6 “oo ccc A Word with Our Readers By Grace Greenwood mice DEAR FRIENDS: This is the last drive report but one—and it gives me as much pleasure to write as I hope you will get out of reading it. As there may still be some remittances not yet received. but Mailed before the deadline Wednesday night, and we have two pre- viously. arranged windup affairs in the city this weekend, I cannot yet give you the final total, but the tables below will be the last full listing for each area. Any changes by next week will be ac- knowledged Separately to the credit of the committees concerned, and the final figures given. Receipts to this date are as follows: Subseriptions, $3,218.50: dona- tions, $4,736.77; dance, $2,578.00. Total, $10,533.27. This is 140 percent of our $7,500 objective. It’s not all velvet, of course, and a statement of the exact financial position will appear next week. We've gathered up some more subs too—_a total of 1948—so we've. realized nearly 78 percent of our quota in this department. Unless a late remittance upsets the present standing, and I don’t anticipate anything like -this, the drive trophy goes to- Duncan with 317 percent on its auota. It has been nip and tuck between this committee and Hjorth Read, which led the parade up to the last day, when it had 311 on its quota. There’s not much doubt that Hjorth Road will hold second place, while Cowichan Lake is now third with 276 percent. Summing up the work done in all the areas participating, we find that Greater Vancouver made the most brilliant record, count- ing OF Bill’s one-man show. All but one of the 14 city committees “went over the top, several of them well over. Grandview and Fast End are especially to be congratulated. because both committees Came near doubling their $500 quotas. South Wancouver too; did a wonderful job with 183 percent on its $400 auota. Vancouver Island as a whole made a fine showing. It is almost certain that two island committees will be among the prize winners, and besides this eight to eleven committees participating made 100 percent or over. Cumberland deserves special mention for having almost doubled its $100 quota. The Island made 132 percent on its quota, Eraser Valley also topped its quota—120 percent and Northern and Coastal B.C. came very close with 97 percent. Vancouver City Press Drive Committee is holding a Wwind-uv rally on May 22, at Hastings Auditorium. to honor winning committees. and to present the book prizes for individual achievement. Will out-of-town “committees please make a special point of letting me know im- mediately the name of members who have $35 or over to their personal credit. Next week, with the omission of the tables, I will have more space to tell you about the work done by individual drive workers, and to acknowledge donations received from trade unions. So until then, thanks fer everything. Your Press Drive Director, GRACE GREENWOOD. STANDING OF ALL COMMITTEES Northern & Coastal B.C. Greater Vancouver Wame Quota Rec'd. % Name Quota Rec'd. % Britannia —__——ss- 335':«i102.00 291 Grandview ___ 500 987.50 197 Pinehi Lake ___ 385 ss«455.00 157 East End — 900° 92263 184 Sointula _.._———ss-775)~—s—s« 993.50 «124 South Vancouver 400 733.75 183 Atlin _— Ses AO Sa Oy Georgiay 2.2 =. 300 500:00 166 Powell River __ -40-—Ss-- 8.00 = 95 Hastings East _ 400 542.77 135 Pouce Coupe ___ 10 8.00 80 West End — 500 651.11 130 Prince Rupert _ 150 89.00 59 North Vancouver 300 383.73 128 Gibson’s Landing 30 15.50 50 #Mount Pleasant _ 350 42810 122 Grassy Plains _. 15 7.50 50 # £=Kitsilano __ 500 606.75 121 Whitehorse _____—»—«+50—s—s«22.00 Ss «444~Ss«XWicttorry Square — 900 59450 119 ' Percentage for erea: 97 South Hill _____—«250. 295.87 118 Burnaby 300 350.00 116 Marpole _._._ _——Sss-775~—S («46.00 =Ss« G1 Okanagan & Central B.C. OV Bill _______ 250 267.00 106 Name Quota Rec'd. % Percentage for area: 144. Gsoyoos _..__ ss 25)ss«d550.50 202) =” Salmon Arm. 50 57.00 114 Vancouver ves Gee Enderby 30 33.00 119 Name Quota Rec'd. % Kamloops — 60 6250 104 Duncan __.____ 40. 127.00 317 Notch Hill __ — 20 20.50 101 Cowichan Lake — 40 11050 276 Kelowna ______ 3025.32 84 Cumberland ___ 100 182.00 182 Malakwa —_-—s—«a2.0 8.00 40 #£=Victoria — 500 632.50 126 Copper Mountain 60 1200 16 Youbou sore 20 22.00 110 Not reported: Princeton, Pen- ort Alberni __ 100 109.50 109 ticton, Mount Cartier. Benen a 32 aLe iGo : : ourtenay —_ a : Percentage for area: 68. Ganobe aie 6b 20,00 80 Nanaimo 35 ©2500 Puesers Valley, Ladysmith 35 400 11 Name Quota Rec'd. % Percentage for area: 132. Hjorth Road _.__--30)=0s_«- 93:55 = 3311 IAN ey Se 40 55.00 132 The Kootenays ; Fleetwood — 20 25.00 125 Name Quota Ree’d. &% Langley Prairie . 30 3425 110 Michel - _ 70 70.00 100 New Westminster 175 186.40 106 South Slocan ___ 60 43.25 72 Websters Corners 50 4180 83 Nelson —— 30 10.00 33 Port Kells 20 7.00 35 Kimberley 60 12.00 20 Cloverdale _____ 30 (0029 ira ans ee 230 5.00 6 Newton — 85 9.00 25 Not reported: Fernie, Cran- White Rock _..._. 20 400 20 brook, Rossland, Silverton. Percentage for area: 32. Percentage for area: 102. OF —— th th tion oe Flat on their stomachs, American troops crawl through barbed wire as explosive char go off a short distance from them during pre-invasion training for battles on the c tinent of Europe. United Nation Forged In Struggle Recognition of Gov't Urgec Full recognition of the Yugoslav provisional government of Dr. Ivan Ribar and Marshal Tito, the freezing of Yugoslav funds now being used by the government-in-exile, and com- plete acknowledgment of the traitorous role being played by General Mikhailovich were demands advanced by a packed meeting sponsored by Croatian, Slovenian and Serbian or- ganizations at Paradise Theater here last Sunday. “The citizen army of Yugo- Slavia has held back as many German divisions as the com- bined British and American forces in Italy,” said Howard Costigan, noted Seattle radio commentator, who was the main speaker of the evening. “Above all else this proves one thing. The people will fight without planes, without tanks, without guns, if you= give them some- thing to fight for.” Summarizing the aspirations of the Yugoslav peoples for the future of their land, Costigan said they most wanted victory over fascism, and, next to that, “to know that the people who Tan out when the going got tough, to form a so-called gov- ernment in London, or Cairo, or wherever it is now, will never come back—except by invita- tion.” “After all,” he went on, “any Yugoslay has the chance to fight for his country. If King Peter wants to help, the way is open to him. Tito will take willing recruits, whether they be kings or commoners. And Peter could start at the bottom and work _ his way up. “But Peter has chosen his side. He has placed himself in the hands of the ministers of the gevernment-in-exile, and his fate is bound up with theirs.” The $90,000,000 belonging to the Yugoslay people must be JOHN STANTON Barrister - Solicitor - Notary 502 HOLDEN BLDG. 16 E. Hastings St. MAr. 5746 frozen so that it can no longer be used to circulate poisonous propaganda against Marshal Tito and his partisan army, Costigan declared. “Its time to face facts,’ he continued. “For a long time Mik- hailovich has recognized only one enemy, the people’s army. We must call a spade a Spade. Any friend of the fascists is an enemy of ours. And Mikhailo- vich is the friend of the fascists. “Out of the white heat of their common struggle the people of Yugoslavia are forging a nation 2 as men of the type in the €rnment-in-exile failed to it in the two decades afte last war. The struggle in slavia gives the lie to skeptics who believe it i: possible to build this ce | of the comman man,” he © A. Metkovich, Seattle bu: . man. in his moving appe:z support for Tito demons: the feeling of unity betwer patriotic Yugoslavs, regard] class, who support the pe army. : “As Yugoslavia goes, so the world,” he said, “and if Peter and his sovyernmer furn, there will be no peac. harmony in Yugoslavia!” Elmore Philpott, outsta Vancouver newspaper colur added his tribute to the fig men and women of the Na: | Liberation Army- Meet Your Friends: at the Empress Hotel 235 Hast Hastings Street P.A. 5364 Under New Management Modern, Strictly Fireproof Building All Rooms with Outside Exposure Rates $1.50 and up Parlors Comfortably Refurnished