Send me your youth

Send me your youth, the best of your youth
The courageous, clean and strong...

From the city, hamlet and country side
Where life is a careless song.

Have him forget his house of dreams
With ivy around the door,

For I have a task for his eager feet
Wallowing deep in gore,

Send me your youth, the pick of your youth
You may keep the other kind

I will tear the song from his careless lips
The dreams from his boyish mind

T’ll drive him out where the cannons roar
I'll rend him limb from limb

And when I am through you can have him back
Or all that’s left of him.

In a heart that is free from brutality
I’ll sow the seed of Hate
Until he goes forth with a lust to kill
. Like a crazed inebriate
Pll twist his soul with shameful lies
As he carries my banners high
And prate to him of a sacred cause
While he stumbles out to die.

You have sent me your youth, the best of youth,
A thousand times or more

And I’ve left their bones in a shallow grave
On some beleaguered shore

I have plundered the world and laid it waste
With youth as my helpless tools

Each time I call you send them all
For you are such hopeless fools,

—U.S. FARM NEWS, Iowa

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Vancouver, B.C.

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Sporting Goods
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FROM

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Santa and the Sun

Joe Ivens, Okanagan Mission,
writes: Apropos the Vancouver
Sun — In your issue of December
21 the column by Paul St, Pierre
was to say the least at this season
of the year, a slander of the vilest
type. Mr. St. Pierre is a good
writer and just how he could
spoil himself in this way is hard
for me to realize.

In his column he brings in Red
Skelton, whom I had thought until
now was not a cold-blooded war-
monger. Surely both Paul St.
Pierre and Red Skelton know
that Christmas Day in itself is
not kept up behind the “Iron
Curtain,” but they do have Yule-
tide holidays, decorated trees and
all the colorful festivities of
“Father Frost” instead of “Santa
Claus,” exchange of gifts, cards
and all the rest of it.

Despite this well-known fact
St. Pierre goes on to say, and I
quote, “Santa obviously would be
quite prepared to visit Russia
and give the same special guid-
ance he presently offers to the
Free World but, alas, it can’t be
done,”

What tripe from a writer like-
Paul St, Pierre whom I’ve ad-
mired so much, According to St,
Pierre “only members of the
party receive ration cards”
during the festive season to cele-
brate on, and then ends his col-
umn thus: “Well then let us ad-
just the minds of our little boys
and girls who should learn some-
thing this Christmas day of what
Christianity is all about.”

Well if the above is Christ-
ianity I say in all sincerity I
hope the Christian God will for-
give him and Red Skelton alike,
In my humble opinion that sort
of literary tripe is the direct
anthesis of Christianity.

Best Wishes
to all my Friends

for

PEACE & PROGRESS IN '67

from

A. KORCHAK

367 No. 5 Road
Richmond, B.C.

Steel paper urges closer
ties with Soviet workers

The following editorial, titled Canadian-Soviet Relations,” appeared
in the December issue of The Miner's Voice, organ of the United Steel

Workers Union:

Canada is neighbor to the most
powerful nations in the world,
the United States and the Soviet
Union, Canada’s friendship, cul-
tural and economic ties with the
U.S. are lop-sided in contrast to
the cool aloofness which charac-
terizes our relations with the
USSR, Highly-placed Canadians
visiting Moscow this year think
Canada is missing a bet in not
developing closer ties with the
Soviet Union. And it. need not
inhibit our cousinly dealings with
the Americans,

Canadians generally know more
about the United States than

Americans do about Canada, de-
spite the open border between
the twoneighbors. It’s the reverse
in our association with theSoviet

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Union. There, a concerted effort
is being made in its schools and
other media to learn more about
Canada and its people, English
is the most popular foreign lan-
guage taught in Soviet schools,
How many Canadian schools teach
Russian?

The Soviet Union is one of
our best customers. Our west-
ern farmers can attest to that
welcome fact. For our own good,
Canadians should encourage and
aid our government in establish-
ing the needed new rapproche-
ment.

As a beginning we suggest the
Canadian Labor Congress accept
the long-standing invitation of the
Soviet trade, unions that a Cana-
dian labor delegation visit the
USSR, Canadian businessmen, in-
dustrialists, artists and educa-
tors are exchanging visits with
their Soviet counterparts. Why
not union sts doing the same?

British unionists frequently
visit the USSR. Who knows, a
visit by Canadian labor leaders
may even soften the implacable,
hard-nosed anti-Soviet attitude
of the AFL-CIO,

There is nothing more en-
joyable than a congenial neigh-
borhood, and Canada is in an
ideal position to make it that way.

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GOOD WISHES
for
PEACE & PROGRESS
in 1967
from
LOWE’S OPEN HOUSE

CARD OF THANKS

I would like to take this oppor-
tunity of extending my sincere
thanks to Drs, Lindsay and Rob,
the nurses and staff of the Burn-
aby General Hospital who con-
tributed so much to my recovery.
Also my heartfelt thanks to my
many friends and well-wishers
for the warm words of encour-
agement during my recent ill-
ness, |

HAROLD PRITCHETT,

BUSINESS PERSONALS

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5878,

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Wear,

324 W. Hastings St.
MU 1-8456 or 4441 E, Has-
tings — CY 8-2030. See Henry
Rankin for personal service.

POLITANO'S BARBER SHOP
NOW OPEN
4966 VICTORIA DRIVE
(Closed Wednesdays)

WEST END RADIO — Special-
Latest
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(Formerly OK Radio Service)
Now at 1721 Robson Street,

izing in TV Repairs,

MU 3-2618,

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Available for banquets, meet-
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