The movement of Social Credit as directed and propagated by the Union of Electors has just concluded a most successful year; we speak of the Social Credit year which goes from September to September. Last year we terminated the year at St-Basile, N.B. with a really tremendous congress which gave the movement the impetus which carried forward into 1959-60 and resulted in an unprecedented eleven congresses; seven in western Canada and four in the east. The congresses were successful from every point of view. The numbers who attended were gratifying, in the fullest, to the directors of the Union of Electors. And the enthusiasm and fervor of those attending bode well for the future of the true Social Credit movement in Canada. The final congress of the Social Credit year was held at Amos in the Abitibi district of northern Quebec. This was the national congress.
The first congress of the new Crediters' year. (though the last of 1959) will be held at Allardville, near Bathurst in New Brunswick. This congress will be held the 10th, 11th and 12th of October. Allardville is not at the end of the world so there is no reason why a great many of the Crediters in Quebec cannot make the trip, on the long weekend.
After Allardville, the winter months begin and the difficulties of communications make any further congresses during these months impractical. However, come the Spring and the movement will be ready to get to rolling again. Here are a few of the places and some tentative dates for the congresses of the coming year:
Granby, P.Q.: April 23-24: Sudbury, Ontario: May 21-22. Falher, Alberta: July 16-17; St Pierre-Jolys, Manitoba: July 23-24; Rimouski, P.Q.: September 3-4-5.
Some of these congresses have a particular signification, such as that at Rimouski, which is the grand national congress; that of St Pierre-Jolys will take place half way between the Pacific and the Atlantic. Here is the meeting place of East and West. What a magnificent opportunity for the Crediters of the East to join hands with those of the West!
The congress is an opportunity for every Crediter to renew his fervor and loyalty to the principles and work of the movement. No one attending a congress can possibly depart feeling indifferent or discouraged. There is too much enthusiasm, too much good heart for a man to feel indifferent...
Delphis Larouche, one of the most active members of the movement wrote in to the offices of the movement:
"Here is my last report of the Social Credit year; I have 27 new subscriptions for this last week of the year. This year for the first time since I began to work for Social Credit, I have sent in 52 reports for 52 weeks. I haven't missed a week. I have gone out taking subscriptions every Sunday and I have not missed a congress. I believe that I have made a total effort. I promise to do the same next year."
Of such men are great movements made; of such citizens do we draw a new and more perfect society.
Whence The Promotion of Fluoridation?
In 1944 Oscar Ewing was put on the payroll of the Aluminium Company of America, the law firm with which he was associated being retained at $750,000 per year. A few months thereafter, Mr. Ewing was made Federal Security Administrator, with the announcement that he was taking a big salary cut in order to serve his country. (Federal Security Agency, now Department of Health Education and Welfare.)
The period of his administration was years of huge budgets, with untold millions being doled out through grants to medical and dental colleges and state departments of health, for esearch and welfare projects. There was plenty of money, too, for educational projects, and in 1951 Mr. Ewing asked for TWO MILLION dollars for fluoridation propaganda.
Naturally, grants were awarded to those organizations and institutions sympathetic to the policies and pronouncements of the U.S. Public Health Service, which had become a powerful bureaucracy. These grants were powerful weapons.
The U.S. Public Health Service, with millions at its command for education, thus became a huge propaganda machine, with movies and expensive brochures, lectures, radio, and generous: expense accounts for officials. Every aid was employed to boost fluoridation, with a concentration on parent-teacher associations, to convert them into enthusiastic, if misinformed, promoters of fluoridation. For all practical purposes, the U.S. Public Health Service became a huge advertising agency in the service of several affluent corporations...
The Canadian Intelligence Service
Again - Douglas on a Social Credit party
In the Social Crediter of August 22, 1959, writing from Canada, the paper's Canadian correspondent, D. Stewart, writes a commentary on Manning's landslide victory in Alberta in the recent elections. In the course of the article he writes:
"After the election of Mr. Manning's government in 1948, Major Douglas wrote an assessment which could apply also in 1959: "He would probably claim (wrote Douglas), and I certainly should not contest that his program could be used to describe a good program. In fact it could be used to describe anything. He probably would not understand what I am trying to indicate, that the very achievement of that program, by the methods he is committed to employ, however successful, and perhaps in proportion to its success, wilt rivet the chains of State slavery which the electors supposed he wished to attack."
And there are Social Crediters who still believe that Social Credit will become a reality through the formation of another political party called the Social Credit party. Obviously history as a lesson means nothing to a great many people.
Fed up!
Well, one citizen of this fair land of ours finally got thoroughly fed up with the financial system we live under.
Edmundston (C.P.) The tax collectors are not very well received at the home of Mr. Héliodore Cyr of St. Francis parish some 27 miles, to the north-west of Edmunston, and Mr. Narcisse Devost found this out the hard way. Mr. Devost went to Mr. Cyr's farm yesterday to deliver a county tax notice.
He told his story as follows: Mrs. Cyr who recently gave birth to her 27th child, allowed a number of her offspring to attack him... He was tied to a chair and remained there for an hour and a half before the father, Héliodore Cyr, arrived at the house to liberate him. He reported that Mrs. Cyr struck him at least twice. Deep scratches on his arms, which could have been caused by his bonds, bore witness to his story. He wanted to press charges before the magistrate of the county but couldn't decide exactly who had been the assailants, "There were so many of them," he commented. A detachment of the R.C.M.P. will investigate." The complete exasperation of a poor family called upon to pay money out to a finance system which gives them nothing in return - well, it's not too difficult to sympathize with them, even though we cannot recommend this method of dealing with the tax system.
Tying up the tax collector may be one way of letting off steam. But there is a much better way of going about getting rid of the system which begets tax collectors: read your Union of Electors regularly and thoroughly and get others to subscribe. Only by forming an enlightened and determined people can we ever hope to beat not only the tax problem but this whole business of an unjust and outmoded financial system.
In any event, small bureaucrats in New Brunswick, whom, we are led to believe, are somewhat on the autocratic side, are likely to tread warily when in the vicinity of the Cyr farm.
Determination does it
A propos of Mrs. Héliodore Cyr tying up the tax collector when he came around to the Cyr Farm in New Brunswick (see the note, "Fed up". In this same issue), TIME magazine of September 7 recounts a somewhat parallel case that occurred in Miami. It seemed that Rob. Lockwood allowed the department of Internal Revenue to seize his salary for back taxes, signing a waiver to this effect. Mr. Lockwood, giving in under the department's pressure, remarked that: "...I'm a little guy. I didn't figure I could fight the government. But Mrs. Lockwood: didn't consider the government too big to take on. To quote TIME:
..... "Gathering up her children - Rene, two and ten-month old Robbie she marched into the Miami tax collector's office to... demand return of her husband's paycheck: Says she, "I told them Robbie had just got out of the hospital where he was treated for acute anemia, and we needed the money for medicine. They wouldn't listen. They're rather coldhearted and impersonal downthere." But Margaret Lockwood had a plan of action; she planted herself in a chair... and announced she would stay right there until the paycheck was returned. The children did the rest. Daughter, Renie, dipping into a box of raisins, managed to spill about half of them on to the tax office floor, happily trampled them into a gooey mess. Son Robbie Wet his diapers and Margaret Lockwood calmly changed them, draping the reeking castoffs over a chair. When lunchtime came, Mrs. Lockwood opened jars of baby food, arranged them on a clerk's desk. The children... splattered strained apricots and sweet potatoes generously over a stack of tax reports. Robbie started to cough on his food and a nerve-shredded clerk told Mrs. Lockwood not to let him choke. - "Mind your own business," she snapped, "It's my baby, not yours.". Next, Rene found a wastebasket, and enthusiastically overturned it. A clerk spoke sharply to her and she started to scream. Baby Robby thereupon joined in lustily. At last after 4½ hours the harried tax collector surrendered. Margaret Lockwood was told that her husband's check had been returned and she could pick it up at his office. Bob Lockwood would have another chance to talk over the claims against him." Not until all the people, or an agressive well-informed and well-formed, core of the citizens takes action with a plan and according to definite principles, will the system, which beglets the circumstances which force the Mrs. Cyrs and Mrs. Lockwoods of society to such drastic action, be abolished.
The Union of Electors, teaching the principles of Social Credit and the method of true political activity through the pages of its publications, Vers Demain and The Union of Electors, is forming just such a trained citizenry. Help them to carry on and broaden the field of this work by getting your friends and acquaintances to subscribe to The Union of Electors.
E.M.
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