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...paper, the end looked wonderful. Alberta's Bill of Rights guaranteed the fundamental rights of worship, speech, lawful assembly, and a few more. Among the added starters: 1) a minimum income of $600 a year to every adult Albertan, 2) a pension for all from 19 to 60 years who were unemployed or unemployable; 3) all the necessaries of life and education for those under 19; and 4) retirement benefits for folks over...
...Invaders Repelled. Fresh from its triumph in Saskatchewan (TIME, June 26), the socialist C.C.F. invaded neighboring Alberta. Ever since the late William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart dazzled Albertans with the promise to pay them $25 a month for life, the Social Crediters have ruled the province. Last week businessmen and bankers who once fought "Bible Bill" supported his successor, 35-year-old Ernest Charles Manning. The result: Social Crediters, 47; C.C.F., 2; Independents, 3; Veterans' candidate, I; with Social Crediters leading in the four remaining ridings. Said an Albertan: "We didn't want to swap a light case...
...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...
...campaign, "Bible Bill" had promised each & every Albertan $25 per month in what he called "basic dividends." Few days after his election many an Albertan removed his savings from the Province...
Money is, by definition, as good as people think it is, and Premier Aberhart's money was last week about as good as Albertans think Premier Aberhart is. Most merchants were willing to accept the certificates up to the total of their sales taxes, which Premier Aberhart had said were payable in certificates. Beyond that point Albertan merchants began to balk. Prosperity Certificates began appearing in Sunday collection plates and the Edmonton Journal asserted that only two of Edmonton's 218 stores were accepting unlimited quantities of scrip...