Page 12 — P.A. Features, January 27 Yale and the Future PENTICTON, B.C.— Completion of the Hope-Princeton Highway, to open the short- est and best route from interior B.C. to the Coast, with all that this would mean to the economic life of the whole southern interior, stands high on the postwar agenda for Yale constituency as advocated by the Labor-Progressive Party and its dynamic standard-bearer, Angus Campbell, in the area. As a matter of fact next year will- be the 100th anniversary of the first surveys that were conducted for the road. In 1846 an A. ©. Anderson, then chief geographer for the Hudson’s Bay Company, pioneered the route when he was seeking a new route into the interior which would avoid the dangers of the Fraser Canyon. In 1860 the Royal Engineers started “work. Since then there have’ been about three periods during which part of the road was morning. It can open up one of the finest scenic areas in the province, Three Brothers Parl, as a large seale tourist attrac- tion. It will make the many rich, and still barely scratched mineral and lumber resources much more accessible for de- velopment. It.is a key to the economic prosperity of the re- gion which places it in the fore- ground as a goal which all British Columbia is interested in reaching. For it must not be forgotten that completion of this section of the southern has pointed the way forward to their achievement. Fruit growing is undoubtedly the first and greatest industry in Yale. At the same time fruit growing in the region is to a very great extent an irrigation: project; and it is the more easily irrigated land — mainly those irrigable by gravitation —which are under cultivation. There are, however, many thousands of acres of good beneh lands which could be cultivated if cheap power were available to the farmers and Complete Wf i X f @rans-Provincial Hightaay built. From i911 to 1914 there was a little; then as a relief project in the “dirty. thirties” and during this war by Japan- ese labor. It is still not finished. Angus Campbell is particu- larly suited to understand the many advantages that the route, which would cut off 100 - miles or more from the distance to the coast, would bring-to the farmers, workers and business- men of the area. He is a trade unionist with a farming back- ground who has faced the prob- lems of these important sections of the community. And at the same time his longtime associa- tion with the progressive ideas of all sections of Yale constitu- ency enable him to see the larger issues involved. And there are many issues for which the Hope-Princeton Highway can provide solution. it can provide the basis for a fast trucking service whereby Okanagan fruit ¢an leave the district in the evening and be on the Vancouver market in the provineial highway will serve 75 percent of the population of B.C. who inhabit a ribbon of land, 75 miles wide, running parallel to the international boundary line. (See map). No, promises, however well intentioned, do not substitute for the activity and pressure of the people. Indeed, those who sincerely want to carry out such promises will welcome this mobilization of opinion as strengthening their stand and assuring them. of the backing which is always necessary for the realization of progress. HE role of the LPP in the area in bringing forward Angus Campbell as a candidate in the apparently rapidly ap- proachinge: federal election can best be appreciated, not only jin the lead which is being given on this basic project for the progress of the region, but also in some of the other proposals which candidate Campbell has given voice to and for which he DON'T MISS IT! NEW WORLDS FOR WOMEN by Derise Neilsevz, Mp. Price, 35c Each Plus Postage PEOPLE'S BOOKSTORE 420 WEST PENDER STREET Phone MArine 5863 fruit growers for the installa- tion of pumping systems. Such cheap power, as every instance and project on the North Amer- ican continent prove, can only be made available if the hydro- electric power resources of B.C. are owned by the government and an all-round program of power development, irrigation and distribution is begun. For the immediate and long- term prosperity of the fruit- growers of Yale, as well as for the benefit of all the people, the LPP is therefore proposing that the provincial government be pressed to take over provin- cial power projects at once and proceed with the necessary de- velopment. Mining and lumbering, the next two most important in- dustries of the area, will also benefit from these policies. In the case of mining, while re- sources are apparently waiting for all parts of the region, only the south-east part has as yet been exploited. Gold is mined at Hedley, coal at Princeton and copper at Copper Moun- tain. The problems of the work- ers in the mining’ industry have been eased in recent months as unionization has come to the camps and begun to show results in improvements of working conditions and in security. Such gains as the 48 hour week, time and a half for overtime, Sundays and statutory holi- days, holidays with pay, and so forth, have been achieved and it is the policy of the LPP to assist in strengthening such organizations and in winning further gains. It is for all these sections of the people that the many pro- posals for social and economic betterment which the LPP in Yale puts forward are directed. And it is on the basis of the growing strength of the labor movement in Canada, and in particular in B.C., that the LPP brings forward the proposal for achieving the many reforms which are needed through . the only effective means available, a coalition government repre- senting all the democratic, for- ward-looking, sections of the people, in which labor will be effectively represented. ra Book Review A Bell for Adano; Alfred A. Knopf, (Borzoi book.) By John Hersey. : By HENRY T. BALDWIN F,. after reading A. Bell For Adano, the reader asks the ~ tion, “Just what did John Hersey say?”, I. think the ar would be, “people want democracy.” If one would ask how he said it, I thing the answer is” portraying the dignity of people in conflict with undemog influences.” ¢ . ; : Make no mistake about it, Hersey has revealed the work artist that promises to measure up to the best in contemp( world letters. As war corespondent for the Luce publication, 2 he cabled the incident that contained the seed -of his new | If one half of one per cent of the war correspondents came up ~ aything like it, America will witness a parade of literary ¥ osos that will add vigor to our democracy. The book has aii’ been added to the list of 1945 motion pictures because, it seer me, it reflects the hopes, ideals and cultural fibre of people e where. : : ; The scene of the story is the little Italian town of Adano is taken over by Major Joppolo after two unhappy decades of eist skullduggery. The first problem that confronts the from Brooklyn concerns food and replacement of the bell thai removed from the palace tower and melted down at a muni’ factory. i Hersey develops the ‘man does not live by bread alone” ¢_ throughout the book and concludes the story with the pealing of the bell the Major promoted from the United States Navy: The insubordinate act that finally leads to his being sent Adano, hangs heayy over the head of the reader. When the ge came through Adano shortly after the invasion of Italy, he or all mule carts off the streets of the town. The major felt tha cutting off of all supplies from his town was too drastic an a He countermanded the order, and sympathetic GI’s delayed th livery of the communication to the general until after the t folk had honored “Mister Major’’ with a reception and the pr tation of a fine portrait of himself, painted by Adano’s artis jacono. : Tina, the fisherman’s daughter, who is known as a far easy virtue, is held in tender regard by the major and her rez to the return of the ragged soldiers of Adano is one of the © moving passages in the book. 7 The tragic conflict between the military and civil admin’ tors is developed in all its deadly potency. It indicates ¢ enough how difficult it will be to shear off the political roc fascism after the military victory is won. A Bell For Adano is timely. It reaches out and gives stance needed for the clarification of such problems that ever exist in Italy and Greece. Hersey states his theme when the major addresses the ¢ former fascist mayor in the following words: : _“Nasta, you are a disgrace to your people. There is goc in your people, but not in you, not a bit. The world ha: enough of your kind of selfishness.” Lenin and Libraries “It is hard to get along without books,” Lenin once wr Gorky, commenting on the poor library at Gracow. No man was ever so appreciative of 2 good library. He % on his great philosophical work, Materialism and Hmpiri cism, in the British Museum Reading Room, where Karl had turned out some of his most prodigious works. He wa tunate in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, where he could use the stocked private library of G. V. Yudin, a merchant and a boo lector. Here he copied excerpts for his book on The Develo: of Capitalism in Russia. (The Yudin collection, incidental, bought by the United States Government in 1907 and i} housed in the Library of Congress). : Lenin’s attitude toward libraries—revealing at the sam 4 his striking modesty—may be seen in the following requ } the Library of the Rumyantsey Museum (now the Lenin library). This was written in 1920, three years after the R. tion: : sa “Please send me for reference for one day: : “I. Two of the best and fullest Greek dictionaries: (€ German, French, Russian and English. “Il. The best philosopical dictionaries, dictionaries of # sophical terms: German, Hisler, I think; English, Baldwin, 1 # French, Frank, I think (if you have not a Iater one); Russia of the latest you have. Radloy, and others. ° : “III. History of Greek philosophy: “1) Zeller, complete and latest edition. “2) Gomperz (Viennese philosopher); Griechische Den “Tf the regulations do ‘not permit of reference books | borrowed for home use, will you not allow me to use th the evening, at night, when the library is closed. I will them in the morning.” - And the man who wrote this was being denounced abrim the time as a “dictator’’! There is a whole volume to be written on Lenin’s ideas # literature and its relation to history and society, particula @ reflected in his several extensive articles 6n Tolstoy and warm relationship with Gorky. To complete the pictui™ would also have to comment on Lenin’s American reading ticularly his great interest in the works of Jack London. He was a man who loved good poetry, fiction, and dram ‘who believed passionately, as he told Clara Zetkin, that @ belongs to the people. It must let its roots down deep 1mm very thick of the masses. It must unite the feeling, thougl® will of these masses, uplift them. It must awaken the # among them and develop them.” :