Gold pins to be given fo top peace workers Gold peace pins bearing a replica of Picasso’s famous dove will be presented to two out- standing Vancouver peace workers at a Helsinki Day celebration Saturday, June 18. To be honored are Mrs. Freda Hickie and Anton Muzichenko who have each collected more than a thousand signatures to the World Appeal Against Preparations for Atomic War. Mrs. Hickie’s signature total is over 1,500 and Muzichenko’s over 1,100. Gardner hits Plant _ for ‘war-like’ speech “The war-like speech of Air Vice-Marshal John Plant, in A third peace worker, Mrs. Dora |- Palmer, has collected almost 900 signatures and is expected to ex- ceed a thousand by Helsinki Day. The awards were instituted by the Canadian Peace Congress and are accompanied by letters of con- gratulation from Dr. James Endi- eott, congress chairman. Mrs. Hickie and Muzichenko will be guests of honor at a con- cert and ‘dance, beginning at 8.30 p.m. June 18 at 1173 West Broad- way. The public is invited. The’ concert will feature the Vancouver Folk, Singers of the UJPO, directed “by Claire Klein, and a reading “The Plight of Willie Atombomb,”* a humorous short story written by an American lieutenant while a prisoner-of- ‘war in Korea. Continued Plant followed upon a public speech he made at Toronto in which he advanced these, views: @ “War (with the Soviet Union) is inevitable. . . . We are keen, anxious and willing to take them on any time they - attack us. And we will knock hell out of them.” @ “We could dispense with the army and have a strong air force and when we get into @ war we will knock the pants off the enemy.” Simonds retirement likewise came a few weeks after he had : publicly advocated conscription. It is noteworthy that in discip- ‘lining Plant, the government did not at any point repudiate his “in- evitable war” views, nor did it challenge an earlier statement by Air Marshal C. R. Slemon that Canadian and U.S. air forces would “merge under one command. No sooner did the story hit the headlines throughout the country ‘than protests began finding their _way to the floor of the House of ‘Commons. Some MPs charged that ‘a “military junta” was trying to dictate policy to the government. _ Tim. Buck, LPP national leader, ‘wired Prime Minister Louis St. -Laurent immediately that Plant’s “inflamatory warmongering speech ‘completely misrepresents the sen- itiments of the overwhelming ‘majority of the Canadian people.” __ Buck urged St. Laurent to pub- licly “disassociate your govern- ment from his provocative and ‘dangerous boasts. ” Plant’s speech, he said, was “a disgrace to Can- ‘ada’s armed forces” and the gov- ernment could not ignore the ne- cessity for disciplinary action.” On Monday this week the. gov- ernment acknowledged the wide- spread protest by announcing, through Defense Minister Ralph Campney’s statement to the House, ‘that Plant had been transferred to a post in which he would not have contact with policy matters. The government’s action, how- ever, was based on Plant’s state- ment about abolishing the army, not his warmongering boasts. which he revealed himself to be an ardent champion of the use of weapons of mass destruction, should be answered by a na- tion-wide demand for the prohibition of atomic weapons,” Ray Gardner, B.C. Peace Council chairman, said this. week in a public statement. “This demand can be mobilized most effectively through the col- lection of signatures to the World Appeal Against the Preparations for Atomic War,’ Gardner said. “In fact, his irresponsible state- ments serve to ‘underline the time- liness and necessity of the appeal. “The appeal, as is well known, states that certain governments are trying to make the people ac- cept atomic war as inevitable. And now, as if seeking to confirm this, Plant stated, ‘War is inevitable.’ “We invite everyone who has not already done ‘so to sign the appeal. - More, we invite every- one who has been alarmed by this outburst of bragging and belligerency to take part in the mass collection of signatures on Helsinki Day, Saturday, June 18. “One might even say that, in an inverted sense, Plant’s speech had its positive side; it may serve to enlighten those who harbor the illusion that atomic weapons would never be used in event of war be- cause they are ‘too terrible.’ The truth is quite to the contrary: the only guarantee we can have that these weapons will not be used is to ban them. “Plant set us straight on this point when he said, ‘We do have weapons of mass destruction and we are going to plant them on them (the Russians) the minute they kick over the traces.’ This de- claration: of intent to use atomic weapons should also spur into action those who mistakenly be- “Everything in Flowers” . FROM... 4 EARL OS. YES 56 E. Hastings St. PA. 3855 : VANCOUVER, B.C. BURNABY OPTICAL 3645 KINGSWAY (across from Simpson-Sears) DE. 7878 CONSTANTINE FINE CUSTOM TAILORING Ladies’ and Gentlemen ;Rm., 118, 603 W. Hastings St. PA. 5810 Vancouver 2, B.C. wiO.VA LT EN-E A Ee 251 EAST HASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. QUALITY SERVICE ees ROCs CARNES? S COFFEE SHOP | 410 Main St. : Operated By GEORGE & WINNIFRED GIBBONS NEW ZENITH CAFE 105 E, Hastings St. For The Finest In Good ‘Eating ha + lieve the danger of atomic war has subsided,” Gardner said. “The air@vice-marshal’s readi- ness to use atomic. weapons is in utter defiance of public opinion in Canada,’ Gardner said. “This is attested to by the 27,000 signatures we have already collected in Brit- ish Columbia to the World Appeal. But more than that, such national organizations as the United Church, the CCF, the LPP, and the Trades and Labor Congress are all on record as favoring the prohibition of atomic weapons.” In a letter to Defense Minister Ralph Campney, protesting against Plant’s statements, Gardner point- ed out phat the peace movement found itself in agreement with Op- position Leader George Drew who was not satisfied with the min- ister’s handling of the case. { Campney’s reprimand of Plant dealt only with his ‘“scrap-the- army” comments and dismissed his war-like statements as being “humorous.” After Campney had read his statement to the” House, the Vancouver Sun reports, “Mr. Drew said it did not deal with the air vice-marshal’s reference to war being inevitable and! the Western powers being anxious for it—about which there was nothing humor- ous.” . “Air Vice-Marshal Plant said he is ‘keen, anxious and willing’ for atomic war, ” Gardner’s statement concluded. “The question is: are we as keen, as anxious and as wil- ling about the defense of peace?” * Cougar hunting is his hobby By BERT WHYTE It isn’t every day that I meet a cougar-hunter, so when Hans John- son of Wildwood Heights stopped by to say hello, I promptly backed him into a corner and bombarded him with questions. Hans doesn’t hunt cougers for the money in it — the government pays only $20 a head — but, be- cause he thinks it is a fine sport, reven better than fishing. Born in Norway some 52 years ago, Hans Johnson forsook his trade as a fisherman there to emi- grate to Canada in 1926. He locat- ed in the Powell River area and has made that his home base ever since, though he worked one sum- mer in the Queen Charlottes and also worked on tugs and freighters for a time. But for the past 20 years he has held down a steady job at the paper mill in Powell River, and made fishing and hunt- ing his hobbies. “Up my way it’s possible to live off the land,” he told me. “Back in the Hungry Thirties | remember two fellows who went into the bush, carrying only flour -and salt. and a few other necessary items, and didn’t come out for a year and a half.” You can even eat. cougar meat, said Hans. “Rod and gun clubs often order it for banquets. I’ve often éaten the hindquarters, and it tastes just as good as beef. There’s no dark ~- meat at all, though. Most people balk at the idea of eating cougar, but actually it’s quite a delicacy.” First rule for hunting cougars it, to have some good dogs, train- ed for the work from the time they are pups. Cougar dogs cost money — from $100 to $200 each — and are often a cross between an English fox- hound and a bloodhound. Hans Johnson has three trained dogs at present, an old ‘‘walker hound,” a “red-bone” from California and a “plue tick” from Chicago. “T've been killing cougars as a hobby for more than 20 years,’ he said, “and I haven’t lost a dog yet. There are very few instances where cougars have attacked hu- mans, but after the dogs have trail- ed and treed a cougar, you have Eat cougar steak ? Sure, it’s a delicacy on this planet, 2 oa to make sure the dogs até tied up, for if you shoot and the cougst comes down wounded, and a dogs aren’t tied, then they ™ get it. A cougar is a mighty py erful beast; one swipe and # has had it.” iu * a epinetinguae ue In spring the hungry_ cous after a hard winter, comme Oe from the high ground in shee? of tasty morsels such 4 : and calves. When they too numerous in any are government ‘offers a sie in addition to the use bounty. . pt “Back in 1951 I killed ce cougars in a three-month poo Johnson recalled. “I don told — how many I’ve killed all perhaps 35 or 40.” me An outdoor man all rndw008 life, Hans likes living in wi Heights because of the 008 an ing and fishing. In the a goes after cougar, in the he fishes (there are fin and cutthroat trout in Powe - and in the fall he takes mou woods in search of deer 4? tain goat. “a It must be a healthy ie, ad 52, Hans Johnson looks tanne vests fit, and good for another : K. Prenarski dies in Royal City — NEW WESTMINS be The progressive labor sry ¢ in New Westminster lost 0 # staunchest supporters neat! by the sudden death ee i) attack of Konstantin narski. 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