Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 22, 1920, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 17 to 30 Freedom of Liberty of Equality of civil rights december printed and Priblla slim Manitoba free press a Johst Stock company incorporated under tie of at its Fread office and place at 300 Carlan in of president and general registered ibo Genera Post for tie mails in the British Isles at Inland Revenue j appointments to our courts tie two letters on tie Appeal to the which appear on Tius should together for one is corrective the other among the Ransons for the continuance of the Appeal the claim that i to utmost practicable Way to escape the consequences of own failure to provide ourselves with a first rate supreme court is the least the form of oui supreme court is entirely within the control of Dominion its character is dependent upon the Choice which is made by the Dominion government when the duty devolves upon it to make appointments to that out of the Legal Talent of Canada a supreme court capable being 9 Nal court of the nation can be created is a statement which be if we have not such a court the faults upon us and the remedy is in our own in the supreme court act with respect to the representation of to which both correspondents make was intended to soothe the susceptibilities of Quebec which offered vigorous resistance o Tao creation of the Quebec feared that its Peculiar institutions would differ at the of a court which include members with the Laws and customs of the province and this provision was inserted to quiet these the does not stipulate that these judges from Quebec must profess the roman Catholic if in its application this has been its the rests not upon the but upon the if the country lost the services of As stated by our correspond from it was because the prime minister of the Day had not sufficient courage to resist sectarian that pressure of this kind should be applied is discreditable that it should be successful is but the remedy is prime ministers and ministers of Justice who make these appointments Are servants the Public Public opinion refuses to tolerate upon religious or racial grounds they will cease to be let is face the evil and fight it As our correspondent pro privy Council appeals question discussed from different standpoints by two correspondents to the it floor of tie free of the reasons put for Ward by some of the Legal profession the privy As Bur ultimate court of Appeal is that appointments Toomir judiciary have those est fitted to Dis charge the Wen judicial alas the charge has sometimes been too but is it in any Way an answer to the plea Canada should be self contained judicial Lyas she is in legislation and the Leader of the Canadian of was pre pared to make personal and financial in a High sense of Public and accept a judgeship on the supreme court when each of the last two appointments jurists were whatever qualifications these gentlemen bad for the neither of then j their Fried ids would claim that then qualifications in any Way matched those of but in the last at any the was Lafleur was a protestant in do protestant could be appointed is to be noted that the court of chief ustice and five Puisze total i Zaferee with professor Smith that fully How important the Power of interpretation of Laws really and he proceeds and refers to the a court sometimes Jias in interpreting a statute and says the problem be Tore the judges is More commonly hat of applying the statute to some state of facts which the legislature Las failed to in such a Case court has simply to make the appeals in support of their Conten How can we they to restrict our appeals to a court where fitness is not the recommendation for but collateral considerations of fraternal association connections or what May exclude from appoint ment the Man universally recognized As Best these they bin to leave it alone and then seek to Dodge the consequences by do not affect appointments to the relying upon outside Agency to do the services for us that we refuse tribute to English to provide for is a cowardly evasion of a Plain j it by con As for the emotional portions of Bulocks we Trust he will in com it is a serious charge against Pardon us if we decline to take them he is very serious about past Dominion but is this but to us the argument that Canada decides to have her own courts right answer we should interpret her own she is going to destroy the sentimental relation which is the Bond of appears to be really build the Best mall the report of the City Council meeting of monday night shows that Progress is being made in connection with the the information As to the Cost of the straight and the Diagonal malls has been placed before the and the committee an works has Given the alternative proposals full consider the subject is being estimate Cal at its full value by the and when it comes consideration at the special meeting on thursday the chances Are that a Choice will finally be and that the Choice will be based on the proper this is All to the it would a civic tragedy i the Mali were sidetracked into oblivion or killed1 in selfish Tina Frenow seems fairly is not going to the augury is fair that Winnipeg will have the the committee on works is to be commended for resisting the threats of interested parties who Are seek ing to bulldoze it into recommending their favored the Burden and responsibility of the Choice is on the City Council has to answer for it not Only to the present citizens of but also to and if it diffs not Reet it decision on the considerations which Are for the whole the Council will be held blame both now and this is what tie councillors have to Wop in their minds when they indicate their the of property owners will receive All due lint the decision must rest on a broader basis than that the deter mining Factor in the Choice must not be that some particular scheme fits in better with somebody front use Linos the mall is to be a great Tyty Avenue it become one of great something unique in and to weaken its architectural or distort it o Saccom Molaie private interests should not weigh the whichever scheme is is the scheme to a Century from now the mall should stand As a the Crea Tive ability and artistic insight of is Winnipeg Peers who Are now Liv if it is botched now the harm irreparable if it is done wh1 Stoml out in the future As Wie of the Host things this Genera Tion of citizens has Over the private interests who Are so exercise a Over their conjectured in jets Are too when they show that the erection of such a their Best consideration on thurs Day and As the details involved in the alternative schemes Are before and the works com Mittee will be prepared with its re the Choice of the Council based on All the in the and with the real and lasting grandeur of the Enterprise fully before their an object lesson the British elections showed1 the weakness of the old sys tem of voting As compared with the single transferable vote in Vancouver liberals out of a Tion therefore no protestant of que Tine to take our appeals to Lowlon if one of the leaders of the Mani Toba bar such As Isaac or Isaac Pitblado were prepared to accept a How absurd it would be to suggest that because there was or was not a an a roman Cath Olic or a Baptist on that should not or there be a Indian a roman Cath Olic or a Baptist appointed instead of such eminent it could not be thought it would bring our Bench Anid our government into no sane ruthenian or Baptist would suggest and yet that is the condition that the advocates of trans Alan tic appeals propose Supi Nely to encourage so far As sup reihe court appointments surely the enlightened Way to Deal with these things is to they shall no longer pass and strive to extirpate the Root and in the highest and All other court appointments in this if catholics in Quebec we have two judges appointed from que Bec protestants do not constitute half or even a Quarter of the Popula total of five of the six members for the the with some elected one and the labor and Independent vote of got no while under they might have got one Mem the result in Vancouver was due partly to the fact that the City was organized As one Large constituency and the electors if they vote for the ticket of any the constituency of Newcastle was another Good four candidates Ranfor tie one a minority of votes elected Sam the in Complete returns the constituency were Given As follows 651 462 362 the immediate property injures Noble Avenue in Vicinity of t they Wil 1lve recourse to the of their on the build los of the Mali must not injure any it is Tor the Benefit of the Odd of the but neither is it advantage any one Section the citizens by property improve which go into favored Pri such actual loss As e mall causes private individuals naturally fall to be taken care v the but to permit the to become a Mere device for or estate great Warit is about time they were putting it to better use than to the destruction of the trouble with the spirit of Christmas is that there Are people who Are Able to Malco it last the year s leave a loaded gun lying around and somebody is almost to get in front of the by accidents values is perhaps thing it important not to the outstanding Points Are As Fol build the build the 581 and Divide the building equitably among All the the aldermen Bee shall be appointed to tie supreme court such View should not be allowed to if Ruthenia is i Manitoba should say there Are eleven High court judges in Mani Toba we have Over on eleventh of the so we must have a ruthenian on the High court such View should not be allowed to nor can the methodists or 3aptists or roman catholics or Odd Fellows or pythian be allowed re presentation on the Bench on any grounds of membership in their or it is recognition of these sectarian and factional demands that is objected and rightly objected to by these advocates of privy Council a but the remedy propose is the proper remedy is not to ignore the cancer but to establish the principle common sense and experience with ability for and Clear expression should be the criteria of and the Roar with the highest qualify lotions should be appointed whatever his views on re so Rendfe or Kindred mat the supreme court is merely the top of our judicial abuses existing in appointments to will exist in appointments though perhaps not so painfully Manifest As in the Case mentioned if the abuse is to be it will have to be abolished supreme court appointments Are not going to be in Abad category and other Judi Cial appointments in right they Are All made by the same body the blight or the Bloom will with a greater or less degree of uniformity to All judicial appointments if supreme court and other appoint have been made on a wrong if the evil what shall it profit the nation1 to run away leave the evil untouched shut our eyes to the supreme Paes it say we will go Toth privy Council and the soul of the nation will be the will go to the because we Are too Craven to fight the evil we but aimlessly Energy necessary to carry on another permit it to in fact rather gleefully set evil As a bul Wark to support an ancient National How could such a nation expect to retain National status and an inde pendent voice in the league of nations it would be surprising if our bar were to accept the ignominious and ignoble role of sponsor for such reactionary or invertebrate views or regard with complacency the Triumph of factional and sectarian interests and consequent National Degener Guthrie socialist Fraser Hawthornwait Akbor Bickle Soldier it is believed under Guthrie would have been Defeated of a combination of the voters sup porting Fraser and Hawthorn a hint was not As Good As a kick to the railway commission on the rates the government had better try a Bishop at fears another War the last if the nations have Money and the league of nations is a reality with a programme arranged and machinery set up to do the the worlds task today is to improve the not to throw Sand into the gears that is if the world is sincere in its professed desire for s according to the United states Secretary of pro ducts in the United have lost 33 per of their value Between planting time and november per hips there is no class that has been harder hit than the Farmers try the fall in the partner has o Good Deal of reason to Greece has turned round and bit the hand that fed for her own in the result one can see what in his mind effective representation it does it that Quebec has in favor of roman catholicism an entrenched impregnable if by any Chance there should sit on that Bench another Edge of the roman Catholic Faith who was nominated from outside of the province of the roman catholics would have an effective representation of three out of six members on tie supreme court by the Way May i ask if there has Ever been a protestant appointed to the supreme court of Canada from Quebec i believe something wrong in this is there not if an Appeal to the privy Council s done away with then there will be n All matters brought before the court of Canada effective for the province of Quebec in the proportion two out 3f six and sometimes perhaps three out of six is this balance quite right Canada wants an impartial final court of in there is no effective represent a very striking illustration of How he doctrine of effective adm Nistra Ion is enforced is to be found in a straight Deal Blowen Wister lately our Alaska Boundary waa n to quote j As Oregon had former so Alaska had later a grave source of friction Between England Canada claimed boundaries in Alaska which we Dis a commission to i Settle the Natter Dawdle and Roosevelt was tired of com missioners again were three two and lord chief to re present to his jus ice Oliver Wendell about to sail for an English Roose velt wrote a private letter privately to be shown to Chamberlain and certain Lother eng Ishmen of he said the Laim of the canadians for Access to deep water along any part of the coast is just exactly As in d now Sud Canada had objected to oar commissioners As being not impartial jurists of is to letter to Holmes ran on i believe that no three men in the United states could be found Juho would be More anxious than our own delegates to do Justice to British claim on All Points where there is even a color of right on the British but the objection raised by certain British authorities to Root and turn especially to Lodge and was that they themselves on the general no Man in Public life in any position of prominence could have Possi by avoided committing himself on the propose More than Chamberlain could avoid committing himself of the ownership of the Orkney if some to the editor or the free Appeal to the privy one1 tie of is Nav be ing fiercely and persistently one often wonders i suggest that with this tie broken one More Bond of Union of our great our protestant be the Appeal to the privy Council is a demand of Empire and that demand must be can there be stronger reason for retain ing this Appeal than in the address of professor Herbert Smith which appears in your Issue of the St who says in first place it May be pointed out that got an effective representation of French judges on the it is not specially represented in the privy i wondered what this effective re presentation was and iwas certainly surprised when on re Ajang the off Tyerne court act Fouat Juthe follow ing entry intend to the subject own provisioning at least two of the Sake it is to be hoped that she is judges shall be appointed from among now in a position to look after her the court of Kings or of the Superior court or the barristers or advocates of the province of que Golden books Ore a finer world within the the first annual dinner of the Stevenson club misreported inthe who first met in made the principal Gosse did not Enow in All the history of English literature of an author being so honoured within 70 of his the club has acquired the 8 Howard where Stevenson november 10 but they cannot get Possession it is hoped that he late lord Guthries valuable col Section of Stevenson Ana will be housed in the meantime the whose membership 600 s drawn from All parts of the is collecting Many items of its Gosse said that there were went five members remember though in most cases their recollections were ver defensible As if they Shou Denly claim the Island of scandinavian country suddenly claimed if this embodied other Points to which there was legitimate i believe Chamberlain rely in de be appoint in All these ild not sex if he could who believed that As to the Orkney the question was would act fairly and Soua Riding the matter but if de a commission to Settle i certainly Sho pet him to appoint three in open i wish to make one Las these books Effort to bring about an agreement through the f there is a disagreement but i shall take a position will pre vent any possibility of arbitration hereafter will Render it necessary for Congress to give the authority to run the line As we claim by our own without any further regard to the attitude of eng land and if i paid attention to Mere abstract that is the position i ought to take i Nave not taken it because i wish to exhaust every Effort to have the affair settled i peacefully and with due regard to is the Way Todo these things not by peremptory Public like Olney to which enrages a whole people and makes tem Perate action doubly but a private letter to fhe pro per very very Unis but which remains a sufficient word to the and not a red rag to the to have the affair settled peacefully and with due regard thus England desired no War with us this any More than at the other the commission went to investigating the decided in our favor effective that the Way to do he look at our Alaska poor of eng land poor old this be part of very extensive propaganda car ried on of Rome against the Rome works continually on Caesars principle of Divide etim Pera disintegrate your opponents forces and you to Day is the time of All times to consolidate and strengthen our Empire of which we Are no mean pro Fessor Smith the strength of sentiment is indeed by no Means to a i sentiment is no Fanean Are you going to hoist the Flag of an Independent a the Union Jack was and Al ways will be Good enough for its Only a Small bit of its Only an old coloured yet thousands have died for its an shed their Best blood forthe you May say its an old bit of bunt you May Call it an old coloured rag but Freedom has made it Majestic and time had ennobled the that my is it not yours j Redford conducted from the Choc go Dally Newa some of the liquor one sees timing moved about the streets goes in a distinctly Zigzag a ought to Worl from the Tork Chile and Sweden have formed an offensive and defensive see ing they Are Only Miles apart and never see each it out first sinecure Angeles int it about for president de Valera to begin to work for a second term presi denting for ire land in dear old America is fairly we s was born on that holy George Mac Donatil they were All looking for a King to slay their foes and lift them High thou a Little baby thing that made a woman Oson to right my lot i Agency on whose behalf ments made has not seen its adopt the use of the h was also found that the experiments caused interference with other and for present the trials have been sus a difference fro the Dayton journal j naught but thy presence can Avail i yet on the Road thy wheels Are not j i nor on the sea thy sail l 1 j f v Lily in i Tuii my How or when Wilt not Parous citizen of his Amoun Tih a Holdup Man in Western pity the other after retin ving a but thine that thou Mayst answer All my 11l i ii 111s 1 own secret 9 handed Back every bygone theres the for real Dieter ses Furbank Shahray rental and insurance Avanna sa5 t t forty years ago today 1880 the masonic degree of Knish to Rome of the red Cross of Constantine was instituted in the was a unpopular badly nipped by the East wind of Edinburgh which searched for the consumptive most delicate and vulnerable Gosse said that very few por traits gave any idea of Bis personal most of them for one his hair was at did not he emphasize this in his chronicles of Fontainebleau a writer in the scotsman says that portrait is that by count this writer counts the Book on Stevenson at Vailima by moors As Ivalu moors greatly differs the average and he his marriage was no help to him Eilor As artist or As certainly who wrote the strange the Faith Robert Louis Steven u it among the recipients of the honors p in the the Extension of the provincial boundaries 100 Miles further i West to Hudson i local interest was Manifest As to the features of the agreement with i the Syndicate for the construction of the thirty five years ago Johnston and miss Rosina Buettner were Gordon Andrews Church celebrated the fourth anniversary of the pastorate of and among those taking part in the programme were and City was related by the local Board of under medical College Stu dents hold their annual Ami among the guests were doctors is of that As i Bianchard and but Stevenson came application at Ottawa for an unusually Good her sister has presented an exceedingly attractive picture of her in the interesting biography published last the Vic president of the Steven son club is the Lauchlan Mac lean who contributes the Lead ing Stevenson contribution to literature and in i the december Watt Points out three simple but important facts concerning him and our Esti mate of plus Bis birth family inheritance and Early environment the Scot loves his own country no matter How coldly or even Scur Vily it May have treated the Hills and the sea and the Gray the Scot is essentially he May argue with the creeds and the Shorter but the stuff of the atheist is not the Scot is gods own he might give Points to the wandering no nation has sent Forth More the children of no other race have looked More strange the incorporation of tile Ontario and Manitoba railway from port Arthur to across Rainy thirty the Strevel Terrace Donald places and though the Scot Inay not Tell he loves her while he is yet wheat far away nothing but death itself silences his talk of her and we Long was like his touch he cried in and you will find a o for ten Edinburgh six Pence Between us and the eve Glori Ous Lothian and dear mysterious Leith though conserva Tive in politics and loved Freedom As he loved children and this Fine old Man used to Stop Little look at say Tut ton should read just what you like to that that is precisely what Bis son once on a Highland the famous scottish Sam looked into this lads face and where the Devil did you read All Watts keen estimate of the essays greatly arrives to use one of lambs thought and said when i first read Al together this is one of the very bust sentiment a sense in in his Xmas Camp fire in this Van Dyke prints let Ter from a Canadian Soldier who is recalling Xmas in the the a Canadian Flag to the editor of the free press Reading your editorial comment this morning on the subject of a Flag and the suit ability of the North Star a an pm i would like to express my Hearty concurrence with your land of the North peer among proudly thy sons will their heritage bearing on High the Bright Banner of Blue from above with its spangles of j Rich Are thy Fields and thy mines beyond Laden Grain vast treasures of Ore sturdy the blazed out the worthy the land which they dared to emt Olem of Hope in of guiding the world in the struggle for Nee let oppression our motto Dis drag Down our Banner or Darken its 17 i wolfes lost prom the Quebec chronicle under the wolfes lost a writer current number of Chamberss journal writes about the scotsmen who remained in Canada after the fall of Quebec and married French and he tells again the Story of their Gallant defence of that sixteen years later in the american these called to the colors from their farms responded to the number of Twenty one officers and two Hun dred and seven no bad Muster after sixteen years of hoi for getting French wives of doubtful he says that but for these speedily called in to action by sir Guy there is not a doubt stars and stripes would float from the Rio Grande to Baffin land itis the last time tha wolfes High Landers appear As fighting in the the lost fifteen men and the americans lost i four it was the decisive Battle for Empire in and it was highlanders who turned the fortunes of they Are devoted to the arts of peace in town and and Are racially by the their surnames Only remaining this All speaking the French they but every trait and the in hesitance of who saved can Ada for Street was and the first tenants to move in were Bian Chard and Basket weaving was introduced in the utilizing gathered along River Grain dealers and Iron workers Granite Curling rink indulged in a j Friendly game in which the former were Vic skipped the winning also including Thompson and while the loser were Erb land years ago Amon the officers elected by ban Ner were Gor lower and benches of the Law society decided that it would be inexpedient to establish a downtown of the Council of 1876 met for an informal of and it Wajs decided to increase the number of standing opening senior hockey match of the season was sensational in second when some players evidently lost their and severely slashed each Twenty years ago Carl t Stewart and of Winni passed civil service prelim Inary arrangements were completed for a to be the returning soldiers from South municipalities North of the main line on the government and asked that a railway be built northward from Brandon to accommodate the country lying Between the and More immigrants needed from tiie Vancouver what Canada needs is without an enormous increase in the number of she cannot Hope to meet easily her vast War debt and to surmount rapidly the other econ Omic difficulties which have accumulated during the past few what is the Dominion government doing there is room for suspicion that the Federal agents in great Bri while presenting an appearance of Are in reality rather than the flow of in much emphasis is apparently being placed on the finality of those to whom assistance will be Given to come across the while the question of getting them in suf Licien numbers is being left in the agents also would seem to be spending an undue amount of time explaining what they Are going to or in the Dominion govern ments policy in As in so Many other creates the impression of lacking Machin Ery goes through the but Doest wireless telephony for news service statement by the British postmaster general in a series of experiments were recently made to test the feasibility of distributing news messages from a Central distributing station by Means of wireless the general result of the experiments was sat so far As audibility of speech was concerned owing to the rate transmission the necessity for frequent and to the fact that the messages could be easily the news ail doctors know what a 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