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Remember the flood

Editor, Pacific Tribune:
Sir: May I submit the enclosed
for pubication in your paper?

When the Fraser went wild and
threatened them all

Those within reach answered the
call.

They did a good job, that is true,
The Army and Navy and Air
Force too, =
With Montreal bags and B.C. sand
But the force of that water it

just couldn’t stand.

They all went to work laying sack
after sack;

Even Bill 39 couldn't hold it back.
The towns were flooded, they shut
down the mills—

There must be little Molotovs
back in the hills—

Tt crumbled the highways and
washed out the track.

We'll blame it on someone who
ean’t talk back.

Owe

The hills full of snow in the mid-
dle of May,

They had a hunch it might melt
some day.

M.P.’s who put things like that
on their shelves

Should look up to the good Lord
and excuse themselves.

I sincerely hope it won't happen
no more,

But it seems they got what they
voted for.

Progressive men in a government
seat

No doubt would have this system
beat.

In the hungry 30’s what should
have been done,

When hundreds of boys were on
the bum,
But they seemed to enjoy the

things they endure,

An ounce of prevention is worth
a pound of cure.

The gift of the gab and high Pow-
ered speeches—

SPEAKING OF CIRCULATION

recently placed a brief before

Canda, including the notorious
Padiock law in Quebec, whereby
this freedom is curtailed.
- Freedoui* of the press is cur-
tailed in Canada, and not only
in the ways the association men-
tions. A press that is part of big
business, that is controlled and
subservient to big business, has
very. limited freedom, at the best,
to publish news and views that
_ Yun counter to the interests of big
business.
A fine illustration recently took
piace. A group of housewives had
to send a delegation to interview
the editor of one of the Vancouver
daily papers to ask why that paper
- had boycotted and carried no men-
tion of their campaign for return
. of price controls, surely a matter
of great public interest these days.
Why does a press that is for-
ever proclaiming its freedom ig-
- nore such news if its only interest

Freedom of the press

THE CANADIAN DAILY

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on human rights and fundamental freedoms urging legisla-
tion to safeguard the freedom of the press. his :
the, association cited a number of laws already existing in

In this brief

is to bring the facts to the people.
The answer is obvious,

Our paper, on the other hand, is
interested only in presenting the
facts of every issue that affects
the working people and drawing
from those facts the conclusions
that will better enable the working
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That’s why our readers are our
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You Pleate.

Why don’t he practice what he
preaches, “

“If I'm elected that’s what Pll
do.”

Has he done it? I'l leave it to you.

Where is Bob Morrison with his.
research talk?

The blast of his speech would stop,
a clock,

The highlights he hits would cur-
dle your blood,

Why don’t he say something about
the flood?

But the MP’s to blame and that’s
not' so good;

If he could pin it on labor I guess

he would.»

The American boys offered a
hand

To help the Canucks pack in the
sand, re

They were turned back at the line;
now I've got a hunch

They thought there was Commun-
ists in the bunch.

But after it’s over you'll hear
them say

We should have prepared for a
rainy day.

So we'll turn back the pages of
Pat and Mike— ¥

Election promises won't build a
dyke.

Think of the -misfortunate ones!
A few people can’t help a lot of
people, but a lot of peoPle can
help a few. Give and give gener-
ously!

—ANDY THOMPSON.
524 Sperling Avenue,
Lochdale P.O., B.C.

Labor unity
Editor,. Pacific Tribune:

Sir: Just a line to congratulate
Nigel Morgan on his broadcast on
the floods Monday night. It was
certainly the most forthright
heard for a long time, in fact, the
best since the Saanich byelection
and Bruce Mickleburgh and his
“I Accuse the Government” broad-
cast.

You people are always on the
offensive and no punches pulled,
which is the only way in our opin-
ion. By working together for the
establishment of a united people’s
government we have the best
chance of bringing an end to this.
capitalist system and achieving
socialism.

The Pacific Tribune this week
is 100 percent as usual. Workers
of the world unite is the finest
slogan at all times. Keep up the
good work, ;

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A timely warning

AS THE FLOOD WATERS of the Fraser-and Columbia
rivers slowly recede from one of the worst inundations of
recent times on this Coast, some of the warnings given by

Fairfield Osborn in his book,

been justified.

Dedicating his book “to all
who care .about tomorrow,” Os-
born has examined land condi-
tions in ‘all parts of the world.
He has arrived at the alarming
conclusion that, unless the vari-
ous governments take drastic
action to conserve the earth’s
natural resources and attempt to
repair ravages already made on
forests, lands, watersheds, eétc.,
“if we continue to disregard
nature and its principles, the
days of our civilization . are
numbered.” i

As examples of flood damage
and threatened destruction, Os-
born quotes the Rio Grande
watershed in New Mexico which
has been referred to as “the
doomed valley—an example of
regional suicide.”

Then there is the valley of
the greatest of all rivers, the
Mississippi, “its bed so lifted, its
waters so choked with the wash
of productive lands, that the
river at flood crests runs high
above the streets of Néw Orleans.”
The result of a break in that
river’s bonds, as Osborn predicts,
would make our jown_ recent
terrible flood damage a mere mud-
puddle.

Osborn has no hesitation in
condeming the profit motive as
responsible for the wasteful ex-
ploitation of the soil, He quotes
the classic example of the once-
fertile Nile Valley.’

“The desire for national en-
richment, the wish to gain profit
from the soil, has led to the
adoption of what are blindly
thought of as more efficient
techniques. All-year-round irriga-
tion ‘has been substituted for the
so-called basin or flood-time irri-
gation, the secret of Egypt’s fer-
tility since long before the dyn-
asties of the Rameses. This sub-
stitution was made in order to
support the profit motive, namely

Our Plundered Planet, have

the growing of cash crops such
as cotton and tobacco for export.
The needs of ‘the Empire!’ . ,
But now the land is groaning.
The annual five-month fallow,
during which the essential fer-
tility-preserving processes took
place, has been abolished. The
soil of Egypt is steadily deterior-
ating. Even the cotton yields are
falling!” -
*

* *

IN CONTRAST, Osborn com-
pares the Soviet Union’s plans to
recompense for the terrific pre-
revolutionary ravages upon the
land) to repair the damage of
German invasion, and reclaim
large territories hitherto barren.

He describes the huge experi-
ment to harness the Volga for
irrigation and to prevent its bad
spring floods caused by former
ruthless slashing of watershed
timber. He lauds collective farm-
ing as a means of properly car-
ing for the land and getting the
best out of it,

Both the USSR and the U.S.,
Osborn shows, have almost iden-
tically the same amount of land,
in relation to population, suitable
for agriculture,

“Both countries are facing the
future on approximately equal
terms as far as the basic assets
for existence are concerned, The ~
future holds the answer as to
which nation will be the more
Successful in using and conserv-
ing them!”

“Either we shall permit the
continuance of gonditions where-
by the dimishing, living, natural
resources of the great continent
may be exhausted to the point of
national disaster, or, through
‘the adoption of a new concept
regarding the responsibility of
ownership, these resources shall
be used and managed in a way
to protect the interests of its
public ds a whole.”"—K.E. _

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