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MAYOR ees M8 ROR GUNNERS Gi See Sania De SE IE hag See EEF ERE AT eek nad ies RR A NACOMIR: SRE ETO -~ acta PEMee ano tb SRNR Ne irene me: i. res inal ie geen ert ee Sl Spe ise bapa Aca a fall 177 eden ene nae ee THE STRATFORD MIRROR Address of the Common People BY B. K. SANDWELL Your Majesties: E, the ordinary, common-or-garden people of Canada, desire to greet you. We desire to welcome you to our country -- which is also your country because we are your people. We desire above all to assure you that we know, and are grateful, that it is we, and not the great and mighty of this land, whom you have come to visit. True, we shall not be presented to you; our names-- which are Jones and Macdonald and O'Higgins and Hébert and Johanssen and Schneider and Straus and Salvatore-- will not be registered in the official diary of your tour nor on the tablets of your retentive royal memory. Never- theless we are the people whom you are visiting -- we, and not the three hundred guests with whom you will dine at Rideau Hall or the five hundred at Hart House. These we know have been picked for you by the officials accord- ing to the rules of the game. We are not jealous of them, for we know that you would much rather have dined with us -- or, since there are too many of us, with a run-of-the-mine sample of us; say a farmer or two (yes, we are a bit sorry you are going to be short on farmers, they are still the backbone of this country, even if the backbone is a bit bent with shoulder- ing the national debt), a printers' foreman, an automobile mechanic, a corner grocer, a telephone switchboard oper- ator, a professor of swine hubandry, and the man who mends the breaks in the Niagara transmission cables. We. wish you could go for a night run with the chap who drives the fastest motor truck between London and Toronto. We wish you could have a lunch with the girl who does the secretarial work for old of the Manufacturing Company; you will meet him, but he won't tell you that he couldn't run the show without her assist- ance. We wish you could go to the bottom of the . Mine with Old Charlie, who has saved at least forty men from pretty certain death because he knows the tricks of the old hole-in-the-ground as a mother knows the tricks of her baby son. We wish you could take tea with the young wife of a young doctor up in the young Peace River country. We wish you could attend a meeting of one of the litle Canadian Clubs, say in the Okanagan Valley. We think it would be nice if you could spend a day up in a fire-ranger's tower near the B.C.-Alberta boundary, and just look out over ten thousand square miles of mountain forest with not a mayor or 4 provincial minister or a telegraph operator--and scarcely a human being--nearer than twenty miles away. And we should have liked you to drop in for ten minutes at the meeting of the United Church Ladies Aid Society of , Sask. We. know that it was not possible that these things should be done, though we know also that you would have liked to have them done if it had been possible; but we think they would have helped you to do what you are coming to Canada for, namely, to know and understand your Canadian people. What can they know of Canada, who only official Canada know? And so, Your Majesties, for the next three weeks we resign you, not without our deepest sympathy, into the hands of official Canada, which will see to 'it that you meet only the Best People--some of whom are very good and some not so good, but ail of whom can be relied upon not to drink out of the finger-bowls nor to slap you on the back and call you "Old Pal." For ourselves, we shall be content to stand along your line of march and wave our little flags and cheer our little cheers--which collectively will make quite a good flag- waving and quite a noisy cheering, -- or even, if we are too far from your line of march, to wave our flags mental- ly and to cheer in imagination as we think of you passing by, it may be two or three hundred miles away, and yet nearer to us than any king and queen of Great Britain and of Canada have ever been before. AN? one other thing, Your Majesties. We are embolden- ed to address you in these respectful but unconven- tional terms. because we believe that both by your short royal experience and by the long-developed instinct of the great families to which you each belong, you are not un- skilled in reading beneath the official veneer to the solid timber of popular feeling that lies below it. We believe that the cheers and the flag-waving of us, the millions of the Canadian people who will line your path, will mean more to you than the conversation of the official dinner- parties and the resolutions, loyal and we trust grammatic- al, of the legislators and the aldermen, the bankers and the beef-barons and the boards of trade. We are the people who will do the fighting for you when your Crown next needs to be defended by force of arms. We are the mothers who bring up the next gener- ation of your Canadian people in love to your persons and loyalty to your throne. We are the men and women whose brain and brawn keep the life of this your Dominion going, so far as official Canada will let us. We are the people you have come to visit. We wel- come you to your own. (From Saturday Night). Mel COMCSSd We deem it a great privilege to join our fellow citizens of Canada in an expres- sion of joyous welcome to our Most Gracious Majesties. Long May They Reign ! Sun Life Assurance Co. E. A. BATCHELLER, Stratford Representative We Extend Our Cordial Greetings on the Visit of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Stratford-on-Avon GEORGE J. FRASER DEANS DRY CLEANERS = ------ ee ----wee .