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July 15th>34th--Matinee TWO TICKETS TO-BRQADWAY July 17th-18th-19th PRIZE OF GOLD starring Richard Widmark, Mai Zetterling, Nigel Patrick and George Cole, July 20th-21st DOWN THREE DARK STREETS o-0-0 KIWANIS NEWS Kiwanis Greet West Governor The Port Arthur - Fort William Kiwanis Club, with 30 per cent of the Terrace Bay Club and others from all over Western Canada as guests turned out in full force last week to welcome Jim Robertson of Calgary, governor of the western Canada district of Kiwanis International, Aliso attending the meeting in Fort William's Royal Edward Hotel was Bert Laundy, of Terrace Bay, lieutenant - governor of district No,l, Introduced by President R, W,. Potter, Mr. Robertson began his talk by reiterating some. of the Kiwanian Credo for 1955, that Kiwanis believes in the Free Man, The speaker then proceeded to trace the descent of the "vee Man from his beginnings in antiquisy up to the present day. TELLS OF TYRANTS Democracy and the Free Man began in the Greece of the fifth century, the speaker said, He' told ef a group called Tyrants who taught the people their rights and power and explained how the Greeks did not use the word *yrant as we use it, but meant one who had seized kingly power without the qualification of royal descent, The next groat stride in the evolution of democracy came in the wake of Norman King Henry I, who reigned in the years 1100-1135 and who on accession issued a "Charter of Liberties" which became the basis of the (cont. on next col,) en "2 Pa KIWANIS NEWS (cont) Magna Carta or Great Charter, which came into being on June 15, 1225, which in practice meant merely the transferring ™__ of power from an individual to agroup of nobles who were just as great oppressors collectively "as he had-been as an individual, -_--<_--~ Cromwell -was the next of et _ the-great democrats to be K ~~ Singled out. "Cromwell did not . die in vain," Governor Robertson emphasized, He believed, fought even tried and executed a king for the Free " Man to be a free citizen, and above all "showed how practical is religious tolera- tione A meeting of democrats in Putney, England, came under discussion, These fledgling dethocrats were men of self- governing religious congregations and now demanded the state should model itself on the same pattern, They believed that Democracy implies faith, but that faith must. bea reasoned faith, In words of an Army colonel who attended that meeting long ago: "I think the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the richest he," OPPOSITION BEST Coming down to the present day the visiting Calgarian pointed to the many governments that Canada has had since confederation and the agreement of those governments that a strong opposition has made the best in legislation and that is probably brought about by the fact all bills presented get full consideration from all the members, =<" Mr, Robertson pointed to communism as a "bogey" and the many travesties of justice which occur because people are taught. to fear it instead of combatting it. "Our age has much to be gre-ud of as we consider the forces of nature we have conquered through our knowledge of physics and chemistry," Pausing, the speaker continues: "But have we the maturity to properly use these nuclear forces, the atom and hydrogen bomb? Democracy has already dropped an atom bomb and destroyed much propery and many human beings, so in the event of a third world war we must face a stark cold reality that atomic warfare will result, and once that geni has been let out of (cont, on page 5)