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Rae,

Scott's ‘peanuts’ don’t
aid defense of peace

GORDON MARTIN, Nanaimo:
It has come to my attention that
Jack Scott, Vancouver Sun. col-
urnnist, feels that my letter about
him and “Jay” was unjustified.

Well, it happens that
World’s children, probably a bil-
lion of them, need’ peace. As I
Sit writing my son is kneeling on
the rug beside me, quietly bobbing
his little blonde head in time
to music on the radio, like a
little bird. He needs peace.

‘It also happens that a mere
handful of people wants ‘war;
they make enormous profits out
Of war; they frankly admit it
themselves. This little handful of
People happens to be very power-
ful. Hence the children need hun-

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this .

dreds of millions of ordinary peo-.

ple to unite and defend peace.
This is what Jack Scott's daugh-
ter ‘needs,

But what does he do about it?
First he does nothing to defend
Peace. Secondly ‘he utters not
Just any insignificant falsehood
but exactly his little version of
the big falsehood upon which
the instigators of a new war de-
Pend in their efforts to disrupt
the peace camp.

“There’ll be no more peanuts,
boys,” he says, condescendingly,
4s though he were scolding mon-
keys in a cage. His own antics
Suggest that he has got the posi-
tions reversed.

The peace movement, in which
Communists are playing their
Part, is no suppliant for hand-
Outs from a newspaper columnist

nO. matter, how _ self-important..

Does Jack Scott believe in the
Principles he expounds? Then let
im prove his sincerity by his
actions, ;

Does Jack Scott want peace?
Let him look at his own child.
Let him then try to think up
Some practical peace plan; no-
body is going to insist that he
Support the World Peace Cong-
ress proposals, or any other
Particular proposal. Let him ad-
vance any proposals -for peace

(other than the one proposed by

that handful of people—namely
an immediate, fullscale, world
Wide war.) x.
Jack is no fool. Let him look
at the children as he goes down
the. street, as he looks at the
movies, reads his paper, or listens
to his radio, Let him know that
if the peace camp fails,she will
have contributed to its failure,
and the hot, sticky blood of child-
ren will be upon his hands—and
his peanuts. :

He questions Carter's
piece on skyscrapers

D.G., Port Alberni, B.C.: In the
January 12 issue of the Pacific
Tribune Dyson Carter, in his
article, “Socialism—Victorious in
Peace” lauds the building of big-
Ser and better skyscrapers in

‘OScow whereas New York, he
States, has built none at all re-
cently, c

it was under the impression
that skyscrapers were considered
a'thing of the past ,that is from
&: strictly modern point of view.
“nder a sane, planned - economic
der there can be no object in
‘Uch mass concentration of peo-
Ple’ and _ businesses. Surely the
trend should be away from such
capitalistic practices whére every
™mch. of land under the ’ above

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circumstances has such an out-—

_TaZeous value placed on it. Com-

™Morsense and reason surely point

‘value of his statement,

‘disposal

away from crowded, congested
cities with their huge, towering
skyscrapers to towns spread out
over areas large enough to elimi-
nate all these results of capital-
istic concentration.

However, the above thoughts
are purely en passant while read-
ing Mr. Carter’s excellent article.
And:as against the above criti-
cism I would like to mention the
“Even
progressives must learn that ‘the
rest of the world’ is no longer
North America.” Many of us are
guilty of such “poisonous ego-
tism”, as Carter terms such think-
ing, We have only to consider
for a minute the Warsaw Peace
Congress to realize just how much
North America’s position of pro-
minence is being reduced. i

I. enclose a small contribution
to the Pacific ~fribune—the B.C.
working man’s ‘most valuable

paper.

This milk route is
just plain robbery

READER, YOUBOU, B.C.: In
your issue of January 19, you
state: “As announced this week,
price of milk in Victoria and
other Island areas has_ been
boosted another two cents, bring-
ing the retail price to 21 cents
a quart.”

Your figures are not quite up
to date. The new price list put
out by Sunny Brae Dairy Limited,
on Thursday, January 18, stepped
up the price of milk in Youbou
to 22 cents a quart and 13 cents
a pint.

I paid 11 cents a pint for milk
until. January 18, and IL. fail.to
see where the “milk board® (one
man) is justified in soaking the
public 13 cents for a pint of milk
when the quart price is 22 cents.
Twelve cents would have been
plenty for the pints. At 13 cents
a pint I am “paying the dairy
26 cents every second day for a
quart of milk, This is just‘ plain
robbery. , :

He doesn't want war,
points ouf who does

S. SMITH, Victoria, B.C.: Have
the so-called democratic nations
exhausted every means at their
to stop their insane
march to another world conflict,
which if joined would inevitably
destroy both attackers and at-
tacked? Hundreds of millions of
signatures for peace have bom-
barded the lawmakers the world

over, but without halting percep- ~

tibly the race for rearmament.

The voice of the people is ig-

nored.
Could we not find some. other

plan, supported by the electorate

and very definitely insisted upon?’
One which would return to the
electorate the power to involve
the nation in another world war,

at the same time relieving our ~

representatives of that terrifying
responsibility.

With the mandate of the people
as their guide (in a plebiscite)
the
boldly against the instigators of
war—those who alone profit by
war. In plain words, those who
get their dividends from destruc-

tion and slaughter, the manufac-

turers of every kind of munitions
of war. ,

Without war the world is big
enough to allow “free enterprise”
and communism to work out their
own destinies in their own
spheres of activity. But this
World War Three will see the
survival only of the people,

representatives could act.

Yous Dopantinent
What yee occ:

bound together by common suf-
tering, and misery and hatred of
their common enemy, capitalism.

Depression need nof be
alfernative fo war

CHARLIE PROCUNIER, Port
Alberni, B.C.: In these days, when
people are asking, “If no war,
then the biggest depression the
world has ever seen, huh?” I
think we should answer them.

Absolutely not. By no means.
No, A thousand times no.

Just as lovers of peace, human
people, fight daily to win peace,
to impose peace on those Ameri-
can egomaniacs who shout war,
so must they at the same time
fight daily to force both peace
and co-existence. We must win
both peace and prosperity on the
face of this earth. \

No blockades. No sanctions.
This is no time for reckless brag-
gart nonsense, Trade with China
and with all Asia. Trade with
Europe, with Eastern Europe,
and with Russia. Trade with the
whole world. What do we care
what systems other people like?
That’s their business. It is not
our business, ;

We will not tolerate rotting
food, and unemployment, while
millions in the world suffer for
the ordinary necessities of life.
‘Keep the wheels turning. Keep
the sun and the rain working
for us. Keep the pay-checks com-
ing. Live, work amd trade. Live
and let’ live.

_-Bankers don't travel
for people’s health

CAPT. GEORGE S. WUCHIN-
ICH, DSC, New York: Whenever
a prominent American general
or banker goes abroad these
days we kuow it’s not to pay
social calls, Eisenhower's _ pic-
tures take over the front pages
of the press as he tours West-
ern Europe; the last time it was

John Foster Dulles in a trench
in. Korea. Now we know that

50,000 or more Americans, flung
into the pit of death and wounds,
returned the call. Bankers and

generals don’t travel abroad for

the health of the common var-
iety American.

Dulles is traveling to Japan.
But Eisenhower is in the midst
of a mission which has a far

more sinister purpose: to re-arm_

the German Nazis. The worst
criminals, cannibals, bloodsuck-
ers and monsters of the human
race are joyful at his arrival,
for they see themselves formed
again into another armed fist
to try anew where they failed
under Hitler.

These are not strong words.
The truth demands greater con-
demnation. American generals
“in Western Germany have begun

wining and dining with Nazi

generals whose first love is a
_ concentration camp adorned with

corpses, shattered bones and
flayed bodies. ’ aha
They met around a table,

‘much as butchers do over. a
slab of meat. On the Western
German or Bonn side are the
two most experienced: Generals
_Hans Speidel and’ Adolf Von
Heusinger; the first, former chief
of staff for Rommel; the second,
chief of operations for the mad-
men of the gang known as the
German General Staff.

The full hand of American bi-

partisan policy, domestic and
foreign, has been’ rae out and
stands exposed. Americans are

expected to buddy up with evil
incarnate.

The plan won’t succeed. Eis-
enhower’s mission will fail. Ger-
man. people refuse a third

' slaughter, peoples of Europe and

Asia refuse barbarism, and will

reject these organizers of Naz- *

ism, with the same degree of
strength they showed in destroy-
ing Hitler.

All this leads to on interest-
ing letter I received from the
adjutant general, C. Beall, Jr.,
at Washington. The letter,
dated January 2, 1951, under
order of the ~secretary of the
army, reads: Fs

“By direction of the Presi-
dent, you are hereby discharg-
ed from your commission as
captain, Army of the United
States, effective this date.’ ©

If the waft in Korea was just,
I would not be sitting here at
a typewriter. I would be in uni-
form back with a paratrooper
unit, a volunteer just as I was
in 1941; fighting for my coun-
try and my people, who, in the
last analysis, awarded me my
rank and my decorations.

The adjutant general must
have decided I would be a
dangerous influence. Sure, he is
right. I am dangerous to Nazis
and to all who are inhuman,
who believe themselves super-
men, who promote wars, who
lave themselves in blood and
high profits at the expense of
people’s lives. Them I will not

serve. Nor do I think the Am--
erican people will serve. these
aims.

And who has a beffer
Tight fo say this

IVAN ADAMS, Prince Rupert,
B.C.: I have heard the word
“democracy” used so often by
the U,S.in..the last. few--years
that I decided to look the word
up in the dictionary. I gathered
it to mean “a government chos-
tn by the people to. run their
country.”

When the peopie of a country
that, is now the United States
found it difficult to live under
British domination, they revolt-
ed and set up a government of
their own choice.

\ .

Now let us turn our eyes to
Korea and China. They have
been exploited and dictated to by
foreign capitalists, and ruled by
feudal governments, which we
encouraged. Now they have bro-
ken their shackles and endeavor
.to run their country themselves
under a government of their
own choice.

Five hundred millions of Chi-

nese and Koreans can’t be wrong

and they, should know what kind
of government they want. And
yet ‘the U.S. under the name
of democracy is daring to tell
them what kind of government
they should have and is seeking
to impose that government by
torce of arms.
of innocent people have to die,
because of the greed and power-
hunger of one nation.

At the termination of the. sec-

ond world war, the U.S. began

telling every country what kind
yof government it must have ay;
order to get U.S. food, and many
starving countries had to submit
to American demands. But Asia,
with all its unrelenting hunger,
had the courage to break away,
because the ‘countries of Asia
saw true freedom for them-
selves ahead. :

Let us’ Canadians, who have

always enjoyed freedom, ° give
other poor countries a chance

y

t

Now ; thousands

to solve their own problems, hke
they have always respected our
right to choose our ways of
life.

In case uny of the readers
think that I am a dangerous
person to have in our country, I
wish to tell them that I am a
full-blooded Indian, the oldest
son of the late Alfred Adams,
who devoted his entire*life to
the cause of humanity; and I
fought in the last war and have
a chest full of medals to prove
my loyalty to the only country
I have known; and I am pre-
yared to do so again if our
freedom is endangered by any
country. :

.

Some questions about
death in foster home

CITIZEN, Vancouver: Miss
Ruby McKay’s public statement
on the death of one of the Wel-

fare Department charges cannot

go unchallenged. I do not intend
to criticize the general work of
the different welfare . branches,
but I do. raise an objection to
the intent of the Supenintendent
of. Child Welfare in B.C. for try-
ing to whitewash’ the case.

Miss McKay states that per-
iodic-check-ups are obtained from .
foster homes. This is in absolute ~
contradiction to the facts in Mrs.
Rees‘ -case. Three months ago
Mrs. Rees’ next-door neighbour
reported to the police about ex-
cess physical punishment admin-
istered to the children, some of
which he had witnessed. The in-
quest brought ‘out that at that
time the police made inquiries at
the foster home and relayed their
findings to the Catholic Child-
ren’s Aid,

Can Miss McKay explain why
the Catholic Children’s Aid never
interviewed the complaining
neighbour? Or why this. Catholic
society..continued. to..supply- child-
ren to this home after the police
investigation? (Little Alphonse
was given to Mrs. Rees only one
month prior to his unfortunate
death).

Next I wish to ask Miss Me-
Kay how she can justify the liv-
ing conditions in this home, five
children , sleeping in one room.

And then, calling it “an over-
sight” that no commercia) license

“or a building license was pro-

cured. Well, it hardly seems an
oversight, for one look at the
dwelling at 4420 Commercial
Drive convinces anybody that
neither license would have been
issued.

It seems rather strange that
both the city health department
and the fire department condem-
ned this place in question as a
public institution, but the pro-
vincial welfare department find
it suitable. :

Miss McKay mentions that
the intent of the Superintendent
cies to place children in poor
homes. Why doesn’t the Child-
ren’s Welfare Department put
some pressure on its parent body,
the . provincial government, for
adequate ‘increases in the allow-
ance to foster homes? :

Says PT contains only.
worth-while reading

M. BELIK, Edgerton, Alberta:
Your: paper, the Pacific Fribune,

Was sent me by a friend some
‘three months ago. I have cer-
tainly enjoyed every page of it.
In fact. it’ contains: about the

only. worth-while’ reading’ a fel-
low can find these days. Keep
up the good work. —

Enclosed. find $2.50 for .a sub.
. I, always’ pass the.. paper on so-
you may be hearing from some
moré of us farmers in’ AYberta.

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