Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 7, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 17 to 32 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg Friday mat 7, 1920 printed and published the ?.ianltoba free company limited. A joint Stool company incorporated the Laws of its office and place of business 302. .104. Sec Street in the City of Manitoba. E. Jul Mac Kiln president and general items cited the Genera Post off Tco in Mon. For . Through the mulls in the British Isles at Inland Revenue rates. A Reader s notes from this suggested cremation. Interest ourselves in the fight j of agriculture but a Man with wide s eneral knowledge and having a. Vision of the necessity of having All branches of agriculture adequately represented and taught. If a Western Canadian with executive experience can be secured so much the better but the Post should Only go to a Man who in addition to such training has a great fund of Energy and enthusiasm the College should be removed from the operation of the civil ser vice act. It would be quite As Sens Ible to give the civil service commissioner a say in the appointment of the teachers for collegiate institutes and technical schools As to invest him with authority Over the appointment a tips Tive and of professors in the agricultural col " lege. The control of these appoint ments does not properly come within the scope of. The civil service com Mission. These appointments should be made by the principal subject to the approval of Tho Board. It can also be said that Tho College will never do the work for which it always been understaffed and experimental and research work have been kept at the minimum. It is not remarkable under these conditions that it has not proved equal to Tho task of tackling and solving the problems which Are its special concern. Notes and comment opening the Gate to bilingualism an interesting and significant letter appeared i a recent Issue the French nationalist weekly published in this City Albert Prefontaine. Who was the Leader of the conservative. In the late legislature and is a candidate for re elect ice a supporter of or. Willis recently elected Leader of the Provin Jill conservative party. La liberte had criticized or. Prefontaine for having said during the discussion on the school question in the provincial con Rva Tive reported in the daily it would Bevel to leave the bilingual question in a line of policy which met with la liberte s Condo it said in its comment is being prepared and we ask our people to organize them serves for the Best possible result in the next election which takes within a few months the result which la liberte desires to achieve As it makes very Clear is the restoration of bilingualism old the school system which was abolished in 1916. The existing school Law is denounced in the article As affecting the Faith of our in the Neutral schools As Well As our National or Prefontaine in his letter to la liberte explains that the report in the daily press upon which the criticism was based did of my explain his position while he used the words complained about they were he Points out accompanied by qualifications Thich ready modified his attitude. Or. Prefontaine in his letter says say i should have protested against the violation of our rights this is exactly what i have done with the result that the proposition to destroy our last privilege was withdrawn. There is in the proposed programme of the convention a article says that English should have first consideration in All schools of _ that the Well being of the Provee and the future of our people demand that the educational facilities be so organised and the legislation so administered As to make certain that a thorough knowledge of English shall be an essential in elementary education in school in Manitoba if i am not mistaken that is what already exists. This article does not exclude the teaching of French in the schools but it says that the teaching of English shall dominate. But an Amend ment was presented to this article 3, which inferred that Only English be taught in the province. If i had done what you say i did the amendment would have passed unanimously. If i had left the meeting it would Only have lit the fire and amendment would have carried unanimously also i made remark that for too Long now they had taken political advantage of the bilingual question in certain papers at different places. I remarked it was not Wise to re open wounds which Are still bleeding. I was asked if i accepted article 3 in its original form and i answered that i certainly preferred to accept this article As it stood than have it altered to the Point where we lost everything. Then the Radical amendment which would have completely stripped us of our rights was with the applause of the whole Assembly. So the question stands where it was before. These Are the facts of what took place. I feel i did a Patri Otic duty which was necessary under the circumstances. If 1 had done otherwise i should be guilty of treason and i believe i have saved the teaching of French by keeping the question this letter needs no interpretation. It amounts to a statement that the platform of the provincial conservative party contains an educational Plank which does not preclude the re establish nent of. A bilingual system of instruction. An amendment was offered j restrictions were relaxed and the if adopted would have guaranteed the continuance of the present system by which English is the sole official language of instruction but this amendment or. Prefontaine explains was rejected at his instance. I says or. Prefontaine saved the teaching of French by keeping the question this statement by or. Prefontaine confirms in every particular the interpretation which the free press has placed upon the educational Plank in the platform adopted by the provincial conserva Tive party. It was drafted for the purpose of enabling advocates of the party to go into non English districts and declare that if the party is successful the bilingual privileges of the minorities will be restored. It is net Only in the French localities that this plea eels of sanitation and in training s soldiers the number of deaths from disease will be reduced to of development of modern simple messes. Hofler have i of warfare will shorten the Tor Canada h. Hudson s the. Book a the latest and one of the largest of this eminent writer s nature books. Much of it but not. All has appeared in British periodicals the fortnightly review the nation the times Chambers journal and others. Or. Hudson has ail his been a pail Lent and affectionate watcher of outdoor life. He beg an Twat Ching in and Long ago Tho title of his autobiographical Ever since his first the purple was published in the he has had ardent readers whose Nurnberg increase with every new one. Like Muir and Burroughs he is an empirical naturalist not in the least academic tout truly literary and imaginative and As responsive As a try poet. What he d Oes not know wild and Domestic creatures is not Worth knowing. The present volume has our Chap ters on the Serpent All full of in formation and of Charm three on the dog one of which will bring a Host of dog lovers about his ears. He also loves Doss but to would rid us of the and he would put us right about his if Jend the pig. The Toad the mole the was planned until it is j on less parsimonious lines. It has 1 entertains while it teaches. Yes Mary s Little the Little lady of the pampas under the staff is underpaid and outlays for i Southern Cross who owned the Lamb was named Mary and not Dorls or Doreen As in these Post Ilary Jane Eliza Beth times. The Lamb the shortage of print paper is for cing some of the american Maga Zines off the Canadian Market. It May not be an unmixed evil in the Long run. And now someone Lias come along with the theory that it must have been a profiteer who conceived the idea of a heaven with the streets paved to Viii Gold. Tit a the wage fixed at a Dollar an hour laying off for an hour will be come a serious matter for the Wolk the railway strike in new zealand is Over according to a despatch which deals with the visit of the Prince of Wales. The terms of the settlement do not appear to have been important enough to warrant the cattle Cost. . Machin of ice Nora has resigned the presidency of the on Tario Liberty league he says that As soon As used it is equally open to conservative candidates and their workers to Dangle before the eyes of the germans the poles and the Rel Henins. The Promise that in Exchange for their political support they can recover their special language schools. It is very important that the electors of the province should. 2mow these facts and should fully realize what they imply. If they do not exercise their Power to make its resurrection impossible we shall see the revival of bilingualism with All that it Means of illiteracy in the rising generation and the building ii of impassable racial barriers Between the elements of our population. A decisive verdict by the people upon the first occasion after the abolition of a Lingual ism in support of the Law As it now is will Settle this question for All time. This decisive verdict is highly and it is to be hoped it will be forthcoming. The agricultural College it is pretty generally understood at the minister of agriculture is 6 Manitoba agricultural College it it appears that the governing Ward has not been called together or As to the Man with whom Collations Are being carried on some members of the Board 1 said profess not to know that up have been opened Resard to a new principal. R. Necessity of securing a new Rraci pal gave an excellent oppor to reconsider the policy by operated once and forever representations have to the government from the College has been to separate it polities been toe to Are that Chan desirable. Res of this the College adequately performing the ror which u is to full the count i is not getting returns for the enormous sex i establish a. The Board and not the minister of Agri culture should choose the new Prin Cipal. It is not fair to Tho Man who May be engaged to the Board nor to the various agricultural and live Stock organizations and the alumni of the College which organizations have selected a Given number of the members of Tho Board As their representatives that the Board s part in so important a matter As the Choice of a principal should be limited to ratify ing a selection already made. Manitoba is at a critical time in her history. Her soil in certain sections has Boon depleted by injudicious farming. New methods will have to be adopted and mixed farming and increased Stock raising by essential to Progress. In common with All the Western provinces Mani Toba is also attempting the assimilation Large numbers of new settlers Many of whom Are unfamiliar with farming methods and Canadian conditions. Both new settlers and old have a right to regard Tho agricultural College As a source of inform g and carrying it j Tion and assistance in the solving of their problems As Well As an Educa which the Best results tonal institution for the training of members were Able to restock their cellars they lost All interest in league. So this is Liberty the the British not Tak ing any notice of a Resolution from the a s. Congress about the Irish question. But it is hardly Likely was a Mecl lobby and her fleece was literally like Snow toeing bathed daily. But eight dogs were kept on that ranch and after a time tha gentle creature became a canine Tomboy refusing to Ibe parted from the dogs and going with them on All Hunts enthusiastically leading the Way. When they lounged and slept she offered herself for a Pil Low. Another Story is a tame sheep which stole tobacco and books whenever the backs of the family were turned she was very Cun Jill or and exceedingly Swift leading them an exciting race. It would seem that the Shepherd is responsible for the Well earned adjective i was greatly interested in Tho chapter Beautiful Hawk time of the War and reduce tie amount of. Suffering and financial loss. Within a year Europe will be in peace again and in a few years will have recovered almost entirely from the effects of the War. It will not be s o terrible in another crisis like this. Nations will refuse to go to the proposed mall to the editor of the free press. Siviy i read with Minoh interest and pleasure your editorial in this s Issue of the free press re Hudson s Bay company. There is one matter in it however which a desire to Call to your attention and that is the question of the in that you appear to advocate the opening up of mall directly Lii Bush the Centre of the present site of. The Hudson s Bay company on Portage Avenue a project which so 1 Aras i am aware is strongly advocated Only by one person in Winni Peg and that one is a prominent official of the provincial government. As i understand the position of the provincial government it is quite de Stroud of having Tho mall opened up but and As i think very properly and wisely is quite unwilling to incur any expense in that connection beyond granting a right of Way through its Owr. Property for that purpose. Some years ago when this project was mooted to to exact in the years 1912 and Early part of 1913 certain estimates were obtained and the Cost of this ran All the Way from eight to twelve millions off dollars. Or. J. W. Harris then City assessor estimated Tho Cost at eight millions whiles the present proposition advocated by you As i understand it is not quite so formidable As this yet it would undoubtedly an expenditure upon the City of several millions of dollars and for that Rea son it for no other i think the project is impracticable and unwise. There is another feature of it How Ever which i desire to Call to your attention and i think the ratepayers of a Winnipeg should know. The mall As suggested would open up a Street beginning nowhere and ending no where. That is it would extend from. Broadway to Portage Avenue stopping for last summer during at Leas six weeks a strange and fascinating creature nearly As big As a humming Bird came every Twilight and flirted with the nicotine Blos soms. We watched for it. And i asked or. Gowanlock about it told me it was a Hawk Moth. In the English Spring or. Hud son walks in the sheltered places at both of these streets and for this plan can be worked out this proposition is objectionable. Fortunately there is another Way in which in could be worked out at a comparatively trifling Cost and plans to that erd have Roeii prepared As t understand the matter for submission to the committee of the Council and lost these Many dim and sorrowful years now i am afraid that most of us work a Day As we Are cannot recover that childhood lost yonder amid the wild the Mere trifling expense it would occasion would have All the advantages of the proposition advocated by you and in addition would place the 3iall" on. A through City thoroughfare connecting it. Up with the North end of the City. This would Malce a Cross City thorough fare about Midway Between the Donald Princess route and Arlington Street Whf of is the Only other Cross City thorough Fard we have in the City West of main Street. This alternative proposition would further More leave All the property owners including the Hudson s Bay company undisturbed and occasion no uneasiness dissatisfaction or prospective loss to any of the adjacent property owners. There is another matter which i think the Public should be apprised like the Public generally is willing to of at once and that is that Thia take the judgment of those compe from the Golden books. From it May toe we shall touch the Happy Isles and see the great Achilles whom we knew. Though much in taken much abides and though we Ai a not now that strength which in old Days moved Earth and heaven that which we Are. We one equal temper of heroic hearts made weak by time and Fate hut Strong in will to strive to seek to find and not to yield. Question should be settled and once for. All. As it stands this discussion is on the Hudson s Bay company i assume cannot and will not on with their Large construction. This same agitation in 1912 and 1913 prevented the company from going on with the erection of their stores on this Sito at that time. At that time the company was As i am credibly informed prepared and would have gone on and erected their stores but for the uncertainty which this agitation left them in. The War coming of afterwards effectually i stopped the work. The City there j fore has for seven years past lost the taxation which they would have had upon these building s but for this j agitation which probably by this j time has meant a loss to the City revenues from taxation alone of up wards of a million dollars. It can be readily seen therefore How important it is to get this matter cleared up at once to decide upon some feasible sensible reasonable plan and be done with it for All time. A i. Trust you will Pardon my trans Gressing upon your valuable space to i such an extent and with such a lengthy letter but Fie matter is off very great importance and i think the facts As set out Here should be known at once by every ratepayer in this City. A Winnipeg May 5. De. Note our correspondent in his letter assumes too much in representing the free. Press As Advocat ing any particular plan. There Are at least three different designs for the proposed mall the free press is not committed to any of them. It is while j tent to Loren a decision. If our Cor respondent has As he claims a plan just As Good As the others which will give us the mall for an expenditure of Only he is we should say the Man the Community is look ing i he fake Hindenburg prom the sctt York times Tho formidable and imposing per tonality of Hinsen Burr was nothing More than the full dress uniform in which the mind of a Oldendorff was forced to appear in Public. Flowers of the internal and by the Clear Swift Little River with its Pebb Bly Bottom. But or. Hudson is a naturalist and a poet whose youth is immortal once More with Spring s nevertheless we also fee of our belated Spring. Or. Hudson is persuaded that even to a Stock jobber a yellow Primrose brings a thrill. Would probably agree if the Stock jobber were not a. Stock jobber but. A simple Dalesman. But our author is magnanimous is As if he met a fairy like child in his walk who tossed Back her shining tresses at his approach to look up into his face with eyes full of we know it is so with or. Hudson in his Long solitary and Happy walks in Wilt Shire. The chapters on English wild Flowers and How he found them Are a Joy to read As indeed is every i chapter in the Hook of this True that the a s. Congress would take a j naturalist. Similar Point of View about a Reso Lution from the British. House of j commons on the Philip no question. A canadians Are toeing offered num the Bookman. Prophecy by an expert the Springfield Republican is mean enough to recall this prophecy by a military expert which appeared in the army and Navy j journal on Erous positions in connection with August 7, 1914, one week after the the league of nations. Perhaps the began the present War in Europe will ability of Tho Canadian to live al i not be the last War As Soine Are rash peace with his neighbors for by predicting. As Long As racial pre Tolian a Century has something to do with these Calls to serve the world in a larger sphere. Looking backward fuck ice exists and until there is uni Versal brotherhood wars will occur. The treaties that will be signed at the close of the War will last until the vanquished have gained sufficient strength to attempt to regain their lost Honor and territory. The War will be a Short and decisive War. More men May be killed in Battla but the percentage of the casualties ment buildings through to Portage Avenue in a slight Diagonal Oft the and entering Portage j Avenue at Colony Street. When the Hudson s Bay company purchased the present site on Portage Avenue it applied to the City to close that curtion of Graham Street which extended about half Way across its property. This Concession the City and closed that portion of the Street but As a quid pro the tr.3. Company deeded to the City a j strip 14 feet in Width on the East Side of Colony Street extending Rorri St. Mary s Street to Portage Avenue rather better than half Way Between Portage Avenue and Broadway and thereby making Colony Street so feet in Width for that distance. The plans show that this alternate proposition would Only mean a diversion if degrees from the perpendicular and would show up the magnificent of the parliament buildings to full View of All passersby on Portage Avenue quite As Well and As completely and in a Iuit As at Tractive and imposing a manner As in the proposition referred to in your editorial this morning. That would involve taking n. Narrow strip Oft the Wes elide of the present site of the Hudson s Bay company but would rot disturb that property in its present site and an estimate As i have been informed prepared by particularly in charge of the work Htit the probable coat Rould not exceed which would be a Mere Bagatelle in any event compared with the other pro position this alternative proposition would have a. Additional advantage that the mail then converge into Colony Street which would at a very trifling expense Bei projected North to connect with Isabel Street thereby opening up and providing another Cross City thoroughfare at that part of the City which would be pack out kind of be crowd you la find forty years ago the philharmonic society commenced practice for the production of sul Livan s comic opera Gow rescued three children from the River at Morris they were playing in a boat when the Craft drifted into new i hardware firm Horsman and com Pany opened out on main a new band stand Wase recited in the Vicinity of the Market and arrangements made for weekly open air concerts. Will be scarcely larger than in for i a very great Public Utility. Thia Mer years. Owing to improved meth i alternate proposition in addition to thirty five years ago a society was organized at Moose to furnish supplies and Lolor after the needs of the military hos Pital attached to the troops in the comrades of the late Lieut. Col. Kennedy with the 91st battalion decided to go into mourn ing for one children s Home removed at the Corner Hargrave s treets. To its new Quarter of Assiniboine and the mayor s suit the do secure from the co appointment of lege is by Strong Board their sons and daughters. It should control and supervise the Extension the government j service of the province and in order Tho a appropriation i that it May do this it should be gov e College and hand the Manase thirty years ago mayor Pearson received a Mes Sage from the Duke of Connaught that on his trip across Canada re turning from Japan stay would be Brief and would accept hospitality of Christian women s Union acquired five lots on the Corner of it Dermot and Lydia streets of which to erect a Refuge for Pulford w. A Dun bar and j. W. Larne were elected j elders of St. Andrew s Church. J Twenty five years ago j the Winnipeg Canoe club selected its club colors a ribbon with a White Centre and dark Blue and Bright red edges while the Flag to consist of a red Crescent and White Star on a Blue Lake of the Woods milling company awarded contracts to or. Stevens of Portage la for the erection of a number of. Elevators at different Points in the pro a meeting of the civic fire water and Light committee a discussion prevailed As to the desirability of the City acquiring its own lighting Plant. Bleat the governors and leave to Twenty years ago j. H. Bourgouin j. B. Ija Uzon. H. Elisier h. To. , Geo. Ger main and Rev. A. Al Cherrier were elected officers of the Winnipeg St. Jean Baptiste commissioner Harris presented the Rolls to the City Council showing a total assessment of and properly to the value of the appropriation. The warily an expert in any one special line cried by. A body of men and women wholly free from any form of political governors should supervision or control. In government Only j the College should have at its head ent of maintaining the col j a Man thoroughly alive to Western ree of efficiency and conditions and problems not Neces our mayor Gray the other Day to a free press scribe did say. That All the Money he had paid for two suits which we Hope won t was ten Bucks More than half of fifty which clothes he said were plenty nifty and urged upon All of the rest that they refuse to buy the the pretty girls upon the Street which Many men think look so Sweet the mayor s pose he spend too much dough on pretty clothes they carry their earnings on their the mayor states these Are the facts. The men he said Are just As but surely they not All mad because they try look As Well As others who Are very swell. For these men have to hold their jobs the mayor does to so we re told. The mayor buys the sixty kind for "thirty-five1.1 tout in his mind we. Think these suits abound for failed to see them round. The one he is surely shows How very Little our mayor knows about the real value of men s clothes. We gave oui Only vote to Lead the Council the Goat of men who do know How to dress and really now we must confess twill Pride if he should Wear this awful suit while in the chair. I the Best you know will last far longer the wools they re made from Are much stronger the workmanship on themis better which we have proven in. Our letter they re sewn with silk instead of thread. This of course you have often read the Hibberlin suit of life and ready further the mayor s suit we be shown is we. Hope he gets this through his head. Signed a. Morisey Story. Story Story for key Sec our advertisement on Burlington watch and everyone carried by an j owner proud i of it. Sold Riib it rom our own store 338 Rok Tage a Knob. Fit rite twin Pant suits with extra trousers Donegal Tweed. Tailored in two or three Button models. And when we say mean just that. You have Only to try a fit rite snit to see the difference. The Coats Lay. Snug at the Collar fronts al ways keep shape. In fact they Are real suits. Notice the Wool twill linings too. And with twin pants they Wear twice As Long As Ordinary. Priced very reasonable indeed. 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