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MiusicxHats

Appearing for the first
time in North America, the
widely-acclaimed Moscow
Music Hall will be seen in
Vancouver's Agrodome be-
tween Oct. 19-24. It in-
cludes 12 variety acts, 6
large production numbers,
and a 40-piece orchestra.

Id-line parties

__ MRS, LYDIAF, PLOTNICOVE,
 *80couver, writes: Being a sec=
'~Nd-generation Canadian I re-
ember the hard times all of us
oa Pioneering in Saskatchewan.
_ Sur difficulties ascended to the
Shest level, especially when R,
+ Bennett, an Alberta CPR cor=
Poration lawyer, took over as
?rime minister of a Conserva-
ve government, In a short time
iS man became a millionaire
8 the expense of the working
People of Canada, and ended his
“Peer as a “Lord” in England,

Bennett and his policies threw
8 Workers of Canada into a vast
€mployed army, Many farmers
Tough hard work managed to

St a car, but unfortunately didn’t
aw the money to buy gasoline,
his had to transform their cars

“Bennett buggies” pulled by
| N0rses,

ais The Unemployed in their thous=
a found themselves in a des-=
€ situation, compelled to
he by foot or ride freight
all over the country in

Pains
s
®areh of work and existence, |

To

th top it off this merciless
— “Bod

ly barbarian Bennett sent
ans his police to stop the un-
4 Ployed trom moving across
: Continent, seeking a job in

€r to survive, It is terrible

Pass the hat

The long coliection speech is done
And now the felt hat goes

krom hand to hand its solemn way
Along the restless rows.

In purse and pocket, fingers feel,
And count the coins by touch,
Minds ponder what they can afford,
And hesitate—how much?

In that brief, jostled movement when
The battered hat arrives.

Try, brother, to remember that
Some men put in their lives.

to think what a bad government
can do to a country and its
builders,

I am at a loss to understand
why a lot of good people from
different religious groups such as
Jehovah’s Witnesses, Doukhobors
and other ethnic groups, do not
participate more in elections, so
as to. block the election of racket~
eering governments—about which
we all complain later, when it is
too late to do anything about it.

We all know that the fading
away old-line parties in this
twentieth century have few other
interests than that of represent-
ing and protecting the interests
of big capitalists and their capi=-
talistic exploitation for their own
profit, These old-line parties,
without the consent of the nation,
have allowed the construction. of
foreign military bases andatom-
ic weapons on our Canadian soil,

These parties with their self-
centered unchristian views, can
easily cause the total destruc-
tion of our country, Realizing
the seriousness of the situation,
we cannot longer entrust our fate
or the fate of our country to these
partisan warmongers and hypo-
crites. :

I think it is up to all of us
wanting peace, freedom and equal

—Michael Quinn

SMR

Air pollution and

the Golden Calf

By DR. JULIAN TUDOR-HART
Ithough Britain stopped tip-
ping filth into its drinking

water about 100 years ago, only

quite recently has any official
concern been shown over the pol-
lution of the air we breathe,

The turning point came with
the London smog disaster of 1952,
which caused 4,000 deaths in four
days, and led to the passage of
the Clean Air Act,

Even now this is being applied
only in a few places, though with
striking results, Over most of
the country the air is still choked
with the filth of factory and do-
mestic chimneys,

Along with our vile smoking
habits, this is undoubtedly the
main cause of bronchitis, which
killed 34,000 people in 1963, and
it is probably a contributory
factor in the 14,000 deaths from
cancer of the lung,

rights to get out and vote on
November 8, and elect the can=
didates of the New Democratic
Party in each and every riding,

The victory of this party will

make it possible to remove all
military installations andnuclear
bombs from our country. The
best demonstration now is to take
an active part in this election
campaign and support the NDP,
We should not expect God to do
everything for us. God helps
those who help themselves,

True christianity

JOHN HARGREAVES, Gabriola
Island, writes: Around the first
of the month I received a Gabri-
ola United Church notice stating
that on October 3 our minister
would deliver a sermon on“Thou
Shalt Not Covet...”

I hope he had a good turnout
and that a goodly number of those
attending managed to digest what
it means, I notice that cars leave
the North end at 10:30 a.m, to go
to this place of worship, It must
be a wonderful feeling to get a
ride to go to church for them that
do go but have no car, and es-

pecially for the old that do want. j

to go, |

On this quiet islandI hear quite
a lot about the athiest and what
his philosophy is. For myself I
would like to see true Christian-
ity and humanitarian principles
become part of our daily life,
When we do See that realized we
will have a different outlook on
the world’s ills,

We will have Christianity and
brotherhood when people in other
countries, struggling to get
something to eat and live their
own lives, will not be blown to
hell with high explosive bombs,

PS: If that Man Christ could
come back He wouldn’t be here
long before someone set out to
fix Him too!

Air pollution has become a
matter of major concern in B.C.
A recent series of articles in one
of Vancouver’s major news-
papers has spotlighted the men-
ace to public health. The PT re-
prints here a review of a recent-
ly published book in the US.
which throws some light on the
problem.

The review is from the British
Daily Worker and is written by
Dr, Julian Tudor-Hart. The
book can be ordered through
the Co-op Bookstore, 341 West
Pender St., Vancouver.

But even in the little that has
been done and the much more
that has been spoken and written,
all attention has been concen-
trated on various kinds of factory
and domestic chimney smoke,

A little book from America,
The Breath of Life, by Donald
Carr, makes it clear that, on

the contrary, the worst is prob-.

ably yet to come, and precious
little-is being done about it,

Mr, Carr is achemist from Los
Angeles, America’s No, 1 city for
smog—automobile smog, This is
because of the coincidence oftwo
factors—an ‘exceptional concen=
tration of vehicle exhaust fumes
and a local tendency to temper-
ature inversion,

As a rule, the air closest to
the earth’s surface is warmer
than the air higher up. Warm air
is lighter than cold air, so it
rises, carrying with it smoke
and exhaust fumes,

But in some places, under cer-

s

Smoke pouring from these smoke-
stacks in Trail, B.C. is indicative
of the growing problem in many in-
dustrial c.ties and towns ‘n B.C.
Along with the air, our rivers are
also being polluted as industria?
refuse is poured in without regard
to the public’s interest.

tain weather conditions, the cold-
est air may lie next to the earth
and the warmer air be above it,

The cleansing action of con- —
vection is absent and the smoke
and exhaust fumes accumulate
near ground level, combining with
cold water vapour to form the
most dangerous type of smog,

This, in fact, was what hap-
pened in London in 1952 and~—
could happen again there and in
Several other cities,

Mr, Carr shows that the sub-
stances released in car exhausts
may be dangerous not only in
these dramatic disaster situa-
tions, but also in “normal® cir-
cumstances from day to day,

He shows that no economic
method exists, or is ever likely
to exist, for removing all these

substances from exhausts (though

he is a little more hopeful about
diesels),

And he is under no ‘illusion
about what he is up against in
criticizing the Golden Calf, or
even more the giant automobile
monopolists,

As he says, “ Possibly the worst
fallacy of the 20th century is the
assumption that what’s good for
the automobile industry is good
for the nation,”

Perhaps, more remarkably, he
makes frequent reference to So- —
viet work on the subject, which
has not of course, been held back
by the interests of profiteers,
There are more lessons here
than perhaps the author himself
realizes,

Perhaps because of his evi-
dently non-political nature, Mr.
Carr is weakest when he comes
to what can or should be done
about all this,

He sees as the main hope the
development of the electrically-
driven motorcar, though he is
Pessimistic about this because
the big car manufacturers would
be the biggest opponents of this,
as well as being the only industry
which could develop it,

He thinks this would be “more
palatable to the American spirit
than the spending of billions of
dollars on monorails and other
mass-transportation systems,”

Presumably he does not class
a 50-mile-long traffic queue on
the Exeter bypass as a “mass
transportation system” but as a
rather ineffective manifestation
of the independent pioneerin:
spirit, bs

Here I remain quite uncon-
vinced, Our little island, with
more vehicles to each mile of
road than anywhere else in the
world, will be destroyed by the
private motor car if we continue
along the American path—not only
by pollution of the air, but by
road slaughter and the destruc-
tion of every human quality in
our towns and countryside,

“Mass” transportation systems
of high efficiency and low cost
are both possible and absolutely
necessary with cars or something
like them used only for short
local journeys,

A turn in this direction needs
to be fought for now starting with
the preservation and extension of
an electrified (not dieselized)
railway system,

October 15, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9