Vapaus, June 7, 1956

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bfaan työläi-iikka
bäa «i
aria vijkossi
syikin bäofj.
niabdollis^
Iisaksi vieu
vastasi miet.
ssä viisisataa
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T A V A T
ä silloin kuuj
in voitteolla
tä seikasta:
)btamaan tei-'
i on jäU«n''
«MEN
?
muistavinani
nan niraeni;-
aan se Eino'
ultar
ossa
bcsterin yli.;
i^vat profes-
;rin johdolla
:si Punaisen
lettyä 2m
sikirjojtusta.^
äitävät ku>'
kasta, joihin
teitä, niiden
ultaa ja. ho-,
aisen me'%n:
juutalaiset
ovat kÄ'?a^
Tämän lah-;
aikaisemmiji;
pidä rahoja
Asiantunti;
, seikat -viit-l
i aarteetyhlj
n tuntijoille: j
jn,sisällöstäil
; »olivat näet j
'at' valoa es; I
Käsikirjoi-rr
1 1952 Khrlj I
sen mereö'1
t "Punaise»!
a on kirjoj-J
vJiäsikirjöi-f
elta ön lös-'l
Ben ovat ol-!J
inttikääröji»
Ti
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chissa ^'j^
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ikin kaikeS-f
iin Krisluk-äusistuiinos-|
aamasta.»!
esitettj/iKiiI
ikin vcrra8|
dn valliö"!
i syyttää
ntä vastaa» |
ceus oU_sl:|
arpintcri^l
1 siitä.'etSj
ätajUle p-l
n ja rakfl»-^
messa #;
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IS ja ibnö^
i korka??.
Toronto Next Stop!
Sununer seems to have sort of sneaJsed upon us and witb
it the realization that tbeie is only about thre* weeks to go to
the Song and Music Festival of the Finnish Organization of
Canada wbich is faeing beld this year in Tarmola.
The exceptionaJly cold spring which has prevaUed in
Sudbury has lulied pur senses to the fact that it is actually
already summer time and in ihree more months we wiU have
f alL But before f ali comes there is an action packed summer
ahead of us that will keep us hopping.
The first big event of the summer is of course the Song
and Music Festival. People throughout Ontario and ali the
way across Canada are already at the advanced stage of
planning as far as participation goes. Young and öld alike
will be trecking to Toronto to this important festival of Fin-nish-
Canadians. {
That this will be one of the biggest and best festivals ever
is indicated by the fact that in Sudbury alqne the Finnish
Sävel Ghoir is no>v bigger than ever withover 50 people in
the choir. It is understandablelhatsuch a large chöii- which
includes old and young alike will drag along quite an entour-age.
As a matter of fact about ali that will be left in Sudbury
over the Ist of July weekend will be the Inco smoke stacks
and even they are situated in Copper ClifL
Torontpnians will-face quite a billeting problem if they
intend to put up ali the guests who will,'be migrating to Tar-mola
on that particular weekend.Wetbink w take along
the old sleeping bag just in case we have to sleep uhder a
leafy roof.
Ever since vvestarted to think seriously about going to
Toronto for the Song and Music Festival we began to' kick
around the idea of getting. ali the Club News readers tögether
to see what the readers thinfc of the page and discuss ways
of improving it to best serve thie interests of Finnish-Canadian
youth. - ^
• We are firmly convinced that this page could be built-up
into sbmething that would be really interesting and some-thing
thaj the younger generation. simply couldn't do without.
The quesiton is: How are we going to do it.
Such a gathering could also serve to help us get tp know;
each other a little better and perhaps a discussion on the
future of Finnish-Canadian youth would be in order.
The more we thinköf the idea, the better weMike it. As
a matter of fact your editor is willing to set up the coffee if
our readers in Toronto set the time; and place and make the
other necessaryarrangements. It is not often that we make
such a reckless invitation, SO you better grab it fast, Toronto,
before we reconsider! .
The fact that there has been some discussion of the older
Vapaus readers getting tögether to discuss the paper should
encourage iis to take the initiative in this matter and make
some concrete changes for the better.
We do not wish to make any specific proposals at this •
time, but we do-have" a number of them floating around that
we intend to work on in the next three weeks. We also hope
that other readers will do likewise and come to the meeting
with lots of proposals and criticisms about this particular
page: i.,.»^
We'naight'warn' yiiw in' ädvance that if' you have isome-thing
to raise " H " about» you'll have to do it in a loud clear
voice, because sincetaking over this job, we have become
quite accustomed to being beefed at and generally shrug it
off before it sinks in.
In addition to the Song and Music Festival, a massive
youth festival willbe held in Camp Naivelt on the same
vveekend and because the main events of the Song and Music
Festival take place on Sunday or in the evening, it will be
possible for sports minded young Finnish-Canadians to par-ticipate
in the sports program of the youth festival which
will be held Saturday.
The sports program includes a number of track and field
events, voUey ball, soft ball and swiriiming events. The com-petitions
will include many different age groupings for both
girls and boys and the competitions are open to ali.
On the other hand many sports minded young people have
expressed a desire that a sports program be arrariged in con-junction
with the Song and Music Festival at Tarmpla'where
athletes will get a chance to try themselves out against their
opponents at the coming liittojuhlas. The feeling is thätfSun-day
morning could be devoted to a limited sports program
and would encourage many young people to come to the Song
and Music Festival. v * .
What do you say, Yritys?
PRIZE FISH STORIES
itäisen,
idet
sanom^'
Saffl^J
t lukea *-j
e b d i ^
There must be a host of fisbing
I stories on wbich to draw for a cor-
I ner sucb as tbis. ' We canvassed a
|few devotees of tbe sport with the
Iquestion: wbat is your favourite
fishing anecdote? Weil, • we got a
lot of laugbs, l i u t no material for
jpublication, because (as tbe boys
1 were quick to explain) these were
I strictly for tbe rugged outdoor type.
Ronnie relented enougb to teli us
I the one about the two fellows i n a
public park. Tbey were seated; on
I a bencfa, and one was busy casting^
IA policeman, walking by, stopped
jand stared at tbe man going tbrou-gh
the motion. Puzzled be asked
the felIow's buddy, "wbat goes on
here?" " F i s b i n g , " the guy snort-jed,
"can't you see the nian's fish-ing?"
" B u t there aint no Csh berfi."
|the officer remonstratcd. "Nd
fish?" cried the buddy as bc pro-ceeded
to row "reel i t i n , Jack. and
j l e f s go wbere there are some."
Tben tbere's tbe one that Jofan
I tells about fbe gear and eqoipment
Ithat goes with tbe fisbing trip. läke
Itbe time Mike and Pete were going
jand divided up tbe job of prepara-jtions:
Mike to bring tbe fisbing gear
jand Pete the provision&:When tbey
[duly arrived at the lodge and i n -
jspected what each bad brought,
JMlke^s gear was pronounced ade-
Iquate,' but Pete's iprovi^ions w€Hre
[qoestioned. Tbese to be <wo
[bottlesr of wbiskey, three cases of
[beer, and a loaf of bread iCoOf, of
course). Mike was nonplussed:
''virhat the heck we gonna do witb
a l i that bread," he wanted to know.
' T h e n there's the true story tbat
appeared in tbe daily press a few
days ago. Remember reading it?
It tops the most fantastic catch
we've yet heard by any fisberman,
anywberes. Tbe 67-foot trawler
Jennie was moving at a leisurely
three knots off the US Atlantic
coastllne about n o o n , A p r i l 22. The
fluke were 'funning and the five-man
crew was happy w i t h anticipa-
Uon. Suddenly the trawler jarred
to a spine-snapping hait and. star^
ed cutting the water in theopposite
direction about 20 mplL The crew
-vas flabbergasted; to put i t mildly.
The Stern where the net was attacb-ed,
kept sinking Iower and Ibwer as
tbe ship backpedaUed — finally to
snap and break away. Caught in
tbe net was ^ fish to end a l l fisb
stories — the giant $55 million
atom-powered sub Nautilus! The
skipper of tbe fisbing boat sObmit-ted
a bUl of $1300 for loss ofnet^
cable and fisbing gear to the US
navy. and a story about the whow>er
tbat "got away,"
m » • * \
F i n a l l y , and «tiU a true story,
membeis of a union local i n Y e r -
mont negotiatod a new contract in
wfaicb Blay 1 i s provided as a paid
holidagr f o r the opening of the troot
season. Now thafs a fish-story
wortb another look v h e n unlon ne-gottations
come around, '
Speed Sponsois
FiistMeetOf
The Season
The first sports mect of tbe cur-rent
scason i n the.Sudbury district
is being sponsored by the Speed
A;C. and w i l l be held at the Jehu
field Sunday. .lune 24th.
V Contrary. to many 'othfer years
many athletes are m good sh&pe
aftcr an activ^i skiing.season and
non-iik:ers whii)x>ed themselves into
shape to take; part- i n / t h e cross-countiy
run championships spoc-/
sored by Jehu 2 weeks ago. •'
An unusually large number' of
events and classes is induded in
the program for the day;' A ' ^ v e n t
is scbeduled for open. «nder 21
and boys under 17. The events
w i l l consist of 100 m., bigh jump,
broadjump,shot and discus;'Under
15 boys w i l l compete* inetheir own
class in a 3-event. Their events
wiU indudelOO m., shot and broad
jump. " "
The women's 3-event will con­sist
of 100 m, shot and broad
jump. The under 16 girls class
w i l l compete i n the same events.
In addition to the. five and three
events there w i U b e an. open 800
m. event and a 60 m. 'sprint for
children under 12.
AIthough:voIley ball is not offi-cially
included i n the sports pro­gram
i t is hoped tbät a l l district
elubs w i l l have a volley ball team
on hand so that an unofficial tour-nament;
can be held. Many local
sportsmen: feel~ tbat a l l meets fhis
summer should be concluded with
a volley ball toumament, so that
there Avillbe a number of teams
entered for the volley ball cham-pionships:
during the liittojuhla.
Tbe meet will get undenvay at
11 A M . and all competitors are
requested to get their entries in
at least an hour before;
mmmm
Professional Wrestling, S^d End
For Joe Louis' Colorf ui Career
Created by Lack
Of Understanding
Recent incidents i n the southemi
States and also in Dresden, Ont.^
where a restaurant owner was
found guilty of racial discrimina-tion/
have created a greatdeal of-discussion
about the position of the
'Negroes.
The foIlowing is a letter written
by Myma Mäki of Lockerby. and
published in the Sudbury Daily
Star;
I have been röadiDg The Star's
series on the "prejudices" and non-prejudices
of the American people
towards tbe Negroes.
The people wbo hatef/them and
feel SO strongly against^them do
not (I think) sit down and think
the matter o u t Do theyiever con-sider
themselves i n the shoes of
the Negro? Wbat would they feel
i f they were Negroes?
Negroes are no different from
anyone else, as i t has been stated
many times by many people. Just
because they are of a different
color^ does that condemn them?
No! i Do we feel as prejudiced to-wardwhlte4people
of other nation-alities?
It says in the Bible, "Love
thy neighbor, but: people;.in the
neighboring countries,: everyone
you meet, "treat them ss you would
l i k e to be treated." ^
The time has come when people
should start fighting for'the rights
of the Negroes. The people op-posing
this are those w h o d o se
their ears and do not want to be
taught some sense; These are the
most ignorant ;of all bumans and
tbe most to be asbamed of ;
Negroes have leamed to a-cer-tain
extent to take the feeiing to-wards:
them in their' stride, but
.slowly day.' by: day more and more
are b e ^ n i n g to feel they should
not be treated as tbey are. This
business about not i e t t i n g them in
restaurant^, i)U5es, wasbrooms, ct(;,
i s absolutely nonsense and a thing
wfaicb people • should be; asbamed
of. These laws could easily be
abolished if cörrcct steps' were
taken.
By ADAM LAPKIN -
The name Joe Xxiuis doesn't ring
any bells with my kids o r tbehr
friends of their generation — ex-'
cept for those ;wbomemorizethe|
record books and.have read that he
was one of the great boxing cbam-pions
of all time. But when we
relative oldsters hear the name we
remember the Brown Bomber of
Old. We recall the sUm, trim.
yoimg Louis of 20 years ago who
knocked* the Nazi Max Schmeling
and the mytb of white supremacy
out of the ring.
We recall that he wasong of Hhe
pioneers i n b r e a k i n g down jimcrow
i n sports, and i how at an , e a r l i e r
and less advanced stage i n the. f i g ht
for Civil rights Louis was regarded
by Negroes everywhere as a syntbol
of their fight for; f uU citizenship.
So f ar' there is sadness and even
tragedy in the image of the >npw
middle-aged and flabby Louis tum*
i n g wrestler to make a few bucks.
There is also anothcr tragedy
highlighted by the Negro press and
by the N . Y . Post. "
Post sports writer Milton Gross
reported thismonth in the despätch
f rom St. Petersburgh, Florida,' re-printed
in the Chicago Defcnderi
"1 saw Joe Louis wrestling last
night, which was indignity enough,
but the greater indignity was Ihat
he went through his burlesque be­fore
an audiencc f rom which Neg­roes
wereexcluded."
• Gross says he told Louis just few
minutes before the match wcnt on
that the Gable Arena, where the
wrestlmg 'mateli was slagcd, was
jimcrow.
" A t least I bad to believe that
he didn't know earlier." Gross
writes. "He said so. He threaten-ed
to walk out of the dressihg
room and take a plane to Miami
immediately without going on. He
was argued into staying and wrest-hng.:'
^ , . (
Louis explained tbat he bad no
chance to find out about the long-time
jimcrow policy at the. Gable
Arena. ^ - '
"Monday I was in Tampa," he
said. "Last night I was i n Lake
Worth. Tonight Tm here; Tomor-row
in Fort Lauderdale. I didn't
see the papers. I didn't know.''
Out of his very explanation em-erged
the tawdry image of the one-time
champ.crawling through tbe
ropes at one little second-rate sta-dium
after the other, night after
night.
After the) match was over Louis
told Gross, " I don't want tbat kind
of money'" and said he would con-tribute
it to the National Associa­tion
for the Advancement of
Colored People education fund. He
also said he wouldnever perform
again in a:]imcrow arena;
More Important than the money
was the spark of th6 old Louis in
his statements indicating how he
felt about jimcrow. '
" I believe him because I want tb
believe," Gross w r o t e . " J wanl to
believe hira because he was more
than a great Champion. He was a
mcn of integrity. He was a man of *•
honor and ns Jimmy Cannon once
wrote: *A credit to his race — the
liuman race*."
I think he is stiU a l l of that But
It isn't easy to keep the spark
alive while burrying from one
cheap wrestling, arena to another,
trymg to meet bills. trying to raise
the dough to pay otf the big tax
claim by the U.S. treasury depart*
ment.
: :Thei-e's no point being sore at the
• harassfd and weary Louis. He was
fleccod by promoters and hangers-on^.
socked by the government,
torced to keep selUug. his name and
l.is reputation after the prowess
and youth weregone. .
Old fi-4ht£rs dun't fade away
EspeciJiIly if they are Negroes,
they keep on fighting o r wrestling
and srrounging around to pay the
b i l l collector.
vSurcly a great atblete l i k e Louis
should have been rewarded by a
grateful country and permitted to
retire or to find bimseif a new
profession.
Heart Disease Is
Uncommon In.
Asian Countries
Heart disease — the No. 1 killer
i n Canada and the United States —
causes httle trouble In the F ar
East. In no Asian country does
hearl disease rank among the three
top killers. Rarely does it appear
aidong the top 10. India, Indonesia
and Thailand do not even bother
to.-kecpbeart disease statistics;
- In Asia, the top killers are epi-demic
diseases and. others such as
tuberculosis, beri-beri, cancer, ma-lar^
ia, yaws and pneumonia,
j.yhe theory held by some U.S.
hearl^ specialists that a high fat
diet can be blamed for the heuvy
toll finds support by some authori-ties
in the Far East,,
It was pointed out that the staple
diet i n most Asian countries is corn-poscd
of rice, fish, fruits, vegetables
and other foods low i n fat content.
Korean authorities said the ^'only
rcason'^': they could give for the
Wide gap in heart death rates In
Korea and the U S . was that Ko-rcans
eat less meat and f at
Indian authorities blamed seden^
tary life and ricb foodv for the
hjgher. heart disease death rate
among India's city dwellers than
among villagers who i l v e a more
physically strenuous life, with a
simplier diet.
Alerts Is Resorting
To Scientific
Metiiods
T H I N K I N G IT OUT
: Explaining the advantages of
his Company's new machine, a sales-man
declared, "Their electronic
brains can do everything. They can
work the machines. They can add
up the pay checks, They can cor-rect
their own mistakes, They can
even think."
"Thafs no good for 'me," re-torted'
the businessman. "They'd
soon be joining the union."
THE SINGER OF THE
FINNISH PEOPLE
I f tbey are at a l l homan, :pe<tp!e
can leam to live witb otbers of
the same race no matter to sizc or
color.
OUT o r TIJNE?
A little bqy 3iad been to Sunday
sebool for. t i » first time and wbeo
asked v h a t they did, he said: "Eveijr.
*odl7" sat^," '
f 3 dont'know vfaat the rest of them
täxtsJ Jsaxig "Casey Jcm»."
There äire people in the World
to whose lot have fallen the rare
'happiness and honour of being
the embodiments of the cultural
aspirations of their country. Such
a man, the Singer of his native land;
JS the famous Finnishvcomposer,
Jean Sibelius. Throuj^out the lo;jg
years of bis l i f e he has produced
a large number of works —. sym-phonies
and sympbonic poems a
concerto for violin and; orchestra,
quartcts,picces for the pianoforte
and songs. Bvery pageof his music
bears the stamp. of a, never-to-ber
repeated indivjduality.
Look into his face — the great
forebead. the searching gaze of the
eyes deep-in under his prominent
brows and you feel^tbe blendmg
of severity and unrevealed tendcr*
ness, o£ deep thought and an un-t>
endu]g will. Tlse music o£ Sibe­lius
ix like himseli, a l e f l e c t i cn
of tfie tbougbfs and feelings; of
bi^ people. For ages now bave, tbe
Finnish people waged war on the
sevcre northem nature, a war in
which the spirit of the people
gatheicd &trcoglh> i n v/hicb vere
dev^Ioped the finest features of
the national character and tbe na-tion's
woi-ks of genius werc fmm.
On this sOil the ori^asA musical
^OA of Jean SibftUus came f o f uU
florescence.
In the monumental images of his
symphonies, his patriotic poem F i n -
l a n d i n the elegiac l y r i c i sm of Valse
triste, the iiymphonic fantasias o»
the themes of th<f Finnish poetical
cpic, the simple melcdies of his
song», breathing of the freshness
of folk tunes—^ i n all these it is
the very iBoul of Ihe-Finnish people
that is s u i g i i ^,
Vou often hear people saying
that Jean Sibelius's music is per-meyted
with the poetical melan-choly
of northem scenery. We can
hardly agree with tbat It is not
a passive rnelancholy that dwclls
in tlie 3ound£> of his compos«tlons,
\mi the^- n*/an(y mournfulneiss of
elegy- Porn of a strong wJll, his
a n has its moments of tense erca-ti
vc power - of enraptured strug-gle
for the triuroph of a radiant
Jife; i t is the vitality, the reality
pf his art thai make it near and
liear to ntiUfons of people.
Ficbmd i f again paying tribute
to its World iamous coraposer. 1 he
we«k pf ^June 9—17 has been set
aside as a special Sibelius week
during tdiichcottt^rts w i l l be held
throughout the Cvuntry devoted to
the music of Jeai) Sibelius.
S:!^lJus/cetebrated his nineiietb
blrtbday {n December.
Seasonably unseasonable weather
has knocked the Alerts club off
its Schedule as far as getting the
field into shape is concerned. Per-sistent
rains have prevented the
track and field from drylng out to
the point where work could be
undertaken satisfactorily.
It appears tbat the weather has
f i n a l l y caught up wllh the season
and the preliminary work on the
track was started Wednesday. Tbe
job of levclling the track is a minor
one after a special grader was
built last year. But after the ini-tial
levelling is done, o flhal
touch must be made w i t h ' rakes
and the dnders spread^ so they
w i l l have time to pack before
Liittojuhla.
It seems the smoke emitted by
the Copper C l i f f smeltcr stacks has
killcd off all vegctatibn in the sttr*
rounding area, but; the club has
always been plagucd witb a heavy
crop of hay whlch has a tendency
to spread from the centre field
onto the track.
This yeär modcrn' Scientific me?
thods are being used to combat
this nulsance with the applicatlon
of a Chemical which, is reputcd to
have the q\iaUties of kilUng all
vegetation in sight It Is too carly
to tellVhether i t lives up to these
predict/ons but we'll ^know i n .the
next few days and pass on the
inforraation to other clubs wbo
may face the same problem.
I n any case, no time is to be
wasted . i n getting the track and
field in first class shape, so it is
to be hoped that club members and
supporters"i^ill turn out in large
numbers to the talkoot whlch will
be held regularly over the follow^
jng wcelcs.
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In the Hole Lons Ehoujglh 4 . :
NOT ANYMORE
Toward the end of his life, a
reporter asked the late jLionel
Barrymore . i f he still found act*
ing as much fun as i t used to be.
."Look, son, rm 75 years old," Bar­rymore
s n o r t e d . " N o t h i i t g Is as
much fun as t used to be."
UNUBCIDED
A little boy hurried to get the
evening paper off the porch. To*
morrow wa8 the picnic day and he
wanted to read the weather fore-cast.
"WeU, dear". said his mother,
"what do they predict?".
' " i l i e y haven't decided yet",
gloomily replled the youngster.
"Haven't decided?" queried his
mother.
" N o " , replied the youth. "It
says 'unsettled'."
. B y B O B W A R D ,
One ot the gravcst Itcrtis we'vc
run across for a long time wo8 nows
that grave diggeis i n Los Angeles
bad been locked out. '
Of course, we must adniit that
anyone being locked out of a graver
yard is news in itself (hat could.
hardly be burlcä on a back page.
When you; add the labor anglc to
it then it's easy to see i f s far from
a dead issue.
. N ow as if the lock-out wasn't
enough to carry ? u s ' away, we 'see
by the papers that the cmbalincrs
of thft same city have gone, on
strlkc. Altho* the embalmcrft''s'ltu-atlon
is said to be fluid; lobor ob-,
servei^s clalm the ombalmers art^ i n
for some stiff bargaining. A com­pany,
l a w y c r , ' R l g o r Mortis, is re­ported
to have set i n ; a dcotd give-"
away that; bosses don't differ much
from the cradle to the grove.
The lock-out of the gravc-diggers
started when the uhlon dpimed Its
members .worc i n the holc. Union
statistics shbwed they were getting
In dceper all the time. '
But the bosses who own the
cemetcrlesr^ being bosses ~ insist
on keeping thtngs down, Cloims by
the men that they were working
hclow the cetling at a low level of
woge8 fell ondeaf cors. "We might
as'well narglän w l t h our 'product'
05 wlth these bosses/' one commlt>
teeman stated.
, The bosses, calling a spade a
spade, claini competitlon stops
them from shovclling out a raise.
Turnover In the trade, they claim,
isn't what it once was and any wiigc
boost wouId mean they'd be oper*
ating at a dead loss: A n d this kind,
i t w i l l be agreed, is about the wdrst
possible kind of^loss to work>at
* * * .
- The Embalmers' Union, it w i l l bp
agreed, have undertaken quite o
chore i n undertaking to dcal wlth
undcrtakers. For as we all khow
with undcrtakers it'salways a mat­ter
of things going from,bad to
hearsc.
But the Embalmers are (if you'U.
excusc it;) dctcrihUied the boss w i ll
be coffin up their demands. >
The Embalmers, to bc siirc, are
concerned with the high cost of
dying. Working ^ clo3e to the
subjcct all the time they reckoii
that one sure way to set back rthe
high cost of dying Is to get a l i v i ng
wage now.
Another oC their demands i9"tliaf
union shop.^ They insist' t b a t i i iU
persons asslsting-in funeral';:^e|;<^
vicc9, exc^pt management^ miut htt > *
union members. When-t|)ey.j^hD^ *
this point 4t w i l l suro make U rötigär / " v
for these frce riders «ho^^cU^tti I /{
thej^d "rati;cr, be dead than b^IoQg, - ,7' i
,lb:;^ai;iftniim
. We fcbl ,rather sure t h a t j^mV
that management hös severar com­pany
agents "plarited^* i n the r4|itui ^ , .
of the sU-ikers^fs^JdlÖTUtiaör, Ima^ -Cv-A
gine, i r y o u can, äny strlkebreUI;^ ^ ''^Jf'
beUig bravo enough K» «»nrtabackf
to-work,movement Jh a «emetery.bi -/ '
undertakitjg porlor. \ , , :
'Howcver, i f these is;any. trutn> •
tho matter v^c;il;flll you i n as Aci6C
as our on>thc-spot reporters advis^.' <
Wc can only iraagine w h a t ^ !M
pickct.signs aro like i n t h e ^ t n ^,
death struggles going on i n liJAi
Wo figure thot t h e y l l b e r ^ Itvelyi /
Pickets ih Irönt of cemeteries^jöt ^
course,'-are rather u n i q u e i n Uiat^
the folk outside don't Want,in aiul' , ;
those Oli tho Inside catt't get''d'atv^ ^ ^>^-
Howcvcr, y/o rcckon sigiis mighf- .
reod *'V/&d rather be dead thidi r'1,
crosa this l i n e : " Then there, might; 7 - ^
be one thät*d read^ "YoU^ c ö nt
carry Us a w a y ' w i t h ' y o u r phon<iy'>'
offer," And "digging i n for.aloHjä; /
•iStrtkeÄ^iiÄ
{fho^^demand ^or a ,UvingvWi|igf Xv'
might Welt be dfamotized by'a:j>fc^' „>
ket i n a skolcton costume carrjdng' ' "
n sign proclaimbig "These. bönes'^ .
have riscn .against starvatlon^
other Uioughtsthat come to mind;*^ ^>^)-|
indudie " I n the hole long enbugb'/*r ^ |.'|
"Bosucs — this is your fuheraL*^, J
"Dont patronize Dig-it-your«eIf^ .
kita." ' j ^
I n ' any^ event this gives sbroe.^
i d e a of the Uvcly type picke^^lbnuB'
signs tbat,could conceivabiy b e l n^
usage. . . -
It occurs to^us that the strlKers,
In this particular 'strlke'won't iMVfi'
to be too concerned wlth thcf dsmv
panies trying to ship out any.pro-,
ducts. And even If the companles^ '
t r i c d it seems hardly l i k e l y tliäil
they could get anyone to handU^ f ^-Kif'
;!bcm.ii|?fei^
' So iiats off to t i i c n n i o n brotherS-of
gravcdiggcrs and emhahnen. yffi.
figure from the news that tbeJr'
strikcs won't last too long nnd-.
they*U, sobn, be back on t h e ' j o b/
digglng In again,*-— U ; E ; News.^'",;'
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Does Smoking Really Cause Cancer?
The possible rclation of smoking
to lung cancer is an interesting
and thought-provoking subject; A l -
though it has not been condusivtly
established, there is sufficlent
proof to indicate that smoking and
espccially long-conttnucd and h<;avy
smoking m a y t>e one of the chief
causes of lung cancer,
According to statistics, lung can­cer
causes around 24,000 deaths a
year in the United States. This
puts i t i n the category of epldemic
diseascs.
The rcasons Why people smoke
are many and varied. Most people
£moke because they are convinced
it relaxes their nerves. Otbers be­cause
of the force of habit -and
because it gives them somcthing to
do wjth their hands as well as lend-ing
an a i r of «ophistication. The
question that has to be asked Is — r
JK it worth it?
Doctors who doubt or deny a
cause and effect relatlon between
smoking and lung cancer point out
that death rates from tbis disease
are higher i n cities than on the
farm. Tbcrefore, tbey argue, the
cause mu&t be smog or exbaust
fumes
They are p a r t l y r i g b t because.
smog atid smoke ^from.: Industries'
definitdy contribute to l u n g caocer
A suneyrecentlyconducted i n tbe
UJ5. proved tbat not only were the
effects beavier i n the use of cigars
and pipes, but also that the smcker
%'/ho lived a more peaceful exisience
i n a s m a U t o w n o r country place
were more apt to rcduce smoking
: tensions considerably, compared to
fast l l v h i g city dwellers- ^ .
Another widely used argument
I» that smoking could harJlycau.10
eancer of the inner lung without
causing many cancers of the more
exposed larynx. Yet the death
rate from the larynx (throat) «m-cer
has not gone up in the step
witb those, from lung cancer. This
question wa8 lacklcd by an cpider-miologist
who created quite a stir
when he produced cancers, consist?
cnlly on tlie backs oi mice,by using
tobacco tar. Larynx cancer nas be­come
common but is easlfer to get
at Wtth' surgery than a cancer deep
within tbe lungs, This is one lea-son
why the death rate is not that
much greater. .
The key findings of the aboye-mentioned
survey werc: ( A ; • heavy
smoking alone or in combinalion
with heavy drinking greatly in-creases
the likclihood of cancer of
the lamyx., (B) likeUhood goes
up witb the amount,, smoked. For
cxample, a light smokcr (up to
eight cigarettes per day) lias less
chance of developing larynx cancer
than a 15-to-16 daily .smoker who
would have double that chance,
and a person who smobes triple
that arnount would have fbur timei
that chance.
Non-inbaling cigar and pipe srook-ers
aire not as prone to this danger,
but i t i s s tm a r i s k i f indulged )n
too frequj»>tly... Larynx cancer. is
ten times more prevalent among
men than among womcn i n the VS: ' .
Smoking nuikes'the heart beat
fa^ter, as many as 20^beats ^per • .;
minutc for 10.to 20,minutes äftee,
each sigarettc, due to l a c k of cnqr*}
gcn supply. in the blood. It sisfi
l^endii blOMl pressure up in t:orouiI
people and s t i l l more In tiiöse' ^
prone to high blcod pressiurcj A." *'
There iS some evidence (not cbn-.)
clusive) that smoking cuts the flow ,
of blood throHgli, the coronary ar-- .
terics to the heart muscle. SmoK'' '
ing def initely cuts down blood )Uow - . *
in certain parts.of the body^havlng' - ^
the familiar effect of cooling i n t be
flugers.; ' , „ / ' ' , -
Another side to the smoking babit"
is the smoker's,State ot,t^And^uli,.
a perhon indulges Vhile^happy^, re^ ;> n
laxed and at ease, effects are h6t< ' >
half as bad as if he smokes i v h U ^ , ^^
undernervousstressbr s t r a l n . T h i s \ "J
is d i r e d l y conected with upsettffrgl ' i
the digestive organs and stomach,,^ /j
secretions. A few »allergies haye ^
been discovered througbthesudden ^ < j
acquiring of asthma or» a^S^tä:^;^'';, ^J,',
nose — the culprit,being'.tbbäii^r •
The doctor who cbnducted'"ttii^ - ^ r ' '
survey mentioned" abbye did'"lÄ<^'t<.;
prescribe.total abstinenee; 1)ut Uiat - ^ <
Old stand-by,' moderatfon. He jBlSflt^.;V";^1
expressed the hope that f i l t e » j r t l l ^^^^^
be improved to the extent tbat,jibi^^
cancer-caushig factors to'polK^o^"'/fj.
vfill in t i m e b e j d e n t i f i e d andjc«f ^^14 '
moved J n ...fflanufacturc--,,,^.J>fe^'^..^^
^^^r:/Cherei:»ouj:;haye|:it^f;p%^