Birobidjan students

In the 10 years since this railway school was founded in
Birobidjan (Jewish Autonomous Region of the USSR) it has
graduated hundreds of students like those shown here studying

bridge construction.

WITH ALL OUR AGITATION about the price of beef
some of us are inclined to overlook the fact that a lot of
farmers and many small retailers are now anxious to ‘see
price controls restored. Farmers and storekeepers who, only
a couple of years ago, regarded price controls as restrictions

on their own business, now find
themselves caught in the big pro-
fit squeeze of big business.

Farmers are getting a higher
price for their milk but con-
sumers are torced to buy less.
Egg prices have gone up but
poultry producers’ feed costs are
also higher now that the govern-
subsidy has been ended,

s

ment
and again consumers are buying
less. In many suburban districts
the small corner stores, whose
prices are usually a few cents
higher. are feeling the pinch be-
cause those few cents here and
there ‘make all the difference to,
housewives.

“Don’t blame me, lady,”
butcher said to me the other day.
‘P’m not selling much more than
ground gteak these days. That’s
all people can afford, or maybe
they're buying downtown. I'd like

my

to see prices go down too.”
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THE FARMERS’ PROBLEM
is very well set out in a state
ment I have just received from
the Interprovincial Farmers’
Council at Saskatoon...

“It is being freely predicted that
the federal government will re-
move the embargo on the ship-
Ment of beef cattle to the U.S.
shortly,” the statement says. “Such
action will generally be approved
by farm organizations in Western
Canada for they have been urg-
ing the government to do so for
Some time. It should be recognized,
however, that the lifting of the

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embargo is not a complete or per-
manent solution to the probiem
of a satisfactory market for Can-
adian livestock products.

“Canadian farmers in asking
that the embargo on beef cattle
shipments to the U.S. be lifted did
not ignore the fact that such
action might result in higherepri-
eas to consumers. The UFC and
the AFU have campaigned vigor-
the re-imposition of
price controls.

cusly for
They have con-
stanty fought for such controls to

protect consumers from unwar-

ranted plice increases. It is their
experience that neither they as
producers hor the workers en-
gaged in, proces ssing are respon-
sible for the sharp increases in

commodity prices.

“These two | farm organizations

believe. that the farmers are jus-
tified in asking for prices for
farm products that will cover
their costs of production and pro-
vide a minimum decent standard
of living. It is up to the govern-

- ment, through price controls and

an excess profits tax, to protect
the consumers from unwarranted
price increases.”

It all adds up to a pretty strong
demand for putting price controls
back on—immediately. The gov-
ernment has not hestitated to act
promptly on demands made by
big business. -

bod * *

MOST PEOPLE feel that the ap-
pearance of the strawberry on the
vine or in a pint basket is. the
signal for a private strawberry

~-, festival.

Anything sa good deserves and
needs special treatment. Pick your
strawberries ripe or buy them
that way. If the berries are only
half ripe, let them stand on a
sunny shelf until they have reach-

ed perfection. You not only get

the best possible taste but the
most good. The strawberry is
packed full of ascorbic acid and
a generous serving Of ripe berries
will give you as much of the pre-
cious vitamin as a tall glass of

vor the more vitamin C.—B. G.

orange juice. The better the fla-

‘VANCOUVER WOMEN ON THE MARCH’

Living costs campaign pushed

EVENTS OF RECENT weeks
have proved that Vancouver wom-
en are on the march, literally and
figuratively.

During the war years, side by
side with their men folk, they ac-
cepted the responsibilities and
burdens of the fight against fas-
cism, struggling to realize the
promise of “a better world”. And
now that the old line party poli-
ticians have betrayed the promise
they are continuing their struggle
for decent homes, better schooling,
higher standards, all the ingred-
ients of “the better world” that

_ are closer to their hearts.

It’s the women who have to
stretch the pay or pension cheque
across the widening gap between
minimum requirements and inflat-
ed prices. They have to cope daily
with all the irritations and diffi-
culties arising from crowded liv-
ing conditions. They are the first
to sacrifice their own health for
their children because medical ex-
penses come so high.

But if you have been with us
at Vancouver City Hall, Monday,
June 21, you would have agreed
that women are not content to
accept the implication of Prime
Minister King’s recent statement
that high prices are really for the
country’s good.

Almost every seat in the coun-
cil chamber was filled with women
who came to support Mrs. Doris
Hartley in her plea to the Social
Services Committee to protest in-
creases in milk and meat prices
and to ask for replacement of the
Coalition’s one-man milk board
by a more democratic body.

Afterwards they held a meeting
on the steps of the city hall, and
it says a lot for popular feeling
on these questions that a number
of women who had been at the

hall paying their taxes stop-
ped to take part.

Women are learning for them-
selves, what many labor leaders
have been telling them for many
months, that red-baiting and
warmongering by press, radio and
through magazine articles are
part of a propaganda condition-
ing process to divert their atten-
tion from rank profiteering and
war preparations,

* * *

LAST SATURDAY, women par-
aded Vancouver streets carrying
slogans denouncing profiteering
and demanding subsidies. Many
of these women were doing this
for the first time in their lives,
but they know from bitter experi-
ence that active protest is the
only way. e

Recently, a group of Vancouver
women, each accompanied by a
small child, marched into the
meeting of the Building, Civic
Planning and Parks. Committee.
They pleaded for the committee
to acquire part of that eyesore,
False Creek Flats, and transform
it from a dump to a city play-
ground. The timid speaker in
apologetic terms stated nervously,

Baby daughter for
Ed, Greta Nelson

A baby girl, Margaret Susan,
was born to Ed and Greta Nelson
at Grace Hospital here, Friday,
June 29.

Father and mother are both
well known in the labor move-
ment and in’ local Scandinavian
organizations. Ed Nelson, before
commencing DVA educational
courses, was active in the AFL
Sheet Metal Workers, and his
wife, Greta, whose sister is Mrs. ,
Brita Mickleburgh, is a member
of Commercial Drive LPP Club.

“Tye never done anything like
this before in my life,” but her
determined action can benefit the
future of many a child.

Another group of women plans
to enlist public support in a cam-
paign against profiteering at
Christmas time. They state that
every Christmas in the past few
years has lined the pockets of
the -profiteers. They feel that
July is a good time to begin rally-
ing the. support of chureh and

CHILD CARE

other groups.

Yes, hundreds of women in Van-
couver are on the march to
achieve that promised better
world. The full impact of their
organized wrath will be felt by
every Coalition politician and fed-
eral member when he appeals for
their support again. He will find
to his sorrow that the female of
the species can be far more dead-
ly when fighting for the future of
the young.—EFFIE JONES.

Children’s nightmares

NIGHTMARES IN YOUNG children are not an un-

usual occurrence.

1 Many parents have wakened in the night
to find their pre-schooler shrieking in real terror.

When

this happens on rare occasions, like the odd temper tantrum,

there is nothing to worry about.

ly wake, badly frightened by a

dream, or the dark, it is time to
take stock of what is happening~

to them in daytime.

Frightening experiences during
the day can often disturb a child
more than we are aware of, and
so disturb their sleep. A snarling
leaping dog, the bully next door,
the morose neighbor who threat-
ens bodily harm, scary stories,
read to him or heatd on the
radio, all may be making a deep-
er impression in the child than
ls apparent.

“Threats of ultimate deformity,
such as “your tongue will fall off
if you tell lies” or “your nose will
grow like Pinochio’s” (a nasty
favorite) can so terrify some
children that the fear will con-
stantly thrust itself forward,
even in sleep. ;

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MORE DIFFICULT to track
down, but often more. upsetting,
are the closer to home repression
and pressures. Around the two
year level, rigid toilet training
with active disapproval of failures
or accident is very often cause
for night terror, Daytime exper-
iences often linger, if the child
has been punished, or shamed or
made to feel unloved for wetting.
Sometimes fear of bedwetting is

so great that children have been)

HOME HINTS

When children consistent-
known to wake four and five
times crying with fright.
Excessive adult pressures may
be affecting the emotiona] life of
the child and manifesting them-
selves in night terror.

For example, heavy demands
for “good” behavior, or responsi-
bility which the child is not ready
to assume, strong disapproval of
natural curiosity and interest,
strict demands for conformity to
endless routines which may be
dificult of confining. Sometimes
it may be bad handling by the
parent of a‘ new situation, such

as going to nursery school, or a ~

new baby, or the death of a pet.
* x * :

NOT EVERY CHILD that
wakes up in the night is fright-
ened. Some children just wake
up, but when the child wakens
obviously frightened, he needs re-
assuring and calming. When chil-

dren are afraid of the dark, and

the Shapes and shadows can be
scary, there is no harm in a
small night light, or the halj light .
being left on; this can always be -
discontinued when there is no
longer a need for it.-

Shaming a frightened child, or |
insisting he be a “little man” is _
no solution. Try to find the reasom
behind the fright, and correct it
if possible, and by all means let
him know that there is nothing to
be ashamed of in being frightened.

Care of vacuum bottles

VACUUM BOTTLES and jugs,
used by picnickers and office and
factory workers for carrying cold
and hot foods, need special care
if they are to last and keep food
in the best condition.

Ordinary dish-washing will not
do for these containers because
they cannot be immersed in water
without injuring the insulation on
the outside. Cleaning is done by
rinsing and shaking, with the help
of a soft bottle brush if necessary.
Before a new bottle is used, rinse

with lukewarm water. Before cold

food goes in, chill the bottle with
cold_water, and before putting in
hot food, heat with hot water.

After a bottle has held fooa,..

first rinse with lukewarm water,
fill with clean warm soapy water
and shake up and soak. for an
hour or so: Finally, rinse with
clear lukewarm water and then

with water containing a little.
chlorine. Turn upside down te
drain, dry and air. Scrub corks

and screw tops with soapy water, —
‘then rinse and dry.

When containers are not in use,

leave them open. Fresh air keeps
bottles and corks fresh.

Sudden changes of temperature

may crack the glass in glass-lined © ¥

bottles. Before filling such a bottle
with hot liquid, gradually warm —
by rinsing first in lukewarm water

and then in warmer water. Before _

filling with a cold liquid, chill
Sradually by cooler and cooler
rinses.

It is safest to chtcy nig bet ;

cold pasteurized milk in vacuum —
containers, and to have the bottle

well chilled before putting it in. —
At a warm temperature

spoils rapidly.

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