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AST week I had the rare opportunity ‘of attending the 10th convention

‘Party in the city of Regina. There I et men and women, farmers and ‘orkers from all the vast expanse of the prairies, and renewed old acquain- ‘teBces of many years ago when Sas-

atchewan was my home province. — - It could be said of the three prairie tovinces, and particularly of Saskat- hewan, that the market crisis in our Steat wheat-producing areas, places a

tge question mark upon the sanity & of those who presume to govern, - Whether they be in Edmonton, Regina,

| Winnipeg or Ottawa.

‘For the majority of farmers in Sas- _ Satchewan, their incomes are now as _ *0W as they were in the worst days of _ Se Hungry Thirties, only this time their poverty is made absurd by the faormous quantities. of unsold wheat Stored on every farm and line elevator; all told, roughtly 900-million bushels Of it, with large areas of the world still

_ Suffering from hunger.

___ Those political bellhops who get their - Pinions and orders from the Cham-

ers of Commerce and the Bankers:

Association (when they are not getting €m from Washington), like to refer to Saskatchewan as a horrible example of “socialist experiment.” CCF leaders i -C. and elsewhere add their quota ‘0 this misrepresentation by holding up askatchewan as a fine example oi

“evolutionary socialism.”

_, The Socreds, sitting tight in B.C. and Alberta, (at least they think so) are already polishing up their armor for ie On-to-Ottawa assault — planning 2 “liberate” Saskatchewan from the Evils of socialism” en route.

a ae Like British Columbia however, Sas-

Setchewan is not suffering from Socialism.” Its main affliction stems oe the St. Laurent cold war policies

vi Subrodinating this country’s most

sa al interests to the dictates of Wash-

‘8ton and the Yankee war trusts.

ae t. Laurent of ‘course has a “cure” ridac €-economic ills of our poverty- ri €n wheat producers; not a fight for

. Ses and a smashing down of the Bae war barriers of U.S. dollar farnation, ‘but bank loans to the m1, mers to “help” them keep their lie it of wheat until Micawber-

©“, Something turns up.” son €n Justice Minister Stuart Gar- Cone ent out last week to his home

; 60 atuency of Minnedosa, Manitoba, howermers gave him the hottest five tila he has had for a long time, and

him in no uncertain language that at Louis’ bank loan scheme was Wag uly RO substitute for markets, but in : €quivalent to every farmer hav- ee to “pay interest on the summer’s shed he hadn’t got” because of cold t Market barriers! a Saskatchewan itself CCF govern- ine Spokesmen are having no better fan, trying to sell the. wheat-choked

i hee humerous schemes aimed at AG 88sing the real issue—that of trad- With oon all peoples ready to trade

4 Canada and in other currencies =. Yankee dollars. CCF leaders are of thee that plausible schemes—some ekpegin even workable as a temporary 5 A Wiens Sea not enhanced by tacking . € proviso that they would help

Combat Communism.”

riag’ SaSkatchewan farmer isn’t wor-

er War: about Communism—but he is sed about having 900-million

ao of unsold wheat in his gran- Rocket

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The people will compel agreement

fee cold war planners in our

own and other Western coun- tries are claiming now that the spirit of Geneva is dead. The fail- ure of the Big Four Foreign Min- isters conference to reach agree- ment on any of the major issues before it, they contend, upholds their refusal to reduce arms budg- ets and relieve the people Of the strains and fears their cold war policies have engendered.

The alternative they hold out is that of an indefinite prolongation of the cold war, a continued re- liance upon the false but infinitely dangerous contepts of ‘‘peace through strength.” —

But they are too ready to bury the spirit of Geneva, these men who did their utmost to prevent

its coming into being and since

the summit conference have striven

to destroy it. The spirit of Geneva was born

out of the will of the people for

peace. Their will for peace brought about the Geneva conferences: Their will for peace will yet com pel agreement.

The Big Four Foreign Ministers conference failed to reach agree- ment because the United States’ John Foster Dulles and Britain’s Harold Macmillan went to Gen- eva with predetermined policies on which they were not prepared to concede even the smallest point. The Soviet Union offered conces- sions. They offered none. On

such a basis agreement could not be reached.

But agreement can be. reached, and the Canadian people, by re- newed demonstrations of their de- mand for agreement upon. their governments, can help to compel it. The spirit of Geneva is not dead, but the fight of the people to bring it to full life is the fight for life of the people themselves.

The Grey Cup means a lot —

AST is East and West is West E and each year the twain meet on the gridiron to determine who shall hold the Grey Cup, symbol of Canadian pigskin supremacy.

This year something new has ‘been added. For the first time since Western teams began chal- lenging the East more than three decades ago, the Grey Cup game will be played in the West — and

‘not only in the West, but in Van-

couver, home of the newest entry in Canadian professional football, the B.C. Lions.

Without overemphasizing the importance of this sports event, we think it demonstrates two things: first, that football is rapidly becoming a national sport (despite the wide use of U.S. stars the ma- jority of players on each team are

Canadian) and can help to de-

velop our growing: national con- sciousness; and secondly, that

Vancouver is becoming a big league:

sports town.

The lesson to be drawn from

the second point is obvious: If

Vancouver is to become one of ,

the great centres of sports, it must revise its antiquated Sunday “‘blue

Jaws’’ so that baseball and other

sports which depend largely on Sunday afternoon crowds will be able to flourish.

On December 14 Vancouver voters will vote on a plebiscite which reads: “Are you in favor of the city of Vancouver seeking ‘legislation to permit the playing of athletic sports, with an admis sion or participation. charge on Sundays between the hours of 1.30 p.m. and 6 p.m.?”

Mark your ballot, “‘Yes.’’

Hal Griffin

[Guest column by Hazel Wigdor]

ISITING Canada for national meet-

ings, the YWCA’s world president, Hon. I. Catto of Britain, recently re- marked on the growing participation of women in public affdirs on a global scale. Canada is no exception, as a quick glance at the month’s activities among organized Canadian women’s groups shows. Although meeting separately, five of these organizations have many points in common. :

At Moncton, N.B., the national con- vention of the Catholic Women’s League took keen interest in many social questions, including problems of crime, sex and horror comics, and

' the need for low-cost and low-rental housing. :

In Toronto, the Women’s Institutes of Central Ontario brought forward a wide range of positive proposals, from support of children’s clubs, to soil conservation, from building friend- ship between town and country peo- ple, and promoting purchase of Cana- dian-made produce, to a resolution calling for the closing (for at least one month) of restaurants whose own- ers discriminate against those not of — the white race.

A problem raised by delegates of the Women’s Institutes also came before sessions of the women of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. It was the difficulty of keeping people on the farms with declining farm incomes, and the hope of better wages in in- dustry.

_ Getting down to cases, the OFA | revealed that from 1935 to 1954 On-.

tario farmers’ produce increased by one-quarter, although over one-third of farm workers moved out of their farm jobs. In. the constant drive to keep incomes up, farmers are under pressure to invest more and more in better farm machinery and equipment

and also in conservation. :

Even with the increased production, farm incomes in Ontario, as in other parts of Canada, have been shrinking, by 12 percent in 1954, and by 28 per- cent the previous two years.

While women of the OFA held their own meeting to deal with particular problems of women in rural areas, they met as full voting delegates in

- the OFA itself. eee a . - Delegates attending the national con- vention of the Congress of Canadian Women found common ground with the women of these other bodies on many questions. _Here too the women are keen to rid the country of horror comics and to promote an organized cultural life for children in spare-time _ activities,'as well as to improve the education: standards in Canada.

Calling for national health insurance on a non-contributory basis, these wo- men recognized it was quite practical in view of the possibilities of lower arms 7 See and with the counter- ing of ®old war propaganda with in- creased trade of a mutually advan- tageous character, as well as with exchange visits among women of dif- ferent countries. 5 oe

Yes, it doés seem true in Canada, as elsewhere, women are taking increas- ing interest in public affairs. In other countries they may have: travelled a bit farther in working together on common interests, but Canadian wo- men will find too that as they get together, working on practical projects, the differences become less important as new advances are won out of their united strength. ; :

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