FACTS ABOUT ALBERTA.

Evening Star, Issue 23377, 21 September 1939, Page 18

FACTS ABOUT ALBERTA.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir.—l would ask you to please print the following from a booklet bearing the above title, recently received here: —“ During the past six months 30 new industries have started in Alberta; 13 industries already in production have expanded; and 13 new industries are in the process of organisation. During the first quarter of 1939 Alberta was the only Canadian province to register a decrease in unemployment. “ Development towards State medicine has been launched! by the Alberta Government, which has already taken over the responsibility of caring for every tubercular person and the treatment and. training of every victim of infantile paralysis in the province. A commission is conducting cancer research, and the Government maintains a travelling health clinic which, operating in a motor caravan, goes throughout the rural districts, performing minor operations, doing dental work, and giving inoculations and vaccinations to persons far removed from medical care or unable to pay for it. Tliis travelling clinic system operates in no other part of Canada. A travelling lecture clinic carries health information, instruction in first aid;, baby care, and instruction to expectant mothers in rural areas, which are also covered by a district nursing service which takes care of cases and takes treatment to those in districts where the services of a physician are not available. In addition to these services the Aberhart Government has extended and- increased facilities for the care and treatment of the insane; has instituted financial grants to help needy expectant mothers; and in many other ways has contributed largely to an improved health condition throughout the province.” This is in reply to those in our midst who continue to spread untruths about Alberta, especially with regard to the care of the less fortunate. And when we realise that in August, 1935, the people elected 56 Social Credit members to a Legislature of 63 scats, there cannot be much more to say.—l am, etc., September 20. K.R.P, [The moral seems to consist in what can be done without social credit.— Ed. E.S.]