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T MAY take some time yet for
the idea to sink in, but the

problem of juvenile delinquency

so-called, like that of unemploy-
ment, is basically a social question,

~ Inevitable as death and taxes in

capitalist society.
It follows therefore that current

_ long-winded dissertations in the
_ monopoly press lambasting “de-

linquent” youth, are no more of an
aid to solving the problem than
was tory Senator Ralph Horner,

who woke up long enough from

- his senate slumbers to observe

_,. that Canada’s million jobless “are
all loafers.”

Take a look at the high school
student youth of today and the
modern Mr. Bumbles who presume
to direct them along paths of recti-
tude and righteousness.

The youthful student grows up

- in a world where promiscuous or

“legalized” sex is poured out hour-
ly by the “kultur” factories of
Hollywood. What these factories

“Miss putting over TV the soap
_ operas step in and take up the

Slack. Considering this foul atmo-
sphere, why be surprised at the
end result, or direct Holy Willie

lectures at young people or their
parents?

Scores of hundreds of high
school and university students,
when vacation time comes around,
spend endless days looking for a

_ remunerative job by which to con-

tinue their education. They fill in

- innumerable company job applica-

tion forms on when, where and to
whom they came to be born. This
done, they are advised to wait for
a “call” which invariably never
comes, thereby adding to youthful

demoralization, frustration and
worse.

No job, a “Steady diet of sex
allure, perhaps a home unbalanced
by economic hardship, the “adven-
turous” call of a mad fin-tail-
sports-car motor age: a war hys-
teria glorifying mass murder and
destruction; add the lot together
and the sum total is youth demor-

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alization by government delinquen-
cy at all levels of administration.
Billions to blow youth (and age)
to kingdom come, but little or
nothing to provide youth with its
inalienable right of opportunity.

Go a little below high school
grades and we find another cold-
war target for government delin-
quents to snipe at—our children.

It is reported that our national
“defence” department has issued
instructions that, upon a given
“alert” signal, all school children
must be sent home immediately.

No explanations, just “go home.”

Another type of signal requires
the children to crawl under their
desks and remain there until the
“all clear” is given.

Needlesss to say, this form of
psychological coldwar warfare
upon children by government
authority will produce yet another
ingredient for youthful maladjust-
ment; that of nervous disorder
and distrust — prime essentials to
youthful cynicism and demoraliza-
tion in later years.

Not lectures at youth, but the
utilization of our vast resources to

provide Canada’s youth with op-~

portunity for a useful future, in
place of a costly nuclear shambles.

EDITORIAL PAGE

| Who is ‘delinquent’?

Neutrality

N seeking to extricate the U.S.
conspirators from the wreck-
age of the Paris Summit meeting,
spokesmen for Canada’s tory gov-
ernment have cut a sorry figure.
Diefenbaker’s fine show of affect-
ed “indignation” coupled with

McCarthy-like blasts against the

Soviet Union, convince no one
except those he hopes to white-
wash.

The Canadian people are not
sold on Dief’s tub-thumping in
defence of the U.S. warmongers.
On the contrary, Canadians in all
walks of life are beginning to
think, deeply and with growing
concern, how to get out of this
U.S.-dominated political and mil-
itary bondage into which they

have been sold by successive Lib-

eral and Tory governments.
As the full implications of the

U.S. U-2 espionage sinks in, a

growing volume of Canadian opin-
ion is demanding a status of neu-
trality; a cutting loose from all
U.S. or other military alliances, a

severance of our involvements in,
NATO and NORAD.

our need

A status of neutrality making
possible the restoration of Can-
ada’s sovereignty and independ-
ence, and which would enable our
country to write its own domestic
and foreign policies, based on

- peace and mutual friendship with

all nations. And probably most im-
portant of all in this tense period
of history, enable Canada, free
from the dictates of U.S. imperial-
ism, to become a truly powerful
voice for world peace.

With each pitiable apologia
made by Diefenbaker or others of
his tory cohorts in defence of the
U.S. Summit wreckers and their
aggressive war provocations, the
urgency of neutrality and a break-
away from dangerous U.S. mili-
tary alliances and domination, be-
come ever more pressing.

Whatever other lesson the U.S.-
wrecked Summit may hold for
humanity, it poses one very press-
ing lesson for the Canadian people:

The need to cut loose from U.S.-
dictated war alliances in which
Canada: is catalogued, not as a
“partner” with any voice in policy-
shaping, but.as an “expendable,”

‘which pays dearly in terms of

dollars, honor, prestige, and life,
for its own annihilation.

?

Tom
McEwen

ES

HAT is ‘news’? The mon-
W opoly brainwashers have a
lot of ideas on the subject, most
of which won’t bear too close ex-

amination. An old-fashioned notion -

held that “news” was a factual
recording of things and events to
keep people more or less accurate-
ly informed. In this day and age

~. that simple idea no longer holds

good. :

The modern monopoly “news”
manufacturers of today have a
different -idea; a sort of double-

“pronged recipe which they use as

events dictate. :
One is the complete suppression

_ of news, or as it is sometimes call-
_ ed, the “blackout.” This prong is
_used when mass public opinion or
action runs counter to official dic-
tum. Just give all such activities ©

or ideas the “silent” treatment.
The other prong is the most
widely used; obliterate happenings
by twisting “slanting” or deliber-
ate distortion, in order that the
events so reported will conform
with a given line of reactionary
ideology. ;

Thus we see the modern news
distribution agencies of today as
being nothing more (or less) than
a huge monopoly-controlled brain-
washing machine, geared to the job
of news misrepresentation, distor-
tion and confusion, and on a

_ scale hitherto undreamed of.

During recent weeks this gigan-
tic brain-washing machine, oper-
ated by the press hawks of modern
journalism has been working over-
time. Whether it was Soviet
Premier Khrushchev’s press con-
ference in Paris following the U.S.-
wrecked Summit, the special UN
Security Council on U.S. U-2 espio-
nage, or other events of world-wide -
importance relating to peace, the
brainwashers were there, staging
their own little “summits” and
ladling out pre-digested brainwash-
ed pablum for public consumption.
Truly a herculean effort to head-
off the public from forming its
own opinion on such matters. In
other words, brainwashing on a

~seale which makes the late Herr

Doktor Joseph Goebbels of “Big
Lie’? fame look like a third-rate
amateur.

“In a recent edition of the Irish
Democrat the editor poses a few
illustrations of this brainwashing
machine’s dual purposes.

Whether we agree with all the
facets of Ireland’s struggle for free-
dom or not, some facts cannot be
ignored. This particular one is that
134 Irish trade unionists have been

held in prison for years, without
charge, trial, or any of the other
boasted rights of British “justice”
so-called. On April 24 of this year
a huge demonstration was staged

‘in historic Trafalgar Square, ad- -

dressed by many important British
Labor party spokesmen and others
on behalf of freedom for these
Irish patriots.

The British press, as if controlled
by a single sinister hand, gave this
great gathering the “silent” black-
out treatment. Not a line any-
where, despite its great size, its
prominent speakers, or its vital
subject of freedom.

“Ts this because Ireland is not
‘news’”’ asks the Irish Democrat
editor? “Its horses are ‘news’. Its
stage Irishmen are ‘news’. Mr. Nash
came all the way from New Zeal-
and, and it was ‘news’ when he .
said the Irish were unpredictable. -
Even its occasional drunks are
‘news’. It is only the Irish struggle
against British imperialism that is
not ‘news’.

Very well put. A neat blueprint -~
of a monopoly-operated brain-wash-
ing machine, dedicated to the busi-
ness of keeping the people from
learning the truth.

The Irish Democrat editor sug-
gested one way to offset the harm-
ful effects of this brain-washing:
increase the circulation of that
paper. For us that is also good
advice; to stop the brainwashers
with increased “PT” circulation.

June 3,

1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4