Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 17, 1931, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Al Talvity of civil rights a thursday december 17v1931 printed and published Dally except by the Winnipeg free press co me any. Limited a joint Stock company incorporated under Lect Laws of Manitoba. At its head office and place of business 300 Carlton Street in the City of Winnipeg. Manitoba. Y a h. Macklin president and general Atanasin Crri Sterud at the general Post office. London enr., for transmission through the mails in the British i Jalcs v at Inland Revenue rates. An economic Empire tenth pc cd lie Little on returning to Canada from Britain of december i or. Jet fall a very interesting phrase in connection i ii economic conference slated to held at Ottawa some Iii summer. Fimm Ali p Ops of the old he said. Look Nik Fon finl of i i in the belief that we will Lay at Ottaw i ten 1 of a nou i economie Empire in which Canada to a part of import knit ii is a Telli Iier in to Clivord and it embodies Ard in the interval Fere to i i my Ofa i till n i inc i an with Iii the limits represents the ultimate is i the construct Ion of cum Cudco Elaml throne it to ii be conic Pierce by to linkers whose nut Liy Consil editions of and like the in ii in t a nines of nil the he utties canadians will not import from the United states if they can. Possibly avoid it if they must pay a Lieam Premium on All their purchases. They will use British Anthracite Coal and Canadian Coal As far possible and will Pur Chase Oiler goods anywhere but in the i Lii led states. Another assured effect of the Exchange rate will be i the prevent ingot canadians from in Florida or California and spend ing a considerable amount Money there. They will spend it in British Columbia or in the by St or in their own Home Lovik in the parts Canada. It. I. It Lent therefore that failed staler big Sinisa stands to lose materially unless the exch litre rate against Panaiia corrected. What he might do if he had the Money they Are Wilile Talve Ellis the Kii Ipin i in nut i position which is both Iii Eronious Over in substantial fashion. Tables til a Money Market for Canada the discount upon the Cana Dian Dollar is so far As the statistical record goes beyond reason. A i in per rent allowance would apparently Bridge the Dif Leteney Between the Canadian and Hie american Dollar and a you i inning discount at that late be accepted As Safis Latoi y and would permit of business. Instead the discount has leached a height of ttiijus1 liable by the known fads As n suggest manipulation. It is of course claimed that the Price of Exchange is determined with exactitude by the operation of the Law of Supply and demand like other beliefs about the Auto malic and impartial functioning of banking is being damaged by developments which suggest that the whole Field of International banking has been in recent months a Battleground for j powerful unscrupulous scheming but after the nourishes of rhetoric we it Back to hard Vei s i m n to v a new York has been for Many and or. Kick Man. of National Revenue did not years be Rao Noy Raaket can. Ada and we made our exchanges Wilh the world through it. Under former conditions the Init dirt and natural resources ire built up to show How Ini Irh in to Sierra Leone Iii rat do with Britain. And How tin inti inn British Woollen floods Canada could Lake in for Drithia purchases of i Anatolian . Why nor. It is tin a lie idea to its los rival i tinier Cnoc i if Avail around the whole great Hanpt Ria Complex of nations dependencies and colonies in which every thiner necessary for the expansion of civilization is to be found in abundance and create behind 1 Hose sheltering Walls the Rren tem economic Empire that the world Lias Ever pen. Ten proposal is hems nit Forward in Inch protectionist in treat in retain a i sitting Ideal for the British Peoples and or Bennett Home from Britain Lias announced that the of. This economic Empire May be one of the accomplishments of the Imperial con frence next Vear at Ottawa. Canadian reflections by professor w. F. Osborne i am tempted to try to throw into organized form certain ideas that axe knocking at the door of my mind. They consist reflections set in. Motion by the play i saw on saturday for the second time the Barretts of Wompole Street. I do not intend to essay an appraisement of. The play that was Given last week by our accomplished the piece is a comedy since for one thins it being sensible at Christmas by h. E. G. "1 in through with All this fuss and nonsense about Christmas. This year i m going to be sen the remark is heard every year in Prosperity or in depression. This attitude is not Only senseless. It is a travesty a negation of All g that Christmas stands for. It is a pity to become tired out with preparations to the Point of weariness and irritability when Christmas can no longer Lay its some explorer s expedition lost to the world save for them what be technique of modern Short wave radio owes to our Amateur the world is never told or is Loath to admit. Discoveries which the paid commercial in somehow the words strike a chill i Benediction on the spirit. And it turns out Well far youth As against crabbed and distorted age that Able a Man As or. Barrett. But what i want to refer to is the speech. How urbane How genial How natural and effortless it was As the words fell impinging Wuh. Cameo like clarity on ear Ami memory i found myself saying what admirable language it is this Man is speaking or. D Albie said he thought it would be very Nice if a company of Canadian actors would bring to King Laud a group of. Canadian plays picturing Canadian life. Was1 it not suggestive that my instant thought was would such a thing be possible 1 do not say it could bul i where are1 the plays for the pair happiness be t shall so warmly desire As against glad in the Ihirg is done or wretched Man who draws Down on oven if some one will show that himself our unmeasured Nair knowledge which is at fault and that both plays and Tion and disgust. It is a comedy of the sort Alo Liere wrote when his role was that of the austere moralist and not that of the far eur. H belongs in its Way to the Type made illustrious by misanthrope and or. Barrett in his exaggerated obsession is of the Breed of Harragon and alceste. In. General i Younci the play As rendered in Winnipeg an exact replica of the play As done in the Queen s theatre at London. The grouping of the actors on the stage the lines and poise of the figures at crucial moments the inflexion of the voices offered a precise transcript for Christmas is the one time jew Hen merely being sensible seems lose a minute in coming Forward with the corrective to Bennett s visions of economic imperialism. 1my. Riekman by immediately rats Nir the duty on imported textiles re rut ived any misconceptions or. Bennetts statement May have raised Britain. Or. Wyckman indicates. Is not go aug to be the tenure of an economic Empire any More than she is now the a political Empire lie has not forgotten if sir. Ben rat has Allm Vul in to slip from his mind that Aee Rodinec to Canadian doctrine a textile factory in Canada great ded More important to this Dominion than a similar in Yorkshire. The drive for an economic Empire will go Forward but it would have to be approached in a spirit of in Lidit pruent and Compromise that Lias hitherto been lacking in the protectionist if in is Ever to be anything a More than a excuse for of Florid parliamentary eloquence great Deal of such eloquence would be needed to coir Eal the kid facts which a economic Empire would have to overcome. And the restlessness which is plainly visible in connection with the determining of quotas and preferences Indi Cates that Thi new Empire in any Lari re and portentous form should As yet he retrained Only As a picturesque Conception thai is nor intended to be taken ton literally. If the country is to up fraud iras a political it will be simplicity i i self for or. Bennett to make the definite announcement. Is sheer Folly to spend More than can Well be afforded through inadequate. It is a time Pride or fear of appearing cheap. One needs to have a lot of ordinarily careful people want to Money to celebrate Christmas be a Little foolish a Little few Hare less than the a Little sentimental. H is a time 5 it their Christmas remains a when the heart rules the head and it is to be hoped it always will be. There May be a lot of Unn ecos was natural convenient Safe and tary faqs about Christmas. Per prompt. Rut it to now apparent haps the Celebration of the great that if we Are forced to continue feast of Christendom is and has to use this machinery we Snail i been More Pagan than Christian pay a heavy toll. The the Christmas Trees their tinsel costs from Olla a that our coloured lights the Holly an-d1 Pem Lenee upon new can be Mistletoe and paper streamers the broken by the establishment of Turkey and Plum pudding and in cur own Money Market in Mont real. It is a question not of the desirability of this change but of its practicability. If such a mar Ket can be established by lire joint action of the Banks and with the assistance of the govern ment there should be no delay in embarking upon the Enterprise. More Humbug an Alibi Tor the new prohibitive do on Cottons is forthcoming in he claim hat it k intended o car oui imputations urn Japan. Fiance then did not the got and Italy. Canadian eminent following the example most set by he British govern of Flat stipulate that these re Tiia Coas should not apply to importations from the British Empire nominally acne duties May be directed against importations from foreign lands but probably Niue Laahs of the Cotton goods barred will be of English Call you this a backing of your or. Thomas might Well of or. Bronc to. Flower gardens. Our people grow Flowers with the Success of those who love them and there Are in the City and its environs All the makings for an outdoor Floral spectacle that would be unique in Canada. We have the ave Nufi the fun users and the weather. The christinas lamps show us what might be done with the blooms of summer. From the Golden books i lawns e. K. Campbell love lawns smooth fairy where cobwebs lie Dew silvered in the dawns lawns where shadows As evening cometh near weave delicate tra Ceries Black. And Solt and Claar i love lawns Green and Cool at noon or shining mistely beneath a lamps and Flowers elect lie ill Minu Ion. Year Are in Uhn a the Good. On main Street Exchange blocks imports it is not surprising that United states business men interested in Export Trade with Canada Are be ginning to worry about the effect upon that Trade of the Adverse Exchange rate. Exports to can Atla from the United states declined first on account of Tho de pression. They declined further after i to Ionising of the Tariff by the present Ernie it at Ottawa. Aie falling off still More because of the depreciation of the Canadian Dollar. Nave the most Beautiful eur Sef a in City or in any other on the con Ini in. The my i twin Liling v hich Spangle is and even Green the ropes of Limp which make Street. Avenue i. For every Worth of Good. Purchased in he United Stales canadians must pay ft00 in Cana Dian Money it simply Means to e trim o and or at. Smooth and made for the pressure of tripping fairy feet lawns like Broad lakes shored with flaming Lowers whore great Trees Arch and Whu per through the hours digestible dainties these have nothing to do with the birth of Christ. But they Are the accompaniments of a season of gladness the against which Are projected the ;