Mothers of sons Editor, Pacific Tribune, Sir: In your valuable paper of October 22, I read with interest the two very timely letters by Hilda Loveng, of Grassy Plains, and by Isabel Ringwood of Ed- monton. The first letter gave me a feeling of shame of my lack of courage to speak out. It was one of courageous criticism of the powers that be. I heartily agree it is worse than shocking to think of such Classified A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted later than Monday noon of the week of publication. Oldtime Dancing To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra @very Wednesday and Saturday Hastings Auditorium Phone HAstings 1248 Moderate Rental Rates ‘or socials, weddings, meetings Russian People’s Home— available for meetings, weddings and banquets at reasonable rates. 600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087. Dance, Clinton Hai'— 2605 East Pender. Dance every Saturday night. 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Smith, Mgr. daring breaches of common de- mocracy in our midst as Hilda speaks of, and it should awaken every decent Canadian to get out and fight. Write protests to such acts as daring to let Ilse Koch free. It is evident our govern- ment is much more interested in assisting her, and others of her kind to freedom as is shown by the entry of Nazi collaborators and the refusal to give haven to anti-fascist Jewish and French people, We women must take the lead in this fight against the threat of war and have the courage of our convictions to protest. against anyone in our midst who has the nerve to say “I hate Jews,” or any other race. These are more Hitler. tactics, as Isabel Ringwood point- ed out in her letter, where she - quoted a teacher who spoke with unveiled hatred of Jews and others. Teachers, such as the one men- tioned, have the shaping of our young Canadians entrusted to their care. Women! wake up, find out what the outlook of your children’s teacher is on the peace problem, she who has so much to do with the moulding of the minds of the wee ones (the very ones who will suffer from an atom war). Yes, Isobel we must speak out, refusing to allow such statements to go unchallenged. This is where we mothers must fight this cold war, not after it becomes a real- ity and they start the march of our boys and girls to fill and sat- isfy their hungry, profit-greedy war machines. Teachers so hate- ful and venomous must be told in no uncertain terms, “We moth- ers won’t allow you to poison our children’s minds.” Such creatures may be helping Ilse Koch to make lamp shades of human skin in the not too distant future if we moth- ers keep quiet long enough and they may even need your skin and mine. Speak up, while there is yet time! The following poem was given Politics With a PUNCH . ne 4 EFFIE . JONES - ON THE AIR re) MONDAY TO FRIDAY GKMO.. (1410 On Your Dial: ’ 6.55 P.M. to me the other day and I feel is is very timely: Mothers who have as much at stake if wars should ever cease, Who have fair sons for Mars to take, what do you do for peace? Have you a son, who’s six foot tall, with promise in his eyes? For you the very world will fall when he, beloved, dies. Mothers of sons arise and band, for mighty is your power, You hold the peace of a world in your hands and now has come the hour. ETHEL CLARK Vancouver, B.C. Canvassing for Effie . Editor, Pacific Tribune, < Sir: The sick landlady of a small rooming house in the West End ' had something to say about the red-baiters when she signed my petition and gave me a dollar to- wards Effie Jones’ broadcasts. Phooey, shé told me, people like Effie have been fighting for the working class for years, I re- member her well from the days of the Housewives’ League. And the roomer upstairs, sick with arthritis and unable to work, whom the landlady introduced me to, said when I told her that I was a member of the Labor. Progressive Party, that our party is a wonderful party and has done such good work. Although she doesn’t possess a radio, she has heard various LPP spedkers over the air and in her opinion, the other speakers don’t come anywhere near them. The response to the petition for the reduction of the street car fare is of course, great! This is really an occasion to meet the landlady and make friends for we have found our greatest sup- port from them. In donations! There’s nothing to compare to canvassing and meeting the peo- ple, learning of the tremendous respect Effiie Jones commands and always marvelling at en- countering that rare amongst our Canadian people, that tolerance for your views though on many occasions, dis- agreeing with you. = In closing, may I suggest to ‘those who would like to go can- vassing for Effie Jones but are a bit hesitant about it, that I’ll be glad to go out with them for a short while if they’ll call me at MA. 5288. ‘ LENA LIPSEY.. Vancouver, B.C, Editor's note We would remind our readers again that, because of limited space, letters must be restricted to a maximum of 300 words. In the past few months contribu- tions to this department have increased—and so has the aver- age length. We welcome all con- tributions, the more the better, but obviously, to insure early publication, they must be short. . ALWAYS MEET AT ‘Excellent Acoustics THE PENDER AUDITORIUM. -Renovated—Modernized—Hall Large and Small for Every Need . DANCING—CONVENTIONS—MEETINGS Triple Mike P.A. System — Wired for Broadcasting F, 339 West Pender Street quality © . GUIDE TO GOOD READING Cold war confusion IN HIS. NEW BOOK, Home From the Cold Wars (Saunders), Leslie Roberts makes an effort to convince the unwary reader that confusion and objectivity are the same “thing. The book is. based on a quick summer visit to the USSR and western Europe and pretends to be an honest attempt to set down the facts. It would be pleasant to -eport that Leslié Roberts—well-known in the past for hissdefense of democraty in Canada—has, in this book, con- tributed something to the fight for peace. But that is exactly what the book does not do. Roberts makes the none-too-new discovery that the people of the USSR are hu- man beings, happy and contented, who desperately want peace in order to reconstruct their coun- try. The American people also want peace. Having said so much, Roberts then goes on to obscure the issue by declaring that both the Soviet and American govern- ments are pursuing policies that may result in war, that both are engaged. in a struggle for power and world domination. : What are Canadians to do about this? At this point Roberts gives up the ghost: ‘ “Whether or not we shall suc- ceed in coping with (the prob. lem) depends solely and en- tirely on the type of leadership and outlook developed by the United States. The rest of us can only wait and hope. Even so prosperous a country as Canada is powerless in its own right. There are not enough of us to originate great move- ments. We can only follow and help.” This pessimistic and cynical acquiescence arises from Roberts’ inability to analyse critically the policies of either the U.S. or of the USSR, and above all from his failure to draw any conclu- sions from such facts as he does state. Red 4 * * * ‘HE IS capable of saying that the Western Powers armed Hit- ler, that the business of rearm- ing Germany is starting all over again (page 9), that it is not sur- prising that the Russians dis- trust the West (page 33) and then, in a complete about-face, that the Soviet Union misjudges Western intentions because the Soviets still think in terms of the anti-Soviet interventions of the twenties (page 213). ‘ The book is full of such con- tradictory judgments. It is not re- deemed by the warm friendly description of May Day, the first- hand account of conversations with Soviet workers who hate the thought of war, reminder that Lend-Lease sup- plies were a tiny percentage of the war materials used by the Soviets. ; At the May Day celebration Roberts was convinced that Stalin and the Russian people are one and indivisible—‘they belong to Stalin—and Stalin belongs to them.” But a few pages later, ‘stand Europe d the timely ~ Stalin is a dictator and “the bosses in the Kremlin” (Roberts’ Phrase) turn out to be putting over a subtle peace propaganda line—to prepare them for war. Roberts adds to the confusion he has created by declaring correct- ly that the USSR is not going to wage an aggressive war. * kok FURTHER confusion creeps in when Roberts looks at examples of war-mongering from the press of both countries, The examples cited from the U.S. press turn out to be from the crack-pots who want to drop a bomb on the USSR now. (Roberts could have quated some sources much closer to the U.S. government who have said substantially the same thing). But the examples from the Soviet press are analyses of American encirclement and pre- paration for war, statements to the effect that the Marshall Plan means the export of American unemployment. In this chapter, both countries engage in war talk, but in a later chapter we find that the Soviets are subtle enough always to talk peace! Roberts cannot come to a con- clusion about the nature of American policy. He sees a num- ber of instances where Wall Street is taking over Canada, He permits himself to be critical of a few unnamed isolationist Con- gressmen. He doesn’t mention the U.S. elections. He doesn’t, attempt to size up Truman, Dewey, Dulles or Marshall. Henry Wallace and the fight for peace policy are not mentioned. Roberts .regrets that so many Americans misunder- (he doesn’t’ say which ones, and he- doesn’t say what the basis of the misunder- standing is); he regrets the “mis- take’ ’in U.S. policy which create the impression (presumably a wrong impression!) that the Mar- shall Plan interferes in the econ- omy of other countries for the benefit of Wall Street. _ * * * HAVING begun the book with a lusty plague on both houses, Roberts can end with this sort of nonsense—“the first requisite for victory in the Cold War is the success of the Marshall Plan. If it fails, the Cold War ends as a win for Communism.” If Leslie Roberts means that~ sentence as an expression of his own feelings, then he should sit ‘down and think things over, He won’t be comfortable for long in the same pew as the imperialists of Wall Street. —FRANK WILLIAMS HIGHEST PRICES PAID for rf DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD Other Valuable Jewellery STAR LOAN CO. Ltd. EST. 1905 719. 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