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Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa ; [sr Week a very good friend of ete sent me a unique gift; not a Pa to eat or wear or leave on al but a’ gift symbolic of the ieee huge red flag. for BE ialy I thanked him warmly in m ch a gift and stowed it away Othballs pending the day when it Cheat’ in the breezes, without Panic. § the neighbors into a political e i hig and wherefore of the gift. ~ GWay flag of the coming new order of life); it is of good quality and Wey raid ‘the moths would eat it Whe the moths know a good thing ee’ taste it.” mothpeend needn’t worry. I have a 8 flag a Curtain draped about that | coulg ich not even John Foster Dulles | ,, Set through ! Bais ontention this flag gift because it taka One of the many varied and : 7 I receive from readers of iveq umn. A few weeks ago I re- boun, q an exceptionally well preserved Yon yy, edition of the Illustrated Lon- alk Norn of 1881 from an old friend aoa Vancouver. tellin Wsing through these old pages Song ae of life and events in the heart ~ Upon fe 74 years ago one stumbles haya .°™S which show that while we | Othe, PPOSressed in some respects, in | Ferg che are just about where we | ee Tee-quarters of a century ago. Sane UE 0 Of 1987 the case of the first Boer war erat and the famed Majuba Hill These on against the Boer farmers. Sefengi untrained” guerilla fighters, again aa their lands and _ liberties Us'¢, , 2titish imperialism, trimmed drags 9 frazzle, but to the big army © colin the day, speaking through Ney, “™ns of the Illustrated London Sassi) i our “operations were suc- Sep sninded me of “Operation Sea There's ‘ it re a a lot of smoke and boom- 2 CEE tenance kids enjoyed Whi Stuey ie the supporting destroyer got “ug, o@St on a sandbar like a sitting Strate nda few other major items of sa arin Went awry, the “enemy... Teq. Stas new model steel helmets with 3 Complete) and stiff epaulettes...” was a ported Y “routed” and army “brass Nighly. Operation Sea Serpent’ Stigg en ccesstul.” The “red stars and Cent Paulettes” was the Brass’ con- hanging oneva—unchanged and un- Take ae threy, qcnd’s gift of the Red Flag 4 x Leary © sharp focus another event ace by the Illustrated London Ration. hat faraway day, the assassi- ABes ae the . assassination, Four Si eo women, all under 30 Ringn. st Publicly. hanged in a ne (then St. Petersburg). — Ce, 3 ; Sfore the hangman completed ution It is said however that the aa: Was drunk, and that he Punished with a _ severe An editorial on the same on Is us that “the execution of Naan Helfmann, the sixth » 32 fas been postponed until nia ks and old newspapers give _-“aning to flags of the future ! eben my friend wrote to explain = at Jericho Beach last week. - ‘Ol Tsar Alexandér II of Russia. — Journal devotes a couple. of rn nal ple . of . ‘Mowing sketches to the executions fase of one, “the rope broke Sad Confinement.” How con- ° ae Federal-Provincial confer- . . \ ence now in session at Ottawa is faced with some momentous is- sues. First among these are the need - - for a National Health Insurance scheme, for agreement to end the buck-passing between governments * on responsibility for the unem- ployed, and for drastic revision not only of the methods of taxation but how tax monies are being spent. Whether Prime Minister St. Laurent, together with our nine provincial premiers and __ their political aides, faces up to these issues, or fritter away the time and opportunity of this conference in the old game of federal provincial buck-passing, still re mains to be seen. Some signs of. this latter. trend: are already in evidence. Fk For the past 25 years, beginning with the late Mackenzie King, the ~ question of National Health In- surance has served as a demagogic political vote catcher. Now the Canadian people demand the ker- nel instead of the husk. National Health Insurance must become a reality, not, as St.- Laurent has already suggested, by the provinces initiating health insurance in nine different ways with the federal government play- ing the ‘‘supporting’’ role, but by the federal government enacting National Health Insurance, with the provinces cooperating. Those provincial governments which re- fused to go along would soon be ‘compelled to satisfy popular in- sistence in their own territory. The provincial premiers have a duty to guard provincial rights. But too often these become: the refuge of politicians seeking only to block progressive legislation. In the field of direct taxation too, it may be expected that there will be obsructions to enactment | of social security legislation. Again St. Laurent is ‘reported to © MORE AND MORE PRODUCTION —Setae WITH LESS AND LESS WORKERS” = + ~ How to lift the tax burden the provinces. be ready to make tax “‘deals’’ with Such juggling with taxation “‘rights’’ only ser- ves to becloud the key issue, that reduction of the annual federal expenditure of approximately $2.5 billion for defense purposes, if transferred to the realm of social security, would provide the people of every province with the material benefits they now lack— national health insurance for every citizen, old and young, job security -and higher unemployment bene- fits, greater educational facilities, and substantial tax reduction at every level of government. If the Federal-Provincial confer- ence fails in accomplishing these objectives, it will have failed in its purpose of serving the people, and become nothing more than a sounding board for partisan politics. Civic cleanup needed Our of the grist which has gone into the mill of the Tupper Commission (when it has not stood adjourned) one fact stands out, the urgent need to clean out the Non-Partisan administration at Vancouver City Hall in this com- ing election. . While a great deal of corrup- tion, graft and other political, chicanery-in civic and. provincial politics can ‘still be unearthed by the commission, if the right people are put on the stand (without dis- guises or political stage props),. sufficient evidence has already been produced of Non-Partisan malacninistration to warrant a thorough basement-tovattic clean- out at the city hall. This the people must do for themselves, meantime seeing to it that the Tupper Commission re- -ceives the fullest public support to “‘get on with the business’ and let the chips fall where they may. Hal Griffin EWS ITEM: “An “invisible object” became. a key piece of evidence in Burnaby police court in what was described as the first full-scale court battle in Canada against the use of ‘police radar to trap an alleged high- way speeder. RCMP traffic constable William Stacey testified that during a test of the electronic speed detection gear for the benefit of defense counsel H. A. D. Oliver, indicators on the radar device registered something zipping by at 80 m.p.h. when there was no speeding object visible to anyone at the scene. ~ ee are. The following is dedicated to the solemn majesty of the law, equipped with electronic eyes: and a cash register mind, and haunted by spectres. Any resemblance to that popular English folk song, Widdi- combie Fair, is purely incidental. Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, lend me ne your grey Car, All along, down along, out Burnaby. For I want for to go a-fast and afar, With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, The RCMP and all, the RCMP and all. And when shall I see again my grey * Gar? All along, down along, out Burnaby. You’ll see it tracked along by radar, With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, The RCMP and all, the RCMP and all. But Tom Pearce’s old car with the foot to the floor, All along, down along, out Burnaby. With the wind at her tail coudn’t do _ twenty-four, With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, The RCMP and all, the RCMP and all. - So Tom Pearce he got to the end of | the road, All along, down along, out Burnaby. And found his old car broken down . with the load . ; Of Bill‘ Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter ‘Gurney, Peter Davey, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, The RCMP and all, the RCMP and all. - But this isn’t the end of this shocking affair, : ey : All along, down along, out Burnaby. The car now does eighty although it . ain’t there. ‘ a - With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davey, Dan’l ‘Whiddon, Harry Hawke, The RCMP and all, the RCMP and all. When the wind whistles cold on the Lougheed at e’en, Adee All along, down along, out naby. Tom Pearce’s old car doth appear on _ the screen, e With Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davey, Dan’! Whiddon, Harry Hawke, __ The RCMP and all, the RCMP and all. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 7, 1955 — PAGE 5