This is: Dorothy Dalton, who will perticlpete in the Olympic Games as a member of the U.S. gymnastic team. ticular interest for unionists is that she’s a member of Local 410, United Electrical and Machine Workers (CIO). the Westinghouse plant in Bloomfield, N.J. Dorothy’s par- She works at With an endless round of household chores, hard work and Strict economy are the terms that come naturally to our minds when we speak about our jobs. Not that. housework need be such hard work, with all the labor-saving gadgets Gevised for the modern home, But how many of us can afford dish-washing machines and deep freezers and what practical use _¢an they be put to in the rooms and makeshift suites without pro- Per kitchen facilities that so many of us are forced to call home? And strict economy! Even by counting every penny most of us cannot make ends meet when the Pennies we: save one day are to be Paid out the next to meet a new price increase, to say nothing’ of the Coalition government's Sales tax. We may even pride ourselves on our hard work and our strict economy, the virtues forced upon us by the monopolists who make their leisure and their profits from them. But all of us, I think, will take exception of having them used against the trade unions whose strength holds out the hope that presently our werk may not be so hard nor the need to practise strict econ- Omy so great. Prat age Se THIS Is EXACTLY what Mrs. Nora Arnold, mayor of Prince Ru- Pert, is doing. Recently Mrs. At- nold was chosen as the “Woman of the Year” by thé Canadian Federation of Business and Pro- fessional. Women’s Clubs, and this is what she had to say: “Everywhere in Canada tcday We find the unions urging less Work for more money. Every Wo man knows hard work, overtime and strict economy to be the only answer to righting any catastro- Phe “that strikes a home, Just think, After all the world has Passed through — and still the Unions insist on more money for Jess work.” Almost any woodworker's wife Could tell Mrs, Arnold, too, that big business is getting more pro- duction from fewer hours and hence greater profits. But even harder work and stricter economy are demanded cf woodworkers’ wives as they struggle to make ends meet and face the prospect of their husbands going on strike to win a wage increase. I wonder what comment Mrs. Arnold would make ona story one of my neighbors told me this week. ; One of the men at her plant, a canning factory, reached the point where he just couldn’t keep his family any longer on the 80 cents an hour he was getting. So, in des- seration, his wife went to work in the plant too, at 60 cents an hour, and they made arrange- ments to have their children . boarded out during the day from Monday to Friday. They could ‘find no one however, to look after the children on Saturday morning, so they took it in turn to stay away from work for that. half- day. : “No,” said the foreman, “We can’t allow that. If you're going to work here, we want you both on the job all the time. No Satur- day mornings off.” Just like that. tf Mrs. Arnold could answer that, she might deserve her title of “Woman of the Year’, The an- -gwer is there. The workers need a union to enable them to get a decent wage so they can provide properly for their families. But Mrs. Arnold doesn’t believe in unions. She probably doesn’t believe in housewives’ organizations either. Her answer to “righting any cat- astrophe that strikes a home”’ is hard work, overtime. and. strict economy—and broken homes and heartbreak.—B.G. DIET DEFICIENCIES PROBED New fact THE GRIM WORD “sterility” is being talked about these days in every woman’s magazine. Why is it so many women can’t have children? Doctors used to blame it on birth control. “Modern” couples didn’t want children. So they made sure babies couldn’t arrive.: Childless because they wanted to be. y But today the specialists (wom- en’s doctors and gland experts) have more and more coming to them, worried about sterility, pleading for advice and treatment that will enable them to have children. Science has made great advan- ces against sterility. But still * great numbers of childless people seem to be sterile beyond hope. Research is tackling this prob- ‘lem with growing interest, and several remarkable facts have lately come to light. You can take healthy male rats, feed them a special diet that seems to make them thrive, and in nine days they will be sterile! A series of expericents have proved. what no biologist even dreamed. Animals need certain specific food elements to keep them fertile. ~ * * ONE SUCH ELEMENT is the protein substance known as ar- ginine. You could eat a diet con- taining no arginine and feel fine for a long time. The rats looked healthy. But their tests showed marked degeneration. When the animals got no arginine for two months, their sperm-producing or- gans were no longer recognizable. Another vital protein substance is tryptophane. Dr. W. F. Keller reports that without this food chemical both male and female rats become sterile within three days" sme nx ges Seen eee Two questions we ask at once. Will the same thing happen to men and women? Biologists can’t answer just yet. If similar food deficiencies cause sterility in hu- mans, we can be sure it would take a lot longer for the effects to show. Anyway, do people ever eat so poorly that they lack arginine and tryptophane? At first sight a bio- chemist might answer no. To miss these substances you would have to live almost entirely on sugar, starch and fat. But research men today are more cautious. True, a rat can be made sterile in three days, by food that has no tryptophane what- ever. Maybe a human being would suffer sterility if he or she ate too little of this substance over the course of several years. In that case, are there any people who do live on diets poor in protein? _ - * *« . MILLIONS! FOR EXAMPLE, alcoholics and vegetarians. Be- sides the millions of us who can- not afford to eat proper amounts _of milk and meat, the finest sour- ces of proteins. Since the war, nu- trition scientists have started talking about “protein starvation”. This polite medical term refers to a hunger disease. It afflicts our industrial and white-collar — workers. Caused by high prices and. low salaries, insufficient meat and milk. ; i . Now, if you go for years with- out. enough high-quality protein, your body will become chronically short of tryptophane and argi- nine. Besides, such a_ protein shortage can come about in an- HIGHEST PRICES PAID for DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD Other Valuable Jewellery : ‘STAR LOAN CO. Ltd. | - EST. 1905 ‘ 7t9 Robson St. — MAr. 2622 °| OSS SEE OO OO other way. Our bodies often lose enormous quantities.of vital pro- teins during certain illnesses. Or after bad burns, or fractures, or various operations. In such cases it is difficult to get the body to make up for its * ts about sterility protein losses. Of course, if your diet is not of the best, protein loss is hard to overcome. So we see that countless people must have suffered protein deficiencies at one time or another.—_DYSON CARTER. JUDGE ECHOES NAZI IDEA - under American influences.” answered Justice Newman, ideals and ways of thinking.” Take children from parents TAKING A LEAF FROM the Nazi book, Justice Newman of Elmira proposed to rob millions of parents of their children, if they believe in socialism or support the Wallace movement, “The supreme court justice declared last week he would take a child away frcm a parent who was a proven Communist, and, later, off the bench, included backers of the new Progressive . Party, as unfit to rear the young. Newman’s fascist opinions came to light when he denied a motion by a divorced father who sought custody of a two year old daughter. The father charged ‘the mother with alleged Com- munist leanings. Newman denied the moticn on the ground that the charge had not been proved, but added: “If this fact were established, we would not hesitate to change the custody. It would be our duty to do so.” A child, he believes, “is entitled to be reared as an American The justice’s prejudices were clearly revealed when asked by a New York Post reporter whether he would take a child from its parents on the application vf an outside agency that proved they were pro-Wallace or left-wing. “I believe I would,” Elaborating, he said he would not hesitate to place in an institution a child being brought up “under Communist influence, —BINGHAMPTON, N.Y. CHILD CARE Relax at the beach A VISIT FOR A FEW DAYS to a beach reminded me of something I like to keep in mind as our own child grows out of babyhood. At the beach was a group of children, all ages, brought to the lake to reap the benefit of sun, good air, and presumably some freedom of action. They were all city children, house for the most part in a manner that gives very little rcom for the necessary running, jumping, tumbling, even the kind of imaginative play. children indulge in. a The beach and surrounding area was ideal for these children, yet too many of their parents had brought along all the confining admonitions, prohibitions, warn- ings and rules they use at home. Most of the time it seemed as though the only reason for any conversation with the children was. to give the old “don’tss” and “be carefuls’ a new setting. * * * _FROM EARLY MORNING till bedtime it was: “Don’t run on the sand, there may be glass”; “You'll get sand in your eyes”; “Wear your shoes, the grass is damp, long, full of bugs, full of poison ivy”; “Put on your shirt, it’s cold, take it off, it’s hot,” ete., etc. No one would suggest, of course, that a child be permitted to be- come involved in a really danger- ous situation, and the warnings oe ‘and admonitions are often neces- __ sary for the child’s safety, But not every day, at every opportunity, every time the child engages in the same activity. When you consider the restric- tions city children are swamped with at home, schoo] or on the street, it would seem that a va- cation at a,summer spot is a reak opportunity for parents to relax a little and make a conscientious effort to give the child the oppor- tunity of unhampered freedom of action. It would be a real vacation for a child if he could get away, even for a litle while, from the constant commentary that hems in, and confines so many of his independ- ent efforts toward freedom. — VERA MORRIS. Castle Jewelers Watchmaker, Jewellers $ Next to Castle Hotel 752 Granville MA, 8711 } A. Smith, Mgr. ALWAYS MEETAT THE PENDER AUDITORIUM Renovated—Modernized—Hall Large and Small for Every Need DANCING—CONVENTIONS—MEETINGS __ a ‘ Triple Mike P.A. System — Wired for Broadcasting - Excellent Acoustics 339 West Pender Street STARTS THIS SUNDAY MID — ONE STATE THEATRE ADDED SHORT: “LETTER FROM PRAGUE” | ‘Commentary by Jan Masaryk =“ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 6, 1948—PAGE 11