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Resampled001B6DCD A Weekly Newspaper Circulatingin the District of West Vancouver-- Amblesia'e, Hollyburn, Weston, Dundarave Caulfeild, Whytecliff, Cypress Park, Etc Newsstands 6, pel copy Vpl. II EIGHT PAGES HOLLYBURN P.O., WEST VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, SEI TEMBER 23rd, 1927 ~ Np. 25 The Allurment of West Vancouver COUNCILLOR K. A. RAY Who, with Mrs. Ray, leaves next Friday on an extended trip to Europe, visiting Great Britain, France, Italy, Egypt and Syria, and will not return until early in January. Mr. Ray, who has been engag- ed in busniess in Vancouver for the past 22 years has the reputa- tion of being one of the most progressive business men in the province. He is interested fn many ventures, the most out- standing being Ray Bros. Tailor- ing Co., Ltd., and Hudson, Burns & Ray, Wholesale Dry Goods Dealers. Mr. Ray was elected to the council of the District of West Vancouver in January 1926 and this year is chairman of the Public Works Committee. He has had a successful career both as a bsuniess man and a public official. The primary purpose of this holiday trip is to visit his mother whom he has not seen for 24 years. To use his own words, "Whilst loathe to leave West Vancouver, even for a trip, I feel that my duty to my mother calls for the visit at this time." Tax Sale Next Friday A Tax Sale will be held in the Municipal Hall next Friday, 30th September at lu a. m. Lists can be obtained at the Municipal Hall next week. E(IUH'MENT FOR PLAY- GROUND TO BE PLACED NEXT WEEK Equipment for the children' playground at Memorial Park will be installed next week ac- cording to word received from the playground committee. An effort is still being made by the chairman, Councillor Ray, and his committee to obtain more equipment, and it is expected that, when the pieces are placed on the grounds next week, the public will recognize more clear- ly the need and demand for such a playground, and that more loc- al financial support will be the result. INFANT MALADY DROPS IN B. C. Cases of infantile paralysis are now showing a rapid decline all over British Columbia, Dr. H. E. Young, provincial health officer, stated after he had received re- ports from affected districts. The worst of the outbreaks appears to have passed now, Dr. Young said, adding that condi- tions did not warrant grave alarm. Fewer eases of the disease have occurred in the last few days, and if this condition con- tinues the end of the trouble will be in sight. Football IVest Van. Rangers First League Game Saturday. The newly organized West Van ngers Football Club will hold their first league game tomor- row (Saturday) at 2.80 p.m. at the Hollyburn School grounds. The team will be chosen from the following players: Stan Stronge, Captain; J. Normand, Bill Davie, Dug. Reid, F. Cullin, Art Burns, F. Colpitts, Jack Harrison, Rob- ert Seeds, K. W. Cunningham, Byron Ferguson, Ed Nevill, and Ed. Grout. The club officials thank the public for the linancial support so far given them and grateful- ly ackno&vledge the following subscriptions: Club fees,,$7; Constable Shepherd, $ 1; "Good Wishes," $ 1; Mr. McGowan, Am- bleside Tea Rooms, $ 1; Council- lor J. T. Watt, $2; J. J. Boultbee, $5; James Thompson, $1. COUNCIL GRANT POLICE PERMISSION TO HAVE REVOLVER RANGE The Chief of Police made a re- quest to the council'hat mem- bers of the police force be al- lowed to use a small portion of D. L. 1077 N. E. l/4 for a revolv- er range. His request was grant- ed providing that the by-law wss not traversed and on condition that he assume full responsibil- ity. I'R INC I I'A L CLAIMS TECHNICAL EDUCA- TION NEEDED SCHOOL TRUSTEES MEET The Board of School Trustees held their regular meeting last night in the new school, Ingle- wood and 17th. From now on all school board meetings will be held in that building on each second and fourth Thursdays. This new school, though it is being utilized at the present for class purposes, will not be of- ficially opened until next month. "Thank God the day of pure- ly academic education is passing rapidly," exclaimed J. G. Lister, principal of the Vancouver tech- nical school, in addressing the Rotary club at luncheon in the Hotel Vancouver on Tuesday. "There is no such thing as one type of education; there are three outstanding branches: ac- ademic, commercial and technic-al." A Snooker tournament is be- ing organize&1 by Chet Shields to start next Monday. Entries must be in by ten o'lock tomorrow night, Prizes will be offered. Familiarity breeds contempt. We live day by day amid the most beautiful scenery to be found on the American continent and, because it is always before us and around us, we largely take it for granted. It was not so when we paid our first visit to West Vancouver. Then we remained silent in entranced wonder or gave vent to exclamations of delight as vista after vista of sea and mountain and forest came before our eyes. And, if we go away and live elsewhere upon the boundless prairie or amid the sandy stretches of Southern California or the more settled parts of the east and then come back again to West Vancouver, we are again struck by all the beauty that surrounds us. Even, if we have spent most of our lives else- where and return to the home of our childhood, we do not feel happy. A feeling of restlessness pervades our spirits when we are away from our adopted home here. For the moun- tains are calling, and the sea is calling, and the forest is calling, and the threefold call is inesistible. In the words of Kipling' soldier: "For the temple bells are callin', an't's there that I would be, By the old Moulmein pagoda looking lazy at the sea." We, too, hear the eall of West Vancouver and back we come. That is the explanation of the marvellous growth made by our district the last few years, and that is the guarantee of the continued growth which will be West Vancouver's in the future. Most of us first came over to spend a summer by the sea away from the noise and dust of the city in a place which was so near to Vancouver that we could go to and fro to our work every day. Many of us decided to stay on after the summer was over. Many again returned next summer, but few ever went back again to the city after the secoml summer. For West Vancouver had gripped us by that time, and her grip is as insistent as that snake charm which old mother Africa lays on those who have once visited her shores. One day, and that not far distant, West Vancouver will have become a place of ordered streets stretching down to the shores of the bay and gridironed between by the same order- ed streets running east and west. The bush will have disap- peared which at present hides our houses from the view of the passing motorist on Marine Drive. But Hollyburn Ridge will still be there, and the forests on its steeper slopes will still be there, and the sea will still be singing its song along our beaches. West Vancouver will still be beautiful with thatbeauty which the hand of man and his puny works can nevertake away. Employ Local Men During the past summer a number of complaints have been voiced about the alleged failure to employ local labor on public as well as private construction work in the municipality. Where there is so much smoke there must be more than a possibility of a little fire, in other words these numerous com- plaints are not all unfounded. We believe that our council and school board have given considerable attention to this question, and we understand that all contracts let by these bodies this year have contained the proviso that local men must be given the preference where possible.. That is, of course, quite a proper ruling, and, if followed out to the letter, would satisfactorily dispose of the matter. Unfortunately, however, it is a ruling which it is extremely difficult to en- force, and very easy to evade, if the contractor desires. The contractor, whether he be a local man or from outside our district, has probably had in his employ for a number of years many employees, whose capacity and qualifications he has learned to know and appreciate. If they happen to be local men, then they are taken on and everybody is happy. But, where he is asked to employ local men, be they ever so good workmen whose capacities he does not know from experience, he is likely to think twice before offering them employment. Forced by those who have given him the contract to do so, he is almost certain to regard them with suspicion and to go round looking for causes of offence, and trivial matters which, in the men he knows he would properly regard as trivial, loom large in his eyes when applied to the local stranger. Hence, suspicions, disagreements, etc., on both sides, resulting in all probability in the local man losing his job or claiming his pay in disgust. This is the difficulty that has to be faced by any public body trying to enforce this ruling in a contract, and it naturally follows that for them to interfere between a con- tractor and his employees is always a delicate matter. For a disgruntled contractor is ahvays liable to take less care with,„his contract and to skimp and evade in vkrious small ways where detection is difficult. It must not be forgotten that a public body, besides look- ing after its own citizens, is equally responsible to the tax- payers that the construction work is done in the best possible manner. While the above does not apply so much to the private contract, because it is smaller and fewer men are employed, it still holds true in its essentials, the difference being mainly one of degree. At the same time, as we have said before, where there is so much smoke, there is more than a possibility that there is some fire, and we would suggest that all those who let contracts, be they our council or school board or private indi- viduals, give their most earnest attention to remedying this evil in so far as it exists and in so far as it is possible to do so. West Vancouver can only grow in population to the extent that local effort and local money is spent in IVest Vancouver. The complainants are making their homes hei&, most of them are taxpayers, and they are therefore on all counts entitled to every preference to which their qualifications entitle them. Wednesday is Last Day for Joining Night Classes With the object of giving the residents of IVest Van- couver the fullest possible opportunity to take advantage of the opportunities afforded, the School Trustees have extended the time during which applications may be made to join the night classes, up to next Wednesday. Applica- tions may be made personally to the School Secretary or in writing, addressed to H. B. Garland, Secretary of the School Board, at P. O. Box 281. It is hoped that'by thus extending the time, large classes may be formed in each of the subjects contained on the curriculum arranged bythe board. The foundation of these classes by the school board represents a real effort to give local residents the oppor- tunity of obtaining useful and practical kno&vledge, which up to last year could only be obtained bv them in the city at a considerable sacrifice of time and money. The in- struction given is on a par &vith that in the city schools and we trust that every resident who contemplates taking up this winter any of the subjects in question will join the classes at once. Everyone so doing ensures himself or herself receiving the best instruction. possible at a con- siderable saving of time and money, and in addition is giving the School Board practical recognition of their ef- forts to make West Vancouver self-contained in an educa- tional &vay. If sufficient entries are made classes will be hekl in Dressmaking, Millinery, Basketry, Woodworking, Short- hand, Type&vriting and Book-keeping. CHOIR 81EETS 81ONDAY members, as &veil as others &vish- The Musical Society will nleet "g to join, are asked to be pres- next Monday at 8 p.m in the ent, so that the choir can get oit'lollyburnSchool. All former o a good start.