‘L WQULD WELCOME ATOMIC WAR IF .. .’ LETTER PROTESTED :

Dr. Newton wants to dispose of
‘surplus’ people as well as food

SID ZLOTNIK, Vancouver, B.
C.: The letter published in the
April 18 issue of the Vancouver
News-Herald by Dr. William
Newton contains some shocking
if somewhat unoriginal ideas. I
rubbed my eyes at the by-line,
“B. C. Academy of.Arts and Sci-
ences” and I thought that in
place of “B.C.” I saw “Munich,”
“Leipzig,” “Nuremburg.”

Truly the late Dr. Goebbels
would rub his hands if he could
hear his ideological offspring Dr.
Newton say, “I would welcome
atomic warfare as a Means of es-
tablishing a more favorable equil-
ibrium between food and popu-
lation if by any such warfare
the strong only, physically, men-
tally, and morally would sur-
vive.”

So, if the atomic bomb can-
not guarantee the survival of
the strong, our scientist can
always resort to such civilized
methods as the gas chambers,
sterilization, etc. with which hu-
manity should be familiar, al-
though some of us seem to have
forgotten in these few short
years since the war. And who
will be the judges, who will de-
cide which persons are physically,
mentally, and morally strong—
who were the supermen in Ger-
many? Such moral giants as
Hitler and Goebbels, Streicher
and Roehme, Goering and Stur-
mer.

Listen, oh you weak and sick

and suffering citizens, to what
our scientist’ would do for you.

IN THE OTHER EAR

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Mamie Maloney known as
lron River scab's wife

TOBIE HOGARTH, Courtenay,
B.C., writes a long letter on a re-
cent column by Mamie Maloney,
Vancouver Sun columnist, devoted
to the strike at Iron River last
year. She points out that Mamie
is better known in the district as
Mrs. Boggs, wife of the time-
keeper at Iron River, who “did the
seab-herding job for MacMillan
Company during the strike.” Mrs.
Hogarth makes these comments,,

among others:

Mamie Maloney is quite notori-
ous here for her writings. As one
logger put it, “Writers of her type
never lie—they just don’t tell the
truth.”

. Mamie’s column on the Iron Riv-
er. strike was written in an “ex-
pert” fashion; the “I was there”

typé of thing. It reminded me
of O! Bill's trenchant comment
on Mamie at the time—that she
“writes from the other side of the
picket line.”

If Mamie wanted to: tell the
truth, she could tell what went on
between her husband and other
company officials and Alsbury and
Bradley, who met daily in the
company offices. She could also
explain the “mystery” of the .ap-
pearance of 25 armed provincial
police from Victoria just three
minutes after Alsbury and Brad-
ley were beaten up while trying
to cross the picket line... .

Yes, Mamie, as she states in her
column, must have felt “uncom-
fortable” during the strike, for the
cries of “Scab!” must have reach-
ed ‘her ears, ... .

‘creasing hereditary

He says, eisai we are in-
weaknesses
in the human race at an alarm-
ing rate by preserving through
a combination of medical science
and social services those people
who would naturally disappear
under primitive environments.”

The professor would like many
of us to “disappear” and seems
to favor a restoration of primi-
tive savagery by modern scienti-
fic methods of eliminating the so-
called undesirables. At any rate,
he deplores the uSe of medical
science and social services in
alleviating human suffering, be-
cause such services tend to main-
tain life where in’ primitive so-
ciety death wold ensue.

- Of course, /all this is tied up
in the doctor’s thesis with the
central problem of food. Accor-
ding to Dr. Newton, it is not
the arms race but the shortage
of food that is causing unrest!
There is just not enough food,
so science (a la. Newton) would
have us destroy human beings
vtather than grow food.

Not one word of protest does
he utter against the destruction

of million of tons of foodstuffs
“in North America while people

starve in other lands, but rather
expresses his deep concern over
the fact that not enough people

.are dying or being slaughtered.

His is the voice of shameless,
dying capitalism.

One last comment. Where does
the academician get his figure
on world population increasing at
the -rate of over 50,000,000 a
year? Surely a “scientist” could
be a little more exact, and should

not exaggerate his figures to
“make a case’. However, what
does a few more millions amount
to anyway, when you already
have a “surplus” of human be-
ings who, like unmarketable po-
tatoes, must be destroyed?

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26 OF 31 SIGNED

BERYL M. WHEELDON,
Nanaimo, B.C.: The Vancouver
Sun refused, to publish this let-
ter “becausé of restrictions on
space and other reasons.” Here
is the letter:

The immense and constitu-
tional power of the people was
seldom better demonstrated

the Bomb petition.

From 36 houses F called at I
obtained the following results:

home; five persons refused to
sign; the remainder all signed.
“Thus, in a broad section of an
average community, an enor-
mous majority evidenced a de-
Sire to outlaw atomic weapons
and for “international control
of all naticns” in this respect.

Much credit is due the Peace
Congress for wise phrasing of

fears of unilateral

disarma-
ment. :

Response to petition
shows desire for peace

than in its reaction to the Ban.

at four houses no one was at-

the petition which eliminated

The fact that emerges is that
it is definitely in the power of
the people to impress our will
upon our. elected representa.
tives, if only we exert ourselves
to do so, No election results
ever gave our govermment the
right over a period of four’
years to sell our souls into
moral bankruptcy in an issue
of such magnitude as that of
wilful destruction of human
lives by such instruments as
atomic weapons.

And no government can with
impunity ignore the will of the
majority. When we permit it
to do so the onus is upon our-
selves and the outcome would
prove the failure and the end
of democracy.

One’s faith in human nature
is somewhat restored by the
reception of this petition.
Here’s hoping we take more of :
such stands on issues where
moral integrity and human
Sanity are involved.

PHILPOTT TAKEN TO TASK

Streit Plan serves same
end as Atlantic Pact

JACK BOYD, Vancouver: El-
more Philpott, Sun columnist, en-
dorses the Streit plan ‘for an At-
lantic Federation comprising Bri-
tain, France, the U.S.A., ete. Such
a plan is reactionary because it
would serve only to unite the po-
tential aggressors more solidly
than the Atlantic Pact and furgh-
er weaken the United Nations by
providing substitute authority.

§ Mr. Philpott’s belief that the

creation of a uniform currency
‘would remove trade ‘barriers

is
naive to the extreme. It is ob-
vious that because of its trading

' position, the U.S.A. would remain

owner of practically all the dol-
lars so that the dollar shortage in
France and Britain would remain
as acute as now. Surely Mr. Phil-
pott can see that merely changing
the name of the money would in
no way change the underlying
realities.

Also, Mr. Philpott thinks that
the signing of such a, pact con-
taining “guarantees” of civil lib-
erties would be effective in main-
taining democracy and prevent
0 But the
fallacy of this is apparent, as the
pact would not abolish the power
of Wall Street and we know al-
ready how the existing Bill of
Rights fails to give votes to the
Negroes in the U.S.A. or protect
them) from lynchings.

_ As long as Wall Street retains
its power, the signing of treaties

between governmental officials: will .

only be ‘effective in so far -as;it

Suits Wall Street, which can at

any moment. precipitate a finan-

cial crisis in any capitalist coun-

try that refuses to do its bidding.

Surely Mr. Philpott knows how
much regard international bank-

ers had for the Kellogg Peace Pact’

outlawing. war, and signed in 1928,
to be followed three years later by

Japan's invasion of Manchuria,

and by Mussolini's invasion of
Ethopia in de ;
ak pacts are. effective ate

co backed by power of enforce-
ment.

rs ;
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—APRIL 21, 1950—PAGE 10

e

Thus .Magna Charta-was.
effective against King John: only

_ dividuals.

because the swords of the barons
were available to give it power.
The effectiveness of the United
Nations Charter relies solely on
the power of the masses of the
people throughout the world. And

_to be effective, these masses must

be organized. It is not effective
if they merely vote support as in-
The power of organiza-
tion was recently demonstrated
in Belgium when trade unionists

' prevented the return of King Leo-

pold.

Mr. Philpott gives his efferves-
cence the semblance of omnipo-
tence as though to say “Allah has
spoken!” We can only suggest
he justify such poses by more
objective thought.

E. H. SKEELES

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