BLOCKADES

itative of the growing desire for peace in

U.S.A.

—NO!

is the above picture.
Kday, Oct. 27, it shows noted actor STER-

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G HAYDEN addressing a crowd cf 3,500

which gathered in Sen Francisco’s Civic Plaza
to demand a halt to the blockade of Cuba and
a peaceful solution of the Cuban crisis.

Jrive to

\ Worldwide campaign to save
-from extinction over 1,009
4 ebrate animals, including the
‘Noceros, the orang-utan and
Mountain gorilla, has been
Mehed by the World Wildlife
d.
Peter Scott, chairman of the
d; told a recent press confer-
“fin London, Eng., that rough-
4 quarter of a million dollars
been raised in the first year
‘the fund in Britain alone. The
"Id target is about $1,500,000.
‘ * * * vag
ving examples cf animals in
er, Scott said the 13,500 re-
ig black rhinos in the world
17° being killed off at the rate
“4” per cent per year.
er projects were being

save an

launched to save the flamingo _

and crane.

He told the story of the noisy
Scrub Bird, of Australia, be-
lieved extinct in the 1880’s but
recently re-discovered. This is a
small, brewn bird not much ae:

SCIENCE

* Ee:

ger than a robin which makes
an incredibly loud noise.

Ten pairs have been discovered
in an area where a new town 1s
planned. ‘‘Will they move the
town? It would be a tremendous

campaign point if they did,’’ said
Scott.

* * *

imals

At a recent dinner, held in
Mansion House (London, Eng.), a
dinner, which, incidentally, was
addressed by the Duke of Edin-
burgh and was held to interest
the City of London in the fund,
an assemblage of tycoons was
asked by Scott:

“Have you ever thought deeply
about the Western Barred Bandi-
coot?

“I expect not. Or the Eastern
Barred Bandicoot? He’s extinct
too. They did no harm to man
but they were wiped out because
no one cared enough, or in time,
te prevent it.

“A pity really, and this is only
one end of the scale that leads
to de-forestation, erosion, dust
bowls, droughts and disaster.”’

OPEN FORUM

Canadians) the following excerpts
from the Saturday Evening Post,

issue of Oct. 27.
This issue carried an article

tteran Can’t Vote

Nels Rydberg, George Derby
and Occupational Centre,
I Veterans of this home were
lied the privilege of voting in
(geeent by-election in Burnaby-
Witlam. We have voted in the
two elections held here and
| hea in a polling booth right in
A “home.
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® I’ve spent the past 28
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by Bee ons from the literary out-
Tat ‘Sha author of ‘Ten Days
ty. Shook the World” — his
essays, stories and

4a Journalist, he was with
se Villa in Mexico, with the
© Workers in the U.S., on

nt lines in Europe during
& War I and in Czarist Rus-
jhe ae the Revolution. The
Mis barn his writings expressed
tity "ed of war and desire for a
“Sot Peace.

Who’s For Peace

L.A., Vancouver, writes: There
have been endless arguments
about the missile bases in Cuba,
but the fact remains that the U.S.
risked humanity about one Rus-
sian foreign base, whereas Rus-
sia refused to do so about any
foreign bases — neither Ameri-
can, nor her own.

And my guess is that most of
humanity will instinctively know
which decision showed the ma-
ture self-control and sanity that,
at bottom, mankind respects the
most.

Defeat For War

Roy Reid, Saskatoon, Sask.,
writes: We listened with pleasur>
to the radio announcement last
night (Oct 28) that the Soviet Un-
ion was willing to help with the
dismantling of their missile in-
stallations in Cuba, which have
caused so much concern and fear
‘in the United States .. .

This is a great victory for
peace and is in the interests of the
working class of the whole world.
It is a great defeat for the mon-
opolistic war mongers.

Freedom Fighter

_E. H. Tuder, Morningside, Alta.,
writes: As one of those who lis-
tened recently to the ‘democrat.
ic’ diatribes of Mr. Adlai Steven-
son, may I, through your col-
umns, bring to the attention of
your readers (and all demograle

wat ‘ ‘

headed: Franco Spain: A Dicta-
tor Relents, by Ernest O. Huser.
The article says, in part, ‘“‘And if
we have been on the friendliest
of terms with Franco Spain for
the last ten years, there are two
reasons for this. One is the 1953
treaty with the Franco govern-
ment, enabling us to operate a
string of strategic bases, a pipe-
line and several radar posts in
Spain.

“Jn return for these facilities,
we have given Franco's regime
$1,200,000,000 in economic aid and
$500,000,000 worth of military
equipment... "”

(Tudor also enclosed the follow-
ing poem, as a tribute “to Wil-
liam Irvine, my friend of 48
years,”’)

THE SOWER

How little he’ll reck

If there’s someone to follow;
To reap the fields,

Which in Spring he has sown.

The foundation he has laid

Will roll onward forever;
He is ever remembered —
By what he has done.

MINERAL WEALTH

North Korea has a rich de-
posit of over 200 kinds of
valuable minerals such as
gold, tungsten, molybdenum,
iron and copper.

Edith Fowke
song collector

xcept for ‘‘Alouette’’, most Can-
FE vsians couldn’t name a Can-
adian folksong, says Edith Fowke,
and admits that until after the
Second World War she wasn’t
much more familiar with Can-
ada’s rich heritage of folk music.
Then she and her husband met
scme European couples who in-
troduced them to songs that had
been sung around their native
hearths for centuries. The Fow-
kes developed a taste for this
hemey sort of music and began
hunting to see what songs Canada
had to offer.

Soon a hobby grew into a full-
time job for Mrs. Fowkes, who
has beccme one of the continent’s
authorities on folksongs, and has
what is probably the largest pri-
vate collection of folk recordings
in Canada — which pushed the
Fowkes out of their apartment

seme time ago and resulted in
their moving into a house with a
capacious study.

Since 1950 in her weekly CBC
radio show, ‘‘Folksong Time,”
(which won’t be heard in B.C.
again until next summer) she has
been sharing her records and ex-
tensive knowledge of folk music
and singers with listeners coast
to coast — and regularly drawing
a fantastic quantity of fan mail
from just about every age group
and occupation.

* er *

She has contributed enormously

to the greatly increased interesi

- in folk music in this country, not

only through her radio series,
which includes folksongs from all

over Canada_as well as from
many other parts of the world,
but threugh the numerous com-
mercial albums she has compiled
(the latest: ‘(Ontario Ballads and
Folksongs’’) put out by Prestige
(International), the books of mus-
ic she has compiled, and her fre-
quent lectures and magazine art-
icles. a

Fifty years ago folklorists were
concerned about the fact that
many Canadian folksongs were
disappearing with the deaths of
old-timers who had _ preserved
them.

Today the situation is even
more desperate, so the Fowkes
make frequent sorties into the
ccuntryside with tape-recorder
in tow to forage for folksongs
among the  rocking-chair set, men

‘and women whose n memories are
an invaluablé source of everything
frem rollicking ditties to senti-
mental ballads. Weekends they
prow] around Ontario while every
two years Mrs. Fowkes crosses
Canada coast-to-coast.
* * *

“The Irish settlers seem to have
preserved their songs and _ the
habit of singing them much bet-
ter than people of Scottish or

English ancestry,” she says.

“During my first four years of
collecting I found few — singers
who were not Irish, and the ex-
ceptions didn’t have very wide

repertoires.

“Of the native North American’
songs found in Ontario, those
springing from lumber camps
make up the largest number.”’

She never has trouble getting

people to sing for her — she’s a
small, quiet woman with a quick,
friendly grin and the patience tc
sit through the recollections of

oldsters brimful of colorful mel.
odies and anecdotes.

The Soviet system
Starts them young

rtistic talent is developed
frem a very early age in the
USSR. Boys and girls who show a
bent for drawing and sculpture
can, if they like, attend classes
at special children’s art schools

- in their free time—there are four

hundred of these schools.

If upon leaving secondary
school a youngster is still keen
on art as a career he or she
may enter a secondary art Sth!
or an art institute.

Secondary art schools can be
-found in nearly every regional
centre. Apart from that there are
13 art institutes in the Union
Republics.

* * *

How are the future artists
trained?

Art institutes consist of three
faculties painting, sculpture

_and graphic arts. Each of the

faculties has several studios led
by prominent artists. The course
takes six years.

Daring the first five years stu-
dents. spend two hours a day
drawing and three to four hours
on painting, modelling and graph-
ic art. The sixth year is com-
pletely given over to preparing
diploma works

Apart from the special subjects
the curriculum includes social

and political science, philosophy,
aesthetics, art history, a foreign
language, anatomy, perspective,

painting materials, etc.
* * *

Tuition is, as at any other Sov-
iet educational establishment,
free. The students get state
grants. Paints, clay, plasticine,
pencils — everything necessary
—is also issued free.

Every summer students spend
a couple of months doing practical
work in various parts of the coun-
try, or are sent abroad. All the
expenses involved are met by the
Institute.

Any Soviet citizen, if he is not
older than 35, has the right to
enter an art school or institute,
provided he has talent, of course.
All applicants must pass entrance
exams in special and general
subjects before they are admit-.
ted.

All institutes also have a facul- -
ty for gifted young people who
study in their spare time and give
a helping hand to amateur art
circles belonging to factories,
clubs or Pioneer Palaces.

Nov..16, 1962-PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5_