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URING Dief’s last visit with

Ike for further instructions, a
big “defence” swap was mooted.
In return for Ike “buying”? some
aviation junk from Canada, we
would “probably” blow another
$120 million or so “buying” the
U.S.made F-101 interceptor.

Translate that into local prob-
lems. First, since the big False
Creek fire the cry has gone up
for a badly-needed new fireboat. A
lot of inter-municipal debate has
been going on relative to this ur-
gent requirement; just how much
each municipality adjacent to
Vancouver could “chip in,” and
what help might be wangled from
Ottawa? A delegation with Van-
couver’s wordy Mayor Tom Als-
bury is slated to journey to Ottawa
to talk the matter over with Dief
and Company.

Our arithmetic may be a shade
out, but for this latest $120 million
demanded of the Canadian tax-
payers by the Pentagon, we should
be able to build about four fire-
boats, thereby providing jobs for
some 1,200 or more Vancouver
shipyard workers.

It is probably too much to hope
that Mayor Alsbury, who prides
himself on having a “working-
man’s viewpoint,” will see it that
way. Nor is it likely that a Tory
government, committed to U.S.
war incendiarism under the pre-
text of “defence” will do much
“chipping in” on Vancouver’s fire
protection needs.

It is also intimated that while in
Ottawa Mayor Alsbury and his
aldermanic delegation will have
another try at selling Vancouver’s
International Airport to the fed-
eral government. This despite wide
public opposition plus a couple of
civic plebiscites against such a
sale.

Vancouver’s prime problem is
not the sale of a valuable civic en-
terprise (which, if federally-owned
would be used to further diddle
the taxpayers, and serve as an-
other U.S. military. base inimical

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to Canada), but a growing fight
to assure that the people’s re-
sources in this and all other com-
munities be channeled into areas
of urgent civic need, rather than
squandered in a_ suicidal arms
race, with inevitable disaster for
all.

A third Vancouver problem, not
unrelated to the first, is also
worrying aldermanic pun dits
around City Hall. That is where to
put the city works yard.

These civic geniuses, with hearts
as tender as a real estate shark,
and an aesthetic sense of the art-
istic on a par with a bulldozer, have
tried unsuccessfully to put the
works yard in parks serving two
large working class residential
areas. Fortunately in the case of
False Creek Park there were some
legal obstacles to hold up this
aldermanic “ace-in-the-hole” real
estate grab.

Our city fathers seem not at all
interested in beautiful parks for
the enjoyment of the people, pres-
ent and future, but are more con-
cerned with using the parks in
workers’ residential areas as a
vast’ depot for road - graders,
wheelbarrows. cement mixers,
garbage trucks and other similar
bric-a-brac.

If the people of Vancouver are

Stop the

HE MADMEN who decide U.S.
T military policy have apparent- -
« President Eisenhower gave assur-

ances that such flights will be dis-

ly learned nothing from the U-2
flight.

While the world is still reeling
from the effects of the May 1
provocative flight which wrecked
the Summit meeting, another
plane is sent aloft by U.S. auth-
orities to probe the Soviet Union
and carry on espionage activity.

The fact that we are not already
knee deep in the gore of a new
world war is not due to the U.S.
put to the patience and deep desire
for peace of the Soviet people and
government.

Just before the Pacific Tribune
went to press White House secre-
tary James C. Hagerty denied the
Soviet charge and called the Soviet
premier a-liar. After what has
happened in the last two months
one will hardly credit the U.S. and
especially Mr. Hagerty and the
U.S. state department with being
purveyors of the truth.

to retain and extend parks and
prevent them being gobbled up for
city dumps, works yards, or indus-
trial sites they will have to act
more unitedly than ever before;
and act on the formula that two
Bomare bases equals one public
park, and that’s the way it’s going
to be.

madmen

One need only recall that less
than two months ago at Paris

continued. It’s obvious now that
this was only said to placate world
public opinion and that the US.
authorities had no intention of
doing any such thing.

Or perhaps this was another
case of Ike being told what to say
without really knowing the score
while the Pentagon intended all
along to go on its merry. way re-
gardless what the President said.

The strongest evidence that the
U.S. and its British ally had been
caught red-handed was the quick
announcement by Prime Minister
Maemillan that the U.S. - British
air base agreement might need ~
modifying. This is obviously aimed
at heading off a government crisis
arising from British involvement
in the latest provocation.

And what will the Diefenbaker
government do in face of this
latest war provocation? True to its
role it can be expected to run inter-
ference for the U.S., while allow-
ing the U.S. military to tighten its
grip on Canada.

If we value our lives, our free-
dom, our independence, now is the
time to speak up for Canadian neu-
trality and withdrawal of all US.
military bases in Canada.

ne ee

Tom :
McEwen >

OR the generation
this era to. win a new Canada of
socialism and peace, it is good to
remember one of “these immortal
dead who live again in minds made
better by their presence.”

stood by his graveside-with bowed
heads and heavy hearts. “We”

munists . and conservatives,
‘“‘Wobblies” and stolid businessmen.
To all of Gibsons’

been a staunch friend, a good
neighbor. The “Doc” who
helped a_ whole

Gibsons’ community into

his healing skill could no longer
contend against the inevitable.
Fred Inglis, M.D.; a country

ful career-as an Ontario~-church
missionary, helping © men
women by word and deed, to

of young
Socialists who step forward in

It is now ten years sinee we

were christians and atheists, com-
old

sprawling
community, Fred Inglis, M.D. had

had
generation of
the
world; the “Doc” who had ‘stood
sorrowing by their bedside when

doctor who had begun his youth-

and

follow the teachings of a lowly
Carpenter, and ended with nearly
half a century of medical healing.

Perhaps the most decisive factor
prompting this change was World
War 1. To Fred Inglis a church
which compromised on destruction
and death for the greater glory of
imperialist profit and pelf, could
not square with his concept of
christian precepts. From then on
to the hour of his passing, at the
ripe age of 80-years, Dr. Inglis
honored the Hippocrates Oath to
heal the sick with unswerving de-
votion. And, hating war with
every fibre of his being and a social
system that lives by. war, he spurr-
ed the thinking of his fellowmen
towards the goal of a Socialist
society.

The early settlers. and -pioneers
of Gibsons Landing knew and
loved their family doctor, not only
because he was one of them but
because in the countless hours of
their most urgent need, his pres-
ence in their humble homes
brought joy and hope and comfort.

In the generation in which he
lived and worked the ‘country
doctor” was an institution. None
of the polished ‘“‘bedside manner,”
the patent-pill. pusher, or mental
calculations on the “financial”
status of the sick. Only to heal
with the full measure of his knowl-
edge, skill and science. Bills often

paid with a sack of potatoes or
two, a cord of wood, or a helpful
chore here and there in the raising
of his own little family. Things
that cannot be deposited in banks,
but only in the great heart of a
community for a beloved and re-
spected citizen.

The struggles of the peoples of
many lands came to Dr. Inglis’
door for solidarity and aid, and
none went away empty handed.
Workingclass papers like the
Pacific Tribune carry on because
of the inspiration and financial
aid they. receive from rebels of
the calibre of. ‘Doc’ Inglis.

Miners, loggers, fishermen or ,
others, striking “against “monoply
exploitation, had his warm sym-
pathy and generous aid.

On this tenth anniversary of his
passing we salute the memory of
a grand Canadian socialist pioneer.
In the decade that has passed two
great decisions have been written
by the multi-million peoples’
struggles he regarded as his own;
the rising triumph of a mighty
Socialist. world, and -the end of
imperialism with its long night-
mare of horror.

Of Fred Inglis, M.D. and Social-
ist trail blazer and the pattern of
devotion to mankind he left us,
it can truly -be said,

"Earth is not as tho’
Thou ne‘er has been.”

— «A

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