percent sales tax. Think of it! Three cents out of every dollar you spend! 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