Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 28, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Liberty of Equality of civil rights april 1920 president Ond Cen Crul at the Centra Post for Thrush the mulls fir the British acc Inland Revenue National budgets and taxation r the British budget recently submitted to parliament Bijj ten Chamberlain had a mixed it showed transact i a stupendous scale a National Revenue during the fiscal and a National outlay in excess of this of applying these figures to Canada would mean for omitry an income in excess of a billion dollars with a deficit Cess of three Hundred million an announcement of Ottawa would not be received by the Canadian 15 with loud ringing cheers but the general feeling in great As reported by has been one of this based upon chamberlains prediction for the Cess be n As re be fun tax f 80 to e t Chancellor of the exchequer plans to overcome the deficit by new which will leave a substantial surplus to apply to debt re the Chancellor of the exchequer has increased the excess from 40 to 60 per this tax was reduced year 40 per he has heavily increased taxes on spirits and he has imposed a five per tax on the profits liability from the enlarged revenues that he predicts a surplus for the current year of 0 f300 for next Yea these amounts will be applied o e reduction of the National debt which now stands at the Eairly Antral total of which on a per capita basis is s and a half times the Canadian Public Cham n til has Hopes of the practicability of a special Levy of War receipts from this source will be applied Al to on this aide of the As a re sult of the Victory of their representatives in one of the important events of the olympic games canadians will take renewed interest in the other contests that make up the widely varied programme to the authorities should see that Noth ing is left undone to encourage the sending of the Best athletes we have in the country to compete in the other according to reports from the Falcons came through the whole series without this is one of the Best features of the great Young Canada is play ing the the Field of politics ingratitude and any apm the critics of chamberlains budget say that the outstand thin about it is its Assumption that the present enormous volume of National expenditure must go on lord says a More successful budgets alter try trill be ruined beyond All Reginald ins War now the head of a great British s loudly for an Economy there he no remedy All that matters is that extravagant expenditure Britain u Stop u these views Are echoed in the the sinks that and skill in framing a budget is neutralized Beau government is evidently unrepentant in its news regards the expenditure Outlook As Post Hopes that the heavy taxation will enforce att which is extravagance in tonal expend ure and the mail express disappointment that t times e the the 2ntion both Ere is when canadians read in the Lon Don newspapers these recurrent la mentations Over the with which the grand trunk railway has been treated by this country they Are in danger of losing their they look at their rail a balance Sheet for the year and they see a loss of on the operation of the National trans Continental loss on the operation of the grand trunk Paci fic and interest on the capital Tost of the grand trunk Pacific or a total loss of Over seven teen million for most of which the grand trunk is in View of these conditions the agreement under which the Cana Dian government takes Over the grand trunk is generous in the extreme to grand trunk bondholders and but this generosity toeing received with insolence and ingratitude one is almost tempted to regret that these parties Mere not left to the Rigours of the if the Canadian parliament had done nothing whatever tout merely looked these bondholders or shareholders would not have got a Dollar out of their lobbying is going on in Britain in connection with the appointment Canadas next according to a London Cable to the Montreal says Al though it is practically certain that the Duke of Devonshire will return to Canada to finish All or part of his term As some quiet lobbying has been going on recently in connection with the appointment of a a Large Section of the London press will have it that the Earl of As Duke of was practically assured of the Post had it not been for the is to have it another name mentioned is that of the Duke of it is said that the Duke and Duchess would not be averse to a term As the Duke has Large land interests in principally in Northern British he is Only and doubt is expressed whether he would be a sufficiently solid nominee for such a an appointment would meet with More favor would Ibe that of lord Byng of your correspondent hears that lord Byng would be willing to accept the Post if it were y boycotting the products of a Reat producing country such As Ger Many was before the War and will e the resumption of Trade Elat Lons with Germany does not necessarily imply the wiping of the on the it May be argued that the products of German Industry Are a necessity As a Means f repairing the economic and com Mercial damage for which the Ger Man people Are in any Trade will find jts barring such measures As Are absolutely the Gazette if the Canadian people really do not wish o buy German goods it would be a i far better plan for the government to apply a direct embargo or a prohibitive the proposals in he it be difficult of Mackenzie King entirely misses tile Point of Public criticism against his War record when he sub mits personal reasons which pre vented him from playing a combat ants says the Ottawa the indictment against him is not on that count at a Man of Over forty years of an Esmin ister of the Crown and without Mili tary his place was not in the and nobody expected had not the courage to turn any of them this discussion in great Britain has a very direct application Iother corresponding conditions in sir Henry Drayton is 110w de Cpl immersed in the work of preparing his first from Ottawa there come endless reports of the expedients he fanning to the financial situation in Canada but they Allie l to new schemes of to ingenious methods of tapping notes and comment in time wages May become so High that the employed classes will have the capitalists working for the old diplomatic Ottawa London to new is Likely to be shortened into the More sensible an cover ways and Means by which the Economy axe the estimates submitted to parliament recently attempt to reduce National expenditures to a degree wit the Gravity of the occasion and there is no forecast of rigid Economy will be part of the budgets sir henrys budget will be like appalling expenditures and Revenue that Are not Large enough to cover the expenditures and taxation will be outlined designed to bring m Money to Bridge the but of y phrases to serve As wreaths to that our system of taxation is m which is hardly in our aimed by uneconomic and wasteful Means and under the direction of a com or even increased by mean Fen those at present but of our taxation methods is the policy of uie most drastic m need of Over Hahng is a if there is a great Reservoir of Oil in Northern Alberta it is time that every Effort was being put Forth to locate the world needs and if Canada is position to Supply it so much the better for this coun and so much the better for the the Point should depressed Home in Winnipeg that unless a citizen registers in person on May 11 or 12 he or she will not be Able to vote at the provincial this sum for they who has just been appointed minister of agriculture in sask at is a comparatively new mar in having just elected to the legislature last he has spent nearly All his life in tha West and has been Active for years in various organizations in which the Farmers Are he is now serving his sixth term As presi Dent of the Saskatchewan association of Rural the portfolio of agriculture has been help by Dunning since the resignation of Mother Well a year but he desired to be relieved of it As he has also the duties of provincial treasurer am minister of Dunning entered the Cabinet in 1917 As provincial treasurer and minister o later in the when Calder resigned to become a to Ember of the Dominion Union Dunning received a third that of Hon Knowles was then taken into the Cabinet As provincial Secretary and he was also Given the Telephone on the resignation o Dun Ning took the portfolio of agriculture until a new minister was appointed a Resolution passed at a labor meeting in Regina a retesting against the conviction of the Winni Peg strike leaders and demanding their was telegraphed to for he immediately wired Back from Ottawa that he believed in securing improvements or reforms by constitutional Means and that there not in with the Reso Lution and would not associate him self with it in any the mail and Empire thinks that if the policy of the Manitoba gov ornament in regard to Rural credit societies is copied by other prov inces the consequences for the chartered Banks May be it says the advancing rate for Money Means hardship to cooperative Cre Dit enterprises based on a Low in Terest and the Manitoba governments Effort to evade the con sequences is not but if the open state pay per cent where will the innovation end All the need and hate j o via to from the Golden books him to go what was extend rightly was that he would not try to keep others from going to the trenches and that is precisely what he tried to a time when Pasch Endale had decimated the Canadian when Ludendorff was thundering near the suburbs of and the cry was for and still More to Stem the German King fought with All the Power that he could summon the Only policy that could answer that canticle William Griffith devoutly Oak wherein the barred owl stares the Little feathered Forest Folk Are praying sleepy praying the summer to be Long and drowsy to the and daily full of Sun and that broken Hopes May praying the Golden age to stay until the whippoorwill appoints a Windy and hurries from Armenia All talk of Canada assuming a mandate for Armenia is absurd it is hard to imagine How it could have lord the Brit ish foreign has been care Ful to explain that he is not responsible for there will be a readers notes books Are a finer world within the world i failing America no mandatory for Armenia none of the other great Powers Are prepared to add this to other responsibilities and the Burden is too great to toe accepted by any second class Power Jast either in Europe or the supreme Council suggested some there is in the new apocalypse and other War poems gathered to Gether in a Book of remembrance of Days and deeds in some verse which puts Logan in the enviable catalogue of Soldier it is a slight but fully half a dozen poems ill it Are As Good As anything yet written by his com those which Appeal to me Are lads a soldiers the Vesper Bells of the remembering let there be laughter and the title poem the new 1 can not do better than quote from from the last named when marched Forth through Picardy not pleasant Picardy of Yore the spectacles f saw in Picardy in Picardy despoiled by War were not alone the wastes i thought would nor Only deeds i should but i beheld in in on what May not be on Earth again the forms of Faith and Hope and Charity walk close with death in 1 think lie Means death to Signi a i Flag for can adar pfc to the editor of the read interest Furedi trial of april entitled a Flag for de signs for a Canadian on the advice of the editor of the weekly sent similar designs to the Secretary of state on the 25th of i received a letter in re ply stating that the Union Jack is the National Flag of All his allow to make a few franchise act the proposed amendment to the franchise act giving wives and Chil British subjects the right to vote As having become British subjects by operation of by marriage or birth would appear to completely subvert the clause in the by election act of last this act provides tha tall alien born women who Are the wives of British subjects before they can must personally appear before a judge of the District court and secure from him a certificate that they Are qualified to take out naturalization papers where such Are required of the qualifications of naturalization which must be met by alien born men and unmarried women include five years residence in the country and an adequate knowledge of English or the if carried and it is a government measure has the red tape virtue that it will bring the franchise act and the Jas Tuialii nation act into line with one an other under Tho naturalization act the alien born woman becomes automatically naturalized by virtue of her husband taking out the Neces the practical sary time ago to the Council of the league of nations that it might As sume this task but this response in the absence of any Assur Ance that it can command armed forces at the Council has very wisely the As the Londo times must not tie made the dumping ground for problems which the great themselves have not the Power or courage to it is now announced that an indie pendent armenian state brought into the of this will no the exist ing armenian Republic occupying territory which formerly belonged to will be nucleus its Borders tended to take in at turkish Armenia and i in a port on the Black this state ally recognized by the and it will receive h will be sex least part of will be give will be form Ereat Powers up in setting up presents itself that under in Cut presen such a provision the franchise of his nation will be upon Only alien born women who May have resided a Short time in Dominion and who May not know the All the unspeakable horrors of the t remembering Christ is a prayer for every anniversary of armistice Day As the Day comes again and again Vesper Bells is a vivid piece and a before the Village was sacked and the Church the Soldier poet would hear far off these Chimes of peace which soothed my soul with perfect what times went Down to the death Girt and walked in carnage through the War lit 0 Vesper Bells of i hear you chiming still this Orison dear maker of the starry Light of believers redeemer of be near us who thine Aid 1 have Given Only the English Ren Dering of the latin if i had space i should quote the next stanza with its picture of the weary Soldier for a while the Bells pealed out a the poem is addressed to Church in lads laughter is a reverie on Vimy Ridge beside the poet As lie the Shell swept there moves the serried ranks of those Golden boys Sung by Kather Ine and a score of Brown buoy remarks on your a Blue held with stars would re semble too closely the flags of Australia and new while stars in a red Field would be Grous and in White viewed from a distance i might appear As if the Flag had been accidentally another objection is that there Are stars on and on the nags of Many of Tho South american the Plain White Cross flags a and c the sym Bol of Faith and is also shown pm the standards of Denmark and but in other respects the enclosed designs Are quite and any one of them can be easily distinguished from the flags of other nations land would stand out clearly against itch april live designs re ferretto above show the Flag quart ered by it in two of the designs Tho Cross is White in one White in one Blue on a in the fifth solid in All the designs the Union Jack is m the upper Quarter of the Flag next the in two designs the Field 01 the Flag is in two and in the it is quite possible that the schoo teachers of Manitoba would Havasi been a Long time without something like a respectable salary if they hot gone out and told the country what Strong no eyes save ghostly Light behold the of that Bright with me they swing along by Day with me they bivouac at it is a laughing battalion National administrators but the duty of defending itself against the kurd to the South and nation Alist turks to the West will test Pri i i Marily upon the armenians which comforts him in the bloody that for he hears the this be a comparatively Rej a turreted in with the grandiose scheme of a great Armenia the Caspian j to the Black sea and from the Black o before the r might sea the med Herra preferred in not be enfranchised if require ments remained As for by elections s not machinery is provided r such women to secure the cer of or us Tif Cate which entitles them to Lave names Region he voters Hei r names Patent economist they could be s much less burdensome to the pubic he scientific measures of both needed pc session of the taxpayers who will know what to do Clark As Leader or cars absence from Parlia through during budget which is fore shadowed in Ottawa will be a matter of regret to the Cana Dian people but they will of inter ested to note his place As Leader of the National progressives is to be taken to Michael As a private Clark has Al ways been an unrepentant and a terrified free trader fullest sense of thai term Lut he will now begin to feel the hamper ing effect of a responsibility which lakes Hira the exponent not Only his own but also of the of a it is evident All three parties in parliament afe in favor of a Tariff and the differences Between them Are those of degree and does and is quite As Wall ale to Nav for of formal pledges to maintain and defend existing school with its guarantees of canadians nation of the rising Gen the Willis oration in had nothing to whole he ignored the the turks renounce the Sultan the turkish nationalist movement in Anatolia under Mustapha Kemal Pasha is taking the form of a re silent on the school Issue the Leader of the provincial his address on monday night to his political associates in this confined his re upon the educational issues to a complaint against the policy of the department in obliging country school districts to engage second class teachers and pay them a living whereas opinion third class teachers with limited professional training would do just As it was not a very Happy argument to address to a City audience and it it is to fall on equally unresponsive hearers if made elsewhere in the the country needs goo ounciation of the authority of the we Are apparently wit Issing the initial formation of a stages in the new turkish under a now this revolt of he turks themselves ought to Deal he final blow to the theory of the sultans Sanctity As the temporal and spiritual head of the moslem world which has been much cited lately As a Rumor is circulating at Ottawa that the Board of Commerce is to go out of the truth of this is in but it is a fact that the Board has not been heard from much there May be some fresh material to add to the evidence of survival by those who survive the moving spree in on May Telephone girls in Winnipeg have commenced to Wear aprons at their does this mean a movement Back to the More or less Good old Days when woman place was the Kitchen two railways have been fighting for the right to locate in certain i perhaps this is an indication that Western Canada is working Back to the piping Days of peace when we used to build a railway a military slacker in Franca evaded serving his country toy spend ing four years in an old the gentleman should be brought out to Canada and Given As an expert on the housing South Africa first Germany Capetown despatch to times in the Ontario was the representation brought lip in question of larger representation Foi cities was the that the Drury expressed the opinion this phase of the question was Dis Tinct from that of proportional re which he described As a method of but the leaders of and conservative argued for the principle of representation toy Ferguson contrasted his own con which has a population or with other election divisions having one member for the prime master upheld the hitherto sanctioned by the old of Al Igns Rural constituencies a smaller unit of though he did not defend existing a Dewart the literal suggested that any changes should await the result of the Federal Cen sup remier Drury Promise in to appoint jul it pay the High Market what if they All go in for savings Cellec setting up in Busi Ness the Manitoba government urges that it is not seeking to inter Fere with the chartered Hanks Busi Ness and that the amount collected will be relatively but there is in the innovation the seed of pos sible developments in Western when a Bill proposing by election act born is Only what is required of the alien or naturalization Winch born Man or must precede his enfranchisement he stand entirely from the int of the politician it the stand Point that the bringing of the calling for a Hose lines would involve consider of the problems and the opinions Otine the franchise toy the committee in the United of which Gerard is chairman and this Armenia shown on the is by this committee makes a sued but it would have no Fine display of surviving unless the United states or some other great Power were prepared to assume very great responsibilities on its More compact a with a population almost completely May be Able to make its if the armenians have any capacity for of that act of that act the naturalization looking backward soldiers shrine is the tenderest poem in the the fighting Man has two one the heart of her he loves with a pure though it is very re Calls lock arts Beautiful the other shrine is the Wayside and thither Oft i steal Kneel penitent and Christ Grants divine and Mary Grace benign and John his tender then there is the spendthrift of the greater a Welcome Home to the s5th is ova Scotia to the officers and gentlemen of the it is the last phrase that pleases the poem sin this Little Book Are not i speak of those Only which seemed to me to be by far the but de the Bookman Western Canadas oldest and beit Somerset Winn pen Friday three big Days of our annual Bop Sale our financial year closes on Friday evening and we desire big so you can spare any Money for books bring it along and secure some of the the big table has been gone Over and Sale prices further out to insure rapid the of books on the table today is almost limit dont Overlook those Little volumes of the classics in half leather almost being Given away at 35 cents per there is a wonderful of childrens books for All Small big sets and lots of Good Stock up now for summer Days in the please note As our financial year closes with fridays will All Good friends who owe us any Money Call in or mail their cheques today or thanks forty years ago the steamers Adelaide and mar Quette in operation on the Assiniboine and red due Erin Park Cricket club reorganized or the reason under the presidency of with1 Fisher As Secretary treasurer and s Jackson member of the exec Tiye has before to to the is Oun the Premier Drury said that the argument for it under certain conditions seemed Al most the adoption most Una of proportional he of he would mean a legislature of groups such a group system meant that the House itself must take More responsibility for which was a wholesome he would be pleased to Grant Hill said under present conditions the people were not prop erty As an illustration of prospects in South Africa which thirty years ago today1890 their was general complaint of the mail Burlington watch 21 jewels exclusively sold on easy terms from our own 338 Portage thirds of the he Vas against yet he represented of nations endeavouring to Embarrass general Smuts by the dilemma that if the league would protect the in Thea the British Empire j Iii Oil a reason Why the Shoukal be of in Possession of Useto Thenton Gen Ott Awain the o r Assirio Onia is in no danger politically and attacks that Tor ism May make Woon him in the or says the but the won him in the to he african and the it of been Well maintained article 15 of the covenant were broken and Only under very narrow Spe ofal the he 1 that the playing the game the Victory of the Falcon hockey Tea of Winnipeg Over Al Comers at the olympic tournament at Antwerp is a matter of Pride for All Cana of South african to and for Winnipeg people is the representing of enem in Nan have Deni protests from South s the germans is Worth quoting the underlying attitude Tion lists remains the Dominion of have of nitrated to the the stuff of which Young canadians Are the Success of the Falcons will be a matter of unusual gratification to Canadian citizens of icelandic birth or descent for the boys who won this High Honor for Canada Are prac All of the vigorous Norse which is showing remarkable of i teachers quite As much As the City strength and virility in its new Home the germans n becomes the object from forces on Hill insidious than the choleric Stan Pat ters parliament is strewn with the wrecks of representatives when fhe first came were stalwarts s Independence and Public the Independent members course is of reset with Shoals of of sociability and the flesh it of Egypt it a great thing o be a member of parliament still to Tea the on the ear e the build Taylor and efforts of a Best Man govern met with disc our ministerial elect Over t members of that the unionist such disappearing Sucha of the1 f israels port co mems Eva Booth visited real appeals Lor the worlds Trade worlds finances have and it is of that both be is rapidly As lot be served Ereat Foitek Noni Acial government Al Tyrna Tivel a Noni Acial Inch would build up on the common ideals cherished by Jameson and Smartt in the ten of All Public men who had to do with the conduct of the War and of the peace Ijoyi George is about the Only june who lid at of cents per to birthday congratulations to sir John Eaton Toronto musical an be j a Coyle insurance Dublin april Balcom a tense inspector april shirts for the businessman 3 i shirts for the business we because the Are stripes that you see the Man affairs nearly he chooses them for the Rea son that they give the Best and launder like we advise the Purchase of shirts Portage business accounts the Complete banking facilities provided at All our branches enable this Bank to business accounts the care and attention 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