Speed the day
By JOE WALLACE

There’ll be singing in the cities

Bye and bye,

There will be no rich to yoke us,
There will be no smog to choke us,
There'll be singing in the cities

Bye and bye.
There’ll be singing in the cities
Bye and bye,

And the bells in every steeple

Will salute the marching people—
We'll be marching there together,
You and I. s

Won’t somebody please put that. to music? It practically sings
itself as you read it. How about it, composers professional and ama-
teur? In the battle for the future life, as well as in our daily lives,
we must sing in order to “swing”!

* * *

An American union paper ruefully remarks that nowadays it’s
hard to believe that the U.S. was founded as a protest against taxa-
tion. Or, we might add, as a revolution against colonialism.

* * *

A USS. senator is quoted as saying that “progress, American style,
adds up each year to 200 million tons of smoke and fumes, 7,000,000
junked cars, 20 million tons of paper, 48 billion cans and 28 billion
bottles.”

He forgot to add the millions of junked people and the myriads of
fond dreams that go up in smoke.

(Also, by the way, please note that most of the paper is from
Canadian forests, the nickel and much of the other minerals were
mined in Canada, and also that we get a great deal of the U.S.
pollution through the poisoning of the Great Lakes—not to say of
the airwaves.)

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A most atrocious pun has been perpetrated by Henry Meyer in
a letter to us, and we’re passing it on only because it hits Tricky
Dick a smack: “In 1971 President Nixon continues to suffer from
chronic parHANOIa.” :

* * *

Lil Ilomaki has given us several items for possible publication,
including the following “pome” entitled Psychedelirium Tremens by
Jane Goodsell:

Remember when hippie meant big in the hips,

And a trip involved travel in cars, planes and ships?
When pot was a vessel for cooking things in,

And hooked was what Grandmother’s rug might have been.
When fix was a verb that meant mend or repair,

And be-in meant simply existing somewhere?

When neat meant well organized, tidy and clean,

And grass was a ground cover, normally green?

When lights and not people were switched on and off,
And the pill might have been what you took for a cough?
When camp meant to quarter outdoors in a tent.

And pop was what the weasel went?

When groovy meant furrowed -with channels and hollows,
And birds were winged creatures like robins and swallows?
When fuzz was a substances that’s fluffy like lint,

And bread came from bakeries, not from the mint?
When square meant a 90-degree angled form,

And cool was a temperature not quite warm?

When roll meant.a bun and rock was a stone,

And hang-up was something you did to a phone?

When chicken meant poultry, and bag meant a sack

And junk, trashy cast-offs and old bric-a-brac?

When jam was preserves that you spread on your bread,
And crazy meant balmy, not quite right in the head?
When cat was a feline, a kitten grown up,

And tea was a liquid you drank from a cup? .

When swinger was someone who swung in a swing,

And pad was a soft sort of cushiony thing?

When way out meant distant and far, far away,

And a man couldn’t sue you for calling him gay?

When dig meant to shovel and spade in the dirt,

And put-on was what you would. do with a shirt?

When tough described meat too unyielding to chew,
And making a scene was a rude thing’ to do?

Words once so sensible, sober and serious,

Are making the freak scene like psychedelirious.

It’s groovy, man, groovy, but English it’s not,

Methinks that the language has gone straight to pot.

* * #

It is estimated that this century the number of Americans killed
by guns in the USA is 1,000,000. Last year 12,500 civilians were gun-
ned down. by murder or accident—greater than the number of
casualties per year in Vietnam! Most politicians are afraid to move
‘for tighter gun laws because they would come up against the mighty
influence of the National Rifle Association and American gun-

makers.
* * *

When killing becomes “a way of life” it would seem that it’s
high time to change “the way of life,” in other words the social
system that breeds such values.

* * *

Feat of the week. The three Turkish airforce jet fighters that
managed somehow to collide in the air? Or Trudeau walking the
tightrope with Commonwealth “partners” in the Orient? ~~

PACIFIC-TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, VANUARY 15,:19791 PAGE 8

Murdered Jan. 15, 1919

The legacy of Karl Liebknech

(From a 1916 Article by
J. T. Walton Newbold)

. .. Across the North Sea, one
man stood forth in implacable
hostility to the war. He spoke
against the war and _ voted
against the war. The Govern-
ment could not browbeat him,
the Army could not terrorize
him, his colleagues could not
restrain him, the Reichstag could
not silence him. Again and again
his voice rang out, accusing, ex-
posing, condemning the war and
its makers, its causes, its pur-
pose, and its methods.

That man was Karl Liebnecht,
the mighty son of a mighty
father. For him the war made no
difference to his hostility to mili-
tarism and to capitalism except
to rouse him to greater exertions
and more resolute antagonism...

Liebknecht is no mere anti-
militarist. He sees always behind
militarism the junkers and the
capitalists directing national pol-
icy in their own interests. He is,
in fact, the revolutionary par ex-
cellence of the new century, of
this militarist age. He is no vis-
ionary, dreaming of barricades
or picturing Utopias. He fights
capitalism wherever he finds it,
and seeks for it in every quarter.
Sometimes he speaks from the
tribune of the Reichstag, expos-
ing the methods of Krupp or the
international ramifications of
Loewe and Nobel. At other times
he is in the Courts bringing to
light the concerted operations of
Siemens-Schuckert and Vickers
in Japan... s

“Where,” he said, “would be
all our patriotic sing-songs, ve-
erans’ dinners, young. Teutons’
associations, military assemblies,
etc., without Krupp’s? If Krupp
collapsed, a mortal blow would
be dealt to our Patent Patriot-
ism =. :
“The Minister for War has
asked how much we owe to the
firm of Krupp’s. I ask, how much
does the firm owe to the German
people? Have not Messrs.
Krupp’s contracts been very well
paid for . . .? Krupp’s as patriots?
. .. It only remains for a halo to
be quartered in the Krupp coat
of arms, with the name Napoleon
III inscribed upon it! . . . These

people who, as Krupp’s and Dil-

lingen and the Arms and Muni-
tions Factory, talk so finely,
these are . . . the same people
who draw the biggest profits
from present-day militarism and

BOOK REVIEW

Hard Times

HARD TIMES
by Charles Dickens

During this Centennial year
of Charles’ Dickens’ death, and
at a time when The Christmas
Carol has revived Anglo-Saxon
nostalgia, we might be remind-
ed of Dickens’ crusading, satir-
ical pen, his energetic journal-
ism, and direct participation
with audiences in such causes
as abolition in his American
lecture tours, and in_ stage-
plays.

Hard Times has had much
critical treatment as a novel;
but it must be recalled that
Dickens wrote ‘it as a_ serial,
under severe stress for weekly
production, from April to Aug-
ust, 1854, and when his domes-
tic affairs caused him personal
suffering. He was already 42
years of age, a man with few
years of schooling, but educat-
ed in life, since his childhood,
when at 12 he was forced to

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poe Liebknec ant

ani |

On January 15, 1919, Karl Liebknecht, socialist leader, ;
dered by German militarists in Berlin. at
To mark this anniversary, we print on this page one of

described itself as “‘“A Quaker Organ of Social Reconstr!
August 1916. J. F. Horrabin, the artist, subsequently bec!
known as the illustrator and cartographer for H. G. Wells’ *
of History.”

The portrait of Karl Liebknecht appeared in “The Plough’
illustrate a biographical article written by J. T. Walton Newb
Newbold became the first Communist M.P. in Britain (M

few portraits of Liebknecht by an English artist. The picture
Horrabin, was first published in “The Ploughshare,” a

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1922). Extracts from this article are reproduced on this pag®
Liebknecht exposed the Krupps as the makers of World

and he was murdered. Krupp & Co. went on to bring Hitlef

and launch World War Il. Hitler is gone but the Krupps re™

the capitalist system . . . are the
worst intriguers against popular
liberties, the loudest shouters...
for exceptional laws! .. .”

When the war broke out, Lieb-
knecht did not abate in the least
his opposition either to the
armament syndicates or to the
whole system of German capital-
ism and militarism...

by Dickens

work and -live alone when his
father and family went to pri-
son for debt.

Dickens is remembered as a
novelist, but his life work was
more as a journalist, and the
strong fervor of his message,
with characters of fiction almost
caricatured from his real-life
experiences, revealed his deli-
berate, militant reformism
against the ravages of a raw
capitalist system.

He hada natural sympathy
with the working class, but he
was no Class-conscious social-
ist, and indeed, in Hard Times
he missed the clarity of under-
standing of the basic organiza-
tion of factory workers. Yet
Dickens’ articulation of the
worker’s feelings, and his vivid
descriptions of the Coketown
Mill with its “hands,” have im-
mediacy for us today in our
struggles against imperialism.

—Maria Dubois

‘not resound with the

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has returned to the ch@
in the Imperialist Reic!”
the Prussian Diet. mc

closes the sordid interé
find the furtherance of
bitions in the continual
tilities. For him, capil®
mains the real enemy),
transitory persecution,

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Kaiser powers and the ;
and the Near East. After
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marching battalions, pet
serve for the works of 1
civilization . . .” Lieb BY
terjected—‘‘and of the
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The authorities had q
flung Rosa Luxemburg !4_
on and persecuted Clafts
the daring editor of “Gl@,
When Liebknecht beg! 1
ther a party around ©
when the rank and file
burg, Stuttgart and Berl.
to his support, and yet "ay
grew louder and bolde!
der the brutal govern™® }
ed themselves of the ||
offence of appearing in Fi
mufti to arrest him a!
a sentence of two Y
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ment.

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