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TUURSDAT,„OCTOBE1, 24th,. 1946 a
niEi B :ELPC TIONS
Both by-eiectiOns o.i; Monday, in
1Parkdalee, Ont., and Portage la Prairie,
Man., resulted, in favor of the Pro-
gressive Conservative party. In ?ark -
dale the:.la.41. candidate, Harold Tim-
mins was elected with a majority of
550. This has always been a . COn-
servative seat, and Liberals. donsole
themselves by pointing to the reduc-
tion of the Conservative majority,
which was over 1600 in the general
election of 1945. The C4.C.P. vote in
Parkdale increased froul,18S 1arst year
to 6,5.17 on Monday.
Portage la Prairie was a straight de-
feat for the Liberals, the Yrogres.sive
Conservative candidate, Calvert Miller,
taking a majority of Wut. 50; „,where
the late Harry Leader, the only Liberal
ever elected in the riding, had a margin
of 1,800 in 1945. The C.C.F. candidate
was third, with less than 2,900 votes.
The turnover In Portage la *Prairie,
alung with the election of the Spcial
Credit candidate in Pontiac,. Que., a
few weeks ago, affects the standing of
the parties in the (louse of Cbmtuous
by cutting down the Liberals' ellen
over-all majority. The standing is
now: Liberals, 125; Progressive Con-
servatives, 67; C.C:F,;, 28; Social
Credit, 14; • Bloc Populaire, ; inde-
pendent Liberal, 4: independent
Progressive Cuservative, 1; other
Independents,- Labor-Progres-
siv e, :I; vacant, 1.—tota.1,:245. With a
full House the Government could "Dual,
on a majority of about fifteen, but it is
ael(ium all the utelttbela ars preseltL,
. uii ..L �UJ4 _ v Qty' •ci. c u r iztt�'.." n i t
} result iu a technical defeat for the
Atiministration,- Tina might or might
not mean a general election.
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- As to the -issues involved iu the two
by-elections. the observer may loot'
in vain for any definite conclusion.
That there was no profound dissatis
faction' with Government policies is
indicated by the fact that in both
ridings fifty per rent. of the eligible
voters did not take the trouble•to go, to
the poly;. In. Portage la Prairie the
chief, issues, at:cording to The Globe
and M:ali.'were the wheat contract with'
Great Britain and Dominion -Provincial
relations. Conservative Leader Bracken
spoke in the riding and attacked Ihe
Government for selling Cana an'
wheat tri Britain at too ,low a price.
On the question .,'f Dotstiuiou-I'rovincial
relations, he denied thot he hod
chan,,•,1 hi- ' sews 1 which were favor' -i
able• le :t iareel• tueesnr•e of I)olninion!
cuntr: •,f , axatiott1 anddeclaredwith!
ocher; ,?t1,• that" I'retuier Drew of
OitIn •'••- not leading the Federal:
('ons, : :l i , t• party : be 1 11 r.' Bracken t
w'a, the 'tits,.. IIe st:t'ted, lu►,yevet,'.
that if %t,- -.ere 'in tine Prime Minister's
"'Lice :1'' 1 s' !:t wa he ' Dined v«•t',V. lluir•kly
real-'; ;1 t, n try, ut<ut '.t itis Mr. Drew.
,Tlt�t chili ill:lt ,neons 1: left to
eonies'tlre. •
NOT VERY _ "NEW"
A t'ttt*tis tl►;drat<1t froin London states
thit `at St. Paul's Cathedral 0 dis-
tinguished ,•1ttt,gregatiolt otl Sunday„
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last. it} dire,'tioit of the King, sang
a "sew er e'of the National Anthem
specially written for the L"ttited
Nations
"Nor onthis land alone
--,-
But' be God's mercies known
Fro.nn :shore to shore. •
. make the nations see
That men should brothers be
. And form one family '
The wide world o'er."
The hymnbook of the' old Methodist
Church (If Canada, as fur back•'as 1918,
had the following verse:
"And not this land alone,
But by Thy mercies known.
From shore to shore:
Les all the nations see
L'llat talon should brothers be,
And- form one familir _
The -wide earth o'er."
Perhaps the "new verse" has taken
all this time to cross the Atlantic,
EDITORIAL NOTES '"
What: no strikes this week? that
is' this country' cdming to?
* >k >s<
A 'P..S. army• doctor who was at
Neurnberg 'says that Hitler was not
Insane but was a first-class psycho-
neurotic.': It's nice to have that
settled. We° thought he was a low -
Class ru i'► an.
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The Port Albert airfield with its
spacious buildings .proved a splendid
site for the International Plowing
Match.' It' would 'geelf a great pity
if It .is to be abandoned and`" the
buildings removed.
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Considering the general run of
October weather, the plowmen might
have had a nigh worse week than
they did; . brat if the big match were
kDefrii >xhtwtd lis :ec'lw ',OS _glorious
weather—well, the crowds rnI7 ht be
altogethefr too' great to . handle.
,i a a -
Veter'altia of the fir:tt +World War are
J.tttttifti6d in feeling that they slave` been
neglected when gratuitkb , cost -of -living
bonuses, ete., have bceu lauded out by
the Coaernanent. The men who served
in --the late war have been treated much
more generously than were those of the
1914-18 conflict, and, besides, the
pensioners oE. the first war and that
their pensions have declined greatly
purchasing power. Their request for
u readjustment to meet present con-
ditlons should receive geuerous con-
sideration.
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Another vacancy- In the Ottawa
House has 'been created by the death
Of lion. P.' "J. • A. Cardin, - a former
member of the King Gov'erninent who
resigned ' from the Cabinet when Prime
Minister King adopted compulsory
military service. Mr. Cardin was one
of the 1;'ederal Ministers frotu Quebec
who, ,when Premier Duplessis of that
Province took autitl-war attitude and
defied the Federal &us -eminent, toured
the Province and threatened to resign
and leave Quebec without Cabinet
representation at Ottawa if Mr.
L)tiplessis were returned to otiue. Mr.
Duplessis was defeated and Quebec
was brought into the war with the
rest of the Provinces. Mr. Cardin at
than time assured the people of Quebec
that Canada would tight the war on
-the -basis of voluntary service, and
when Mr. King ,introduced the draft
he felt himself in `honor bound to keep
faith with the people of his Province
and accordingly he resigned his place
in t13e°- Government. _However one may
•VireW Mr. Cardip's. attitude on the
question of - compulsory service, he
should be gl�,n rdit t hgorutg.
itie" 1 e T) ... ve kci hits,. Cc ulna rlotr
iu 'a time orf crisis.
PHIL
U,ill L11 OF LAZY MEADOWS
By/ Hare ,l. Route,
" SLOWENG UL'?"
By Edivi
'314: Sa>as
the time and I've got plenty of that.'
'" %Why,' he says. 'yo>Ln'•j e crazy to
wog' fi)r nothing. 1 mean you might
as well let me Keay you for it:
" `Nope;' 1 said, `no charge.' I
noticed be had put his hand in his
poeke't and pulled it out almost ' at
once, but he thanked me for the repair
and left smiling; which is what I'm
getting at.
"Youa see, I do quite a lot 6f jobs
like that. All sorts of jobs. But I
don't do them for nothing, as folks
seem to think. 31 get paid in friend-
ship instead of money, and if the
friendship is only a smile or a bit of
gratitude it still lasts ,longer, and
reaches deeper, than the same amount
in money, - And I, sorta figure if you
'work up enough good feeling as you go
along it's about tile only kind of wealth
you'll be able to take with you later
on." •
The old ,boy rubbed his chin, gave
us a 'contemplative Iook but did not
ask for our.,opinipn. and returned his
attention to the chisel. We studied his
hack for an instant and then asked
about the boat -building; did he take
part of that return 'in friendship too?
"Well," he turned to• face us with
a contagious grin, "—that's different,
This is my averk, my wage -work, but
I have-soutetimes been paid more than
I asked for it. I never set a price that
I know is too high; long's I get enough
money for my ,needs I'm satisfied,,' he
chuckled. ---"or almost."
There may be hole.; in Old Tim's at -
One ,ose our favorite stopping places
is the pungent workshop of Old Than,
the boat -builder. There, in an,.atmnos-
phere of tar and timber -shavings, we
have spent .many pleaeaant hours as a
listener while the old gentleman pro-
pounded his simple .philosophies and
viewpoints. Old Tim is not a 1131051 y
Kaiser in any way, but he does. turn
out an occasional : yawl and enough
dories to keep him supplied with ueees-
saries. -
To some of .us Old Ti4tu will seem
a trifle - improvident, but his uuive
doctrines are a nice relief frown Nurem-
berg hangings, torso mdrders and pol-
itical ehicanery, eo we will let Tarn'
finish the column in his own manner.
The late afternoon sun , streamed
through hie many -parsed workshop
window, with scant heed for the, spider -
webs and sawdust, as the old fellow
told about a recent • visitor. "Carne
in here with a tool 'he had broken,
heard I had fixed one asf my own and
wanted to kr}ow if I could fix this one-
for lirn." Tim rested on the handle
of a chisel he was using. "I asked
him how soon he wanted it and he
said there was no hurry, so I told
hint, to drop' baO►k in -a couple hoers."
Tim chuckled. "If he'd set a time 1'd
likely stalled him off for a week."
Old Tiin waited long enough to fill,
tamp and light his virile briar, seated
himself on a coil of rigging line end
after a reflective pa'rn•se -resumed his
Chronicle.
"You know." his . alert brown eyes
squinted beneath unruly brows with
a1.1 the judiciousness of a weather-
beateu Solomon, "—people nowadays
expect too Iuuctll pay for everything
they do ; seems mighty few ever do
anything just for the fun of "doing it.
Take this man I'nl telling you about.
When he came for the tool, it was a
splicing job - and sorta-- fiddling. As
soon as he spotted it all fixed up on
tile, bench there the first thing he says
is, 'How much?'
° "'There won't be any charge,' I
said; 'it didn't cost me anything but
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titude toward, wages, but there is so
little penniless in his nature, and so
lunch solid sincerity, that we always
flied his ideates worth consideration and,
quite often, well worth the , effort of
paassirtg'thetn along.
"What has your boy learned at
school thus far this term?"
"That he'll have to be - vaccinated,
that his eyes aren't really mates, that
his teeth need replacing, and that his
method of breathing • is entirely
obsolete."
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• "Brisk, my friends keep repeating. Brisk, I say
to myself. And we all meal} Lipton's Tea with that
rand, brisk flavour."
There's never a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip ...
when you change to •brisk tasting Lipton's
Tea, the tea with the Lively, spirited•'
flavour ... never wishy washy .. .
always fresh, tangy . and full-
bodied. Change today to
brisk tasting Lipton's .Tea:
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I svgs caught yesterday. After
dinner I had a few thing to du around
the stable and I was going to go. back
and finish up sortie plowing. 13y -the
time I was finished v ith the work in
the stable, it was misting a litale rain
outside. I decided to catch about forty.
winks of sleep on the bundle' of hay.
•' i' woke up with a• start. because there
•was •1'.°d. Higgins laughing fit to kill.
There are easier ways -of being a'.vak- '
en -•d. ' lIe thought it pias a great joke
that he should Tina Inc sleeping in the'
twiddle of the day. I realized then end'
there .that the story of ttfy -sleeping
in the (laytime• would lo' �pt'ead all.
over the township- by the end of the.:
week.
'l'ltis morning when 1 went into the
iil:t :e .1iur 1I;1'\1 itt. yelled across from
the woodwork shop, 'Von slowiu' up.
Phil? 1 hear you take ;i- nap itt the
stable evt'ry day." 'There'; nothing
you 0:1u d,'t about such things, but it
wa-s :,111 rankling iu taty mind when
1 dropped in to pay a bill at Dr.
•\i� 't'', place. 'I'lte o111 doctor,- has
ism here for yeah 'and he 1k-11ows
11111 t',‘ fold:: about :IS well as any-
body–could know theta.
Ile. chuckled when 1 told Hirst 'abtbut,;
u1C experil'rice wit 1t E'el. "Soule folks
,141st went to tvarnt to perpet0ate that
old tttytlt t h:l t every fa ruler in order
to be any gusto -leas toi h:t\-e a strong
back and a weak mind. (bit'y'tltng-
stors grow up with a feeling- for brute
strength and often not enough regard
for bra its lower. A lot ,,f oar people
think that the worst • thing in. -the
world is to show some sign of weak-
ness. Young lads of fifteen strain .and
bend and tug .and often ruin them-
selves for life just so somebody else
Won't show up stronger than they
-are"
That kept running through my mind
all the way home :from the village.
There's good common sense in it too.
People will • kind of kid me for a long
while about having a nail in the middle
of the day. I suspect it's •-not really
going to. influence me top, Sat;ch. I'm
still the kind of fellow who likes taking
it easy and comfortable at times,
If a'lot of our folks would take time
to ,;t- down and figure. things out. they
might be a, lot fartbee ahead at. the
end of the year. Trouble with me is
when I sit down to figure things out
it gets so comfortable I don't. bother
with the fi ''airing:
A-.:;SIGNIFIt `T NEWSo:,ST:O ' '.,– .,
(Victoria Tithes)
Out -of Korea came a two -paragraph
.story the other day about a 1ted Army
pilot, lost en route between Vladivostok
and , Dairen and Short of fuel, 'who
lauded at the American' Kin)o airfield.
near Seoul. The lau(ling was Un-
authorized but he waif was welcomed
—and clearance; for him to resume
flight was regarded as •a mere formal-
ity. That is in refreshing etiut rust•
to the more common (dispatch about
tilers who, losing their way or being
drivels off course, are interned by the
friendly nations o 1 wliose soil they
ore forced to seek refuge. Peace in
our time will be Anse;; when such a.
story as the a•bovS' it,) long€w is ,worth
cable tolls across the ocean. -
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