Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 13, 1925, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages i to 20 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Paw a Fefee Winnipeg monday april a rented no. Published the Manitoba Rree press company limited a Julot Stock . Incorporated under the Laws of Manitoba at its head office and place of Bugle in 300 Carlton in the of Winnipeg Manitoba. E. H. President and general manner. Ryzl Elered at the general Post. Of flee London ear. For through Tho mails in Tho British Isle at Revenue rates. Provincial and Dominion parties a number of provincial general elections Are in Prospect for Brunswick and Nova Scotia certainly and prob it Saskatchewan As veil. The contests Are Likely to Supply evidence As to the i advisability of mixing up provincial and Dominion custom now All but i Universal but which 811 n very easily be demonstrated by an Appeal to the record is f Jong no of no Benefit to the parties themselves while its of t is injurious and sometimes disastrous to the. Interests of the provinces. Sir John Macdonald in a private letter in 1868, gave this As As to the right relations Between the Dominion and provincial parties _ my own opinion is that the general government or parliament Nav no More regard to the status or position of the local govern than they would to the prospects of the ruling party in the of Quebec or it is True that sir John Macdonald did not live up to the Rule hich he thus Laid Down but this does not affect the soundness of the principle. It simply proves that John As for Many other Public men it was easier to see the right thing than to do it. It times an identification of provincial and Dominion Politi Cal interests is for the apparent Benefit of a political party upon which occasion the one Ness of the two parties is certain to be dressed but by and Large the political disadvantages overlap the advantages. It is known for instance that the managers of the Dominion Liberal party Are very much worried about the prospects of the provincial Liberal parties in new Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Prince Edward Island went conservative a couple of years ago and there is Lively apprehension that new Brunswick May do like Wise with lie possibility of serious reverses for the Nova Scotia liberals who have held office for forty three years. It is entirely irrational that the Dominion Liberal govern ment should be More or less at the mercy of provincial Liberal governments Over whose actions it has no control and for whose record it should have no responsibility. The connection whatever it May have been in the past is at this time distinctly burdensome to the Dominion liberals and they would doubtless like to be Well rid of it. There arc provincial parties in All the Western provinces which have far better chances with the electorate if they were not burdened with a Dominion connection committing them to policies not acceptable to ave Stern voters. In Saskatchewan where a provincial election Campaign is going on an attempt is being made to put the admitted strength of the Dominion progressive party to provincial use. The argument is Heing used that if the progressives Are Ever to attain Power at Ottawa they must capture the provinces first therefore All supporters of the Dominion progressives should support Provin Cial progressive candidates in the coming election. If a political connection of this character can be established it May help the provincial progressives at the ultimate expense of the Dominion party since it must inevitably Cost the latter the votes of Many electors who have been supporting the Liberal government in Saskatchewan and the progressive party at Ottawa. That a considerable body of electors have been thus allocating their votes is shown by an inspection of the voting returns. There is of course a fallacy in the Appeal. It does not necessarily follow that a Dominion party is helped by having a party of the same name in Power in a province. The Dominion progressives would be much stronger than they Are if there had never Lieen a progressive government in Ontario. They Are in no Way responsible for Peter Smith but they Bear the Burden of his sins. We have been discussing the question on the Low ground of a political advantage Point out to the political parties in fact it does not help them As they think it does to operate in both the Dominion and provincial Fields. When the Case is put on the grounds of Public interest it is stronger. It is a misfortune for any province to have its government actively inter ested in the fortunes of a Dominion political party. It ought not to be necessary to stress that argument in this province. For the past 37 years with the exception of three Brief periods the govern ment of Manitoba s political associates at Ottawa have been in opposition to the Dominion government and this province has in one Way and another paid a Long Price for the resulting political warfare. A question like that of the natural resources in which a number of provinces on one Side and the Dominion on the other in comes practically insoluble owing to the constant manoeuvring position by the various political parties involved. The provinces suffer most from this injection of politics into relations Between them and the Dominion. They get nothing like the consideration they would receive if their relations were on a business basis and detached from Dominion politics. We Hope to see Public opinion in our provinces move in the direction of demanding a divorce Between provincial and Domin Ion parties. The present arrangement persists because the party managers imagine that there is some advantage in it and it will continue until the Public disabuse their minds on this Point. When a provincial party gains support by dissociating itself from All Dominion connections the custom will end. That time is not yet but we think we see it coming. Hie Canadian shoe Industry Canadian Snoe manufacturers been pushing hard for an in tease in the Canadian Tariff on shoes. Their main claim has been Canadian shoo factories Are pm to compete against the compe of the British factories Al of Tonga a arge p0rtion of the shoe lather used in Britain is imported Canada Ond the United states the British manufacturer. U heavily to slide and although the have to be shipped All the to Canada. U would appear reasonable that 6 Canadian shoe manufacturer be Able to hold his own asiib3t such Competition. If he it might reasonable 0 him to have a look at his factory and business methods of looking to the govern for a boost in the Tariff. The of shoe factories in. Gau is about seventy five and it is that if Twenty five of these factories were working full time they would be Able to Supply All the shoes required in Canada. It is hardly fair to ask the people1 of Canada to pay prices that would make it profitable for seventy five shoe plants to carry on in Canada. If a mistake has been made by. Cer Tain individuals in building shoe factories when the Industry was Al ready overcrowded it is going a Little far to ask the people of can Ada to put up the Money to pay for such blunders. Credits for Russia the proposal of the machinists Union endorsed by the Winnipeg trades and labor Council government of Canada be urged to Grant credits to the soviet govern ment of Russia so that it could place orders in this country is not Likely to receive much Public sup port Canada has had some experience in granting credits to Greece and Rumania which does not Sug Gest that we should continue that plan of encouraging Trade. Trade relations have been re stored Between Russia and Canada and Russia can make All the Pur chases in Canada that sue isl Abl to finance in a satisfactory Way. But there is a considerable differ ence Between this and Canada s extending credits to finance Sulci Trade. Why credits to Russia and not., to other countries that would buy our wheat Dairy products i manufactured goods and the chief reason Why credits should not be Given to Russia is that she is still unwilling to suppress the subversive propaganda is sent out from that country. Why should we go Oufou our Way to help a country influences to operate that would destroy Tho government of this country if they could it that Russia Lias a differ ent form of government from ours. That is their own affair. And our form of government is our affair. Until Russia recognizes this Ami acts accordingly she can hardly expect to be treated like other nations. All those Persona who grumbled about the Winter have teen attacked Iby the glory of Spring have been sunk without a Trace. Tie trouble. With a lot maudlin citizens is that when a trial comes along they turn All their maudlin Loose on the prisoner and forget All about the victims. What the government should have done was to have put on that Gaso line tax without telling anybody. Then the Motorist would not have known and what in t known i does t Hurt. They would have thought thu Standard Oil company was getting Hie Money and they have become hardened to that. It is reported front Baltimore that the invention of a device known As the prismatic ring will enable per sons to see toy radio. Life it would seem is getting More Das Agerou every Day. N 3 amok it All some of those per sons who speculated in will have for easter is Tho egg Shell. Inflating the currency is a Good Deal like blowing up one of those toy balloons. Somebody always comes around and Sticks a pin in it. This is the time of the year when the neighbors should Orget about their cars and get Busy in their gardens. Lord Balfour who is having Trou ble at Damascus will no flout re Call that there is a compact and Well written record of a famous incident on one of the roads in that s Lainily. It looks As if there will be seven months of Golf in the country this year which should do a lot toward righting the economic situation. To. Put it in the. Language of the Street they seem to be giving lord Balfour a hard ride in Palestine. Premier Herriot of France has gone Down to defeat because he was trying to convince France that it was Good policy to imagine there were ten francs where there were Only eight francs before just Aro und the Corner. The june Bride. V the summer resort advertise ment. The ice. Man. The Mosquito the Flowers of Spring. The Road log. The hired Man s seeding appetite. The income tax. A the Prince of Wales has decreed two annual holidays for the citizens of Sierra Leone which. Is showing a kindly generosity toward other people s time. In the old Days when persons grew old they began to grow Gray. Nowadays they begin to Gro w Gay. It is announced the govern ment of Manitoba will control horse racing in . But a lot of us thought the jockeys did that. A Pessimist is a Westerner who when told that tie country is Likely to have a big crop starts talking. About what it will Cost to buy Binder Toronto has often been known As Toronto the Good but in View pc All the financial scandals Dave logins there recently some Are be ginning to wonder just what it 3 Good. For. The daily saying of Sam Slough free Fotss feature produced by a staff Tville a Snail can travel half a mile in a week which in t so bad if he know where he to the British nations the Irish Boundary the Irish Boundary commission has been for some visit ing districts along the Boundary and hearing evidence. In issued March 24 the commission announced that it has now concluded its sittings in Ireland for tie purpose of receiving evidence to far is arranged for its present visit. Arrangements Are being made for the resumption such sittings after easter. Tie dates and places arranged will be communicated in due course to the parties the investigations to Dato have completely covered Down and Armagh. The effect of the Ulster elec Tion on the Boundary situation is still obscure upon the whole it is thought it May tend somewhat toward a settlement the hav ing been disappointed in its expectation. That its attitude of Defiance would get an almost solid support from the Ulster electorate apart from the nationalists. On the eve of the elections sir James Craig visited every Section of. The Boun a speech making tour. I have started upon this he opening speech right round Tho. Border accompanied by my Wolf of. Not for. The purpose of making Long speeches but to show that we Are prepared to Lay our selves out to the very utmost of our ability Liand Power and we ask the people to rally round us at this very important time. It might to said that there is no necessity to order an election until later on but be Lieve the position today was Only arrived at after very very care Ful consideration and i confidently believe we have chosen the psycho logical moment that will ensure the Best resp Orise from the loj allots the six counties and the moment that is most convenient to the people of the six lord Londonderry speaking in county Down during the Campaign took up a stiff no surrender Atti tude. He was sure be could go so far As to say that not one single member of their population would be transferred to another Juristic Ion than his own without his con sent so Long As there was an Ulster government of Northern Ireland. The ferment of Bengal. It is noteworthy that nearly All the trouble occurring in India seems to have its origin in Bengal where the Swaraj its Are so influential and their Leader Lar. A. R. Mayor of Calcutta. So Able to control matters in the Bengal legislative Council that Theu again Defeated the vote for the payment of the minister s salaries and so have again forced the administration of the province into the hands of the governor in Council. The Swaraj St majority in the legislature cast their vote in full appreciation of what it. Meant. They were advised that their defeat of the Bill taken As their intimation in unequivocal terms that the legislature did not desire to have Tho Dyar Chy reforms work and by so pronouncing against the re forms thrust the administration of Bengal for. A year at least upon the governor in Council. The rejection of the vote was close apparently much closer than last and was brought about toy Tho defection of or. Former minister. That this defeat meant a Victory for the Swaraj its was however denied next Day by Jea a Veteran nationalist and a min ister in the first Reform Council. He warned or. Das against seeing any Swaraj St Victory in the defeat of the government though he May destroy he will not be allowed to build. Any act for the future government of said sir Surendranath next Day March.26, in the englishman the work of the British parliament unless indeed or. Das emerges at this stage of history As the victorious Leader of a Success Ful revolution. Das however though sympathizing with revolutionary aspirations has no stomach for As a matter of fact the Veteran nationalist traces Hie de feat of the to the Blun de rings of the government which in holds should have appointed four ministers instead of. Two. The land of blizzards. That Remote area of the Antarctic Circle known As Adelie land since the French discovered 1s40, has Befun found to be a perpetually and terrifically blowing for in a two years stay on. It aus. Ralian geologists and surveyors found the wind blow persistently in gales not less unbearable than blizzards. Though the australians have not done exploratory work on it since 1911, their it has been renewed by annexation of the land tji e reason for this is not understood by the australians. They recognize that the land was discovered French explorer Dumont d Urville in 1840, but it is they who have done Al its exploration. The French have the right of nominal ownership australians have mapped-.-200 Miles and proved the lands economic value. Sir Douglas Mawson professor of geology and the University of has Long claimed the land has latent weal la and persistently urged the Federal govern ment to uphold Australia in but it was not supposed that France could attach importance to a Region so remotes inhospitable. The Hope has been expressed that the question of future ownership May be settled discussion. Australian naval defence another change effected in Australia s defence policy for Premier. Bruce is. Reported As heaving announced in a speech delivered at Freemantle on March 15, that Bis government Bas definitely abandoned the Henderson naval base scheme and has not any establishing any other great naval base in Australia. Premier Bruce said he is convinced such a base to be Uhn Cesary if the Singapore base Ibe gone on with and with regard to War Australia will concentrate on securing. An efficient Fleet of relatively Small ships raiders. South Africa and Combine. Canadians will be interested in South Africa s struggle with the shipping Combine. A motion made by a labor member urging the government to consider the advisability of acquiring a mercantile Fleet Large enough to Cope with the whole Export and import Trade of the to nip. Railways and harbours i. Was adopted without division by the South Afri can parliament Lar. C. W. Llalane. The minister of speaking to the motion said the government was prepared to enter anew into negotiations with the conference lines if the latter wished to reopen the matter. The said or Malan is not shut and we Are ready to Deal reasonably and. Trite All our cards on the table the past with the shipping conference. At the same time the government is deter mined to protect the interests of South. Africa. It will not allow the country to be bled Whito by any shipping monopoly. If necessary at any. Time Strong action will be the method of fighting Tho ship Ping lines suggested Iby the motion was. However or. Palau added but one of i several methods at the disposal of the government. At present the government was making tile the newly created shipping department of rail ways and harbours administration concerning the shipping situation throughout the world. When., possessed of All the necessary information the. Government would act availing itself of the most suitable of several weapons lying ready to politics in new zealand. Practically no political questions of moment have come into prominence during the writes Tho new zealand correspond ent the Liberal holds 21 seats out of so in the House of representatives and is. The official opposition issued a statement at the end of january de Claring that the Reform party had run its race. Among the it Are the Rise of. The Gouner try party and the continued express. every Quarter of dissatisfaction with the government including condemnation of them by members of. Their own Side of the House. The Reform party was Defeated at the last ejection and was Only saved from extinction by men who were not elected to support the announcement did not cause much stir the Liberal party cannot lie said to gained any ground of late. The dissatisfaction Farmers with the government follow ing the slump of 1921-2-2. Which showed itself so strongly in the 1322 elections has disappeared now that Prosperity Bas come Back and there reason to think that if or. Massey keeps his vigor till the contest in december he will be re turned with a working majority. The so called country party Bas no existence in. The House. Its leading spirits Are a Small body of Auckland Farmers connected with the new zealand Farmers Union a organization which exists to promote the general welfare of the Man on the land. It is not thought that the country party movement will gain much ground this year As its promoters have no influence outside their own team play in invention Gedrge lies inventors at in these Days of organization the career of tie inventor takes on a new breadth. If his ideas Are sound poverty need be no bar to his such Cess. Today a Man of proved ability who entertains an idea for a new machine engine or process May choose among the great firms or companies interested in the Field lie would enter. His plans Are then canvassed by competent critics it his suggestions Harbor a fallacy it is pointed our if his Aims though feasible would be unprofitable they Are left severely alone. Perhaps in essence his schemes Are Good but need modification this is duly sup plied. Instead of working ail. Alone in Twilight o r darkness the inventor up Experiment with the Aid of carefully chosen assistants with amassed information As to what others have done in the same path both at Home and abroad. When an inventor is an Edison As remarkable in executive ability As in creative Power it is he who Orr Ganies As a Genera the forces which test his ideas and perfect such of them As prove sound. Let Edison imagine a new. Storage Bat Tery he eni Ista a corps of chemists and metallurgists engineers and. Keeps them Busy attacking the difficulties of his quest mechanical electrical chemical. What if Bis own mathematics go no arithmetic Are not masters of the calculus to been aged on. Moderate terms in every University town his personal com Mand of tie Pencil Falls far Short of the. Facility of professional drafts men at reasonable salaries will turn out plans and elevations quickly and accurately. His staff bound to him by affection and Pride As with Hooks of. Steel Are the fingers of his hands to win triumphs which neither nor his men by themselves could Ever accomplish. What s in name from Tho Vancouver Sun what s in a name As the poet once remarked surprisingly Little if. You take seriously some of tie answers in a recent examination Given co eds at the University of Chicago. Benito for instance was described As an Radical and a bolshevik Fedor Cha russian o Pera Singer was of. Charlie Chap president Emeri Tus Harvard was a column con Ductor for a local Knute , psf Ore Dame football coach was described As a scandinavian As in the co eds it must be More to per cent of. The replies were right. It rather mortifying to the fascist Leader and to the great educator. Or. Eliot. One feels they had a right to expect every College student to know them. Keep on banging i c from. The Edmonton journal the Troi Ible with so Many Busi Ness firms and declared sir Charles Higham in a recent address to a commercial body in Leeds eng they with a bang and then develop into a splutter. Tou have got to keep on bang he to whom he was speaking the need of More consistently effective publicity for their City. If. His advice was sound for a country Centre How much More is it for one in a new land that still stands upon the threshold of its opportunities advertising men discuss weather from Ulfo hello Wilbur p. Sch Rimpfel what s your reaction to this Little old Jefferson b. Hatch i m sold on absolutely same Here. As i Analyse Tho position the present weather certainly has a. Big general it sure does get its Story count me in on that . That s my slant on it to need to canvass the situation on a Day. Life today. Jj3." sounds like Good psychology to my. Name s the dotted line to that old Man. Welt birthday congratulations to a. M. Beverley Winnipeg Bora Norwich a-y., a.jt11 1316 looking Over the ses Sion just closed one would be tempted. To sum it up As common place. There were few particular outstanding debates no legislation of really Paramount importance was put through no records were either damaged or particularly enhanced. This is. Not to say that the usual amount of Bills were not introduced nor that members visually failed to pay attention to the business of the House in a Maii n deserve criticism. Lation however while of interest does not strike one As having been of a nature to make political capital either for the government As having enacted it or for any of the opposition s groups for their efforts to pre vent its inaction. The increase of the gasoline tax to three cents was fought Verv. Strenuously by All the opposition groups but it will not be Likely to weaken the government in the country and with Only one seat in and not Overly Bright prospects of winning Many More in the event of an election it is doubt Ful. 1c the opposition will get much Comfort out of their attitude. The suburban municipalities Bill which caused the proceedings to last out till is admittedly Only a preliminary step in of a solution of the problem. The opposition in the House to the measure was mainly on account of the fact of its late introduction. There was some objection to the provisions which deprived the municipalities from electing their own representative to the Central Board but that was remedied in committee of the whole. M v to the amendments to the liquor control act also caused a Good Deal of opposition but on the whole the government made out a fairly Good Case for using some of the profits for enforcing the Manitoba temper Ance act. In this connection How Ever it might be mentioned that As soon As Saskatchewan s new. A liquor a it came into Force they repealed their own provincial Temperance act and. Manitoba might Well consider doing the same the objection to the present measure would not then.arise., the tightening up the Rural credits act May prove to be Only a temporary measure. Doubt less of the Federal government acts on the report from or. Tory some new measure will be needed. With a Federal election in. Sight it would not be surprising to see some legis lation by the Dominion parliament along the recommendations both the Good roads Bill and the co operative marketing Bill had fairly easy passages and May be said to be in line with Public opinion in the province. The government is Down controllable expenditures although not. To a very marked degree. Admittedly Educa Tion is the cause of the greatest bulk of these now but a auction of the Cost of this depart ment of the government will involve a in policy and pos opinion would not port this. Of the parties in the House the government members Are still As solid if not stolid As Ever. The Cabinet ministers seem to have acquired now the requisite of their departments and on the whole Are pretty Well up to the Standard of previous administrations. The Back benches Are. In. Some cases coming along a Little. Probably in the event of a couple of vacancies there would fill them not that any vacancies Are in. Sight though there is some Tilk of further reorganization. The oppositions have been much As aggressive As Ever with the. Bulk of the fighting being done by the conservatives. It is a. Sort of party of All the talents. Or shall it be said a group of. All leaders it looked on the whole As if tory group was less Long winded than in previous sessions. Or. Evans for notably less pc Der Ous. It did. Not in the aggregate appear As though their attacks on government policy bad any great influence it being impossible to Overlook the fact that it was always Uncertain just How much of the criticism was opposition for opposition Sake How much was intended to Bif helpful and How much was straight politics. An there in no evidence available that Manitoba is by any Means yet ready to accent tory politics As its guiding principles. I the Liberal party started out by being if the official opposition least fall of sympathetic to Ern ment. This session they live not even been that. There Ihas seemed All through a Lack of inter est on the part of the Membert of this in. The proceedings ots the House. Or. Norris has intervened on occasions Bat these have fewer than usual and he. Has had very Little help from or. Jacob. If the latter desires to follow in tha Steps of or. Norris when the time comes As Leader of the party it must be averred that he did not help his Case along this session. Mrs. Rogers As usual was attentive to matters that come particularly within her sphere of interests but As an official opposition the Liberal group distinctly was not. W labor was markedly less Long winded. John Queen has a saving Grace of humor and a breadth of feeling that enables him to get at Tention to his. Remarks degree which does not apply to other Mem Bers of his group. Or Farmer Al though of course of. Alty chair is still an efficient observer of the interests of the City. As to the independents As or. Nor Ris said on thursday there Aren t any. By the time next election comes around it i highly probable that nearly All of them will be found lined up. One other of the old parties. Session Well perhaps on the whole just indicative of. The Frame of mind of the people of the province. Politics from the Golden books a child s song Wilfrid Thorley in the Lender one Winter morning Early i Rose an hour too soon. And found the All Silver with stars about the Moon. The Moon herself was waning o such a withered thing a sheaf that fell unleaded in heaven s harvesting. The sky was Orchard where Good with endless Blossom blanching along the starry rows. A Star for every Blossom. With Angels in. Each ten thousand times thousand to shake it Down . World is no Man s debtor from the san Franciaco chronicle the Man who believe world owes him a living can never collect. owes no it will yield All that required for human Comfort and Hap piness but it has and that Price must be paid before the delivery of the goods. A. Man adhering that the world is indebted to the human race and insisting he was going to collect the living due Way was sent to jail in a Cali fornia City As a vagrant. The Man instead of collecting. The pub Lic May him with temporary shelter and something but he pays for it with his Liberty and Hie self respect. Doubtless there Are deluded per sons who do not individual Effort As. A existence. But if their theory held Good there would be no Progress no and the March of Cly l Izat fun Nevei would have started. It has been said that it is not All a. Iff ;