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oases Pacific Tribune—

Sir: -I was interviewed by a

: “provincial constable the other night. He wanted to know how long I had been at my present address, how long had I been at _ the last, where was I born, what were my political beliefs; was I a Liberal, a Conservative, a CCF.

_ what? And had my boy who was in the army a clean record?

_ This reminds one of how things took place in Nazi Germany, which eventually ended up in tor- ture camps and corpse factories.

Are we here in Canada going to go through the same ordeal before the warmongers and fas- cists are defeated?

If anyone wants to know my record, I opposed the sending of _ Canadian iron, copper and nickel to Japan before the war and I

- am opposed to sending Canadian |

munitions to Chiang Kai-shek’s regime now. In short, I have al- Ways striven for peace.” «|

I have no apology to make that Iam a fervent follower of the Dean of Canterbury’s peace mis-

_ sion, even if by doing so I shall encounter the wrath of those who would lay our country bare with another devastating -war.

As a true Canadian patriot I

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am not interested in seeing our boys killed on a battlefield that will be in our own country should another war come.

I told the constable I was a democrat, a sadly abused descrip- tion these days, as the constable’s interrogation showed.

: H. TANCHE

Campbell River, B.C.

Fraserview protest

Editor, Pacifie Tribune—

Sir: As representatives of the Fraserview Property Owners’ As- sociation, we hereby officially state that we welcome the 1,100 low-rental homes for veterans and resultant local improvements.

We are opposed to the expro- priation of private property by Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation for two reasons:

1. In this instance there are other lands available;

2. It is against the rights of man handed. down from Magna Charta—the right of free owner- ship of land—to own it free—to do with as .he sees fit This is a sacred and inalienable right and one we staunchly, uphold.

Central Mortgage and Housing

Corporation is violating all these rights under powers with which it was invested by Wartime or- ders-in-council. It is using these powers for the demolition of sev- eral homes. and for the eviction of Canadian citizens, many of them veterans. These veterans fought for the suppression of such methods, and we: demand that Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation be relieved of these powers at once. ~ J. BH YATES,

for Publicity Commit-

tee, Fraserview Prop- erty Owners’ Associa- tion. 2150 East 65th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.

Paris strike

Editor, Pacific Tribune,

Sir: made by the United Electrical Workers to the attorney-general cf Ontario that he withdraw pro- vincial police from the scene of the strike at the Penman’s plant in Paris, Ont. The UE demand, made by District Secretary George Harris, followed a deci- sion at a meeting of the union’s District Council which called for full support to the striking tex- tile workers. The telegram con- taining the union message ad- dressed to Mr. Blackwell reads as follows:

“Delegates representing 25,- 000 organized electrical workers meeting in convention in Wel-

land on January 29-30, voted

unanimously to demand of you that provincial police in Paris, Ontario, in connection with Pen- man’s strike be immediately withdrawn. That your police are engaged in styike-breaking is amply proven by statement of company lawyer appearing in. Toronto Star January 25. con-

‘gratulating the provincial police

. “birthday.”

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OUR CHILDREN Using ‘bad’

language

WHENEVER I am with a group of parents of very young children. there is always one who says, in essence, “I just can’t ig- nore bad language in my three-

year-old, I am too shocked by it:” .

To find any word shocking, no matter how objectionable, in the vocabulary of a very young child, is to apply standards that they are simply not ready to under-

_ stand.

Children do not know _ the meaning of the expletives they use, therefore they can’t be shock- ing. They are ‘merely learning the language as they hear it. They do not know the real mean- ing of ordinary words, such as “ripe,” “year, yet they use these words and hundreds like them in the right context because they adults use them.

Similarly with the saity phrases.

' They hear them. and repeat them —

with the same expression, in sim- ilar situations, say a banged thumb or a stubbed toe, and leave the impression that they know exactly what they are saying. Yet they only think that this is the correct phrase of the moment, like saying “all aboard” the toy train leaves.

Ignoring the language doesn’t

mean they will give it up imme- diately, but eventually. since they are learning new things all the time. some “Other phrase will ap- peal to them. Chances are it will be a slangy or merely colorful “good” phrase. \ od aK *

ON THE other hand. consider what happens when. the words. are not ignored.

Thousands. of words are ac- cepted by the chid’s family. He talks happens. His conversation, like the rest of the family’s is a means of communication. One day he brings home a new word, an ex- pressive four letter one that has caught his eager fancy for new sounds.

The reaction he gets is sensa- tional. With this new word he can explode adults into anger, horror or even mild laughter. He has a new and powerful device. He is not even interested in what it means, merely in its magic. He can electrify any adult into immediate attention, He has only to say “the word,’ and a whole roomful of adults will react.

With the very young it’s safer

to treat casually any new words they learn. They are constantly changing their expressions and style of conversation. words are singled out as “special,” even though proval, children don’t forget them. Even though parents are no longer hearing them around the house, they can be pretty certain their children are parotting these words around somewhere, hoping for, and probably getting, the ‘same sensational reaction they got at home—VERA MORRIS.

GUIDE TO GOOD READING

A ‘Giant’ book new Olant boo THE AUTHORS OF How Man Became a Giant—M. Ilin and E. Segal—have done it again with Giant at the Crossroads. They

have taken another enormous area of human life on the earth and made it richs meaningful, and exciting.

The earlier book by these Sovi- et writers carried mankind

‘throughout physical and techno-

logical development until the

dawn of civilization in the ancient Mediterranean world. Now the Giant. man, has arrived at a crossroad. He makes fabulous progress, in Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and finally Rome, but in the end his path is blocked by slavery. He cannot be free when he is enslaved or enslaves others.

Rome falls, the Giant’s civiliza- tion collapses, but, the authors tell us, “the life of our hero is endless. We shall never finish his story, for man the giant goes on growing and building.” Fortun- ately, the next chapter, on the medieval world, has already been published in the Soviet Un- ion and is being translated into English.

When the reader 224 pages of this book he can scarcely believe so much of the world and so much of history, culture, science and philosophy was contained in those pages. The writers are masters of their material, for theirs is the clarity and simplicity that comes

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only with thorough absorption in a subject. They are artists who can. with clean. deft strokes, paint a glowing panorama. And only Marxists could have rooted all the life and thought with which they deal in the concrete material life of men, in the productive for- ces and the relations of produc- tion

Why did a truly scientific ap- proach arise first among the Ionian Greeks? What was the meaning of the Pythagorean number mysticism? How far did science advance in the museum at Alexandria? Why did Christian- ity sweep both science and the other religions before it? Why was it that the slavery which made Rome great also brought

‘about its destruction? These are

a few of the world-historical ques- tions the book treats of.

No Marxist of whatever age or educational background can af- ford to miss this book.

If word leaks out that this a children’s book, let no one take it too seriously. Not that children of 12 and 14 can’t read it, but no one of any age can fail to find it instructive and exciting.

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NEARLY EVERY Monday night I sit with my feet propped up on the oven door, with my ancient typewriter perched precariously on my knees, and busily peck away at the keys ‘for about 30 seconds.

Then silence once again settles down.

tence for my column, but does that give me further inspiration? nix and no.

Nein, non, ni, niet,

So this week it will consist of bits and pieces,

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FROM OTTAWA comes are

vealing suggestion from Ludger Dionne, MP—he is.the man who

‘brought 200 Polish girls into Can-

ada as DP’s to work in his. tex- tile factory as slave labor. He arose in the House of Commons to add this gem to the discussion on possible reduction of income tax. Why not abolish the tax completely, he said, and instead have a sales tax on all goods to make up for the loss in revenue. After all, he added, no one ob- jects to paying 38 cents for a pack of cigarettes (in Quebec). It appears that the more than 10,000 people in B.C. who have signed the LPP petition demand- ing repeal of the Sales Tax were only kidding. |

St syould no doubt be very nice Dionne and other textile bosses if they didn't ‘have pay any income taxes in an in- dustry that produced over $400 million worth of goods last year.

Sales tax, both federal and pro-

odds and ends. .

to.

I have produced a lead sen-

vincial, is a big burden for the average family when you con- sider that of five million em- ployed persons, only half earn enough to pay income tax ,and ‘70 percent of those who do pay taxes still earn less than the minimum required to live decent- ly, according to social welfare figures. j ° Kk *

FROM CHICAGO comes word that prices are actually falling. Margarine, which sells for 45 cents in eastern Canada, can be bought for exactly half that fig- ure in the Windy City. Other goods are tumbling in price, too. One store is offering a free pair

‘of nylons with the pufchase of

every dozen pair. Amercan work-

ing people don’t seem to be buy-

ing these days, perhaps because _the “highest standard of living “in the world” leaves them nothing “to spend. ‘

The irony is that Amperidart pork prices have taken such a drop the Canadian government has slapped on an import embargo so that low-priced American bacon and other products would- n’t affect Canadian, prices. We

have a high standard of living

too—high-priced, that is.—B.G.

in the past.

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