renew eaten eed aet l a ie oN nS Aca EIS i ic ie se ah es a eia sh ns kLaeaaa ies Ts ee MELAS,

DEMAND VOICE AT HEARING
Canadian Congress
of Women blasts
higher milk price

VANCOUVER BRANCH of the Canadian Congress of
Women sent letters this week to E. C. Carr, the province’s:

IT APPEARS THAT even the credit men of Vancouver
have discovered the cause of inflation. At a special meeting
in the Hotel Vancouver this week, leading credit men came
to the conclusion that inflation is being caused by vast

government expenditures more
than anything else. And what is

_remains unchanged from the re-

the government spending most of
its money on? _That’s right, war
materials. Of course, the credit
Men are more concerned about
the curbs on credit buying: than
on the possibilities of war, for as
Herb Barnes of Vancouver Motors
put it, “Payments of $100 a month
On a new car are too much for
most people.” However, if the
government has its way some
4 _ form of credit curb will be intro-
‘| +~Guced November 1.
=. Curbing of credit is naturally
More of a hardship to the families
Of workers because those who have
the money can pay the lower cash
price. The only way you and I
€an buy a chesterfield or kitchen
Stove is by instalments: [The 15th
is next week and how can we
Meet the payment unless Junior
Waits for his new shoes. With the
Steadily rising cost of living the
amount we can afford to pay out
€ach month becomes less. Credit
| curbs mean that so many more of
s us will have to do without the
i things we need—in order to enable
big business to make bigger pro-
fits on armaments we don’t need.

ai * * *
‘ IF YOU read the daily press
} faithfully and believed only one
7" percent of what was printed you
Would conclude that the Soviet
Union was making all out pre-
Parations for war. On this side
Of the Pacific every housewife is
Bas acquainted with the results of our
War economy, — rationing, high
prices, increased taxes and so on.
However, according to Harrison
Salisbury of the New York Times
who reported on life in Moscow,
there are no queues, more goods
and lower prices. There are no
Signs of hoarding or panic buying.
Prices of butter, sugar and shoes

duction announced last March, Not
only are food supplies ample but
more varieties of food are now
available. There has been a steady
increase in the quantity of pots
and pans, lighting fixtures; radios
and electrical equipment.

If the Soviet government is mak-
ing available to ordinary citizens

such goods as cotton, wool, leather, f<3

brass, aluminum and steel, it f

would appear that these things f )

are not being required for war f
production.

This reporter says that the most §
significant of all, from the econo-
mic point of view, is the enormous
expenditure of money, labor and
materials that the Soviet govern-
ment is now putting into the con-
struction and repair of purely civi-
lian facilities.

Certainly this kind of economy
is a great contrast to that of Ca-
nada. Hoarding is known to be
going on across this country and
it is not being done’ by workers’
wives who find it hard enough to
make ends meet from week to
week. Warehouse space is at a
premium because of the stock pil-
ing being carried on. Government
expenditures for post offices, docks
and other facilities has been cur-
tailed altogether. Income taxes
are going up in 1951. As for prices
generally, I need hardly comment
on that except to mention that
we can look forward to still higher
prices on house dresses, diapers,
sheets, pyjamas, underwear, stock-
ings and woolen goods. :

Which country is preparing for
war is plain to be seen, and what
is even plainer to be seen is the
terrific burst there will be in the
inflationary bubble if war cannot
be provoked by our “peace-loving”
warmongers. —B.G.

A charge of 50.cents for each
insertion of five lines or less with
10 cents for each additional line
is made for notices appearing in
this column. No notices will be
accepted later than Monday noon
of the week of publication,

BIRTHS

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Hospital, a son, Robbie, 8 lbs., 13
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“PELL THEM YOU SAW IT
IN THE TRIBUNE”

19¢!
21c?

means less

§

milk for

children

TOPIC AT FAIR

What is a good ‘
children’s book ?

“WHAT IS a good children’s
book?” asked Betty Griffin in the
course of presenting her paper,
“Books To Grow On”, at the Van-
couver book fair last Saturday
afternoon, and a little girl in the
front row proudly held up a book
and said; “I’ve got a good book.”

If the fifty or so children who
accompanied their parents made

“one-man milk board”, and to every Coalition cabinet mem-
ber in Victoria protesting against a proposed hike in the price

of milk. Newspaper stories have
indicated that milk may jump
from 17 cents a quart to 19 or
even 21 cents in the near future.

“We have noted in the papers
that you are holding another hear-
ing in connection with milk pric-
es,” the Congress wrote Carr, “to
seek further agreement between

terests.

“As consumers, we are vitally
interested in this question, and
we object very strongly to hear-
ings being held without consumer
groups being notified and invited
to attend.

“Any increase in the price of
milk will certainly bring about a
drop in consumption and our chil-
dren are not getting enough milk
now ... There are other ways
of securing a decent price for the
farmer and an equitable, reason-
able profit for the distributor
without increasing the price to
consumers.”

The letter sent to cabinet mem-
bers covered the same points, and

expressed “deep resentment that .

our interests in this matter do
not seem to be important enough
to be consulted in this second so-
called hearing.”

Replying to the Congress com-
munication, Hon. L. H. Eyres, mi-
nister of trade and industry, as-
sured the women that “the view-
point expressed is of vital im-
portance in regard to the whole

the producing and distributing in-

Housewives name
peace delegate -

MEMBERS OF Housewives’
Consumer Association, meeting in
convention at Toronto, have una-
nimously endorsed Mrs. Rae Luck-
ock as a delegate to the forth-
coming World Peace Congress in
Sheffield, England.

The convention pledged to raise
$150 toward Mrs. Luckock’s expen-
ses, and presented her with 2
handsome leather note-case in re-
cognition of her tireless work as

their president. H
1

“Mrs. Luckock truly represents
both rural and urban women,” the
convention delegates said, “and we
hereby authorize her to extend our
greetings and speak on our behalf
to any group of working-class wa-
“men in any country she may visit
while in Europe.” — i decal

Women sponsoring
high prices forum
CONGRESS of Canadian Wo-

men is sponsoring a public forum
on the question of ‘high prices, in

Medical Dental Auditorium, Nov-

ember 3, at 8 p.m.

question of the production and
distribution of milk.”

presentation of the paper difficult
for both Mrs. Griffin and her au-
dience at times, there'is no doubt
that the session was one of the
most successful of the fair.

Mrs. Griffin defined the nature of
a good book as “one which uses
language skilfully to entertain and
to represent reality, to stimulate
the imagination or to educate the
emotions.” She defended the the-
ory of selection as opposed to that
of freedom of choice, on the basis
that it is just as important to
choose good literaure as it is to
choose good food.

Good books suggested by the
speaker were those dealing with
other nations, realistic family life,
vocations actually existing, devel-
opment of vocabulary, and, when
a child is nearing ten, books of
fancy and imagination. The dif-
fering interests of children ac-
cording to their ages were thor-
oughly reviewed, with concrete
suggestions for reading material
given for each age group.

Mrs. Griffin stressed finally the
real responsibility resting upon
progressive parents in guiding
their children—to a great extent
through their reading selections—
toward a realistic understanding
of the world in which we live.

Film boycott urged

“THE PRODUCTION, of films
glorifying war and destruction
should be banned,” in the opinion
of the Associated Countrywomen
of the World as expressed at the
recent Copenhagen convention.
Six hundred delegates represent-
ing six million women of 23 coun-
tries decided to advise their mem-
bers ‘to boycott such movies.

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