Recipe for peace

READER, North Burnaby,
B.C.: Here’s a recipe for peace
put out by the Minute Women of
New England:

Bring together the represen-
tatives of the five great powers
of the earth: United States, the
Soviet Union, Britain, France
and the Chinese People’s Re-
public.

Assemble the qualities and
capacities of these nations and
the desire of the people for life,
happiness and peace.

Add the following ingredi-
ents: Productive Capacity.
Science, Natural Resources, In-
dustry, Trade, Education, Cul-
ture, Consumer, Food, Housing.
Blend all these together.

Next,
war, disease and corruption.

Pour off the dregs of illiter-
acy, undernourishment, poor
housing, fear and discrimina-
tion.

Now add in generous portion
—security, equality, understand-
ing, goodwill ‘and brotherhood.

Combine thoroughly and
serve at once. This palatable
and wholesome fare will satis-
fy the peace hunger of the world.

Cost of the recipe is less than,
the outlay for a single weapon.

Hospital Annex

EFFIE JONES, Vancouver,
B.c.: Last week I had the op-
portunity to visit again that
section of the General Hospital
known as the Annex, which
provides accommodation for
our senior citizens, when podily

sickness combines with old age.
- ‘Last year when expressing my
views to an orderly, I was -in-
formed that this building was
only a temporary one and the
patients ‘would be placed in
more suitable wards when the
new buildings were finished.

New buildings are completed
and are in use’ but this Annex
is still the accomodation avail-
able for, our senior citizens.

The following facts should be
know to all Vancouver citizens.
for a time may come unexpect
edly when they. or some loved
parent or friend may have to
be hospitalized in these dismal
surroundings.

The Annex is difficult to ob-
serve, being enclosed on three

BY CHARLES SIMS

U.S. corruption -- and

HERE’S a grim, dank jail
down south, It’s the Atlanta,
Georgia prison operated by the
U.S. federal government. They
have a man in that jail, a labor
Jeader. His name is Bugene
Dennis and he is seriously ill.
Acute gall-bladder infection is
sapping away his vitality and
strength.

His crime? He advocated
peace and a better life for the
people of the U.S. and all the
world. That’s why the Truman
administration framed Dennis
under the Smith Act. That’s
why Dennis is being denied pro-
per medical treatment. They
want to kill him!

It’s the same pattern that
seeks to bar Charlie Chapiln
from returning to the U.S. Hit-
ler and Mussolini banned Chap-
lin’s great movies, Modern
Times and The Great Dictator.
Truman and (McGranery want to

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remove the scum of.

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sides by other buildings. How-
ever. when located, it has the
dreary appearance’ of discarded
army huts, camouflaged with
grey paint. Entrance by means
of a wooden ramp leads to a
corridor from which three
wards can be seen.

The ward in which my friend
was given accomodation had 12
beds, 11 of them occupied by
men patients who are pension-
ers or social service cases

It is very evident that the
old fashioned, uncomfortable
beds and furniture are discards
from other sections of the hos-
for the beds especially
were uncomfortable looking
with paint chipped off in many
cases. However. the linen was
clean, ‘

No mechanical method of
summoning the help of an,or-
derly is available to the pa~
tients should sudden need for
such take place, and not all of
the beds have lights above them.
The whole ward smells strongly
of urine.

Inadequate ventilation is
provided by leaving open the
top part of the windows which
are placed along one side of the
ward, some small vents in the
ceiling and two boards on the
opposite wall, which open into
another ward. Although the
windows are screened, the
doors are not and therefore flies
abound and are a great source
of annoyance to the patients.

However, in fairness to the
staff and doctors, I. must state
that my friend expressed the
opinion that the good work they
did was handicapped by the dis-
mal surroundings which have
to be endured by the patients.

This Annex, the forgotten
ward of our General Hospital,
should be visited by representa-
tives of such organizations as
the Old Age Pension groups, the
trade unions, the Congress of
Canadian Women and the Local
Council of Women.

Surely investigation by these

- organizations will lead to pro-

tests to the authorities concern-
ed.

Many of these patients are
pioneer builders of British Col-
umbia and all have added in
some degree to its wealth in
their younger days. Let us as-
sist them now in their twilight

years.

ban Chaplin.

Those Yanks in high places
sure are jittery. They're afraid
of Chaplin’s cane. of his wit and
satire. They are afraid and
sick.

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Take another side of their
sickness, the case of Republican
Senator Nixon. He had a slush
fund of $18.000. He used it to
pay for his publicity. Much of
this was aimed at putting Gene
Dennis and other Communist
leaders into jail.

Now look these
carefully:

Dana ©. Smith is the Cali-
fornia lawyer who collected
Nixon’s $18,000 slush fund. He
is also the lawyer of the Red
River Lumber Company of Cali-
fornia and is handling its claim
for a $600,000 tax refund from
the U.S. government.

Says Smith: I acknowledge

facts over

“Milk --‘ perfect food’

READER, Vancouver, B.C.:

An article in the Pacific Tribune

some time ago referred to milk
as ‘‘nature’s perfect food.’’ So-
viet authorities must agree with
this opinion, as the figures for
the fifth Five-Year Plan show
that strenuous efforts are’ being
made to raise more cows and
produce more milk.

According to the plan, milk

production is to go up 45-50 per- |

cent, and the milk yield per cow
is-also to be increased by scien-
tific methods of better stock-
breeding.

Wonderful paper

L.B., Cliffside, B.C.: Enclosed
is $2 to renew my sub for six
months, the balance for the
sustaining fund of your wonder-

“ful paper.

He likes exposes

A.G., Whonnock, B.C.: En-
closed please find $10 to cover
a one-year renewal of my sub-
scription and ‘a donation of $7
to the paper.

I like the way you expose the
Vancouver brands of the reptile
press. I am sure they have

difficulty laughing it off.

Juicy story

READER, Okanagan Mission,
B.c.: The juicing season-is on.
I’m not sure whether the mod-
ern man can or cannot take it,
or whether the latest juice

squeezing machine can’t take’

it:

The other day at one of the
“juicers’” in Kelowna the boss
ordered the dumpee to dump
faster, faster, and still yet
faster. 'When he couldn’t keep
up that pace he was fired.

His replacement seemed to be
a born dumpee. The product be-
ing dumped was nice, ripe to-
matoes. All at once a gob of
tomato juice flew and landed
on g belt which started slipping,

and in no time the whole works

was. really gummed up, as the
dumpee kept right on dumping.

help from Nixon’s office on this
tax refund case. John J. Irwin,
Nixon’s former aide, declares
that he arranged that Dana C.
Smith would meet with officials
of the tax division of the U.S.
Department of Justice to dis-
cuss the claim of the Red River
Lumber. Nixon believes in the
old Wall Street saying: “You
scratch my “back, I’ll_ scratch
yours.”’

The Republican party paid
$75,000 to put Nixon on a TV

show to explain away the slush

fund He didn’t mentoin Red
River Lumber, ’

Nor did Nixon deal with how
his running mate General Hisen-
hower managed to get away
with $520,000 as a result of a
ruling by a U.S. tax official,
Charles Oliphant —- who later
resigned under fire of charges
of corruption and graft. The
tax ruling was that Hisenhower

ANDRE MARTY

HE leadership of the
French. Communist party
has decided to remove Andre
Marty from the party’s sec-
retariat and Charles Tillon
from its political bureau.

Marty will remain a mem-
ber of the political -bureau
and central committee. Til-
lon will remain on the cen-
tral committee.

The decision follows rev-
elations of political disagree.
ments and factional work on
the part of Marty and Tillon.

‘The ‘announcement stated
that their activities endang-
ered the unity of the party.
, It revealed that during
1951 Charles Tillon was re-
moved from his post as the
party’s representative in the
French peace movement be-
cause he was reluctant to
carry out decisions of the

' World Peace Council, regard-
ing the peace movement
“from the narrow angle of a
political organization.”’

In April 1951, the central
committee unanimously con-
demned these errors, and in
October 1951, in a letter to
the political bureau, he ac-
cepted the central commit-
tees decision to remove him
from his post. ; '

At this time however, An-
dre Marty organized a meet-
ing with Tillon at which
Marty indicated to ‘Tillon
that in his view the latter
had not been in the wrong.

“Tf Comrade Tillon did not

French Communists
remove Marty, Tillon|

CHARLES TILLON

hide the nature of his meet-
ing and its character,’ said
the announcement, ‘‘Com-
rade Marty, on the = other
hand, denied everything un-
til numerous proofs forced
him to recognize the‘ truth.”

“In the course of current
discussions in the central
committee, district commit-
tees, branches and groups,
new proofs have been
brought forward showing
that Comrade Andre Marty
tried to act in a similar way
with other comrades in rela-_
tion to all essential political
problems.”’

«

The announcement stated
Tillon took the view that
there should be discrimina-
tion~ between party members
according to the post confid-
ed to them during the oc-
cupation.

Answering accusations to
this effect, Tillon declared in
a letter to the political bur-
eau that he had never held
such views. ;

But in a recent political
bureau meeting he asserted,
contrary to all evidence, that
he was ‘‘to be hit, eliminat-
ed from the political bureau,
like so many others who
struggled during the (Nazi)
occupation.”’

Marty and Tillon them-
selves took part in the ut-
animous vote on their case i2
the political bureau and cen-
tral committee,

——o

need only pay a 25 pereent cap-
ital gains’ tax on the $1 million
he was paid for his book ‘‘Crus-
ade In Europe. Normally, U.S.
authors pay a 77 percent in-
come tax on earnings like Hi-
senhower’s! 3

Right after the Nixon scandal
the Democratic presidential
nominee Adlai Stevenson was
charged with collecting a priv-
ate fund to pay bonuses to Il-
linois state employees. Among
the outfits that helped Steven-
son’s bonus plan was the not-|
orious Peabody Coal Corpora-
tion.

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Mind you. there’s Section
1914 of the U.S. Criminal Code
which provides a penalty of six
months in jail and $1,000 fine
for any government official who.
accepts money from any source
other than the government for

* Dennis, and his release 0?

the fight to free Gene Dennis.

his services.

But do you think U.9:
torney. General McGranery
using this section against Nix0?
or Stevenson’s pals, or Peaboe
Coal? Not on your life. Mer,
Granery is too busy persecutime
men like Eugene Dennis 4”
Charlie Chaplin. K 7

What can you do about it

You could heed the appeal on
the League for Democrat ;
Rights and send a postcard, ‘
telegram or letter to puget
Dennis, Box PMB 71488- eu
lanta, Georgia, U.S.A. and ny
him know that there are me
Canadians who wish him wee
You. and your organizati :
could send a message 1°
Attorney General Mc
Washington. D.C.. calling

or
proper medical treatment i

am

mesty.

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