Page 14 — PA. Features, December 2

Foibles,
Fancies —
And Facts

_B-29 Degrees Above.
Zero (s)

“Phillipine weather fore-
cast: Not a Nippon the air.”’
(From Federated Press col-
umn “It’s a. Great System”
by John Paine.)

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Nor In 1944 Either
Unfortunately

“Of course there are
‘good’ Germans. But when

they took over after the last
War they were too weak to
control the wmilitarist ele-
ments, who used the Weimar
Republic as a cloak to hide
their preparations for World
War II. As a matter of fact,
we should remember that
the “good’ Germans have
not won a major political

decision in their country in ,

the last 75 years.” (From
an article “Let’s Not Fool
Ourselves” by William L.
Shirer (Berlin Diary) in
The Union.)

Only Visible Near
Election Day

“The CCF has a policy
for municipal government,
democratically decided by
its civic cénvention.”’ (From
an editorial in CCE News.)

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Propaganda

“We've heard by the way,
of a nice suburban lady who
announced recently to her
friends that her son, who is
in the Army, was being sub-
jected to Communist doc-
trine. “They’re always tell-
ing him, “Think for your-
self,” she said.” (Quoted
from the New Yorker in
“Slings and Arrows” in the
Canadian Tribune.

Poison Peddlers

“The attitude of the Re-
publican members OL the
Resistance toward the Com-
munist Party is illuminated
by the fact that all anti-
Communist movements, any
Party set against Commun-
ism, would tally the vesti-
gial fascist forces in the
country. Thus it would be
absurd, and abominable to
attribute suspicious inten-
tions, unavowed aims to
the Resistance members.
Are they not comrades and
heirs of those who died for

our beloved liberty?’ (Fran-.

coic Mauriac, leading French

Catholic journalist of the-

newspaper Figaro in Paris.)

_ tory-monopolistic regime domi-

Continued from Page 11

_ Highway to the Future

the Yukon and nothing less will
Serve 2S a substitute because
they have gone through the
whole gamut of Gouncil “sov-
ernment” without executive
Power; and “administrator”
mis-government, with too much
power. The sons, brothers and
husbands of the Yukon people
are fighting on the battlefronts
of the world today for just such
development and progress, and

over the last 50 "years is higher
than anywhere else on the
North American continent (and
the surface of this Vast reser-
voir of mineral wealth has
barely been scratched).

BASICALLY the Yukon and
its people suffer from a
chronic condition of mis-gov-
ernment as distinctive from bad *
government. This may seem
like a contradiction in terms.
Bad government in a democra-
tie country ean be gotten rid
of; mis-government, such as
obtains in the Yukon Territory,
with its lack of responsible civic
and provincial fovernment, and
cursed wth the onus of an ap-
pointed “administrator,” plus a

for no less.

Canadians interested in the
postwar. ‘development of Can-
ada must begin to give much
greater attention to the Yukon
than ever before. There are
those in Canada who already
plan for the Yukon what they
have too well consummated in
Quebec . . . a sub-standard eco-
nomic and social level for the
common people, to the end that
the wealth of an area be ex-
ploited in-the interests of a
minority.

nating the economic life of the
Territory, is another matter.

Years ago the doughty Duff
Pattullo proposed a “plan” for
solving the governmental prob-
lems of the Yukon—annex it to
British Golumbia. Fortunately
for the people of the Yukon,
that “plan” was never consum-
mated, otherwise the monopoly
rope would only have been
drawn tighter on the necks of
the Yukon people.

The Yukon lies athwart the
highway of tomorrow - --.the

highway of a new Canada,
teaching out with a new im-
portance in a new world. Our
task as Canadians is to keep
that highway clear of tory.
obstructions - clear. . . for
progress.

Provincial status and self-
government is the objective of

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Yo children, reading is as much a tool for learning to do somes”
thing or to understand Something or to feel something as it is §
adults. When we buy. children’s books, therefore, we have to be.
sure they will help the children learn and understand and feel thi

-kinds of things that will enable them to grow into alert independ

ent citizens in a democracy.

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actionary ideas with lots of pictures and brightly colored jackets: E
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equivalent to light fiction or mystery stories for adults—fim, bui
nothing to grow on. A rare few approach a child’s world and
problems seriously and with respect. If you take these into your.
household, they are likely to become permanent fixtures and event

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For children jn the middle group (that is, somewhere between
Six and ten); a book explaining. something of the meaning of 3
people’s war is Wings for Per by Edgar and Ineri Parin d’Aulaine |
(Doubleday, Doran, $2.75). This is the story of a Norwegian boy
who hides in the hills when the Nazis come, escapes to England, ~

comes to America, and at last returns to his home as a flier:

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few bocks that try to tell children why the war is being fought. By
showing in simple personal terms what Per is fighting against :
and what he is fighting for, the books gives some of the answers
to the many, many questions children naturally ask about the af
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Against Race-Prejudice

John R. Tunis, whose All-American ‘and the Keystone Kids—
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-people to deal honestly with race prejudice, feels that boys and

girls over 12 are old enough to understand and combat the roots
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posing teams but also the efforts of the town bigshots to destroy -
the boys’ team spirit. Mature and dignified in both conception,
this book shows young people that good Sportsmanship is not an
end in itself but is part of a large democracy which they must
learn to understand and to fight for.

December issue Will Feature:

EARL BROWDER on the
U.S. ELECTIONS

and
J. B. SALSBERG

Canadian Labor Faces the
Future ~- A Survey of the
Trade Union Conventions

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