31 AUGUST 1944, Page 14

WHAT ABOUT ALBERTA ?

Stay—One of the most significant political events (practically unreported in our Press) in the British Empire for the past 20 years, is the re-election of the nine years old Social Credit Government of Alberta for the third time with a gigantic majority that has wiped every other party off the map. The British people have been led to believe that " Social Credit has failed in Alberta." Why, then, do the hard-headed Albertan farmers vote again for an " exploded " political theory? The truth is that every attempt to introduce Social Credit has been thwarted by the Money Power operating through its Parliamentary and legal puppets. At least II bills, passed by the Albertan legislature to implement their 1935 Election pledges, have been disallowed by the Federal Government at Ottawa or dismissed by the Privy Council in England. Their .victory can not be put down to a choice between SC and Conservative reaction- aries, for the CCF (Socialists) put up candidates in nearly every Riding and obtained but two seats! The reason can only be that the people of Alberta know they are fighting the real enemy—Finance—and that