3 Y citizen has been tked by. the ~ out- scrimes in Our prov- Etish Columbia is hining notoriety as a 2” Matters are going to worse. In the last E four serious murders place. We were es- hocked by two of murder of a 19-year- y a 17-year-old boy and the recent mur- four-year-old girl by gold, have served to ic attention on the ture of the whole ‘f crime among our id youth. . ce people who look hereas actually they rpest manifestations a social condition ot acted on immedi- paffect many young fproblem of juvenile i has reached alarm- vions ‘and if we fail ' warning of the re- cunate incidents we Fur younger genera- -e are aware only of '&€ cases of juvenile ‘which hit the head- fir newspapers, but don’t know is that -h case that reaches fition there are hun- -her crimes commit- ig people which are el about. _, _catistical reports on ,elinquency tell a Eine story. It is not snown that 50 per- >| those going into -men under 24 years ‘is is the statement 'fficial- of Canadian 2s. But it doesn’t + whole story. -are often boring | sometimes they tell lan story. : studies the recent juvenile delinquency the all around in- ‘rimes among youth Chil dren murders as isolat- itiarles are young - e immediately im- The main entrance t Pioneers in Kharkov What’s Happening To Our of every age group. : The national picture is shock- ing indeed but our provincial picture is even worse. A com- “parison between the two shows that juvenile delinquency in & B.C. is almost two percent above the Canadian average. N Canada major offenses in the first three years of o the restored palace of the Young no juvenile;delinquency here. ere Is U.S. Foreign Policy > T » licies of the United I govern”? when- ences arise among in the treatment of at overshadows by rhing else said by Truman last week in ent on Japan. For ‘ats to the outright (f a United Nations ne Far East in favor e-handed, dictatorial ‘policy. these circumstances, liation of General | by Dean Acheson abe Department and iquent approval by of his appointment ant Secretary is a ictory. It was no all to reiterate the Which the American 10ught they were he war in the Pa- Nally in view of the 2 indignation arous- DVOCATE—PAGE 13 ed by MacArthur’s occupation policy. : But the aims of demilitar- izing Japan, punishing the war criminals, destroying the power of the Zaibatsu and en- couraging a democratic form of government will remain largely on paper just as long as they remain the buniting on the main policy, which is something quite different. FOR MacArthur and his_pro- fascist friends in the United States will have won their main point if the United States flings the door shut to cooperation with the Soviet Union and our other war allies in the Far East. Then, every- thing done in Japan and China will be done with the aim of establishing United States power in Asia, and subordin- ating everything else to this objective. Sustenance in Asia for Such a policy can be found only among the feudal and most reactionary forces, including ° by James Allen the Japanese military-fascists and their quislings in China, Korea and Southeast Asia. Washington may issue staite- ments including even so ter- rible a word as “revolution,” and MacArthur will remain free in deeds to support and nourish all the counter-revolu- tionary forces of Japanese imperialism. , No small part of the dici- culties of the foreign minis- ter’s meeting in London can be ascribed to tthe high-handed American policy in the Far East. The American role can- mot be separated into two com- partments, one for Europe and the other for Asia. acARTHUR has a= count- erpart in General Patton in Bavaria. We are keeping the fascist structure alive in Japan but we are also keeping Nazis in power in our German zone. Continued on Page 13 See FOREIGN POLICY by Maurice Rush the war increased by almost 40 percent. Minor offenses during the same time increased by 86% percent. Experience shows that the increase in minor of- fenses usually leads to an in- crease in more serious offenses. A child may start out steal- ing little, unimportant things, but unless the conditions are removed which cause him to do that, he soon finds himself on the way to a career of crime. The best indications of what is happening among our chil- dren and youth is to be found in the records of the Vancouver Juvenile courts. In 1948, 28 out of every 1,000 boys of a cer- tain age group were brought into our courts. This figure represents a 100 percent in- crease over 1986 in the same age group. The court records give a sim- ilar picture among young girls. The increase here in a given age group between 1936 and 1943 was 75 percent! The citizens of Vancouver would be- guilty of the worst kind of neglect if they over- looked the seriousness of this problem and failed to take steps to erase this blot on our prov- ince. Experience has shown that crimes among children can be traced to three factors which influence their environment. Firstly, there is economic inse- curity and want. Secondly, poor homes which drive children on- to the streets to escape from monotony and unpleasantness. _ Thirdly, the failure of our com- munities to provide centers for healthy recreational and educa- tional activities, as well as the failure of our school system to help young people find their place in society. @ THE prospect now that the war is over is not ‘that juye- nile delinqueney will decline. The failure of government ac- tion to provide economic secur- ity in the postwar years coupled with the failure of government action to clean up our slums and build suitable low-rental dwellings will not lessen crime but lead to a further increase. It is obvious to every think- ing person that juvenile delin- quency is the by-product of de- linquent government! The Tory-Liberal Coalition government failed our young MAURICE RUSH LPP Provincial. Organizer, Can- didate Vancouver Center. people miserably. Although Hart and Maitland now come forward with beautiful prom- ises about what they will do if they are re-elected, their rec- ord- of achievement in creating conditions for widespread crime among our children is the most outstanding record of their fail- ure to serve B.C. well. It has often been said that a government can best be judged by what it does for our future citizens. If the reactionary coa- lition is to be judged by this same ‘yardstick it stands con- demned before all. Housing Continued erisis in British Columbia has become increasingly worse. It is obvious that no single program will fit the’ require- ments of all homeless people in British Columbia. But it is equally obvious that deter- mined action by the provincial government is the sword that will cut the Cardian knot that snarls housing plans. The provincial government has full authority’ to pass legislation governing property rights, land use and municipal administrative organizations. By its right to pass such legis- lation, the provincial govern- ment can obstruct or assist action in housing. So far as British Coumbia is concerned, the provincial government has taken initial steps in passing legislation: - enabling small building plans for servicemen, but in every other respect the Coaliton government has been content to sit back and ignore the housing situation. What is needed is a broad housing plan for B.C. Such a plan should include the imme- diate construction of 20,000 homes to meet the demand. Large low-rental, low-cost housing schemes should be in- stituted im all areas badly need- ing housing, the establishment of regional planning and housing authorities is badly meeded to coordinate local building schemes to meet population requirements, in addition, the provingial gov- ernment must take on _ its share of financial responsibil- ity in line with proposals made by the federal government under the National Housing Act. In addition, the provin- cial government must make subsidies available for the launching of housing _ pro- grams. The critical housing situa- tion facing British Columbia will not be solved by the pres- ent Coalition government. Its record during the war years has proven its ‘Incompetence to meet demands. Only a govern- ment dedicated to meeting the people’s needs, free and inde pendent of pressure from big business can launch the low- cost, low-rental housing plan that will solve the province’s _ housing problem. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1945 TOPONY ie yeaa hee mee ET YY } a i 5 iC ce retnnabh he eee to