Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 13, 1927, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section pages la to 22 Freedom of Trade. Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights the free press and the Ludson Bay Road various newspapers mostly those which have for years been itt in Ymir to Block the construction of the Hudson Bay Road Havo Loon concerning themselves in the defence of or punning Huam St what they describe As unreasonable attacks opon him by he a rce press on acc font of his Hudson Bav rail Raj policy. A Harac touristic article of this sort appears in the Toronto finite Wonc i has Long been a determined enemy of the Hudson Kay the Globe suggests that there has been sp31c cd tank in the free press attitude towards in recent an. Indulges in speculation As to the reason there for. Y the Farr position on the Hudson Bay Road. As our readers know is to Day precisely what it was a year ago and what it was five years ago. There was no difference Between or. Drum inc find the 1-Ycc press a year ago or if there was. Or. Dunn intr was too discreet to avow it. If there is a difference to Day it is Hera use or. Dunning has changed his policy or he has at. Last avowed a policy which lie was not prepared to disclose twelve months ago. When some six or seven years ago the enemies of the stud so Bay Enterprise thought the time had come to destroy it. The Prce press took tin position to which it has since adhered and from u Lii hit will not vary no matter How much this May bring ii into conf in a the variable and opportunist policies of ministers or Rover neuts. That position was simply that the do minion of Canada was committed to the minimum development of the route As already determined in the. Least possible length of Imp in order rent a beginning could be made in making use of it. Or declined in the View that the. Project was problematical and to intr it would be proper to hold it tip while further enquiries were made into its so called practicability under auspices that could be reasonably regarded As hostile. It. Held that these questions had Ceu settled years ago when the Lanrick Phi fitment accepted the opening of the Northern route As a great National development Enterprise and the Borden government Panfir Nihil this judgment chose the terminal port not we be Lieve by drawing lots but on the advice of responsible and compete Tarifi Lipini engineers and proceeded to expend Twenty million dollars on the Road and the port. It. Therefore continued to demand year after year that the government should keep fait it with the West and proceed forthwith to build the and develop port . As this As Well lie position of an overwhelming majority i Western electors the King government whose earlier disposition to Tail on the proposition was easily visible to the naked Eye ramp around As Flection approached to this Point of View. In discussions in the Louse of commons in the 1926 session preceding in parliamentary crisis and the election the King government appeared to accept this Western View without qualification. There Nas nothing in or. Thinning s attitude As revealed in these discussions to indicate that he had a secret sympathy with the views expressed from the opposition benches by or. Bennett and or. Manion. That the Road should not he continued until the practicability of the route had been further demonstrated by additional investigation. . Of course this is the practical import of the policy a hich or. Dunning has now adopted. The Globe re Veals this in is defence of or. Dunning it charges the free press trying to Force the government to plunge into the construction work without knowing whether terminal facilities can be the As the Globe sees it. As the Gazette sees it. As All the defenders of or. Dunning against the free press s unreasonable attacks see it. Is not that there is to be a Choice Between two ports both available but. Or. Frederick Palmer is to. Be imported to do Ide whether terminal facilities can be provid ii " the i Rof press s views whether reasonable or not. Arc consistent with Iii position it Lias steadily maintained for Many years. It last year commended the Liberal policy on the Hudson Bay Road to the Clec because it believed that that policy was Ono of Wildi Iier the line forthwith without any ifs or if or. Dunning thinks the policy he is now following is so eminently reasonable to should have submitted it in All its details to the factors of Western Canada last year. What does he think the reaction of these electors would have been if he had a Iid that. He lid not propose to finish the Road until a Harbor Engineer whom proposed to import from London decided in the language of Iii Toronto Globe whether terminal facilities can be provided because of course if or. Palmer is to have the final say he Tan. In addition to eliminating port Nelson As the possible term Inal Render the same decision with respect to fort Churchill. Is the expectation cherished in certain quarters that this As precisely what he will do g wednesday july 13, 1927 will a peal to English readers. Though written by a. Frenchman it goes in the catalogue As Canadian fiction. Haut Eville House in the Island of Guernsey where Victor Hugo lived during his exile from France has been formally handed Over to the City of Paris. A deputation from the municipal Council and the government some Twenty or More per sons lauded at. So Peter port Guernsey and formally took pos session. This famous residence where Hugo wrote four or five books notably his famous Les was presented to Paris by his heirs. The House a ruin since the end of the Jylli Century which some modern commentators think was in a Way the Model of Bunyan s House is to be pre served As a Public Monument. It is in Houghton Park Bedfordshire and was when Bunyan was writing in its we May Well won Der if he Ever saw the inside of it. Like i he House Beautiful where Christian took Salt including wine where he Lay in an upper chamber whose window looked towards the. Rising Sun. And where he saw the records and other things so was the country seat in Hough ton Park on its commanding Hill Houghton Park was granted by James t. To Mary countess of Pem famous sister of a famous brother sir Philip Sidney. The House was Buill for her and the free lease was hers for life. After her death Charles i. Gave it to lord Bruce whose loyalist sister Chris Tiana countess of. Devonshire Cann there and lived for three years after the Battle of Worcester thus Light ening her Griefs and the neat and significant phrase is her biographer s. The braces sold the place to the Duke of Bedford in 1.788, but that was Long after the first edition of Pilgrim s Progress appeared. V Mark who wrote the life of Bunyan for the literary lives series Hodder Stout n dug up an omitted passage in Pilgrim s Progress and sent it to the new statesman sixteen years ago. He found it in an enlarged second edition of which Only a sin Gle copy seemed to be extant. For appeared in any other Edi Tion. We remember How Christian saw from the House Beautiful the delectable mountains. Discretion. Piety Charity and prudence walked Down the. Hill with him gave him a loaf of bread a bottle of wine and a Cluster of raisins and bade him sold Speed. He went a mile into the Valley of humiliation when an adventure described in the deleted passage took place. It was just before he met apollyon. A Man was sitting on the ground by the Road. His face looked wooden Eye merely holes nose a wedge and Mouth a wide crack and he was bending Over a map. Whither he cried to Christian m a voice like the grating of a chained wheel going Down Hill. To the celestial but that is not the right i was rold a the House Beautiful the House Beautiful is a foolish place and fool ish people dwell in it. They Raake much of their rarities As they Call them but they have not a map or Compass amongst them and they set up for instructing pilgrims. And so on Christian is persuaded to Down by the Man and to buy the map and Compass. The Story proceeds to Tell How the Pilgrim Foon lot himself entangled with and what not on the new path. But sweetness and Light in today s column our readers will make the acquaintance of an agitated lady correspondent whom we will describe As mrs. X. This lady has broken into us by the sheer crash of her broadside she is highly and thoroughly irritated and when she wrote the letter which has come to us she was so violently incensed that she could t see the keyboard of her typewriter. She hit a lot of wrong keys she left out a Jot of words and had to write j them tji afterwards with a pen and she put in words that weren to wanted and with her pen she had afterwards to score them out. Her letter As a piece of typescript bears All the Marks of having been produced under extreme mental pres sure Aud at the end of it mrs. X wants these columns to be opened a discussion Between her and us. To which we no Nix a horse a. Horse our kingdom for a even Hector arid Ulysses upon occasion ran away. We would t discuss anything with our correspondent in her present tem per. Better is a dinner of herbs and peace withal Etc. There is much Wisdom in the proverbs of Solomon who was Well posted on women and we hereby refer the lady and her Wrath to him. Our correspondent criticizes some comment we made a few weeks ago about or. Baldwin s expulsion of the soviets from London our recent absurdities is How she de scribes what we said and the Points in her letter Are that the Bol she lists Are thoroughly unpleasant persons thai the British labor parliamentary party has denounced the russian Dungeon that Liis denunciation constitutes a right about face on part of the British labor parliamentary party which denounced the Arcos and that we this Cost in have kept a profound silence on this we Are not sure what she Means by her reference to our profound but we suspect she thinks that we Are condoning the Dungeon murders just referred to which would be a kind and Friendly sort of Jhung to think about anybody. Mrs. A however As we have already suggested assaulted her keyboard while she was not Calm. We Are. Says this lady absurd and scandalous because we did not agree at once that or. Baldwin did the right thing when he expelled soviet agents from great Bri Tain. Very Well. Let us draw her attention to an editorial article which appeared in Toronto Star on july to. We quote the first Para graph when there was pouring in on the local dallies fill kinds of propagandist despatches Eji tolling the High states Manship of the course of action originated by sir William Joynson Hicks in causing a break with Russia those despatches never Tay any Chance mentioned Russia tout always spoke of the raid had been on soviet Headquarters in London the break was with the soviet at mos cow. The local a hoists repeated All this with the closest care until the Star called attention to the propagandist juggling that was going on while. In fact two of the great nations of the world. Britain and rus Sia were being thrown into direct War antagonism. The idea was to win the approval of Canadian Public opinion Tay causing it to appear that nothing was happening except that the unspeakable reds of Moscow were receiving a Well deserved rebuke. It went for beyond that however in its potentialities. Propagandist propagandist High states Manship of sir William Joynson local appears the Toronto Star is far from Satis fied with the Stock news about rus Sia Fiat is fed out to the cables. And the Star then goes on to Point out what we pointed out that rus Sia is one of the great world nations that Russia cannot be sponged off the face of the Earth and that despite or. Baidwin s expulsion of the soviets the British Empire remains in relations with Russia whether those relations Are diplomatically acknowledged or the Star quotes these last words from an article in the London Obj server which crii.ici7.od or. Bald j win s break with Russia. The Obj server is a conservative newspaper edited by or. J. L. Garvin. One of the prophets of the British conservative party and or. Garvin in thu same is a comment on these same Dungeon then says j the present convulsion of Blind barbarity in Russia cannot last. In j the Long run it May be to the profit of the moderates. No land has Ever permanently tolerated tyranny or a government incapable of organic change. The More Mason Xvi in should Livan ignored provocations Lii which there was no peril and left it to Russia herself to dispose of the world revolution in food time. We put the last sentence of urn quotation in Black Type to show that if we Are a scandalous murder condoning wretch so is the venerable conservative editor of the London observer and so by in Ference is the Toronto Star which arrived itself at his viewpoint and quotes him with approval. John l. Garvin to fancy knows the facts about Russia As fully As our correspondent but unlike her he thought or. Baldwin was Hasty when he expelled the soviet repro which was All that in suggested too. Thiu will have to do for mrs. X. We have Given her the column. Regent Street the Maidens had followed knowing Man with the map. I think the adventure is very Well done but Mark and probably Bunyan did not think so. It was reprinted for its curious interest. Bookman. From the Xci York Herald Tribune. 1 to the american Eye it has always seemed London s Peculiar misfortune that the great period of her building activity should have coincided with Rise of her victorian architects. I3ut it is perhaps be cause of that irreparable disaster that the londoners have been led to concentrate their affections upon the earlier georgians and the build ers of the Regency and. Passing hastily such vast. Victorian splendours As the foreign office or he incredible magnificence of the Albert memorial to Rescue the Fame of such Corners As the Victor Ian Dias tropism left standing. The Law courts alone would be enough to instill a fierce loyalty to better things most Philistine breast and in the face of such examples one can hardly wonder at the mod Ern londoner s discovery that Ren Nie s Waterloo Bridge of 1s07 is a Miracle in stonework and the final disappearance of Nash s Regent Street a tragedy of Progress. The new Regent Street which has been building since 1910, is now com plete the successor to the last of Nash s colonnaded buildings on North Side of the quadrant is finished and on thursday june 23 the King and Queen drove past in state making their formal Salute to the new order. Regent Street a wide and monumental thoroughfare was Cul through the primitive Lon Don Jungle in those bad old Days which Thackeray s diatribe has done so much to Onilea to modern schoolboys. Conceived in an appropriate munificence of spirit. Nash designed it 10 . The Regent s residence at. Carlton House with the now Regent s Park he built the Church which still stands rather gloomily . Uni upper end and designed Long and impressive facades which once lined Bah sides. Victorian critics were inclined to. Look disdainfully upon Phi result but when the present generation discovered that the last of the original buildings was to vanish before the new american style it paid. Nash the tribute of Heartfelt lamentation. Muirhead Bone etched the build ing in the very moment of dissolution and his brother. James re minded the readers of the Man Chester guardian that Queen Vic used to resort privately to a room in this House because she said in was the Only Point from which she could watch London traffic without stopping the american buildings which now line the Strupi. In a really Fine and effective architectural composition from Piccadilly to Oxford circus will not seem very familiar to americans hut nevertheless they do owe a Clear debt to american work. older London must continue to Dis appear will always be a sorrow monuments have been falling rapidly in recent years and now in is said the Adelphi is about logo. Bul the inevitable is at least mitigated the new buildings Are not As bad As. Judging by experience they Missil have been. A Cenotaph suggestion to the it not apparent that the one and Only Monu ment to our glorious dead is Ber Nard Partridge s cartoon done in Bronze for the mall our Young robust. Adventurous resourceful indomitable Canada in the figure the expression grasping our Glori Ous lag in the j left hand while de fending with Iho Flag in colors if possible. Kill the Man who caricatured our great and dear Laurier then try and try again for an artist who will give the facial expression the posture the detail of Bernard Partridge s cartoon editor s cartoon can Ada to which our correspondent refers appeared in punch following the Battle of Langei Marck and was reproduced in die Iii Iamond Jubilee edition of the free Presk. From the Golden books from Trees one fiume Are afternoon you find some lonely Trees. Persuade your mind to browse. Then As your eyelids close and you still hover into those three stages of a darkening Dodo this Side the Barrier of Sloop pause. In that first Clear moment Quick your sight toward where the Green is by Light and thick ice sure that everything you keep Ifo dream with is made out of Trees. Grip hard become a Root so drive your Muscles through the. Ground alive that you la be breaking from above 3 our Knees out Inlo brandies. Lot your Man Hood be forgotten All your purpose Seera the purpose of a simple tree hooted in a quiet dream. S the introduction ;