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Wirt DO YOU TINK?

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Personalities

Bill Nixon, Brilliant, B.C., writes:

I have been following with in-
terest Cynthia Carter’s series of
“Labor Personalities.” I would
like to see Tom McEwen includ-
ed in this series soon, particular-
lv since ne will be making a tour
of the Interior this month.

@ We have received several sug-
gestions for the popular “Labor
Personalities” series, including one
from the Mount Pleasant Branch
of the Labor-Progressive Party for
Hal Griffin, editor of the People,
and another from New Westmin-
ster for Harold Pritchett, presi-
Gent of the B.C. District Council
of the International Woodwork-
ers of America. These will be in-
cluded in the series, but for the
mext few weeks subjects for
“Labor Personalities’ will be
drawn from among Labor candi-
dates for civic office in Vancou-

ver, New Westminster, Victoria
and other cities.

Police

Margeret Black, Vancouver,
writes:

I note with alarm news items
in the press reporting a wave of
attacks on women. It seems to
me that this is a matter of graye
concern calling for vigilance on
the part of our police force. It
is high time that officers should
be permitted to discharge their
duties in protecting citizens in-
stead of being forced to spend
their time cruising around tear-
ing down posters from telephone
poles. In the main, these posters
advertise events to which hun-
Greds of our citizens turn out
and gain entertainment and en-
lightenment. It is significant also
that the posters upon which all
this attention is visited are post-
ers of working class organiza-
tions, which are in the forefront
cf the fight for a total war ef
fort and a people’s peace. I
urge all citizens to protest this
discrimination and insist that our
police officers be permitted to
devote their time to the duties
we expect of them.

Thanks

Camp Committees of I|WA Local
1-71 at Huxley Island, QCI, write:

On Dehalf of the [WA member-
ship of this camp and the fallers’
camp, we ask the use of your
columns to express our apprecia-
tion #0 the trade unions, labor
organizations and others who sup-
ported us in our recent strike and
all through our long dispute. May

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his victory in the Queen Char-
lotte Islands stand as an achieve-
ment of labor unity-and be a
step forward in uniting the forces
of labor throughout British Co-
lumbia. Again we thank you all.

Chlorination

M.L.B., Vancouver, writes:

The deluge of letters from citi-
zens who have been stricken with
coughs, colds, hives. laryngitis and
pains in the joints as a result of
the small percentage of chlorine
in our water supply, has left me
slightly bewildered. First, because
I can’t understand how these
brave sufferers can take time off
from their sickbeds to swamp edi-
tors under with letters and peti-
tions which threaten to push the
war news off the front page,- and
to conduct such an extensive an-
ti-chlorination campaign. And
secondiy, I can’t understand the
difference between people here
and those, say, in Toronto, where
the drinking water has been
chlorinated fer years and the pop-
ulation has shown no alarming
decrease.

True, Toronto drinking water,
or any chlorinated water, does not
taste as fine as our Vancouver
water did Chlorinated water does
make the weekly wash a slightly
more arduous affair, does make
necessary the use of more soap to
produce a “lather,” is — simply —
a litter “harder.”

But really! Can we take Sseri-
ously the reports of such people
as Irate Housewife (“My baby
took a drink of chlorinated water
and came down with colic”), Citi-
zen (“I have to bring water ten
miles from a well in the country”)
and Constant Reader (“I have lost
niy voice completely since our
water has been chlorinated”)?

In a paper one day this week
I counted six such letters in a
“Public Forum” department. The
seventh and last letter on the
page was on the war.

If chlorination is unnecessary,
the public hes a right to know.
If enough of us are opposed to
chlorination and if there is doubt
in our minds as to the reasons
for it, then a complete investiga-
tion of the question is in order.

The interest aroused by the suh-
ject proves that the public is con-
cerned. In this case, people are
correct in demanding that the
facts be placed before them, so
that they can judge the case for
themselves.

But let's not go off the deep
end. Our doctors tell us that since
chlorination was begun in many
cities no deaths or epidemics can
be traced to its use. After all,
people laughed at Pasteur when
he wanted them to boil milk be-
fore they used it, and literally
thousands still maintain thal vac-
cination as a preventative meas-
ure is worse than the disease!
Let us not make a similar mis-
take!

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Book On North
Out In February

Our New Frontier, Hal Grif-
fin’s forthcoming book on Alaska
and the Canadian Northwest, will
be published next February by
W. W. Norton, it was announced
this week.

The manuscript has now been
passed by the United States War
Department, the U.S. Office of
Censorship and the Canadian
Wartime Information Board and
approved for publication by the
Public Relations office of the
Northwest Service Command,
United States Army,

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LETTERS from
OUR READERS

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Books aod p eople

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Gregory

taining essays or stories by more than one author, my

curiosity has been aroused by publication of two such books

with historical leaning.

Makers of Modern Strategy, published by the Princeton

. University Press, is a collection of twenty essays on military
strategy from Michiavelli to Hitler.

The first section, devoted to de-
velopment of war from the six-
teenth to the eighteenth century,
deals with Machiavelli, Vauban,
the great fortifications expert,
Frederick the Great, Guibert and
Buelow. In the second section,
Clausewitz and Jomini are dis-
cussed, while the third, bringing
the military thought up to the
First World War, includes opin-
ions from Marx, Engels, Moltke
and Foch.

Then there is a section dealing
with the period between the two
great wars, which also includes
civilian leaders in war, such as
Clemenceau, Churchill and Lloyd
George, and deals with Lenin,
Trotsky. Stalin, Maginot, Liddell
Hart and WHaushofer. Japanese
naval strategy is discussed here
and the book concludes with a
chapter entitled: Hitler: The Nazi
Concept of War.

While we may not agree with
the opinions in various essays,
nevertheless this sounds like a
useful book to have around to
look up the origin of certain types
of military thought, and to trace
the developing link between poli-
tics and military strategy.

Professor Earle, editor of the
book, remarks in his introduction
that “military questions are so
interwoven with economic, politi-
eal, social and technological
phenomena, that it is doubtful if
one can speak of a purely military
strategy.”

For those who want to go deep-
er into the military strategy of
Clausewitz, whose theories were
studied and commented upon by
Lenin in his writings, his book,
On War, is now available in the
Modern Library series.

pee other anthology is The

Torch of Freedom edited by
Emil Ludvig and Henry B. Kranz,
a series of historical sketches
written by contemporary refugees
about classic exiles.

The company is terribly mix-
ed, such people as the Roman
poet Orvid, exiled for a sex scan-
dal, and Norwegian King Olay,
rubbing shoulders with Simeon
Voltaire, Lenin and Victor Hugo,
but some of the biographical
sketches should be fairly good.
Best ones probably will be Feo-
dor Dostoevski by Alfred Neu-
mann, Emile Zola by Heinrich
Mann, Kossuth, the Hungarian
martyr by Hans abe, Tadeus
Kosciusko by Joseph Wittlin.

“ LJ

N the list of don’ts” given by
Wendell Willkie to Darryl
Zanuck, who is producing the
screen version of One World was
the stipulation that the “film not
be released until after the Re-
publican convention next sum-

mer.

Willkie also specified that the
film must not contain any glori-
fication of himself or any news-
reel or other camera shots of
himself. Willkie’s role will be play-
ed by a Hollywood actor, who
has not as yet been chosen.

In Seventh Cross, soon to go
into production at MGM, Spencer
Tracy will play the leading role
of George Heisler, only one of
the seven who finally escapes the
concentration camp. Leading
feminine role opposite him, pre-
sumably Elly, his wife, is expec-
ted to be given to Signe Hasso,
prominent Swedish star, who has
not had any leading parts since
her arrival in the United States
several years ago.

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A Prophet?

i plees COGHLAN, the ]*
Priest, is no longer a
to democracy and civiliz; =
History has disposed of hi
fascist friends for whom t
an active agent for years,

rid of him.
But the WNazi-fascist
once carried is still ia
is not a torch lighting
to liberty but an arso
that spreads ruin and d
wherever it goes. Other
than Coghlan’s attempt to
aloft. But not so high eith
other fascist-minded cl
the grandilogquent name
signor Fulton J. Sheen
fill Coghlan’s shoes.
The Associated Press ¢
Monsignor Sheen to be
They released a story abi
article of his which appeare
a national Catholic mage
which proves that he will
be numbered amongst the
phets. :
According to the article, ¥
was published while/the Mo:
conference was in session, “t
is no essential difference bety ¢
the ideology of Nazism and €
munism .. . it would be real
to expect that Germany and}
sia will once more sign a &
of peace and embrace,in 4
ef death for Europe and
world.” a
Russia, claims this 1943 edi -
of Coghlan, is at war with H) |
but not with the Nazis. Thr
not the result of confusion,
deliberate distortion of the t
meant for any who are gull
enough to swallow it. He fur
asserts that unless his drive
accepted as a political line
the Allies, the Moscow Con
ence will be a second Mun
(I bet he “hurrahed” for Ch
berlain at Munich.) ee

Answered

ONDAY, November 2, |

given him the answer. —
will not like the decisions of —
Moscow Conference any mm
than Hitler or his Nazi +
throats. There is no taint of M~
ich about the decisions arr!
at in Moscow, but a stern, |
swerving purpose to wipe ff
the earth the whole Nazi-fast
bag of tricks. That will inelt
also the fascist inclinations
Monsignor Sheen.

It is’ a political victory,
for the Soviet Union alone, 1
for all of the Allied Nations
the human race, including the ¢
luded peoples who have been t
der the influence of the Nazi a
fascist demagogues for too ma |
years. og

If Pope Pius XII is a good pe
tician and would recover the pr
tige he lost when he blessed t
arms of the Butcher Franco-
Spain, he now has an opportuni
to do so. If he seizes the oppt

denounces Nazism and Fascis
Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito 2
Monsignor Sheen, he will mal
himself right with the democrai
people throughout the world.

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