6 SETAC HUH CECT CANT TM WHAT DO YOU THINK ? Ci TT O pinions contained in these columns are strictly those of the writers. We welcome correspondence, but ask that letters be held to 300 words. AAA TT TT Soldier's View Soldier, “Somewhere in Eng- land,” writes: My copy of The People hasn't Started to arrive yet, but a friend or mine who is a good miner, a ood union man and a first-class soldier, passes his copy on to me. He swears it is the best paper published in Canada. I read your issue of August 21 today and though it was two months old I enjoyed it very much. Your coverage of the pro- vincial convention of the Labor- Progressive Party was excellent. And I liked the editorial answer- ing the Daily Province. It was incisive, clear and well written. OV Bill’s blast against the so- calied Sociaist Labor Party {which is dead, putrid in fact, but won’t lie down) was really a fine piece of writing, but nothing he writes is uninteresting or without humor. Your bold message, “Attack Now in the West” is very timely. The Canadians overseas look across the English Channel eag- erly and expectantly. They feel confident that Canadian arms will not play the smallest role in énd- ing the war by invasion of the Continent. They are ready to Strike, but the order hasn't yet been given. It is your job, and the job of all those who want Gecisive victory, to see that the order is given. Appearances Wirs. Avis Choate, White Rock, writes: Political guns are boom in this district. Tim Buck's meeting at White Rock on November 6, W. W. Woods, the Progressive-Conservative standard bearer in Fraser Valley constitu- ency, opened up with a meeting at Sunnyside Hall on November i3. Highlight of his somewhat lengthy and ambiguous speech, which was in sharp contrast to the considered constructive ad- dress given by Tim Buck, was a word of advice to Harold Prit- chett, who has been mentioned as a likely federal candidate in New starting to Westminster. Woods does not approve of Harold Pritchett's “platform demeanor’ and “his habit of putting his hands in his pockets.”” In fact, he feels that, generally speaking, labor leaders will have to spruce up a lot to make themselves presentable enough to ’sit on the Progressive- Conservative Party’s “Labor Re- lations Board” where apparently THE PEOPLE Published every Friday by The People Publishing Co., Rm. 104, Shelly Bldg., 119 West Pender St, Vancouver, B.C. Tele. MAr. 6929 Hal Griffin Al Parkin G. Greenwood editor. Associate Editor = Business Mer. - Six Months: $1.00 One Year: $2.00 Printed at Broadway Printers, Ltd., 151 East 8th Ave., Vancouver, B.C Following sartorial considerations will pre- dominate. Enlarging on this same theme, he also took exception to a re- cent newspaper photo showing three labor delegates on their return from a conference—hat- Jess, tieless and, imagine, one even wearing a blazer. It would seem that Woods is more concerned with the personal appearance of public figures than he is with the problem of cloth- ing and feeding the public. A Progressive-Conservative govern- ment presumably would present an impeccable appearance with the orthodox policies of the pre- war years whereby the shabby unemployed would be hidden away in relief camps so as not to offend the eyes of tourists. I sug- gest that the Progressive-Con- servative Party draft Emily Post for its national leader. It would be oh, so appropriate, you know. Correction Tom Parkin, recording secre- tary, Lodge 756 IAM, Vancouver, writes: The executive of Lodge 756 has instructed me to protest the article appearing in the October 23 issue of your paper, concern- ing the elections recently con- ducted at CPA, as some of the facts were erroneous. Peer Paynter and Casey Jones were not voted out of office as they did not hold any official position in the lodge, but were only acting in that capacity. Dur- ing the recent election, Peer Paynter was not nominated and Casey Jones declined a nomina- tion for office of trustee. Will you please correct Statement in your next issue. this Ora Percy, recording secretary, Lodge 1749, 1AM, New Westmin- ster writes: I wish to draw your attention -to an error in the last paragraph oj the article in the October 23 issue of your paper concerning the installation of the charter of Aeronautical Lodge 1749. W. C. Jones declined nomina- tion for office in the new local. Since the smoke period dispute the management of Canadian Pacific Airlines has seen fit to make P. V. Paynter a foreman. Consequently he is no longer eligible to remain a member of the lodge. Chlorination John Roy, Vancouver, writes: i notice that Hon. Ilan Macken- zie has made another of his weighty pronouncements. This time the member of Vancouver Center is pained to find that the majority of our citizens, “in these critical war days when the health of the people is of such vital im- portance,” do not appreciate his stubborn insistence upon chlorin- ation of our water supply—not that he would know much about water. He is still more pained to find that Vancouver City Council and Burnaby Municipal Council have protested against his depart- ments measures. I should like to ask one pert- inent question. What is the con- nection between this wartime in- troduction of chlorination and the desire of certain logging interests to invade the Vancouver water- shed? The Vancouver Sun had a head- line this week, “Mackenzie Says Chlorination ‘Sticks’. This must have been a typographical error. “least, QOOUOTOENTES EAN SOTCENEAAND CAAA TTT TTT TTT LETTERS from OUR READERS "COPY BOY! BOY! OH, BOY! BOY O-BOY O-BOY O-BOY!” Books and People by Kay Gregory saith BS asp ire Rade ae ETRE TSE GR een aie) ieee nee ee js \B ee e his book is called Lessons of My Life, Lord Vansittart apparently has still to learn his biggest lesson, as also have the reviewers who so slavishly believe in Van- sittartism, the theory that Nazism is a product of the German character and therefore there are no “good Germans” or at not more than “a finy ineffectual minority” not worth consideration. Hence, Vansittartism recommends prolonged “for fifty or sixty United Nations forces after the war to ‘introduce an entirely new spirit in German schools and churches” He declares he would welcome regeneration in Germany from the left but finds the possibility “non-existent.” Sterling North, reviewer for the Chicago Sun, goes even further after reading Vansittart. He be- lieves “that the Versailles Treaty was not too harsh but rather far too sentimental . .. that Ger- man culture is overrated : that Germany is a nation of in- curable swindlers, miltarists and sadists: that she must be beaten to her knees and kept there for generations.” The time is not far off when some of these people will be try- ing to forget they ever wrote such words when the working people of Germany, completely underes- timated and ignored by Vansit- tart, will rise from the horror of Nazi terrorism and, in the tra- ditions of Karl Leibknecht and Rosa Luxembourg, build a free and democratic Germany. Facts to refulte Vansittartism are te be found everywhere, facts of sabotage and heroism in Ger- many, proof of a live and increas- ingly active underground move- ment which Paul Merker, secre- tary of the Latin American Free Germany committee, in his pam- phlet Whither Germany, declared occupation, vears” by will “rise fabulously out of the factories, villages and cities ... and force the doors to freedom. VEN Hollywood has an answer to Vansittart in the film of Anna Segher's' Seventh Cross, which Producer Pandro Berman declared will show “that there is still some good—and some good Germans—in Germany. Pictures with such a theme are going te be welcome and useful a year from now,” Berman significantly predicts. HAT films will be an extreme- ly useful medium in exposing mistakes made in the last world peace is prophesied by Darryl Zanuck. He remarks that it is Hollywood's duty to “present some pictures in the immediate future which will point up past contemporary political and eco- nomic truths in order that mis- takes ... might be avoided at the next peace table.” Two such films, he says, will be Willkie’s One World and the parallel of Woodrow Wilson’s car- eer to present-day world affairs. Another similar film will be one in preparation by MGM, as yet titled Project Versailles, in which “the causes of the present world struggle will be discerned in the mistakes of the last world peace,” | Short Jabs Bitlets 4 PES power of the Red much greater than the 2 of metal it throws at the © er Russia. makes dents in the newspapermen in about 10,000 miles d the Eastern front. Some dailies make a Dr fillers. We might cali lets.’ That is not the men in the composing them, but it rhymes; besid: name might be too crude respectable column like Jabs. The Province is on papers that indulges in th jet” practice. One day last week, ome these “bitlets” read: “The revolution after 26 years—any are all apparently Bolshe When I read that “bitlet brought to my mind a passag Lillian Hellman’s play, Wate © the Rhine, which I saw sp screen a short time ago. In play, the American wife of a man refugee from fascism is ing to explain to her wea socialite family how her hus} has been living since before B came to power. She says: “Kurt gave up b an engineer. For twelve year has been an anti-fascist.” 4 interjected her brother, ae all anti-fascists now.” “Yes, answered, “but Kurt works ai Matter of Fact HE CCF has become ii verted. The Federatia which could be presumed to! a wide appeal to the Cans people, has turned in on itse has ceased to carry that 6 name and is now the CCF N : An isolationist name if there” was one. In its first issue, Grant } Neil, MLA, spreads himselé + a whole page in an ant article, most of which is &F misunderstanding or distor the Labor-Prosressive Parte | icies. Such misunderstant distortion is easy when the is willing. —a matter of fact about MacNeil has no personal edge whatever. He says: the Socialist Party of Ca invited to affiliate with munist International. ; the SP of € declared the lated conditions of affiliation” acceptable. The dissenting mil ity seceeded from the SP end formed the Communis of Canada .. .” : No such thing ever happen The Dominion Executive ¢ SP of C never published sult of the vote, but merely clared the affiliation ‘ defeated. But the vote w te lated independently of the utive and published in Federationist in February, © It showed that affiliation carr by- an overwhelming majority Nor did the “seceders” f¢ the Communist Party as Mach says. They joined the Comm! ist Party which was already existence before the vote ¥ taken in the SP of C.