| WAS THERE

By VELDA DIMOPOULOS

- This incident happened to
me during the campaign of
the B‘C. Peace Council against
the use of the “A” bomb sev-
eral years ago.

“ I was standing on Pender
Street with a petition on “Ban-
ning the Bomb”. As_ people
passed .I would hold out my
petition and ask them, “Have
you signed this petition call-
ing on all nations to ban the
fA” bomb?”

. For some time I was stand-
ing there in the same place,

when a burly police officer |-

approached me, “You had bet-
ter move on with that, you are
obstructing traffic.”

> “No sir,” I said, “Only the
people who want to stop. stop.
I am not obstructing anyone.”
“Listen,” he growled at me,
*J am warning you, I don’t
want to see you here again.”

,. Then my fellow petitioner
from across the street came
over and asked me what the

A-bomb petitioning
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officer wanted. I told him and
he advised. me to phone the
“PEACE” office. Misunder-
standing what he said, I went
to the nearest phone and call-
ed the “POLICE” department.
When they answered, I asked,
“Ts it against the law to peti-
tion on a public street?” “No”
was the reply, “there is no law
against that.’

Feeling reassured, I resum-
ed my old stand and began col-
lecting signatures again: My
policeman friend stormed up
to me and shouted, “I thought
I told you to keep moving”

“Listen.” I said respectfully.
“J just phoned police head-
quarters and they informed
me I was within my legal
right to petition here. NOW
do you know more than they
do?”

NEVER will I forget the ex-
pression on his face. He turn-
ed white and started sputter-
ing. Finally, when he regained
his composure, he took down
my name and address, as a
final gesture of -authority.

A man down the street who
had been listening, called io
me when .the officer. had de-
parted, “Good for you lady!”

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TO MY CHILDREN

My fair and graceful daughter

My handsome stalwart son

I brought you into being

Don’t reproach me. It was done

Before the advent of the H-bomb,
Strontium 90, germ toxins, and the rest
Of that dark host of diabolical horrors
That mark man at his worst.

The man that pants for power

- And-knows no other goal;

The man devoid of conscience
Of pity and of soul

_ Who dares unleash these horrors °.

And feels no scorching shame
That: ¢€ountless generations

And robs you of youth’s heritage

The zest to challenge and grapple with
the foe.

Don’t reproach me son and daughter
That you may childless be, :
Or that the children which you beat —
Can bring no joy to thee

Because my generation has failed
sponsibility to yours

And given you for children

Piteous freaks and poor hapless mom
sters :

Who cannot live, or if they do,
But mar your life with woe.

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Cry curses in his name;

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pains

That a myriad, myriad human lives
Through him -have blighted been
By greater agonies than death

That he, his goal to power might win.

Don’t reproach me son and daughter
That your life be brief and fraught with

Because of the dread cancer

That is burning in your veins;

That your song of youth is muted
That fear dims your hope’s pure glow

For they by us have been denied
To strength and beauty grow.

Don’t reproach me son and daughter
My head with grief is bowed

I feel that somehow mine’s the guill
Such suffering is allowed.

I might have struggled harder

To stop the act of lust and hate

Whose scourge envelopes all mankind
. Before it was too late.

ESTHER RADOSOVIC. |

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