Saturday.

Speech from Throne ignores

hydro, forest giveaways —Morgan

“Conspicuously missing in the Speech from the Throne was any indication of what
the Social Credit government intends to do about the widespread demand for a change
in its power policies, its forest give-aways; or provision of any real relief for muni-
cipal taxpayers; or amendments to the anti-labor law known as Bill 43,” said Nigel

Morgan, Communist Party provincial leader, in a radio

broadcast over CKLG: last

_ “Premier Bennett only two} prises for this session,” Mor-
weeks ago promised big sur-| gan continued. “None were in-

| thumb and his little finger, trying to keep awake.

Ten seconds to live.

_,. He pushed his sleeve back held his wrist close to the
lighted speedometer, squinted to read the time. A little after
hine—five, ten minutes after. Ought to be home in an hour.
If he had known he had only ten seconds to live he
might have checked the time more closely—and also the
Speedometer. He might have done several things differently.

Ten seconds to live. He massaged his eyes with his

3 Nine seconds to live. He had driven almost eight hours
since lunch and was beginning to: feel the strain.
Eight seconds to live. Lousy driving in the rain. Light

| water.

; Pwiver blade. Old one just spreads the water around without

— | fore it hit the pavement.
} floor board, squirmed back in his seat trying for comfort.

| 352 feet.

Z into a desperate pressure as he made out an old, unlighted,

| motion. He was floating right into the rear corner of the

[it has happened to lots of folks.

falling from headlights just seems to soak in along with the
‘Seven seconds to live. Probably need a new windshield |

‘Wiping it cleanly. Get one tomorrow or next time it rains.
Six seconds to live. Someone threw a lighted cigarette
out of an oncoming car. The red glow dissolved almost be-

- Five seconds to live. He planted his heel hard on the

. Four seconds to live. At sixty miles an hour a car
covers 88 feet of pavement every second. Four seconds,

Three seconds to live. Something looked wrong through
blurry windshield. A tentative dab on the brake stiffened

slow-moving truck ahead.
Two seconds to live, Panic moved in. Turn to the left.

| No, car coming. Headlights too close. Can’t make it. Turn

to the right. ‘
5 One second to live. Horror numbs everything into slow

truck bed. He opened his mouth to scream.
Drive too long, eyes get tired, reaction slows down.
Rain, darkness, a windshield that’s hard to see through,

number
scribers.

are invited to attend.

dicated in the throne speech.

“The foremost question of
all, hydro electric power - de-
velopment, barely got a men-
tion. True, the government
said it will continue to press
for the earliest possible de-
velopment of the Columbia
River on what was referred
to as ‘terms consistent with the
best interests of the people.’ It
must be pointed out, however,
that there was no indication
that the government intends to
do anything but nurse along
its present policy of B.C. Elec-
tric favoritism, instead of tak-
ing drastic’ action to satisfy
the widespread demand for re-
lief from the excessively high
light and power rates charged
by the private-power monopoly
in B.C.

“Dominion Bureau of Statis-
tics figures for 131 cities and
communities across Canada
show that in 126 rates are low-
er than in Vancouver; 53 actu-
ally pay less than half what
the B.C. Electric charges.”

Morgan rapped the govern-
ment’s deal with Wenner-Gren
to develop Peace River hydro

power, predicted it would get};

“the usual rubber-stamp ap-
proval of the Public Utilities
Commission” and “will get
into legislature only to the ex-
tent that it is dragged there
by the Opposition.” ‘

if, of, if...

If only the coer Tribune

had more money in the bank,
more income from advertisers.

If only we had double the
of our present sub-

If only we had more street

salesmen, plant gate salesmen,
and groups taking bundles of
the paper.

PNER Sis
We could step up even more

the fight for peace which we
are already conducting.

We could battle for labor’s

rights and against Bill 43 more
effectively.

We could enlarge to 12 pag-

és, hire additional staff, and
produce a livelier paper each
week.

All this and much more we

could do — If...

These and other problems’

affecting the Pacific Tribune
‘will -be discussed at a confer-
ence in Pender Auditorium on
Sunday,
p.m. All friends of the paper

February 14, at 1

Gere Whyte’ me

T THE time of writing,

Moscow Selects have won
five of their nine hockey games
on Canadian ice during their
current tour.

But the won and lost record
isn’t the important thing. What
Canadian fans are raving about
is the style of hockey shown
by the visitors—a crisp, clean,
position-passing type of play
that characterized NHL hockey
before the Second World War.

The Russians learned this
style of hockey from Canada—
and here we’re abandoned it
for a messy, crowd-the-goal-
mouth kind of shinny.

* * *

At one time European hoc-
key players frowned on body-
checks, an essential part of the
Canadian game. They called it
“dirty hockey” in the Euro-
pean press (the Russian press
excepted) and a few misguid-
ed Canadians took up the cry
to abolish bodychecking.

This column warned against
any crusade on the issue some
years back, and predicted that
the Russians and Swedes would
learn to bodycheck.

In Moscow coaches went to
work on their squads, made
them study movies of NHL hoc-
key games, and taught them
the value of a clean bodycheck
on defense. .

Now the Selects, and other
teams from abroad, demon-
strate that they have learned
how to bodycheck effectively,
and are just as tough in this
department as our own boys.

There’s one essential differ-
ence. They correctly use the
bodycheck for DEFENSE; too
many of our players resort to
high-sticking,

plus tripping,

etc.
* * *

Some impressions of the visit
of Selects to the Okangan
were sent to ts by Joe Ivens
of Okanagan Mission, one of
the grand veterans in the B.C.
labor movement.

“T could not help thinking
that the Selects put into the
game the ‘scientific socialist
spirit of competition’ that
Khrushchev spoke of at the
United Nations,” writes Joe.
“In any case, it was a good
clean game and the reception
given the Soviet team, and the
good will shown, was the im-
portant thing that mattered.”

That is hitting the nail on
the head. Not whether ‘you
win or lose, but how you play
the game. And the 1960 Soviet
brand of hockey has -made

-Imany friends, impressed every-

February 5, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7

bodychecking all over the ice,

“SPORTLIGHT

one, and started a discussion
on whether it isn’t time Can-
ada took a good look-at the
way we play the game, and
perhaps return to the faster,
cleaner style of the 30’s, so
admirably demonstrated by
Selects.

We'd like to see many more
hockey exchanges next season,
so that Canadians from coast
to coast would have a chance

play.

And we'd like to see more
Soviet football teams, basket-
ball squads, and track and
field aggregations visit our
country. In turn, Canadian
athletes should have an oppor-
tunity to travel abroad, not
only to the USSR, but to other

socialist lands.
* a *

The “sick’’ comedians are

Here’s the latest “joke” we
heard over the radio:

“Daddy, give me a nickel to
buy an ice cream cone.”

“Shut up, and drink your
beer.”

OBITUARY

TORONTO — Rev. Ben
Spence, of Toronto, died last
week as a result of a traffic
accident at the age of 92. -

Born in the year of Confed-
eration, Ben Spence had been

of progressive causes.

for the work he did in the for-
mation of the Committee to aid
Spanish Democracy during the
Spanish Civil War. One of the
first actions of the committee
was to send to Spain a blood
transfusion unit headed by Dr,
Norman Bethune.

In that period in the late
1930’s Ben Spence toured the
country addressing large pubs
lic meetings with eloquent ap-
peals for financial aid for Dr,
Bethune’s history. - making
work. .

the World Peace Congress at
Helsinki, and later visited the
Soviet Union, where he was
the guest of leading church
figures.

In political life he was as-
sociated with the CCF, and
served for a number of years:
in the 1930’s as chairman of.
its regional council. He was a
prominent advocate of unity
on the left ‘to meet the sey

of fascism and war.

to watch the Soviet style of -

still dominating the air waves. |

active for decades in support

He will be long remembered.

In his 88th year he attended.

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