Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 10, 1932, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial 3egti0m Jet Edom of Trade Liberty of Equality erf civil rights. Leg Friday june us Tab listed the Tthum Speir press limited a joint Stock comp Jar under the Laws of Manitoba at its head office and place of business 300 Carllon Street in the City of Winnipeg Manitoba. K. H. Mankuk. President and general a tanager. A Ibe hcnrr.1 Tost Ociee. Bar., for transmission. Through the Post in the Hytra Fanf Tom at the newspaper rate of attacking Manitoba s credit the statements of col. Taylor and other conservative candidates that Manitoba s credit is gone and the form eating of allegation with charges of governmental extravagance and failure to control expenditure deserve the close the Jonk of Manitoba what they Are asked to behave that the a Thor provinces have floated Bond issues Success my. That a Heidi Manitoba attempted to do so it was and that this was because the Tjo Veru Leftt had a financial record those of the governments of the other Western pwn focus. These Are without warrant. By other Western it of july wave exactly the same exper of votes in. The other constituencies would in the event of a Gen eral election Bury the Henry government beneath a landslide. Imports through the Bay the development of import Trade Bro ugly Hudson Bay is necessary to the Success of the Northern route and to ensuring to exporters the full Benefit of the Low trans the audience is on to importation rates which that route should offer. Western people Western firms which import goods and other Western province attempting to float Bonds at from May be expected to -.11 id ave the same experience As . I be interested in the development Imle other financial companies not in the of import Trade both for their own the i surant e by the recent flotation l Ontario Ijo tuls Aud the absorption by Small Jaar Ket. To any extent As was shown i _ i. __.3 that is the explanation some m a Large Issue of investors is a More gradual process or the Manitoba thuds were not All taken imbue e Bonds were Stilt available for s to All investors last to pre Uwi Henry. But Bonds aare of terms As goods a or better than those obtained by other Westera provinces. The fact that in spite of at conditions in. The. Bond Market. Worth of Maul is have been sold and More Are being taken from Day k he Liat Tufi re Clit of this provice is m reasonably Well in a time of great difficulty. On what does the credit of a province depend it depends on the ability of its government to keep control of expenditure. The essence of Ioven Anent record in this respect is a Ontaiy Tai the following facts 1. Ali current annual expenditure since. 19-3 has shown a smaller rate of increase Thau that of any other province. 2. In i a a of he present emergency. Manitoba has reduced its appropriations for this year to a lower level actually and relatively than that of any of the other provinces. 3 the increase in Manitoba s debt in the last ten years is by far the. Lowest among the Western provinces. 4 in fact of the emergency Manitoba s debt Iii was held Down last year in a Way that compares most favourably with thar of. The other provinces in question. The increases in Ordinary sex Peji Dituri a since 1923 trere As follows Beuett for the purpose of Cou Tribu Tius to the Success of the route. But there is Ordinary expenditure 1923 Manitoba estimates 1932-33 increase British 19.27s.ooo the above figures while showing a smaller increase in Manitoba than in the other provinces also show How Manitoba s appropriations for this year were held in. Cheek As compared with those in the other provinces. In the. Matter of debt in crease both last year Aud since the present government assumed office the comparison is also favourable to Manitoba. Ures Are As follows Lor a a Orga Utzat Ion to Foster and build. To import Trade to rough the Baji even Tail was and steam ship company has a ii . For som Eiting business Dey Olp ing traffic m the which it serves. The Hudson Bay railway Vas built by the Dominion Aud the opening of the Bay route has been a National Enterprise. K is the natural function the Dominion government to see that the Best possible return is obtained from the investment of Over Aad thai Means activity in seeking the. Development of traffic. The government Lias apparently arranged to have or. W. H. Hajji us the Montreal shipping broker come to Winnipeg to help in creating to organization la the West for this purpose. The co operation of Western business firms and companies is very desirable. There vill of course need to be a permanent Organiza Tion. Pulling for traffic for the Bay route just As there Are Strong organisations pulling for traffic for the competing St. Lawrence route. War debts debt 1931-32 on the eve of the la Sanaie con Ference the French through pre Mier Herriot Bave reaffirmed the stiff National attitude on the ques Tion of reparations and the United Stales now follow up with an equally explicit reach ration of the american position that Europe must pay its War debts. As the the Fig i Lausanne conference is being held o discuss problems produced by hese classic National insistence British the essential facts in debt increase 1922-32 the financial record of. Manitoba Are contained in the two tables Given above. These Are the things to men investors wish to know when they in quire about the credit of the province. Now is there any reason from the above figures Why credit should not be at least As Good As that of any of the other Western provinces attack which col. Taylor and other conservative Eair dilates Are making upon the credit of Manitoba is entirely unwarranted and highly improper. It is an Appeal to ignorance and it cannot but be damaging to Manitoba and to the private interests in have their statements go abroad. The conservative Leader says that Manitoba Bonds Are Selling at 15 per cent discount. He does not slate also that All old Bond issues Are depressed by new issues with higher interest . Does not say that All of the Dominion conversion issues Are now Felling at less than 90. These tactics Are being used in constituencies All Over the province and amongst people Many of whom Are not conversant i visit matters of and therefore Apt to be easily misled. It is for the electors to observe the Quality of these tactics and form their own conclusions. Bomin Ioa issues where provincial parties Are adj units of Dominion parties it is impossible to keep Dominion issues out of provincial contests. The present contest in Manitoba is an illustration. The local conserva Tives resent the introduction of Dominion issues which it is in convenient or dangerous for them to defend but they Are hard at exploiting their connection with the dominant Dominion party wherever they think this an advantage. There has not been a Leader m the local conservative party is not on the platform fought to captivate his audiences the vision of the largesse be showered upon this province if it kill kindly put into offic9 a government subservient 10 Ottawa. Or. Bernier was going wrong on this line just the other a she in. His constituency. This Appeal is being largely resorted to m private canvass. It would doubtless the very forefront the Campaign if there was not something More than a doubt As would be interpreted by the conservatives themselves Here and elsewhere by colonel Taylor and by or. Bennett by the party press throughout the Dominion As a vindication of the Dominion government and its policies. It would be1 said that the people of Mani Toba had shown themselves Satis fied with the government s Tariff policy with its treatment of the Canadian National and with its general administrative record. Electors in deciding How to cast their votes should not ignore the fact that a Dominion interpretation will he Given to the result in Manitoba. That the. Intrusion of Dominion issues into our provincial elections is not in the interests of the pro Vince is hardly arguable. But there is Only one Way to eliminate them and that is to discourage provincial parties from affiliating with Dominion parties in these circumstances by refusing them support. Riding Mountain by . I May. As Well be candid and admit at i had been foolishly Hod men go about aying out and making one our National Parks like that of Riding Mountain in Manitoba How they tame its expanse Tor the Public pleasure without impairing its wildness. The undertaking seemed to me to be of an endless Immen sity. The band that desecrated had to be cunning. The opera Tion to be could so easily be botched unless the touch were the sure one it the Good surgeon. I had imagined too that men working in. Such an. Avea of space and expanse water arid spread of Forest Woald. Express themselves exaggeratedly in the suggestive go through the Golf club Housa though i should never drink again. Against such insistence such Pride accomplishment resistance is futile. I capitulated. I had to. The log Walls the club House contain every from hot and cold water to hot and cold lunches of course there is a. Government specifications for All log buildings in Tbs Park must Call for Stone fireplaces. And they All seem to be built by a Genius who puts into his Mas Sive structures something the old Glass blowers of Pennsylvania blew into their exquisite for abilities in Glass. Through a Dormer window in. The upper Story of the club Bouse i gazed upon a Vista of Lake Aud Forest and of a beam i could reach i a. Robin leave her nest. I made As though to stretch toward the nest. Or. Simpson gasped in. Pain. He bad actually forgotten his club Bouse. Don to vie shouted. I looked blankly Insuk Ness the surrounding vastness. J upbraided is. In this i was wrong. The majesty j you would t touch a Bird s nature communicates some of farms in the . The prospects of anything being settled should be persisted in at Lausanne is so Remote that the calling of the conference seems to have very Little Point. Do the French intend to stand on their rights and Bave Germany declare a Complete default on reparations does the United states intend to abide by its War debt claims and hasten the possibility of repudiation there can be no Progress if there is 110 adjustment Aud it has to be admit Ted looking at tie condition in a hich International finance now finds itself that there has been Little real Progress so far. The apparent emphasis of the United states announcement is softened to some extent by the suggestion that the moratorium May be continued. This of course would merely be a prolongation of the Arhat is needed is a genuine facing of the facts in a spirit of realism. The United states pronouncement equally with that of the French declines to do this to the increasing obscurity of the immediate future. By j. B. M. Washington . A great majority of farms in the United states probably three out of four Are either occupied by tenants or mortgaged. The proportion was almost As High As this in 1930, a recently published census report shows and has increased la the last two years. The census report summarizing statistics on agriculture gathered in the National census of 1930, shows that the decade 1920-30 was a. Period of declining Prosperity for the Farmers. It records an in crease in tenancy and in mortgage indebtedness and a decrease in farm population and Laud values. The number of farms in the United states dropped 2.5 pet cent in the ten years though the country s population grew 16 per cent in that time. Rural Popula Tion was -is.5 per cent of the total in 1920. Less than 44 per cent in 1930. The latter figure is probably about accurate for 1932 As the Drift of bankrupt and discouraged Farmers to the towns has been offset in recent years by the land Ward trek of the Urban unemployed. The proportion of tenants among United states Farmers Rose from 3s per cent in 1920 to 42.5 per cent in 1930. In. The West Gener ally the percentages Are lower. The proportion of tenancy for the whole nation is made High by the figures from. The. Southern Cotton Belt. Of the farms occupied by owners 40 per cent were mortgaged in. 1930, As against 36 per cent ten years earlier. This figure Accord ing to testimony from farm experts Aud Western congressmen almost certainly reached 50 per cent in the last two years. The average mortgage debt was in 1930 As compared to in 1920. Because of the fall in land values this Small increase meant a. Jump in the debt from. 30 to 40 per cent of the value of the farm. The average Worth of an american farm dropped from in 1920 to in 1930, the report shows and the average value of farm land per acre from ?57.36 to ?35.40. A brighter part the record indicates water was piped into about Oue million. American farmhouses in 1930, while had electric Light. In 1920 Only bad water Aud electricity these conveniences Are still not generally enjoyed in the Middle West. Most of the farms having modern water and Light service Are in the Atlantic and Pacific coast Stales. Sales tax squashed by Tom King. Washington . David Igna Tius Walsh is one of the two demo cratic senators from Massachusetts. He was the first Democrat to he seut by Massachusetts to the sen ate since the close of the civil War but since then he has fairly Well succeeded in transforming that former stronghold of the re publican party into a democratic state. He has All the irishman s love of a fight and often keeps on fighting after a Wiser Man would Call it a Day. For some reason or other he became convinced that the sales tax should be included in. The billion Dollar Revenue Bill. This had been overwhelmingly rejected by the House of representatives and the Senate finance com Mittee refused to the controversy. Finally fifty five sen democrats and its silence of its modesty to those familiarly engaged amid its manifestations. The men. I met seemed intensely absorbed in Little in. Minute concerns. Len was. He and i stood on the slope of a Blu i that let us gaze to the Hori Zon in the Square Miles of the National Park. Bird Carol led to to and Little cots had been secreted for their nesting. Through the Gap at the air. Force Camp sparkled unruffled Miles and Miles of shimmery Blue water in Clear Lake. The artist m. Nature bad squeezed shades of restful greens on a palette of Hills and valleys Clad in the foliage of Trees. Wild fenced within the spacious Reserve some Miles away but Only a. Vacut tailed jumping Deer sped fleetingly across an opening in Pursuit of her Herd. In this free Dom life is sanctified and Only the devastating Gopher is outlaw. Everywhere around much was to be seen and More was to be talked about. But All Levi could see All Lea would talk about was a Blade grass. Or. Simpson men other restrictions Twenty republicans signed a As be held this piece of grass consequences of Gold hoarding. Prom the London times the new York Banks Stilt hold a third or More of the world s Gold. Its accumulation Bas prob ably been the. Greatest single fac Tor in bringing about the crisis. By producing a Scarcity o Money in other countries it drove Down world prices impoverishing the primary producer in the United states As elsewhere and made it difficult for the rest of the world to buy american goods. Instead of oiling the wheels of internal Aud International Trade it was used 10 finance an extravagant orgy of Stock Exchange Specula Tion Aud made the basis of a Gold inflation with the inevitably disastrous results. But now if properly utilized it it is not hoarded an african chief might Board Bis cowrie shells it might still be a potent restoring Prosper Ity to the United states and to the whole the rest of the world. Notes and comment ther wifi Ether it really is effective. E is an apprehension Well founded we should the loses More votes than it Tea ominous the Flag tires of the voting in the West York by election Are ominous Tor the present Ontario . In 19-29 the conservative candidate polled two thirds of the vote rolling up a majority _ in other tie Comer. 3jg a the recent by election cannot escape the Distad Kes association with Manitoba vote to make the conservative candidate in minority of Over three thousand the a . I Uvea e Dominica party. Everybody votes and won by a plurality owing to 3, division of the. Opposition the Liberal and of course an unwarranted attack upon the credit of the province damages every business interest in Manitoba. The debtor nations took goods not Money from the United states when they incurred their War debts. They should offer the United states goods in payment As the Only practicable alternative to repudiation. Nothing would clarify the situation so completely As a definite proposal of this nature. Of the mix it wits once said in England that he looked social problems in the on. Definition of an Alderman the Only class of worker that can get by without a wage reduction. In keeping with the times even our lakes Are hitting new All time lows. I the old cry of United to stand divided we fall Bas Point for nations nowadays rather than individual movements. J today s scripture from Isaiah 8 and when they shall say. Into you seek unto them thac _ have familiar spirits and unto wizards that Peep and that should not a people seek unto their god for the living to the dead 10 the Law and to the testimony t they speak not according to this Ukini Jfe i books Zie finer world within the lord David Cecil gave before the English association the other Day a Well balanced estimate of Cowper s works ills poetry and his incomparable letters which Are pronounced equal any let ters Ever or. B. V. Lucas introduced and edited the selections from 431 letters published in the world s classics of elegant Little reprints. And he says that Cowper wrote a few let ters unsurpassed by any other letter writer. Certainly or. Lucas is an authority on that kind of. Literature. But the High Standard of personal correspondence de pends upon t he unconscious writer has no notion whatever making literature out of his let ters. Hence letters written with one Eye on the letter Aud the other of posterity fall Short of the Standard. Take for examples of the unconscious and spontaneous Lamb and mrs. Carlyle. Or. Lucas chooses for motto to his selection a sentence out of a letter of Lamb to Coleridge i am glad you love Cowper. .1 could forgive a Man for not enjoying Milton but i not Call that Man my Friend who should be offended., with the divine hit Chat of Cowper " Lamb is there quoting Coleridge s own term that reminds me did the private club of highly intellectual women in this fore gather under the Chitter chatter set. The variation from Coleridge lord David reminds us that Cowper had a horror of the letters betraying literary Effort. He thought that Pope s letters were written to he read aloud that one should destroy a letter after Reading. And yet his own artless letters Are. Composed in sparkling spontaneous. English written the mood of his correspondent and he had t very much to write about in. That quiet Remote country life with his few friends. But for that mat Ter your born letter writer is one who has not much to write about. Cowper wrote some tip top letters to that awful her.1 John Newton once Captain of a slave ship who is blamed Lucas for the round Robin pledging themselves to vote against any sales tax Amend ment. As there Are Only ninety six senators All told and Seldom More than eighty Are recorded on any vote this seemed to be a Knock out blow. But senator Walsh insisted upon the. Sales tax. And at the last moment was reinforced by president Hoover. A few hours before the final vote was to be taken on the Revenue Bill or. Hoover unannounced. uninvited appeared at the Capitol. He delivered a speech to the Senate covering a Good Deal of territory hut its con Crete recommendation was that the salts tax should be incorporated in. The Revenue Bill. However it proved to he a futile Effort be cause the Senate finance commit tee ret us to reconsider their former action and late that night senator Walsh s sales tax Amend ment was Defeated. Before this happened however senator Walsh declared that the senatorial round Robin above referred to was unethical. He asked what would be thought of jury men signing a round Robin pledging themselves either to convict or acquit an accused person before he was. Actually placed upon trial. How then could fifty five senators with propriety pledge themselves in. Writing to vote against a. Cer Tain measure before it had been had i Hung my head As though convicted of the evil intention and asked what would Bave happened to me bad he not providentially prevented me. Or. Simpson meant to he kindly but an officer of the Park must be without compassion. Under certain circumstances. As for instance when the life of a. Creature is threatened. He said regretfully that had i taken eggs out of the nest or in any Way molested the Robin he would have had to band me Ovar to the mounted police who patrol the Park. I was properly grateful for his deliverance Aud sought further information. Toned a few that would ordinarily be complied with by any self respecting human. I alluded to bathing. Or. Simp son explained that naturally All bathers had to he reasonably at tired in decent costumes. Remember 1 was More parched than Ever. My Only Hope of Lite was to reach that Spring where the bubbles erupt. In tiny jets and flow for Ever Winter s ice even. Being unable to Stop them. But 1 was not to he deterred from my vile intention to wreak havoc Oil this of the Park who had seduced me away from that Spring. I suggested with Bland innocence a person might take a dip in the or. Simpson. Reeled. Bathe in the in. Undress madness that attacked the poet. The letters to Bis Cousin lady Hesketh Are lyrical prose though he meant it not so. He was in love with lady Hesketh s sister Theodora , who refused him. And he seems to have taken the disappointment with great composure As or. Lucas says. Lord David gives us two letters before be passes 011 to critical Survey of the poetry. One letter while he was Busy with Homer is to lady Hesketh. He concludes my dear i have told Homer what you say about casks and wines and have asked him whether he is sure that it is a cask in which Jupi Ter keeps his wine. He swears that it is a cask and that it will never be anything better than a cask to eternity. So if. The god is Content with it we must even wonder at his taste and be so to Newton Cowper writes about a visit from a candidate who Shook him by the hand with seducing i told him i had no vote for which he gave me credit. I assured my t bad no influence which he was not equally inclined to believe. Or. Grenville squeezed me by. The hand again kissed the ladies and withdrew. He kissed likewise the maid in the and seemed on the whole a most Loving Sciss ing kind hearted the Bookman. From the Golden books r a prayer Rev. Rowland by the. Agony of men s striving by men s Heads bowed in shame and eyes filled with tears by their necks weighed Down with burdens their feet and hands perplexed Ana bound and by their crying out of misery be moved 0 lord to arise and Amend the tried for heresy As contributor to essays and reviews of last Century. Human ingenuity can no remedy against individual it Eres Arthur -.greenwood, presented and before they heard its merits evidently the reply would be Liat jurors must approach a Case with open minds but that no such obligation rests upon legislators. Many of them indeed go to Congress or parliament As advocates for the political parties to which they be Long and make no pretence of judicial impartiality. However in. The. Present con Gress with party lines almost obliterated and party discipline entirely Gore every senator Aud every representative has to do his own thinking Aud vote according to Bis own convictions. This seems at first Blush desirable hut it leads to. Great delay and confusion. The tax passed Senate is anything but a Model legislation. Up Many votes were required and to obtain them Tariff duties had to be injected into a measure dealing with Inland Revenue. Even More hopeless will it be to effect economies in. The administration of the government.1 the e membership of the House ran away with its Economy committee and. Rejected nearly All its recommendations. The Senate May do better with its committee but Al ready there has broken out violent opposition on the floor of the sen ate to the Flat ten per cent Cut in Federal salaries and wages which was the Corner Stone of the sen ate s substitute for the House Bill. Under old time rigid two party sys tem have been quite easy to balance the budget if the Lead ers . Party in Power agreed upon additional taxes and drastic Economy it will be a great Deal More difficult Congress where the average member looks upon himself not As a Soldier whose first duty is to obey but a juror who must stand by his own personal convictions. If there Ever was a. Crying need wed say it was that tearless onion someone has devel oped Down in Texas. Boston. Herald birthday congratulations to Hector h. Bradurn Winnipeg Bora Peterboro out june 10, Doser inspection he would happen if you for my fondled it daintily against the Back of his bronzed hand. He said it was not Ordinary grass like that in the fairways Oeth e course on. Which we stood. This was Bent grass. But Bent grass meant nothing to me. 1 repeated with polite in diff Terence. I had not come to look at a Blade of grass when i had come to see the National Park. But i did not know what i had come to see for the Park is so to speak made up of Blades of Len was Hurt. He could not imagine a Man from the City not knowing Bent grass. The intensity of interest that bordered on the emotional in this Lusty Young Man with Cheeks As Roseate As rambler roses was shocked by my ignorance. To recover the esteem i had lost approvingly a Bent brought All the Way from Levi told me. I said dubiously. Len lowered his voice. Impressively. Hand picked there and hand planted evidently the lad was intent on. Having a joke at my expense. Hand planted. What do you. I asked. To set Oft the naturalness of a National Park innumerable unsuspected contrasts in Beauty and for Comfort have to be designed and Woven artfully into the Tex Ture of the whole. Be n s Humble part in this creation is Nel pins to Lay the greens on the Goic course. The work is . It is a difficult tedious minute task of Plant ing. Each Blade of the tufted roots As Fine As set in. Place by hand one after the other until the whole Green is grass Clad. That is the Green is to be perfect. And Riding Mountain aspires to a Fine course in its enchanting setting. The ambition can. Only he laboriously achieved. Each Green alone entails Mammoth patience. And when it Bas been completed been nursed coddled wheeled and endless , it seems unt noticeable in the wild landscape of the surrounding Park. It is a fragment a detail but it is a mor Sel that would be missed were it lacking it is therefore one of the Many tiny Ocee actions entailing assiduous Industry entrusted to the men transforming this wild Aiea into a approach to nature through a Sanctuary of peace and safety Unur ameled grandeur and unobtrusive artifice. The lakes in Riding Mountain Are. Spring Ted and of a pellucid seductiveness. There is one Spring however to which All visitors make a pilgrimage. It is deftly enshrined in a. Cupola of stones at Thi foot of a tumbling Creek where this acting superintendent has his Bungalow. From this Pierian fount i yearned to quaff a deep draught but or. Simpson would not allow me. I was hot and parched for i had not drunk. Was , but bad drunk of the. Spring. Or. Simpson is without mercy so Long As he has something Iru the Park to. Show you. Would have me i asked. Or. Simpson said it would be a Case for tie mounted. Police. The offender would jailed lie might but Why dwell on the impossible such. An affront had never been offered the National Park. It was when or. Simpson had stated the horror -.in., All its obscenity that i Sank him with one push. Dry parched As i i was not going to let him escape. I told him but i bathed without any bathing suit in Clear Lake this or. Simpson staggered. Hush he said glancing nervously at me. He attributed my mad delusion to the heat and hurried me to the bub bling Spring one More the thou Sands of t Asci Imti of details in the vastness of the Park called Riding Mountain. The biggest Spring cleaning special London correspondence the biggest and quickest Spring cleaning in great Britain has just been finished at the British. Museum. For six Days the famous Reading room has been closed to the in those six Days two million books have been taken out and dusted by hand. One Hun dred men Bave been engaged the task. Meanwhile men who spend their whole time in the Reading room have been feeling very some of them Bave made it the occasion to go away for holidays others have merely been bored and have wandered about blooms Bury wondering what to do with their time. Familiar faces have been missing from More or less Bohemian restaurants within few minutes walk of the museum. But now the Reading room has opened once More and these people Are coming Back to continue their work. Bloomsbury is itself again everyone has Long been wonder ing How the Briti Sli museum Man Ages to Cope with the enormous masses of printed matter which Are brought to it for the Library. The British museum is of course like the bodleian authorized by Law to receive a copy of every thing that in published. The amount matter printed has for Many years past been so Buge the museum authorities have been terribly perplexed by the problem of dealing with every thing brought to them. The newspapers had to be taken away to a special building in heir but that Only slightly de creased the authorities but now at last a measure of Relief is in sight for them. A. Bill has been House of introduced lords to into give the museum trustees Power to refuse certain publications. These Are also All books which Are not books and they Are specified in. The Bill. Railway time tables Are among those specified. So registers of votes which Are kept elsewhere for Trade specifications inventions which Are available at the Patent religious. And other matter for the Elemen tary education of children publications wholly or mainly Iai. The nature of Blank the destiny Mankind slipped we Are All aware of from the hands of politicians info the. Hands of scientists. Impi Desmond ;