t was good to see E.G, Mar-
Shall, in a recentissue of TV
Guide, Speak out for more “hot
'Ssues” on “The Defenders,” but
he piqued our curiosity in be-
™Moaning the dearth of skilled
Writers to provide the virile
Scripts desired,

What is most strange is that
both “Defenders” and its distaff
Counterpart, “The Nurses,” are
Under the aegis of Herbert Brod-
kin, who, as executive producer,
locates Scripts and scribers,.,
because “The Nurses” comes up
Nearly every week with a block-
: buster of some proportion,

Once we had overcome the
Show's “for ladies only” image,
We settled down to some of the
. heartiest dramatic presentations

_ % people involved in vital issues
that have ever trotted across this
Nation’s scan lines,

Last season they went after
Such public enemies as poverty
among Puerto Ricans, race pre-
Wdice, the AMA (in a plea for
Medicare), grappled with legal-
ized abortion, voluntary sterili-
Zation, civil rights, the need for
€ffective unions for hospital

_ Workers, the problems of a male

 hurse, the destruction of the car-

er of a young genius because

F obe Couldn’t be an Organization

_ 4... the list, indeed, could go
°n much further,

It seems apparent, then, that
Since Brodkin has found such a
S0odly crew of writers for “The
-,'tses,” they must be available
. a “The Defenders,” and David
| “USskind, who produced the late
_ 4Mented “Kast Side/West Side”
+/dn’t seem to run into the prob-
€m too often, The curiosity leads
_,° the question, ,, how can Plau-
S Productions display such vast
“Mounts of intestinal fortitude
_ Thursdays and cop out on so
‘Many Saturdays?

st Say-this” because “The
: Tses” seems to accomplish
_ekly what “The Defenders”
‘ages only two or three times
Season, and they do it with a
Paucity of the banal,

; a camera work is generally
er than many lauded movies,

‘ € dialogues is true, the acting
Superb (even Zina Bethune,
% ® we long ago decided was

Hollywood stars

hit Jimcrow
n Nov, 3 the people of
California will be vot- :
Ng on a vicious piece of!
gislation known as Propo
ition 14, In effect, it is
®ferendum which would
©Salize segregated housing

O

A committee to defea

, Art Linkletter,Steve
Nen, Peter Falk, Gene Kel-
¥, Van Heflin, Robert Goulet,
:€0rge Hamilton and Milton
-~€rle, The organization’s
: Chieg purpose, said Lancas-
Pe", Will be to raise some
$750,000 for newspaper ads,
.and radio spots urging
at of Prop, 14, ~

ie der,
,z ‘

he changing screen

hired. for her marked resemb-
lance to Richard Chamberlain,
is developing a nice quality as the
shoy continues.)

Shirl fonway must be acclaim-
ed here and now as our kind of
woman, We knew her as a fine
dramatic actress who has an un-
canny ability to convey the subt-
lest emotion with a whispered
gesture, but when she laced into
an uproarious comedy episode
we saw why she won raves as
“Auntie Mame,”

She’s everything Hollywood
shuns... extremely tall, middle-
aged, intelligent and uncomprom-
isingly womanly, She is also very
beautiful, and we’d watch her any-
where, anytime, We would also
watch, with pleasure, any comedy
segment of “The Nurses,” as they
go at it full tilt and have a ball,

But this too shall pass, Next
season two men will become *re-
gulars” (Michael Tolan, who is
marvelous, and Joseph Campan-
ella, who isn’t) in an effort to
“de-feminize” a show that wasn’t
“feminine” to begin with,

On top of that, the whole show,
which threatens to become as
antiseptic as its sets’ corridors,
will be placed opposite “The
Fugitive,” a “hot” show that deals
with no “hot issues” and “The
Nurses” is expected to suffer in
the ratings, Next season may be
its last,

The reason for the shift from
Thursday to Tuesday is not so
mysterious or innocent as it
might seem, as the decision was
made by the same people who
personally axed “ES/WS” in spite
of public protest, “The Defend-
ers” will be moved also... it
will follow “Perry Mason,” In
TV, at least, the era of the sur-
vival of the fittest, friends, is
gone,

Ann Leslie
(People’s World)

DIGEST

Basic Question
L,A., Vancouver, writes: The

old B.C, Electric found it possible’

to cover losses on its transit
system from profits on power,
and was often forced to do so,
Why should a “public owned”

Hydro do less for its majority

owners, the Lower Mainland pub-
lic?

This is a basic question if
fares are being considered, and
not how much extra fare is re-
quired to give the province a fat
profit, .

Incidentally, anyone knows that
the giving of a “temporary” fare
increase has two effects; it is a
factual admission by the muni-
cipalities that at least that much
is justified; and how much chance
is there afterwards of getting it
reversed?

Premier Bennett’s government

appears to have taken over a pub-

lic utility, not to give the com-
muting public a cheaper and bet-
ter service, but primarily with
an eye on its profitability to the
province — i.e, to the Socred
Party running the province,

BARRY GOLDWATER

A menace on the

“The Eleventh Hour — Defeat
The New Fascist Threat,” by Gus
Hall. Price 15c. Available in limited
quantities at People’s Co-op Book
Store, 341 W. Pender St.

he quickening tempo of the

approaching American elec-
tion carries in its train implica-
tions of vital significance for the
destiny of all peoples, Because
the United States looms as a giant
in the spectrum of world influ-
ence, it follows that the outcome
of the presidential contest can-
not in any sense be treated as
just a domestic American phen-
omenum,

Some charge that outsiders
should not comment or interfere
with what superficially appears
to be an internal affair of the
American electorate, Any such
allegation is both fatuous and
hypocritical in that Americans
in high places do interfere with
other peoples :and states, Not
only does U.S, monopoly control
and dominate much of the non-
socialist world but in the instance
of our country, recent history re-
veals that an American adminis-
tration actually interfered with
and brought down a Canadian goy-
ernment by overt and threatening
action, In particular, then, Cana-
dians of all peoples have a vital
stake in the outcome on Novem-

ber 3rd,
* * Ok

Commenting on the issues
themselves in the United States,
we are indebted to Gus Hall,
General Secretary of the Com-
munist Party of the UnitedStates
for his most timely and revealing
pamphlet,

In a style which is both lucid
and cogent, the author marshals
fact after fact to indict the black
fascist conspiracy behind the
Arizona Senator, In general, the
coalition of horror is made up of

three main poisonous trends,
* * x

The most vocal and violent of
the triad is the fusion of the Dixie-
crats, the Ku Klux Klan and the
White Citizens Council, Stung to
hysteria by the mighty movement
for civil rights, the southern
gangsters commit murder after
murder and then walk away free
after a white southern jury has
rendered a verdict of “not guilty,”
Now they go further; Goldwater
is their god, Already numerous
members of the traditional
Democrat party of the south have
gone over to the Republican
nominee,

The second and more general
movement is from those who are
frustrated and who refuse to ad-
mit that the United States does
not rule the world, Ebbing of the
cold war and humiliation abroad
has aroused a dangerous jingo-
ism, Allied with atomic maniacs,
there rises one concerted howl,
If American cannot win the world,
then pull the pin and let the
nuclear dust fall where it may,

Lastly, there is the revival of
McCarthyism, this time with
muscle and money, Canadians
may be amused to hear that the
John Birch Society has indicted
Lester Pearson and John Diefen-
baker as “communist agents,”
Lunacy? No, something more,
When an avowed fascist move-
ment numbers millions among its
followers and has twenty million
dollars in the treasury, then it
is no longer just lunacy, It is
death on the march,

THE =s
BiRCH SOCIETY
1S SOFT ON
COMMURISM
q 2

.

mee 1964. AE Tins

“S’matter . . . never seen an extremist before?”

Thus, we have here the coali-
tion of evil; fortunately there is
a counter force, the American
people, In the array of hope we
can discern certain decisive
elements which can turn the tide,
Among these are the magnificent
and dramatic civil rights move-
ment which is by:no means con-
fined to Negro Americans but also
numbers millions of whites in its
ranks; the slow moving but pow-
erful labor unions, whose leader-

_ Ship is as yet only in low gear,

and also a certain section of
businessmen who are opposed to
the irresponsibility and extrem-
ism of Goldwater,

BOOKS

. Can the day be won? Yes, says
Gus Hall, If the emerging coali-
tion of peoples forces can move
and act unitedly, then Goldwater
and all he represents can be
smashed, Here, says the author,
is an important lesson for the left
and all progressives, There can
be no neutrality in this fight, It

Will be a tale

A century hence;
Like us,

From city’s care;

To cure all ills,

Mountain Lake

When you, one hundred years ahead,
Walk by these shores

Where black waves tread,

Our strivings, failures, victories

Told to our youngest grandchild’s seed
Of things long dead,

Who knows how men will live
And laugh and play

But let us hope that they,
Can turn themselves away
And scramble over hills

And light their fires at camping time

And whether they’re old,

Or lovers dreaming hand in hand,
Grant they'll be free to hold
Their rights in every wilderness
Of this, our shining land,

October 2, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9

—Interlandt in the Los Angeles Times

is not an issue between two in-
dividuals, although the ballot may
read that way. The issue is be-
tween the present, the future and
death, All are involved and there
is no ringside,

Canadians can draw only one
conclusion and hope from the
election across the line and this
is it; Let no pint sized Goldwater
arise here and if such does,
then it must be scotched in ges-
tation before it can wriggle, coil
and strike,

—L. Edwards
sage eae res Le

Philadelphia Evening Bulletin

“I could really enjoy all this if {
knew the Russians weren’t try-
ing to conquer me!”

—John Hope