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1902â€"5 Student at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph. He won four scholarships, the Governorâ€"General‘s Medal, was top honours _ student and class medalist. Here, too, he met Alice Wylie Bruce. 1906 â€" Young Bracken went to Winnipeg as repreâ€" sentative of the Seeds Branch of the Dominâ€" ion Department of Agriculture. 1907 â€" In the neighbouring Province of Saskatcheâ€" wan, John Bracken became Superintendent of Fairs and Farmeérs‘ Institutes and Secreâ€" tary of the Provincial Livestock Association. 1910 â€" John Bracken was appointed Professor of Field Husbandry at the new University of Saskatchewan. He took the first train to Guelph, Ontario, married Alice Wylie Bruce. Four sons were born â€"three of whom are now on Active Service with the Navy, Army and Air Force. 1920 â€" Already the author of two books on agriâ€" culture, John Bracken became President of the Manitoba Agricultural College. 1922 â€" John Bracken accepted the leadership of the Progressive Farmer Government, was sworn _ in as Prime Minister of Manitoba. No: began the political life of the ‘ most continuously successful politiâ€" : cal leader the Empire has produced in this century. Since that day â€" _ from 1922 to 1942 â€"John Bracken has never been defeated. 1932 â€" The Liberals joined John Bracken‘s farmer government. 3 1940 â€" All the other political parties, including the C.C.F. and Social Creditors, threw in their fortunes with a great leader forming a wartime Coalition Manitoba government. 1942 â€" The year of John Bracken‘s great decision. John Bracken, the Progressive, accepted the national leadership of a great resurgent people‘s party â€"The Progressive Conservaâ€" tives. : John Bracken, the son of a farmer Ephraim Bracken and his wife, Alberta, was born in a log cabin in Ellisville, Leeds County, Ontario, on the 22nd of June, 1883. Here, briefly chronicled, are the main events in the life of John Bracken: 1898 â€" Student at Brockville Collegiate, Ontario. 10025 ‘Student at the Ontarin Aorirnitural UOnllara Daily report on Sales John Bracken â€" The Man GEO. G. ANSPAGH GOMPANY, LIMITED PRODUCE GROWERS! "UPâ€"TOâ€"DATE SELLING METHODS" Shipping Stamp and Pad on Request 74 Colborne Street, Toronto Reference: Royal Bank of Canada King & Yonge Sts. To all the Mothers in Grimsby and disâ€" trict The Independent Salutes You. *# *# *# *# THANKSâ€"BOARD OF EDUCATION Grimsby Board of Education at their last meeting seen fit to raise the salaries of the Public School teachers. Also the High school teachers. ‘I am not so presumptuous as to think that my editorial of a few weeks ago had anything to do with this raise, but I do think that the Public school teacher raise is quite in line with the trend of thought of the ratepayers. I do not wholly agree with giviflg the High school teachers the raise that they reâ€" ceived, but at the same time I am not going to argue with Chairman Dymond and the Board over the matter. But I do wish to conâ€" gratulate them on giving our Public school teachers their boost, only sorry that they did not make it a larger sum. I believe, and I have plenty of backing for my belief, that the Public school teacher is the backbone and the character builder of our youngsters. I grant you that a High school teacher teaches a lot of subjects of a higher and deeper nature than the Public school teacher, and as I said before, a lot of subjects that are of absolutely no value to the scholar when it leaves school, but that is not the teachers‘ fault, that is the fault of the Department of Education curriculum, at the same time the teacher that moulds and builds a child and turns it over to the High school teacher for further advancement is the Public school teacher. Therefore, figure what the Mothers who have had sons, that were prisoners of war, have suffered in the past four years. It must have been Hell on Earth Personified. Their relief must be tremendous. A sufferâ€" ing and a relief that you and I will never know, for Mothers never tell. Thanksâ€"Board of Education. Let‘s see if you cannot give the Public school teacher another boost in pay next year, without doing the same for the High school teacher, and bring them up on a more equal basis, where they should be. When a girl begins to call you by your fi;'st name it‘s really your last name she‘s after. * But the mother that gets the telegram that says "missing" and then later "prisoner of war"‘. What is her situation. ~She knows that the boy will carry on. But she has also known that it was only by the Grace of God and the Red Cross that he could do so, under the heel of the German hordes. What a relief it must be to a Mother to know that her son is once again safe and sound, under the British flag that he had fought so valiantly for. What a relief it must be to the Mothers of Grimsby and to all the Mothers of Canada to receive the news that their prisoner sons are safe and sound. 3 * Eul * It is terrible enough for any Mother to receive a message, reading "killed in action" or one that reads "wounded in action". The shock is H . .. ., but it wears off because she knows that his suffering is over and that ;ae is safe in the hands of God. For several Mothers in this Town and Township it was, I know, a happy Mothers‘ Day, they having received word within the last month that their sons, who had been prisoners of war, had been released and were again, not only in British hands but on good old British soil. Last Sunday was Mothers‘ Day. I hope that all the boys and girls in this district reâ€" membered. Vâ€"E Day was a great day, perhaps two or three days with a lot of us. On the other hand it was a sad day for a lot of people. Particularly Mothers who had given sons to their King and Country, but even they were glad, in their hearts, that other Mothers would not have to suffer as they had sufferâ€" ed. That seems to be the trait of a Mother. E Frank Fairborn, Jr. %lIIIIIIHIIHHIHIIIiiIlliIHlIlIiIHHIHHI|lHliIIIII{IIIIIillM!:l QUR MOTHERS cl,, 23"" _[Er d~ALE Io HECYCE AIFAId Of appeatâ€" ing dependent, and true dependence leads always to the most perfect independence. L!HHlHllIIIII.IIIIHU!.‘.HHIHH.HH.IHIHHHIHHB’IT.IIHIIIIIIIIIIN.HHIHHIE True independence is never afraid of Issued every Thursday from office of publi; cation, Main and Oak Sts., Grimsby, by Subscriptionâ€"$2.00 per year in Canada and $2.50 per year in United States, payable in advance. The Grimsby Independent FACTS & FANCIES LIVINGSTON and LAWSON, Publishers, Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. Telephone 36 Nights, Sundays, Holidays, 539 "Lincoln County‘s Leading Weekly" Established 1885 . ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor IlIHHIHHIHHliIIII|{II.IIillllli.IIIIIlIl.'IIIlzi TEH B‘ G@ RIMS§SBYâ€" INDEPENDEN T Consecrated as the Canadian people are in heart and purse, one of the most untimely things in the midst of a great Eighth Victory Loan campaign is the subject of stringent comment by R. M.â€"Harrison, in The:Windsor Star. Only one part of the strictures is here submitted : We have known a little about political patronage in Canada, even with the governâ€" ment not supposed to run any business, but merely to hold the balance between different individuals and groups in the country.. It looks as if there might be a good deal of both patronage and intimidation in a socialist country. . . . Thanks. The publisher of this paper has no desire to run it under a socialist government. He could not afford to; he is convinced that freedom of speech would be a thing of the past; and he would beâ€"too scarâ€" "HE ALONE" It is not right nor just, it is not decent politics even, dirty as the game may be at times, that, under partisanship leadership, as this country has known it for five years and more, that our very patriotism should be asâ€" saulted by a political party propaganda sheet, or picture, to the effect that the man who reâ€" mained in the United States in the last war has now been proclaimed as the great Savâ€" iour, the Big Shot who saw us all through this terrible war. Of course, in the political campaigns that are going to be the buildâ€"up, and along with it there will be the facade that Rt. Hon. Macâ€" kenzie King is the only experienced man who can make a proper peace. That kind of thing presumes that there is a bankruptey of brains in all the rest of Canada, something readers will hardly subscribe to for one moment. ad at e o e en ze geoegr ~suo e yhle With advertising revenue gone, the pubâ€" lisher of The Courier would be at the mercy of the bureaucrats running the government. They would tell him what he might and might not say. That seems to happen in countries where the government runs everyâ€" thing. It is quite natural that it should. There cannot be more than one party in a socialistic country (didn‘t Harold Winch say that all who opposed the socialistic governâ€" ment would be treated as criminals 2J for, since everything is done by the government, any objection to the way in which anything is done in the country is bound to be an atâ€" tack, not on an administration, but on the actual system of government of the country. There cannot very well be any elections to deâ€" cide policies of the nation, and elections canâ€" not any longer be contests between parties with different ideas as to how the country should be run, but merely struggles between various individuals to have a share in the running of it. ; .. capitalists, too, and want to make a profit. . .. *k *k = * C It is a Little difficult for him to picture himself running the paper under a socialistic government. From where would the adverâ€" tising come? Since the goods which "each citizen used every day would be decided for him by experts, and the price of them settled so that they would absorb the proper proâ€" portion of his income, there would be no reaâ€" son for advertising at all. In fact, prominent C.C.F.ers have made it plain that there is no place for advertising in their plans for their "bright, new world." . . . One thing he has noticed is that big business in particular, and most little busâ€" iness give him just the same amount of adâ€" vertising, whatever his politics, or his exâ€" pression of opinion about public affairs. They seem to judge the paper for advertising value on the circulation which it obtains. That is probably because they ~are wicked capitalists, too. and want to malke a traht To operate the paper it is necessary to use capital, to own or rent a building, to buy machinery, newsprint and many other supâ€" plies. It is necessary to hire men to work. To pay for these things he has to sell the paper to subscribers who pay $2.50 a year for it beâ€" cause they want it, and to sell advertising to people who have things to sell. He has to adâ€" ml’a .h.e could not run the paper without adâ€" vertising revenue REFLECTIONS OF A â€" WICKED CAPITALIST (By H. P. MacLean, Editor of the Kelowna, B.C., Courier) The other day the writer of this column was asked why he was not more sympathetic to the C.C.F. party and its program of socialâ€" ism. Well, as publisher of a newspaper, he has to admit he is one of those wicked capâ€" italists who run their business for a profit, just as does the owner of a grocery store or a grower of orchard and farm produce. He gets a lot of fun out of it, and is inclined to believe, or hope, that he gives the people service worth what they pay him. . . . ‘ We stand corrected, obviously. Until now we thought the kids in Navy blue who helped win the Battle of the Atlantic, had been partly reâ€" sponsible for weathering the storm. We thought the kids in khaki who stormed the beaches of Dieppe, fought up through Falaise, the Schelde pocket and on into Holland and the German ports (to say nothing of the kids in the Italian show) had been to a trifling extent responsible. We thought the kids in Air Force Mae Westsâ€" giving old Hitler everything from borsch to ‘blintzeâ€"had had at least an itsyâ€"bitsy hand in it. But no. It was HE ALONE! Flaunting a photo of Mr. King‘s benign feaâ€" tures, a great big, and revolting, Liberal party advertisement belches: "He alone has been reâ€" sponsible for . . . . the weathering the storm." Hamilton, Ont. Vote Progressive Conservative Sitting Member in the Federal House, a former Mayor of St. Catharines Progressive Conservaâ€" tives backed the attack on all fronts and stand for a square deal and opportunity for â€" all veterans. OVYVERSEAS VOTERS INFORMATION FOR SUN LIFE OF CANADLA [You prepare for tomorrow when you become a policyholder of the and problems of a new world and with it all the uncertainties come. It will come inevitably, It Is False to believe that tomorrow will never Lincolin County Riding N. J. (MAC) LOCKHART Reâ€"Elect GEORGE 1. GEDDES SUN LIFE BUILDING Phones: Bus., 3618; Res., 7â€"5518 se Minister of Labor in the Ontario Provincial Government, former Mayor of St. Catharines, and a veteran of the First Great War CHARLES (TOD) DALEY Thursday, May 17th, 1945. Reâ€"Elect Please clip this notice and send it in your next letter overseas to voters from â€" Lincoln County.