‘ONLY THE RICH CAN BUY’

Postal workers play Santa Claus

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why DID You Not BRING My

ONE DAY LAST FALL a little
Scots girl sat down in her home
in Dundee and painstakingly
wrote a letter reproduced here.
She addressed it simply: Santa
Claus, Rocky Mountains, Canada.
Somehow the letter found its way
across Canada to Vancouver. And
this week the story of how de-
spatch workers in Vancouver post
office played Santa Claus to a
fatherless little girl in a home too
poor for the doll she wanted, is
related in the Mail Bag, organ of
Vancouver Postal Club.

When, the letter was received,
writes George Gallagher, the edi-
tor, despatch workers were con-
cerned.

“Concerned because they had
kids of their own, and, though it
took some hard searching on the
parts of some of them, they. had
been kids themselves once, and
remembered how precious were
the sweet illusions of childhood,
and, once these were lost, how
irreplaceable they were.

“The days of childhood are all
too short; let's not cut “em any
shorter,’ they mused. ¢

“Tt may be a gag, they reasoned,
but on the other hand, it may be
the genuine article; and, if that
last is so, what can we do about
ite

“So they chipped in and bought
little Iris a doll almost as big as
her seven-year-old self. They were
betting that Iris was what the let-
ter said she was, and they were
right, for she is the youngest of
five children of a widowed mo-
ther. The other four are twin boys
of eleven, and two boys of 16 and
17 who have left school and are
now working to help the widow
who has had quite a time to bring
them al! up so far.

“So one child in Dundee in Bon-_
nie Scotland has a doll and her.

sweet faith, and eVencouver de-
spatch workers have a warm glow
inside that will last a long time.

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* * *

THE LETTER Gallagher re-
ceived from Mrs. Swinton, little
Tris’ mother, the other day ex-
pressed not only a mother’s heart-
felt thanks but also something of
a mother’s problems that will

find an echo in every working .

class home.

“T don't know how to thank you
and the members of your staff
for the kindness towards my lit-
tle daughter Iris,” she wrote.

“T am so happy about it myself

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M Vea eer

I just can’t find words to say,
but you will understand how I
feel and how grateful I am. Yes,
it will be very Sratenilly. received,
You have made Iris the happiest
little girl in Scotland today. You
see, it will be her first real dolly
and she will just love it, and I
could never have afforded such a

lovely doll...

“There are dolls and other
things in Scotland but only the
rich can buy. I also received the
£1 note intact, and what you have
done for my little girl is some-
thing I will remember all my life.”

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POOR MR. AND MRS. CONSUMER are having a
tough time these days, thanks to the Hon. Douglas Abbott
and his austerity plan. They were given a tantalizing
glimpse of fresh juicy carrots and then told that they would
have to eat scrubby, soft turnips instead. What a letdown.

Now that our finance minister
was brought up on these miniat-
ure cannon balls and he may
even like them, but to set him-
self up as an example of what
turnips can do for a person is
going a bit too far. Our family
is off them for life.

Quite frankly though this veg-
etable business is pretty bad.
True enough, some of the local
fresh spring vegetables will be
drifting in shortly but the prices
are absolutely beyond the range
of the average purse.

For the Canadian Fruit and
Vegetable Wholesalers’ Associa-,
tion to go on strike at this time
is a blow to the health standards
of most people. But Abbott
shows a highly irresponsible. at-
titude when, he states that ‘no
changes will be made in_ the
.present policy and if imports
under it are impossible the pub-
lic will simply have to do
without them.” He could at
least lift the import ban on
lettuce, spinach, beets and celery
which are selling at compara_
tively low prices across. the
border. After all, there is quite
a difference between paying ten
cents for a one pound head of
American lettuce and 88 cents
for one pound of local green
stuff.

* * *

IMPORT BANS are. not the
thing’ that worries Mr. and Mrs.
Consumer. With the recent boost
in freight rates we can all look
forward to paying for this ad-
ditional cost with every dress
we buy from the East and every
ton of coal from Alberta. Whole-
salers and retailers have a nasty
habit of shifting the rising cost
of goods on to the. consumer so
‘that those of us in the West will

really. feel this latest move most
of all.

What with the government
taking money from one pocket
for the sales tax and big busi-
ness taking money from another
for super profits it’s about time
they issued two-way stretch dol-
lar bills. :

* * *

EVEN HAVING children these
days costs 40 percent more than
in 1939, according to the figures
released by a recent survey. In
Alberta, where there is free
maternity care, families will not
feel the pinch so much, although
there is stilt the cost of cloth-
ing, and such items as a crib,
high chair, and so on to be
reckoned with.

Even by the cynical standards
of a government which places
profits before the welfare of its
citizens, the high initial invest-
ment ($450) in each future citiz-
en, condemns a governmental
policy that threatens to waste
this investment in the destruc-
tive idleness of another depres-
sion and throw it away on the
battlefields of a third world war.

* * *

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2 tbisps. melted shortening
3 cup firmly packed brown

Blend together shortening and
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mix according to directions on _
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in moderate oven 35-40 minutes.
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