PEED ons in stones| What you might think avout peauty contests, the Pageant at Alantic City last week had its own ain annexed this year. ade of States, Miss Canada walked right behind a, in due alphabetical order. Puerto Rico was also Miss Puerto Rico was there, next to Miss Okla- homa, also in due alphabetical order. And that fine American state, Hawaii, was in the beauty line. You will not be surprised to know that there was no Miss Cuba. - % ae * The annexation of Canada by the Parade of - States, was, of course, agreed to by the pro- moters of the Miss Canada contest here at home, They are as ready to sacrifice Canada’s sovereignty in the field of beauty as.are the Canadian financial tycoons and the federal government to surrender our national prestige. industry, and foreign policy. ae reason is the same —dollars. * * % Ss North Carolina was giver. her “‘serious’’ question , it turned out to be quite a substantial one ‘““What .is the most serious problem facing the American -and the American people today?” : ‘orth Carolina replied, ‘!Peace”’. The crowd of 20,000 “applause. We were glad she was chosen Miss America. * * * eant was Jim Crow. All the contestants were white. ica must be white, just like the president. That is dree world” and ‘our way of life” for which we are ‘be ready to fight in Berlin, side by side with those the nazi generals. * * * a Paganda machine in the West is up against some big Ss. Its job is to.convince the people that we should der to shoulder with the West German army. But that NY which Canadians and U.S. and British and French fought against in two world wars; and the enemy is the World wars, the Russian people. Some job! i -reason for ‘standing firm on Berlin is that the hion wants all the allies in the war against: Hitler to sign a peace treaty in 1961 to draw a line through Which ended in 1945. War against a peace treaty. "Opaganda hoys have their work cut out. : * ¥% % W-two years ago this September the propaganda ma- Vit easier: they used the people’s hatred of Hitler for "ere worth to get Canada into the phoney war. they have to work up sentiment to get the people Herr Dr. Adenauer and the German army against y army and Soviet people, our ally in World War YOU get the paradox: while the propaganda boys work thousands of Mr. and Mrs. Canadians from Vancou- Sntreal enjoy the Soviet Army Chorus, replete with My” uniform. While Mr. and Mrs. Canadian were ating their friendship inside the huge concert halls, *econstructed Ukrainian nationalists were distributing utside. Mr. and Mrs. Canadian paid them little mind. © top it all, when in Montreal this handful became h to throw leaflets in the face of the choir’s. conductor, “*peau personally tendered an official apology to the Montreal’s police arrested the hooligans. “Sof Duplessis and the Padlock Law! Times have Not least in Montreal. x a his is not to say that the situation is not grave, the isis since the end of the war. But the gravity S time, a foree that never existed on ‘the eve of the ; War, 22 years ago. There is a. cuniversal revulsion nuelea bomb. and the arms race, reinforced by a Kepticism of the official -propaganda,.a ‘Canadian hich does ‘one’ s heart good. are sermons in stones, ‘there are political lessons all for all-to see, even in Jim Crow beauty pageants. S SLAVE LABOR PLAN . JOBLESS IN-ONTARIO- ‘introduction of relief work, as proposed by the | feting of the Ontario Municipal. ‘Association, -is not | atter of being. unfair to the unemployed, but is. ans of securing cheap labor, says Ontario Com- arty leader ‘Bruce Magnuson. | iounts,”” he said, “to an illegal imposition of slave | condition for public aid. after an: able-bodied” Omes unemployed through no fault of his own.’ Mnunicipalities have been pressing for similar action Which the labor movement is expected to prongs, * S, as do many other seemingly- trivial events. |j @ Three Weeks Gone and Only 275 Subs In. @ 1725 Subs Needed to Ensure Continued Publication of Present Size P.T. THE PACIFIC TRIBUNE is our main weapon in the fight to save the world from a horrible nuclear war. IT IS URGENT that you act immediately to sign up new readers to the P.T. as your main contribution to the fight for peace. bas GREATER t VANCOUVER CLUB QUOTA 11. CLUB an iAdpange: 23. “85 5 Ft duangley..: = 5 225 25 5 (Bayalew . -caccecan=- So 6 Surrey Industria] -_-__ 20 3 (BreagWay <.----<-=<- 50" gs ~ Hvadmer._--_~_--_---__ 10 4 (Brothers —...- Gowicnan 2 40 1 Rigid cl ee 10 =? Nanatno 2 2 100 17 SEAIIEH on ee 30 o> Paatovalie 2 ES 15 re) Strathcona __________- 40 Lieber ia. estas vee a0 7 Victory Square —_____- 50 5 - Victoria Saanich _____ 3 Watenfront .>--.—--- = 40 g PROVINCE GENERAL Wespdind®: 255 3s. 20 3 CLUB QUOTA North Burnaby --_---- 65 Je) aE ee 20 6 _ South Burnaby ------ 40 196 Nea 10 2 Edmonds (Burnaby) -- 33 4 New Westminster ____ 47 6 North Van. City -_--- 39 Oe: Wiel River 37 = North Van District -- 30 © prince Rupert _____. ‘5 7 City Miscellaneous --- 75 7 Soins oh ecu oF 20 0 DEWDNEY SlOvestOn Ses ets ss: 5 ft) CLUB. QUOTA Trail Rossland ______ 25 1 Haney Maple Ridge -- 37 7 .. Cofrespondence —____= 10 1 Mission -_-----~------ 20 1 Province Miscellaneous 75 15 “two. such. opposite alternatives. .| war of unprecedented devasta- | us. And- the responsibility of | for peace in B.C. is the Pacific PACIFIC TRIBUNE OUT IN FRONT By “WILLIAM -STEWART “Circulation Manager The entire history . of the human race records no time at which mankind was faced by . One alternative is a nuclear tion’ which would retard human progress for years to come. The other is peace. The hour of decision is with | each of us to determine the course of events is great. At the forefront of the fight °Tribune. From the dropping of the first atom bomb on Hiro- shima to the struggle today to prevent war over Berlin, the Pacific Tribune has consistent- ly illuminated the path to peace The P.T. re for 2,000 new readers and renewais, coincid- ing-as it does with the tense world situation, can only be seen as a key front -in the peace battle. The biggest blow for peace ‘progressive workers can strike in B.C. is to put the P.T. Cir- culation Drive over the top. Some press boosters have seized on this fact and BWHRE into action. es Searle Freidman, Vancouver, who. pledged five new readers’ to the P.T. has already achiev- ed five, and challenges anyone ‘in the province to a race. Dora Stewart, Vancouver, went out on a cold canvass last week and signed up two new read- ers. Harold Pritchett has prom- ised five new subs by the end of September. Mona Morgan likewise. North Surrey Press Club is ‘three weeks gone, ‘|-every reason to strike an urg- IN STRUGGLE FOR WORLD PEACE “the outstanding club so far with almost 50 per cent of its quota in. Nanaimo, Advance and*South Burnaby, are other good examples. ‘However, with oniy 275 aie in on a quota of 2,000 and there is ent note about the ‘drive. ‘Examples mentioned above »sprove it; can be -done. But the figurés in »the .above chart ‘prove that, as yet it isn’t be- dang «done in, most .cases. Who will take up Searle Freidmann’s challenge? Who has a similar challenge to make to anyone or everyone? Does any club wish to challenge an- other? Let’s hear from you, and above all lets sign up those new readers. \ , September 22, 1961—PACIFIC TRIPUNE—Page 11