ULL a PARLIAMENT HILL By MARK FRANK | Ministers journey to Washington ~ to get orders for coming session —OTTAWA Ree ministers and their entourage will. journey to Washington next month to get their orders and briefings on just what the U.S. wants Canada to deliver in the form of economic, political and military legislation, when the twenty-first sessions of parliament rolls around in mid-September. | The ministers’ will be Finance. Minister Abbott, External Affairs Minister Pearson and Trade Minister Howe. Their visit to President Truman’s headquarters follows the visit there recently of Canada’s chief of staff General Foulkes. The trip to the U.S. spells out the shape of coming Measures for the new parliament. It will reveal, now that the election is safely tucked away, a new and sharper influence on- Canadian sovereignty by foreign U.S. interests. Already a hint of what is to come is to be seen in the significant remarks of External Affairs “Minister Pearson at Lake Couchiching. While declar- ing his hope that “we may never succumb to the black Madness of the witch hunt,” the minister is careful to leave a legislative door open for unleashing of a Truman- ‘ype hysteria with the comment that “if necessary” the ’ SCIENCE FRONT , oN a new hospital in New York, doctors Ophuijsen : and Sackler came across several patients who were badly affected before summer storms. Tests showed these people suffered from a low supply of blood to their brains, caused by the low air pressure. So the Goctor trie§ giving them the drug histamine. This increases the flow of blood to the brain. The depressed men and women quickly improved. Next step was to try histamine on many mental patients. After four Years of testing, the doctors report good results. Now all mentally sick people are not helped by this drug.” But many are remarkably improved, especially When they get histamine along with electric shock, ‘ Patients given histamine need only mild shock instead °f the violent, painful shock usually given. _ Because the method is not unpleasant, people sees Ming taking ‘it over and over again, and this is of Breat help in preventing any.return of their mental disease, ’ This “repeat treatment’? was discovered by Wo Canadian doctors, Geoghegan and Stevenson. ‘ : ; A group of chronic “drunks” gave science another leaq howard helping the mentally sick. This spring, a Chicago hospital, doctors were trying new drugs + ©n en who had “the shakes.” They were treated With myanesin, a new chemical used to relax muscles. Myanesin not only relaxed the men physically, but also t their minds at rest. So the drug was tried on Cther mental Myanesin gaye some of them Aor cases. Striking relief, Readers will remember that the Pacific Tribune oui Teported the amazing chemical “glutamic acid,” whic AMproves the intelligence of certain mentally backward Children. Latest development is that three American Neurologists: gave glutamie acid to cruelly afflicted child- ren called “mongoloid idiots.” Several tots lea THER: HOW ©’ Say many words and to play with other eae After getting glutamic acid their minds began to de- Velop. ‘The scientists warn against Ut admit the discovery is very important. ’ ed in the) Pacific Tribune fferers would come from Two redict that years ago we pr great help for mental su space iain ain maciion ating too much enthusiasm“ strengthening of the criminal code would be considered in Canada “‘to deal with the enemies of the state.” How far Pearson and his colleagues intend going with their “black madness’ is not known here, but it must be noted that this is the second speech in two months by Pearson on the subject of “‘strengthenings the _ criminal code.” ' these .seience knew very little about the brain. minds. In developing the favorite theme of the Liberal party that communism can be defeated by providing an answer to grave social evils, Pearson warns against the “Insistent and increasing demands for services and assist- ance."” He continues: “It is; in fact, becoming in- creasingly difficult to reconcile the satisfaction of such demands with the maintenance of that spirit of self- reliance and competitive achievement which is one of the foundations of our free society.” State assistance, like family allowances, health insurance, subsidization of housing, are to be regarded as an enemy of the spirit of self-reliance, according to this estimate. All of this sounds like a direct reversal of election poster statements of the Liberal party. It doesn’t augur well for the people in the coming session of parliament. It demands a fight to press upon the government the whole program of social security promised on the hustings. By DYSON CARTER | Canadian doctors helped develop new treatment for mental cases chemical brain treatments, and not from. so-called “psychoanalysis” methods based on unscientific, non- materialist theories. Today leading psychiatrists like Charles Burlingham support this view. “We shall have substances for mental diseases,” he says, “that corres- pond to the sulfa drugs for physical diseases.” Our brains are parts of our bodies. True, our ex- periences and worries can affect the brain. -.But it is not scientific to look for mental cures in “analyzing” our memories and emotions. This does not get to the basis of mental disturbance. Freud and hundreds who followed him ran into a blind alley of mystical, reactionary ideas. As Lenin pointed out long ago, psychologists separated human thoughts and emotions from our real, material brains, from our physical bodies. Now many scientists are coming back to materialism; with inspiring results. Most experts still cling to Fieud’s ideas about a common disease of the mind called schizophrenia. Some try to cure this “split personality” by analyzing the victim’s disturbed thoughts, but nowadays far more victims are cured by electric shocks and drugs. And there is new evidence that schizophrenia comes from actual changes in the brain. Other tests show the milder mental disease starts when ‘the link between brain and glands becomes blocked. Two renowned scientists, Hoagland and Pineus, have just discovered how one such “block” affects the mind. When our bodies fail to use properly the food-element potassium, mental symptoms -appear. Lack of vitamin B-12 is now shown to cauSe several kinds of mental breakdown. Hence the Way .is open to finding new chemical treatments to overcome defects in the braif, nerves ‘and glands which bring about mental sickness. C } é { y Mental disease has seemed mysterioys ‘because For many years psychologists have been on the ‘wrong track, trying to help patients get their though‘s and emotions “straightened out” by analysis. Now research is finding out some facts about how the brain ‘works, how it gets out of order, how abnormal thoughts and emotions arise. Already this is showing hory to cure disordered a 4 THE NATION By TIM BUCK China offers U.S. trade agreements EOPLES China wants to trade with Canada, on terms favorable to Canada, but the Toronto Globe and Mail is so chagrined at the American government's recent White Paper on China that its editor cannot see that trade with a government supported by the people is at least as good as trade with Chiang Kai-shek. : In a long and dolorous editoria] on August 8 the Globe and Mail admits that “there is little if any hope .that the southern province can be kept from falling un- der red rule.” By implication the Globe acknowledges “the strong appeal of communism to millions of desti- tute Chinese when it was presented to them as a guar- antee of enough to eat, social reforms and: the end of corrupt rulers.” The editorial writer didn’t say what other form he would have expected communism to have assumed among the masses of the people of Chiha and his omission mirrors the utter intellectual bankruptcy of the hired apologists of capitalism. Having dutifully assured their masters that Chiang Kai-shek was a military genius, a popular idol, a gentleman of ‘“west- ern interests” and a certain winner in China, they now hope that their masters will be solaced by the surprising information that ‘the Chinese Communists have been teaching the people that they can abolish hunger, social injustice and corruption in public office. Only thinly veiled, there is to be seen in the Globe and Mail editorial the beginning of a realization that President Truman’s White Paper is in reality an ac- knowledgment by the U.S. government of hard facts which can no longer be denied. The editorial admits that “Chiang’s recently proclaimed Far Eastern anti-Com- munist front, in which Korea and the Philippines (U.S. dependencies—T.B.) joined his own group in China, will now collapse. ...” But the inability of the masters of the capitalist world to understand the mighty forces now shaping history is revealed in the proposal put forward in the editorial that the imperialists should now concentrate their efforts upon India and Pakistan to stop the tide of People’s Democracy from sweeping over the whole of Asia. That proposal is akin to Chiang Kai-shek’s an- nouncement that he will make his headquarters on the island of Formosa, or to Ernest Bevin’s declaration that the Labor government will hold Hong Kong for British imperialism regardless of the aims of the Chinese people. The Chinese people won't be stopped now—and ‘their victory cannot but inspire all the peoples of Asia to new and greater struggles for freedom and a higher social ‘order. People’s victory in China means that a third of all the people of the world, occupying the most decisive land area of this planet, will be united under govern- ments headed by Communists in the modernization of their countries, their imdustrialization and ultimately the building of socialism. The~ extension of socialist society from the Soviet Union, will literally remodel the earth to meet the needs of men throughout that whole vast area. The plan already in operation in the USSR to reclaim 300 million acres of drought-stricken land in 15 years by tree planting, moisture conservation and changing of the climate, is only an indication of the, striking changes that will now be made in vast areas of China and adjacent territories by the socialist utili- zation of science. The diets of hundreds of millions of people now suffering from chronic undernourishment will be improved and made adequate. The technical level of agriculture will be raised and industries will be built to supply the farmers with the machinery, fer- tilizers, elevators, cold storage and transportation that is necessary to modern scientific high productivity agri- cultural techniques. 4 As in the Soviet Union, the building of socialism will include the bringing of an abundance of water~ where there is no water at the present time. It will develop China’s vast and virtually untapped resources of natural wealth, it will abolish illiteracy, abolish the barriers by which capitalism separates manual and a tellectual labor, it will make People’s China—becoming socialist China—the irresistable inspiration and the un- challenged vital cultural leader of the rising new China. e ‘ Futuré histoilans will rate the €stablishment. of people’s poWér in China,.and the @évelopment by Soviet scientists of the application of atomic energy to in- dustry &s two vital historie tvents which combined to make the end of the 19405 a turning point and to in- dustrialize the continent of Asia. Some of the petty short-sighted Canadian politicians who are now refusing to sell $5 million worth of copper wire to People & China, on terms very favorable to Canada, will live to see China prodycihg more of such manufactured prod~ ucts than Canada can produce, by te¢hniques that eap-- italism will not then be capable of, In the fate of that prospect, which is now much: more certain than is the prospect that the present workers standards of living will be maintained in the U.S, the editor of the Glebe and Mail advises the im- perialists that having plunged China into years of de- structive civil war in their fruitless attempt to defeat democtacy and having failed, they should now transfer their efforts to India and Pakistan—they might be able to develop bloody and destructive civil wars in those @ountries also. It is time that democratic -Canadians spoke out in condemnation of such irresponsible anti- democratic war-mongering propaganda. # @ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 26, 1949 — PAGE 9