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<w »«M «tM ^'4 '■trr^ .~ H R G \« ' r a » . , • n» ' -------- - - ; ; - ----------- : - . _ . . , , ^ . _ _ ^ . - _ ^ _ g g - j ^ j , y - ^ Circumttfig in the District o f West Vancouver^ Ambleside^ Holly burn ̂ Weston ̂ Dundarave $l.oa per yajn̂ * _ _ CyPff*^^^ P u r k ^ C u U I f e ild ^ ) W h y t€ c iif f^ M t€ * 6c per copy i t pewsitancls. V̂ol. 1, HOLLYBURN P.p;, WEST VANCOUVER,^.C., THURSDAY. JANUARY 20tli. 1938 N o . S THE END OP THE EASY ROAD'̂••«" ■ 1' ' <•• > V In so far as historical records go, the fundamentals of human nature remain the same. Shakespeare is still,the great autiiurity, and w hat Julius Caesar wrote of the old Gauls miirhl hi? said with equal tru th of the French nation today. They have not changed. And the Old Testament tells the t̂ anm story. , . • . . . . ,, ̂ ' „ Within these limitations all great empires appear to have I'dilowod a certain cycle. .Starting as a small body or family of nomads or huntsmen, they gradually reached the s ta tu r of a tribe, which, as it grew, usually adopted a feudal form of government, During th is latter period they attacked and overtlirevv some wealthier and more cultured races who had become corrupt. and ̂effete- through- luxurious living^-aiidfr lliemselves becoming, in their turn soft from the same causes, vvore conquered by another people' yet in .the feudal stage. ' One of the main conceits of this present generation'of ours is that we are different to our forefathers, by which is'meant that we have better brains and are more advanced îli thought, whereas .all we have achieved is more popular oduciiiion, which has nothing to do with brains, and, a rj.urnber of dilettante half-baked ideas> about' life th a t only reveal our superficiality of th o u g h t..... ' ^ Tills superficiality , of thought is the result primarily of a mental inertia which again has been-caused by a certain physical laziness produced by the prevalence of machinery. One of the main objects of the inventor or scientist for years has been the devising of machines to eliminate physical labor when, he was not occupied with inventing death dealing vyejqions. We live soft luxurious lives compared with those of our torefatH'efsi'ahd th'e"f ê ̂ slackening of bur" muscles has extended to our mental processes. , We do not wish to think, We only desire to be amused,'for which reason anything disagreeable is promptly put aside under; the altogether silly impresi^ion-t-hat-in-time-it-will-rpt-and~dis'appear-ih--the-pidgeon- hole to which we have consigned it. ^Evidences of th is accumulate every day in our national, business, and,social life. We simply refuse to face the music. A gyeat show of effort is iriade aloiig these lines by way of commissions, inquiries', investigations and s'o forth, but in th e ' end nothing is done. . We do not want to rule, because it is easier and Jess dis­ agreeable to give way. And so in Canada we put up w ith the lawbi'eaking of the Doukhabors, aj|d-in India wc bow:the knee , to-Ghandi-and-hiS'^olloiwing^=bbth^f-whbm-fhe^meir-whb3nade- fK"' • 1 ' ̂S.. V MRS^'STEEVES AND GRANT MACNEUi SPEAK HERE COMING EVENTl^ • *» V ' ; "is.- . ,<v W'• . , -.N ....' V " > c- , A public meeting was held at 8 'p,m. on Thursday in the Legion Hall, when Mrs. D. G, Steeves, M.L.A., and Grant MacNeil, M.P., viewed the legislation passed tlie last sessions respectively Victoria and Ottawa. W. T. twood was in the ohair. Mrs, Steeves stated the C.C.F. members brought forward a number of resolutions, which hJidiiy, Fob. 4 th--Ueque.st Kt?- IHiut, Performance of Sketehe.s from "Bleak House" by West Vancouver Dickens' Book Club in St. Stephen's Hall. Friday, February 11th -- Annual Valentine Dance by Girls' Auxiliary to' the , Barbarian lUigliy Club' and the boys Barbarian Rugby Club, Holly- burn Pavilion. ^rhe~lVUJNlCIPAL"El7ECTU)NS- s ■»' rV.v, W - >x\\ REEVE J. B; LEYLAND Elected by acclamation for 1938, this being his ninth term. Reeye Leyland's record includes two years aî Councillor, and one year-as- Sch<wl' Trpstee. - He has been for six years a Director of the B. C. Tourist Association and Automobile ' Club'; and is Vice- President of the4JvB;G.M. ■ LIBERAL - CONSERVATIVE ' ASSOCIATION^ MEETING and handed down to us an empire would -have, wound up in short order to the greater happiness of everybody. -The"League of N ations, for which the British nations were raairily responsible, was another result of physical laziness and loose thinking. We wanted to keep all that we had with- 5-wor4s-of^he^aateiv- A meeting o f the Liberal-Con­ servative Association will be held a t .8 p.m. next Monday,. January 24th, i n "the Legion. Hall. The object of th is'm eeting is to ac- _cep±_ naw_m em b^i,_organize-a- women^s auxiliary, and to com­ plete unfinished business from the annual meeting of last F ri­ day! The annual dues are 5Q cents, and all Conservatives will ■,be-H^CQme^: - Refreshments will due to the workings of parlia-, mentary procedure were never discussed. At, the same time the C.C.F. amendment to the Mar­ riage Act is being considered next session, also the m atter of too many student nur^es to the number of graduate nursCs in hospitals and the question of too long hours. Her resolution tail­ ing' for an embargo by Ottawa on the export of munitions was discussed, but her motion for a minimum wage for domestics was turned down, as was also a bill sponsored "by her' requiring insurance companies to place a valuation annually, on all build­ ings insured. This latter 'she would pu t forward, again in the Alberta form. An^bth'er motion" of hers of want of confidence in the government for not taking up Health Insurance was not dis­ cussed. .. Grant MacNeil dealt with the issues discussed last session and which will be again before the House this session. He alleged. there was-a th reat of curtailmeh^ of civil liberty as ijistanced in the Oshawa strike, and an unfair centralization" of financial' con­ trol. He .challenged capitalism, stating th a t we must use politic­ al democracy to obtain social' Tlip Municipal elections, will be held bn , Saturday of this week Tor the two vacancies on the Council, the three on the School Hoard, and the one.on the Police Commission. A list of the candi­ dates appiuirs on page 2 of this issue. ('ANJ)IDATES' MEETING ; A meeting of the candidates for the vacancies in thoi'0f)uncil, Board of School T ru st^ s , aqd -Police- Commission-will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow (Friday) in the Orange Hall, to which the public are cordially invited. ii:"A. Ro b e r t s LTD. OPEN BRANCH RERE H. A. Roberts Ltd. announce in th i^ issue the opening of a b ran^^ office a t 1446 Marine D riveT ^ny who have property for sale or are in the market to buy< are asked to kindly get in touch with this firm's 'West Van- ■"^>ouv€T~repre'semtat7 ves; ; :G, .Vt' ■ Cole or A. S. Fair, phOnes West 702 or Sey. 7477. LANDSCAPE GARDENING "whcThad nonsuch illusions, we"did hoC think deeply enough to know that' war-cap never be abolished. Even the example of 'the Hague Tribunal and w hat happened to the agreements- imade there taught us nothing. • • We have sought th e easy road, and like all easy roads, -i t-ha s-bi-ou ght-us-to-the-edge-bf-a-pr ecipice.--Let-us-h ope-that- with that precipice before ,u's we shall have enough common sense left to realize th a t constant effort, constant vigilan^, •andconstant sacrifiice are equally with the na,tion as the mdiv- idual the price of success on the hard, hilly road of life. '• be served a t ,the conclusion of, the meeting. ' - ' • . I. O. D. E. -democracy, and wen t a t , sunie length' into t'he evils and work­ ings of patronage. In his opinion the recommendations of the National Employment Com mis- A^-WendL.,,.Iand.s(:ap'cjgardener. of Vancouver,- announces in this issue th a t he is prepared to do landscape ' work and general gardening a t moderate prices. He was the designer of the gar-,---------. Sion had only succeeded in mak- was -The--regu la i^m ^ting--of-^thez^ things fo r-the-m ost-jra rt ^ s Ba^Com=^ mean Lawson Chapter, I.O.D. more complicated. He explained * 193G~1&S7 model homes.Duncan .-E.,-was held atthe-home-of-Miss: -the-stand--he-rhad-taken on l.he YOUNGER TOWNSWOMEN'S GUILD The-meeting held on Thurs­ day evening, January 13th, a t ■ the home" o f ' Mrs,r A.' "Cromar Bruce, marked the close of a suc- ^.§gfa!Us^„ar:=sfoi^he^=YQunger responding Secretary, Miss Mar­ jorie B anks; Press Correspond­ ent,. Miss Hattie Young; Tea Convener arid Assistant, The Misses Phyllis Parkinson and Phyllis Jack, respectively; Re- , creation Convener, Miss Kath- Dauphinee on Monday, January supplementary estifnates for de ̂ JOth. ̂ fence. He was not opposed to ._-Mrs.-J-ackson^WJtlLJVIrs.-JVic^national-defence- -b u t--he-had Any interested are asked to kindly phone him at Bay view 587 or Fair. 6574-R. Taggart as co-convener, gave-a~ asked for a clear definition of splendid report on the Toy Shop, foreign policy, because they had LEGION W. A. WHIST AND DANCE which was held in the Dundar­ ave School by courtesy of : Toe H. been .asked to vote /this money without proper, information as The Shaughnessy Hospital i;o the whys and wherefores; committee under the convener-' ship of Mrs. .Froud,-paid-a"'visit to the hospital during the holi­ days? What he--a4so_-_-wanted to know was why munitions were allowed The W.A.» to the Canadian Legion will give" a Military Whist & Dance' in the Legion Hall on Saturday, 22nd January, a t 8 p.m. sharp. Good prizes will J* w ^ W o ip e n :S ri^ tra d IIo fl^ ---- t̂ee, jMrS-.-^H^kes_apjjM^_Ca^~ ^ ,«_ŝ LT-,an cr--renor-ted--scran to be shipped to a possi))le ag- ̂ ° p.m. snarp. 't re s sori^ ^ ......... Miss Drusilla Dawson in her report'stated that, airi^ong the outstanding enterprises', of the Guild were; In April the "girls gave a bridge and musical even­ ing at the Clachan, the proceeds --HV.OO--to go towards the pur- \T f>xygen ten t fo r the iVorth Vancouver General Hos­ pital; later in the year the col-' ■ Jecting of foodstuffs, and money in the amount.of $7.00, to be lorwarded by a special commit­ tee m Vancouver to the-suffer­ ers from drought in Saskatche- «'an; and, during the iChristnias eason, the members participat- games to raise money Santa Claus'Fund. 'T hey Senior Guilds members have enjoy- demonstrations by ̂ invited guests, which instructive!^ elwK? "Junsday evening the '• yeaT- officers for the new the follOTving 1 -- - 'rThe-convener is 'Mrs;TW.' Car­ ton. The retiring officers gave their places t o ^ e i r new leaders and Mrs. Bruce, the Honorary Presi­ dent, invited the girls to ̂attend the Annual Banquet to be held on January 28th, in the Orange Hall, all tickets to be purchased ^ - before the 21st instant. A discussion about the dance being arranged for March at the •Orange Hall took place, and a - committee formed consisting of Mrs. Harrington, ̂Mrs. Tearw, and Mrs. Hawkes, to assist. The Misses Drusilla Dawson and Bessie Lomas were appointed on the Oxygen Tent Fund Commit­ tee. / , • ' ■ . I t is anticipated th a t the com­ ing year will prove a most suc­ cessful one under the leadership of the new executive with the co-operation of each member. books made bylhelBrow nieTCcS^^ and bibs made by the members were_sent to the Chapter ward at the Preventorium. The popular' Younger Set Dance held in January was a grriat success. The ,date: for the production of the.play "His Splendid Fam­ ily" by the Dundarave Junior' Dramatic Society has been set for February 21st in the_Holly- ̂burn Pavilion. A nomination committee was appointed as follows: Mrs. Chap­ man, Mrs. Gordon Gray, "Mrs. Dickenson, Mrs. Parnum, and a t the close of the meeting the nomination's report was present­ ed .' CORRESPONDENCE ""le'yflsmstea-ljjrMrs-. E."Snarman7 Mrs. M. Philips, Mrs. S., Elson and Mrs. B. Rankin.' For infor­ mation. kindljL phone Mrs. W.To Editor West Van News. Sir,--Kindly grant me space Corley' West ]!84-L" Admission 25 cents, includingin your valuable paper to an- » nounce tha t the present year marks the "Coming of Age" of the West Vancouver Horticul­ tural Society, as the first exhi­ bition was held in 1917. One regrets to note that apparently ^strong societies as the "Scot­ tish ," the "Choral" and the "O r-. chestral" have" for various rear sons ceased to carry on. As President of the Horticul­ tural Society-'thi^ year, and knowing something of the cap-- abilities-, of West Vancouver refreshments. CONSERVATIVES HOLD ANNUAL MEETING Dr. Frank Dorchester was elected - to succeed Evans Was­ son as president a t the recent annual meeting of W ert "Van­ couver Liberal-Conservative As- .sociation. Other officens a re : F. D. Nicholson, first vice-presi­ dent.; Eric Makovski, .second vice ;" Vice- ; & e n t , Stella , Bruce;. J e a n .O o y d l . -Mrs. Tearoe; CJor- ■ Japan's 'la rgest imports from Canada during January to Dec- p.mjher 1937_. were _wheat, lead, - lumber, nickel, ,newsprint, and aluriiiniriiri, valued _at 77?768,070 - yen, compared with 55,776,60.4 yen in the corresponding period of 1936. " . , ---------- L -- ____ ' ---- president; sefcretary - treasurer, The annual m eeting 'w ill be citizens, 1 would ask that all old ' John T, Fox; Dave Beach, R, G. held on P^ebruary.7th. ' . members as well as many new Powell, Fred Cunningham, J. T, ______■ ■ residents, become active, m em r. 'Watt, D. E., Ferguson, "James 'bers and join with the Directors Bissett, Johnny Roberts, Jim Ed- in making* the 21st Exhibition ington and P. Gifford, executive, the " best in the annals of the A women's auxiliary, will -be S ocie ty /1 can assure the resi- formed in the course of a meet- dents of the Municipality, that ing set for 8 p,m,'Monday, Janu~ the / present members of the ary 24. ~_____ ' board are alive to their resporis- Fresh Breeze -- 19 to 24 miles an hour--small trees in leaf s tart to sway. Crested wavelets visible on inland waters. A person advertising goods for sale / t a t e d / "Money Returned if riot sa t­ isfactory." Someone -applied for the return of his money, and the reply he received-was: "Your money is quite satisfactory, we'll keep it." ibilities, and I trust to see this Moderate Breeze -- 13 to 18 year a record, membership and an hour -r- dust and loose exhibition. paper blown about. Small GEO. E. BREALEY, branches moved. \ / !• ^