a

Culture under socialism, as in the Soviet Union, :
Engels put it, “man leaves the conditions of animal existence
which are really human.” :

Town planning
_« C..C., Nanaimo, B.C.: “City

planners hinder growth, say
realtors.” This is the headline
over a report in the Nanaimo
Free Press of February 12,
which says, in part:
“Indecision and lack of a
positive policy on the part of
the Nanaimo advisory plan-
ning commission is hindering
the growth of the city, states
a letter trom Nanaimo Reai

Estate Board to Nanaimo city
council . . .

“Ronald Dickie of Duncan,
chairman of the special com-
mittee for the formation of
a Vancouver Island Real Es-
tate Board, reported that re-
action to proposals to form

‘a board to include all real

estate men north of the Mala-
hat had been favorable.”
No person with the faintest
knowledge of what profes-
sional planning means could

e

THIS IS THE YEAR

I’m not a long haired poet,
Who writes in mournful lines;

Gens But one who feels the urge to fight

With light and buoyant rhyme.

For these are days that bring us joy,
Our victories shake the earth
And frenzied men in Washington,
Have little cause for mirth.

Rich men can win many times,

In many lands we see:

But we have only once to win,
For permanent victory. ;
So we have no cause for despair,
The way lies clear ahead

And every day brings further gains,
As Socialism and freedom spread.

So let’s get the map before us,

See where freedom lives and grows;
How the people are uniting,

With a speed that’s far from slow. -
There’s a way that we can help them,
And get ourselves in tune

Spread the truth about our people
passe Get them reading the Tribune.

A.ELR.

_ tate seas,

begins to express the stage when, as

behind and enters conditions

with

Nanaimo
thing more than toying with
the idea of establishing a
proper planning organization

credit any-

such as many cities and
towns ‘on the prairies have.
The city itself does not em-
ploy a properly trained city
planner.

But even the timid, tenta-.

tive steps taken by .the ad-
visory commission have evi-
dently irritated the real es-
tate sharks. Perhaps they are
afraid that the city may,
under labor pressure, proceed
to full-fledged regional plan-
ning efforts, which could
very easily be turned into a
kind of jand reform. This
would really clip the fins of
the sharks and turn them
into minnows.

But the real estate men do
not intend to have their fins
clipped. They have in mind

to become veritable whales ©

and monsters of the real es-
gobbling up vast
tracts of development lands,
the full potentiality of which
are only now coming to light.

It is in the public interest

“to block the machinations of

real estate monopoly and to
launch a program to get Na-
naimo to go one step further
in the
proper regional planning com-
mission.

The moves made now will
either lead to civic develop-
ment beneficial to the whole
community; or lead to the
same’ selfish, irrational: land-
squandering in the interest of
quick profits which has mark-
ed the costly processes of Na-
naimo’s growth so far. ~~

establishment of a °

SCIENCE

Conquest of the atom

HE DECISIONS of the 20th

Congress of the Commu-
nist Party provided for a con-
siderable growth in the work
connected with the peaceful
uses of atomic energy.

One of the basic ‘problems
of modern science is to create
and to control thermonuclear
reactions. If.-this task were
solved a problem which has
occupied the best minds of
mankind for many centuries,
the problem of power re-
sources, would be solved once
and for all.

The supplies of energy con-
tained in the nuclei of deute-
rium, one of the isotopes of
hydrogen, are. inexhaustible.
However, difficulties exist in
the way to mastering thermo.
nuclear reactions.

The chief of these are to
obtain high temperatures of
hundreds of millions degrees,
and more, and the struggie
against heat losses. A group
of workers of the Institute of
Atomic Energy of the USSR
Academy of Sciences has
been working on the problern

of creating high-temperature

‘aim of Soviet science

plasma and its heat

tion.

In 1958, several workers of
the Institute were awarded
the high title of Lenin Prize
Laureates for their investiga-

insula-

tion of the powerful impuis>

discharges in. gas which are
needed to obtain high-temper
ature plasma: These research-
es, in part, proved the pos-
sibility of obtaining hot
plasma with a temperature
of more than one million de-
grees.

The results of the Secony
International Conference on
Peacefil Uses of Atomic En-
ergy show that the problem
of mastering thermonuclear
processes has to be solved py
scientists of different coun-
tries in close co-operation. As
is known, Soviet scientists
took the first steps to publish
works in this field.

The final solution of the
problem of controlled thermo-
nuclear reactions will require
great efforts. But, no matter
how difficult these researches
are, they will be brought to a
successful conclusion.

pounds.

weighed 1,120.59 pounds.

earth safely.

was put into operation.

CALENDAR OF THE LATEST SCIENTIFIC
AND TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
IN THE USSR

On April 10, 1957, the world’s largest proton syn-
chrotron lending an energy of 10,000-million electron-
volts to particles was put into operation at the Joint
Institute of Nuclear Researches.

On December 5, 1957, the world’s first ship with
an atomic engine — the icebreaker Lenin — was
launched at the Leningrad shipyards.

On October 4, 1957, the first ‘artificial earth satellite
was launched in the Soviet Union. It weighed 184.3

On November 3, 1957, the second “Baby Moon”
was launched, on which the scientific apparatus alone

On May 15, 1958, the third Soviet. artificial earth
satellite was launched; it weighed 2,925.5 pounds..

On August 27, 1958, a single-stage geophysical
rocket.was sent up to a height of 279.6 miles. Its air-
tight cabin contained two dogs which returned to

In September. 1958 the first section of, the second
Soviet atomic -statien, with a capacity of 100,000 kw.,

On January 3, 1959, a space rocket was launched
towards the moon; it is now a new planet of the sun.

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