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A couple of weeks ago, I attended a
“World Brotherhood Week” ban-

quet in Vancouver. The hundred or
more guests who sat down to “break

bread” in brotherhood were indeed —

multi-national.

Ralph Pybus, one of, British Colum-
bia’s leading Chamber of Commerce
tycoons and patron of the Kuzych anti-
union circus, had much to say about,
our good fortune of being “free men
ina free world and privileged to wor-
Bs ship God in our own way.”

_ The “guest” speaker was the eX-
Nazi, Dr. Wladimir Krajina, now pro-
fessor of physics at U.B.C. .

- .On his discourse on “brotherhood,”
_ Krajina made it very clear that almost
one-half of the world’s peoples, black, |
white and yellow, were beyond the
“pale of his concept of brotherhood.

Of course, Krajina is not alone In
this narrow concept of “protherheod.”
Lynching Negroes or imposed segre-
" gation by violence may appear to him
as an “obsolete prejudice,” but to mil-
lions of the world’s peoples it is still a
‘Very real characteristic of our way-of-
life. There are still too many people

‘who spout about brotherhood, but —

Who hold to the false idea that the
white man is superior to his fellow eos
. of different colors. es

Just look at some of the problems OF

concern over the effect of such —

the U.S. State Department “evangelist,” _

Billy Graham, who ranges far and
wide to convert the “heathen.” Only
recently he finished saving “Toronto”

,

' Sixty years ago Mt. Pleasant was more appropriately named, as this picture shows.

Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa .

Stop the atomic tests

ye important thing about the
new atomic tests to be con:
‘ducted by the U.S. this month in its

- mid-Pacific proving grounds is not

that Canada has received no in-
‘vitation as yet to send observers.

The important thing is what, in ~

face of world-wide protest and

tests expressed by leading atomic
scientists, the Canadian govern:

ment is doing to have atomic tests

banned by international agreement. —

the Good.” f es

With the old fashioned idea in
Mind that it.ig always best to clean

_ Goesn’t undertake to

_ Such heathens in his own “Deep Soythy :

- Before he left for India, Graham, ac-

 Sording to Time Magazine, was sum-
Moneq ;

Brink” Dulles.

_ Afterwards, Graham ‘told a press
Conference that “he had got a solid
_ briefing on India and that John Foster
_ Dulles repeatedly demonstrated him-
Self to ‘be a man of peace !”

high church

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is 4 nnd in far away Kenya,

to Washington by ““On-the- _

Who's Sir Anthony kidding?

¢

8natories are’ wrestling with a prob- .

€m, not how to end the shame of segre-

Sation but how to bring “sinfhers” to :
© Graham fevangels” without run- —

Ning foul of color bar decrees.

it would appear that high church
 dignatories, not endowed with the
Courage of their master to chase the

. heychangers out of His temple with

Whip, are more inclined to appeal to
raham to cancel his “evangel,’” 0

Postpone’ the “saving” of the native |

People until they can both worship, —

me eth White men before the same G
es ‘thout fear of a prison term or 2

Fuel whipping for doing ites

__ And Krajina and a Chamber of Com-

€rce tycoon talk of “Freedom’ and
Botanibgan soc sce ys ee

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Yes

-.° This argument is

It is being argued that the

USSR recently exploded an — H
“bomb and therefore the U.S. is —

YP our own backyard before instruct: — fully justified in expanding its own
Ing our neighbor what to do about his, — oe: ;

We have often wondered why Graham

to convert the |

_ Dixiecrats, the Klu Kluxers, and other _

tests. >.

than the earlier one, no longer.

heard and for obvious reasons, that —

‘the USSR did not have the H-

bomb and only wanted » thermo-
nuclear weapons banned to cancel

4 MONG the most incredible
. A comments on the deliberations
of the 20th congress of the Com:
munist party of the Soviet Union
is surely that made by. British

Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden.- |

“Clearly “the: Soviets do not

realize that in many lands of the ;
free world today there are people

who sincerely believe that there is

only one colonial power left and ©

that is Soviet: Russia.”””
. ‘This statement is made, presum-

ably in all seriousness, by the leader i

of a government ‘which controls
“the world’s greatest colonial em’

poe eo’ ey aindoubtedly, spur
no more valid

out the Western powers’ military
advantage. ‘

The fact is the USSR has con-
_sistently proposed banning of
atomic weapons and the U. S. and
Britain have consistently rejected
this proposal.

-But the world’s peoples want
atomic weapons banned and the
ghastly threat of atomic war lifted
from their future.
atomic tests by all powers ended—
and they can only be ended by
international agreement.

tensive ever to be held, will un
the demand
throughout this country for the
federal government to measure up
to the responsibility it claims for

itself in international affairs. Let.

it now give leadership to the West
by moving for a ban on atomic tests.

_ pire. Less than four years ago its
government deposed the legally ©
of British _

. Guiana to maintain its colonial

elected government

domination. Its troops today are-

| -in Cyprus, Kenya and Malaya to
- crush the nationalist aspirations of
~ the peoples of these colonies. And

only last week this same govern:

-. ment announced formation of a

new infantry brigade to be used
wherever the independence move-

ments of subject peoples threaten

British colonial profits.
Who's Eden kidding ?

They want:

_ The new series of U.S. atomic —
tests, announced as the most ex:

Hal
Griffin

| am one of the 80,000 people who have
the misfortune to live in Burnaby

—the most beautiful 42 square ‘miles
ever to be desecrated by real estate
afents posing as municipal govern-
ment.

If you can show that you are a duly
incorporated oi company or other in-
dustrial concern, preferably American,
desirious of settling in the municipality
there’s nothing the council won’t do
for you. It will give you land by
the acre, rezone it from residential to
industrial to enable you to build your
plant a block from a school'and fur-
nish you with all services.

But if you’re an ordinary unincor-
porated citizen, you’re just another dis-
placed person from Vancouver or New
Westminster and should be grateful
for the privilege of paying taxes.

That’s one of the things that
tinguishes Burnaby from other
naturally endowed municipalities.
taxes never go up, They just
higher.

dis-
less
The

get

‘By a process of juggling with as-
sessments, successive. councils have
contrived to double my tax bill over
the past six years without increasing
my taxes. No wonder the late CCF
reeve got a Social Credit appointment
to the provincial assessment appeal
board. He was just the man Bennett
needed. :

ee * *
It’s not fair to say we have no ser-

vices. Where I live, on Capitol Hill
above the oil refinery (You Can Be

' Sure of Smell), we “have had a street

light, on and off, for many years. And,
until recently, we had a road.

5 ro ‘

This was due less to municipal.
diligence than to the fact that tre-
.mendous of gravel were laid down
during the -last- glacial period. How-

"ever, the only credit the Non-Partisans

“sewer

‘

ean claim is for destroying this one
remaining natural endowment during
their sewer excavations.

Now half of us have sewers and all
of us have no road.

@ feel that there’ must be some ex-
planation for starting work on a
in the winter other than a
desire to make life miserable for the
votets. The council never lacks for
an explanation, as the following con-
versation, considerably abbreviated,
shows:

Me: I haven’t been able to get with-
in a block of my garage for a month.
When are you going to fix the road —
if,you can find it now ? A

- Council: We can’t fix the ‘road be-
cause the gravel trucks can’t get up
it. : 3
Me: Then*how are we supposed to
get. up? At least you could block. off
so the towing trucks can go home.
~ Council: People don’t like us to block
the roads off because then they can’t
get to their homes. ,

You see what I mean. Premier Ben-
nett should hire the whole council.
They’re just the men we need to pre-
vent Gaglardi from going’ hog-wild

when he launches his billion-dollar road
program. €

_As for us in Burnaby, we can hardl
wait for the ice age to return. :

MARCH 2, 1956 — PACIFIC

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