ins This : Write =) ASS : m e* o> ae i Di TAL EE Ee Senior -itizens . Editor, Pacific Tribune— Sir: Survival of the fittest — swim or you will sink—there is strength in unity. All over 65 years should be classed as senior citizens and for self-protection should organize into one group. Whether old age pensioners, civic or civil superannuated, or private company superannuated, all should receive public aid, free national health benefits, exemp- tion from all taxes including sales tax (providing they have been loyal citizens and long enough in Canada). This can be done, how about it? ' F. DONOHUE, 458 E. 53rd Ave., Vancouver, B.C, Health---and peace Editor, Pacific Tribune— Sir: All measures to promote the health of the people are in line with the establishment of peace on earth. Where ill health Prevails there is no peace. Hu- manity is not heir to the many diseases which hang like a mill- stone around its neck. These come from the destructive oper- ation of the present war economy, which is interested in building stockpiles of death-dealing arma- ments. What is needed to wipe out dis- ease and sickness is the building of the constructive armaments of health such as decent homes All labor, peace and progressive groups must unite to combat such Preventable diseases as arthritis, of which there are 50,000 known cases in B.C. Add to this the many thousands of potential sufferers and a truly deplorable picture is presented. Considering that vari- ous types of arthritis arise from »malnutritional disorders, action along the lines of combatting the high prices of essentials would be a very important way of fighting arthritis. To raise the standard of living of the people, thus promoting their health, is the really true way of bringing peace to the earth. It is only:‘the warmongers money- changers who have defiled the temple of the good earth and want war. The nefarious, profit- making practices of these destroy- €rs would lead to atomic, bacteri- logical or climatic disaster if it were not for the unity of all those» who genuinley, desire peace on hundred times lighter than the by the disease, This new-type chest respirator, now rw Dooariinent Pt pe sea oan earth. Today the laws of social Prog- ress demand that all labor, peace and progressive groups forge a grand synthesis from their differ- ences and spike the guns of the warmongers with the dynamic re- sult, thus giving peace to this war-torn world. E, MARSH, Vancouver, B.C, ONE CHANCE IN 30,000 | ; ; Some ITH the United States plagued by its worst polio epidemic since 1916, and outbreaks reported from many localities in Canada, people are beginning to despair that medical science will ever con- quer this disease which has such a crippling effect on the body. 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There _ will be games, refreshments, etc. All are welcome, every GUIDE TO GOOD READING A critique of ERP THE PROBABILITY THAT the Marshall Plan may hinder world secovery and lead to war is indicated by in- herent contradictions in the European Recovery Program as well as by the increasing maladjustments of the 16 co- operating nations, according to a thoroughly documented 91 page study appearing in the summer issue of the quarterly magazine, Science and Society, which is obtainable in Vancouver at the People’s Cooperative Book- store. The issue is devoted’ to an ar- ticle on “European Recovery and United States Aid,” by J, J. Jo- being used by the University of Michigan hospital, is four cumbersome iron lung,’ permits the use of muscles not paralyzed facts about polio of the disease is very slight, even in a community in which an epi- demic is occurrng, After a recent extensive epidemic in a certain community the likelihood that a child under 10 years of age might have developed a severe paralytic case of the disease was calculated, and was found to have been one in 30,000. For individuals 20 years of age or older, such paralysis is even More remote—one in 166,000 ~—and this was the result of study on an intensive epidemic. We know that there is a very sharp seasonal distribution of the cases, with a marked increase oc- curring in late May and early June, reaching a peak in mid- September and dying out shortly thereafter. At least 50 percent of the polio victims will recover completely without any trace of muscle weak- ness or loss of power. The other half of the diseased will show some slight muscular weakness with paralysis that ranges from slight to very severe. But even in this group, after proper treat- ment almost half of them will recover either with no paralysis at all or with such a slight trace that they will not be prevented from enjoying a full, rounded nor- mal life, There _will be some deaths in the remaining 25 per- cent of the cases, =k: * * There are many things that par- ents can do to help prevent the disease from hitting their chil- dren. If polio does occur in the community, permit your children to associate with other children as little as Possible, because con- tact infection seems to be the most important method of spread- ing the disease. : Do not under any circumstances , let your children associate with any one who is ill from any cause, no matter how trivial or innocent the illness might be during such an outbreak, If polio hits the com- munity make certain that there are no tonsilectomies at the time, because it has been shown that the removal of the tonsils during the epidemic will increase the likeliness of the disease, There is conclusive evidence ‘that over-tiring and extreme fat- igue from Over-exercise has led to Severe attacks of Polio in suscep- tible bodies, Similarly it wag PETER STONE, Reece SPECIAL ISSUE of the PACIFIC TRIBUNE ~~ COMMEMORATING LABOR DAY. _ September 6, 1948 Special fraternal greeting rates to Or PERSONAL GREETINGS — $1.00 Deadline for copy — August 30 ORDER EXTRA BUNDLES EARLY ee! PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 20, 194g—PAGE 10 ganizations seph, formerly European Director of Organization and Management for UNRRA, Joseph distinguishes among the countries of Europe not on the basis of East and West, which he considers fallacious and mislead- ing, but on the basis of planned and unplanned economies. The latter group consists of all 16 countries cooperating with the Marshall plan. This distinction is important to Joseph’s thesis that both inter-war and post-war ex- perience demonstrates that econ- cmic planning without foreign as- sistance has a better prospect of Success than foreign assistance without economic planning. Viewed in this light, the Euro- pean economy presents a picture of countries in the ECA group emphasizing and increasing their Gependence on foreign aid, and those in the non-ECA group (the ~Pplanned economies) emphasizing domestic rehabilitation and redu- cing their dependence on foreign aid. Comparison of recovery pro- gress reveals that the planned economies have fared better than the unplanned economies, with reference to both the immediate rate of recovery and the long Tange prospect of stability. * * * “EASTERN EUROPEAN plans aim at real independence, econ- omic and political, accompanied by internal cooperation. The ECA countries aim at foreign aid in — amounts and on terms to be d@& cided on a year by year basis bY the legislature of a foreign coun- try,” he writes, Reviewing the terms and limit- ations of the legislation involved, as expressed in the Economic C0- Operation Act of 1948, Joseph finds that the Act “actually threat- ens the substantial economic re Covery already achieved in West- ern Europe.” “The European Recovery Pro- gram,” Joseph writes, “is no ies9 than an attempt to reduce Burd- pean nations to the same status vis-a-vis the United States that the South American nations ‘e- joy’. It is an perfectly well for US. officials to protest publialy their unselfish motives and to de ny the incursion on national in- dependence and sovereignty, but the facts belie them. “The new form of imperialis™ includes contro] of production, trade, currency, economic policy and standard of living of onc? — Sovereign nations by laying eile such conditions for external #4 as to make independence a mock — ery. The new form of im attempts to forestall a New Dea! abroad of socially necessary meas ures like agrarian reform and the — nationalization of industries.” The enormous power of the UP" — ited States can be used in a more Constructive way, Joseph assert as indicated by the ea Perience. “The need is cleat: ©" establish an international aise struction fund, under the Unite Nations, which would lief and rehabilitation goods, ie not weapons of war, to Hurope® ” nations, without political or © the - - omic conditions, but solely 07 basis of need and economic merit On this basis, Huropean rec? could be assured and the a ‘es bution of the United world prosperity would Té to its own benefit.” \ ra