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TEUTI,S14 12th, 194.5
AM NOUS
APan has a new premier, !ha tells
•4114 People that war developments "do
iot warrant optimism," That is a
exam* et- ,uliderstatement. "
']are1 n thi.11istery of Pie. sugar
eet'indtr4ry 'of t outhwesterh Sontrtrico
.,ItaVe.„tarmers signed up. contracts So
quickly u1 for SO many acres of -Sugar
beets" says an. advertisement issued
by the Canada. and Pominion Sugar
O man y of Chatham .anawausee',,,
burg, This is good news,,,particulatly
• "in face. of th.e. failure -of the maP10
,
..sYrUP
ye
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4t:001/higIvo04 the tax rate remains
31“ mills, the same as last year, in
'spite 0 the 'larger education . grant.
.-The Clinton Council has managed to
...reduce the rate one mill, leaving it. at
44 nulis 'ibis Means in each" case
Mat the Council or the, Board of
bduCa.tion, or both., is spending more
-waoneY this year. The increased ilro-
vincial grants,as this 'paper predicted,
are tailing in their ostensible purpose
of r,elieving the taxpayer..
:tQluaget 14ans Jo the teattiio.
the wreckage of wartime.. ,•if they
need uiy adyiee, it is that theY keep
sharp Ore -011 fnture deyelopments
on the • Continent, Particglarly..tn
'Oertnany„ so that neer again' will
-they be .caught.in SOU, ar predicament
as that• fron2 which they are *now
einerging. • r
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.',There is considerable ;Comment in
the newSpapere to the efeet that the
'party that carries Ontario m the
coming Provincial election will' take
majoritY•of,the Ontario seats in. the
Federal election. ,ilits.doeS not At all
follOw. 'The issues w1U .be different,
the candidates will be Oferent. Back
in Oliver tlYiewat's time, on ,ene • 'Oct:
casion, Provincial and Federal elec-
tions were held within a fe7i. weeks,
of,, each other; • the' Mowat Liberal
Government was sustained„ but the
Conservatives under Sir john Mac-
donald carried the Province in the
Federal contest. And in those days
electors could' be labelled either Grit
or Tory much more feadily thant.. is
the case today; nor was there any
third party to create confusion •amOng
political workers. .
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A' school: of journalism, the 'first in
Canada, is to be established at the
Vniversity ..'of :Western Ontario.
may raise the standard of journalisin
in, this country,..but. we _have our
doubts. 'A journalist should haye the
grounding of a good general education;
but, outside of that what he learns
from actual experience and ' -practice
In journalistic work Is infinitely more
ifgeftil than anything hecan pick up
in . a cellege course. For technical
hrairches of -the--.arti-er-PrefeSsien-,--0
business --sometimes 1 is all three. --
a college course may be of advantage;
but for a successful Journalistic eareef
native ability, a capacity' for work,
willingness to learn as.'one goes along,
and an; interest' in' people and ;affairs
. .•
are qualities that leave far behind
the unpradticid Prestige of a college
degree.
The _precipitate disSolution of the
Legislature has leftMr: DreiV in, an
AwkWard position 'withregard to the
overseas soldier vote. 'According to
Mr". jolliffe, leader,,,the election
law still in fore calls forTnominatiOns
only seven days before "voting.. It Was
tb:e intention of the Legislature ' to
change this, so that nominations W-Ould
be twenty-eight -days_ in advance- of
polling, as provided in the Federal
Act but the 'tfonst was• dissolved in
such a hurry that the change was -not
made; and soldiers overseas' will have
little or.n opportianity to learn Who
the candidiiieS'a.re.' -Months ago ar-
. _
.Warning„ has been issued frera.
•,.. lOttawat.; that fuel supplies for next
Wint;er, shouli be leld in as early as
the coal merchant cannot
f1i. ail: orders=-- there is always the
' • SibilitY it41 strike of coal miners -7-
*#- Witt have to -be -`a= greater use
Of wood. if .next January or February
•
, ands the householder with an empty
ctule-bin and no woodpile, it won't do
much good for him to Cuss the Miners,
•the railwaYs, or the Government,
...or' the 01W:tate. And there • is not
Ificely-t0,be!-0repet1t10n. Of4his :year's
'early spring to ease the fuel situation.
dentinciation. of.
_
its nor-
aggreSS1fl treaty with .Japan will
shorten the 'war in Asia. Even .if,
$Oviet forces are not "actually -sent
• intosisht,,Iapan will have to keep
N
orce in Manchuria to guard
against the possibility of a Russian
Offensive It 1O4s as if the conquest
of „Japan proper may: not be long- rde-.
ist3TeW, and if her Government -elects
' to. fight it out on the mainland the
•• *4ive assistance of Russia., or merely
itussian goedwill towards the Allies,
will hasten the expulsion of ' the itt
.vaders Who . have been the equals of
the Nazis in cruelty and opPression.
• 0. m.
The Canadian, delegation to the San_
lyandisar-coni-erence has been. ..named
and inchide,s, besides the -Prime
MiniSter and the Minister of lustice
leaders of the conservative and.
CPS.. parties in the 'House of Com
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tens 1Mr..Graydon And Mr; Coldwell4;
a:Liberal-and a,ConserratheSnafor
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C91011,1NT ON Vi.tirti. IN TIM
LATtl ' ENGLISH JOURNALS
filar. that, 'feta the Kok of the eon«
ferehee hail been so vat 'that the,
actualpeaee conference, If ono. is ever
"This is Murder,"‘• is the ,official held, will have little to do but 'apply
German eQmment on, the deeittr41, OnS in detail.' the 'principles on which the
of, the Crimea conference,. The (ler- hree have reached' so large 4, mea -
man propagandist is unerringly 4.0.car• sure of agreement, Their ' words,' Of
ate, So tar asGerMan.4„Nagisin and. :eeurse, are addressed in the, Ora in-
Gerinan militarion are eoneerned;; It Stance, even if only indirectly, to Ger-
la warder, and Was *ant to be 'pre- many. Iler doom is sealed, her sent-
OiselY that. What,is more, the cern- ence 16 pronounced. It is,not, 'so far
mission of the crime will be pursued, as the German, people is concerned,
remorselessly. The preliminaries Were sentence of death, though one of the
admirably executed at Yejta itself, for few criticisms to be made of the Allied
there . mas,••clispelled; ' 'finally and, de, declaration is that the Single Sentence
eisively, Go:Manes last hope of esca* in which it is affirmed that •"it. is not
lag the 'fate .she merits., The Crimea our purpose to deatroy, the' .peoplcof
Conference might, not ha ve gene well. Germany" Might have been expanded,
Questfons had to. be discussed, ".sueb, and So 'phrased as to, wake it dear
as Poland,,,' on which it. was linovn that for, individual Germans, forswear -
that: -the. partiCipants held 'different ing dream s Of aggresahM and domin...
views. They might quite well have atton,- life may, still, have satisfactions
rereatned of opoite Opinion; ; . But to ,offer. •
there is no escape from the uneom- So, far as there is,tientence of aelith
premising declarationd 'that emanated for Germans it Is pronounced by their
from Yalta. •There is no mere Sop°. own rulers. it has indeed been +pro,
Tilde assurancelhat "full. agreement flounced already. For, apart from the
hes been reached:" The.detailS Of the millions of solciters whom littler's'
,agreement are In almost every '01180 ,dententia has already Sent to their
disclosed, Which has , the. double ad, fruitless deaths, it is inevitable that
Vantage of .holding the ", participants hundreds of thous.ands of civillans will
to thera *(12. that were needed) ,and of perish' fromliaMger,,exPesnre and, die,
detonstrating ,' incontrovertibly ,the ease if the crime and madness of eon -
participants' 'geed . *Jess tinning. a hopeless resistance persistS.
every indieation is misleading, the Wien if the Allied organisations were
'Crimea conference will- be remeixtbered •able to .undertake relief ma:Sures' In
as net merely the most important but qterraarty on, ,the scale contenaplated
the mbst harmonious and constructive in the case of Germany's liberated
of t4e now lengthy series. . victims, they would be unequal to. the
Nothing could be, More encouraging task, of saving German women and
children from the Consequences of their
leaders' crimes. And in the crowd Of
suppliants for bread and clothing Ger-
ft 'she is givenany place at all,
can, hope for nothing better - than the
last. From that form of death and
suffering yet to -come she cannot be
saved; but, at least, whatever of Ger-
many. survives the grim ordeal Still
before her will be entitled to pursue
her peacef,u1 vocations if to peaceful:
vocations she reconciles herself, as an.
accepted member of the community' of
nations.
Spectator (London).
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Friend' and foe haVe•alikereeognized
the cardinal Significance of the Crimea,.
conference. Its tar -reaching decisions,
achieved with eireniplary rapidity,
have dissipated at a stroke* the last
fears on the one side, and the .lagt
hopes on the other, that deep-seated
rifts of %Opinion would embarrass the
principal 'United Nations in the hour
f 'Victory -and perhapv-"even postpone
victory itself. . - '
The central: fact diselosed by careful
study. of ° the • arixaea deelaration is the
Magnitude ,.,211 the ceinmitment which
the three %ignatorP•pawers,have joint-.
ly',undeittiken and the degree of unity
between " them which it presupposes.
rig °NEB OF LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry .T. Both
..citarra
•"0014LERING"
It, seemed that last day I was in
the sugar- shantS= as i2. everybody- in
the blOCk had a hand at yelling..LI
was standing 16 the sugar shanty- door
\ and . the sound of Pete Martin 'came
rolling across the river_ H.was work-
ing with'- the team .picking - up Some
rails fibrin a. fence through his back
pasture held and he bellowed. every
tune he had to direct the team.
Then another Sound caine ,rolllng
up through the tiVenties of maple trees.
There were visitors coming to the
,Sugar shanty. .It was. a ,.,party of
-youngsters, fromthe school intown.
v • had walked-uP along the riVer.
from the concession bridge an
wending their wAy through the bush
to where I was working. I, wish Yon
could have heard 'the* yelling.* .At
time s tlat whole bush seemed to be
full of noise, and: the birds were
agitat+d and fluttering away off in
droves as if a forest fire Was Sweeping
up- from the bank of the river, . The
collie pricked up his ear S • and stood
at attention -beside me."'
There'-s-sotethiag abeutTspring that
makes you want to yell.: In fact,. only.
that morning going back to the bush
tooleirkautious look around and- then
let ...a war-whOop out Myself. The
team Of browns were 'El. bit: startled
anthl they lathered along .for. -the dis-
tanee of at least two fields at a •terrific
clip, and I had a. hard job to keep
MY -footing on the old stoneboat.
My neighbor Ed. Higgins was al-
ways a great Man for Yelling. In the
house he is as quiet -spoken as the
average person, but the minute,he stePs
oolitkde his voiee is about like a
whisper. Theother day I was stroll-
ing over to his pla0e and • had 'gone
only a few steps when I heard him
roar -acress the ileids and ask me to
bring. .the pesthole auger. There's
Standing, joke, in. this 'community that
he can stand outside • the *Ole deer'
and make the boys hi the .betelc •field -
hear .hira.
When I was a.. young :lad, able to,
Make the odd excursion Into town with
the other lads from here. and sit Around
the grocery store -Or on the verandah
of the .hotel, there Was • nothing in
which ' we delighted more than yelling.
Going along the road about 11 -or\ 12
o'clock When most people were In bed.
there was common agrekinent tbat'vire
had to let out several banshee wails in
front 'of every house. The farmers
were provoked -1 ithagine, forgetting
that in all probability -4t our age they
Ajd• the same: thing.
Some .of these fellows who study
people's minds .cOuld probablyi3give a
reason v`ilay.p. man wants to yell some..
times. In thernearitiniehlie waiting
for such...a pronouncernen , , tha
even en old htd like myself enjoys
Whopping it up a bit 4.. „ • eourse,
when nit reasonably 'certain. nobodY's
' • •
rangements -were made by the Federa
and. a.woman .M.P., Mrs. Casselman of
I authorities for the •taking • of the ove'r-,
Adm.:Mien. gr:- Graydon put •u
P a
seas vote and in the absence of any
such arrangements- for a ,Provincial
vote the Ontario Government has liad
to Apply to .Ottawa for, the necessary.
facilities': These have- b4n. granted,
and annin.cement of the election date
niitd.protest • against the non-inclusion
nt,' gr. Bracken, but as •Dir. Bracken
hits no. Parliamentary . standing there
,waS 110 good reason to name -him a
-,Member Of • the delegation. - AS•
• `, be Will be Able to continue Itis election-
eering activities while Mr -King fs in
atthndance at the conference.
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, "iiiime Minister Iring, has announced
that enlistments .for,,Canada",s part in
the. ''Viir*Witli Japan will be purely on
voluntary basis. Men who have
'--..4ent--years-bf-serVice--in-Burope wili
Nob. be required to go to the Pattfie
•Ataa when. the ; war with Germany is
catteluded;„ Some who have lilting
• another distant part of, the World, will
join volinftarily for service againat.
apan, but there will be COMptilSion-
0bOnt -:it, It. is confidentlY expected
there will be sufficient 'number of
' volUnteefs', Irina those who have been
w.'service• in. Europe. and from new
• et4ifaments, to make a forcelhat will
,renresen.t this' Country creditabiY.
The dictum "Whatever :is' physically
can .be 'nuule, ;financially ix.s-
" Will not bear close examination.
, „
physically possible for everybody
spend his time doing nothing, but,
possible. It
,PessibleJOr ^Mirada I:4 -period -follotved, with real lively -ideas -
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Is expected to,be made„shortly,
FARM FORITIVIS •
• (Contributed)
A. word about "farm ferums." ltw
many of you farm people belonged to
A Fortin' last winter? If you dldn t,
emisSetr-soraeth lug jespeclally-2g-Ood
• There was a 'very _up And coming
Forum. organized at the home of
Amax trooks last *November lAtik for
Colborne, friexids.
Alt thrangh -WS -stormy
missed only One Monday night Thele
Were thirty-tWo names ' on the roll
and -tin ---tiverage -attendance of around
twenty-five.
Broadeaats" subJeets vitally 'inter-
esting to .farmers came from TorontO
every Monday-ftnight froin 8.80 to 0
o'clock. There were • series of three
programs each, with, a monthly report
on the last Monday of each month.
The subject' for discussion were
Land—Foundation of . the °.-Com-
• .
They have undertaken not 'only to.
deetroy all Nazi Institutions and Ger.
man rallitary power, but to "eltrainatw
or control all German industry that
could be used for military produetiomm
It can hardly be doubted that total
eilulination would he imprsetierable as
well as, inconsistent 'with the declar-
ation that it is "not our purpose to
'ileatroy. 'tho peoPle, of Germany;tand
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this, undertaking therefore implies the
prolongationfor an lndefixdto period
of a jointresikniSibility- for ventral`
which pannet be discharged' without an
active- policy common to :the three.
powers' and maintained by Constant
consultation between them. ;
,Ptudenee Should, however, recall,
,even at this 'moment ..0f, general con-
gratulation, that the pOlieles Of the
Crimea "eonference require not only the
immediate assent of the peoples 02 the
countries concerned but . their eon -
tinned'. readiness. over a period of
years to assnuie the ' resPonstbilitieS
of 'effective Common action. Because'
the wOrk. Is ,essentitil it would be a
grievous :error to pretend that it. IS
easy.
munity. '•
.I/. People-;43uilders of the Com-
munity.
111 Education for Rural Living.
IV'. Let's Talk about Marketing.
V. The Community Rroadens Ifs
View,.
Atter the bioadetiat0;•*"ditIsS1011
In /these circumstances eucour-
agIng that the authors of the Crime*
declaration should hav.e preferred to
proeeed not by the enunciation of ame
vast general •sebeme for the resettle,.
ment of Rave or of the world, but
by a liMited number of well -Judged
concrete. propoala. The procedure ef
peace -malting will be too vast and
'varied, in scope and toe inMongvi in
time to fill within the Araditlentil.
conception of a "peace conference "
or to -issue In a 'stogie coMposite and
comprehensive, "treaty of peace." The
machinery decided on at.Yalta is
al-
ready•a part of the, prone, of peace -
snaking. ' '
Tuoes (London).
A Portwitt ,TAX-0/4.9MKBER.
(Regina Leader Post)
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Canadians -have become accustomed
to astronomical government expendi-
tures. They aecePt them, even demand
them, because - they know; they are
.1',tecessarY to 'enable Canada to. do- its
,proper share in the mar. it IS A re-
rkable thing that Ur. Ilsley, who
inieharge of imposinethe taxes and
ranging the: borrowing that takes'
'much from Canadian pockets, should
IZA . itU 12th *1045
"WORN OUT!
WORRIED
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with the chiltiven-",
feeling. miserable
BtawingitoL%"fle110&"
when the kidney* WY
be-out.eferder; When tb
kidneys fail*. ilyitteia
feihystsaNV6
doss witillas
44ngear4ergy47. ‘it'''Clhan4f, ;Agile; rel,Sahlrele. heatilth
andi‘
coatinne t4e PuNiktWiAliat.
Perhaps the most popOlar, member of .
the Government. • •'
kultiply‘ 'reSelitMent And' .:$0t1 get
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KICATION
'whith has been appointed to enquire into and- report upon-
the.system of education in Onta.rio will hold. its first sessions
in the Senate chambet of the University of Toronto at 10
• a.m.. and at 2 p.m. on and on April 12, 1945, under:
the thairinahship of the 116n. justice -3._A. Hope,
Such briefsasare gabmitted on or before April 10, 1945,
will be given preliminry consideration at the first sessions.
13ri.'efs, submitted after April lb; 1945, will on:sidered at
. subsequent sessionsof the Commission,
The sessions are op,en to the public:
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All organiiatious.interested in any of the problems related
to pulatic_education.arp invited to submit. briefs to
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R. W. 13,Jackson, Sccretary,
Royal C,ownissiolvon Education;
Pni•liament TorontO.
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our . township. Ive,t.'
.i014 h -Pe triPre .,will
1945-46; a..0 Pr:eatable 'winter in
LLULIY "er ' 7rd'. -:'differeiit-J-_leader,:---elery
-O4.1.42*- itioadem6re- - itta
*heat alluitiatir; but it isn't Ilnalleniglit -
possible; th'e graiii • svpulo rot n different hewer, fOrsthe mellOfl
eetin
gvat,e7enclu,
jIhr
ts
*Are it. odd be disposed of, tit, al*TruttlevEtedwtlate,a,ttenthe°n11'ntdilieto
'Toronto to the Ontario 1anm. Forum
office. Each evening wound up with
A aOdial'hodr, of soMe kind and hinch
was served. •, •
• We -"feel we have •benefitted greatly
by„thene discussions.' Our horizon ha's
become- so ranch broader, taking the
world in our strideWe feel that
farmers are finding their Plaee, their,
rightful place, in Canada, ' and are
going farther to keep that place.
It hag been said that these bruins
are the ilrst really democratic move.
inent-in Canada (no politica here),
for •while We meet in our group Mona.
Oda of sueli 'groups' meet all across
Canada:
We wound up our winter's work with
a banquet at whieh twenty-eight people
sat down and enjoyed a real social
evenings
ever, after o'er fife years of lardslaps There. are several, projeets in nand
,bitokaur tiodurtd, *dun* sre tittottbi in for nort winter., tor we fel sure all
P14-AkellY **Bible
.ler
to ,cotitinne peacetiroe the
pkresent .large.seale manufaetwe of
kisatiptto and equipment O. war;
* there *timid pe. ne 'Market, There
,taws of supply, ad. ndemand which,
**it be Alituiegarded, even hr
At last the pcople • of,, Britain tan
,to bed at night ,!with reasonable
144rataee: that their homes will not
ti*, blown to bits before' the mortar*.
rite blackout:4*o, pitially. lifted.
sopplies,.still are to* what they
Would be, and aceording to reports
tlsit elothing situation Is Woree. Row;
oto nientheta turn out•
4111141 alert eig$4#7 *04 stre imatkok * rota; there Arfull fol*,e Ave
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take,needii‘Sa °bailees-
wlth intizied:,remedieL-xisitevo-
misities this /4020.0"
proved, double -talon
voOnl, Alt 0
coli*
...PENETRATE
illglet bteat
Pastaftee With'
ether VO.Pdrit.
$11100tViCS
()beet and tatAlc Sur
facealties,warnt...;
-7,toto,ing POUltiee.
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Now to get sal the boots of
this 'combined
Aetion tib.own
sbcoie, jolt rub throat, Chest and
wittiVieksliaptiptub bed.* •
. Then •44 see time lam -
Alt standW goes to 'wort Mates*
,-,7trasiatstaeso-to relieve rough,
spasms,,esse muscular sore..
newt ot tightnebe-4ring grand
distrasat soothing
lon Witt*
be
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ON AN .ACTUAL CASE
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JOHN HALEY, reiired farmer, wat talking to tiis,son
*ho was now rimning the farm.
``. "Yes, Ronnie; they Were ,
%-,,- , ,
t;:tough.,yeart.--..opt', that was. ,
'fore you were born. our
mother anct, I cattle here back
in 1906-4. all -we had was
this squareinfle.of land 7,- with
a shack4:ranishackle barn and,
• a bit at fence' . ;p1i,jeti,dand
• a mortgage. And we had to,',Kaul water -two miles and
drivetwentyto market,'", . • , t"
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"Gosh, Did, „it, must liOe'.been-taighty haid. sledding
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guess I have a "'1,yi today." • •
"Wel)," said the old thin, "it would have been a ,
sight harder sleddltig if that young manager of he Dank
of Montreal hadn't. stuck by mei There were some
years' vibqrt1 had bad luck with my little herd and the
crops Vdie poor, when rd have just gone under if lie
hadn't givenme a hand,
'tunny, you know, he always useil, to *say r was. a
'105'od• Credit risk because / Used to haggle .with the
r people X bought cattle from and When I wanted a loan
'TOA **NAOMI.
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witAitig Cormiiiasst
is 'eery walk orlite
shoo 1817 •
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414.4.4.4.44.44044.44
411.444.4
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to buy feed I Almost always Oral the Bank,,.to advance
•„money for. just part of the cost.
"Anyway, good ,risk or not, the Bank stuck by me,
, and , if it'..Avexeri't, forthat you wouldn't be running ,
this 640 -acre 'farm today arid getting first prizes for
your Ayrshires, and —.wha.4 tnore -- doing a good
"MIS true experience is typictl of thousands of
,
customer? relations With he Bank of Montreal.
The John ifaleys get on in life because of their
detirmiiiation, enterprise and selfleliance, It is
they who have- niado' Canada what .she'is:tOday
.; the third-.greatOst trridiiig nation of thi-world.'
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It you need a loan' for the better operation a your
farm$ or for assistance in, your personal affaiis, we will
be glad of, #1c.:0,pportuniti, to discuss, in confidence,
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