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~Final Returns

Thanks,
everyone!
for $20,215.12

Cash: $18,502.92

‘Subs: $1,712.20

GREATER VANCOUVER
PRESS CLUB TARGET CASH SUBS PB’s  HPB’s
PUVANOG © oc ee hens $ 450.00 $ 686.25 $ 35.00 8 1
Al SB. Smith 2:25: 200.00 175.50 13.85 6 :
Building Trades ... 200.00 57.50 6.35 ~
Civic’, Workers 2202, 500.60 553.75 34.25 8
HastpWond: eter Ny 350.00 393.50 16.35 6
Electrical Workers eed 500.00 571.50 11.35 8 at
PI AARGIOW.. tis er aah 350.00 293.25 79.25 8
Forest Products ....... - 300.00 259.30 10.00 6
Freiheit, -#........ Bes ee 125.00 126.55 2.50 4
GOORnGIA SS fe ee 220.00 303.00 36.95 Se
Grand views 3.3.06, 2 se8 700.00 1,039.06 38.70 15 2
Hastings East ~.....0.0.....: 150.00 47.50 11.35
ey HSB ANO 4 450.00 536.385 29.05 15 2
Maritime -............. 400.00 389.00 _ 18.85 4
Malcolm. McLeod .. 50.00 10.00 1.35
Moberley’ -.........:...-: 200.00 259.11 30.40 5
Niilo Makela ................ 200.00 179.00 16.35 3 ‘
'N 300.00 312.67 23.10 4
iOlgin, 200.00 253.00 10.00 s
Peng Pai 75.00 85.00 — 1
Philip Halperin 125.00 127.80 10.20 2
Point: Grey °22..5-5 Be 150.00 158.50 20.40 4
Sea & Shore .... 650.00 521.45 17550 1 1
Ship & Steel ... 550.00 568.30 37.15 gb ee upscae |
Strathoong: 26.5 er 8 250.00 170.70 25.20 6
Victory Square -............. 1,000.00 1,201.33 35.00 13 3
Waterfront ; 150.00 134.50 3.85 2
West End 500.00 596.50 55.80 5 3
Capitol Har a 275.00 249.00 28.85 3 1
Central Burnaby (225.00 210.00 10.00 2
Vancouver Heights 188.00 12.70 5
. Wonth! (soe: 15.00 “jes
Stndente ees ae: — —
Vancouver Mise, ............ — 397.65 112.50
“As We See It’ ............ — 251.00 15.20
TOTALS “11,220.62 809.35 170 15
PROVINCE
PRESS CLUB TARGET CASH SUBS PB's HPB’s
Plbennie ieee 300.00 $ 355.00 $ 17.70 5 i
Britannia, © -............:.. 175.00 183.50 5.00 1
Campbell River 125.00 © 225.00 55.40
Copper Mountain 300.00 161.50 12.50 1
Courtenay ............. a: 150.00 248.00 18.85 3 1
Creston tstaiiceg aye ae ie 25.00 6.50 8.85 *
Cumberland 75.00 142.00 33.85 2 1
Fernie-Michel 500.00 ' 469.40 26.35 5
Hort. angler (5 ' 125.00 139.10 14.05 1
Grassy Plains .. 75.00 30.00 — R
Haney-Albion °................. 75.00 95.25 22.50
Mamloops vic hos 150.00 149.50 11.20 2
Kimberley 25.00 —— Se ‘
Wtiey: yo Beg 50.00 Sis 5.00
Lake Cowichan .... 175.00 101.00 7.50 5
Pang: Bay oes eee 4. -~ 35.00 31.00 —
NETS Shiny ecvete ins Storer 57.50 20.00
Nanaimo'.._.:. 1,001.10 37.90 12 4
New Westminster 448.65 / 36.55 5 Fees
North Vancouver 778.82 83.90 s
Notch Hill ..........:. 70.00 5.00 1
Powell River ... 185.95 23.85 2
Port Kells ....... 78.00 10.00 zt
Princeton 2520s as 23.00 16.35
+ Prince Rupert ............... 62.00 11.35
Salmon Arm 94.50 8.85 1
Foi nga as esse So ee 127.50 26.35 2
Sbeveotion sk 60.00 2.50
Trail District .............. 245.15 — 51.40 »* 6
Vernon-Enderby 202.00 28.85 :
Victoria... aan 641.15 34.25 10 1
Webster's Corners 99.50 5.00 1
White “Rock: 25.0.0 114.65 14.05 4
- Correspondence .. 215.00 15.00 Ay 1
“As We See It” .... 282.55 42.70
Province Misc, -.2....02....).. 148.53 190.25 .
TOTALS $ 7,282.30 § 902.85 UT 10
' GRAND TOTALS: = _ $18,502.92 $1,712.20 247 "25
* Club and individual awards for outstandine work in the 1952 sustaining fund
drive will be announced in next week's issue.

_

Paul Robes as Othello
This is
Paul Robeson ~—

the Land of Socialism? All I
can say is that the moment [
came there I realized that I had
found what I had been seeking
all my life. Here was equality

‘in practice, not in fine words.

Here I walked with dignity, my
black skin evoking only friendly
curiosity instead of the hatred
I had known ail my life.” _
His stay in the Soviet Union
proved to be the happiest period
of his life and, upon leaving, he
asked permission for his only
son, Paul, to remain there for
a while and go to school. ‘I

- want my son to grow upiin happy

and peaceful surroundings, not
to know the blight of jimcrow.”

From the Soviet Union Robe-
son went to Spain, where the
Spanish people were fighting for

va free and dignified life against
_ the armies of fascism.

Here
Robeson saw the. struggle in
process and immediately indenti-
fied himself with it, with the Re-
public. He sang, exhorted and
‘inspired the Spanish people in
their fight. Once, outside im-
perilled Madrid, a loud speaker
was set up and Robes sang
his songs directly to the men in
the fighting lines. *

Now his ideas have come into
the sharpest focus and he sees
his role clearly. “I do not be-
lieve in art for art’s sake. My
art, my work and my life must
serve the cause of freedom, No-
thing else is important.” He
‘has become a singer of democ-
racy—drawing ever closer to his.
source of strength, the people.
In 1939 he visited the Scandin-
avian countries and in Oslo,
Copenhagen and Stockholm re-
ceived tumultuous, unprecedent-
ed ovations which became anti-
fascist demonstrations.

e

In 1940 he returned to the
United States and threw all his
immense energy and passion in-
to the fight. And he grew steadi-
ly, with a deepening vision and
profounder understanding.

He sang, made_ speeches,
walked picket lines, joined’ dele-
gations protesting injustice. He
became the finest example of the

“artist as a> man of action.”
After Pearl Harbor he doubled
even his own fantastic schedule

of work, reaching ang influenc-
ing ever-greater audiences, ral-
lying them in the fight against

. the fascist powers,

In 1943 he Played in the
Theatre Buila’s production of
Othello on Broadway. I was
one of the lucky ones in the
theatre that historic opening
night, and if the stage holds any
greater thrills for me, I cannot
conceive of them. For here was
not only a single man acting in

_& play; there was the whole

Negro people speaking through
the magnificent voice of Robe-
son.

The next morning even the
jaded theatre critics Yéalized
what had happened. Their re-
views were almost incoherent in
their enthusiasm. “The great-
est Othello of the 20th century;
probably the greatest ever.” The
play went on to shatter every
U.S. attendance record for a
Shakespearean production,

‘Paul Robeson is a man of re-
markable genius and range of
talents. In addition to being
a great athlete, singer, actor and
statesman, he is one of the
world’s foremost linguists —
speaking eleven languages, in-
cluding the rare African tongue
of Swanili.

He is one of the most widely
traveled men of our times and
is equally at home in ‘London,
Paris and Prague as in New
York, San Francisco and Van-
couver. If the term “Citizen of
the World” has any application —
at all, it applies to Robeson. ‘

But most important of all he
is the leader of the Negro peo-
ple in the United States. As a
prominent Negro woman describ-
ed him, “He ig the tallest tree
in our forest’”—a tree against
whose fine grain all the blows
of his and his people’s enemies —
attempting to cut him down can
never prevail, :

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 16, 1952 — PAGE 11