% demokrácia minden, jehetőséget • megadott ü magyar fiatalságnak
(Az alábbi részleteket abből a levélből vettük, ámít a windsori Ma-*ry Bihary kapott unokatestvérétö > szabolcsmegyei Nyíregyházáról.
Amióta -megkezdődött iaz iskola, aimyi az elfogIaIt> Áágom, hogy alig jut egy kis időm valami mást csinálni. Most hetedik gimnáziumba -járok és ez olyan nehéz osztály, hogy állandóan tanulni kell. Jövőre fogok érettsé-
Eleanor Barrett» 22^ éves lányt az ontáriói paris! Pen-liian szövőgyárnál folyó sztrájk piketvonalában tar-tóztatták le és 500 dollár ó-Vadék alatt van szabadon. A Vád ellene »rendzavarása. Jobbra: Eva és Hazel WiU son, akik uzsonnáznak a pi-ketvonalban* A sztrájkolok knbrálját nagyban emeli a brantfordi munkásság és a környékbeli farmerság támo. gatása.
gízni. Érettségi után egyetemre szeretnék menni, ott is az orvosi fakultásra.
Nagyon érdekel az ottlévő helyzeti Milyenek a munkalehetőségek ? Itt Magyarországon a demokrácia a lehető legjobb |ielyzetét^ teremtette még a mindent elsöprő világháború után. Ném moii-dom, van még mit köszörülni, de reméljük, ez is rendbe fog jönni rövidesen. Iskoláink államositása is megadott minden jogot, ami egy diáknak jár. Eddig el voltunk nyomva. Nem volt szabad szólni egy szót sem. Á diáknak eddig az iskolában kuss volt a neve. Most diák önkormányzat van. Most már minden diák a maga u-ra. És statisztikai kimutatás szerint ugy a fegyelem, mint az előmenetel sokkal nagyobb fokon áll, mint az elmúlt i^ndszerben.
Ugy nekünk diákoknak, mint a munkásságnak az a-ránylag elég nehéz helyzethez képest jó módot és lehetőségeket adott, mindenféle téren való érvényesülést biztosított a demokrácia . . .
THE WORLD Federation of Democratic Youth wiU con-^ vené the second World Youth Gongress at the beginning of September in Budapest, it was announcejd by the Gan-adian committee in -Toronto. A World Festivalof Youth and Student^ will take place for three weeks immediatély prior to the World Youth Gongress. The Federation is the only representative mass org^nization of the democratic youth of the world —. unit-*?^ ing in its rahksover 50 millión young men and women óf 63; couiitriés. It is comp-rised of youth ofall count-ries iri the cause of peace, freédom and naitional inde-
pendence.
ül the three .yéars of its exist-ence the WFDY has carried on a niunber of importantactivities.lt organized the VíTorld Youth Festivalof 1947 in Prague ín which 17.000 young people of 71 coimt-ries took part. A conference of the youth of South-East Asia and a Congress of ,the Latin American Youth were/convened. The International ^Conference of Working Youth was held in 1948 in War-saw.
The Federation has consistently aided the fighting youth of Greece, Republican Spain, China, Indone-sia, Viet Nam, ilalaya and other coimtries by supporting the strugg-le of the colonial and dependent coimtries for their natipnal inde-pendence. The tPederation has sup-ported the proposals. for disarma-iirent and the outlawing bf the a-
tomic bomb. It |ias sent representative conímissions to thé couhtríes of South East Asia, Latin America, Nprth Africa, the Míddlé East and to other countries of Europe.
The Canadian Committee of the WFDY annpunced thát the Beavér Brigádé Í949 will be made up bf a representative group of lOÓ young Canadians dráwn f rom all sections of the opimtry. It 'will attend the World Festival of Youth StudentSw It will participaté üi helping in reconstrüction wórk in war-devas-tated lands.. Twenty of them will
be entitled to attend the Woríi Youth Congress as' offíclaí dele* gates. ^ -
»Tií preparing for this«, said th© WFDY Office —-we call upon the youth oi^anizations of Canada to: 1) Blect delegates ^and raise mo. ney to Send them över. 2) Oigan* ize. meietlngs, gatherüigs and dist. ribíite máterikls püblicizing tha activities pf the; and tha
meaaiing^ of tiiese tvsb; ev^ 8) B3q)ress ybur solidarity; with colonial youth ón 15*613. 21 which haa been set aside as the International Day of Solídarity with Colonial Youth. 4J Celebrate World Yuuth Week Márch 2b--27.
s-Jóin togettíer with the youth of other lándstokeep the peace, to protect and strengtheri International friendship, tó protect and strengthen our political and eco-nomic rights.«
It takes 15 tons of water to pro-öuce one bushel óf wheat.
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^acific Canadian National Rail-ways trains pass through 64 tun-nels and stop to pick up passen-gers at more than 6000 stations. « • ♦
• In 12 months, the family of one Tnoth can eat 100 pöunds of wool.
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The Red Sea is 1,200 miles long and is almost straight.
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• When a Tokyo blacksmith learn-Od hé was 6500 yen in arrears in taxes he killed his wife and six childi:en. set fire to his house and polsoned himself.'
We may asking for the impos-sible but In 1949 it would be nice if we could see:
Just one Hollywood detective story in which the priváté eye doesn't say: »Another crac^ like that ÉUid you'll be spittin' teeth... lay off — or you and me Is gohna tángle, see?... Also one' crook story that Wasn't talcen fróm the files of the FBI, and if it was, It was one of the cases the FBI couldn't solve... .
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kvs said that the Mississippi ri-yer actually flows uphill, as its ^outh is farther trom the centre tft the carth than Its sourse. •. • * Java and Sumatra are among the most volcanic regions of the Virorld.
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The fii-st wiro suspension bridge M the world epanned the Schuyl-ftiU river, near Philadelphia, in 1916,
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A Russian professor has anno-unced discovery of an tmpublishcd cantata written In 1872 by tho great Russian composor Péter Ilich Tchaikovslty. -k.
»rud Cure?
>Yo« remember when you cured my rheumatism a year ago, don't you doctor,« asked the patient, s^and youJ:old me not to get my-self wet?« >Yes,< replied the doctor. >Well, I just wanted to knów if you think it's safe for me to take a bath now?«
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DoUars and Sense
Teachor; How many make a do-zen?* Johnnie: >T\velve.< Teachor: >How many make a mlUlon?* Johnnie: s-Very few.c
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•\nything New?
The teacher was upset hecause Johnnie Holopupets was late. Pu-ming. she said asho finally came in: >You shöuld ha ve been here at nine!< ~
>WTiy?< askcd. >What happen-ed?«
He Knows
Best
cash a check for my own brother.«
Customer:_ 3>WeU, I guess you know your own family best.« * * ♦
Not Fussy
Man: Did I leave an umbrelía here yesterday?
Restaurant Owner: What kind of an umbrella?
Man: Oh, any kind. Tm not a bit fussy.
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Keep nt
>Öow do you kéep so fit, old man?<
>I take a miniatűré bath every morning.c 3>A miniatűré bath?« >Yes; a cold one. One minute you're in anc* the next minute you're out!c
Butcher: >No air, I wouldn'tion.«
IN DAIUiCST AFRICA
In an African village a man contracted a venereal disease, A runner was sent to the town to bring a doctor to the slck man.
>Hurry, doctor, because a dread-ful disease has struck our village!* >What is it?'
•We do not know, but we un-derstand that it's called civilizat-
An Indián war epic — just one in which the hero, after receivíng word from the telegraph operator t^t the lineg are down and he can't get through to lieadquarters, doesn't grip the edge of the table and say: »That can mean only one thing — Geronimo!«... Also one in which Navajos are not east in Apache roles and vicevérsa...
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A western in which the rustler takes aim at a moving target four miles away and doesn't hit the hero in the shoulder and knock him off his horse vfith the first shot... Also one» in which there are no short-cuts through the" móuntains pass to head ofí the robbers. It would be nice in '49 to see a western in whicíi the hero doesn't kiss^ his horse...
A costume film in which you don't see closeups of two expert duelist swapping remarks like: >Thou Norman dog — Anglo So-xon lillies will grow over thy bones
ere yon sun sets.<----Also one in
which the villáin — he usually wears a black beard and is the power hehind the throne — is not annoimced as the besí swordsman in the land.
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A jimgle film in which someone doesn't refer to >those dnuns, those infemal drtuns, they're driv-ing me mad, do you hear, mad, mad, Mad!... Just one film on Af-rica in which the leader of the sa-fari doesn't slap a ráw youth who is breakihg under the strain and the kid doesn't bite his lower lip and say: »Sorry, I broke!«... Also one in which the adventurous white hunter doesn't boldly face a charging pack of lions but drops his cap pistol and runs for his life...
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A love story In which thé boy doesn't teli the girl auch things as >I love you because you're you«.„ >You're playing --our song*... >why you poor, mixedup little mouse .— you'ro tremblingc... >tho,onIy decent thing I ever did in my Ufo was to love you«.., »I know you don't love me, but marry
me now and love vdU come later<.«
s>with you Tve known real happi-
ness Pam«.'.. »I'wanted every-
thing to be beautiful for iis«..í
»dárling, you mean...? >Then tltís
is — goodbyeü«.., Just one füm
in which the girl In a bewitching
and transparent évening gowd
doesn't take a deep breath In tha
moonlight doesn't look over the
scenery and .doesn't exclaim: »0h,
Mortlmer, Isn't it simply wonder-
ful! And Mort —. poor pop-eyed
Mort doesn't take a look at her
heaving torso and doesn't answer
pöintedly: 3>Oh! Bróther!*
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Last büt not least it would b« nice to see in 1949 a film on foot-ball before the opening of the baseball séason:
■ *■ ■■*■■••.. Flash: Susan Hayward saya it's not true she 1:umed down the script for Howard Hughes' red-baiting film, I Married A Cbmmu-nist, after reading It in liis office. She says she tUmed it down after reading it at home...
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Closeup: Erskine Johnson saya a studio head recently- laid down a new set of studio rules:
1. No telephoning from the sets. • 2. No agents allowed on the sets.
3. Ignore rules 1 and 2 if you're important.,
Elect iiew eiíecuíive
— Niagara Falls, Ont. — The Niagara Falls Kossuth Youth aüb of the IMBF held its annual meeting- Jan. 31, 1949, and a new. executive was elected. Tha results were as foUows: I*resident — Frank Karkus; vice-president— Andy Tothfalusi Jr.; secretary — Julié Virág; treasurer — Helen Begella; actjon committee —Steva Mező, EHizabeth Tabaka; sick committee — Miké Virág Jr.; Theresa Németh; sport committee — Steva Solga, Helen Begella.
A word to Toronto about that trophy -we are entitled to from June 27, 1948. We worked hard for itt, and we would like to have it at the earliest possible date. Jalie Virág • Secretary, Kossuth Youth Club
PolícG llse iMf Oas
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CALCUTTA ~ PoUce using tear gaa last week broke up a student demonstration "~in sympathy with the Indonesian Republic and tha struggling Indonesian youüi Twelve demonstrátora were arrcst-ed.