Little red school house goes modern When the local school house in Mesa, Arizona, burned down, authorities seized on radio as the ideal method of solving their educational problems. airwaves as Eddie Ruck and Sally Fillmore listen intently. Here teacher Alline Philips lectures over the ‘CHARGE ALL YOU CAN GET’ Housewives answer boast RAIN DIDN’T STOP our mem- bers from standing outside sub- urban stores for hours last Fri- ay and Saturday to give out ‘Buy No Beef’ léaflets.” Marian Park- in, secretary of the B.C. House- wives’ Consumers’ Association, told the Pacific Tribune this week. “All the suburban Safeway Stores were covered as well as Spencer’s and Woodward’s down- town. > “The response from the women shoppers showed they are behind our campaign to bring down the prices. “Plenty of women didn’t need any urging from us to buy no beef, They weren’t buying any- way because they just couldn’t af- ford it. “The thing to do now is to keep the pressure on Ottawa or we're going to have further boosts in the price of beef and a whole number of other food essentials.” — Thirty thceasand leaflets were handed out at store entrances by Housewives’ members in a move aimed at rallying the public for continued opposition to inflation. While the housewives were standing in the rain with their dodgers, J. Stanley McLean, president of Canada Packers Ltd., had just finished telling the House of Commons committee in- . Quiring into prices: “One of the Main objectives in conducting a - EAST END TAXI UNION DRIVERS HA. 0334 Fully " 24-Hour Insured Service 618 East Hastings, Vancouver (meen OA CLOTHING 6 West Cordova @ - WORK and DRESS CLOTHING successful business is to make the highest possible profit.” He went on to explain how he bought cattle as cheaply as poss- ible and charged the housewife as much as he could get He also expressed “amazement” that con- sumers still bought it at the prices -asked. CHILD CARE ~ Canada Packers’ profits of $2,- 178,000 in 1948-alone—a 12-year high—are also contributing to housewives’. “amazement” that they are able to feed their fami- lies at all at current pVices, and their determination to force the government to act against prof- iteering. Amusing sick children HAVE YOU reached the» point where. another. sniffle from Junior will make you scream ? ably exhausted all your bag of tricks for his medicine, drink his fluids and stay happily in bed. By now you've prob- making him take Well, we don’t know any fool-proof way of keeping a sick child from calling his mother once too often, but maybe you haven't yet, tried this: If sugar, syrup or honey won't mask the taste of an unpleasant tasting medicine let the child hold a piece of ice in his mouth before he gets his dose. _ Use ice, too, to make him take the liquids the doctor insists on when giving sulfa drugs. If you have a refrigerator, you can put fruit juices in your ice cube tray and give Junior a mallet. Dump the ice cubes in a pan, let him chop the cubes and suck them. He'll take a lot of fluid and won‘t even realize it. When it comes to amusing him, buttons are a godsend, Cut two or three big pieces of card- ‘board from a cereal box, thread a big blunt needle with some bright wool and give him your button box. He can sew the buttons on cardS as he chooses ‘and when he tires of that, you can draw shapes of stars or diamonds to be filled in. But- jtoons can also be sewed on strings when beads have lost their lure and when that game is finished, you can play store with him, using the buttons as money. Empty thread spools are an- other useful thing. They can be painted, using the bed tray we hope you have armed your- Castle Jewelers Watchmaker, Jewellers Next to Castle Hotel 752 Granville MA, 8711 A. Smith, Mgr. self with long since as an easel. with newspaper to protect its finish. Gilt or silvered spools look lovely in necklaces or they can be put aside and saved for the Christmas tree. Good, sturdy boxes like writing paper or cigar boxes are fine for sickbéd amusement. Give your youngster a pair of dull scissors, paste, old greeting -cards, wallpaper scraps, pictures from ‘magazines and bits of colored paper and let him cover the boxes with pasted-on de- signs, Almost any child can turn out : an intriguing looking box if you encourage him to cover it com- pletely with the pasted papers. Then, you can fill it with some- thing he likes as a surprise or let him use the box for his marbles, crayons or other para- phernalia. It’s a simple pastime and it gives the, child a sense of accomplishment. * Your mesh dish cloths can also be pressed into use. Use the blunt needle and colored wool and let the child embroider a border for you. Little girls, and probably boys, ~ too, can be entertained stiH an- other way. Coat your darling’s face with cold cream, give her an old lipstick and eyebrow pen- cil and let her do what she has always longed to do. More cold cream will repair the damage in double-quick time. If you can’t quite take it buy colorless lip pomade and colorless nail polish at the ten-cent store. It'll be almost as much fun playing with them. ON ONE OF THE FIRST nice days of spring I ventured forth to town with both infants in tow. This is something I rarely do as it leaves us all exhausted and a little the worse for wear. Usually some minor calamity occurs and of course the youngest usually starts howling because of hunger, boredom or just wet pants. It seems that no matter what pre- liminary precautions one takes, ‘something is bound to happen. I have often thought that some large store could really boost its business and at the same time render a useful community ser- vice by ‘providing a nursery or some type of care for the tots while their mothers shopped. This would prevent little feet from becoming weary and save mother many an anxious time when ju- nior lags far behind out of sight. Our play group instructor told me however, that she had ap- proached two of the main depart-: mental stores with this idea in mind but had been given the cold shoulder. Both stores had ample space and compared with the in- creased business they would do, the cost of a couple of supervisors would be negligible. One manager said it was up to each mother to make her own ar- rangements and pointed out that there were neighborhood nurser- ies already doing a good job of relieving mothers, Apart from the fact “that there are not enough play groups in Vancouver to care for all those children in need of such service, I have found that even with my two away from nine until noon I have very little time for shop- ping in town, By the time I’ve de- livered young Katy and little John at their play group, waited for a street car for ten minutes (if I’m lucky) and spent another 45 minutes enduring the B.C. Elec- tric, it leaves me barely an hour to whip around and attend to in- numerable little jobs (like paying bills). Oh, well, probably ten years from now the department stores may get around to such a scheme and consider themselves very bright to have thought of it, although a few letters from some of you might help to speed up the process of what is neither free nor in this instance, enter- prising. * * * WITH WARMER WEATHER apparently just around the cor- ‘ner, it’s time to tuck away winter woolies in some mothproof place and take stock of last year’s sum- mer wardrobe, which, at present prices, will probably have to last another summer. Many of us will be kept busy sewing up new cresses and sun suits as the young enes do grow so quickly Thank goodness there’ll be no more mud- dy little feet tracking across new- ly waxed floors and no more lay- ers of sweaters, coats and rain- coats. If you don't have raincoats for the children, try waterproofing all their things, mittens too, with a jar or water repellent which can be purchased in many sporting goods departments. If you don’t use this method, you can always sew a big patch of-rubber into the seat of the most used snow suit or trousers.—B.G. Flaunting the margarine ban Ignoring the protest of hard-pressed housewives who camnot buy all the butter they need at present prices, the Senate has rejected Senator Euler’s bill te permit margarine to be sold in Canada. But here an empty oleomargarine carton atop a garbage bin in Nontreal, shows that some consumer has been violating the lomg-disputed law. Vancouver Office 501 Holden Building 16 East Hastings Street MArine 5746 STANTON & MUNRO BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NOTARIES j . Nanaimo Office Room 2, Palace Building Skinner Street 1780 ALWAYS MEET AT Excellent Acoustics THE PENDER AUDITORIUM Renovated—Modernized—Hall Large and Small for Every Need” DANCING—CONVENTIONS—MEETINGS Triple Mike P.A. System — Wired for Broadcasting 339 West Pender Street PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MAY 21, 1948—PAGE 9