Time running out

Arrant scorning a growing world demand to halt its
aggressive war in Vietnam, the U.S. warhawks in
Washington are rapidly stepping up their indiscriminate
bombing in both North and South Vietnam.

In South Vietnam U.S. military forces have come out
from behind the specious pretext of being in South Viet-
nam purely in the role of “advisers”, to that of a full-
fledged armed aggressor, waging a ruthless war upon the
people of that country.

Desperate at their continuing defeats in South Viet-
nam, the U.S. military gangsters are now carrying on large-
scale bombing raids upon the people and _ territory of
North Vietnam, a sovereign state which has no quarrel,
and seeks none with the U.S.

Napalm, chemical, and death-dealing . bombing raids

by the U.S. forces over North and South Vietnam are now
a daily occurance. During recent days it has become
known that the U.S. is now using the horror of poison gas
bombs against the Vietnamese people; a horror banned by
all civilized nations in solemn convention—except the Un-
ited States. Even the Hitlerites in World War II refrained
from its use. Now it too has been added to the barbaric ar-
senal of U.S. military gangsterism upon the people of Viet-
nam.

4 Last week, according to world press reports, one of
these bombing raids by U.S. planes scored a “bullseye” hit
on a small school house in South Vietnam, killing 45 child-
ren and three adult teachers; a remarkable “victory for

‘freedom”’ reminding us of Guernica, Coventry, Lidice, ad
infinitum. Only on this occasion it wasn’t Hitlerites at the
controls, but U.S. armed “advisors” with Washington on
the trigger.

While the voices for peace are growing ever stronger
in Canada, despite the handicap of a U.S.-dominated “
too’ Liberal government, it is clear that these voices are as
yet not strong enough to halt this U.S. aggression and car-
nage in Vietnam.

Time is running out. Each U.S. bombing, whether
with poison gas, napalm or hot metal, each little school
and its child occupants destroyed, increases the danger of
a world holocaust.

Better to unleash the mighty voice of all Canada, in
unison with the world’s peoples—for peace—now. To stay
the bloody hand of U.S. aggression in Vietnam now — be-
fore greater disaster follows.

Peeinera in Bt. Louis Post- -Dispatch
“Aren’t you getting a little tired

of waiting?”

Heroes of space

Tussday last week two Soviet cosmonauts, Lieut-Col.
Alexei Leonov and Col. Pavel Belyayev in their space
ship Voskhod II, scored one of the greatest advances in
space travel; that man can step out of a space ship 200
miles above the earth and travelling at 18,000-miles per
hour, “float” around for a time in cosmic weightlessness,
then return to his ship, unharmed. -

This magnificent feat was accomplished by Cosmo-
naut Leonov, while his fellow co-pilot kept his space ship
on course. The whole world has hailed this achievement as
one of man’s greatest in the conquest of space.

Tuesday of this week two American cosmonauts, vet-
eran I. (Gus) Grisson and John Young in their space ship
“Gemimi-3” made three orbits of the earth at an estimat-
ed 150 miles up, and as the commentator said “landed
safely in the Atlantic.”

Then it may be too late!

his is the jet age, Man can

travel fast—either way, Last
week the ruling of a Canadian
judge upon a Dutch farmer and
his wife down in Ontario “the
good,” took us back to the Dark
Ages in one “big leap”—back-
wards!

During the dark years of the
11th century, under and by virtue
of Pope Innocent III, the machine-
ry of the Inquisition for the “dis-
covery” of heresy was set up.
This machinery empowered the
Inquisitors to “convert heretics
by fire and torture,” which they
did with remarkable zeal, but
which had little in keeping with
any concepts .of God. Countless
thousands perished at the stake
because they would not conform
to the “God” of the Inquisition.

Centuries: later we were still
hanging and burning so-called
“witches” in the Deep South of
the U.S, and in other countries
of Europe, These poor humans
were also classed as heretics,
or working in the service of the

“Devil” and usurping the powers
of the Almighty. So to the flames
or the ropeasa permanent means
of “conversion,”

Even as late as the mid-twen-
ties the eyes of the world were
focussed on Tennessee and the
famous Scopes’ “heresy” indict-
ment, or as the event later be-
came known, “the Monkey Trial.”

Scopes, a professor in one of
the State’s seats of higher learn-
ing, was accused of using Charles
Darwin’s classic, “Origin of
Species” in his biology classes,
That might have been quite prop-
er had not sore of the more
dense in the Prof’s class come
out with the idea that he was
teaching them that “man descend-
ed from monkeys.”

Darwin, of course, propounded
no such idea, and the Scopes
“trial” showed that neither had
he, But that didn’t stop the Ten-
nessee witch-hunters from hav-
ing a heresy field day, with the
late golden-voiced orator of the

Congratulations to the scientists and Cosmonauts of
both nations in the “space race” are in order. :

U.S.A., William Jennings Bryan,
for the prosecution, and the late
world-known U.S, criminal law-
yer, Clarence Darrow, for the
defense; a defense which made
Tennessee the laughing stock of

_all enlightened mankind, Chris-

tian and atheist alike.

We mention these historic
events in Man’s long haul up out
of the abyss of ignorance so that
our readers may get the full
flavor of what happened in Ca-
nada last week “in the year of
our Lord” 1965,

A Dutch immigrant and his
wife, Mr. and Mrs, Ernest Berg-
sma, of Caledonia, Ontario, al-
ready resident and farming in
Canada for nine years, made

-application to become full-

fledged Canadian citizens,

Their application came up be-~
fore Judge W, W, Leach of Cayuga
County. When the “learned” judge
learned that the couple were
athiests; that they didn’t believe

~ in God, this bigoted beak prompt-

ly ruled that under the Canadian
Citizenship Act, all applicants
taking the oath of allegiance
“must believe in God.” So, no
citizenship for a couple of good
industrious Dutch folks. One can
almost sniff the aroma of burning
flesh from this latter day judicial
“stake,”

It is well known, of course,
that we have thousands of Cana-

dians who have built and fought
for Canada for 50 yearsor more,
but who are still denied citizen-
ship because some judicial star-
chamber or RCMP tribunal have
said “no,” basing their rejection
of the applicant on some trumped-
up political pretext or other,
generally having to do with his
activities in cultural, trade union
or Communist organizations. De-
nial of citizenship on the grounds
of a judicial form of “political
heresy,” not too far separated
from the “belief in God” brand
now used by a “learned” bigot
against an industrious Dutch
farmer and his wife,

Like the Inquisitors of old
and the heresy witch-hunters of

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—e PRE my ICH
ual pois) nary ~ Pil ckS I . Ee |

Worth |}
Quoting |

Fortunately, patriotic Canadians f
resisting the vast “‘invisible invasi
from south of the line.

Let us utilize the occasion of
new flag to step up the resistance.

Let us regain our lost heritage,
economy, our mines, our forests;
rivers and our land.

Let us celebrate our 100th annivel
sary by telling the world that we he¥
moved back into our own house, b!
ed the mortgage on the garage,
become once more ‘‘The True Nort
Strong and Free.”

—THE 598 NEWS, Mine-M!
Sudbury, March 1965.

*

On every side, people are askitl
one question: If the president can $&
thousands of troops fo fight in vier
nam, and say it is the cause of f
dom, then why can’t he send troops©
Alabama to guarantee Negroes ™
right to vote and to protect the!

g t racist viol ? Can you
done slavery at home and fight
freedom abroad?

—UNION NEWS BULLETIN, Ci
Employees, Vancouver,
March 19, '65.

With dynamic suddenness ! |
Premier, W. A. C. Bennett, leaped!
his feet, he’s always leaping.
Santa spreading largess he dram
ally announced he was giving all 0
age pensioners a $5 across-the-bo®
raise. It had all the drama of Lint”
freeing the slaves. a

—BRIDGE RIVER-LILLOOET |
March 4, '65

Who trades with South Africa?
New York Times on January 25 9”
closed that U.S. exports to South Affe
were up by a whopping 43-perce”
over 1963. This makes South Aff
one of the USA's principle tradin
partners. a

South Africa’s exports to the U a
are currently some $255- million, ©
that the two-way trade between ™
two countries now stands at $69"
million, an increase of $125-millif
over 1963.

Who is therefore aiding the "0°
Verwoerd government of S.A.?
—NEW AGE, gadtial January 31, *
yesterday, the judicial bigotS™
our day assume unto themsel
the power and identity of th!
“God,” and from this high emi
ence, penalize others who Mm
feel they have the right to
trary “beliefs”—and still be&
citizens, —

In an enlightened democrat 2
society the right to “believe” 10
not to “believe” must be for
citizen to determine in acco
ance with his conscience,
not by the ruling or decre®
some judicial ignoramus. }
therefore urgent that the C#
dian Citizenship Act be chat
to include this built-in 1»
instead of leaving it to the he!
hunters,

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March 26, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pag®