Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 20, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section acc Tom of Liberty Equality of civil sights Light needed on a Deal june 1931 i is finally turned upon the Many Deal he in the Wake of the moribund Call Power urn it must be hoped that Speedia to Given 10 the details of the spectacular Anticosti a flurry of Public attention in in v Xii millions of dollars of the Public s Inone Lor of the Anticosti corporation which up Pearl by the strongest kind of pledges of three important that Money has in Digap and protective committee contents itself jails circular inter saying As a result of this acquisition by the of the undertakings and assets of Al in merged the Anticosti stumpage agree ment will this is holders of the old per cent Anticosti Bonds to he Given new per they Lye substantial amounts of their holders of the7 per Anticosti preference shares Are to get one and a half Stock for each share Junior occur of Tuv arc entitled now to the full truth of they must be at least permitted to learn Why they Ikpi lost their surely this is not asking too in it was announced with a great flourish of trumpets that he Island of one and a half times the size of Prince Edward had been purchased from senator or air of the Well known it had been bought by a the Anticosti Corpora which apparently had behind it Thiee important Canadian paper Maurice port Alfred and Way Aga the president of the new company was George Mckee of Ilie port Alfred on the Board of directors appear the Well known names of sir Herbert Holt and and simultaneously with the news of the Purchase came tie familiar Issue of by Gundy Aud the Issue consisted of in Bonds and in preferred it was stated that the Island contained it least cords of excellent and the income needed to pay Bond and preferred dividends was is shred by the fact that Maurice port Alfred and jointly and severally covenanted to buy a mini mum of cords of annually from the Anticosti corporation for the next three and thereafter at the rate in addition they covenanted to pay the Island company a a sum equal to the full amount of the corporations operating including depreciation and b a mini mum stumpage fee of for each Cord whether delivery was taken or not this assured the Anticosti Corpora Tion of a minimum annual income of while interest requirements on the Bonds totalled Only having Given these details of the the Gundy company printed advertisements staling these Bonds having been this advertisement is for record o it is fortunate that this record is for those were Luthc details of the Deal Ever made interest was paid Apon the securities but the financial handbooks and when they came to Deal with the Anticosti corporation could Only relate the facts summarized above and then financial statement not available for the Bond and shareholders had no Way of knowing whether or not the companies involved were actually taking the pulpwood which i had covenanted to pay they had no Way of knowing whether the condition of the Anticosti corporation was healthy they had no Way of telling if their investment was the Island of Anticosti flared briefly across the front pages of the the securities were sold and the corporation then Sank from Public today we know that Al was not Well that the guaranteeing All of which later became members of the Canada i oct and paper were making increasingly heavy gather of it that there were Many rumours that Anticosti would we been found a very costly place from which to draw Wood supplies in other the securities were a very poor printed and Nuu Llyd Talir Uett the Manitoba free Jolt incorporated under us of at its head Holce and of in the Cluj of Prea Dent and Genera Kec tend at general port for transmission Toro Ahtha la Tea at Inland Revenue expense the provincial and Dominio Many of the municipalities a financial difficulties and canno continue the present expense of unemployment to say of the increased which is plainly the to the municipalities is through the tax on the cos to the province must be met b Levy on the Anc this also Falls upon the land tax is so High Tiro Ghou the province that it cannot and the which is calling for greater can Only be met by greater assistance of the what is needed is a big constructive to be Immo Diatel undertaken while the men can work at than Watt no for the Winter when t is less easy to carry constructive besides cooperating with the provinces in Relie the Dominion government should undertake works of its the need was never so urgent As it is it is Impola to continue a policy of Drift better business Bureau since the formation of the Winnipeg better business its activities have assisted in putting ight Faie promoters in while Many questionable promoters and promotions have been put out of All kinds of illegal operations in advertising and sell no have been these acts alone warrant support of the Bureau on the part of the business its director the and management Are and the fact that it is in con Tant touch with the better Busi Ness bureaus elsewhere on the continent makes its position Here Ven More most of the persons actually assisted by the Bureau Are of a lass which is unable to assist in he maintenance of the it they Are of the class whose purchasing Power and investment capabilities make up a Large per engage of the Community in if these from Lack f accurate knowledge or from a failure to appreciate the glib Ness f the Crooks who prey upon the lose their legitimate business is what his Factor is important in assess no the support which should be corded the the directors Are anxious to a paid the activities of the and for this a larger membership is it is obvious that the time to get the urea firmly on its feet is Dur no a period of Slack or the greatest activity of the Crooks comes in periods of easy by lending support now the lower purchasing Power of the Community will be saved for legitimate and when a period of expansion arrives the City will be Well served by a thoroughly efficient and Well trained All in Point of View on a Hampshire Down by five hours after clocking til where the Earl of Leicester marshalled Queen Elizabeths army in the Days of the a Little above Dellford where i Marlowe died by the hand of a serving Man a tavern i was buried in the heart of eng land on a glorious Down in Hamp this is really the heart of because Alfreds capita of Only eighteen Miles Over every Footo hese Downs Danes and saxons marched and counter marched Ighile the Hept Archy was being slowly fused into a compact the attraction about my present first to England since 922 is that i am no longer worrying about doing the Conven ional but am taking advantage of my family connections o get intimate views of the life of the in these last ten Days i have motored through five counties and of hese i should almost say that Hampshire is the though he margin is delicate and tastes May easily the greater frequency of the thatched roof hereabouts has something to do Vith my that feature in creasing notably for the citizen f a new land the quaintness and picturesqueness of the on this particular portion of he Downs there is no artificial and Farmers and residents generally have rely n of which just now there 5 no All through the years have cherished the illusion or delusion whichever it English rain does not wet one it from that dream i am now soundly it pours and it soaks and it can there is one alleviation Here is no i have motored bout 600 Miles in those five counties and there is no ave in the Remote paths in the goods on the Downs and no no matter How frequent or gift the everywhere the ame impeccably tarred As lean of dust almost As the hounds How much More careful in general English driving one realizes when one thinks of the v huge motor mortality of America com pared with the diminutive losses of life Here spite of the fre Quence of twelve foot Cross country lanes arid the narrow trenches of streets in tiny English i like to let English land creep almost every Field and every gently sloping Hillside dotted its cattle feeding the at every farmstead the open shed with stored wag mowers and the Tak ing no they have been at it foe a Long time in this land and twice again i have been Back to in which i first saw the Noble figure of Alfred still stands in the the of his sword raised like a Cross above his listened in the Nave of the great to Lovely Vesper music and i could not help what a strength it is to a nation in fever us perilous Imes to be studded with Noble fanes that carry one Back a Sand then on through the playing Fields of William of Wyke hams school to the old Hospital of the radio is a Delight not syllable of commercial and i have already heard prime speaking with a Rich Burr from Lossie month the Prince of Malc no an Appeal for the Blind a debate Between j Hugh Wal Poi on the relative charms of the e country and the an o land that is starving Able Young woman who was burned i Rouen 500 years ago today i have i have not been Reading up the you May do that for i shall say Ever comes into my head about this quite remarkable the speech Sensa but essentially respectful toward a woman whom he Evi Dently knows with astonishing directness the 500 years that he spoke with the authority of know ledge and assured one thing that specially interested me was his fairly marked Irish a toward the end one question Joan had not been what would have been then came parallel with Trotsky posterity would inevitably rank High among the great military leaders of now i really must be cause the British broadcasting corporation is in a state of great i to take Twenty i have stolen ten minutes it just like me unemployment in drifters news that Premier Brownlee had asked for troops to be sent to Edmonton As a precautionary measure emphasize the problem presented in every Western City by the unemployed single statistics show Large numbers of these men in All the Prairie but the exact size of it cannot known definitely since a percentage and probably a them is com posed of these Are he men known always in the West As floating men who Are foot Loose a Dunat who wander from place o place every year looking Foi usual Spring and autumn demand for notice Able every year until this finds work for Many of construction con wings self into a secon lecture on Russia by an agric ural expert most piquant of Shaw on Joan o characterise Cally Good ladies an gentlemen i am seated comfor ably in and am going t Peak to you about remark Rural education Experiment the of five articles by Pooh Bah in the outline of his duties lacked the inspiration hich might have flowed from a Erusal of those oath supervisor n the Experiment i Rural Educa on now being put can a in the Kindersley District of first of All there Are the trus acts upon the advice of the super or at v to Croft f Nyma toot Vine Tran i but from every transaction of the company was shrouded in Complete it is mow time to throw Light upon the Public is entitled for How much was actually paid for senator game it is entitled to know How much water into the securities issued with the Island As is entitled to know the costs of cutting pulpwood it 8 entitled to learn whether or not the men who swung the Deal excised sound business judgment it must know if they Are of persons with Wiliom to invest Money in the the Lime Lias come for a thorough housecleaning in our financial and the Canada Power and paper collapse 15 an excellent reason for beginning if Dunnings securities protective committee is not ready to tackle this Pfob Leni As it should do some other shareholders organization the situation in failing the government involved would do Well to if nothing is done the delegates to that joint con Ergative convention at Portage la there can lie no guarantee of investment Security in the rent in Manitoba resources and would soon be forced to come for to the this is what Marks the increase conference on Ungern urgency of the problem and the necessity for extraordinary Steps in dealing with artisans and labourers who have never sought Public Relief and shoved that the Situa was steadily becoming More both for the people who out of and for the municipalities and the provincial Ern ment in their struggle with problem of Alderman chairman of the Winni unemployment Relief commit 1 stated thai some of the Best workmen were now com Are most reluctant to do it Are compelled to apply for or will be compelled a few last Winter established a record Lor unemployment Relief in greater but it will be necessary on a larger Allan of Masc speaking the suburban that the same situation was Oping i Nui ii c i to ask for Reeve scale during the coming it was agreed that no unemployed men anywhere in the pro Vince could be left unprovided for if they were a a destitute this includes the men who keep Drifting into but the City bears a very heavy Burden in caring for its own and the Cost of providing for those come in from out Side Points should not be shared by tie but should be borne those at be per of population was affected by and it was be that this would be in to 30 per by Sun Many men who were but were Noton coming to the end of their Prairie seemed to be slightly Lack ing in a sense of after listening approvingly to their Leader As he de claimed about the one Man government of they promptly passed Resolution to show Thair admiration and Confidence the government at my respect for trustees has of declined but increased with very meeting with tested who is breaking round in this i have Een astonished and touched Over and Over again by their Earnest Ess in the acceptance of their i have been hum in noting their feeling for children of the District and be thoroughness with which they now them and the anxiety Mani ested that each and every one of Lem should a ave been encouraged in noting of Universal is the desire to be air to the there Are but they Are very have in mind instances where had become apparent that the teacher was not Well suited to the where the trustees have hesitated to suggest a change until we Are sure she can get another miss Grant consults with the Board As to the seating capacity of the with regard to the cubic feet of suggests the spallation of and so there is the matter of the Purchase of Saskatchewan like other provinces has its with agents whose Silver tongues put Over on the trustees equipment which is Ever books Are a finer world within the Ronald author How to reduce and keep slim by Means of a healthy has now by request an elderly Reader published How to keep fit after in a lady had asked How to keep and when Thornhill told her that to keep fit in mind and body was to keep she suggested that he write a treatise on to do Methuen have an excellent series of Little books on and How to keep fit alter one of the first chapter on old and Young and indeed All chapters Are against fads and common Thornhill tells of his experience with those he tends old Young on the other think of the Young old men like Bernard Shaw and Thomas Edison and sir Oliver even the inheritance of a tendency to any disease such As cancer or tuberculosis can be avoided or after health it is Here told that the chinese custom is to pay the doctor As Long As the patient keeps when sick Ness pay stops until re that system would come expensive to a Good Many per and it May Well come to pass that the chief practice of the profession will be the ounce of As to the Young old has not sir Oliver Lodge or his friends a cer Tain now hearing ninety probably will have to be shot on the Day of Bernard vegetarian and is writing another play to be named too True to be Charles at has published with the Ryerson her first sunlight and fresh and recreation including respire circulation and pressure of Are discussed besides other themes closely related to Normal under the Cap the respiratory the will learn about the prevention and treat ment of the Ordinary of a Winnipeg miss Etbel is the editor and pub Lisher of an outdoor the she is an Alert As the great num Ber of advertisements alone be she writes an editorial and also a a Ned and prints a number of illustrated articles on National Trail Riding and such in the May can wild animals swim by is like the knowing tales told at Camp fire after a Day with pack train and Simpson must be the guide and outfitter known far and wide As Jimmie Simpson who has been Well paid Host to Many a Hunter and explorer in the the leading article de scribes the National Park in our Riding with an area of Square in primeval feet above its lakes Are fed by Clear Lake is nine Miles the afterwards allowed to Blush in one Board a in its Possession Worth o maps and Little suggestion As to most important co operative selection o Library is part of the supervisors then the Board wishes advice on the getting a Ani she supplies the Board wit reports on the standing of Grade and comparison with tha of other if the Board a struggling with a ratepayers criticism for Tut teaching of the super visor gives a test and reports weakness in any subject May be for Lack of an4 Here once again consultation with the the teacher and the super visor brings then there is the Board that is a bit embarrassed by a teacher who May or May not Bea Success the but is wow at he neighbourhood the Hoard has no objection to the having a Good time and is glad Sheds such a Good mixer with the Young will six nights of parties Conduce to Ood teaching the Board talks t Over confidentially with the the supervisor under stands about she likes hem and they like she understands about classroom ties she finds the Fox Trot teacher Las a flair for teaching she tells her so and asks her for hints on this subject to carry to other the girl is interested and from that goes on discuss the presentation of other and presently she s finding her profession interest finally the supervisor earn Estly suggests that the teacher must think of some of he it is Fine to work for he but she must Promise keep Friday and saturday evenings free for no one quite know How it but that District is very soon immensely proud of its school and of its but it is in the selection of teacher that we find our greatest announced the you can have no phey pulled out huge chefs and mopped their now for instance we had an application which announced that he candidate had teaching at Nineteen years of age and had aught for seven we accepted she May have aught for seven but she had done quite a bit else for a Good Many More than seven years she was in fact a who had decided to return to her old she haunt Given it a thought in the and haunt any idea of modern needs and methods we were Grant pulled sighs of profound Relief All Bert founder of the was saved from death in 1924 by major in gratitude he decided to raise Money for and the unique came into existence lovers of Beer were asked to Send in their so Many did so Jeen waifs and strays aided and boy scout and girl guide organizations materially there were members in 170 in Africa Soo in the Solomon but new members fell off so seriously of late years that he organization has been Discon it has been an amusing and provided a novel method of raising Money for a Good curiously the under of the order had to fore Wear alcohol after his a get Taler organized the froth birthday congratulations to former chief Manitoba court of Winnipeg born june George born june Winnipeg born South june Winnipeg born above my head a giant biplane careened and dipped among the n Gay Salute to earthlings her soar proud Bird machine of need no from plodding Plowden such a at the furrows Turni stopped to free fledgling its untried wings entrapped within a locusts la Chicago bad news the ancient Orde of froth blowers has been Dis founded in this con Vivial Fellowship raised More than for childrens charities although the of the members had no notion where their subscriptions most o them joined the order when the froth was foaming in the cup and five shillings the life membership fee did not As important to them As when the cup was empty appropriately enough the froth blowers have gone into even More a Propri they went into voluntary the famous cuff links of the i order will the More famous the More we Are however pays too High a Price flying a Small Black Flag and rating hard boiled a Young Man recently sat at the top of a 30foot factory Chimney in Tokyo or Noless than 314 he lid this to indicate his sympathy Vith a since it is spectacular Way of making a but we to we writes Moth in the London do not for a moment our that the mans dizzy martyrdom was undertaken from he loftiest possible but t surely be excusable a citizen of hurry past he Chimney on his Way to the office to wonder whether the Dealist up aloft is Notan object r envy rather than fraught Tough his situation is the evils tedium and it As compensations which the in artial be enjoys he ets plenty of fresh air he Caa of be rung in or married he savors incessantly that Strong feeling of moral and intellectual superiority assails us when we look own on our fellow beings from great a Man with a Nilos optical turn of a head or and an infinite Capa Ity for digesting hard boiled be residential amenities of a Chimney top might Well prove Dodo in Reno our distinguished though infrequent Iphil has deluded himself into the Elief that we could be interested n the following letter he has re eled to pass on to the editor i have just had the most awful experience out Here in Reno against which i think All tourists Lould be i am on an automobile trip across the coun by with my boy Friend and All and Dandy until we pulls nto this when you be surprised what he gets a Flat tire while he s in a garage getting it feed Akes a stroll around the not Ven knowing what town it and i loses my bearings and has o Aid from a can you Tell me where i begins but gets no further be squeezes my Elbow you from the Golden books government of the Tongue prom the winnow every and walk not Rin Pathi thus doth the sinner that hath a double be steadfast in thy understanding and let thy word be be Swift to hear and with patience thine if thou Hast answer thy Neighbour and let thy hand be upon thy Mouth be not called a whisperer and lie not in wait with thy Tongue in a great matter and in v be not ignorant and instead of a Friend become not an enemy for an evil name shall shame and reproach so shall he that hath a double blocks turn and youll see a sign swum son dont know what ies talking about but i goes where he say and i bumps into another Man the Corner and i i wonder if you could but he dont let me finish and and it wont delay you no time at it is Aik Greeko me but he whisks me into a not let Ting me get a word in Edge ways and insisting that Ive got to to is leave everything to we gets out in front of a big somewhat casual rail Way Road part time work these Are among the found for this Pool of now activity has largely and the Floater Are floating very aim Lessly they go from City to Many of them Riding the others some of them in each it is they Register themselves As at tempts have been made to prove residence in each but in various the authorities admit it has been impossible to be the prob ably include some but they Are impressive Fin Ough the last figure would have been larger but for the energetic action of the mayor by a veiled hint of reduced the number of those this experience enforced a belief in some minds that some of tha single men did not actually nees but were taking advantage of what seemed like a Chance at easy on the other it is apparent that Moro stringent measures in one Only enhances the problem to others and in addition the Sage of time without any open 55 up of general business activity must place additional men in in Saskatchewan the government opened up Bush Camps where men received a month Aas but the limit of Camps was quickly an4 both Regina and Saskatoon Relief Camps at their fair ground i Here an official was placed in and hot water were common kitchens were run by Tho men seven Hundred men passed through the Regina and at Saska the maximum number it any one time being 523 at latter Point and 435 at the the Cost was very at re Gina a varied diet was provided at a Cost of 15 cents a but couple Hundred women Are stand no in line and he tells Rne to hold my place and just Bea Little patient and will me up i am Al muddled up and i a lady lost my boy Friend somewhere n the City arid she laughs and says it is justas Well hot to ring him although they Are not very fussy except now and Hen for appearances i realizes it is not getting me anywhere to ask questions and Retty soon i find myself in a big courtroom in front of a Nice old gentleman who grins at me ear to a and what name lease but before j can even building in Fronton which am april these Camps were in Nola str smart of answer him he decree granted with the custody the i am out in the Reet again before t know whats append then i goes into a huddle with other tourists and discovers hat i have just been granted a i explains that i aint even married and they say that dont make any difference As they give everybody one mar ried or in fact discovers that six other unmarried just happened be asking directions about seeing the had been into court and divorced after that asks More questions but keeps around town until r finally sees my boy Friend driving around in the car looking for i gets him to drive right on across country with no further a girl has to live and Ima a hint to the railways from the Montreal is being whispered that one the railways contemplates Lay ing off More it would be highly unpatriotic to do the concerns that prospered for years and decades should help the country through its they cannot do it if they Are going to dump work people to swell the in better that big concerns should lower their dividends for a time until the storm is Over rather than aggravate a serious situate in by turning men and women adrift the prevailing will not be permanent and everyone Able to do so should help by cooperation to Lessen the privations that accompany it tending to pauper nation of individuals who Are during the fall Ana Winter we Hope to hear no More about wealthy concerns dismiss ing it cannot be excused and will not be excused on any Flimsy k the wealthy corporations Are not pre pared to make a sacrifice in an Endeavor to save the the Outlook will become Graver and Graver and the responsibility must be squarely and fairly i Many who thoughtlessly despoil wild Flowers and blossoms in tha Countryside would find a More worthwhile activity in plucking weeds from their own Christian science and since then the municipal authorities have dealing with the problem from Day to do ing their utmost Tosee to it that men will have Little left in the but hunger Wantage facts that cannot be got and in both cities some Relief being Given in May and in Saskatoon the Sal vation army was running a soul in Regina supplies were being sent sporadically to the unemployed in Calgary and Many hundreds of men were sent to twelve government Bush they were paid a Day with off for but Many hundreds More were dealt with by Means of meal tickets and tickets cheap these also were discontinued in and were replaced by porridge kitchens at which a bowl of por milk and sugar was served three times a Day to whomever wanted the men slept where they could anywhere to lie despatches Edmonton suggest that the policy of meal has been Begum has not been found a Good permanent diet in which to place men who cannot find work to waking up from the Edmonton sir Henry Thornton says the railways Are considering a plan to carry freight on passenger since the passenger trains have to and there Are not enough passengers to fill it it Felt that the engines might better haul freight cars than empty that will interest the motor truck since their Competition is what is threatening convert passenger trains into mixed it will in Teresa the since in one Way or another they will have to pay if the railways cannot Zajm expenses plus the scheme might the trucks out of or i might significant Point the railways Are waking up o tha fact that they must do something if Are to figure in future As More than Longdi Tanca carriers of freight in which Case they would require far Tigner rates than they have cd arged fewer billboards from san Francisco Chron one reason Why the scenery seems More wonderful in Europe is because you dont read at present we Are trying to educate children who Are it Rita incapable of receiving some writer is be cause so Many fools cart Makei a much More lamentable the average from on sixth to on eighth of Ler life in shopping Soma kind that Money make Abi ;