Pim, _ New documentary color films _ l0 show ‘what USSR is like’ feature of F riendship Month ’ a W the By DYSON CARTER President, Canadian Soviet Friendship Society nee In January, many thousands of Canadians .for the first time will see what life is like over Vast stretches of the Tae new movies ‘will be shown across Canada. et Soviet Union. To celebrate Canadian-Soviet Friendship Month a series of re- They take the audience not only to great cities scow and Kiev but also into Soviet Republics that no Canadian has ever visited. Ewevyone knows the fascinating aR of Noah’s Ark, and how it is ee 0 have come to rest on Mount aces But how many of us know ~, Hus ‘beautiful mountain is in € Armenian Soviet Republic? In their film ° about Armenia, So- Met camera es men, using the famous a film process, have suc- ~~ dled in Siving a picture of a land. and a . People reborn. Mdustries : hen I saw the girls in vineyards, the men at. their 2€8, the children in their beau- S, there came to my mind stinting ns adie Maxim Gorky’s hame p> ords: “Man! What a’ proud ’ Armen; pans are widely ‘known. 0 Urhek People like the Kazahks and 8. In Friendship Month will DYSON CARTER e Shown e a A olor films which tray 1 : s portray |... ‘ x a eer - 8reat detail Tie lahdv ann Seay is ciety held its first national cony en halt tion. In. the months since, there epublic. dozen little known Soviet les, ! : has been a marked rise of publie Ey, . i ter s i » fag sy ‘film Waa prepared nae 12 erest in the USSR. not he in foreign countries, Without — any campaign, the Ss ide World” the best to the out- Friendship — Society’s publication inme but for the enter- Newel is hiewed alt ee nt of Soviet people. They | ews-Facts, has achieved a steady ple ‘ie Oviet life as Soviet peo- | !ncrease in circulation. Right now Friendeh; it. The Canadian-Soviet | more new readers are sending in these fey is featuring | their subs than at any time since Dadinneigs cs ee they allow | 11. paper was started in 1950, The hat ; © see what is true, and | ‘ 3 ik ee alse, about reports of life a of letters, asking questions ‘and viet Union. seeking detailed’ information has The «p; become so heavy that ‘ Mont), film festivals” of Friendship is constantly: wood oR es — Hea va not be confined only to | #8 Constantly working overtime. pic ‘ - of gy - tures.” There are others Another big change is revealed in differ, ; Ro ent nature. our public meetings. Even in places €Xample, Construction in| where the society chas no committee, his shows in detail the capacity audiences have turned out W machi in e Ovir and methods that en- to hear people who have visited the 1509 workers to complete ; : : : Soviet Union as members of our n Many ra apartments every day. | 3 ‘ing, _}| trade union and vother delegations. Not long ago such audiences were Ports Pees described in recent re- are pi delegations to the USSR often silent, Today they are boil- With ing over with questions. Movie. 2 ™ living close-ups in this . Camera you soar up to M™ of a skyscraper, you Way 4.71 to the bore of =e an The film Jets you it People of Moscow in hes © — streets, parks, traf- ae theatres, Nothing is Teg) opr as all as natural as a news- “Nee ‘ this one Picture the audi- “ito, More of Moscow than a sf Cover in months, Just * * the C One year has What accounts for this change in attitude of the Canadian public? First, the wide publicity given to the new Soviet Five Year Plan, the new article and speech by J. Vv. Stalin, and the proceedings of the recent Congress of the CPSU in Moscow. Even the most reactionary newspapers and magazines were compelled to give considerable at- tention to these events. The desper- Vo ate efforts of anti-Soviet writers .* bees held for "st Labor Bazaar © to mak Ork bees” | D0seq 5 are being held in many sections of Vancouver Auditor ® Sods for sale at the first Annual Labor Bazaar in Pender ‘old 4 m February 18-19-20, bazaar organizer Rosaleen Ross ne Ody ne Tribune this week. U - orkers have already pro- , Aa of attractive bread Made nerding trades workers nique wastepaper bas- Plywood,” ‘said Mrs. para circles have also "zed, and there’ will be Sue aprons, tablecloths DriggE 20s for sale at reason- work, toys, kitchen utensils and goods of all descriptions. There will be many valuable door prizes, including a mantel radio, steam iron, pop-up toaster, electric clock, luggage set, table lamp, cof- fee table and a combination waffle iron. er tine Pooths at the bazaar will 0 ; me Cooking, preserves, es eek: : children’s clothing, needle- The bazaar will wind up with a dance on Friday evening, February 20. Tickets are 50 cents. ceri to distort Soviet achievements failed to sound logical and convincing to. the general “public. ‘This is a big change. From the editors of many leading papers. and from diplomats of a good many countries, came “confessions” that the USSR is not mobilized for war, is not even planning for war. Then what is really going on inside the Soviet Union? As néver since the years of the war, Canadians are ask- ing that question. The events of Friendship Month will strive to answer them with the facts. * * * But this year Canadian-Soviet ‘Month greets still another signific- ant change. Financial experts, busi- ness people, industrial and agricul- tural scientists, are becoming: more and more interested in Soviet pros- perity. In the last few months the world press admitted that the people of the USSR are enjoying a boom the like of which no country has ever experienced. Soviet farmers by 1955 will open new crop land producing three times more than all the farms in Canada. That excites the imagina- tion of ‘Canadian agriculturists. But all the immense crops harvested in the USSR. will be prompily sold, the income of Soviet farmers will rise at least 40 percent. And that stirs. not only Canadian farmers, but also the widest commercial circles. Letters come to News-Facts ask- ing: “How do they plan a 70 per- cent increase in retail stores? Is it true they are doubling their meat sales? How do they pay for new housing if rents do not even cover repair costs? If they don’t make as much steel as the USA, how ean they build skyscrapers and still keep armed?” And lately a new kind of letter has started coming to the Friend- ship Society. “What do you think Canada could sell to the Soviet Union? Would Canada have to sign a pact with the Russians before they would do business with us? Are they in the market for farm mach- inery? \Won’t they need large quantities of electrical goods to use the power from all the hydro plants they are building?” I think the most interesting fea- ture of this correspondence is that more and more Canadians, like hundreds of ‘millions in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, are beginning to see the Soviet Union willing partner in reviving world pr ity based peace. : : Friendship Month will also in- clude exhibitions on the life of children and youth in the USSR. In a number of cities there will be Friendship Weekends, featuring large photographic displays of So- viet young people. The collection of original oil and water-color paint- ings by Soviet school children which recently attracted much attention in Britain, will soon be shown to the public in several places, along with an unusual selection of Soviet chil- dren’s books. The th of Friendship Month this year is “See With Your Own Eyes!” Based on the experience of the Friendship Society through- out the past year, the aim of this special month will be to attract the widest possible circles of Can- adians to the movie and photo- graph shows, to hear speakers and to ask questions. 4 $< . nea? (EF SPORTLIGHT | By BERT WHYTE. WHEN CAPITALIST ‘papers print anything truthful about the Soviet Union, that’s news. Consequently I take pleasure in passing on to you this short dispatch which appeared in the sports section of the Vancouver Sun on Monday this week: “MOSCOW, Jan. 12—(AP)—The Soviet Union clearly outclassed a five-mah Swedish speed-skating team in a two-day meet which ended Sunday, and convinced many foreign ex- perts that Russions may be the world’s top team. ‘They are fantastic,’ said Sven Loftman, president of the Swedish Skating Union. ‘I don’t believe Norway or any other country any- where can stand up to them’.” As you may remember, the Soviet Union did the 1952 Winter Olympics. * A FEW DECADES ago, when Georges Carpentier, a young pitboy from the French coal mines at Lens, was starting to climb the fistic ladder, kicking with the feet (la savate) was still legal in France.: In some of his early bouts, before the First World War, Carpentier engaged in such contests. Later international boxing rules were more or less not participate in standardized, and kicking, elbow gouging and other unpleasant habits were left to the wrestlers. Over in Siam, however, boxing still remains a form of modified | murder, with kicking, elbowing, kneeing and butting allowed. The pic ture shown here shows a shoeless Siamese pugilist administering a hefty kick to the jaw of his opponent. A trio of “boxers” from Siam is now touring the United States giving demonstrations of the “noble-art.” * * * SPORTS IS THE best thing on television, according to Lester Rod- ney of the New York Daily Worker. He writes: “With some exceptions, most of the other stuff that comes over TV: is pretty awful junk, third rate murder mysteries, old movies which weren’t much good at the time and have hardly improved with age, slushy soap operas, all full of the most obnoxidus commercials which never let you relax and enjoy what might be reasonably passable, and very little of it reflecting the real life of the average American, “Sports on TV has its faults, but it’s stil] sports. That is, it’s the Lions against the Browns in football, the Cards against the Cubs in baseball, Archie Moore against Joey Maxim in boxing, ete. And to someone who likes sports, and to many who are seeing sports for the first time, well, that’s money’s worth! “On the other hand sports television does not touch of big business ownership and control. Every once in a while a big event comes up which is kept off the-air to collect a selected TV theatre at fabulous prices, like, the Marciano-Walecott title fight. escape the spoiling “Boxing comes over the best. It’s two men in a small area and you don’t miss a thing. Here is the way I would rate the four major TV sports for the closeness to the real thing: 1, Boxing. 2, Basketball. 3; Football. 4, Baseball. “No, I did not mention ‘wrestling.’ and is certainly not wrestling. This monstrosity is not a sport It’s a vulgar vaudeville show with the finish all fixed in advance.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANIJAB E10 .