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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-

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Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH
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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.”’

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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