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...begun in Texas and Oklahoma and is moving for ward like an army with its flanks spread wide. By late June it will reach Kansas, then thresh slowly up from the heartland of the U.S., until by September it spends itself on the windy prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta...
Sober Solon. Top Social Crediter for years was zealous, Bible-quoting William C. Aberhart. He rose to power in Alberta in 1935 by dazzling voters with promises (which he was unable to fulfill) of $25 a month apiece. Bill Aberhart died last year, but his Party still rules Alberta, has ten members in Ottawa's House of Commons. Out of these remnants, Solon Low must try to build a national political force...
...native Albertan, 44 years old, Solon Low neither drinks nor smokes. He first became interested in Social Credit's principle (artificial creation of purchasing power) when he was an economics student in crackpot-breeding Southern California. In 1935, he won a seat in Alberta's legislature as a Social Crediter. He became Provincial Treasurer in 1937. One of the least radical of Social Crediters, he has labored mightily, and in vain, to refund Alberta's $140,000,000 debt...
From Edmonton, capital of Canada's province of Alberta and gateway to the new 1,480-mile-long U.S.-constructed Alaska highway, a Canadian newsman sent a tall tale to the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The inspector general of the Canadian Army paid a visit to Edmonton, and, desiring to look over the American in stallations there, put in a telephone call to the U.S. Army headquarters. Plugging in . . . the telephone operator purred in the soft accent of an American telephone operator, 'United States Army of Occupation.' The Canadian inspector general . . . hit the ceiling. . . . The telephone girl was quietly...
Died. William C. Aberhart, 64, Alberta's Social Credit Premier; of a liver ailment; in Vancouver, B.C. Ex-schoolteacher, fundamentalist radiorator, moonfaced "Bible Bill" Aberhart preached a new millennium, was elected to produce it in depression-ridden 1935. His version of Clifford Hugh Douglas' theories tried to combine funny money, state control of credit, a feeble application of the Keynes public-works principles, handouts à la Townsend. The attempt was foredoomed by Alberta's economic dependence, the hostility of courts and capital. One of the few non-Marxian reformers taken at his word and told...