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1945

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In Black and White

Population of Canada ______ 12,800,000
People over 65 who can’t work 3,000,000
Isett to swOrk 1-2 eee 9,300,000
People in the Armed Services 600,000
Wette tO: won ss se ee 8,700,000
Children under 18 — 4,100,000:
eehietorwObke.. sete 4,600,000
People employed by the

Dominion Government _ 3,000,000
lett to-woOtko 2 ee 1,600,000
People employed by the

Provincial Government 1,520,000
NSERC Ol AW OTe sok ne 80,000
POM tesa Se ee Oe es 79,998
Weft tO: Wotlk) 250 el eee ns 2D,

MacKenzie King and Me—He is always
busy ‘coaxing someone to yote or holding
some meetings, so Im fed up doing all
the work myself. (From the Report Center
published by the H.Q. RASS 4th Canad-

jan Division Overseas).
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Pinning it Down

Headline in the Hearst papers:

ton Woods Traced to Lenin.’ Our sug-

gestion for a headline: “Hearst Headline

‘Bretton Woods raced to Lenin’ Traced to

Goebbels.” (From Point of Order by Alan
Max in the Worker.)
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Out of the Frying Pan

. As a member of the State Board of
Charities and Reform, I was making as
official visit to the Wyoming Penitentiary
at Rawlins. It was just time for the evening
meal, and the prisoners had assembled in
the dining room. The warden asked if I
would like to speak to them, and without
waiting for a reply attracted the attention
of the men, told them who I was and called
upon me to say a few words to them.
The occasion had arisen so unexpectedly
that I was without a thought, but I start-
ed by saying, “My fellow citizens .. .
Their smiles immediately reminded me
that the citizenship of these men had been
lost upon conviction. I hastened to correct
myself and began again with, “Fellow
COMVACIS — . |
This was even worse. I could see at once
that they did not appreciate my inviting
myself into their select company. Deter-
mined, however, not to let the formality of
a salutation distract me, I explained sim-
ply, “Well, men, [ don’t know what to call
you, but I’m certainly glad to see so many
of you here.’ (Lester C. Hunt, Gov. of
Wyoming in The Modern Digest.)

 Bret-

es, Facts and Fancies

Election Tactics

If there is a fair election in Greece,
EAM will win by a considerable major-
ity.. Supporters of the Greek King are
busy alleging that Britain will not send
food if the vote goes in favor of the Left.
Support is given to this propaganda by
the fact that no British supplies have yet
been shipped to former BLAS territory.

More sinister is the growth-in Greek
Right Wing circles of jingoistic propa-
ganda against Bulgatia and Yugoslavia.
Sionificantly this propaganda became vo-
cal as soon as Bulgaria ond Yugoslavia se-
cured progressive governments. (From
Reynolds News: London, Eng.)

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Herrenvolk

It is not surprising, says the Times in
comment on the entry of the Red Army
into Berlin, that Goebbels has to threaten
with death those Germans who want to
hoist the white flags.

No stich warnings wete necessary
when Moscow and Leningrad stood in
immediate danger or when the invaders
penetrated into Stalingr ad’s streets. (From
‘Today in Europe’ in ‘the Vancouver Prov-
ince);

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Could Be

If | McCullage is George I and Drew
is George II, and having in mind Drew's
strict adherence to Hitler’s Anti-Komin-
tern Axis,
cused if they think the poet had Ontario
in mind when he wrote:

Georgius Secundus was then alive,
Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
(From Footprints and Fingerprints in
The Canadian Tribune)
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The Right Spirit

A doctor was treating a patient for
melancholic insomnia. He had tried every-
thing, but the patient continued sleepless
—and pessimistic. Finally, he decided on a
new cure.

“Get some good old Barbades rum, he
directed. “Cover a lump of sugar in the
bottom of a large glass. Fill with hot water
and drink slowly. Repeat this every hour.”

“But doctor,” asked the patient, will
that put me to sleep?”
“No,” said the doctor, “but it will”
make you not mind staying awake.” (Re-

printed from the Family’ Doctor in the

Modern Digest.)

examples
For example, several species of

future generations may be ex-

‘Missing. —

—-Continued from Page 1

the chemical elements, with a
time scale about a thousand
times that of the evelugion ot
living things.

T is much too crude to be in
any way final, but it may,

with luck, turn out to be re-
lated to a better theory, as la-
marck’s theory of animal ori- ~

gins was related to that of
Darwin. That is to say, some

parts of it may be taken over.

The theory of animal and

plant evolution was hard to ~

establish because animal eyo-
lution is a very slow process
In nature.

Since Darwin’s time a few
have been found.

moths in the English Black
Country and the German Ruhr

district have turned black since

the industrial revolution, and

the black race has spread out
to neighboring smokeless dist-

ricts.

But such changes are rare,
and no wonder, since organic

evolution has -taken about a-

thousand million years. On the
other hand human social evo-
lution has been very quick. In
ten thousand years societies
developed from hunting tribes
to many capitalist States, and
one Socialist State.

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HOUGH the time seale of
social evolution is less than
a thousandth of that of organic
evolution, it took the genius of
Marx .to see its outlines
through the cloud of propagan-
da put up by the defenders of
past and present social sys-
tems.

The evolution: of atoms will
be hard to work out because
its time scale is so vast. We
cannot study fossil atoms pre-
served from evolutionary
change. But we know that the
light from ‘stars arises from

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atoms, and teUs us a let abo
them.

Qur very best telescopes ¢
photograph light from sf
systems so far away that
has been travelling for 2)
000,000 years, that is to sg,
since about the end of
time when the British ¢
seams were formed. Big,
telescopes will let us stu
light from older atoms.

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atoms as we have worked ¢

that of animals and plan
and to verify the great p:
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