KAO ft Sacrifice. By ALFRED C. CAMPBELL Sue gh ag ye NOT burn my hut,” cried a seventy-year-old Russian @’ peasant to the fascist incendiaries who had stripped the fg )2m2. clean of everything down to his personal effects and of W ng. He was instantly shot dead and his hut burned to itself sound. 3 Unis (F is the answer given tto ejin.§) On conquered territory to protest against the Shot 4f their hard earned prop- of mug! questioning the arrogant [league of the German High Com- | which state: “Collective risen ff 222d and collective farm ei ty pass into the possession }German army.” Fmust indeed be devoid of Hman feelings or made of who can read the report h ti:@:man atrocities against So- Thi izens and property as sub- 20k by V. Molotov, of the i th: gi Government, without feel- i ripe’ revulsion and deep hatred is afi the fascist beasts who so Wither human beings. STcirs dq e 5 and seas syieee ND adequate description ‘ome | the details of the sadism, Ss o}med by the German invad- iay @ paralleled in the history jum world are their despicable ion people whose only wish ilive at peace with their pers. The ghastly clubbing fa of infants; the chopping the Adren’s wrists; the kicking § a Of pregnant mothers; the a and stabbing of younse feat Gitls; the burning, looting fre 12S of villages; the com- “@aunihilation of entire com- cers aS has no other precedent entire history of mankind. atrocity stories of “Butch- mberland with his Hessian and his infamous depre- on the Scottish Highland- 1745, when he laid waste y rebel’s hut; seized cat- d and effects; set fire to } tks and fodder bins; and , Pthe women and children = mounter passes there to ulunger and exposure, are “hing compared to the whe deeds the fascists have i upon the Russian peas- a ¢f n their criminal quest for an th fever the fascist “Jack the je, ts” have set foot on Soviet ide ere the citizenry have been Trl) d anc ruined, their homes and wrecked, the territory it = destitution and smoking nae What were formerly pros- farmsteads are left a mass de. Where once the happy of Soviet children echoed collective farm courtyard, tcy on the Soviet front. now is heard the moans of de- mented mothers viewing the dead and mutilated bodies of their children, e@ - AL when in the midst of such Scenes, Canadian citizens read that there are those who question the right of the Soviet Government to execute such de praved elements as Ehrlich and Alter, and even presume to pass resolutions rebuking the Soviets, we wonder just how deeply the lessons of the past three years have penetrated the thick skulls of not a few who profess to be “Socialists” and leaders in pub- lic affairs. It is Socialist property which is being razed to the ground; it is the gold treasury of the Social- ist state—the Soviet babes—that are being used for rifle target practice by the worst gang of assassins that ever breathed. Whether they know it or not the movers of such resolutions are aiding weasel-mouthed Dr. Goeb- bels. € HERE is one wee tot in a Soviet hospital who will never be able to read that resolution. “Look at my little bird,’ said her young room mate, whose legs had been chopped off by the fas- cists. “But I can’t,” replied the little girl. “I’ve got no eyes. The nazis burnt down our house, and they locked us in, mummy and me, and thats how the fire Scorched my eyes.” e IN army order found on routed units of the German Northern Army states: “All felt boots, in- eluding children’s felt boots, in the possession of the Russian ci- vilian population are subject to immediate requisition. The pos- Session of felt boots is forbidden Imagine the feeling of the Sovi- et surgeon of the Moscow Chil- dren’s Hospital who was asked by @ wee four-year-old girl: “Will my fingers grow again, Uncle Doctor?” Her frozen fingers had been amputated. Both she and her mother had been driven into the thirty below zero night after the fascists had first robbed them ef their felt boots and woollen mittens. Iss Slaughter of captured soldiers has long been a Nazi |. And We Talk IN excerpt from an order of the German General Staff reads: “It is imperative to ac- quire clothing by any means through compulsory impositions on the population of the occupied regions . ..” And while we in Canada might grumble at times over contribut- ing from our meager earnings to _ war loan campaigns, a Red Army soldier relates how on driving out the fascists from a Soviet village: “...iIn a barn we came across a twelve-year-old girl who had been raped and whose felt boots had been torn off her feet.” ESCRIBING the looting of occupied Europe as surpass- ing in “magnitude and ruthless- ness” all previous conquests of history, the United States Board of Economic Warfare recently es- timated that the German fascist army had by the end of 1941 plundered Europe and occupied Russian areas of $36,000,000/000, and that the rate since is leaping into “tens of billions per year.’ “Wot only has wealth, aceumu- lated over centuries, been carried back to Germany, but the indus- tries, natural resources and labor power of the occupied countries are under absolute German dom- ination,” the board added. But rows of cold figures tell only a part of the entire truth. The fascists sequester everything. Eiven the meanest chicken thief would blush at the petty thefts of the fascists where they seize everything down even to well used personal articles to send home to their willing helpmates. Such orders as the following Signed by the Hitler jackals are quite common: “Grain, big cattle, small cattle, and poultry must all be taken from the inhabitants for the army. In every house a thorough search must be made and every- thing must be taken, leaving nothing . . . Anyone offering the slightest resistance is to be shot, on the spot and his house burned.” But these desperate bandits do not rest even there. Their base—_ ness knows no bounds. On Novy. 25, 1941, the fascist barbarians issue* the following bloodchilling order to their Nazi army degen- erates: “Fear of the Germans must be instilled into the people to their very bones. No lenience is permissible to anybody, women and children included.” @ NLY a people abounding with the unconquerable econti- dence in their government and its Cause could sustain itself with the superhuman morale which cannot be broken and in face of every fresh torture ever con- ceived in the evil mind of Hitler remains unshakeable and invin- cible. They remain true to the advice of their wise leader Jo- seph Stalin who said: “. . . All the world is looking upon you as upon a force capable of destroying the By J. B. S. HALDANE = Fellow, Royal Society LONDON. 2 ees disease is one of the commonest causes of death. But a great many of the deaths from it occur in old age. It does not very much matter whether one dies at 80 or 85. One’s work and pleasure are both pretty well over. Death in the early years of life is much more serious. On of the great causes of heart disease in children and young people is rheumatic fever, or acute rheumatism. It has long been known to be a disease of poverty. The fact that several cases often occur in one family has been put down both to infec- tion and to heredity. But poverty is the main cause. How it acts is another question. Some have blamed bad feeding, others bad clothing, damp, over- crowding, vermin, and so on. As all these are consequences of poverty, it was hard to discover which was most to blame. ) OME progress has been made by a very important research suggested by Professor Perry, of Bristol University, and carried out by Dr. G. HB. Daniel. He in- vestigated 341 working class fam- ilies in Bristol containing one or more children with rheumatic heart disease. Heart disease in children was strongly influenced by over- crowding. In families with less than 0.6 rooms per person the disease was 67 per cent above the average. In those with 1.8 rooms or more per person it was less than half. Overcrowding is a more important factor than mere poverty. Several other characteristics of the families were recorded. Fami- lies living in a basement have long been known to have more rheumatic heart disease than others. This was proved to be so, even when allowance was made for low wages and overcrowding, though of course, the effect was predatory _ hordes of German usurpers. The subjugated European peoples fal- len under the yoke of German usurpers look to you as to their saviours. A great liberating mis- sion is fallen to your lot. Be worthy of this mission. The war which you are waging is a lib- erating war, a just war. Let the courageous example of our great ancestors inspire you in this war. - . - Let the triumphant banner of the great Lenin shield you .. .” When we here in Canada speak of sacrifice, let us remember what has been suffered by the peoples of the Soviet Union and the other countries of occupied Europe. No sacrifice we can make, either in a determination to work harder at the task of increasing production, or in the purchase of war bonds, can make up for the horrors the Soviet peo- ple have so far saved us from undergoing at the hands of the Nazi murderers. A Disease of Poverty less. For very few people live in a basement if they can afford to live upstairs. @ H®Z= is Dr. Daniel’s summary of some’ of his most important findings in his own words: “Thus if the standards of the 30 per cent of the Bristol workings calss population with the most inade- quate incomes and housing ac- commodation were raised to the average level of the rest of the working class population, a de- crease of 26 per cent in the num- ber of cases of rheumatic heart disease could be expected. And if standards were raised to the level of the highest 10 percent of all working class families, the inci- dence of the disease would be roughly halved.” We do not know whether there is a gain in health from two small rooms rather than one bis one, how important sunlight is in bedrédoms, what is the healthi- est form of heating, or many other important things. But we do know that our present housing standards condemn thousands of children to crippled lives and early deaths.