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"THE HORROR REMAINS . . .”

Editor, back from Japan, tells
problems of atomic victims

By HAL GRIFFIN
While he was in Tokyo last
month; attending the Fourth
World Conference against
Atomic and Hydrogen bombs,
George Narth, editor of The

Fisherman, went to a_ wea-
ding.
The young couple were

ordinary persons, without any

/claim to fame or distinction

—except for one thing. They
were both victims of the U.S.
atom bomb that blasted Hiro-
shima on August 6, 1945.

For them the hopes of any
such young couple were over-
shadowed by fear. The same
fear had hunted and almost
destroyed their courtship.
When they had ~ first met
neither knew the other had
also been in Hiroshima on
that day of horror. And as
courtship blossomed into love
neither dared reveal the fact.

Finally the girl had written
the boy a letter breaking off
the engagement because, she
said, she had been in Hiro-
shima when the bomb: fell.
What would happen if they
got married and had children?
There had been so many in-
stances of children born men-
tally deficient or physically
deformed to victims of the
bomb.
~ Then he had revealed that
he too, was a victim of the
bomb. Still hesitant, they de-
cided to get married, But they
would never have children. . .

Theirs is the fear, the new
fear that already stalks among
the people of Japan, which
may well haunt all humanity
if the U.S. generals and ad-
mirals now preparing their
atomic stockpiles at bases
around ‘the world are allowed
to loose the ultimate horror
upon mankind.

it xt x

In the peace museum, set in
the beautiful grounds of the
peace park in _ Hiroshima,
North saw the photographs
that show the city blasted and
destroyed. The city has since
been rebuilt and only one
shattered building, its steel
skeleton fantastically twisted,
has been preserved to tell of
the horror now past. But also
in the museum are the graphs
that tell of the horror which
remains — the cases of radi-
ation sickness, the deaths, the
abnormal births.

And in the big Red Cross
hospital in Hiroshima, where
there are never enough beds
for the victims of the bomb al-
though it was reconstructed
two years ago, North saw
some of the living victims,

There are many, however,
who should be in that hos-
pital and cannot go there, not

only because there are not
enough beds but because they
have families to maintain. So
they go on working . .. when
they can get work.

That is another problem for
the victims of the bomb.
When they -go looking for
work they have to hide the
fact that they were in Hiro-
shima or Nagasaki in August
1945. Why? They might fall
sick.

North met one man so ill
that no one questioned his
right to a bed in the Hiro-
shima hospital. But his wife
had been blinded at Hiro-
shima and his daughter had
lost an eye. Without govern-
ment assistance for them,
what else could he do but go
on working?

One of the first demands of
the Japanese peace movement
and of the atomic victims’ as-
sociation formed in 1952 is for
financial assiStance from the
government, which has allo-
cated funds for relief of vic-
tims but actually spent little.

In the meantime, the vic-
tims themselves and _ their
sympatizers raise money. by
whatever means they can.

One means is by making

Bert Whyte's

AVING called
baseball expert who pre-

in a local

dicted the Mounties would
win the pennant, and a foot-
ball expert who showed why
B.C. Lions were going to have
a good -year, the time has
come to *produce another
gasser that will fracture you.

Meet Adam Horsehide, who
walked into the office this
week to discuss the coming
World .Series between the
Yankees and the Braves.

“My purpose in visiting you,”
explains Adam, removing a
copy of Das Kapital and a
Racing Form from a chair
and sitting down, “is to give
you the gens on the coming
World Series.”

“Experts are always wel-
come,” I assured him.

“Well,” says Adam, “actu-
ally Milwaukee shouldn’t be
in the Series at all. During
the season the Giants con-
sistently lost to the Braves,
but on the other hand the
Dodgers, you will have
noticed, consistently beat the
Braves. The way I see it, the
Series should be between the

and selling paper cranes,
which in Japan take the place
of greeting cards.

Now these paper cranes are
being sent around the world
for sale, every one a weapon
in the common fight to ban
the bomb. Here in B.C., the
women’s auxiliary of the
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union has agreed to
participate as its own. contri-
bution to a cause which unites
the: far corners of. the earth.

“It would be incorrect to
say that no one in Japan
wants war. There are still
those who dream of reviving
Japan’s imperialist ambi-
tions,” North told me. “But
even the ‘conServative gov-
ernment is forced to carry out
its rémilitarization policies
under the guise of preserving
peace. That’s how strong
Peace sentiment is.

Everywhere I went people
talked to me about nuclear
tests and the need for banning
them. Regardless of their poli-
tics, they all. welcomed the
Soviet Union’s action in stop--
ping its own tests as an ex-
ample for other atomic pow-
ers to follow.”

°

TLIGHT

Yankees and the Dodgers.
Now, here’s why I believe the
Dodgers will win...”

“Hold it,” says I. “Whoa.
Halt and desist. You're slight-
ly off base. Remember, the
tickets say Yankees versus
Braves.”

“Brother. ‘So they do. Ah,
well, I shall have to revise
my remarks slightly. If the
Braves can’t beat the Dodgers,
though, how are they going to
beat the Yankees? Yet they
play better baseball in
the National than in the Am-
erican. All right, here’s my
prediction, guaranteed 80 per-
cent correct, Milwaukee will
take the Series 4-2, the sun
will rise in the east, and after
Monday, Tuesday and Wed-
nesday will come Thursday,
Friday and Saturday.”

I ushered him gently to the
door and closed it firmly be-
hind him.

Still, he might be right.
Compared to my other “ex-
pert” guest columnists, he ap-
peared remarkably lucid and
sane.

September 26, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7