FACTS AND FIGURES THE USSR The national income of the Soviet Union, on the basis of prevailing prices, increased in 1950 by 64 percent compared with 1940, instead of the 38 percent as envisaged in the Five-Year Plan. 39,200,000 industrial and white collar workers were employed in the USSR at the -end of 1950, which is 7,700,000 more than in 1940. There is no unemployment in the Soviet Union. - Prices have been reduced four times in the Soviet Union since the end of the war, thus saving the Soviet public thousands of millions of roubles. The total incomes of factory and office workers and farmers increased -in 1950, on the basis of prevailing prices,’ by 62 percent as compared with 1940, In 1950 the public received payments and prizes of more than 120,000,000,000 roubles paid by~ the state, which is three times the sum paid by the Soviet state in 1940. Consumption in the Soviet Union increased con- siderably: in 1950 state and cooperative stores alone sold 3§ percent more meat and meat products than in 1940; 51 percent more fish and fish products; 59 percent more butter and lard; 53 percent more sugar, 39 percent more fyotwear, 47 percent more textiles. Since ‘the end of the war more than 100,000,000 square metres of housing space have been built in towns and industrial centres, in addition to 2,700,- 000 dwelling houses in the villages. 37,000,000 pupils studied in 1950 in Soviet second- last five years. 1,247,000 students studied in uni- versities and technical colleges in 1950, which is 435,000 more than in 1940. ~ : In 1950 there were 15 percent more libraries in the Soviet Union than before the war. Circulation of books increased at the same time by 84 percent. ary schools, an increase of eight million during the, Comparison proves standards rising in USSR, falling in West THE WEST . Im the financial year 1951-52, in the United Stat »s, military expenses are more than $70,000,000,000 which is nearly 30 percent of the national income Italy has: more than two million unemployed (besides those employed only part time). In the United States prices of provisions have increased by 21 percent since the start of American intervention in Korea. (In December 1950 prices were already 168 percent higher than in 1937). The profits of monopolies in the U.S. were five and one-half times higher in 1950 than in 1939. In Britain, profits of monopolies were 20 percent higher in 1950 than in 1949 (in 1949 the profits of British monopolies were three times higher than in 1938). Direct and indirect taxes take up more than 50 percent of the total income of the working people in Britain. In the United States, military expendi- tures in 1950 were $300 per canita (in 1949 - $150 and in 1938 $8). 5 In Britain the working peopnle consume 20-25 percent less provisions than before the war. In France, after three years of the Marshall Plan, people are buying 35 percent less butter, 37 percent less cheese, 37 percent less footwear. In the United States housing is being reduced in 1951 by 40 percent as compared with 1950. In the United States less than one percent of the national -budget of 1950-51 was assigned for health service. In Italy, 300,000 children suffer from tuberculosis. = AN APPEAL TO OUR READERS WILL YOU OR TO A FRIEND? ‘ out Form No. 2. ' ; $ SELL ONE SUB SEND ONE SUB @ If you would like a sample copy of the Pacific Tribune sent to a friend, fill out Form No. 1. If you are able to subscribe for a friend, fill CAPSULE REVIEWS _ | Not muchinway of summer fare ON THE RIVIERA A timeworn story, which you’ve seen several times before, gets in the way of Danny Kay’s antics, but he still remains one of the funniest men alive. VALENTINO With all the excitement of the silent movie days to draw on, this biography of The Sheik never comes to life. It’s just not it. THE LEMON DROP KID Bob Hope in a Damon Runyan yarn. Take it or leave it. 4 -WwooD . tos CIRCULATION-RAISER No. 1 Please ed a FREE san copy of the Pacific Tribune Pacific Tribune, Room 6, 426 Main St., Vancouver, B.C. ‘SAWDUST FA. 0242 FA. 7663 THE GOLDEN RULE FROM Enclosed find ($1.35) ($2.50). - Tribune. for (6 months) (1 year) to: _ FROM -CIRCULATION-RAISER No. 2 Plante epasees Baste en Pacific Tribune, Bae 6, 426 Main ahs Vancouver, B.C. SHIMONS.: pucBRIDE i474. fst ted_ > : Limes OF foe FUNERAL SERVICE 1995 WEST BROADWAY VANCOUVER,B.C. Prone BAY VIE CANADA’S FINEST MORTUARY ‘ARTISTS FOR PEACE’ ~ British ekhibition held MORE THAN 50 works een by British artists were offered for sale at a three-day “‘Aru ists for Peace’’ Exhibition ~ which opened in London on June, 4! The exhibition was or- ganized by the British Peace Committee to raise funds for the = peace panipoiene the committee. States. - Among the British artists who cstuttned works were Victor Pasmore and John Minton. when. gtiestioned by the Daily Telegraph: I support it because of its work for peace.’ Minton told the’ same newspaper: organization which worked for peace.” Another British artist, Pat Carpenter, has given a painting of police breaking up a May Day procession. Works were also submitted by artists in France—including a painting sent by Picasso—Italy, Denmark, and the United Pasmore stated in London, “T know all about “I would support any GUIDE TO GOOD READING ~ Now Arthur Keatileys hates even IT IS NOT really surprising that among ex-progressives who have, for one reason of another, turned violently anti-Communist, the most popular state of mind is ‘a deep, all-embracing pessimism. They profess to believe no long- er that the millions of people all _over the world who are strivng for socialism are going to improve their living conditions if they achieve it. But they have no real faith that the anti-Communst forces organ- ised from Wall Street, in whose ranks they find themselves willy- nilly, can either hold back per- manently the advance of the peo- ple towards socialism or provide a more satisfactory way of life. In this dilemma-a really thor- oughgoing pessimism offers some sort of way out. “If we have no answer to the challenge of the day,” pessimists say, “it is because there is no answer. The whole hurfan race is doomed, but at least we have the inteligence and the understanding to realise it.” Armed with this line of thought, the ex-progressive has a much easier time in conversation than jhe had in the days when he:be- lieved in something and mt to defend his beliefs. He can now join with the eee of his comfortably-off friends in de- nouncing the wickedness of the Communists without having to put up anything, positive himself. * * * FOR THESE shallow minds the late George Orwell and Arthur Koestler were godsends. Orwell was liked for his pessimism but Koestler was and is almost wor- shipped because he had something much more valuable. ' For Koestler has a.knack of talking philosophical jargon. He it is who has succeeded in per- suading the pessimists that they have a genuine philosophy. — And he gained a greater vogue by his slick trick of expounding . most of his philosophy and politi- cal hatreds in terms of sexual functions. All the philosophical maunder- ings, the slickness and, above all, the tiresome sexual imagery are present ad nauseam in The Age of Longing (Collins) his new no- vek But I doubt if it will really please Koestler’s followersr- _ For the bitterness of the emigre has now so eaten into his soul that his “shrill ‘sarcasms can no longer sound brilliant evento the eager ears of his admirers. All his characters are uniformly horrible and his sex obsession has been reduced to absurdity. The Russian villain plays a disgusting ‘sexual trick on the rich American girl he meets in Paris, and we are 0 PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 15, 1951 — pxGE e ’ this season will be given at CaP” HMA EEE LEHANE ve eeneee|neveeneelell poo] around his own feet. himself MUM UUM ee ee Theatre of Action fo play ‘Stoolpigeon’ af cify AUUC hall “VANCOUVER Theatre of Actio” — will take Stoolpigeon, its mneW three-act play by Hal Griffin, 1 the Association, of United Ukrait- ian Canadians’ hall at 805 East Pender here this Friday evenin& for a benefit performance in ; of the’ Shevchenko Memorial Fund. es Another and final performancé itol Hill Community Hall, North Burnaby, on Friday, June 22. The theatre group’s plans are to present the play again in ; fall, with performances in N#* naimo, Copper Mountain and other provincial centres. somehow to understand that Be does so because of his political uF bringing. More than any previous Koest- ler book, this. is an emigre’s eY& view of a world in which he cane not participate effectively. It revolves round a set of seedy emigres and expatriates who move from salon to night-club and from night-club to hotel bedroom, argv: ing furiously about politics and religion and life and never com ing even remotely into touch W’ the real life of Paris, of Frane® or of Europe, From ° Koestler’s’. cafe table the Soviet Union is a vast prison which everybody is busy Knifine or betraying everybody else from which vast armies are P0” ed .o engulf Europe. ! : A Soviet representative alive” ing a speech at a peace congt has two versions, one of which he substitutes for the other at eae last minute on receipt. of rast minute instructions from @ sin ister Embassy official. These waspish oe es De ironies and would-be profound Bem symbolism can only really succ®” with Koestler’s antivCommu 'p customers if they come from. on man who feels himself to be” firm ground. ; i. But Koestler’s pathological to red of the Soviet Union ‘seems 1° have overflowed into a sl There are signs in this that Koestler has begun t0 ee himself and the society in WP as an embittered and egoce? ‘ig emigre, he will never have 4 LD nificant place. eT A 4 RING: &.