Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 23, 1925, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages 13 to 22 Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg thursday april 23, 1925 i rented Anil published the Manitoba free press company. Limited a joint Stock company under the Laws of Manitoba at its head office and place o business. 300 Carl ton Street. In Hie cily of Manitoba. 1 e. U. , president and general manager at the go Neil Post office London erj., for transmission through the mulls in the British it Inland Revenue rates. E purpose of the Combine admitted e evidence Given before the special parliamentary Corn by the general manager of the chamber of shipping of kingdom would appear to make out a Strong Pirna Jet a j. It vie a Luc it Case for intervention by the Canadian government in the j the Panama canal As a calamity to a of North Atlantic freight rates. Or. Cleminson was quite Uii tee and in favor of the Pacific coast. This protest comes from e. M. Sweeney formerly member of the Public utilities commission of the state of Idaho in an address recently delivered in that state. Or. Sweeney views the construction of tie his admissions. Speaking for himself and his associates a quite pronounced hostility to any form of control of either by a single government or by International action f instead the grand old Law of Supply and demand operate. Or. Linson proceeded to admit that the purpose of the conference to keep rates up to a level and to resist any tendency to fall but the members of the conference had yet de in getting their rates up to the proper level quotation from or. Symington s Cross examination May real object of the conference is to exclude com and to raise or to maintain rates 5jr objects of any commercial Man is to get what fun for his services. Was the object of the conference or was an object though the sole object. Monopolies Are liable to abuse unless subjected the inter Mountain states. He argues that unless the vessels Are driven off the canal the Pacific states will soon be receiving As much freight by water As they do by rail. This would necessarily curtail the Exten Sive rail service now carried on be tween coast and coast. If the roads were getting Only the freight that had to be carried by rail to and from the Pacific coast they would have to largely increase the coast to coast rate and the rates to and from Points in states like Idaho Rould be proportionately advanced. Moreover these states whose out going shipments Are largely season Al would in his opinion suffer Froid. Car Scarcity bordering at times on famine. In the. End it would be bet ter he argues for the Interior states to pay More for their incoming freight than is paid by consignees on the Pacific coast for a much longer haul because Only in that Way can the roads be enabled to kill off water Competition. This argument May be logical but it is in a Way grotesque. Tho United states government expended three Hundred million dollars in providing water Competition that would reduce rail rates to the coast. The roads say they Are willing to meet the water rate and ask Permis Sion to Cut under it to insure permanent rate reduction but to drive the vessels off the canal and thus be in a position later on to make the rates permanently higher than they were before the canal was constructed. To Aid in this Beneficent design they ask author Ity from the United states inter state Commerce commission to carry freight at non compensatory rates to the Pacific coast and recoup their loss by greatly increasing their rates to Interior Points. And or. Bennett of Wolseley or. Joe vision is no monopoly in shipping that does a there is a control More effective and that is the Law of Supply 3d demand. This emphasis upon the operation of the Supply and demand r 3 Cheek on High rates is a Little misplaced. So far As the Ordin 37 freight service by liners in the North Atlantic is concerned of Supply and demand has been repealed by the agreement Ajjie shipping companies to maintain High rates. It is Only Rah respect to commodities which flow in Large volume such As Vivai that Competition by tramps can be offered and it is to be until that the rates for these commodities which Are actually i Jedby Competition Are lower than the rates which can be con trolled by the Combine. S Jar. Cleminson s evidence is also favourable to the govern tent s action in making an arrangement with sir William Peter get to put on a line of freighters which will operate under control. Much of the criticism of the Peterson con tract has rested upon the Assumption of its futility. What it has fan jeering by asked could a Fleet of Only ten ships do in the Way opposition to the Combine or. Cleminson appears to think it could do a whole lot As witness these further easements by him or. About a competitive line steamers such As the worst possible form of control. The infinite. See is. That it would injure the exist 35 cannot say what harm will result. Possibility of harm to whom certainly to the Cana Dian shippers. The danger is to the Combine through the. Re it abolishment by these Means of Competition in North Atlantic in Nam i More than Praise or Dis Praise of the Ira hts. It has indeed been evident right along that the com Tennyson used to say the Combine Are in a Blue Funk at the Prospect of com and the Ryerson press wisely i 4. Choose that Best of Canadian critics George Robertson went to the wheat by the new Peterson line which suggests that the gov a bestir Pool Bingham f Handi. Areader of Iota books Are a finer world within the world Friendly criticism of a sane critic looking Over Saskatchewan by j. S. W. A disorganized opposition something was said in the last article As to criticism in the country of the present administration in Saskatchewan. It May be Well to take some of the present legis lature of the province and the opposition to the government As developed there. The present House has 03 members. Of these 16, after election Day in 21, were found on the opposition benches since then the government has turned Over in its favor Wynyard and or. Baker the labor member for Moose jaw has found a comfortable resting place on the right of or. Speaker. The remaining 14, then Are the opposition of. Whom Only one is an avowed conservative or. Gordon of Souris. As in Manitoba however there Are two or three independents such As air. D. H. Macdonald of s. Quappelle who has in a recent let ter called himself the Independent conservative member for that rid ing belongs to that category at least the. Seat is an old tory one. The 14 were elected with the exception of or. Gordon As independents without any Central controlling organization. In the forthcoming fight while there is evidence of More Central machinery and a Central provincial progressive executive under which the majority of these candidates will seek re nomination As a fact there will still be a Good Deal of constituency autonomy with resultant Lack of co Hesion in the House on the part of such members As pull through. The effect of the method of elec Tion has been very marked in the present legislature. There has been no concerted no organization to perform the work of an opposition such for example As the conserva Tives do possibly a Little to excess in the Manitoba House and As result no Campaign material has been made to any degree. Further than this the opposition members have gained experience which would be valuable if enough of them were elected to form a government and incidentally the government it self has been subjected to intensive criticism which is a state of affairs always bad for any govern ment. And the administration would probably be the. First to admit it indeed the effect May be visible in the forthcoming struggle. Frankly As an opposition present group to the the left of or. Speaker distinctly is not. Harris Turner the group Leader is sadly handicapped by his War blindness. He lost his Ablest lieutenant when to edit a selection from the volum Inous works of Charles g. D. Rob or aleut is on the right line. They fear with cause that this i on petition will Lead to the conference blowing up from within. Erts and to write a critical a ppr in a combination of this character it is often difficult to keep All lie participants in line and a Jolt from the outside might easily Gerles it fatal to it. Yone visiting in the East and East is conscious above the Aud color of the contemporary makers of Canadian Luttera i such Well made Little books so easy to hold and to read. A biographical sketch comes first in which there is traced Roberts career As student teacher writer of poetry and prose then the anthology and lastly the critical appraisement. I knew considerable of his poetry his novel the heart that and several of his animal tales which Are As interesting As Thomson Solon s Wei Ether they Are As scientific or no. But i had no idea that Roberts had published so Many books. I wonder if he has been to writing these Many years under the their rates at All hazards and Trust to i crack. The whip. Ori in Stevenson s with Byles the Butcher tap _. Tho door. As companion to this interesting critical volume the Ryerson press issues a second called the Book of written by the poet s son Lloyd who tells us about the talented family Brothers Sisters Cou sin Bliss parents aunts grandparents and King s College to Nova Scotia where the younger Man was educated. There Are attractive end papers showing old King Windsor. It is sad that this first colonial College Royal charter and All has fallen on evil Days. First English College in the British dependencies beyond the seas it was founded by that renowned u. 12. Loyalist Bishop Inglis. Are there no wealthy anglicans to rebuild and endow it is it Well with a nation when its Small colleges arc absorbed at school to Fredericton or. Rob erts was taught by two of his com who attained distinction As for Tho statistics of operating costs and losses covering in operations of some of the lines in the conference which have been submitted to the committee they arc nearly so conclusive As the advocates of the Combine think. These lines have been by arrangement dividing the limited freight offering Between them and keeping up the rates thus hoping to tide Over a difficult period until the hoped for revival of Trade with its larger volume of tonnage would again make the business profitable. Their Solo idea has been to maintain their rates at All hazards and Trust to lne Foi More business. They have refused to Sec that lower rates phrase a Are a necessary precedent to a greater volume of business and they have been paying for their obstinacy. The problem before the Canadian government is to get rates on the Atlantic Clown to a Point where this country can do Busi Ness abroad profitable. These lower rates will enlarge the volume of tonnage and with ships filled to the deck As the result of lowered transportation costs these rates win be profitable. This is the theory which lies behind the government s transportation policy and it is discredited by anything brought out As yet the inquiry. From the deeps of time sect an under rhythm that Speaks a he pulsing of the centuries which ave gone before. Within recent the notable discoveries of the to geologists have brought even Toile most topically minded people Sofce faint Conception of kinship far off humanity some faint of a wind blown from the ill shores of time Fae of the latest of these Dis is that of the joint expel or the University of Pennsyl and the British museum Wittich is excavating at tar of Ramea. This is a Monument a sculptured Stela erected by who ruled baby in 0300 . It was there Abraham was a resident of Aad when that Little band went or taking a Trail across across the history last look was upon this in Bol of a civilization left carvings adorn uie eat including the earliest representations of Angels he most valuable contribution the find apart from that of the is the history recorded in sculptured Relief. These Deal 11 the building of a Ziggurat or aced Temple Tower the1 Tower similar it in claimed to the of Babel. There Are also to and the Only representation of Nan Nar the Moon god Ever found. The builder of the Tower is established As King tar engr and heed carrying architects tools is Ley Subbu i patriots who attained distinction his shoulder. These tools reveal Georgc Parkin and sir George that the Compass and the architects lines and rods were then in use. There Are pictures of ladders up which men go carrying on Heads baskets of mortar. The figure of the Angel unique in the Art of Mesopotamia is the panel showing Forth irrigation canals. Visitors to Paris will remember the famous Stela of the vultures in the louvre and will remark the statement of the director of the present expedition that the one now discovered is at least its equal. Days these in which to when the Shadow of a future trembling with possibilities of human achievements mingles a with th6 shadows of other Days rising from the deeps of time. The Long and Short haul the argument in favor of a rail Way charging less for a Long haul than for a Shorter haul in the Samf. Direction. At first Blush at least to be irresistible. It must seem especially cogent to people who Are paying certain rate for a Carload of commodities and see an other car on the same train from the same source being delivered to a consignee several Hundred Miles further on at a. Lower rate. Yet from the state of. Idaho a protest is voiced against prohibiting this a Foster and he won distinction him self at the University of Fredericton. Many Canadian writers such As Campbell the two Scotts Norwood who. Has just been promoted to an important Church in new Basil King and other notable writ ers it is interesting to read that he once made a walking tour in Quebec with Joaquin Miller for companion. That would be Worth much to. Him. Here is another of interest Roberts was the first editor of Gold win Smith s the but after four unhappy months under this famous annexation is he resigned to accept a chair in King s College. And now he was coming into his professor Cappon seems to think that it had been better in the end if this Canadian poet had been con capped in the House by deafness Anil d. H. Maedonald is far too prone to dwell on the past which is Al ways the Best thing for an opposition member to do. There has been no evidence that individual members on the opposition benches have been Given a definite Job of criticising one particular department or even of studying closely the Workings of any one phase of the administration there seems to have been no at tempt to delve Inq visit orally for instance into the Public accounts and above All there being no Lega Talent on the opposition benches the has been subjected to any close criticism from that viewpoint. Admittedly with Only 14 in. The opposition and 48 on the government Side the position of a critic has been difficult. Forty eight members Bent on deriding opposition efforts can Send up quite a volume of raucous laughter for instance but even so the fior Hting spirit has not. Been there. The opposition in the legis lature has been no sort of nucleus round which to rally the volume o sentiment in the province avowedly hostile to the administration and its works. Indeed Only two lawyers in House government legislation Lloyd George stirs them up the parliamentary correspondent of the London Spectator write of about the debate on the protocol says that Lloyd George s speech if which he denounced the protocol a a Booby trap to catch England was the speech of the evening. H continues this was an astounding performance both mischievous Anc amusing. It consisted of a slashing attack on the treaty of Versailles in the course of which France pol and Roumania Czecho Slovakia an other european states came in to a severe slating. I understand tha the parts newspapers simply did no print the speech and i am sur prised. The fact that almost Ever tent to rating Canadian Ivris and idylls and drawing the modest academic he might thus under such conditions have produced perhaps something great enough to take a. Place merely in Canadian annals but in world but Roberts has enriched Canadian literature As read ers of his Canadian poetry and prose Well know. And it is upon that pro duct of his Genius that his Fame will doubtless rest. We could spare the poems nor much of the purely lyrical nature poetry. Bliss Carman always com posed with evidently greater facility. I can this moment think of no Canadian poet who compares with such apparent ease As Bliss Carman. Ease. But i am hot a critic. I advise every student of Canadian poetry to make his own the searching appreciation by Piso Fessor Cappon of this prolific poet tracing the influences of Tennyson. Keats Browning of Rossetti and Swinburne of Stew York and. Lon Don. Once had been of Wordsworth Trio declared of the King or engr Parent discrimination against Idaho Tennyson followed Milton in the tic ism of the treaty More destructive and thus made matter worse or. Chamberlain Pale wit anger made a futile attempt to Sto the flow and having failed left the House hat in hand. Of the the audacity thing took one s great Only or. J. H. Thoma. And " lord Hugh Cecil seemed to be really enjoying themselves As for the liberals when one looked at their stricken faces one Fel sorry for them. At the moment or. Lloyd Georg is winning in his struggle with or Macdonald. It is to be remember also that he is a Man of crisis. I pasts counted in politics he Coul be counted but. do guessing the Bride from the Catraro that the old country news papers have spent much space i guessing the names of different Young ladles who might wed the Prince of Wales they Are at Las turning their attention to his Youn Ger brother and Are making gues the Bride of that sort of journalism is alway More interesting than. The. Cross word Puzzle. High succession of English poets judgment now generally admitted. Here few stanzas from on of. The. Poems describing the Brunswick coast vivid and perfect once More i snuff the Salt i Stan on the Long Dykes at Westmoreland watch the strip narrowing Flats the of red Clay at the water s lip far off the Reeis Brown an High. And boat masts slim against the the Bookman. From the Golden books the solitary woodsman o. G. D. Roberts 11 Day Long he Wandera wide the Grey Moss for his guide and his lonely axe stroke startles he expectant Forest Side. Oward1 the quiet close of Day ack to Camp he takes his Way and about his sober footsteps unafraid the squirrels play. His roof the red Leaf Falls his door the bluejay Calls us he hears the Wood mice hurry in and Down his rough log Walls. Ears the laughter of the Loon no Roll the dying tears the calling of the Moose Icho to the Early Moon. New zealand cheese is reported to e driving Canadian off the English Arket. It must be powerful stuff hey make in new zealand. A member of the North Atlantic of Brno says he dislikes control of Ocean rates. That should make it unanimous. During the debate on the budget at Ottawa last week there were Only eighteen members in the House at e time. That was on Friday afternoon. On Friday night there three present at 11 clock. Among the great Canadian heroes should be listed those who can get up and make a speech when there Are but eighteen Mem Bers present out of a House of nearly How about getting bulgarians to emigrate to Canada they might prefer Canada to assassination. Nations like Bulgaria where the people cannot govern themselves Al thou bloodshed Are a very Ood argument for the Ideal of world peace. The Ideal of peace must be written in men s hearts As Well in covenants. It la being predicted that there will be wonderful shooting in. Mani Toba this fall on account of the vast increase in the number of geese hat have passed Over the province on their Way North. This is All very interesting but can the authorities form us if they know for what route the geese have bought their return tickets Aaron Sapiro has launched a million Dollar libel suit against Henry Ford. Both of them May need the publicity. The King of Spain citing proof of the Freedom that prevails in that says that you can sing in the streets All night without being molested. If this is Freedom give us tyranny. Now and. Then they have a real Good fist fight in the French Cham Ber of deputies. A very live under the dome column could be written Over there. The raising of Joseph Caillaux to a place in the new French Cabinet goes to show that it pays to keep an Eye on the stuff lying around in the discard. You can go Back and pick up something you have thrown away and make use of the City of Quebec which is the province North and East of Ontario is to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary on Juno 15. Hull lies across the Ottawa River from the City of Ottawa. Its chief exports Are wooden and Fibre goods matches and jags. People of Ottawa regard Hull As a Fine City visit it frequently during the year. If Parlia to ment is still in session by june 15 a Large number of members of the commons and Senate Are expected to enter into the spirit of the Cele bration. You have to hand it to the bulgarians for one thing. They know How to make High class bombs. People Are leaving Cape Breton for the United states at the rate of Twenty five a Day according to a news despatch which goes to show what a certain kind of Industry can do for a country. It took a Long time to get a Start on the improvement of the lord Selkirk Highway but the work is at last under Way. Some Day a Start Wolf also be made on the mall. All things come to those who keep on hammering. The daily sayings of Sam Slough a free press feature produced by a free press staff writer. Life is a fifty fifty per cent per cent grab and fifty per Cert. what next from the Victoria times on thursday of this week two baby grand pianos will be shipped by air from new York to washing ton. Both of the big instruments already have been securely lashed in the Cabin of one machine. Birthday congratulations to Chauncey m. Depew lawyer and orator born Peekskill n.t., april 1834. Edwin Markham celebrated poet and writer born Oregon City ore., april 23, 1852. Or. J. H. Mullaly Winnipeg born Chicago april 23. 1866. Nature studies in Western Canada by Hamilton m. Laing. The Days of Early april Are those have any such rules of flight. Take in which we look for the northward the Case the. Sandpipers and Plo Rush of. The waterfowl when the main armies sweep up from the Southern wintering grounds either to pass Onward into the Northern wilderness crowding hard after the Winter or to spend a while upon the Canadian Prairies before making the break for the North. The scouts of most of the waterfowl come Early in the month the main armies reach us about ten Days or two weeks later and by the end of the month usually their Are thinning again. Mid slay sees most of the northerners gone but this depends a Little on the nature of the season. There Are probably Mori people take an interest in the movements of the waterfowl than in those of other Birds. This is because they Are Large noisy or showy Birds and they Fly in a spectacular manner across the sky Plain for All eyes to see. That they Are Good to rat and known on the table to Many Folk who have no special interest in Birds has per haps Little to do with tha question now in the Spring. The Federal migratory Bird Law has said thou Shalt to Spring aspirations of Nimrod and to those Folk with a hunger hankering for fish pots filled yith the meat of ducks and geese in the springtime and so the interest now is rather of a higher sort than what we might Call predatory or gustatory. At any rate the first geese to drag their wedges across the March or april sky Are Apt to find mention in the local paper and the news is common Stock. We have All wondered at the pre Cise manner of these larger water fowl while they Are on the the geese cranes swans and ducks. Like Well trained soldiers they fall in line and sweep along through their invisible pathway with a flaw in their array. Thini is merely a trait of All Large Birds. For example a flock of loons does show such order and precision. Loons Fly in straight lines and at High Speed they Are incapable of changing direction except very gradually and so each in the flock de mands a great Deal of Tooki and the flock is a Mere open collection of scattered units. But How different with the ranks of the geese or swans or cranes. These swing along almost to shoulder with merely plenty of room fora Cless and the whole rank works As a unit. It May be shown that Birds that Are very nimble on the Wing do ver. These Fly densely massed yet there is no apparent order except that there is a rather uniform Spac ing in the Moss and the whole moves As a unit twisting and turn ing sweeping Here or there As though controlled by a single mind. This must be considered a More Able Superior system of flight but of course this May be Only a Point of View for in mature the thing that perfectly serves its purpose is com plete. The formations used by the water fowl while on Parade Are the straight line the wedge or a the figure which last really is the v with a. Long and a Short some times the parallelogram. The ducks Are the least orderly of the water fowl their rank is usually merely a wavering line that bends and Breaks and unites again and changes Leader ship. The swans on the other hand Fly with almost mathematical Preci Sion there is no wavering or Chang ing. A the straight line seen at a. Dis Tance usually gives us a Surprise when it passes overhead. None of the waterfowl Fly in True Indian Gle that is with one Bird directly behind the other. Nor do they Fly truly abreast one end of the line is Al ways the leading end and the Bird on the rear end of the line is the Oce farthest behind in the company. The line is straight but because each Bird is a Little behind his Leader the straight rank goes Forward As a Sharp Angle to the direction taken by the flock As a whole. This trait of these Birds has Cost them Many lives. It gives the gunner More time to work execution upon them. A the Tail Enders must pass a Given spot several seconds behind the leaders the Hunter using repeating gun often May secure several shots before the flock passes out of Range. The Goose flock often defeats this though by splitting where it is shot at and sweeping right and left. Swans and cranes hold mainly to the straight line formation the Grey geese Are prone to use the wedge form or figure 7 and. The Snow geese or Waves show the most varied formations of All. Often when Sev eral thousand Waves leave the feed ing ground at once and return to the water High in air a study of the array will reveal strange patterns. Lines and wedges Are doubled and trebled the Gap of is filled in so that a Large parallelogram like the Square of Fly. To rank. None of the Small Birds drags across the sky. Use lifebuoy every Many people never realize the importance of they arc really sick. You should always do everything possible to guard against and consequent ill health. It does t pay people who have to earn their own living to be one Way to guard against possible infection is by keeping your skin absolutely washing frequently and thoroughly with a Good soap. It agrees with your skin for years lifebuoy has been recognized As one of the purest and Mildest toilet soaps on the. Market. 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