The Indianapolis times., 1936-03-06
BY FORREST DAVIS


CALGARY, Alta, March
6.-In Canada the $25-
a-month adult subsidy pro-
posed-but not yet granted
by the Hon. William
Aberhart, Fundamentals
lay preacher and His Majes-
tvs Social Credit Premier
of Alberta, seems to be a
fighting word.
AS a conversational irri-
tant Mr. Aberhart is the
Dominion's New Deal-Lib-
erty lie que Coughlin-
Townsend : Talmadge Sim
clair-Long rolled into one
prickly ball.
This, your correspondent, only
passably informed on Mr.. Aber-
hart, Alberta, Social Credit and
Utopia, observed while still on a
train headed for North Americas s
Santa Claus land. The Transcon-
tlnental, bound for Calgary and
eventually the coast, had been
shouldering it's way across the
prairies with impressive self-con-
fldence against a blizzard raw
pelting down out of the MacKen-
Zie.
Without warning the express
stalled somewhere in Manitoba.
outside the club cars triple.
frosted windows the prairie, OBJ
scurely gray, resembled the fag-
end of an ice age.
Drifts. it turned out, had block
AIDED a cut. We were miles from
any town and might be detained
several hours.
TT would be hell" said the blond
u girl from Australia, whose
green knitted sports costume bare
ly covered her knees, ito be ma
rooned out here all night"
Few of the dozen passengers
smiled. All agreed. The talk went
on, a bit apprehensively-about
the new Kings entertaining cap
ers when, as the Prince, he Wis
tied Canada; about the storm, the
hard winter, etc.
The passengers spoke quietly,
and only one voice rose above the
relative hush.
The grain dealer from Regina, a
square-rigged man, from blunt
toed boots to closely cut hair, was
graphing a cigar and emphatic
ally discussing conditions with
his neighbor.
Il tell you," he declaimed an
grily, "if Able don't begin shov-
ing out his $25 a month pretty
soon he'll be done for" able is,
obviously, diminutive for Mr..
Aberhart.
He'll be murdered, I tell you,"
continued the Regina man.
There's too many foreigners,
Ukrainians; and too many Yanks
in that Province. They're desperate
they want that money and
they'll get the money or Aber-
hart, one or the other"
THE passengers turned alertly
Il toward the Regina man. His
neighbor, an Englishman insult
ably dressed in slacks and tweed
jacket, little man with the look
of a resigned but family disturbed
fox, sat up sharply.
But, see here" he said. "I live
in Calgary. I've only been over
on the other side for six months.
Alberta has respect for law and
order
In New York I had heard
the Regina mans prediction
ventured earlier by eastern Can
adams.
Money don't grow on trees"
the Regina man appealed to the
other passengers. The men
nodded agreement. No other talk
was going on now, and the girl
from Australia put down her
magazine.
Only the Vancouver bank man
ager reached for the flinsy sheets
of stock market quotations offered
by the steward.
A trainman, whose lean features
might have been etched and
rimed by Jack Frost himself, came
in from the observation platform
to announce that it was % below.
His audience was only mildly in
terested.
"THE trouble with Alberta is
l. that the farmers are shift
less. Unstable, too, I know; I'm
a farmer as a sideline." The
Regina man was warming to his
subject.
They're politically drunk:
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