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W. S. THOMSON'S `IF YOU ASK ME' No One Wants An Early Election Is it possible that follow ing the June 10 debacle among the socalled experts, the crystal-gazers o f press and radio, we can expect to have less dogmatic ,assertions in matters political from now on. Probably not! Frankly we are still unable to figure out how some of them could be so far wrong. The Ottawa Citizen's Mr. Hume, for instance, with his prediction of 166 seats for the Liberals. W e are not for a minute suggesting that anyone could have seriously pre tended to be sure o f a Conserva tive victory. That depended entire ly on the extent o f the swing in the Maritimes, and on how n*any people in the West decided that if they were to defeat the Liberals they must vote for the one party which could form a Government to replace the Liberal Government. Yet it was obvious to anyone who travelled about this country during the election campaign as we did, that the Conservatives were going to make large gains everynlSTRICJT MANAGER where, except perhaps in Quebec. In our predictions, filed before witnesses on Election Day, we were right on the nose with 60 seats in Ontario, four out in the Maritimes, with 15, and the flat statement that the Liberals could not elect enough to have a major ity and form the Government. Even at that, we gave only 95 seats to the 'Conservatives. We had the privilege of travelling in several constituencies during the cam paign, speaking on behalf of the candidates, as a member of the headquarters speakers' panel. W e spoke at both nominating conventions and election meetings, winding up on Friday before the election, in the constituency . of the, Minister of National Revenue. At the biggest Conservative meet ing ever held in Arnprior, in re cent times, the enthusiasm was so high that it was quite evident that Dr. McCann was in trouble. This experience was repeated in many places. Locally, the swing to the Diefen'baker-led Conservative was evident before the election. Mr. Ken Dick was never really in the race. To be perfectly honest about it, that was unfortunate, since he was by far the best man in the ring. He lost because there was a provincewide sweep, and Mr. Sandy Best rode along on the tide. But he also lost because Sandy Best worked hard to win, using the method wfaich has been tried and proven-- knocking on doors. Mr. Dick ap parently did not work so hard, and his own campaign was poorly handled. His weak attempts to ex plain away the pipeline issue, the overtaxation and the arrogance of the Government, were futile. He might better have made a purely local campaign of it, em phasizing again and again, his qualifications for office, his ex perience, and his record. Mr. Best has no particular qualifications that we know of, and the attempt to build him up as " a successful businessman" , of all things, was, we thought, the most ludicrous of all. There are those, o f course, who have criticized our failure to ac tively support Mr. Best. The same people include those who never found .it in their hearts to support George Drew. They-- and they in cluded Mr. Best-- aided and abet ted the whispering campaign which ruined George Drew's great car eer. Few o f his critics were, in our view, worthy o f tying his shoelace! If they could not enthusiastically support a man o f that stature sure ly they would not expect us to go all out for someone in whom we could not have cqnfidence. This is not to be taken as disagreeing with the voters of Halton, who saw and understood the issues which the editorial writers said did not ex ist, and they registered their feel ings in no uncertain manner. It was just a little amusing to read the Liberal press after elec tion The Toronto Star offered a whole page of sour grapes on Tues day. Having made the flat state ment that " the Liberal Government was defeated because, under Mr. St. Laurent's leadership, it had ceased to be liberal" , it went on to ac cuse them of " com placency" , "too sure of its own wisdom" , etc., and ran through all the issues, such as the tight-money policy, which Mr. Diefenbaker had emphasized. Then they proceeded to ration alize the claim that the Liberals should try to hang on to office. Le Droit, of Ottawa, also ticked o ff the Government's follies-- overtax ation, arrogance, centralization, ec onomic inequality, and com plac ency. Such hindsight! How come these papers to whom the Govern ment's failings were so glaringly obvious, apparently, called for its re-election? How honest is the free press o f Canada? The Liberal party has emerged from this election with a majority of its seats from Quebec. It is fin ally shown to be what it has al ways been, in recent years, the party of French Canada. Half of its seats were always there. To this party, national unity means that E A R L Y JO U R N A L S get yoor ciothe* -\M I, R. T . Johnson William Fleuty purchased the newspaper, Raymond's Record, in 1907, and changed its name to the Oakville Record. At that time, Arthur Forster published the Oak ville Star, and later, three news paper operated when Gerald Mit chell launched the Oakville News. the rest o f the country should toady to Quebec. Its manpower policy during the war was based on that concept. It maintained it self in office for years by pretend ing to protect Quebec against the rest o f the country. This was its story in Quebec, of course, with a different one every where else. It is now clear that it has lost the support of all the rest of the country. Mr. St. Laurent was under some pressure in his cabinet to try to hang on to office, but surely no party so repudiated by the electorate would try to do so. The result of the service vote indicates that the propaganda so skilfully devised was very effec tive among Canada's chairborne forces. The reasons this was so will be plain to those who know anything about the set-up of our defense forces. More than ever it seems that there is a strong case for a careful review of what, if anything, we are getting for our defense dollar. Nowhere else will there be found such waste, extravagance, ineffi ciency and downright incompe tence as in that Department. No wonder they were carrying truck loads of paper away from govern ment offices last week! This we saw personally, and we could not help observing that never before had we seen them so hard at work! From one Minister's office, went 19 cartons alone! No wonder they needed a few days more before handing over! W ill there be another election soon? W e think not. The small parties cannot afford one, and they would not gain from one. They know this as well as anyone, and will support Mr. Diefenbaker. The Liberals, too, will want time to replace a leader to whom the pros pect of another election cannot h ave,a n y appeal. W e think that, having resigned, Mr. St. Laurent will not waste time in giving up the leadership, and letting someone else have the ruins, Meantime, to quote the Toronto Star, with a somewhat different inflection, " 'Twas a famous vic tory." T H E JO U R N A L . OftkviUe-Tralalgar, Centennial Issue. June 27, 1957 r U n I n k d l A U 1 I-L U V lW lr D fU v b n The late W. A. Ferrah, member ik the winners of a contest to ob father and grandfather before him of a family prominent in the busi tain an inscription for the cairn, operated a bakery on C olborne ness life of Oakville for genera is on the right. Mr. Ferrah and his ' Street. tions, is commemorated in the cairn in Lakeside Park shown above, which was dedicated by Canon D. Russell Smith in D ecem ber 1954. The cairn was erected to Mr. Ferrah's memory in recog nition o f his liberal bequest for the beautification of Oakville's parks. On the left are Basil Megaffin, then chairman o f the parks board, with Thomas A. Blakelock, board member. Alice Dumas, one 1BIO ACCIDENTS OR SMALL ~! 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