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Rainmakers

JOE IVENS, Okanagan Mis-
sion, B.C.: An Indian serving
‘with the Canadian Army in
Germany (so the story goes)
did a rain dance, and out of a
clear blue sky the rain came
down. The Indian said his
grandfather taught him the art
of dancing for rain.

Here in the Okanagan Val-
ley we get very dry spells and
we asked an Indian to dance
for rain. “Dance, hell,” he
said. “Open the gate in Belgo
dam and the water will come
down the ditch.”

'-Not so long ago we had an
exceptionally dry spell and
members of a certain church
were asked to pray for rain,
there being special rain pray-
ers as well as prayers for fine
weather in their book of pray-
ers.

But when the minister was
approached he said: “We don’t
pray for rain in the Okanagan.
We use the mountain water for
irrigation from the dams.”

The reasoning of the Indian
and the preacher amounted to
the same thing.

The thought I had was, did
the week of prayer for ‘“cap-
tive nations’ work, as the cap-
italists hoped? Or perhaps they
should have put their trust in
a rain dance?

U.S. programs

J. SMITHERS, Vancouver,
B.C.: The trouble with the
“CBC is that it carries far too
many U.S. programs, featur-
ing gunplay. How can we
keep our children ‘from want-
ing toy guns to play with,
when they see so many Yan-
kee westerns on television?

Good service

MIKE LUMO, Vancouver,
B.C.: If it is possible, I would
. like to thank J. K. Chow
(optometrist) publicly through
your paper. He has fitted me
with excellent glasses and I
wish to extend my. sincere
thanks to him. I had no suc-
cess from other sources until I
went to him. I am sure he will
treat my friends, and anyone
else, with the same patience
and courtesy that he showed
me.

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For fhe record

Sam Jenkins, President, Ma-
rine Workers and Boilermak-
ers Union, Varicouver, B.C.: In
the September 18th issue of
your paper, you carry a report

on the September 15th meet-:

ing of the Vancouver & Dis-
trict Labor Council headlined
“VLC Censures Union Leader
For Washing Dirty Linen in
Public,” and. further on in the
article you state, “The Probe
Committee report clearly
showed that Jenkins had erred
in certain statements in his
article in Ship & Shop.”

First of all, there was no
mention of dirty linen in the
report, but this remark’ was
made from the floor by one of
Mr. Whalen’s “yes-men.’’ Sec-
ondly, the Probe Committee
did not show that I had erred
but to the contrary. They fail-
ed completely to prove any
errors in the article named.

The first point under in-
vestigation. was, “there were
dozens of delegates there who
had never been in the Council}!
before.” On page 2 of their re-
port, they showed 47 delegates
sworn in, 25 of whom had
never been in the Council be-
fore. Therefore, my statement
is true.

The second point was in ref-
erence to my remarks re E.
King, in which I said, “E.
King, who I understand is an
assistant personnel director for
the B.C. Electric also showed
up with a credential.’ Mr.
King is an employment inter-
viewer for the B.C. Electric,
not for the Union, but for the
Company, so regardless of his
official title, he would still be
an assistant in the personnel
department. Therefore, my
statement in Ship & Shop is
true.

The third point ‘why have
they not been removed as I
was when I was ill last win-
ter?” The statement referred
to was, “there were others
there who had never attended
a meeting for months.” As I
stated in my defense, I have,
in my possession, the names of
two delegates from the Gov-
ernment Employees who were
carried as delegates for twelve |;
months without attending a
meeting. I have one from the
Longshoremen’s Union who
had left the Union and was a
car salesman for 18 months

and was still carried as a dele- |"
gate. Yet, when I missed four

consecutive meetings, I was
suspended. I have no way of
proving this point because the
records of the Labour Council
are not open to me, but I haye
since received phone calls
from delegates who state that

they know my Statements to be ;

absolutely true.

And lastly, in my-report on
the count of votes, I am willing
to prove in any inquiry or in
any court that-my statements
are true, and that the report |;
of the committee is a pack of]!
lies. I do not have to resort to
lies to prove what is going on
in the Vancouver. Labour
Council. Their ‘record speaks
for itself. :

Outdated ‘maps

E. R. FAY, Wainwright, Alta:
We are hearing a lot. these
days about alleged violations
of the India-China boundary
and of Chinese maps showing
claims. It might give a clearer
understanding of the situation
if we take a-look«at a pre-war
map of this boundary between
India and China.

Reference’ “has “frequently
been made to Ladak, which at
present forms the easternmost
district-.of Kashmir. Ethnolog-
icially Ladak is definitely Tib-
etan. The people are Tibetans,
are Lamistic Buddhists, speak
the Tibetan language and have
Tibetan customs.

When we. look at the north-
eastern porder of India from
the eastern ‘border of Bhutan

fined boundary. of Assam and
Burma, we find that from the
middle. ‘eastern side of Bhutan
a dotted line shown in almost
a semicircle to the ‘mortheast-
ern boundary of*Burma. ;

The “territory. enclosed in
this sémiciréle is fnkabited by
the. Akas, Abors and Mishmis,
all ‘of .Tibetan.-origin. and so
acknowledged in.the. gazeteer
accompanying the above-men-
tioned, map: The area covered
by this semicircle averages
over 500 miles from west to
east and about 50 miles from
north to” south. It is an old
British imperial military pro-
jection and has never been a
part of any Indian .realm in
the past. |

It is from this area that the
Tibetan rebels were supplied

with arms and munitions via ||

the remnants of Chiang Kai-
'Shek’s gangs still operating in
northern Burma. Kalimpong,
which China has charged as
being the headquarters of the
Tibetan rebéls is definitely in
East Bengal.

Incidentally, the Chinese
maps that have been mention-
ed are hundreds of years old
and were used by Chiang Kai-
shek in the early 1940‘s, when
he was putting forward claims
to Ladak and other Tibetan-
settled lands.

: teeeeh,

Peace parade to urg
ending muclear tes

B.C. Peace Council is planning another of its su

ful peace parades for Saturday, October 3 at 1 p.m.
week’s parade is being staged to win wide public sup
for the cessation of all nuclear testing, and the urgen'

an early Summit meeting to
of peace,

“This parade is a series of
several which have been or-
ganized by the B.C. Peace
Council. and such demonstra-
tions, -states officials of the
Council, “will continue until
the threat of nuclear tests and
use has been eliminated.

While these parades have
been successful from the point
of view of increased public in-
it is the opinion of,

further strengthen the

Peace Council leaders
“there is need for grea
volvement of citizens of
walks of life to become a
in the struggle for peace.

Urging that a special
be made for a big
turnout on Saturday’s'p
the. Council asks that al

aders assemble at Room
Shelley Building, at a
Pender.

Know their ‘side’

's. Thompsoz, VancOuver,
B.C.: I don’t know whether
the greetings from the people
of San Francisco to Premier
Khrushchev were genuine or
not, but I’m sure glad-he got
a good reception at one spot
in “North America. Anybody
who has deluded themselves
with the Hungarian issue is
either abnormally stupid, or
they know which side of the
fence they are on.

‘I have found that the
“rebels” in that fracas most-
ly belonged to the ex-nobility
and large landed class. I would
also say that they made a
feeble display of protest
against the Russian Premier’s
visit, for the simple reason
that many of them have been
on starvation rations since
they came over to the land of
“milk and honey”. Those who
dispute tthe fact that Russia is
a working class state, either
need their heads examined—
or know which side of the
tracks they are on.

ROOFING

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