x EDITORIAL PAGE Comment 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 Commonwealih 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. ——___Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street. Vancouver 4, B.C._ Authorized as second class mai}, Post Office Department, Ottawa Hal Griffin ye was Davy Crockett? At least a. score of people who read my column last week have asked me this question. G'Bace disposal is one of the feat- dear of modern civilization. The more ined our disposal. facilities, the ; aia health prospects, mentally Pe tes p Ysically. No normal person pre- dyeing around in a garbage dump siting an art gallery. Howey. sezati Seng gS, Peing highly civilized, yet, nites Ot of time and money pawing, Sui : : e ; < : it?” eine and groping around in every Defend our soverel nt ‘ how are’ we'going to-do it © dump, searching for a particu- : That*-question. offers a challenge to “Davy Crockett may be in the best American tradition — I would like to ‘know about that — but We have our own heroes ‘in our. own democratic tradition,” one reader wrote. “I agree that we should lift them out of obscurity, but €r, there are exceptions in our on — people who regard them- Tar} y ‘ to fete ee welch they attempt ‘ Canadian writers, artists and musicians. wae are the ta a pean pitts seti Ges OMMENTING on the recent can hardly serve as a justification But there is one thing we can all do. a othe emnists, “comic” strip artists statements made by RCAF for American imperialism’s “‘peace. W am insist that the CBC play its part : T literati, to wh ivilization’s ; R. Si y ’ : : in this struggle to develop our own na- Sarba oe ae Air Marshal C. R. Slemon propos : SDinate® Rion ss hescfie’ a: fount of ins eo Se Caada Gopreme’ alt ful’’ annexation of Canada’s na- tional cultade “Ty. 2 and a source of profit. § KOs ; tural resources, ‘the subordination athac. pieces of well-rotted literary command for North America, the > _ Why shouldnt the CBC run a TV ser- Teeently. Ove been put into gatieah oo | Vancouver Province of June 4 °F Our government, and now our _ ies ace neluaagpe ns Said bibs Sey The. Fall of aTitan -by “the ; ! : ae could do more to rally popular suppo This aP®tege, Igor Gouzenko, and Net SUIS up ae Aer with a fatal armed forces. é for the CBC-against those selfish inter- Dublinaeeust by C. M. Kornbluth, serial istic apology: owever distaste- . ests now campaigning for private TV cea” spt which has just been. con- ful eee seem, we (Canadians) A en peat nat seers ee ae a acai the aclean’s Magazine. : ar ; ood of impor SS. programs? fort 4,°¢ confess it cost me quite an ef- may as well realize that geography war upon the socialist sector of the aa 5 Tead Gouzenko’s effusion, but I - leaves us no alternative. world, and first and foremost the : bs: = + iscoya,, <2 OMe purpose in mind — to : d : = : Laurent’ git I could, just what the St. In the American sabre-rattling es SR, built upon thexfiction of hee: SED I coe ce eta] yt SOVern (Gene ; 3 g € , tal Vincent wa and oe ae ge press the editors waive geogra- Oviet. aggression, : be accepted Daily People’ World; tins done the“best ature assey regard as “liter. ip . as cause for the abject surrend hte .° the exclusion of scores of tal- phy’’ and speak more directly. The ; f Dj nder piece on the man and the legend I haye Mars Nd creative Canadian writers. San Francisco Examiner of June 1 of Canada’s sovereignty and inde- yet seen. This, in substance, is what he ardine eased Canadian literature puts the matter of “taking over’’ pendence. says: *ral's oe Gouzenko the governor gen- h bluntly: ‘ “TD; hes Davy Crockett was born on August 17, of th a for fiction (although two out Canada etc ee CLUDE ; Distasteful’’ is scarcely the 1786, in what was to become the state ots ec toate role The two ae ns need one pete word to fit such a crimé ,which of Tennessee and reared in the frontier Place), aw : au ; ; sae ste He’ Selection of this book as a 2G aur ees eat an i a4 would transform Canada into an ‘dition dep Saad sift to Canada” is a state single overa _ command, so t at unenviable Belgium and destine “There can be no question of Davy’s litera ie hes — not for Canadian there can be no conflict in the in- Canadians to march (or fly) to skill as a hunter . . . his sem trips Nd » but for anti Soviet slander ; . : into the trading post at Jackson, Ten- tomaumny, One re nies a stout terests or in the orders of’ a com music set by Wall Street. nessee, ‘after rah pete were laid by,’ ney ct wh : mand h Mehta, en «reading this govern- . : : - ‘laden with pelts, won him acclaim authors Choice “of insult’ to Canadian s a Our armed forces, as with our throughout the region. His liking for and Canadian readers. . Interests and orders. . .”’ Geo- great nation, must preserve their people, his contempt for the pompous, M Sas Shee j rse, does play a role indet " 5 and his racy conversation made him a Some”, People will remember, with orae hy, of cou ; tee dep endence as the ES of sur unique backwoods® figure. iigcoble itil : : ’ eo War pny Usnation, the “tnpudent “aid in international relations, but it vival! ine of king edition of Collier’s Maga- Crockett must have been a refresh- Dich. Octob ae ing political campaigner. In his bids for pete ~. 27, 1951, with its cover Congress he thrice defeated men of eas of an American “Occupation : ri Stride “ona With fixed bayonet standing en ne gov mus ac wealth and position. . . wgttment 2 Of the USSR, and the large “His rise to national fame dates from Wh nt of * 5 . se . : to © L “ipa cdd ip muck-raking _ scribblers issi - : his break with President Andrew Jack- ieberatigg their mite to this Wall Street WESTCOAST Ran cane = ec change in these TROP ELY, Plans to son. It. was the Whig politicians, repre- an ’ That the USSR from social- panys appeal to the Board o control natural gas distribution, sentatives of Northern seaboard wealth (aU May iad war was to have start- Transport Commissioners to switch ni “4 ees: and hard-bitten enemies of Jacksonign sual) ce 1952, but Dulles, machine the terminus of its natural gas pipe- | irst, they can. insist that the democracy, who built much of the Crock- Z hing tDluth ie. ae sears. ‘ line from Vancouver to the U.S. Bennett government build the feed- ettlesends.... 5 Nejvyeoe's this war going in the bord t Huntingdon has been ipeli Fey pr ‘ VYerga “™Sixtiog Es are : order a u s' er pipeline and distribute the gas “Ultimately, the Whi ‘ol : » and this time in re- ; about every- aay pe: Jitimately, the igs cajoled Crock- Noes titary to established fiction, ee oe A toned Y ne under the jurisdiction and control ett into espousing the program of the an: last woe t win this war, but “. . ..as & ns se oh nied of the B.C. Power Commission. This Northern manufacturing and financial angst the lia nation,‘ to “hold” out RP ere aaa eee oreo would allow those municipalities Tibet ie ton sRea Chi et ned forces of Russia Spelled out in broad general which favor public ownership fo But, says Parry, this is not the full Sigg With ‘the mee 2 Seely = me terms, the decision means that the proceed with municipal projects of. story. On what issues did Crockett first ay Mes Under Rea var ven 1G bulk of our natural gas will go to supplying gas to the people at low- break with Jackson? ‘What issues first “ally ’ Pillage, etestera and etcetera is the U.S. And with the gas will go er cost—and provide an incentive to sent him into the arms of clever Whip 7 enably st ©, with an “MVD” (pre- the jobs of Canadian workers. For others to follow suit. reactionaries? 8Nd hep chet Police) under every British Columbia consumers the Ss : : Records of Congress show him defend- ehi ; : econd, and also vitally import- ; a Bs : ct Ouse. my lamp post! ruling means that the B.C. Electric ant in heading off the Geen i. C. ing the land rights of his Tennessee con- | Degg, SOM e long run we are “sav- will be the sole distributing agency : hat stituents and then opposing Jackson’s Ty ’8sor Such “horror” by a bughouse in B.C. — and at its own prices Electric monopoly of gas distribu- inhuman Indian Removal Bill of 1830. sata Wha a a dairy farm hero named Rant att X _ tion and consequent high prices, the _ aptlite niga” some sort of a rocket ° While it is scarcely likely the Bennett government must bow to Crockett emerged as a champion and “py take of 2 aWay on which they fin- board rendered its decision without public demand for dismissal of the . te ifs ane spokesman for the In- ™atus Scounating at a safe distance hand consultation with the St. Laurent. Public Utilities Commission. A lans he Knew so well. 3 ang: Stmrend forces a radio ulti- government, the Bennett Socred — body.so discredited must on no ac- Pary concludes: “It is ironic that ~The Ching phickh e we'll blow Rus- government is not an innocent by- count be entrusted with so vital a Crockett, sent to Washington by West- i UWA erie) ce tee ander. This is indicated by per- matter. ern frontiersmen and then taken in tow Mag? t nton” touch puts Canada ae : y ; _ane ; Uth gale o a Belg esr , ‘sistent rumors in Victoria that the : 3 by Northern capitalists, finally died (at Nop S@tbaga « elgium on the Korn- i ; ; A determined and united people the Alamo in 1836) for the er and bint thie So dum Bennett government advised its : ; p ) pow Bh his Pp. can still retrieve the ground lost by glory of the Southern slave-owners.” Ysust is degrading to the representative at the board hear- ee of Canadianism which ings to abstain from opposing the Sazine has attained. Like WTC “appeal.” the board’s decision. Demand that ao = ee Soe _ through legend “was woven out of a genuine Am- : ts. D.L. F ower Commission, take erican tradition — the great democratic The people can still compel a over the distribution of natural gas. - tradition of the Western frontier.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 10, 1955 — PAGE 5 But the authentic substance of the