Lt = \e j 7 Pog susuce : SURESSTEATESSSACLELERESRITTE AT DO YOU THINK? SURRASEREORESESETDUCEEDERURERER ESO SOSEE Short Jabs + 0 2 SPAUDereenenagesyerayQUssueeuvsrsessEQUUCGACQUGT2SSC2220 202123088222 B = ——— across the trail by castigating pride further enhanced by the e sti y . y ou fail, too, to a : stter was sent jEovince Editor = your leading ein Evictions’ uMonday, July [Bly place the | the housing jaction of the Pities. And as i, properly em- ‘Ys not a strug- @in some cases nil to eastigate @speculation in @ powerful real @wvhose interest mo performance 4a between the we.rities contin- Fome of these -is not only in Shome, but has "ture to try to efor his family. = that the con- ‘risis is in the speculators ll buy them in iy kind of a i pay the price jhig crisis makes *® Your editorial 7 which ‘permits vacant houses sale while wo- many of them ‘tuation to the = ommunity, and yourself with achieve low- F that Vancouver a serious hous- men are re- srseas; many of 1 a rental basis red herrings so-called “communist agitators” will suffice to excuse this dis- graceful condition. Clearly, -~ what is needed now, is the ut- most fight from all organiza- tions and citizens for immediate implementation of a low-rental housing program. ,; Our party is proud of its part in this fight and will continue its work in cooperation with all other people who are deter- mined to achieve a low-rental housing program. — - 2 MARGARET BLACK, - Grandview Club LPP. National Flag Holland,, July 10, 46. . Dear Sir: In their federdl election pro- gram, the LPP advocated a dis- tinctive national: flag for Can- ada. If the idea of a Canadian flag is as popular back home as it is in the army overseas, then everybody is in favor. A soldier wrote to the Maple Leaf a while ago and strongly urged the adoption of such a flag. In the next two weeks, dozens of similar letters ap- peared, all in the same vein. Soldiers from the Maritimes, from Quebec, from Ontario, from the Prairies, and from, B.C. may argue amongst them- selves about the French-English question, or about east versus west, but they always end up with a sincere prayer, ‘Oh, please take me back to Can- ada, any part of Canada, even if I have to walk the rest of the way home!” To us, there is no iand so fair, no land so much desired, as Canada. .. for we are Can- adians and Canada is our land. The melting pot of war has broken down the old territorial formations in the army, and moulded steel hard units com- posed of men from every part of Canada. This has contribut- ed to a much better understand- ing by all soldiers of Canada as a whole, and has given a stimulus to national pride, a glorious achievements of Can- ada’s fighting and home fronts. Out of such pride, out of such a conscious sense of nation- hood and national destiny, comes the desire for a national flag, and the desire to do away with such anomalies as appeal to the Privy Council, etc. Just the other night a group of our boys protested to the orchestra leader who wound up a dance by playing only the Dutch National Anthem and “God Save the King.”. “This is a Canadian dance,” they said... “How about playing “O Canada’? Sgt. JACK PHILLIPS. Family Predicament Sir: The present eviction problem and the solution of it is a much discussed subject and requires honest, intelligent and persist- ent consideration in the interest of all parties concerned. For _ reasons which I wish to state, with your permission, the predicament of the Chen family on Gore. Avenue concerns me much, at present, as I am par- ticularly familiar with most angles of it. During the past ten years I have made consider- able repairs to the five houses recently purchased by the pres- ent landlord and during such periods of employment I have been favored with many pleas- ant experiences and associa- tions in both business and social activities. I am not a mémber of any organization and therefore not a ‘“soap-box expert” as has been charged, but I have found it a pleasure to combine my assistance with that of so many others as they gather at 540 Gore Avenue, not specifically to picket but to also make public protest and demand that justice be done to those so fully deserving of it. It has been proven beyond doubt that un- fair motives are the basic causes of all disturbing and un- warranted procedures and dis- sauvnpeaepeaesnoKaeeueRuesnesusearacnnsecasestananpesseosseSnSbESSSuaSAeRAEUESECURUOESEDESSORSEBDADRDRELELDUBLEES Unmitigated Gall OR brass-faced effrontery, commend me to the boy leader of the CCF : parliamentary fraction in the B.C. Legislature. Harold Winch does not love the LPP. Like his fellows in the CCF intelligentsia, he never refers to the LPP or any of its members without slandering them. He speaks of them as, “a workers’ party turned traitor’ or “Liberal party puppets.” _ But when a delegation from an eviction meeting organized by the Grandview Club of the LPP went to interview Mayor Cornett last Satur- day morning, they were surprized to find a stranger in their ranks, a woman. This woman, whose problem was that of an evictor, not one of those who were to be thrown out on the street, informed the delegation that she had gone to Harold Winch with her story and that he recommended her to go with the Grandview. delegation to see the Mayor. If Winck was honest, one would hardly expect him to turn over to the LPP or any committee or delegation sponsored by it, since it is com- posed of “traitors” and “puppets,” anyone who appealed to him for help. For colossal gall, that anarchistic advice of Winch’s, is probably the worst on record. But it may not be entirely due to gall—it may be calculated. It may have been given to confuse the issue and put obstacles in the way of the movement to compel action by the city, provincial and federal bodies on the housing (or lack of housing) situation here. That would be absolutely in line with the actions of the CCF in the “5.000 Homes Now” Committee, the wrecking of which must be credited. to the CCF. Even if that is true, Winch’s advice was an impudent and nervy piece of gall. The Truth About Wagner Tes war is Germany is-but a few weeks past the final military victory but already the apologists for the inspirers of Hitler are breaking into print. . One of our boys brought back some papers from England amongst which was 2 copy of the Sunday Times. On a page devoted to music and literary criticism is-an article bearing the title, “The Truth about Wag- ner.” It is by a writer named Ernest Newman. Newman waxes wrath at those “political journalists” writing Richard. Wagner who are “fighting out of their class” and not one 0 whom, he believes “could pass a three-minute examination in the real meaning of the Wagnerian ‘Gotterdammerung.’ He tells them they they should leave Wagner and Waegnerism alone. It is only with Wagner, the artist, not with Wagner, “the muddle- headed political phantast” thinks Newman, that the civilized world has any concern today. After reading so far, I came to the conclusion that whoever might write the truth about Wagner, it would.not be Ernest Newman. He reminded me of a sweet young thing (judging by her voice) of a radio announcer, who made running comments on the musical programs of a local broadcasting station. Speaking of Wagner once, she confessed to the world of radio listeners that, “Wagner thought a lot of himself, but he. had a right to, for to us he is a god.” I don’t know who “us” em- braced, but it certainly did not include OI Bill. I never hear a rendi- tion of Wagner’s music, on the stage or radio, without feeling grateful to him for not writing “I Pagliacci.” @ To me, Wagner is not a god. He is not even a great musician. Even allowing for the difference in the character of his work, he is not in the same class as Beethoven or Mozart. He is, to my way of thinking, rather a combination of Amy Semple MacPherson and P. T. Barnum. He founded a cult and had them build a temple at Bayreuth and he ‘ beat the toesin in the style of Barnum to call the faithful to worship honorable methods used in as his mythological effusions were dished up for their obsequious homage. ae Suit of an. obvious objec’ What is some of the truth about Wagner? In 1848 he took part in - ere are reports circulating the futile bourgeois revolution in Saxony. He was associated with and that the Chen home has been influenced greatly by Michael Bakunin, the Russian anarchist who played condemned, and if so, that the leading part in breaking up the First International. would supposedly eliminate the oa After ten or twelve years of exile, he made his peace with the rulers restrictive regulations govern- . ; - of Germany. He sold out his revolutionary ideas. He became a Nine- ing the purchase of single and teenth Century Machiavelli and wrote a secret document for the guid- _also multiple dwellings; but ance of his patron, King Ludwig, “On the State and Religion.” In this, there is no convincing reason according to Wagner, the duty of the artist was to devise illusions for why that particular house the masses to keep them patriotic and religious. should. be condemned and no He developed naturally from that foundation to the place of honor evidence to substantiate the accorded him by Alfred Rosenberg, the renegade Russian theoretician report that it has ever been and philosopher of Hitler’s National Socialism, of being one of the only condemned. I was a witness in four forerunners of National Socialism: Another of the four was Wag- ner’s son-in-law, the renegade Englishman, Houston Stewart Chamber- A Welcome Eviction | 5 — PACIFIC ADVOCATE court, acting on behalf of the Chen family, which I am pleased to say, I have always found possessed of honesty, in- tegrity, cheerfulness and a very live ambition to practise the qualities of good citizenship. Due to years of practical ex- perience I wish to state that there is no reason why any contemplated improvements at 540 Gore Avenue can not be made without removing the present tenants, and the work already done on the _ other houses bears proof of my argument. . H. C. KINGSTON. 706 - 12th Ave. East. lain. In Chamberlain’s book, “Foundations of the Nineteenth Century” and in the correspondence of Chamberlain, Wagner and Wagner’s wife, Cosima, is all the evidence needed to prove that Wagner was a Nazi before Hitler was born. . Both of these men were in political accord. and were soaked in anti-Semitism. Chamberlain was the originator in Germany of the “superior race’ nonsense, the so-called Aryans of Hitler. Wagner was an ardent Jew-hater. He believed that there was a Jewish conspiracy afoot to destroy the “noble” Germanic race. If anything went wrong in the production of one of his operas, he invariably blamed the Jews. Yet.we have ‘“muddle-headed politicians” who try to read some revolutionary content into his “music dramas” though they are no more revolutionary than Jack and the Beanstalk or Little Red Riding Hood. Upton Sinclair is one of these muddle-heads. In one place he glori- fies Wagner as “Germany’s greatest living genius”—that in the same age and generation as Marx and Engels. The Twilight of the Gods became the Dreadful Night of the Ger- man People—because they followed Wagner and Hitler. SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1945.