Vapaus, October 20, 1955

              WHAT AN OFF SEASON!
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That "poor confuaed wmie Stoy«",
which is what ojie «rew Vorlt coluro-jjlst
caUed h«n In June. i» wimiing
one thing aJter another as the $ta-tlstics
keep grioding out of the 1955
bajsebali mills. The jatest shovihlm
the leader again i n slugging pexcenU
ages, -Hrhich. means the . most bases
per hlt.
Willie is populariy Bupposed to have
had an o f f year. Every manager in
the game contemplating Willie's ac»
complishments mu5t be droollng " I
ehould have a player who could have
such an o f f year."
li Willie was "Most Valuable" In
1954. whloh he most definitely was,
what malces this an "off year?"
The main Index to a playerVs value
c^n usually be found i n the runs bat-t^
d in column. In ,1954 as Most Valu­able,
Wil]ie knocked In 110 runs for
the Giants. In 1955, In his "off
year", Willie knocked In 127. Last
year he h l t 41 homers, this year he
hit 51. Last year he personally tallled
117 runs, this-year he h i t home plate
122 times.
"other facts in this terrible off
year — he finished second in the
league In batting averages, first In:
home runs, was the league'8'top base
stealer, beJng thro»Ti out onJy twlce
in 26 attempts. whlcb Included slx
successfui steals of third In six at-tcmpts.
Oh, yes, he Jed the league
in tnples too, and so rare is the
combinaticn of leääing in both honie
runs and triples. In power and speed. 1
that the last National Leaguer to
lead in both d i d It back In 1906. In
the fiald Mays still played the s h a l -
lovest centrefleld In the game be-cause
of his remarkable abillty to go
back, he covered the ground and
threw like a cannon.
I n case anyone thinks the astonishr
ing total of 51 home runs is due to
the architecture of the Polo Grounds,
here are two interestlng facts:
a) He hit 29 on the road and only
22 a t home. -
b) Of the 22 he hit at the Polo
Grounds, sports writers. who saw
e v r y Glant game teli me only two
were close enough to the foul hne
to bc considered Polo Ground homers,
and the others were mlghtly drives
to left center conquering the tre-mendous
handlcap to righthanded
hitters.
Weil, what can you do? Some play-,
ers just have an off year and thafs
ali there is iönt. ~
Soviet Baskefbali
Team Corning to
The United States
Co-exjistence in sports will get a big
boost with the arrlval i n December
of a Soviet basketball team to play
Eome U.S. college qumtets, start-ing
wlth Sprlngfield, Mass., birth-place
of the game, and moving to
Harvard, Yale and other campuses.
The Schedule was already drawn up
and plans nailed down when someone
in the A A U started objecting, saying
the tour should bc sponsored by a
colleglate group.
(Roy Clogston, director of athletic
at North Carolina State College down
in Raleigh, promptly applied to-make
NC State the offical college sponsors
of the Soviet tour.
Ittb ne
Youth Leaders Su03est
Next Steps For Peace
Jack London - Prophet and Fighter
By FRANK JACKSON
. ' I n 1909, at the Social Democratlc
club i n Coventry, I attended a iecture
on the American; sdclallst movement.
The lecturer, who had: recently
coflrae over from the UÄ, told us of
th^ amazing suocess of Sociallsm i n
Anjerl^a at that time. He also i n -
troduceyl to us Jack liondon and
sipoke to iis about his new novel,
"The Iron Heel".
Years later " T h e Iron Heel" was
lo become the texfcbook of many
young Leltr'WIngers ,In Britain who,
•while having great nilsgi;vlngs abcut
Labor polipy the gradual reform­i
n ^ of capitalism with minute doses
of municlpal trams and Labor legis-latlon
~ yet had nd clear Idea of
how to mqye forward.*
CONTROVEBSIAL FIGUBE
Thelecture: to the Chicago Philo-mftths
in '"The Iron Heel" came as
a real tonic to these budding revolu-
:t^onarie.s. It wa5 a ^odel for hun-dreds
of street-comer spouters ali
Dv;er the country. J>
li am reminded of'^all this by a
new book from America, Jack Lon­don
— 'American Rebel, by Dr. Philip
S. Foner (publlshed'in Britain by
'Arco, 15s).
It is a coUection of^'London's wrlt-tings
and the study of the man and
his times. I can lieartlly. recom-mend
it, for the reading of London's
main works is a great antidpte to
reformisi Ideas. ; : .
Jack London has been a contro-versial
flgure ever smce his death
in 1916' at the early age of 40.
Some condemn him as much too
revolutlonary, for frightening away
the best elements by his unyielding
advocacy of the class struggle,
Others on the other hand, con-demned
him for mixing Marxlsm:
with the ideas of Nietzche — the
reactlonary German Philosophy of
the "Superman", and for descendmg
into romanticlsm.
NOTE OF OPTEtflSM
Dr. Foner points out that London
never let up one Jot in his fierce
defence: of the class struggle, nor
d i d ' he accept the philosophy of the
"Blond Beast", whlch ultlmately be-came
the basis oi Hitlerism^
While "The Iron Heel" portrays
the defeat of the workers and makes
his prophetic dlscription of fascism,
he ends his book on a note of opti-mism,
with the workers re-formlng
thelr ranks, leaming from mistakes,
preparlng again for the final over-throw
of capitalism.
"The Iron Heer was written i n
1906 - 7 yet it foretells what actually
took place under Hitler In 1933 wlth
such graphic detail — the betrayal
of the workers by the corrupt T. U .
leaders to the "Oligarchis", the name
•which history translated into fasclsts.
This iiovel alone gives London a
lasting place I a the ranks of great
Socialist writers.
His pamphlet "Revolution", written
in 1905, underllnes his complete con-ffdence
in the working class.
" I received a letter the other day
. . . it began 'Dear Comrade'. It
ended 'Yours for the Revolution/ I
replied to that letter and my letter
began 'Dear Comrade', and ended
'Yours for the RevolutionV
He continues by listlng the various
countries where he says there are
seven millions ali doing the same.
: His whöle life was one of struggle.
He got his inspiration from his
active participation i n the workers'
day-to-day struggles. It was only
when he began to be separated from
this did he fade and die.
LESSON TO A L L
His life is a lesson to a l i of us.
He had not learned, like Stalin did,
that the strength of any leader is
m his close and continued associa­tion
with the masses.
Jack London Itved a life of the
greatest contradictipn. He believed
that he, Jack London could beat
the capitalists at their own game,
and thus supply to the cause the
necessary cash for propaganda,
How futile this v/as is seen in
the coUapse of his later years. He
resigned from the Sociahst Party in
March 1916, diying In November of
the same year.
P Ä Foner's book does a great
Service by commg out at this mo-ment.
I have no doubt it will play
a big part i n the revival of Sociahsm
in the U.S.
HE STORY OF J. QUINCY SPEEDE
By STAN LLVKOVITCH
The Canadian. Youth :newspaper
Champion tried its own version of
öf the $64,0C0 question recently and
asked a number of: youth leaders
what positive steps they.thought the
Canadian government should take
to contmue to. improve the world
situation: in the spint of Geneva.
The pnze for the right answer wasn.t
cash however, but the right. to live
m a peaceful World.
Exchange visits between East and
West, official recognition of the gov­ernment
of People's China .were the
two points suggested most often.
Other suggestions included World
trade, reductjpn of the present two
billion dollar arms budget, a policy of
developing Canada tö become self-sufficient
and more support of the
Colombo Pian. :.
Peggy Stanley, member of taie Don-land's
United Church Young. Peo-ples
Union felt that "promotion of
World trads with ali countries where
mutuaJly advantageous, the continu-ing
mterchange of visitors such as
the present visit of Hon. L . B . Pear­son
to the Soviet Union, and imme-diate
recognition of the government
of China" were the three most posi­tive
things the Canadian government
could undertake at this time.
Only one person asked, J im Ser­vice,
chairman of the Young Liberai
Association, thought that the Geneva
Confeience did not achieve anything.
"What does i t do when grown men go
in front of a camera and smile at
each other?" "Ali Geneva did was
establish the potential for a different
situation." Mr. Service f elt that the
Canp.clian government was domg more
for peact than any other government
in the World at the present time
when you take mto account. the
popuLition and resources of Canada.
He pointed to the Hon. Pearson's -visit
to the Soviet Umon, which he felt
was useful. " I have always person­ally
been In favor of the recognition
of China," he said. Mr. Service
thought that Canadl»ns should pay
more attention to Asia and felt that
such projects as the Colombo pian
snould be extended.
,"Now that the world has moved
noticabljt closer to peace, the gov­ernment
should. cut the huge arms
budget and devote more money to
social services, thus making possible
greater opportunity for education, r e -
creation and sports for Canadian
youth,': said Steve Endicott, leader
of the National Federation of Labor
Youth. Mr. Endicott • also felt that
the Canadian government should re-.
cognlze the government of People's
China.
One young member of the Hasho-mir
Hatzair (a Zionist youthi group)
proposed two steps — trade with a l i
countries willing to buy our goods and
a more national poliqy. "By this I
mean becoming: Independent of the
ViSi, becoming . self-sufficient and
self-supporting." ^
"As a young trade. unionist, I
would naturally support trade with
the countries of Eastern Europe," said
Bob Stevens, member of. the United
Electrical Worker's Union. " I would
also favor the idea of. getting to
know more about people i n a l i coun­tries."
Recognition of China and an ex­change
of parliamentary delegations
between Canada and the USSR were
•proposed by Margaret ©"Keli, Secre­tary
of the Youth Friendship League.
Margaret also felt that action should
be taken towards banning hydrogen
and atom bombs. "The danger is
stiU great," she pointed out. : "Besides
steps the government can take," she
continued, "there's' something every
young person can do. T h a t is to
bring as large and represenjative a
delegation as possible to the Cana­dian
Forum for Peace at Massey Hall
m Toronto on November 5 and 6."
Warning of Last
Century Still
Rings True Today
: It was August 4, 1874, In the
Northwest Committee Room of the
Parliament Buildlngs In Ottawa. The
smaU group In session Were delegates
to the second annual congress of the
Canadian Labor Union,, forerunner
c-f the Trades and Labor Congress
of Canada.
The Secretary pro tem, J . S. WIl-f
liams, was making his report:
"I feel i t w'ould not be doing my
;duty in this, my parting Communi­cation
with your honorable body, did
I not refer to the pending treaty
of reciprocity with the United States.
"From reciprocity, pure and simple,
with the United States, it is my
opinion that we would have nothing
to fear, but where the viant of
mutuality. prevails, as shown on the
face of the draft treaty. whereby the
United States endeavors to seoure a
more extended market for their ma-nufactures
simply at a premium, by
securing their operatives a cheaper
living by opemng their market for
OUT raw productions." ^ ,
"It Is high time, that tlhis dominion
was laymg aside its swaddling clothes
and becoming self-sustaining and
we can only. become so by a. fair
and liberal protection."
"Let our struggling Industries be-coi|^
e once established; let n s manu-facture
our own. Iron, wool, etc.
and the day may come when we can
open cur ports and defy. the world.
But in the meantime, I thmk we
do not ask too much when. we claim
the right to get a foothold .upon
our own soil without being pushed
down by foreigners."
:.MILD':- v . \ . : . • . : : :
'You say this parrots swears i n a
mild sort of way?" said the customer.
"Yes, sir", replied the bird dealer,
he belongs. to a minister who had
lus salary reduced."
A £iiOBT STOB^ SV BOB f. flilU.
Tbe scene Is a emoke'fUled roaro
i n a luxury Jiotel In one oJ tbe l a r -
gest cities m the United States. Five
overstuffed men were lounging m five
overstuffed chalrs and a lean young
jnan vas sltting stralght on the ivery
edge of a strajgbt chair. The lean
yoxing man was obvlously nervous,
and there was tension as welJ as clgar
smoke and whiskey fumes i n the air.
Even ii you hadn't r e a d a new5p8p€r
you would know from this scene that
down stalrs, the hotel lobby would be
thronged with newspaper reporters,
delegates with big badges annoucing
thename of their favorite candidate,
hired nolsemakers ant pretty glrJs
handing out PepsjrColas wItJ»'cam-paign
buttons. And that a: dozen
blocks.away sweepers would be clean-ing
up the ci vie audltorium in pre-paration
for the final nomlnating
session of the party's conventloh
scheduled for the morrow.
The largest of the five overstuffed
men took a drink from his ihlghball
glass, shifted his cigar and directed
his words to the. lean young man,
"WItiherspoon," he-said, " I guess you
know why we've sent for you."
WItherspoon gulped but If he p l a n -
ned to say anything he. never got
beyond the planning stage.
"We've got to nominate a Govemor
tomorrow and there are some ftilks
here" — he gestured wlth his cigar
toward another /overstuffed gentleman
— ' who say you are the man the
party can agree on."
"Yep", said the second O S . G .
"we've got two hunderd grand that
says young Witherspoon is the man,
chief. A f me, d e a n CU t young man
with no trace of scandal about h jm
An excellent record i n the state
legislature. A n up and coming law-yer.
What more do you want!''
_ ' J u s t a minute,"- said the chief Irri-tably.
" I ' m doing the talking. Now.
Witherspoon, before ^e make our de-cision
we've got to know more about
you. Personally, I mean. You've got to
come:clean with us, absolutely clean."
"Surg,'-chief," said WItherspoon,
111 teli you everything there i s tö
teli. I was born downstate jn B r a d -
dock. My mother was a wldow and
I had to work my way through the
State university. After that I tauglit
school for a while . . ."
"Not that, my boy," said the chief
amiably. •We :knew ali that before
we brought you up here. Were you
ever in any trouble?"
'Not exactly/' began Witherspoon.
"But I guess I ought to t ^ l l you that
Finnish Youth Extend A Warm IVelcome
By BOB WARD
m
iuincy Speede was an odd child;
.w and not, mlnd you, just because he
fi. had three 'e's in his ^name.
-svo:^ From liis earliest days J . Qujncy
*;- i i showed a tremendous flair for effl-c
ciency. Everythlng..he did as a baby
>•„ was-done with dlspatcli and with
r no waste of time or loss of mo-
' ; v tion. His burps, for Instance, wei»e
;ri ? ; preciseiand wlth the mtnimum num-ber
of''r's in them.
l i 7 ; At six months he kjckedthe slats
; • out of his crib in protest against
: the way his mother folded diapers.
Later, when he was able to taik,
^ . he explained to her,that she could
f . have folded three ^imes as many
i;, A,. diapers f ive times as fast by cut-
- tmg out unnecessary folds. :
Yes. J.- Quincy was quite the boy.
At two he stopped wearing anything
with buttons on it. Already he had
reckoned that thlrty-nine seconds a
day was lost through the mere act
of buttoning and unbuttoning but-
•:• tons. •
J . Quincy wore shoes without laces.
Lacmg and unlacing shoes took 2S
precious seconds of the day.
At school it was the same. J .
Quincy, indeed, soon acqUired the
nickname of " S o o n e r ; " He figured
out the route to school !which re-quired
the least number of steps; he
reckoned everything to the split sec-ond.
..• l:/-'
At graduation. J . Quincj- was voted
the student. most Ilkely to end up
being a motion time study expert.
And sure.enough thafs just where
he did end up.
' J . Quincy wasn't very long on this
new Job,before he'd figured out ways,
, not to forget means. of dismissing
half the staf f in Motion T i m e Study
department. And this,, mind you, was
even before he häd a 'chance to take
a r e a l go at the production workers.
;When he started on the production
workers^ J . Quincy really went tp
•work. It v,-as ^he who, perfected the
idea of the automatjc; nose wlper, a
simple attachment rlgged to any ma-chlne,
which eliminattd the need of
any worker vasting precious minutes
fumbling for a hankie or Kleenex. .
Another wiping apparatus that J
Quincy"s fertile brain dreamed up
was vetoed by top management as it
was deemcd that the Idea ^ould be
too low, even for that particular com-pany.
.:• • •'
But the odd setback never troubled
J . Quincy. He Just kept on speeding
everyone up. At work, at home,
wherever he went, he preached the
gospel of Motion Time Study; r e ­duced
to Its initials M T S by J . Quincy,
for the sake of efficiency, of course.
"More, faster, sooner, quicker" was
the slogan emblazoned above : J .
Quincy'3 desk. When asked when
something should be done ihis usual
reply was 'yesterday."
Yes, J . Quincy was quite a boy. He
would far rather cut a rate than a
Juicy steak, or even a rug.
But the ultimate happened. J .
Quincy broke down. He had cut a
particular department from twcnty-five
to 2 men, with the two doing
twenty-five times more than had
previously been done by the twenty-five.
:
Not even content with th>i the
company, one of tne better lcnown
electrical flrms, had installcd auto-mationf
eliminating the two workers.
J . Quincy was working out a system
to lay-off three robots on the auto-matic
Iines when the men In the
white sujts came for h im to put h im
away. :•.
Sad though the Story may be, J .
Quincy's flair for cutting had flnally
brought him to the last ^tage —Scut-ting
out paper dolls.
Indeed it was his obsession for cut­ting
out'"unnecessary" things which
led to his death. J . Quincy had long
been working bn the theory that his
breathing cycie could be cut down.
Weil. one day he really reduced it.
He stopped breathing altogether.
J . Quincy's funeral was not one
that attracted very wide attention,
Although it •wos noted at the time
that if ali of the peoplewhom he'd
läid off during his lifetlme had been
present the .largest stadlum in the
city wouldn't have held the crowd. :
But J.,Quincy, nonfftiielss, remaln-ed
true to his credo in life. As he was
being bome away by six pallbearcrs,
eyewitne£ses claim that he suddenly
sat bolt upnght m his casket. "Lay
f our of thoie men off," he thundered.
This done the story goes, he: lay down
m peace.
One would thmk that this would
be the end of the .story of J . Quincy
Speede. But several months later we
met a worker who had been an early
victim of J . Quincys MTS speedup
and layoff. . '
Here's his story as .told to us at
the time. "One night," he said, "I
dreamt I had died and gone to the
place where most of my friends are.
And guess who was there, J . Quincj'
Speede. thafs who.
" A n d there he was back at. his
old tncks. . He'd cut the furnace
stokers from thjrty a shif t to f ive, and
was figuring out ali kinds of devious
means.to cut even further. He even
had "Old Nick"i himself, fearing be­ing
laid off.
"And do you know what one fellow
said to me m this d rea m of mine?"
.We confessed that we did not know.
" T h i s guy said it had really been
Hell there smce J . Quincy arnved."
• : : — - U . E . News.
GOOD QUESTION
The Master of Cere'monies at a
dance approached a girl in a träpless
evcning dress.
" M a y I introduce Mr. Sniith?" he
said. "He's an authority on structiiral
engineering He wants to ask you
something."
By ANITA HOBRICK
Much has been wrltten in this
section aljout the World Youth V
Festival which was held in AVar-saw
this summer. Readers are u n -
doubtedly aware of the fact that ;
over 50 young Canadians spent
an enjoyable two weeks in War-saw
participating In the various
events or the festival and meet-ing
the youth of over 100 lands
who gathered In VVarsaw on this
historic occasion.
It is only natural that among
the Canadians along with repre-sentatives
of many Canadian
youth organizations was a repre-sentative
of Finnlsh-Canadian
youth. Anita Ilorrick who through
' her contributions to this page and
througJi her many active years
in the Finnish-Canadian sports
movement in Sudbury and To­ronto
is well known among most
readcrs, has retumed to Canada:
and will be visting most Finnish
communities to teli of her ex-periences.
A complete scheduIe
of her tour is published elsewhere
in this paper. Your editor urges
bil young people to make a
Special point of meeting Anita.
I am sure that Anita ivould be
. willing to have a "gab session"
with young people wherever she
goes in addition to her regular .
speaking engagements. Don't for­get
to suggest it.
The foIlowing article is one that
Anita UTote in Finnish and your
editor has taken the liberty to
.. transcribe it. (Wamlng: we have
a reputation for mutilating any-body's
style!)
On September 2nd I wäs; being
rushed to the Moscow . airpprt ih a.
Zim car. Beads of perspiration cover­ed
my fqrehead as I sat in the back
seat. I \vas beginning a yerjv impor-| riiy Finnish. Apparently my Finnish
——— — ——-——;—_———-—^————' :• s ' '———
Make a Special iPoiiit of Meclting Anita \Vhen She
Arrives in Youi- Gömmunity on Her Spealking Tour
tant phase of my travels. This time
I was/travclhng alone as I was on my
way to Finland.
Two days aher, the festival when
I was bidding good-bye to the F i n ­nish
delegation at the railway station
i n Warsaw, I had no idea t(hat I
would have an opportunity to travel
to the soviet Union and I had no
hopes of getting to Fmland. Two
Canadians George Ryga and Mike
Omelchuk, who had attended the
Peace Congress i n Helsinki vere with
me to see our Finnish friends away.
We shook hands, kissed, cned and
finally ran af ter the train w!hen it
left the station. iMy heart was heavy
because I would have very much hked
to have gone with them.
Wlien the airplane reached the
Gulf of Finland and I could see the
green forests and crystal clear lakes
below the clouds I started feeling
right at home. This was finally F i n ­land,
the land of which I had heard
so much about-ever since I wa5 a
child,
} My heart trembled a bit when I
discovered there was nobody to meet
me. But I shrugged my shoulders and
clambered aboard a bus as- anyone
else would do. I went directly to the
of f ices of the Democratlc ,Youth
League of Finland and they were
rather sur^rised to see >me as I i n -
terrupted them declphering a tele-gram
which had Just arrived from
Moscow . announcing my arriyal the
foliowing day.
F o r - the following ; three veeks I
was their' guest. "rhey often had a
smile oh their lips as I told them
about Canada and Pihnish-Canadian
youth. To my relief I found. that
t h i ^ were< not smillng because of
what I had to telLthembiit because öf
vocabulary included many old words,
which were currently out of use and
m addition to that .they were quite
fascinated toy my dialect .which they
claimed was the same used In "^Ete­lä-
Pohjanmaa". . When I used the
Word "setseli" (satchell) for lack of
a better Word, the smlles broke into
laughter, •
i l heard of the activities, achieve-ments
and problöms of the youth
organization. I was also told about
the Pioneer organization. They have
400 clubs w i t h a total membership of
18,000. The staff in the central flffice
is busy preparlng material for the
current season. They provide -songs,
music, folk dances and general pro-gram
material for the clubs. They
are preparing a program whlch will
also mclude gymnastics for festivities
which iwill take place next summer.
Despite the great deal of work they
had on their hands they were very
helpful and friendly.
I had much to see in Helsinki. I
went to the Stadium to see a soccer
match between Finnish and Polish
teams and v/ho do you think 1 met
there. None other than Gust Sund­quist
from Toronto who h ad been
on a little jaunt to C h i n a . T h e World
is sure getyng small. We went to-gether
to the Finnish National M u -
.seum. •
The boys from the Youth League
also took me to the Workers' Out-door
Theatre where I saw the play
' T u l i t i k k u j a lairiaämassa". I also
spent a, day ät the school operated
by; the- Finriish Na,tional Theatre.
: A n unusuai experience was the per-formance
at the "Huoneteatteri",
where the audience sits on one side
Of the room and the petformance goes
on right in front of you. It felt as
if we were sittirig i n someohe's home.
I I spent a few days i n the village
of Toysa. Nobody had attended the
Warsaw festival this area. I . told
about my personal experiences at the
festival and they were particularly
eager to hear my travels i n the
Soviet Union.
The last Week of my visit i n F i n ­land
I spent at tbe Pajulahti School
forAthletes, where a special course
on sulture was under way. Even I
got involved in the folk dancing and
singing. There I met many pleasant
young people. Af ter the week was
over I f elt I could not have had a
more enjoyable week anywhere'^but
Pajulahti.- r -
The following morning I was again
on my way; this>time to England to
rejoin my Canadian travel sompa-nions.
My suitcases were stuffed with
söuvenirs ad books and i n my heart
the warm reception Finnish youth
had accorded me.
in Sraddoclt- x
from school Jor
"Nuts,'^ said
about that, Wh(
bank, did you s
•Ob. no," saie
ed, "not a' dim
"When you w
did you take j
power company
them the francl
"Absolutely i
spoon. " I votec
because I thougl
it. It .would ber
•Teli me, Wi
cliief gently. "}
you have In tYa
worth?"
"Prankly, chie
Tm not i n ven
•why I need thlj
have less than $
ali I own is m
station wagon.'
"And if you a
contjnued the cl
advantage of i
line. your pocket
"Heavens forb
erspoon: ''I was
never to steal.
than to profit F
pense of the pe
The chief delil
cigar from his
i n his oversttiffe
deeply of his hi
boys, as you. cai
Either he is a
close to it. The i
this State won't
him." .
The overstuffe
spoon roused hir
with difficulty. "j
know what you
the.O.S.G. " W i t
you the whole st
pfoprietor of the
racket m this sts
who laid a foot o
out Insurance w:
did not get the c
tractor who built
her; kitty. She's
salted away, in i
Don't think With
as to hold that
name. Why, man
in illgotten gains
"Ah, my boy, f(
chief, going over
shaking him ferv
" I djd you an ir
nation is yours,
gether we'll carry
i n November."
The overstuffec
their glasses in
shook hands witl
thumped him on
blame the chief,
one of them, afte
careful."
rt
SMOE (5ULP..IT'S MY SILVER
AND MY W l F e VVANTS
TO OUT ANO
(EI?)<XLEBRATfc
ARE-WEi3iölMei TO-'
HAVE TO PUT UP WITH
THIS tVERY 25YEARS?
Guilt By Birth
The armed services seem to be
moving from a position of guilt-by-r
association to a position of guilt-by-
birth.
A Navy Reserve Commission was
denied to Midshipman Landy becatise
his mother had once been a memäier
of the Communist Party, but quit
at her son's uiging many years ago.
A second case involves a Coast Guard
midshipman w!ho couldnt quallfy
for officershrp because his mother
once belonged, allegedly, to some
outfits on ithe Attomey General's
liSt.;;,
These are two more iiistanees of
''Security, r u n Wild": A recferit Fund
för the Republic study shows.hun-dreds
of icases , where logic ; and
reason were glven a leave of ab-sence
during securitv investigations
of government employees.
i t «hese cases are aJlowed to
stand,: why should the baniers be
limited to one generation. Some-body
named Jefferson had. a n a n -
cestor named Tom, \yho spoke in
radic»l. phrasfö 50. years ago; aJid
somebcdy named Washington led a
rebeUion against a monaxch's- autho­rity;;".;.
If idiocy is to be the Security
yardstick, the descehdants öf, the
w;ashingtons and Jeffersons are "bad
ridks"; better be careful and not
let yiem become second looies!
• Editorial, C IO News,
Bh-dles withbröken Wings'
Hlde from each other,
But tiabbies in trouble
Run home to Mother.
Erroneous
Abouf Lat
Animals 1
Some fallacies
liefs, too often,
planted i n the mi:
debunked" by J . :
tario Department
Forests, on the LE
staff.
"Don't kili a sj
r a i n " and "Touch
give you warts" ar
but there are alsc
concernmg larger
the woods, he says
"When it js rep
wildcat or lynx ha
district, there is (
Demands for im
nation are receivec
en are kept indoon
allowed to walk tos
centage of these
em Ontario is u)
event, the animals
of humans. Other
"Skunk — You c
is around because
Actually, a skunk i
d e a n animal. It c(
of the house, sleep j
and would probabi
nuisance than the
A : skunk ; will eje(
spray and obrioxio
a last reisort, w'he
life! A skunk will
coat or den with
actually appears t
dislike for the odoi
"Porcupine —' A
hot be destroyed 1
only animal that y(
a stick for food if
the wpods.' Wise i
a porcupine is killi
many people, uni
found, It Should be
not protected by alsö is very palatab
•Raccoon —' Hea:
in the trees at nig
raccoon is capabi
chucklmg cry to ri
brood. Also, baby ra^
a plaintive cry wheri
Howewer, raccoons <
tree and whistle.'W3
hear is a screech owl