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But I’m sure none of Pete Seeger’s friends will be surprised that he took the city in a single evening. With only his banjo, a guitar and a little wooden whistle, his beguiling, voice and bewitching enthusiasm, Pete won the crowd of 2,000 crammed into every cranny of the big Tchai- kovsky Hall, April 10. Well, Pete did have an ad- vance assist from a Moscow TV interview the previous night. But the best proof that he captured his live audience is that they stayed on thirty minutes after he finished clamoring for more. “T never saw anything like itl?’ Pete exclaimed when I spoke to him after the concert. Our favorite folk singer sang a generous program of twenty- six songs from different coun- tries. Songs of workers, songs of struggle, songs of peace, “Bourgeois Blues’? and a song for Cuba’s patriot Jose Marti. Mostly American songs, of course. ‘‘We Shall Overcome”’ won the most applause of all when Pete added at the end: ‘“Priends, this song is not just for Alabama and Missis- sippi. It’s for you and me, for THEM.’’ And he swept his arms in a long swing away from the audience. His Moscow fans know “what Act Like Adults Jeanne Teather, North Burn- aby, writes: In the past few months there has been some rather bitter words back and forth between China and the Soviet Union, This has surprised many of us because we expected more from leaders of the Socialist world, I believe that the Communist Party of Canada could have serv- ed far better the cause ofSocial- ism by keeping aneutralist policy and not siding as it has always done, with the Soviet Union. We - should have demanded that the leaders of these two countries show more sense and straighten ‘ out their differences. Canadians must not become yesmen for anyone. We must think for ourselves, and could serve Socialism far better by having stronger opinions of our own. Let us tell the Soviet Union and China to settle their differences in an adult manner, stop this childish bickering, and get on with the building of socialism. (Editor’s Note: Mrs. Teather’s letter misses an important fact- or, well illustrated in a book recently published by the Com- munist Party of Canada, entitled ‘¢Questions For Today’. There the CPC not only “thinks for itself’? but indicates clearly and without ‘‘taking sidess’’ what is required to consolidate world Communist unity. To remain ‘‘neutralist’? as Mrs. Teather suggests, would be equivalent to a denial of Marxism- Leninism), Examine Facts William Stewart (in a letter to The Province) writes: During Pete Seeger signs autographs after his Moscow concert. to ask for encores, too. ‘*When the Saints Go Marching In,’’ and *¢ Joe Hill’’ were the two he chose to sing for them, Pete told me. As usual, Pete got nearly everybody to join in singing some of the songs — particularly a South African song and Lead- belly’s ‘Good Night Irene.’’ I predict by the end of his tour here, the whole Soviet Union will be ®inging in hootenannys. After three concerts in Mos- cow, Pete will give at least eleven more — in Leningrad, Kiev, the Crimea and Tbilisi. Undoubtedly, Moscow will demand still more on his return May 1. Pete Seeger, his wife Tosi and two children, and manager Hal Levinthal, reached the So- the last civic elections campaign your civic reporter Bud Elsie wrote a column dealing with my civic election program. In his article he challenged my posi- tion that Aeneas Bell-Irving was connected with real estate inter- ests in Vancouver. He asserted that Bell-Irving had no connection whatever with real estate, never had and was an official at Western Bridge and Steel Fabricators Ltd. I took the trouble to write to Victoria to ascertain the facts of this matter more precisely and here they are: The directors of Bell-Irving Realty, 930 W. Pender,.are Pybus Bell-Irving (President) and Bert Edwards (Residential Sales Man- ager), The directors of Bell- Irving Insurance Agencies, 926 W. Pender, are A. D. Bell- Irving (President), Henry Pybus Bell-Irving (President), (sic!) viet Union after an eight months’ tour including Australia, Japan, Czechoslovakia, Poland. From here Pete goes on’ to Scotland and Ireland. He will complete his encirclement of the globe by his return to New York in June. Hundreds of eager young people stood outside Tchaikovsky Hall long before Pete’s concert, pleading to buy anyone’s‘‘extra’’. ticket. Two enterprising youths wore penciled signs to attract attention. Inside, the audience included all* ages, young beards and old beards, animated young women and smiling grandmas. But youth predominated and really every- one there was young with Pete. —Esther Shields (Peaple’s World). Aeneas Bell-Irving (Alderman and Sales Manager), and three others. It will. be noticed that Henry Pybus Bell-Irving is President of both the Bell-Irving Real Est- ate and Bell-Irving Insurance Co., and that they are at 930 and 926 W, Pender St., respect- ively. It is a safe assumption that the operations are closely integrated and it would require an imagin- ation more fertile than that dem- onstrated by your Elsie to think that Alderman Bell-Irving was not interested in the real estate transactions of Bell-Irving Realty and sympathetic to real estate speculation in general. It would seem to me that your Bud Elsie would do better to ' examine his facts in depthrather than accept the word of some of the erstwhile city fathers as gospel, Boers Joan Baez has refused to pay 60 percent of her federal income taxes this year, the percentage that goes-to the military. She ex- plained her action in a letter to the Internal Revenue Serv- ice: «I do not believe in war... Weapons and wars have mur- dered, burned, distorted, crippled and caused endless varieties of pain to men, wo- men and children for too long : I am not going to vol- unteer the 60 perent of my year’s income tax that goes to armaments, There are two reasons for my action. Joan Baez protests **One is enough. It is enough to say that no man has the right to take another man‘s life. Now we plan and build weapons that can take thous- ands of lives in one second, millions of lives in a day, billions in a week *“My other reason is that modern war isimpractical and stupid... People are starv- ing to death in some places of the world. They look to this country with all its wealth and all its power . . . (and) despise see —J A.S. (National Guardian) May 15, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9