Phil’s jet

John J. Hargreaves of Gab-
Yiola Island sent the following
letter he had published in the
Nanaimo Free Press, June 22,
1966: On June 28th in an edi-
torial in the Free Press Strachan
Says highways minister Gaglardi
should spend money on con-
struction of the Lake Cowichan
road instead of a new jet.

But I have another news item
which says Phil hoped to use the
new jet to take two cabinet min-
isters to a secret location in the
event of a nuclear attack, (There
is nothing secret about anything if
more than one knows about it).

Well, if Strachan and highways
minister Gaglardi and some of
the MPs and MLAs know of a
Secret location in case of a nu-
clear attack, why is it that only
a few know about it? I would
think that it is about time some-
thing was done about the A-bomb,
and not keep putting money and
labor into a hole, as there will
be no escape this time if the
bomb is used — secret location
or not,

And if they want to do some-

thing constructive — that is the
government — what about OAP?
And the people on welfare that
heed transportation? And the cost
of living going up? Why is itthat
Old people cannot ride the bus?
Is it because it says ‘‘school bus”
and old people are persecuted
because they are old. It seemed
OK for more than 20 years when
People did ride on the school bus,

Seeing as how B.C. can spend
$100 million, why not a little for
B.C.’s OAPers and then we will
have prosperity-and not greed?

* ok O*

Morality

Norman Pritchard, Courtenay,
writes: Over the years Ihavefelt
a deep respect for the Tribune
and its long-time editor who
hever shirked a real issue and
who was courageous for peace.

The John Boyd article is not
in keeping with the ideals of any
careful thinker, Promiscuity in
Sex is not an adjunct to human
happiness, nor does the “Pill”
give protection against venereal
disease, :

There is an element of finest
womanhood without which all
standards would trail in the dust.
The hope of the race falters with-
out good morals,

* OK OK
Vietnam

Charles de la poer Gough,
of Vancouver, writes in part:
Ho Chi Minh through diplomatic
channels was made aware of the
present raids on Hanoi and Hai-
Phong weeks before the present
air raids and they were able to
evacuate a half million old men,
women and children (past or

under working age) to safety. '

The standard of living is low-.
ered and rice is rationed; bread
and coffee are in short supply,
one pound of coffee can cost as
much as $5.50. No one is per-
mitted to buy more than five and

a half yards of cotton a year.

A blanket can cost as much as
$20.00 so with average weekly
income a little more than 20
dongs ($6.00) 80 percent of a
family income has to go for food,

Clothing is another expensive
luxury. Shoes are made fromold
car tires which also fetch a high
price on the black market. Fur-

ther drastic action has been taken
against black marketeers who are
selling the basic food, rice, for
$3.00 a pound.

Medicine is scarce and this
along is causing undue terrible
suffering. Drugs and money to
the total of $5,000 has already
been sent to North Vietnam but
that’s only a drop in the bucket.
Sending drugs and money toSouth
Vietnam is like sending coals
to Newcastle as the U.S.A. has
more than enough for every man
woman and child in the country.

Gone are the days when Hanoi
resembled a typical far eastern
city. A car is an unheard of lux-
ury. Transport is confined to
the bicycle. . Fleets of them hiss
through the city daily. The over-
all silence is uncanny,

Mr. Arnett (Pulitzer prize win-
ner) direct from Saigon, soft-
peddled the facts about the night
life of that city. Social cor-
ruption — night clubs and brothel
owners becoming millionaires
in a short period. Hundreds of
illegitimate half-cast babies
found weekly in garbage cans,
The caualties suffered by the U.S.
troops in veneral diseases equal

those of casualties in the field.
* OK OK

Peace fight

John R, Tanche, White Rock,
writes in part: While one hundred
RCMP were protecting a Nazi
speaker in Toronto to vent his
venom against humanity recently,
here on the local scene in White
Rock another member of their
force was preventing two innocent
women from distributing a Peace
Council leaflet.

(The leaflet, entitled “Danger”
protested the U.S. bombing of
Hanoi and Haiphong and adver-
tised the upcoming rally at the
Peace Arch, August 6),

Canadians have died during the
First World War to prevent a
despot from overrunning Europe.
They died again in the Second
World War to prevent another
despot from running the world,
and now when two women deliver
a pamphlet asking the public to
give a hand to prevent World
War Ill, they are told by an
RCMP youngster to stop dis-
tributing the leaflet.

It makes a mockery of our
heralded laws of free speech,
free press, free assembly. Whe-
ther or not storm troopers-a-la-
Hitler think they are going to
drive down in the mud, ideals that

Canadian boys have died for to

maintain, matters only in their
minds.

The fact remains that people of
goodwill will continue to spread
the truth, that humanity has a
priority before profits; that we
shall not condone the use of force
and murder, as in Vietnam and
the Dominican Republic, the
Congo, anywhere in the world for
that matter; and that nations have
a right to the form of economic
system they desire,

And lastly and purely froma
selfish motive — because we want
to live,

Enjoy Good, Home-Cooked
Meals at

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335 Main St.

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HAROLD WILSON
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OBITUARY
SS ee
EMIL WILEN

A pioneer of the Finnish-Can-
adian communities in Western
and Northern Ontario and in Bri-
tish Columbia for over 50 years,
Emil Wilen passed-away last week
in Vancouver, the victim of a
heart attack. He would have
been 80 years old in August.

Emil Wilen came to Canada
from his native Finland in the
year 1905, and from then until
just shortly before his death,
pioneered in the cultural and
educational work of the Finnish
Organization of Canada (FOC).

In the organization and devel-
opment of the Finnish Co-ops in
Ontario and B.C., Emil Wilen was
always an active organizer and
leader. For a number of years
he also served as editor of the
Finnish paper “Vapaus,” pub-
lished in Sudbury, Ontario.

In the organization of the lum-
ber workers in Ontario and B.C,
Emil Wilen also played a pion-
eering role. Emil Wilen was also
a member of the Communist
Party of Canada since its form-
ation in 1922,

Funeral services were held
July 23 at the Glenhaven Funeral
Chapel, Henry Lahti of the
FOC and Tom McEwen, repre-
senting the Communist Party,
paid high tributes to the devoted
life and work of Emil Wilen,
Finnish soloist Mrs, Annie Tyn-
jala rendered two songs to honor
the memory of a grand pioneer,

Wilsons cure for what

ails Britain is no cure

“Wilson’s penal measures
against the people won’t solve
Britain’s crisis. They will, how-
ever, cause immeasurable dam-
age to Britain,” says British
Communist Party leader John
Gollan in a statement this week.

Prime Minister Wilson re-
vealed his program to meet Bri-
tain’s. current economic crisis
last week, “A cut in real wages
and consumption, a threatened
national wage freeze and rising
unemployment — these are the
heart of Wilson’s proposals,”
says Gollan,

The British Communist leader
says that “the solution to Bri-
tain’s economic problem is bound
up with following a new inde-
pendent foreign policy — one
which would end support of the
U.S. war in Vietnam and re-
place the cold war and its alli-
ances. by a policy of peaceful
co-existence and military dis-
engagement,”

“Our industrial growth, our
jobs, our standards of living, the
very future of the country is
being sacrificed for British im-
perialism and the American alli-
ance, the big trusts and the City
of London.”

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