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LABOR-PROGRESSIVE PARTY'S
10-POINT NATIONAL PLAN

<<\ 10 BEAT THREAT
="\ OF DEPRESSION

JOT a single Canadian need lose his job. Not a single Canadian]
farmer need suffer loss of markets. Not a single small busi-
ness need close down.

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2 We CAN prevent another depression. The gry
Thirties do not have to come back. The fear bin hen
every Canadian family COULD be replaced by confidence.
: We CAN create a million new jobs and new opportuni-
fies for our young people, and. find new markets for our

goods.

We CAN have Peace, Prosperity and more Democracy
—if, instead of the U.S. interests which are tees acaens
our country, we Put CANADA First.

It doesn't have to be

Trade Minister C. D. Howe ,senior member of the federal cabinet,

sees everything rosy for the country next year.

But if the United

States economy hits the skids as predicted, Canada, dependent on the
U.S. for 60 percent of its foreign trade, will be hard hit — unless
new policies, such as those outlined in the Labor-Progressive party’s
10-point plan to Beat the Threat of Depression, are adopted.

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Injustice to Doukhobors

JUSTICE, Vancouver, B.C.: The
story about the Doukhobor sen-
tenced to 14 years in jail for be-
ing in possession of a jug filled
with gasoline and oil has aroused
my anger. On the basis of the
story you printed in last week’s
Pacific Tribune, it appears that
unless this unfortunate victim is
_ granted a retrial, he will die in

prison, as he is now 55 years old

and in poor health. -

The League for Democratic
Rights is to be commended for
taking up this case. In my opin-
icn, people who believe in justice
should interest themselves in it
-and also in the cases of the other
Doukhobors who were given
heavy sentences for “nude parad-
ing.”

Until the mass arrests of Douk-
hobors last summer, I knew very
little about these people. The
“articles in the Pacific Tribune
on the Doukhobors gave me some
information, and I learned more
when I attended a panel discus-
sion recently. The discussion was
organized by the League for De-
- mocratie Rights, and the four

speakers were UBC Professors

Dixon and Jamieson, lawyer John
Stanton and PT reporter Bert
Whyte.

I was very much impressed by
a young Doukhobor who came to
the discussion. This gentleman,
Cecil Maloff of Thrums, B.C.,
spoke at the conclusion of the
meeting and expressed his hope
for a world of “peace and broth-
erhood.” With such sentiments
I heartily agree.

I hope the Pacific Tribune will
carry more articles on the Douk-
hobors in the near future.

Korean POWs

READER, Vancouver, B.C.: I
have read a great deal in the
daily papers about North Korean
and Chinese prisoners “refusing
to go back home” but nary a word
about the South Koreans who
won’t return to live under Syng-
man Rhee.

This week I picked up Time
magazine, which has a policy of
distorting the news rather than
suppressing it, and read of 130
South Korean prisoners who
marched into the explanation
tents at Panmunjom, listened to
the ROK explainers, then refused
point blank to leave North Korea.

Time, of course, couldn’t re-
port the story straight. Speaking
of the prisoners’ uniforms “faded
by constant washing” it added
the slanted barb that “their minds
too, had been effectively launder-
ed.” .

But Time couldn’t overcome
the facts. It had to report that
ROK explainers handed the
POWs written statements ‘from
South Korean Defense Minister

Sohn Won Il that promised: “You

will get all your back pay. You.

will be promoted in the army.
You will be cited for meritorious
achievement. You will be given

iority to take a government

job.

Despite these promises, the 126

men and four girls turned thumbs

down on the opportunity to go
“home” to South Korea.

By JOSEPH NORTH

Tobacco companies get alarme
by cigaretfe-cancer controversy

AM- one of the millions of

cigarette smokers. And lately
I have become conscious of the
fact that I may be buying myself
a case of lung cancer.

When the American College of
Surgeons met in Chicago last
month they. had a round table

discussion about the relationship.

between cigarette smoking and
cancer that set me to thinking—
and the tobacco companies. to re-
vising their advertising budgets
upwards.

It was Prof. I. S. Radvin, a pro-
fessor of surgery at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, who got
up to say that responsible sci-
entific researches during the last
five years have revealed “an in-
creasing amount of evidence that
there is a certain factor in cigar-
ette smoking” inducing lung can-
cer.

That was when I began to get
serious about it all.

“There are -many specialists
who believe that cancer of the

lungs is.the leading cancer prob--

lem,” Prof. Radvin said. And he
speaks with some authority be-
cause he and other indisputably
competent scientists, including
two past presidents of the Col-
lege_of Surgeons, have conduct-
ed research projects which show-
ed “strong statistical evidence of
a relationship between cigarette
smoking and lung cancer.”

Dr. Radvin made a proposition.
He suggested that the tobacco in-
dustry has a special responsibility
—“a moral obligation” to pay for
the research necessary to prove
or disprove the suspected rela-
tionship between smoking cigar-
ettes and lung cancer. “The to-
bacco companies ought to put up
the money to settle this prob-
lem,” he said.

It sounds reasonable and I be-
lieve they should put up the
money—it’s our money, after all.
But I’m dubious that we'll get
truthful results from an outfit
paying to investigate itself.

To return to the evidence al-
ready accumulated on the bane-
ful effects of cigarette smoking:
there is a Dr. Alton Ochsner of

‘the Tulane University School of

Medicine who heads a clinic by
his name in New Orleans.

He tells us that cancer of the
lung is increasing more rapidly
in men than in cases of any other
kind of cancer of the body. He

tells us that the decade from 1938
to 1948 saw a rise of 144 percent
of such deaths.

Other types of cancer rose too,
but only by 31-percent. Cancer
is a disease of the elderly and as
the average of life expectancy
has risen, cancer, he says, has be-
come more prevalent.

Then he asks some more pert-
inent questions that demand your
consideration.

He wonders why cancer of the

lung, back in 1920, constituted ,

only 1.1 percent of all cancer
cases, And why, by 1970, it will
be one in five. “The tremend-
ous and disproportionate increase
in the incidence of lung cancer
demands an explanation,” he
says.

And he-approaches the answer,
it seems to me, when he empha-
sizes the incidence of lung can-
cer to the phenomenal growth of
cigarette sales.

“Cancer of the lung,” he says,
“gs rare in individuals who do ‘not
smoke.” The heavier the smoker
the more chance there is that he
will succumb to that deadly .can-
cer. And he cites enough figures
to convince me, at least.

Our abstemious elders called
cigarettes coffin-nails and science
seems to be catching up with our
grandfathers.

To be honest I cannot say that
I have conquered the cigarette
habit. I am still in the clutches
of Lady Nicotine, but I can re-
port that I am much less her
slave than I was three months
ago. I have cut down to a pack
a day: progress registered.

I have also taken to a pipe
(the scientists say the pipe and
the cigar are out of all this).
Though my pipe seems to weigh
a ton and involves an endless
amount of personal house-clean-
ing, digging away at the briar
with little prongs and forks and
miniature shovels, I’m told I will
live longer that way. *

6

But then there are the findings
of Dr. Clarence W. Lieb, an auth-
ority who spent ten years as a re-
search adviser to a major tobacco

company. He _ supervised the
Stefansson nutritional studies at

Bellevue Hospital, and these
facts are from a study he wrote
caller Safer Smoking.

Dr. Lieb differs with those who
_feel that pipe smoking exempts

. study made of more

By WALTER HOLMES

IF THOSE Americans who
have seen red in Robin Hood
knew what is said about him
in the Soviet Union they might
have even more lurid imagina-
tions. ©

I say “if” because it is doubt-
ful if these American “educat-
ors” and tub-thumpers know
anything beyond their own
rather frenzied fantasies.

lt is a fact that school-chil-
dren in the Soviet Union learn
about Robin Hood from a book
called A Reader in Medieval
History, published in 1951.

The part about Robin Hood
contains the story of the poor
knight, Sir Richard of the Lea,
who was helped by Robin fo re-
cover his land from the rich

Robin Hood in Soviet Union

°

and greedy Abbot of St. Mary’s.

It also tells how Sir Richard
helped Robin Hood against his
enemy, the Sheriff of Notting-
ham. The Russian translator, .
T. Podolskaya, faithfully ren-
ders the medieval speech with
all the invocations of saints
and “Our Lady” complete.

The book further explains to
the Soviet scholars how the
legend of Robin Hood develop-
ed and expresssed the protest
of feudal society against the
tyranny of the rich clergy and
great nobles.

So in this respect, as in many
others, those who learn in So-
viet schools get a freer view
of humanity than do those in
the “land of the free.”

them from this hoard of evils.
Because it has what he
greater fire area, it is hotter and
more irritating. (Heat is an ©
ritant, and the more smoke
more temperature in the mou
the throat, the lungs, and
greater the irritation. The hot
ter the tobacco, the more tar #
other poisons). a

But if you.smoke only half t
bowlful you are better off a
men who smoke cigarettes ¢
cigars, for the last half, like
cigarette butt, contains most
the nicotine and tar.

If you are addicted to cigat
you will be wise if you
them away half-smoked. It may
cost more per annum, but ©
wear and tear on your life is less.

Tobacco, Dr, Lieb says; is
poison, and he minces n0 wd
about that, but it can relax
weary body and the op x
mind. Doubtless that is way
many people smoke so many ©
lions of cigarettes. :

He has no argument,
pears, against moderate sm”
But go to excess, he hastet
warn you, and you are subject 4
many grave physical ills, 50
that may even shorten your

He tells of a study of 7,000 ar
sons by the late Dr. "
Pearl of John Hopkins of
showed that up to the age ets
the death rate of heavy i :
was more than double that ©
non-smokers.

Then he moves onto 8t0l.,
that you have overlooked pelo
and ‘which may provoke ye
stop and think as moment, fies
haps with some alarm. si¢:
he says, made by cancer, *
ach and heart specialists *7.
dicate the pernicious effec®
the habitual use of tobacc?

But the new grounds are
many doctors now agree, Be ™
that decreased sexual activity
men in their thirties and
may often be traced to &'

smoking.

One reason he gives is ;
e

a

tobacco causes toxic chi
the blood which impede ?
mation of sexual hormones: —

Nor, he declares, are we

exempt. He cites @
oe

women that shows there ©
a greater incidence of
sterility, menstrual
and miscarriages amons
than.among non-smokers: —

The doctor has many
words of advice: I cannot
said before, vouch for
don’t know. I am not @ He
unfortunately. I am °
slave of Lady Nicotine,
hell-bent for freedom. —

However, the tobacc?
ies are not prepared to *
or any of the rest of yo"
to win our emancipatio?
a fight. -

The clamor has
into their profits, 4
less an authority th ~
Street Journal, and
have slumped on the "
ket. So the budget °?
advertising has beet ¥~
you will find more #45
papers extolling the »
butt than you ever Sa¥

pegun

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 18, 1959 —