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TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associate Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager.

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AS
& [ oo eek was Forest Conservation
** and Premier W. A. C. Bennett
some fine words of advice on the

ae ae forests,’ he said, “have
: a x nea :

and oo €nemies—insects, disease
He”

Whe pauld have added another, and
Sory of «NOt it comes under the cate-
natural”, it makes the other
tise popes Quite insignificant. This
 anothars, “Bown in B.C. in one form
Nera) oe 1S now classified under the
Seo 5. C24ing of “forest licences.” Its
Danie. s ® give the giant lumber com-
St pecan omPlete monopoly. of our
Dtofii; . CUces with resultant skyline
testing’ ‘o bring about the ultimate
on of the small logging opera-

is Our forests,
have omit Kable that Bennett should
. feed Mention of such a_perni-
Bee; but since it is being said
ae » it follows that Bennett
of n° ,,Judicious. care in the

Is’ “diseases,”

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a oat the Peace Arch, an esti-
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\ Year tB8ton Sathered to celebrate
the Us. Of Peace between Canada and
**Sentatiy & “guest” speaker and rep-
Nas ng ieee President Eisenhower
a SS a person than the billionaire
ah. efell. Nelson Rockefeller. :
bout ea ot had a great deal to say
Neat + Mmunist imperialism” and its
‘ os free world.” In fact, the
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a n eeePing with peace. Rather
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Sabre-rattling, the brand
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wi ation and other Canadian youth
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BCE plans another grab

; ere for U.S. monopoly
capital and the B.C.. Electric,
Westcoast Transmission Company
is pressuring the Board of Trans-
port Commissioners to change the
projected natural gas pipeline ter-
minus from Vancouver to Hunt-
ingdon on the U.S. border near

Sumas.

Such a change in the original
construction permit will facilitate
the carrying through of a scheme
which would be highly detrimental
and costly to the people of B.C.

First, it will enable the BCE (in
alliance with the U.S.controlled
Westcoast Transmission) to, build
its own gas line from Huntingdon
to Vancouver, thereby becoming
the sole distributing agency for the
lower mainland and Vancouver

Island.

Second, to advance this US-
BCE gas steal, a thoroughly dis-
credited Public Utilities Commis-
sion is already setting the stage for
a “‘heating’’ at which, if past re-
cord is any indication, it will con-

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fer all gas ‘‘service’’ rights to the
B.C. Electric.

And third, while many Valley
municipalities have gone on record
for public ownership of gas dis-
tribution rather than a BCE mon-
opoly, Vancouver's ‘‘Non-Parti-
san’’ city council has meekly an-
nounced it will “‘not oppose’’ the
B.C, Electric’s gas monopoly, there-
by demonstrating once again whose
interests it serves.

There is another alternative, one
which would enable the potential
gas victims of Greater Vancouver,
the lower mainland and the Island
to break the strangling grip of the
BCE octopus — that the Bennett
government place the construction
and distribution of natural gas
facilities under the sole jurisdiction
of its B.C. Power Commission.

This is the demand that the
people in their own interests should
place before the Bennett govern-
ment, that the B.C. Power Com
mission take over gas distribution—
and. the B.C. Electric get out.

‘Money talks’--people speak louder

HE Sloan Commission inquiring
into the “money talks” charges
made by Gordon Gibson, Liberal
ex-MLA, in relation to Socred gov-
ernment forest licensing, has un-
earthed some valuable information
on the extent of profits and control
of vast forest resources by a few
powerful timber trusts. But the real
story of the alienation of British
Columbia’s forest resources to pow-
erful U.S. corporations — operating
through Canadian agencies — has
yet to be told.

“It is scarcely likely that Gibson
can tell the whole tale since his
party, then the majority member of
the notorious Coalition government,
were the initiators of this infamous
giveaway of our timber and other
natural resources, a giveaway policy
that the Bennett government per-
petuates on an even grander Scale
in its bid for quick “prosperity” dol-
lars.

The magnitude of the profits
reaped by the handful of powerful
timber trusts that are the main
beneficiaries of the Socred forest

licensing and management scheme,
is proof itself that “money talks.”

It is time the small logging oper-
ators, the “little fellows,” lumber
and sawmill workers and others
concerned with halting this timber

_ giveaway under present licensing

provisions, betook themselves be-
fore the Sloan Commission and said
their piece. .Chief Justice Sloan has
indicated he would welcome such
representation. |

It would be interesting too, to
have the big lumber barons appear
before the cammission in person.

Only by bringing out the full facts
of the present giveaway — and halt-
ing it — can some of the people’s
forest resources be saved — for the
people.

‘against

Hal |
- Griffin

(F you are concerned with the impact
of what passes for American culture
on our national thinking, and you should
be, you will give more than a casual
thought to the boys running around
wearing coonskin caps and_ singing
snatches of the Davy Crockett song.

It is more than a profitable com-
mercial racket, although it is that too.
In its way it is more pernicious than the
crime comics, for it destroys the finest
thing any young Canadian can grow up
with, pride in his national heritage and
the men who have created it, pride in
the people who have built his country
and the desire to emulate them.

Davy Crockett, an American “hero”

and a dubious one at that, has suddenly
become the idol of thousands of young
Canadians., It is a dramatic demonstra-
tion of the propaganda power of TV and
mass advertising.

The Davy Crockett legend has become
big business. It is being used to sell
everything from sweatshirts to refriger-
ators — the Norge division of Berg-
Warner Corporation expects to sell 30,-
000 refrigerators in the U.S. through
its offer of a Davy Crocket play tent to
every purchaser. As the Wall Street
Journal notes, sales of Davy Crockett
items have already reached an estimated
$100 millien and there is “no sign yet
that the youngsters” yen for Davy Crock-
ett products is anywhere near satisfied.”

And in our own country it is part of
the continuing assault upon our strug-
gling national culture, the substitution
of American for Canadian concepts.

go tee, ° oats ©

We have our own national heroes, men
whose exploits and achievements are
such as to kindle the imagination of any
boy.

But only recently have we begun to
lift them, out of the obscurity to which
they have been consigned by historians
who deny us our history. Only now are
we beginning to dust off the drabness
with which we have invested our heroes
and to discover the astonishing color
of their achievements. And still we
lack for writers and artists bold enough
to break with accepted versions and suf-
ficiently discerning to stir our national

pride with their presentation.

You may argue that Davy Crockett is
a passing fad, that he will soon be for-
gotten. But you forget the retentive
ability of young minds, the lasting im-
pression made on new imaginations.

_When my son saw a coonskin cap,
“just like Davy Crockett’s,” in a New
Westminster store his eyes widened. He
Just had to have it. “All the other kids
are getting them,” he pleaded.

So he got his coonskin cap. I told him
something of the real Davy Crockett
Story, sifting the known facts from the
legend, and how he was used, with his
homespun ways, coonskin cap and all,
the people’s interests. How
much he grasped, I don’t know, because
for him Davy Crockett is the legendary
figure created by Walt Disney on TV.

It will be a patient parent or a skilful
teacher who can give Henry Kelsey or
David Thompson or Tecumseth such
color that he will displace Davy Crock-
ett in the hearts of young Canadians. But

their future demands that the effort be
made.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 3, 1955 — PAGE 5