MAX FERGUSON (known to thousands of Canadians as ‘‘Rawhide’’) 18 featured on CBC Radio every morning at 8:35, local time, Monday to Friday inclusive. The show is a combination of folk music and Political satire. Above, Max Characters created by himself. ~ Hopeful Solution Douglas V. .Ross, Vancou- Ver writes:— Speaking in the BC. Legislature on Nov. 10, 1936, R. R. Burns, MLA (Rossland-Trail) stated the following: ‘‘Although building has been very brisk in Ross- land, Trail and Tadanac, near- ly all the work has fallen to Doukhobors, and local mer- Chants have not gained from the activity. Unfortunately he Doukhobors have come in literally in hundreds and Managed to secure all the Work. “Doukhobor contractors never pay more than the min- mum wage and their work- €rs take that pay back to the - Community and bring their Ng supplies for the week T0m their own district. It Makes it very hard for the wg of our own race to get he jobs they are entitled to. farnestly hope that some ay a solution will be found. th S€ems to most of us that ae breaking up of this Com- Unistic experiment is the nly cure”. Today in Vancouver we are faced with the results from € above “hopeful solution’, let alone the proposed scatter- ou proposition of the provin- “lal government. (Van. Sun, ‘ea 19, 1963) The Doukho- “or people are still today be- Ng mocked and_ discrimin- ated against. What we must begin to re- alize is this, that if any power €xisting today wants what You've got, they’ll go to all €xtremes to get it, and God € with you if you stand or Protest in any way, no mat- ter what race, color, creed or Teligion, — example of this power what it can do is the om of the Indian people, the 18inal race of Canada. What happened to them? E oday they are regarded as ©ond-class citizens, and flr ‘problem’ started long fore the Doukhobor one in conver. Let’s not fool our- =e any longer. It could oom to us, and as proof a the above ‘hopeful solu- of R. R. Burns — which - taken 27 years to reach Ory Square in Vancouver. ls Ashamed J.H. Hughes, North Van- °Uver writes:— To Mr. Bob impersonates o ne of the host of OPEN FORUM Strachan, provincial leader, NDP. Dear Sir: I take the lib- erty of writing you regarding the reports made, showing disapproval by you of the vis- it of Mr. C. Cox, MLA, to Cuba. I must say that I am astounded, as are many of my fellow-supporters of the NDP, that such disapproval is voic- ed, instead of encouragement to Mr. Cox. Such a visit, I feel sure, would benefit other leaders of the NDP if they too would but make it. — I believe it goes without saying that the socialist movement in Canada, firstly the CCF and now the NDP, is far bigger than any one of its leaders, and also far above any petty rulings against a member. or members making a visit to any Socialist coun- try, be it Cuba or any other. I have been a socialist of many years standing and I am vitally interested in work- ing for socialism in Canada. But I must say now that I and many others are asham- ed to hear of such limiting of knowledge on socialism by leaders of tthe NDP, con- cerning the visit of Mr. Cox to Cuba. : Royal Suite B. M. Vancouver, writes:— I see by the papers that the short visit of the Queen in Vancouver ran up an expense bill of ten thousand dol- lars or there about. The CPR is reported to have put the ding on the royal trans- ients for $800.00 for one night’s bed and board in its “royal suite’. Boy that must be some suite? Way I figure it is that $800 bucks at 50 cents a night for a bed in some not-so-royal flophouse would have provid- ed a crib for some 1600 job- lugs. oe an Mayor Rathie, who has a Swiss cheese log- ic when it comes to “saving” the taxpayers’ money would figure my arithmetic doesn’t apply where royalty is con- cerned. With him the 50-cent flophouse tariff for acre as he dubs us, is a “burden on the overloaded taxpayer, while the CPR’s $800 clip is an “honor’’? Well mebby so, but it all. comes “out of the same your kncw-who pocket. ‘Naked Among Wolves’ NAKED AMONG WOLVES. By Bruno Apiiz. Translated by Edith Anderson. Price $1.25. °@ here is a man in East Ber. lin named Bruno Apitz who survived years of impris- onment from 1936 to 1945, entering Buchenwald when it was built in 1937 and coming out with the last, living skele- tons at the “end.” Son of a German worker, Apitz had never written be- fore his release, but he has since become one of the most important writers in the Ger- man Democratic Republic and in 1958 he wrote this novel which has been a best-seller ever since, has been adapted for television and film and won the National Prize (100,- 000 marks) in 1958. * * * “Naked Among Wolves” is not a major novel but it is a story through which Apitz lived and which he has set down as beautifully as any story may be told: it is a nat- ural. For into Buchenwald, the last months of the war, there came a Polish prisoner carry- ing a suitcase, which the in- mates (who ran the camp un- der the eyes of the SS), had to take away from him. Inside the suitcase was a three year old boy, half starv- ing, terrified, huddled into himself. The inmates were ap- palled—what was to be done with the child? If the Nazis got wind of his existence, not only the boy would be de- stroyed, but all who harbored him. They had a decision to make and they made it: they would save the boy. The war was drawing to an end. The Red Army was advancing from the east; the Americans from the west — it was only a question of time. * * * But the saving of the boy became a major operation 0} the underground Communist activists who actually ran the camp and organized their fellow prisoners: for eventual ALVAH BESSIE, one of _ the famed Hollywood Ten, reviews a book which is particularly timely in view of the various manipu- lations by West German monopoly interests to equip their armed forces with nuclear arms. rebellion. And it was far more difficult to accomplish than you might imagine, consider- ing the fact that each bar- racks was jammed with hun- dreds of human beings. The boy had to be moved almost daily; he had to be fed and bathed to preserve him from imminent death; he had to be guarded and his pres- ence had to be concealed. The SS caught onto his ex- istence in short order and be-- fore Apitz’s story ends, they not only conducted a search for the child but they be- came so infuriated by their failure to find him that they tortured several of the pris- oners to death in a vain ‘ef- fort to locate the boy. * & = This is the story Apitz tells and it is both heart-breaking and heartening at the same time. For he takes great pains to explore each of the lead- ing characters, whether SS or commanding officers, prison- ers (brave, cowardly, defeat- ed or inflexible), their rela- ships with each other and the counterpoint of the develop- ing rebellion. In the small museum at Buchenwald today you can see the hand-made weapons the inmates forged out of scraps of wood and metal— as well as the shoes stripped from the prisoners on their BOOKS arrival and the gold teeth ex- tracted from them, the hair shaved from their heads (and sold as well), and the torture instruments under which died some. of the greatest heroes of the German people, such as Ernst Thaelmann, who was held for years and shot to death in the yard of the cre- matorium in 1944. “Naked Among Wolves” is therefore a chronicle of the worst — and the best — of which man is capable. It is an enduring document of our times. — ALVAH BESSIE (Abridged) U.S. LEADERSHIP America is today the leader of movement in defense of vested a world-wide anti-revolutionary interests. —Arnold Toynbee, Monthly Review, December, 1962. More ‘p MITRI Shostakovich, who has D often been called the world’s greatest living composer, has urged that variety and _ light music should be included in the syllabus at Soviet Conservatoires. The world famous symphonist made this proposal in opening a composers’ discussion in Moscow on raising standards of light music in the Russiain Federation. The present conservatoire course was ‘‘purely academic,” he said. Students composed sym- phonies, sonatas, oratorios, opera and were also expected to write “at least one popular song.” DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH a single conservatoire popular song,”’ said Shostakovich. “I’m sure I’m not mistaken in sup- posing that jazz or circus mueic has never yet been written for a professor!” “T must say I haven’t heard of op’ songs urged Students wrote one kind of music for professors according to the syllabus, but gave radio and variety what suited the customers’ taste. : A * * Foreign influences, especially of American jazz, could be bene- ficial or alien to the develop- ment of Soviet light music, so the study of sources was a key question. : Jazz had its enthusiastic sup- porters and also “‘opponents ready to ban it by administrative measures.” The many. amateur groups formed in recent years had a large young audience, but lacked: “any criticism or support—hard- ly a normal state of affairs.’ “We must study closely the changes taking place, understand the needs and demands of people, especially youth and help them find their bearings in the music of the day,’’ said Shostakovich. Dead Little Girl Of Hiroshima I come and stand at every door, But none can hear my silent tread, I knock and still remain unseen, ' For I am dead, for I am dead. I’m only seven though I died In Hiroshima long ago. I’m seven now as I was then— When children die they do not grow. My hair was scorched by swirling flame My eyes grew dim and blind. Death came and turned my bones to dust And that was scattered by the wind. I need no fruit, I need no rice, I need no sweets, or even bread; I ask for nothing for myself, For I am dead, for I am dead.’ All that I ask is that for peace You fight today, you fight today, So that the children of the worid May live and grow and laugh and play. © NAZIM HIKMET Feb. 15, 19683—RACIFIC . TRIBUNE—Page 9.