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newspaper on the West
by staff member Carl

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night? yj 8 article, Bloice reveals some interesting sidelights to the “over-

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hor pe cemania and how the four boys from working class

@ world e managed to keep their feet on the ground despite having
Paying homage to them.

Below
, We offer some excerpts from that article.

a oS me Beatles returned to

Rcloorica July 10, they were

Screameq by 100,000 people who

one » yelled and trampled
‘nother underfoot, .,

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and th, are worth the cheering

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A British writer called the
Beatles, “the true and unique
voice of Liverpool’s working
class.”

It’s by no means, all singing
and shouting in Liverpool, The
working class of Mersey-side has
other things to do.

Of the 2,000 unemployed teen-
agers here, 200 travelled to Lon-
don this spring as part of a giant
youth march for jobs, sponsored

by the Young Socialists, the La-
bour party’s youth section. The
area has a good-sized and active
Young Communist organization,

And, as observers have noted,
it’s not the Beats on one hand
and the politics on the other.
The two are quite interchange-

able,

McCartney is known to have
begun a press conference by
asking The London Daily Work-
er’s reporter, “How's the paper

doing?”

It is not surprising, therefore,
that when the Moscow Young
Communist newspaper attacked
the Beatles, British Young Com-
munists came to their defense.

y’ has

in business for herself who has
some of all these characteris-
tics plus some of her own, both

visually (00-1a-1a!) and other-

Me

Vee children often seem to
have such small appetites

that it is a frequent topic of
conversation between mothers.

should be no need to
worry, however, if what they eat
is good, protein rich foods, and
that mealtimes are strictly ad-
hered to,

There

But to let a young child have
a free run on the piscuit in the
afternoon because he did not eat
much at lunchtime sets up 2 VI~-
cious circle. is not
allowed to get really
next mealtime, refuse
food prepared, biscui
fered later and so i

The inevitable result of this
is seen in the terrible rate of
dental decay in children as well
as in the general physical state
of many of them,

s to eat the
ts are of-
t goes on.

ild is no doubt .

The average ch
e the

better fed today than befor
war, which has shown itself in’
the increase in the average height

of children.

on we cannot

But in my opini
ith

The Beatles (left to right): Paul McCartney, John Lennon,

Moskovsky Komsomolets said
the group“ distracts British youth
from politics, from bitter re-
flections about desecrated ideals
and shattered hopes.”

Walter Holmes, writing in The
London Worker, shot back, “The
youngsters who lobbied Parlia-
ment this week to demand jobs
would certainly agree about
‘shattered hopes.’ But the many
Beatle supporters among them
would equally strongly disagree
that they have been diverted from

action.

“It is one thing to take ex-

ception to the commercial ex-

humor

Along the way are agreat many
hearty laughs and pointed com~
ments, Yesterday, Today and To-
morrow has that rare universal-
ity: humor and purpose, commer-
cial appeal combined with genuine

artistic merit,
—N.E. Story

als for youngsters

ith how it ought
the future. And
leaves much

a bad past. but w
to be now and in
that, unfortunately,
to be desired,

The higher standard of living
which has expressed itself in
greater material comforts has in
many families not led to the im-
provement in die
hoped for.

The consumption of chocolate,
akes and piscuits, the
the past, has in-
f all proportion as
proper foods.

sweets, ©
luxuries Of
creased out O
compared with

s in other fields, we
gadis torted
Television is not

Here 4
are experiencin
sense of values.
least to blame.

When commercial advertising

and parental ignorance combine,
the child is defenseless.

of course, many parents do put
up a fight against these pressures
and have their own way of tack-

ling the problem.
Gwen Leeson

(Br. Daily Warker)

¢ one might have «

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ploitation of groups like the
Beatles under capitalism, and
another to talk as if anyone
who likes the Beatles is being
‘qiverted from politics,’

“A good many members of the
Young Communist League andthe
Campaign for Nuclear Disarma-
ment, who are also Beatle fans,
could give our Moscow colleagues
a short answer to that one,”

The mop-heads are not without
social consciousness themselves
as some would have us believe,
A whole interview in arecent edi-
tion of a teen movie magazine
was given over to their views on
inter-racial marriage. Put to
each of them, the big question —
“would you want your sister to,..”
received an answer equivalent to
“why not, if he’s a good bloke?”

On July 10, when the boys
returned home to Liverpool from
their American tour, they an-
nounced; “We have no intention
of going to South Africa or to
any places in America where
there is segregation for the au-
diences,”

On the same day the Liverpool
dockers’ Transport and General
Workers’ Union branch called
upon the dock workers in the
Merseyside area to support the
poycott of South African ships.

So far the working class char-

Politician’s

He slaps your back
And grins his grin,

George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

lads from Liverpoo

acters of John, Paul, George and

‘Ringo appear not to have been

corrupted very much, The indica-
tion of that is found in the way-
they have reacted to the fame and
fortune that have befallen them,

«I just consider myself a lucky.
layabout from Liverpool,” said
Lennon,

On a recent radio interview,
they were asked about the money
they have made and Paul replied,
“at least we don’t have to worry
about how we’re going to get
around, bus fare and things like
that,”

“l’yve got three suits, but I
can only wear one at a time,”
said George.

Asked about the other sim-
ilar groups rising in fame as a
result of their success, one of
them answered, “We’re happy
to see that some other fellows
are getting ahead,”

Perhaps when the full story
is written it will be called “Up
From Merseyside,” the story
of four good guys who made good
and laughed all the way tothe top,

When four kids, with the odds
stacked against them, make it,

‘we should feel a little happy

inside, especially if they’ ve fool-
ed half the world to get there,

Placeman

An excited, persuasive peregrine,

He’s “Good Old Joe”

Or “My Friend Brown”

In Coffee Clubs
All over town:

But when day is over

And night slips down

But a lonely clown,
Impotent, harassed,

’

He’s no pig in clover

who looks behind

‘At the spectre that lurks

In his bill-board mind;
A ghost that whispers

Again and again

The horrible truthful

Prophetic refrain,

“When your talons are blunted
And feathers more frayed,
What booster will boost YOU—

Without being paid?”

August 28, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9

—John Hope