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Zurich Herald, 1945-05-31, Page 7ZURICH 11,ERALD "It h not foreordained that farmers shall work for less pay than anybody else; or have their children receive only ono -quarter the chance of a secondary edu- cation, or one -tem the chance of a university education that other children get; or see their wives forced into lives of toil, often 12 but sometimes 14 hours a day — Sundays and holidays included . > . The trouble is that no one with the necessary authority has determined i• correct the basic 'economic ills of Agriculture." BRACKEN WILL ABOLISH INJUSTICE TO FARMERS have money to buy farm implements and provide for comforts. His own living standard will be permanently raised and he will be able to contribute to community welfare, • We shall re-establish a Natural Products Marketing Act. • We shall appoint a Board of Livestock Com- missioners in which shall be vested power to regulate and direct all aspects of live- stock marketing in somewhat the same manner as • the Board. of Grain Commis- sioners regulates the handling of wheat. These are only the highlights of the Bracken Party's pledge to Canadian farmers. Join John Bracken in his fight for farmers' rights. John Bracken, the farmer, is not content, merely to point out the injustices of which he, and every other farmer, is only too well aware. He is determined to abolish these economic ills, these injustices, immediately and permanently. John Bracken guarantees definite PROTECTION FOR FARMERS against income collapse and wide extremes of income fluctuation: • The Farmer shall be guaranteed a fist and proportionate share of the nation's income. • This will be done by a system of fair prices to be announced before the season of pro- duction. The farmer will then carry on with the assurance that he will receive a just share of the national income. He will thus Vote for Your PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE Candidate r -a 41. +11e Progressive Conservative Party. Ottawa, 1'ablfshed : THOMAS PRYDE in Huron -Perch HENSALL ucated there. His widow is the form- er Rose Stone of Hensall, who sun'- Mrs. James Dayman was a visitor ives with two sons and four daugh- -with her dauglliterr, Mr. and Mrs. ters who all reside in Chatham, alio atobt. Green at Port Stanley. !five brothers and five sisters. Th., remains were taken to Clinton wiieru Had Gala Affair they were buried in Clinton cemetery The New Commercial hotel was the cam, H V(/ l7 [� scene •tof a gala affair when m•• -'':en's (Crowded out itcnis) orf the Girl's dance ,club enjoyed a , banquet, chicken dinner with all the Cpl. Alice Walper of Centralia trimmings was enjoyed. Cards were Airport spent the week -end with Mr featured following supper and suit-': and lira. Edmund Walper. .able prizees were given. Ladies first Pte. Russell Tiernan and Ervin Ma's. Hilton Laing, console Miss Erma; Rader of Camp Borden spent the Kipfer; Gents, - first Hilton Laing, weekend at their hone hese. console, Al. Pearson, St. Thomas. ; spent Mi sa few -ette Ziler of days with her Were sty, indsor During the course of (the evening, , Mrs. Hilton Laing, who is taking up I Mr. sand Mrs Joe Ziler. residence, in Exeter, and Who was a • Mr. and Mrs. E. Hamacher and valued member of the .club, was pre -1 family and Mrs. M. Hamacher and sented with a table, the address read Herb Willert were Sunday visitors by Miss Peggy McGregor and the ' with friends in London. presentation made by Mrs. Melvin I Mrs. E. Bar'tclife and son Charlet- Moir. of Clinton are spending a few weeks Boxes For Overzeas i with relatives here. • .. Mr. and Mrs. C. 0, Moser and da - The time is approaching to again; tighter Marion of Evanston, Ill., anti ship boxes to the Hensall Boys who i Mrs Brown of Crediton visited with are serving overseas., Phis worthy Rev. and Mr.. Burn, project being attended to by the ! Mr. and Mrs. George Clark and Hensall Women's Institute rn con -Frank Clark and daughter Dorothy junction with the Wartime Citizen,: j of London were Sunday visitors with Cothmittee. Local and rural citizen:4 : M.r • and Mrs. Sant Elsie. may leave their contributions with Mr. and M•rri. Gordon. Hewitt, of , Mrs, Fred 13cier, or Mrs. James A. London were Sunday visitors with Paterson. As formerly, donation of 1 Mr. and Mrs. •T. Harry Hoffman. ! sugar for the provision of candy will �Jl,, grid S. Gunn of Ottawa, be gratefully accepted by these i ,.pent the past week with her parent: les. Anyone desiring to provide Mr. and Mrs. Oluf Pedersen. +other necessary supplies such a, corn; Mr. and Mrs. 7.'ofting and familyi syrup, butter, mills, eg:rs ate., '''• t of Win.gham and Mr. and Mrs. Kean,- t ,any other -gifts may contact this coin- teller and family of 'Dublin -eve Sun-' xnittee or any o<' theInstitut - day visitors. with Mr. and Mrs. 0,' ;•'ler l)ashwocd boy Gnr. tenni. roti. of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. -land -eine Dashwood Band and school children formed a parade into the village where an open -arm meeting was held at which R. Goetz was the chairman where addresses of wel- Ibers, also save all pound boxes, snag alines, (Readers' Digest), preferably and local papers, may be left .at 'Han- sa town hall. Sgt. Cecil Cooper Passes Word was received in Hensall that Sgt. Cecil Cooper died suddenly of a yccrebral hemhorage following a ton- sil operation art Westminister Hospit- al, London, in his 3(ith year, hnv`%n;• teen in the hospital for only a few hrys. He was an instructor at Chat- ilarn where the family resided, and leas been in the services for three t'- nr.'s, Born in. Clinton, son of lir. and Vi, Cecil Cooper or 'Clinton, was cd - Pedersen. Mr. and Mrs. Alf.. Melick of. Zurich' visited with Mr. and Mrs. Clare Mel- I ick on -Sunday. Word has been received here that Wallis Melsaac of Detroit who has been missing shine January 5th hn' been liberated from a German prison camp, The Sacred Drama put on L,, e nrl- i miber of young people of Zurich on Sunday night was very interesting , :and was attended by a goon. audience j Another Soldier Welcomed The citizens of Dashwood on Mon -1 day evening last, welcomed home an -1 come were given. Mr. Eveland ex- pressed his appreciation of the waren welcome given hint. His brother, Norman, who is with the navy and home on a 35 day leave, and another brother Bill, of Kitchener who has his discharge were also present. GEO. DREW, FAMILY MAN 't'�:�'� i,• rf•,� 1 a A family group—the Premier witiu:ifs daughter Sandra, his son tawarcd, and Mrs. Dre J Johnson, picture eh talc recently at the at Guelph me of EEdward o ']a drys *ay 0 WHO IS THS MAN DREW? by GORDON SINCLAIR Famous Writer, World Traveller And Radio Commentator Who Is Well Knowe Throughout The Province So all right. The man is Premier of Ontario and got that way on his first try at the age of 49. But that's not enough. You want to know more about George Alexander Drew and this is the story. The Premier who stands six foot two and weighs 230 pounds was born and raised in Guelph of a family long promi- nent in the Royal City. He is a hard man to shush when he has something to say and that was indicated even during his terms at Upper Canada College. Although still a comparatively young roan, Drew has been a soldier for 33 Tears ... more than two thirds of his life. He enlisted with the 16th Battery at Guelph when a high school lad of 16. That was in 1911 and three years later, when the first world war spread over Europe, the 16th was one of the first batteries to go active and George Drew, from Toronto's Varsity Campus, was the youngest officer. Early to mobilize this battery hewas also one of the first to fight and the very week George Drew went overseas his father died. That made George absentee head ofthe family which included an only brother and three sisters. John, that only brother, was killed while on active duty with the Royal Canadian Navy during the present war. During the early battles in France in May, 1916, George Drew was severely wounded. He was invalided home to Canada but instead of accepting his discharge he was named to command the 64th Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery, and was soon promoted to the rank of colonel . . a colonel at 23. He had already been promoted and decor- ated on the battlefield. Colonel Drew has kept up his interest in the ex -service men and women from then until now, and that interest is reciprocated. Con Smythe, for example, a two -war artillery officer, made his first political speech an endorsement for Drew. After that last war had ended in victory, Drew picked up his academic studies, graduated from Varsity, was called to the bar, then returned to Guelph to practice law and run for Council. Drew served four years in the Council of Guelph and was then elected Mayor of Itis native city. After one term he moved to Toronto for a second time, became assistant Master of the Supreme Court of Ontario, three years later, Ontario Securities Commissioner. During these years he also found time to write books and magazine features about Canada's part in the war and a comprehensive survey of Canada's con- tribution to the aerial triumphs of the he last conflict, which was condensed by R.C.A.F. as a gift to all graduates under the commonwealth air training plan. In 1934, after a series of Conservative governments had ruled for 29 years, Ontario chose a Liberal lender. Soon afterwards, seeking to regain their lost position, the Conservatives named Drew their organizer and he held this post until 1937 when Earl Rowe led the party and was beaten. Within a few months Mr. Rowe had returned to the Ottawa scene, a new leader was needed for Ontario, and on the first ballot George Drew was chosen. Some of the so-called old guard of the party had not wanted DreW but his majority was tremendous. Up to this time Drew had never sought a seat in the Legislature, but now he ran for the riding of Simcoe East, was elected and led the opposition in the Legislature until the Suinnter of 1943 when he took full command. Once more Drew was elected by the people on his first try. As he had become Councillor of Guelph, Mayor of Guelph, Leader of his party and member of the Legislature on his first attempt, so Drew now reached the highest office within the gift of his Province. Throughout his public life George Drew has steadily and constantly spoken of himself as Canadian first and native of Ontario second. Never, he declared would he attempt to advance the cause of his Province at the expense of the Dominion. National unity, he bas said, must and will be maintained. This same broad patriotic view took the new Premier to the Motherland soon after his election, and there lie has worked energetically for post war prosperity anchored to continuing British connec- tions. He made an intensive study of agriculture, as a result of which Ontario has made more rapid progress in his twenty months in office than at any previous time in history.. "Farming must be run by Farmers" is his creed. The Premier knew in the first week of 1944 of the vast and complete military projects that would be undertaken that. year. Today, on the eve of great expan- sion in Ontario, he knows of vast civiit. plans to be undertaken here at home. George Drew is the biggest man, and the first war veteran, to be premier of Ontario. In fact 8 of the 12 men in the Ontario cabinet are war veterans. In Ontario's 78 years of history there, has been only one premier who Was:ycunger than Drew, and none whose experience has covered such a wide field. GeorgeDrew is soldier, author, lawyer. speaker and bears many another label of ability. Come to think of it he's also a., good cook and one of the things he hopes:, to see and taste in the post war Ontario_ aresome native Ontario dishes. Here in Ontario we grow the forest natural food products on earth but wet don't seem to have any specialized Ontario dish. The Premier hopes to correct that anti he plans to improve the tourist accommo- dation throughout the province so that Ontario will truly be the traveller's paradise it has often been called. After the premier is re-elected there:. will be a ministry dealing with tourist matters from -which all of us, home- towner ometowner and visitor alike, are sure tra benefit in at least, three ways. Also, as you've already been told, highways wilt be widely extended and improved. One thing I've often marvelled at in. relation to public figures is how they can stand the banquet circuit. You know- how it is with mayors and ministers and premiers; it's often one head table after another all around the province and at. head tables the food is often of a same- ness. George Drew stands it with full marks.. Hisdigestion, in fact, is about as good as you'll find anywhere in Ontario and if he just half tried the Premier could weigh. 300 pounds or even more. One thing he really hates is lettuce in sand iches- Sontething that gives him quiet pleasure is the ,.^'ilizaiion that his administration. deiinit•; i closed the gambling "clubs" and :s joints which were a blot ors the Toronto suburban area for almost 20 years. Although his left arni will never recover from his last war wounds George Drew is: a strong swimmer and can circle a golf club in the middle eighties. About five years ago at Port Colborne he swam out to two men from Buffalo, who were in distress, and brought one- man in. The ,premier then swans and. got the other one One man could not be revived, but the other owes his life - to Colonel Drew. Drew has no time for small gossip and becomes indifferent or hostile to anyone who indulges in childish or malicious. criticism. His opinion is never influenced by this sort of thing nor will he express a critical opinion of anyone. In some circles Drew is considered a soft touch for a loan and in this connec- tion he never seems to harden up even. though he's often been let down. In practically all ways Drew is quick tui forgive. His staff consider him a grand guy_ You might say that if this were not so it wouldn't be found in these notes. Maybe so, but if you can produce anyone who has ever worked for George Drew and. won't hack up this statement that he's, all wool and a yard wide then the drinks are on me. When IIMCS Otter was lost at sea,. and John Drew was lost with her, the Premier was wakened with the sad news. at three in the morally.. tui legislature was in session at the . e and when prayer time came around he was in his feat as usual. As I've said before Drew is a difficult man to shush and was once summoned to- court ocourt under the Defence of Canada. regulations for disclosing that a Canadian force was sent to Hong Kong with insufficient training. These charges, as we all know, were quickly and thoroughly dropped. Drew is an Anglican who sometimes. reads the lesson in his Guelph Church. Itlis wife is the daughter of Edward Johnson who was Canada's most noted tenor and has, for many years, been • general manager of the Metropolitan Opera House. The Drews were married in 1936 and have a son, Edward, and a daughter Sandra. The Drews have one of the biggest private libraries in any Ontario home and Mrs. Drew, whose people are of pioneer stock, speaks five languages. Theseare being passed along to Edward although Sandra is still having trouble with English. Edward is also studying the violin. This is Oeorge Drew. 1 know yoUlt like him. 9!