(Tho Moot ' Unforgettable Character .|’vo Meet

(B! Uncle Joe)

A short distanmjrom the City

a where 1 was born lived the Old '!)octor. People always referred to ~ him as the “old Doctor" although he could not have been more than thirty-five or forty at the time

1 first knew him. - ' Doc was a brown-eyed, heavy- oet man whose clothes usually had u many wrinkles as a prune, ' while the pockets of his coat bulged from holding too many gadBEtS.

rr. my mind's eye I can see him now, walking into our home and carrying a small leather bag which, I urn sure, could not have cost more than a. couple of dol- hrs. But 01d Doc thought more of his patients than he did of

. style.

. when you came to know him well, you could observe about him

. l certain shyness and depth of character which were not easily defined. This quiet, soft-spoken country physician enjoyed the ac- quaintances of people in all walks of llfé. He was, in fact, a part of the life of nearly everyone who lived in the coma-nunitles_where he practiced his profession.

The Old Doctor was a man of few words and never talked about himself. very few people know the extent o1‘ his education or that he could write more than ten letters after the abbreviation M.D., but he was a humble soul who cared little about degrees. and so far as I know-and 1 knew Old Doc pretty well—-he never used lettebhcads or professional cords. Ordinary correspondence paper was good enough for any- thing the doctor had'to say. These were signed simply "A.J.M., M.D.".

When Doc finished his medical training in Scotland, he returned to his native province and set up practice at Clyde River.

Although many honors and higher calls fell to the lot of this great man, he could not be lured away from ‘the field in which he had chosen to labor. He preferred the humble:- trask of healing the lb! in his own community. So for over half s. century, or until his death a few years ago, he la- bored among rich and poor alike, in fair weather and storms, with that knowledge and skill which were his in e peculiar and mark- ed degree.

_ _D0c was a man who believed in God, loved his family and home Ind was loyal to his patients.

I c-nce saw him standing at the bedside oi a dying child, actually weeping for the young life he thew he could not save.

"It was just like losing one of Ill)’ own children," Doc told me later.

This humble country physician had an almost uncanny knowledge of those that came under his medical wing. He knew without asking questions the case history of every one of us, knew our weak points as well as our stiong ones. This knowledge, coupled with' un- surpassed medical skill, enabled him to perform what almost am- ounted to miracles in the art of hcaiing.

1 first came under the "Old Doctor's" care when I was a child of eight. I (was suffering from a lDinal injury, the result of hav- lng been run over by a heavy farm wagon, loaded with green lea-weed. In less than two months Doc had me in circulation almost as well as ever, and mind 5'0“. all this was accomplished risht in my own home without the aid of an X-ray.

' Doc was a bonesetter par ex- kelience. I know smres oi people gcins about today with mended arms and legs-all perfect exam- ples of the art of setting a. broken limb the right way. And the only Person 1 can recall being ihos- llltallzed for a broken limh was I Young ‘fellow who got his leg crushed in a hay-press. At first it looked like an amputation case, but Doc finally got the fellow walking almost as good as ever.

0f the thousands oi babies Doc brought into the world, only a few were delivered in hospitals and his rating as a maternity doctor was second to none.

Recently I had the advantage of talking with a man whose life was saved by Doc about thirty years ago. The patient had a rup- tured appendix and the poison 1'1" tone pretty well through his list-em. Tho man was eo ill that even members of his own family ihod lost all hope for his recovery. The Old Doctor stuck by his pa- tient from Monday afternoon till Tuesday morning, working like a fiend to revive that almost life-

‘AUGUST 24, 1o4a__

Official: leave‘ For Strike Scone

MONTREAL. Aug. 22 —- (CF)- Unltad Steelworkers (C.1.0.-C.O.L.) officials were advised today "trouble" was expected at e strike-bound Joliette Steel Company plant and immediately left for Jollette, Que.

are on strike there, claiming the company has stalled negotiations on acceptance often arbitration on Board's recommendation of 7-12 cents-an-hour wage increase. The official; did not dud“, the nature of the trouble expected but it was said the strike was de- veloping into a jurisdictional battle tween the United steel worm" nd the National Catholic Syndicate, former, bargaining agent for uhe Juliette workers.

"mi-m- over, he quietly gathered up his instruments and proceeded to the home of another sick. friend. _

He never neglected any of his patients. You could bank on his staying with you just as long as there was a ray of hope left, It was during times like this that his genius shone c-ut like a bright star. He knew what should be lone and wasted neither time nor words in doing it.

Next let us take the case of my own brother who, as a child, suffered terribly from asthma. When the Old Decim- had to be called in which was frequently the case, he would take from one of those bulging pockets a small vial of dark fluid, put it into a hyrpo syringe and inject_the stuf-f into brother's arm. The effect was magical. I have seen Doc use the dark fluid on more than one occasion and the results were al- ways the some. what that vial contained nobody but old Doc, and the Lord knew. What a pity this clever doctor left no records to shed light on the mystery of the magic vial!

A bit of quick thinking plus a neat and clever act of surgery once saved the life of o, resident of York Point. A throat infection had all but closed the passage leading to the throat and nose; -the patient was actually smother- ing w des/bh when Doc arrived at her hcirne. Quickly he made an incision in her neck, then insert- ed a small rubber tube which en- abled the patient to breath while he set about the task of reducing the swollen part. Instances like the ones mentioned could be mul- tiplled many times and yet the half of this doctor's doings among his patients would not have been told.

Winter is always 3 trying time for country doctors, but what with heated cars and other modern conveniences, much of the sting has been taken out of their lives.

Going back to the winter of 1919, who can forget the epldm-nic of flu that swept across Canada like a prairie fire? The Old Doc- tor was doing the work of three men. Sometimes he drove his own horse grid sometimes he was driv- en from place to place by the farmers themselves.

In weeks at a stretch he never had his clothes off. and few in- deed were his hours of slumber. 1t was a case of catching cat naps between visits.

During the height of the epl. demic. our Province witnessed one of its worst snow stems. Field and highway lay under mighty drifts making travelling a hard- ship which few cared to under- take. But the sick had to be taken care of, corne what might. Town doctors refused to face the ele- ments, so the whole burden lay upon the shoulders of dear Old Doc. And no one ever sougiht him in vain.

He was seventy-seven, working hard as ever, the day he made his last professional call.

"I'll have to go", he told his wife when she tried to keep him home. He was sick himself at the time. “She's always been my pe- tient and she'll be expecting me." Two days later, he died of pneu- monia.

Along with hundreds of other mourners I stood beside his grave and saw his body being lowered into its narrow cell. That was a tense moment. We all felt the same deep sorrow. At lest it was over. The-re in a countfl‘ church- yard. within the shadow of his beloved home, we said our last silent fsrewefs to one of the greatest doctors of our genera- tion, Alexander ~John Murchison, M.D., 1.12.0.1’. and S lldinburg; LEP. and S. Glasgow.

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Bombing Aimed At Slowing llp Probe?

CLEVELAND. Aug. 22 ——(A15) — High-powered bombs today explod- ed through tihe east side homes of a city councilman and a former police game operator, police report- ed. ,

Homes of Councilman Charles Carr and Buster Mathews, identifi- ed by police as a former policy iooket operator. were damaged by the blasts. The explosions came

about 12 minutes apart this morn- lng. Windows were shattered ln

several homes in the E. 81st Street area near Mathews‘ residence and the sector where Carr lives. Front porches of the Carr and Mathews residences were levelled by the explosions. but no injuries were re-

ported.

Alvin Sutton, Assistant Safety Director, who recently produced evidence to convict former police Lieut. Ernest Molnar of bribe- taking from policy operators, said he believed today's bombings were designed to "slow up" his probe of racketeering operations here. Neither Carr, who ‘was reached during the visit to Loo Angeles. nor Mathews. could give any reason for the bombings, both maintain- ing they had no "enemies."

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DETAIN RUSSIAN OFFICER

BERLIN, Aug. 23—(R.euters)— British military police tonight de- tained a Russian major named Letedov who woe°opeedlng in his oar in the British sector. it was learned. The Major ls reported to be one oi the control officers of the Russian-controlled Berlin radio, situated in the British sec-

go and the United States.

tor.

ily, Belmont, Mass., accompanied by Mr. and lvlrs. toured Nova Scotla and Prince Edouard Island The trailer, 31 feet in length and weighing three tons. is equipped with all modern conveni- builders of the Flying Fortress, the trailer is be- lieved to be the largest ever to visit the Province. It contains a. bedrocm, closet, bathroom. gas-op- erated stove. breakfast room, combination electric and ice refrigerator. as to the size of the trailer while the lower view is a picture of the interior.

Designed by' Curtis-Wright,

liloit Province In "Trailsrliomo"

"Trailer Home" in which w. and Mrs.

Jack lvtatheson

All-out Attack 0n Tito’: Leadership

BUDAPEST, Aug, 32 _. (pm- ters) -- The Hungarian press oo- night opened an all-out attack on Pruner-Marshal Tito's leadership in Yugoslavia. .

Uj Hirek, Sunday evening or- gan of the Hungarian workers Party. devoted its entire front page to a report of alleged terror in Yugoslavia during the recent Ccmimunist congress which back. ed Tito against the Cominfonn.

The report was stated to be due to appear in the next issue of the official Cominform organ in Bucharest,

There was no explanation why it should be released at this time- a. week before its regular publica- tlon.

The story told of alleged mass ex-pulsions from the Yugoslav Communist Party, . arrests and purges among army officers end university students and increased personal glorification of Tito “in the manner of Hitler."

Another Sunday Evening paper, the organ of the four-party gov- ernment coalition front. carried a huge front-page headline "New Provocation by Yugoslavia" over a story alleging that the Yugoslavs had refused transit visas to s. delegation of the Albanian Co- operative Society on their way to Poland,

Hungarian newspapers tonight announced the arrest of another 10 officials oi the Ministry of Ag- rlculture, alleged to have been in- vc-lved in e conspiracy to turn over secret economic information to an unknown foreign power. The 10 persons were alleged to have caused "we state economic lesson of almost. $1,000,000.

Expect To lieaoh Decision This Wook

OFITAWAA. Aus. as (OP) - Immigration officials said Satur- ddy they will probably reach a decision early next week on the cases of Estonian refugees seek- ing admission to Canada after crossing the Atlantic in mill! boats. a

The decision will be mode ‘\l soon as we hlNO all the trienn- atlon we need," an offlciol sold. That would probably b0 “in a day or two."

Earlier in the week a gevenslnent spokesman, referring to N list- oniana who landed at Quebec; oaid they "won't be mode to suffer.‘

nan bans as nail-rerun‘ '

mumps. OnL-(OP) - Life guards hero have complained about bathing-suited swimmers bringing soap and towel aha wash- ing at beaches on Gillies Loki. They say Riddles shouldn't have to paddle in water made dlrtv bv adults using the lake as a bath

tub.

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M. C. Carmichael and fam- and family, Watertown, Mass,

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Conservative Party Convention

OTTAWA, Aug. 28 — How will Progressive Conservatives across Canada be represented at the three day national convention of the Party in Ottawa starting on September 30?

A statement from Progressive

Conservative Convention Head- quarters gives a table showing representation from coast to

coast based upon the 255 electoral districts authorized for the next general election by last year's re distribution legislation in Parlia- ment. Liberals based their con- vention on_ the 245 seats in the present House of Commons.

Altogether there will be 1,313 delegates entitled to come to the convention. vote for a new leader for the Party and discuss the re- solutions which will form a fe- statement of party policy.

These fall into three groups. First. there are the delegates who are entitled to credentials by vir- tue of parliamentary office or of-‘ rice within the. party organiza- tion.

The ex-officio delegates are ex- pected to number 237. They will be: All Privy Councillors support- ing the Progressive Conservative Party, (l9); all Progressive Con- servative Senators, (21); all Pro- gressive Conservative members of Parliament. (B7); all Progressive Conservative members of Provui- cial Legislatures (100); all Provin- clal party leaders. (7). all Party executive officers and chairmen of convention sub-committees. (31). The Provincial party leadms, although shown here. are not in- cluded in the total because they are otherwiseyqualifled to be ek- offlclo delegates.

In addition there will be dele- gates-st-large, expected to nuin ber 311. Each Province is entitled to send as many delegates-at-large as it has Federal seats. Lists of these are compiled by tho pro vlncial Progressive Conservative Associations and the delegates are supposed to provide a cross-sec- tion of the community from lab- or to business. from formink to the professions. These will total M5. Added to them will be spec- tel youth delegates-st-large rep resenting the Young Progressive Conservative Associations as lol- lows: Ontario and Quebec, nine each (of whom four must be young

i men): other provinces three each (of whom one must be a young woman). Also rated n do legates-at-large will be the offi- cm of the Progremlve Conserva- tive Student Federation and one

Golobrdiod fiomlng 0f Age Saturday

LONDON. Aug. 2: — (CP) —' Princess Margaret celebrated her coming of age Saturday at a family dinner dance where the young Marquis of Blandfoird, oft rumor- ed as her favorite suitor, was among the special guests;

The occasion of her 18th birth- day was on important one for Margaret, called "world's most widely watched teen-ager." It meant that she now may be chosen u Counselor of’ State. acting for the King in the event of his ill- ness or absence from the country.

It meant also that she took her place in the line of succession to the throne and could succeed the King and Princess Elizabeth in the event of their deaths - should the heiress presumptive have no children.

The coming of age means more social responsibilities for Margaret -- taking a more active role in State and Court affairs.

Margaret celebrated at Bslmoral Castle in Scotland. where the family is on vacation from Court duties.

Guests beside Bioindiozd, a cousin of Winston Churchill. included

Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The Duke and Duchess of

Gloucester and their sons. Prince William and Prince Richard, were guests for afternoon tea.

Margaret undertakes the most important mission thus far en- trusted to her in another two weeks time. She is going to the_Nether- lands as the King's deputy at the investiture of Princess Juliana. succeeding Queen Wilhelmina. on the Dutch throne.

See Palestine Problem Far From Settled.

(By Joseph C. Goodwin)

new YORK. aua- ill-MP)- The Palestine problem is far from settled. Despite the second Unitsd Nations trucae. half a dozen arm- ies are lined-up in the Holy Laird waiting to join a fight to the firi- ish which almost everybody l“ the Middle East considers inevi- table.

Arab resentment toward the new Jewish state has not lessen- ed, and Arab passion still buds beneath the truce lid.

Arab Governments gave in to truce pressure from the United Nations only because of inter- national pressure. This did nil» alter their attitude nor that of their people toward Israel.

The Jews appear just as deter- mined to hold their new state. Arabs express fears the Jews will expand further into Arab territory. _

A Syrian official said: "Vie cannot afford to quit flghtini"

Veteran observers agreed toe Arabs will fight on. One diplo- mat. who has spent 30 years in the Arab world said recently;

"The Jews may claim a. momen- tary, but. I doubt they will ever have complete peace.

“Fighting may die down from time to time. but always a. new leader will answer the public de-

mand to ctry Arab banncrl against the Jew. Israel l5 in I wugh spot."

Holmes To Marry

LOS ANGEL-ES. Aug. 33 — (AP) - Beaulah Louise Overell, 19-year-old heiress acqullllefl Wm‘ a ionrner fiance of murder charges in the yacht blast deaths of her parents, announced today that aha will marry Robert Cannon, b8, a Los Angeles policeman.

Cannon, for-mar United States air force gunnery instructor, has been married twice. l-le said his divorce from Laverne Del San-

‘town, former film player. will be-

come final next May.

club. There will therefore be 5i‘ delegates - at - large representing young men and women directly.

Both youth and Canada's wo- menfollt will be represented again —and in larger numbers-among the riding representatives who will be the largest block of dole gates at the convention. Each FedQel riding association-ea‘.- culated on the new Federal l-louso membership of 255-wlll be en- titled to send three delegates for each single member constituency —double member constltuencns such at Halifax, will send six de- legates. They will also be "entitled to send an equal number of alter- nate delegates to vote in the place of sick or absent delegates.

A special request hos gone out to the riding associations from J. M. Maedonnell, K.C.. MR, Pre- sident of tho Progressive Con- servative Association of Canada, that there should be at least 0M young person and one woman ul- cluded among every group of three ridinl delegates.

The total number of ri de- lclehe. entitled to veto w be 795.

Below is a. table breaking down the provincial representation at the Progressive Conservative Na- tional Convention under the tnroc

delegate from each university . . Ex-Offielo A

11c. r. is _ Nova Scotla . '2

New Brunswick 14

Quebec 18

Ontario _

Manitoba .

Saskatchewan 9

Alberta 4

British Columbia 26

Yukon .. I

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divisions mentioned.

t-Lorge “iding Total , 7 12 31 l‘! 39 64

to so 5a . I 91o an U! 240 465 20 48 94 25 60 94 21 bl 7o 29 I4 103 7 I 6 Iii 7U i318

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