‘Time for great human protest’ says pastor Dr. Harold J. Bass,-the man who wrote to President Dwight D. Eisenhower after the recent H-bomb blast, “It is time for a great human protest and I propose to have a part in it,” will be the guest speaker at a rally to be held Sunday, April 9, in Pender Audiorium here, it was announced ‘by B.C. Peace Council this week. Acting on his word, Dr. Bass, who is pastor of St. Paul’s Methodist Church in Tacoma circulated hundreds of copies of his letter to President Eisenhower, in which he said: “T have just listened to a nation- wide broadcast tellling about the devastation wrought by the recent ~ hydrogen bomb explosion in the Pacific. “News reports state that our own scientists have been shocked by the power of the blast which is esti- mated to have been from 600 to 750 times that of the Hiroshima atom bomb. This makes it the equivalent of from 12 to 15 mil- lion tons of TNT. “What shocks one with horror is the open statement by congressmen that we have plans to prepare ‘bombs ten times as powerful as this one. . . ' “It is time for a great human protest and I propose to have part in-it. Where is this madness tend- ing? Where are we as a great na- Ranchers hit by prices at Kamloops Bull Sale KAMLOOPS, B.C., Better grade bull producers were thrown for a loss at the annual Kamloops Bull Sale held last week. Although the quality was above standard, the prices quoted con- tinued on the downward trend set at last year’s sale. - : The Kamloops sale is the larg- est in B.C. and traditionally draws the highest prices in Canada. How- ever, the last two years have seen a drastic fall in the price of high grade bulls. The low-price index and the elimination of any reduc- tion for pure-bred stock has knock- ed the skids from under the ranch- ers’? bull market. This year’s Grand Caampion bull, which according to the judges com- pared favorably with last year’s winner, was withdrawn from the sale by the owners because of the poor price offered. The bulk of range bulls sold for $150 under last year’s price. Last year the cash return netted for the Grand Champion was $3,000 under the Champion’s price the resulting from high freight rates previous year. tion leading humanity?, What must the rest of the world think of our Christian profession? Certainly we who are members and ministers of the Christian church can never square ourselves with humanity if we do not cry out against this thing in which, because of our silence, we are a partner. “The contamination of interna- tional waters resulting from this blast should warn us all that the whole mad race, whether engaged in by our country or others, is lead- ing to moral ruin of the human race and some kind of a finale in world suicide. ee “We should humbly ask the forgiveness of tthe rest of hu- ' manity for even contemplating such weapons of indiscriminate destruction. We should immedi- ately cease their production. We should declare our country ready, even unilaterally, to outlaw their use. And we should work as we have not worked to athieve world disarmament. “We cannot, we dare not, let this. thing go on. Even now humanity lives under the threat some fool’s indiscretion will devastate the earth. 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Now that the ice-chips have settled a bit, most Canadians ac- cept the fact that the Soviet Un- ion, in the short space of eight years, has developed some pretty fair hockey players — and from now on will provide strong’ com- petition, no matter what teams we send overseas. 4 The big question mark in most People’s minds is) how does the USSR manage to produce so many athletes of championship calibre in so many fields of sports? Perhaps this column can pro- vide the answer by quoting from an article by sports writer M. Merzhanov in the Soviet maga- zine’ Ogonyok, dealing with the development of village athletes in his country. He writes: “Sport is becoming more and more widespread in the Soviet village every year. Hundreds of thousands of village athletes are now participating in cross-country ski runs, mass-scale track and field events, chess tournaments, weight lifting competitions and football matches. “About 200,000 villagers took a hand in the all-Union weight-lift- ing competition, while some 400,- 000 participated in a country-wide tournament of village chess play- ers. Most country boys and girls displayed their skill in the recent track and field meets which were contested by half a million Soviet athletes. : “Voluntary collective farm sports societies have’ been organ-, ized during the past few years in most of the Soviet republics. All told there are three million vil- lage athletes at present, ; “The Kolgospnik Sports Society in the Ukraine already has more than 11,000 sports grounds, over 1,000 football fields, dozens of stadiums, indoor swimming pools and aquatic stations. “Kolkhozes of the Georgian re- public have 418 football fields, 770 volleyball and 86 basketball courts. = i “Sportsmen of the Pakhtakor Society of Uzbekistan have built 120 stadiums and 300 Sports grounds in one ‘year alone. “The number of village cham- pions is growing every year, and the athletic achievements are im- | proving constantly. “Polina Solopova, a woman trac- tor driver from the Aksai Kolk- hoz in Rostov Region, registered good results in middle-distance PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 2, 1954 — PAGE 10 running. She came first in the 800-metre race in the track and field meet of the Russian Feder- ation, and later in the all-Union competition among kolkhoz sports- men. This talented sportswoman is now a student of the Leningrad Institute of Physical Culture. “Outstanding successes have been achieved by Ardalon Ignat- yev—a mathematics teacher in the. village of Teideryakovo (Chuvash Autonomous Republic). “Participating in the all-Russian- and later in, the all-Union com- petitions among village sports- men in 1951, Ignatyev led the field in both of these competitions in the 100, 200 and 400-metre races. In 1952 he was sent to the Olympics and raced with the world’s best runner, George Rhoden. He was unable to beat Rhoden, but made a good show- » ing. “Brilliant results have been at- tained by Vasili Davydov, a car- © penter in the kolkhoz named after Stalin, in Kharkov Region. “Davydov first entered the mat- athon competition for the USSR title in 1951. He not only sur- prised the spectators, but also the participants when he placed third in that race with the coun- try’s best longwdistance~ runners. “In 1952 he again made a “bid ‘for top marathon honors, and suc- ceeded in capturing the laurels , when he covered the distance in the excellent time of 2 hours, 23 ‘minutes, 59. seconds... It should be noted that this. mark is only | 55.8 seconds slower than Emil . Zatopek’s times registered at Hel- sinki.” ki tte * So much for the development of Soviet athletes in the country- side. In the cities, young people are given equally good facilities- and millions are taking advantage of them. Under tsarism, sports were not ‘encouraged and Russian athletes’ were soundly beaten in interna- tional competition. Under social- ism, Soviet athletes are astound- ing the world. Under St. Laurent, we don’t seem to be doing so well in the world of sports. Hmmm. * “*k * ‘ 6 Since burgomeister Gussie Busch took over the St. Louis. Cardinals he’s improved the grounds, the stadium, the dugouts and the concession stands. Not only that, he’s even improved the team. But the millionaire beer baron went too.far when he changed the name of his park to Budweiser Stadium. Commission- er Ford Frick hada little talk with him and the name on the | sign was hastily switched to Busch Stadium. f ‘ / \