DOUGLAS SOCIAL CREDIT

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27307, 25 March 1954, Page 3

DOUGLAS SOCIAL CREDIT

Sir,—According to C. Fitzgerald “The Social Credit people have little to offer.” In “The Press” of January 21 Social Credit offered cheaper food, higher pensions, cheaper clothing, lower income taxes, cheaper homes, to abolish the sales tax, cheaper cigarettes, and to abolish the wages tax. If Mr Fitzgerald thinks the above is little, I would ask him what his particular party has to offer; then we can compare notes. It apparently has not seeped into his mind that a government can be the best friend the people have or their worst enemy. It all depends on the financial policy that it adopts. I think that under a Social Credit government a man, earning £ 10 a week, would be £2 a week better off to spend or-save as he wished, and that only such a government can give our young people this hope for the future.—Yours, etc., F. W. STEVENS, Social Credit Candidate for Avon. March 24, 1954.

Sir, —“Plain Facts” produces a list of achievements which is pitiful when compared with this country. The medical benefits fade into insignificance—very meagre indeed. He would mislead us into thinking that the Government of Alberta had developed the oil industry. That type of propaganda is despicable. Now we can see how the British Columbians were deluded! Can “Plain Facts” make a few simple statements on the methods to be used in order that we may be precipitated into his Utopia—including educational policy? Solon Low urges that “a complete housecleaning be made in the schools and universities so that truth rnsy be taught.” Whose truth? Where have we seen this policy before? Perhaps Plain Facts” will answer that one too; or perhaps A. I. Lambton will.— Yours, etc., DERCOS. March 24, 1954.