‘No place like home’ Adventurous Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Carlin try to solve the housing and travel problem in one lap. in mid-Atlantic. Their first round-the-world attempt in a venferted army duck ended up in a 10-day drift A tanker came to their resuce and brought them back to Montreal. They are going to make another try. Neighbors say, ‘bet er stick to the duck as a house and stay on land.’ - Vitamin C the easy way FOR A NATION that’s notori- ously vitamin’ conscious, we sit down to a surprising number of meals deficient in vitamin C, according to nutrition experts. Citrus fruits, as one of the richest natural sources of vitamin: C, can be used in countless ways to add variety as well as vitamins to summer meals. For a frosty summer ice’ to serve as a first course or with a fruit salad, simply put a can of grapefruit or- orange juice in your freezing .unit and turn to quick freeze. When the freezing job is done remove both ends of the can, push out the frozen juice and slice: Lollipops for the youngsters! are easily made by pouring a can of their favorite juice in the ice tray, When the juice is almost frozen, stick a toothpick into each fruit juice cube, let the tray freeze until very firm—and for less than a cent each children will have vitamin C lollipops. RECIPEHINTS |. =e Ar ..¢ appa Ueto Apple Crisp Pudding Four cups sliced apples, cup Sugar, % tsp. cloves, % tsp. nut- Meg, % cup honey, Apap sore: ening, 1/3 cup sugar, eggs, 1 tsp. Vanilla, 1% cups toasted bread Benes. 1% cups;oven popped rice eal. 7 a: q Mix apples with combined sugar, Spices and honey, Turn into Bree Saale CHILD CARE Those radio horrors COOLER WEATHER and _ school bring with them a familiar object of many a family feud—the radio. Among parents I know, an absurd number have, atone time or another, complained, “My child waking moment, he neglects his work, his outdoor play, his friends, his meals, etc.” Fortu- nately, like many _ childhood phases, this too will pass and something equally absorbing be- comes important. While the child is at this stage, however, it some- times does become a problem. Not only do children often fail to get the mecessary outdoor play, or even sleep, but the rest of the tamily must put up with the monotonous, noisy horrors that children listen to, usually at full volume. Fe ke The parent who has given some time and attention to making a child feel like a responsible mem- ber of the family group is de- finitely at an advantage in this situation. Even at six or seven it is comparatively easy to sit down with the child and figure out a schedule for him and the rest of the family. Such and such times for his programs, times for newscasts or other fam- ily favorites so much time for homework if there is any, out- door play etc. WOMEN TURNING FOR A MOMENT from. the latest Holly- wood scandal involving Rcbert Mitchum, the capitalist press this week focussed its “human interest” spotlight on one George Martin from Detroit who has offered to marry his daughter to.any man who can pay $7000. “Debts were piling up,’ Mar- tin said, “and I thought this move might lift some of my own financial burdens ...and.....heip Georgie finish her education.” * * * EXACTLY ONE HUNDRED years ago Marx and Engels in their Communist Manifesto said about capitalism, “It has left no bond between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous ‘cash payment’ It has re- solved personal worth into. ex- change value. .. The bourgeoisie has torn from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.” What Martin has done so open- ly is practised in a much more subtle and disguised form by present day industrialists, bank- ers and others of our so-called prominent people who adorn the social set. The much-publicized “debut” is the means by which ett h % is a favorite dessert in most families part greased shallow baking pan. Blend shortening and sugar; add eggs and flavoring; beat well. Mix with bread cubes and cereal and spread over apples. Bake in a moderate oven (875 degrees F.) 40 to 50 minutes or until epples are tender and top is browned. Yield: 6 servings. a daughter of the rich is offered to the highest bidder. age a lavish party is arranged for her by her parents at which she is “introduced; to society.” As a debutante she is highly feted, publicized in the society columns and otherwise adver- tised so as to catch the eye of some eligible male (widowers or ~ divorcees with substantial bank accounts gratefully accepted). The main object and hope of all this is, of course, that she marry “well.” The resulting engagement and marriage write-ups make the connection very clear. Here, for instance, is a typical one quoted from the New York Times, “The bride was presented to society in 1947 and is a member of the Savannah Junior League. The prospective bridegroom is presi- dent of the Suburban Gas Co, in Brunswick and vice-president of the Ideal Gas; Inc., here. He is a member of the Oglethorpe, Cotillion and Savannah Golf Clubs.” * * * SO YOU SEE, putting one’s daughter on the marriage market is a respectable and profitable business among the upper classes. It was the crude way that George tried it that raised all the fuss. We are glad that daughter Georgie announced that it’s “no sale’? and that she like most _American and Canadian girls pre- fers working for a living. B.H.M. When she reaches marriageable such. is glued to the radio every With such a plan and a little generosity on the parents’ part, it is not difficult to get the child’s cooperation. When - your child sees that you are considering his favorite horrors, perhaps holding dinner ten minutes so that he can find out what happened to the werewolf, calling him to re- mind him it’s radio time just as you do when its time to practice or go to the grocer’s, he'll keep his end of the bargain. The odd child becomes pretty frightened by some of the vio- lence and finds it difficult to fall asleep, or has nightmares, Many doctors have asked parents to forbid such programs. If a child, who listens regularly is affected in this way, it might be worth looking into. When programs are forbidden, children should be told in a ftiendly way. There isn’t much point in further frightening a child with dire prophecy. Other than this, when he jis at the radio, let him pick his own programs, regardless of whether you like them or not. He knows what he wants. —VERA MORRIS. On the prices front LETTER CAME to me from Alberta one day last week in which a woman asked, “Do you think there will be any more activity on the part of the Housewives this fall?” My “immediate The stone of cold winter weather will sharpen the edge of appe- tites and three times a day or more we will hear the call, “Wot'cher got’ ter eat, Mum?” Since 1946 women have been protesting the rising prices and rightly so, for they realized early that it was their families that were being sacrificed for the sake of profits. Can they stop now when this ghastly situation 1s even more terrible than it has ever been before? Ke Se Last year, when prices were quite a little below what they are today and when quite a few had savings or bonds they could cash to eke out their meagre wages, the Dominion government conducted a survey on nutrition among the nation’s. children. From a cross section of city and farm homes, many in what we call the middle-class, they found 50 percent of the children suffer- ing from malnutrition in some degree! That was a year ago, What is the percentage now? More children die each year in this country of ours from condi- tions related to diet deficiencies than from the dreaded polio. It was stated in the government survey that the causes of this widespread and serious malnutri- tion among children were “pov- declared: phernalia.” ution of children's mireds.” Comic books foster race prejudice Comic hooks were bitterly denounced last week and descibed as “literally correspondence courses in crime, crime primers for children,” by Dr. Frederick Wertham, director of the Larfargue Clinic of the New York Quaker emergency service, who con- “demned the publishers and their products as anti-social. He “Some of these books sow hatred against Negroes, Jews, Italians, foreign-born, Indians and others. A recent publication features a story that instils glorification of the Nazi para- Dr. Wertham said, “just as we have ordinances against the polution of water, so now we need ordinances against the pol- reaction” “was,” _ “Well, there certainly should be.” erty, ignorance and. indifference. 1, Cee, See, S Are we going to sink to that kind of life again? Are we going to allow artificially created scar- cities of certain foods, high prices and. low wages to reduce us tothe point where with foods all around us, we are forced to keep our families on semi-starvation diets? Already approximately a half of our Canadian families are getting perilously near this point. I would like to predict that there will be plenty of activity among housewives this Fall. —DORISE NIELSON. ISS Port Alberni DIRECTORY GOOD EATS CAFE & “Where working people meet” New Props., Kay & Margare 24 HOUR SERVICE UNION TAXI Phone 137 Frank Harris, 1st & Argyle R. D. 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