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ANYway you look™&t it, Canada is a
arta investment. To the financial
ws Of New York it. is more than
bie ere else could these Yankee
Ses find such a country with a
Mena which says in effect, “Here’s
rate the case of the New York Capital
no of Canada, Ltd: as just one small
Crat. & of how good an investment
long 2 ‘8. This “Fund” began “opera-
lion ge AUSust 24, 1954 with one mil-
Sent3tes of “gilt-edged” stock at
Fung” Share. One yearn later the
With <p 2¢POrts a $25.75 million kitty,
terly Shareholders collecting a $2 quar-
diyj
selene on their original and highly
Sma wvestment.”
like gt Wonder’ the men of Wall Street,
° Play poker with Canada’s re-
i and future . It’s the best jack-
Hiv’ hit since Bathhouse John
by heey Dink sold traction franchises
Toarj erty, block in Chicago back in the

a paces: .
days 4) 24Ve changed. In those frontier
with the Yankee gamblers played poker
Own t ‘olerably clean deck — and their
Outees €s. Now they use Canada’s re-
dec © {OF poker chips — and a marked
Tents “Proved by Canadian govern-
Wondep With such a setup it is little
ted to Such “funds” as the one refer-
2 Yea fan rake in several million dollars
than ae never turn a hair. It’s easier
i} . 48 candies from Junior.
Natural gas, ores-and metals, hydro
Searca} Power resources, timber—there’s
longing’ anything of value in ‘Canada be-
Liberal ‘o ‘the people which successive
haven,’ “ory and Socred governments
in the yolveN away for a token rakeoff
‘; Poker game. In B.C. alone

Wrap sry:
0} Ped A
 oup best ti Up over ten million acres

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rest iy

anagement’ ’and handed it
fe ‘ € Yankee trusts.

artist ord sleight-of-hand shell game
Chansg ,2 USed to take all the loose
hough ftom the rural rustics who
Was ynaitey knew which shell the pea
‘Ompared . Was a small-time operator

bucanes With the modern financial
dn, 2, For him there is no guessing
ate » Where a nation’s resources

Be etian

Sven -handed over by an obliging
Sarg ¢,. 7b and with a complete disre-
Be copy, © People’s interests. With
ave even tation” the Wall Street boys
: Y reason to. feel “optimistic”
ada’s future.
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“dramstet New Yorker described as a-

Same prodstorian,” with probably the
*S the j0Und understanding of history
S heagi ate Henry (Model T) Ford,
Mission 2 for Britain on a “cultural”

isc.

ut Fe Worthy, one Calvin Hoffman, is
* fake .PfOve” that Shakespeare was
and that all the great Shakes-
Rtas Wamas were written by Sir
Rabe alsingham, a nobleman of the
It app, n Period.
das fe that this Yankee “expert”
c ay ~., Permission from some
he 20ble tes in England to dig into
m EXDeotg we S 300-year-old tomb where
<tipts wri to find the original manu-
aritoingitten by ‘Walsingham and later
heq of by Shakespeare, who is

* thi H “
ing. Offman as “a stooge and
the’be hae, actor.”

er in the :

Tego} the realm of grabbing off
hers toes Or cultural heritage of
iy CDfolk at be admitted that the new

Learat Wall Street are not lacking
Qj lng of Sall. and arrogance, to say
Sh te Possip} €er impudence. And it is

tke arin, 20ffman wouldn't know a
AMereiay drama from a_ singing.

‘Happily however, Shakes-

Survive the ordeal!

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United Nations anniversary

HIS week in San Francisco ‘the

foreign ministers from 35 coun-
tries will meet to celebrate the 10th
anniversary of the signing of* the
United Nations Charter.

This second Magna Charta in
human history defining the inviol-
ability of human rights and free-
doms, laid the foundation for a
world ‘free from the fear of want,
persecution, hunger and war, mak-
ing sacred all those things for which
millions had given their lives in the
war against Hitlerite barbarism.

A decade*of cold°war tensions,
of aggressive wars upon people
seeking only those things implicit
in the UN Charter, of threats of
devastating atomic war has marred
the spirits if not the letter of the
great Charter. :

Yet ‘‘hope springs eternal,’’ and
millions of peace-loving people are
looking towards this historic anniv
versary with new hope and new
yearning; to see the, spirit of : this

Gas decision

HEN the B.C. Electric ap-
W pears before the Bennett gov-
ernment’s refurbished Public Utili-
ties Commission to seek the sole
monopoly right to distribute the

- people’s natural gas—to the people

at a handsome profit to itself—that

_is precisely what it will demand

from that discredited body. -

‘+ To secure the right to build a

feeder line from Huntingdon to
Vancouver the B.C, Electric (for
tunately) cannot get that from the
PUC, but must seeks its permission
from Hon. William Ralph Talbot
Chetwynd, minister of railways, .
minister of trade and industry, and
minister of fisheries. In other
words, from the Social Credit cab-
inet. :
It is important to know that the
two questions are separate, yet

great charter rising again like a
warm sun, to end a long dark night
of tensions, intrigues and H-Bomb
plotting against peace and human-
ity.

And next month in Geneva,
Switzerland, the long-awaited con-
ference of the Big Four — Britain,
France, the Soviet Union and the
United States, is scheduled to take
place. This meeting ‘‘at the sum-
mit’ will discuss their differences
which’ a fanatic minority in the
West say can only be settled with
H-Bombs but which two-thirds of
the world’s peoples say can readily
be settled through peaceful negoti-
ation, understanding, and a genu-
ine regard for the basic principles

laid down in the UN Charter.

These two historic conferences »

are a good augury for the winning
of a permanent peace and an end
to the nightmare of atomic war and
destruction. Humanity looks to-
wards both with a renewed:hope.

fo i ,)
up to govt
highly contingent upon each other.

The choice is before the goverr-
ment, to hand natural gas distribu-

_ tion to a private monopoly or auth-

grize its own body, the B.C. Power
Commission, to begin building the
projected feeder line now.

This would make it possible for.

all municipalities along the line to
have natural gas dictribution on a
“private enterprise’ or publicly-
owned system of distribution,
whichever they choose. In the long
run the public-ownership system “in
terms of costs and services would
win out. But the vital question at
the moment is to keep the BCE
monopoly from getting monopoly
control of natural gas distribution.

That responsibility is now
squarely in the lap of the Socred
cabinet.

Hal
Griffin

HEN I was around nineteen I lived

for a few months in a ghost town

not far from the British Columbia-
Yukon border. :

* The Alaska Highway then was only a
dream. Sitting around the stove on the
long winter nights -we talked occasion-
ally about the day when the country
would be opened up and throb with life
again, but without real‘hope for these
were the hardest years of the depression
and the future was narrowed to the day
ahead. It was easier to talk about the
past, as the oldtimers did, when the
country resounded with the feverish life

of the gold rush.

Atlin then was a remote outpost, link-
ed with the outside by paddle steamer
across the lakes from Carcross in sum-
mer and by trail in winter. The hum of
a plane was still a new and rare sound
in the stillness.

Seven miles from Atlin — I used to
know every inch of the road because I
walked it at least once a week with a
packboard — was Discovery.

Once Discovery had been a thriving
community. Its one street back of the
mine tailings piled high along the creek ’
bank was bordered with cabins and frame
buildings for the-space of several blocks.
But it had Jong since been abandoned.
The snow drifted over the sills of the
windowless hotel and sifted through the
crevices-of the boarded up cabins.

My only neighbors were “Scotty,” an
old prospector who still dreamed of
striking it rich on his Birch Creek-claim
and who had no desire to return to an
outside world which had cast him up in
this unlikeliest of places, and three
Swedish-Canadians who were working
over the tailings to reclaim gold over-
looked by the first miners.

Gold kept Atlin alive during the de-
pression years and now it too, is
languishing, struggling to escape the fate
of its deserted neighbor>

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I was reminded of ‘this the other day

_ when I was talking to Harvey Murphy,
Mine-Mill regional director. He was

telling me about the new ghost towns of

‘the Crows Nest Pass, towns like Cole-

man where other houses are being board-

ed up because there is no work and no
future.

‘\ He told me that at Boston Bar a rail-
roader pointed out a house to him, a
house that once was a showpiece and the
pride of the man who built it.

‘Offer him $600 and he’ll take it,” the
railroader told Murphy bitterly.

That's what conversion to diesel has
done, and not only to Boston Bar. There
are scores of such -places along the rail-
roads, : .

There is a’ difference, however, be-
tween boarded up houses along the raik
Toads and boarded up towns in the
Crows Nest and elsewhere. The ghost
coal towns have more in common with
Discovery and the ghost towns of the
gold’ rush era.

In the Yukon men ravished the cour
try and left in search of easier wealth
elsewhere. But the Yukon has other re
sources that with planned development
could have maintained their empty
towns as thriving communities.

In the Crows Nest the coal wealth
from which the monopolies have extract
ed fortunes is still in the ground. There
it is a deliberate Policy of allowing
towns to languish while foreigners move

» into the markets they should be serv-

ing.
That, in essence, is what our ruling
circles are trying to do to an entire

country.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 24, 1955 — PAGE 5