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Ottawa — Tom McEwen grr of my American correspondents “ who keeps me well supplied ae press clippings and other news Ot Mi” terest ae that Dulles-bedevilled tamd, recently forwarded a copy of the U.S. Social Crediter, official organ af the Social Credit League of USA. “This issue dedicates most of its “Section 2”, headed Money, Banks and Taxes to a pean of praise for Social Cvedit in B.C. and Alberta, well illus: trated with pictures of the great and mear-great. in our western Socred. * ‘Tere was a time when local CCFers used to point with pride to New Zealand, the Scandinavian countries aad our own Saskatchewan as fine ex" nibits of CCF “socialism.” Compared with U.S. Social Credit boosters for, Bennett and Manning, our CCF en- thusiasts are mere novices. “When a native of B.C. or Alberta bcowses through this section and views tee home province as seen from ike Olympian heights of | Oakland, California, the effect is startling, to 5a¥ the least. To find one’s self a resident im a Social Credit Shangri-la in which all the evils of money, taxes, and banks have been abolished, and not to know it until now, shows how little we appreciate what those valiant Don. @uixotés in shining Socred armor have @ome for us. : - Here in B.C., as viewed by the U.S. Social Crediter, we will soon have RO Such thing as a provincial debt, thereby 3aving “millions of dollars in interest. We are also told that Premier W. A. ©- Bennett has achieved “a drastic reduc- tion of consumer taxes,” including Ss moval of a large portion of the dread sales tax’ which is indeed good news - a British Columbians...if we only | lmew where it was “removed” to. In Alberta the Socred Utopla 1s even more entrancing. There ee —, C. Manning has created the idea state; no borrowing of money since 1936; a steady “flight of capital into Alberta; no sales tax, everybody “electrified” and the “fame of Alberta spread throughout the world.’ Perhaps the most charming fete of all in this Socred Utopia is the knowledge that both provinces are dotted with Provincial Treasury Branches ...in direct competition with the orthodox banking system, for ae sele purpose of compelling priva credit to be. issued by the banks those entitled to it, or else the govern ments will extend Social Credit ..- this keeps the little fellow in business and drives a. wedge into money 7 ee. ! e ee 3 We doubt if there are many 1D. either of these Socred utopias aware of these little wayside “Treasury” dots, Bey a citizen may have 2 Social Cr i dividend served up with hotdogs an pop. In fact we didn’t know it aS selves until we got immersed in the U.S. Social Crediter. : With the courage of a Dulles on-the- brink,” U.S. Socreds are planning the minting of a new “E pluribus ruinum” dollar. The new one, instead of read- ing “good for one dollar” will reed “good for one bushel of wheat at Van: granary.” This new dollar will be a shade more artistic than the Aberhart scrip-dollar, and equally as useless. But, as these — Olympian Socreds insist, “unionism, communism; socialism, ae other ec . isms are only wasting our time. - so let’s get on with the job. British Columbia and Alberta point the way ! Boy, page Einar Gunderson. 5 seegeu ] i of British Columbia’ charging among other things that the B.C. Teachers Federation is ‘‘flooding the prow ince with propaganda about teach: ers being drastically underpaid’’ is incorrectly addressed. It should be directed to the St. Laurent government at Ottawa. It may be true, as the associa- tion claims, that a wage increase for the teachers commensurate with their responsibilities “‘might upset the local tax economy.” As far as the taxpayer is concerned it is pretty well ““upset’’ now. A balance can be achieved how- Why not a pact P RESIDENT Eisenhower has r pluntly rejected Soviet Premier Bulganin’s letter proposing a 20- year treaty of friendship between their two countries. ‘ Britain’s Sir Anthony Eden, now in the U.S. to confer with his Yankee moneylenders, describes the Eisenhower rejection of a Soviet friendship pact.as ‘‘admir- able.”” To all sane and normal people it becomes obvious that such a pact of friendship between the world’s two great powers would go a very long way towards assuring a last- _ ing peace and ending cold war ten’ sions. But Eisenhower gives a flat ‘No’ to the Soviet proposal. - Meantime eight European coun- tries, members of the Warsaw - Buropean Security pact, have pro- posed that the signatories of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion and the Warsaw signatories get» together “‘for the strengthening of - European security ...and to solve differences and conflicts arising between them only by peaceful means.” idk Don’t take it out on teachers ever by a united effort on the part of school trustees, teachers and tax- _ payers alike,-to impress upon the federal goverment the~ need to divert some of its annual $2.5 billion armaments expendi- tures to the more. useful purpose of assuring our children more and better schools, more and better paid teachers, more government em- phasis upon education for peace and less upon preparation for war. Don’t take it out on the teacher. He or she is still the best worker modern society has in the struggle to achieve civilized citizenship. of friendship? That, coupled with Premier Bulganin’s proposal of friendship, is the road to peace—not the path of Fisenhower and Dulles, verging constantly ‘‘on the brink’’ of atomic war. The peoples of the whole world, both East and West, desire peace, the banning of all atomic weapons, and an end to a suicidal arma- “ments race. / In our own British Columbia this week a representative delega- tion of forty or more, headed by the B.C. Peace Council, trecked to the legislature to place just such a request before all MLAs and government members. It is important to note that this peace delegation received a very “sympathetic audience from MLAs representing all political parties, in- cluding the Speaker of the House. That augurs well for the pro- motion of international peace and ~ friendship, despite the temporary setbacks administered by Yankee ‘diplomacy,’ The will of the peoples for peace is stronger than all the schemes of those who con- spire against it. FEBRUARY 3, 1956 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 5 — Hal Griffin Be the year 1955 more than half the deaths in this country were attrib- uted to heart and circulatory diseases. How heart disease compares with other diseases as the cause of death is shown by the percentages — heart and circulatory diseases, 53.3 percent; cancer and other tumors, 15 percent; accidental and other violent deaths, 11.9 percent; tuberculosis and respira- tory diseases, 5.2 percent; deaths from other causes, 13.6 percent. Expressed in terms of human suf- fering, the economic difficulties created in a family when the breadwinner is stricken or a child is disabled, the figures reveal the ravages of the dis- ease as the gravest health problem confronting the nation. Heart disease claims 45,000 deaths a year. An estimated 180,000 people suffer some disability from heart disease and two-thirds of them, or 120,000, are severely or permanently disabled. As federal Health Minister Paul Martin told the national confer- ence on heart disease last month, heart disease “is our No. 1 killer and accounts for one out of every three deaths.” The need for more money to be spent on research into diseases of the heart and circulatory system is evident. And one instance of what can be achieved was provided last week by Dr. Paris C. Constantinides, 35 year-old medical research worker at the University of B. C., who reported to the National Research Council on the newly-discovered fat-splitting property of a chemical compond which can be used in treating hardening of the arteries caused by a high fat level in the blood. * * * ; The incidence of heart disease as the nation’s No. 1 killer is, above all, an argument for introduction of a compre- hensive national health insurance scheme without delay. For, it would appear, those most likely to be affected or disabled by a heart ailment are .those who work hardest and are paid the least, the very people who most _ need the protection of a heart insur- ' ance scheme. A study carried out by Dr. Jerechiach Stamler of the department of cardio- vascular (heart and blood vessel) re- search at Chicago’s Michael Reese Hos- pital dispels the popular belief that business and other executives are most prone to heart disease. Dr. Stamler showed that men and women in executive and professional occupation have the lowest death rate from heart and circulatory causes, but that housewives have the highest death rate from heart disease among women. Deaths from heart disease are twice as high among housewives as among employed women workers. _The link between living standards and heart disease is indicated by Dr. Stamler’s findings that the death rate among middle-aged men earning less than $2,000 a year is three times that of men in the same age brackets earning more than $2,000. And it is substantiated by his figures showing a higher death rate from heart causes for Negroes than for whites between _ the ages of 45 and 64. i Worry is recognized as having a major bearing on heart and circula- tory diseases. How better can the fight _ against heart disease be started than — by removing the worry of staggering — medical and hospital bills from our homes? taas