This U3 Yous QnabTintat : White state department and whose wage levels are imposed by the giant American, trusts which control their economic life? Answers Philpott E. T. Tudor, Morningside, Alta: It appears that the Vancouver Sun’s columnist, Elmore Philpott, has very little confidence in Bri- tain’s future except as a 49th state of the United States. In his piece, “Join USA? How?” recently he states: “Once accom- plished, the dollar would circulate everywhere, rationing would be over, U.S. spuds would move on to British tables, British wages would move up to U.S. stand- ards, Britain and Canada would have two choices: to federate or to be taken over as political bank- rupts.” When Elmore Philpott speaks about U.S. standards, does he mean the sub-standards of tHe South, or the standards of the Latin American countries already within the U.S. orbit whose poli- tics are dictated by the USS. Classified A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted later than Monday noon of the week of publication. Oldtime Dancing To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra Every Wednesday and Saturday Hastings Auditorium Phone HAstings 1248 Moderate Rental Rates or socials, weddings, meetings Russian People’s Home— , available for meetings, weddings and banquets at reasonable rates. 630 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087. Dance, Clinton Haii— 2605 East Pender. Dance every ‘Saturday night. Modern and Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra. Hall is available for _ rent, HAstings 3277. - SALLY BOWES— INCOME TAX PROBLEMS. Room 20, 9 East. Hastings: MA. 9965. WANTED — CLOTHING FOR Rummage Sale to be held on April 21 '49. Do your spring clean- ing early and bring your contri- butions to 755 West 8th Ave. Phone FA. 3650L or FA. 3459R. Proceeds to Pacific Tribune: Au- ‘pices, Fairview - Mt. Pleasant Club. WANTED— Boys and girls to sell the Pacific Tribune each week. Earn pocket money after school Friday or Saturday. Start a bundle in your neighborhood. Phone MaArine 5288 or write to 650 Howe St.. Vancouver, B.C. CRYSTAL STEAM BATHS— Open every day. New Modern Beauty Salon—1763 E. Hastings. HAstings 0094. ; MEETINGS— Swedish-Finnish Workers’ Club meets last Friday every month at 7:30 p.m., in Clinton Hall. WHAT’S DOING Italian Spaghetti Supper— ; Saturday, February 26, Russian Hall, 600 Campbell Ave. Supper 7-9 p.m. Dancing 9-12. Auspices: West End Council LPP. Proceeds Pacific Tribune. Refreshments. Admission $1.00. And when he envisions surplus American food moving on to Brit- ish tables, has he forgotten the destruction of potatoes in the U.S. last year despite the fact that the British people were on potato rations? . Philpott states that Britain and Caanda would have the choice of federating or being taken over as political bankrupts. If any country is politically bankrupt, it’s the United States under the Truman administration, for what constitutes political bankruptcy if not an inability to provide the people with gainful employment, to assure them a steadily rising standard of living, to give them decent housing and guard their health, and secure the future eof their children in a world at peace. . In the thirties, the United States had 17,000,000 unemployed. The homeless and the _ jobless wandered the country while ware- houses bulged with goods and plants stood idle. Now, as the forties run into the fifties, the same grim prospect. emerges. Un- emploment is again assuming serious proportions—2,700,000 in January—and layoffs are being made in auto, steel, lumber and furniture. Goods are piling up in the warehouses and purchas- ing power is falling. As in the thirties, millions of Americans need housing and consumer goods of all kinds. But the political bankrupts running. what they boast is the richest country in the world see only war as their means of avoiding the consequences of their bank- -ruptcy. This is the country, with its boom-or-bust economy, to ‘going on in this country of ours What you Pleate. which Mackenzie King and now St. Laurent have tied Canada, . and to which Elmore Philpott looks to save Britain. It- was bad enough in the thirties, but now with increased American investments in Canada and greater American control over our natural resources-—iron in Labrador and oil in ‘Alberta, to mention only two—it will be far worse. As before, the Can- adian people will pay the price. Or will they? Not if they stand up now and fight for peace and their future, with their slogan: “Canada and her resources for ’ the Canadian people.” Tim Buck’s book J. H. Smith, Vancouver, B.C.: I don’t do very much reading. I look over the daily paper when I get home at night and I read the Pacific Tribune over the weekend. Sometimes I buy a pamphlet or one of the digests, and that’s about all. I might not have bought Tim Buck’s book (Canada: the Com-' munist Viewpoint) if one of the boys on the, job had not persuaded me to, but now that I have read it I want to recommend it as the finest explanation of what is I could hope to find. Want nationa! theater Sponsors of a bill to create an American national theater of opera, ballet and drama, Rep. Jacob Javits( left) and Senator Irving M. Ives, both Republicans, gets the approval]%of opera singer Lilly Windsor. For all its cultural pretensions, the United States is the only major nation which does not suppo;t a national theater. The daily papers print all kinds of stuff about what they want people to think the Communist viewpoint is and they are not going to boost a book that proves them to be just plain liars. That’s why I’m going to pass the book around among my friends and do a little boosting on my own. - The more people who read _ it, the harder it’s going to be for the red-baiters to earn their dirty money. GUIDE TO GOOD READING _Arguments against war. TWO RECENT BOOKS which I would unhesitatingly re- commend to progressives as worth-while reading are Professor P. M. S. Blackett’s Fear, War and the Bomb: Military and Political Con- sequences of Atomic Energy and Fairfield Osborn’s Our Plundered Planet. : indictment of capitalism ‘and an argument against war and its catastrophic consequences. Professor Blackett, a top Brit- ish physicist who recently won the Nobel prize, shows how in- effectual the atom bomb would actually be if its only declared possessors, the imperialists who now determine United States policies, should succeed in pro- voking the third world war on which their policies are based. Like the Nazi propagandists of the German foreign office who boasted of secret weapons that would destroy any country the Reichswehr attacked, the spokes- men for the U.S. state depart- ment have represented the atom bomb as a super weapon that would Jay waste,the cities and industries of any country against which it was used. Blackett’s clear logic demolishes the myth of the invincible atom bomb and the reader obtains, in the course of his exposition, an idea of how much stronger the forces for peace are than forces for war. x * x SPRING ARTS BAZAAR—BOOKS > “Paintings,—Records—Music. Re- freshments. Friday evening, March 11: Saturday afternoon, March 12, 3-7 p.m.: Pender Audi- torium, Lower Hall; Admission, 25ce. SOCIAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY . 26—2252 East 6th Ave.. Refresh- ments, dancing. . FAIRFIELD. OSBORN, in his Each of these two books, in its own way, is a damning Our Plundered Planet, develops another principal aspect of cap- italist exploitation and waste. The natural resources of the world, and particularly the soil upon which its food supplies depend, have been so exploited and abused that today the majority of its peoples are threatened with hun- ger and misery. Even the United States, which boasts of its high degree of mechanization in agri- culture, produces a narrow sur- plus which poor crops over a few years would wipe out. Only in the Soviet Union, where the reverse process of capitalist exploitation and impoverishing of the soil, the planned enrichment . and scientific safeguarding of the land by a ‘socialist society, ‘is being followed, is the specter of famine expelled. + Osborn warns his readers that unless large-scale planning, mod- ern agricultural methods, electri- fication and means to combat soil erosion aré adopted, — rich lands in the U.S. and Canada may become little better than desert wastes.—M.M. STANTON & MUNRO Barristers and Solicitors 501 HOLDEN BUILDING 16 E, HASTINGS ST. VANCOUVER, B.,C. MArine 5746 I’M SURE THAT almost every one who has had any ex | perience of the working of our highly. touted provincial hospital in- surance scheme will agree that it leaves a lot to be desired—an agitated for.’ An elderly neighbor of ours ‘was rushed to the hospital the other day. We heard that he had pneu- monia, but when we inquired af- ter him it was with the thought that he would soon be home again, This week we heard that he . was dead, We also learned some- thing of the treatment he received at the hospital. There was no bed available in the hospital so he was kept in a waiting room for a day and a half until a bed was available. The official comment I read this week was that as soon as the cold weather ended the number of pneumonia and other respir- atory cases was expected to de- crease and relieve the shortage of hospital beds. . This is cold comfort ‘for our neighbor’s family and an ade- quate reason, whatever the gov- ernment’s attitude,-for their re- fusal to pay hospital insurance any longer. ke Another couple we know got much the same treatment when the wife arrived at St. Paul’s hos- pital tc have her baby. They had made their arrangements months beforehand, but when they got to the hospital they were told that the only accommodation was . making good on hospital deficits a semi-pgvate or. private room and they would have to pay the difference. : The husband, who was torn be tween his concern for his wifé and his knoweldge that they couldn’t afford the extra. cost agree to take a private roon What else could he»do? Well, his wife could have her baby on Bul” rard Street. Now his wife is out — of hospital and they are wondel- ing how they will meet thei! next month’s rent. It's a splendid scheme—for the government, which is relieved of * * one I WAS reading the women's column, “Houses and House wives,” in the last issue of thé Canadian Tribune and naturally I was interested in its suggestion® for cutting down housework tim® However, I must take issue wit? one of these suggestions that th® — family be given “frequent meal® of nuts, fruit and milk.” That kind of meal may have — all the necessary food requir — ments, but by gosh, if I served it around my house, there'd be lou complaints. We are average ea! ers and the budget doesn’t stret¢ to fancy foods, but a filling, sU™ taining, stick-to-the-ribs kind % — meal, at least in winter time, is also the average need—B.G. ae DR. R. L. DOUGLAS has opened a new office at 9 EAST HASTINGS STREET Cor. CARRALL ST. PHONE TA. 5552 Fully equipped to give the same high standard of service as in the past. A cordial invitation is extended to all old friends to come in for a visit ey Woah ‘ Pe i] @ 4 PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 25, 1919 — PAGE Ba: