. STATE EXPENDITURES -
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
NEEDS

/1N MILLIARDS OF RODBLIS/

This graph shows the tremendous increase in Soviet gov-
ernment spending on the social and cultural needs of the

people in the last 20. years. Plans are now being discussed
for a further advance in the next few years.
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‘Cash for crime
none for prevention

‘Sing a song of TV It was prohibited to publish
For the little ones: books glorifying crime and the
Four-and-twenty jailbirds lives of criminals, and they
Packing tommy-guns did not admit to children’s
libraries anything that might
‘When the scene is finished have an adverse influence on
‘The blood is ankle-deep. their education.
Wasn’t that a pretty dish He thought the congress
‘To send the kids to sleep. should recommend that Gov-
ernments make an order pro-
_ Quoting this jingle current | hibiting nefarious books, films
in the U.S., Mr. .Kenyon J. | ete.
Scudder, an American dele- Mr. Tsvyrko emphasized the
-8ate to the United Nations | importance of the influence of
Congress on Prevention of | the community on young of-
Crime — meeting in London | fenders. So great was this in-
Said his country spent about |fluence in the USSR that a
20,000 million dollars a year | young offender often asked to
~0n detection, detention and|be brought before a magis-
Treatment, and almost nothing | trate rather than have his of-
n prevention of delinquency | fence made known to the pub-
8nd crime. lic and to society.
People claimed, he added,| A “startling increase’ in
hat there was no money for U.S. crime was reported by
it, but the money would be|¥F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoov-
Available if only the will of|er. In six -months robberies
© people was harnessed. were up -13 per cent, murders
One of the major problems |6 per cent, rape and car theft
Was a limitation on the con-|5 per cent. Crime in cities
tent of violence and crime in| (over 25,000 population) was
Mass media. up 9 per cent. :
Delegates were examining It has been estimated, that
€ part’ played by low types|if juvenile delinquency in the
of literature and films in pro-| United States continues to in-
Ucing delinquent behaviour. | crease at the same rate as
G. S. Esv vrko, ‘head of the | now, by 1965 more than one
Soviet Public prosecutor’s de-| million American children
Partment, said that there was | will face trial.
-*bundant literature for child-| In New York :
Ten in the Soviet Union and| year, the number of persons
Many films and broadcasts | aged 16 to 20 arrested on mur-
Were Specially designed for the | der charges increased by a
Young and “conceived in “a|]percent as compared with
Sirit of humanism.” 1957.

alone last

| Kids,

(in Russia)

‘|in my class knows such a

‘|;write where (in what. region)

Kids,
Kids

Happy Birthday,
Joe Wallace

(The Soviet magazine ‘“Og-
onyok” recently published a
number of letters it received
from boys and girls, aged 9
to 14, in primary schools. Be-
low is a selection of some of
them.)

“yg have met an animal whose
| name is ‘Mermaid’ in my
reading. But I do not know
what kind of an beastie it is
and what does it look like
Here in Siberia we have
wolves and foxes, lynx, hares
and a hedgehog, but nobody

creature. Neither do I. Please

do mermaids live, what do
they eat, how do they. look
In fact, everything you know
about mermaids.”

“me AKE me _ on the space
a Be For, for science, a
person is better than dogs. I
am ready for all. consequen-
ces so long as I get to know:
Can any one fly in space?
How does the human organ-
ism behave himself in a state
of weightlessness Zero-G?

i HY be frightened? The
W capsute comes back to
earth, so nothing can happen.
Also, I can bear anything.

“Please also let me take our
new cat Vasya. For you
haven’t ‘shot’ any cats yet and
my cat is a small and quiet cat
and takes less space than dogs
or rabbits. I can tuck him un-
der my chin and science gets
the benefit.”

e

“MS LEASE advise me what
Pp study-course I should take
so that on termination I work

as a river-harnesser.”
e i

|

‘me LEASE tell me how to ex- }
terminate naughty boys.

In our class they are worse

than a fly in your eye
e

‘ms LEASE give my warmest
thanks to all who fought
in the Civil War.”
@

“ms have been writing poetry

for many years, but when
I was collecting waste paper
as a social task my poems got
mixed with the rest and when
I came to my senses it was too
late. What do I do?

e

‘mueFITS year we also under-
took to raise an average

of three chickens per Pioneer.”
a eet anal

By MARGARET FAIRLEY

UR friend Joe Wallace was 70 years old on the 29th of

October, and we wish him a happy birthday and many
more to follow.

For most of his life he has identified himself with the
revolutionary ; working class — in Canada, in Spain, in Rus
mania, in Poland, in Hungary, in the Soviet Union and in
China. Five years after the October Revolution he wrote ia
his poem “The Five Point Star’:

Russia, salute! Not to your lands,

But to your deathless workingclass
Who broke the spears of all the Tsars

Upon their breasts, that we might pass.

From haunted days and harried ways.
(Poor hounded slaves who breathe by stealth)
Through revolution’s iron gates
Into the world-wide commonwealth.

What victories of that class he has seen! Joe was 27 at
the time of the October Revolution. And this means that when
he was 26 the whole world was. divided up into exploiters and
exploited. He was 10 when Peking was sacked by combined
imperialist forces; the rape of Africa was in full swing when
he was adolescent; and he was 37 when Sacco and Vanzetti
were executed.

It is good to spell all this out when we are thinking of
what Joe must be thinking on ‘his 70th birthday. He will be
remembering all this, and will be: asking himself why so few
75-year-olds in our country are sharing his optimism.

Of course he knows the answer: the success of lying propa-
ganda over men’s minds, playing upon emotions, doling out
falsehood after falsehood.

Joe himself withstood this pressure because he had a
clear head, early distinguishing between truth and falsehood,
a_stern courage turning away from a life of personal ease,
and a steady belief in the victory ahead. His poem “The
Radical’, written in 1925, reveals the choices which he him-
self made:

There, not in abject ease withdrawn from conflict,
Nor, Ishmael, preying on his kind and preyed,

He puts his hopes and dreams and dear illusions
Beyond the barricade.

There will his sons, tho’ he be not among them,
There will his class, tho’ he be scarred and spent,
Dance thro’ the days, drink life and love and laughter,
And he be well content.

In his poetry Joe expresses the vision of life under
socialism which has been the inspiration of all those who
have lived and died for it in many lands. It is a vision which
we all need, and we can share it by reading his poetry. Joe
bases his optimism on the lives of men and women in many
lands: on the heroes of the Warsaw ghetto, on the Negroes of
Birmingham, on Norman Bethune, on workers everywhere

on the picket line.

No one else in Canada has done what Joe has done, and
the only way to realize this is to read his poetry. As he wrote
about Bethune we may say of him, that we shall grow taller

If we but let the lessons that he taught
) Inspire-our souls, illuminate our thought.

Van Cliburn
here Nov. 9

Van Cliburn, young
American pianist of in-
ternational renown, will
| perform for one night
only, November 9, at Van-
couver’s Queen Elizabeth
Theatre.

Only 25 years of age,
Cliburn gained world
prominence two years ago
when he won the inter-
national Tchaikovsky
piano competition in Mos-
cow. He recently visited
the Soviet Union, where
he is extremely popular.

Tickets are available at
Kelly’s Music Store.

November 4, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE PaaS