Christian
Armaments of steel’

By LESLIE. MORRIS .

H°. DAVIE FULTON, minister of justice, is urging Cana-
: dians to launch a Christian crusade against Communist
“ddeology: It is one of the distinctive features of Canadian
capitalist’ government that the Christian church and the state
are lumped together, as in the Ontario and Quebec school
’ systems, so that you cannot be regarded as a true supporter of
~Gemocratic government if you are net a professed believer in
Christianity, and vice versa. Church and state are one, accord-
‘ing to this opinion. That such an assumption flies in the face
of genuine democracy and the rights of man-and his conscience
doesn’t bother Mr. Fulton, whe-supposedly stands on guard for
Canadian justice and John Diefenbaker’s Bill of Rights.

Listen to him, at a gathering of the Knights. of Columbtis
in Toronto, on April 30: Christians must shake off their apathy
and battle Communist ideology in other lands. “‘It is not enough
fer us to sit,in the safety of our land: We must-sally out and
prevent others from being devoured.” Communism, “our ad-
versary’’, must'be proved wrong “by showing that Christianity,
while having dreams of God, has armaments of steel to chal-|
lenge those who would desiroy our beliefs. Let us: be prepared
to fight these adversaries with all that is within us. Let us meet
lies with truth, hypocrisy with honesty, and if necessary, ag-
eressive force with defense force.”
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a people,-or a state, does not agree with the particular

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Ross report hits at B.€
medical health services}

Sharp criticism of B.C.’s mental health services levelled in the long-awal ‘
report released recently, will come as no surprise to those acquainted with ¥

Morgan this week.

“Preliminary estimates of
the recommendations howev-
er indicate the report will. re-
quire careful study before
any attempt is made for blan-
ket’ implimentation. Far-
reaching changes are involved.

“Recommendations for
breaking the Province down
into a number of regions; and
establishing services on a re-
gional basis is long overdue.
The present system under
which such services are con-
centrated in the Lower Main-
land and Victoria areas consti-
tutes a major problem for pa-
tients and their families, in
the interior and northern
parts of B.C.

“On the other hand the fact
that the Report fails to recom-
mend integration of psychiat-

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version of the numerous Christian professions Mr. Fulton
happens. to believe in, steel” must do the job.
(Like Jack Kennedy and Allen Dulles in Cuba,-perhaps?) But
even there Mr. Fulton would be up against difficulties because, |
as Fidel Castro has said, Cubans area nation of believers —
-tvho also happen to believe that their- priests should be Cubans
and not Spanish Falangists.

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‘armaments of

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What Mr. Fulton really is trying to say is, that if people
take seriously the early tenets of revolutionary Christianity,
which the church long ago perverted when it became an arm
of the property state and the defender of the status quo, put
them into practice and tell the world what they are doing, then
they must be combatted not with ideological arguments, on
which ground Mr. Fulton would be not at all safe, but with
“armaments of steel” and “force” if necessary. Torquemada
could have put it better.

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ll means, have ideological argument..The com-

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{ ET us, by
petition between capitalism and socialism requires them.
Sut Mr. Fulton will not have that. Neither will he confine his

"Some of these modern mae
chines can do anything,"

crowded and inadequate facilities provided,” said Communist Party

B.C. leat

ric, medital and other com-
munity. facilities is disap-
pointing. General hospital
care for mentally disturbed
and. ill persons would aid in
breaking down resistance to
seeking timely, prophilactic
help, reducing the social and
cost factors involved. ©
“While the Report will serve
to put ‘the «spotlight on the
grave problems of overcrowd-
ing, and inadequacy of facil-
ities and staff provision, pro-
posals for changing the sys-
tem of financing mental health
treatment and care are ar-
chaic and viciously retrogres-
sive. The proposal for “levell-
ing the heavy costs of psychi-

atric illness throug
‘ment plan - for “ho
doctor - fees is j
step: aimed. at loa®@
welfare costs, preseRay
by the governmen
individual and will
vigorously opposed:
“The need for ddd
cilities, improved
better staff ré
and for more humal
fective treatment Of
dicts and alcoholic
questionable. The
serve to stimulate ©
and demate, which #
hoped will result in® ‘i
advances in these se ;
British Columbians- —

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William Toumi, provincial |
leader of the Alberta Commu-!
nist Party addressed the con-
vention of the Communist |
Party of B.C. last weekend,
bringing greetings from the!
membership in Alberta.

He told the convention that
Alberta is face to face with a
school financing crisis which
is the direct result— of the
policies pursued by the Socred
Manning government of sell-
ing gas and oil resources to}
the U.S. oil monopolies.

The oil refineries and pipe
lines are located outside the;
tax area of the municipalities |
and while the people who
have flocked into such cities)

Alberta Communist leat
addresses B.C. convent

as Edmonton make he 3

mands on city seri s
schools, the oil and a
polies are beyond ee P
ity for these munich 5s
vices. me
A big demand is shit i
that they be made pd
share of the muni?
load, which in so
will be as much as 9 ’
the dollar this yea! neh
The conclusion of nie
deal with China wr it
big influence on ar |
that province he sa
circles ‘are sugges? 0
there will be a nee?
more wheat: than #
within two years.

arguments: to his own country. Not at all. We must “sally forth”
and “prevent others from being devoured”, and we must not
Kesitate to use “armaments of steel” if our crusade demands it.

Not for some time have we seen such a stark exhibition of
thought-control via threats.

Little wonder that Premier Douglas. charged that the
RCMP is snooping into the personalities and the affairs of the
ovement against radiation hazards. Dig not the minister of
defence some time ago denounce such movements as ‘“‘subver-
sive’? And is it not, by Mr. Fulton’s own definition, necessary
to have these “armaments of steel” to impose on other countries
his conception of the moral life? Mr. Fulton, incidentally, did
mot exclude that Christian weapon, the thermonuclear bomb,
from his Christian “armaments of steel”

This man is in charge of the political
doubt the RCMP is in full accord with
to whom it is responsible,

police of Canada. No
the views of the minister

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N the First World War a ditty became popular because it
l summarized, as such ditties often do, the essence of hypo-
erisy, especially when it is the hypocrisy of the Establishment
‘which Mr. Futlon so eagerly defends. It went like this, as far
@S memory serves:

“God. is with us, the nations shout,

Gott strafe England, and God save the king,

Goad this, God that, and God the other thing.
“Good God,” said God, “I’ve got my work cut out!”

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