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'There's nothing quite as .
i'tveying• as 'being torn between
••two women: Some feltlows. *aro
'aiPped •asunder. by a wife pul-
'1ing..in one difeetion, ..a• ,mother
hailing in the other_
Other chaps, •are split. down
the middle 'by the big decision;
should •I marry ;Mabel, who
god; kind, •sweet,
and crazy about tine; or Should
I -.run after Torso, who is bad,
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THE 1.3.1CRNOW SENT/NEL, LIJCICNOW. ONTARIO •
cruel, mien, 'eye,popping, excit-
ing,.andcouldn't. care, less if I
droppecl,4ead?.. - • •
I1 remember one time when
I Was • about 18. It may 'be ,lia/rd
l'to • believe, 'for those who know
me now, hut that was the year
I had two 'girls keenon. me.
,At the sarrie :time, I was ,Pretty
fond of +both, One • was sweet
and innocent. The other,' was a
reclmhead with a wieked shape.
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X don't knOw'Jio. litirL,thappen,-
ed,-but by some api‘racle• :of Mis-
inianagement T. made a date
Va.th both.,agirls afar, Vile 'same
night,, same tint, When I real-,
zed the the pickle I was in, I knew
that each 'would be furiotrs
I stepped out, with the other
one,- So I took the sensible, cp-
werdly way. ,out,' :stood them
both up, end Went,.to a country
dance :with .theIboys. Both girls
recovered frorn' the -blow with
am4ing speed and eventually
"had the good sense to ' marry
somebody ° with 4orne. gts.
It is only We •cowards who
,get , into these, jams., irknd -I'm ut.
another One, right now. This
time, rtiy; wife and daughter are
tearing ° me in two. They're
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worse than. politicians. Each
bends my ear with :intensity
when the 'other isn't around,. try
Ing to persuade, bribe or inveigle
me into joining her side.
et .
It's all. °v'those crazy kit-
tens, •Four'more tarrived - two
days ego. It's the faurth batch
in two years, Our eat, needier
'to Say, is a Veal sexpot.
The arSt• batch was an eVent.
The ,kids 'witnessed the Wonders
of 'birth. There .was tremendous
elEcitement- The 'k"itterts were
nourished and cherished. The
Maw was .fed. dainties. I '1:xfirught
cigars. ••
witx.eri the 'kittens were* wean
ed,' I. had a talk .with itny Clat,pgh-:
ter. She wept, but .egreed. that
'we might ihave a problem if • we,
kept •them -all. I put en 'ad' in
the _paper, 1 :was' on ia pretty
lottone, demanding a. good
home, suggestingthat' nothing
but. the best would do. We got
rid ,9f the..1 all, easily.
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Next :tithe • around; e
' 1itte
of .the gloss had worn off. It
took two. ,ads ithe paper, to
get------irid--:of-r-on-ly two, kittens.
Finally, a little boy turned ttii.
He wanted only one, but I. told
him they wt re inseparaible
twins, 'bullied hirn, *threatened
'HIE CAMPAIGN .1I)THE CANDIDATES
,;•••• .By RAY ARGYLE . ••
• Special TO,The
LUCKNOW :SENTINEL'
The ,election. campaign
te;
reached a .' major :turning •
30
el point ibis. week as the per-
sonal;••,Vote-getting ,appeal of
Prime Minister :Diefenhaker
• and. Liberal leader Pearson • •
•. became, more important than
• ,their patty's positions Oh the -
•
issues of the" day: • .
• .
With *few major prono!mee-
merits. corning from, any'of the
• four 'parties, the campaign
turned . both, more bitter , and '
More Personal. /
"Demagoguery .and 'dedeit"
were the words used by Mr.
Pearson -in describing the PM's
platform attacks .on the Lib-
Vtt
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"Wilful • sabotage.. ofParlia-
, .
ment,"' Mr. Diefenbaker .thun-
dered back at • the Liberals.
Saciat Credit leader Rebell
T
ehhirftapisnondewD
TaonnimNyni5ueginthoscr•a9itsioe
bathed h the glare .of • the '
election 'spotlight., But the
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country's attention • retnained
•mostly fixed on the old -line :
party leaders._
And it tamest seemed' as' if
a "new"- John .Diefenbaker;
• looking fit and healthier, had
emerged: front, the upheaval ,
.•
and • chaos :that marked the
Conservative party's last days
in parlianient.
Reaching back 'into hit .long
hustings. experience, the „.PM
has 'generated a younger and
more personal -almost chatty—,
•
approach :to the voters. Gone
this weekwere the quivering
• jowls,' the flaming eyes of last
year's 'campaign, InStead, this.
"average man"' as he has styled
himself, spoke'. Ouietly, alMost •
humbly to hiscrowded,. meet-
ings across the prairies:• • '
'The message was still the
. same: how the LiberalS, he said, ..
• had prevented him froth doing
• well by the country in the last .
. Parliament,: and hem he would
• fix this if only the votertivould
• give him a clear majority again.
° PEARSON DRAGGING •
Behind the change in, strategy •
Was a .significant : discovery
!which' Tory strategists believe
• they have made. It ts—one top-
ranking
PC organizer., told me'
—that Mike Pearson has failed
almost. completely to sell • hirn!
,self as,.. a decisive • and confi-
• denee-inspiring leader who
• could eome to grips with Can:
ada'S Muddled , political sitUa
And in thiS the Conservatives
may hgre detected A fatal vveak-
ness in the 'Liberal bid for a
• Parliamentary mar
Traveling in Ontario and the
Wet last week, this reporter
found only lukeWarm interest
• in Mike Pearson the 'man,. al-
theugh Liberal patty' support
generally Seems high, '
• It is hard to aVoid the am -
'pression that Mike Pearson iS
running behind his party, and
that with any other leader ,
Martin or &lean Lesagc, ior
instance—the liberals would go ,
book in a, landslide. •
In a cdttest alorig tr,8:
rtsi
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Die, ...Iletkpes Ile .ficts.
Edge On: /11. tke Pearson .
.. Especially. 'after my daughtet
meaenlitie,WledgYwn siP4ottaltae 'fin; '
or •
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hint, Cajoled hlin, and, finally,
he took them, when 1 gave him
'half a dollow• ardoco. •
The , third batch brought ul-'
timatunts front the 014 Bottle -
axe,. An.4 I dOn't, blatne her
much. Have you ever tried to ,>
got dinner with four . Mewling
little beasts totterilm, abont
un-
derfoit, riddling on the floor
a evety' step?, Even their °wit
rnother • beeanke fed • up, with, the , •
grocery -gutted: little 'punk,,
gave. her never a moment's rest.
Three ads in the paper pro-
duced one reltietant • c4stonter;
lVIy sister OMR to visit, ad, ilier
'normal good 'Sense- destroYed 413y.
a pre -dinner .4rnartini, • an ,which
craftily tripled: everything. ex- ,
cept the olive, she was a
easy vjetiari. That ..leift two kit-,
tens.
We couldn't move Vieth. The
Market kr kittens. WaS appar-
ently saturated. There were twa
alternatives 7-• kittens or Wife.
Kittens ean't eoolt.
All right. I -admit it. I did it.
•still -shudder When L-Shink of
it. I've never been. •the seine
since. But, I. ',don't 'Wank , to go
into details. .:JuSt call. Eieh- •
mann, for shortr.--.
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• • Never again, •I swore, Silently.
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"• " •
,box pointed her -finger' 'at her ' •
parents, ea•Thd. Aereamed, Mur- •
derers!" • • / . .
.• The battle is on „noW. The old -• •
Trouble ''n Set e says er,ye. •
got. to go: YoungAihn is watch-.
ing me like a. hawk, and remind- •
, •
ing• me of .my ' past perfidy.6,..,: •
• I lhaven't. the nerve to mut-'• .
der them. .Ithaven't • the nerve not • •
to get rid of them sOinehew. The,
only way Out, as far' as .1. oan, •
See; is to take. them, in lbasket,: '
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suitably ,deeorated, .with • an "ap:- • • -
.prePriate;-•note. inSide, and :ileave
them' on the .dodrstelP of our next • •
door neighbour, Whose big,•Iblatk •
tornat is. at 'the ,:root. of the
whole dilemma. • •
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Pickets and heckler's turned up in increasing numbers at political ralliei
in the .Past week. These anti-nuclear pickets .clashed' at rally for Mr. Pearson, in
Quebec City
•
dential lines Mr., Diefenbaker
would undoubtedlywin hands
doWn. But a Canadian general,
election is not like a presiden-
tial contest, and. the' Liberals • •
Aire. 'still counting ,on better. ••
organization and • anxiety for'
stable government to give them,"
a clear verdict 'April 8. )
It was for thisream* that
Mr. t Pearson began to hit
• out hard at the Prime.,Minis- •
• ter 'personally fast week, •
opening a high 'gear last- •
t etch drive in the Liberal
• Mr:. Pearson clioseXharlotte-
town, in. solid Tory Prince
Edward Island, tb•:.swing „hit
hardestlayinakers so far, •
Attatking the' PM for •"dema-••
goguery ••and deceit,!:. he chal
lenged Mr. Dieferthaker to get
rid of the: Bornarcs he "derides"
and to corse to some other de-
fense • arrangement with . the
winle he is still in o ice. ,
in.. a MOntreal speech, the
Liberal leader „criticized' the "
PM for "circus performanees"
and "st.iiping" . at Amerielins.
Mr.. Pearson called. the Aprfl
election "the most impartant.
we have had in our whole
tory. The. whole future of our
country, the direction we take
is at stake in this deetiqin." • •
•Standing fast on his pre-•
nuel&arpOlicy, Mr; Person last
week said he rejected • a 'Tan-
• ada: First" *policy if it Meant
,"Canada Only" and "anti -1
Americanism." •• , , , •
Aware of, the possibility of a
• minority government being re-
turned, he ,S4'cl, in Quebec that
Social Credit would have to
abandon its futity,, money ideas
before. a Liberal•Socred coati-
' tion could, he • considered. •
Quizzed on the subjcct byneWs•
prt,. he tcrmed the tiation•
ypotlictical!',„
The Prime Wilnister, mean- ,
while, found .hirriselt at his best
' in talking tO friendly prairie
• audieneess,,laSt week. His, big -
.gest campaign meeting tex date
—6,090 'in Edmonton—convitic-
ed him that a grouriplsweii iS
rolling his Way. \ •
Braving .99tapoketi heckling
one '"povit he Wag' ealleVI
• , • , • .,
a •liar—the PM blasted the
Liberals .for "false" promises,
jeered at their Truth Squad
• which ;was abandoned a week •
after it was set up, and out-
lined -plant for a program to
deal • with ' ;urban develo merit
and' other city problems.
In an important speech ,
. .
• earlier at Renfrew,Ont., the
PM said the Librals were
going back to ,preaching doom
and gloom" and that if Canada's
economy was in. a mess, it Was .
because the PCs had•inherited a
. mess ' in 1957. .
He' said Canada's national
production ,passed. the $40
bil-
hn Mark for the first tittle
last Year. ' , , •' •
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ACCIDENT 'THREAT ,
The.NDP and §ocrpd Parties
• also got tn,thetr licks last week,
with the strangest statement
coming frbin Socred .• deputy,
• leaderReal Caouette. The fiery
• Quebecker said the , liberals
were' planning 'to injure or kill
him by .involving Mtn in • a
traffie accident
NDP leader Douglas attacked
the Liberals for saying that
the country. woOd have to wait •
for better times before new
social' Welfare legislationcould
be put into effect.'• . •
"The Lrberal theory is
trickle .clown theory," he. said,
"with just a bit of the Wealth
of. the country trickling down
to the *majority, of the people.'
We believe in the •triekle-up
theory," , • .
APpearing on a national IV
.iiiterview;, Mr. Douglas said his
party would support Any minor-
ity . government for a. term .eif
• . up, o our y ars.' He said e
NDP''Wonld, not back the 'Jih.
erals, on •nuclear weapons but
• added that the liberals, if they
; were in power, would tiridoubt-
edly•be able to survive •a• podia-
mentary test- on this issuer
because they eould expect sup-
port frem•the Socreds and -same
Tories, • •
' ONTARIO
Liberal hoes, '• meariWhile,
continue- to ride on. 0hterie•
where thei
(party. feels t has
. . •
to pick up 60 seats to win a •
majority nation wide
•'Liberals took* 44 of Ontario's
85 seats • last Year,, with 35
remaining irr • the PC coltipan
and six going NDP. . • '
After surveying the Ontario
trend,. this reporter sees • the
• PCs in difficulty. in 11 ridings,
with 10 of 'them, likely to go
Liberal. This. would still leave
. the .Liberals half a dozen. seats
short of the magic 60.
Liberal strength is 'conesedi-
dated in Tbronto, Windsor arid:.
southwestern On fa Tic, the
I'liagara peninsula, and eastern
Ontario. ••• . ' .••
Most 'of rural Ontario re- •
mains solidly Tory, and it
• it here that the big lest' will •
.• come.' • • . • •
Liberals and NDP took ip
of Metropolitan Toronto's ;18
seats last Jilne;,•and it ,is here
that the anti -Tory bandwagon
is rolling fastest.
With. Justice Minister Plern-
ing and Trade Minister Hees•
not seeking reelection, both
• these seats pre' expected to
split Out, of the PC column.,
Ev,en Prank McGee,, Tory minis
ter without portfolio from 'York-
Scarborn in suburban Toranto,
is running seared and elther
the NDP or Libeiab could bick
ff his ric1ing. •
• '
Liberals hope to crack Indus.
trial Hamilton, where they won
only one Of the' three seats
last Ante, iliberal and. NDP
candidates' -gave...-migration
Minister • Ellen Fairclough a
Close. fight in Hamilton West, •
And ' Tory Robert McDonald
just squeaked by. in 'Hamilton.
South last year, •
The NDP's six Ontario. seats
all look fairly 'safe and the
party is hopeful of winning
back Peterboro.froin the Tories,..
captu.ring llees' od sea of
• Toronto Broadview, and possibly,*
breaking through in Hamilton
and Windsor,
tl,nless the trend switches, in
Ontario, look for the Liberals
to win at last 55 seats, the
NDP eight Or nine, with PC
candidates .taking the remain-
ing 21 or. 22.. Social Credit is
opo threat ,in Ontario: •
Miss Betty 141iniflton and m40.
Margaret .Lowney of Niagara.
Rant and Donald HaMiltbn of •
Ontario forestry School at bar- ,
set spent the week -end at ,the
.home of Mr. and Mrs, G•113 •
Allan MacDougall of .U.W.6. . • .
and.' Denver Dickie,of 'Waterlog • •:'
Vniversity ' Were •ihcnie for , the
Weekrend.
Ira Dickie'. is- s,porting.* a new
hat.. as •winner of a conteSt. 'at ...
IDominion . Road Machinery Co. • ,
Ltd. of Gbderich. ' A drive i has -
tions - for improvementi on .the •
been on for eipPloYees' sugges-. • . ,
manUfacture•• af road graders., Ira „
won the hat and his :1,40fe receiv-
ed a beautiful bouquet of flow-
ers.,. That 'plant it the only. one.
in. Canada, manufacturing road -
graders. Production has driareas- • •
ed ',steadily._ With orders ,beijig ;
shipped to ell', parts Of Canada, •
Greenland, New r Zealand and -
2Asi5:ortgnhe.ngtrio;ritia; .1..r.:1fil,pec:Triiaalri.yTfrcaoduen...Mti:ii-s..: , •
is 'visiting ..the plant on MarCh ' , •
. •
Mr. and •Mrs. Fraser • ittat-,
Kuinon and family were dinner
'guests ' Sunday with Mr. and •
•Mrs„. Harold Ritchie of Lucknow. . •
Stinclay School conunenees at .
Sei.itly Kinloss on March 31st et • -
the Usual time of 1215 piric • ' ..:
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Colivattah Learning„ Lassies'
Pre"sident. Ann Arnold elated .
the fifth Meeting with the re- ,..,
pealing. of the 4-HPledge. Lyn., .
da cameich, acting as secrelary,
The roll caIi was "One: thing t
heve learned about using pat, -
tern,' 14. of the 16 rnemberS
werb ipresent. Notes wore taken •
on ,the care of the skin, face and
hands: Ma** ,Aridrew introduced
and thanked Mrs. Greer who •
gave a very ipteresting "talk on%
the use of cosmetics, A gilt -was
pres6lted 'to Mis, Greer, The
*rneetint Was'•' closed with Mary
Andrew. PlAying Tio Queer.
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