1 a a] 4K TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associa te Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager. Comment 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, _——__Frinted by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street. Vancouver 4, B.C. U.S., and all other countries, 1 year $4.00, 6 months $2.50. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Ween the briefs of the Trades and Laetbor Council (AFL) and Vancouver fo bor Council (CCL) had been presented . the Tecord at the Public Utilities trib Ussion hearings on natural gas dis- ution, Something’ had to be done lien it. Both briefs opposed the ap- GintOn ‘of the B.C. Electric, and both Bag Tted public ownership of natural the —_~- ATION Fad Non-Partisan misrule WEN all the charges of cor- ruption in the current police scandal have been entered into the record there will still be one major task facing the people of Vancou- ver at the next civic election, to sweep the corrupt Non-Partisan administration out of the city hall. How much more evidence of maladministration, graft and collus- ion with criminals may be brought to light is anyone’s guess at this moment. But enough has been offered to demonstrate the culp- ability of the Non-Partisan ad- ministration which for 20 years has dominated our civic politics. The Social Credit government's action in ordering the RCMP to investigate charges made at the police inquiry for possible criminal proceedings is to be welcomed. However, this move too, is link- ed to the political struggle between the predominantly Liberal civic ad- ministration and the Social Credit government which ousted the Lib- erals from Victoria, supported in this instance by the Conservatives seeking to strengthen their position at the city hall. Obviously there will be scape- goats and they’ may richly deserve their fate. But this must not be allowed to obscure the fact that the real responsibility for a situation which affronts our civic pride lies with the Non-Partisan administra- tion, Liberal and Tory alike. What- ever the Tupper Commission may show it will demonstrate the re- sults of two decades of Non-Parti- san misrule, from the McGeer regime, which installed the present police administration, up to and including the present regime, which upheld this same administration only as short a time ago as last December, when Effie Jones de- manded an investigation. Lopping off a few diseased branches from a rotten trunk will not halt the decay. The tree must be rooted out, trunk and roots, to give Vancouver honest, efficient and progressive administration. That is the job that Vancouver citizens will be called upon to do when the civic elections are held in December. - Parliament must be supreme ‘ HE retreat by the St. Laurent government on its proposed Bill 256 giving Trade Minister C. D. Howe unlimited and dictatorial power over the nation’s economic life — powers so broad he could even order suppression of a news- paper if it suited his purpose — is a partial victory for the suprem- acy of parliament. For that, one must give credit to the Tory filibuster which, in its own partisan interests, forced the government to put a three-year limit on Howe's powers. The St. Laurent .cabinet was thus forced to bow to the will of parliament — something quite new for it. As the LPP program points out, the question of parliamentary su- premacy is.of major importance to Canadians. The reason the government wanted such extreme. powers was to protect the fabulous U.S. invest- ment in this country. Howe’s every action, or lack of it, bears this out. The retreat of the government in limiting the bill to three years, however, does not make it any more acceptable. The Tories, the CCF and Social Credit parties combined with the Liberals to give Howe arbitrary and undemocratic powers until 1959. This in itself flouts the will of parliament and is insupportable. Hal Griffin ‘(OSE who believe that the mortal ail- ments of our capitalist society can be cured ‘by placing us all on a diet of cab- bage juice, wheat germ and grapefruit - should be delighted by the activities of a man named George Shaheen. But don’t misunderstand me. Shaheen is not one of those who believe that the way to socialism is through the aliment- ary canal. The ineffable Mrs. Lydia Arsens, food faddist Social Credit MLA for Victoria, would undoubtedly find him a man after her own persuasion, for he has carried her own negative arguments to a positive conclusion. Shaheen is firmly convinced — obsess- ed.might be a better word — that the Communists have already achieved so- cialism in the Soviet Union by such gas- tronomic disciplines as he advocates and that that capitalism can be saved only by adopting them. I should make it clear at this point that Shaheen is a millionaire. He made his money out of manufacturing women’s clothing in Hawaii and, as everyone knows, wages in the garment industry, particularly in Hawaii, allow little choice in diet. It can hardly ibe a matter of conscience, but it could have a great deal to do with the perpetuation of poverty level wages that Shaheen ardently desires to convert everyone in the islands to a wheat and papaya diet. Wheat, and papaya are cheap, although none the less profitable. As in the thirties, when attempts were made to persuade the unemployed to accept as desirable the cheap foods they had to eat, the more people are induced to follow a wheat and papaya diet the less they will demand such necessities as meat, milk and eggs. Bes o Bod The argument with which Shaheen bolsters his case was contained in a leaf- let he handed out at a recent Moral Re- armament meeting in Honolulu. Everyone, he says, should eat more ‘boiled wheat instead of the “trash” most of us eat. And this is why: “The average American says: he has TIME ONLY TO READ for RECREA- TION - FUNNIES and COMICS and HEADLINES.” But the Communists know _ better. “They are given TIME OFF FROM WORK to hear brain washing lectures, and how their sacrifices will be reward- ed AFTER they become TOO STRONG for CAPITALIST AGGRESSION! “Their bread is stuffed with vitamins so that bread and water make a balanc- ed meal. 2? “Death is the penalty for selling white bread or white rice. “Whereas food habits. are acquired, they learned to enjoy the monotonous soups,-lowest in cholesterol. Even their women perform back-breaking jobs like men. “Bars are decorated with pictures of worst drunkards to discourage excess. Besides FOOD and SHELTER, every- thing is sold at VERY HIGH PRICES allowing HUGE GOVERNMENT PRO- FITS. to finance spies and revolutions os a world wide COMMUNIST para- bh Reser ag And he adds: “Even smokers are not accepted in the Communist party.” Lydia Arsens must be green with envy! And, of course, you should pay no heed to Soviet measures in increase “produc- tion of meat, dairy products and grains. By the reasoning of Shaheen and the food fadists, they would advance from socialism to communism much faster if they transformed the USSR into one vast papaya plantation. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 22, 1955 — PAGE 5