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cr is almost like working the phrase
to death to keep ‘on repeating that
‘Snly under socialism does science flour-
Sh. Every so often however, facts
ome to light in our own capitalist
Daitiwick which not only prove ‘the
jontention doubly correct, ‘but also
at it cannot be stated ‘too often.
_The Edmonton Journal of Aug. 6 car-
Med the Story of a farmer, A. W. Man-
j @ster, farming about 80 miles north-
: @ West of Edmonton who ‘has spent half
4 lifetime in biological research and
€Xperimentation in the |production of

J€ several types which this home-
Stown Lysenko ‘has produced is one
Which he calls “Early Harvest,” which
JS said to "head out seven weeks after
Planting and yields about 40 to 45

Ushels per acre. Other varieties of
Wheat produced by Manchester aver-
@8e 60 to 70 ‘bushels per acre, but take
°nger tio mature than his ‘Early Har-
Vest” variety. :

_ Jn a socialist society Manchester’s
€fforts would not only \be lauded in
Scientific journals, but a socialist gov-
€tnment would see to it ‘that this ef-
forts were recognized and encouraged
With every financial and scientific as-
* ce, In fact, it is more than likely
that this farmer would 'become one
of the heroes of socialist construction,
_ ,S a fitting ‘tribute to ‘his labors on
behals of ‘humanity.

Under our “free way of life,” how-
ver, Manchester gets the full brush-
‘ff treatment. | Who in ‘hell wants
More wheat anyway, when our official

€ntion js concentrated upon bigger
{nd ‘better atom bombs?
|. A persistent. man, Manchester says
he thas written hundreds of letters to

Overnment bodies (presumed ‘to be
Interested in agriculture?), universi-
ties and other agencies of “higher
ning and politics. [But, he says,
the annoying thing about it is that
XO one seems interested in a new type
‘°t Wheat. I’ve been bringing samples
© government agriculture officials
Very year since I produced ‘Early
1 rvest? and I’ve written hundreds of
*tters. They refuse to send anyone
\D to My land to see for themselves!”

On top of that Manchester has tried
Tpeatedly to have milling and baking
{S's made of his new wheat, but “all
’ in No ayail, so ’'m through trying to
 qnetest authorities.” ‘The balance of
Ps © Edmonton Journal’s story on Man-
iesster is dedicated to whitewashing

lack of interest on the part of
°Vernmental poohbahs who give ‘far-
bre slike A. 'W. Manchester the official
“TUshoff. on
Th the Soviet Union, we dan readily
ch Ualize Manchester being placed in
age of one of the many great ex-
«timental stations\to advance ‘his Tre-
agnct Work in food production, ‘thus
gating to the great storehouse of So-
_ jy St science in the service of humant-
ae Here? Well, as Manchester has

“aid, “no one seems interested.”
mee course, in our western “free way
heal there may be some aspects of
tine? an honest farmer with a scien-
We, bent ‘may be a Shade ignorant.
‘ave a lot of official people who
hay Worry ‘because they think we
aby too much wheat, and who would
Eth fe t to see it burned rather ‘than sold
‘tng er people with different ideas
“‘apphilosophies. Then we have the

wrethusian” fanatics in ‘high places
thins? ‘thinking is also warped; who
-the- there are too many people in
ny World and not enough food. But
> Ay

Rian of listening 'to grassroots scien-
tyke ‘Manchester ‘on ‘how to help
hg ‘produce more, they prefer a
i big world war about every 25
mils or so in order ‘to kill off a few
“sono humian ‘beings, as a means of
Ving” their “food problem.” :
Semet Man Who applies his labors and
~nentary science ‘to the greater pro-

j

+

Aardy, early maturing wheat. Among —

e

duction of food, Farmer Manchester

would be accorded ‘the ‘highest recog-
nition in a socialist state. g Under
capitalism, which places dollar grab-
ping ‘before the people’s needs, there
is no place for Mlanchester, who is
probably regarded by ‘official agricul-
‘tural brass as a crank or crackpot!
Now, if he could produce oil or
uranium (in quantity) on ‘his farm, or
figure out some way of growing a
jpumper crop of tanks, Bren guns,
bazookas or napalm “bombs, he’d ‘be-
come a “national celebrity” overnight,

and cold war governmental and other

species of interested officialdom would
be more numerous on ‘his northern
farm than gophers. But more and
better wheat ... well, “no one seems
interested”! ;
©

As ay old alumni of “K.P.,” class

of ’31, subject “dangerous thoughts” ~

(most thinking that doesn’t conform

is dangerous in these times), this col- -

umn would like to offer its mead of
praise and congratulations to Tran-
sition, published monthly by the men

‘of the New Westminster Penitentiary.

Transition is a 24-page multigraph
job. Its creative literary and artistic
standards are considerably higher than
many of our socalled literary periodi-
cals on the “outside.” | Technically
also, Transition is a very praiseworthy
achievement, although here and there
it reflects the justice department’s
“suns before typewriters” \policy.

The remarkable ‘thing ‘about Transi-
tion ‘however, is not only its high
literary and artistic standards, but the
fact that it is written by and for the
men confined in New ‘Westminster
penitentiary, and as its first editions
show, can ‘become one of ‘the most
valualble mediums for their rehabili-
‘tation in civil life.

Transition portiays life behind gray
walls; life that is highly routine, well

. iplanketed in deep solitudes, enlighten-

‘ed at times with grim humor and
(since sports were introduced), en-
jivened by the ‘highest of sportsman-
ship. The contributors to Transition,
whether as writers, poets or cartoon-
ists, put many of ‘their highly paid
counterparts on the big “literary”
magazines to shame, mainly because
the boys who produce Transition write
on life as it is, rather than smearing it
with ‘the gooey slime of modern cold
war journalism.

British Columbians interested in one
of our ‘greatest social problems can
subscribe to Transition, and by so do-
ing help the boys who (produce it do
ittheir end of the job better. The sub-
scription rates for Transition are $1.50
‘a year. Just enclose that amount ad-
dregsed c/o The Warden, Box M, New
Westminster, B.C., asking for Transi-
tion and enjoy a bit of ‘good reading on
life in its rawest form. All profits
(that damned word seems to operaite
even in jail) derived from the sale of
Transition go to the Prisoners’ Recre-
ation Fund. Subscribers to Transition
tre therefore getting themselves a spot

of good literary enjoyment and at the

same time helping a very worthy ef-
fort. a

Meantime, keep up the good work
on Transition, boys. The outside
world needs a lot of good writers,
whose talents do not bear a dollar
‘trade mark. f
@ :
Now a plug for ourselves. The PT
subscription drive for one thousand
or more new readers, began on Sep-
tember 15. Already results are be-
ginning to come in, but only in a
trickle as yet. During the next two
weeks we would like to see a flood

‘of subs rolling in. Then we'd know

that with the PT in hundreds of ad-
ditional homes, victory in the battle
for trade, jobs, peace and socialism

- would be that much nearer.
Let’s put on the heat for new read- |

ers in the next four weeks!

Canard Enchaine, Pats

Farouk a heavy loss to Egypt?”
ford “J should say so—330 Ibs.”

* 1M stint Wit You, IKE,

G-BLT, MAYBE You BETTER |

TAKE A SIP OF THIS Too.’

No B.C. iron to arm Jepan

N the years before Pearl Harbor the streamlined merchant marine

of militarist Japan sailed out of B.C. ports daily, loaded to
the Plimsoll line with the raw materials for waging war. Lumber,
ores, refined_nickel, scrap iron, etc., were the bulk of the out-
going cargoes. Big industrial setups, with some of our most
prominent citizens serving as ‘‘fronts’’ for Japanese finance capital,
were organized in order to procure the rich raw material resources
of BG. to feed the Japanese war machine.

“ Later, at Pearl Harbor, Hong Kong and other war theatres
in the Pacific, Canadian military and naval forces had the “honor”
of being blotted out with metals and explosives mined in Canada!
Needless to add, a huge profit was garnered in the process by a few
Mitsuis in Japan and a few “‘pay-triotic’ Canadian financial ty-
coons here at home. Pia

Despite the terrible lessons of the Second World War, certain
of our politicians and financiers would head us back over the
same suicidal path. In Eastern Canada, Premier Maurice Duplessis
of Quebec (with the blessing of the St. Laurent government) has
literally given away the vast Ungava iron ore deposits of Labra-
dor to the Yankee war trusts. Here in B.C., despite wide popular
support for the development of our own steel industry for peace-
time construction purposes, the great iron ore deposits on Van-
couver Island are already being exploited by U.S. monopolists
for the exclusive benefit of a Japan rearnfed and remilitarized
under U.S. direction. Reports shows that the entire iron ore
production of the Quatsino Mining Company is earmarked for
Japan, where American interests have obtained control of many
Japanese industries. Even in the freighting of this valuable ore to

Japanese blast furnaces, Canadian ships and seamen are excluded.

British Columbia’s Public Works Minister P. Gaglardi, at
the request of Premier W. A. C. Bennett, has protested to Ottawa
on this unrestricted grab of B.C. iron ore, and is requesting that
at least the export of our ores should be subject to permit issued
by the B.C. government. Vancouver City Council is also pro-

. testing this sellout of our natural resources—and, it should be

added, our people.

The people of this province should not only support the
Socred government in its protest, but should demand a complete
halt to the export of iron ore or other war materials to Japan.
Coupled with this should be the demand that a genuine start be
made on a long-sought-for project, the establishment of a B.C.
basic steel industry. As it is now, Japanese steel made from B.C.
ore is being imported into Canada through Vancouver.

The Ungava-Quatsino “‘give aways’ to the Yankee war trusts
and their Nazi and militarist “‘allies’’ is the sure road to disaster
and new Hong Kongs on a much vaster scale.

Free our province from the Yankee war vultures and restore
it to the people who genuinely desire to build for peace. Every
move in this direction, regardless of its source, should be welcom-
ed—and supported!

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