AT PT BIRTHDAY PARTY

Fine concert
enjoyed by all

Pproximately 500 people

ae Sang and clapped

ae ey through the PT 30th

oa ay Party in Vancouver’s

Sie wonderful Queen

tints Playhouse last Sat-
Y evening,

ae festive atmosphere was
Siderably enhanced when
a of Ceremonies and PT
SOciate Editor Maurice
announced to the en-
pete audience that the
ie 3 $18,000 Financial
Po ad been overfulfilled,
T details, see Page 11.)

aa the opening cere-

‘ Ewen S when Editor Tom Mc-
stag Cut the birthday cake on
me to the closing songs of
vas mee the evening
it ust One big victory cele-

On by the PT’s “family”

—
; Fey: of whom had come

°wichan and Victoria to take

portion, the anniversary cele-
a
ot putlining the all-star cast
7a ormers (with a heavy
T i On youth) was Tomasi
an om a really fine enter-
: trom Ree Sang folk songs
an is native Fiji Islands
round the world.

Rome Measure of the way
listeners received him
oe gleaned from the fact
g S Scheduled 25-minute
J st ete 45 minutes—and
7a were cries of

Fe fl el!” Tawake was accom-
Ban €d by Leo Burdak, who
to rate as one of Vancou-

Ver?
_~’S finest guitarists.

Sideny NCOUVER, writes:
elis i, Johnson constantly
sy € is working for peace,
Maniac Ppose, was every ego-
Useg “ae despot of history who
ae murder, and de=
as his arguments, Ab-

Ug)
itty, arullies does bring “peace”
©, Y can get it,

x By

pint poere is grandeur in the
"ae thy Man, which such people
Ang 4. °W away in themselves,
&hq, ee Will defeat them in the
ht ‘ it, thus, does not come
the dip Ir calculations, And it is
Yot ee of man’s advance;
Cannjpan 2 the brute and the

beyond the Volga” knew
Unbroken defiant skele-

© Nazi gas chambers
too, President Johnson
8inning to see it even at

'e The

ANEY, writes; When U.S,
: €cretary of Defense,
8 patesten stated that
er; Proper weapon for
Probab Snt to use,” that was
“Ome By the only truth which has
Toons, t of Washington in many

Th

he

Meteo and distortions com=
" President Johnson and

M as far away as Lake-

Ute :
h Submission to the will of

But the demand for encores
was far from restricted tothe
above two capable perform-
ers, Nearly all the artists
were forced to reappear to
satisfy the demands of an
audience . which seemed re-
luctant to leave—even when
the clock crept to 10:45.

The bevy of youthful enter-
tainers — Eva McVey, Sean
Griffin, Angela Szakal, the
Wayside Singers and the
Druzhba Folk Choir of the
AUUC — really outdid them-
selves in helping to make the
30th birthday of B.C.’s lead-
ing labor paper one to long be
remembered.

The dancing, the instrumen-
tal work, the rendering of folk
songs (old and new), the or=-
iginal and creative material
presented; all these ingredi-
ents combined to form a musi-
cal birthday cake of rare
dimensions.

But above all, it was the
sparkle and vitality of youth
which perhaps made the most
lasting impression upon the
audience.

As .one veteran of many a
campaign to keep the PT roll-
ing put it; “When I saw all
those young people helping our
paper to celebrate, I knew we
were good for at least the next
30 years.”

From the Trib we would
once again like to offer our
sincere thanks to all who
helped make the 30th Birthday
Party the great event it was.

: ]
other U.S, spokesmen “explain-

- ing” their aggression in Vietnam,

the Dominican Republic and else-
where, make them fitting candi-
dates for top honor in any* Liar’s
Club.”

I was just reading Knowlton
Nash in a Financial Post article.
In it he says “seldom if ever has
there been so much sanctimoni-
ous, evangelical fervor expended
in telling untruths, half-truths,
in exaggerating and distorting in-
formation, and in spreading a kind
of international red-hunting Mc-
Carthyism ... etc.”

President Johnson talks a lot
about “rights.” Lying seems to
be one “right” he rigidly adheres
to.

Churchill

A, COOPER, WHITE ROCK,
writes: After reading your article
in the May Day anniversary edi-
tion of the PT, and especially
the story of young Canadians
fighting alongside the people of
Spain against the forces ofnazism
and fascism, it just struck me
where was our great idol and
champion of freedom and the
dignity of man, Winston Church-

ill?

Were there any of his eloquent
speeches and phrases against the
outrage of “non-intervention” to
starve out the forces fighting
against Hitler-Mussolini-France
fascists?

U.S. WRITERS, ARTISTS TELL LBJ:

‘WE ARE DISMAYED BY
YOUR FORE

he gathering storm of dis-

content and protest, within
the intellectual and artistic com-
munity, toward U.S, foreign poli-
cies gained momentum when 20
writers and artists recently sup-
ported poet, Robert Lowell’s re=
fusal to appear at a White House
Arts Festival.

Lowell, the Pulitzer prize win-
ning poet, had rebuffed the Presi-
dent’s invitation to the June 19
festival in a letter expressing
“dismay and distrust” of John-
son’s foreign policies.

Lowell said that our present
policies suddenly seem to be
drifting toward the “explosive,”
the “chauvinistic,” and “to the
last nuclear ruin.” “I feel I am
serving you and our country best
by not taking part in the White
House Festival of The Arts.”

His rejection of President
Johnson’s invitation was followed
the next day by a telegram to the
president from 20 writers and
artists, Although none of the 20
had been invited to the festival
they deplored the inference that a.
White House Arts Festival might
imply support of Johnson foreign
policies by members of the ar=-

_ tistic community.

In their telegram, the writers
and artists said:

“We who have considered our-
selves as friends ofthe Adminis=
tration, support Robert Rowell
in his decision not to participate
in the White House Festival of
the Arts on June 19, Though he
has spoken only for himself. We
would like you to know that others
of us share his dismay atourre-
cent foreign policy decisions.

“We hope that people in this
and in other countries will not
conclude that a White House Arts
program testifies to approval of

Administration policy by the

members of the artistic com-
munity, To the contrary, as the
weeks pass some of us are more.
alarmed .by a stance in foreign

The signers included Lillian
Hellman, playwright; William

Pentagon's
prayer

Gentle Jesus, bless each bomb

We drop today on Viet Nam

And keep our helicopters safe

From natives they fly low to
strafe.

Heavenly Father, give us grace

To starve the Cuban populace

And do Thou help us to chastise

All those who send them food
supplies

Lord, at Ft. Detrick, help and
guide

Our engineers of genocide

To more abundantly amass

Grim arsenals of germs and gas.

And Fount Of Life, increase
our_skill

To build up added Overkill;

We ask those blessings at
Thy hand

Because we are a Christian
land.

—CARLOS L. GHATTO

Vie:
.

—Punch, London.

ce . * .
One and four are okay, two’s obviously a commie, and
I have grave doubts about three, five, six and seven.”

Styron, Mary McCarthy, Hannah
Arendt, Bernard Malamud, Peter

‘Taylor and Philip Roth, authors;

Dwight McDonald and Alfred
Kazin, authors and literary
critics,

The poets included Robert Penn
Warren, Louis Simpson, W. D,
Snodgrass, Alan Dugan, John
Berryman and Stankley Kunitz.
Also signing were composers Ed-_
gar Varese, Philip Guston, Mark
Rothke and Larry Rivers, paint-
ers and Jules Feiffer, writer
and cartoonist,

Authors Saul Bellow and John

Hersey, invited to the Arts Fes-

tival with Lowell, indicated they

“ would attend, even though they

disagreed with the Administra-
tion’s foreign policy. When Bel-
low heard of Lowell’s action he
issued this statement:

“I consider the American in=
tervention ,.. wicked and harm-
ful but the Administration is more
than the policies of which I dis-
approve.”

Hersey said, *I could make a
stronger point by standing in the
White House, I would hope in the
presence of the President, and
reading from a work of mine en-
titled ‘Hiroshima’.”

_ Ain’t it the truth?

“You know, darling , I have noticed you haven’t been

reading very much lately.”

June 18, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 9 ©