HMB a mmm LRN

LUE PTE TD Te Te tn}

Price of milk, hamburgers or
S for the youngsters has a ten-
"Y to Send your blood pressure up,
it easy. You’re not the only
Who finds the going tough in these
times.

the case of the Marquis de
“aS for instance. Here’s a lad who,
"€ his marrying into the Rocke-
Warren, finds life a bit dull in
Social whirl:of the French Riviera
iarritz, and so decided to ‘‘throw
arty,” A regular Louis: XVI affair—

M the guillotine of course. That
© later!

athe you. pondered the high cost
‘the (tS Upon our dwindling dollar,
wre rauis de Cuevas Rockefeller was
miding his guests with “1,500. bottles
champagne and mountains of deli-
bles Piled on 85 yards of groaning

rf .The problem there was not

When or what to eat, but simply
"Of capacity,

0 18th century style masquer-
honor” of Louis XVI (and to
‘Stimulate the tourist trade), the
assemblage of guests, orchestras’
a them), waiters, guards, even
dn’t © 5 brought in to watch the guests
bre jr tloin each other’s jewels—all
_ Period” costume.

This
ore

* Rockefeller marquis himself
1g 400 costume depicting the
hy ct Nature” gorging his guests
Mbyr Pesne, caviar and other non-
Serized delicacies. Some of the
Suests seeking to outshine Holly-’

V0q
stumey le French Riviera kept their
Nous

S down to a minimum. One
a allerina (not from Russia) ar-
7 le party astride a camel wear-
NOthe, - More than a jewelled fan.
Ort Gee the memory of the im-

.tvantes by riding in on a don-

Saks
'ttired as Sancho Panza.

» ve the party a real horn-of-plenty
fell atmosphere” the Marquis de
ae had “80 sheep, 30 dogs, 4
i 3 horses” brought in to baa,
a neigh around the million-
$ xy. 4 Country Club. while his

It
“2 the

fete de danse” was in pro-
animals have the capacity to
Conclusions of those selected
‘atmosphere” must have
us. ;

i don’t grouch about the price
va Of much-needed nylons for the
Ra yoink how much the Marquis

Na nylon “sky” he didn’t need.
*

i} fre the guests at this Rocke-
°bitalige Ve fete which made even

t press slightly uncomfort-
“kings, former Nazis, Franco
aise collaborators, jaded

“>*0cracy and Yankee adven-
Boh Out to turn a quick buck
+. 2ew angles on moral per-
ana Priced whores, kingly pan-
Tha Internationally-famed para-
lives Sment of decadent society
S Wits Upon its unearned wealth
and shouts to high heaven

for the continued “preservation of our
free democratic way of life.” The scum
and the riffraff that plundered wealth
and “genteel” idleness produces. No
longer useful in any capacity whatso-
even to a modern civilized society, this
social set seeks relaxation from its jaded

’mtebauchery by indulging itself in more

debauchery, one of the sure barometers
of the nearing end of a decadent ruling
caste.

At the end of this bourgeois orgy the
Marquis himself, his “King of Nature”
costume showing more like a bleary
Bacchus, spoke for all his kind: “I want-

ed a last fling to forget, the troubles of
the ‘20th century.”

For the common people, the problem
of the price of hamburger, bread and
milk remains, and will remain—until we
get ready collectively to assist the Mar-
quis de Cuevas Rockefeller and his
guests, including those’ who weren't
present—‘‘to forget,” but permanently.

*

In recent times we have read of some

amazing incidents of Yankee diplomats, |

generals, GI’s and whatnot being coaxed
into telling the truth to their Chinese
eaptors after a couple of doses of “True
Word” . medicine. No “third degree”
stuff or any of that kind of ordeal. Just
a couple of spoonfuls of soothing ““True
Word” elixir, and the ugly truth pours
out with the same fluency as the daily
run-of-the-mill Yankee bull. ~ ;

But all that is already.old stuff since
Doug Hepburn won the world heavy
lift title at Stockholm a few weeks back.
According to Doug, as he is quoted in
the daily press, some Russian at Stock-
holm gave him a “sniff” of something in
a bottle just before he hoisted the first
half ton, and there it was. Up she
went like nothing, and ail with one
little “sniff.”

One paper headlined this heavy-lift

potion the Russians are supposed to
have given Doug as a “Mystery Medi-
cine” and Doug, who, we surmise, is a
better weight-lifter than he is a politi-
cian, was easily drawn into the yellow
press cold war propaganda web as the
“cause celebre” in the discovery of a
new Russian secret “‘sniff’’ weapon!

Anyway, this is the way we figure it.
‘The Russian sportsmen, knowing a pos-
sible champion when they see one,
readily recognized in Doug Hepburn the
possibilities of a sports champion from
a country which seemingly didn’t give

--a damn whether Hepburn got to Stock-

holm to try out his prowess or, not.
Seeing his poverty-stricken condition,
no coach, no money, no visible assist-
ance of any kind which generally ac-
companies world champs, the Russian

‘sportsmen at Stockholm extended what.

help and sporting courtesies they could,
which itself is the quintessence of
sportsmanship.

If the Russian “Mystery Sniff” pro-
duced a world champion gold medalist

for Canada, then we humbly suggest’

that the St. Laurent government enter
into immediate and urgent negotiations
with the Soviet government for an early
consignment of this remarkable medi-
cine and, upon receipt of same, author-

ize its usé at all levels of government. —
.A few good sniffs at Vancouver City

Hall might assure that the British Em-
pire Games will be held in Vancouver
in 1954; that we might have a new

~Marpole Bridge ‘by 1960; or, at the very

least, a city council next year that rep-
resents the people in place of the coupon
clippers. :

Yours for more ‘‘Mystery sniff” .. .
and sniffers.

Pu

One Year $3.00 . . .

Printed ‘ ne Year $4.00

Pacific TRIBUNE -

‘Ublished Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C.

Phone: MArine 5288 . ae
Tom McEwen, Editor — Hal Griffin, Associate Editor

¢ Subscription Rates: ;
~@tada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia)

Six Months $1.60

*y Australia, United States and all other countries.

. Six Months $2.50

Y Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C.
as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa

fas

Biases SU EL RE

“We came to bury Hitler. not to raise him.”

Canadian people.

the vital issues of the hour.

paper, too.

‘Untinished business

FO readers and supporters of this paper the recent federal elec-
tion campaign left one big and important item of ‘‘unfinished
business,’” that of getting new readers for the Pacific Tribune.

Any analysis of the voting results of: that August 10 election,
no matter who makes it, must pinpoint one general conclusion: that
all the burning issues of peace or war, world trade or economic stag-
nation, homes or slums, jobs or mass unemployment, farmers farming
or being “‘farmed,”’ are still with us, unsolved and sharpening.

No one knows it better than Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent
and his Liberal ministers. That is why he called a snap election on
August 10, to get it over with before fhe moulting chickens of cold-
‘war dictated policies came home to roost—on the backs of the

The tens of thousands of anti-Liberal, anti-Tory progressive .
votes given to the candidates of the CCF, Social Credit and LPP
parties were cast by people who can be regarded as potential readers

“of this paper. Distinct from the commercial press, they will find in

| the weekly columns of the Pacific Tribune the answers to those
vital issues of human welfare the old-line politicians so carefully
avoided on the hustings.. They will also find the ideas of a new
national policy for Canada which puts the people’s interests. first—
an alternative to the partisan policies of big business: an idea sum-
med up in three short words, Put Canada First.

~ people have a weapon with which to fight, a guide to action on all

Rita. Whyte, business manager of the PT, has set a high example
for cleaning up the “‘unfinished business’ of the past election cam-
paigns. In ten days spent out on the road among the people, she
sent in 140 new subscriptions, thereby proving that an analysis of
the federal election which doesn’t take into account the people's —
desires for progressive ideas and policies, misses the mark entirely.

Let's get into this job of winning new readers for the PT with
all the vigor of a crusade. We have a sub drive this month. Take
your paper to your friends and neighbors so that it can beconte their —

In the PT the

‘

HK riggea victory or Cnancelior Kon-

rad Adenauer’s Christian Democrats

in last Sunday’s West German elections

poses a grave threat to the peace of
Europe.

The ghost of Hitlerism, to destroy

which millions of people, Canadian and

British, Russian and French and Ameri-
can, gave their lives, has been raised to

haunt the peoples of Europe. The voice,
is that of Adenauer, the policy is that

of Eisenhower, but the words and the

_ aims they veil are those of Hitler.

Who in-.Europe—or elsewhere—can
rest easily when a new West German
army is being prepared for the “libera-
tion” of East Germany, in Adenauer’s
own words? For didn’t Hitler also talk
first of “freeing” the Germans in the
Sudentenland before his armies poured |
across the borders of all Europe?

There is no doubt that Adenauer’s
victory was accomplished by terror and
intimidation, by direct and indirect U.S.
support, not the least part of which was
the U.S.-supported disturbances in East
Germany and the propaganda use made
of them to influence public opinion in
West Germany. Eisenhower’s “food

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 11, 1953 — PAGE 5

A threat to peace

packages,” Dulles’ impudent interfer-

ence, Adenauer’s suppression of the op- _

Position press, arrest of Communist can-_
didates on trumped-up charges and or-
ganized violence at the polls—all these,

and a new election law designed to aie
deny the Communist party representa- _

tion in the next parliament, contributed *
to. Adenauer’s victory. :

Adenauer, in his first post-election
speech, “interpreted” the outcome as
a mandate to “liberate” East Germany
from the Russians. And “liberation”. has —
the same meaning for him as it had

for President Eisenhower when he used

the word some months ago. In other

words, to launch aggressive war against __
people who do not accept the American

“way of life.” ‘

‘The satisfaction expressed by Wash-

ington diplomatic and military top

‘ brass over Adenauer’s “victory” must

serye as a Warning to peoples every-
where to redouble their efforts for _
peace. Once again the world sees the

ugly face of German militarism, none
the less threatening to peace by the
NATO mask it now hopes to wear as an
outcome of the West German elections. _