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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 31st, 1945 ANNUAL MEETING of the Recreation Association of Colborne WILL BE HELD IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER Thursday Evening, June 7th, 1945 AT EIGHT O'CLOCK SHARP It is hoped a large number of citizens will attend The Next Blood Donor Clinic will be held in the Sunday School Class Rooms of the United Church COLBORNE Friday, June 8th, 1945 from 8.30 a.m. to 12.30 noon Appointment notice will be sent to regular donors. We need twenty-five new donors. Will you be one of them? Come early and we will fit you in. BLOOD DONOR COMMITTEE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY A SURPRISE SUBSCRIPTION TO THE HOME TOWN^ NEWSPAPER How about sending a weekly reminder to that relative or friend who has left town? You are too busy to write an occasional letter, let alone a weekly one. The home town paper will be sent regularly each week anywhere in Canada or the British Empire for $1.50 a year--less than 3 cents a week. $2.00 a year to the United States. 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McPadyen, Embalmer Undertaking Prices to Suit Everyone SERVICE THE BEST If you have anything to sell, or want to buy anything-- try our Condensed Ads. on Page Five "It is not foreordained that farmers shall .work for less pay than anybody else; or have their children receive only one-quarter the chance of a secondary education, or one-tenth 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 to correct the basic economic ills of Agriculture." BRACKEN WELL ABOLISH INJUSTICE TO FARMERS John Bracken, the farmer, is not content, merely to point out the injustices of which he, and ^verjr 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 just 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 production. The farmer will then carry on with the assurance that he will receive a just share of the national income. He will thus 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 shail re-establish a Natural Products Marketing Act. • We shall appoint a Board of Livestock Commissioners in which shall be vested power to regulate and direct all aspects of livestock marketing in somewhat the same manner as the Board of Grain Commissioners 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. WIN WITH BRACKEN Vote for Your PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE Candidate Published by the Progressive Conservative Party, < Mark Your Ballot for EARL DROPE on June 11th WHO iS THIS MAN DREW? by GORDON SINCLAIR Famous Writer, World Traveller And Radio Commentator Who Is Well Known Throughout The Province So all right. The Dntario and got that way on his first try it the age of 49. Drew and this is the story. The Premier who stands si* foot____ and weighs 230 pounds was born and raised in Guelph of a family long prominent 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 man, Drew has been a soldier for 33 years .. . 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 y Earlyto mobilize this battery he'______ one of the first to fight and the very week George Drew went overseas his father died. That made George absentee head of the 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 During the early battles in France 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 rank of colonel ... a colonel at 23. He had already been promoted and decorated on the battlefield. Colonel Drew has kept up his interest in the ex-service men and women from now, and that eciprocated. made his first political ement for Drew. artillery offic< After that last war naa victory. Drew picked up his studies, graduated from Van called to the bar. then ret Guelph to practice law and Council. Drew served four years in the Council of Guelph and was then elected Mayor of his native city. After one term he moved to Toronto for a second time, became During these years he also found tim< to write books and magazine features about Canada's part in the war and e comprehensive survey of Canada's con 1937 hen Earl Rowe d the p 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 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 summer 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 has said, must and will be maintained. This same broad patriotic view took the new Premier to the Metherland soon after his election, and there he has worked energetically for post war prosperity anchored to continuing British connections. 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 complex military projects that would be undertaken that year. Today, on the eve of great expansion in Ontario, he knows of vast civil plans to be undertaken here at home. Ontario. In fact 8 of the 1 Ontario cabinet are war vet------ In Ontario's 78 years of history there has been only one premier who wal younger than Drew, and none whose experience has covered such a wide field. George Drew 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, are some native Ontario dishes. Here in Ontario we grow the finest natural food products on earth but we don't seem to have any specialized Ontario dish. The Premier hopes to correct that and he plans to improve the tourist accommodation 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 and visitor alike, are sure to benefit in at least, three ways. Also, as you've already been told, highways will 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-George Drew stands it with full marks. His digestion, 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 sandwiches. Something that gives him quiet pleasure definitely closed the gambling "clubs" and bookies joints which were a blot on the Toronto suburban area for almost m will n< Although his left_____ from his last war wounds George Di a strong club in the middle eighties. About five years ago at Port Colborne : swam out to two men from Buffalo lio were in distress, and brought one an in. The Premier then swam 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 by this sort of thing nor will he express a critical opinion of anyone. circles Drew is considered a soft touch for a loan and in this connection he never seems to harden up even though he's often been let down. In practically all ways Drew is quick to His staff < isider him a grand guy couldn't be found in these notes. Maybe o, but if you can produce anyone who las ever worked for George Drew and ron't back up this statement that lit- i 11 wool and a yard wide then the drinks ( 'wheiTHMCS Otter was lost at sea, t the t ;r time came around he vI've said before Drew is a difficult to shush and was once summoned to under the Defence of Canada regulations for disclosing that a Canadian force was sent to Hong Kong with ■ sufficient training. These charges, as : all know, were quickly and thoroughly dropped. Drew is an Anglican who sometimes reads the lesson in his Guelph Church. i wife is the daughter of Edward Johnson who was Canada's most noted -- and has, for many years, been „_____al 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 „_ivate libraries in any Ontario home and Mrs. Drew, whose people are of pioneer stock, speaks five languages. These are being passed along to Edward although Sandra is still having trouble with English. Edward is also studying the^ violin. is is George Drew. I know you'll like him. Spending unnecessarily is a defeat | Business is sensitive. Tt comes i the home front. If you don't need J where it is invited. It stays where it--don't buy it. I it is well treated.