In cities and towns across the country Champion is eagerly read by young people. The national Pro-
gressive youth paper is now engaged in a compaign to raise $7,400 and add 2,500 subscribers to its circu-

lation lists and the banner (at left) will go to the winning group.

competition is keen.

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CHAMPION CELEBRATES THIRD BIRTHDAY

And it goes without saying that the

Young people write this paper
to tell what young people want

p° Canadian young people need
a progressive youth paper of
their own, to give expression to
their hopes, aspirations and opin-
ions?

From Newfoundland to Vancou-
ver Island youth answered this
question in the affirmative three
years ago, when they established
Champion as “the Voice of Young
Canada.” .

Published bi-monthly in Toron-
to, Champion is something differ-
ent in the way of newspapers. It
has only one paid employee—its
editor, Ben Shek—but scores of
volunteer writers, salesmen and
circulation boosters.

The Korean war was blazing
when Champion was born on Jan-
uary 29, 1951. General Mac-
Arthur was threatening to assault
China and explode the war into
a world conflict. A campaign for
conscription was, launched, head-
ed by the army’s top brass.

Champion took its stand—for
an end to the Korean war and
against compulsory military ser-
vice. It raised the cry: “Playing
fields, not battle fields.”

As young patriots, the people
who wrote for Champion demand-
ed that our country free itself
from U.S. domination. This strug-
gle for Canadian independence,
and the battle against the threat

_of unemployment, are highlight-
- ed in current issues of the paper.

As Ben Shek puts it:

. “We, the youth, are the in-
heritors of this land. We don’t
want to inherit a 49th state of

the United States; we want a)

country that lives at peace with
all peoples, that runs its own
affairs, that provides every op-
portunity for young people to
develop themselves and their
country, for the good of all the
people.

“The problem of the threat
of depression is very real for
the youth. So Champion is cam-
paigning for jobs. We say that
jobs can be created through pub-
lic works, through such projects
as the Seaway and the Pipeline.

“But we also are fighting for
the payment of unemployment
insurance benefits to youth,
whether or not they have held
jobs before. There will be many
thousands of young people leav-
ing school this year; if there are

no jobs, what will they do? The ©

government should provide them
with some security through the
insurance fund. We also want
free trades training and assist-
ance to young farmers.”

Volunteer staff workers on
Champion include such people as
Rube Bromstein, a young artist
who works all day, acts as busi-
ness and circulation manager at
night; Toby Fine, editor of Junior
Champ, the children’s section;
Ross Hale, a trade unionist who
doubles as a reporter; and Stan
Nazarec, another industrial work-
er, who works on circulation in
his spare time.

Montreal, Vancouver and other
centres have organized Champion
Committees which direct the work
of the paper’s volunteers and help
to get Champion into the hands
of new readers. Vancouver also
has a small volunteer writers’
group.

On its third birthday, Cham-
pion is in the midst of a national

financial and circulation drive,
aimed at raising $7,400 and 2,500
subscriptions. Vancouver support-

ers of the paper have pledged to

collect $1,500 and 550 subs.

“With only $600 in cash turned
in, and less than 100 subs to date,
we'll have to do some tall hustl-
ing to hit our target by February
28, when the national-drive ends,”
Roy Samuelson, B.C. drive man-
ager for Champion, told the Paci-
fic Tribune this week. ‘We feel
sure, however, that we can do it,
provided our adult supporters
give the youth a hand in this
final stage of the campaign.”

On Sunday, February 14 at 8
p.m. a Champion Variety Concert
will be held in Pender Auditor-
ium and a full house is expected.

By GYULA HEGY]

Sports serve cause —
of world friendship

BUDAPEST

INTERNATIONAL sporting

events are of great importance.

Sport can develop properly only

if the best players of each coun-

try can match their prowess in a
friendly game.

The participaants can study de-
velopment, watch faults and learn
from each other. In this way
both winners and losers can leave
the fields as “winners.’’ Sport is
one of the important fields in the
cultural activities of humanity.

Another important factor in our
ever increasing program of inter-
national sporting events is the
fact that it bothers the world-wide
fight for the preservation of
peace.

Sports meetings further friend-
ship between peoples, and bring
closer together, sportsmen, young
people and the sport-loving pub-
lic of the various countries. The
friendship made by sports activ-
ity strengthens the friendship be-
tween nations.

Working people know that sport
can only develop under, peaceful
conditions. Sporting events, and
really large scale international
sports meetings, can only be held
in time of peace.

This is known and felt not only
by sportsmen and our people, but

OPEN FORUM

No shortcut to health

JACK (Meike edie Vancouver,
B.C.: Did you ever suffer from a
pain in the neck? I am not re-
ferring to a stranger who comes
in off the street and gives you a
pompous lecture on how to run
your paper. ‘I am referring to a
physical pain in the neck.

For that matter, have you ever
suffered from trauma, acute an-
terior poliomyelitis, a common
head cold, jaundice, ulcers or
curvature of the spine? If you
have, and if you went to the
family doctor, then you are a
sucker. Because if you live ac-

cording to “nature’s laws” you.

' will have nothing to do with the
medical profession. At least, that
is what I read in a magazine cali-
- ed The Chiropractic Home in its
issue of December, 1953. The
magazine is published by the
Chiropractic Home Publishing
Company of Mount Moris, Illinois,
and is dedicated to -selling the
virtues of chiropractic.
Chiropracters are not doctors of
medicine or surgery. Their prac-
tise is known as chiropractic, a
‘system of adjusting the joints, es-
pecially of the spine,-by hand for
the cure of disease. While there
is no doubt that chiropractic is
helpful in some cases, it is harm-
ful to adopt it as a cult and to
believe in it as a cure-all for every
sickness and every injury. Once
you accept chiropractic as a cure-
all, you turn your back on science.
A lady I know went to a local
chiropracter for three years and
‘paid him a lot of money. For
three years the chiropracter ac-
cepted the diagnosis of the patient
herself, and administered mas-
sages and manipulation, for $3 a
treatment. Then the lady went to
a doctor, an orthopedic specialist
and found that she was suffering
‘from curvature of the spine due
to-prolonged improper posture.
The doctor prescribed a system
of supervised exercises and cor-
rect posture, which soon brought
permanent relief and cure.
“Regular doctors are] quacks!
They are out to fleece the peo-
ple!” This is the idea that is

hammered home in articles and
advertisements in the magazine.
While everyone knows that some

‘doctors are more interested in

making a fast dollar than they are
in serving people, this is equally
true of some chiropracters, en-
gineers, lawyers, and some peo-
ple who follow other professions.
Every professional service is of-
fered in return for a fee or a
wage, and no profession or group
of practitioners has a monopoly
on ethics. But the fact remains
that our doctors and surgeons are
still the best qualified persons to
deal with sickness and injury.

Chiropracters rate no higher
in medical science than all cther
unlicensed practitioners. This in-
cludes naturopathic doctors, medi-
cal botanists and those who prac-
tise yoga.

It is no accident that The Chiro-
practic Home publishing com-
pany declares “that it does not
necessarily endorse the state-
ments made in the advertisements
or contributed articles.” The
statement is hidden away in very
small type and is designed to pro-
tect the magazine from legal pen-
alties arising out of lawsuits, and

not to protect the reader from a -

lot of medical mumbo-jumbo and
reactionary political ideology.

The Chiropractic Home pres-
ents chiropractic as a philosophy
and as an American way of life.
On page 360 there is an article
called “The Trotsky Tragedy.” In
this article we are told that Trot-
sky borrowed money to buy the
guns for the Russian. revolution

from the New York banker, Jacob -

Schiff, of the Kuhn-Loeb world
banking house. The article links

Schiff with the French and Brit-

This is not only
false historically, but is taken
from anti-Semitic publications
which describe the Russian revo-

ish Rothschilds.

lution of 1917 as a plot by inter-—
hational Jewish bankers.

Two other glaring inaccuracies
appear in the article. The first
places Aléxander Kerensky as the
leader of the’ Russian Mensheviks
in 1903. Kerensky was never a
member of the Russian Social

Democratic party. The second tells
us that Trotsky travelled to Rus-
sia with Lenin in a sealed car.
This is bosh!

/

Almost three pages are given to
the subject of “Flouridation and
Aluminum.” The author is Dave
Baxter, the same ignoramus who
wrote “The Trotsky Tragedy.” His
lead editorial in this issue is en-
titled “I Was Adjusted.” It should
have beeen “I Am Mal-adjusted.”

The big spread on fiouridation
is nothing more and nothing less
than a vicious splurge of red-bait-
ing, lifted in the main from hole-
in-the-wall, lunatic periodicals in
the U.S. One quotation will suf-
fice:

‘Tt is traditional among Sax-
ons that a man’s house is his
castle; and that parents shall de-
cide what drugs are to be given
to their children. So it is a safe
bet that any advocate of ‘fluorid-
ation’ is a little more Commun-
ist than American... .”’ The
Individualist, Danville, Virginia.

The same issue of The Chiro-
practic Home carries items in op-
position to national health insur-
ance. It is referred to as “social-
ized medicine” and former presi-
dent Harry Truman is labelled
an agent of Moscow because un-
der his administration “National
Health” goals were adopted for a

‘10-year period in 1948. That these

health goals did not include na-
tional health insurance matters
little to these scribes.

Thus, we see the anti-demo-
cratic nature of their philosophy.
Instead of striving to raise the
scientific level of the medical pro-
fession and to bring its benefits
to all people as a national birth-
right, they try to belittle it, in
order to advance their own cult
and, incidentally, their own fort-

unes. Is it any wonder then, that -

they turn to unscientific and re-
actionaly political ideology in
their semi-official journal?

What conclusion can we draw
from these facts? Very simple!
There is no short-cut to health, no

easy road to universal happiness! -

by those of the Soviet Union and
the People’s Democracies. The
same knowledge also prevails
among the sportsmen and peoples
of other countries.

It is possible that the comments
made by some sports leaders in
the West about “sport without
politics’ may mislead some
sportsmen, but it does not hide
the truth from most people—that
sport serves the cause of friend-
ship and peace between nations.
’ Those who belittle the import-
ance of our sporting relationships
are travelling on the wrong road.

The fact that Hungarian sport
and its high standard is known
the world over, is due above all to
the great’ international successes
of our sportsmen. We are proud
of our highly developed sports-
culture, which is one of the great
results achieved by our People’s
Democratic state. Anywhere
where such wonderful possibili-
ties for physical training are prov-
ided, as they are in our country,
the standard of sport must rise.

The results achieved were not
gifts that fell in our laps. Success
can. only be achieved by hard

training and up-to-date teaching
end education. For example, the
results achieved by our boxers
and cyclists are far behind inter-
national standards. For this lag-
ging behind there is but one ex-
planation — they have not made
use of the possibilities at their
disposal. ’

Hungarian sport generally has
reached a high standard and has
achieved great results, but there
is still a lot to be done. If we
want to achieve victories in inter-
national matches, we must first
achieve results at home, in the
gymnasiums, on -the sports
grounds, in the education of the
sporting masses, by the introduc-
tion of better training methods,
and by applying up-to-date sports
theories.

The present world-wide fame of
Hungarian sport is based on the
successes of the whole nation.
Therefore every sportsman is res-
ponsible for maintaining this re-
putation. ; :

It is up to the sportsmen, the
trainers, sports organisers and the
enthusiastic sports fans to make
full use of the excellent possi-
bilities ensured by the State, so
that our sport can keep pace with
its development.

Sport is a useful, healthy and
happy recreation, and at the same
time a serious contribution to the
cause of peace. All sportsmen
and sports managers should make

an effort to share in this contribu-
tion. 7

@ Gyula Hegyi is president of the
Hungarian National Committee
for Physical Education and
Sport.

“Hey you! Don’t you know

you have

to salute allted
officers?” é

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