Printed by Union Printers Ltd., TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associate Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager. Published weekly by the Tribune Publishing Company Ltd. at Room 6, 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. — MArine 5288 Canada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia), 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.60. Australia, U.S., and all other countries, 1 year $4.00, 6 months $2.50. Authorized as second class mai}, Post Office Department, Ottawa 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Comment Tom McEwen NE evening about ten years ago I Stood on the summit of King Solo- ton’s Dome in the Klondyke, watching the ethereal golden beauty of the Mid- Might Sun, remembering as I watched that already its early morning rays would cutting across the skies of Canada’s Atlantic seaboard. Three thousand miles from King Solo- Mon’s Dome I have watched this same Sun rise on the shores of Cape Breton nd, and as any Nova Scotian will Proudly verify, there is nothing on earth More Strikingly beautiful than the sun “merging in awe-inspiring splendor from pena the Grand Banks of Newfound- Between the Klondike and the Labra- °r there lies a vast continent, rich in “verything required to sustain life; a Ontinent upon which the sun scarcely Sets, and a continent ever friendly to .0Se who came in friendship. It wasn’t Wst to coin a catchphrase that the great *“Plorer Vihlialmur Stefansson wrote th the “friendly Arctic,” but to prove tat those who didn’t come to rape and avish could find life in abundance. This 1€ great Union of Soviet Socialist Re- Weues has already established for. the Ole world to see in the new Soviet Wties with its teeming cities, its MOneering of science and its happy peo- © forging their own destiny! T Back in the years 1942-43 the Pacific ribune’s associate editor, Harold Grif- A porking under the serious handicap Dub Imited finances and equally limited lic encouragement, headed into Can- 48 northland to secure on-the-spot terial for his book Alaska and the Nadian Northwest—Our New Frontier. to rola Griffin's. book was not the first the © written on the Canadian Arctic — Tomanticists and pot-boilers have bes More than plentiful, but his work the he first to set down in factual terms ore actical realities of life, riches and TSPectives in the rolling back of our ‘ern frontiers. fogtittin tells us what it is good not to >t On Canada’s birthday: fae the course of the war we have By Ned the treasure house of the con- Bat: It has the minerals, the water 3 Wer, the oil, the forests and the po- “Mtial farm areas. Our gigantic task lat © postwar period will be to trans- bit, this latent wealth ihto terms of rl €s and homes and jobs for the peo- © who will come to build the coun- Without this it is worthless.” _ tp x! to Harold Griffin’s contribution Sataw Canadians appreciate the full : ha Ness Can, pe liberal D. M. LeBourdais in his Mer, bas Century. In a different man- Ronde also forthright and forceful, Le- ahd «US Points up the great potential— Biro, € danger of loss to Canadians eney. neglect and political complac- Yeap? member a Canada Day of many cid 480 when a group of Communists ater tt quit their debt-ridden Sas- Pe, an farms and move into the new iver country — in order to “get from capitalist exploitation. In Dione abasca country they became good lang €ts, transforming its virgin prairie ‘Cours into a waving sea of grain. Bos, ey soon learned from bitter ex- Big oc® that there is no “escape”—only Sgle Ath a the sum total of this struggle, of Com, Tations gone and those ‘here and to Deo 7 which will restore Canada to its from © and give Canadians “Dominion Strat se2 £0 sea” and a bond of fraternity Ching across her Northland, warm of their native heritage is per- . Constant as Canada’s unsetting sun. Salute to the builders of Canada HIS edition of the’ Pacific iT Tribune is dedicated to Can- ada Day—the 87th birthday of our nation. It honors the truly great men and women whose vision, untiring labors and coura- geous struggles set a pattern to this and coming generations for the winning of a free, indepen dent and peaceloving Canada. As a nation Canada possesses the abounding virility. of youth. The design of our democratic uni ty, first written into our history by the workers and farmers of . 1837 under William Lyon Mac- kenzie and Louis Joseph Papineau, is imperishable. In every geneta- tion, under new and changing conditions, this democratic unity arises with new strength and vigor to challenge the modern ‘Family Compact’? of treason, reaction and war — a ‘Family Compact which cloaks its betrayal of Can- ith a spurious “‘patriotism, Sr ‘t ois the birthright, the peace and the prosperous destiny of Canada to the U.S. war trusts. Canada Day is for the men and women who built Canada, who spanned its vast spaces with the steel ribbons of communication; who transformed its virgin wild- erness into a world granary, who dug its coal and its rich ores; who harvested its forest wealth and harnessed its mighty rivers and lakes; who built its cities and man- ned its ships; who blazed its sky trails, and marched from hungry jobless breadlines to the ends of the earth to fight and die — to end the horror of fascism. The _ workers who sung its songs and wrote its matchless saga of strug: gle for life, freedom and happi- ness! That is our nation, our land and our people — our undying pride. Not the monopolies and the trusts, and their political pawns, who fatten on blood and sweat of the people. Canada Day must be for all who love Canada the symbol of a renewed struggle for indepen- dence and peace, for the inalien- able rights of Canadians to shape and determine their own destiny. .'To stand forth as the Rebels of 1837 and the Fathers of Confed- eration envisioned — a self-gov- erning democratic nation in® con tent and in form, a leader in the peace councils of the world, and an example of twentieth century progress in our own land. Our struggle for the true in- dependence, peace and welfare of Canada is the measure of our patriotism as Canadians. Canada Day is the people’s day! PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 25, 1954 — PAGE 5 Hal Griffin AST month, when the Post Office came before the House of Commons for the inevitable discussion of patronage, poor postal service and high postal rates, sonfe of the members ranged farther afield in their remarks to include criticism of postage stamps. Canadian stamps were dull. They showed little imagination. Why, some members asked, did the Post Office not issue more commemoratives? All these criticisms, no doubt, found sympathy among the one million Cana- dians who collect stamps — the highest percentage of any country in the world. The postmaster general’s replies mere ly proved the criticism. He came closest to admitting the real problem with his statement that the Post Office had diffi- culty in finding anything to commemor- ate! Other countries, and none to better effect than the Soviet Union, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, design their stamps to foster national pride. They use them to publicize their achievements, to hon- or their poets, musicians and artists, their national heroes. Canada does none of these things. Why? Isn’t this also an example of the thinking on Parlia- ment Hill? xt it xt Ff This Canada Day, 87 years after Con- federation, Canadian stamps reflect less of pride in Canada than they did in 1851-2 when the first stamps of the prov- inces of Upper and Lower Canada were issued. Then, of six stamps issued, two bore distinctive Canadian themes, the three- penny red showing a beaver and the ten- penny blue Jacques Cartier’s portrait. The first commemorative issue was in 1908 when a series was struck off com- memorating the tercentenary of Quebec. The one-cent honored Cartier and Cham- plain, the seven-cent Montcalm and Wolfe. Four others of a set of eight showed historic French Canadian scenes. This series was remarkable for two things. The 15-cent was one of the only two stamps Canada has ever issued depicting pioneer settlers and Native In- dians — the other was the United Em- pire Loyalists commemorative in 1933. Only one other series on an: historic theme, if we except the present incom- plete prime ministers series, has been issued since. In 1917 a single stamp, showing the Fathers of Confederation, was issued on the 50th anniversary of Confederation . This was followed 10 years later with the Confederation ‘issue. The list of commemoratives is pitiful: 100th anniversary of the crossing of the Atlantic by the Royal William, 150th an- niversary of New Brunswick, 150th an- niversary of the United Empire Loyal- ists, 100th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell, 100th anniversary of Re- sponsible government, 200th annivers- ary of Halifax, entry of Newfoundland into Confederation, and a series to mark the 100th anniversary of postal services. The 100th anniversary of the Rebel- lion of 1837 was ignored. No stamp has ever been issued honoring William Lyon Mackenzie or Louis Joseph Papineau. The Arctic explorations of Sir Martin Fro- bisher and Henry Hudson, the historic journeys of Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser, have never been depicted on a Canadian stamp. ‘The coming of Scottish and Ukrainian settlers, the building of railways and canals, are not sufficient to stir Canadians with pride in their achievements. And the Post Office has difficulty in finding events to com- memorate! No more effective policy of effacing Canadians’ national pride in themselves could be devised by any government.