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of Book Festival, Nov. 23-24

A DISCUSSION on culture and
peace, two dramatic presenta-
tions, a magic show, and pottery,

_ arts and handicraft displays, will

be among the varied features -of
the Book Festival to be held in
Swedish Hall here under auspices
of the People’s Co-operative
Bookstore Friday and Saturday,
November 23 and 24.

The festival will open on the

Friday evening, starting at 8 p.m., ©

with a short musical program,
followed by a discussion of the
question “Is Canadian Culture
Being Geared to War?” Ray
Gardner, secretary of B.C. Peace

Council, will introduce the sub-
ject. :

The second half of Friday .
evening’s program will be pro-
vided by the UJPO Drama Work-
shop and Vancouver Theatre of
Action. The UJPO group will re-
peat Alan Max’s Mission To
Athens, a short one-act play
which proved so __ successful
when it was first staged at. the
ek School here last month
hat. a second demand perform-
ance had to be given.

Vancouver Theatre of Action
will present Perish the Thought,
a skit satirizing the publishing

industry specially written for the
festival by Hal Griffin, well-
known Vancouver writer. -

A certain attraction at the Sat-
urday afternon segsion will be
the magic show for children to
be given by Vic Goymour, popu-
lar Vancouver magician,

The People’s Cooperative Book-
store is arranging a comprehen-

sive display of progressive books -

and periodicals, as well as sup-
plementary displays of children’s
and art books. Pottery, art and
handicraft displays and record-
ings will round out this part of
the festival. : ; :

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by Myra Page

ames Aldridge

Book Festival

Friday, November 23 -- 8 p.m.
Saturday Afternoon, November 24 -- 1.30

Swedish Hall — 1320 E. Hastings

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POWER WITHOUT GLORY:
The novel by Frank Hardy that-rocked Australia
OUR LIVES: Labor Anthology
PEACE IS WHERE THE TEMPEST BLOWS:

WITH SUN IN OUR BLOOD.
A Miner's Story,
THE WASHINGTON

Hysteria in Washington, by Jay Deiss
THE HUNTER: By J

MARXIST SPECIALS:

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MARX ON CHINA:

Articles from the New York Herald Tribune _.........
THE GENERAL STRIKE OF 1926:

STORY:

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CANADA, THE COMMUNIST VIEWPOINT: By Tim’ Buck 8 ni: .60
ALL MY LIFE: By A. E. Smith
GREEK RESISTANCE ARMY:

ALL QUIET IN THE KREMLIN: By George Marion
JEWS WITHOUT .MONEY: ' By

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IF MONEY USED FOR

PEACE

Science can
prosperity to

THIS YEAR the British gov-
ernment is spénding 64 times
more on military research
than it is on medical research,

Those sciences which can
have no possible application
for military purposes are
starved of funds, while others
whose actual or potential mili-
tary usefulness is considered
important are steadily falling
under a security curtain.

Unless some means can be
found to end the cold war, it
will not be very long before
very little non-military re-
search at all will be carried on
and most scientists will find
‘themselves in the position of .
having to make the choice of
either doing such work or of
giving up science altogether.

The militarization of science
means an open abandonment
of the high ideals of science
as a boon to humanity. This
is being reflected by the de-
moralized state of mind exhib-
ited by some leading scientists
in the West:

For example, Dr. O. McK.
Solandt, chairman of the Can-
adian Defense Research Com-
mittee, is on record as say-
ing:

“The future of death on a
mass scale is very bright ...
We can expect to do first-class
work which ‘will be accepted
and used by our larger part-
ners,”

And Professor Louis N. Rid-
enour writing on “How Effec-
tive are Radioactive Poisons
in Warfare?” said:

“We can dispose of the
‘morality’ argument at once.
Once it has been decided that
people are to be killed, the
‘moral’ question is fully set-
tled; ‘the instruments of kill-
ing are not at all affécted with
humane or moral questions.”

Dr. Nance,
Tampa _  University,\
thinks:

“I would approve bacterio-
logical warfare, gas, atom
and/or hydrogen bombs, in-
tercontinental rockets and so

resident of
Florida,

forth. I would ask no mercy
for hospitals, churches, edu-
cation’ institutions or any

other special groups.”

“Such people can obviously
have no feeling whatsoever for
their fellow men and regard
the extermination of whole
populations whose views con-
flict with their own, just as
they might regard the exter-
mination of a swarm of insect
pests with the latest insectic-
ide. ; :

The Soviet Academician
Lysenko certainly spoke the
truth when he said:

“.~. . Unfortunately there
exist scientists who have given
both their minds and their
science to the atomic canni-

‘traordinarily powerful

bring untold
humanity

bals. What do such scientists
intend giving humanity? What
are they preparing for the
worker who ploughs the earth,
the student bent over his
books, the mother and her
child in the cradle? Death,”
* * *

NOT ALL scientists, how-
ever, are taking this prostitu-
tion of their creative work
without making some protest.

In the United States 12 of
the foremost physicists in the
country issued a statement, at
the time when President Tru-
man announced the com-
mencement of work on the
hydrogen bomb, to the effect
that they believed that no na-
tion had the right to use such
a Weapon.

Many scientists are refusing
to carry out secret work, and

‘in. Britain, for example, Pro-

fessor Kathleen Lonsdale,
FRS, and Professor C. A. Coul-
son have both declared that
they would not work on secret
projects. Dr. G. O. Jones of
Clarenden Laboratory, Oxford,
has declared that he would not
help in the production of a
super bomb.

In the early part of this year
a conference was ‘called in
Cambridge by the ‘Cambridge
Scientists Anti-War Group to
discuss the responsibility of
scientists to peace.

This conference was attend-
ed by over 100 scientists of
all shades of political opinion
from all parts of Britain. It

“was suggested that: scientists

should establish
moral code. ,

Recently 18 of Britain’s most
eminent scientists, 14 of them
Fellows of the Royal Society
and seven university profes-
sors, issued a declaration of
their determination to do all
in their power. to prevent a.
third world war.

Indeed no one knows hetter
than the scientists themselves
what a new war would mean.

Today, science, if properly

their own

‘used, is capable of bringing

undreamed of prosperity to
mankind.

If the vast sums being spent
in an’ effort to produce the
hydrogen bomb were diverted
to exploring the use of atomic ©
energy for power production
the atom.could be harnessed
for this purpose in a relatively
short period—nothing like as
long as the 20 or 30 years re-
cently estimated by Sir John
Cockcroft.

Scientists now occupy an ex-
posi-
tion, being as they are indis-
pensable for the armaments
drive. This, added to their
traditional prestige, makes the
importance of any public ac-
tion by them totally out of
proportion to their numbers.

—C. J. STRATMANN.

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