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“NO HEADLINES SCREAM WAR’

Czechoslovakia
of coal miners

I WENT TO EUROPE for the
first time in my life—to Czecho-
slovakia—and saw the new world
in blossom.

It is difficult to describe the
_ feeling that gripped me as I set

foot in this new kind of country
whose elected representatives
are steelworkers, housewives and
mural painters and not agents of
Wall Street such as represent the
_ plain people in America.

It is difficult to describe ‘the
feeling one gets in walking down
the main streets of Prague and
_ seeing the newsstands and book-
_ shops filled with nothing but pro-

gressive literature and news-
_ ~papers. .

Not one paper yelling for war
and mass murder. Not one head-
line of violent crime. Not one
headline of juvenile delinquency.
_ The headlines do not exist be-
- @ause there is no violent crime
or juvenile delinquency to speak
of. :
Here the roots of crime are
eradicated with the eradication
of capitalism, the breeder of
crime and delinquency. There are
laws here against  brutalizing
comic books, gangster films and
abnormal sex films and books
which prepare the minds of youth
_ for war.
One finds the bookshops filled
-rather wilth books by Howard
Fast, who is one of the most pop-
ular authors in Czechoslovakia,
Albert Kahn and _ Theodore
Dreiser, Tolstoi, Barbusse, Shol-
_ skhov, Heine, Aragon. On cone
‘Square alone I think I must have
_ seen at least a dozen bookshops
where the works of these and
other great writers were on dis-
play and they were crowded with
_ buyers. I was told that what I
Saw was just a small fraction of

- where sons
study the arts

the hundreds of bookshops spread
all over the city.

cee Sater i

YOU SEE, the book publishing
business has’ been
nationalized. No more private
publishers who decide what the
public should and should not
read, No more books published
for a small coterie of readers. No

more trashy literature sold for .

the enrichment of a few. Only
those books are’ published and
sold which are in the interest of
the working class and the whole

people.

As a result, workers, who before
the war, were unable to buy good
books or were discouraged from
reading altogether, are today
reading as they never read before.

Coal miners in Czechoslovakia
are reading and understanding

the poetry of. Pablo Neruda and ~

the works of Julius Fuchik and
Ilya Ehrenburg. Sons of coal
miners are studying the cultural
arts in the great Charles Univer-
sity of Prague. For the first time
in the history of the country,
steel workers and glassblowers
and trolley car conductors are
discovering the plays of Moliere
and. Shakespeare and attending
performances of the Prague Sym-
phony Orchestra. I myself saw
a taxicab driver reading Lenin’s
Imperialism while waiting for a
fare,

The liberation of Czechoslovakia
from capitalism has opened up a
whole new .life for the great
majority of the Czech and Slovak
peoples. As one Czech writer ob-
served: “the roots of the power
of that great pimp—Gold—were -
severed and with them the social
roots of an age-old contradic-
tion. —DAVID PLATT

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First pertormance of new play
will be feature of Book Fair *

FIRST PERFORMANCE of a
new three-act play by Hal Griffin,
But Ye Are The People, will be
the highlight of this year’s Book
Fair to be held at Pender Audi-
torium here on October 20-22, it
was announced this week,

The play, keyed to the peace
theme that dominates all papers
and book reviews to be presented
at the Book Fair, is being pro-
duced by the Vancouver Theater
of Action, which in the year since
it was formed has already estab-
lished a reputation for itself with
its timely, sparkling skits. It rep-

resents the. group’s first venture
with a full-length production.

A strike in a small Canadian
town, a plant converted to war
production for which DPs are im-
‘ported, and the impact upon the
publisher of the town’s weekly
newspaper and his family, provide
the dramatic plot for Griffin’s
play.

The Book Fair will be opened
on the evening of Friday, October
20, with a paper, “Contrasts in
Cultures”, presented by. Bert
Whyte. :

’ The afternoon session on Satur-
day, October 21, will be devoted
to the children (and their par-
ents). Features will be a puppet
show and presentation of a paper
on children’s books, “Books To
Grow On” by Mrs. Florence Stan-

* ton,

Three signifiicant and widely —

discussed books, The Diplomat, by
James Aldridge, High Treason, by
Albert Kahn, and The Storm, by
Ilya Ehrenberg, will be reviewed
at the afternoon session on Sun-
day, October 22, followed by pre-
sentation and discussion of a
paper by Tom McEwen, editor of
the Pacific Tribune, “The Classics
and the People’s Movements.”

The Book Fair will conclude on
the Sunday evening with presen-
tation of But Ye Are The People
and a concert program.

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the nose. He’s one of those writ-
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GUIDE TO GOOD READING

Mother, child care gives”
Soviet women full life

They come
from the machines
from the land
and from washtubs,
adjusting a lock
beneath a red kerchief
Hundreds of thousands
of women delegates
Elected to build and to govern.

SO WROTE the Soviet people’s
poet, V. Mayakovsky, on Inter-
national Women’s Day. And in
O. Nogina’s* latest booklet,
Mother and Child Care in the
USSR, published this year, the
reader soon realizes why women
in the Soviet Union can work
and study, and still raise their

families without any of the wor-'

ries over their children’s welfare
that beset working women, and
working mothers particularly, un-

der our own vaunted way of life.

Lack of facilities for.child care
is one of the restrictions on the
activities of so many women in
this country who might ‘otherwise
take their righful places in in-
dustry, the arts, politics and every
other sphere.

Pregnancy means for most
working women giving up their
jobs to become housewives, tied
to their homes for the greater

part of their time and limited in-—

their opportunities for develop-
ment. Yet the fact is that high
living costs, the need for more
wages coming into the home, is
forcing more and more married

~ women to seek work, even though

it does mean making arrange-
ments for care of their children
that are far from satisfactory,

~ which in turn means that mothers

must work always with the. nag-
ging worry over their children in
the back of their minds,

In the entire province of British
Columbia there is not one single
free nursery for pre-school chil-
dren,

Compare ‘this with ar ‘situa-
tion in the Soviet Union where
accommodation in one automobile
factory alone includes six nurser-
ies, one of which can care for
240 infants. Where necessary,
children can spend the whole
night in the nursery with staffs
of physicians, nurses, maids,
cooks and cleaners to keep the
children well and happy. Members
of the nursing staff make regular
visits to the homes and give guid-
ance and instruction to the par-
ents.

In summer’ it is the common
practice to transfer nurseries and

kindergartens to the country\and
during the past summer practi-

cally all those in infant homes

were taken out to the country, to

-one of the children’s summer re-

sorts outside all the larger cities.
* * x,

MOTHER AND Child Care in
the USSR, available at the Peo-
ple’s Cooperative Bookstore, 337
West Pender, here, gives a factual,
very readable account of health
services available to women and
children.

There are consultation centers,
polyclinies, sanatoria, hospitals
and milk kitchens, the latter sup-
plying standard food for normal
infants and special dietetic food
for sick ones. Thousands of visit-.
ing nurses are constantly calling
in the homes, applying the prin-
ciple that to visit the homes be-
fore sickness enters them saves
untold misery. They have taught
countless young mothers the rules
of hygiene and good habits.

One suburb in the capital of
Armenia, where narrow, dusty
streets were once filth-ridden and
children were struck down by the
hundreds with diarrhea, today can
show a proud record of not one
single death due to this cause.

Expectant mothers are given
care from the earliest months of
pregnancy. .By law they must be
relieved from night work and
must take five weeks leave before
and six weeks leave after child-
birth. As soon as the child is
born the consultation center is

notified and it sends a staff mem-

ber to visit the mother, and care-
ful supervision is continued for
three or four years.

What a difference in outlook to
our own B.C. Hospital Insurance
have been unable to receive prop-
scheme, where expectant mothers
er care even after paying for it.

Peaceful constructive work is
in full swing in the Soviet Union.
Children have been restored to
the happy life that was interrupt-
ed by war. The defense of peace
has become the greatest concern
of the people and Soviet women
added their yoices to the mani-
festo adopted at the second con-
gress of the Women’s Internation-
al Democratic Federation:

_ “Women of all countries! We
bear a great responsibility toward
our children, toward our peoples,
toward mankind and toward his-
tory. And if all of us women close
our ranks ... there will be no
war.” —B.G,

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