ae There's also ‘big wind’ at Victoria, we think ELIZABETH SCOTT, White Rock, B.C.: The clement of frenzy that lies behind the proposed atom-bomnb ‘drills in our schools is well illustrated in some of the fantastic proposals that are ru- .Mored as offered to the children. At one school a little girl re- Ported to: her mother that they Were going to have a “big wind” drill in school this year. “Big wind drill?” the puzzled Mother asked/ “Yes,” the youngster said, ex- cited, and almost as bewildered as her mother, “Teacher says We're to practise what to do if a big wind hits our school.” She ' Stopped, knowing no more, and her mind staggered by the ill- formed but terrifying images Called up by her imaginings about a “big wind.” A friend of this youngster came home with the tale that her teacher had suggested that he Might get a smoke bomb to be Set off in the cellar of the school to make fire drill more real. Such a suggestion surely indi- Cates that the teacher is being caught up in the overheated, and Melodramatic “stunt” atmosphere that is engeneered by the blood and terror propaganda of our Press and comics. Teachers in other schools are Writing letters to parents request- ing their consent to having their Children take part in the pro- Posed. atomic drills. This indi- Cates a saner approach, and an awareness on .the part of such teachers that proposed drills are likely to have a disturbing in- Uence in the mental life of the child, Those of us who were old Nough during the thirties will Temember how Hitler’s schools developed an “education for death”, designed to accustom children to the barbarisms and €rrors of war, and training them to think of bearing arms and in- flicting and enduring infinite suf- fering as supremely _ heroic. In opposing atomic drills, par- €nts should seize the opportunity make clear that the only de- fence against atomic bombs is the prevention of war; and urge Support for an immediate calling of the Big Five Nations to ne- _ Boetiate a peaceful settlement of ternational differences. Such a Meeting will immediately release the tension which is already Teatening to victimize our chil- dren in a nightmare that outruns Teality, ; Yes, speak up. We don't Mind being deafened AnOGGER, Gordon River, B.C.: er the last “act of God”, the Prolonged drought, we are back the camp enjoying both the tee. and the back-breaking ag We work five days a week, Bht hours a day. No request °r Saturday work from the com- “ied has been received by the fal union. The management nOws that there is no desire here pane the crew to break the 40- “our week, ae finest to the union for work ing ae last holiday—Thanksgiv- lah ay—with promised time and alf for every worker, except allers, was turned down at ‘ the last meeting, not because Or) unwillingness to work but be- cause of the discrimination against the fallers. Gratifying solidarity! Lack of a firm policy by the present union- leaders on guard- ing the principle of the 40-hour week has done much harm to that solidarity. (At Jones Creek —under this same company—men are reported to be ‘working six days a week and nine hours a day. Democracy in reverse!) Looking at the wage schedule for the woodworkers it gives a feeling of the hungry thirties. Instead of being in the forefront of the wages struggle the mighty IWA is starting to trail for be- hind. How a rigging man can make both ends meet with the present wages is hard to understand. They must all have excellent housekeepers! What are the rig- ging men’s opinions on wages? Speak up! Reader thinks we did | not do right by CFC FRANK SNOWSELL, Victoria, B.C.: In your report of the Es- quimalt byelection you state: “Mony leaders being absent from the constituency the last week of the campaign.” Please cor- rect the entirely false insinua- tion of this statement. Harold Winch, Grant MacNeil, Arthur Turner, Angus MacInnis, Colin Cameron and Laura Jamie- son were among the CCF’ers spearheading the drive in the last two weeks. Earlier Don Mac- Donald and Laura Jamieson had taken part. Dr. J. M. Thomas of the provincial executive was in there fighting throughout _ the election, despite a serious throat operation. Beside these were numerous willing workers from Esquimalt, Saanich and Victoria- Oak Bay who did house to house canvassing, distributed pamphlets and dodgers, pasted posters and did all the hundred and one 4 ‘things essential to victory in a campaign. And remember, we won the election despite the best offorts of Anscombe and Johnson back- ed by $60,000 spent on radio and newspaper’ advertising: and by hundreds of thousands of the people’s money spent upon grav- elling and hard-surfacing roads in the riding in the past month. Your crack at the CCF News is equally inaccurate. A special edition of the News was published for the byelection and was dis- tributed throughout the riding. Special articles and cartoons on election issues were featured throughout the campaign. To publicity given in the News must go at least part of the credit for the over $800 collected for the campaign throughout the Dr aes you will be pleased to ,correct these inaccuracies in your reporting. ~ @ Reader Snowsell puts a wrong construction on the Pacific Tribune’s report. The Pacific Tribune reported the facts as it saw them. Many CCF leaders were not in Esquimalt during the final week of the campaign. The CCF News carried little more than a list of election donations in its last two issues before election For verifit#tion of this, day. a refer reader dese the CCF News. The Pac the CCF ribune did not say Reed failed to conduct 2 cam- paign in Esquimalt. It did suggest that the CCF did not expect to win Esquimalt, a Tory stronghold since 1912. Coalition will lose more than Esquimalt BCHIS' VICTIM, Vancouver, B.C.: Many persons in British Columbia are thoroughly disgust- ed with the infantile manner in which the Coalition, government is attempting to handle compul- ‘sory payroll deductions for hos- pital insurance. ‘I have paid said insurance in full to the end of the current year and have produced receipt for same to my employer. It seems that this is no longey sat- isfactory to the government. What I would like to know is what authority has been instruct- ed to further deduct a monthly sum from an employee’s wages? Once a bill has been paid and a receipt produced, I would think it would become a criminal act to even attempt to collect once again, let alone deduct same in such a brazen manner. Is it any wonder that the Coal- ition government took such a beating in the recent Esquimalt byelection? \ What about right fo smoke or nof fo smoke E.H., Burnaby, B.C.: The front page picture (PT October 5) is symbolic of what has already come to pass. Obviously, the title should have been, “Money to Burn?” ‘Previous to the First World War there was very little smok- ing among women, and girls took pride. in saying of their boy- ‘friends, “He doesn’t smoke nor drink!” Now nearly every little teen- ager swaggers around sucking smoke in imitation of the sophis- ticated heroines of movies and comic strips! The propaganda of the present -day is to make harmful habits as popular.as possible. And why? Because the more customers there are for tobacco, alcoholic drinks —yes, and even the habit-forming “coke’—the more big business gains in wealth—and power—over the lives of the people! It is time to shake ourselves awake! Why fight for the priv- ilege (?) of enriching over-pow- erful monopolists? Do we really want to see our money go up in smoke, day after day, while we induce sore throat, cigarette cough, impaired eye- sight, cancer of the respiratory organs, and tobacco heart—to mention a few consequences? Also, remember the ever present danger of ~ “careless smoker” fires, starting in mattress, ches- terfield, home, forest, or factory, with loss of lives and irreplace- able property! Truly, “Money to burn!” \ Is it worth it? Shall we con- tinue to feed the enemy? Far better to boycott his products. Let him go out of business for lack of customers. Let his em- ployees find useful work to do. Three weeks of abstinence plus proper diet will cure the smok- ing habit, and with improved “health we can use the money we save, in the promotion of peace and plenty for the benefit of the human race! » THE SPORTLIGHT By BERT WHYTE Ee ‘the bullrings in racing’s tanktowns come the riding stars of tomorrow. You see a flock of ambitious “bug” jockeys aboard $900. plugs one season—and within a few months a few of them have made the grade and kissed the bush circuit good-bye. Once in a blue moon there comes along an Earle Sande, an Eddie Arcaro or a Georgie Wolf. Last summer a 16-year-old apprentice jock named Willy Marsh Jr. started booting ’em in at Vancouver. Veteran riders and racing experts predicted he would soon hit the big time. They were right. Moving along to Tanforan after : Exhibition Park closed, Wee Willy LJ became the leading rider at the meet, in competition with ace joc- keys like Johnny Longden, Ray York, Pete Marino and Art Marti- nez. When I first watched the Cail- gary youngster aboard a horse; I couldn’t see what all the fuss was about. Four straight times I bet him, and four straight times he finished out of the money On two occasions he didn’t seem to be try- ing. The other times he was sit- ting on-a_ spidery-legged animal named Cubette, which had won a $5,000 handicap at Polo Park but just couldn’t keep up with the field here. Then Willie began entering the winner’s circle and I started to appreciate his riding style. Saving ground on the rail in fourth or fifth position all the way round, he’d move up on the heels of the : leaders at the stretch turn, find a hole the size of a needle’s eye, and squeeze through. When blocked off, Willie looked bad. But more often than not he’d find that hole. Whenever he had a real horse under him, Willie wasn’t afraid to take the overland route. Running wide up the back stretch, he'd pass all the opposition except perhaps the front runner, then wear him down on the outside in a gruelling stretch duel. At Tanforan, up to Saturday last, Willie had earned $83,380 on 41 firsts, 19 seconds and 27 thirds. One of his biggest victories was bringing in Gavalon (Seattle’s favorite son) in the $15,000 added Sequolo Handicap at 6-1 odds. Gavalon (who beat Eddie’s Boy last summer) led at the half, dropped back in the stretch and needed the whip and a perfect ride to come on again and win by a nose. It was a big day for Marsh—Gavalon became the champ three-year- old of the. meet,.and. Willie brought four winners in. that afternoon. Marsh is under contract to the Breel Stable, and shifts from Tanforan to Golden Gate. We'll be hearing more about him soon. He’s definitely on his way to the top. i * * * While most of us were pounding our pillows in the pre-dawn of October 20, several thouscnd citizens of a hardier breed were tromping around in the marshlands, lugging shotguns. and banging away ai startled ducks and geese, who learned the hard way that the shooting season had opened. From the Fraser River mouth to Chilliwack, hunters were on the lookout for geese, snipe, ducks, phecsanis and coots. Accord- ing to reports there were plenty of ducks, quite a few geese, but a real shortage of pheasants, Among. the dead-eye Dicks were many Yanhee tourists. Wonder when somebody will declare an open season on visifors from south of the 49th parallel? * * * Brickbats are flying in the general direction of Coley Hall and Murph Chamberlain as Vancouver Canucks~ settle dismally in the cellar. Every hockey fan has his own pet remedy, but they fall into two main groupings, the “Why doesn’t Hall take the rubber band off his bankroll and buy decent talent?” bunch and the “Why doesn’t Chamberlain resign?” claque. Murph Chamberlain belongs to the “hustle” school of coaches. “You gotta hustle if you wanna play for me,” is his theme song. Forwards who won’t backcheck and defensemen who won't bodychéck get the old heave-ho. | : ‘ ; Paes This system is fine—when it works. Let the team start winning; and the fans chuckle and snort, “He’s a tough s.0.b., our coach, but he gets results.” When the team doesn’t win its a different story, as Murph is finding out. * * x Were American fight fixers behind the untimely death of Les Darcy, the great Australian middleweight fighter of World War One days?. Some Aussie papers have raised this question recently, and claimed that the character Lou, Darby in Frank Hardy’s book Power Without Glory was, in fact, Les Darcy. In his book Hardy writes that press reports of the day “hinted at foul play” in con- nection with “Darby’s” death. ‘ In England a chief contender for the world flyweight title, Ernie Jarvis, reviewed the Darcy mystery in the London news~ paper The People two months ago, and wound up by warning Randy Turpin not to defend his title against Ray Robinson in New York. “The Americans, not Robinson, will beat Turpin,” Jarvis wrote. ‘ A few years back Aussie sportsmen charged that the sudden death of champion Australian racehorse Phar Lap was caused by bigtime *Yankee gambling interests. The Sydney Tribune re- called this month, and asked: “Did the Americans really kill Les Darcy? Did they kill Phar Lap?” I PACIFIC’ TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 26, 1951 — PAGE 11