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CHILD CARE Ruinous Routines

MOST PEOPLE KNOW some- one who is the counterpart of the woman who spent a day visiting us recently Exacting to the point of hysteria, grimly keeping to a pre-arranged schedule, never al- lowing one detail to be different, this visitor and her 18-month-old daughter finally left, while we sank exhausted after a nerve- wracking day. :

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Everything went wrong, or it seemed to that fussy female. Kettles didn’t boil on time, peo- ple locked themselves in the bath- reom at precisely the wrong mo- ment — there were no oranges, only grapefruit, it was too windy in the backyard,

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Here was a mother who had worked out a series of routines and rituals so inflexible, so right,

\ that even in the face of difficul- ties presented by a strange house- hold, and at the cost of every- one’s temper, includirfg her own, they had to be maintained.

Peculiarly enough this mother is under the impression that she is-doing the best possible job in rearing her little girl. The results don’t confirm this. There is a pathetic and unnatural timidness in the child as she submits to the exacting schedule.

Mother, endlessly concerned with the details and the slave- driving clock has neither time

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too sunny in . the front, and so it went on and §

nor thought for merely enjoying |

her baby.

/ \Since even the “play period” is,

scheduled there is no spontan- eity, no appreciation of -the child’s growing ability. It is not hard to see how, since there is no real relationship growing between “mother and child, it won’t be long before one becomes a taskmas- ‘ter, while the child may “develop in many different ways, none. of them happy ones.

Fortunately for our children _ there aren't many of this type of mother. However, shg is a good example of what happens when rituals and routines become of Paramount importance, and the Srowing child is secondary.

Neither mother nor child will remember this childhood with any

joy, and the marks it leaves on "

the little girl will probably be a Fiemme aaa MORRIS,

Pensioners protest

Here French old age pensioners demand an increase a their pension allotments to meet higher living gerne

WOMEN MLA‘s_ AIR RAL

IN THE RECENT ONTARIO elections the Tories really took a beating in Toronto, managing only to take three seats out of ee in that city. The success of the cam- paign to take the “Tory” out of “Tory Toronto”—for good, we hope—was due in no small part to the way the women

got out and worked.

In Bellwoods, for instance, where A. A. McLeod was elected, some energetic campaigning was dcne by a women’s committee headed by Dorise Neilsen, and I thirfk: that all women might take a tip from this committee and study some of the effective meth- ods it used in making MacLeod’s campaign a people’s campaign in every sense of the word.

A sound truck toured the streets three or four days a.week for three weeks and then every after- noon during the last week before the elections. Various women leaders in women’s community and other popular organizations, spoke while other women went along beside the truck giving out leaflets at. shopping districts. These leaflets stressed points of

' vital interest to all women—high

prices, health insurance, child- care,—and on every one of them the Drew government was vulner- able A baby carriage parade

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Want woman on flood board

THE SPECIAL CONCERN OF the two women MLA's during the special flood session of the leg- islature seemed to be that farm women flooded out would not want to go back to their homes to face the heart-breaking job of rehabilitation.

Mrs. Tilly Ralston and Mrs. Nancy Hodges both urged that “a practical farm woman be in- cluded ’ the Rehabilitation Board to present a woman’s view- point in the difficult problems that have to be faced.” :

‘I'm afraid,’ said Mrs. Ralston, “that those women who have been brought to the city after seeing their belongings float down the river are going to be very reluct- ant to ee back and start all over again.”

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PIONEER. LABOR WOMAN HONORED

The nremiens refusal to in- corporate in the Bill inclusion of a woman on the Board was round- ly condemned by Mrs, Hodges, who declared it was “another ex-

ample of relegating women to the , kitchen to do the dirty work, such |

as canteens and working on the dykes, and then refusing them in the administration of an important job.”

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MRS. RALSTON, WONDER- ING aloud whether the recent two-cent boost in milk price was going to be beneficial to the farm- ers, remarked that she was afraid not as much milk would be used as “was necessary for people’s health. She talked vaguely of the law of diminishing returns and

~ Celebrates 80th birthday

IT’S NOT. EVERYONE who finds it necessary to hold open house for four days to celebrate a birthday as Mis, Gertrude Har- riet Henry of 1155 East 15th. Ave- Mue did recently, but then, four Score years is an age that rela- tively few attain and Mrs. Henry ds no ordinary person.

For one thing, she has ‘been a

supporter of every ‘progressive

Cause in this city for years, and no One in the labor movement, seek- ing her signature to a petition or €ndeavoring to enlist’ her aid in & campaign, has ever been re- fused. i

_ Last fall, when he good friend Effie Jones entered the Vancou- ver mayoralty contest as the can-

_ didate of the Civic Reform Asso-

Clation, she had her neighbors and a host. of friends throughout the city all working for Mrs. Jones. If sometimes organs of big

‘Dusiness like the Financial Post

-it hard to understand how

their

Mrs. Jones rolled up such a big vote, it’s not only because they fail to measure accurately the strength of public opposition to policies but because they

are incapable of understanding

the devoted work women like Mrs. ©

Henry— and not only womén —

give to campaigns et ies as”

their own. * * * BAP: IN HER 50 YEARS in Vancou- ver—she was born in London, England, and went to Toronto

with her parents. when she was

five years oid—Mrs, Henry has seen the city grow and give rise

to what its people are wont to boast is the finest labor+move-

ment in the country. Mrs, Henry has cntributed to that aa and imparted no little to hes ture.

A talented artist, she was a

does sketches in water colors in the time she can snatch from her busy days. She comes from a

musical family — her father was

an honorary member of Trinity University, and printed the first Convocational Musical Journa) in Canada—and has devoted her talent and time to church choirs in the city. She is also an active

worker in the B.C. Happy Friend-

ly Society and the Theosophist movement here. Among the many good wishes

‘she has received from attists,

musicians, members of the labor movement and neighbors is one from Effie Jones, stating: “Be-

‘cause of the tempo of life, we of ‘the labor movement are apt to

overlook the remarkable qualities

- of the ‘little people’ and reserve

member of the Studio Club which |

will go down in civic history as being the inspiration of the Van- couver Art Gallery, and she still

all praise until after they have passed from thi§ life. We of the labor movement wish Mrs, Henry good health and happiness to continue her useful work for

many years yet.”

asked whether the amount of milk sold was going down.

Agriculture Minister Putnam

. warned that British Columbia’s

supply of dairy products would suffer severely this year because of flood damage, different feed and quarters for cattle, and that “we have to give every encour- agement to-dairy farmers so that Vancouver and adjoining areas will have an adequate milk sup- “ply this winter.” He did not, how- “ever, point out that %-cent of the two-cent increase went to the dis- tributors to help maintain .their profits in a wasteful and increas- ingly costly distributing set-up.

. Consumers have to foot that bill,

but it hardly comes under the heading of “encouragement to dairy farmers.” — KAY ERICK- SON.

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proved to be most effective al-

, though a little difficult to organ-

ize. Mothers were decked out in signs and the carriages, tricycles and ‘wagons also carried their share of slogans. They had bal- loons painted with aluminum ‘paint carrying the name of the dandidate and stacks of leaflets to distribute on the way.

From six to 12 teas were held _in every sub-division with print- ed. invitations being sent to neighhors and other interested women, so that they could have an opportunity of meeting the | tandidate, And almost every night there were street-corner meetings attended by anywhere from 50 to 100 people and sometimes as many

as 200,

Of .course, there was the day- to-day canvassing house to house and the giving out of leafle Plant gates, in all of which ‘the women's committee played quite a part. On issues like high living costs you don't have to do much talking to the average house- wife, whether in Toronto or Van- couver, but you do have to ex- plain the connection between high prices and war-mongering and red-baiting and that’s where the women’s committee really did its stuff. ;

It will only. be a few months before we shall be having a Ppro- vincial election here, and won’t - it be an opportunity to get back at. this «Coalition government. Every time I dip into my purse for another penny on the sales tax, or put the milk bottle out, or _get three instead of four street- car tickets for my quarter, or# heck, ‘the list is endless—I know Im going to enjoy canvassing. Little Katy and John don’t know it, but they’re going to get their first political experience. And after all, they’re the victims of the Coalition's policies—B. G.

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