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...Jeez, There's Nothing . . ." Roy Thomson is fond of saying: "We can expand indefinitely." Son of a Toronto barber, Thomson at 24 had managed to accumulate, and then blow, a small fortune in Saskatchewan land speculation. In 1929 he went to North Bay, Ont. to sell radios, Branched into broadcasting to push his product and in 1934, for $200 down and $200 a month, bought a moribund weekly called the Timmins Press. One of the unfledged publisher's first moves was to send dime to each of 100 small U.S. dailies, hen the copies came in, Thomson read...
North America's most comprehensive welfare state is the Canadian prairie province of Saskatchewan. In a flat wheatland more than twice the size of New Mexico, 907,000 scattered inhabitants share a tradition of help-the-other-fellow frontier radicalism that is as old as provincial incorporation 54 years ago. But most of Saskatchewan's social-welfare schemes have been concocted since 1944 by Canada's only socialist government, run by the ever-winning (four straight elections) Cooperative Commonwealth Federation party. Last week CCF Premier T. C. ("Tommy") Douglas dissolved his 53-seat legislature, in which...
...town the rest; if he gets cancer, all care will be free; if he is injured on the prairie, a government aerial ambulance will wing him to the nearest hospital. In retirement, Douglas Stewart may choose to live on his pension (up to $75 a month) in one of Saskatchewan's new geriatric centers (four in operation, one more planned), which will give him food, a bed, and all medical care...
...Saskatchewan spends 34% of its budget ($148 million this year, 10% from oil and natural-gas royalties) on welfare. But the CCF's early-days loud talk of "eradicating capitalism" is not even a whisper now. Saskatchewan's Deputy Minister of Travel and Information now makes a dozen trips yearly to Eastern Canada and the U.S. luring new industry to the province, hoping that the profits of free enterprise will make possible an economy that can afford Tommy Douglas' social welfare...
...Abundant Life." This balderdash was devised by Temple Collegiate's proprietor, William Franklyn Wolsey, 56, who calls himself Archbishop John I of Vancouver. Born in Saskatchewan, where he quit school after the sixth grade, the bearded divine once served two years in a Milwaukee jail for abandoning his four children, later beat a rap for embezzlement. Wolsey's degree as a "biopsychologist" comes from Taylor University of Biopsycho-Dynamic Science, a Chattanooga diploma mill. After serving in the Canadian army during World War II, he was "ordained" in London as a "Christian minister" by a former waiter...