—SOVFOTO

More goods, lower prices °

Here’s a women’s shoe department in one of Moscow’s: large
department stores. Since abolition of rationing and lowering of

Prices Soviet stores have been filled with new goods.

The boot

and shoe. industry is manufacturing a wide variety of footwear—
and designers are not overlooking. the need for smart styles,

either.

WOMEN’S RIGHTS

_ WELL, WE’VE BEEN CAMPAIGNING against high
ptices for months now. We've gone around with petitions,
written letters to our MP’s and argued with our storekeepers.
We've organized buyers’ strikes and sent delegations to

Ottawa.
index (yes, it’s gone up another
Point) it doesn’t seem as though
We're getting anywhere, but I
think we’ve shown that house-
Wives, organized around a real
Program and working with the
trade unions and other progres-
Sive groups, can have quite an
influence on national affairs.

Look at what we have been
able to do. We haven’t yet been
able to force the King govern-
ment to roll back prices and re-
Store price controls, but we have
Succeeded in centering attention
on the government’s policies.

Douglas Abbott, our minister
of finance, is finding that he can
no longer pursue the govern-
Ment’s policy of high profits,
high prices and lowered living
Standards without meeting stiff
resistance all down the line.
There’s no doubt that he would
like to remové what few controls _
are still in effect—rent controls,
for instance—but hesitates to do
SO because he now knows the
uproar he would create.

Abbott refused to receive ‘the
Prices delegation led by the new
‘Housewives and Consumer Fed-
eration of Canada, on the flim-
Siest of pretexts, but he weakened
rather than strengthened his gov-
ernment’s position by doing so.
He must still, meet the demands
of the 710,000 citizens who signed

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the petition or answer for his
failure at the next federal elec-
tion, and it’s up to us to see that
he does so. Let’s keep up the
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AS A START, we can all sup-
port the 48-hour buyers’ boycott
of beef the B.C. Housewives Con-
sumer Association is organizing
for Friday and Saturday, May
14 and 15. I don’t have to tell
you— you know— that the price
of the cheapest pot roast is now
38 cents a pound at Woodward's
and a cent to a few cents more
in butcher’s stores around town.
And it used to be five or six cents
a pound.

Other meats are up,too.’. Boil-
ing fowl, for instance, which was
selling at ‘25 cents a pound even
two or three months ago, is now
35 cents a pound. No wonder
when we go into aestore most
of us stand first in front of this
piece of meat and then that,
looking not for quality and food
value but something that will
make a meal and still leave us
enough in our purses to face
the same problem tomorrow.

Remember, the beef boycott is
May 14 and 15. This is some-
thing we can all support, whether
we can still afford beef or not,
because if prices go much higher
we'll all have to do without beef
anyway.—B.G.

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Acts protect wives’ interests

OLD-LINE PARTY politicians
are given to making fine-sounding
speeches about “the sanctity of
the home,” as though divorce sta-
tistics and child welfare figures
can be separated from all the

problems of economic insecurity
created by their own policies.
But in enacting legislation to
give women equal rights in in-
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CHILD WELFARE

omic handicaps placed upon them
in the home, the old-line parties
seldom act without long agitation
and pressure.

This is the case with Bills 121
and 124 adopted by the provincial
legislature at the session just con-
cluded. Designed to strengthen
women’s rights in the home, these
two bills represent the successful
culmination of a long campaign
waged by women’s: organizations.

China has cave nursery

ONE OF THE most amazing nursery schools in the
world is to be found in the mountains of war-torn North
China. Hundreds of children live in 42 caves under the care
of volunteer peasant women who are training themselves to

become nurses.

The peasant nurses work jong
hours. When war has come near
during the last ten years, they
have shown unfailing courage in
caring for their charges. In case
of epidemic they cannot get extra
help but must share the burden
themselves. Most have long ago
lost their personal effects in the
course of frequent evacuations.

In an area where medieval sup-
erstitions persist, the nursery
uses patient example to bring
modern concepts of child care to
the villages. “Little teachers” tod-
dle to nearby villages to tell
health stories to other tots.

Child health is the most import-
ant work of the nursery. Children
learn to brush their teeth and
keep their bodies clean, An un-
remitting struggle is fought
against the infection that lurks
everywhere in North China.

Food is very monotonous but
meets the children’s minimum
nutritional demands. Sometimes
enough outside help comes for
sick and undernourished children
to get cod liver oil and multivita-
min tablets.

Although the shortage of teach-
ing equipment is pitiful, coopera-
tive measures enable the instruc-
tors to teach reading, singing,
drawing, handicraft, storytelling
and nature study.

There are other nurseries in the
Liberated Areas. Some are located

Housewives to hear
delegates’ reports

Mrs. Marion Parkin and Mrs.
Doris Hartley, who represented
the B.C. Housewives Consumer
Association, on the recent prices
delegation to Ottawa, will report
on the government’s reception
of the delegation and organiza-
tion of the new Housewives and
Consumer Federation of Canada
at the next regular meeting of
the Mount Pleasant Branch of
the B.C. Housewives Consumer
Federation. :

The meeting will be held Wed-
nesday, May 12, 130 pm, at
the home of Mrs. I. Macleod,
3518 Fraser Avenue,

The branch is extending an in-
vitation to all interested house-
wives and consumers in the area
to attend the meeting.

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in the evacuated homes of pease
ants, in abandoned temples and
rented buildings.

A handful of teachers and
trained nurses has provided the
core of trained personnel respon-
sible for organizing the nurseries.
Their phenomenal achievements
are made possible by the willing
cooperation of the local organiza-

_ tions in the area occupied by eac

nursery.

“THIS WEEK'S RECIPE

Bill 121, “And .Act respegung
the Interest of a Wife in Her
Husband’s Homestead,” allows a
wife to file an affidavit with a
registrar which prevents a hus-
band from disposing of the fam-
ily home without her consent.

Hundreds of cases could be re-
corded where a husband has turn-
ed wife out of a home that the
family has occupied together.

Bill 124, “An Act to amend the
“Deserted Wives’ Maintenance
Act’,” extends the maintenance of

families where parental neglect

or cruelty has been occasioned,
and widens the ground upon
which wives and mothers may se-
cure the benefit of the law.

For example, it is no longer ne-

‘cessary to prove actual Physical
-violence as an “act of cruelty”.

The act puts new teeth in pro-
visions to secure maintenance and
helps assure the proper care of
children no matter where the
fault lies in a‘ home.

An interesting question might
be asked about Bill 121. If a hus-
band can be prevented from dis-
posing of the home, on ownership
of which municipa] voting rights
usually depend, can he also be
prevented from in effect dispos-
ing of his wife’s right to vote in
a municipal election? -

% cup milk.

RHUBARB UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE

_ One-half cup shortening, % cup su
* rind, 2 eggs, unbeaten, 1 cup sifted tiene
%& tsp. nutmeg, 1 tsp. salt, 4 shredded wheat bisc

% tsp. grated orange
3 tsp. baking powder,
uits, finely rolled,

.. First, arrange rhubarb carefully in radiating t
tom of deep cake pan. Sprinkle with flour, sro Rich hed

Pour corn syrup over all.

Make cake by creaming together shortening, suger and orange

rind. Then, add eg:

powder, nutmeg and salt.

with cream. Serves 8.

and beat well.

Sift together flour, baking

Mix with shr
ternately with milk to egg mixture. eeded heat. and: afd ai-

Bake in moderately hot oven (375 degrees F.) 40 minu
©n serving plate and remove pan while still warm. a

Spread evenly over fruit.
Invert
Serve warm

We Always Sell for Less

Army and Navy will. never- know-
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any compéetitor’s price at any time,
not only ceiling price but floor price,
and we will gladly refund any differ-

ence, Army and Navy prices are
guaranteed to be the lowest in Van-
couver at all times,

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