Page Four THE PrOPrLE”S ADVOCATE % Council Will Lead Fight To Save Hollyburn Ridg Women, Children Gassed As Police|: Attack Doukhobors Anxious questions concerning the company’s intentions Asks Aid For Rural Areas Intolerable Burdens Placed Upon Farmers The government should immedi- ately relieve the municipalities of part of their burden of relief, edu- eation and social service ‘costs in order to restore their financial position. This view was expressed by Mayor T. A. Love of Grand Forks in an address to Vancouver Rotary Club, Tuesday, in which he ap- pealed for a new deal for BC muni- cipalities. Many of the problems faced by he municipalities could be solved if governments, instead of taking refuge behind hard times, would reverse their attitude and under- take to assist those responsible for municipal administration, he said. Mayor Love pointed out that the land was almost the municipalities’ only source of revenue, placing im- possible burdens on the farmers. When the latter were unable to carry the burden bankruptcy faced the former. Formerly farmers had been able to secure work on the roads or other public works and thus sup- plement their incomes from sale of farm produce. This added in- come had enabled the farmers to pay their taxes and provide for replacement of machinery and other equipment. Now, however, with that source of income gone, with returns from farm produce often insufficient to pay costs, the farmers were in @& bad way and their plight was re- flected in the difficult position of the majority of rural municipali- ties. Mayor Love presented solution of farm problems and government as- sistance to relieve rural munici- palities as matters requiring the immediate attention of provincial and federal authorities. ARMS FOE SPAIN e Trade Boards Meet Ask Early Start On Highway PRINCE GEORGE, BC, Aug. ii—Federal and provincial gov- ernments are urged to cooper- ate with the United States on the Alaska-Yuion Highway project with 2 view to securing an early start on construction in a reso- lution adopted by the annual convention of the Associated Boards of Trade of Cariboo and Gentral British Columbia. It was stressed in discussion that the project would provide work for thousands of men over a leng period and would lead to the opening up of new areas in Gentral and Northern BC. Delegates were told by Hon. FE. M. MacPherson, minister of public works that the govern- ment proposed to make a survey of the Caribee Highway north- wards from Clinton this summer. Portions of the highway will be located in preparation for hard- surfacing. At present this section of the highway is often difficult and sometimes impassable to travel after heavy snow or rainfall. Free Text Books For Pup MURRAY VILLE BC, Aug. 11— Following an interview with the school board, at which Eric Flow- erdew and J. Thorley insisted that it was the board’s duty to provide free text books for students whose parents are unable to buy books, trustees reminded delegates that they had twice requested the coun- ceil to provide relief recipients with additional work for the purchase ef text books and had been turned down. Langley School Board, however, will again meet with the council to discuss the possilibity of pro- viding free text books. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING =f ~ t = | ADVERTISING RATES LAUNDRIES @lassified, 3 lines 25c. Monthly and contract rates on application. BAKEREES NEW DOMINION BAKERY FOR your bread, cakes, etc. 2340 East Hastings St. High. 3810. BICYCLES AND REPATES Io Cres, NEw AND USED— Baby Carriages, Sulkies, Doll Car- riages, Joycycles. Repairing of al kinds. Saws filed, xeys cut, ete W. M. Ritchie, 1569 Commercial Drive. High. 4123. CAFES THE ONLY FISH — ALL KIND: of Fresh Sea Food. Union House 20 East Hastings St REX CARPE — JUICY STEAKS Oysters, Chops, ete. One frienc tells another. 6 Fast Hastings St CHIMNEY SWEEPING $150 CLEANS MAIN FLUE, Pipes, Furnace, Stove. Licensed Fraser 370. CONFECTIONERY, ETC. NEW HASTINGS CONFECTION- ery for: Soft Drinks, Fruits, Can- dies, Tobaccos, and Hasty Snacks. Then before or after enjoy a game of Billiards in the gay at- mosphere of our new hall. Open now. 169 East Hastings St DENTISTS DER. A. J. SIPES, DENTIST— Plate Specialist. Lowest Pricer 680 Robson St. Trinity 5716. LOGGERS, WORKERS — WHER in town see us for your Laundry 13 East Cordova st. MONUMENTAL MAIN MONUMENTS — SAVE money Here. Estimates for ceme- tery lettering. 1920 Main Street. NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIAN DR. Eo. CG. ANDERSON—ALL NAT- ural methods of treatment, suck as diet, massage manipulations osteopathy and electrotherapy Free consultation and examines tion. 768 Granville St. Sey. 5336. OILs OLILERY—2 QTS. CacLIFORNIA, 25c; Russian Oil, per qt. 25c; Penn Oils, per qt., 30c. 865 Kings- way. PERSONAL CHINESE HERBS RELIEVE ALT, ailments, such as: Kidney, Rheu- matism, Skin Diseases or Stomach Trouble. Call at 11 W. Pender St- My LADIES CHOICE WiLL BE found in our complete line of hosiery. Orpheum Hosiery, 749 Granville St. Sey. § 8102. WHEN OTHERS FAIL, NO MAT ter how serious, try Geo. Lee’s Chinese Remedy, 256 E. Hastings Street. RADIOS WASHERS, RADIOS, FRIGL- DAIRES — Easy terms. Geo. L. Meikle, 1010 Davie St. Sey. 9025. ROOMS FOR RENT FLOWERS GLENBURN FLORIST HAVE Flowers for every occasion. High. 928. 3736 East Hastings St ALBERTA ROOMS — Housekeep- ing, sleeping; every convenience. Reasonable rates. 655 Robson St., cor. Granville. Sey. 435. A. Haga, Prop. FOR SALE SAWDUST BURNERS USED GCARS — LATE MODELS— Priced around $150. Easy terms. White Spot Service Station, 8091: Granville St., phone Marpole 683. Res., Marpole 365-X. FUEL HONEST VALUE FUERLS—FATR 469. Edgings No. 1, $3.50 per core GENULNE “LEADER” BURNERS, 323 Alexander St. at MRay’s. Douglas 390. SHOE REPATRS JOHNSON'S SHOE REPATRS — All work guaranteed. Reasonabl: prices. 1056344 W. Pender Streei SHOE REPAIRS NEATLY DONF Slabs, Heavy Fir. $3.75 per cord while you wait. Only the best me terials used. International Sho FURNITURE Repairs. 1152 Granville St. FURNITURE BOUGHT AND sold. Auction sales conducted. TYPEWRITERS AND SUPPLIES Robinson & Morton, 540 Richards St., Trinity 169. HATS ALL WORKERS — BUY YOUR Hats from Dominion Hat Mfg. Co., 12 East Hastings St. and 918 Granville Street. Sey. 6686. HOUSES FOR SALE GEO. DONOVAN Typewriters. Adding Machines Cash Registers. Sey. 9393. 508 West Pender St. TATELORS = THE HORSESHOE TATLORS, OF 3825 Columbia St., now M. Dong Tailors. Trin. 6024. 8 West Cor- BURNABY—_MODERN SEXROOM house, four lots, garage, chicken house and fruit trees. 3868 Do- minion St. $2500 cash. Terms $1000 down, $25 monthly. HOTELS AND ROOMS COMMERCIAL HOTEL, 340 CAM- bie Street. Newly renovated. Fully licensed. Hot and cold water in every room. A home in the heart _of the city. Sey. 431. Paul dova Street. } 26 OR 40 ACRES Good soil, good road, in Finn-Swede settlement. . - Wothing to pay down. Will take half the price in labor clearing other land. On Brown Road, South Langley. J. Anderson, 649 Graham Ave. Wew Westminster, B.C. Bedner, Mer. S = peeves Seek Amendments To New Act Responsibiliy In Relief Administration Will Be Discussed With the Gov't ——$—$_— ROYAL CITY MEET NEW WESTMINSTER, BC; Aug. 11.—Changes in the pro- vincial Residence and Respon- sibility Act, which places the onus of relief on the munici- palities are being pressed. by the Fraser Valley Reeves’ As- sociation which met at the city hall here Thursday of last weelk to discuss the amendments it will propose to the government. The Act requires that the muni- eipality in which the applicant has resided for a year shall be respon- sible for relief, provided the appli- ‘cant has not been a public charge during that time. Many representatives of Eraser Valley municipalities have ex pressed the view that where an applicant has been resident in one |; municipality for some years and | then moves to a new locality, to become a public charge after the 12 > that the factory was closed. off the property. The Doukho- discussing the alarming turn Gassed Passive resistance has long been the weapon, and the only weapon, employed by the Doukhobors in their many disputes with authori-— ties. They are a peaceful people. Wot for a moment did they con- sider standing their ground but immediately commenced to dis- perse as ordered. Apparently, however, they did Doukhobor Livelihood Threatened “was thrown. Police mot move fast enough for In- spector Barber and the provincial police. A barrage of teargas bombs even pursued members of the group onto private Doukhobor property. Two women were struck in the face by unex ploded teargas bombs and other women and children were badly gassed. As a result of the appointment of the National Trust company as receivers for the property the Doukhobors face a bleak future. The jam factory is closed. Uniess it reopens the fruit crop will rot on the ground. Under Doukhobor control the factory was a model of efficient management. Now things are changed. Doukhobors can no Commandeered For F longer get employment with the Consolidated Mining and Smelting corporation. Contractors and others who form- erly gaye them work will no longer employ them. There seems ta be an organized move to prevent them from finding outside employ- ment. Deprived of these avenues ef earning a livelihood, actual want and starvation now face this patient people. irefightins The Nelson Daily News implies that two recent fires in this dis- trict were of incendiary origin and started by Doukhobors. This charge has been hurled against them time and again. But it is also a fact that no conviction for incendiarism Doukhebor. The crowning irony was when this writer boarded a train at Castlegar last weekend to find a number of Doukhobors on their way to the scene of a forest fre. The authorities had commandeered has ever been obtained against a them for firefighting. Family Starving Relief Officials Refuse Aid To Pregnant Woman By KAY GREGORY Her face showing obvious signs of suffering, Mrs. W. Le- vinsky, 1525 East 53rd Avenue, and inhuman treatment by relief officials when I interviewed her this week. She and her husband, with their seven children from two to fifteen years, came to Vancouver in Octo- ber last year. Until March, 1938, when Levinsky commenced work with the CPR, they eked out a living as best they- could. Then, on July i, he was laid off and since that time they have received no income from any source. Relief has been refused them on the grounds that they are tran- sients. Transportation- was offered if they would go back to Pelly, Sask., where they lived for three years, but relief authorities there refuse to promies any assistance, stating, “No further assistance is being given to the residents here.” Mrs. Levinsky told me she had lived in Ganada for more than 40 years. She came to Canada when three years old as a Doukbhobor | immigrant, and except for the last four years has lived in Kamsack, Sask., but municipal authorities there also refuse to assist the family in any way. A letter received from the Kam- sack Town Clerk reads: “We wish to advise you that it is no good coming back here, for the town of Kamsack will not give you re- lief as you do not belong to this town.’ Plight of the family is desperate. told’a pitiful story of starvation Their only food for the past few weeks has been blueberries, gath- ered by the children on Lulu Is- land, some potatoes given to Mrs. Levinsky by a kindly neighbor and bread made from plain flour and water. Assistance has been refused by the Welfare Federation and the Gatholic Association and although Department of Public Welfare took her application, she was informed that it would be a week or ten days before any reply came through. Impressed by the tragedy in Mrs. Levinskys story however, the girl at the Public Welfare De- partment offered her $1 out of her own purse “to help out a little.’’ That is not all. The landlord is pressing for three weeks’ overdue rent and if this fs not produced soon, they 2isk an eviction. Mrs. @evinsky is expecting another child in three months’ time and now her husband has disappeared. Presumably unable to bear the sight of his wife and children starving, he has gone somewhere to look for work. The cash is being taken up by the Workers’ Alliance, which in- tends to try to get some assistance To Cooper ieee Operations i Ridge Are Disgrace ™ Vancouver, Says Wilson LEYLAND P D 1D PRAISE) ag ee “logging operations on 4 ba lyburn are a disgrace ang | erime,” was the opinion of J | Halford Wilson as expres |) <4 at a meeting of the Board Works on Tuesday afternog “We in Vancouver are ‘interes - in the preservation of Grouse Hollyburn and we, as a eo should extend full cooperatia Reeve Leyland in his heroic etic to save this beauty spot,” ! | | declared. “The day may oo: } when the whole area can he : veloped into a miniature ove land.’’ Suggesting that a speciai mittee, headed by Mayor G Miller, should be established to operate with all organizations | terested in the preservation ~ Hollyburn ridge, Ald. DeGray stated that the council owed a @ of gratitude to Reeve Leyland { his efforts. He felt that the ¢ pany intending to log off the rid was trying to call a bluff tog j tract “a few lousy dollars” fy — eitizens to protect something a prized sreatly. “Tf they can bluff, I'm au willing to do some bluffing, @ announced Mayor Miller. He asked full authority froma council to act in cooperation Ww 1 other organizations to prey “desecration of the biggest & traction of Vancouver, its natn} setting. { “We don’t want to wake up 6 morning and find the slope Hollyburn as bare as a _ billig ball, and this is likely to hape unless we act at once,’ he declan Penticton Seeks $100,000 Water Loa PENTICTON, BC, Aug. 11-3) municipality is pressing for) $100,000 loan under the new fede}. Municipal Improvement Assistay Act. i The loan willbe used for } provement of the domestic wa system. i Tt was reported this week Ottawa was giving favorable a sideration to the application. Relief Census Will Be Take : 1 A Dominion-wide census of) persons on unemployment rel will be started on Sept. i, Sod Service Administrator W. R. Ba advised the civic relief commis this week. A similar census was taken I year. Recipients will be requil to give information of previt employment, length of time on™ lief, number of dependents & allied subjects. Smaller Apple Crop Expect VICTORIA, BC, Aug. 11—5 mated apple crop in the Okana: Valley this year will be 4,738, boxes, a drop from jast year’s bi per crop of 5,396,590 boxes. Okanagan crab apples are pected to yield 127,050 boxes, for Mrs. Levinsky and the children while she is in hospital. against 147,747 last year, and pe ' 280,325 boxes against 275,188 © year. —} SEMI- DISPLAY CLASSIFIED DENTIST BD R-D BILLIARDS Mir. PLEASANT BILLIARD HALL and BARBER SHOP Everything in Smokers’ Supplies Cigars Cigarettes Pipes Lighters — Etc. 2341 MAIN STREET DRUGS Tel. Sey. 1053 RED STAR DRUG STORE THE MATL ORDER DRUGGISTS Ger. 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