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Comment

‘Tom
‘McEwen

S the old year nears its end it is
customary with the editors of our
“free” press to give a thumbnail sketch
of the happenings in our way-of-life
during the year.

‘In this final column for 1955, instead
of a chronicle of events I shall serve up
a seasonal potpourri, specially designed
to stimulate capitalist ulcers in 1956.

Bandung, Vienna, Helsinki, Geneva.
“The Spirit of Geneva is dead”—long

live Geneva. The tens of millions of
peoples who were the “fifth great
power” at Geneva demanding a world
at peace are not dead, but very much
alive, and while they live, Geneva lives.
Alas poor. Yorick Dulles, we knew
him, well.

“The United States is supplying 54
million vitamin pills each month to
Nationalist China. This is enough to.
give every serviceman in Chiang Kai-
shek’s forces three pills daily”. Latrine
detail... quick marrr-ch !

Senator McSnort at' the air port in
Moscow, getting ready to return to
the U.S. addressing his Russian hosts
with a word of farewell: “Gentlemen,
I have made many speeches about
communism...needless to say, I have
enjoyed this opportunity to find out
what I have been talking about.”
(Tom Alsbury, who lectures Liberals
on what Canadian diplomats saw in
Russia, please note.) :

Plant superintendent and philosop-
her E, R. McDonald of Canadian White
Pine likes to keep the ideological IQ
of his men up to par. E. R. digs up
snappy labor-management-cooperation

. Sems and tacks them up on the plant
bulletin board for daily consumption.
The latest of these “No work is worth

_ doing badly and he who puts his best
into every task will outstrip the man
Who waits for a great opportunity.”
The IWA should adopt that charming
homily when it goes after’ a wage
boost in 1956. ;

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Iron curtains, silken curtains, bam-
boo curtains—and now the H. R. Mac-
Millan “wooden” curtain, with HRM
and his woody subsidiaries and col-
leagues fencing in nearly five million
acres of British Columbia’s finest

thing behind my wooden curtain is
mine—keep out.” With nearly $14
million net profit in his jeans for 1955
and his “wooden” curtain intact, HRM
Can shout “Happy New Year” with
the best of us.
“Socialism in our time” by the Right
Cnourable Lord Luv-a-Duck of
Limehouse, Clement Attlee, now
changed to the “Welfare State” by his
Successor, Hugh Gaitskell,' to fit all
Tory budgets. God Save The Queen.
CBC Drama of the year (unrel-
eased). Hungry—with 900 million bush-
_ ¢ls of unsold wheat on hand to feed the
mice and gophers.
by Liberal golddust twins Howe and
Gardiner, diddling the farmers with
ee acreage, bank loans, hogs and
ie while coloratura-soprono St.
aaa renders the old classic “We
4 Mg always managed somehow, let us
. Uncle Sam.” More curtains.
Mt ritish Foreign Secretary Harold
feces berating the Cypriot Com-
Cee for seeking the return of
yo to a Greek dictatorship where
*y would undoubtedly be “outlawed”
_ then himself outlawing the Cyprus

. later,

- Merry Christmas and a good New
ay cn to all who read this column—
nd to those who don’t! |

OF THE UNITED NATIONS SUT... .
& Hor. Hrd Machen

timber stands and declaiming: “Every- —

Star roles played ‘

Working People’s party two weeks

E ACH year, for nigh on 20
centuries, the ideal of
“Peace On - Earth,
Towards Men’ has inspired
mankind to reach out with in-
tense longing for that supreme
goal. -

Goodwill

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Even in the midst of man-
made wars and devastation, the
saving thought that someday,
somehow, such a goal would be
attained, has stood out as a
beacon light of civilization
against the darkness of war's

_ barbarity.

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great events of the year 1955

: now drawing to a close, none

' surpasses those that brought

nearer to realization this im-

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In 1955 the world’s peoples,
of all races, nations and creeds,
united their voices, their ef-
forts, and their determined hopes,
for peace. The million fold
voices at Bandung, Helsinki,
Vienna, were voices for peace,
without reservations; for peace
through negotiation; for an end
to the misery of the cold war
and the unimaginable horrors of
atomic war the cold war holds
in prospect. ~

Other voices at other con’

ferences — the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, the South
Fast Asia Treaty Organization,

also spoke for “‘peace,’’ but a

peace based upon the stockpiling

“THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF DETERMINATION ISA
PRINCIPLE WE HAVE ACCEPTED IN THE CHARTER

5S uNvITED NATIONS
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‘Peace on Earth
Goodwill toward Men’

‘taining the deadly seeds of new
‘and more devastating wars.

-at Geneva—the embodiment of

war as a method of settling dis-

~ sense that together we will work

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of the weapons of war, a “‘peace-
through-strength’’ formula, con-

By the growing will of millions
of peoples, the gap between
these two concepts for the at-
tainment of peace was bridged

man’s determination to eschew

putes.

The ‘‘Spirit of Geneva’ reit-
erates an ageless hope — that
nations and peoples of diverse
social systems and concepts of
life, can live together in peace
and mutual respect; growing
awareness that the horror of
nuclear weapons added to the
devastation of warefare, des
troys all life; that agreement to
preserve peace is the only choice

left.

In that spirit, so symbolic of
the ardent desire of all decent ©
humanity for ‘Peace On Earth,
Goodwill Towards Men,’’ the
staff of the “Pacific Tribune
wishes all readers and sup-
porters a very happy Christmas
and New Year—happy in the

unitedly to make 1956 the year
in which peace becomes the
crowning glory of our nation,
and through its influence and ex-
ample, of a world living in
peace and goodwill with itself.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 23, 1955 — PAGE 5

. selves lapidaries. Their hobby is col-

Hal
Griffin

Qn my desk as I write is a paperweight
fashioned from British Columbia
jade, a beautifully polished stone of
mottled green faintly flecked with
grey.
“Take good care of it,” said the ac-
companying note. “The way the |
Yankees.are going after it, it’s likely
to become even more rare than it is
now.” oe
The man who sent it to me is one
of a group of men and women in and
around Vancouver who call them-

lecting rare rocks from which they
shape everything from brooches to
bookends.

On weekends, whenever the weather
is favorable and often when it isn't,
you will find them scouring the moun-
tains up and down the Fraser Canyon.
From Monte Lake they get moss agate,
from the Marble Canyon south of
Pavilion the marble from which the —
canypn gets its name. But the greatest
prize of all is jade from the Lower
Thompson and Fraser rivers between —
Kamloops and Lytton. 2

Literally, the modern lapidaries are —
following in the footsteps of the Native
Indians, for it was in these same
rivers that the Interior Salish and the
unknown tribes that preceded them
sought the stone they treasured above
everything except copper.

Two thousand years ago the Indians
around Lytton were making axes and
“celts, adzes and chisels of jadeite and
trading them with the Indians at the _
Coast. With no more to work with
than sandstone and water, they sawed —
the boulders, shaped the tools, polished
them and ground them to fine edges. —
Among the Aztecs of Mexico, jade
was valued far above gold. When
Cortes was forced to retreat from the
Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan many of
his soldiers so burdened themselves
with gold that they fell in the canals
and drowned. But one of his lieuten-
‘ants, Bernal Diaz, noting how the Aztecs _
treasured jade, took just four pieces
of jade as his share of the plunder.

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Until a few years ago there was ©
little demand in this country or the
United States for native jade, but the
vogue for handicrafted jewelry and
ornaments has made it a sought after
stone. :

American jade is readily distin-
_guishable from Asian jade and the
varieties are known as jadeite or
nephrite according to the aluminum
or iron oxides in the rock. Hunting
along the river. beds in the same way
men search Burmese rivers for jade
to sell on the Chinese market, every
lapidary dreams of finding a boulder
of the real gem variety, a bright
emerald green. :

Inevitably the Yankees have been ~
attracted to our B.C. source. At low
water this year a number of them
arrived at the Lower Thompson and
spacing themselves out across
river, a man every few feet, they pro-
‘ceeded’ to comb the river foot by foot.
When they left their trucks were
loaded with jade boulders. o s

Understandably, B.C. lapidaries are _
not happy about this invasion. BOT 3
them it is a practical demonstration _
of how little the Yankees respect
Canadian needs and interests when —
they want something, whether it is a

small rare resource like jade ora

great resource like natural gas vi
to our very future. F Pa