(a heap of boulders and bar- @2s5, an’ turned Liberal. Now > Liberal organizer for the jiet and lJast election I have 0 to pass out, and $1,300 =: that didn’t pass: fut the CCE —now that’s a $= man’s vision of what a ecal party should be! No = outs—but they sure do get sie workine for them just the e. ifteen oo’ them now, im’ the way to the glad new el, and do you know what Hlis 7” — } Modestly disclaimed all Grledgee. Mr. Hangers laid an- @> cud within ga hairline of Hirst. | means the same old world, mi the same old bosses, oper- min the same old way with same old holis, an’ none fd. F got this doped out. ° = P‘ROLD WINCH, see, he’s a Sbright young lad, an’ he ms bow to talk. He’s learned Ey in the last few years. #8 why the right people, an’ siapers, speak of ‘young Mr. #h, a coming man in BC poli- Fiat's why he talks so revo- ary. He knows talk will get CCE into power, but he Rs it's going to take more jaw-musiec to keep them Ge knows what it will an’ he’s covering up right irowin’ money at five per- now—welt I been in this t for some years, an’ be- By \. H. WELLS me, when a political party WS money it costs more’n or fifty percent. It costs you might call, at the risk © of these here contradic- in terms, their political in- ye 27RE supposin’ the CCR takes the election, an’ d@ Winch is the new premier. "S One thing as certain as Mares after pickles and 2, an’ that is, the treasury f© empty. Theyll need more % an’ they’ve promised so theyll tell the people the grits have robbed the kitty, 0 what? The people will te howlin’ for more educa- facilities, for machinery for Lrmers, for these here social © reforms, an’ theyll have at to *em, theyll say. ” ‘Told will call the caucus to- = an’ they'll talk taxation, lat won’t go down so well. 2 don’t elect governments, ularly CCF governments, to the taxes. | while Harold and Grace a the rest o’ them are ar- there’s an uproar outside— * these here delegations of doyed to visit the govern- sht there’s where most 0’ wish they’d been som’ers yhen the nominations were handed out to the faith- “So they argy further an’ the row outside gets louder and more threatenin’. ~ 4 Res some bright boy or gal Says ‘What did the Liberals do? Surely there must be some- thin’ we can figure out.’ So they look up the CCF Policy Program, 1943, an’ they find capital’s got a lot o’ money to invest in BC, the war bein’ over and a lot of excess profits kickin’ around. “Then some of them find they know the right people, so they. go to see them, and the right peo- ple are very sympathetic. ‘Go to Stickem, Bleedem and Skinnem back in N’¥ork, they are told, and we'll tell them you’re comin’ an’ to treat you right.’ “So, the uproar gettin’ louder all the time, an’ the hearts in the caucus gettin’ weaker, Harold Winch he flies back to N’ York. £6 R. SKINNEM meets him at the airport, an’ of course asks him if its his first time on Broadway, says he must see the sights, and he takes him ‘round, “Next mornin’ there’s a wire Waitin’ him. ‘Have you got the money, it says, ‘the reds are pryin’ up hell aroun’ here’ You See, the proletariat are ‘reds’ when they ask for performance, just like any other political party. “So Harold he takes a taxi down to Skinnem’s office, but when he does come he can’t talk business because Stickem and Bleedem are busy on a big rail- way deal, so another day skims by, an’ there’s another wire the next morning. “This wire’s probably pathetic, talkin’ about a special boat bring- in‘ the mob to Victoria, but Stickem and Bleedem are still busy, an’ anyway, what the hell, those birds back west should realize that Rome wasn’t built in a day an’ Socialism can’t be built without Stickem and Bleedem. “S>UT the wire next mornin’, along with the one that came late in the afternoon, talks bloody revolution, an’ this time Harold sees all three of the firm. For y see, they know the situation too, havin’ a pipeline into the telegraph office. “So they drag out their books, an’ bein’ all business, they talk about security. “Why, says Harold, amazed they don’t know, ‘it’s the richest province in Canada. We have everythin’ — lumber, fisheries, mines, “n’everything.’’ “Then they get out maps. “Fm’. say. Stickem.. ‘Lumber, let’s see, isn’t that mostly owned between Minneapolis and points east?’ So they find it is, and then Bleedem pulls out some more figures. “““Misheries,” he says. ‘Since when did the New England Fish- ing Company make its headquart- ers in Canada?’ “Even Skinnem ain’t the jovial mate he’s been for the last two days. it’s business-now, an’ these boys are tough. He points out to Harold who owns the mines, an’ just then another wire comes for Harold. ““For god’ sake, what are you doin’’ it says. ‘Wire cash assur- ance at once, or the pot boils (r. Hangers’ Orates at Some Length on... Socialism’ At Five Percent f [ SEE the CCF been holdin’ a convéntion?* said Mr. '_ Hangers, shifting on his seat on the upturned canoe and @ ing with amazing accuracy into one of the cracks of the i, “Those boys and gals sure are hounds for punishment.” » One time I used to attend those conventions. That was sin the days afore I fell off the doekhouse roof on ney head over.’ “But Harold knows suddenly there ain’t no cash, no hope, an’ no Socialism for BG. That is, no CCF Socialism.” Mr. Hangers sat silent and re- flective for a moment. “ A NYHOW, he's walkin’ out the door, without another word, when they call him back. “What's the matter?’ asks Skinnem. ““Well, gentlemen, T appear to be wastin’ your time,’ says Har- old, but they all make a fuss about that. “ But,’ says Harold, ‘you've just shown me we have no security: I didn’t realize it before—there’s no use... An’ his voice trails off into a mumble of dejection. “No security of the kina you were talkin’ about, but let's tell you somethin’’ says Stickem, and at the end Harold gets his money, “Eo be sure, it’s not the lump sum of 20 million or so he was lookin’ for, but it’s probably about 10 million, to be dribbled out at a million at a time on the say-so of a local agent for the firm of Vancouver, who will have a close eye on government economies. £ OU see,” said Mr. Hangers, | hitting the crack again, “it’s this former wasteland. Soviets Speed Building of New Hydro Power Plants OSCOW.—Construction of the Farkhad hydroelec- trie station, as powerful as the Dnieper and _Rybinsk stations, was begun in Uzbekistan on February 10, and the pace of the work so far shows that the plan will be fulfilled within six months. In one month the Farkhad builders excavated three million cubic yards of ground and built railway branch lines and housing to accommodate 40,000 people. The total of 25 million rubles worth of work that has been accomplished is double the amount planned. It is planned to build five new hydroelectric stations in Uzbekistan, of which the Ak-Kovak No. 3 station is to begin to generate electricity this coming summer, The Ak-Kovak No. 2 and the Salarsk stations are to be completed by the close of the “year. The new hydroelectric stations in Uzbekistan will set into motion scores of new industrial enterprises, will give rise to new fertile oasis reclaiming 2,500 acres from the desert and bringing agriculture to new sections of the same old finance, but when Harold gets off the plane at Vic- toria two minutes before the mob breaks in the door of the legisla- tive buildings, the rest o’ the party stalwarts don’t ask him about that. They get out circu- lars an’ proclamations immedi- ate, with a careful eye on the agent in Vancouver, an’ the gov- ernment is saved again. “O’ course,” said Mr: Hangers, “if they didn’t get the money, then the proletariat might build Socialism instead. But, as I was Sayin’, that Policy Program’s goin’ to make sure they get it. it’s a fine cover-up!” he con- cluded admiringly. omen in Science LONDON. qe Nazis are now pushing women into factories as feyer- ishly as they pushed them out in 1933. But they are certainly not yet using women in their war effort as well as _Britain, let alone the Soviet Union. As more and more women come into industry the question comes up of how far they can do a man’s job. The record of women in science has a big bearing on this ques- tion, because research is more and more becoming a matter of skilled manual work. This is ob- viously so in physics and chem- istry, where everything depends On very accurate weighing and measurement. @ T IS also the case even in such non-experimental branches of science as classificatory zoology. Linnaeus, the great Swedish Classifier of the 18th century, looked at a number of animals, and decided that the lion, cat, leopard, and so on were like enough to be put together in the genus Felis, while dogs, bears, weasels, and so on, were put in different genera. if a modern zoologist wanted to improve on Linnaeus, he or she would probably count the chromosomes in the nuclei of cells of different cat-like animals, and if he found that they fell into two different groups, he might split the genus. But to count chromosomes you need to harden the cells with suitable chemicals, slice the tissues very finely, mount them under a microscope, stain them,-and draw them or photograph them. All these are skilled jobs. At the present time my life depends on my skill as a chemical analyst. If I make a bad enough slip, I may very well be killed, and many others are in the same position. EW women have so far made big scientific reputations. Women are obyiously the equals of men on the stage, the screen, and the concert platform, and nearly if not quite so as writers of fiction. They were probably kept out of science, and still are, by their education, but in the last 50 years they have begun to compete in a big way. The greatest woman scientist was probably Mme. Curie, a Pole by birth. She succeeded in the monstrously difficult job of puri- fying and isolating radium, which By J. B.S. HALDANE Fellow of the Royal Society was present in one part per six million of the material from which she started, that is to say one pound in 2,700 tons. it is hard enough to separate it today when its properties are well known, and the amount of it at each stage can be accurately estimated. Mme. Curie combined the intellect of a first-rate scien- tist with the skill of a first-rate craitsman and the patience of a first-rate charwoman. WO other women have since done similar feats, namely, Dr. Meitner, a German-Jewish woman who, with O. Hahn, iso- lated the radioactive elgment protoactinium, and as she fled to Copenhagen, may now have been Murdered and Dr. Tacke, a Ger- man who collaborated with Nod- dack in isolating the rare ele- ments and masurium: The col- laborators later “married. Mrs. Leigh-Smith, the Croatian wife of an English diplomat, may have discovered another radioactive element this year, but her col- leagues have not yet checked up on her claim. * Other women scientists have also distinguished themselves by extreme technical sikkill, Miss Pockels was the first to get a surface of water so clean that its surface tension and the effect on it of very thin films of oil could be accurately measured. Dr. Stephenson was the first to determine the oxygen consump- tion, or in ordinary language, the breathing, of bacteria, when liven different kinds of food. Dr. Ethel Brown Harvey managed to separate the nucleus from de- veloping sea urchin eggs, and in- duce the remainder to develop through several stages, which upset many theories on the sub- ject. Dr W. Brenchley has proved the necessity for plants of elements such as boron in quan- tities too small to be detected by the ordinary methods of analyt- ical chemistry. F I WANT a bit of tedious and difficult work to be done as ac- curately as possible, I should Senerally give it to a woman rather than a man. The French physicist Langevin said that men were better scientists than women because they were lazier. When faced with a problem of this sort they try to find a short cut, and are thus more likely to make a new discovery. This may be an inborn char- acteristic of the sex, but it may also be. because women have tra- ditionally been taught acts such as cooking, needlework, and housework, where there are no short cuts. Whatever the cause, it suggests that women are as well qualified as men to become §0od craftsmen. Further, some women scientists bring intellectual as well as Physical tidiness and conscienti- ousness into their work. The woman with whom I am collabor- ating at present has fewer orig- inal ideas than TI, but she cleans Mine up, and not merely makes them more precise, but suggests experiments of which IT had not thought to check their accuracy. ae gs