Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 10, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section Freedom of Liberty of Equality of civil rights june 1931 Pool bed the Manitoba free press com pan a joint Stock incorporated under the Laws of Manitoba at Iti head office and place of 300 Carlton Street in the City of Winnipeg president and general registered at the general Post London Enz for transmission through the mails in the British Isles at Inland Revenue National Highway and unemployment the construction of a National Highway across and the Relief of were two of the policies on which conservative party secured the support of the electorate last Bennett forcefully linked the undertaking of big Public works with the solution of the unemployment prob his and the party candidates throughout the country told the people How the construction of the National Highway would provide work for thousands of Idle there Are More men seeking vainly for work and there is More resulting privation and distress than a year but the discus Sion in parliament on june 2 showed the government to have no plans for the building of the National with sum Mer the Best that speaking for the could say was that it had the project under the construction of inter provincial highways was endorsed by conservative convention in Winnipeg in thereafter the conservative party in parliament were the declared champions of a National they enthusiastically Alvo Caird and voted solidly for such a policy in the session of Kellner of Athabaska moved a Resolution in favor of Federal Grants to provinces for Highway construction but the discussion turned largely on the building of a National Manion urged the government to help Ontario to build Thelong stretch North of the lakes so As to make it possible for canadians to entirely within their own from the Atlantic to the Dunning objected that the Resolution was very whereupon Cahan Why not confine it then to inter provincial or National highways Bennett spoke in support of Carmichaels Amend ment confining the Resolution to an inter provincial or National dismissing the objection that it would Cost too much to he said the real truth is that the Highway is within 600 Miles of completion and he went on to say that if the King government were As economical As it should be it should be Able to find a sufficient sum of Money to Complete a National Highway in this Dominion extending from the Atlantic to the linking up the provinces and supplying Means and facilities whereby communication May be readily maintained Between the various Peoples of this Stevens said that one of the biggest things that could be by parliament is the opening up of a National Highway to unite this great Buckman was very emphatic about the construction of a National High Way being wholly within the competence of this it is particularly a question for the he it is not a matter for the it is a matter for the Dominion of Why cannot the government go right ahead and solve on a business basis it would not Cost too much the motion was on a similar motion at the Fol lowing Manion said Many of the people who today Are out of work in various parts of Canada might Well have been employed on such a project As this the National he described As a very Strong Cana Dian project and one which would be for the betterment of Canada in every possible Hugh Guthrie sup ported the and on March referred to the great value of the tourist traffic to this country and the Way in which a National Highway would encourage and he said the Money of this country could be devoted to no More productive an unqualified pledge to undertake this National project was Given the people of Canada by Bennett in the election Campaign last it was part of the transportation policy he announced in his Winnipeg speech on june at Loose jaw he we must have a transcontinental High at Cobourg there must be a National Highway extending from the Atlantic to the this should be a Federal the Federal government under our administration will build a great National connecting up unemployment Relief with Public under takings like the National Bennett at on june 12 there Are great National works that May be undertaken in times of stress and Strain As they have been in other countries in other they will be i realize that this country is now living in the month of june and unemployment in every part of the country is not decreasing As it someone says it is just As bad in some other men and my of is not some other my duty is to my native this at on july Bennett said the conservative party is going to find work for All who Are willing to or perish in the at he there was no justification for such widespread unemployment in summer in a country with National resources As Rich and varied As in at he said con Sider the situation in Winnipeg where a Day is required for that figure was excessive at that but the actual Cost of Relief in Winnipeg today is approximately a National Highway was thus a Good thing in Accord ing to last it was also one Steans of providing work for the and men should certainly not be Idle in the summer in a country like he he spoke of it As a Dominion a Dominion and it is no wonder that that of the matter provincial when the voted at the special session last Premier Fer Guson of Ontario said in an interview As soon As the Federal government makes a Start the construction of the trans Canada Highway the Ontario government will offer every it is a Federal matter and no doubt the ques Tion of route will he when the construction of the National Highway was urged Apon the government last weeks a Means of providing ploy ment which is so badly was Lea fling the House in the absence of mras the government had been Only ten months in office it had not had enough time to get the work going on the proposed Way but that it was under he also remarked that there were differences of opinion the route which the National Highway should take East of fort but he did suggest any such difficulty on the Section Between fort William and and that would give work to thousands of unemployed the above is the record of the conservative party in regard to the joint pledge regarding the National Highway and the Relief of and the Way in which that pledge is being carried Empire Quality it is significant of the trend of British thought that the recently issued British Empire products number of the Trade and Engi Neering supplement of the London times should contain Many suggestions for closer cooperation Between the producers and manufacturers of the the Well illustrated and a mine of valuable car Ries articles which show How keenly a body of British opinion is looking Forward to a More definite regulation of Trade through Empire channels As a result of the next Imperial in addition to the Empire marketing Board is seen As a body charged with the coordination of Imperial scientific a Central Agency for the grading and distribution of timbers is suggested As a solution of the empires forestry super vision and distribution by agents on the spot Are proposed to in crease the Sale of Empire but it is noticeable that articles dealing wit i Cotton and wheat make no such dealing with the two pm is Laid solely upon and Empire Cotton and Canadian wheat Are highly praised for the manner in which their Quality is forcing them into markets which remain closed to less desirable this suggests the Point of View of the consumer towards Western Canadas major the Best is and will always find a and this fact is the one to which the Prairies must cling the hardest of hard it is just As Well not to be misled into devious paths by forgetfulness of this essential drought and Low prices a bad and not much investigation is needed to discover that the Rural municipalities of Saskatchewan and Alberta Are making heavy weather of in the former province there is a Relief problem on the hands of authorities that grows daily More serious As the prospects of a crop and Price upturn become More and More Are Many people leaving their As they did for instance in Southern Alberta in the hard time of ten or eleven years ago few cases of departure Are for the simple reason that the hardhat Farmers have no place to so they Are touching it out where they there has been a slight move ment in Alberta of banners mov ing out and going up North to the peace River but that famous District is hard hit and Relief has had to be found for some of a More inter Esting government sponsored move ment is on foot in where families in Saskatoon Are being moved into the Loon Lake and Meadow Lake beyond the North of the they Are getting Small to they Are being sold their land on what is almost a 1 Down and week this is under the new land replacing the old Homes leading they pay 10 per Down 6n their which at 1 an acre handicapped Trade commissioners improvement of the status of Trade commissioners in South America was asked of the government by the Canadian manufacturers in convention at these Trade commissioners can approach government officials in South american coun tries Only through the British which sometimes Means that the later is asked to help canadians to compete with Brit ish appreciation of the handicapped position of Canadas Trade commissioners is one of the results of the recent Trade mis Sion to Buenos the same matter was lately in the Senate at senator who was with the Trade stated that in one Case in Buenos Aires Canadian inter ests had suffered because of the inferior status of our Trade repro and he urged that they be Given diplomatic status As recommended by the Trade and Commerce senator Liberal Leader in the was ready to go even further he would have a Cana Dian minister appointed to Argentina and1 spending on third of his time in each it will come this in and there would be advantage in Takin the step when ministers were appointed to Paris and the free press stated that Canadian foreign interests and the advancement of Canadian Trade would soon require the sending of ministers to other there is a great Export Market in South the Brazil and other coun tries import immense quantities of manufactured and other pro there is Strong Competition for that Trade but there is a great Opportunity for Canada if she goes after her business men have the advantage of Shar ing in the High reputation won by British they must keep in close Contact with Market conditions and be aggressive in seek ing but they should also have the full support of the Cana Dian government because the development of a Large Export mar Ket in South America would Bene fit Many thousands of Canadian the appointing of a Canadian minister would mean higher offi Cial recognition for Canada in the countries to which that minister was accredited and it would strengthen the hands of the Trade or Pend the appointment of a minis the Trade representatives should be Given diplomatic status so that they May Render More effective Rural problems in hard times Means and the rest 3n 10 per annual but the majority of the Farmers Are staying in Southern Sas the worst stricken area in the which extends from about township 30 to the Relief has been widely even inthe North some has been about 40 per of the municipalities have taken advantage of the special Relief and seed Grain legislation and More will find it necessary to do so unless conditions this Relief legislation was not found necessary in advances have been made by municipalities to distressed and these have been guaranteed by the they have been used to provide1 Gas and and in the treeless fuel was also especially during the under the statute the Relief came to an end this but roadwork is being and this will bring Cash into Homes which otherwise would be hard the Westoff the municipalities Are still better so far As tax collections than they were in 1921 at the height of the last de but most of them Are further behind than they wer and the fact in some tax collections in 1930 Only amounted to about 20 per shows that their troubles Are not at an unless there is miraculous pickup before 1931 collections Are yet in spite of these the schools Are being kept salaries have been Cut Down in some what else could trustees do but there is a Gen eral feeling that at All costs the doors must be kept some 18 municipalities have help directly or indirectly from the but in 1920 some was advanced in the same Way since this total has not yet been reached in in Alberta conditions Are bet Here special Legisla Tion has helped the Rural municipalities to finance councils have been permitted to enter into agreements with land owners whereby tax arrears have been consolidated Over a period of five provided the Farmer pays his 1931 when the agreement is entered he is rendered Safe from forfeiture of his land for nonpayment of taxes while the municipalities Are empowered to borrow by Issue of debentures on All consolidated tax the fact that the bonded indebtedness of Albertas Rural municipalities is practically nil is a condition that is helping them even in Alberta let alone there is a general feeling of wonder As to the fun the Rural municipalities have got through they Are financing themselves through but when the question is asked what of 1932 everyone shrugs his shoulders and says it will be time enough to think of that problem by the time it is forced upon times Are liberals and labor a turning Point in British political history May have been reached by the recent meeting of the National Liberal federation at with its definite reve lation of a trend towards the left in favor of a working arrangement with the temper of the meeting and the character of its decisions Are Well set Forth in an article in the Manchester guardian herewith reproduced in a condensed form the National Liberal federation has decided by a crushing major Ity that the Liberal parliamentary party can Best serve the nation and the interests of liberalism both asja political Faith and an organized party by cooperating with the government in policies in which labor and liberals Are hereafter Hor Belisha and his friends cannot be taken seriously As a dissident and another tory Hope comes to Noth beaten in the parliamentary Defeated at the Caxton they have now been swamped on a free vote of the rank and file where their real strength was alleged to the argument which Lloyd George put in his speech devel oped on these lines cooperative action could be Independent with out taint of the test was without Sacri fice of any fundamental principles such action promoted Liberal the action of the Liberal parliamentary party has promoted Many Liberal it has surrendered no Liberal and not Only had it done that but it had saved the country from illiberal things a government Luke warm about disarmament and not inclined to be enlightened either about the big social questions of the that was Lloyd Georges Case for the parliamentary and All else was illustration and example to drive the argument and Lloyd George has never been More fecund in he rioted in he was obviously surprised himself at times by their and Pur sued into further Combina he played a Long time with the figure of the tory spider spin Ning a web for the Liberal come he imagined the tory spider saying to the we Are ready for you we were not ready when the Coal Bill was but we can join forces come Lloyd knowing his spared the tories and when he had completed his tale of their past and he turned to examine the results of keeping the govern ment As he recited them they sounded like blow after the Independence group Tow planning the the land utilization the marketing Bill the electoral Reform a policy of pacification in and a Forward policy on disarm Lloyd George deprecated All defeatism and is a living repudiation of it in his own but he claimed in his peroration that even it it should prove that the Liberal ship was making its last voyage this list of Liberal Meas ures was a glorious Bill of lading to present at the at All As an old Mariner he was convinced that any other course led on the and if desired another advised liberals to take to life belts he any of them had made arrangements be picked a deadly stroke to his rear that the audience saluted with a storm of the free Trade discussion brought two admirable speeches from chair Man of the Lancashire Cotton and Ramsay Muir and a very interesting letter from professor Lionel prevented from coming to Buxton through and everybody was disappointed not to hear the free Trade protagonist of the Revenue Tariff this letter did much to mitigate the the traditional attitude of liberalism on free professor Robbins assured the was in Complete Harmony with the Best teachings of economic and head Mon shed the delegates not to be in the bewildered by the attitude recently adopted by one time Liberal the official Resolution was a simple affirmation in favor of free but this was not enough for Aubrey Herbert and his Chester and at their instance the Resolution was amended to denounce expressly import safeguard and said was addressed to some of our own Revenue of Lloyd Georges speech the report says Lloyd George spoke for an hour and a half and made a Superb defence of the parliamentary employing every weapon in his full armoury and not tinting either rhetoric or to use a he was leaving nothing in this encounter to the cheers which overwhelmed him at the end showed that for the first time since the War is accepted unreservedly As the Leader of the As As of the parliamentary the pants of any Leader or would be Leader who earned his Dis some of his flourishes with the big stick were in he sent a re Porter to see Lloyd George to present lord northcliffe compliments and to say that he Lloyd George was too Multi in the company of it was from that statesman in the end that northcliffe received the Shock of his when his de Mand to take part in the peace conference was refused Lloyd George to quote Clarke told him to go to obstacles to wheat distribution prom the Wall Street if a Little study be Given the situation it might be found that the world is not Over supplied with but that there Are obstacles to its there is More than one such obstacle but space permits mention Here of but and that is the one example is offered by Ger Many in the past the Tariff on bread wheat was raised to a Bushel from the 62 cents was in Force in Jan in the same period the Tariff of a barrel on wheat flour was raised to in there were imposed regulations requiring the mixing of a certain percentage of other grains in the milling of the this Tariff was levied by author Ity of a Law passed april authorizing the government to prevent the average Price of wheat on Berlin Exchange falling below a on March 28 of this the was extended to March the government also is authorized to raise or lower duties on All farm the Tariff epidemic spread throughout Europe in the past so that Greece and other importing coun tries made foreign wheat too expensive for a free the deficit countries cannot be starved into removing this obstacle to a free movement of but perhaps they could be persuaded to do and thus give permanent Relief to the wheat Nova Scotia Money pit renewed search is being made for a treasure supposed to have been buried by pirates two Hun dred years ago in Money on Oak one of the 365 islands off Nova Frederick who has devoted thirty eight of his sixty three years to an Devayor to fathom the Island believes there is an immense treasure at the base of that deep and in the Hope of proving his he is Spon Soring an elaborately equipped expedition which will soon begin drilling in the old it will be the first organized attempt in thirty four years to unearth the supposed the popular belief that it is Captain kidds Gold is ridiculed by who contends that the most famous of All pirates lacked the engineering skill necessary to construct the elaborate likewise Blair discounts the hypothesis that it was the work of the he believes that pirates other than Kidd May have buried the supposed and also is interested in the theory that the Money pit May contain the Long lost treasure of an Drews Cathedral in northcliffe and Lloyd George prom the Manchester clearly there was Streak of he the bully in northcliffe he loved professor Robbins was unhappily ing out right and and dusting according to a vast amount of ecclesiastical Gold and Silver images and Price less including the spoils taken from the English after their defeat at the Battle of Bannock were concealed in an under ground room of the several searches have failed to locate Blair holds that All previous Oak Island expeditions have failed because of a Lack of proper engineering skill and knowledge of the he Points out that the new expedition will be equipped with electric pumps and other up Odate paraphernalia calculated to overcome All from Golden books of an Orchard Katharine Good is an the Saint to meditate on life and with a Cool a hive of a hermits Grot below the Good is an Orchard very though one should Wear no Monk ish right when Spring awakes her and Good in yellowing time of very Good in the grass to lie and see the network against the a living lace of Blue and and boughs that let the Gold the bees Are types of souls that dwell with Honey in a quiet cell the Ripe fruit figures go Denly to feel that he was making his authority either in the Domestic tyranny of House or in in the souls perfection in god a diary we watch northcliffe during the War in a perpetual fury of restlessly taking up one stunt after making and breaking Public with supreme Confidence in the Power of his papers to win the he paraded the says with a big whack prayer and Praise in a country Honey and fruit a Man might fed on such to walk and his Orchard talk with murder and mystery the English court of criminal on May quashed the conviction of William Herbert no had been found guilty by a jury of the murder of his Julia Wallace on january in giving the Deci Sion of the court the lord chief Justice remarked that we Are not concerned Here with suspicion however or How Ever Wallace is described As a bespectacled Man fifty two years of of a Studi Ous turn of he has always been regarded As one of the mild est mannered of he is a keen chess player and an Amateur to All appear ances the most devoted of Hus bands who had never been known to lose his temper or resort to Vio a kindly Man of refined lord hearts remark about ingenious theories referred to the theory put Forward by the Crown that Wallace had pre the and that during the preceding Twenty four Tours he had carried out a Cun singly Laid scheme to establish a false Wallace was murdered by Tia ving her Skull smashed to pieces with a heavy Iron a crime of the utmost and the jury was sufficiently impressed by the crowns Case that they found the mild and gentle Middle aged chess player and Amateur photographer guilty of having committed the judges of a for the second time Only since the criminal Appeal court was created in decided that the insight of the jury was defect Wallace has been and the police have resumed their search for Wal laces a Case of this murder the irresistible interest it has for murder plus without mystery murder is merely a revolting exhibition of stupid but murders of pre undertaken and carried out in accomplishment of a hid Den have High artistic and scientific Edgar the Best known literary Genius of has built his enormous and equally enormous Fortune according to Rumor on the theme of murder As an the killing is the basis from which the incidents of the theme lord William is found lying Over the Library table with a Pearl handled stiletto stick ing Between his shoulder the coming in to draw the blinds and put an other log on the is the first to make the with a face like paper and an agitated manner he conveys to the proper authorities the fact that is lordship has been done in and will someone please Send the doctor As quickly As if the investigation which then ensues is carried out with intelligent and reasonable a whole world of new facts about the relationships of lord William and his associates will be Dis and the murder seen As the terminal event in a sequence of incidents which made its accomplishment of lord William was stupidly mistaken for somebody Elsa and stabbed to death accidentally in the Twilight by a nearsighted the murder of Herbert Charles editor of a los Angeles weekly on May promised for a few hours to be a murder mystery of some it began swiftly amid sin interim with described As a was shot dead by an unknown Man in Craw cords Spencer was in the midst of plans to publish series of articles exposing racketeering and vice in Crawford was also and died in a statement to the policy Crawford brother said i saw the murderer enter the office from a Large limousine driven by a Beautiful the woman was fashionably dressed and almost covered with this Ideal Hollywood opening was rather it was reported on the following Day that David a former District attorney of los had sums fiderer to the police in connection with the murder of Spencer and of the Clark refused to make any statement when he gave himself to say i May appear outwardly but inwardly i am in a tur the Beautiful Jewelen trusted blonde with the Large limousine does not seem to have appeared in Nirdlinger which resulted from revolver fire on March shows homicide As the ast resource in the direct Settle ment of Domestic a Beautiful Young american girl of formerly a Broadway shot Nirdlinger in the luxurious bedroom in to quote her own he leaped on the seized me by the and attempted to strangle Nirdlinger previous be Havio Rhad induced Nirdlinger to prepare for just such a she had a loaded Revol ver under her Pillow when Nirdlinger leaped upon her and while his attention was taken up by his attempts to strangle she Drew the revolver from beneath the Cambric Pillow slip and pumped one or More slugs into Nirdlinger thereby successfully retarding Nirdlinger apparently had been insanely jealous of his and it Only Tooji the Nica minutes to acquit the Beautiful Young woman for having been obliged to shoot the element of mystery this Case was though it has interests of another mystery endows murder with its and its for tha average Normal person who will never be nearer its actuality thaa in the pages where a murder mystery is unravelled to its commonplace 65 books Are a finer world within the miss Isabel Butchart writes in the May fortnightly review about whitewashing the Prince re having read a Book 1818 that nobody seems to the since it has been acquired by a gives readers some information touch ing All that is told about miss How is that she is a new contributor but in the course of her paper she tells of her scottish the work under her review is a life of Princess Charlotte by Thomas whose name and Book Are not in any bibliography on these certainly Lytton Strachey makes no reference to either in his excursion into the immediate ancestry of Queen Vic nor does his account of the Princess and that of Thomas Green very Likely Strachey saw the Book but counted it miss Butchart has read perhaps for purposes of this very and disposes of it with quiet but pointed irony in every quotation before settling Down to the Princess Green runs a few preliminary arpeggios Over the four George was Aad not wee German Lardie As the scots George was the most successful of eng Lish George was the greatest Sovereign of his George Prince Regent when his daughter was the perfection of every Manly virtue ind too Noble to suspect his incapable of showing aversion to bad men otherwise than by being honorable All that for the disreputable and detestable Prince in the Case of his the German Green excuses the Prince Regent and even praises him in spots for his con As to their one the Princess whom he kept away from her who had plenty spirit and a Sharp the Prince was always right the child seems to have inherited a double portion of her wronged mothers such a biography of would impossible if the Princess Charlotte had she had succeeded Georga and her Prince who exerted so Strong an influence Over Queen had been to England a greater political Consort than Albert the Here is a subject for the if certainly the Prin Cess Charlotte had been a Lively if her father hated the English people loved her and her Short married life was miss Butchart recounts one of her which is a thrilling on authority and not on Green at i wonder where that old written the year after Princess Charlottes can be outside the British my miss Mutehart recommends it to be read in connection with sir Edward parrys Queen Caro line and Bowmans the divorce of Queen also a recent the present Survey is a highly diverting concerning the career and charac Ter of any let us Leava time the not a word to anyone prom the Minneapolis barrel printed Twenty copies of an autobiography and gave to friends who prom ised so the Tion went entirely around ;