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is if 1 i If Italy runs short of joint, Mussolini can always proi ide a little balcony baloney. 1 The best idea is worthless if the creator is vol willing to hack it with faith and energy. FIFTIETH YEAR, Vol. No. 43 CIIILLIWACK, B.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1941 TEN PAGES $2.00 PER YEAR Technique of Selling Occupies Attention of Horse Breeders Clash of Opinion Features Annual Meeting of Local Association Monday; Wm. Standeven Re elected President; Shannon to Judge A spirited argument over the method of selling horses at the forthcoming sale sponsored by the Chilliwack Heavy Horse Breeders association occupied the spotlight at the annual dinner meeting of the organization in the Empress hotel Monday night. The meeting was attended by sixty horsemen from the Delta to this district. Dan Hunt, prominent Abbots ford horseman, set oft the debate by advocating that each owner be given one bid on his own, stock to prevent it from selling at wha he (the owner) considered too low a price. William Standeven, president of the local organization which is sponsoring the sale, declared that people this country were not educated to this method of selling and that it had accounted for the "flop" of one outstanding horse sale in British Columbia.

It was also said that the buyer had more confidence where reserve bids were not allowed. Both Jersey and Guernsey breeders had conducted successful sales without reserve bidding, it was pointed out. This stand was supported by Claude L. Worthington, vice president, Ken Hay, Councillor J. Bathgate, E.

Dodsley Barrow, Reeve W. T. Richardson and others. George Thomson, William MacNair and Campbell Wallace, of Abbots ford, believed that the owner should have some protection modelled on the lines of Mr. Hunt's proposal, which is in use in Scotland.

In lieu of a motion to change the method of selling along the lines suggested by Mr. Hunt, the breeders decided to carry out the sale on the basis originally intended. THREE DAYS President Standeven explained that another rule of the sale was that a buyer will have three days to try out the horse or horses which he has purchased. If he is not satisfied, he can complain to a committee which has been set up by Uie association. Thla committee will investigate the complaint, and will decide whether the horse was Average Cash Subscription Of $5 Per Month Required From Two Million People Dominion's War Effort Is to Be Maximum The People of Canada Can Contribute Toward Ultimate British Victory The war savings campaign which opened this week and will continue throughout the month, is in no sense a stamp selling effort.

This point was vigorously emphasized today by Walter P. Zeller, national campaign chairman. If the campaign is to reach its objective, Mr. Zeller said, an average cash subscription of $5 per month will be required regularly from two million people. Stamps have never been intended as anything more than a means of enabling children and people with very low incomes to purchase war savings certificates on the instalment plan.

There has been an enormous increase in Canadian payrolls since the outbreak of war, Mr. Zeller pointed out. The people who are earning these extra wages are being asked to let the government "have the use of this extra money for a few years and, In doing so, provide for their own future security. In the midst of a desperate war, they are asked to save and lend all that they can after providing the necessities of decent, plain living for themselves and their families. Five per cent of the Kinsmen Club Gets Booths, Fair Board Given Weigh Scale From City Council Chilliwack Kinsmen club was granted the privilege of erecting two War Savings booths in the city for one day Saturday, February 22 provided they secure the consent of owners of stores at sites The local club is adding its weight to the Dominion wide campaign for the sale of War Savings certificates and stamps during the month of February.

The Fair association's request for the use of the dismantled city weighing scale at the fair buildings, for strictly non commercial purposes, was granted. The scale misrepresented at the sale. If it was, the committee will refund the buyer his money; if it was not, the buyer must keep the animal. The set up provided protection for both the seller and the buyer, it was pointed out. The decision of the committee will be final.

Vurthermore, to prevent a large seller from gaining an unfair advantage, each seller will have the opportunity of selling two horses and not until this has been completed will any seller be permitted to sell the rest of his string. RE ELECTED Mr. Standeven was re elected president and C. L. Worthington first vice president; William Pres ton, second vice president; Frank Akeroyd, secretary treasurer.

Hon orary presidents will be A. Davie, Ladner, president of the B. C. Horse Breeders association, and W. Hicks, Agassiz.

Directors are Ted McKenzie, Tom McBlain, Ed Buckingham, John Johnston, Campbell Wallace, Dan Hunt, Councillor John Bathgate, Syd Jones, George Thomson and Bert Gillis. George Shannon, Cloverdale, was selected to judge heavy horses at this year's fair. "I tell you one thing, gentlemen I'll be judging the horse and not the man," de clared Mr. Shannon in accepting the appointment. William Cruick shank, Vancouver, was elected al ternate judge.

Entertainment was provided by Councillor Jack Keith, vocal solos, accompanied by H. St. J. Naftel, Dan Hunt, recitation; Jock Kerr and Buster Voight, accordion and guitar duets." Alex. Davie, a head table guest, (Continued on Page Five) average bread winner's income was not, he thought, too much to ask as an investment in war savings to support the country's war effort.

The campaign committee therefore is appealing to war savers to purchase individually from one certificate per month ($48 cash per year) to 10 certificates per month which is the maximum allowed to any Investor. The Dominion's war effort, he pointed out, Is to be the maximum that the people of Canada can contribute toward a British victory. There is no other measure for it. The task of financing It must be placed on the same footing and war savings are a vital feature. Canadians who contribute their share of support In this way can only satisfy themselves and the needs of the situation by investing every cent they can spare.

Those who felt that the purchase of a few war savings stamps would meet their obligation had a wrong conception of the whole situation, he said. The committee's appeal is for the purchase of as many certificates regularly as each individual can pay for out of his earnings. will be installed by the fair board and will be used for weighing stock at fair time and on other similar occasions. A request of the Volunteer Fire Brigade that city truck driver Nixon be permitted to join the brigade, was granted, as was also a reiuest that Mr. Nixon be responsible for regular checking of the motorized fire fighting equipment.

Fire Chief T. P. Knight was reappointed to head the brigade, and Aid. H. C.

Pook was re appointed to represent the city on the Fraser Valley Union Library board. Salaries Up $6000 Over 1940 Area Board Deals With Increased Demands This Year Estimates, bugbear of any ad ministrative body, are the current worry of members of the Chilli wack junior senior high school area board. Thursday night the financial demands of 1941 were pondered at length by the trustees, and finally received a fortnight's hoist to per mit members further time to con sider matters of policy Involved. Chief headache in the 1941 finan cial picture is an item of $54,320 for teachers' salaries, an advance of $6000 over last year's expendi ture. Increased enrolment and con sequent additions to the staff are the reasons for the higher salary demand.

Members of the bbard under Chairman J. C. Brannick, went over estimates "with a fine tooth comb" in an effort to keep them in line with previous years. Government grants are anticipated to be in excess of $38,000, with the board's request to municipal and city councils expected to be between $44,000 and $48,000. Estimates will be given further consideration and completed at the board's February 13 meeting, ready for presentation to the councils February 15.

Trustees approved request from Neill MacGregor, agricultural in structor, that he be permitted to proceed with purchase of neces' sary machinery for the project which junior high school agricul tural students will put into opera' tion on 22 acres of land rented from the city. The boys will grow certified seed potatoes, canning corn, fodder, grain and seed vege tables, pooling the returns in trust account to meet costs of their projects. Financial set up of the plan was explained to the board by Principal J. C. McGuire.

Trustees spoke highly of the possibilities of the project. C. M. Pearson and Percy Hall were a committee of two requesting the support of the board for a plan to transform the present jun ior band into a cadet band, which would assist cadet training by play ing at parades of the cadets. TruS' tees expressed approval of the sug gestlons of the delegation, which will communicate with parents of the boys in an effort to put their scheme into operation at once.

It was decided that average en rolment for the last four months of each calendar year would, in fa ture, be used as the basis for prorating charges to city and municipal councils, both for estimates and monthly charges. This ar rangement will be subject to agree. ment of the two councils, but trustees expressed the opinion it would prove easy of operation and a fair basis for division of costs. Seek Better Water Service Board of Trade Names Committee Heads Thursday The Board of Trade will ask the assistance of city and municipal councils in a joint effort to secure better service for water users of the city and district, it was de cided at the first meeting of the newly elected executive Thursday noon. Complaints were voiced by the executive that there was not enough water available during the summer time; that the water was often dirty; that the program of replacement which the waterworks has Inaugurated will not remedy these conditions soon enough.

The problem was placed in the hands of H. J. Barber, chairman of the civic committee. The executive authorized the Cherry Carnival committee, headed by John Lock and consisting of Donald MacNeil and David A Sturdy, to meet with a committee from the Kinsmen club to decide on the fate of the July 1 celebra (Continued on Page Five) Coming Events Advertised in The Progress Today Thnnday, Fb. St Farewell for L.

H. Eyres, M.L.A., at Masonic Hall. Friday, Feb. 7 1 Dance, Fairfield Island Hall. Friday Saturday, Feb.

7 81 Strand, "Down Argentine Way." Feb. 10 U.Ui Strand, "Pride and Prejudice." Wedneeday, Feb. lZt Talking Picture Program, at United Church Han. Thnn FrL SaL, Feb. 13 14 15! Strand.

"Spring Parade." Friday, February 14 1 Dance, Agricultural Hall. i rm TTf MS rv "Aw come on just let me lead them down the next block that's where 'me girl friend lives!" Mechanized Equipment Wins Over Pick and Yarrow Farmers Find They Cannot Meet Low Township Cost of Gravel Hauling; Drainage Provides Agenda Investigation by Yarrow resi dents proved that they could not meet the competition offered by mechanized loading and hauling of gravel for township roads in that area, it was reported by Reeve Richardson Saturday during a reg ular session of the council. The Yarrow people had requested that they be given a chance to lay gravel on roads, at a cost approxi mating that now paid by the town ship. The yardage cost varies with conditions at source of supply and length of haul. For.

the job under consideration at Yarrow it is estimated the cost per yard would not exceed 20 cents. A request from the same district for a public crossing over'the inter urban tram line was referred to Clerk Brice to take up with B. C. Electric officials. The railway company is allowing a roadway to be used along its right of way and the crossing is necessary to pro vide an outlet to a couple of farm properties south of the track.

An allowance of $15 for 300 feet of drain tile in lieu of the township putting in a culvert was voted owners in another section. The allowance is about half the cost of tile. A delegation representing land owners contributing to the new Philp drainage scheme now being put through, made a preliminary request for compensation from the council acting as the dyking commission. Owing to additional costs occasioned by strata of quicksand encountered by the dredge, it was feared that the cost would be considerably In excess of the engineer's estimate. It was held that by taking drainage water north to the old course of Elk creek the scheme was relieving the dyking commission of pumping costs.

The council declined to make a commitment in the matter, but suggested that the work be proceeded with and when Conversion of New Institution to The big task of converting Coqualeetza Institute, long noted as a center of Indian education in the province until the construction of a new school at Al berni this year, Into a sanitarium for Indian patients all over the province, has reached the half way mark. From reliable sources it is learned that the "san" will be conducted on a non sectarian basis by the Indian Affairs branch of the department of mines and resources, Ottawa. Patients, and presumably staff, of all or any faiths will be accepted. The capacity of the hospital will be somewhere between 163 and 175 bed3, depending on conditions. This is better than three times the size of the new 52 bed Chilliwack hospital.

The department has not yet announced what is to happen to that part of the grounds of the old school which is not under its control. The area on which the school building, now being converted into a hospital, stands 7jvT xSbv lit, Wjj Shovel Days completed the question of excess cost, if any, could be reviewed The estimated cost of the work is $1800, while the acreage benefitting is 170. Owners adjacent to the old Ashwell Eckert ditching scheme, south of the railway track, made application for the use of the drodge. In this connection owners concerned with the same ditch 'Pf th.ot the track petitioned that they refused to be assessed for the cost of cleaning the ditch south of the track. Jacob Bassler, Chapman road, offered $20 rental for 20 acres of municipal property near his holdings.

Council succeeded in raising the bid by $5 and closed the deal. A request for aid in filling at the end of a private bridge was left in abeyance. A land purchase bylaw pertain ing to an acre of gravel on Cultus Lake road was given three readings. The owner is W. Simpson, Vedder Crossing.

Close Shave For Aid. H. Eyres Before adjournment of Monday night's city council meeting, Mayor Barber on behalf of the colleagues of Aid L. H. Eyres, M.L.A., presented him with a Rolls razor.

Alderman Eyres, who leaves Sun day evening for Trenton, as a flying officer In the R. C. A. was congratulated by the Mayor on being accepted, and commended for again offering his services to his country in the air force. The best wishes of the council will accompany him In his new line of duty.

Alderman Eyres has no information as to what his duties will be or where he may be placed. Pending developments and further information he was granted three months leave. Coqualeetza To Sanitarium Half Completed Be Run on Non Sectarian Basis, According to Department is owned by the department, but most of the remainder, Including the farm, is owned by the United Church of Canada. It is understood that the bulk of the building will be given over to tuberculosis prevention and treatment work but that approximately 15 per cent of the accommodation will be devoted to hospitalization of general cases. Thirty two men are employed on the project.

A. W. Cassidy construction firm which built the new Chilliwack hospital, is doing the work of converting the building for a contract price of $62,543. The work is under the supervision of a resident engineer, C. R.

Cornish, engineering 'and construction branch of the department of mines and resources. A new elevator which extends from the basement through the first, second and third floors, Is being Installed and a penthouse has been constructed on the roof of the building to house machinery for the elevator. Work accomplished since the Two Killed In Weekend Accidents Tcheacton Indian, Harrison Lake Logger Die Two persons died over the week end in this area as a string of accidents without parallel for several years continued. Jim Lewis, 22 year old Tcheac ton Indian, died Instantly at 7 a.m. Sunday when the car which he was driving suddenly left the road and crashed into a telephone pole near the E.

D. Barrow farm on Trans canada highway west of here. Lewis was accompanied by Johnny Thompson, Chilliwack Mountain, who had fallen asleep. He was unhurt. Thompson and Lewis, according to police, left early Sunday morning for a dance at Harrison.

They went as far as Hatzic but as Thompson wanted to attend the steelhead derby contest at the Vedder Sunday, they decided they did not have time to go to Harrison. They were on their way home when the accident occurred. Lewis was cut about the head and it is believed that he went through the windshield. The car struck the pole a glancing blow. John Purcell, Harrison Lake log ger, was drowned Saturday night at Trethewey's camp near the head of the lake when he slipped from a boom.

Skipper of a lake boat brought the news of the fatality to the police. Agassiz constables are investigating. His body has not been found. F.V.M.P.A. Price Up Four Cents Added To Skim Milk Value for January The Fraser Valley Milk Pro ducers association settling rate rose the equivalent of a cent a pound butterfat over the weekend following the announcement that directors had set a price of 24 cents a hundred pounds for skim, four cents above the prevailing price, The Increase will be shown on February 15 cheques for January milk.

The new rate is 39 cents a pound butterfat and 24 cents a hundred pounds for skim. The gross price is the equivalent of 45 cents a pound butterfat, or 40 cents a pound on the stand in Chilliwack The last price change applied on November milk production. The change reflects the increased demand for milk volume, notably for manufacture into condensed milk. It Is reported that one independent dairy has practically discarded the butterfat content method of valuing milk and is paying its producers on the basis of quantity production, so great a premium having been set on volume. Tentative dates for the annual F.

V. M. P. A. annual meeting have been set at Thursday and Friday, February 27 and 28, at Mission.

No further word has been received from the milk board as to what action, if any, it proposes to take on the recent decision of the Supreme Court of B. C. which declared the scheme Invalid. Serve by saving buy War Savings stamps now to help Canada do her part. commencement of operations on November 12 includes roughing in for electric conduits, plumbing and heating, tearing down old partitions, erecting new ones, provision for 18 additional windows and a large amount of plastering.

Equipment Is already being received at the building, which is expected to be ready for occupancy early In April. Extensive alterations have taken place in the basement, which formerly was occupied largely by kitchen, laundry rooms, mess hall and recreation rooms. New cement floors are being laid and the rooms are being subdivided into ray rooms, isolation wards, dark room, kitchen, staff and nurses' dining room and wards. At the south end of the floor a covered ramp is being constructed for ambulance cases, and a small building on the south end of the ramp will serve as the morgue. A huge refrigerator has been installed, consisting of four good sized rooms.

Six large refrigera German People J. A. Irving, University of B.C. Psychologist, Describes Reich Leader as 'Consummate Demagogue and Spellbinder' in Address "To suppose that there is any division of opinion between the German people and their leaders is the worst mistake any of us can make today. When 19 that we were not at war the Nazi leaders, he was gravely and desperately in error.

I he principles of Naznsm have not been developed by Hitler and his followers within the "past twenty years. They are the ideals for which Germany has These emphatic statements were" made Monday afternoon to a meet ing of the Chilliwack Women's Canadian club held in the rotunda of the Empress hotel. The speaker was ruddy, soft voiced Professor J. A. Irving of the department of philosophy and psychology of the University of British Columbia.

His address was given with the ease of the experienced lecturer. Emphasis was given his remarks by his own personal acquaintance with his topic. He has travelled extensively in Germany. He has heard Hitler speak. He has talked with Mrs.

Albert Einstein and learned from her of the persecutions of the Jews in Nazi Germany. TREACHERY "Principles of treachery and in effable duplicity have characterized German foreign policy for centur ies," said Professor Irving. He traced these principles through years of German history, with particular emphasis on the unprovoked aggression of Germany In the 19th century. In 1864 Germany attacked and defeated Austria at Sadowa. In 1866 she crushed Denmark.

In 1870 she attacked France and conquered her. All through European history the Germans have been trouble makers. They have always been given too sympathetic treatment when they have been defeated. Even the treaty of Versailles, considered so severe by some historians, was an easy peace compared to the treaty of Brest Litovsk, which Germany forced upon defeated Russia in 1917. The inflation of German currency and resulting collapse of middle class prosperity in Germany in the 1920's was caused not by a harsh peace treaty but by Internal mismanagement.

NO BACKGROUND A liberal government that of the Social Democrats was in power in Germany from 1918 to 1933. However, no democracy could function properly in Germany as there was no background of experience to help it operate successfully. Although the German government was supposedly insolvent, dozens of expensive parks, hospitals, and public buildings were built in this period. These were financed by British and French loans to Germany, which amounted to a sum double the amount of the reparations paid by Germany during the same period. However, no effort was made to solve the problem of unemployment, and during these years Hitler began his rise to power.

In 1918 he vowed to devote his life to bringing Germany back to her rightful place as the dominant nation in Europe. He did not create any new ideas, but simply selected the principles of Naziism from the German national life and traditional philosophy. NO SCALAWAG In 1923 the National Socialist German Workers' party called Nazi for short attempted to seize power in Germany. Hitler had the support of military, aristocratic tors will be installed in diet kitchens on the other floors. A portion of the main floor will be used for offices for the superintendent, matron, and secretary.

The remainder of the floor is given over to wards and a chapel. Largest wards in the hospital have a capacity of 12 beds. A partition which does not extend to the ceiling divides these rooms. Other wards are single, two and three bed affairs. Second floor facilities include an operating room, case room and nursery on the northeast corner.

Nurses' stations are at each end of the first two floors. The third floor will be used largely for staff accommodation. Large dormitories and a number of smaller rooms will be used. Because of the necessity for cleanliness, practically all equipment will be steam cleaned and the heating facilities have been extended to provide for this. Minor repairs are also being made to the home at the front of the school.

United Behind Chamberlain said in September, with the German people but with stood for centuries." and industrial leaders, who pyrnim thized with his object of restoring German domination. He was not merely a scalawag followed by rabble, as it has often been thought. He embodied the German ideas of racial superiority and (Continued on Page Five) Week by J. H.Ward The news of the current week has been more of a speculative nature than physical. It is concerned more with probabilities than with actualities, except for the continued Allied advances in Africa.

There has been the threat of invasion, the scheming by Germany for French warships and naval bases, the play made by Japan for strategic advantage in the South Pacific, and the con War of tinued wordy battle Words over Roosevelt's lease lend bill. All are in the realm of verbal and diplomatic warfare rather than of physical conflict. And consequently they all form perfect bases for widespread and intense speculation. In the light of recent events one man's guess is as good as another's until something tangible is produced by such activities. In the meantime it is well to be prepared for invasion, to be resigned to the loss of French warships, to keep a watchful eye and ear on Japanese activity in the South Pacific and anywhere else that they may happen to be, and to trust and pray that the lease lend bill will be given as swift passage as pos sible so that the full power of American aid may be felt without further delay.

The lack of aerial activity acrohs the English Channel of recent nights may be of major significance. Many see in it an ominous sign of the calm before the storm of invasion; others incline to the belief that Germany is Ceiling realigning her aerial Zero forces and reorganizing her aircraft factories for production of new types of super planes. These may be factors, but It is more probable that bad weather is the main cause of this inactivity. And, in Germany's very best manner, the other reasons have been broadcast by the grapevine route as part of the war of nerves. 1 1 1 Meanwhile an ever recurring, contentious subject has been very much to the fore during the past few days.

It is the matter of Allied war aims. The absence of fixed objectives for the post war period seems, in the minds of isolationists and others, to place the Allies in a defensive position Aim leSS? when confronted with the declared objectives of the German New Order. Primarily, of course, the Allies are in a defensive position anyway, and their first consideration must necessarily be that of survival. They are fighting for their life, for life as they know it. As for post war aims, he who would essay to foretell what conditions will prevail after the struggle and what kind of a world order will then be possible would be a prophet Indeed.

For the present, our aims are mainly the negative of Germany's. 1 1 And meanwhile our own government is stressing the urgency of war financing. The haphazard manner of selling War Savings Certificates has given way to an organized and Invest concerted drive to get III Us wa8'e earners to methodically invest in this security. No doubt Adolf's New Order would sneer at this out dated future mortgaging method of raising funds. And possibly a remedy for this will constitute one of the first moves of our own new order.

Meanwhile, we can invest of our own free will. And we can't get any better security because all other securities are dependent upon the success of this one..