Review 4 EDITORIA ‘We must all pull together . Editorial comment... Hitt we had thought culture and the arts had something to do with a good book, a rare can- vas, a finely chisled sculpture of Man emerging from the abyss, or the simple beauties of Man’s hum- anity to Man. After listening to Socred Wel- fare Minister Wesley Black open- ing the Fifth International Van- couver Festival it seems we have been in error. According to this Socred patron of culture and the arts, “kultur” in our-way-of-life is simply a matter of “my gov- ernment”, the steady tinkle of a cash register, and tourists—scads of them. Civil Defense authorities in Whatcom County, Washington, and in British Columbia are work- ing out plans in Bellingham for a big joint-civil defense “exercise” to take place sometime in mid- summer. This CD “exercise” is scheduled as one of the highlights of the annual Peace Arch “peace” cere- monies at which inter-government celebrities, senators and police are expected to participate. On the assumption of a nuclear bomb attack and that “Canadians don’t have enough roads north of the border to channel all the ex- pected Vancouver traffic, in case of such a disaster.” Washington state roads are to be “marked” out for the B.C. evacuation. As a special concession in this joint CD “evacuation” Washing- | ton is going to permit “RCMP ... to come across the border and enforce Canadian law for Cana- sO e e Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH Business Mgr..OXANA BIGELOW Published weekly at: Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. . Phone — os Subscription R One Year: $4:00—Six Months: $2.25 Seay sar and Commonwealth coun- tries (except Australia): $4:00 one year. Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post and for payment of postage in cash.’ Office Department, Ottawa, _ dians on USS. soil. Washington state “defense” of- ficials regard this joint effort between themselves and B.C. as something of a precedent and “could be models” for other simi- lar U.S.-Canadian “civil defense” efforts. That’s one “model” we can do without. A point well made! Comment- ing on President Kennedy’s Inde- pendence Day speech in which he said the U.S. was ready for a- ‘Meclaration of Interdependence, the Canadian Tribune commented last week: “What Canada needs is not a Declaration of Interdepen- dence but a Declaration of Inde- pendence — from the U.S. mono- polies.”’ L PAGE * Victory for peace his week two cities occupied the attention of the world. In Moscow the World Disarma- ment Congress ended its sessions with a stirring appeal to the peo- ples and governments of the world to end the arms race and ‘to out- law forever nuclear weapons and tests. Almost at the same moment, in Geneva, the 17-nation disarma- ment talks opened after’ a one month postponement. The World Disarmament Congress could not have come at a better time. Despite the frantic efforts of the so called “free-press” from the capitalist countries to be- smirch the Congress by playing up every little incident which might distract from its work, the Congress was an overwhelming demonstration of the new unity the world peace forces have - achieved in the fight for peace. The fact that, over 2,000 dele- gates from 121 lands, represent- ing widely divergent views were able to meet for a week and agree to call on peoples everywhere “to act together in friendship . . . to clear the road to our common aim, enduring peace.” Sketch of Pablo Picasso’s design on the official poster of the World Disarmament Congress. There is no doubt that the’ for peace will now go f0 with renewed energy. Peo over the world will respond t€ appeal for general and com disarmament and an end clear tests. Such renewed action for P ‘was never more important. If ‘step forward is to be won Geneva talks it will depe action by the people for pe Its already clear that the be no agreement at the & disarmament talks unless th ple of the West change the Pt of their governments. i Spokesmen for Western ernments pretend that they suddenly discovered that it is sible to detect underground ! ‘without inspection teams 0” spot. But they are still demat inspection teams, although % tists proved many moriths that instruments are aval and have been for a long # which can detect the sligh blast anywhere, whether ¥ ground, above ground or in atmosphere. By all logic, this should make possible removal of West’s insistence that it have 7 spection posts in the Soviet | ion to police any test ban © The Soviet Union has sot objected to foreign “teams her herritory. Such “teams. not now necessary, but sti West insists on them. af The only conclusion one come to is that the West d0@ want a test ban treaty unless can get it under conditions Ww give them all the advantag he utter mercantilism of the Saxon race is going to convert the United States into the scourge of the earth, until some new Rome, in its turn, destroys this arrogant Carthage of the Mod- ern Age. Unbridled and without honor, with no consideration for what is humane, and above fam- ily, right, or God himself, mer- cantilism—like an absolute tyrant, dominates that country ... .” Were Benjamin Mackenna (1856) to sit up now and view the world’s predicament as a result of mercantile (read monopoly) pelf and profit, he would readily agree that his forecast was indeed a mild observation on a grim reality. The cannibalism of monopoly not only devours its own but like a foraging vulture, ranges far and wide to devour all else. Thirty years before Mackenna, the great Simon Bolivar put it more succinctly, appropos U.S. monopoly when he observed that “Providence seems to have ord- ained the United States. to plague Latin America with misery in the name of freedom”’. While the scourge of monopoly mercantilism continues unabated there are some lessons this gen- eration can learn from those pion- eers of long ago. The cardinal one is that it doesn’t necessarily need to be so. _ While on safari around the pro- vince looking for some sunshine and listening to the “beefs” of fellow countrymen (and these are legion) the Penticton Herald came up with a magnificent idea on how to handle one of our largest. mon- opoly octopi, to wit, the CPR. It appears that octopus has de- cided (or about to do so) to apply for “permission’’ (?) to discontinue its passenger service between Pen- ticton and Vancouver, According to CPR moguls this “service” is no longer showing a profit. That plaintive wail of “not pay- ing its way” has netted the CPR billions of dollars in subsidies by the Canadian people from _ its. earliest buccaneering days, with little to show for. those billions except deteriorating or discontin- ued services. But the Penticton Herald does- n’t write on subsidies to keep the Penticton-Vancouver run in oper- ation. No sir, it comes up wit something better, something ‘VaR couverites could take to heart } settlement of the current Shaughnessy land ‘‘deal’. “Tf the company is sincere believing that nothing can be 4o™ to restore passenger train serv” . let them at the same time nounce that, because the once line will no longer be used, are returning to the Crown lands granted them years 899 the purpose of building tracks, with passenger servic® condition of the original 39°° ment”.- uw Well said PH, but we'd 8¢. step further and make the BA gestion” mandatory upon cont ued operation, apply it to all C the ada, and ultimately adopt ‘the Communist Party demand fof nationalization of the CPR a3 © only solution towards ending land-grabbing, the profiteel at and the monopoly anarchy in cH adian rail transport. And for Vancouverites wh? a literally being held at gun : by the CPR on its Shaughr oD holdup, a little of the Pen Herald viewpoint of “returning the Crown”, (i.e., the people): lands granted years ago” ™ help Vancouver acquire its ° | land for its own park, wit being doubly robbed in the - cess. July 20, 1962—PACIFIC. TRIBUN