Asa E. Tennessee, violence. . . fanned prejudice Carter (aboye) White Citizens Council leader in against integrated schools to US. CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE Tweedledum, Tweedledee choice faces Negroes HE Negro voter must choose between “Tweedledum and Tweedledee” in the U.S. elections this November, says the current issue of “The Crisis, journal of the National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People. Commenting on the civil nks of the two major race re s, especially in the Deep South. We have the U.S. Supreme Court decision on ses ation in public edu- cation, and rulings on discrim- ination in public recreation and travel. “We have Montgomery, Ala- bama, and the implications of the bus boycott. We have had nullificat resolutions and a Congressional manifesto insul- SOs . . . But in this elementary school at Hillsboro, Ohio, white ting the highest tribunal in the land and advocating vir- tual rebellion. “We nave had United States Senators traveling up and down the land urging the people not to obey the Sup- rethe Court. And we hive had campaigns of vilification and terror and violence visited upon sections of our population which merely asked that the law of the land be obeyed.” The Crisis, the editorial ex- plains, “had expected more forthright civil rights planks than the ones adopted by either party” because both “are anx- ious to win the balance-of- power Negro vote this fall. “We had not expected much of the Democrats because of their pro-segregation South- ern wing, but we had expected a little better of the Repub- licans.” and Negro children played happily together. OPEN FORUM No colussus of roads FRANK AYRES, Langley, B.C.: Hal Griffin must be eX- ceptionally unlucky. I have driven thousands of miles over some of the most rugged sec- tions of B.C. with no serious mishap. But poor Hal always seems to limp home with no- thing intact but the steering wheel. Every week I am forced to admire Hal’s gallant bayo- net charge against Socred roads. It’s in the glorious tra- dition of the Charge of the Light Brigade. But how long can mortal flesh endure such a weekly ordeal? Surely Hal has earned an easier assignment. For years anti - Nazis have been em- barrassed by the . insidious suggestion that Hitler’s Auto- bahnen are really quite pas- sable roads. Send Hal to Germany. He might discover that the Hit- lerite roads are quite unfit for automotive traffic and are, 1n fact, mere second-class cattle trails. He might describe how he rode in a cart drawn by a bull along a narrow, twisting trail until the appearance of a sign apologizing for the inconven- ience so disconcerted the poor beast that it stumbled into a pothole and broke its leg. You could illustrate the story with a photograph showing Hal, seated by his typewriter, in the act of shooting the ani- mal. But if he couldn’t write such a story — well, perhaps it’s possible to admit that Hitler’s highways. are good without ceasing to be anti-Nazi. One could remember that they were built as invasion routes to France. Did the German progres- sives of the time criticize them as part of the prepara- tions of war, or as examples of bad engineering? The main characteristic of the Socreds is their desire to give away our natural re- sources. To facilitate their giveaway program they must build good roads. Let’s concede that they are carrying out their program’ quite efficient- ly. A fellow sufferer S.P., New Westminster, B.C.: Hal Griffin is not.exaggerating his criticism of Social Credit road policies. I am enclosing a clipping from the Vancouver Province of August 18 in which Ross Munro, the editor, com- plains about the state of our roads: The Province frequent- ly supports Social Credit, but you will note that Mr. Munro indirectly confirms Mr. Grif- fin’s charge that Social Credit is playing politics by building short stretches of road in every constituency without re- gard for the highway needs of the province as a whole. 50 o © The clipping, headed “The Pothole Trails of the Interior,” reads in part: It has been a struggle to achieve an objective approach to this election campaign, for I have returned this* week from a holiday trip which took “The wife works days and I work nights. How else do you think we could afford an heir,” many hundreds of interior high~ me over miles of our ways. The memory of dust-choked, bumpy hours, of detours and irritating delays has a ten- dency to warp one’s political judgment, particularly when highways are bound to be one of the big talking points of this campaign. There are, of course, many fine stretches of road. Some are as good as anything in North America. The Hope- Princeton, with its new re- done section, is one example. There is another piece, albeit too short, west of Kamloops. But in many other parts of the province, the government’s highway building program has frequently produced con- ditions you expect on logging roads deep in the bush... The enthusiasms of High- ways Minister Gaglardi are breathtaking and they found an outlet in this building pro- gram. But after a couple of hundred miles of soft, half- graded gravel, a vacationist is entitled to wonder if this high- ly-vasnted program isn’t be- ing extended far beyond our capacity to complete it with reasonable rapidity, and with- out prolonged “inconveni- ence,” as the sign says. In other provinces, it has been a successful practice to select certain stretches for needed new roads and com- plete them as rapidly as _pos- sible before tearing up other sections for new highway. But here the construction effort has sprawled over half B.C., with an effort to do all the jobs at one time. Looking at it as a traveller —and sufferer—there doesn’t seem to be enough equipment, men or material on the job. Local people to whom I talk- ed, while welcoming solid evidence of new highway links in their districts, were _be organized to SEPTEMBER 14, 1956 — PACIFIC beginning to wonder have a couple more J dust and bumps ale them before the pro completed. } Deeper in debt ADAM FARMER, Fé Lake, Saskatchewan: the things farmers have, are going up. time returns received {0 products are lower, M™ er in some cases. Chemical _ fertiliz machinery prices ha vanced around 100 P the last few years. repairs are going with the price of st The farmers in ™” Saskatchewan see t& headed. for conditions: had in the early th on the basis of whe@ or partly pegged at? for No. 1 Northern, +" liam, we had wan midst of plenty. We” this condition coming ® spite of the pood croP é ing harvested. Farm\’ ing our stony an mT land could. very aaa song something like ners’ “Sixteen Tote Forty bushels of hi do I get Another year older # in debt. Farmers working a that have below 3Y 4 tility, usually he”, with more than then stones as well, should see that they *® much in. commo? wage workers: # those whose abilitY: and strength are | , age. These fellow-¥° often only part-time ed and unorganize® It is high time “4 ganization of a are people’s movement i and see to it thab™ gressive represent@! people are elect Ottawa when the election takes pla A movement our farmer-labor a. pu () sives in control ° government. We stand cori V. BEN WILLIA, manager, Pacific N hibition, vanco'st May I be permitle® ii a statement in 4 pearing in you gust 10 and heae*™ on Lotteries.” : The states can now safely — charity or to enhan@ fits of Exhibile but not for pre ; Directors of tee ional Exhibitio? 2 ott do not receive % eit muneration for. ly 0 which ‘are entire All surplus ree : Pacific Nation4 sid? devoted to expt provement OF and its facilitie> t is ‘