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Soviet artists prepared this drawing of the space satellite planned by a team of Soviet scientists.

The satellite is designed to circle the earth at a distance six times the earth’s radius some 25,000 miles

out in space.

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Soviet scientists planning for artificial moon to circle earth

TEE Soviet Union has started to plan a man-made satellite

to circle the earth. Some of the -

biggest: names in Soviet science appear in the announcement of a team to carry out the job.

Among those nominated by the Astronomical Council of the Soviet Academy of Sciences is the famous physicist Academi- cian Peter Kapitsa who for ten years before the war worked with Sir John Cockroft and Prof. Ernest Walton at Cambridge. *

The team—a Commission for Interplanetary | Communications —is headed by Academician L. I. Sedov. It will coordinate work en all space-travel problems.

Also included in the team are the most eminent engineers, as- trophycisists and other scientists in the Soviet Union.

The announcement was made only a few days after Sir Harold Spencer Jones, British Astron- omer Royal, had this to say about the potentialities of space travel:

“It is primarily a question of how much money and manpower a nation is prepared to put into

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American atomaniacs have sev- eral times proposed bombarding the earth from outer space in a future war.

And the man who developed Germany’s: wartime V-2 rockets,

Dr. Werner Von Braun, predict- ed in Washington last December

that in 10 to 15 years the US. .

would have the “know-how” to produce a. satellite 1,000 miles up from which it would be pos- sible to spy beyond the “iron

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: ° Soviet scientists see the pro- ject in a different light.

Academician A. G. Karpenko, making the announcement on be- half of the new commission, says that photographs will be taken from the space laboratory of cloud formations and Arctic ice.

This would make possible im- proved weather. forecasting and

assist Northern shipping, he says. ”

Biologists will study conditions of life in the absence of gravity, radio-physicists will probe space- radio problems.

Soviet scientists announced last autumn that a “cosmic ship” was already being built and that biologists were studying the effects of space flight on human beings.

Ue In confirmation, Alexander Nes- meyanov, president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said re- cently that science had now reached the stage where rockets

to the moon and space stations had become practicable.

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Soviet scientists believe that a roéket ship carrying a televi- sion-equipped caterpillar tank may well make the first landing on the moon.

The “program” ‘sent back to earth by the tank “could be re-

layed like any outside broadcast

to all television viewers.”

First task in the trip to the moon would be to learn much more about cosmic space and to sét up midway refuelling stations.

A special. tug - would then launch an. unmanned, radio-con- trolled space ship from the earth.

“At several hundred miles up from the earth the rocket would go into an elliptical orbit with- out using its. fuel,” one scientist recently stated in a Moscow radio talk. ; é

When it reached the highest point of its trajectory the earth remote control station ‘would switch on the space ship’s motor.

The rocket ship would be guid- ed to the moon by a radar beam from the earth. The television tank would then be used to seek out a landing space for later ships carrying men.

“The first explorers will be able to spend as much time as they like on the moon. Every- thing they need will be delivered by transport rocket,” the ‘scien- tist concluded.

OPEN FORUM

Repudiate this policy ROY REID, Rabbit Lake, Sas- katchewan: The United States is making ‘atom and hydrogen bombs out of Canadian uranium and other. materials, for ‘“‘de- fense” purposes. National lead- ers in the U.S. calmly announce defending their country makes necessary the maintaining of the

Chiang Kai-shek government in’

control of the Chinese islands off the coast of the mainland of China.. Meantime ‘the U.S. auth-

‘orities tell the world they will

use all weapons including the A and H-bombs for what they call “defense.”

Our External Affairs Minister

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Lester B. Pearson seems to think |

that Canada could not remain reutral in case a (world) war should break out, ‘because of the integration of United States and Canadian so-called defense ar- rangements, or to use his own words, “our co-ordinated arid inter-related continental defense arrangements with the United States.”

It is deplorable for the diplo- mats of a great power to an- nounce to the world that they are going to use these diabolical thermonuclear weapons. They threaten to massacre, kill and cripple indiscriminately whole cities full of people; men, wo- men and children.

That is something new in the annals of history. It has been left for the Yankee diplomats to stoop that low.

Surely the Canadian people will not accept the view of Pear- son that atomic war for Canada is inevitable if the United States is at war. Canadians should’ pro- test in sufficient numbers to put a stop to such folly. Those who are in authority in the govern- ment of Canada are the servants of the people.

It is high time we demanded an independent foreign policy based on the interests of Canada and not those of Washington.

They did it to spite him

MORRIS CREAGH, Vancouver, B.C.: Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. I must tell you of a plot, a diabolical plot, which is being perpetrated against me at the present time by “them” in an. effort to put me-out of business.

My wife and I have been in business here at the Reo Cafe, 1224 Granville, for almost nine yeats. I was fresh out of the army, and my wife was previous- ly cook -in some of the leading restaurants here. Ask Nat Bailey. He will tell you about how she can cook. Just ask Nat.

Well, like I said, we started in here. The rent at that time was $45 per month. Just as soon as I came along to sign my lease they jumped this up 300 percent. They will try to tell you that all rents went up, and they did, but only so they could put my rent up. They raised everybody’s rent just so that I could not say they were perse- cuting me, but they were.

Then they really started. The price of everything we had to buy here went skyhigh, 300 and 400 percent added on in some instances. I know, you will say the price Went up for everybody, but don’t vou see, they only put these prices up like this in an effort to put me out of business.

Well, that did not work, so they ©

decided to tear out the old Gran- ville bridge. You know that old bridge was okay. You know we did’ not need that new monstros- ify, but they tore out the old one just so they could disrupt my

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business here, and almost broke me by having the street plocked off for. months, But we fol them somehow, we are still her yet. : I tried, through the mediu™ of radio and other advertising: build up my _ breakfast Fi What did they do? They passé a law which forbade people from crossing the street in the middle of the block. “Go to the corne! they said, knowing that more than likely there would be 4 1 taurant there to take my custo™ ers away.

They made a law that you could not park your car on 6] street in front of my place i after 9 am. You can come § t see the sign, big and plain, igh in front of my door. Lots of ME tolks felt sorry for me, lots ° them, and parked there anyway: but they sent trucks and as fe men to drag their cars away: know, I know. Be

I know what sort of a euy vy are. You are saying to you ip right now, I am going to that poor little guy out. bi can’t shove folks around way. I am going to ‘tell all 4 friends to go down there and ©" and I am going down there # eat, too.

Yours with a big smile (tbe is nothing like a bit of mal ; to make the grass grow gree?”

Natural gas policy

DAMON EISENMAN, No Vancouver, B.C.: The natural pi sources of the province of Br 5 Columbia are the heritage of ia people, making possible the velopment of its industry ane. raising of the standard of Bk:

Our province is partieul thE blessed with an abundance of # kind. Natural gas can well bes its place along with the & plo tion of our forests, mp. wealth and water power—P!I? . ed it is used in the first instan® for our own industrial devel? ment. C

The past session of the Be f legislature broadened the be of the B.C. Power Commissi0® as include natural gas ‘as well | 0 the production and distribute of electricity. The proposed Let line to handle natural gas spect é many questions, of which the is tribution of it to the people not the least. re

Are we going to allow the P¥. sent monopoly interests to oe control or'are we going 0 this particular natural res? at for ourselves, the people of 8 ish Columbia?

To this end Ivan Birchard a myself sent North Vancour District Council a resolution, tg ing it to set up a committee look into the establishment ©, lower mainland authority ut handle the distribution of nat gas, and further, to investiey the amount of gas that is 1 ao come available above what 4 manufactured.” refer’

Council acted on this DY rks ring this to the Board of W? Committee, but to date there been no action from the ¢ tee. ;

With a public authority in ling natural gas and a £€ we line into North Vancouver ott would be assured that our Cae industrial and commercial @) 74 would have the industries pal provide a more satisfactory ance in our development. and

Natural igas means cheape? and better fuel for our homes jy industries alike. Our publ) f owned water system is ‘a sue so why not natural gas? re

Let us keep this valuable it source of ours and not eee away to either foreign oF

tic monopolies. Fi