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What I want my neighbors on every "back concession" and my fellowâ€"veterans of the last war to realize is that I am alive toâ€" day and a successful farmer and stockman because one of these CCFâ€"cursed, profitâ€" proud, monopolistic institutions, a bank for which I worked until I became incapacitated, stuck with me through thick and thin. banks, railroads, packers, big business and little business â€" euphemistically called "monopolies‘" and the inability or unwillingâ€" ness of these institutions to speak up in their own defense. My gripe, the doctors tell me, is political indigestion. It is directed at all these longâ€" haired Socialists running up and down the country with plans for this, and plans for that, and a master plan for everybody. I weigh 50 poundsâ€" My hands are cripâ€" pled with arthritis. I have no legs, no means of locomotion except a wheelchair and a moâ€" tor car. Yet I run my own business and make a success of it. \%i i Frank Fairborn, Jr. % §Imllt[fl.flfllHHIIHIIIIHIIIHIHHIJIHIHHIHHIHHIIIHIll?..flllllllllllfl% CCF WOULD DESTROY OPPORTUNITY FOR INDEPENDENCE i FACTS & FANGIES This Advertisement is Sponsored by your Bank ing dependent, and true d:;;:t.l‘:le‘;c: l’i’ea,ds always to the most perfect independence. EIHIIHHIHH.llll.lll.'.!lll-lUlIHIlIlllJ.HHIImHMIIHIIII[HI]]!!III]]IHHI,' True independence is never afraid of appearâ€" Issued every Thursday from office of publiâ€" eation, Main and Oak Sts., Grimsby, by " (W. J. Gartley is a former employee of the Bank of Toronto, Here is a digest of his fight for inâ€" dependence, despite terrific physical handicaps, reprinted in digest form from The Globe and Mail, Toronto.) Bubscriptionâ€"$2.00 per year in Canada and $2.50 per year in United States, payable The Grimsby Independent My gripe concerns CCF attacks employing less than 15 people. Together they emâ€" ploy 37% of all the workers engaged in these classes of business. ments in the manufacturâ€" ing, wholesale, retail and No fewer than 94 out of LIVINGSTON and LAWSON, Publishers. > ‘small business ISN‘T $S0 SMALL (From 1941 census) Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association. "Lincoln County‘s Leading Weekly" Telephone 36 Nights, Sundays, Holidays, 539 . ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor Established 1885 in advance. Your bank stands ready to serve businesses, small or large, well established or just starting out. Banks do not initiate such businessesâ€"but they do furnish necesâ€" sary working capital and many other forms of banking service. j As such businesses grow, they create additional job openings; that has been the pattern of Canadian enterâ€" prises. Most large companies began in a small way, And practically all could name some bank which played a part in their growth by providing the loans they needed to finance their dayâ€"toâ€"day operations. During the years ahead many people who dropped small business for war reasons will want to return to their accustomed or new ways of making a living. Thus old businesses will be revived. Many new ones will be started by returned men and people now in war indusâ€" tries. The commercial banks will do their part to afford assurance that no sound credit requirement need be left unserved in the field of small business. Ordinarily one Canadian in every six gainfully employed, earns his livelihood in a "small business." It may be a farm, a store or a lumberâ€"yard; an architect‘s office or a service station. Taken together, these individual enterâ€" prises provide a very substantial part of Canada‘s total jobsâ€"must continue to do so after the war. At this time, being an inspector, I conâ€" sulted my principals, and asked them if they were desirious of going into the farming business or other businesses through exerâ€" During my years with the bank, and I refer particularly to those black depression years, 1932â€"383, it was my duty to call on farmers and others who were in difficulty, not because they were not doing their job, but because of shrunken foreign markets. I came into contact with many farmers and businessmen where we held security which, if exercised, could throw them out in the road. Did we do this? I tell you honestly, not in one instance. Not only are banks full of human men; they are headed by men who started at the bottom and climbed to the top. "No!" on their lips. But I know that is a lot of twaddle. If I know something about farming, I know a lot, too, about banking, and my blood pressure rises every time I hear CCF talk about nationalizing the banks. We have in Canada the best banking system in the world;; but just let the socialists get their hands on it and we will soon have the worst. To hear CCF spokesmen, you would think all bankers are fishâ€"eyed gents, with a perpetual When my war wounds finally caught up with me and resulted in a series of illnesses, the bank took care of me I don‘t suppose the bank would like me to say how much it has spent on me during the long years of my many surgical operations and heavy medical expenses. Suffice to say that I was treated handsomely and am alive today chiefly beâ€" cause of the bank‘s consistent determination to help stand by. The CCF attacks everything that has helped me in my success. It says so many things that ought to be answered about banks, and the other monopolies, as it calls them. Just why the banks don‘t give the answers I don‘t know. But I have some of the answers and I am going to make them. If I can succeedâ€"and I have succeeded â€"â€"with no legs, crippled arms and a wasted body, what is there that cannot be done by an ableâ€"bodied man in this country of ours, provided our system goes on without revoluâ€" tionary changes? 1 operate a 550â€"acre farm near Cobden, Ont., not as a hobby, but as a business. And I make it pay. I have a herd of 60 shortâ€" horn cattle and I am going to have more. I am a former bank employee whose health was shattered as a result of wounds in the last war. I have had nine amputaâ€" tions, six attacks of pneumonia. I count the blood transfusions by the score. T HE â€"GRIMSBY INDEFPENDEN T The Canadian way of life has been basâ€" ed on economic and social equality, and, to my way of thinking, any system that permits a man without farming experience, and is a complete physical cripple, to build up a sucâ€" cessful stock farm in eight years is good enough‘to keep, without any "fundamental reconstruction," or experimenting by people like the Socialists. 4 THREE COURSES Any one can do this without state planâ€" ning from Ottawa. I succeeded, not because I was a former banker, but because I was deâ€" termined to succeed and be independent. That has been the glory of Canada in the past. In very explicit terms, John Bracken, leader of the Progressive Conservatives pointed out, at Oshawa, what the government The same opportunity to succeed, and in greater measure, is open to any one. I have demonstrated that any intelligent Canadian can succeed in the society or way of life that the CCF is determined to uproot. I am not a rich man, and my farm is not a show farmâ€"â€" I have never borrowed five cents from the bank for farming operations. My rising impatience is due to the fact that the CCF would destroy everything that has contributed to my business independence, and stands ready to serve every sensible perâ€" son in the same way. I have witnessed this attack on the Canadian way of life with growing alarm, because it boils down to an attack on the institutions that have made it possible for me to be independent and a busiâ€" ness success. I don‘t want a bunch of professors, ecoâ€" nomists and statisicians in Ottawa deciding whether I can plant my back 50 acres in alfâ€" alfa or soya beans. I want to run my own life, despite my physical handicaps. All this talk of plans and planners, government comâ€" missions, nationalized industry and finance, leaves me coldâ€"and mad. It is just a bunch of hooey dangled in front of the voters with ;c_he hope that some sucker will fall for that ine. cise of security they held. Here was their short reply : "Gartley, if you think these men are honest, and you are looking at them with headâ€"office eyes, do everything within your power to keep them on the land, or in busiâ€" ness, and we will stand by your judgment." And this was done. pestomnegnerirone oo ie io Reviptiin fie iB m in ie neradiet t extiich ns ne uy benebice hn e ratirmrte â€" dn uns ?::efi?*-“:*’":*:--»s’:*.irz'ez-f?zs";rk?s‘:firsli t esnt -'-\:5;~""J en "“‘}‘“‘"“'â€"xâ€"\f‘w"“"‘gw":v*1‘4“.*_&,\4@-(5.‘,*"*"‘ Pss en Ns t e oo i toy aepetene ce in ain i etosyernte‘. 7 M en oo oepih uioh . Pcecnen e sn dWruye Mo e in %m;y feini ie dere ns io d e t o figp EL ns oo ioi enaiet e ol ky sn ut erlh d inorit o h NESEE ET NCRIL TORE o d igiasser use B on orneniniy on vone on y ie enonaniin yc en roas: rroxp eca al, kuiced o old d eap riige Socialistâ€"Liberal who wants to be. Social Crediterâ€"money reformer who isâ€" n‘t an official of the Bank of Canada. Civil Servant (finance)â€"Social Crediter who won‘t admit it. Laborâ€"Progressiveâ€"Communist. Communist â€" realist who knows all about 19th century liberalism and doesn‘t care. Progressiveâ€"Conservative â€" hybrid who would like to see multiplication table disâ€" proved. Progressiveâ€"argues that 2 plus 2 ought to equal 5â€" In Canada, veterans of Europe are asked to volunteer for a second bloody shambles, while there exists a trained force which has not left Canadian shores for anywhere, and which will not be conscripted for the Pacific. It is directly opposite to what the democracy to the South is doing. liberalâ€"fellow who discovered in 19th century that sun rises in East and still thinks so. C.C. F‘erâ€"one who believes the people can be fooled long enough to get him elected. DEFINITIONS Reactionaryâ€"believes 2 plus 2 equals 4. Conservativeâ€"one who is pushed, doesâ€" n‘t like it, is probably right. No American is to be permitted to fight two wars, the one against Germany in Africa and Europe and the one against Japan. Vetâ€" erans of Europe are to have their discharge. Mr. Bracken declared that the governâ€" ment no doubt would follow the third alternaâ€" tive, as it was afraid to carry out either the first or the second. He compared Canadian policy with that of the United States. could do with the forces of many thousands of zombies still standing at ease in Canada, and drawing full pay and allowances: 3. It can maintain the home defense army in Canada, idle, at the expense of the taxpayers. 2. 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