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- How to check polio

CCORDING to latest reports there are 109 cases of
polio in the Greater Vancouver area, and a grand
total of 149 for the province. Watching the list grow
dread‘ epidemic about a month

since the outbreak of this
at an average of about three

and a half ago, it has spread
victims per day.

When the first polio cases wer
Murray, metropolitan health officer, issued a number’ of
timely warnings. Among other things Dr. Murray urged
_ on beaches, at shows, and

e reported, Dr. Stewart

staying away from crowds . .
including even riding on rush-hour street

” said the doctor, and added
and ‘good

anywhere else,
cars. “People should spread out
some good advice on fly-control, avoiding fatigue,

hygiene’ as simple preventatives.

In our July 18 issue we featured comments of a number
of medical men on the polio epidemic, together with the
scathing comments on housing, contained in a recent Brief
of the Vancouver Housing Association. It is reported that
Dr. Murray has maintained that since polio victims are from
all walks of life, and all parts of the city, this indicates that
the source of polio has no relation to sewerage and housing.
We most emphatically differ with him on this score. We
contend that fly-control, fatigue and health hygiene are
basically problems of housing. We also contend that a polio
carrier can come from a slum area (where the doctor’s
‘advice is ambiguous), remain immune to the disease him-
- self, and still give it to others residing in non-slum areas

where fly-control, avoidance of fatigue, and good health

.

“hygiene are possible. :

‘The haste with which the public are being assured that.

‘polio has nothing to do with housing’ would indicate that
.feal estate sharks and others with a pecuniary interest in
_ housing are applying pressure in some civic quartérs_ to
soft-pedal on the dangers of polio, fearful that polio pre-
cautions may get in the way of profits.

“Stay away from crowds,” says Dr. Murray, yet not
one single action to our knowledge has been undertaken by
the civic authorities to minimize the danger of crowding.

Quite the contrary; the most recent encouragement to
being the gradiose funeral staged for the late

crowding
G. G. McGeer.

Moving picture houses are operating full blast, and in
many the air-conditioning is more theoretical than real.
Beaches are crowded, with new attractions added weekly to

entice larger. crowds. :

To top it off we have the Pacific National Exhibition
opening on Monday, August 25 in Vancouver. Like all
events of its kind its success financially and otherwise, de-
pends entirely upon gate receipts—crowds. Lacking any
evidence to the contrary, it would seem that Dr. Murray’s
advice to “stay away from _crowds” is only intended to
apply in cases where ‘crowds’ are not a source of revenue.

The dread disease of polio, however, makes no such fine
distinctions, — ae

We are of the opinion that the Vancouver City Council
‘and its health department should begin to treat the polio

epidemic as a serious matter, and begin taking serious steps ©

to halt its spread. The first of these should be the post-
ponement of the Pacific National Exhibition. The second
should be an immediate and serious grappling with the
housing issue, which some aldermen now happily admit they

have just been ‘dithering’ with. The third step should be_

the temporary closing down of all theaters and places of
_ entertainment. Some of these propsals cannot but involve
financial losses to business people, but as each day passes
_ the larger question grimly projects itself with each new
victim . . . profits or polio? ;
___ Finally, if the tempo of increase in the spread of polio
; has not drastically subsided by September 1, all schools
_ throughout the province should remain closed.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1947 Bees

*

UST supposing’ was a

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J great game when we
were youngsters. Let’s try a
whirl at it as adults. If we
cunnot recapture our youth, the
game will at least help us to
realize that there ‘are certain
powers-that-be who still regard
us as being much more gullable
than when we were children.

When you settle back in your
favorite chair of an evening—
providing you own such a chair,
und plow through your daily
ration of ‘communist plots’,
‘atrocities’, ‘spies’, ‘dictatorships’,
‘satellites’, and what not in the
cclumns of your Daily Blah, did
it ever strike you what a catas-
trophe it would be, if ‘just sup-
posin’, the communists every-
where miraculously ceased to
exist. Doesn’t it make you shud-
der even to mildly contemplate
such a Situation? ,

It isn’t funny. Just imagine
what would happen to = such
ideals as the Truman Doctrine,
the Marshall Plan,
erican Committee, the Canadian
Manufacturers’ Association, or
scores of other kindred plans
and planners, with no ‘commun-
ism’ to raise a fever!

Countless thousands of medi-
ocre nit-wits who are daily cat-
apulted into public prominence
because of their ability to cook
up a hair-raising communist
plot, would never be heard of.
The exclusive talents of a Gou-
zenko, a Kravchenko, a Sullivan

_or similar fry would be lost to
- posterity, and both Canada and

the USA would lose ‘valuable’

citizens.

The Taschereau-Kellock-RCMP
report on ‘agents of a foreign
power’ would have to be revised
into a sort of ‘Alice in Wonder-
land’ f
entail a big cut in revenue to its
authors, to say nothing about
the number of disappointed
youngsters. :

‘Without the ‘red-bogey’ the
great tory conspirator Churchill

would have gone down in history

as a fair mixer of metaphors,
but little else. Any snarling he

“felt like doing might have been

directed at the passing of the
‘glories of ancient Greece,’ which

the un-Am-.

for children. This would -

My

could have been put down. as
the excentricities of an ageing
tory, stricken with gout.

Without the ‘menace’ of com-
munism great :
forgeries .like
the Baldwin
MacDonald
‘Zinoviev letter
of 1924 and the,
RCMP - Gouzen- |
ko ‘revelations
of 1946 could}:
never have been
penned—to_ re-
mind the future
of the past. On
top of that Mc-
Kenzie King

Tom McEwen

would have been deprived thé
past-time of ‘deploring’ the wid-
ening gulf of Soviet-Canadian re-

lations, which he himself dug
with an Anglo-U.S.-atomic-get-
teugh-policy shovel.

? IS almost inconceivable to
imagine the jam we would
be in if it weren’t for the com-
munists. Just imagine people
like R. W. Diamond of the Con-
solidated Mining and Smelting
Company, deprived of the pos-
sibility of ranting about the ‘red
menace’ and having to beam
his after-dinner CMA pep talks
on the sex life of the duck-billed
platipus? Or Dal Grauer of the
BCElectric, having to choose as
a subject of discussion the laws
of gravity—or what keeps his
street cars on the track, as a
theme for the entertainment of
his coupon-clipping admirers!

Without communists to rant
about the Owen-Morrison-Temp-
leton fry would be about as co-
herent as a gibbering ape. Even
with ‘communism’ as. a theme
the comparison is not too-far out
of line.

And as for the labor fakers
cf the ‘safe and sane’ genus,
who fulminate about ‘commun-

ist infilteration in the unions’
as a cover-up for their swivel-
chair opportunism, they would
be hardest hit of all. For them
it would be a_ stock exchange
crash of the greatest magnitude.

Obviously the further we pur-
sue this subject the more ap-
palling the perspective becomes.

Still the only goal

- the end of 1934, a fact that eve?

x.

Perhaps we had better drop this
‘just supposin’ game right now
. .. and end on the cheering
note that Communism is a liv-
ing dynamic force, driving to-
wards all the tomorrows of #
new human society, winning
new millions to its ranks as each
month passes, and laying the
foundations of a human. society ©
which will attain the highest
destiny of man.

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E mills of Washington's —

‘get-tough’ machinery were
grinding, and the grist Wwa5 —
neither fine nor the process

slow. A long procession of eM-—
ployers’ rats, stool-pigeons, dope
addicts, Trotskyites, ex-commun-—
ists and psychopaths were P2®
raded in court to ‘prove’ that
the German communist Gerhart
Hisler was the Communist Inte?
national’s top man in the USAW
assigned the job of instructing
U.S. communists how to ‘ove!
throw constituted authority bY
force and violence, etc., etc.’

The meeting where Eisler i§
alleged. to have laid down the
details of this chore was ‘some
time in the summer of 1933’ a&
cording to the evidence of th®
perjurers' parade. “Who attend-
ed this meeting,” cooed state
prosecutor Hitz. Well, there Ww
so and so and so and so - +: *
“and Tim Buck and Sam Cart.”
Magnificent, gloated Mr. Hit%
This clinches the correctness of
Mackenzie King in going 5
the reds in Canada.

It so happens that while this
‘meeting’ between Fisler, Buck
and Carr was taking place ‘be
fore his very eyes’ (the stool’S
version), Tim Buck and Sa”
Carr were in Kingsten Peni

tiary from January 1982, until

Mackenzie King woula find !
difficult to deny. But this Pe™
jured evidence remains on ©
record. With Mr. Hitz it was ail
hitz and mo runs,

The fact that individual co”
munists can be in Kingston, OP
tario, and New York at one an
the same time, should provi?
the CMA _ after-dinner SP"
binders with some good ma er
to frighten their audiences

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