my fe: Pe mL nay! @ ey Prince Chichibu from Victoria TWapan will the invading armies from the rear. Spain Decorates ) against Chinese merchants violating = sters are absent from Chinese fish the Chinese as our tradition pre- > > 3OSOS = — ETON SIS CRY Economies Work Many Hardships Mount Lehman School Has Been Partly ~Clesed MORE PUPALS (Special Correspondence) ABBOTSFORD, BC, Oct. 7. —W hen the Hon. G. M. Weir, minister of education, boasted of lower costs of education in BC as compared with Ontario. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, before the BC School Trustees’ Association recently, his listeners concluded that he meant abolition of flunkies, elimination of Sraft, and wise Burehases of schoo] Supplies. i Weir boasted that education costs had declined by $2,000,000 in 1936-37 as compared to 1931-32 in face of the fact that school population had increased hy 100,000 in that period. On examination it is found that economies were made by reducins- the number of teachers and janitors, closing down of Schools and allow ing a general state of dilapidation to develop in many others, While no reasonable Person will object to consolidation of school areas, this principle is being pushed to’ the point where children are Spending hours daily in travelling to and from sehool, waiting around for long periods in wet weather for school busses, and other unnecessary hardships. Practice of making older boys do the janitor work in the Matsqui- Sumas-Abbotsford school does not fulfil the claim that this consolida- tion is for the Purpose of sivine more and better education. Waste is demonstrated by partial abandonment of Mount Lehman high school, built a little over a year azo With relief labor and highly favor- able centre for children of the area. This year one room has been elosed, the prinicpal demoted to Abbotsford and those students Wishing to con- tinue high school studies must tea vel for hours at a stretch. Abolition of school boards and democratic administration by this method was recosnized by, the BC Trustees’ Association, which ex- pressed in a resolution its desire for elected school boards in administra- tive areas as, for example; the Matsqui - Sumas - Abbotsford School; for limitine of powers of School ad- ministration in appointing additional Members of school committees, and Safeguarding teachers from arbi- trary dismissal. Publicity is needed to expose the! Srowins evils of the present System in BC. Parents should, through local organizations, press for demo- cratic contro] oyer the important Hi—u—. leaving high transport planes. } 1 — ins dumpers dot the sky as massed parachute jumps become common- place in the USSR. The camera has caught one of the groups just after New Project Arouses Interest of the West End assembled in the bath house at what was the official opening of the first of three com- munity centres: to be established here. From Mrs. Stuart Jamieson they learned that the directorate plans to develop the centre among children ( of working people in the West End who will be given an opportunity to train creative talents under capable instructors. Introduced by Mrs. Jamieson was Mrs. D. MeNair, described as being mainly responsible for the starting of the centre and now its secretary. Mrs. McNair announced that Van- couver Youth Council plans to open similar centres in Grandview and South Hall areas this winter. Need $500 Wearly City Librarian Robinson Made an appeal for public support of the centre which, he declared, had been built up entirely by voluntary sup- port and without overhead expendi- tures. He estimated $500 a year would be required for maintenance of activities as diverse as Seulpture classes and stenosraphy, music and public speakins. Visitors were impressed with the social yalue of work already accom- plished in an attempt to interest children and youns people early question of child education, Italians Desert Across Frontier PARIS, France, Oct. 7. — The Italian anti-Fascist newspaper, Voce Degli Italiani, reports that ever larger numbers of Italians are seek-— ing to cross the French border among the mountains of the Medi- terranean coast. A representative of the Voce Deezli Italiani recently se- cured an interview with four Ital- jan deserting soldiers of the Alpine Corps, who arrived in Nice in uni. form. - They stated that life was becom- jf ing unbearable for the men; the food had so deteriorated ana there were continual forced marches. But the chief reason was that they knew that, at the conclusion of trainins, they would be sent tao Spain to fight for Franco. Haymarket Echo CHICAGO, Tl., Oct. 7.—(FP)—Mrs. Lucey Parsons, widow of Albert Par- Sons, one of the five innocent men executed in the famous Haymarket Case in 1887 in the fight for the 8- hour day, will head a committee of trade unionists and others in Sponsoring a gigantic memorial to the Haymarket martyrs, November ii, 50th anniversary of.their execu- tion. 53-3O-O-9-$OS6 WHERE QUALITY AND SERVICE IS SUPREME Try Our Special AT Private Dining Room JUMBO MODERATE for Banquets, MILK SHAKES PRICES Parties, Ete. 100% UNION HOUSE 105 East Hastings Street We Also Specialize in CHINESE DISHES. JOHNNY KULAK, Mer. Telephone: Sey. 4060 COPESSCOSPE COOL POSED GCOS OS OOO OOOO 80600066 6OOSSOOE enough to develop social conscious- ness. Example of the possibilities of the centre was given when a peti- tion from thirty mothers in the West End asking for establishment of a kindersarten for pre-school children was handed to Mrs. Jamie- son. Canadian Boys Are Defending Democracy In Spain West End Community Centre Is Established This spring a group of persons interested in community, work among youth approached Vancouver Parks Board to ask for use of the old bath house at English Bay. Their request Was granted and, with the aid of single unemployed youth, the bath house was completely renovated, On Saturday last many residents”© League Plans Peace Ballot Major F. Lord, Costigan Mass Meeting Speakers Distribution of over 1005000 peace ballots throughout -BG is being undertaken by the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy before the peace conference scheduled for Octo_ ber 29, 30, 31, under league auspices, «A. M. Stephen informed the PA this week, Reason for the pre-conference ballot is to ascertain Proportion of the public favoring the idea of col- lective security, the Proposed al]- liance of democratic nations against agsressor nations, and the number in favor of supporting the covenant of the League of Nations, Stephen stated. Many trade unionists, churchmen and professional People in the city have endorsed the conference which is preliminary to the National Con- stress to be held in Toronto late in November, A mass meeting at the Auditorium, October 29, will open the conference. — Principal speakers will be Major Prederick I. Lord, Canadian aviator made famous by bringing down 13 Wascist planes in Spain, Mildred Lord who was with her husband in Spain, and Howard Costigan, execu- tive setretary, Washington Com- monwealth Wederation. Over 100 From BCG)... - The Flower of DANNY McLEOD, Vancouver Logger and Ex-Serviceman, Now in Spain. i The Mackenzie-Papineau. Battalion is making Ca- nadian history in Spain, fighting the cause of : world democracy. They ; appeal to the anti-Fas- cists of Canada for sup- port. A XMAS PARCEL FOR EVERY FIGHTER! SEND YOUR DONATIONS OF MONEY, CIGARETTES, COMFORTS, ETC., to Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, Room 43, 615 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, B.C. Shipments of comforts are being sent regularly. ADOPT => A BOY of the MACKENZIF-PAPINEAU BATTALION! Pept te Sida aN eS TAR: “ a pelican eee oie Sep hie) Te nahin pme n oas ASM» ewer