In appreciation Editor, Pacific Tribune: I wish to convey my hearty thanks through your paper to the Forest Products, Moberly, and Paul Robeson Clubs, and to My many kind supporters who Participated in making the “Popular Girl’ contest such a Pleasant experience. I want to extend my sincere appreciation and thanks to my campaign Manager, Mr. Johnny Sundell, Whose untiring efforts brought Me so much happiness. I can- not help admiring the manner in which he managed the whole affair and won so many friends for me. Being elected to represent the Lumbering Industry in B.C. was 4 novel and thrilling experience for me. It was a pleasure, too, to have met my sister contest- ants whose charming personal- ities and friendship I hope to enjoy more in the future. Before closing, I wish to give My thanks to Brother Roy Mah who gave me such a wonderful write-up in the Chinese press. This campaign has brought me fun, friendship and happy mem- Cries. I shall cherish them in the years to come. Once again, my dear friends, thanks a million for everything you've done for me. NORA LOWE Vancouver. On dieting Editor, Pacific Tribune: You're kidding, of course! I Mean about your article in last Week’s women’s page on the sub- Ject of reducing by dieting. I Weep to think of the thousands of Women readers who may be misled by such a headline as “You can have the trim lines, you envy if you follow correct dieting rules.” Like heck you can! 5 Anyone who has studied the Problem at all knows that with- Cut proper exercise, dieting does More harm than good. And as for the sylphlike figure you Promise dieting will bring—why, Shame on you! Any woman who has tried to reduce by dieting alone has learned the hard, hard fact that this kind of reducing Works from the top down. In Other words, the flesh around the shoulders, arms, and bust- € melt away, while the spare ire and hips remain. And who he heck wants to look like a bottle? ‘No, diet is only part of the reducing story, and the least im- ‘Pertant part. Recently I held ex- €reises classes for a number of young mothers at a summer ; Pp. They had all made some attempt to reduce. The ones who procured your diet sheets (of Me kind or another, mostly 800d ones) bemoaned the fact i at they had only succeeded in oe any claim they might have &d to being sweater girls. ‘Thighs and hips are always the Ovie, Y After the mothers’ camp closed _* held exercise periods at & wy for ‘trade unionists and cir wives. And, dear sir, the ne problem here was not re- toa (remember living costs?) eo gaining weight in the right he These women were work- : a women, or wives of work- a Men. And dieting — except at kind which places emphasis FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1947 x on eating more good food — played no place in their lives. The third camp at which I conducted P.T. classes this year was composed of teen-age girls. They slipped out to consume large quantities of ice-creuin, chocolate bars, cookies, and so on and so on. But they had no figure problems. They took lots of exercise. Of course, diet and exercise go hand in hand in a proper reduc- ing regime. But not diet alone, please! You'll lose weight, but definitely. And all in the wrong places, face, neck and upper body. And as to your statement that an extremely overweight person can not regain a lovely figure— I’m surprised at you. Of course she can. It takes more time and more effort, and more (ahem) exercise—but Women have lost as much as sixty to seventy pounds by re- ducing correctly, and the results are definitely encouraging. Before publishing such a mis- leading article again, I suggest you do one of two things. Do a bit more research on the sub- ject, or go on the diet yourself, and see if the boys in the show- room whistle at you. CYNTHIA WILMOT Vancouver. i Editor’s Note: We agree with Cynthia Wilmot’s criticism that our headline in last week’s Tri- bune—“You can have the trim lines you envy if you follow cor- rect dieting rules” was a shade too categoric. Dieting, no mat- ter how scientifically applied, without equal emphasis and at- tention to exercise, is a very lop- sided approach to a problem which causes a lot of worry to our womenfolks — and some males. Of the two alternatives pres- ented to ye Ed., we accept the advice on the need of more re- search. Being the angular type, we are all corners and no curves, and impervious to whistling. CCF red-baiting Editor, Pacific Tribune: I was pleased to note your tribute to the late G. N. W. Web- ster in July 25 edition of the Pacific Tribune, and may I through the medium of your paper express my deepest sym- pathy to Mrs. Webster and the family in their great loss. I have looked for some such tribute as yours in the columns of the ‘CCF News’, but in vain. Angus McInnes was apparently too busy paying tribute to the ‘great man’ R. B. Bennett to remember Geoff Webster. The ‘CCF News’ fired a de- parting squib at the late R. B. Bennett, but it was a damp one, as the CCF press reminds its readers that when M. J. Coldwell speaks he is the voice of the CCF, so there is no doubt that when Angus McInnes deputizes as he did in the Bennett tribute, he not only speaks for the CCF party but the ‘CCF News’ as well. Let me at this time, Mr. Editor, congratulate you upon - our Bennett ‘tribute’. You at frst spoke for the Canadian . workingclass. I would call the attention of your readers and many good CCF workers to the continued red-baiting policy of the ‘CCF News’. Rarely an issue of this particularly around the © it can be done. ~ _ Morningside, paper passes without an attack upon the Soviet Union. I refer especially to the issue of July 31 entitled ‘Crisis in Britain’, In their anxiety to whitewash the bell-weather of British social democracy and his pro-American satellites, they resort to the worst form of lying slander. Speaking of the British the ‘CCF News’ says: “These are the men and women who saved the world from the Nazis, while the USA and the Soviet Union sat on the sidelines.” Even Churchill had to give the Red Army and the Soviet people credit for knocking out the German Wehrmacht. In Kharkov and Stalingrad alone the USSR lost more men than the USA or Britain lost in the whole Pacific war. It was Stai- ingrad that sealed the doom of Hitler, a fact admitted by all but the ‘CCF News’. Here, we find some of the leading CCF lights appealing for parcels for anti-Soviet German social democrats, but failing to recognize the needs of our for- mer allies—the Yugoslavs, Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, etc. Wishing your paper every success as a great ‘Tribune’ of - the people, Sincerely yours, E. H. TUDOR ‘Alberta. Those communists ! Editor, Pacific Tribune: An old party politician of Newton said to me _ recently: “Why is it that some damned communist leads almost every big labor union in both the United States and Canada? Why are they any different from other labor members?” We sat down in the BCER sta- tion for a few moments while I told him my reasons and an- swers to his questions. These communist labor leaders are students of governments; students of the class relation- ships in these present govern- “ments; students, at all times, of the needs, the limitations, the problems of their fellow-work- ers. While some labor union mem- bers are out for a “good time,” in their leisure hours’ these communist fellows are usually at home, reading, informing them- selves. Naturally, in the union meet- ings the communists are gen- erally the best informed, the readiest with details, explana- tions, leadership and direction. As a natural result, the rank and file recognizes these facts and the well informed, well read, experienced and capable mem- ber logically becomes leader and director of this group. It is a fitting reward for devotion to duty. ‘ Longfellow epitomizes the rea- sons for the communist leader- ship, in one stanza in his “Lad- der of St. Augustine”: “The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by single flight— é But they, while their compan-. ions slept, Were toiling upward night.” in the BERT HUFFMAN Newton Station. Short Jabs uihy Ol’ Bill IS column today is dedicated to those readers who send me the newspaper clipping dealt with. The quotation is from Elmore _ Philpott’s column in the Sun and reads as follows: “One of the most catastrophic blunders in all history was when the Communists, in 1932, ganged up with the Nazis to vote out of f True or power in the Prussian Diet, the Social Democratic. government.” false?’ The answer is very simple; no such thing ever occurred. The Communists never. ganged up with the Nazis or any other party for any such purpose—and further, there was no Social Democratic government in the Prussian tag (Diet), in 1932. To make such an assertion indicates that the writer’s knowledge of the political happenings in Germany between the end of the first World War and the accession to power ~ of Hitler, must be very slim, perfunctory in fact. ~ : To understand what happened in 1932, and after, one has to go back to 1918 when the German workers rose in revolt and chased the Kaiser out’ of their country, and with him, most of the feudal- istic frills that still clung to German society—but.not all-of them, the Social Democrats saw to that. ese - Se Philip Scheidemann, one of the leading Social Democrats, tells in one of his books, how the rumor spread through the Reichstag, that Karl Liebknecht was leading a demonstration- of Berlin work- — ers who meant to proclaim the German Republic. Scheidemann says he was approached by some of the stalwarts of the old ‘order to go out on the balcony and speak to the crowd with ‘the idea of” winning the demonstration away from the “Bolshevists”. He did, ~ and hailed them with the now famous phrase, “Long live the Ger- ' man Republic.” A few days later, Fritz Ebert, who became first president “of. the Weimar Republic, and von Hindenburg entered into an agree- ment in which the supreme army command replaced the parties of. - the right, who had’ entirely vanished, in alliance with.the Social Democrats, to restore order; “We allied ourselves to fight Bol-. shevism,” Ebert told General Groener, “our aim on the 10th of. November was to introduce an orderly government..supported -by' the army.” (The same orderly government that murdered Rosa Luxemburg and Kar] Liebknecht). leader Karl Legien, entered into the agreement: with Hugo Stinnes that was to filch from the German workers the gains had fought for in the revolution. The monopolists undertook to recog- nize the 8-hour day and legalize the factory committees as ba! ing agents. The monopolists were to get back the factories that were in the hands of the workers. This is how the workers were treated by their Social Democratic leaders who were afraid of, and saw in the Soviet government in Bavaria and the Workers’ Coun- ~ cils in most of the Free Cities their only enemy. S is the policy that dominated every move of the Social Demo: On the 15th of November, the Social Democratic trade eats cratic Party from the outbreak of the November revolution till’ the curtain rung down on the Weimar Republic a few days: before Hitler became Chancellor. In January, 1933, Hilferding, the leading theorist of the German Social Democrats, wrote "Were They _ in the Party journal, Die Gesellschaft, of which he was editor, after rejecting the united front — mad?’ offers of the Communists, that the primary aim | of the Socialists was to fight against Com- munism. Hindenburg made Hitler Chancellor on January 30. The Weimar Republic was not a Social Democratic republic but a compromise as the agreements of Ebert and Legien were com- terists. This was the kind of government that held office in Prussia in 1982. There were three Socialists in it, Otto. Braun, Karl Sever- : ing and Grzinsky, premier, minister of the interior and chief of police respectively. i An election took place in April of that year, the result of which was that the Weimar coalition government was placed in a fix similar to that of President Truman today. It did not have a ma- jority in the Landtag. That is not surprising. I was in Berlin that year. I never saw so much starvation anywhere. Of course, there were swell parties being staged daily and nightly on the Kurfuer- stendam and at the Adlon and Kaiserhof. It was not the sort of situation to inspire confidence in any government. The Communist Party offered to support the government if they would lift the ban on anti-Nazi organizations. Since the Social Democrats always saw in the Communists their main enemy they refused the offer. : ~ : For three months this situation continued, then on the 20th of July, von Hindenburg, whom the Social Democrats had sup- ported and practically elected to the Presidency of the Reich as “the lesser evil”, made a move. The Prussian government, last Weimar coalition government left in Germany, was thrown out, not voted out by any ‘ganging up’ of Communists and Nazis but by a coup d’etat pulled off by Hindenburg’s courtier, von Papen, whom he had made Chancellor of the Reich in place of the Centerist _ Bruning. ' Otto Braun, sensing that the axe was about to fall, had gone on sick leave to Switzerland (from which he did not return). Sever- ing was dragged out of the government office by a few soldiers of von Schleicher’s Reichswehr who had been sent by von Papen. Thus ended the relict of the Weimar Republic and the Social De- mocratic influence in it,.an influence that had practically ceased promises. The governments of the republic were coalition govern- =e ments made up of Democrats, Social Democrats and Catholic Cen-- with Herman Mueller’s removal from the Reich Chancellorship in _ 1930. Bruning followed Mueller and the Social Democrats worked with him ‘to save the Republic’ but they would not work with the Communists to save the German workers. When the Communists appealed directly to the Executive Committee of the SDP to call a general strike and answer the von Papen coup as they answered and defeated the Kapp putch in 1920, the Social Democrats accused them of ‘provocation’. “The Communists are the enemy.” The story of the Communists ganging up with the Nazis is a Social Democratic alibi to cloak their contemptible treason to the workers—nothing more, nothing less. . PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 5