... before children

Following the statement said to have been made by
Socred Welfare Minister W. D, Blacktoacitizen delegation
interviewing government members on children’s welfare
in B.C.: viz. “Next to our lands and forests, children are
our greatest natural resource,” MLA Dave.Barrett (NDP-
Dewdney) composed the following poetic gem, and recited
it in the B.C, Legislature,

I think that I shall never see
A child as lovely as a tree.

However parenthood be planned,
No child can match productive land.

A child just sits and costs all day
But trees lift leafy arms and pay

A child with hungry mouth and eye
Makes saving difficult; we try

To draw the line between devotion
And rather over-priced emotion

As firmly as we can—alack

The future may indeed be black. :
the milk subsidy for school children by $79 million.

—U.S. Worker

Women’s Day rally to aid Vietnam

The’ coming celebrations ofIn- Cafe, 2786 E, Hastings St, (near national pastries will be donated

NEWS ITEM: President Johnson has asked Congress to in-

Y'll gladly rank a son or daughter crease military appropriations by $4.2 billion and to cut

Ahead of coal or fish or water,

But value-wise, a child of course,
Is just our second-best resource,

Outrageous!

L.A, VANCOUVER, wrote the
Vancouver Sun: I was horrified
to read in your Saturday paper
that ‘Chi Chi, the giant Panda at
the London Zoo, was to be mated

2 An An the Panda at the Moscow
00,

This is outrageous, I hope that
the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals will take it
up, for I feel sure that, if Chi
Chi could speak for herself, she
would say, “I would rather be
dead than bred to a Red,”

Wrong diet

AS. NORTH VANCOUVER,
writes: To quote Thomas J effer-
Son, “The fate of any democratic

. SOvernment hangs upon the peri-

lous hope that every citizen can
and will do his own thinking,”

Put more bluntly, that can be.
interpreted to mean, to hell with
Conformity, with its hourly diet
of predigested mental pablum,
a diet we of the “Free World”

DOWN ON THE FARM

My cow is dead
and my well’s gone dry.
he hogs are squealing
out in the sty.
My credit’s kaput
and my loan’s called in,
The banker glares
while my eyes grow dim,
: * OK
Yet I see by the papers
that come to hand
that billions are spent
to protect this land!
I need protection—sure enough—
4 decent price for all my stuff
a low interest rate upon my loan,
as I stand on this land
that ain’t my own,
akaitk ok
The land my father cleared
in the long ago
and handed to me
free ang clear I know—
But the price rigging came
and it played me dirt
Now the bank owns me
and this spread of earth
and I—hold nothing
but the tail of my shirt,

Victor Campbell

are stuffed with morning noon

and night; a diet which drives ©

us on, time after time, to vote
for political nonentities and
idiots instead of honest legis-
lators,

Thanks for criticism

Charles Boylan, First Vice
President (Elect) Alma Mater
Society, UBC, writes: Thank you
for your kind report (Feb, 18/66)
of my election victory at UBC
campus, It is important I think
that those in the labor movement
who read the PT should be kept
informed of some of the import-
ant events on campus, such as
the recent victory of the left in
the last AMS elections,

Unfortunately, however, your
reporter was somewhat carried
away in his enthusiasm and tended
to editorialize the article rather
blatantly, The following state-
ment, for example, is not only
embarrassing in its overt par-
tisanship; it is simply untrue:

«, . . the results clearly indi-
cate the remarkable degree of
militancy on the UBC campus
and the respect which which radi-
cals—particularly Communists—
are regarded.”

First of all only 1900 out of
15,000 students voted for a“ radi-
cal voice” which can in no way
be called a “remarkable degree
of militancy.” True enough the
vote and election signify a grow-
ing consciousness in the student
community, but as yet there is
no mass movement of student
radicalism, Secondly, it is most
sectarian and incorrect to sug-
gest that Communists have a
special “respect” in the growing
radical student movement, Com-
munists, like everyone else, are
accepted in the new dialogue of
ideas and are judged on the posi-
tion they take on issues and the
degree to which they work for
the solution to student problems,

It is time the PT, as aspokes-
man for Communist ideas, be-
came a little less sectarian and
a great deal more generous in
its reporting of important news
events,

ternational Women’s Day will
mark the 56th anniversary of
the founding of the day which
was set aside throughout the
‘world to remember the past gains
and strive anew for peace, better
working conditions and a fuller
life for themselves, and their
families,

March 8th was set aside as
International Women’s Day in
1910, It arose in Copenhagen
out of the struggle over the right
to vote and against poor working
conditions, It continues to be ob-
served by an increasing number =
of women inalmost every country
in the world,

This year the war in Vietnam
and the U.S, atrocities against
the Vietnamese people will high-
light many of the gatherings
marking International Women’s
Day.

Plans for Vancouver’s Inter-
national Women’s Day have been
made by the B,C, Women’s Com-.
mittee for World Friendship, It
will take place on Sunday, March
13th at the Golden Horseshoe

PNE), at 1:30 p.m.

The Vancouver audience will
hear DR, A, M, Inglis, chairman
of the “Canadian Aid to Vietnam
Civilians’? who has been invited
to outline that organization’s
work, The proceeds of the tea
and home baking sale of inter-

Panel on
Viet war

Mamie Maloney, well-known
columnist, will chair a panel
discussion sponsored by the
Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom on
Friday, March 11 on the sub-
ject: “Will the U.S, Conflict:
in Vietnam Bring Peace Or
Total War?”

Those taking part will be
Penny Wise, Professor Kour-
nossoff, Professor Evans,
Doug Collins and Miss
Christie. It will be held at the
Y.W.C.A,, Dunsmuir and Bur-.
rard at 8 p,m,

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There will be a short film and
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Greenwell plan

wins approval —

At the official opening of the
Hastings Community Centre’s
Senior Citizens’ wing last Sat-
urday, Minister of Education
Leslie Peterson announced that
from April 1st on the nine com-
munity centres of Vancouver will
receive individual grants in ac-
cordance with the area they
represent,

This important improvement
in the financial operations of the
community centres was first pro-
posed two years ago by the pres-
ent president of the Metropolitan
Community Council, Donald
Greenwell, when he ran as a
candidate for Parks Board,

At the time Greenwell also
proposed that the Parks Board
send a delegation, including rep-

. resentatives from all community

centres, to the provincial gov-
ernment to press for adoption of
the proposal,

Parks Commissioner Puil, who
ran against Greenwell in the
civic election, later presented an
identical proposal to the Board,:
and a brief was taken to Vic-
toria by a delegation with mem-
bers from all the centres andthe
Metropolitan Community Council,
led by Parks Commissioner Du-
Moulin and ratepayers leader
Harry Rankin. The brief was
presented to Peterson who is
officially responsible for recrea-
tional grants,

Thus the progressive proposal
first put forward by Greenwell
will now become a reality with
the beginning of the new fiscal
year,

Hear
MAURICE RUSH
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