6 THE CITIZEN MAGAZINE Friday January 8 1 965 MHM Dongld Crandall inventor of this game1 lives in the city of Phoenix in Arizona the only state aside from 5 in the south to go into the Barry Goldwater column in the recent American presidential election From there comes By Peter Worthington We have a new game at borne this year According to the advertis advertising ¬ ing its the coming thing in the United States and some something ¬ thing no home should be with without ¬ out Its the ideal gift for the family a game with a purpose it educational in informative ¬ formative patriotic and fun The game Is called Vic Victory ¬ tory Over Communism and its distributing outlet is in California You have to write away for it Though my wife and I did not finish the game it can last a couple of hours it was something neither of us will soon forget The idea is to save the slave people of the world some 1000000000 of them in 25 so called Communist countries You roll dice and advance a marker to squares with numbers on them Each player has a card marked like bingo only the word is victory on which are question and answers Each player tries to match questions and answers and the first one to do it yells Freedom Eventually you draw a card on which is a slave country The player who saves the most nations from Communism wins the game 1973 IS THE DEADLINE But each time the mark marker ¬ er circles the board its a crisis and four crises mean another year lost to the ene enemy ¬ my If the enemy reaches 1973 shown dripping blood under a hammer and sic sickle ¬ kle before all the enslaved countries are freed Com Communism ¬ munism wins Cxcitlng stuff I think an added incentive to defeat Communism would be to have the losing player investi investigated ¬ gated by the familys un American activities author- ity Its the questions that are most Intriguing My wife Helen was so enthralled that she kept ex exclaiming ¬ claiming listentoTHIS and she would read her question and its answer Then Id read mine aloud and shed start exclaiming iMBBnW TB 3lO lO tnO SJ O -f 9l LUL SIX 6U OZJL J YZO ZZQ EZO s I T 3I0UIU MM m - lsHHwHKEPi 97i 97 S8B 968 i9e7 IMSl IdttS 1 1001 A 5 TAlS 1- y rixLuL GOMMUNiSnCir Sir start D55J V5 V V3 V2 V1 j jj V35 Y3A Y33 Y32 Y31 R30j5 A Game for Anti Communists again Bui she has a weak sto stomach ¬ mach or is inclined to be soft on Communism AID TO REDS HIDDEN For instance she was ap appalled ¬ palled to learn that much American aid to the Com Communists ¬ munists is hidden in U S grants to the U N Fund for Cuban agriculture ac according ¬ cording to the answer lists She hadnt realized that playwright George Bernard Shaw was anadmitted Com Communist ¬ munist and that the goals of Fabian Socialists are the same as those of Commun Communists ¬ ists a classless God Godless ¬ less socialistic one world society Also by inference the fol following ¬ lowing men were sympath sympathetic ¬ etic towards Communism Walter Lippmann John Dewey Justice Felix Frank Frankfurter ¬ furter Walter Rauschen- busch Harold Laskifber trand Russell John May nard Keynes Nehru Sid Sidney ¬ ney Webb and a hodge podge of Senators Also she is shocked that Communists regard Capital Capitalists ¬ ists as germs and by mur murdering ¬ dering them they were mere merely ¬ ly disinfecting the world She didnt know that if Communism triumphs Christians and capitalists would be slaughtered like diseased animals or worked to death in slave labor camps or brothels for the Red army LOSING THE COLD WAR The U S is losing the cold war because Ameri Americans ¬ cans refuse to believe they are at war and most hot wars are lost because mili military ¬ tary leaders arent allowed to win them Karl Marx born of Jew Jewish ¬ ish parents allowed three of his six children to starve to death while two comit ted suicide He was so des despised ¬ pised that only six mourn mourners ¬ ers turned up at his funeral according to this game Helen and I rolled the dice and raced through our ans answers ¬ wers I became toe distract distracted ¬ ed by the questions and ans answers ¬ wers and kept reading on and on Gradually it became apparent that I was lousy at saving slaves In 50 minutes Helen had rescued 219700000 Rus Russians ¬ sians 22000000 Burmese 3000000 Guineans 2000 000 Latvians 2000000 Laotians a total of six countries 250700000 peo people ¬ ple I managed to save only North Vietnam and its 16 000000 people NOT VERY PATROT1C Youre not verj pat patriotic ¬ riotic said Helen scorn scornfully ¬ fully I said saving North Viet Vietnamese ¬ namese was harder than sav saving ¬ ing Burmese But she wasnt convinced Boredom set in Its worst sin is that its bor boring ¬ ing she said Im j9t really interested that Com Communism ¬ munism flourished under the Roosevelt administration or that President Eisenhower made finding them nearly im impossible ¬ possible I argued using the ans answer ¬ wer sheet that the 160 000 Communists in 1945 have expanded to 1000000 that the US has spent 600 000000 helping Communism ftElZADZft In his recent book of Poems Signature McGlll University Press 250 F R Scott has an attack on a headline from The Times of London The headline reads Audacity is Missing In Can Canada ¬ ada Scott begins They say we lack audacity that we are middle class without the adventurousness that arises from the desperation of the lower classes or the tradition of the upper classes They say we are more emphaticaUy middling than any country west of Switzerland and that bold boldness ¬ ness and experiment are far from our complacent thoughts But I say to you they do not know where to look and have not the eyes and sacrificed 50000 lives fighting it She was unrealistic enough to think it was libelous to brand certain US Senators and Congressmen as Com Communist ¬ munist sympathizers under undermining ¬ mining their own country COMMUNIST LEADERS Among the Communist leaders of the world are such people as President Nasser which must be news to all the Communists lan languishing ¬ guishing in Egyptian jails Ex Premier Adoula of the Congo Ben Bella of Algeria What are the chances of the game being sold in Can Canada ¬ ada Mr Lowffler of Construc Constructive ¬ tive Action Inc Whittier Calif in charge of distri distributing ¬ buting the game thinks the game would have appeal in Canada but said that customs regulations would have to be Investigated first At the moment were more concerned with Amer America ¬ ica he said in a phone conversation The game was only invented this fall and it was too late to get it on Christmas lists of stores to see For audacity is all around us Boldness sits In the highest places We are riddled with insolence In rather a different mood and with a different purpose Ellen Stafford makes a similar point in her intro introduction ¬ duction to The Flamboyant Canadians Baxter 695 when she says that the book should prove that between the lines of our official his history ¬ tory and behind what must be admitted Is the rather dull facade of our public exis existence ¬ tence there are stories galore in which the personal qualities of Individuals made an Impact on the times in whicii they lived Reading Mrs Staffords introduction reminded me of the experience of a professor so we are handling most of the distribution by mall He said he couldnt reveal the number of sales but said the response had been very substantial Follow up letters asked for more anti - Communist reading matter She claimed to be horri horrified ¬ fied by the whole thing the game not Mr Diefen baker I reminded her that the blurb warns A soft at attitude ¬ titude toward Communism can destroy us Its almost enough to make me join the Voice of Women she said then after a moments thought added Well perhaps I wouldnt go that far but Its dis disturbing ¬ turbing AN IDEAL PRESENT Im not so sure To me it seems an ideal gift for your John Birch friends or for neo Facists or Ku Klux Klanners Or simply for laughs if you know some someone ¬ one with an odd sense of hu humor ¬ mor HARD By Hugh Garner Todays hard cover books are ridiculously overpriced and anyone who is not a bibliomaniac or a sucker for an exaggerated sales pitch is crazy to spend 6 to 8 for the novels that are being written today He Is even crazier to spend up to 5 for a thin little piece of amateur writ writing ¬ ing that masquerades as a childrens book Since I published my first novel 15 years ago the price of hard cover books has doubled And todays novels picaresque homosexual sophomoric are not nearly as good as those publish published ¬ ed during the first 50 years of the 1 9th century MORE READING DESPITE TV There are more people reading books today than ever before despite radio movies and television The tremendous upsurge in reading by the whole of the literate population is due solely to the post war pop popularity ¬ ularity of the English language pocket book which retails between 50 cents and 95 cents on the average with some scientific educa educational ¬ tional and esoteric works selling between 125 and 275 in soft covers The smart bookbuyer to today ¬ day awaits six months or a year after the publication of a hard cover book then buys is at one sixth the price in a paperback edi edition ¬ tion IT HAD TAKEN YEARS TO BUILD Last spring I gave away an excellent small library of 1500 hard cover fiction titles that had taken me over 20 years as a dedicat dedicated ¬ ed bibliophile to build up My specialty was 20th cen century ¬ tury American novelists and collections of world wide short stories As my quiet hobby my noisy one was CANADIANS ARE at the University of British Columbia who had formerly lectured in the United States He gave similar themes In both countries write an es essay ¬ say he said on the Canadian American character In the United States all the students wrote essays on Lincoln Washington etc all the Canadians wrote essays on the etcs only that is on the guy next door who runs a portable lunchwagon or sells ear-de-waxers The Flamboyant Cana Canadians ¬ dians makes Its major point without much difficulty We supplied a couple of royal mistresses in the 18th Cen Century ¬ tury and a couple of petty tyrants in the early 19th A religious prophet and a solo round-the-world sailor also enlivened the last century and this century has outdone any previous one the list includes Tors Long Longboat ¬ boat Sam Hughes Bob Ed Edwards ¬ wards Rosa Brown Henri Bourassa William Aber hart Mike Mahoney Grey Owl and Norman Bethune The point as I say Is easily made these char characters ¬ acters were not dull They were not all famous how many of them can you iden identify ¬ tify and they certainly were not all admirable On these grounds another ob obscure ¬ scure and censurable char character ¬ acter might be added the compositor who set the type of this book and made some flamboyant mistakes which were not caught by another candidate for flamboyant