ABBOTSFORD, SUMAS & MATSQUI

YOU CANT PUT
A PADLOCK ON
YOUR PURSE

But you can put your money
where you will not be tempted to
spend it. You need a plan for sav-
ing, just as you need a plan for
your own work or your child’s
education. Start your savings plan
with the first dollar you can spare.
Open an account with the nearest
Post Office Savings Bank and let
nothing stop you from adding to
your savings regularly. Just as
buttons accumulate, one by one,

in the drawer of your sewing ma- Best Foods — Best Service
chine: so will dollars accumulate Best Prices.
in your Post Office account. Com- ae

pound interest at 2 per cent. is
paid and withdrawals may be con-
veniently made at any time you
require some cash. But don’t with-
draw except in case of real need.
Cultivate the habit of thrift.

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H. MORGAN, Proprietor

736 Columbia Street
Near B- ©. E. R. Depot

Modernize
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Plumbing

under the

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Abbotsford Brokerage & Realty Go.

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Phone 116 Abbotsford
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| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The A. S & M. News invites
correspondence of a public nature,
but does not hold Itself in any way
responsible for the opinions express-
ed. No letter to the Editor will be

accepted unless signed by the writ-
er though a nom de plume may be
used In publication if desired. Brief
communications are more likely to
be considered for publication,

Mexican Oils Expropriation

Editor, A- S. & M, News;
Dear Sir:

I wish to take issue with you In
your editorial denunciation of Mex-
ico for that country’s sale of “stolen
oll to Nazi Germany. Events in
Mexico warrant some attention and
study on the part of people intel-
ligently interested in world trends
and conflicting ideologies,. and If
fear you have attempted to dispose
of an important question in too off-
hand a manner. I feel that I can
speak with at least a little author-
ity on the subject, since I have
followed with considerable interest
developments in Mexico since the

year 1921, the boom year in Mexican
oil, when I was employed as camp
boss by one of the major American
oil companies in the southern Tam-
pico ofl fields. -In that year, inci.
dentally, export tonnage from tho
comparatively small port of Tam-
pico was the greatest for any port
in the world. The Tampico oil
fields were gutted in such a mad
competitive rush that what were
rated as the most prolific known
oil fields of the world were, to a
very serious degree, ruined for fu-
ture production by the greedy and
reckless competition of foreign , op-
erators, racing each other to skim
the first rich flows.

Now in the first place, expropria-
tion is not just an old Spanish cus-
tom; it is an established British in.
stitution, an institution in nations
around the globe; and only the more
narrow-minded of us would be so
presumptions as to lay down the
rule, that the nature of expropria-
tion in any one country should ne-
cessarily be bounded ‘by what we,
in our own British tradition, have
so far followed. Mexican oll prop-
erties have been legally and constli-
tutionally expropriated for the com-
mon weal of an autonomous state.
In fact not only oil, but also other
mineral and agricultural lands; for it
has been a notable and much her.
alded (pre-Lima) feature of the Un-
ited States’ “good neighbor’ policy,
that negotiations as to the basis of
expropriation of certain agricultural
areas have been proceeding along
peaceful and friendly lines. The
foreign oil barons, on the other

hand, have been. relentless in re-
calcitrant opposition.
British Columbians, who have

their own opinions about the mass
denudations of our forest areas, by
foreign as well as domestic corpora-
should have a bond of sym-
with a people which has fin-
taken steps to conserve val_
natural resources which have
heretofore been recklessly plunder-
ed by foreign operators. So much
for the question of theft,

Then
with
Nazi

tions,
pathy
ally

uable

charge Mex-
in ‘bartering
Unfortunately
has driven to such re-
by the boycott of her o'l
expropriated American and
Oil companies, which are
Striving to break the national
hard pressed as it is
finance its expropriation proced-

We thus the spectacle
powerful in two
great western democracies, driving
a good neighbor into the arms of
a fascist dictatorship which is de-
nouncing and threatening the demo-
cratic principle to the maximum of

you implicitly

ico inconsistency
with Germany.
whe been
course
by the
British
thus
government,
to
ure. have

of corporations

Community Hall Needed

Editor, A. S. & M, News,
Dear Sir:

At the last meeting of the Board
of Trade it was reported that the
long-discussed necessity for a com-
munity hall was again brought to
the attention of the Board. In this
instance members of the recently
formed Abbotsford Athletic Assoc-
fation being the principal sponsors
for a combined effort by all organ-
izations in the district to get to-
gether and assist in obtaining a
suitable hall which would accom-
modate popular indoor sports such

as basketba]l, box lacrosse, ete. al-
so gymnastics and other athletics.
In addition, it would be of great
service to the Fraser Valley Fair
Ass'n, also the Village of Abbots-
ford especially when large conven-
tions such as the F. V. Milk Pro-
ducers Assn. are held, and other
public functions.

It Ras been suggested that a
grant from both provincial and
Dominion Governments should be
forthcoming to assist in financing
a project of this description, as It
would afford, in these days of un-
employment, particularly for young
men and young women, following
their completion of schooling, an
opportunity to keep thelr mind and
body fit while trying to find em-
ployment, by being able to part-
icipate in good healthy competitive
recreation.

Personally I don’t think there ts
anything that would bring Canada
greater returns in its present na-
tional aspirations than support of
a youth movement along recrea-
tional lines, particularly at this
time when democracies, Fascists
and ‘Communists are relentlessly
preparing in their struggle for sup-
remacy.

In spite of reported economic
difficulties in Germany and Italy,
which are _ considerably greater
than our own, they appear to be
able to finance a different kind of
youth movement—marching with
rifles over their shoulders and other
military manoevers.

Assisting in the building of a
sports or athletic arena which
could be used for other community
efforts, would, in my opinion, bs
invajuable to the whole district ana
Canada. If it is contended that the
Philip Sheffield High School audit-
orium should be sufficient to ac-
commodate sports, it may be point-
ed out, that, except for special oc-
casions, the school auditorium
which was intended mainly for stu-
dents and school purposes, is not
readily available for Athletics or
other purposes.

Let's get together and give the
boys and girls and also ourselves
a boost in the right direction. You
can teach teamwork, co-operation,
and respect for our laws and gov-
ernment to better advantage in an
athletic hall than in some correct-
ive institution later, and it will
Pay better dividends,

Yours truly,

“YOUTH MOVEMENT BOOSTER”

.
Huntingdon

Mrs. J. Martin, accompanied by
Mrs F. ‘York and Mrs. Frith, mot-
ored to Vancouver last week.

Mrs. Charles Courtman was host-
ess to a delightful afternoon tea
last Monday afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Brown attended

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6.10 p.m. ae ay in labelling her government social.| Mr, and Mrs: Bob Caul and Clar- 8 \ ’
19.55 p.m. US aad ist, for she can as yet lay ence, accompanied by Mabel Rogers
ves Abbotsforé . e ca yet lay ttle , °
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12.16 pro. 2.10 p.m. ment in this direction than can our| Sunday to visit with Mr. and Mrs. BARRISTER & SOLICITOR 7 = ok ane a
4.30 p.m. 6.18 p.m. sister Dominion, New Zealand, | Rogers. Abbotsford Every Saturday Morning| $
16.30 p.m. 8.18 p.m. There 1s, indeed, in our own Do-| Mrs. A. J: Mott, who has been ® am. to 1 pm e  Nanshno:Wellington Coal
be psd ays pols pd onty minion a great and growing feel-| Visiting relatives here for the past) Telephone: Res. Abbotsford; 138R M4 SLAB WOOD
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Others daily. ed citizens, in favor of a greatly in_ | . é
For Your Freight or Express creased amount of collective owner-! Miss Iris Wilson, who 1s working YARWOOD & DURRANT °
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Seoneonrea a Uck LINES ship and control of our natural re.|!" New Westminster, was home P nonane eae = : G TRUCKING
CONSOLIDATED :|for a sh visit with her parents, ES PUBLIC ENERAL
Fast, Dependable Service See ee eee ge ETOO RON: |e ee ae ‘ ABBOTSFORD BRANCH OFFICF|$ Phone 171M Abbotefora
Telephone 100 and it would be at least eourteous|™™ and Mrs. J. Kilby, en Every Friday ° ‘
in us, Individually and nationally,| MT. and Mrs Moncrelsse of Van-| vancouver Office:
E ra to exhibit a generous spirit of at; °°UVer accompanied Mr. and cata Rooms 3 & 4, 423 | Hamilton Street
I PHON Responsibility least sympathy and tolerance to- ms Miss C, gy ois ee ES —o
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, We accept the responsiblity [/ common good as any in our land peal Brown: ' Re aes EVERY WEEK
this enforced faith in us entails || Cc. K. MORISON, lon ot ee ee A. E. HUMPHREY 12:55 to 1:00 each
W J MacRoberts with a confidence founded | Abbotsford | Union of 21 relatives * assem B. C. LAND SURVEYOR AND aiitenay ' pan
, - upon years of satisfactory at the home of Mr. and Mra R CIVIL ENGINEER : & THURSDAY
OPTOMETRIST pi ae Carmichael and family. Room 6, Hart Blk. Chilliwack (Commencing Jan. 19)
205 Vancouver Block , A heavy duty snowplow, to be Mr. J. Burton is improving from P.O. Box 422, Chilliwack, BO, ova
736 Granville “- attached to the 8-wheel drive mas-|an infected thumb which necessi-
ie ager ter diesel patrol grader bought in|tated the doctor’s care. C
4 1938, has been ordered by Chilll-| Mrs. F- J. Tapp, who was ill at Harold Cullerne H Ww K
Daily 10 am. to 12 Noon Henderson wack municfpal council, Of “V"|her home, {» now much improved. Daanerack OBILLIWACK, B.O.
Spurgeon’s Jewelry Store design it will weigh over a ton Miss Thelma Yarwood left’ last
New Eik's Building FUNERAL HOME jCltx of Chililwack has also ordexe'! week to begin training in the Royal aii eee ios “Volos of the Fraser Valley”
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Ae sit | ABBOTSFORD 4 plow attachable to @ $-ton truck. )(.!umblan Hospital in New West. VANCOUVER, B.C.
a Wt $480. minster. ‘
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