i | — ee es. bacadli [on : 74 SPANISH ROAD WORKER—This is a reproduction of a Podcut by a German Communist artist, produced while he "as imprisoned. He was interned by Hitler’s Gestapo in 8 and murdered in June of 1942. A WORKINGMAN RESTS ea am more than happy. I have 4 real affection for the Sov- et Poeple, who are_ incredibly fy and hospitable,” Lois aa famed Canadian sing- _ told a Novosti Press Agency eaespondent recently. ‘‘Audi- },,“°S here are most exacting and } People are great connoisseurs ) *nusic,’’ is is Lois Marshall’s third 7 neert tour in the USSR. She rived in Moscow on September ,” together with her accompan- ®t Weldon Kilburn. 4 ring her stay in the USSR i € gave three concerts in Riga, q Capital of the Latvian Re- the lic, two concerts in Tallinn, Du pial of the Estonian Re- 7}, Uc; two in Kiev, capital of ty ine and three in Leningrad. | tt? and Leningrad she par- “Rated in concerts together _,/ Symphony orchestras. ie Miss Marshall’s concluding con- : Des Was held in Moscow on Octo- Mo, IS in the Grand Hall of the coW Conservatoire. The pro- ‘,, included modern composers 14 Well as British and American a 3 WORTH _ READING aS Libre, by Lloyd Mattson ; Thi genie Thomas. Price 95c. a. book is a history of Cuba, aa time that Columbus dis- th iN the island (in 1492) until ‘oy ‘fated invasion at the Bay Point in 1961. The authors Oe, the shameful social and Vaile ic Conditions that pre- Cegee 2 Cuba prior to her suc- ° a revolution. Aner, Set a precedent in Latin ian fa when she became free } tig, “Tal and external domina- handea free from her own high 1 the . @ and ruthless dictators and thes, Anglehold of the U.S.; this, ta). Mthors discuss in some de- anadian singer tevisits U.S.S.R. All her concerts were outstand- ingly successful * * * Lois Marshall and Weldon Kil- burn made their first concert tour in the USSR in the spring of 1958 New Mark Twain book Letters -From The Earth, by Mark Twain (Harper & Row, $8.) Fifty-two years after the death of the author this collection of his writings, edited by Bernard De Vcio, has finally reached the public. His daughter had re- fused permission to have them published until this year although the volume was prepared in 1939. How timeless Twain is — these selections could have been writ- ten today. * * * Listen to what he says about war: “The higher animals engage in individtial fights, but never in organized masses. Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and with calm pulse to exterminate his kind.”” (The Damned Human Race). And about capitalism as he saw it in America: “She was rotten to the core. Lust of conquest had long ago: done its work; trampling upon the helpless abroad had taught her, by a natural process, to en- dure with apathy the like at home; multitudes who had ap- ’ plauded the crushing of other ‘people’s liberties, lived to suffer for their mistake in their own persons. The government was ir- revocably in the hands of the prodigiously rich and their hang- ‘ers-on; the suffrage was become a mere machine, which they used as they chose. There was no principle but commercialism, no patriotism but of the pocket.” (Papers of the Adam Family). * ak * Sharp and incisive as well as witty is Twain in his attacks on the hyprocrisy of religion, as in and visited the Soviet Union a Letters from the Earth where he LOIS MARSHALL second time in the winter of 1960. “My meetings with Soviet audi- ences are simply unforgettable,” she said. “I can’t think of any- thing more joyful than to sing to people who have such a great love for music. “Tn Kiev,” she continued, ‘I met Vladimir Ashkenazi. His name was known to us earlier. But now, after being present at his solo concert, I have become convinced that Ashkenazi is a splendid artist and a brilliant pianist for whom no technical difficulties exist.” In conclusion, Miss Marshall noted the high class of Soviet artists and conductors with whom she had met on the con- cert stage. Radio service now reaches 98 percent of Canadian homes and a good television signal reaches 90 percent of the homes. oy. ”- 9, 1962__PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9 describes the care with which ‘Noah’s. Ark included the fly — the carrier of disease—and ail the germs. “ The absurd picture of heaven described by Satan is in these letters; where man, who does not sing on earth, will constantly sing in heaven (and only one song, a hymn!), where he will’ play the harp continuously and where those things that he con- siders a pleasure on earth will not exist in heaven. As Satan says, ‘‘By this time you will have noticed that the human being’s heaven has been thought out and constructed upon an absolutely definite plan; and that this plan is, that is shall contain, in labored deta‘l, each and every imaginable thing that is repulsive to a man, and not a single thing he likes!” * * * Also in this same selection we find his appreciation of man as the creator: for example, the following: “Tf science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit, and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to. how good he is! Yes, he has done it. Per- haps he has waited a thousand years before doing it. That is nothing; the pulpit says he was thinking about it all the. time. When exasperated men rise up and sweep away an age-old ty- ranny and set a nation free, the first thing the delightful pulpit does is to advertise it as God’s work, and invite people to get down on their knees and pour cut their thanks to him for it. And the pulpit says with ad- miring emotion, ‘Let tyrants un- derstand that the Eye that never sleeps is upon them; and let them remember that the Lord our God. will not always be pa- tient, but will loose the whirl- ings of his wrath upon them in his appointed days.’ “They forget to mention that he is the slowest mover in the universe; that his Eye — that never sleeps, might as _ well since it takes it a century to see what any other eye would see in a week; that in all history there is not an instance where he thought of a noble deed first, but always thought of it just a little after somebody else had thought of it and done it. He arrives then, and annexes the dividend!”’ cd * a An implacable enemy of dis- crimination, of falsehood and fixed Far off Fearless, This day their spirits VENCEREMOS| The reptile jaw of Florida projects its teeth deep in the Gulf of Mexico. — On angry Latin Continents two hundred million pairs of eyes on an island in a hostile mouth. with all the World we waiched, and all the World has felt its little frost of fear. facing instant death — you knew your tortured brothers. Twenty thousand sacrificed their lives. boiled with fury in your Cuban blood. \ e ROGER PRENTICE [om has modern flavor sham, a great humanist, Twain’s writings have never failed to give inspiration and this volume is no exception. It is the pleasure - of listening to a courageous writer, a man who was prepared to pierce the veils of illusions as ae dees in The Damned Human’ Race, as follows: t “In all ages the savages of all lands have made the slaughter- ing of their neighboring brothers and the enslaving of their women and children the common busi- ness of their lives. “Hypocrisy, envy, malice, cruelty, vengefulness, Seduction, rape, robbery, swindling, arson, bigamy, adultery, and the op-~ pression and humiliation of the poor and the helpless in all ways have been and still are more or less common among both the civilized and uncivilized peoples of the earth. “For many centuries ‘the ‘com- mon brotherhood of man’ has been urged — on Sundays — and ‘patriotism’ on Sundays and weekdays both. Yet patriotism contemplates the opposite of a eccmmon brotherhood.” é oe * ¥ Many of the selections in this book were written just arcund the time of the Spanish- American war. It is perhaps fitting that if BOOKS their publication has waited so jong that they should be publish- ed at this time when American imperialism has brought the world. to the brink of war_over Cuba’s progress to full indepen- dence for her people. There is no doubt when read- ing this powerful book as _ to where Mark Twain would stand’ if he were alive today. (P.C.) LETTERS DIGEST We have received a satirical poem from Vancouver poet Al Rankin, which space does. not allow us to print in full. Follow- ing is the opening verse: Of all the things we really need The most vital need of all Is the new Power Toothbrush Hanging on the bathroom wall. Though unemployment’s on the rise And the price of food sky high, The Power Toothbrush makes us feel _ That Free Enterprise won't die. e _ Our mailman also brought several letters dealing with divergent subjects; these will be published as space permits. Readers are urged to submit Opinions on the recent state- ment of the Vancouver Com- munist Party Cultural Com- mittee (issue of Oct. 26), which dealt with the cultural crisis in this city.