EDITORIAL PAGE TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associate Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager. Published weekly by the Tribune Publishing Company Ltd. at Room 6, 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. — MArine 5288 Canada and British Commonwealih countries (except Australia), 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.60. Australia, U.S., and all other eauntries, 1 year $4.00, 6 months $2.50. Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Tom AMNeEsza, or loss of memory, is often _ _. described by doctors as a sign of ; ing age. No doubt there are Sther causes which contribute to this uman affiliction, one of them being a0 urgent necessity to forget some- thing which it is neither expedient or Profitable to remember. , Be that as it may, by the time the present Vancouver police probe con- yisaey its sessions, amnesia may be inated to one of the most outstand- 8 political diseases of our time — Well outside the range of medical Tesearch, P Take the case of ex-RCMP Sgt. Terry —tsloe. Back in 1950, Parsloe got a pcial job from the Non-Partisans : the city hall to “investigate” police dignseyshines in this city. Parsloe @ bit of scouting around, jotting his findings in a typewritten __\SPort, in which Vancouver’s finest abe rated as pure as Caesar’s wife — colle suspicion. For this job Parsloe wi €cted a measly $1,700 of taxpayers’ Oney! In the witness box Parsloe couldn't “he ember a thing, other than that Wh ad written a report. Who or “lat was in it, he just “couldn’t re- ¢ % Ee . “in Stounded at such a loss of memory oe young a man, Vic Dryer, assist- a. Serysp emission counsel, made an ob- : fee eon worthy of a place in Bart- Asi So you went out to see unknown aa whose faces you cannot de- “ag at places you don’t remember on . Purpose you can’t describe and @ date you don’t remember”! - gen, ter came a Liberal ex-attorney ‘ine 2 Gordon Wismer, also show- bins, € ravages of political amnesia Toe VETY advanced stage. Like Pars- anyt ‘ismer just couldn’t remember Thating in a definite sort of way’ Up jp “bookie Pete Wallace showed Rm the box and he too, “couldn’t of pander” anything of the details 4S income, other than that “the eee tax people seemed to be satis- Ae AE this 2 Missi keeps up the Tupper Com- | an on Will begin to look more like th °Uut-patients clinic for amnesia cases “Ra police probe! % bos og Ss a at appear to show a proper lack tig, MPathy for these amnesia vic- mys: it isn’t without some cause. In Ment ¢ experience in the labor move- ator I have seen RCMP officers, ex- erg Rey-generals, professional gamb- to «24 common stoolpigeons get in- n° Witness box and recite with Y vividness and clarity the words used by an accused €r at some meeting or other — 10 Thade after the alleged speech was “exact” ae hundreds of Communists and Progressives now in U.S. pris- aes Under some McCarthyite frameup ca €r, were lied into prison be- ; Of the “remarkable memory” suggeitical witnesses who, it seems, the G a total lapse of memory when Sth. erences are less favorable— bests Political amnesia bids fair to ee a very costly disease to tratj CUver taxpayers, and highly frus- an <8 to & commission charged with "portant public duty. an j of tha dening the .on-the-spot powers or ibe Commission so that it can pre- ali, , 22 immediate rest cure in Oak- Stimulate memory. — by SUSgest it can be ispeedily cured — Be vigilant for peace ARIOUS evaluations of the “spirit of Geneva’ are still being made in editorial offices, on radio and TV programs, and by top-ranking military and diplo- matic brass. These evaluations fall into two main categories. One see Geneva as being nothing more than a ‘‘So- viet manoeuvre’ to lull the West ‘into “‘letting its guard down.” The other sees it as an historic turning point in world relations in which peace through negotiation supplants the suicidal philosophy , of “peace through strength.’ Thus we have a U.S. admiral frothing at the mouth about a Soviet submarine fleet being “‘the powerful teeth behind the Soviet Union’s Geneva smile.”’ As against this, Canada’s Ex- ternal ‘Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson speaks for every decent Canadian when he is quoted as saying in Moscow “‘that Cana- dian squadrons will never be used for aggression against the Soviet Union or any other natiori,’’ com- menting on the apparently garbl- ed reports of remarks made by Canadian Air Commodore Fred Carpenter at Halifax. To Pearson's efforts for streng- thening Canadian-Soviet relations through various exchanges and trade, the stated views of Fisher- ies Minister James Sinclair may also be added: ‘“The stronger the friendship the better matters will be. I think Geneva was a great step forward.” The cold war military brass and blinkered diplomats who want to sneer at the achievements of the Geneva Conference and its key- note of. peaceful negotiation in in- ternational affairs, forget that other mighty fifth power attend- ing the Geneva “‘summit’’ talks— a power representing a united world opinion for peace, the mil- lions of common people of every > land ‘whose determination for peace and an end to H-bomb ter- ror, made Geneva possible. The “‘spirit of Geneva’’ has al- ready taken on form and content which no amount of anti-Soviet propaganda and sabre-rattling can erase. Every citizen of this great country who places the interests of Canada first feels a deep-sense of pride in ‘the knowledge that two of its leading ministers are speaking the language of Geneva. Continued vigilance for peace by the plain’ people of this coun- try will assure that the voices call- ing for Canadian-Soviet friendship, trade and peace will be heard and in such numbers as to silence the cold-war sabre-rattlers! By hook or crook? GENATOR Richard Neuberger will soon visit B.C. to ‘‘look over Canadian plans for storage and upstream projects on the Col- umbia: River.” ; A USS. broadcast recently stat- ed that if the Canadian plan goes into operation, “‘all of the Pacific Northwest states would suffer a catastrophic power shortage,” or words to that effect. Senator Neuberger. is one of those loud- mouthed Americans who visit Canada often, boasting of their ‘“‘friendship’’ and never missing an opportunity to advance the theme of annexation. Of course, he doesn’t use such a blunt term, but there is never any doubt about what he has in mind. ~ It is to be noted that Neuberger has long maintained an associa- tion with right-wing CCF lead- ers. In his scheduled B.C. tour he will have the company of H. W. Herridge, CCF MP for Koot- enay West. We trust Herridge will keep a tight grip on our Koot- enay water power resources! Hal — Griffin Not long ago, when I was discussing his work with one of our leading abstractionists, he dismissed all my arguments with his own. “Abstract art is like music,” he said. “You have to learn to appreciate the blending of color and line to express and arouse emotion. That’s meaning ‘enough for me.” I hope he can free himself long enough from the sterile patterns in which he is imprisoning His talents to see the display of a profoundly dif- ferent kind of art in this city next week. I refer to the work of the Taller de- Grafica Popular of Mexico which the’B.C. Peace Council is ex- hibiting in Pender Auditorium Octo- ber 26-28. Here is art that sets up no barrier between the artist and the audience precisely because it is drawn from the lives and struggles of the people for whom it was created. It is an art that can arouse the fierc- est of emotions — Leopoldo Mendez’ The Execution, a peasant, leader with bared chest proudly facing rifle bar- rels held by unseen hands while stolid guards hold back the men, women and children of the village — or the most tender —- Mariana Yampolsky’s Not For Us, a girl with her arms about her younger brother against the back- ground of an atomic cloud. It is an art too, that both depicts and influences reality, as the posters drawn by the artists of the Taller de Grafica Popular, plastered on walls throughout Mexico, have influenced the course of Mexican politics and help- ed:to bring about the reforms they called for. This is art in the service of the peo- ple, intended, as Leopoldo Mendez says, “to show the working class that art and artists are not strangers to it; that some artists faithfully fight beside it, faithful also to the traditions of Mexican plastic realism, trying al- ways to put their creative capacity at the service of the people... ...” % Hac Rt Mexico is a land of contrasts, as even the least discerning of tourists is compelled to observe. You are impressed by the steel and glass build- ings of Mexico City, whose architec- ture is among the most advanced in the world. But you can no more avoid drawing the contrast between ‘these and some of the working class dis- tricts than you can avoid the desti-— tute who beg at the doors of luxury hotels. ? Beyond the confines of the city where the wealthy ride in Cadillacs and the penniless go barefoot is the ' Mexico of the primitive wooden plough illustrated by Mendez in his Seed Time, of the struggle for food and education depicted by Elizabeth Cat- lett in her The Right To Eat and Mariana Yampolsky in her.No School For Me. The artists of the Taller de Grafica Popular are partisans in the partisan cause of the people themselves.: By identifying their art with their audi- ence rather than insisting that their audience learn to appreciate their art, they have made Mexico the greatest creative art centre in the Americas. It is something for Canadian artists ; to ponder. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 14, 1955 — PAGE 5