| ly demonstrated by = 40TH ~ANNIVERSARY- Sputniks indicate Socialist superiority VICTORIA, B.C. The. scientific achievements the Soviet Union, dramatic- the Runching of Sputnik I and IL, One indication of the grow- ig ascendancy of the socialist Ver the capitalist world. this is the opinion Hal Grif- N, associate éditor of {ifie Tribune, voiced at a aiquet held in King’s Road here ‘last Saturda) to “lebrate the 40th anniversary the founding of the Soviet Mon as the world’s first “cialist state. an the coming decade,” he Ra “we may confidently Pect that the superiority of © Socialist system will be- Me apparent in a succession ot fields.” vointing out that the devel- Pment of the Soviet Union ag Without parallel in _his- af Griffin said: _ From being largely a’ back- tee agrarian country, the SR has become an _ ad- Vv 5 . "Need industrial country, al- ) Re Oapytltes, all on our FREE an leading the world in Ni branches of industry. poten being largely illiter- Uni the peoples of the Soviet la become univers- Merate, with more train- po =a the’ PATRONIZE CEDAR FUEL & TRANSFER Phone: 566-R-3 ; Cedar, B.C. HUB HUMOR ~ tlt or the HUB for a i © selection of Union “thas Ss Wear . . . Work dress clothes and PLAN! No _inter- ° Carrying Charge. 45 EAST HASTINGS ed scientific workers than any other country, with 1,700,000 teachers and 400,000 libraries. “In the past 40 years the na- tional income of the USSR has been increased: 17 times over that of Tsarist Russia.” If all that had been ac- complished in 40 years, out of the ruin left .by the war of intervention and despite the destruction of the Second World War, how much more, given peace, could be expect- ed of the next 40 years? Griffin said he was not pre- senting the USSR as having reached the zenith of human attainment, for. there were still many shortcomings, many imperfections. “Mankind,” he ‘said, “is only now starting out on the path that will lead to a new golden age — not as in ancient Greece for the few, but for all. “That path leads through socialism and because the USSR was the first to take that path and is farthest along it, the USSR leads the world.” As the truth of socialist achievements became clearer to people in our own country, Griffin .declared, ‘the - help Canadian workers gave to the fledgling Soviet _ Union 40 years ago will be repaid a millionfold, as indeed, the Soviet people have already re- paid it in their fight against fascism and their resolute stand for peace. “The strongest argument for socialism in our own country is and increasingly will be what has been achieved in the coun- tries of socialism.” TED HARRIS Painters’ and Paperhangers Supplies Sunworthy Wallpaper Reg. 45c, Now 19c a roll 157 E, Hastings, TA. 1105 OPEN DAY and NIGHT. 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The combined pro- fits of the Big Three for 1956 were $791;472,352, but in 1957 they leaped to $937,075,486, al- most $200,000,000 more. Henry Ford the Second, writes. in a company blurb sheet recently, that the jobs of 200,000 Ford workers would have been endangered if Ford hadn’t raised prices. - That “little” price increase netted Ford in 1957, a 58 per- cent increase in profits after taxes, namely, $229,500,000 compared with $142,000,000 for the first nine months of 1956. General Motors nine months profits “slipped” to $603 mil- lion for the first nine months of 1957, compared with $640 million for the same period a year ago. Sputniks open door to peace -- McEwen The 40th anniversary of the Russian revolution of 1917 was celebrated last weekend in Vancouver with a fine program of folk music, dancing and choral presentations in the Pender Auditorium. The Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (AUUC) dance group, the Russian-Canadian Federation chorus, Searle Freidman’s Vancouver Youth Singers and a number of talented soloists, all contributed to an inspiring program of entertainment for the 600 people in attendance. Guest speakers were Hannah Poloway of the AUUC who attended “the Sixth World Youth Festival for Peace and Friendship, “held in Moscow during July. of this year, and Tom McEwen; editor’ of the Pacific Tribune. Mrs. Poloway spoke enthusi- astically of her experiences at the World Youth Festival; of the warm friendship and en- thusiasm for peace between the young peoples from many lands gathered in Moscow. The speaker also paid tribute to the warm. hearted solicitude and concern of the Russian people for their thousands of youthful guests. The central theme of the Festival and all of its many magnificent cultural, sports and other activities was the urge for peace and friendship between all nations, and an end to cold-war tensions and the threat of nuclear warfare. “The great scientific achieve- ment of Sputnik,’ said Tom McEwen in the course of his address, “should not have come as any surprise. _During the past two decades the Soviet Union has demonstrated on more than one occasion with great scientific and enginéer- ing accomplishments, that she was leaving the West behind.” McEwen cited a few of these accomplishments: the Soviets pioneered aviation routes across the North Pole to Am- erica; the Papanin - Schmidt polar research expeditions, providing valuable scientific data to the whole world; scien- tific advances of Soviet agri- culture in the Arctic and other hitherto waste regions, trans- forming these into rich food producing areas. The USSR was the first country. to operate a great atomic reactor, not to destroy people, but to provide elec- tricity to heat and ‘light a modern city; the first country to launch an atomic-driven ship (for peaceful purposes), the Icebreaker Lenin. “These and other socialist achievements in the field of science and engineering,” said McEwen, “presaged the great OVALTINE CAFE 251 EAST HASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. QUALITY SERVICE “Everything in Flowers” FROM EARL SYKES 56 E. Hastings St., PA. 3855 Vancouver, B.C. historic achievement of ‘the Sputnik family, pioneering in cosmic space travel and re- search, “The politics of Sputnik, ex- pressed by the common peo- ple of every country, and no less our own, are simple ‘and direct,” stated McEwen. “They drive home some elementary truths; first that Socialist sci- ence is superior to capitalist science because the former is not retarded or restricted by the profit motive, or by hay- ing to conform to the cold- war ideology of a decadent ruling class. Moreover, since the Soviet educational system has: made knowledge and sci- ence the common property and right’ of the people, rather than the property of a class, there is therefore no limitations upon the advancement of Soviet science.” During the course of his ad- dress McEwen traced the pro- gress of the revolution from its earliest days, showing how the imperialists by armed in- tervention, intrigues and anti- Soviet slanders, and Hitler- ite “anti-Comintern Pacts,” had never given up hope of destroying the first Socialist state. “The launching of the cold- war in 1947 on the assump- tion that they had a monopoly of atom and hydrogen bombs, was simply another attempt to accomplish by these horror weapons what they had hith- erto failed \ to accomplish. Now Sputnik hag rendered that hope as futile as their mis- leading anti-Soviet propagan- da,” he said. “The problem facing all peo- ples today regardless of dif- fering social systems, is: that of winning a lasting peace; of co-existing side by side in friendship, and outlawing war as a means of settling differ- ences, and which has been proven at a very great cost, settles. nothing “The advent of Sputnik” concluded McEwen, “is also a tremendous booster for co-ex- eieueuee = Castle Jewelers Watchmaker and Jewelers Special Dis- pra count to all Tribune Read- ers. Bring this ad with you. eS 752 Granville Street OUT Co AT TT November 15, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7