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Why is Bennett
delaying probe ?

perite widespread publie demand:
for appointment of a Royal
Commission to examine the stew-
ardship of our resources during the
time Robert Sommers held the
Lands and Forests. portfolio, the
Bennett government continues to
pursue a waitrand-see policy.

In this it not only flaunts public
opinion but does its former minister
an ill-service.

Sommers is either guilty of the

Tom
McEwen

‘ QUITE often the gravest misfortunes
Q which fall ipon mankind are tinged

with a grim humor. For instance, the
claims of modern “cancer cure” quacks
‘would often be highly humorous, were
it not for the tragically false hopes
such claims inspire in the hearts of
cancer sufferers, for whom as yet,
_ Medical science has found no certain
answer .
Just recently a Pennsylvania senator,

John J, Haluska, made a lengthy ora-
tion in the U.S. Senate on the marvel-

lous “cures” achieved by the Hoxey
Cancer Clinic in his home state. (This
address, in pamphlet form, has already
been widely distributed in B.C. by
Socred MLA Lydia Arsens, also an
ardent adherent of naturopathic “theor-
ies” on the origin and “cure” of cancer).
Apparently all that is required to
avoid this dread plague is to follow
the menu as prescribed by the naturo-
paths, and cancer will vanish. The local
high priest of the anti-cancer food cult
is Edward R. Moxey, M. H. (Master
Herbalist ?). At a recent public meet-
ing in Vancouver where Lydia Arsens
and Moxey were the guest speakers,
oxey wrapped his “cure” up 1n these
Words: “.,.the lack of vitamin A in
modern fodds produces swelling of the
eyelids, swelling of the eyeballs, and
is an aid to Communism.” ;
In a letter from “Dr.” Hoxey of the
Oxey Cancer Clinic to Moxey, the
“solution” to cancer is given in one
vief sentence: “...if people would eat
tight and follow out nature’s path to
health 75 percent of the doctors in
Merica would be out of business.
The essence of this Hoxey-Moxey
tete-a-tete, loudly proclaimed by Lydia,
is that they have a sure-fire “cure
Sr cancer, but some sinister roe
that dominate the medical profession
Not only refuse to recognize such a
Cure,” but avoid seeking a cure, since
© do otherwise would shut off a
Ucrative business. Doubtless another
Evidence of “communism.”
Mee RE RE
While the medical profession under
Our way-of-life contains many pill-
Pushers and bedside artists whose prime

grave allegations which ultimately
forced his resignation or he is en-
tirely innocent. Either way the
people have a right to know. . ,

It is not enough for Premier Ben-
nett to give assurances that every-
thing will be taken care of through
the courts. The claim to “‘good
honest government’’ on which the
Socred government won re-election
has been seriously placed in ques-
tion by Sommers in the Lands and
Forests department, Gaglardi in the
highways department and by Bon-
ner through his evasions of minis
terial responsibility in the attorney-
general's department.”

~The libel suit instituted by Sonm-.

mers against David Sturdy is an old
gag to obscure new irritants. But,
however it is settled, it cannot re-
move the doubt in the public mind.

_ . Continued delay in setting up a

Royal Commission will only tend
to confirm the suspicions that, as
in the case of ex’ Vancouver Police
Chief Walter Mulligan, Premier
Bennett is more interested in secur-
ing his government's partisan inter
ests by shielding those that have
most to gain from his ‘‘least said

the better’ policies.

In this cemetery on Crescent Road in Victoria are buried some of the Chinese

pioneers who helped to lay the foundations of British Columbia.

Yesterday's jobless knew him well

HEN death claimed "Thomas
Dufferin ‘“‘Duff’’ Pattullo last

week at the ripe age of 83 years -

the daily press praised him as “‘a
grand old man of unexampled
vision.’ But to the generation that
knew him best, the generation of

the Hungry Thirties, he suffered

from political myopia.

“Duff’’ Pattullo sat in the pro- 3

vincial legislature for close to 29
years — 20 years as a cabinet min-
ister with portfolio, eight years as
premier, and all these years as a
boss of the Liberal party machine.

When the consequences of his
‘policies confronted the Liberals
with the necessity of entering a
coalition with the Conservatives to
maintain themselves in office,

‘Duff’ became a disgruntled Lib-
eral backbencher and finally a
Liberal ‘has-been, anticipating his
party in political decline.

This ‘“‘unexampled vision’’ would
more-accurately be described as a
callous political adroitness in buck-

“passing, in which he evaded the

demands of the unemployed by re-
ferring them to Ottawa when he
could and answered them with the
police attacks of Mayor Gerry Mc
Geer when. he couldn’t. Always-he
placed the interests of the monop-
olies above the demands of the
people.

For such politicians who leave
only bitter memories of countless
homes the people have no need to
mourn.

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Concern is making a fast buck from the
Msfortunes of others, the vast major-
‘ty of our medical doctors are men and
Women of high purpose whose lives
ate dedicated to’the cause of healing
3 _ Xd human wellbeing. R
© wonders why Hoxey, Moxey and
ees haven’t added Tom Alsbury to
eir circle of quacks. He has all the
_ Walifications !
‘ they would demand that cancer
«Search be: removed from the public
marty” list and that the millions
») ow. being spent on H-bomb war prep-

:
trolled giants in the British auto 2 :
industry, Ford and Vauxhall (a GM :

. .
his students to stay out of the car
subsidiary) are proceeding with ex- at «|

business.”
* * *

Prompted by this letter, I did
some researching this week and the
facts and figures I unearthed clear-
ly delineate the crisis facing the
auto industry.

a ) e , At the end of February there
Il in were an estimated 900,000 new cars
unsold in the U.S., as compared with

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750,000 at the end of 1955 and 357,-

pansion programs totalling some
$300 million over a four-year period.
Ford, through its international
ties, and Vauxhall, through its links
with such other GM subsidiaries as

’ Opels in Germany, are accelerating:
a process of monopoly control which
has reduced the number of British
auto manufacturers from 40 to five.

*rations be devoted to cancer research, 000 at the end of 1954. And soon, it is rumored, Rootes and
that wo gay e to : The increase in unemployment Standards will amalgamate’ with.
its St ee hire —_— mM. remarks part age) Rae in the U.S. is largely attributed to British Motor Corporation (Austin
nd ultimately prove victorious over 2 of used cars in Vancou 85,000 layoffs in the auto industry and Morris) to leave only a-big
“Surge of mankind health menace. prought me a letter from a reader during January and February. Al- three.

ile the cancer “cure” quacks in North Vancouver who says he though auto production normally | eo Pen. &

mae shout “but that is communism,”

tons of humans would be assured
Dew lease on life.

‘een,

picks up in the first few months of
the year, manufacturers have cut
production. so that fewer cars are
being produced each month. And
still the surplus grows.

In Britain there is a similar
crisis. There 30,000 auto workers are
on short time.

J.T. Bolas, secretary of the Birm-
ingham District Committee of the

In the meantime, both in Britain ie
and the U.S., the giants of the in- eo
dustry proceed with expansion pro-
grams, despite production cutbacks,
the competition gets keener, and
new inducements must be found to
tempt buyers into making those 12,
24, and 36-month payments.

Now American Motors Corpora-
tion and Studebacker-Packard are
Confederation of Shipbuilding and offering $25,000 and $20,000 free
Engineering Unions, has warned the accidental death policies to new car
government that the crisis in the buyers.
auto industry, accentuated by new But d&viously what is needed is
credit restrictions, is “a snowball _ a policy that will cover us against
that could easily develop into an ' inability to continue making the
avalanche.” payments—and still leave us the

Despite the crisis, the U-S.-con- car.

‘-knows what the problem is because
he is a car salesman.

. “Have you taken a look lately
at the new cars parked at the north
end of Granville Street Bridge or
out at the University, to name only
two places?” he asks. “That’s where
the problem begins.

si ies keep shipping the
nate ont ¥ te lets, the dealers
use ‘every gimmick they know to
unload them and the trade-ins are
pushed on to the used car lots.

ih Webster thinks poli-
tics 4 aera he should advise

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