3 er Review x EDITORIAL PAGE « Comment ' ; TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associate Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager. Published weekly by the Tribune Publishing Company Ltd. at Room 6, 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. — MArine 5288 Canada and British Commonwealih countries (except Australia), 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.60. Australia, U.S., and all other countries, 1 year $4.00, 6 months $2.50. Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street. Vancouver 4, B.C. Authorized as second class mai, Post: Office Department, Ottawa Tom McEwen ™M getting to be like some of those fireside big game hunters who like to relate how many bears they could have shot if they’d just had their gun along, My problem isn’t with guns, but Cameras.. Every time I see what would bea real “action” shot,:my camera is at home, A couple of weeks ago I missed just Such a “shot” up at Wildwood Heights. Hans Johnson, Norwegian - Canadian, ‘rack cougar hunter, at home on the high mountain peaks or deep in .the forest, presented as pretty a picture of Simple domestic economy as one would ever expect to see in these days of mass Production, unemployment and ‘highball . Strawbosses, _The picture was very simple — but that doesn’t mean it is easy to copy. be x pe ; When you walk a little behind YOu note that telltale mountain trail © A the kind that eats up the miles in 5 bush and scales the high peaks with tythmic, tireless endurance. : aust Picture to yourself, Hans with ah § of wool at his elbow, carding out ss andful and feeding it into his spin- v8 jenny, filling this spools with a +*ty white tough wool. Then his wife ay siping it into a skookum pull ea ipa ‘in. U Weathers pels capable of turning omens formula for this ‘domestic econ- may is extremely simple. Just take your “€ and head off into the high moun- R ranges, .*0U may have to sleep out a few “ights up in the snow belt, but that’s or ing. Get yourself a mountain goat, paacrably a big male one. If and when Sn Ve bagged such a trophy, pack ‘him moun at he weighs a couple of hundred Pons to start with he’ll only feel like “‘a-ton over the next few miles. Tats €n you've brought home the bacon, jan the goat, shear off the wool and any wife do the canning, You’ll prob- find the shearing hard since Na- aa has given the goat a much better Tet coat than the last one you got in “rn for a month’s wages. ] aes all that is done get yourself a Soke jenny at your nearest antique the ©. They'll probably let you have * one your great-great grandmother Ma for around $50 or $75 because it's “ Senuine antique.” ea you can begin producing — fast ugh, at least, to keep yourself or Wife knitting. ually there’s nothing to it. Al Need is the necessary endurance to Soats yourself supplied with mountain climbi a mere matter of hiking and they ng up to the high ranges where aim abound and having an accurate on a difficult target. The packing mere terine and other incidentals are aroun ries. Your first sweater, worth Sho ou, will be ample repayment: = uld you feel like going into the Production of mountain goat You Sw. 3 oe: in our free-enterprise-way-of- oe COn’t do it. You’re not likely wlve the first sweater—or goat. ans’ experiment in simple domestic — the OEY is not especially designed for fairly “ndetfoot or cheechako. It is the Y easy to emulate grandmother at : depen ns ‘jenny, but the sweater Non S upon getting that goat. Dich vtheless it was an entrancing ducing .° 2. Primitive economy. pro- OUtlast an exclusive garment which will Hans—and capitalism. British Columbia‘s first pulp mill, built at Port Alberni in 1894. PUC members must go Ne doubt Premier W. A. C. Bennett merits a nice long vacation in Honolulu after pilot- ing the Social Credit ship-of-state safely through the turbulent waters of the recent session of the legislature. ’ However, it is regrettable that he failed to carry out one import- aht and patently overdue task be- fore he left, that of firing the mem- bers of the Public Utilities Com- mission. In the recent B.C. Court of Ap- peal verdict setting aside the B.C. Electric’s 15-cent fare grab, the in- tegrity of the PUC which author- ized the grab was automatically in question. The basic job of such a body as the PUC, as its name implies, is to safeguard the inter Dangerous M3" of the audience who heard Professor Scott Near- ‘ing speak last week in Vancouver under auspices of the B.C. Peace Council, must have gone home home feeling not a little disturbed. We had two U.S. visitors to Canada last week — the kind we would never miss if they didn’t come. In Ottawa, the evil genius of Yankee H-bomb. imperialism, John Foster Dulles, was busy brief ing the St. Laurent government on what Canada must do in any H- bomb war Dulles may manage to get started anywhere, And in Vancouver Professor Nearing held forth on ‘‘inevitability’’ of fascism and war — the while purporting to speak for peace. Scott Nearing’s theory of “‘in- evitibility’”’ is neither original nor factual, regardless of how many “quotes” he adroitly lifts out of - context to ‘‘prove’’ his historical ‘to do. ests of the public. This it failed Instead, as in the case of its predecessors, it became a play thing of the B.C. Electric, a rub ber stamp for monopoly exploita- tion. ~ The commuting public is en- titled to immediate redress, first by getting its money back in reduced fares on a 10-cent flat rate, and second, by prompt dismissal of a B.C. Electric-dominated PUC. Since PUC members brazenly refuse to resign, Premier Bennett’s- recourse is obvious. So long as the present members of the PUC hold office the danger of new B.C. Electric steals re- mains. Premier Bennett must un- load the present PUC as a public liability. - nonsense parallels. His ‘‘analysis’’ that fas cist reaction and violent wars are ‘inevitable’ for the realization of — socialism, may sound fine to parlor intellectuals who like to pose as “socialists’’ in the quiet atmos phere of their own drawing rooms. But to millions of the world’s peoples, uniting and striving to hold the Yankee atomaniacs and their war-minded camp. followers in check, common people of all political shades and beliefs who are uniting to ban the horror of H- bomb warfare, Nearing’s “‘an- alysis’ is mischievous, confusing and dangerous nonsense. Warmongering comes in differ- ent wrappers. John Foster Dulles’ briefing for H-bomb war and Scott Nearing’s “‘inevitability of war” theory are a timely reminder of the need for more careful examin- ation of the contents ... and a greater struggle to win peace, by outlawing war. Hal | HAVE every sympathy with Mrs. Mary Booth whose home at Westview was — sold for $30.60 at a tax sale because she owed $16.80 in overdue school taxes, the notice of which had never reached her. In Burnaby, where I live, a succession of municipal councils, frequently indis- tinguishable from the local real estate board, have been disposing of an entire municipality in much the same fashion over the past few years. Burnaby used to be a sort of country annex to Vancouver, a string of com- munities along the few main highways and the now abandoned interurban lines. Its virtue was that it provided working people with an escape from the slum areas of the city. Then you could still buy a lot and build cheaply in Burnaby. The big — stretches of bush softened the bleak - look of houses that stood throughout the depression years with tarpaper peel- ing from their sides and compensated a little for the bare studs inside. But it was still better than the city slums. For this people put up with poor roads and worse transit services. They went without sewers and sidewalks and con- soled themselves with the fact that their taxes were low. : D 5° 3 Bos All that remains of this now is the iusion. When I invite’ people out, even my best friends, they look at me and say dubiously, “But it’s such a long way out > . 2S pout out “in “vain that North Burnaby is closer to down- town Vancouver than some parts of ~ Kitsilano. We still lack the services in Burnaby, particularly in the north end which bids fair to become the neglected area of Burnaby as the east end is of Vancou- ver. : Taxes are no longer low. Five years ago my taxes were $90 and my assess- ment was $3500. Now my taxes are $150 and my assessment has climbed to $5100, so that the house is officially worth more than the mortgage, some- thing I never expected to live long enough to see. In return for this I get school ser- vices, the grader once a year over what passes for a road in good weather, and garbage collection every. second week. I have no sewer, no sidewalk — the old wooden sidewalk was never replaced after people on relief ripped it up and used it for fuel during the depression — and little of anything else. Even the country-like atmosphere is disappearing since the advent of the industries that were to lighten the tax load and provide the services. The land that was once set aside for a country club is occupied by Shell Oil’s refinery, one of the U.S.-controlled cor- Porations, Standard and Trans-Mountain Oil, Ford, Simpsons-Sears and Conti- nental Can, which have been encour- aged to establish themselves in Burnaby and now exercise a growing influence in its affairs. To accommodate them land thas been zoned and rezoned, park requirements and reserves have been set aside and future beach needs ignored. : Burnaby is said to have a town plann- ing commission. If what is taking place is the Product of conscious planning and not, as it appears, of conscienceless land-grabbing ‘by big corporations, then it should be encouraged to resign before it plans the municipality into the slum backyard of Vancouver. Mrs. Booth lost her home because she did not get a notice. The people of Bur- naby are getting plenty of notice. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 25, 1955 — PAGE 5