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the georgetown herald wednesday august 23rd 1 944 prime minister king and his times an article written for the national federation of canada in hoboax of rt hon w l mackenmte kin mj on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of hbi leadership of the liberal party of canada monday awgsst 7 ibm during 35 years of political leader ship mackenzie king has guided ca nada through a constantly changing world experience has sharpened bis capacity to meet now problems with now and radical solutions to lphi canada in the high place our coun try has attained in a world in which great change is inevitable leadership in which vision is combined with ex perience will be needed more than over elected in 1919 mr iclng was elected leader of the liberal party on 7th august 1918 ouring twenty five years he has had twenty years and more of his leader ship mr king faced a world which was committing economic- suicide through the poison of econcmlo na tionalism he faced a nation which had not yet fully grasped the fact that it lived on external trade and that to sell its goods it must boy from its customers the fight for lower tariffs in mr kings earlier years was always uphill but he made progress the progress was not great but u was greater than that of any other sta tesman in the world- mr k1b has had to wait long for a vindication of his views during this war he has reoeved it the atlantic charter the lendlease agreements and statements of all the allied lead era accept the policies which mr kintf has never ceased to advocate under his leadership canada has be come one of the chief trading nations of the world and history will reog- niae that in this position and with such leadership canada has played a vital part in laying the groundwork for a trading and prosperous world it is no exaggeration to say that no representative of a nation of canadas size has ever influenced the worlds trade so greatly as mr king the fourth achievement with which mr kings name will be linked so long as canadian history is written is the development of canadas nationhood and history will find that he exer cised a far more powerful influence here than his contemporaries yet sus pect he came into office at a moment when influenced the world s trade so for on those relations waa built the system of cooperation between ca nada and her good neighbour which became the pattern of cooperation between the united nations these are the large continuing movements of events in which mr kings work must be judged but llv lng canadians will remember best because it is so close and so vital to their lives his management of the ca nadlan war effort by every index canada has made great contrlbu tlon to the war in doing so she has made permanent additions to her productive capacity in every field m the same time through the more equitable distribution of the national income and the fair sharing of the burdens of war her people have made immense social gains canada is the fourth industrial power among the united nations one of the worlds chief air powers and one of the few nations able to provide a system of mutual aid for its allies when all thas has been accomplished with em ployment on a scale never before known with a gigantic expansion in industry and yet without inflation or social dislocation it is evident that an edmlnistrator as well as a statesman is at the head of affairs this capacity to manage so vast and detailed an or ganiztion was hardly suspected in mr king before the war he had neer faced any such task and there were many who thought that despite his i gifts in other fields he would be in capable of handling the practical de tails at a war the nation s war pro gram is his answer behind all these public achievements is a human being little known to the people for his whole life mr king has with single mind devoted himself to his work of serving his country and has never sought public popularity it is only his intimates who understand greatly as mr king he came into office at a moment i human qualities hl3 kindliness of when influences throughout the bri heart his loyalty to friend his sharp tish empire were seeking to turn back the tide of events to halt the tide ot dominion autonomy which had ad vanced under the leadership of laurier as loyal support from the canadian i and borden when mr king attend people as any political leader has ever ed his first imperial conference in had no one has so much as questioned 1323 he found there a welldeveloped bis leadership of his party during these plan to establish an empire execute of humor and above all his in umacy and friendship with hundreds of humble people quite unknown to the public j it is only those who know mrsyng personally who understands the single years he has become one of the great i figures of his tune i like all great men mackenzie king movements of events to which he is 1 will be judged in relation to the larger contributing it will be years hence in another generation befc e all the facts of mr kings career can be placed against the unknown circumstances of his tune but it is already possible to identify movements which mr king has vitally affected and often led mr king s place now and in history is built primarily on his understand lng of uii nature of canada he un denuuids it better than any contem porarj not only its political system its aconomy and its position in the world but the fue inwardness of its nature he understands the canadian mind with this understanding he early appreciated the basic problem of this country the maintenance of unity be tween distant populations of different interests and different races espe cially he understood better than any other leader of his time that canada was a nation of two major races and two major cultures each of which had its own special contribution to make to the eiinchmtnt of the na tional life mx king has recognized that the two races and cultures of ca nada existing wde by side and work i lng together can make an unparallel ed contribution totthe world of to- morrow how far mr king has succeeded in maintaining unity between the english speaking and french speaking races of canada could not be judged before this war his critics alleged that ht had succeeded in name onlj that his national unity was a flimsy facade which would collapse under the first hock the test came in 1939 contrary to the expectations of his enemies and many friends mr king led ca nada into the war united this wes the greatest achievement in the record of canadian statecraft suicc the found lng of the nation if he had done nr else except to bring canada through the war an unbroken nation his place in our history would be assured the second achievement by which mr king will be judged by future generations of his countrymen is the development and reform of our can adlan society about this there has been under mr kings leadership riajhg spectacular sudden or disrup tive nor was there intended to be as a historian himself mr king knew that sudden revolutions often set back the tide of progress he sought rather to graft reforms into the irving tta- cum of the canadian system without soterruptian of its growth he has succeeded so well that many of his reforms are now taken for panted and not even remembered m bis name but the record will show that in labor laws in the prosecution of monopoly in social security legis lation which is now bdng coordinat ed into an allmtoraclng system and jn the establishment of the peoples tight to control the fiscal policies of the nation mr king has been on of tb asost progtsstrw and indeed ra dios wo in office daring hit ttsk dsuby ut king win be judged by principle on which he has built bis career and governed his country this principle can be simply stated as the importance of the individual man in an age where liberalism has been en gulfed in most of the world he has remained a liberal not only by con stdercd judgment but because his in stlnct for individual freedom goes back through his ancestors to the struggle for responslle government in canada linked as it was with the struggles for freedom in the old world it was because he believed in the in dividual man in the reform of society through the genius of its people and not through dictatorship of a superior class from the top that mr king has rejected all extreme policies it is why he has built bis reforms only as rapidly as the people themselves were ready for them and why he has been able to reconcile the fierce conflicts of canadian life on this same belief he has built his method ol cabinet and parliamentary leadership he has made himself not the boss but the interpre ter of the public will he has modified bis own desires by the willingness of the people to follow him he has re cognized aln ays that politics is the art of the possible he has steadily in creased the area of possibility in the twenty fifth year of his lea dtrshtp the war effort having been well organized he has turned his attention to the post war needs of the canadian people today in conse quence we have actually working more comprehensive and generous prolsions for former members of our armed forces tlian any country has yet made for its war veterans depart ments of reconstruction veterans affairs and national health and wei fare are being created the services of the banks are being widely extended family allowances are being establish ed on a more generous scale than any whereelse in the world contributory old age pensions on an increased scale and health insurance are to be introduced out with the provinces the government has initiated discus sions of postwar trade policy and taken a part only second to that of the greatest powers in international 3 m a james memorial trophy awarded to peel gazette gaaette soared ninety point oat c a hundred m dominionwide compe tition sevnd jnignwnt of news values and good sense of balance j in makeop la stressed i the peel gazette has been awarded the m a james memorial trophy fort best front page in class n in the ca nadian weekly newspaper association i announcement was made today at the annual owna convention opening in winnipeg man the peel oasette entered in the re gular class h weekly newspaper com petition this year tor the first time and in winning first award for best front page against a large number of prominent and long establis week lies from nora scotia in the east to british oolumla in the west its suc cess is more marked for the last two years the dophy has been held by the powell river british ooluxusha news acton free press won the trophy in 1940 the adjudicator was j noel kelly national publicity director for the canadian red cross and a former prominent newspaperman in his general comment he writes in placing the peel gazette first lor the best front page i was impressed by the sound judgment of news values the reproductions good sense of ba lanct in mare up and most of all its apparent character maximum score was one hundred wlh forty lor news value headings twenty five for typography make up twenty for press work and fifteen for local illustrations the peel was awarded thirtyseven in tb first classification twentytwo in tb se cond sixteen in the third and fifteen in the last a score of ninety out of s possible one hundred watrous manltou manitoba waa second and lecombe dob abmrta was third in this competition marks ranged crbm twenty frre to ninety with the majority of the large turntr of competitors being awarded better than fifty the trophy was presented to tti association by george w janes bowmanville editor of the fw statesman ss a memorial to me father m a james the best allround paper in cssse xx for papers having less than 3000 cb cutatian charles clark oup is the oornrox bj argus with 86 points second powell river cbxu town crier with 83 points third qanancqoe ont reporter 83 points the winner of the malcolm -bsjq- beth memorial shield for the best editorial page was powell river cbjcu town crier 97 points second powell river bo news 83 points and third comrox b c argus 91 cooperation never at any time has the standing of canada been higher abroad never have the prospects looked brighter at home for this credit falls on the canadian people and on the man who has represented and led them during the best part of the last twenty five years a record not to be matched in canada or elsewhere throughout the world oar- sales in every used car sale in panada s statement signed by the buyer seal seller giving all details of the bale must now he filed with the wartime prices and trade board wftfam foar days of the transaction of oanad as a pert of sdbflbv dertag tb first a complete centralization of the em pire countries his rejection of this plan little noted by the canadian pec lie at the time marked mr king not only as a courageous canadian prime minister but as a future leader in the development of the empire it was on the basis of this original tclsion in 1923 that the empire con unued its evolution into a common wealth the balfour decrarntion and the statute of westminister which finally established in law the equality of the british nations were not the rults of any single mind but no leader contributed more to them than mr king or fought more mgoroush for the full so of is nation mr k rig siw lon tfo that the establishment of camd nn soverlegn ty was not enough he saw thit so c regntj in fict when used raeklessly was the cause of war some hlng greater was needed a world organ izn tlon under which sovcregntj would be exercized according to agreed rules and not in anarch tl is belief has brought our prime m licr to the pinn ick of ii career as a canadian leader and as one of tht foremos statesmen of the united nations this ear in the midst of the distractions of war tl ss f canada s future and the future of the whole br tsh comn onwealth was raised again under a now guise but unchanged in essentials the central lzatlon of the commonwealth was proposed b men of distinction and authontj mr king rejected it it once is destructive of the whole theory of nationhood to which he had devoted his life but more because it would have destroyed his hope of a world organized for peace better than any statesman of his time mr king saw that the attempt to establish the british nations as an inflexible bloc of power in the world would at once force the creation of other blocs which in the end would come into fatal conflict- mere clearly than any speech in our jme his speech in ixjndon a few months ago warned the world ol this danger more powerful than any common v tilth statesman he advocated the alternative of a world organization and saved the commonwealth to con tribute to it by avoiding all exclusive and discriminatory policies towards foreign ntfrmt the becrets of the london confer encc of commonwealth prime minis tera will not be revealed for a long time yet but it is evident already that its decision to offer support to world organization without reservation and to reject the theory of an empire bloc of power was greatly influenced by mr king and it was he who gave it expression before the world step by step from his first imperial confer ence he has advanced to the position of interpreter of the british common wealth at this critical turning point in its life it was a poslton wnch no canadian had ever occupied oelore prom his earliest days mr king saw that ii canada s interests demanded dose association with great britain her interests also demanded the friendliest relations with the united states the forces fighting for freedom should be grateful that canada prime mrxdster npneerted in promot ing closer relations between the united states and canada then bad ever existed between the two countries kdtfwiymdcmr j wlajtrromvoeraiji yes we need vow aelp and need it badly this is the biggest job we have ever tackled everything depends upon victory canada s army needs volunteers now and that means you and yoa and yoa 1 wear canadas badge of honour on your arm youll be prood of it so will your frjends every man who is able has got to do his bltl maybe you don t think this means yoa that iri a job for the other fellow if you do youre wrong its your war too t a war for every man who u a man for everyone who has a stake in canada yes this means yoa all right and we need you now for the months of intensive trair log to make you fighting fit we did it before and we can do it again i but p ed your help ifoofntber todav join the canadian arjvty for overseas servjce