Monday,
May
Tv
1945
PAGE
FOUR
THE
DAILY
NEWS
Prince
Rupert,
B.C.
WORKING
MOTHER
SEEKS
LEISURE;
BIRTHS
DECLINE
British
Commit!
Reports
Spare.
Tirite
Uought
With
Tin
0ner
ami
Kirtli
Control
and
Trrutl
t
Small
Families
Continues
LONDON.
May
7
W
A
long-term
policy
which
aims
at
an
expanding
economy
and
greater
opportunity
as
well
as
'greater
security
li
needed
if
lhere
Is
to
be
a
reversal
of
the
trend
toward
small
families
In
Britain,
says,
the
Standing
Joint
Committee
or
Working
Women's
Organizations.
The
Committee
submitted
written
evidence
to
the
Royal
Commission
on
Population
which
has
spent
some
months
Investigating
circumstances
behind
the
falling
birthrate.
"The
only
way
in
which
the
working
mother
can
ease
the
burden
of
work
and
obtain
some
leisure
is
to
have
fewer
children,"
said
Its
brief.
Labor-saving
equipment
has
been
greatly
developed
between
the
two
wars,
but
has
always
been
too
costly
for
the
great
majority
of
women.
Almost
the
only
devices
within
their
reach
were
the
tin
and
the
tin
opener
'In
a
period
when
nearly
every
section
of
workers
was
enjoying
improved
conditions
through
trade
union
and
parliamentary
action
those
who
were
engaged
in
the
biggest
single
occupation
in
the
countrythat
of
working
"housewife
and
mother
began
to
buy
a
little
leisure
with
the
tin
open-Vr
and
birth
control.
"If
this
has
led
to
unfortunate
results
for
the
community,
the
community
must
bear
the
blame
for
Its
neglect
of
the
work
of
the
home."
Large
Families
Are
Scorned
'The
committee
said
fear
of
war
and
fear
of
childbirth
are
unimportant
factors
in
the
decline
of
the
birthrate.
Scorn
of
the
large
family
was
listed
as
one
reason
for
parentshaving
fewer
children.
.
.
"As
the
family
of
one
or
two
children
has
become
normal
there
has
been
a
tendency
to
regard
the
family
of
several
children
with
a
mixture
of
pity
and
amusement
and
parents
had
to
face
not
only
increased
nn
anclal
worry
but
the
scorn
of
others
who
knew
better
than
that.
It
is
regrettable
that
the
attitude
of
officials
and
members
of
some
public
authorities
frequently
encouraged
this
attitude.
Parents
with
several
children
who
were
compelled
to
seek
maintenance
from
public
funds
had
to
bear
not
only
the
injury
of
prolonged
unemployment
but
insults
from
members
of
com
mitteoS
and
investigating
of
ficers
for
having
too
many
chll
dren."
PNEUMATIC
TIRE
PIONEER
LEAMINGTON,
Eng.
Arthur
James
Wilson
who
died
at
the
age
of
87
was
the
founder
In
1905
of
the
Motor
and
Cycle
Tardes
Benevolent
Fund
and
one
of
the
first
men
to
use
pneumatic
tires
In
Britain.
J.
M.
S.
LOUBSER
I
D
C:,
BA.
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CHIROPRACTOR
Wallace
Block
Phone
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and
WOOD
HYDE
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PHONE
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JOHN
BULGER
Limited
JEWELLERS
Third
Ave.
Pr
Rupert
X
y
to
homer
you...
.he
wards
of
the
Military
Hospital
arc
silent.
Dim
night
lights
keep
vigil
over
long
rows
of
beds.
In
every
bed
a
Canadian
boy
has
taken
a
furlough
from
pain
in
the
blessed
oblivion
of
sleep.
As
the
electric
clock
points
to'midnight,
the
silence
is
broken
by
a
flurry
of
movement.
Doctors
and
nurses
hurry
to
a
bed
at
the
far
end
of
the
ward.
Screens
are
swiftly
wheeled
into
place.
A
few
boys
awake,
and
propped
on
elbows,
peer
through
the
half-light.
They
know
the
meaning
of
those
white
barriers.
They
know
that
life
and
death
.have
locked
in
final
combat.
The
Padre
strides
quickly
through
the
ward.
As
he
approaches,
the
Doctor
shakes
his
head
and
steps
back.
A
nurse
rearranges
the
pillows
with
gentle
hands.
Then
the
Padre
is
alone
with
a
boy
far
from
home.
Against
the
white
pillows
his
damp,
curly
hair
looks
vividly
alive.
"I'm
glad
you
came,
Padre,"
he
whispers.
"Will
you
read
me
something?"
Then
almost
as
an
afterthought
he
adds,
'Tim
dying
.
.
n
and
seek
blindly
for
the
23rd
Psalm:
"The
Lord
is
my
shepherd:
I
shall
not
want
..."
As
the
gracious
words
of
the
Psalm
whisper
out,
the
boy's
lips
move
in
unison.
Then
the
Padre
prays
a
short
prayer
for
an
airman
on
his
flight
to
God.
Peace,
like
a
benediction,
lipgers
on
the
pallid
face.
After
a
short
silence,
the
boy
looked
at
the
Padre.
'I'm
sorry
to
bother
you
...so
late
at
night,"
he
murmured.
He
dieel
as
the
first
light
of
dawn
filtered
into
the
hospital
ward.
He
died
tfiinfcins
of
others.
As
you
live,
do
you
stop
to
think
of
the
thousands
of
young
tnen
who
face
death
daily
for
you?
Can
your
war
effort
compare
with
theirs?
Can
you
ever
say,
"I
think
I've
done
enough?"
Think
of
these
men
when
the
Victory
Bond
Salesman
calls
on
you.
Yours
cannot
he
a
token
purchase
it
must
he
an
alUmt
effort.
The
most
you
can
buy
is
the
least
you
can
do.
The
The
Padre
Pidre
could
could
only
only
open
open
hi,
his
worn
worn
Bible
Bible
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This
is
the
true
story
of
a
young
airman
from
Southern
Alberta
as
told
hy
his
Padre.
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