t was good to see E.G, Mar- Shall, in a recentissue of TV Guide, Speak out for more “hot 'Ssues” on “The Defenders,” but he piqued our curiosity in be- ™Moaning the dearth of skilled Writers to provide the virile Scripts desired,

What is most strange is that both “Defenders” and its distaff Counterpart, “The Nurses,” are Under the aegis of Herbert Brod- kin, who, as executive producer, locates Scripts and scribers,., because “The Nurses” comes up Nearly every week with a block- : buster of some proportion,

Once we had overcome the Show's “for ladies only” image, We settled down to some of the . heartiest dramatic presentations

_ % people involved in vital issues that have ever trotted across this Nation’s scan lines,

Last season they went after Such public enemies as poverty among Puerto Ricans, race pre- Wdice, the AMA (in a plea for Medicare), grappled with legal- ized abortion, voluntary sterili- Zation, civil rights, the need for €ffective unions for hospital

_ Workers, the problems of a male

hurse, the destruction of the car-

er of a young genius because

F obe Couldn’t be an Organization

_ 4... the list, indeed, could go °n much further,

It seems apparent, then, that Since Brodkin has found such a S0odly crew of writers for “The -,'tses,” they must be available . a “The Defenders,” and David | “USskind, who produced the late _ 4Mented “Kast Side/West Side” +/dn’t seem to run into the prob- €m too often, The curiosity leads _,° the question, ,, how can Plau- S Productions display such vast “Mounts of intestinal fortitude _ Thursdays and cop out on so ‘Many Saturdays?

st Say-this” because “The : Tses” seems to accomplish _ekly what “The Defenders” ‘ages only two or three times Season, and they do it with a Paucity of the banal,

; a camera work is generally er than many lauded movies,

‘ € dialogues is true, the acting Superb (even Zina Bethune, % ® we long ago decided was

Hollywood stars

hit Jimcrow n Nov, 3 the people of California will be vot- : Ng on a vicious piece of! gislation known as Propo ition 14, In effect, it is ®ferendum which would ©Salize segregated housing

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A committee to defea

, Art Linkletter,Steve Nen, Peter Falk, Gene Kel- ¥, Van Heflin, Robert Goulet, :€0rge Hamilton and Milton -~€rle, The organization’s : Chieg purpose, said Lancas- Pe", Will be to raise some $750,000 for newspaper ads, .and radio spots urging at of Prop, 14, ~

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he changing screen

hired. for her marked resemb- lance to Richard Chamberlain, is developing a nice quality as the shoy continues.)

Shirl fonway must be acclaim- ed here and now as our kind of woman, We knew her as a fine dramatic actress who has an un- canny ability to convey the subt- lest emotion with a whispered gesture, but when she laced into an uproarious comedy episode we saw why she won raves as “Auntie Mame,”

She’s everything Hollywood shuns... extremely tall, middle- aged, intelligent and uncomprom- isingly womanly, She is also very beautiful, and we’d watch her any- where, anytime, We would also watch, with pleasure, any comedy segment of “The Nurses,” as they go at it full tilt and have a ball,

But this too shall pass, Next season two men will become *re- gulars” (Michael Tolan, who is marvelous, and Joseph Campan- ella, who isn’t) in an effort to “de-feminize” a show that wasn’t “feminine” to begin with,

On top of that, the whole show, which threatens to become as antiseptic as its sets’ corridors, will be placed opposite “The Fugitive,” a “hot” show that deals with no “hot issues” and “The Nurses” is expected to suffer in the ratings, Next season may be its last,

The reason for the shift from Thursday to Tuesday is not so mysterious or innocent as it might seem, as the decision was made by the same people who personally axed “ES/WS” in spite of public protest, “The Defend- ers” will be moved also... it will follow “Perry Mason,” In TV, at least, the era of the sur- vival of the fittest, friends, is gone,

Ann Leslie (People’s World)

DIGEST

Basic Question L,A., Vancouver, writes: The

old B.C, Electric found it possible’

to cover losses on its transit system from profits on power, and was often forced to do so, Why should a “public owned”

Hydro do less for its majority

owners, the Lower Mainland pub- lic?

This is a basic question if fares are being considered, and not how much extra fare is re- quired to give the province a fat profit, .

Incidentally, anyone knows that the giving of a “temporary” fare increase has two effects; it is a factual admission by the muni- cipalities that at least that much is justified; and how much chance is there afterwards of getting it reversed?

Premier Bennett’s government

appears to have taken over a pub-

lic utility, not to give the com- muting public a cheaper and bet- ter service, but primarily with an eye on its profitability to the province — i.e, to the Socred Party running the province,

BARRY GOLDWATER

A menace on the

“The Eleventh Hour — Defeat The New Fascist Threat,” by Gus Hall. Price 15c. Available in limited quantities at People’s Co-op Book Store, 341 W. Pender St.

he quickening tempo of the

approaching American elec- tion carries in its train implica- tions of vital significance for the destiny of all peoples, Because the United States looms as a giant in the spectrum of world influ- ence, it follows that the outcome of the presidential contest can- not in any sense be treated as just a domestic American phen- omenum,

Some charge that outsiders should not comment or interfere with what superficially appears to be an internal affair of the American electorate, Any such allegation is both fatuous and hypocritical in that Americans in high places do interfere with other peoples :and states, Not only does U.S, monopoly control and dominate much of the non- socialist world but in the instance of our country, recent history re- veals that an American adminis- tration actually interfered with and brought down a Canadian goy- ernment by overt and threatening action, In particular, then, Cana- dians of all peoples have a vital stake in the outcome on Novem-

ber 3rd, * * Ok

Commenting on the issues themselves in the United States, we are indebted to Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Com- munist Party of the UnitedStates for his most timely and revealing pamphlet,

In a style which is both lucid and cogent, the author marshals fact after fact to indict the black fascist conspiracy behind the Arizona Senator, In general, the coalition of horror is made up of

three main poisonous trends, * * x

The most vocal and violent of the triad is the fusion of the Dixie- crats, the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Council, Stung to hysteria by the mighty movement for civil rights, the southern gangsters commit murder after murder and then walk away free after a white southern jury has rendered a verdict of “not guilty,” Now they go further; Goldwater is their god, Already numerous members of the traditional Democrat party of the south have gone over to the Republican nominee,

The second and more general movement is from those who are frustrated and who refuse to ad- mit that the United States does not rule the world, Ebbing of the cold war and humiliation abroad has aroused a dangerous jingo- ism, Allied with atomic maniacs, there rises one concerted howl, If American cannot win the world, then pull the pin and let the nuclear dust fall where it may,

Lastly, there is the revival of McCarthyism, this time with muscle and money, Canadians may be amused to hear that the John Birch Society has indicted Lester Pearson and John Diefen- baker as “communist agents,” Lunacy? No, something more, When an avowed fascist move- ment numbers millions among its followers and has twenty million dollars in the treasury, then it is no longer just lunacy, It is death on the march,

THE =s BiRCH SOCIETY 1S SOFT ON COMMURISM q 2

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mee 1964. AE Tins

“S’matter . . . never seen an extremist before?”

Thus, we have here the coali- tion of evil; fortunately there is a counter force, the American people, In the array of hope we can discern certain decisive elements which can turn the tide, Among these are the magnificent and dramatic civil rights move- ment which is by:no means con- fined to Negro Americans but also numbers millions of whites in its ranks; the slow moving but pow- erful labor unions, whose leader-

_ Ship is as yet only in low gear,

and also a certain section of businessmen who are opposed to the irresponsibility and extrem- ism of Goldwater,

BOOKS

. Can the day be won? Yes, says Gus Hall, If the emerging coali- tion of peoples forces can move and act unitedly, then Goldwater and all he represents can be smashed, Here, says the author, is an important lesson for the left and all progressives, There can be no neutrality in this fight, It

Will be a tale

A century hence; Like us,

From city’s care;

To cure all ills,

Mountain Lake

When you, one hundred years ahead, Walk by these shores

Where black waves tread,

Our strivings, failures, victories

Told to our youngest grandchild’s seed Of things long dead,

Who knows how men will live And laugh and play

But let us hope that they, Can turn themselves away And scramble over hills

And light their fires at camping time

And whether they’re old,

Or lovers dreaming hand in hand, Grant they'll be free to hold Their rights in every wilderness Of this, our shining land,

October 2, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9

—Interlandt in the Los Angeles Times

is not an issue between two in- dividuals, although the ballot may read that way. The issue is be- tween the present, the future and death, All are involved and there is no ringside,

Canadians can draw only one conclusion and hope from the election across the line and this is it; Let no pint sized Goldwater arise here and if such does, then it must be scotched in ges- tation before it can wriggle, coil and strike,

—L. Edwards sage eae res Le

Philadelphia Evening Bulletin

“I could really enjoy all this if { knew the Russians weren’t try- ing to conquer me!”

—John Hope