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What a scenario‘! Their leader, Robert Stanfield, was stepâ€" pingdownaflereightharmwlngyearsh’yingtogeta crowd of mavericks to make sense. He‘s the best leader the party has had since Robert Borden. : _ So what do they do as a zippy opening for the convention? They hold a laudatory dinner for John Diefenbaker, who has made things as difficult as possible for Stanfield, since the latter beat him out for the leadership. Mr. Diefenbaker needed that dinner like he needed a hole in the head. He has been honored quite often enough as the Grand Old Man of the party. And with his égo, he doesn‘t need anybody to tell him how great he is. Oh, Stanfield was given a dinner too, but sort of second banana, if he‘ll pardon the expression. He laid it on the line. Told the Tories present they had to stop the infighting, and get together if they were ever to form a government. That was about as much use as me telling a class of students that if they didn‘t do their homework, they would fail. Totally ignored. Next day the cats turned up for the farce. The actors did everything Shakespeare warned the players not to do, in the play Hamlet. ~ Heward Graftey and Patrick Nowland sawed the air vioâ€" lently with their hands, shattered it with their mouths, cast their appeal entirely to the groundlings. This after, like Leacock‘s hero, leaping each on his horse and riding off in all directions. John Fraser, a decentâ€"looking chap with about as much charisma as Fred Flintstone, read a speech that would have put to sleep the annual convention of the Women‘s Inâ€" stitute. Pretty Boy Mulroney, batting his eyelashes at the camerâ€" as, smiled and smiled and made a speech that might have got him a $25 fee on the banquet circuit. Claude Wagner, formerly beaten for the Liberal leaderâ€" ship in Quebec, and lured into the Tory party with a $300,â€" 000 trust fund, proved a master orator, but said virtually nothing. We hope to contact and inform all former students and teachers and invite them to attend our reâ€" union. _ We plan to open house all day at Cobalt High School and a dinner and dance in the evening. Letter to the editor wounds.‘"‘ And they were visible, pouring forth fresh blood. Not all the pious proclamations of solidarity, working together, and we‘reâ€"allâ€"brothersâ€"inâ€"theâ€"great Conservative â€" party could hide from any viewer that carrying a chiv was the order of the day. f By the time this appears in print, I have no doubt that Joe Clark, the new leader, slick as a seal when he took over, will look more like a porcupine, with all those dagâ€" gers sticking out of his back. It‘s a good thing he weighs only 145 pounds. At least a skinâ€" ny guy is a smaller target for the knives. _ â€" Cobalt High School is celebrating "its 50th anâ€" niversary this year. _ To celebrate the occasion, we are holding a reunion on August 2nd, 1976. All former students and teachers who are interâ€" ested in further details should contact the Secreâ€" tary,. _ Anniversary Comâ€" mittee, Cobalt High School., Box 9, Gobalt, Ontario. Dear Editor: â€"Those Tories are something. This column will not appear until after their convention, but I‘m still going around shakâ€" ing my head in amused perplexity. ' Theme of the convention seemed to be "Healing old Sinclair Stevens, an oldtime image of a Bay St. Tory, bald and rich, made the only attempt to inject a little humor, and it bombed with a crowd which seemed able to applaud only platitudes. _ â€" _ Richard Quittenton from somewhere quit before the balâ€" loting began. in radittrihute imanmun Inofmimail meass en ng Loge O WInTA) 1J Eq Armibe . PAAA . P weaker. Social to redistribute income between ggmmmmnwuhnw individuals, . policiesâ€"to transfer income b& are usually restricted to union â€" Small tween regions â€" these have increased public spending, businesses are forced to close. â€"=â€"â€" . a rahedhm&nd:&,.(mootdflhfhmfloammeufi-. a * * * . Inflation Board ( ) is now ealled upon to stop. Sw;oflat permanent wage and price controlsâ€"Bzcept ¢ * & John MW&:WMW _ Despite the billions of dollars spent over the past 20 years ing down the power small firms to grow there has been ho increase in the share of national income _ and expand. mtmemmlflmdtore- Bill Smiley Jack Horner should have stayed in a corner, instead of You can‘t make the weak strong by making the n ud 18 and Small ..A L. Business Hk By Kenneth McDonald E"l s POJ 1CO. Yours truly, Dr. L.D. McGarry, Chairman involved. : ~ incentive > ract to : e the Car U.s. s §p )T Eun masas Preen Enemere ecemmen fecsrens them. e is o e i xn‘ §9) 4 u-lumamua transferred to the parâ€" 8 Wmm ent company in the U.S. and the e was cancelled. between . pay Scales drajn skilled workers from existing busivesses The government‘s antiâ€"inflation measures are needed as trying to ride the herd back into the 1940s. Paul Hellyer, defeated for the Liberal leadership, hotly attacked the Prime Minister with vague innuendoes, and completed making an ass of himself by savagely attacking the press, of which he is a working member. James Gillies, an economics professor, sounded like one, but had the good sense to get out early.. Claude Wagner, formerly beaten for the Liberal leadership in Quebec, and lured into the Tory party with a $300,000 trust fund, proved a master orator, but said virtually nothing Joe Clarke, the eventual winner, made one studied joke, then launched into an earnest, dull speech which managed to cover most of the diamond without touching many bases. Flora McDonald, to my mind; made the most honest speech of the lot. She was simple, but eloquent, warm but strong. Next day the bloodâ€"letting began. Diefenbaker, never â€"one to forget or forgive an insult, real or fancied, remembered that Joe Clarke had worked against him in a leadership camâ€" paign, and went to Wagner. Little Jack Horner followed him into that corner, after taking a swing at a reporter. Hellyer, looking as though he‘d been sucking a persimmon, joined that middleâ€"aged crowd. Flora, obviously crushed by the knowledge that hundreds of blatant liars had promised ‘her secondâ€"ballot support, went to Clarke, as did most of the othérs. _ _ ‘ Quebec media people claimed there was a gangâ€"up against Wagner.‘Ridiculous. He got just under half the total vote. It was scarcely high drama. More like low comedy. But the party has a new leader. He looks like a live one, and his smart (in both senses) young wife should help. But he‘s goâ€" ingâ€"toâ€"need a lot of bandages to staunch the old wounds, and the new ones. & y I don‘t know Mr. Clarke, but we have both appeared reguâ€" larly in the High River Times. Go get ‘im, Joe. Don‘t add hospital costs to your other farm costs. 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