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IN MOSCOW __ TODAY

people discuss their satellite

By Palas RUSSELL.
MOSCOW

Sputnik is the word on
“everyone’s lips, as citizens of
the Soviet, capital celebrate
their sensational success “in
launching the world’s first
satellite.

“Sputnik” is the Russian
word for Satellite, and it also
means travelling companion
or “fellow-traveller,’ in the
non-political” sense. ;

My first call last Saturday
‘was to my local butcher, who
greeted me with a _ cheery:
“Well, what do you think of
it, eh? What do you think of
our Sputnik?”

When I remarked that it
was certainly a great success,
he added: ‘Yes, it is, and
Ivan is going to show you a
thing or two more before: you
are much older.

“But you haven’t got to look
up there for successes if you
want to see them,” he went
on, jabbing a podgy finger in
the general direction of the
ceiling.

“Have a look here,” he in-
vited, spreading his hands and
arms to show the fine display
of chops and meats of all
sorts on the counter.

It was my first visit to the
“putcher’s after returning from
a month’s holiday in Britain,
and there is certainly much
more meat in the shops; while
milk and dairy products are

- also more plentiful.

All that day and every day
since that sibilant: word sput-

- lation

nik has been on everybody's
lips. \

In the buses and trams
people pore over the latest an-
nouncements about its pro-
gress and study the many
well-informed articles by lead-
ing scientists that are ap-
pearing in all the newspapers
about space travel, satellites
and their implications.

Last Saturday too,. I went
with our young daughter to
the Moscow Zoo, just to re-
new equaintanceship with old

friends there before winter”

sets in.

As. usual the bear garden
was the main centre of at-
traction for lots of ‘other
children and parents who had
the same idea.

And as two of the bears
gambolled around ‘with a
wooden ball, a girl of about
11 shouted out joyfully:
“Look,
sputnik.”

On the way out I noticed a
group of people round two
youngsters who were playing
chess. The chessmen were
being used to illustrate just
how the sputnik stood in re-
to other heavenly
bodies.

Round the corner from the
zoo at the Moscow planetar-
ium, a large crowd was gath-
ered in the open air to hear
a scientist talk about the satel-
lite.

In the schools children have
been getting talks on the sput-
nik,

7

he’s playing with a -

But many teachers have
found that the childern know
a good deal more than they
do about it, for scientific fic-
tion on rockets and space tra-
vel has been popular here for
years, and the demand is well
catered for in numerous books
and magazines.

Some years ago a_ space
travel novel appeared des-
cribing pretty closely how
such a_ Satellite would be
launched, and the sputnik was
given the name of KETS.

This word is, in fact, made

‘up of the initials of the found-

er of Soviet rocket and satel-
lite. science, Konstantin Ed-
wardovich Tsiolkovsky, the
centenary of whose birth was
celebrated here on Septem-
ber 17.

The sputnik is the talk of
the town all right. :

In all the conversations I
have had in the past week
about the satellite, not once

did anybody talk about it as

a weapon.

The butcher was enthusias-
tic about the possibilities it
might bring for controlling the
weather ,ensuring bigger and
better harvests, better pork
chops, and more of them.

Youngsters were -already
discussing the possibility of
trips to the moon, and every-
body is eager to find out how
the new achievement is going
to help improve life.

That’s how the news of the
sputnik was being discussed
down our street in Moscow,

‘Two strikes, both a test of the militancy and ia ;
the new Canadian Labor Congress, have ended-
Toronto it was a 21-week battle and. at Murdochvi

a seven-month strike.

Both strikes were marked
by use of police, court in-
junctions against mass picket-
ing, use of immigrants as
strikebreakers with the aid
of federal immigration and
employment service agencies.
Despite the long strike and
their replacement by strike-
breakers- workers at Lever’s
were able to extract a 24 cents
an hour wage increase over
three years with a provision
that all except 17 strikers be
re-hired within 12 months.
Two hundred will be re-hired
by January 2, the remainder
later. Many unionists declare
they “were sold down the
river” by their leaders.

A modified union shop re-
places the previous condition

their talks on the satellite. ~

Long strikes end
Sputnik on everyone's lips as Murdochville, orontd

ille,. a

that membership in the ¥
was a condition ©
ment. 4

At Murdockville, it pe
similar pattern, with th 2
tire 800-man work fore the
strikebreakers retained ©” 4s)
job, which the remainint se
strikers in the area are
re-hired.

The union will conti
ancial aid to its men oh ville
they get work at Murdo?
or elsewhere. ded

The strike was © cout!
the union because of 4 cert’
decision providing fot Pe she
fication vote. This wesikl
prime cause of the 3 th
Certification was denie
United Steel Workers:

fin
inte od

No electronic creation

can replace human braiit

No Frankenstein creation is likely to replace ine {3

LONE

brain, which consists of some 10,000 million cells — #

times the world’s production of valves last year. | por
The Institution of Electrical Engineers was told this iD th?

don by its president, T, E. Goldup. It is wrong to peliev?

manpower is becoming less
important as a result of auto-
mation, he said.

“However far I look into the
future, I cannot conceive that
any machine that man may
create will ever be able +o re-

place the relatively few geni-

uses — such as Leonardo da
Vinci, Shakespeare, Beethoven,
Wren, Faraday and Kelvin: —

iv!
bik ati
on whose vision ‘and ct of

ability the evolution ©
civillization depends. we
“On the day man is “I id
to- leave all his imag”
thinking to machines ith
be destined to a future * bd
out beauty, without hoP
finally, without love.

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October 18, 1951 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE-PAG