“CANADA AND THE ROME OLYMPICS

By LES McDONALD

‘ Most of us in this synthetic,
cellophane-wrapped day, look
upon sports and physical rec-
reation in general, as. an item
to be watched on T.V. in the
Same vein as a good western.
Or we may be really vigorous
and take the kids to a baseball
Stadium, or coliseum (which it
More and more resembles), to
Watch someone else in the
flesh, sweating, using his mus-
cles and making money! The
Only exercisee we get out of it
being the amount we use to
applaud our imported “home”
Side.

Now most of us will agree
that the situation is. not very
healthy, both in a real and in
a figurative sense. Medical
authorities across the conti-
Nent warn. us. repeatedly that
We are the unfittest nation on
earth. The most heart attack
Prone, Overweight (not count-
ing the unemployed who lost
their surplus weight long ago!).

Sports have been narrowed
down exclusively to high
Priced performers, and multi-
tudes of watchers with the pro-
Moters collecting the dividends
8nd the watchers the pot-bel-
lies,

We do produce the occasion-
al athlete in our society. and
Usually it has only been
through the stiffest of strug-
gles. Doug Hepburn, our local
Weightlifter is a good example.
Countless others who also had
the capabilities, had to give up
in frustration before reaching
the top, due to lack of facili-
ties, encouragement and pros-
bects,

On August 25th, the Olym-

pic torch will be lit in the‘

100,000 capacity Rome Sta-
dium to open the 17th, modern
olympiad. A total of 8,000 ath-
letes are entered, and as the
founder of the modern olym-
pics De Coubertin said, ‘The
important thing is to take part,
not to win.”

The athletic prowess of a
country is often a good meas-
uring stick of how interested
its leaders are in promoting
sports, building playing fields,
etc., and giving every assist-
ance to budding athletes.’

The socialist countries are a
shining example in this re-
spect. China, with all her mas-
sive projects, still has time to
produce world table tennis
champions and alpinists. cap-
able of ascending the “‘insur-
mountable” north face of Ever-
est,

Zapotek, Kuts and Kutznet-

zOv are names bandied about
with cosmopolitan ease by
sports fans today, and we

look forward ‘confidently to
men of their ilk emerging at
Rome from the socialist lands.

Would that we could: look
forward confidently and say
the same of our Canadian ath-
letes. I’ll have my fingers
crossed tightly for our rowing
crews and swimmers like
Marg Iwasaki, and our divers
too.

But crossing fingers: is too
little and too late I fear. I
mentioned. divers. Why we
only have two 10-metre diving
towers in the whole Domin-
ion! One is at Kelowna, the
other at U.B.C. The chances of
a 10-metre diving champion
emerging from Winnipeg, for
example, must be very remote
indeed.

Those of our athletes who

are outstanding, like. Harry
Jerome, are lured south by
varsity scholarships, reveal-

ing only too well Canada’s in-
adequacy.

The solution is obvious: a
systematic approach to sports
and the nation’s health by the
government. Not for the sole
purpose of entering - 1,000
Canadian athletes in the Olym-
pics (we’ve entered. 99) but for
cleansing all the garish com-
mercialism away, and truly
bring sports to the people and
engage them in this health-
giving activity.

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Dief's inaction on jobs ‘ff
crisis condemned hy CPC}

TOM UPHILL, (above) veter-
an labor MLA from Fernie re-
ceived hearty congratulations
on his 86th birthday last week
in a wire from the B.C. execu-
tive of the Communist Party.
The wire said “your consist-

ent progressive stand stirs
pride throughout our _ prov-
ince.’ The executive wished

him many more years of good
health, happiness and service
to the people of Fernie and
BrG.

To form national
disarmament body

The Toronto Committee for
Disarmament is. working to-
wards the establishment of a
national: disarmament body.

Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg,
who chaired. the June 10 meet-
ing in Toronto’s Massey Hall,
says he has received letters
and telegrams from Halifax,
Montreal, Ottawa and Saska-
toon all asking for further ‘in-
formation.

Rabbi Feinberg said the Tor-
onto committee has received
700 promises of financial or
clerical suport; and’ ‘another
1,100 have asked to be put on
the mailing list.

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NOTES

U.S. Controls Canadian
Markets

This being Canada Day
issue would seem to be an ap-
propriate time to again draw
attention to the shameful fact
that Canadian farm markets
are dominated by the USS.
That this fact is recognized not
only by Communists and a
large section of the farm move-
ment, is shown by the follow-
ing quotation from a recent
book ‘‘Peacemaker or Powder
Monkey” by James M. Mini-
fie, (a book favoring Canadian
neutrality in the cold war and
armament race):

“American control over Can-
adian farm products is absol-
ute: import quotas prevent ac-
cess to the United States mar-
ket anda ‘Treasury-financed
surplus dictates conditions on
the world market.”

Urge Strike

Members of the Farmers
Union of B.C. in the Golata
Creek area of the Peace River
block recently urged the
launching of a farmers strike
as a means of publicizing the
plight of farmers.

The strike would ban the de-
livery of all foodstuffs, with
picketing and the co-operation
of transportation unions and
produce handlers to see that
picket line are not crossed. The
farmers would also refuse to
make any payments on debts
or taxes.

Objectives of the strike
would include: a fair return to
the farmer for-his produce; a
fair share of the national in-
come; a crop insurance scheme
a fair adjustment of the -cost-
price squeeze; more reasonable
tariff; import quotas to coun-
tires: anxious: to buy Canadian
farm: produce.

Hitting out at the failure of
|the Federal government
take action-on the jobs crisis,
| the national. executive, Com-
|munist: Party of Canada this
; week released the following
| statement;
| “The latest figures on unem-
| ployment issued jointly by the
| Department of Labor and Do-
|minion Bureau of Statistics are
|cause for deep concern” de-
| clared the Communist Party
| today. ‘They make clear that
|the ‘recovery’ the Diefenbaker
| Government talked so much
| about is only partial and short
|lived and that far from ex-
|panding the Canadian econ-
| omy, is in fact in‘a state of de-
cline. By the fall of this year
unemployment may reach dis-
astrous propotrions unless ef-
fective policies are adopted to
cope with it.

“Moreover the figures is-
sued, bad as the are, do not tell
the whole story” the Com-
munist Party stated. “For one
thing they are incomplete.
How can a sampling of. 30,-
000 households give an exact
picture of the situation?

“It is high time to end the
|juggling with figures as a
| pretext for Government inac-
| tion,” the Communist Party

declared. “The Government
must immediately undertake a
national registration of all

those unemployed in the coun-
try so that the scope and ser-
iousness of the problem can be
fully understood.

“In the meantime the Gov-
ernment has the responsibility
of restoring supplementary un-
employment insurance to all
those in need of it. So far they
are being treated as statistics.
They need to be treated as
human beings facing hardship,
poverty and distress. Not least
the Government needs to be
compelled to - adopt policies
which will bring about an ex-
pansion of the Canadian econ-
omy. Not profits but the needs

Photo shows new mechanized milk processing plant in:
People’s Republic of Mongolia. The plant processes 15 tons»
of fresh milk, produces butter and other milk products.
Mongolia is making giant strides forward in raising living

standards. :

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of the people must come first.” -