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Hypocrisy
n lotteries

E eminent “‘joint parliamen-
| tary committee’ which spent
luch time plus a goodly chunk
taxpayers money studying the
Ybe-or-notto-be of hanging,
Fought down a- recommenda:
n for the ‘“‘humanizing’’ of
@al murder, by exchanging the
Mpen rope for a made-in-the-
SA electric chair. This despite
fidespread public opinion for
de abolition of the barbaric cus’
2m of capital punishment.

Now a similar group of parlia-
oY solons, sitting for over

Wo years and drawing a nice fat
lary the while, has hatched out

hother monstrosity, this time on

teries.

This committee's: recommen’
tions on lotteries is a magnifi-
nt example of official
pocricy. For the good of our
Orals and presuming to say
hat Canadians like and do not
Ke in the way of ‘‘gambling,”’
he committee wants all foreign
cc (Irish, English, or
yypat have you) banned, with all
fe Money won by those ignor-
eS Such a ban seized by the Cus-
gs, and the participants haled
Petore the courts.

» The national game of bingo,
layed for “‘religious’’ or ‘‘chari-
, 2 purposes, for amounts not
exceeding $5,000 per year, will
we “allowed.” So also with the
sacific National Exhibition auto
aeffles, If the PNE can keep its
Profits below $10,000 per year
Qn this item, it won’t be con
; ered <‘gambling,”
m © can now safely
ae for charity or to en
ence the profits of exhibition
ncctors, but not for progress.
i 3 at, it would seem, is the
if OBAtive of Liberal solons !

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EDITORIAL PAGE

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on August 6, 1945, the first

atomic bomb was unleashed upon

the city of Hiroshima, Japan,
upon the order of the U.S.
government. Eighty thousand
human beings were destroyed in
its blinding flash, and countless
thousands suffered, and are still
suffering the extreme torture
and lingering death from the A-
bomb’s deadly flame and radio-
active “‘fall-out.”’

During these eleven years
Hiroshima has become at once
a symbol of imperialism’s beastial
barbarity, and to millions of the

“HAVE NO SOLUTION, BUT I HAVE ALOT OF TARGETS.’ _ 2.

ELEVEN years ago this week,

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world’s peoples the symbol of a
great determination — that the
like must never happen again.

Hiroshima; with all its horror
of that fateful day, stands as a
constant reminder that there are
still atomaniacs in our midst who
would launch still more devasta-
ting H-bombs upon humanity,
as a means of imposing the will
of the few upon the many.

On this eleventh anniversary

of amonstrous crime let us pledge

to ourselves and to generations
yet unborn, that such a crime
will never be permitted to hap-
pen again.

Comment

How to end
~NPA rule

T° end Nor-partisan Associa-
tion rule at city hall in the
1956 civic elections, two simple
jobs face the electors. First, to
make sure they are registered on
the voters’ list. This can be done
by phoning the city clerk’s office,
EMerald 1313. If a legitimate
voter is not listed, a trip to city
hall between the hours of 8:30
a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on or before
August 17, or up until 9:00 p.m.
after August 18 to August 21
inclusive will solve the problem.
Hence point number one for
cleaning the NPA out of civic
monopoly is to make sure you
are on the voters’ list. And re-
member, the registration closes
August 21.
Past civic elections in Van-
‘couver shows a steadily rising
antiNPA vote, but they also
show a deplorable lack of unity
between the numerous anti NPA
candidates. Worst of all they
show, as did the civic bye:
elections this summer, that organ-
ized labor and the progressive
people generally, just didn’t take
the trouble to get’ out and vote.
If these two simple rules of
democracy are followed, the ten-
ure of NPA rule at city hall can
be cut very short.

Tom
McEwen

O the average citizen life be-

becomes a bit confusing at
times. What with Nasser of Egypt
winding up the old empire's Suez
Canal “lifeline” without so much
as a by-your-leave; with Dior and
other French stylists restoring
the upper and nether curves of
female pulchritude, and equip-*
ping women with hats that have
all the glamor of a dishpan,
there’s never a dull moment!

As if that weren’t enough along
comes Mrs. Matilda Penguin at
the Vancouver Zoo, keeping every
one in suspense with her matri-
monial expectations, and our
smiling Socred premier playing
his pre-election war-on-nerves
ditty, in order to keep his polit-

ical opponents dizzy. Frankly its
enough to get a man down!
Then there is Ottawa’s latest
“civil defense plans” for our
mass evacuation so that we can
keep out ahead of Ottawa’s
imaginary hell-bombs and “fall-
out.” This while a few thousand
motorists fume and sweat trying
to get home in time for dinner, *
or from a weekend drive out of
town, when ‘any turtle could beat
a Cadillac between Whalley’ and
Vancouver on the home stretch.

To top these daily excitements
there is the numerous globe-
encircling jaunts of John Foster
Dulles, dashing here and there
with the unerring instinct of a
weasel invading a rabbit warren,
always on the lookout. for some
easy cold-war pickings to help
along a deserving Wall Streeter.

Perhaps the most varied mix-
ture in our daily diet of confus-
ing fare is provided by the “ex-
perts,”’ “analists’. and other
“observers” of things Soviet. On
that subject the elbow-room is
limitless, allowing for the widest
range of “opinion” to confuse
and befuddle.

The wonder of it all is that
after having “collapsed” so many

times the world of Socialism con-
tinues in vigorous, healthy grow-
ing condition, leaving a lot of the
“experts” well-night exhausted.

Perhaps the most intriguing
(and also confusing) situation of

* all, strictly for a local viewpoint,

is that we are all presumed to be
very “prosperous,” very happy,
and very well blessed, in that
providence had provided us with
a Social Credit government,
fountain of all blessedness.

Just a few weeks ago the Ben-
nett Socred government pub-
lished and mailed out tens. of
thousands of copies of a little
pamphlet (at the taxpayers’ ex-
pense of course) entitled “Four
years of progress with Social
Credit in British Columbia.”

Following the old Irish theme
song about, ‘Who put the overalls
in Mrs. Murphy’s chowder ?” the
Socreds put everything above, on,
and under the good B.C. earth to
the credit of Social Credit. Every-
thing, including our beautiful
sunshine, seemed to fall into our,
laps as a gift from a bountfful
Social Credit, with a Bennett
smile to match.

In these times it would seem
that the art of spreading confus-

ion is the kingpin of all arts!

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