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Peace wagon rolls--
and war dogs bark

JOHN BOYD, executive secre-
tary of the Canadian Slav Com-
mitte, Toronto: “The wagon rolls
—the dog barks.” So says an old
Slavic proverb. It applies even
today. Many a dog _ foolishly
throws itself at the wheels of a
speeding auto, barking furiously,

' thinking it can thus stop its ad-

vance. But this proverb applies
also, in a different sense, to the
growing movement for brother-
hood and peace among the Slavic
People in Canada today.

Throughout Canada our people
are greeting with enthusiasm the
preparations for the big three-
day Slavic holiday that will take
Place in Toronto this summer—
the Canadian Slav Congress on
June 29-80 and the big All-Slav
Picnic-rally on July 1. They see
it as an historic event that- will
have an important influence 6n
the future of Canada itself,

They see it strengthening the
bonds, of brotherhood and _ soli-
darity among all Slavic Canadians,
who have always been tied close
together by common ancestry,
Kindred language and similar cul-
tures but who today are drawn
together even closer by the rapid
advance of their kinfolk in the
Slavic lands—through the growth
of economic prosperity, the flo-
wering of culture and increased
Social security.

_ They see it proclaiming in one
Voice the one desire that is stron-
8est and dearest in the hearts
of majority of our people—the
desire for peace.

But the announcement of the
Canadian Slay Congress has
brought anything but joy to the
enemies of the Slav people—to
those who want to see our people
disunited and who are. helping
to foment hatred of the Slavs as
Part of the plot for another
World war, in which the succes-
Sors of Hitler would like to com-
Plete the job that Hitler failed
to do—exterminate the Slav
Peoples and stem their mighty
advance. No sconer was the
announcement about the Slav
Congress made than the watch-
dogs of the warmakers started
to bark and howl, hoping that
they would frighten off the people
from giving it their support.

The Slavic people of Canada
will answer these barking dogs

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anda their mad masters by coming

to the Congress in greater num-
bers and making it the greatest
demonstration of Slav solidarity
ever witnessed in this country.

This is pregress--
Non-Partisan style

J. Walker, Vancouver: Citizens
of this (fare?) city should make
a squawk about plans for transit
conversion in 1951 and 1952,

Paving of Oak Street, schedul-
ed for this year, is set back
until 1952. Repaving of Main is
to be delayed until 1955, when
the .BCElectric has “tentatively
agreed” to abandon its street car
barns at Main and Thirteenth.
Paving of Nanaimo from Hastings
to Broadway, originally planned
for this year, will be postponed
until 1951.

Who runs our town, anyway?
The citizens or the BCElectric?
What have our NPA dunderheads
at city hall got to say for them-
selves?

Nothing of the truth
in daily newspapers

L. M. PERRY, Vancouver: I
had never really believed that
the daily press was capable of
the gross lies and _ distortions
charged by the labor movement,
but after attending the Peace
Arch rally last Sunday and then
reading the “reports” of that
great event in the Sun and News-
Herald, I am now convinced that
the term “gutter journalism” is
aptly used when = speaking of
these two papers.

I was thrilled by the crowd
-and speakers, and like other
people who were present, left
Peace Arch vowing that such 2
wonderful affair should become
annual event. It seemed to me
that the rally was the most im-
pressive démonstration for peace
that has been held in B.C. up to
this time. The unity achieved
with progressive young people in
the United States was a heart-
ening sign.

Imagine my disgust, then, on
reading in the daily press that
‘less than 1,000 attended.’ Why,
there were more than that num-
ber in the Canadian caravan con-
tingent alone! —

I’ve learned a lesson from the
rally, and that is, that the press
will go to any lengths ‘to keep
the truth from the people.

joe Deparfinent

You Pleae..

Tells St. Laurent:
Put Canadians first

GRACE RUDDELL, Vancouver,
B.C: As a homemaker and mother
of three children, the news that
beef prices will continue to spiral
is of very real concern to me.
Searching through my files on
“balanced meals” I discover that
the meals I am now able to pre-
pare will not be as balanced as
should be. High prices force me
to rely more on “fillers” ‘which
in most cases are mainly starch.

Later in the summer my garden
vegetables . will help somewhat
but just what can I do about the
meat problem?

..I am sure there many other
people in a similar situation, who
have a certain budget for food,
and who are hard hit by recent
increases in the price of beef

I feel that our government

_ Should consider the needs of the

average Canadian who is being

affected by skyrocketing prices.

Our wages are lower than in the

United States and our buying
power is lower, also.

Let our government look after
the home market first! The cat-
tle are raised and fed from Cana-
dian grain and pasture. Our own
Canadian citizens should be able
to purchase beef at a reasonable
price.

BCElectric adding
injury to insult

MRS. VERA KALMUSKY, Van-
couver, B.C.: Something must be
done to see that our trolleys and
all other transportation vehicles
go out in good running order and
see that the mechanism is in per-
fect condition. One does not
know whether she or he will get
out of a street car dead or alive
these days!
explosion occurred. The arm of
the streetcar snapped off and
crashed glass from the back of
the streetcar went flying so far
as to hit the conductor.

Maybe BCElectric inspects its
cars, but by golly, if we hear any
more of these happenings, we can
assure you that we women will
do something about it!

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Sunday afternoon an —

NEANDERTHAL REMAINS IN ASIA

Soviet archaeologists
make important find

NEW LIGHT IS THROWN on the problem of the
origin of man—his descent from Neanderthal man—by the re-

sulis of investigations by Soviet scientists.

development as the primitive populations of Europe,

Asia Minor.

And the significance attaching to this
that Neanderthal man lived in Asia as well as other

The existence of .
palacolithic culture in Central
Asia has been proved.

Thus, the beginning of the
history of the peoples of Cen-
tral Asia has been moved back
several tens of thousands of
years, into the depths of time.
It has been established that
people inhabited Central Asia
even in the most ancient times.
The population of Central Asia
passed through the same stages
of social, economic and cultural
Africa and
discovery
parts of the

globe, is that no original division of mankind into races existed,
or could exist, demolishing all pseudo-scientific theories of “‘su-

perior”’ or “‘inferior’’ peoples.
ok

Among the distinguished So-
viet scientists whose names fig-
ured in the most recent list of

Stalin awards for original work

is a group of three who during
the past ten years have been
patiently following up a discov-
ery made by an expedition to
South Uzbekistan, in Central
Asia, organized by the Acade-
my of Sciences of the USSR.
A preliminary report on their
findings published under the
title “‘Teshik-Tash, a Paleolithic
Man,” provides serious grounds
for believing that the Neander-
thal man, whom scientists have
previously argued on the basis
of existing evidence, was con-

fined to Europe and the Med-

iterranean Basin, also existed
in Central Asia.

' It was in a cavern some 4,500
feet up in the mountains near

_ the borders of Afghanistan that

the 1938 expedition, encouraged
by other finds in this region,
turned up the shattered skull
of a child.

At once they recognized in
its characteristic sloping facial
construction with protruding
jaw ‘and long, deep cranial
cavity teeth the general type
with which the world has be-
come familiar since the first
skeleton of early — paleolithic
times was discovered in 1856.

Assembly of the 150 separate
pieces of the skull by the So-
viet scientist Mikhail ‘Gerasi-
mov, known for his reconstruc-
tion of Tamberlane, left no
doubt that this was the skull! of
a male child, aged probably
about ten.

j

Further investigation of the

site led to the following conclu-.

sions.

The Teshik-Tash cavern was
the dwelling-place of a com-
munity of paleolithic people
who hunted and ate the cooked
fiesh of mountain-goats, bears
and other animals, which they
killed with flintheaded weap-
ons, Or more likely by rolling
stones on to them in narrow de-
files, as mountain bears are
still known to kill their prey in
some places.

‘ * * *

IN THIS LIMESTONE grot-
to, near to a spring, a child
died some 50,000 years ago and
for some reason connected with
paleolithic man’s code of belief
was buried close to the com-
mon hearth in a shallow grave.

Less hypothetical in connec-
tion with the beliefs of the Ne-
andertha] man is the evidence
provided by @ circle of wild-
goats’ horns laid in careful or-
der of length around the grave.

*

These horns, straight, sharp,
dangerous weapons, have, like
most of the child’s skeleton,
been disturbed since the par-
ents placed them in some for-
gotten ritual round the low
mound,

Dr. Okladnikov writes that
the character of the burial of
the child testifies to a higher
mental development of early
paleolithic man than had hith-
erto been accepted.

* * *

W: OTHER general les-
sons does the discovery at
Teshik-Tash provide to the lay-
man?

By far the most important
derives from the fact that it
is the first trace of early or
middle paleolithic man in Cen-
tral Asia and adjoining terri-
tory. :

The discovery thus adds a
vast new area to that which
it was reasonable to assume,

'from previous discoveries. Ne-

anderthal man existed during
the paleolithic period

The principle of these dis-
coveries, following those at Ne-
andertha] itself, were near Na-
mur, in Belgium, at La Cha-
pelle and La Ferrassy in
France, in South Africa, Mount
Carmel, Palestine, and in the
Crimea. . ;

Although other parts of Cen-
tral Asia, in particular Samar-
kand and the valley of the Am-
ud-Darya, provide rich ex-
amples of late paleolithic set-
tlements, the Teshik-Tash cave
provides a clue to far earlier _
human inhabitants of Central

Asia than could hitherto be |

proved. :

Soviet archaeologists, Profes-
sor Tolstov more than any
other in recent years, had al-
ready unearthed much evidence
of neolithic man’s life in the
river valleys, where later there
arose the Choresmian civiliza-
tion—the rival, at least in cul-
tural and commercial spheres, —
to other, better-known civili-
zations of the Middle East.

In classifying and now in
publishing the details of their
findings in a remote cave
where Nature, rugged and wild,
provides a setting perhaps not
very much different from that
in which paleolithic man lived,
they have considerably extend-
ed the field of human know-
ledge about the misty past.—
RALPH PARKER,

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