| Subscription Drive
Wews and Standings

BAR FRIENDS:
* Just stx days from present writin
pks on December 5—and I’m wonde
q going Bee cee over that 100
pL in the lea with 149 subs and only 29 te 2 e j
pta of 175. South Vancouver is close on the ee a
mh 146, having gained 26 in the past week; however, South
lcouver’s quota is 200 so they have further to £o than Bair
Pee of punch and real] enthusiasm in this branch for~
Hastings Hast has put up a real 0 :
(ds third place with 131 subs. They ene ie he eee
@ are still working hard. Burrard Bast is next with 107
es gained 17 since last report. Then we have Kitsilano
#2 97, and a gain of 25 during the week. Other city branches
; trailimg badly and only Bast End gained appreciably with
subs since last report, total now 81. This branch has made

dlendid record in new subs. since 70 r
Cac es ee eee of the 81 are new readers.

readers wer

@bers. If Hast End had half 4 dbsek woke ee ee Hike

» Hrerchuk they would haye heen over the top lone ago!
OUND THE PROVINCE cae
New. Westminster is now the leadin
city, having made a gain of 27 subs this week to a total of
Nineteen of these came from New Westminster City, and
| other eight from nearby centers. Aldergrove is stil] Ene Seas
h 22 subs on record. :
(Comox-Alberni constituency is

-L0: S next with 94 subs, having
med ten during the week, and Skeena is third with 89—no
nge this week—how about

it Bruce? Prince Rupert hasn’t
en-up the ghost yet, I’m:sure! Nanaimo gained some ground
5 week with 17 subs, to a total of 62. Of the new subs. ten
me received from Duncan, three from Blubber Bay and “hes
m Hxtension. :

€ until we close the drive
Ting how many committees
percent hump? WFHairview is

& constituency outside

Kamloops constituency also gained 14 subs during the week,

'from Kamloops city and two from Revelstoke. Total for

stituency. now is 46. Victoria City ghined ten to a total of.
s and Yale has 38, unchanged since last week.

Full-standing of all committees will appear next week as we

id up this phase of the press drive.
"y cheerful reading in some spots. ’
However. we have made a gain for the whole drive of a
le better than 200 a week ever since the first of November
sn the PA made it’s debut, and as the new paper becomes
pter known we are certain that circulation will continue to
Fld. And to make it easier to do this we have worked out a
7 and interesting circulation scheme which will help a lot to
p the ball rolline.

;. TCH FOR ANNOUNCEMENT NEXT WEEK.

And here is stop press news! For the first time since the
sinning of the drive, Fairview has to yield first place for num-
of subs, South Vancouver has just come in with six more
#d ones, which brings their total to 152 to Fariview’s 149.
S=eview is still first in terms of percentage—but they'll have
keep a sharp eye on South Vancouver—those people are
Fily out for bear! g
Till next week,

It’s not going to be

Yours sincerely,

GRACE GREENWOOD.

egional Planning Survey
indertaken By Province

fo. government is undertak-
an: exhaustive regional plan-
} survey of the Province to
Hyver every possible oppor-
By for economic activity in
postwar, Hon. H. G. Perry,
ineial chairman on rehabili-
m, told a meeting of Alder-
Price’s semi-publie layoffs
@ reconversion committee this

committee. whose efforts, he

sid, was paraliel in a small way
to the work of the major nations
and their great leaders at the
Moscow, Cairo, Teheran and
Dumbarton Oaks: conferences,

_ He stated that there could not
be any rigid blueprint now for.
postwar planning. The kind of
: peace we make with Germany,
i meeting, |for instance, would affect our
fe oe ualensive ae whole economy, and this in turn
of the B.G. economy and|depends on the continuance of
ossibilities for expansion in the international unity of the
Ppdstwar. Hie said that the|great nations.

eproblem was to provide jobs
his there must be an expand-
f economy based on govern-
it measures to assist in main-
Bins the domestic market as
bas a ereatly increased for-
i trade. :

The provincial cabinet minister
also disclosed, in illustrating de=
yvelopments in B.C. during the
war, that payrolls in, the ship-
building industry increased from
one million dollars to 65 millions,
and in aircraft from close to
nothing to 20 millions.

erry also praised the civic

Housing an

ter For

icReform

General housing and slum clearance project as an urgent measure for the very near
future based on the provisions outlined in the Winnipeg City Council resolution on low-
rental housing, was advocated by John McPeake, independent candidate for Wancouver
City Council, in a broadcast over station CJOR this week.

of a pre-civie election series, en-
titled “Homes, Power, Jobs,”
which the candidate will deliver
over GJOR on Mondays at 6:45

| p.m.

PROCRASTINATION

MecPeake condemned the pres-
ent council for allowing Mayor
J. W. Cornett and Alderman
George Buscombe to obstruct ac-
tion. “The Winnipee resolution
should have been endorsed with-

out delay. Delegation after dele-
gation,” he charged, “has pre-
sented itself before council urg-
ing action and explaining: the
seriousness of the housing con-
dition but so far to no- ayail.

He asked for support of the
electors. on the basis of his
proven actions on behalf of a
genuine housing program, and as
an independent not tied to any
slate. “The present slates,” he
aeclared, “each have some indi-
vidual who can serve council as
an individual but the slate, as a
machine, is bad medicine. Now
is the time for all citizens goings:
to the polls to use a broader
viewpoint and to give a vote to
an independent candidate whose
efforts are genuine and have
beey proven in his actions.”

RESOLUTE ‘LEADERSHIP

MecPeake pointed to his efforts
on behalf of a housing program
as well as his activity as chair-
man of the housing subcommit-
tee of the Rehabilitation Council
of Vancouver, in which capacity
he contributed greatly ‘to the de-
cision to provide 125 lots for
homes for servicemen’s families.
“With resolute leadership from
the City Hall,” he continued, “we
ean improve that easily and I am
very anxious to have the oppor-
tunity to act on behalf of homes
for our servicemen and their
families as well as our other citi-
zens who are in great/need.”

RETURNING VETERANS

In the broadeast McPeake re-
ferred to the approaching end of
the war in Hurope which would
bring back a great many service-
men, some with families from the
old country, who would need
housing. “We are in poor shape
now to house what we have, but
the condition will most certainly
be aggravated with the return
of the fighting forces. And in
spite of this the Buscombes, and
others, refuse to act, or to allow
ethers to act, in the direction of
a housing program.”

The candidate felt that these
returning, veterans would not be
in a position to make an invest-
ment immediately in a home, and
would therefore need rented
houses. ‘I for one.” he stated,
“do not want to see them forced
into the unhappy position of hav-
ing to spend their gratuity to
buy something at what may be
termed bootlee prices. Anyone
whose actions would make such
a situation possible should be
challenged as to his motives.”

The broadcast was the first

A Logical Candidate

For City Parks Board —

Independent candidate for Park.
Board on a program of expan-
Sion of community projects and
facilities for leisure-time activi-
ties to keep*pace with the possi-
bilities of growth in Vancouver
in the postwar period, John Goss.

JOHN GOSS

prominent civie cultural leader,
is stressing the immediate needs
of the city with especial refer-
Lence to a large scale community
center.

“If Vancouver is to be worthy
ef its sons and daughters in the
democratic fight against fas-
eism,” he told P.A., “it must look
forward to a prosperous future
with jobs for all and the utmost
exploitation of its mineral, | in-
dustrial and maritime resources.

An increased and wider de-
centralization of means of cul-
ture, entertainment and athletics
must be encouraged side by side
with a closer working harmony
between the Parl and School
beards. and all other bodies in-
terested in the building of a
healthier, happier and more pro-
eressive city.” :

~Goss’ leadership in such wide-
ly known contributions to the
‘city as the “People’s . Concert
Series” and the art exhibition
“B.C. At Work,’> which have
earned, him the praise and re-
spect of people from all walks
of life..are expected to bring him
widespread and well merited sup-
port at the polls.

A Natural Candidate
For City School Board

Immediate planning for pro-
vision of much needed schools in
many districts of Vancouver, hot
lunches for pupils in all city
schools, extension of dental and
optical services for students, free
text books up to and including
Grade 12,’ and raising of the

EFFIE JONES

present substandard salaries of
elementary school teachers are
some of the measures being pro-
posed by Effie Jones, well known
Vancouver progressive women’s
leader and candidate for school
board in the coming civic elec-
tions:

The candidate, who has devot-
ed her efforts to raising the cul-
tural and social’levels of condi-
tions for Vancouver families for
many years, feels that these are
minimum steps which an alert
and aggressive school board
could achieve through leading
public opinion for their realiza-
tion. ;

She suggests that a compre-
hensive revision of the city’s tax
structure to ease the burden on
home owners and secure the nec-
essary revenues from those best
able to pay would provide the
answer to past school board com-
plaints of “lack of funds’

The need for new leadership
on the school board, bringing: ex-
perience in the problems of the
people and in the struggles to
solve those problems, under the
impact of the unprecedented con-
ditions arising out of the war,
brings the candidacy of Effie
Jones! to the fore.

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