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Sb* £rtl}hrf2)gtDominion ElectionLETHBRIDGE HERALD CO., LTD.Proprietors and Publishers.223 Sixth St. S.. Lethbridge. Aibert*.W A BUCHANAN president and Managing Director.JOHN TORRANCE Business Manager.H. G. LONG Managing Editor.C. R. MATTHEWS Secretary.MemberAudit Bureau of Circulations.MF-HJEB OF JHIS 1 ANAIUAN PKtSSTt* Linadiaa pres* v. *ic*^vely-o Lie us* ior; a eeapaur** creei tea uL or lo Ttli 4*soc:*lt0 Pr«*S ^ '“2*pApftf *2G lilt *OCV. 3«W* pyJ-iyeo arfis.aJ Tigzz* ot repuDicAwOc lt;xdtspZ-ichtA ker*ui *re mortcemiA lot oI peup.e are wondering what Prune Minister King will do in the way o; election strategy to meet tlie new conditions caused by an overwhelming C.C.F. victory u» Saskatchewan.Some say. and among them Mr Coldwfli, the C-C-F. ieatit-r. that Mr. King will hurry up a Dominion election before the C-C.F. gets set for the vote in o*her provinces. Others say he will postpone the evil day as long as possible.Our guess is that Mr. King will -cross up the political dojjesters and do exactly what he t-ld us last winter ne piaiiiieo to uu. ii tin- wai is won m Europe this year therewill be an election in the fall orearly winter. If the war rs still in progress u: Europe there will be no election until the end of the present parliamentary term, which will— n A r rti W« A T I »»1 a O Vl. 4’ * A T*l f - 1 Tl«•' \ ft-L'iilV U'U'i.t*'- i. V« ^ .......the last Don union election havingThe Herald Serves the Southr.Alberta Electionbeen held m .March. 1940. 1What, Mr. King has said he will do about an election, is exactly what the majority of Canadians think he'There doesn't seem to be very much doubt that there will .be a general election in Alberta m August. There 3 a significant stirring jr. the Social Credit dovecotes, a ••certain liveliness, as the Admiralty communiques used to say during the Great War.One would gather-from the celer-itv of the decision to hold an im-.mediate election mat lhe Social Crtciit Governmeni has one fear—should do—put the war firs: fine the eiecnon second. And in themean time, and in spite of all MrKing's political opponents say,rv*/*.. a k KKing Government is doing a goodj job m giving Canada leadership in: the war effort, and in providing the,ilegislation on the statute books to meet the post-war problems Can-: ada will have to face in a progressive manner. It is a question; whether the Saskatchewan election result has not actually enhancedthat the C.C.F. socialist parry would, the c nances of the King Govern-• cut-promise them. The Social. ment being re-elected to power in Creditors are under a bit of a the election which will take place handicap in this regard—they made; within the next 10 months. jall their promises nine yeas ago -V—--— !and none of them have iWk ful-- if. the Russians claim, the' filled. The C.CJ?. is brand new- at • Germans have lost over 7.000.000 jthe game, and showed thatft they; men jn the eastern front war. the,did a good job of it in Saskatche-; jcazis have to face a real worry ■warn The C.C.F. promises have not; about manpower now they are had time to catch up to them yet.; fighting cn three fronts.The glitter has not worn off. j ___V--The Social Credit Government Jerry’s Jetbtigawill go to the people under onegrave handicap — repudiation of I phlegmatic Britons have been; Alberta’s word on provincial bonds.j craning their necks the past week! We're in default on $25,000,000 ofi i005jfng Up into the sky to see one!bonds and we owe another $25,000.- j 0j tbe Nazi secret weapons winging ] 000 ol unpaid interest. We couldn’t overlt; i% borrow a cent for a post-war reconstruction undertaking if our life depended on it.If Hitler and Goebbets expected that the so-called jetbugs were going to disrupt the British war ef-But so far as that goes, the C.C.F. i fort by 5ending inhabitantsofcouldn't borrow, either. The Social Creditors never threatened to confiscate, though they did repudiate. The socialists would confiscate in a progressive manner, and if they liked\ their product they would go right through to farms lands. Make no mistake, a section of the C.CJF., the militant Labor faction, will never be content until farm, collectives jsouthern England streaming to the Midlands they guessed, badly. Britishers are actually welcoming the pilotless explosive-filled planes as a diversion ‘from the grind of the war effort,“JAM” Cook. Winnipeg Free Press correspondent at Canadian Army headquarters, sends his paper a revealing dispatch about the wayreplace the individually-owned farm.; }n which the British people haveSo far » doing anything in the j accepte£. ^ new threat to life anctway of providing any significant p^peTty. He says:sum of money for a reconstruction program after the war, there can be no greater expectation from the j C.C.F. with its threats against capital than from the S-C. party with its repudiation.Alberta has been experimenting with, new political parties now for 23 years. What Alberta needs is a rest from the experimenters who«uun*vu—.4--Apeople of Alberta, sobered by the war. are looking for a government which will give good, honest, progressive administration within the framework of the Constitution, government which will encourage capital to come to Alberta to develop our great natural resources. One of the richest provinces in Canada, Alberta needs a rest from the pie-in-the-sky boys._-V-Aviation FluxA Canadian-built Mosquito plane, crossed the Atlantic the other day.in just over 6:i hours which, while;•not the record for a west-east crossing, came very close to it.*An American P-51. one of the new ; Mustangs, crossed the continent the; other day from Los Angeles to New: York in 6 hours, 314 minutes, mak-j ing one stop on the way. jWe mention these records just byway of emphasizing the great improvements in plane speed. In 1919! southern EnglandMore than a million necks in southern England were stiff and sore today due iu the curious exercise of peering at Hitlers queer new robot raiders, but nobody is in panic.Everybody is bursting with interest. But no one is running away from the pilotless plane. Throughout Friday night we had a grandstand view of the strange, long-advertised, Nazi secret- piane, an odd device, a.« hisr as a Spitfire, a thing that makes you think of a dragonfly.Already we have seen at least a dozen raids with one or two planes in each, have seen them attacked by ack-ack gunners, have seen them chased by our fighters, and in the middle of the night heard a satisfying explosion telling that still another of these mystery planes was being shot down only 200 yards away.Robot raiders appear to be definitely designed as a last ditch terror weapon, a fantastic device that is supposed to be guided by some Frankenstein master switch, but which in practice appears as likc-iy tosmash into a country farmer'scottage as destroy a munitions factory or railway terminus.. , Hitler’s secret weapon has killed some people in homes and country cottages, but it still hasn't caused any tremendous alarm. It is a vicious, horrible phase of chemical warfare in its inception. In practice, it has still to be proved a deadly weapon that will stop our armies' ends.Fantastic stories by Germairadio propagandists that franti English refugees are escaping frorinto Nazi-heiCapt. Hoy in a well-remembered flight, flew from Vancouver to Lethbridge in the first trans-Rockies hop in Canada in just over 16 hours. That's just 25 years ago this spring.It is little wonder, in the face of these great improvements in plane iHolland and Beigium indicate tha the Gormans are trying desperate ly to bolster up home morale b wild tales to take the minds of th people off the breaching of th west wall. The jet bug is so far jui of nuisance value to the German.But the fact that a pilotlei plane, radio controlled, is actual!design that the world is a bit troubled as it envisages the aviation I in action holds no good portent Itof the future- Oosoletism in air- the future. It bodes ill lui faunplanes has been tremendous under • civilisation unless the world can slt; the impact of war. The model that up some sort of International polii was tops today is out of production: organisation strong enough to kef three months hence, toppled from- the peace, and backed by a wor its pedestal by science and Indus- j public opinion to make it effectiv try. So when we wonder what thej The Herald has said on a numb future of aviation is to be, when na- : of occasions that those who acaitions strive for a formula by which ;the traffic of the air is to be regulated after the war, when cities wonder what their place is to be on•the aviation map of the future, our only answer is that aviation is in a I state of flux and almost anything I4can happen. All we can do is to try our best to understand and to keep ,up with the procession.a world league of nations becau the old one was ineffective ha given no serious thought io wh developments in the air may brii In the next few decades. V-Where’s Hitler? He seem* to ha disappeared from the face of t; earth. Or Is it that he has run o | of boasts and promises?
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Mon, Jun 26, 1944
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