Foti 1 SPW Cr Sr 0) Cert ek eT ee Rt & fan m ~ SY thew wy Bi, my (nen Wie f Ly MCh Rt AS Re wap ee et oe iv) tt) WW te ee ry At fie mm SOT ibe mee ce (Nae tee Pome \ ye, SA OA Nn wm © OVS Gk An Re = Page Four ~ THE PEOPLES ADVOCATE ROYAL CITY T0 PRESS FOR DROP IN SCHOOL TAX City Deficit Jumps By $200,000 Yearly, Annual Report Finds NEW WESTMINSTER, BC, July 13. — Despite increased revenues and a scaling down of expenses, the city is soing be- hind to the extent of $200,000 a year, Alderman H. J. Sullivan, finance committee chairman, informed the city council Mon- day night in reporting on the external audit made by Griffiths and Griffiths. This deficit is due mainly to in- creased department and educa- tional costs, the alderman stated. Operating costs of the various departments, excepting water and light, had increased by over $176,- 000 since 1934. Rumors were dispelled by the finance chairman that there were irregularities or discrepancies in the Civic accounts, although he did State that handling of finances could be improved. Completion of reassessment of land and improvements was urged by Ald. Sullivan and a con- tinuance of the fight through the Union of BC Mrunicipalities for a reduction of school costs. Aldermen turned down a recom- Mendation of Ald. J. L. Sangster to renew, for five years, the agree— ment with the BC Electric Rail- way Company after a letter from BE. E. Walker, light’ and power sales manager, informed the coun- cil that his company was -unabile to supply electric current at ay, lower rate than watt. Surfacing of Sixth street between Eighth and Tenth avenue was or- dered at a cost of $3852, and the civic board of works will report later on work of West Bighth avenue. -95 cents a kilo- Alderman William T. Cook said that unless some improvements were made on this street there was a possibility of bus service being withdrawn. VICTORIA, July 13 — Arrange- ments are progressing between United States and British interests to erect a $7,000,000 rayon mill near Campbell River, which will provide work for 2 number of Vancouver Island workers and provide compe- tion to imports of Japanese made “Relief Mentality” Charge Blasted By Ratepayers sallem’s statements that ~ genesis’ sharply replied to by the Maple Ridge Ratepayers’ Association in a circular letter distributed throughout the municipality. The reeve’s statements appeared in an open ietter published in the Fraser Valley Record and was ad- dressed to Reeve A. B. Catherwood and Mission District Council, seek- ing an exchange of opinions on how to meet the exigencies of the unemployed situation. The ratepayer-s letter sent out along with the reeve’s agrees that the total cost of indigents should not be borne by the municipality, but charges that the reeve, instead ef using his influence to obtain greater help from the govrenment, places the onus of this liability on the “indigents.” “A cursory examination of the figures of any statistical authority will prove that the situation was not developed through the mental attitude of the workers but from @ conerete shortage of the oppor- tunities to work,’ the letter states. Regarding the strange disease of “relief psychogenesis” which has developed, the reeve is very point- edly asked to examine the muni- cipal lists and determine how many are women, their ages, and how many are bedridden or totally in- capacitated. Reference to work being done by unemployables is a striking indict- ment of the council’s nning if it comes under the reeve’s category ef “work of no real value’ when it is considered that the reeve has called attention to the excellent state of roads and bridges in the municipality which is the result of the “no real value” relief work. “This association believes that the opinions in the letter represent only Reeve Mussallem’s private views and not those of the whole council.” Picnic Plans Upset By Lack Of Response NEW WESTMINSTER, July 13— Plans of the Workers’ Alliance to give children of unemployed par- ents a picnic have been temporarily upset owing to the poor response to a tag day for that purpose. The committee is appealing to local unions to augment the $50 now held in reserve for the outing slated for July 23 but designation of the place will depend on further dona- tions being.«received at the office of the Workers Alliance, 334 Car- rayon and silks. narvon Street. or the effect of relief on their mental attitude” > WHONNOTK, July 13—Exception to Reeve Solomon Mus- we have a growing number of indigents of the unemployable type, produced through ‘relief psycho- was JOBLESS DENY ‘SUCKER’ GAME Special to the Advocate NEW WESTMINSTER, July 153. —Charges made by Ald. Mott at City Council meeting Monday night that relief recipients were trying to “play the city for a sucker” relief Payments were refuted by George F_ Smart, secretary of the Work- ers’ Alliance, who cited two cases where less than the minimum siven. A 60-year-old man who resides with his son, also on relief, is paid $3 a month and has been consist ently refused further aid. The son contends that he cannot keep him on his allowance amounting to 10 cents a day. is The case of a woman receiving $6 a month, although she is en- titled to $9, was pointed out te the alderman. The relief officer has a personal dislike for the woman, stated Smart, and this makes it difficult for her to get any more aid. Yolunteers Wanted To Roll Bandages Volunteers ot roli bandages or persons who will establish a unit for this work in their own homes or nearby halls are sought by the China Medical Aid Committee, Room i7, 163 West Hastings Street. Mrs. A. M. Stephen has under- taken to instruct anyone in cutting and rolling the bandages which are to be sent to China where more sol- diers are dying from lack of atten- tion than fall in battle. She will be at the office on Wed- nesday and Friday afternoons from 2 until 5 pm to supervise and give instructions. Dr. Norman Bethune, outstand- ing Canadian surgeon, has appealed to his own people, particularly the women, to establish medical com- mittees which will roll and pack bandages. Teas and sales of work eould be sponsored by the groups to purchase further supplies of gauze and absorbent cotton. Boycott Japanese Goods! ALASKA ROAD COMMISSION 10 REPORT SOON Will Decide On Best Route For Big Highway Project Canadian section of the Alaska Highway Commission which is now conducting hear- ings in a number of points along the two proposed routes, is ex- pected back in Vancouver dur- ing the middle of next week to FVMPA FACES SERIO us report its findings to the United States section. Since July 6 when hearings were | held in Prince George the Commis- sion has travelled to Hyder, Alaska, Stewart and Atlin, and will be in Prince Rupert this week- end in an effort to determine which of the two routes are the most feasible. Tavo planes are being used by J. W. Wardle of Ottawa, Commis- sion Secreary L. J. Burpee and A. Mitchell to make a week’s survey flight over the two routes. At Stewart the commission was’ informed by E. T. Applewhaite and W. M. Rolston, who presented a brief, that construction of the highway can be pushed both north | and south at three points between Hazelton and the Yukon boundary if built along the western route. | Vegetable Men Okeh Single Agency Scheme OLIVER, July 13 Southern Okanagan vegetable growers this week by majority vote named Tree Fruits Limited, central selling agency of the BC Fruit Growers As- sociation, as the marketing agents for their products. How the centrai selling agency plans to handle the crop is now being worked out. Growers have been asked to ac- cede to a levy of one cent a box on apples and half cent a crate on soft fruits to finance an extensive advertising campaign in connection with marketing the 1939 crop. NEW WESTMINSTER, —Backed by Czech Alaska Pine Company ation Monday Wood which July 13 capital, the started oper- of the International Products mill (Kraft’s) it recently purchased. The mill has been shut down since April, 1937. Last week the Royal City police received a call to the plant and on arrival, found some 300 workers seeking a chance to be taken on. Only 100, whose union activities were not known, were hired. Science Controversy @©periments of In recent weeks the Amer- *% ican press has carried sen- sational reports of a contro- versy in the Soviet Union be- tween Trofin Lysenko, presi- dent of the All Union Aca- demy of Agricultural Science and discoverer of the law of development of plant life by stages, and Professor Vavi- lov, first vice-president of the Academy, over the Mende- lian theory. In the following article the Moscow correspondent of Inter-Continent News ex- plains the basis on which So- viet science is founded, sum- marizes the poimts in dispute and shows that it is anything but sensational. e MOSCOW, USSR NW THE specialized press and also in scientific cireles of Soviet agriculture, constant energetic, creative work is being conducted, revealing new methods and theo- ries, while at the same time every— thing is done to utilize the scien- tific heritage of the past. Therefore, Soviet agricultural science not only stimulates and develops the work of such people as Lysenko, who by developing the teachings of Darwin, on the basis of experiments of Burbank and the Russian Burkank, Michurin, Gas expounded the theory of the development of plant life by stages, but it has also given the possi- bility of scientific activity and ex- scientists who other points of view. In particular, Academician YVayi- lov upholds the theories of Mendel have and Morgan, ie, he takes the position on basic principles ot genetics, which differs from the position of Lysenko. e HESE differences have been known for a long time. Science in the USSR is developing, by means of the struggle for truth, and therefore, it is not extraordin- ary that there is a controversy between two contradictory scien- tific theories. The controversy is expressed in debates which are taking place at scientific conferences, at special sittings of the Academy, etc., and is also being dealt with on pages of scientific periodicals, particu- larly in the magazine published by Iysenko which is called “Ver- nalization.” Were, alongside with the results of experiments conducted by Ly- senko and his followers, we find selected articles from the works of Darwin and quite a number from the works of the great Am- erican scientist, Burbank. Professor Vavilov also writes in this magazine and in addition he, himself, is editor of official publi- cations of the Academy of Agricul- tural Sciences and a number of periodicals. YSENEO and Vavilov have tre- mendous possibilities for the de- velopment of their scientific ex- periments. An army of hundreds of thousands of collective farmer experimenters, who in practise have become convinced of the tre- >mendous superiority of Lysenko’s | methods for the development of agriculture, are daily conducting experiments, the results of which are sent to the Odessa Scientific Research Institute, which di- rected by Lysenko. But the work of Vavilov is alss not restricted to the writing of articles. The Institute of Plant Growing, which is directed by Vavilov, has more than 1000 scien- tific workers, and already as far back as 1937, had an annual bud- get of 9,500,000 rubles, which is ten times more than all scientific research institutions dealing with agriculture had under Czarism. This institute has approximately 15 experimental stations through- out the whole of the USSR, and has given a number of valuable varieties of plants to the country. The men of Soviet science are not eclectics. They do not believe that science can be developed otherwise than on the firm base of a materialistic world concept, and they are fighting in order that those scientists who up until now have retained idealistic concepts be won over for materialism. Vavilov, up to the present time, has not stood on the position of materialism. Wevertheless, Soviet power has placed at his command all the means necessary, not only for the practical verification of his own theories, but also for the examination of Lysenko’s works e T SEPMS that some American newspapermen recently read in the daily newspaper “Socialist Agriculture” a letter signed by 24 students of the Timiryazey Agri- cultural Academy, in which they, is Soviet Scientists Debate Mendelian Theory *quoting the opinion expressed by | uysenko several months ago, de- mand in sharp form that formal | genetics, that is genetics as devel- eped by Mendel, be discontinued in the curriculum of Soviet uni- versities. In the edition, on the same page, an article appeared by A. R. Jer- bak, professor of the same univer- sity, in which he defends an alto- gether different viewpoint, in- sisting on the preservation of gene— ties as a subject to be included, and refuting the criticism of the teachings of Mendel and Morgan. Wence in the official newspaper of the People’s Commissariat of Agriculture these opinions are ex- pressed freely. This is how scien- tifie differences are being ex- pounded and no one here is su>- prised by its sharpness. Of course it is difficult for the layman to find his way in the de- tails of a scientific debate. Nor do we have suffiicent space to deal with this question in detail. WN REPLYING to the question: Who is right, we can reply with the old English proverb that the “proof of the pudding is in the eating.” There can be no doubt that in this question the followers of the progressive theories of Darwin, Burbank and Michurin will be vic- torious, as is shown by the tre- mendous success of the Darwinian methods of selection. Their out- standing representative is Lysen- ko. They have at their disposal the decisive weapon of scientific progress the Marxist-Leninist world concept. By E. Special to the Advocate | 3 CULTUS LAKE, BC, July 1: ——Demands, voiced By mem f price war as the only solution to the milk marketing deadliest | met with the disapproval of W. L. Macken, association president 7 in the course of his address at the annual picnic held here’ \ Saturday. While no ultimate gain could be won for the industry ‘many, producers would be eliminated pendents who have large financial < reserves would be able to hold out much longer, the president stated. “Never has the FYMPA been in such a serious state,” he said, “and while I regret to be in a sombre vein, I must advise you to con- serve any reserve income for times are going to be FRUES harder for some time to come.’ Dealing with the Single Agency scheme which has been declared ultra vires by the courts, Mr: Macken said it would be some time before it could be reestablished and operating, “But even so we have no assur- ance there will not be further in- junctions no matter how careful the board may be in reframing the agency setup. “There seems a deliberate or- ganized effort to prevent the pro- ducers from gaining control of their products—an effort apparent- ly supported by the courts and press. Various organs of publicity are available at all times to those opposed to the FVMPA while we do not get a break,’ Macken de- clared. The association head felt that if the 300 producers now supplying dealers with milk were convinced of the true position of their deal- ers they would demand an imme diate stop to such disruptive prac- tices. In conclusion, Mr. Macken stated the FVBMPA had handled more milk than in any corresponding period in its history. Despite the fact that the asso- ciation’s butter commands the highest market price, returns had never been so low. Dean F. M. Clement of the Uni- versity of BC cryptically told the Picnickers that “business ideals amounted to capturing as much of the other fellow’s business as pos- sible.” He inferred that the cooperative experiment had failed and should be supplanted by a farmer business BAKER in the process as the big inde organization to capture the mar- ket with the same tactics as the other independents. Other speakers were E. D. Bar- row of the Milk Board; J. Parks, Single Agency; H. J. Barber, M-P; Walter Leek, former chairman of the Vancouver Exhibition; Reeve Woble Rider of Chilliwack muni- RAYON PLANT | TO BUILD HERE | Induced by a plentiful supply of pulpwood on the British Columb) coast and driven from Hamburg > Germany, by Nazi persecution of |9% the Jews, the firm of Moritz and = Pincoff are backing the plans ig = establish a $3,000,000 rayon silk © industry in Worth Vancouver, which, when completed, will em- ploy about 1000 people. Already a finishing plant is under construction on the 32-acre waterfront property just, east of the Lions’ Gate bridge and by spring the $2,500,000 rayon yarn plant is expected to be ready for operation. company Paul Zuest, represen- tative, has left for London and other European capitals to com- plete financing the project. Vancouver Rayon Silk Mills, as the company is known, was incor porated Monday at Victoria with a capitalization of $500,000. While the plant with its man factures of rayon will tend to stimulate employment in the pulp camps of BC and other related in- dustries, a severe blow will be = dealt imports of Japanese rayon and silk goods which have been on the increase to both Canada and the United States. Since 1933, when imports of rayon products from Japan totalled $140,000, the quota has steadily in- ¢ creased until in 1938 Canada’s im- § ports amounted te $200,000. Another inducement to foreign capital establishing manufacturing plants in Canada is the preferen- tial trade agreements. British Empire goods are protected by a 3314 per cent tariff. of the Associated Dairies, chairman. Four members of the Milk Pro ducers’ Cooperative in Wasbinetee! attended. A number of farmers eapressae the opinion to your correspondent that what the farmers need is & “farmers’ union” to settle the was cipality. H. J. Mercer, president many problems. 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