October 1, 1948

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FICTION

SWAMP JUSTICE

DARKNESS had settled in the swamp, but there was still copper-gold daylight over the creek when Jess Landry poled his flatbottomed boat up to the mud bank. He was late. Stepping ashore, he slid the craft to level ground with a swing of his arm and reached for the burlap sack in the bow. By HUGH B. CAVE23 min

GENERAL ARTICLES

GEORGE DREW

IN WHAT are known as “Ontario political circles,” there is a slowly congealing belief that George Alexander Drew, leader of the only Conservative government in Canada, is being groomed as a sort of North American Churchill. Drew’s repeated attacks on Communism, his warnings of the dangers of war and his demands for preparedness at home have a Churchillian flavor. By PIERRE BERTON16 min

GENERAL ARTICLES

This Is a Prostitute

IMET Barbara in jail. I was there as an observer with the permission of the Ontario Government. Barbara was there because she was a prostitute. She was one of many whose stories I heard. Barbara, at 22, is completely defeated. She has a bad heart as a result of a syphilitic infection and she is a drug addict. By GWENYTH BARRINGTON16 min