: - launch + around pe eee Ad astra, per aspera By LESLIE MORRIS HE CAPITALIST United States of America made the first atomi¢ bomb and is the only country to have used it. The socialist USSR was the first. country to successfully an earth satillite, the first to send a flying laboratory e p : arth and bring him back alive and well. F and That is the difference between science under capitalism, cience under socialism. Sputnik became an international word overnight. ~b The names of the American pilots who dropped the atomic . Citizens _ ®bout 10 few ‘ire Hiroshima and Nagasaki are remembered by only a » Dut the name Yuri Gagarin is on everyone’s lips. THE USSR will send a human being to the moon in 1967. are Scientists in the USA chained to the military machine, tos arefully working out how many Americans can be expected. isn eVive an atomic war in-order to rebuild American capital- he Rand Corporation estimates that 60 to 80 million U.S. Will die but “private enterprise’ can be restored ini years. thay O° USSR proposed that we should arrange matters so me can have a world without war, without arms. The USA rejects complete and general disarmament. lifer Science to serve death or science, wedded to art, to serve Th the service of death, says the Pentagon. We must have Shaw huclear missile bases in Canada, Polaris nuclear bases © Holy Loch, nuclear bombs in. the hands of Adenauer; eae encourage and finance armed bandits to destroy the Patrice government and refuse to arraign the murderers of Uumumba. * * % T= 21st century will be the century of space travel, planet- Self.c Shp Cor z Weather 2bor, keep our cities clean and tidy, control the erate colonization, revolutionary automation that will lib- drug Man from the torture of the conveyor belt and the Sery of the assembly line, electronically-controlled and recting devices that will free humans from wasteful » heat the soil. pay the le of try responded, enthusiastically and wi people of our country resp ; k l ne hoe unrestrained admiration, to the feat of Yuri Gagarin. * for ~©ople are filled with an instinctive desire for a better life, Sp See ive science that will expand their horizons. Feats like ~ Yuri a and Lunik, and now the flight of the modern Icarus, 8arin, become a part of folklore and each human recog- niz . . © in himself similar qualities of scientific daring. And, just BeOS Tete occ ( death i2ctively, they reject the scientists and the merchants of mode, uri Gagarin was the pioneer, His flight will become out- ~ Eirgt d before much time has passed, but it will always be the ‘ tional uman leap into outer space, beyond the earth’s gravita- i in {iolent ij DD fielq * *& * HERE are two clashing and conflicting tendencies at work. ni : Shockin® is towards violent self-destruction, as shown in the | > de ~ 7S facts brought out by three U.S. communications ex- atea ‘th uring 100 hours of TV programs in a U.S. metropolitan 21 \. -€y saw 12 murders, 16 major gunfights, 21 persons shot, e gun incidents, 37 hand-to-hand fights, one stabbing: Deople ack, three suicides and one unsuccessful attempt, four Tuly. busheq: over cliffs, and a lot of miscellaneous violence. § cult of violence. © dem gM? other tendency is towards greater democracy, better Mo : ; ionatic Institutions, creative science for peace and the lib- - by d ,, 24 man from toilsome labors; towards a plenitude of : Boxoaty of eartie lovely dwellings — and to bring an end to the era "thbound man. first tendency is inherent in the profit system, in the ern ie keeping-up-with-the-Jones’ nervous — intensity of : Trustrat Ife under that system, which is driving people to a but ee oth Imbecility. ae 3 ther tendency is also at work in capitalist society, Public Springs to full vitality only in a socialist society where Swnership has defeated private monopoly. There human Dloits ,¥S towards a relaxed and happy creativity, daring ex- tialiti ey nich lift up the dignity of man, the release of the poten- Urge to Of every carpenter’s son such as Yuri Gagarin. It is the of applieg out of the murk of ignorance and into the sunshine ‘ nowledge. ‘ liberate Sunshine Eiaags penetrates the murk in the end. By tengs he himself from his “mind-fogged manacles’” Man ex- Micro _ dominion alike over the social as well as cosmic ang ““0smic worlds, * & Bacient astra, per aspera — to the stars, through difficulty. The = spittin saying was Karl Marx’s favorite. It reflects the it of Man’s struggle. the moon and the first to send a spaceman around the! QUOTA ..... $17,000 RAISED .... . $11,600 WE STILL NEED $ 5,400 ® $17,000 will ensure the publication of the P.T. for the next year. @ It will also make possible a 20% increase in the s of the paper by Labor Day. @ To ensure these objectives we have EXTENDED THE: PACIFIC TRIBUNE FINANCIAL DRIVE TO MAY 9. Let's give it that final heave-ho and— iE FINAL PUSH ize Celebrate at the Smorgasbord — Dance HASTINGS AUDITORIUM 828 East Hastings Street FRIDAY, MAY 12th—7 p.m. City Club of The Week is South Burnaby with $288 on $215. Provincial Club of the Week is New Westminster $326.29 on $325. Congratulations and thanks to both these fine clubs! DRIVE QUOTAS Greater Vancouver | Delta Club Quota Achieved fort Langley __---- 250 Advanéée __~---2-=- fon $221.50 Ladner —...:-<--~ 125 Rayview 2. 225 173.00 Steveston ----+--- 100 Broadway -—.~----- 400 492.50 South Surrey ----- 100 Brother <3 o 150 81.00 North Surrey —---- 250 Dry Dock -------- 400 334.02 Whalley __-------- 200 East End —.~------ rom 166.84 lecirical! 229-2 262.58 Frank Rogers ----- 325 100.00 Vancouver — Georgia —---=----- 150 124.0¢ Albernis -_------- it Grandview _------- 500 481.50 Campbell River -_- . Hastings East —--- 500 366.25 Cumberland -__-_-- 200 Kengington _2---- 350 341.79 . Cowichan: -_______- 300 Mt. Pleasant ------ 275 100.25 Nanaimo. 2_-__.- 550 Niilo Makela __-- 150 61.00. Parksville ---____- 75 Nerquay. -.-------- 300 Doh Oz WNCUOTIA, paca thy 500 Olsin = 200 140.12 2 Point Grey -------- 350 238.40 Okanagan Region Rigid _----------- 150 94.00 Kamloops _____-__- $175 Seamen —_--------- 300 398,00 .. Weten Hill 150 Strathcona —------- 325 285.00 Veron =: ee 175 Victory Square ---- 750 660.00 Waterfront ------- 400 333.13 8 G | West End —_------ 275 111.12 Province Genera North Burnaby ---- 425 346.25 Michel-Fernie ____- $125 South Burnaby ---- 215 28800; “Wassion 22s 4-5 100 Edmonds (Burnaby) 215 13315 «- Mesa! gen.-=-=--= 50 North Van City --- 350 242.55 New Westminster a ee North Van District _ 400 207.75 Powell River -___-_ 200 City Miscellaneous 1350 765.99 Prince Rupert ____- 100 Unpledged -------- 200 S008 «-Samtila: = 75 Trail-Rossland _____ 300 Dewdney Correspondence ____ 200 Fieey ot cee 150 77.57 Provincial Miss. ___ 200 Maple Ridge ------ 175 95.70 T.McEwen’scolumn 100 204.04 33.04 20.00 107.03 241.03 114.04 233.00 ~ 93.50 49.20 171.00 402.61 19.00 357.85 47.00 79.00 96.00 65.00 97.20 15.00 326.29 213.75 46.00 64.00 285.75 150.00 69.00 April 28, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 11