Page Four THE PEOPLES ADVOGOCATE Way May is, — | B Pz: == é Sona ery D y e- $b D tales x : jie Back : ack in that interior coun- othe weather, our neighbor’s@here, we could, with the hel é = =~ ot \\pe : , ; , p of People through the whole north @drawbacks too. One farmer didn’t how feel i ay try which stretches from | ‘oUbPles, Perhaps some interna- | the government, get some improve- (aaa from Smithers to Quesnel, | ship his furs (mink) last year at | on ead: = fase Sounte Peat Smithers to Quesnel live Hone ae : ments and make a better living, | talk about the need for creameries, | all because prices were so low. One group of farmers nome 2 fe. Gh fase and The farmers ere Bae in the ]if it was done in an organized | butter churning stations and cheese People and the newspapers are } all political opinions, sot u get lL mee h bl middle of the usual struggle to | manner. Hundreds of us working | factories, but this demand can’t be | talking a lot about the Alaska | tion on the embargo and 1 ie ers whose problems are | make a living. About 50 percent of tegether could do what thousands | realized. Qwing to weather condi- | Highway, but time goes on and |and sent it out. There new Ss not generally known or ap- ee eee ee assistance | could not if they worked individ- | tions, long winters, poor crops and | there doesn’t seem to be anything | been meetings of working =e preciated by the rest of BC. es ae eee oe ge oe roads. And | ually. high freight rates, it is hard and | done about it, though the project | political groups, such as the @ Here’s a letter by = GRETA J : st. ; Se almost impossible to ship anything | would give hundreds of men work |and the Communist Party, wh j $ “syrann hn (Gees, (DEE Sehools are filled with children AILROAD tie contracts were] out or in here. Many have gone in |and wages and would help the | haye forwarded petitions and q F eciciine bisct y » | who need niedical assistance, den- very small last winter, with | £°F cattle, hogs or poultry, but | farmer sell his produce. Tourists | lutions on these and other Te sketching brie ly some of the | tal care, and in some cases, particu- | some Farmers’ Institutes getting as | 4° they make it pay? Wo! would also come into the north | tions. So you can see that we P conditions and some of the leew aS the winter season, more | low as 50 ties to a member. If the Last winter eggs were down to | Country or through to Tweedsmuir | alive to our problems, even tho Be |p difficulties which are after MS 2s ing and better shoes. | tie maker asks for a bigger con- |15 cents a dozen; butter 25 cents Park. our general poverty and lack | a all the problems = ihe whole Sea eee and _children are | tract and better prices, he is told |a pound, yet many could not af Se contact with the main stream Ti iabox aunowenient oe 23 oF joe merely to there are no more ties wanted. | ford to buy them even at that pPoele up here are also looking labor and progressive thoy ~ + |p > = x ye ey can’t get enough | Prices are so low that the individ- | price. And who among us have with alarm at the national and | ™2Kes it difficult at times to a 3 By SHS oe S eee Things like | ual tie backer can barely feed him- | not Known of cases where the | international situation. As we are | the necessary influence. 5 <= BELO Soutliern HC! ‘This i6 a Sees a aot good houses, running | self even while he is steadily at farmer has had to go without but- |far away from any industrial Well Southern BC, that’s all ‘, ee = See A eo |e = electric light—vwell, work. While the writer was walk-|ter and eggs himself in order to | centers, about the only thing we |this time. Perhaps we'll dr | a ey ere a a ares ee ae S hee ew chosen ones get such | ing along the railroad last fall, | exchange them for grocers? ean do just now is to send resolu- } line again on what we think a ae re eee Daten peer ee Soa : : however, it was plain that new ties Fur farming has been one of the | tions and petitions to the goavern- | be done to improve conditiouss i s 5 & over the situation up 'were needed badly in many places. latest attempts, but that has its !ment, letting the authorities know !here in the north country. CHARGE CRUELTY DOCKERS FIGHT |Fruit G T : : ruit Growers Move To i 10 DOUKHOBORS urrey Open Forum FINK BLACKLIST Inmaugurate Single Agency — | os “ g Yy ; a Special to The Advocate : ! ate GRAND FORKS, BC, May 18 [= eG rs N eed i C Revise i Special to the Advocate KELOWNA, BC, May 18.—Fruit growers in the Okanay | it Charges of brutal treatment of see ee anes © BC, May| Valley and the Kootenays moved nearer this week to imp if Doukhobor prisoners confined to 18.—Sixty longshoremen are waging| menting the central selling scheme for the marketing oft & bis cusotdy in the jail at Nelson are levelled at Inspector John Mac- Donald of the provincial police by a group of Doukhobor women here. MacDonald is alleged to have tied cloth over the prisoners’ mouths to prevent their crying out while he belabored them with his fists and blackjack, then choked them until they fell to the cell floor. Wtib his victim on the floor the women charge that MacDonald trampies the prisoner’s spine, ribs and stomach with his Knees until the victim loses consciousness. Af-— ter this treatment they are thrown in an isolated cell. Letters protesting this sort of treatment were carried in the Nel- son newspaper over the signatures of some Slocan people but have been denied by Inspector Mac- Donald. CCF Nominate Teacher For Comox Riding CUMBERLAND, BC, May 18 — Mrs. Annie Gatz, school board sec retary, was chosen CCE candidate at a nominating convention to con- test the Gomox—Alberni federal rid- ing, which is now held by the vet eran independent A. W. Neill. Delegates were present from GGF ciubs from Campbell River, Wanaimo, and Aiberni, besides the loeal clubs. Mrs. Gatz is a native of Cumber- Jand and has been active in CCF circles for the past five years and a member of the provincial council. She is a teacher py profession and a school] trustee. System Of Taxation at an open forum meeting in Fleet- wood Hall Monday evening sored by the Surrey Workers and Farmers’ Ass'n. The party leader cited the case of farmers who pay taxes on the amount of land they own while large corporations escape. “The principle of taxation must be based on personal income, but on a graduated scale according to the size of that income, for only in this wey will the burden be lightened and purchasing power in- creased,” he said. “Bducation costs have reached a point where the land will not stand any further increase without a wholesale reversion of properties to the municipalities for tax sales. The entire costs of education must be borne by the govern- ments.” “People spending less than they earned and not investing in bonds which the government could make use of, has led us into the present state of affairs,’ stated W. Woods of White Rock, representative of the Conservative Party. “Completion of the ‘Trans- Canada Highway would provide employment for the people and bring revenue into the country spon- (Special te the Advocate) : SURREY, BC, May 18.—‘Readjustment of the whole taxa- tion problem must be achieved to take the burden off those least able to pay and placed on a more equitable basis, Fred Carr, Fraser Valley organizer of the Communist Party >> declared from the tourist trade,” he con- tinued. “Since 19380 the federal government has spent 345 mil- lion dollars for relief and nearly another 100 million in grants to provinces for the same purpose which has shown nothing in re- turn. This kind of financing is nothing short of a calamity.” The speaker advocated a system of bonuses to bolster agriculture, fisheries, mines and forestry where and when needed. Ben Shepherd, CCF, in speaking of the plight of the farmers, stated ‘“‘of the total farms in On- tario 40 percent of them were mortgaged to 45 percent of their total value in 1931, and the present Situation has not improved mater- ially.” “Farmers consumer and pro- ducer cooperatives could be oper- ated very successfully right here to counteract in some degrees the excessive marketing board costs tc the farmer,” he said. Ixeen interest was manifest in the discussion by the audience and the speakers were plied with ques- tions until a late hour. Thomas Binnie presided and allowed every- one a fair opportunity to expound Weeds of the People,’ the topic of a campaign here to smash a tenta- tive blacklist imposed upon them by the Royal City Waterfront Workers’ Association. In their struggle to regain their former po- sitions on the waterfront the black- listed longshoremen have support of the Gity Gouncil, a number of business people, the legitimate trade union movement and the pub- lic generally. This support has assisted in hold- ing the discriminated men together and now they have rented office space with telephone installed at Room 24, Hart Block. Spokesmen for the group de elare that the waterfront can easily absorb ten more gangs of experi- enced longshoremen. It is con- servatively estimated that through the discrimination of these 60 men, the cost of relief to the city has increased by $35,000. On the other hand, were these men, long time residents of New Westminster, put back to work on the waterfront, $100,000 of wages would result in increased purchasing power. As conditions now exist, transi- ent, inexperienced men are em- ployed by the Shipping Federation against the best interests of the people of New Westminster. In the light of the steep increase in the tax rate for 1939, residents are fav-— orably impressed with the cam- paign of the blacklisted longshore— men to regain their former posi- tions and thus help to lighten the relief load that overburdened tax- payers have to carry. BOYCOTT JAPANESE GOODS MY JOB W the middle of the Nineteenths eentury Weldon invented a pro- cess, now superseded, for the man- ufacture of chlorine. Unlike most inventors, he made a2 fortune, which passed to his son, who became professor of zoology at Oxford, and spent much time in measuring animals. For ex- ample, he showed that when a breakwater was built at Plymouth, and the water behind it got mud- Gier, the crabs living there became broader, apparently because they needed roomier gill chambers. We died in 1906, and his widow in 1937. His capital was mostly left to endow a professorship of biom- etry at University College, London, and IE was chosen as professor. Biometry is defined as “the ap- plication of higher mathematics to biological problems.”’ The whole af- fair is typical of the haphazard way in which scientific research is supported in capitalist countries. T only give 40 or 50 lectures per year, and devote the rest of my time to research. T am mainly concerned in apply- ings mathematics to problems of heredity and evolution, and I pub- jish about ten papers a year in various scientific journals. Some of them are quite unintelligible ex- dealt with the following prob- lem: Almost all human albinos are the children of normal parents. Now if two rabbits or rats, which are not albinos, have any albino chil- aren, the proportion of albinos (that is to say pink-eyed whites) is wery close indeed to a quarter, provided a big enough family is bred. And there is a simple theo- retical reason for this. So if the laws of the heredity of albinism are the same in mice and men, we should expect to find three normal children to one al- bino in the families which contain at least one albino. Actually the proportion is less than two to one. This is due to a simple fallacy. Most human families are small. 50 we do not include in our list a mumber of families which would have numbered an albino if only there had been more of them. This kind of pitfall is very com- mon in statistics. (<7 F I asked every child leaving school in London this year how many brothers and sisters she had, and then calculated the average, it would be much higher than the average family size in London. First, I should have no repre- sentatives of childless families. Secondly, I should have ten the forum. y J. B.S. Haldane ie Science Feature NE, which I published this year,. greatly exaggerate the number of<¢ large families. Similarly with albinos. If I ex amined the families of the half- dozen or so albinos who left school in London this year, I should have three times the chance of hitting on a family with three albino members as on a family with only one. @ ie is possible to make a correction for this fallacy, and one of my papers published this year deals with the correction. Other workers had dealt with the matter before, and I found inaccuracies in some of their vrork, so I expect the same fate will befall my own. Another paper dealt mating system of beetles. I sometimes go down to the London docks with my colleague, Dr. Phillip, and catch large num- bers of a beetle which lives in the great bales of sheepskins which are unloaded there froin various different countries. These beetles have several different kinds of colors and wing markings whose inheritance is understood. Tf the beetles mate at random the various possible kinds will be found in certain proportions. Tf there is a tendency for like to mate with like or unlike, the pro- portions will be Gifferent. Actual- ly it turns out that these particu- with the In yet a third paper I took up a problem posed by Darwin, and dis- cussed the way in which species with different mating systems may be expected to evolve, comparing, for example, the selffertilizing annual grasses and the outbred perennials. It will take some years to find out whether my theory is true or false. But for any detailed under- standing of evolution it must be discussed. Besides this, I advise my junior colleagues on their work, whieh 1s mainly experimental. .) Li. this is what is commonly called pure science, but is really long-range science; that is to say, science which will not find a prac- tical application for some years to come. But I do not doubt that at some future time these apparently rather futile investigations will prove as important as did some of the re- searches at which Swift laughed in his account of Laputa in Gulliver’s Travels. But if, as seems very much more ilkely, the horrors of our age are not merely the death of eapitalism, but the birth of Socialism, then my successors jin a happier time may think tht allowing for his in- evitable bourgeois prejudices, old Haldane thought with reasonable 1939 fruit erop. The executive members of Tree ®gan; J. Goldie, Okanagan, Geng Fruits Limited central selling agency, elected during the final sessions of the annual meeting of the directors of the British Colum- bia Fruit Growers Association, will call a meeting shortly to name a general manager to put into etect the central selling plan. R. W. Ramsay, Okanagan-Mis- sion, imtreduced a resolution which received unanimous ap- proval, advocating that the direc- tors place themselves on record in support of the principles and policy of central selling and controlled marketing, and 2 warning “that we shall be pre- pared to deal with any person or interests whe endeavor to upset such organizations.” The directors in a resolution to the government urged that the McGregor report on the combines charges made by D. Godfrey Isaacs, Oyama grower, be brought down at the earliest possible con- venience. Members of the eight-man board j of governors elected are: D. M. Okanagan; A K. Loyd and A? Hamilton, both Kelowna, Sai Okanagan; W. R. Powell, Summ land, and Albert Millar, Olin Kootenays; and Col. Fred Lis Creston, Grand Forks. ; The directors reelected A Loyd of Kelowna as their une} mous choice as president, 4 pF which he has held for several yes Delegates from all over Brit} Columbia will gather in Vanes ver for the annual provincial G convention which is slated to me - in Elks Hall, Dunsmuir Stre = June 23-25. Club members throughout £ province are now active draftt resolutions for submission to 4 provincial executive. F to delegates prior to the conve tion in order that they may becor acquainted with the questions u der discussion. W. W. Lefeaux, provincial pre dent, who is finishing his seco term, is expected to withdraw}? EE 0 SoTL Nt TTT OT a RET: Tee caliarvnnennaney se SAPO T Rattray, Salmon Arm, main line: |name from among the jpossil AT. Howe, Vernon, North Okana- members for the post. — CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING » ‘ ADVERTISING RATES ACCORDIONS MADE TO ORD E Classifiea, 3 lines 35c:. Weekly and general repairs. Vaneow © contract rates on application. Accordion Shop. 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