Supporting the CCF Editor, Pacific Tribune: Sir: The present LPP slogan of “Support the CCF to the ut- most” should not be used in a way that can be taken as a sign that the LPP is “coming around”, “beginning to see the light” or dis- covering that, after all, the CCF and LPP are sisters under the skin—because it is not! ‘It should be stressed that only from the general viewpoint of get- ting the most possible good to the biggest possible number of work- ing people under the present sys- tem is the CCF to be supPort-d. We might under a CCF govern- ment attain cheaper automobile licenses (and imsurance), better health schemes, improved taxa- tion, etc., in general a good many overdue reforms. But we must ask ourselves this question: is a cheaper car license any cure for our fundamental economic ills such as low wages and insecure jobs for the industrial worker, swings between abnormally high and low prices for farm products, booms, depressions, unemploy- ment and other well known biess- ings of free enterprise? Obviously not. Only ‘socialism is a cure for : t. And if we think that the CCF leadership will ever bring in so- cialism—despite all its lip service to Marxism — we have another think coming. Look at the record: “Marxist” Branting’s party in Sweden ‘with _ Shorter and longer terms of com- concerns flourishing; MacDonald in Britain helping Germany re-arm; “Marxist” Bevin doing his best to create an Abdul- lah-Palestine; and “Marxist” Cold- well willing to cooperate in the American imperialist Marshall In countries with social-demo- eratic contro! (Australia, New _ Zealand, Britain and the Scandi- -Navian countries) is there any sign of socialism? No. Only in one country has exploitation been _ stopped and effective- groundwork for socialism been done—the So- viet Union. As a realistic view of the situ- ration shows that bath the old and newly created prejudices against a the natural party of the working ~ RIGHEST PRICES PAID for DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD Other Valuable Jewellery STAR LOAN CO. Ltd. 88ST. 1905 719 Robson St — MAr 2622 POOOS class, the LPP, is too strong as yet to gain wide electoral support for it—let us vot> for CCF re- forms without getting any illu- sions about CCF shortcuts to socialism. V. VESTERBACK Aldergrove, B.C. LaCroix’ war record Editor, Pacific Tribune— Sir: Prof. J. B. S. Haldane’s ar- ticle in your May issue was very good and is a clear answer to all of the red-baiting antics. I would recommend the article to Hon. Louis St. Laurent, minis- ter of external affairs, and to Clairie Gillis, CCF MP. Prof. Haldane certainly advises us as to the people who receive orders from foreign states and_ there is no doubt that what ap- Plies to Britain applies to Canada. We can now understand the source from which Clairie receiv- ed his orders to call the commun- ists “rattlesnakes” and in this he received full endorsation from the Winnipeg Free Press. The CCF should be on guard against infiltration by foreign agents who use their positions in- side the CCF to smear and red- bait. The LaCroix Bill is an insult to our intelligence as Canadians and an ‘added insult to our wartime allies, and coming from people who failed our allies in their greatest hour of need. I am referring to the plebiscite of 1942 and the result in Quebec —the failure to support our arm- ies in the field against fascism, no doubt a failure sponsored by the supporters of the LaCroix Bill and the Padlock Law. It would be a sad reflection up- on our Canadian good sense and intelligence to uproot fascism in Europe, only to transplant the poisonous vine in our own land. In closing let me congratulate Les Morris upon his outspoken, straight-hitting article in your May 14 issue. Yours for 100 percent Canad- ian democracy instead of the er- satz kind dished up by Canada’s big shots. E. H. TUDOR. Morningside, Alta. SPEAKING OF CIRCULATION On the same team LAST WEEK the Pacific Tribune went out to the flood areas. It went to people who were leaving their homes with only a few belongings they could carry—people ' who had left behind them their work of a lifetime and fall their dreams of the future. It went to work-weary men who had carried sandbags all night in an effort to hold back the muddy waters and save other families from being left homeless. 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GUIDE TO GOOD READING That Kinsey Report WE KNOW EXTREMELY LITTLE about| human sexual behavior. We know what we have done ourselves: and something about what a few friends have done. We do not know whether a majority or only a few of the people of our country behave in the same way. We are aware of several moral | codes on the subject, including a so-called Christian code, most of which is certainly not based on the recorded words of Jesus, though a good deal is based on Jewish - traditions. Doctors Kinsey, Pomeroy and Martin of Indiana University, have tried to find out how people actually behave in their country, and the first of a promised series of volumes, entitled Sexual Beha- vior in the Human Male (W. B. Saundurs, Philadelphia and Lon- don) deals with the lives of 12,000 men and boys. The subjects were drawn from all classes of society, ranging from professors, business execu- tives, and clergy, to pimps, boot- leggers, and thieves, though some groups, such as university stud- ents, were over-represented. How- ever, it was possible to make al- lowances and get a fair cross- section of the nation. They were all volunteers, and each was interviewed for up to three hours, the answers to about ‘°800 questions being taken down in code, with rigid guarantees of . secrecy. Some critics will say that such a method is worthless. I do not think so myself. Clearly people may deny things they have done, or boast of things they have not done, but after a few hundred interviews lying can generally be detected, and spe- cial means were used to do so. It is, moreover, striking that the three different authors obtained extremely similar statistical re- sults. Certainly they have got far nearer the truth than anyone has done before. In particular they managed to get histories from every member of 62 groups, in- cluding seven college classes and six prison groups. _ * * * THE RESULTS ARE fairly staggering to a supporter of the traditional code on such matters. About 19 male Americans out of 20 have done one or other of the many actions which are forbidden by it, and which are punishable by law in one state or another. In particular, at least one in three admits to relations with a member of his own sex. To me, at least, the most inter- esting part of the book is the very definite evidence as to the fac- tors influencing such behavior. Religion certainly plays a part. The authors divided their subjects into “active” and “inactive” pro- testants, Catholics and Jews. On the whole, the orthodox Jews conformed most strictly to the code, and the non-devout Cath- olics least so. But these differences are quite unimportant compared with those between different classes. While the authors classified their subjects by occupation, they found that the sharpest differ- ences were those whose education had lasted for eight years or less, eight to 18, and over 13 years. This corresponds pretty. well with grading by occupation. The different classes did not differ very greatly in their ‘total sexual activity. They differed en- ormously in its form. Whites and Negroes of the same social level behaved alike. . The class with short education- al histories had far more inter- course with women before mat- riage than the others, but far less activities of other kinds. It was among the middle class that relations between two males were commonest. Roughly speaking, the more ed- ucated men condemn certain prac- tices as immoral; the less edu- cated condemn others as unnatur- al. The fact that they have, on an average, considerably more children, suggests that there is something to be said for their point of view from a biological angle. \ The author's summing-up of the social implications of their study of class differences is so remark- able that I shall quote it in full. “Most of the tragedies that develop out of sexual activities are products of this conflict be- tween the attitudes of different social levels. “Sexual activities in them selves rarely do physical dam- age, but disagreements over the significance of sexual behavior may result in personality con- flicts, a loss of social standing, imprisonment, disgrace and the loss of life itself.” If this is anywhere near true, it means that in a classless so- ciety most of the troubles into which sex leads up will automat- ically disappear. In particular, the “personality conflicts,’ on which Freud laid some such stress, are simply re- flections of the class struggle. Personally, I cannot go all the way with Kinsey and his col- leagues. On their own showing, for example, homosexuality is as- sociated with cruelty in America, as it was in Nazi Germany. It does in fact lead to physical dam- age. Fe ilo Fe IT WOULD BE extraordinarily interesting to get similar figures for other countries. Most statistics are of little value because they are based on studies of psychologically or physically abnormal people, or on written questionnaires. but there appear to be good data on factory work- ers and students in the Soviet Union. I think that British results would differ markedly from Am- erican. ; In particular, I think that, ow- ing to our “public” school system there would be relatively more homosexuality among the rich, and, for other reasons, less prom- iscuity among the workers. » At any rate it is clear that the Americans have plenty to do in cleaning up their own morals and laws, not only in the field of sex,. and some of us wish that they would devote themselves to this task rather than setting them- selves up as a model to the rest of the world. On the other hand, there are two Americas, and Kinsey, Pom- eroy and Martin have set a model of objective and scientific obser- vation for workers in the same field elsewhere. I hope that they will not be found guilty of un- American activities! Their book is not one for gen- eral reading. It’contains 159 statis- tical tables, and a good deal of what many people would call “smut.” But no doctor or psy- chologist who is interested in sex ean afford to ignore it, and many people who think themselves ab- normal would find, on rate it, that they are not. To Marxists, especially, it is of interest as putting forward 4 theory of personality upsets due to sex which is in complete ac cord with Marxism, and will be — of value in combating those wh? say that our social struggles are — the result of internal conflicts— J. B. S. HALDANE. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 11, 1948—PAGE 8