Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 23, 1921, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section paces 13 to 24 Freedom of Trade Liberty of Equality of civil rights 1921 kit few com Piniy incorporated the office place of 30o la tie City at pm Dent Kcal Tutt the Oenema Post of flav for Tisish Willod thro Ort the to butt Revenue the Bank merger wonder if some folks dont wish of find been Good Little boys and gone to sundays Bool no new information has come from the East with reference to tie proposed merger of the merchants Bank with the Bank of Montreal matter in one which Norm Early will receive at an Early us of the new government and will be dealt with not Only with the in hic it but also under Normal circumstances a suggestion two of the Large Banks of Canada should be amalgamated would not be made All Bank Are aware of the which exists in thie country with Fere acc to further the present government of Canada has it cognized the existence of this sentiment when amalgamations have been has refused permission to allow the subject even to be i i m the Case of the Bank of has been exceptionally fortunate in its management for Many yearn there Are people in i Canada who Are of the opinion that it already occupies a sufficiently Large place in the financial Lite of the Dominion while they do not j desire in any Way to Check the natural development of that they i Iio not think it desirable to hasten its expansion through the absorption i any smaller even of the very smallest in it is Bald of the Bank of Montreal that it already occupies a larger place in the financial Lite of Canada than any other privately owned Bank j occupies in the life of any other it is said to be the largest i privately owned Bank in the world in proportion tote population of the country in which it whether this is True or it is certain i Iii at the Bank of Montreal without any is larger in i j proportion to population than any of the Banks of great anal larger i j Alpo than any of the Banks of the United where the system is quite i t different it is if it seemed desirable to reduce still further the number of Banks in this reduction might Ity tahe place by Tho amalgamation of some of the smaller not in such a Way that a very Large institution should become much when the merchants Bank asks owing to certain losses it should i permitted to throw in its lot with that of the Bank of it is i that tar people should desire information regarding losses sus i trained by the other Banks of no one is surprised that the i Icv cunts should have met with losses in the past two the period j has been Ati unprecedented one and nearly everybody has lost i thousands of people who were comparatively Wel Todo Are in j it is possible that there Are Banks in Canada which have actually lost i More in proportion to their resources than the the exact intent of these losses is not yet and from year to year in the lure they will be gradually written As this becomes in earlier years in the history of Canada periods of depression occur and financial institutions were compelled to take serious if history of the Bank of Montreal which is now More than one years is searched it May be found that it had its we Anions of difficulty and that at times provision to be made for very great depreciation in the value of in past years Banks met heavy losses and gradually wrote them off and if at the present time Banks Are meeting losses and Are preparing to meet them and write them off in future the question be asked Why the directors of the merchants should not take a Little l wore cheerful View of the it is admittedly contrary to the recognized policy of Canada and not j in the Genera Public interest that the fifth largest Bank in with of nearly should be allowed to amalgamate with the i largest Bank in with assets of Over in spite of Giese facts the application of the Bank no be considered at As has been not Only with the greatest but Ileo there be Many members of Par a Forward Limni watch policy a vigorous policy of selective immigrations expected to form a part of the programme of the new govern ment it needed help general of tha coun try Toad in the solution of the rail Way problem and to High ten the Bur Den of the War demand Coran Active immigration policy is the and Empire urges a stronger policy and to does the Montreal the former that Tif economic conditions improve next year should be a move ment of population to Canada that will put an entirely different aspect of our internal it refers to the circumstances that have prevented since a Childs song of my Vioria Porf Thall my counterpane is soft As my blankets White As creamy tha Hay was soft to i our Little lord of Long above the roof the pigeons Fly lit wheels across the the stable doves they cooed to Mary and Christ in Bright Bhines the across the they brought to him myrrh and and Bright upon Christmas our Little lord Tybo lived of soft and Clear our Mother sings Irish of Christmas Joye and gods holy Angels ban to Mary and Christ in our hearts they hold Al Christmas i and Earth seems Sweet and heaven ticket to been require seems de of immigration propaganda in Britain sus Pended this but the Early better times led recently to a four of inspection and Consulta Tion in Europe by the Deputy minister i o and discussion of i a plan for the settling of britishers in Large colonies in the on great tracts acquired and managed by the British government if land settlement in to be vigor j Ousby the matter of land j prices must properly the experience of the Soldier set i Board and the Western i colonization association shows that Furni control roust be exhibited by some authority Oyer land once the fade of settlement begins to f the Prospect of an Active demand for farming land at once leads speculators into the and the exaction of the parasites kill the movement at the the King government will have the real Opportunity to take advantage of postwar and for the general Good of the try should be on the Job 4n time to prepare for a Spring the afo Treal Gazette says can of heaven was in his i that Little child of Adas economic for no one thins More urgently than for a vigorous policy of vigorously this subject is one to which the new govern l have to give its Early at in this phase of and either we go Back to open voting with every elec Tor signing his or her or in order to do away with the Persona that is now and with so much Success in City cons Titu have a surer Means of identification so that the Deputy returning officer or clerk will at once be Able to Teh whether the person applying for the right to vote is the one entitled to this can Only be done where the male or will present a miniature photograph taken without headgear of any kind being worn by the person photo some have suggested Fin but this la too elaborate and costly a and would con sume a great Deal of valuable Progress in Public health from the Springfield Republican social welfare legislation in the United states is gaining substantially on the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to and that in some cases Are not unrelated to the material Progress of civilization this is the else in the heartening and stimulating report of the Amer ican engineering councils commit tee on elimination of waste in in which was appointed by her Bert taking1 for the starting of its investigation the year when Iamont if there is any possible Way of avoiding this be disposed to ask the directors of the Bank to Avail themselves of bid to continue to Render to Canada the very excellent service which the institution has rendered for nearly fifty i Gold bearing formations that have redistribution and enriched Northern Here j apparent an identical arranged the passing of a redistribution Bill i rent of strata with corresponding based on the new which the and in All probability we the cheerful philosopher Tell me not in accents outgoing government refused to clo before the will now become the duty of the the last redistribution following the 1811 was not passed till but such a delay would not to Able or right under the present Clr Tho Western provinces Sie now suffering the injustice of by ing greatly the j War and a Premium of some Bill be Prasert j thing like twelve per on All the As soon a possible so that Tho West j Gola there ought to be a toe ready for the next election afferent tale to the in the near it political life is Arent so foolish As they fearful but the grave is not its he Art of Beng blooms a Burden to the onj0vment of a dinner is our destined end or aim but the nature of a Winner takes pleasure in the from the Golden books a Carol of unknown i he came All so still i where his Mother As Dew in april i that falleth on the he came All so still where his Mother As Fiew in april 1 that falleth on the i he came All so still i to his mothers Bower i As Dew in april 1 that falleth on the Mav see an Era of real mining begin Mir Iron stub i Daye Are and time is Mother and Maiden next Spring heretofore our prospects Sparta remember Lar i never none hut As have few real Gold mines in the True sense of the word have hardly had a fair there has been too keen an the Here is a manual of Christian prepared by the of this who is Well known As custodian of the Carnegie reference Library and As lecturer on liturgies in John s whose doctorate was the gift of the University of is also assistant tithe ment Canada has been practically standing Gazette is glad to see signs of a More Active immigration hut it says co operation with View to the distribution within the Empire of the sur plus population of the British Isles is Good in and May toe Good in practice but it can be Good in practice Only if certain fundamentally sound considerations Are it objects to the idea that the main object would be to get the surplus population of great Britain to the vacant areas of the and it continues it is that in any plan of Imperial at any rate As regards the Dominion of those who give their Atten Tion to it be fury seized of the fact that immigration is to be directed by the dominions Canada needs Canada must decide for1t does conclude that National vitality physical Irving Fisher issued his report on National vitality Lor the National conservation appointed by president the commit tee from a Survey of five Basic that the duration of life has actually been extended probably period of five the opinion was expressed in the report that by the Elimina Tion of a preventable 42 per of the constant cases of illness in the United states Aux Tention of the average Span of lit by Over 15 years was the committee does not find sufficient evidence for assertion that the race is physically advancing but it from in the december number Otth Survey graphic George sell forecasts the Ireland Attar she gets her own Kov being himself a and also Matt of Russell makes of his anti Cleamo strange but attractive blend of and he expects a outburst of Irish literary and artistic though he not go As some of the enthusiasts of Youns to listen to them you think that All Ireland was to Befu led with chanting to noblest Russell does nor think that Wilt Ever by superseded in the will be much of Beau May be drawn from the gaelic tra but Russell evidently believes that the Youthful and scholars and will to go to world literature and to Tot new thought of other in order to bring Back ideas to Graf i upon the native Russell holds that the new Ireland will see a great expansion of both in production and in the life of villages and this is doubtless a Dtrejo outgrowth of with the Irish agricultural organization a pretty picture which he draws of a harmonious Folk i Rural All buying manufacturing together and Market ing Usi their organization for social and educational As Well for business on the polu tidal Side Russell is not so confident no he More fitted for free nobody will dispute Russell an example of devastating Frank Ness from an orator in the ancient Irish the Gap toothed hag now grinning in the Gal Lery to the Whitel Vered cur Shiw Erins on the and that Ireland will never go Back that style of political he has no doubt that Ireland will at ways have aristocratic in her Public life to offset Stagna this can easily be believed whatever happens in the new Iris i it certainly will Rusnell is aware of a sort or temporarily suppressed Radical movement in he admits thai it probably is Only biding its time to put Forth its revolutionary these of the nationalization of land As Well As of in How it May fare with the City proletariat Russell does not venture to predict but in the of land ownership he is convinced and there Over peasant proprietors Lii men who would pour boiling Lead on anybody who tried to nation Alize their we set other of the Ireland that is to be which Joes not exactly suggest exr life Rector of All saints Little which contains Tho six is described in the Delca act our remembering i avas never none but she Well might such a lady 1 gods Mother Stock Market and very much too Little j actual with costs of sooty on the labor and of supplies falling to tha perhaps with expectation wait to see what Santa j with our stockings to remind j leave behind us foot prints in the Sands of those driven cattle would have come in Handy for they could have left four footprints to our two the Sands of time suggests that life is really a it is no longer a Battle or a bivouac and Here comes someone sailing Oer elites that the place for us but we Are Busy footprints if we have not departed Ami those foot wearing now a face of dyspeptic the spirit of Christmas wooing More tense now inks la to remain than formerly and is j it is said that at iras two of tin our Christmas Days Are Dona of no earthly use to the events May not follow their even course As of be veins most promising groups of Gold ear j of theres no glory in if May i i and the political pendulum j j swing with Shorter no one f a i you make a one the original you Are to be developed and put author gets the credit because i you have used his and in you wonder Ita i idakf1 a Dit j snip i what May happen in the next j out loss of provided those u you have the heart to mutilate j by seeing the imprint in and event the yes projects put up their own a nowe you must not follow Ber 9g before the Nej a r or and in i Pmj r in Vnti f to f present injustice at the first and to nol invite the pubic to sub Phrai Nellt and you must not stray too o readers ear or and 1 any event the Vestern provinces want to be relieve Money for preliminary i of Tho with the taking up of the subject redistribution will also come the question of the adoption of proper ional representation in the cites at bold he is unable to Dis Cern them even with the ships Teles what will the poet do now there is nothing for it but to wreck the ship so that our forlorn and 1 shipwrecked brother May be cheered of our next tide washes ton to the archbishop As a volume of simple lectures Given at Johns in scribe until after the to specs a a Ayom been shown to have real will never guess How Clever you should be censured for handing for the i faculties Are not one Sno eed for i a poem is Uke a Well made and Over Loone Cash that is not be Eula a p of personal business disbursements j trousers with the minimum Fla Lycra Stith Enciel could be and also the question of evening up the popu lation of Urban and Rural const Tuon such evening of if it in will mean a substantial loss of Rural representation and would have considerable effect in the test any system that in crw is suit the anal if the evening up of Urban and Rural representation is accompanied by in the and the use of the transferable vote in the j single member Rural there not be much a Campaign in favor of More for City and the province of Manitoba into a Gold notes comment about the strongest evidence to Date that Mackenzie King in tends to be head of a really Liberal government is the agitation displayed by the Montreal a thorough going tory and big interests news there people who suspect that i Bank crisis in Montreal Divelo Merit the original work too or it is done without a word 06 p cribbing the other Fellows i in one line he is sailing deep and m the next nne be the sole survivor of the shades of Robinson Crusoe and Man Friday is it any wonder we Are told in the last verse to have a heart for any after a a Battle and a Shipwreck in one Short we feel that it certainly i think my parody is much Superior to the not so in touch of mixed metaphors and no mock and no line quite so lame As and things Are not what they but you must be the apply the same methods of ruthless criticism and see How they is the Busy and a poor time for poets to with the Xmas gift question occupying our brains to the exclusion of everything lets have a rhyme about before youre entitled to guzzle the the the you must solve the perennial Puzzle of sultane presents to there Are Moccasin slippers for Mother so cosy and soft to the a Box of cabbages for brother a Lull d r m under the auspices of the Church of England mens their essential simplicity is in their favor since they Are thus easily under no scholarship is involved in the so plainly and so tersely does the author sketch the his tory of the beginnings of the Chris Tian Church Back there in the Early centuries this he begins with the worlds preparation for namely in the old testament in the religious sys tems of the assyrians and in the providential Mission of Greece and this first chapter will win readers for the chapters that follow with the second the genesis of the John Stone is Well into the literature of the you Call it Patristic but Here there is no such Pedantic All i elementary and any unusual wort is Plain to the Reader Ere he very the writer is z natural at the end o each chapter there is a summing up of what has gone before and what he Dominion is such As will conform o the overseas settlement plans of he Imperial so much the there have been no diff Licul upon that score in the and there none in the bound up with this phase of the question there is the matter of the assisted there Are cer Ain lengths to or Rich the state May safely go in aiding the Imus dual and there Are other lengths it should not the Jan of the Soldier settlement Board in Canada seems to have worked Well to Bavedas it is upon fitness of the settler for his avocation and the mortgage which the state in great the overseas settlement organized and financed by the Imperial has aided by exse vice men and their families by giving free passages and More than thirty thousand persons had applied for passage to under this in the Early of this Meri so assisted May make Good As settlers in a new but the most desirable settler of Al is the Man who possesses Tho Energy and the Industry to make his own and his own Fortune As was done by the pioneers of an earlier Day an done by them in the face of hardships and which Are now the Canadian Immi Gration policy should be to attract to areas of the do minion men of this from such the canadians have supervision and periodic it a net mar Gin of economic gain of 00 can be in addition to excess dividends in satisfaction in liven Russell langs last Gall for prevention of prevention no Small that there is one thing about writing a does give you a curious insight into the strength or weakness of the other chaps of this psalm of life is one of the Best loved poems in the English language because it is sentimental and if we examine it closely we shall find it a hopeless muddle of contradictions and mixed Tell me in mourn Ful life is but an empty dream exclaims the a right you Tell l for the was it possible for the Tho inspiration of the Camj merchants pain is revealed by opening sentence of an editorial article on the which reads an outstanding and significant re of the recent general Eloc ution Sas the political Power of the Western Good As Gold during the Progress of the late Gold was by no Means As Desir soul is dead that i put it to can a dead soul slum Ber and if it is Mournful to sup pose we slumber does it cheer us to be told were dead but never he takes it All Back in the next dust thou to dust not spoken of the so i were not not going to and i our duty is to that each to be contribution of the Montreal j Ian Star to National Unity is to Call the May up or progressives the wild men f of but the Star seems to be j and get thing is to keep moving perceptibly Wilder these than they whether or dated the the Ai promises to become solved historical is r not Lloyd George in tiny Irish delegates into signing what is but the grave not our and the idea of Drums and marches leads the poet worlds Broad Field of we shall set our orders now but there is a the first Ere half of them j Ines Are in Harmony but b eat a did rive to Battle no did and the other half Biff Day Conga Labons Able from the Point of View of the Milner As Many other Copper j in great demand anal at a i Price Tung were a sampled and sufficient to meet the Market could not be now All have fallen in for who Are United states cunts by the Ottawa j Straus new born wont we Are marched Back to the a Avouac of life to give the Anne service corps a and when we Are snugly settled and the we can go on the kind you must smoke in the for the records for and the wife in a new set of furs to be Candy will do for the cousins those girls Are As Irr Eedy As boys and nephews and nieces in dozens will take a whole St Reful of a pair of silk stockings for sister whose Ankles Dainty and and we missed her we Kissea her shed think it no end of so you work through the list with out stopping until you have done and when completed your s already then each lecture has its the third chapter deals with the Liturgy in apostolic Days the fourth with the great liturgies of the Early Church he fifth with the Creed in the Early Church and the concluding chapter with the Bible in the Early though prepared for students of the anglican the Book is not the average Reader of any Church interested in Chris Tian origins would find it exceedingly interesting he would find it interesting even where he might not agree with the there is much easy instruction in Scarlet and is the attractive title which the veterans association of the Royal North West mounted police give to their Annu Al published in i Hope that every Christmas will bring a new annual As Good As this which sketches and recollections of the famous adventurous police cavalry that kept Canada West and Canada North Safe for the it contains other articles touching earlier in the notably on the posts the of a United Farmers of Ontario Man in the North Oxford Byo Lection elves the Drury government a majority in the on Tario but it will still have hard going unless it obtains a Good Deal of support from the whether it will or not May tie affected to some extent t3f relations the liberals and progressives in the Federal apart from a political writer in the Toronto Star sees session ahead in to he says to All appearances the Politica situation As it affects the prove Nola administration has undergone i considerable change in the last few it was thought not so Long ago that with the resignation of h Dewart from the Liberal Leader ship and the problem of appoint inf a the Drury government would find an easier going and pretty general support the Liberal in Texe the result of the Dominion election and attitude prevention of of discontent and Industrial some suggestion of the dangers to health which Lurk in Industrial and in living conditions customarily accompanying is conveyed by the of a death rate of per among those engaged in such pursuits and a death rate of per among the graduates the three women Wellesley and Vas of course a Large discount is to be made for Superior average physical equipment and better understanding and observances of habits conducive to on this Point the committee observes there is need to develop among the people at Large a higher sense of responsibility for the care of their bodies in higher ideals of personal As Well As in citizenship in order prac apply these organization and certain governmental and social machinery is reason is found for believing that a very important Factor in the reduction of the general death rate is a mitigation of the struggle for sex Stence Anda Protection of the Munty from communicable the present death rate from tuber Toto three per s Little More than half As Greal s the rate 10years in terms of economic this Scourge still Means an annual waste of the loss from by the 30 per of the students in one Southern University were found estimated at half As the annual loss from typhoid fever is at 000 and from at these the committee Are All theoretically wholly least 75 per practically article greeting cards orders placed today or Satur Day filled two All Complete your dress and first dozens from additional dozens from lots of Ralph Connors lots of Bliss carmans poems of if Winter lots of purple lots of Gauntlet of lots of Tho lots of All the newest books Worth British Book Maizc one Hundred just in the childrens Book Section is crowded with eager Many prices being drastically please take Small parcels shopping youve spent every Nickel youd same Italy Gold is at a j it is thought by those competent to 1 that Manitoba has the same the Zero hour Man the trenches go Fuseley Nina rated and covering eleven pages written by an sex Corporal who joined the Force n 1887 and who has tales to Plain unvarnished and unromantic the second where horse is Bye Pauline Johnsoni the beloved Indian must be a miss Johnson describes a blizzard a Saltcoats and Young Constable Hamilton appearing with Frozen Cheeks your Cheeky Are Frozen horse first and he a Little later on another he was cattle he called Back and was swallowed up in the still raging another it casually told la How an touched his never ported gives Aullma re curl Batt Letor Toraei casually Trad to the Arctic the Constable no the Crim had been committed ten years there Are articles on the mounted police in the in the the great Rivers and on the where in the West and in South special interest is on the Nizio tact r of the government in running a can in North Oxford however have put a different complexion on it was Early Evl Jent after december 6 that the liberals considered the results very heartening to and when it was announced that the wer challenging the liberals in North any indications there Ever were of an understanding Between these parties during the past week quite a number of Liberal members have Queens Park and the general attitude seems hos tile to befriending the government in the coming wholesale impersonation was Practised in Montreal in tire recent elections according to Bernard who in a to the Montreal Gazette says hundreds k not thousands of Citler rens were Persona Ted by gangs who were employed solely for the purpose of violating in the Moat flagrant Way the most stringent provisions of the election the extent to which this 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