Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 21, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section Freedom of Liberty of Equality of civil rights Fott May 1931 printed and pita nihed be Manitoba a joint Stock company incorporated under the Laws of at it head office and place of 300 Carlton in the City of president and general Kris tired at the general Post for transmission through the mails in the British Isles at Inland Reinoe insurance rates and the Bay route advocates of the Hudson Bay route in the Days when its friends were always realized that there were three great obstacles to the fulfilment of the the Road had to be Birls and the port developed against the determined hostility of powerful financial and thou reasonable railway freights to the port had to be and equally Marine insurance rates must be obtained that would enable the port to be the tirs two a girdles have been but the As Lias quays Boon now blocks the the Marine insurance interests of True to form and faithful to their have decided that so far As they can control Trade by the Hudson Bay route will have to develop As Trade alone the Lawrence has been forced to under the Handicap of discriminatory and burdensome to put it the Institute of underwriters at Ivsich is the polite name for the Marine insurance has decided with the consent of that More ornamental than useful the Imperial shipping that it will give no insurance at All for ships using the route before August 10 or after september while for the favored period they will Levy rates heavily discriminatory As against the Lawrence Ami still More so in comparison with rates out of Ameri can Atlantic the limitation of the season and the Burden of the rates will of course plug the route As effectively As if the Rai Avny had never been the powerful interests that do nor propose to have the Northern route developed have found a this menace to the Hudson Bay route and to Western Canada can be very easily by Canada suing for better rates from the insurance Combine nor by seeking to invoke assistance of sir Halford Mckinder and his ship e the Ping the Dominion government has had a Long experience with these and it knows How difficult it is to set them to recognize that the Day is Over for persistent discrimination against sea routes to at the Imperial conference of 1923 George then minister of after speaking strongly against the discriminatory rates levied upon the shipping going to the Canadian said we have come to the Point in is not a threat at All but just a statement of the Plain that if these insurance rates cannot be we Are inclined to form a company of our own to carry the Marine insurance now carried by other in the Mer chant Marine 1 might in evidence of our Faith in the St Lawrence we carry no insurance e adopted the policy last year after investigation Over a period of years and the amount of insurance paid on the vessels themselves has so far exceeded the amount it has Cost to carry the insurance that it is a splendid investment for the Canadian National railways and the Canadian government to carry the insurance themselves and that is being in 192s then minister of Marine and to Jive formal and specific warning that Canada would not submit j further to the persistent Handicap of discriminatory he indicated that the time was approaching when would by 0 Usini the Ern ment was glad to fall in with this As it permitted it to get As it of a trouble some question and Transfer the responsibility to who was very willing to assume at the the free press took the position that the King government was much too precipitate in abandoning the Dom Inion it suggested by withholding its consent to the Quebec it could and should hold up the development until either the Legal position was clarified by a decision having finality or some working arrange ment was reached with the prov inces providing for the building of the whole the sound Ness of this View is being amply vindicated by the course of the end of a dream gardening for unemployed it will be a great satisfaction to Many of the unemployed mar ried men to be Able to grow a and the proposal to pro vide them with seeds is a very Good there Are mar ried men who Are receiving re Lief and the majority of them Are not getting even Par time but Are constantly they have no Money to buy the unemployment Relief committee will Supply the seeds in the Case of men who have no lots of their they will be allowed to use vacant lots owned by the cily without any rent it is also proposed to provide gardening tools in some cases where the circumstances seem to justify the present unemployment situation is abnormal and although it is costing the City a great Deal of the additional probably one or two thousand to enable the married men to do some gardening will be Worth their families will have the very considerable during the summer and the coming of the vegetables and the men will be More contented to be occupied and they will have the satisfaction of doing something for government take Over the risk of insuring the Canadian this latest manifestation of unable propensity of the underwriters to penalize ships Canadian instead of United states ought to the Dominion government that the time me in that conic to lie enough to convince Lias come not to talk but to As for the initial voyages from Hudson Bay to determine the possibilities As Well As the pos this kindly human race from the Minneapolis the natural resources Public ownership by Campbell of Ottawa the second article in a series of the Transfer of re Dominion water Power act of getting apprehensive about the we have reason to Only the other Day i heard one of the most eminent of living Sociol professor William Mcdoug say these words in Public Western civilization is in Immi Alice and Bob May not have a Lamb and mint sauce from your Garden this year after when i first dropped Over to see them they were deep in argument on the own i you raise lambs in the garage Alice rattled on Alice greeted were just Dei concentrating on the coloured Pic Riding where the Lilac Bush should i Tures in the her Selec you ought to see our lion would have done credit to she bubbled with Jany truck Farmer with a ten acre already i where is it Alice looked its not finished its not even but i have the loveliest about the though Bob wants it in this Corner i think it should go in the Middle of the dont you the i repeated looking around at the dandelions and sow Alice grasped my its not much to look at she but i know just what it As an expert i volunteered adjust dig up the whole works and Plant potatoes for a that the Best Way to get the soil in Good she was what an idea i hate peeling potatoes and think How dreadful they would they have Nice i but Alice has her own theories about you just take out the she informed and Plant Clover and grass its very the Book says you must see that she produced one of those impossible looking pictures of smooth Sward stretching like a Era Green carpet As far As the Eye nent danger of joining no n inn Urpha f in to n a t t no la Wal sources has been pointed to As the obvious occasion for the present the to consider the whole question of principles to be recognized and policies to be adopted for the management of their new the Dominion authority had an experience of More than sixty years in the administration of reserving All rights pro but Wise human Effort guided b science can prevent it piously and dealing to which would Only with water Powers yet to own that Wise arranged this statute u arranged this statute that the property in and the right to the use of All Dominion in it is sufficiently can that is what the Lawn will look Bob was going to Start on it tonight Only you thank heaven for that Mut to cultivate the ground would certainly require a May i is going to do the work of transforming the wilderness and making the desert to Blossom As the Rose we said that Bob will do the Bob he needs exercise to keep Down his Hes going to dig it All up on saturday she went oblivious of bobs and added the seeds will go in on when i called round again to View the results i was greeted on the porch by a Strong smell of then Alice she Bob i trying to get to Hes been suffering Hows the Garden i from the Back door we viewed a uneven expanse of Lime and ashes and of Brick and the soil is sighed just like poor my conscience smote i should have inquired i what happened to Bob that he didst get to digging the Garden but Bob did dig said Alice that what happened to i saw a Small churned up Patch next to the it was in not bad for a i when does he do the to be vested in and shall remain in the the same Prin can prevent the Catas jeered Alice looked at him Given that i look but he was engrossed in with Hope to the future failing sorting out a litter of Garden that i feel sure we shall Ciple is made to whether r the to Are gifting directly declared or in Grant rth Conj ing private control of a great natural resources in this that experience is Worth sideling As a guide in the adopt variety of natural resources land there is a Lee Shore not far seed Tion of a i of outright ownership the most striking thing about has not been granted to anything the dominions management in but farm and even in the this Case is what May be called i Case of farm the ownership its net each province re1 is limited to that property Only hats off to Winnipeg chives in absolute ownership territory As great As a european four Hundred members m a so in an it n pit or not caddies of a Kansas City Golf club Are climbing up and Down the sides of a Steep rather than risk disturbing a Mother Robin sitting on eggs Laid in a nest constructed on the footbridge customarily used in crossing the last Spring a citizen some where suspended building operations on his new because a pair of Robins had made a nest j i t Mill it Liau l11uub Siulc there is an easy Way out of the difficulty thare and he would not have them seated by the action of the London underwriters the task of would now tic Ditt t developing the route should be turned Over to the Canadian government merchant which insures its own slops and is indifferent to the limitations of time and to the rates of insurance fixed at Miles is a Long it took two Days which int bad going for three and five and seven year Kuzyk didst know about the Law but she did know for that along the Dauphin Trail humans Are All brutes at birthday congratulations to Walter Winnipeg born May Winnipeg born May born May that the Spring had come when the Garden ought to be slowed and they found the jail and rested on the then the Dauphin authorities got them food at a when the Little crop should be cafe the Treemon Thold it had been difficult going during the Winter after the officers came and took metro her into metro had been making quite a Good thing out of much better than out of his though it is doubtful if he had put As much thought and Effort on his farm but the police didst a metro still had the Best of it the jail was really quite Comfort certainly As comfortable As the Homestead and meals were served three times a Day without out on the Homestead mrs Kuzyk faced destitution along with her nine dependent children most of the children were Small and be made to under stand How the Law for that Kuzyk want very Clear the Kuziks lived in Mossy River a municipality which tries to meet its obligations in providing schools and so but the authorities there quite see the Justice of the Kuzyk Kuzyk didst jail neither Public or private opinion in his set was what the municipality seemed to think was that Kuzyk had been nicely provided while they and Kuzyk and the nine Little Kuziks were left holding the bag Kuzyk thought it Best that they All go to jail so they started it was thirty five Miles and the youngsters were be tween the Ages of three months arid fourteen she carried the the eldest girl helped the next although the child get surprisingly heavy As the jul mind going to didst really notice the grandeur of but All the rest and said Dobra several that night they slept in the it was a comfortable they liked next Day they went Back to Fork River in a real motor driving All the metro Kuzyk is still serving is seven month but every feels that there is something wrong the Beauharnois matter in the Beauharnois discussion in the House of commons Gardiner and Woodsworth took the View that the water Power in question is the property of the people of Canada Over which the Dominion government has Complete control and for the disposition of which it is responsible to the this is an Assumption by no Means supported by the known facts of the King on the other hand held that the Power belonged to the province of Quebec and that for its disposition the Dominion government had no responsibility this too is a Large question of where the control of Lawrence developed in conjunction with navigation lies was submitted three Yean ago to the supreme it save in answer a powerful and Learned dissertation which meant anything or so far from clarifying the Issue it confused but the province of Quebec interpreted the judgment As supporting its pm j t it wad wound thirty five has the Dominion Gor some people will say that this territory remains because no per son will have but some other people keep Well enough abreast with the times to be aware that this territory has endless possibilities of had the has marked the handling of natural resources in some countries prevailed in the Dominion in recent g Clear to the Bear the tag of some private More than those natural resources that have been Given into private hands this applies especially to recent years not wholly some no of Public ownership still and general declarations of Public right in natural resources Are not prob born May ably the plainest is that in the Silver and the by Tom King president Hoover shows no disposition to Call an International conference to consider the monetization of senators from the Silver states Are extremely anxious for something of the kind to be the two Nevada senators Are actually now in the coun try most affected by the fall in seeking on the Gen eral senator Borah of Idaho has been fulminating against the British for dump ing surplus Silver on some of the Silve rites Hope that Canada May actually Call the interested As she is from the standpoint of Domestic production of Silver and her Export Trade with it is on All hands conceded that the purchasing Power of latin America and the Orient has been greatly curtailed by the startling fall in the Price of and that the worldwide depression would be greatly relieved by its the Many attempts made to stabilize the Price of Silver by legislation May be recalled with there was the substitution of Silver coinage for the and 50cent Shin this was easily a com then it was attempted to replace the on Dollar Bill with the Silver and Congress ordered that two million Silver dollars a month be coined and put into in some parts of the country the people welcomed the the Silver Dollar was popular in Many of the Western but in the East Ern states and Over the country generally the people objected to being loaded Down with the cart wheel they in upon using the paper Only a year or two ago the government in Washington required All the civil servants to accept two per cent of their monthly pay in Silver but the dollars would not civil ser vants d wiped diem on the Banks and the sent them Back to the finding that the Silver Dol Lars would not circulate in Many parts of the had the government Issue in lieu of one and two Dollar Bills Silver certify these certificates on their face were redeemable in but in order to have the people accept them the government had to Promise to redeem them in Gold or to sustain the fiction that the Silver certificates actually represented so much Congress directed the Secretary of the Treasury to go into the Market and Purchase four million ounces of Fine Silver every whether or no this policy did cause the financial panic of it was at least held to be in part and president Cleveland convened an extra session of Congress for the express purpose of repealing this Silver purchasing this drove the Silver states almost to frenzy and precipitated the spectacular struggle of the cause of Silver went Down to defeat and the present generation remember Little about it beyond the Cross of Gold speech which within a few hours brought to William then scarcely thirty five years of the democratic presidential a Good Many people who voted against Bryan on the free Silver Issue were inclined to agree with him in thinking that concentrated capital everywhere was Bent on destroying Silver As a Money it is always to the advantage of the creditor to have Money scarce and in Many of the far Western states there is still a feeling that Silver is some thing More than a Mere commo in the Silver producing states there is real alarm Over the state of the Silver the Price having dropped during the past several years from 67 cents to 27 cents an they Are prob ably up against a hopeless Situa but they would be glad to see the whole Silver question come to life by the calling of an Back nineties Silver International the deed conveys no fore commercial or any other this summary of restrictions As to ownership is not Given with a View to discussing what has been done in any Case or class of but simply to show that the Dominion authority recon even in granting private rights in natural that ultimate ownership must remain in the 1 was not dictated by adm Nistra or even by alone this enlightened policy was dictated by Canadian Public Opin the provinces become the veers empires of untouched and also of rights More or less valuable in a great variety of natural resources already committed to private control but matter of vast importance they become legatees of an experience of the utmost value As guiding them in adoption of policies for the management of their the great area of the estates now held by the several and the variety of resources to be found Are reasons Why the policy of Public ownership and of a sound leasehold system should be in these Days of aircraft and the movie exploration and Survey Are a wholesale in the scientific research gives conclusions with amazing and invention never was so this All Means that places in the unknown wilderness today May be found of incalculable value and vice stores of material that Supply the Market now May be sidetracked at any moment by some new it is not it is not pro that nourishes by private ownership of natural resources in such but and the Wilder the speculation the easier it is for the big opera Tor to collect the pennies and Nickels of the mass of the people with which he can Gamble quite free of risk of loss to by Selling its or even giving any undue control of the Public help on speculation by itself engaging in but to hold the property and afford generous Opportunity for those who wish to engage in is to give each province a Rich return from the natural resources which in rapid succession under modern methods will be brought into whither Mankind by i whither Mankind Why Are we asking this question today i think we Are doing not out of Mere but because we Are getting we Are not quite sure either where we Are going or even where we we feel ourselves Drifting but whither we Are like people on a great full of treasure and of human which has lost its bearings in the the Navi gating officers Are the Crew Are getting and the both first class and have got wind that from the Victoria in speeches tie Tore service clubs in this City sir Hugh Roberson and Plunkett adjudicators at the recent musical festival described the festival in Winnipeg As the largest and Best event of its kind in the British it is hard to conceive of a higher tribute than this to the people of the Prairie who would be justified in throwing out their chests and circulating the compliment paid to them by these eminent authorities to the four Corners of the we know of nothing which could lore effectively shatter some of the illusions held in Many quarters on this even in Many places in regarding the Prairie in the minds of the uninitiated Winni Peg is synonymous with wheat mention of its name conjures up visions of flour Grain Box with All of its several hundreds of thou Sands of people thinking of Noth ing but Market the next weather conditions and the Many other Circum stances inseparable from its situation As the Centre and chief distributing Point of Canadas vast Western Empire of to those who hold these impress Sious of Winnipeg the announce ment from High authority that its musical festival is the largest and Best in the British Empire must be something almost in the nature of a it is arresting Evi Dence that not merely has cultural Progress kept Pace with material advancement in the Prairie Capi but has actually outstripped for there was no reservation based upon relativity in the com ment by sir Hugh Roberton and Plunkett it a Fine sense of Public duty on the part of the Large music Loving element of who obviously must regard the festival As important Community affair As Well As a stimulus and diver Sion for the the distinction which Winnipeg has won from the character of its musical festival should be a source of Pride to the whole of Canada while its special significance is not Likely to be lost upon those who feel that the permanent greatness of this Dominion can not assured by material fac but in the Long run will depend most of All upon the cultural Progress of the Canadian if music is the Flower of the As sir Hugh Rober ton says it the spirit of Winni against the background of its packets and order lists with the Carefree air of a Man checking Over the monthly Alice pulled Over some scraps of paper with scrawling Pencil Marks on she held out this is the plan of the Flower Beds at the you can see it is not one of those Ordinary obediently i studied the artistic youve got the pansies hidden behind the Holly musical Burns brightly the books Neaf from the Montreal loud cheers for the Book pub Lishers research Institute com Mittee who selected the word books Neaf to identify the individual who borrows but neglects to return a it is High time this thoughtless person were designated by some distinctive and books Neaf seems a very appropriate of it would have been just As easy to have called a Book thief and that term would be equal something is Breakers appropriate but there is some ahead have been thing about that second syllable when we look Over the Side which lends to the title see that a Are we Are somewhat of unique v whats the idea 1 Alice assumed a patient Atti youre looking at it Back the Blank is the not the she selected another this is the Back Well have mostly vegetables it says in the Book that a family of four can grow enough vegetables for the whole year at trifling As there Are Only two of us we can afford some Flowers along the fences and the the vege tables will be in the i suppose you Are growing everything in the i sarcasm is lost on she the pictures Are All so Arent these cabbages adorable dont you love them and int the Golden Bantam divine so Nice and when its Ripe we can have a Corn and the rest Well dry and put away to pop in the were hav Alice eyed me As though i were Simon of course you she said Bob int Strong enough for such hard he must that plenty of Garden for the first there is lots of room for pansies and and vegetables Are so cheap it Doest pay to grow the Man who was Selling them yesterday told me he should he but before i could answer Alice had slipped Bob Hail groaned from the Golden books from a hymn of Empire bind our realms in brother firm Laws and equal let each uphold the Empire Good in Freedom that unites and make that speech whose thunders Roll Down the Broad Stream of the Harbinger from pole to pole of love and peace turn the hearts of cowards who afraid to dare or the doctrine of a narrower stale More easy to defend not this the watchword of our Bires who breathed with Oceano not this our spirits ancient fires which naught could quench great uphold us in our keep firm and Clear our silence the honeyed words which mask the Wisdom of the ing peas and Beans and pillars of the world Are thine and yes and Parsley and fancy having pour Down thy bounteous and make illustrious and divine the sceptre of our motes books Are a finer world within the you could spend several even Ings under the lamp several Means More than two but not Many Reading the first rate Issue of the april nineteenth quoted in what educated Lover of Good books now trusts the reviews of fiction and of general literature As they have been Cau tit too approving or according and the critical jargon has be your the article on Gandhi gives you a succinct account of that Mahatma As a Politi Cal Leader with his feet on the solid his practical career covering much political history in As to sound Gandhi lieutenant who died in was one of the greatest constructive politicians perhaps the greatest which mod Ern India has the second instalment of Tenny sons unpublished poems comes last in the some of them Are it is disloyal to the memory of a great poet to give posthumous print to lines like Thor is addressing a Bard if the world Lay harder upon her till she Clappe claw no and critics is by lord Crawford who writes at great surveying the changes that have come Over the realm of books in these modern Trollope thought it bad taste for authors to have relations with but to authors review one another you Pat my Back and ill Pat the publisher has his own staff of critics and practically dictates the new books Are puffed critics and their puffs Corne too it is owing to the unsatisfactory conditions of lord Crawford that the Book club Lias appeared in England where they Are not yet in league with the in the system of boosting a Book is Dif the French Academy gives seventy nine prizes every but is doing its Best to curtail the excessive there is the founded thirty years besides other prizes less but even this system has its draw for one thing the made by a involves wire pulling and the called a must lunch together and decide by bal and sometimes the meeting lasts All the afternoon and it has occurred that a Best Book has secured but two or three a note is made on the Trade in first editions of new in the interests of advertising an autographed Are de As Well As special sets for this society and that lord Crawford says that though the average Reading Reader is getting Hia More cheaply than he is suspicious of methods chosen to capture his the ;