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oases Pacific Tribune—

Sir: -I was interviewed by a

: “provincial constable the other
night. He wanted to know how
long I had been at my present
address, how long had I been at
_ the last, where was I born, what
were my political beliefs; was I
a Liberal, a Conservative, a CCF.

_ what? And had my boy who was
in the army a clean record?

_ This reminds one of how things
took place in Nazi Germany,
which eventually ended up in tor-
ture camps and corpse factories.

Are we here in Canada going
to go through the same ordeal
before the warmongers and fas-
cists are defeated?

If anyone wants to know my
record, I opposed the sending of
_ Canadian iron, copper and nickel
to Japan before the war and I

- am opposed to sending Canadian |

munitions to Chiang Kai-shek’s
regime now. In short, I have al-
Ways striven for peace.” «|

I have no apology to make that
Iam a fervent follower of the
Dean of Canterbury’s peace mis-

_ sion, even if by doing so I shall
encounter the wrath of those who
would lay our country bare with
another devastating -war.

As a true Canadian patriot I

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Every Wednesday and Saturday
Hastings Auditorium
Phone HAstings 1248
Moderate Rental Rates
Mor socials, weddings, meetings

Russian People’s Home—

_ available for meetings, weddings
and banquets at reasonable rates.
600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087.

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WHAT'S DOING
Special Truman Supper—
“Sunday, February 20, 6 p.m.,,
Ukrainian Labor Temple, 805 E.

Pender, Admission, 75c. Auspices”

Victory Square.

Wnuie

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am not interested in seeing our
boys killed on a battlefield that
will be in our own country should
another war come.

I told the constable I was a
democrat, a sadly abused descrip-
tion these days, as the constable’s
interrogation showed.

: H. TANCHE

Campbell River, B.C.

Fraserview protest

Editor, Pacifie Tribune—

Sir: As representatives of the
Fraserview Property Owners’ As-
sociation, we hereby officially
state that we welcome the 1,100
low-rental homes for veterans
and resultant local improvements.

We are opposed to the expro-
priation of private property by
Central Mortgage and Housing
Corporation for two reasons:

1. In this instance there are
other lands available;

2. It is against the rights of
man handed. down from Magna
Charta—the right of free owner-
ship of land—to own it free—to
do with as .he sees fit This is a
sacred and inalienable right and
one we staunchly, uphold.

Central Mortgage and Housing

Corporation is violating all these
rights under powers with which
it was invested by Wartime or-
ders-in-council. It is using these
powers for the demolition of sev-
eral homes. and for the eviction
of Canadian citizens, many of
them veterans. These veterans
fought for the suppression of such
methods, and we: demand that
Central Mortgage and Housing
Corporation be relieved of these
powers at once.
~ J. BH YATES,

for Publicity Commit-

tee, Fraserview Prop-
erty Owners’ Associa-
tion.
2150 East 65th Avenue,
Vancouver, B.C.

Paris strike

Editor, Pacific Tribune,

Sir:
made by the United Electrical
Workers to the attorney-general
cf Ontario that he withdraw pro-
vincial police from the scene of
the strike at the Penman’s plant
in Paris, Ont. The UE demand,
made by District Secretary
George Harris, followed a deci-
sion at a meeting of the union’s
District Council which called for
full support to the striking tex-
tile workers. The telegram con-
taining the union message ad-
dressed to Mr. Blackwell reads
as follows:

“Delegates representing 25,-
000 organized electrical workers
meeting in convention in Wel-

land on January 29-30, voted

unanimously to demand of you
that provincial police in Paris,
Ontario, in connection with Pen-
man’s strike be immediately
withdrawn. That your police
are engaged in styike-breaking
is amply proven by statement
of company lawyer appearing in.
Toronto Star January 25. con-

‘gratulating the provincial police

. “birthday.”

hear

A strong demand has been >

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kept up the ‘good work’.”
UNITED ELECTRICAL,
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OUR CHILDREN
Using ‘bad’

language

WHENEVER I am with a
group of parents of very young
children. there is always one who
says, in essence, “I just can’t ig-
nore bad language in my three-

year-old, I am too shocked by it:” .

To find any word shocking, no
matter how objectionable, in the
vocabulary of a very young child,
is to apply standards that they
are simply not ready to under-

_ stand.

Children do not know _ the
meaning of the expletives they
use, therefore they can’t be shock-
ing. They are ‘merely learning
the language as they hear it.
They do not know the real mean-
ing of ordinary words, such as
“ripe,” “year,
yet they use these
words and hundreds like them in
the right context because they
adults use them.

Similarly with the saity phrases.

' They hear them. and repeat them —

with the same expression, in sim-
ilar situations, say a banged
thumb or a stubbed toe, and leave
the impression that they know
exactly what they are saying. Yet
they only think that this is the
correct phrase of the moment,
like saying “all aboard”
the toy train leaves.

Ignoring the language doesn’t

mean they will give it up imme-
diately, but eventually. since they
are learning new things all the
time. some “Other phrase will ap-
peal to them. Chances are it will
be a slangy or merely colorful
“good” phrase. \
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ON THE other hand. consider
what happens when. the words.
are not ignored.

Thousands. of words are ac-
cepted by the chid’s family. He
talks
happens. His conversation, like
the rest of the family’s is a means
of communication. One day he
brings home a new word, an ex-
pressive four letter one that has
caught his eager fancy for new
sounds.

The reaction he gets is sensa-
tional. With this new word he
can explode adults into anger,
horror or even mild laughter. He
has a new and powerful device.
He is not even interested in what
it means, merely in its magic.
He can electrify any adult into
immediate attention, He has only
to say “the word,’ and a whole
roomful of adults will react.

With the very young it’s safer

to treat casually any new words
they learn. They are constantly
changing their expressions and
style of conversation.
words are singled out as “special,”
even though
proval, children don’t forget them.
Even though parents are no
longer hearing them around the
house, they can be pretty certain
their children are parotting these
words around somewhere, hoping
for, and probably getting, the
‘same sensational reaction they
got at home—VERA MORRIS.

GUIDE TO GOOD READING

A ‘Giant’ book
new Olant boo
THE AUTHORS OF How Man Became a Giant—M. Ilin
and E. Segal—have done it again with Giant at the Crossroads. They

have taken another enormous area of human life on the earth and
made it richs meaningful, and exciting.

The earlier book by these Sovi-
et writers carried mankind

‘throughout physical and techno-

logical development until the

dawn of civilization in the ancient
Mediterranean world. Now the
Giant. man, has arrived at a
crossroad. He makes fabulous
progress, in Egypt, Babylon,
Greece, and finally Rome, but in
the end his path is blocked by
slavery. He cannot be free when
he is enslaved or enslaves others.

Rome falls, the Giant’s civiliza-
tion collapses, but, the authors
tell us, “the life of our hero is
endless. We shall never finish his
story, for man the giant goes on
growing and building.” Fortun-
ately, the next chapter, on the
medieval world, has already
been published in the Soviet Un-
ion and is being translated into
English.

When the reader
224 pages of this book he can
scarcely believe so much of the
world and so much of history,
culture, science and philosophy
was contained in those
pages. The writers are masters
of their material, for theirs is the
clarity and simplicity that comes

finishes the

brief _

only with thorough absorption in
a subject. They are artists who
can. with clean. deft strokes, paint
a glowing panorama. And only
Marxists could have rooted all
the life and thought with which
they deal in the concrete material
life of men, in the productive for-
ces and the relations of produc-
tion

Why did a truly scientific ap-
proach arise first among the
Ionian Greeks? What was the
meaning of the Pythagorean
number mysticism? How far did
science advance in the museum
at Alexandria? Why did Christian-
ity sweep both science and the
other religions before it? Why
was it that the slavery which
made Rome great also brought

‘about its destruction? These are

a few of the world-historical ques-
tions the book treats of.

No Marxist of whatever age or
educational background can af-
ford to miss this book.

If word leaks out that this a
children’s book, let no one take
it too seriously. Not that children
of 12 and 14 can’t read it, but no
one of any age can fail to find
it instructive and exciting.

»” “fresher,” or even .

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it’s special disap- |

NEARLY EVERY Monday night I sit with my feet propped
up on the oven door, with my ancient typewriter perched precariously
on my knees, and busily peck away at the keys ‘for about 30 seconds.

Then silence once again settles down.

tence for my column, but does
that give me further inspiration?
nix and no.

Nein, non, ni, niet,

So this week it will consist of
bits and pieces,

rosea are

FROM OTTAWA comes are

vealing suggestion from Ludger
Dionne, MP—he is.the man who

‘brought 200 Polish girls into Can-

ada as DP’s to work in his. tex-
tile factory as slave labor. He
arose in the House of Commons
to add this gem to the discussion
on possible reduction of income
tax. Why not abolish the tax
completely, he said, and instead
have a sales tax on all goods to
make up for the loss in revenue.
After all, he added, no one ob-
jects to paying 38 cents for a
pack of cigarettes (in Quebec).
It appears that the more than
10,000 people in B.C. who have
signed the LPP petition demand-
ing repeal of the Sales Tax were
only kidding. |

St syould no doubt be very nice
Dionne and other textile
bosses if they didn't ‘have
pay any income taxes in an in-
dustry that produced over $400
million worth of goods last year.

Sales tax, both federal and pro-

odds and ends. .

to.

I have produced a lead sen-

vincial, is a big burden for the
average family when you con-
sider that of five million em-
ployed persons, only half earn
enough to pay income tax ,and
‘70 percent of those who do pay
taxes still earn less than the
minimum required to live decent-
ly, according to social welfare
figures. j
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FROM CHICAGO comes word
that prices are actually falling.
Margarine, which sells for 45
cents in eastern Canada, can be
bought for exactly half that fig-
ure in the Windy City. Other
goods are tumbling in price, too.
One store is offering a free pair

‘of nylons with the pufchase of

every dozen pair. Amercan work-

ing people don’t seem to be buy-

ing these days, perhaps because
_the “highest standard of living
“in the world” leaves them nothing
“to spend. ‘

The irony is that Amperidart
pork prices have taken such a
drop the Canadian government has
slapped on an import embargo
so that low-priced American
bacon and other products would-
n’t affect Canadian, prices. We

have a high standard of living

too—high-priced, that is.—B.G.

in the past.

DR. R. L. DOUGLAS

has opened a new office at

9 EAST HASTINGS STREET

Cor, CARRALL ST.

PHONE TA. 5552

Fully eneees to give the same high standard of service as

A cordial invitation is extended to all ou friends
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