ALBERTA AGAIN

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27410, 24 July 1954, Page 3

ALBERTA AGAIN

Sir, —You recently published two articles on social credit in Alberta. The last sentence of the second article reads: “Motto for New Zealand social creditors in their campaign: promise to strike oil and make everyone rich.’’ Would you please inform your readers if this sentence was in the original article from Alberta, and if not where it came from and who wrote it. It would seem from the article generally that the few in Alberta who still support the debt-money power (there are eight non-social creditors in Alberta’s Parliament of 61), are concerned at the prospect of New Zealanders, also gaining their “freedom in security.’’ I am prepared to answer these articles, so would you please state if you are prepared to publish my reply.—Yours. WILFRID B. OWEN. . Leader of the New Zealand Social Credit Political League. July 23. 1954. Sir ,7—Judging the writer of the two articles on Alberta as a * reporter, it should be his last job. He says “a frame of mind’’ to listen to anything

; put Alberta in. It has kept the .Government in power ever since 1935! The 25 dollars monthly, which Aber- ! hart promised, was disallowed after 1 being duly enacted —not a broken promise. Other promises made in good faith were disallowed, forcing the Government to the alternative estab- ’ lishment of Treasury branches, which * have put Alberta in her present sound 3 position, as well as being a world eco--3 nomic eye-opener. The bond question ;is stale. Other governments bled : working taxpayers almost white with--1 out question, but let Alberta touch ‘ the money-lenders (banks principally, who create money at will) and here is a legislative crime. Alberta’s successful economic battle, making Alberta prosperous, preceded the oil a boom.—Yours, etc., S. W. AYERS. “ July 23, 1954.

Sir, —Reading Harold G. Long’s two articles in “The Press” brings to mind Pilate’s question: “What is truth?” The articles are supplied by an Alberta resident, thus making a good first impression. Possibly he thinks faraway New Zealand knows little about Alberta. If so,'die is badly mistaken. I personally and Jnany another have quantities of printed, detailed information about Alberta, and am much better informed than to take these two articles seriously. We know pow very much is left out of the actual story of Alberta’s triumphs. We quite understand what oil means for Alberta, but, long before her oil boom, Alberta claimed as far back as 1939 that she was in a better financial position than any other Canadian province (bankrupt in 1935!)—“Truth about Alberta.” Your own readers have been told often enough the requotable successes which Mr Long so obviously prefers to suppress.—Yours, etc., VERITAS. July 23, 1954.