Page Four

PHOPLE’S AD Vi0 1G ATE: April 30, 1937

A Call

TO WRITERS AND ARTISTS

CRISIS AND CRITICISM. By Alick West.
(Lawrence and Wishart.)

Notes on the

CHILDREN’S SUMMER CAMP

ITH the approach of summer we are thinking of going
camping again. We are thinking of the springiness of
pine needles along a forest trail, of the clean sweet air of the
mountains. We recall, with pleasant anticipation of repeating

‘ODAY, when an increasing amount of literary eriticism
is being written under the influence of Marxism, or of

what purports to be Marixsm, it is of the greatest importance

that an attempt should be made to clear

up the issues that

are involved, writes Douglas Gorman in the Daily Worker,

London.

Because literary criticism can and should be a tre-

mendously useful weapon in the revolutionary struggle; but
only on the condition that its theoretical basis is clearly stated.

This is what Alick West has set

out to do in his book, with eX place for them if they are to Following are results of the -
3 zi 3 3 > fact th th ds ity il- z PE

tremely stimulating results. _ Tt is exist, with all the freedom and aren ee See ae ee fee Children’s Jubilee Summer Camp

mot an easy book, but it is one energy that they. demand, it is rail SG Ge few, carefree weeks an) draw held last Friday at O’Brien

that repays close study, because, essential that artists and writers Hall:

once its meaning has been

grasped, our enjoyment and under- jin changing the conditions which ince that affords unexcelled op- Pender Street; ticket 324.
Bann = literature will be great- | hamper and stifle them. Far from portunities for varied vacations Second —De Leon, 18715 West
ly, enriched. “hetraying i artisti - ag i

y. betraying their artistic con for those who can pay for them. Fifteenth Ave.; ticket 1814.

*

H* begins with a brief account
of the critical ideas, under-

lying the great creative period of
the romantic poets, Wordsworth and
Goleridge and Shelley, and shows
how these ideas have been robbed
of their vyital, progressive signifi-

should once more take their part

sciences,” they will in this way im-

' mensely enrich their field of experi-

ence and will come once more to
exercise the influence and enjoy the
respect that has belonged to them
in the part as leaders and erfeators.

x

Men and women

collective farmers near Stalingrad play a selection in honor of

Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader.

By VICTORIA POST

pletely, paid off by either children ar

the experience, how last year we slept beside a blazing camp
fire with a crystal clear mountain brook purling only a few

yards away.

But if we enjoyed this escape
from city routine, the childreng
revelled in it. Which brings us to
the thing we have in mind, the

camp, although they live within
sight of the mountains Im a Proyv-

Up on the North Arm, opposite
Lake Buntzen power plant, the
Children’s Jubilee Summer Camp
committee has established a camp
for these children who must other
wise long in vain for 2 vacation.
Happiness is childhood’s right and
childhood memories are precious.

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Draw Winners

First—F. Reynolds, 2660 East

Third — “Lucky Strike,”
man, Alta.; ticket 2598.

Fourth — Mrs. A. Massey, 5142
Spencer Street; ticket 1996.

Cole-

ized camp for bringing out what is
pest in a child. Hgotism and selfish-

“ALWAYS READY”’

2 : ; ness fade before the necessi of
eance in the hands of contemporary Te a ee Eas eae Here and There Once known as the Banfield | cooperative effort. Talents a de-
critics. His treatment of T. S. Blot, throush the who a pee 7 r : ranch, renamed Arlohma Park, this'| veloped and healthy scope given
Werbert Read and I. A. Richards is sometimes it has pee es 3 camp is 130 acres in extent and has | the physically active. It a child is
admirable polemic. Bons that are not fully answered— 2,000 feet of waterfront. Last sum-| studious, well, books belong to the
He hits hard and shrewdly, and el pox instance, in the chapter on ( mer, with voluntary labor, a wharf| camp fire, too- = =
it is noteworthy that, unlike some fe Oren endoaun: fine,” discus amc re and two dormatories were built on| For those many undernourished
pseudo Marxist writers, he does BSS a a pe See the property, and considerable work | children whose parents are on relief
Boe ee toes 2s moueh Bee te 5 GE gatistactouly OR those to whom Fascism is as yet (and let us hope unity of progressive forces will be ae ues Woes ee a Sue |e of open-air life wath
i £ 5 : =a 2 : z : ars s to give severa enty SC | 2
on their own ground. In this way syorked out these points, lis Ap: achieved to ensure that it always will be) only a word full of ominous meaning, it is |hundrea youngsters an ideal two- Banderas a eee or x
he shows up the fundamental in- proach to them is extremely inter- of the Fascist devastation of Spain. Here areof the Fascist devastation of Spain. Here are| weeks’ vacation there—that 1s if | childr Chil : i 43
; esting and his method is the right * : 2 E S i c ; eny ener sue cen See +
tellectual weaknesses of such crit | (- S women 2nd children driven from their homes by merciless bombardment. Death rains from | o7s2nized labor, the CCE and all| Summer Camp has been established =~
Se eccn ee soe for art's REGREB ER kas eon Sesion the skies as German and Ttalian airplanes seek to demoralize civilian populations. In other pe SS eee and the excellent work the com- a
Dat: . A 5 < < : BIS ae 5 : ves, as if 4 i i ; ut
: which is a creative analysis of words, Fascism, to achieve power, is usmg every means, no matter how despicable, how | done, in Se ee res be eel Saeko mee ath ee aK
pee iii quemer at be James Joyce’s “Ulysses'’ and of a cowardly. That is why scores of children have already paid with their lives that General| ‘There is nothing like an organ-! response cverpuhere: oe |
L pees Ome ee S ae eo noes ee The Gate ime Franco and those behind him may further their ignoble ends. Unable to break through the was e : i
try, E x= | a e eld,” he proves ai Ss = aie = a 7 3 28S ee ee : : :
pression, in its most passionate and | his Ee atk ence aan See oF ee ne tas wreak their vengeance on women and children. : ae {
imaginative form, of man’s aspira-| practical understanding and appre- ignas ot progaceocs 1S 8s : ep ‘5 iti ‘
pee ees a artG act See eae eon = Ppr history, written in innocent blood, meet the rising prices. The amount | nutrition. : 4
= 1D ie a . 5 5 n. testified by all too See on which they have to live at pres-| _ You may be interested to see a e ~
ee a =a a eye aS: ee He shows how to read in @ post- | yecords Avid auythine owe can: do ent is deplorably small and if prices pudget of a family of three for one }
AGE tive and creative way; how that is ea = continue to climb, the unemployed | month. The paby is eleven months ie =
ao 2 i itici a : 5 ree 4s to alleviate this suffering, Ww must . ? . : y 2 2 4
s just what Se ee criticism at-| to say, to enjoy and use literature, = = i: Boe St | face nothing short of starvation. old, and very healthy, because the GAMES iS NOTES $ ANALYSES 5
Foes — eee ae this is the; not only for our personal enrich- On Sunday, May 9, the Women’s T know of a case where a family | parents have fought for the things C)
(ee ne ee pace we must ment, but as a constructive revolu- | Committee to Aid Spanish Demoec- | °F five existed on soup, made from | they Hnow he needs, cod liver oll ’ :
ifaneey 25 ey a dialetically a aoe tionary force. racy has chosen a singularly ap- a packet of soup-mix, for one week. ete., but in spite of this, they have Editor: CAPT. J. C. DAVIDSON |
2 vy, f = propriate way to mark Mother's The mother said she had nothing | to spend most of their elothinge al- #
to literature the same revolutionary aps : : 2 = ; else to give the children at all, and lowance on food for him. What will Se ee :
method that guides us in the day- ry a igare te Day. It has arranged a banquet to ;
3 y 5 ‘ = had no cash to buy anything- One | happen when he grows older and Gam bl uti ; A
to-day struggle of our lives: honor the Mothers of Spain and oa ng = a caus = aeeenal Ale A es, problems, solutions, etc., Ruis Montero, 1590, and lorenzo
= ie : e . proceeds from this banquet and a e See ren is Ae ae Vv oe = re = ao ao ood hardly bears| will be welcomed by the Editor, | Valls in 1597. The first English .
oes I ; ees oY oo Ore ene from the sale of flowers will go to- uberculesis| caused Sey ye ee Room 10, 163 West Hastings St., | work was by William Payne in 1786. q
He” are we to do this is the hot Bed er arrives, smo S a Cleat: wards purchase of food for women | Allowance for the baby per Pay Cl aoe 30. Vancouver. A very important book was publish- Fl
subject of the second part of | ette’ The temperature of your skin | and children driven from their homes | month : $ 3.85 PROBLEM No. 5. ed by Andrew Jackson, the first rec- fi
the book. Beginning from Marx’s | @ot the blood) will drop as much aS | py the Fascists. = Agigwranees PAG its ee a ee Bee SdOZ. ES SS) eae a aD = : ognized world’s champion—this was 2
fundamental teachings, that “it is not 15 degrees by the time you haye pie Been conic are Sotemable!|\Gogen allowance 202 2.50 Fish, meat and bacon 2.00 ! Y) Y) Y YW published in Scotland, 1848, from %
x the consciousness of men that deter- finished your smoke- ; ; f Oe eae S| een, See eear oe a ee i ss Ll ayy fl olay Li i r a4
; the : s : : at the office of the Spanish Defense | Rent allowance ..----------: 550 | © Ibs. butter at 3 for $1 ------- 2.00 CY Yj@// Y which many of the Standard Laws 2
i mines their, existence, but, on the| The authority for this statement | committee, 615 West Hastings St.,| Clothing allowance, 57¢ per ‘ Voretabless =) _ 2.00 Sy YTS). and Rules in use today were derived. |
contrary, it is their social exist-| is Dr. Irving C. Wright of the Post-| and telephone offers of food oF person per Outi eee 4.72 | Tea and coffee .------------ 15 WY), Y), Yj, YW D. McLean—Quite correct. Mod- 47
ence that | determines their con- Graduate Hospital in New York | flowers should be phoned to Trinity Tobacco -...--.----2---er os 1.50 ZY “Ya “Uy, erm records show that out of the” 2
sciousness, he restates the relation | City. By means of a thermocouple | 6371. $29.52 | Rice, cereals, cheese, y V, 3/7, Yi Six world champions during the last ‘
of literature to life. He shows that arrangement the changes in tem- ‘After the banquet, which is to be aed ete 1.00 Y) Y) Yj Y | hundred years, five of them were a
the retreat of bourgeois writers into eratur fy ki re 1 ded i "Bri i : tec hake ag : A Ze Ze Ze ize, 2
. : 2 We rs B fire of your Skin ane recorded || held a0 O'Brien hall there will be | Qrange juice -.-.------: 58 | Soaps, polishes ..-.------- -50 Yy Wj Ye Seotchmen, viz., Andrew Jackson, 4
various kinds of dogmatism or mys-'| on a chart, and as the smoking con- | addresses by prominent workers in |eeaniamecercal - <5. 20 es Vda, Wey, Zs Wa James Wyllie, R. D. Yates (Amer- |
ticism is not, as they claim, an tinues the drop yecomes accelerated. | the cause of Spanish democracy and |po-anesp ee ee 30 15.70 Y) Yj Yj WY; | ican), and again Wyllie upon the 4
artistic advance, but is a result of | The finger tips and toes show the | 4 special Spanish program of enter-| Spinach ...------:-2++--2--7° aa | WY I Vi Y death of Yates, James Werrie, Rich- !
their inability to adjust themselves” greatest loss, the forehead to a lesser | tainment. Soren cnt 206 dou a. oe Fo | 4 cord of wood =-5.5.qs---2- 2.50 W). be Y/. Vs ard Jordon and at present, Robert ig
to contemporary standards of | degree. Incidentally, the doctor con- ee Milk=one can per day, i 3.00 | Rent of half house -..-.----- 550 = Stewart. 4
thought and morality. cludes that a moderate amount of eS Italy now I hear that young ‘i Balance for clothes, replace- Black ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Capitalism: 1s the deadly enemy smoking does no barm to normally couples are being encouraged 5.18 ment of linens, pots and White World’s Championship Match.
of culture and art. it” has oe HEIs fOr a Bae eae to get married by a system of loans pans, ete. --: -.+-++2----:> 64 By H. D. LYMAN. The above is now well under way,
: oe ee ee ae whereby they can borrow money on | Wlour and yeast ------------ 2.25 Black—7, 15, KS : having opened at Dumfries at 3 p.m.,
FEES STE LS LST EE LEELA LEE LEE LE LE EE LEY certain conditions. Spar eee ee 65 $29.52| -white—K8, K24. April 1 by the Tord) Weutens2
: At the end of a year, if they have | Milk, pint per day ------ 1.50 = Black to move and win ERD ESS INE Gee) eS beims:
7 THE CHI L not had a baby, they are expected 5 es in Dumfries, the remaining
DREN to pay the first instalment on the P E i t nothing of what little amuse- F ayeuty tobe) Pieyed an Giese
: loan. If they have a baby, they are ane balance ot ote is supposed Loto saw, Roy en ees ea Solution to Problem No- 4— Results will appear in this column ~
Ee Tod F ee A PAL ieee cover a multitude of expenses, and’) ment it 1s possible to get out of | 5904 32-27 24-28 27-24 32-28 | as they come through ,
oday one bus. They needed six before; eulowens <2 ey pace etre any emergencies which may arise, such a small sum per month. 1908 3124 3227 29-25 White = ous: l
The boys and girls who filled the other five ans So oly MaDUANG en Fe 27-31 28:32 28-32 21-30 wins. 1
=, =

Will not be riding in them any more.
And now throughout the land mothers at night

Will steal into their

children’s rooms again,

And yet again, while fathers at the sight

money, regardless of the conditions
under which the family has to live.

Words fail me when I think of
this system for providing Fascist

A Corner

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GAME NO. 8.
“Sinele Corner”

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Yet are they safe? Fearful, the nations make corporate state. Dear Sylvia Ash: have seen Mae West when he used| “35; 9 ey eG ee
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Their ghastly implements of modern war, as * é z ao se fen i want you te print my. letter her expression about coming UP| 59.95 2.6 19-12 DAG Aas IT Pp AYS f
Suspicion tainting every breath they take. e Re ee ee ages hice sou ead’ you would: My. pac [200 =e me some time e| #8 2824 1028 31-27 27-23 3 ’
Are we protecting them, or will they find the rising cost of living, DUE| Says you are! a Uttle nr’. Y am Some Of those! Movie Siete 20-20, ae. ee 30.06 || -..-, t© relax with a book. Good
That w = vote forget th = E nothing is being done by thé S0V-| fen years old and in grade four quite serious in private life. Stars| “Goa 18-15 Sal 27-24 33-30 fiction and used magazines can

at we who vote forgel the way a VOlre ic ori ae cet to inerease the relief rates,| ana ¥ play base ball after school | 7 eo see ome ay i oe ee ees in the following districts
Drilling recruits broke through our rhythmic grind so that the unemployed.can try to| nq I am cacher my teacher plays. Charlie Chaplin, Slim Summerville]; — 99215 610 10-15 san esto:
Of Caesar, or the pink and vanished faces She thinks she can cacht but she and others, who have plenty ns Sean agit fee. bd eae .
Of those who went to school in various places. Sent ai eom to) be a avaior \ee like the workers very muco) 341 25-22 Drawn

And as we shade our candle for a look

Once more at the soft slumber

of a child,

Why I
Support Unity

when I get big orels enjuneer. I
don’t like history. I like your cor-
mer very much so I will come up
and see you some time.

and often give donations to their
organizations.

Tf these particular stars lived in
BC, and I am sorry they don’t, the

— (a) This line is claimed to be orig-
inal by J. Cox. The play appears to
pe sound, although unusual. Would

BROADWAY WEST

The Book Arcade

8027 Broadway West

Is it to close our thinking as a book, Good-bye, Jubilee Summer Camp for children be pleased to hear what the analy- e
And wrap tomorrow’s lunch, with one last sigh TEDDY McCALLUM. | could always figure on & nice dona-| sts have to sav. |
By ANEURLN BEVAN, MP. tion from them; or take the Pro- WEST END

For those who wrap no
What energy we can for

lunches; or to stir
those who lie

In childhood sleep, too lovely to know sorrow ?

Are these to

be the soldiers of tomorrow ?

__ Pearl Strachan, in the Christian
Science Monitor, on the recent
Texas school disaster.

EEE EEE Ee ee

ITH the launching of the Unity
Campaign a new day dawns

for British Labor. It will make an
impact upon the consciousness of
the British people so profound that

consequences vital to the future of
the Labor Movement must follow.

The first result will he to put an
end to the coma which is drugging
our Movement to death. It will
ereate optimism and buoyancy in
place of defeatism and debility.
Controversy is pound to arise, but
it will be robust and healthy, and
centred around real issues.

That, dear° boys and girls, is my
first letter and it 1s printed just as
Teddy wrote it. Juooks as if Teddy's
father doesn’t think much of our
eormer, doesn’t jt? We should worry.
As long as {en-year-old Teddy likes
it I’m happy, and if he will come
up and see us sometime he will re-
ceive a little present for sending
the first letter.

T am taking the hint from Teddy
when he says he is not keen on
history. Our corner has been mostly
along these lines up to now, but
I was really serious last week when
T asked you all what you would

eressive Arts Players who lost so
much money this week at the Em-
press Theatre when they put on
“Bury the Dead.’ You can bet your
bottom dollar they would haye come
to the rescue.

So don’t think that they all spend
their time posing for pictures in the

ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENCE.

J. Anderson—Prior to 1547 there
is no recorded description of any
eames. The first work was pub-
lished by Antonio Torquemada of
Valencia, Spain, in the year 1547,
followed by the works of Pedro

papers. Try and pick out those pro-
eressive actors next time you so to
a moyie.

Tf you want to know just who
these movie stars are—and there are
a lot of them—write to me and I
will publish a list of them in this

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Wo one is satisfied with the pres-! like pest. Teddy's letter is a starter | comer. SyLviA ASH.
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