Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 22, 1925, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 1 3 to 22 Freedom of Trade. Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg wednesday april 22, 1925 1 rented and published tin Manitoba free press a joint Stock company. Nicori pirated Taulur the Laws of . At Licari of Llue and plaice of business. 300 curium Street a the cite of Manitoba. E. 11. Macklin Tresider and general manager or. Littered it the general Post office London for transmission through tie melts la the British it in not Revenue rates. The transferable vote the Dominion session is getting along and As yet the gov eat s measure providing for the transferable vote has not .5 submitted to the House. That it is to be brought Down May reasonably inferred from or. King s statement to the House time ago that if he had Given a Promise last session to submit Ife measure this session the Promise would be carried out. It is Kyj Jav on record in Hansard that in withdrawing the measure it session he pledged the government to re introduce it this year. M if itis not introduced Emtil near tie end of the session it May the first Man to buy a bottle of liquor la Saskatchewan when the new liquor stores were opened was a chinaman. It seem As if the forces of Are at work. A Wonan at Vancouver has obtained a divorce from her husband. She charged him with throwing a cup of hot Tea at her. Some women Are hard to please. What did she Tea the . Has another Oil scan dal on its hands. Oil and trouble appear to flow along in the same pipe. If Industry lags Here and there in Canada it May be due in some Mea sure to the fact that now and then promoters of Industry prefer making the shareholders instead of the machinery earn the dividends. Hon. Or. Mother Well has Reiter ated his stand on the advantages of Jurj mourning a lost Opportunity. Cir chill Over fort Nelson As a ter Mynal for the . One wonders the effect of the transferable vote can in a general Way be if to has investigated the Poss Biu foretold. It helps the strongest party not by giving it an in ties of Chesterfield Inlet proper advantage but by insuring it to some degree against injury r Spring Ajmo Over ther8i the Balkan states will now proceed to Issue crop reports the various uprisings. The bulgarian one is out this week. The London daily Herald a labor paper keeps on picking on Canada. Somebody should write to the Timov classifications together and so far Froni but Why pick on Canada i Why not Bulgaria or Sweden or the . What have we Ever done to Tho daily Herald Fate of last year s measure which was abandoned when it Leader of the opposition threatened to prolong the session by Isth acting its passage. The transferable vote Reform is in greater danger of being to die of neglect by lukewarm friends than of being killed Bright by its enemies theoretically its triumphant passage Irons the House of commons seems a certainty. The records of be House show that a few years ago it accepted Tho report of a Vecial committee which unanimously recommended the adoption the transferable ballot and that last year a measure providing it was brought in by the government. The government is ainu to re submit the measure. If it pushes it its passage is Grain for the progressives Are pledged to support it and we see reason Why it should not get conservative support As Well. The danger is that Tho government will submit the Bill and permit it to encumber the order paper until prorogation puts pm to it and to the session at the same time. The govern it s Resolution to go ahead is undermined by the haunting fear perhaps in its operation the transferable vote might Benefit 3dh1c other party More than its own. Other governments have hesitated on the same around and been lost their leaders having tie experience of looking Back from the cold shades of opposition j be open for four months at least and How much longer we can Only find out by experience. The aids to navigation that Are available in these Days should extend it very considerably. Ypres fled memory of the originals of the old this is the anniversary of the second Battle of Ypres fought by the Canadian first division ten years ago and to be held in Santl very Gallant first. Were plunged into an excruciating ordeal but their courage was heroic. They were citizens of a Young coun try which knew next to nothing about War but they fought with the dogged Mastery of Veteran troops. Their achievement won the Admira Tion of the relieving British troops always generous in their appreciation for the canadians had an Empire and in doing so had Laid imperishable laurels on the valor of their nationhood. They Are saluted today the dead and the living As troops who suffered heinous by and whom a nation w Honor till it perish. Continue to it is of course srop1 freakish operation of the present system of the Block vote. Not so Good a guarantee against this As Complete Cir tonal representation which is not at present politically possible but it is at least an Assurance that a party which can poll s majority vote will not have to Content itself with a minority has often happened with things As they i 1 further it tends to draw voters of like views but coursed Over the from the East to be imbued of the deep seated significance of tires you have to conceive of it As did the germans. For them. It was their key to the Channel ports to secure which meant practically the destruction of France the immolation of Belgium and the isolation if not the Over throw of Britain. Ribbons of splendid roads and related railways Industrial Plains converging into Ypres and from there led in direct line through St. Omer to Calais but 30 Miles Distant from Ypres. Take Ypres or the All highest among the germans commanded his generals. They did take it in the on Slaught of August 1914. They pushed beyond it overwhelmingly with their admirably equipped ports of imperials. Still the Cana hordes and even entered St. Omer. J plans could not get out but fought Calais the Channel ports but a i on. All they did was sight and die. A horde of germans waged Slaughter in the four mlle wide Wake of the fleeing French colonials. The Terri ble Battle was on and the canadians were faced with holding five Miles where they had had Only Yards. This is not the place to describe that hellish conflict words will never convey its horrors or reveal its hero isms. It began with appalling Sud Denness for the canadians that ttthrsday7 afternoon the 2-2nd, but their final withdrawal was not till Ilay 5. They fought without reinforcements till. Friday night except for a mixed detachment of imperials hastily conscripted by colonel Geddes who helped Stem the Ger mans toward the Yser Ypres canal. Sections would be encompassed and yet flight their Way out saving the division from absolute extinction which would have meant Only on conclusion too terrible envisage. Platoons vanished As death swept them. Companies were without officers without non commission cd officers but led themselves fighting on till some form of. Reorganization could be established. Fronts disappeared units were bereft of sup ports sometimes on both sides. And still they fought on. Gas was emitted Over them followed by massed attacks which were countered by exhausted men who seemed possessed of inexhaustible Powers from which to renew their resist Ance. As their positions went they advanced to the attack. They re treated to positions that were As untenable As the positions they evacuated and still the enemy could neither surround them nor get past them. Late on Friday they had effected a shortening of their line and were encouraged by fresh sup diversity of opinion the shortest Cut to the re Stab two party system is by the use of the transferable multiplying parties it will have precisely the contrary effect. The Markins of the second Choice is often a revelation to the voter As to where his fundamental sympathies lie. If it be a fact and much to support this that two parties win give sufficient expression to the present political opinions of the Cana Dian people provided these parties Are organized frankly to represent Lish Mest of a Rote. It is an illusion that our present system of voting discourages gird party movements. It makes voting a Gamble and a third party if it. Has a substantial body of opinion behind it has just is much Chance As the older parties of profiting by the Breaks of the same. Sec have Only to look at the last Dominion election for an example of this. It was the conservative party which suffered most from our system of voting securing far fewer seats than their total vote called for. While the progressives profited getting a representation its Vise to was Cutie to its permanent advantage to continue the old fashioned system of Knock out voting. The Case for the transferable vote is not that it will help this or that political party but that it is in the Public interest As ensuring i parliament which will represent pretty accurately the actual views of the people. It is on these grounds Chat the King government she ild submit a measure providing for its adoption and secure its adoption by parliament. Beyond their vote. In great Britain labor owed Power in 1923 to its Luck in getting More members titled to and it made the error of believing that it would j to a hoped that in future no at one of the Best bits of immigration work canadians can do is to give a helping hand to the Immi Grant during his Early months in the country. Strangers in a strange kind find it a pretty hard task shift ing for themselves. A Little Friend Liness at Tho beginning is Worth More than elaborate assistance later on. The Hacid of Welcome and hand of help should be held out not Only to those who speak our own language but to those of All lands who Are invited to come to these shores. Jov Crement and the Saskatchewan arc i the Dominion government of combining to put ranching on its feet in that province. It is sincerely doubtful Model sir Henry Drayton wants Canada to Model her fiscal system on that of France. T we Bonder if sir Henry has been his Eye on France lately. Would sir Henry like to see our Trency Only Worth 25 per cent of Ace value with a correspond shrinkage in the value of Souri Fri he think the Prospect of a Lawrence route. The manner in which this route is Prelec Ted is of interest to people because the same Means could be used and doubtless will be used before Many years to safeguard navigation on the Hudson Bay route. The citizen refers to a number of ships that Are now crossing the Atlantic bound for Montreal and it says when the liners Are in mid Atlantic they will be supplied with a Complete report of navigation conditions on this Side. The depart ment of Marine and fisheries has established a very thorough patrol in co operation with the inter National ice patrol farther out to sea. The International vessel re cords the movement of icebergs in the Vicinity of the main Atlantic Highway. The Marine department is More concerned during _ the dearly an influential Public opinion in France to be the Only alternative to bankruptcy could be to Canada to the and of this country is the world s object to today of the danger of undue of credit. Its Prosperity and desperate efforts Avor necessary to stave off. A j35" which sooner or later is to come. Cassia inspection there is 3 in the British situation that to comparison with French tons. But the True compari Between the Pound climbing and the franc dropping to Zero. 03 a mag the St. Lawrence route the reopening of navigation 1 St. Lawrence the Ottawa takes occasion to refer to aids to navigation that sen adopted in recent years. These is the ice patrol with a telegraphy As the Means of w cation. Ice patrols on the a Antic began after the Dis to the titanic in 1912. This patrol is maintained try year and in connection with Canadian government Strait the citizen refers to two patrol vessels that have just gone out from Sydney and Quebec and it says Canada s two Fine ice Breakers Are supported by a Chain of radio land stations As Well As direction finding stations and radio beacons on the coast in patrolling the St. Lawrence route. They note the location of ice in the Strait. They receive reports every tour hours from the radio stations with regard to weather conditions other ships within Range also report on ice conditions to the Canadian patrol. My this information makes it possible to keep the passenger liners advised of conditions Long before they enter the Gulf they know where to steer to keep Clear of ice. When they need tie Aid of the ice Breakers they Are within broadcast although the citizen is not enthusiastic about the Hudson Bay route the Means of protecting the St Lawrence route upon which it places such value would also be very useful in protecting and extending the season of navigation on the Bay route. The so Lawrence route is open for about seven months each year. The Bay route tempts will be made to use areas Only suitable for ranching for Gen eral agricultural purposes. Crime reports it is a common cry that the . Newspapers pander to the lower instincts of their readers by going Strong on crime news and in n recent Issue the Chicago Tribuno prints a cartoon in defence of Tho newspapers. The cartoon shows an artist work on a portrait. Tho Canvas on which he paints is Tho daily the portrait he is trying to paint is happenings of the and the happenings the Day consist Talmos t entirely of a Large Cross eyed brute with a Stone club and Goat s ears and the name of this brute is shocking the artist has painted a likeness of or. Shocking crimes on his Canvas and a Reader who has come in to see the picture is so shocked that his hat has jumped off his head and in a voice of horror he is saying How terrible Why Don t you leave him out of the to which the artist replies i d be glad to if somebody would Only remove Tho reason Why crime is reported is because there is crime to report. When there is a lot of crime there Are heavy crime reports. The Citi zen who wants crime reports left out of the paper might on reflection realize that leaving crime reports out of the news columns did not tips crime out of the Community he might not see its report but it would still be there and it is just As Well for Good citizens to know the crime record of their Community knowledge will give them the Opportunity if they than la the record is too bad to get n move on and do something to improve it. Day s March ahead were theirs. But not quite. Par South in the marshes of the Marne in France the flank of their tremendous front was Crum pled and in exigent sympathy their right flank in Belgium was forced to retire before British and French troops. These pushed the. Enemy behind Ypres East of it by some four Miles and there both armies entrenched for the Winter of 1914-15. The enemy spent the Winter plan Ning to take Ypres or and in the outcome of events As they read them the allies were delivered Over to them. The Canadian first division of three brigades with their brigade artillery and auxiliary troops left Salisbury Plains on february to 1915, and were in billets in Northern six Days later. After several movements in which their Only material exp Criece of Trench warfare was obtained in a somewhat observing position taken zip in the front line in the Battle of Neuvo Chapelle they entered Ypres on april 11. Almost immediately they relieved two French divisions who had been holding some Yards in front of Ypres. The canadians then had on their right British Imperial troops the 2sth division and on their left French colonials Alger ians and turbos. These French troops were holding some four Miles reaching from the canadians left to the Yser Ypres canal. From there on North West the line was held by with the exception of the Short sector Ai the coast held by the belgians. But attention today is centred upon the Yards held by to brigades of the Canadian first division the other brigade being in supporting Reserve. Never could the germans have imagined that circumstances should so resolve to the perfect convenience of their Strate ical intentions. The one mesh in he Chain they so ardently desired to break was caught with two links so Brittle they had Only to a struck the the the daily sayings of Sam Slough a press teat re produced by a race press staff writer. Some of those folks who Tell you All you once could buy for a Dollar often forget to mention All the things you had to do to get the Jtj v Mufti a special patrol for the St. There is Good reason to believe trill birthday congratulations to Aid. A. B. Simpson Winnipeg born Hamilton ont april 22 1877. Rev. Canon Garton Winnipeg Bora London. Eng., april 22 is56v to be shattered. There was weakness so they thought of Between the canadians and he imperials junctions Between troops which often were susceptible to penetration. There were the canadians an unruly mob of in Magl Nablo unversed troops of Sod breaking halfbreeds1 from the Primi Tive areas of a sparsely populated Estern . And to Cap All to the left of this Mongrel Force were the volatile Semi civilized fetish Ridden algerians and turbos preposterously imagining they hold a front of four Miles. Could every circumstance was propitious for the enemy s March on to the Channel ports they had Only to Knock and the grate would swing open. Their troops were massed four divisions against tha canadians. Their artillery was in overpowering support. All they awaited was the favourable wind to turn on the taps that would Emit inhuman poisonous gases floating Down upon the algerians and canadians and that gentle Breeze blew on the sunny afternoon of thursday april 22, 1915. Poison of the Yellowish Green Vapour settled Down upon the uncomprehending algerians who. Choking asphyxiated affrighted broke and rushed headlong Many fell dead As they stood to their breastworks Many died by the Road As they Tore Back to tires. They were ghastly. This exposed the let the Canadian front past which if a phantom platoon managed to retire to another position the ghost of itself that covered the movement resisted to its last Man. The Battle had joined on thursday afternoon he canadians were still in it Sun a afternoon. Then no sooner had hey got out than they were rushed n again to fight Side by Side with he imperials who had relieved them till May o were they finally withdrawn what was left of them. This is not any attempt at de scrip Lon. Of the second Battle of Ypres to say which would be a garrulous pre sumption. All parts of the Dominion Oday have resident in them some in who were in that Battle not he least perilous Brunt of which was heroically Borna by Winnipeg and Western units. All parts of Canada have Resl deat in them today Nany Many men and women to Grieve Over the thousands of Brave canadians who that Day gave their Ives to prevent the germans attain no to the Channel ports. Those dead and their living comrades were lot esteemed As soldiers in the Lov no atmosphere of their simple Homes in this peaceful but at Ypres proved themselves dauntless n Battle. And because of Ypres if if Ypres alone they would beseech hat that which they were called upon to endure shall never have to be undergone by their sons and sons sons. This is the Day of the old originals of the Canadian first division they were magnificent. Security for France from Tho new statesman the problem of French Security is y no Means we believe an insoluble problem. If it is approached on its merits and divorced from other prob Ems. The German offer of a pact used on the present Frontier has omens by simplified the position. In such a pact great Britain will join and not Only will join hut will most certainly Honor her Bond for All English parties will agree to it. We wish never to. See that Frontier altered again and if necessary would fight to preserve it. But it is vital necessary that France should understand thl.3, should understand that is to say. Exactly what we will guarantee and what we will not. It s not a question of whether a labor government or o. Liberal govern ment or n conservative government s in Power because in the matter of foreign obligations no. Government Las any Power to depart from or go beyond the opinion of the country. And the opinion of the country on this matter is quite Clear and Defi Nite. Alsace Lorraine belongs to France. We always thought go and we think so still. And what is More we Are prepared to treat anyone who disputes that ownership As n Wanton disturber of the peace of Europe. But on the other hand we Are not prepared even seriously to looking Over Saskatchewan by j. S. W. This is of a series of articles dealing with provincial and other political situations in Saskatchewan. It May perhaps open in the Rotunda of a certain hostelry in a Well known Urban Community in the Northeast part of that province. The proprietor or Man Ager or whoever he. Is is a Well known grit. The boys always stay but More clues than that we refuse to give. On the night in question we were digesting mine Host s perfectly Good dinner that is As perfectly Good a dinner As our diet will permit when we became conscious of a Conversa Tion in comparatively speaking muffled tones proceeding from two prosperous looking citizens in adjacent chairs. A sail one to another la doing in what done about said the other. And is old Tom All right and so Forth. Ii you know anything about Saskatchewan Politi conditions you win have guessed the participants they were two government officials whose lawful vocations have to do with roads or debt adjustments or other functions of government but who. Will Desoto their spare time at least for the next few to seeing what can to Donn about it is the activities of such officials which have Given some support to the sporadic spontaneous move ments which Are in evidence in a Good Many parts ol1 the province All of which avowedly hostile to the present provincial administration. Now As an actual fact the activities of these and similar individuals Are of no particular Benefit to the party in Power. And for this rus on. Whenever things begin to look hit complicated in a constituency when the local organization thinks that some More work should to done do they dig in and do it Well perhaps on occasions they do. But they Are much More Likely to get on the Long distance and ask one of these mysterious Telephone num Bers Bill or Jack or Harry is available and can come up for a while. And so perhaps some Road work in found Tomt needs inspecting and the situation is helped presumably by this attention and. The local boys feel much better. The chances Are that if they them selves would g it to work and clean up their own troubles they would in the Long run to further ahead of the Jame. Seeing that local Effort in a local situation is generally More effective than the work of professional outsiders. And i Erta Iolj the opposition would be shy just that much powder for its ammunition a part of which oin Justive material in effect is derived from the activities officials and experts aforesaid. Har Ris Turner House Leader of the opposition once said that if every Saskatchewan government official at election times was compelled to Wear a uniform the province of Saskatchewan would look As though it were in the hands of an army of occupation. Well possibly things Aren t Taite so extreme As that. It is highly probable that in the Days of Jim Calder for instance they were much More so but Here were our friends sitting in a hotel Rotunda and asking what they were going to do about it. Admittedly it was a grit hotel. Even so we recall he time when such conversations ook place Only in bedrooms. In support of which r. J. Under Wood organizer of the provincial progressives has issued list of government officials and part of incurred from the Golden books april and i by Virginia Watson when april opens All the doors of Earth proudly she Calls from Woods and Fields and streams show to your treasures too your blooms of love your buds of Hope your tendrils Pale of dreams. So very Small my Garden seems yet-1 to april dare make autumn s wind shall waste your sweetness on in feeling Earth verdant my Little Garden still you la find a still less rights of Poland to to the her present heir expenses too great a which latter he Avera Are on purely political functions. Well As we said this All took place in the part of the prov nce and there if anywhere there is Likely to be grief. For the have had ittle or no crop for four years and when it comes right Down to cases he opposition to the present administration in the province is based in a great measure on crop or at least economic psychology and for that reason the Farmers Union is pretty Strong up in those parts and they will have something. If Only indirectly to say about matters. A very interesting situation in fact right now in Saskatchewan and on this occasion it Ivill by no Means do to count the ballots till they Are in the ballot Box. Frontiers either on the East or on the West. That is where rightly or wrongly England stands and it is for. France to decide what use in the circumstances she can make of us. We will sign with Germany a treaty guaranteeing the Eastern frontiers both of France and Bel Gium but we cannot enter. Upon any discussion of problems which from our Point of View Are entirely Dis Tinct. France s Alliance with Poland is Tor her a weakness. She has thereby lengthened instead. Of shortening her frontiers and has a them infinitely More Vulner . She cannot at the moment we must definitely abandon Poland but Why. Should the Eastern question be raised at All in connection i with the pact which Germany has offered if it. Is raised and great Britain will automatically be excluded from the negotiations for we will not and can not undertake any obligations East of the Rhine. On the other hand it is not raised it would seem pos sible for the Security problem to be settled upon terms with which ail parties should be satisfied. The eclipse of de Valera sir James o Connor in London Dally mall the real Ireland freed from the stalking tyranny under which it cow ered from 1916, is now showing it self. It is definitely turning Down surely but gradually All crazy notions of the Irish Ireland move Ireland of the gaelic games the culturally isolated ire land the economically secluded ire land the politically secluded Ireland and the gaelic the last mentioned Conception As described by the late Michael Collins being one of a primitive of which the Brehon Laws were to be the Centrepiece and the gathering of mussels and cockles on the seashore and hips and Haws Woods were to be the chief occupations of the people. Ireland has pronounced against republicanism and has Given sex president de Valera notice to quit for that Irish people Well disposed to agree with Sydney Smith s definition of Tho objects of government the object of All government is roast Mutton potatoes Claret Stout con stable and honest Justice a Clear Highway and a free a transportation expert from journal a Man has died in England who left a deep impression on the rail Way history of Canada. This was sir William Acworth who served on the commission to inquire into our transportation problem which was appointed in 19-16. The other members of that body were sir Henry Dray ton then chairman of the railway commission and or. A. H. Smith Tho president of the new York Cen trial who died last year. Sir Wil. Mam was an expert of High standing in these matters and had always been opposed to government owner ship. With his views on this Subjec o Well known he carried. Great weight when at the end. Of the in Quiry he agreed with sir Henrj that there was no., alternative. For the Dominion but to unite the c.n.b., the grand trunk and the intercom Lonial lines in one corporate system with the Stock by the government but operated by an in dependent Board. Books Are a finer world within the world we used to read and hear about miss Beale famous As the founder and first principal of Cheltenham Adies College and a very distinguished educationist who was buried in Gloucester Cathedral a memorial service and Sermon in St. Paul s taking place at the hour of the funeral service. So was this woman honoured in her death. Miss 3eale s successor was miss Lilian faithful who after retirement has written a Book of recollections and comments entitled in the House of my published in Canada messes. Macmillan. There Are Lere and there in the West women who have been educated at Chelten Ham which is probably first among ladies schools in the old land. But do not know. Miss faithful s Book will be read with interest by Many whose Mission it is to educate Young ladles foe their Mission in turn. Miss faithful is i am persuaded a spiritual descendant of that Wise and prudent companion of the immortal Pilgrim to is the protagonist in the great allegory. Her father and Mother were types of English parents who made Home a place of peace and Content and right ambitions the Mother being a remarkably intellectual woman diligent and Thrifty and devoted to her eight children. It is a pleasant picture that is drawn of the country Home and an exemplary of course memory throws its inevitable Halo and that is always Well. It was an intellectual and spiritual atmosphere. I must not forget its political Bias Salisbury and Disraeli being the Popes of our household and glad Stone a dangerous i think miss faithful errs in placing Little women and misunderstood in the catalogue of morbid and sentiment Al books her Young Days. Little women is a Brave healthy Book and would be Well for this age if Young women read marked Learned and inwardly digested Misander mrs. A Wing is quoted its More robust and she is a much greater artist than miss Al Cott but she is not More robust. Miss faithful attended Somerville College Oxford and there she had Many privileges for though Oxford would not Grant degrees to , the University was indulgent to Omerville in the matter of concerts dinners receptions and that of thing. And i gather that Ruskin Jowett Mark Pattison Freeman Max Muller and other notable professors lectured to them. At least the girls Ivere allowed to slip unobserved into Public Michael Davitt was a guest of University College in 1s86, and the undergraduates of that College fastened him into his room. When William Morris came to speak to a political club he was refused a hearing. Dub Lin gave the degrees denied by. Their own University but Oxford has now mended that matter. This is Ono of the most interesting chapters in the Book. It closes with a recollection of Reading Atalanta in cd Lydon for the first time. After Somerville College came periods of teaching in the Oxford High school in the Royal Holloway College and in King s College whose women s Branch was in Kensington Square. The King s College chapter hns items of curious interest to an Ordinary Causer. Or. Waco thai principal was full of delightful recollections lie had once been on the staff of i be times in the great Days of retune who would return an article to have a. Comma put in that recalls the poet Campbell who walked twelve Miles six there and six Back to take out a comma. Or was it to insert one ladies from seventeen to seventy tended lectures in Kensington Square one old apologized for giving Ivy miss faithful s lectures she could no longer manage the several chapters Deal with Chelten Ham and with the school life there and there arc chapters which treat of professional life religion and relationships in school and with other such themes As concern the High calling of that Noble and exacting but Happy vocation. Miss faithful. Is now a visitor in the West. The Bookman. Protective colouring for Public men Yorac times it was the prime minister who dealt with the famous Curzon Bear ing in the fullest and most illuminating Way. He said that it was a facade which Inird Curzon Liall erected about himself which misled Many people hut which was really the product ;