CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, July 17, 1958

TERROR MUST BE STUDIED

Terrorism.in the Kootenays is a subject
that will have to be studied by the Associated
Boards’ special committee on Doukhobor
affairs.

Dr. C. H. Wright, chairman of the spec-
ial committee, told the first meeting of the
committee here July 8 that he felt the place.
of the committee was in dealing with the
question; of land disposal, citizenship and
education,

He said “terrorism is a police matter’
and said he did not feel it was a matter for
the committee to study.

John Veregin, executive secretary of
the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ,
argued that the committee must deal with
terrorism and said the reason the committee
is in existence “is because of this terrorism.”
He's right.

The first public meeting on the problem
called iv the Associated Boards on May 12
was a result of a fresh outbreak of violence
in the Kootenays, The second public meeting
on June 10 followed more terrorist activity.
It was at this meeting the Boards’ special
committee was set up and Dr. C. H. Wright
made chairman. ,

The committee is in existence to study
Doukhobor affairs, but the Sons of Freedom
gave it birth. It does not have to go to great
lengths in studying the Sons of Freedom and
their relationship to local problems, but the
committee can’t neglect them either.

COURAGE... AND HELP

“Instead of dauntlessness, one found
a non-
English speaking, un-Canadian mob
volubly protesting society's failure to
sort out its problems." — Trail Daily
Times, July 10, 1958,

The above ‘quote is taken from a Trail”
Times editorial published elsewhere in this
paper.

The editorial started out well; it pre-
sented its thesis in a ight-forward man-

Remambor-Only you can

REVENT FOREST FIRES!

trucks who have eccupants with Doukhobor-
sounding names are searched, besides having
their licences checked.

Inspector E. S, W. Batty of the RCMP
told the Nelson News that court records will
show 90 per cent of the persons charged as
a result of road checks are English-speaking
Canadians of other than Doukhobor extrac-
tion, *

This is undoubtedly true. But it does not
prove that the number of non-Doukhobor-
ni ding cars being hed by RCMP
officers is greater to the same extent than
the searching being done of Doukhobor
vehicles, tt is here RCMP road checking is

ner and tried to get to a basis for its claim
that the orthodox Doukhobor and Sons of
Freedom way of life are a direct antithesis
to the concept of courage and all it entails.
But the synthesis the Trail Times edi-
“torial arrives at is completely off-base. Its
‘synthesis: “Right from the beginning, the
committee should tell the Doukhobors, in
short, to grow up.”
i Like the Times, we agree thot it was
“‘opporent at the meeting that the orthodox
Doukhobors haven’t any individual, strong
leader wno will be able to take a definite
stand on their problem; that what the or-
thodox Doukhobors. hope will be the solution
to the land problem, a communal life, is
certainly not in prospect while they remain
leaderless. But unlike the Times we don’t
‘urge the Boards’ committee to tell the ortho-
dox Doukhobors “to grow up.’?

The committee's job is to help the Douk-
hobors to solve any problems and to help
them arrive at solutions, The committee at
its meeting showed no signs of taking the
path since suggested by the Times, and this
act should be born in mind when discussion
‘on the committee is entered into.

SEARCHING’S A SORE POINT

The daily press of Within 30 miles of
either side of Castlegar is giving the impres-
é 7

ir nd inconsistent is a nicer
word than many would like to apply.

THERE’S A LOT IN A NAME

The orthodox Doukhobors at the first
ing of the Associated Boards’

on the Doukhobor situation did not object to

the name Dukhobor for the reasons outline

in a Trail Times editorial reprinted else-

where in this paper.

The reason they objected to the use of
the word Doukhobor in the name of the
committee was perhaps best illustrated by
William M. Popove, past-chairman of the
Union of Doukhobors of Canada

Mr. Popove said the word Doukhobor || |

has been over-used so that people coming in-
to B.C. “in this Centennial year’ have al-
ready judged all Doukhobors because of the
actions of ‘the Sons of Freedom.

The truth of Mr. Popove’s words can
be borne out by the girls at Castlegar’s
spanking-new tourist booth. Tourists stop
their everyday and ask where they can see
the Doukhobors who are famous for their]
nude parades and burning. They do not ask
where the Sons of Freedom live who are
famous for their nude parades and burning:

Here in'the Kootenays the word Douk-
hobor is quite acceptable for this committee;
but eastern papers frequently make no dis-||
inction b Doukhobor and Sons of

sion that the main point exp
orthodox Doukhabors at the first meeting of
the Associated Boards’ special committee on
Doukhobor affairs held July 8 in Castlegar, is
the checking of vehicles by the RCMP.

It is not.

The point raised by Doukhobor leaders
and defended by Hugh Herbison of Nelson,
a former member of the now defunct consul-
tative committee, was not the checking of

Freedom. As two CBC men said a few weeks:
ago when they were in this district, Sons of
Freedom activity is the biggest consistently |!
good news story in Canada.
We can't think of a better name than
thot first suggested at the meeting — the
K y Citizens’ Ce ittee on Doukhot
Affairs—but we have no doubt that the sub-|}
committe formed-to find a acceptable nave!
will do so. :

drivers licences, but the fact that cars and

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EARLY DAY PICTURES
AND STORIES

WHICH WILL BE PUBLISHED
SEPTEMBER 11, 1958
AT FAIR TIME.
AS THIS ISSUE WILL TAKE CONSIDERABLE
_ PREPARATION, MATERIAL WOULD BE

APPRECIATED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Trail Times Editorials On Doukhobor Affairs

Affairs’

that Peter Verigin

of
Trail Daily Times, July 9, 1068
oe

Dr. Charles Wright's Douk-
hobor affairs committee got
away to an unexpectedly inter-
esting start in Castlegar Jast
night: it had for company some
of the top members of the Union
of Doukhobors of Canada who
happened to be holding an -ex-
ecutive session nearby,

There was the secretary-
treasurer of the Union, Peter S.
Faminow, who js a barrister and
solicitor in Vancouver; past pre-
sident .William N. Papove and
leading Doukhobors from as far
afield as. :

has, in fact, dled in exile in
Russia,

The Red Cross says that he
is dead, and the Russian authori-
ties say that Mr. Verigin died
on a certain date from a specific
cause, They do not, however, say
where Mr. Verigin died; and un-
til this final point is cleared up,
the BC. 0) D 3

bors apart by referring to them
as Doulkhobors; and the second
is that the RCMP, in the course
of their search cars

think Mr, Verigin is a bit off-
base when he says his people
resent being referred to as
Di or would take of-

driven by people bearing Douk-
hobor-sounding names, but wave
on drivers whose licences dis-
close them to he of some other
origin,

This word Doukhobor prov-
eda

are not to

block from the

a new leader, i

Be that as it may, Mr. Veri-
gin last night had a great deal
to say on the subject of the
rights of Canadian citizens. He
said that there. should be no

There was also Mr, John
Verigin, who apparently Is In
line to become the leader of
the Orthodox Doukhobors
when it has been established

between citizens.
Mr, Verigin made it clear
that this i mani-

Dr. Wright wanted
to call his committee “The
Kootenay Citizens’ Commit-

fence at the idea that Dr.
Wright’s group should call itself
the Kootenay Citizens’ Commit-
tee on Doukhobor Affairs.

It is the D who

whining, daring by allegations
of discrimination. Instead of
dauntlessness, one found a lead-
erless, apparently bewildered,
non-English speaking un-Can-
adian mob votubly protesting
society’s failure to sort out its
problems.

by their way of life, set them-
selves apart from other Can-
adians. It is the Doukhobors who
eall themselves Doukhobors.
Doukhobors never have been

tee on Affairs,” a
title which would seem to sum
up the business of the coim-
mittee very well. But so much
objection was taken by Mr
Verigin, Mr. Papove and Mr,

fests itself in two forms: the
first is that other citizens, and
the authorities, set the Doukho-

» who are not even,

of the
that Dr, Wright had to ap-
polnt a to select

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a title more acceptable to the
Doukhobors. :

against: in fact,
one government after another
has gone out of its way to meet
with: the Doukhobors and try
to assist them to achieve a hap-
pier life,

We believe the committee
should not allow itself to be in-
timidated right from the start,
It should say that its purpose
4s to tackle once again this most
vexing issue—relations between
the Di and the rest of

The D t

wanted no reference to the name
by which they are known all
over the world, but suggested
instead” use of such phrases 08
“ethnie groups,” “human affairs”
and so forth,

To describe a‘ man as a
Doukhobor said Mr. Papove, Mr
Verigin and Mr. Faminow, was
to diserimnate against him, to
somehow set him apart as a
second-class citizen. The same
principle, ‘they -said, applied to
the road blocks: why should a
Doukhobor be singled out. dis-
criminated against, when other
citizens of Canada were left in
peace?

We think there might be
some sympathy for the Douk-
hobor leaders’ position, were it
not for the completely un-Can-
adian, sometimes, in fact illegal,
behavior of their flock.

It is well-known that they
refuse to pay taxes where they
are able to escape payment
(and they are, of course, un-
able to eseape federal and pro-
vincial sales taxes when they
buy automobiles, which must
be a very sore point among
them).

They live in communities
or colonies—a most un-Canadian
precedure—cut themselves off

ciety by their own volition, and
insist upon speaking the Rus-
sian Ianguage. Many of them
even today cannot read, write or
speak English, and: prefer not
to if they ‘can.

‘They publish their’ reports
in the Russian — Mr

Canada. Quite obviously, its
business is the study of Doukho-
bor affairs, and that should be
reflected in its name.

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\  pREVENT
\ ronest FIRES! |

“A People Without Courage”
Trail Daily Times, July 10, 1958
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cA

Courage! £

It's an Old French word bas-
ed on the Latin “cor”, and it
means take heart. To us today
it indicates a quality of mind
which enable men to encounter
danger and difficulties with
firmness, or without fear or de-
pression of spirits.

In time of war, it means
bravery, heroism, gallantry, val-
or. In everyday life, it means

else was present
there was no courage.
eee

Is this the price of the paci-
fist way of life?.

Not necessarily. Ghandi was
a pacifist, but he also was a
man of immense courage. Denied
freedom, he plotted and schem-
ed; in tribulation, he exhibited
tremendous fortitude. He was
boldness and resolution personi-

led.

Thousands of men who
served in both world wars
were pacifists. In various
capacities, they took thelr’

-‘Muffly uses what app to bea ignetometer or a
geiger counter as he tries to diagnose an illness of this
cow, The gadget is a type of magnetometer and it is
registering the mineral content of bossie’s interior. The
minerals in this case proved to be a bunch of rusty nails,
tacks and wire, which were easily removed by a magnet
inserted in the cow's throat.

places the infantry-
men in the batile lines. Theirs
was the kind of courage which
Gd not permit of the use
of weapons.

“Neither of these attitudes is
to be found in the insidious
policy of non-co-operation, help-
lessness and absolute reliance
on welfare agencies, devised by
the Doukhobors of the West
Kootenay and Boundary areas,

Let us give the Doukhobor
affairs commitice some good
advise,

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Some way must be found
to instill within the Doukhobor
mind the courage which is not
only essential, but automatic, to
the make-up of any other people,
the nationals of any other land
one can bring to mind,

The refusal of the Doukho-
bor people to take up the gen-
erous terms upon ‘which they
can buy their land becau%e of a
fear that theie homes will be
burned, is so incredible to us as
to smack .of: perversity, not tra-
pidation, -

daring, enterprise, dauntlessness,
mettle, pluck.

And thus it is the very an-
tithesis of everything about!
the Orthodox and Sons of
Freedom Doukhobors’ way of
life.

Members of the Associated
Boards’ Doukhobor affairs com-
mittee who met face to face
with the sects’ leaders for the
first time this week, must have
‘been seriously impressed. I£
complete absence of courage. If
they were not, it is an aspect

of D affairs they should

i last night il ‘a
new survey of the New Denver
schovl, which he said had been
prepared by himself and Mr.
Papove among others, and now.
vould have to be translated into
English.

The Doukhobor people have
an. association, which: they
themselves call the Union of
Doukhobors. in Canada, They
have a Rassfan’ - language
newspaper published in Grand
Forks, which is described as
, the journal «f Doukhobor af-

In the ci

At Castlegar, where one
looked for resolution, one found
instead a reluctance — even
refusal — to plan a future and
stay with the plan, .

Where one sought fortitude,
there was nothing to be found
but a spurious fear of some
unknown, wraithlike agency of
terror that would reduce homes
to ashes,

In place of enterprise, there
was a child-like, if not childish
ery that “the government’ has
not done right by us.” j

» the ©

* say they are afraid, and us
Tong as they are running
around like infants scared of
the dark, the committee will
get nowhere. A targe dose of
intestinal fortitude is indicat-
ed... aera 8 .

How can this be accomplish-

‘

ed?

Well, first of all the com-
mittee could tell the Doukho-
bor leaders that their neighbors,
the ordinary Canadian citizens,
have problems enough of their
own and have very little time
to spare for people who are not
prepared to stand up on their
own feet and slug it out with
life for better or worse.

Then they could tell the
Doukhobors that one of the at-
tributes of the Canadian citizen
is” personal courage—which has
nothing to do with one's views
of compulsory military service
—and that the Doukhobors will
never know happiness and free-
dom from imagined fears until
they are men and women enough
to solve their own difficulties, -

Right from the beginning,
the committee should tell the

was replaced by

Doukhobors, in short, to grow up.

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