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BEHIND THE NEWS

Independence For
India Is Demanded

‘Root Of India’s

Millions Driven Below Subsistence’

THE NEWS

ALCUTTA, India—‘“The independence of India has be-
come not only a vital question for India itself, but just as
much for England and the whole world,” President Jawarhalal
Wehru of the Indian National Congress declared at a meeetings

organized by the congress here.
_ MKefusal of the British government to grant independence to
India, Nehru asserted, is one of the causes of world insecurity

today.

. “Only upon the basis of this independence,” said Nehru,
ean the Indian problem be solved and India make its contri-

bution to world peace. Only

friendly relations be developed between India and England.
“To deny this inevitable solution means to intensify in-
security in the world. India can only consent to an independence
which makes possible its full collaboration in the regulation of
international relations and collective security.
“This means no enmity towards the English people, but
rather the basis for real co-operation for the peace and progress

THE STORY

By HON. IVOR MONTAGU

of mankind.”

ONDON, England—There
‘that India is the decisive

They maintain this opinion on the ground that, as a famous Eng-
lish politician has said, “the Empire is unthinkable without
India.” Whether this is so or not, such an event as the Haripuri
Conference of the Indian National Congress is certainly a matter
which will affect for good or ill, the fate of ether peoples far
removed from the teeming 300 millions of India’s sub-continent.

Very rapid development in the
political situation in India has fol-
lowed upon the elections of last
year in which congress won sweep-
ing majorities in seven provinces.
During the year in which Congress
ministries have held office there has
been an amazing increase in the
membership of the Congress party
—from 6 laces (600,000) to 31 lacs
(3,100,000).

The ministries have been torn by
conservative elements within their
Conservative elements within their
ranks have forced them to retain
a number of reactionary political
features which congress has fought
for many years while in opposition.
At the same time, the overwhelm-
ing mass pressure, ably led by a
number of outstanding figures such
as Nehru, has forced the carrying
through of many progressive meas-
ures.

Such measures, it is true, barely
touch the fringe of the enormous
problems which face a party bent
on internal reconstruction and up-
lifting of this vast mass of human
misery which is the Indian rural
population. And before any major
steps can be taken in this direction,
all politically-minded Indians un-
derstand that the issue of inde-
pendence has to be faced.

This issue will soon be brought
up in the form of the federal part
of the constitution which is due to
be imposed directly the British ad-

aes Se
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Problem Lies In

in this way can normal and

are political experts who say
country of the modern world.

ministration feel the moment op-
portune. But already an even more
urgent and immediate problem has
brought the clash to the surface.

The congress governments have
requested the British authorities to
agree to the release of the political
prisoners stil] held in Indian gaols.
Qn the authorities’ refusal of this
request, a number of governments
have resigned and a constitutional
erisis of the first magnitude is de-
veloping throughout India.

All this movement, however,
takes place in front of the enor-
mous background of Indian pov-
erty, misery and discontent. It
must be interpreted not only in
terms of the enormous membership
of congress but also on the rapidly
spreading Kisan (peasant) move-
ment. Bihar (one of the provinces
whose government has already re-
signed) can boast of half a million
organized peasants. Other provinces
are scarcely behind in the upward
surge of this tremendous move-
ment.

If news comes from India in the
next few months which dwarfs the
troubles in Palestine, the West In-
dies and other parts of the empire
into insignificance, it will be as
well to remember that its root lies
in the desperation of millions of
human souls driven below the edge

Over 200 From B.C. . . The Flower
of Canadian Youth — Are Defend-

ing Democracy in Spain.

of very subsistence.

Sea ee eS cal

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Surveyor and Coal

in Spain.
Gur Objective:

eash is acceptable.

GEORGE EDGAR
member of CCF Club at Fort

Fraser, now with Canadians

An individual parcel for every B.C.
poy in Spain and one hundred other
volunteers . . . Estimated cost, $4 per
parcel. If you cannot make up a parcel,

Miner,

ON THE FARM FRONT

School Brief
Endorsed By

Municipality

Matsqui, Abbotsford,
Sumas Residents Seek
Democratic Control Of

Board.
PLEBISCITE SOON

MATSQUI, BC, March 10.—
(Special). — With the expira-
tion of the three-year period in
which Matsqui, Abbotsford and
Sumas jointly comprisea the
school administration area in-
augurated by the government
as an experiment, a plebiscite
for its continuance or otherwise
is scheduled soon.

Recently a brief on the experi-
ment which admitted certain good
features but warned against pos-
Sible abuses was submitted to
Matsqui municipal council and was
endorsed by this body after some
discussion.

The experiment made possible
great improvements in physical,
technical and financial facilities for
children, the brief stated, but there
were dangers of dictatorial and
bureaucratic methods of admin-
istration developing, and the fol-
lowing proposals were embodied
with a request that they be sub-
mitted in the coming plebiscite:

That a board of administration
be constituted as follows: An edu-
cational director to be appointed by
the department, subject to the con-
sent of a majority of the board;
board members to be elected an-
nually by full plebiscite of tax
payers of the three municipalities—
one board member from each; the
three members, together with the
educational director, to constitute
the board, to function within the
regulations of the School Trustees
Act.

Such a setup would safeguard
democratic rights over such ques-
tions as taxes, school curriculum,
teacher personnel and other school
matters, the brief stated.

Several local Parent-Teacher As-
sociations endorsed the proposals.

Tas Day Refused
Children’s Camp

Vancouver city council, in finance
committee Tuesday, refused an ap-
plication from Jubilee Children’s
Summer Camp for permission to
sell spring flowers next Saturday.

The matter will be referred to
the civic grants committee, which
will consider making a small grant.
_Ald. Helena Gutteridge recently
fought unsuccessfully to win a tag
day for the camp, which provides
underprivileged city children with
summer vacations at Orlohma
Beach, north arm of Burrard Inlet,
at a minimum charge.

Third Party

NEW YORK, March 10—(FP)—
The formation of a national third
political party dedicated to prin-
ciples which would seelk a perma-
nent solution to economic ills even
if it meant a change in the econ-
omic system was predicted by Gov.
Philip LaFollette of Wisconsin in
a radio address over WINYC, munic-
ipally-owned station.

Boycott Japanese Goods.

Milk By-Law Discussed

Council Ignores Proposal
To Tax Dairy Farmers

Four thousand farmers now supplying milk to Vancouver
consumers would each pay a $50 license if Dr. W. E. Wessels,
prosperous city dentist and dabbler in prize dairy stock, had

his way.

Wessels, who was spokesman for

the Preferred Raw Milk Pro-
ducers’ Association before the city
council this week, was alarmed at
the prospect of a new city bylaw
which would prohibit the sale of
raw milk in the city, and tempted
city council this week with the pro-
posal that $200,000 could be col-
lected on the basis of a tax on
every cow possessed by Fraser Val-
ley farmers.

Grievance of raw milk shippers
is that farmers shipping milk to
pasteurizing plants are exempt
from taxation by the city, whereas
they have to pay $50 yearly.

The council was asked to con-
sider the following resolution be-
fore constructing the proposed new
bylaw:

That every person in the in-
dustry shall be medically examined;
that all milk sold as pasteurized
shall be produced on premises
scoring not less than 80 percent on
the government’s scoring card and
shall be mechanically capped and
bottled.

That homogenizing of cream in
bottled milk shali be abolished, be-
Cause it practices a deception on
the public, which judges milk by
the creamline, and is forbidden in
Canada generally; and that all
pasteurizing plants shall be situated
within 35 miles of the city.

Dr. Wessels contended that the
Taw milk men’s organization, rep-
resenting 3,000 cows and $2,000,000
in equipment, was not prepared to
accept the dictum that its methods
were all wrong. In any case, he
Said, raw milk is supervised much
more strictly than pasteurized.

Alderman Helena Gutteridge sug-
gested that a $50 license fee would
put many farmers off their farms,
to which Wessels agreed.

Food Inspector J. EF. C. B. Vance,
who was present at the hearing in-
dicated that the new bylaw would
prohibit sale of ordinary raw milk,
homogenizing of cream on bottled
milk, and provide for sale of
pasteurized, certified raw and pre-
ferred raw mill. 6

‘What’s Wrong?’ Asks Breeder

Farrmgton Speaks On
| BC Poultry Problems

More than 60 breeders and producers, members of the Van-
couver Poultry Association, heard Thomas Farrington, well-
known British Columbia poultry breeder, and winner of several
Agassiz contests, give an address on “What's Wrong with the
Poultry Industry in BC?” at the Horticultural Building, 41st

and Fraser, last Saturday.

Medical Aid

For Farmers

Free Service Goes Into
Effect In California

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March
10.— Thousands of owner-farmers
in the low income brackets, tenant-
farmers, share-croppers and farm
laborers in California will become
eligible for free medical aid this
month, as the result of allocation
of $200,000 Farm Security Funds to
this state by the Roosevelt adminis-
tration.

Announcing a new permanent
corporation, the Agricultural Work-
ers’ Health and Medical Associa-
tien, to administer the funds, Jona-
than Garst of the Farm Security
Administration declared:

“Thousands of migratory agricul-
tural workers are ineligible for
state or county aid or unable to
pay for medical and hospital ser-
vices themselves. Many of these
are in immediate need of medical
attention.’

Upon application for medical aid
to the local relief centre, certifi-
cates of membership entitling the
holder to benefits of the service
will be given. Applicants will be
able to select their doctors from a
panel of physicians approved by
county medical association. Doctors
and hospitals will be paid by the
new corporation aft prevailing stan-
dards.

Harrington placed breeders in
four categories — ROP, CGontest,
Hatchery Approved and Indepen-
dents, he himself being a partisan
of the latter.

Recounting the history of ROP
in this province since its inaugura-
tion in 1920, the speaker stated that
breeding stock had been selected,
year after year, from birds with*
exceptional egg-laying records, re-
gardless of vigor and vitality. Con-
tinued breeding along these lines
had reduced vitality of flocks to a
low level, with a resultant mortal-
ity in the average flock today of
20 per cent and often more.

The high mortality rate in the
Agassiz contest was the mevyitable
consequence of this ‘“leg-band
breeding,” he claimed.

Farrington assailed the govern-
ment’s policy regarding hatchery
approved flocks. Because of lack
of proper supervision in many
cases, he asserted, flocks were
sometimes approved which right-
fully should not be. He cited in-
stances where birds were approved
on a basis of high-laying perform-
ance only, vitality and stamina be-
ing; ignored.

In some cases, he said, hatching
eges from ROP breeders and others
shipped to large hatcheries in the
United States proved to be of such
low average fertility that the whole
industry in BC lost both in prestige
and markets.

Since leaving the ROP associa-
tion six years ago, Farrington
stated, he had chosen only strong,
healthy stock. Results were high-
ly satisfactory and the egg-laying
average was as high, if not higher
than many flocks bred for high egg

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BICYCLES AND KEPAIRS

Surplus Of $2,938 Over
Operating Cost Shown;
Membership Increased

BICYCLES, NEW AND USED-‘&

Baby Carriages, Sulkies, Doll Ga”
riages, Joycycles. Repairing of a 4
kinds. Saws filed, keys cut, et j—
W. M. Ritchie, 1569 Commeroi;'?°
Drive. High. 4123. i

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ARMSTRONG, BC, March
10 — (Special) —A resolution

demanding an embargo on ex-
ports of Canadian war mate-
rials to Japan received unani-
mous endorsation at the annual
meeting of Armstrong Cooper-
ative Society held here re-

CLOTHING L
50dc PER WEEK BUYS BLAN
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ding, linens, ete. Phone Car
1128-R — LL. J. Pope, rep. R. E
Stewart.

CHDINEY SWEEPING

cently.

Members also pledged themselves
to boycott goods made in Japan.

$1.50 CLEANS MAIN
Pipes, Furnace, Stove. Licenser
Fraser 370.

Copies of the resolutions were
sent to Premier Mackenzie King.

Adoption of the boycott pledge
will undoubtedly cut the sales of
Japanese-made goods in the so-
ciety’s stores at Armstrong and

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tap. 804 Hornby St., Sey. 564. 1021

Davie, Sey. 106. i

Hayward's Corner.

eosts of $2938: :

The report declared: “The suc-
cess of the Armstrong Co-operative
Society points a way for the rest of
the Okanagan Valley.”

Vernon Raises

$269 In Tag

Medical Aid To China

Committee Is Active

VERNON, BC, March 10—(Spe-
cial) —The sum of $269 was raised
by the tag day recently held by
Vernon Medical Aid to Ghina com-
mittee. With further donations
promised and $93 already raised by
the committee, the total amount
collected in this city for Chinese
medical aid should now top the
$400 mark.

The committee is planning a tea
sale as its next effort to raise funds
for China.

_ All monies are being forwarded
direct to Hongkong through the
Chinesé Benevolent Association.

Britain Favors
Canadian Eggs

OTTAWA, Ont., March 10—Gana-
dian eggs are meeting with a quick
demand on the British market, fed-
eral department of agriculture offi-
cials here state.

Trial shipments made by export-
ers under arrangements with the
department proved so successful
that the supply was soon exhaust-
ed. Originally, it was planned to

cases each, containing 180 eggs, for
an eight-week period only. Steps
are now being taken to establish
the scheme on a permanent basis.

Canadian eges are better packed
than those from other exporting
countries, it is stated, and reach
the British market in fresher con-

production only.

dition.

BILLIARDS

MT. PLEASANT
BILLIARD HALL

and BARBER SHOP
Everything in Smokers’ Supplies
Cigars Cigarettes — . Pipes
Lighters — Etc.
2341 MAIN STREET
a Seo EP RS Ss PS al

CAFES

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47 WEST CORDOVA STREET

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Serving the Very Best Food
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Open till 1 a.m.
601 EAST HASTINGS STREET
High. 6111

KING’S CAFE

Good, clean, wholesome food
at the city’s lowest prices.

A UNION HOUSE
212 CARRALL ST. Sey. 410

CIGAR STAND

SEMI-DISPLAY CLASSIFIED

HATCHERY.

SEE THe
Loggers’ Cigar Stand

For Everything in Smokes,

Supplies and Soft Drinks
CHARLIE 15 WEST
HANSON CORDOVA ST.

COSMETICS

Hall’s Laboratories
SEY. 4923
Manufacturers of
HIGH GRADE COSMETICS
Specializing in Private Brands

150 Alexander St. Vancouver

DRUGS

Tel. Sey. 1053
RED STAR
DRUG STORE

THE MAI ORDER
DRUGGISTS

Cordova & Carrall Streets
Vancouver, B.C.

Cor.

FERTILIZERS

Garden Lime, 50c sack; Rotted
Cow Manure, 1 yd. $1.75, 2 yds.
$3.00; Sheep Manure, the richest
and most weedless of all organic
manures, $2.00 1 yd., $3.50 2 yds.
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43 - 615 West Hastings Street - -
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100 PER CENT
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NORLAND Hatchery
53738 Culloden St.
White Leghorns, R. I. Reds,
Barred Rocks, Light Sussex.
Order your Chicks early.
Phone Fraser 1843-L

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MEL’S MEAT MKT.

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4616 Earls Rad. Carl. 1247
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MEAT MARKETS

PURITY MEAT MARKET
: — Fresh Every Day —
Steaks, Chops, Reasits & Boils
Everything in Meats
2441 Bast Hastings — High. 140

PHOTOGRAPHERS.

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Radio Programs Every Sunday,
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New and Used RADIOS and
Washers at Your Own Terms

1010 DAVIE ST. SEY. 9025
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SAWDUST BURNERS.

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For ranges, heaters and furnaces.
Ask your neighbor or see your
dealer. Manufactured by:

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The board of directors report to HILDAFREDS — 6493 FRASER ij
the annual meeting showed a Bread’ “Butter | Hees = alway
healthy increase in membership, ash : a
which now stands at 394. Sales for = i
1937 increased by $5,569 over 1936, DENTISTS
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DRUGS

HOUGHLANDS DRUG STORE =
45th & Fraser. Phone Fraser 281
Expert dispensary.

FERTILIZER — TOP SOM

2 YDS. COW OR HORSE MANURE P
for $3.00: Topsoil. Phone Bay. ¥
360. ih

FOR SALE i
USED CARS — LATE MODELS— |
Priced around $150. Hasy terms
White Spot Service Station, 8091
Granville St, phone Marpole 683.
Res., Marpole 365-X.

FUEL

HONEST VALUE FUELS—HATR
469. Edgings No. 1, $3.50 per cord
Slabs, Heavy Fir. $3.75 per cord
SODERHOLM — WOOD & COAL—
Moving, Halding, ete. Reasonable
prices. Clinton Hall, Hich. 1486.

FURRIERS

GENUINE BALTIC SEAL COATS,
$59.00. Furs repaired and re--
modeled. S$. Goodman, Furrier,
1012 Dominion Bank Building,
Phone Trin. 2140: ,

GROCERIES
WHITE CASH GROCERY — 4866
Rupert St. Phone Carl. 15 for
prompt delivery service. A com-

plete stock of Fresh Groceries.

HATS eh a 8
ALL WORKERS — BUY YOUR
Hats from Dominion Hat Mfg.
Co., 12 Bast Hastings St. and 918
Granville Street. Sey. 6686.

HARDWARE
MacPHATL HARDWARE LTD. —
Por a good deal. 6167 Fraser Ave.
Phone Fraser 186.

HELP WANTED
CARRIER BOYS AND STREET
“salesmen. Apply at Room 10,
163 West Hastings, Saturday, 2-4
p.m.

BOTELS AND ROOMS

COMMERCIAL HOTEL, 340 GCAM-
bie Street. Newly renovated. Fully
licensed. Hot and cold water in
every room. A home in the heart

of the city. Sey. 431. Paul
Bedner, Mer.
LAUNDRIES

LOGGERS, WORKERS — wWHer
in town see us for your Laundry
13 Bast Cordova ‘st.

MEAT MARKETS

ECONOMY MEAT MARKET —
Fresh and salt meats, poultry and
delicatessen. 6319 Fraser Avenue.
Phone Fraser 12.

MONUMENTAL

MAIN MONUMENTS — SAVE
money here. Hstimates for ceme-
tery lettering. 1920 Main Street

NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIAN
DR. H. GC. ANDERSON—ALL NAT
ural methods of treatment, suck
as diet, massage manipulations,
osteopathy end electrotherapy
Free consultation and examins
tion. 768 Granville St. Sey. 5336.

OILS
OILERY—2 QTS. CALIFORNIA,
25e; Russian Oil, per gt, 25c;
Penn Oils, per qt., 30c. 865 Kings-

Way.

PERSONAL
CHINESE HERBS RELIEVE ALL
ailments, such as: Kidney, Rhen-
matism, Skin Diseases or Stomach
Trouble. Gall at 11 W. Pender St

POULTRY SUPPLIES
QUEEN HATCHERY — BABY
chicks, White Leghorns, Barred
Rocks, R. I. Reds and custom
hatchings. Write for catalogue.
Queen Hatchery, 36 W. Gordova,
Vancouver. B.C. :

SIGN PAINTING
TERRY McCOY — PAINTING OF
every description, signs, show-
cards, graining. - 4775 Rupert St
Carl, 167L.

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