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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1945-05-24, Page 3AFTER , TH We're waiting for the green tight. When telephone • men and materiels, are back again, we'll resume our :n sal expansion program where we left off. First job of all will be to supply service to families,on our waiting list. Then will come such major projects as extending facilities into new mew,- 'replacing "veteran" equipment; raising standards of service. Simply to "relieve present crowding on rural lines will mean running more:than 8,000 miles of wiredr w present pole lines. Then we'll need *at:Widens to the pole lines ttbemselvee--some 2,500 miles; of them—to reach'saditilenal communities; Wherever ye fina one family per half of:mhin road wanting telephones,' we plan to construct pole lines tq kervq'them. iitatimeans PEOPLE AT WORK ... work which must be done, if telephone service is to 'keep pace with rural' needs. It is work which calla, for the efforts of linemen, service men, operators, office workers. To get it done, we'll need not only every present Bell employee, plus all those now away on military service, but many more workers besides, d R'FIRAL VICTORY 1ME.4 3r14L RFsfigebio. Real Social Security or Rati�ned Scarcity? To the political and economic reactionary, Social Security is something to be used as•a bribe to win votes — a sop to soothe unrest. Social makeshifts of that kind are actually offered to -day as political substitutes for ` sound, economic planning for the post-war reconstruction of Canada. To the State Socialist, on the other hand, Social Security is a bookish theory seeking to prove that poverty would be much more: endurable if only it were, much more general. And now, listen for a moment to John Bracken, the forthright leader of the Progressive Conservative Party: "The State here in Canada, unlike in Germany, is the servant of the people, not its master. Finance, and economic mechanisms associated with it, must likewise be regarded as the servants, not the masters, of our economy. The under- writing of prosperity AND social security is a proper function of the State." Notice how closely prosperity and social security are linked together. We are determined that Social Security shall no longer be regarded as a charity but as what it is—a social bligation and national responsibility of e vexy first magnitude and import- ce. Social Security must grow with 'osperity—because the degree to which ial services may be provided is deter - ed by the size of the national income. are pledged to maintain that income a high prosperous level. It is against is background of plenty for all, that e Progressive Conservatives see ocial Security. The Progressive Conservative Party is pledged to provide, without delay, a uniform and comprehensive social security programme for all Canadians, including: Extended unemployment• insurance coverage. /Adequate payments for the mainten- ance of unemployables. 1/Accident and sickness benefits. '/Children's allowances. VMaternity benefits. V Widows' benefits. VRetirement pensions. VIncreased old age pensions at age 65. Vlncreased pensions for the blind. Where any of these social services are administered provincially, we shall provide grants large enough to ensure adequate standards of social security for all Canadians. Compare this positive and complete programme with the make -shift ex- pedients of other parties. No other party can equal or even approach John Bracken's guarantee of security for all Canadians. It's rational security—NOT rationed scarcity. WIN.' WITH AKEN Vote for Your PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE P-7 Published by. the Progressive Conservative Party, Ottawa. 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Mr. ,Roy East, who has been down in Cuba looking after the interest of the Royal Bank of Can edaz of which he is an officer, is now going to Jamaica. Mr, Oliver Potter was lay dele- gate from Ontario Street church and Mr. R. E. Manning for Wesley church at the District meeting in Seaforth yesterday. Messrs. ,Al. T. Cooper and J. A. Irwin were also present. Mr. Jas. W. Finch and little daughter, Thelma, of Stratford spent the week end with the fortner's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Finch of town. Mr. C. H. Holland is away on an inspection trip through the Mari- times Frovince and will probably ba absent a month or six weeks. Miss Bessie Davies Left Monday for Leamington, where she will visit her sister, Mrs. G. A. Bradshaw.. Mrs. R. L. Moore and two sols, Harold and Lloyd, leave this week to join Mr. Moore at Hanover. Misses Sara and Mary Turner. returned on Thursday after a week's Visit with Wingham friends. Mr. R. J. Irwin of Victoria. Col- lege, Toronto, is spending a short vacation , at his home in town. THE CLINTON NEW ERA May 20th, 1920 Mr. G. B. Harris, Superintendent of the Clinton Knitting Co., got his finger of his right hand jammed' up this week in the machinery. • Miss. Verna Jarrott who was recently operated on for appendi- citis at the Clinton Hospital is doing fine. • The young ladies of the classes of Mrs. A, T. Cooper and Miss Stone in Wesley church Sunday .School, entertained the young mel, of the tthurch on Tuesday evening Wes'ey Hall: After the banquet the evening was spent in games, and many pleasing musical selections were given. About 60 were prezent. The School beard purchased the upper' lot of Ontario street from Mr. .S..S. Cooper this week by aibi- trition for •$200.00. The arbitrators were W. .Paisley, Reeve Miller and Mayor Cottle. Tax Collector Fitzsimons isbusy this week issuing' his, tax slips for 1920 ,and the total amount of most of them will cause heartburn to most tax payers. Mr. A. E. Durnin, who is the pro- prietor of the farm known as the Wheatley farm, shipped 23 head of 3 and 4 year old' steers, to Toronto last week. The sight of seeing this drove go down the street recalled the (old; days when the cattle men of Rulrett, Tuekersmith, Stanley, and Goderich Townships, used to bring in their Wine beef cattle. The average weight was 1530 pounds Tuckersmith—Mr. V. Terdyiierry's house in Tuckersmith had a narrow escape from destruction by fire on Wednesday. It is supposed to have started by sparks from the chimney and the fire had made considerable headway before. it was discovered'. However by the prompt action and hard work of the neighbours the Zanies were soon brought =den control. Dr. and Mrs: McGill and Miss Jean of Mitchell, spent Sunday with Dr. and Mrs. Axon. Among those from, Clinton who ber, 1942, ohn l3racikenl' stood in the:. Audi- torium in Winnipeg be- fore a great concourse of people. John. Bracken. -, the Farmer — was, accepting the leadership, of a great resurgent people's, party., In ring- ing tones he was speak- ing of "The People's` Charter". And the soul- searching sincerity of this man of the soil, with his vision of Canada, of Canadians and the "world of plenty that lies within our grasp"' was deeply moving. Picture the background .of this man — this moment.. John Bracken, the farm boy, on his father's farm in. Ontario, milking, haying, carrying in the wood, plowing then young Bracken, honours student at the Ontario, Agricultural College going to Manitoba as represent- ative of the Department of Agriculture . on. to. Saskatchewan as Superintendent of Fairs and Farmers' Institutes and Secretary of the Provincial Livestock Association' . . then, later, John Bracken, author,, writing books about farms, farming, "farmers " And now years later, in Winnipeg, John Bracken, th:a, farmer, is speaking of "the right of farmers and other• primary producers to a fair share of the nation's: income." Notice the simplicity of the language he user„ . clear, concise — sincere. "During the lastdecade," he is• saying, "farm income: fell to such a low average as to become of very great. concern 'in our Canadian economy. It is the responsi- bility of the nation to see that this great inequity shall` not be perpetuated." • ` •. Then,suddenly his voice rises,..becomes even clearer.,. . more incisive. "I may say quite frankly that if it had hot been for that plank in yourplatform which pro-. vides for a'square deal for agriculture, 1' would not: be here." 0 Two years later, in Alliston, Ontario, — again the same. simplicity, the moving sincerity. "'I am an agrarian," said John Bracken, "and I am a. Canadian ... who seeks to correct the major social: injustice of our day — the unfairly .small share of the national income that goes to farmers and farm women and farm .workers." Then, with a statesman's enlarge-. ment of vision, he added, "When the injustice to the: farmer is removed, the economy of Canada as a whole will be strengthened." No one could be less parochial in his outlook — more deeply concerned with national welfare than John Bracken, the farmer who embarked tweity years ago on a career so successful as to be without precedent in contemporary political history within the British Com- monwealth of Nations. B-2 Published by the Progressive Conservative Association, Ottawa. z, rf 4 ' •`84. Know John Bracken — the Progressive Conservai'ive4 attended the funeral of the late Donald Patterson at Auburn on Tuesday were, Inspector. Torrance, Dr. Shaw, Jas. Reynolds, J. A. Ford and N. W. Trewartha. The late Donald Patterson has been. the Engineer for Huron County for the past 15 years. Mr. A. 'Seeley has rented: blacksmith shop for a term of three years to Messrs. James and George. Sharp, from Watford'. Mr. James Sharp has been in Mr. • Seeley's em- ploy for several months so know& the run of the business. lam' "small business. ISN'T SO SMALL! No fewer than 94 out of every hundred establish- ments in the manufactur- ing, wholesale, retail and services fields are small, employing less than 15 people. Together they em- ploy 37% of all the workers engaged in these lasses of business. (From 1941 census) Ordinarily one Canadian in'levery six gainfully employed,. earns his livelihood in a "small business." It may be a farm, a store or a lumber -yard; an architect's office or a service station. Taken together, these individual enter- prises provide a very substantial part of Canada's total jobs—must continue to do so after the war. During the years ahead many people who dropped small business for war reasons will want to return to their accustomed or new ways of making a living. Thus old businesses will be revived. Many new ones will be started by returned men and people now in war indus- tries. The commercial banks will do their part to afford assurance that no sound credit requirement need be left unserved in the field of small business. As such businesses grow, they create additional , job openings; that has been the pattern of Canadian enter- prises. Most large companies began in a small way. 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