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Clinton 11.47
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Fleeter 3.58
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Clinton
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Dublin 7.12
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13eatorth 11.30
Clinton 11.45
Code/itch 12;05
2.48
3.00
3.22
3.23
2.29
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10.09
10.21
10.35
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CHAPTgR. )91 ' ed Up the eet. "Take a cheer"
and let's hear," lip said,
But Eli could not sit still. Pac
fast tLp and down the room, he "
gala to talk. After ten minutes Ti
thy said, not :skeptically at 'all, "H
on! Let's go into my study an,d
out some road maps. and the V
moat register. And some Windwa
county town reports.. By the Lord
Mighty, Eli, I believe you've
something!"
It was black night when they we
into the seudy. The .first signal fr
the outer world that reached th
was, astonishingly, the breakf
smell of coffee.
Timothy took up a typewritten pa
and said, "Let's see how it aonn
now we've got it all put together."
He read: "Before automobiles were
in general use Vermont towns were
literally isolated, except in those
places where one of our railroads ran
two or three trains a day. Every
community was shut up to its own,
resources and its own people from
November to May. . Within the last
few years these Conditions have been
transformed.
"One such way to make use of the
new conditions has liPeurred to. Mr.
Eli Kemp, of• Clifford, a ,recent gradu-
ate of the Academy. During his sen-
ior year at the Academy,' he organ -
together with Mr. William Peek
and ran an Academy bus service us-
ed by- the athletic teams for their
out of town games. He now propos-
es, giving his full time, to employ
their two buses (capacity _thirty pas-
sengers each) for the daily transpor-
tation of students from the such st 1 -
dents from those towns have been
able to attend the Academy as were
able to pay board in Clifford, M.
'Kempand Mr. Hulme of the Academy
atter careful calculation figure that
if this plan is carried 'out, from sixty-
fiv,,2, to seventy new students can be
daily brought to the Academy. This
would increase the student body to
about two hundred."
He laid down the paper. "Eli, do
you tealize that that number of new
students will bring in clear, more,
than four thousand dollars for the
Academy every year, and give you
fair pay for yotiretime?"
Eli's face paled. He sprang up with
a cry. "But that ain't anything com-
pared to what it'll mean for the kids
in these back towns! Professor
Hulme, we're a-goin' to win that 'leo-
ton," he said.
Mr. Dewey arrived early, cast his
vote and stood chi the marble walk
at a .clecorous legal distance from the
Town Hall all that day until the bat -
lot boxes were, turned.
Timothy knew in his bones that he
was beaten. Looking at his check
Lisa he said, "Old Mrs. Basset hasn't
come yet. How about driving over to
get her?" He thought, "By tomorrow
/11116.1004
TIMOtOay Nahne, prhicipal of a
good but impoSeNshed Vermont
academy, lives a studious bache-
lor's existence with only his Aunt
Lavinia for company. Timothy
makes friends with a new teach-
er, Susan Barney, and her young-
er* sister, Delia. Timothy .meets
his nephew, Canby Hunter, who
goes an a skiing party in bad'
weather. They run across an
auto accident in the mountains in
which Susan is badly injured.
Susan gropes her way back to
health while Timothy jealouely
watches Canby. Tineethy gets
news that Mr. Wheaton, a
trustee of the academy, ha,e died ,
of apoplexy, and will leave the
academy a rich endowment on
condition that its name be chang-
ed and that it excludes all Jew-
ish students. Timothy declares
that :if the terms are accepted
he will resign - other faculty
members speak in favor of ac-
ceptance. During the next two
months a bitter fight rages he
the town, as people „take sides on
the issue.
When it ,canne, it .was .as quickly
over, Timothy thotight, as being elec-
trocuted. He was in: his cake one
evening and Mr. Dewey sat waiting
till timOthy was tree for the cam-
paigning Calls at the Arms which
they had planned for the evening.
The door to the corridor was at
the extreme rightof Timothy's field
of vision. He saw Canby come swing.:
ing in, his hea.dup, not shainbling-
marching. To Mr. Dewey, to Tim-
othy's profile, to the room,' to the,
universe, Canby cried out, "I'm en-
gaged to be married."
, Mr. Dewey was saying, 'astonished;,
curious; "You . don't say!. Who to?" ,
The question sent Canby into fit2
of laughter. Timothy was lost, liter=
ally, materially lost. Por a moment
he 'did not know where he was, nor
who the two people were in the room
with him. Yet • after a time he heard
Mr., Dewey saying, "Well, , now, Can-
by, you've certainly got yourself one
of the niceat. I'd like to've married
her my'self, if I - was the age to:
Wouldn't you, T. C.?"
To Canby, coming up close to him
now, looking at 'him out of shining
eyes, Timothy held out his right hand.
Canby laughed nervously and said
something to Mr. Dewey. Then he
went to the door, lifted his arm high
over his head in all elated gesture,
waived a swilling, already half absent
goodbye . to Timothy, opened the
door, closed it after. 'ham
On the day in July when Canby
and Susan drove away to be married,
leaving behind, them' these ha.sty,
r4i
BI fliy 11, filo
settettieg nobedy, el* ,..#0,41., a „weed
ing 0,0914 Yollr "sa*IR:g ymed
be- Morey talks! ErtrYkO0 in tnWn
mo knew that if you'd '.11.letkept :Alia
olci almut taking that Nattiest, yetu'd here
get hail four times the salary you've-"
er- He gave a convulsive start and
rd flung , one -arm as, astoundingly,
Al- incredibly, the creak of a pistol went
got off' behind them -a bang! Bang -bang -
bang -bang! A barrage of loud deton-
nt atiolis as from a machine gune at
ora their heels, went off in a nerve-shate
era tering fusillade.
as.t Ma•Dewey was balding his walking
et'clt up over his head at arm's length
ge -his battered olcl hat on it. On the
ds,
doubly slated notes for Delia, for Aunt Lavinia, and I will be starting
Aunt Lavinia, for "Uncle Tim," for to move up' to the Crandall -Pitch
house."
Down the street came Canby's old
Jalopy. He drew up to the Town Hail,
helped Susan out, and when she van-
ished into the crowd stood with one
foot, on the running board.
The clock in the tower of St. Au,.
drew's boomed once. Half -past four,
Timothy crossed the road to ask Mr.
Dewey to go back with him to Dewey
House and rest. The bid man was
as pale as his own ghost. "Not till
the last vote's in;" he said firmly.
And, "Good afternoon, Deacon , Gat-
usha. We'd ,begun to wonder. where
you were. Your yote's needed to help
the town Stand by the principles we
were brought up in,"
Timothy stood beside him till the
church clock struck five and Ezra
Warner stuck his head out of a' sec-
ond -storey window to announce to
these below, "Board of Civil Author-
ity is just a-turnin' the boxes. No
good lettin' anybodyelse up."
Mr. Dewey nodded gravely to Ti1220-
thy and walked beside him around
the darner to Dewey House. Pres-
eetly to his surprise Canby Hunter
appeared, shambling along on the
sidewalk towarde them, his hands
buried in his trousers pockets,
"Thought I'd come along and wait
here till the count's- made," he ex-
plained. "I brought Susan over to
vote. She's gone to see Miss Peck."
Timothy said nothing.
"How about. sittin' down?" suggest-
ed Canby, letting himeelf fail in a
heap on the porch, half lying, rest-
ing one eibOw on the floor, his head
on hiis hand.' ,
"I've been sitting down," said Tim-
othy; continuing to stand.
Canby was, the one whose ear first
caught the sound of someone running.
He was on his feet with one bound.
Ell Keth ane around the corner, so
vtterly winded that when he came
within hearing distance he weld only
croak, "Sall right. We won. Foote's
elected." He came on more slewly,
speiit and panting, and leaned against
a tree, clutching at les aide; able to
gitp ont only fetie worda "Ilundred
end forty niajerleY,"
Tittlethy Stood in a vacuum. He
reeled beds teeth the 'aft etiitlt to take
eeineorte tf its efewedied initalea-
tlietiefierhipe,
banby heti breath etietIgh. 1ta Wee
oink oni,votibiy't0u khot bet
Miss Peck, Timothy, sitting at his
desk in the study where he had gone
with a consaiousa directed effort. of
his intelligence but where he coati
not work, suddenly had a clear sight
of the bogey.
He had till then gone through th(i
day very creditably, reading impas-
sively the note for hitalie had found
at the breakfast table with its, "We
felt you were just too busy to bother
about anything but this big fight on.
your hands." Ali& Lavinia, not very
much interested by one. wedding more
or less in the world, had to say about
the good' sense the young people had
shown in getting the thing over with
-at a minimum of expense and, both-
er. Like ,aimad in the dentist's chair
sitting throughthe ,kiilling and extrac-
tion of a nerve, Timothy had' sat
grimly through his daily hour with
Delia -ail hour filled not with history
and mathematics, but with a' wild
outburst of horrified bevoilderment
from the girl.
* * *
Timothy had gone to bed at once
after the mass meeting but not to
sleep.
He leaned from the window, meas-
uring with his eye the distance to the,
great stone doorstep two stories be-
low.' Sotneone was sitting there. A
mad. A man with his elbows on his
kneee in the attitude of waiting.
As Timothy *rained his eyes
thrpugh the starlight darkness, in-
credulous et what he seemed, le see,
the hammer -stroke of total astonish-
ment delving eat for the instant ev-
erything else from his head, the mare
as if feelbi,g himself observed, turn,
ed his head, looked up, saw. Timothy
at the window and got quickly to his
feet.
It was not e man. It was a tall
boy: It was Eli Kemp. Eli was mo-
tioning, Was calling in a low voice;
"Cat I come ap, Professor Hulme?
It's Eli. Are yeti awake? Gan I
come up a minute?" Without -waiting
foe an answer, he latish -eel open the
never locked fro* door aneentae in.
to the hettse.
"I got an idea, Professor Ittilbee! I
couldn't wait to tells et twee With yet,
to I got dressed and oatut4e!All on
the front step 4.n.1 Wait till I beard,
SOttiebody Stirring alxrund hi the
fa:Milne
tittiethy got beak inteebed Mid
• • ••• ' "
ir, •••-
hat ,a pack of large firecrackers made
a volcano of noise and smoke and eke
ious darting flashes of fire. In his
left hand was another pack. Catching
sight, over his shoulder, ot their star-
tled faces,
explained.
. . . "Jes eelebratin'," he
to boaeue in the hareciP*00,14PAO''
' 0 ottab: Att)7eit'Irter; ta:440,41,4., .71.41.4a!
ette. time
The '321:913t etefanaliar ef tbese belle
*AS', the beetorganization 'tlie
now bus serve foe elee more distant.
'rpe7ttliretheell
Y i9GkE14.fial4
trla:
:Leta #1111. Iseleted One& to
or werkshoes or hopsetteof the select,:
men. ana =now dieeptors .v, -here, note -
bookie. band, he jotted down. the nee-
e.ssery itaforatation about young peo-
ple recently out of the eighth .gratle.
Fre had though t that after that pre-
liminary survey he would also ;need
somehow to find the time to look up
those poteutial students one by one.
But, to his renef, Eli snatched meet
of that work from him. By the Open -
lag day of the Academy, his buses
were full; one of them had to male
tee- trips.. There were seventy-three
new freshmen at the Academy. While
Eli was doing ,this with daily confer-
ences with the Principal,. Timothy,
with the three trustees and, wnat
teachers he could call back, was claw -
ing together- a hastily arranged eta', ' "Ala?" commeeted Tintothy.
riculum and budget, intervievvi ex -
DREW 221
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Constructive Proposals
In Public Interest
Spearing over the C.B.:C. network Friday
night, July 16th, Leslie' M. Froat, M.P.P.
for Victoria and Haliburton, one of the
outstanding Progressive Conservative mem-
bers in the Ontario Legislature, emphasized
the fact that the 22 -point program recently
enunciated by George Drew, Leader of' the r
Progressive Conservatism Party. was the
product of extended consultation With his
followers; and that it was • unanimously
adopted at a largely attended meeting of
party candidates and officials from all over
Ontario held at the ROyal York Hotel on
Saturday, July 3rd.
Not only this, said Mr. Frost, the plat-
form given out after- thatsraceting was the
natural sequence andiautcome of construc-
tive preposals made in the legialature by
Mr. Drew. and his associates. Ever since the
war began the Opposition, led by Mr. Drew,
has at each session put forward a series Of
resolutions conceived in the public interest
. These proposals, added the member for
Victoria and Haliburton, have been either
',voted down at the instance of the Liberal
Goverorrient or declared out of order by a
Liberal Speaker. •
. On February 15th, 1941, the Opposition,
submitted a resolutiori, calling upon the
Government to move for a conference of
representatives of the Dominion and of all
the provinces for the following purposes:
To adopt such measureby intermrovindal
co-operation as may be neceisary.
(a) To assure the greatestwar and pest -
war efforts.
(b) To meet emergencies created by the
war.
(c) To assure adequate prices for
agricultural products.
(d), To protect the established rights of
labor.
And to devise plans for the rehabilita-
tMn of the members of our armed
forces and for the re-employment of
civilians who may be thrown out of
work by nostwar industrial readjust-
ment; and to consider such . other -
questions relating to the welfare and
security. of the people as may be
deemed advisable. •
Voted down by the Liberals including -
idr. Nixon.
•
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING
The, advisability of planning beforehand
for postwar recovery was again pressed ripen
the i -louse by the Opposition in a resolutihn
which read:
That the proposed St. Lawrence
development and other public under-
takings throughout the proince,
vince in the
. opinion of this Legislature call for the
immediate creation of an Ontario Town
and Country Planning Commission,
with authority to recommend and
supervise plans for the reconstruction,
' 'reclamation, and development of rural
and urban areas.
This and similar Opposition proposals
Were voted down by the Liberal, including
Mr. Nixon.
ECONOMY URGED
In the same session the Opposition, im-
pressed by the need for economy inthe
administration of the province, brought ins
resolution: -
That'the estimates for the current year •
be referred back to the executive council
with instructions to decrease the total
amount of supply by $25,000,000.
This was turned down by the Liberals.
including Mr. Nixon:
FOREST RESOURCES
Later on Mr. Drew's followers offered a
resolution demanding that the administra-
tion .and control of the provincial forest
resources be placed under the direction of a
public body to be known as the Ontario
Forest' Resources Commission, after the
manner of the Ontarid Hydro Electric
Power Commission.
Rejected by the Liberals, including Mr.
Nixon..
RECONSTRUCTION PLANS
In the late session of the' Legislature (1943)
the Opposition kept up the pressure for
action by submitting this resolution:- .
This /louse regrets that the Liberal
government has introduced no legisla-
tion to provide for the re-establishment
in civilian occupations of the members
of our forces, for after,War reconstruc-
tion, and for work, Wagea, and social
security for our people..
The Liberals, including Mr. Nixon, voted
this down.
Stilt on the same drive' for action the
Opposition prOposed:
That the Government iltould undertake
'(with special reference t� the constitu-
tional relationships between the Domin-
ion and Provincial (tOVertiments) a sur-
vey of wanting soeialleoherhes here and
elsewhere; and with ado regard to the
probable courae of event6 after the war,
. make recommendatiktne for a unified
workable plan which, Will assure a
proper standard of work, wages
health, education, and living etandard4
for all our peopte-With special refer-
ence to the re-establislithent of the men
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tra teachers, supervising the cleaning
and waite_washing of the long orOPY
third story of -the Anaaeray hutidiaga
It was in these Trustee' me4eings.
that he began wieji Mr. Eaedall that
earnest effort Which he made with
evenone who bad been oh the other
eire",-tla get himself, by- hunialty mut
friendliness, forgiven for the offense
of having been right and haying been.
successful.
do you know that Charlie
Randall's not the fool I Wok him for
-not quite," commented Mr. Dewey
charitably to Timothy one day
ng (Coettneted Next Week).
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The Press Endorses Progressive Conservative Platform
DREW PLANS A DYNAMIC ONTARIO
(Essex County Reporter, Kingsville, Ont.)
Social security, full employment, and
economic planning are prominent topics of
the day. George Drew's approach to the
discussions forms a stimulating contribution
... Ontario's planning problem, according
to George Drew, is not a static one, but is
dynamic in character, designed to develop
to the utmost our Nature-givenpoteritialities
.. his view at first may sound like old-line
thinking, but cam must .admit that his ap-
proach is more than an echo of LaurT" add
Macdonald. He adds something new . . our
planning fir the future must be dynamic..
DREW APPEALS TO THE BEST IN ONTARIO
(Ottawa Journal)
For the Progressive Conservative Programme
offered the people of Ontario by George
Drew, one thing must be said at the outset.
It is that here at least isa pronouncement by
a public man who' reveals understanding of
tile gravity, and the faith and hope, of our
times . . . He (Mr. Drew) offers us a pro-
gramme witlain the tramework of freedom;
a programme that must appeal to. Ontario's
tradition of individual independence and
self-reliance. He would have government
control and sdperintendence for the citizen;
he would not subject men to the deadening,,
hand of bureaucracy, nor plan us all into
puppets under drill sergeants of the state.
That he leaves as it should be left to the
Socialists of the C.C.F.... No Ontario leader
in years has advanced a more progressive, a
more humane, ora more hopeful programme.
DREW GREAT DOCUMENT
(Toronto Globe and Mail)
Progressive Conservative Leader, George
Drew bas raised the present campaign far
above the picayune things of the little poli-
tician. By it all the carping, all the sneers,
the inuendo and the petty slander of his
critics were swept aside. In that address
George Drew has given the people of 'On-
tario a great document, the finest social
document in Ontario's history; one which
should be read, studied and thought upon by
every citizen ... Point by point it is a massive •
thing. Even in the skeletonized form .
it is a dynamic and constructive programnie:
Almost every point offers a practical approach
to fundamental problems... It is essentially
a programme of work; a series of well in-
tegrated steps calling for the creative use of
all our resourdes and all our skill ... George
Drew is publicly pledged to these 22 points.
What is more, he is pledged to implement
them with the guidance and assistance of the
chosen representatives of each group directly
concerned.... If some concrete evidence of
the genuineness of the Party were needed,
there is the record. Many of the records of
the points Mr. Drew itemized in his address
are not new. He has offered them to the
Legislature of the Province and as Opposition
Leader offered to assist the Government in
carryingthem out.
TO THE RESCUE OF REAL ESTATE
(Windsor Star)
Mr. Drew proposes that the Ontario Govern-
ment, if he is called upon to form it, will
-
assume at least fifty percent of the' school
taxes now charged against real estate . .
That ... would prove a relief to alor,xpayers:
and women in our, fighting forces and
the war industries.
The Liberals, including Mr. Nixon, killed
this resolution.
HELP FOR AGRICULTURE
The Opposition renewed the attack with
this further resolution:
The members of this legislature express
their regret that the Government has
failed to meet the critical needs of our
agricultural Producers; and they insist
*that the Government immediately take
whatever steps are necessary td assure
stability of prices, and an, adequate
supply of manpower and machinery for
the rapidly increasing demands of war
production. '
Thie,was a move on behalf of the farmers
of Ontari6.which the Liberals were afraid to
veto directly. The Liberal Government
members, including Mr. Nixon, got around
this difficulty by adopting a resolution
praising the Government for the admirable
work done by the province in assuring
manpower, prices and machinery for the
agricultural industry.
UNIFORM RATE FOR HYDRO
The next` relic:anion submitted by the
Opposition Asserted that the Hydro Electric
resources of the Province belonged to all the
People; and that it is therefore desirable
that the Hydro Electric Power Commission
Act be amended immediately to equalize
rates for electric energy and remove the
present service charge in rural areas.
TO MEET FUEL SHORTAGE
An -Opposition resolution dealing with the
current fuel shortage read:
In the opinion of this House a. fuel com-
mittee should be appointed to inquire
into the fuel situation and to recom-
mend to the government Measures to
assure the greatest possible supply of
fuel for the coming winter.
Despite the sufferings of last winter and'
the prospective sufferings of the coming
winter on the part of the people, the Liberal
Government of the day, including 11r. Nixon,
unanimously voted down this resolution.
FINANCIAL PROTECTION FOR SOLDIERS
The next Resohltion, introduced by the
Opposition at the recent Session of the
House, proposed that all members of the
Canadian Armed Forces from Ontario
should be given effective legal protection
against the normal economic consequences
ofatheir service; and that all those, whose
ability to meet their financial obligations
has been materially reduced by such service,
should be sheltered against the forfeiture of
instalment contracts, cancellation of life
insurance policies up to' $10,000.00, and
judgments or other legal proceedings for
debts incurred before entering military
service. The resolution stated that this
protection should be extended on the
exprBss condition that those able to pay
should not be encouraged to evade their
obligations. The deferment rather than the
cancellation of obligations was suggested so
that justice might be assured.
Instead of voting down this resolution the
Liberal Attorney -General stated that this
proposal had been taken up with the Federal
Government. But up to the present time no
action has ensued.
OLD AGE PENSIONS
A further resolution introduced by the
Opposition read: -
Resolved that in the opinion of this
Horse the Government should take
immediate steps to adjust the old -age
pension payment in accordance with the
present coat of living.
In supporting this resolution Mr. Drew
and ethers contended that old age pension
payments should be raised immediately by
et least $5.00 a month and that the practice
should be abandoned of compelling old
people with little homes to give up these
hornet before they can collect their scanty
pensions.
This reasonable proposal of the Opposition
was ruled out of order by the Speaker, Mr.
James Clarke, who now favors union of
Canada with the United States, On another
occasion in the late session the ruled
out of order, a proposal for the celebration of
Empire Day. Mr. Nixon is not on record as
protesting against the Liberal Speaker's
rulings,
LABOUR AND,. "TEAM -PLAY" .
As far back as teee George Drew placed
befole the Legislature a proposal railing
upon- the Minister of Labour to arrange a
conference to be known as the Ontario
Industrial Production 'Conference to be
attended by representatives of Labour
Unions, Employers' and the public. The
,purpose of the Conference was to be the
assurance of maximum industrial produc-
tion, with effective protection for the
workers.
The Liberal Government, ineluding Mr.
Nixon, have taken taken no action up to the
present time, in regard to this propesaL
In keeping with its record in the Legis-
lature, on the public platform in and the
press, ever since 1939 the Progressive
Conservative Party, as already indicated ia
pledged to carry out the program' outfitted
in the 22 -points of iti platform.
The only means of making sure that these
forward looking committments will be put
into forthright practice is to vote .George
Drew and the Progresside Conservative
Party into Office on August 4th.
The- issue is in the hands of the electors
who are under a patriotic and moral obligor
tion to do three things:
(1) See that your name js en the voters' list.
(2) "Gat out 'and work fer the Progressive
Conservative Party abd lis platform and a
greater and more prosperous 'Ontario. (3) Talk
to your friends and acquaihtanres and get
them to 'bravoes on file right side.
Make Ontario Strong. Work and Vote for
the Progressive Conservative Candidate.
VO!Fa A.UGUSIU 4 FOR THE
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