BY ARTHUR CLEGG A spectre is haunting Senator McCarthy A SPECTRE is haunting Senator McCarthy. It is the spectre of Robin Hood. The United States is shaken. The “Reds” are everywhere. They are even in the nursery. : Goosey, goosey gander, Whither do you wander? Obviously a Communist spy! Cockadoodledo : My dame has lost her shoe, My master’s lost his fiddling stick And doesn’t know what to do. This is sedition. Poking fun at the boss. Mother Goose and all her nursery rhymes must be ban- ned. Like many wealthy men before them, the American millionaires are scared of Robin. Of course he was a Communist. So many good Yorkshiremen are. And Little John, too, and all the merry men in Lincoln green, and Friar Tuck. : Senator McCarthy is particu- larly afraid of Friar Tuck. That is why he is so busy attacking Christians for being members of “Red front” organizations. Robin, it is truly said, was a little weak in theory. That is not surprising in his time. But how his practice endeared him to common folk! Three hundred years after his death the bishops were still com- plaining. Bishop Latimer, in Tudor times, - protested that he arrived at a cer- tain church after it had been duly notified of his intention to preach there, but found it locked. After much hunting, a villager was discovered. Said Latimer, he “eomes to me and says: ‘Sir, this is a busy day with us, we cannot hear you, it is Robin Hood’s day. The parish are gone abroad to _ gather for Robin Hood.’ = History mentions the life of Robin Hood but once. In the records of the Sheriff of York it is noted in 1230 that the sheriff owes the king money for seizing the possessions of Robin Hood, fugitive. But his deeds have ever since been a favorite of romance’ and ballad and May Day celebrations. All true Englishmen are suck- led on Communism, even if still of a primitive kind. No wonder Wall Street trembles. For Robin once made a rebel- lion. The priest John Ball, preparing the Peasants’ Revolt, asked: “For what reason have they, whom we eall lords, got the best of us? Except perhaps they make us work and produce for them to spend.” Ball proved it by the Greeks. But his followers spoke of Robin Hood. The nobles cursed hedge priests who “nought perfectly say their paternoster” but “could yet rhyme of Robin Hood.” The revolt was bloodily sup- pressed. As the people said: The axe was sharp, the stock was hard In that fourth year of King Richard. But Robin was not forgotten. In the English Revolution the Diggers, like Robin, cursed the nobles and their Norman ances- tors. They sang: The gentry are all around, on each side they are found, Their wisdom’s so profound to cheat us of our ground; Stand up now, stand up now. Today Robin is no longer an excuse to take a day off work or from listening to sermons. His enemies have exiled him to the nursery. But they are still afraid. They know that he will beat them in the end. ; RACIST FOOTNOTE TO PARLEY Florists’ code hides _Jimcrow in Bermuda => jimcrow laws, auth- orizing racial and religious discrimination in that island’s re- sort hotels, could embarrass the three “free world” leaders who will meet there December 48. Suppose President Eisenhower - decided to bring along Dr. Ralph Bunche as an advisor; consider also the possibility that Premier Joseph Laniel, of France, showed up with the Vietnamese puppet ruler, Bao Dai, and Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill appeared in Bermuda with Gold Coast (West Africa) Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. Im such an eventuality, accord- ing to information given to the press last July by the American Jewish Congress, there might have to be three different confer- ences — one for white Gentiles, one for Negroes and another for _ Asians. According to this information, _ published in the July 25, 1953, - issue of the New York Amster- dam News, the Bermuda Tourist Bureau, an official agency, has issued to travel agencies a code by which agents are advised to_ denote -the racial origin of per- sons seeking Bermuda hotel re- servations. The American Jew- ish Congress said the “confiden- tial information’ to travel agents” suggested that the following code Will Maslow, director of. the congress’ law and social action commission, exposed the jimcrow set-up when he protested to New York state officials against “secret codes and conspiracies (by the Bermuda government) to involve New York agents in their discrim- inatory policies.” The National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple has asked President Eisen- hower to move the projected con- ference from Bermuda to a spot where racism is not the rule. @ The topic reportedly to be dis- cussed by Churchill, Laniel and Eisenhower will be the unity and defense of the “free world”! Gnade “| hear McCarthy is going to investigate Hoover now.” “Which one, Herbert or Edgar?” OPEN FORUM Thanks for donations B.K., Prince Rupert, 50c; F.C., North Burnaby, $1.50; A.H., Van- couver, $4.50; A.S., Merville, $2.50; A Friend, Vancouver, $5; Electical press club, $9.50; Mrs. L.W., New Westminster, $2.90; J.1., Okanagan Mission, $2; Powell River press club, 60c; Michel- Natal press club, $8.40; T.W., Sidney, $1.50; W.T., Van- couver, $4; C.M., Lund, $1.59; M.S., New Westminster, 50c; Mrs. $.H., North Burnaby, $1.50; Court- enay press club, $1.50; Fernie press club, $1.50; E.H., Sointula, $1.50; T.A.C., Victoria, $1.50; L.L., Vancouver, 50c; A.S., Nanaimo, 50c; Nelson press club, $7.10; G. W., Manitoba, $1.50; A Friend, Vancouver, $2; C.C.W., Kamloops, 50c; South Surrey press club, 50c; Trail press club, $7. Has he read Engels? LENA LIPSEY, Vancouver, B.C.: President Eisenhower was given a great welcome when he addressed both Houses of Parlia- ment in Ottawa, November 14. In an atmosphere of great friendliness, we are informed, he opened his address ‘“that Canada and the United States are equal partners, that nothing will cor- rupt the Canadian-American part- nership.” I feel sure that the President is unaware that many Canadians in all walks of life are concerned today with this “unequal partner- ship,” that American imperial- ism has penetrated into all phases of our life today, economically, politically and culturally. It may be too, that the Presi- dent has heard of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and of their correspondence, but I am not sure he has heard of Florence Kelley Wischenewetsky, American social reformist, nor of the letter Fred- erick Engels wrote her dated Feb- ruary 3, 1886. Engels wrote that “America will smash up England’s indus- trial monopoly, whatever there is left of it, but America cannot her- self succeed to that monopoly. And unless ene country has the monopoly of the markets of the world, at least in the decisive branches of trade, the conditions, relatively favorable, which. exist- ed here in England from 1848 to 1870 cannot anywhere be repro- duced, and even in America the conditions of the working class must gradually sink lower and lower. For if these three coun- tries, (say, England, America and Germany) competing on compara- tively equal terms for the posses- sion of the Weltmarkt (world mar- ket) there is no change but chronic overproduction, one of the three being capable of supplying the whole quantity required. That is the reason why I am ‘watching the development of the present crisis with greater inter- est than ever and why I believe it will mark an epoch in the mental and political history of the American’ and English working classes — the very two whose as- sistance is as absolutely neces- sary as it is desirable.” President Eisenhower is con- vinced that the horizon ahead is bright with promise, that “no shadow can halt the advance of Canada and United States to- gether.” It seems ‘to me that there is more than a shadow reaching out to engulf us all — Senator Mc- Carthy and his friends, and ap- parently with President Eisen- hower’s approval, are out to strangle us completely. Wants more poetry PEACE WORKER, Vancouver, B.C.: Most people like poetry, and I think it would be a good idea if the Pacific Tribune printed at PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 4, 1953 — least one poem each week — not just new poetry, but also the work of progressive poets which have stood the test of time. Here is an ancient poem (auth- or unknown) called War’s Insar ity, which I have always lik Ten million men Went forth to fite When forty statesmen Cald it rite. They faut and died— Ten million strong, To prove the forty Statesmen rong. Had statesmen faut And died insted, Their lie would cost But forty dead. A dog's prayer ee B.C ST. BERNARD, Vancouver nat So many people are say’ dogs the world is going to the to these days, that I would pen recite for the benefit of man A Dog’s Prayer: “Q Lords of humans, make master faithful to his fellow tbe Grant tha and Ss ¥ May hee ceptive pgone eg am. May he Are posed in him as I a oe “Give him a face cheerful ct unto my wagging tail; 8 spirit of gratitude like | licking tongue. patience like un awaits his Footstar. un ingly for hours; : my y asenhulneee my courae™ fort ie my readiness to sacrifice of life. ' Hg in “Keep him always We gpitit heart and crowded wi e hit of play, even as I am- a doe 4, as good a man as : “Make him wort dog.”