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Losses

Three newspapers, once
thundering valces = in
Canadian journalism, have

- ded within the last year —

* victims of economic forces
they could not have foreseen,
when they were born a
century ago.

Journalism was 4 more
partisan, lusty, crusading
world when the. Montreal

. Star, Ottawa Journal and
Winnipeg Tribune were
begun within about 15 yéars
of each other.

Canada was two years old
when Hugh Graham, later
Lord Atholstan, started the
Montreal Star on $40 cash
and $60 he borrowed from a
colleague. He was so.
strapped for cash he had to
heat the premises with coal
bouught by the bucket.

In 1999, it was reported to’
be the most valuable
newspaper property in
Canada.

In Ottawa, The Journal
was started by a job printer
named AS. Woodburn in
1885 and a few months Jater
P.D. Ross left his job as
managing editor of the
Montreal Star and bought in
for $4,000 — most of which be
boMfowed from his mother.

the graveyard of newspapers
in 1890 when The Sun was ab-
sorbed by a rival, throwing
out of work — among others
-- city editor Robert L.
Richardson,

He and a partner scraped
up $7,000, bought the
vanished paper’s flatbed.
press, and the Winnipeg
Tribune was born.

Under Graham, the
Montreal Star, possibly
more than any other single
force, ‘was responsible for
Canadian participation In
the Boer War.

It carried ona campaign of
such heat that it forced the
hand of Sir Wilfrid Laurier's
first government to the point
where Canadian contingents
were organized and
dispatched to South African
battlefields,

Graham personally in-
sured the lives of the men
who joined up, paying the
premiums and making the
policies payable to their
next-o-kin,

Years later, a United
States university bestowed
an award “for distinguished
journalism” on The Star for
its campaign in support of
vaccination to combat the:

. Montreal smallpox epi-

. fought,

a nt ae

mute -

rod 1uodt9V- Mt

demi" e shige he epee
anti-vil elon pea 0
severe Graham had to
telegraph the government
for troops.

Ti was under the. quiet,
gentlemanly Ross that The

Journal took on the Supreme —

Court of Canada for its delay
in handing down judgménts.
Despite the open threat of a
contempt of court action and
jail,.The Journal kept up its
campaign and it was the
Supreme Court that backed
down

Richardson of the Win-’

ripeg Tribune was a Liberal,

but he was not & party man-
and his newspaper was not & .

party newspaper.
When he started The

: Tribune, Richards‘ swore it!
- would be independent but .
“by independence, we donot

mean neutrality.”

The Winnipeg Tribune,
under Richardson, was
anything but neutral.

On the. Manitoba’ schools -
question, it roared: *

“Here are the names of the ...

noble six oppositionists who,

despite all pledges, voted in -
‘favor of coercing Manitoba

bidding of the French ,

_ hierarchy of Quebec. -Let no .
elector forget their names.”

. They. were opinionated,
pa ftigah, fighting

papers and newspaper

men lays.
men na Senator M.
Grattan O'Leary, who rose

from, junior reporter to run.
the Ottawa «Journal, could

have been gpeakiig for them

all whin he ‘told fellow .

senators; -.

“Tama party man. ‘y ama
Conservative without prefix
or qualification. I belleve in
the two-party system. More
than that, I believe that
much of the political -un-
certainty and instability in
this country ... stems from
the fact that too many
Canadians have forgotten
what the party system is
about, and too “many
Canadians have gone about

year after year scoffing at it

and deriding. it.

“I have not com: into this.

chamber to tum myself into
a political eunuch and I have
no intention of running abdut

Bs sree

ais fall

ith aan

»,

Floyd is a Free Enterpriser. At least, that's
his story. |

He votes the right way, as did his ancestors as

far back. as recorded history. He attends.
“ meetings, does volunteer work and tries to make.
all the correct. motions that are required of a.
conservative.

Unfortunately; Flayd is not a conservative at
‘heart. He cannot’grasp the theory. of “laissez:

ra

Last week ste at jiength about the use and |
“misuse of land. He appears to believe that ‘all

“farmed by bona fide farmers. He also belleves
that no farm should be less than so:many acres

limits, according to Floyd’s Master Plan:

Lét me tell you a bit about Floyd. He owns
land and makes a profit ‘selling'a few lots how
and then. The lots are not in an established
municipality, by the way, nor are they intended
for farming. He no longer works for a living, so
has a great deal of time to delve Into other
people's affairs. He becomes livid with rage
when he talks about foreign imports, rural living
and high profits. Yet he drives an import
vehicle, he lives In a rural area and he makes a
handsome profit every time he selis alot.

“Floyd,” I sald, “Why don’t you make up your
mind about what you are. You cling to con-
servatism but you preach a brand of socialism.
One cannot ride two horses, you know.”
| think | shook him up a little. He thought a
while arid then told me that he had decided to
eave for a wilderness area, without road or
water transportation. ‘’To weather the coming
holocaust,””.he explained.

get away. from himself; trying to flee a private
world of contradictions.

THOMAS ATRILL’ a

yeley a maerespen a eco"

ining. wate dow mica BL ESHER RASES Peele i bi

Sland-is farm land, ‘and consequently should be:

(or hectares). Speculators should be IIquidated —
and all home construction should be within city .

\WooDBINE; NJ. (AP)
—-When Thomas ' Levin

; left town on. vacation in
_dune, he was mayor of
this-Cape May County -
hamlet. But last weekend

he returned — like
MacArthur” — and found
* the

Republican-domi-
nated town council yoted
him former-mayor. .

“When the cat's away, —

_ the rats will play,” Levin,
‘a Democrat, said. .

__ ‘The council voted Levin

out of office Aug. 5 under

a state law that allows a
vacancy to be declared

when a public officialhas =.
failed to attend meetings .
for... eight, ‘consecutive:
Wi red oa Shes oy f: a i
@ elementary school ns

teacher left town with his

family in ‘early: June to °

visit Hawaii and tour the

continental United States~ -
by car, Hesaid he notified -

Republican Council

President Ernest Materio -
that he intended to leave ’

- ODD, ISN T IT?

for the summer. Now,
-Materio is acting mayor.
, Levin says he. will
‘consult a lawyer in an
--effort. to determine a
course of action. If the
council acted improperly,

The white hose, Truett ’
explains, looks more
sanitary and. ‘makes it

easier to see the'Flies, He: *- didn’t |

_ nixes used hose with rons:

a or ‘holes, saying:

Levin says he willresume --
his.duties as mayor.” a

-BIRMI NGHAM, Ala. 4

(AP) — You say you're

wondering how to funnel
fruit flies from gallon jars
to the-mouths of‘hungry.
poison. arrow frogs? .

Try : ‘extra-large. white

panty hose. .
That's what the folks at
the Jimmy. Morgan Zoo.

‘here use, Director’ Bob
Truett says’ white panty
; The,
, “waisthand .is* stretched |
“oer the rim of a jar’

hose work:. best.

“run over the city catching ..
fruit. flies. 7 a

“We'd:
be in trouble if we had to -

pees Fen

LANSING, Mich, (AP)

- — A painting recently

sold: for 14 cents has -

- tumed a big profit for a -

. Lansing carpet layer.

FES

Clyde Baldwin bought

* the “oil ‘painting — a
. ‘Second World War scene.
, called  Strato-flak | by

Fisher — for $25 from his
father-in-law, who pick

dup atthe carats tir + ae iste

- 14 cents.

‘containing, ‘thousands of |

tIny, flies bred on mashed
bananas,

‘One leg is ‘tied off and .
the other stretches into

-the frog aquarium. .

“The large painting by.

' _/ Dean’ Cornwell, a little:

known book illustrator,
depicts a battle scene,

' centring around anti-
-aireraft

guns’

., ‘manufactured by General
Motors Corp,’ B- Fisher

. Connecticut payer and a’
$1,500 sale. The painting
will be maited this week;

Charles Smith, . Bald- -.

Body Divisiod..
bhe intended to

red
“on cr ona f
dealer a

_ win's
‘tghed and concluded his
"Joss was “just part ‘of the
game,” .

fe aie

MELBOURNE Ae
er) = , as mands

race in a. bees 7
‘torian town Wednesday’,
night after a cat jumped -
"onto the track and half the”
“elght-dog’ field. began:
chasing it. instead: of the
tin rabbit.. The, cat .
escaped hrogh whole
the fence. :

father-in-law, . =:

-In truth, It would seem that* Floyd Is trying to -

The fast-fading flowers of summer