Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 16, 1932, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Nip 16, obdurate Cotton manufacturers the obvious breakdown of the pre conference negotiations the representatives of the British and the Canadian the weakness of plan of the British and the Dominion manufacturers Settle the of the division of markets by consultations Between arrangement which the govern the. Looking towards an ends would proceed 10 validate. The procedure was set out m Ilie recent announcement the federation of Industry and the l. Say that the Dominion govern ment has full Power to do tins under the Blank Cheque Legisla Tion. It is suggested that the. Pension would be paid to All men Over 69 years of age registered with the City As unemployed and to men Over 69 still working for the City who could be replaced by younger workers. There would be eligible and Only one pension of a month would be Given to each family. If this proposal were what about the aged people who would have similar claims i pen Sions in Quebec City Sherbrooke and elsewhere in that province and it old age pensions were paid for a year or two in need in any part of Quebec is it prob Able that they would Ever be with drawn and if and when the Dominion shoulders the whole Cost or old age pensions As the paseut i love Rumbut undertook to do Why should Quebec object to under the scheme in some detail in i British industries published under the title quote from 1 his pamphlet the federation of British industries attaches a Aimu importance to a policy which has been variously described As Rosa nation of Industry Man Empire basis. mus or. As the federation prefers to Call it com elem Enlar Indusi rial production. The purpose of a conference in complementary production Holn Yeii the manufacturers in a particular Industry in great Britain and in a. Given Dominion would be to explore the Olati arrangement whereby the production of Ceram should be Recos juiced As being the province it the whereas others would be regarded As better left to the a nixed kingdom manufacturer. The British industrialist would co operate by agreeing to Render All possible assistance to the Dominion Industry through technical assistance in planning machinery and designs co operation in research and in certain cases la capital develop ments. The Dominion manufacturer would co operate by Render ing All possible assistance to the British Industry in order to genre in this country the bulk of the import Trade and in particular to co operate in Selling arrangements. Development on a basis of a mire standardization should be aimed at. To Maiv branches of Industry this is of the greatest importance in keep iia with Liis idea a delegation representing the Cotton spinners and Irani a Lnders association of great Britain headed Liy h. Grey he chairman of the dissociation began last week in Montreal negotiations with representatives of the Canadian Cotton interests. The. Opening of the con Ference was regarded by the lion real press As Aji event of great importance. sail the Star forecasting the event will begin a series of conferences fraught with the est importance. British textile men and Canadian textile ratau fac hirers will nicer in round fable conferences to explore possible areas for Mutual advantage in preparation for the Ottawa we cannot the Star said further. Too often that it will be the business men of the Empire not her statesmen who will in the. End make the. Sue Cess or failure of the in less Ilian a week s time the was deadlocked. And the British delegates were in Ottawa telling their troubles to or. Bennett. What they had to prime minister was that the Canadian textile manufacturers would not consent to share with them in the slightest measure the Market in Canada Jav Jitich Vas formerly theirs but which was taken away from them the Tariff legislation of 1930 and 1931. Supplemented by the Exchange penalties and dumping duties imposed by order in Couriel. There never Lias been any doubt about the position this is. Evidently to Start in printed and published the Winnipeg free press company United a joint under the Laws of its head office and place of business 300 Carlton Street in. The War of Winnipeg Manitoba. E. H. Mackli president and general Begill ered at the general Post office zen dim i for transmission through the Post in the ignited King at the newspaper Rale of bios Lase. Farmer and his friends Consumers get no consideration the excessive customs taxation More thai 300 per imported fruit and vege-1 tables at the present time Indi i Cates the utter disregard for the consumer by the government at j on a. of tomatoes com ing from Texas Aud. Costing 5s.io, the customs charges Are they include a 30 per cent rate on the Carload on which an artificial valuation of 5 cents a Pound has been placed. This amounts of then there is a dump duty of because the tomatoes were Quebec s viewpoint i the East impinges on the West by prof. Vav. F. Osborne bought Pound. less than 5 cents a in addition there is an excess tax of cucumbers Are taxed even More heavily. On a Carload costing the total Soo. The customs charges alone Are about 200 per cent. Higher duties have just been ordered on carrots raspberries and apricots. The government s idea of the Canadian Cotton the various measures by which these Canadian markets were taken away from the British manufacturers were the government at their solicitation if not at Belr demand and they do not propose to consent to give Back a particle of the Advt image Vii Cut they Jiaren Tunis gained. This was made quite Clear in recent articles in tote Canadian Sci tile journal. Current Exchange and special duty Regula the ditties paid on imports appear said the journal yet no one can deny 1 lie necessity for Canada to adjust currency inflation to meet Domestic True imports Hail thus been restricted but the Canadian Indus a c try had been severely handicapped under the previous Preter Cyntia Tariff rates and this adjustment was Long overdue Ilie present government was elected to provide adequate Tariff Protection against All outside the. Exist ing preferential rates must not be lowered this would immediately undermine the whole Canadian textile Industry. It was doubtless in the spirit manifested article that the representatives of the Canadian Cohon Industry met the delegation from great Britain. To doubt they told the. Visitors that if they could find any Market in. Canada Wlinich the Domestic manufacturers did not want they were Welcome to it. As for the markets in Canada which the visitors formerly held by virtue of the moderate rates in the Liberal Tariff but which they have now lost by reason of the High Bennett Tariff the Canadian manufacturers have undoubtedly served notice that not a Par tide of the business thus wrested from them will be returned. Advance of the Canadian crop sea son and provide Protection As nearly exclusive As possible. During this period the consumer can pay j an exorbitant Price or do without. I the consumer be seems to be t ifs motto. The question which thus cannot be settled by private negotiation goes to or. Bennett and lie will have to decide whether be will Back the Canadian Cotton manufacturers 1o the limit or fee them to adopt a More reasonable attitude. It May be that the Success or failure of the conference will turn upon the Deci Sion which lie will a ice upon this particular Case. Animals. Tag. Day animal lovers will have no need to be reminded that All the Finan Cial assistance that can be Given Hotilda be Given on saturday is. When the Winnipeg society for the prevention tit cruelty to Ani Mals is having its tag Clay. This society receives no Grant from any official sources whatsoever and depends on it one lag Day a year to produce sufficient funds to enable it to carry on its Valu Able work. It is the. Only organization in the City that looks after strayed injured or sick animals and fur ther keeps a. Strict watch for cruelty to working animals. In its twelve years of operation in great Winnipeg it Lias handled animals. Last year animals different sorts were looked after by the society. The society performs an admirable function in the Community and deserves a measure of support from every individual in it. There will be an Opportunity to give this support saturday. Today s voting the voting in today s Lons win be heavy particularly in of Winnipeg where there Vii More names on the list j at the last elections. All Ian Peg electors who can voter a in the stay should do so in Der to avoid crowding the polls closing hours. The polls in " e open from . To . The voter looking Down the list can easily find the names of those for whom he or she wishes to vote. The elector can vote for candidates of one party Only or he can include i candidates of other parties just As he desires. Everyone whose name is on the list should go and vote. It. Is the duty of every citizen. And any persons who have the qualifications for voting but whose names for any reason Are not on the notes and comment both in he City 4. It and the province will i a member to Mark their ballots with j sures crosses at ind not to place the figure "1" opposite More than one candidate. A the voters will Mark with the figures Etc. Opposite the of candidates in the order Don t forget. Today. Is the Only time for five years you la the Opportunity of Ventin your opinion on provincial politicians. Don t Overlook it. An old Limer is one who re Mem Ber. That a Bull in a barnyard Ani Mal with horns and Stock broker after several months of voters lists can go to the polls u Selens about time to Send an Yokohama i no intention within 21 hours of Landing on Asiatic soil of. Simulating know ledge of Oriental politics. At the same time i know a seriatim de of what i have seen in this first which the details and the ensemble of an alien civilization., leap into one s eyes and Register themselves on the mind with unequalled vivid would be tires Mely amateurish. While the raw materials of political and social Imide stand forming let me select just enough of the Concrete details that strike one at once to signal ize an outstanding generalization which i am sure represents a sub Stantial fact. Suppose i had suddenly to change my plans leave this hither rim of which i have just set foot what would be5the one Large impression i Shoi old carry away i am sure it would be. The staining haunting oddness of the. Extraordinary Situa and perhaps psychology resulting from the rapid imposition of Occidental ism on a race in its deeps no doubt re Mains Oriental but which has adopted the ear Mark of Western life with a sort of Elf like and uncanny completeness. I say Perry s masked in Amity but the soft Glove hiding a grip of. But the real capitulation to the West dating from 1s6s. Say 1s70, and you have the 62 years that have transformed Japan from a Hermit Eastern nation into a tip top world Power. First Railroad the is Miles from Here to. Tokyo which i shall traverse tomorrow constructed in 1s72. Last sum Mer i followed the. Line rus Sia s first to tsars be selo built in the Issos today scores and scores of trains Many of them electric play like Swift shuttles Between the capital and the port. Yesterday i had. My experience of japanese Yokohama to Kamakura ancient military capital of Japan. Hotel to station in , electric bus male Driver girl conductor. About half the bulk of a London bus meticulously brightly cushioned in Blue. Stop and go electric signs in congested districts. Ticket wickets subways station platforms for All the world like constantly subject to devastating fires. Iii note that the train which. Ran through the Rice Fields was in distinguishable from the London metropolitan. In the foyer of the nest grand. Hotel two Black a seated Bill All the Alexandra or the. Vancouver hotel smart letter Box Swift glancing elevators writing tables luxurious furnishings Ash stands radio and All the rest. Telephones ringing taxis Corning and going news stands and so on and so on. Yes they be caught All and got All our things and it May be they Lave bettered or will bet our instruction. Whether of no the event proves that the rus sians can administer Western mechanism these people can. Evi Dently they take to Western paraphernalia As the proverbial Duck Akes to water. Business men utterly Western. In least in hours. Near me. Last night at dinner sat five men it took a to convince nil self they were orientals. And yet yesterday afternoon l gazed at the vast seated Buddha in the Vale o e Kamakura inscrutable and cryptic embodiment of Watfeh originating in India out dating our by five or six centuries traversing China imported hither from Korea and today dominating the conscious Ness of thirty seven million Japan ise. And a Little later-1 followed at a. Jong Pine tree lined Avenue skirted a Lotus Pond passed a. Half score of subsidy air shrines ascended a Long flight Stone stairs1, and stood before the Tempie of Achiman a. Jewel of variegated color set in a. Frame work delicious Green. This is a. Temple of the japanese for an hour a Friend and 1 watched the constant coming of men Cpin Flung from a great distance into a receptacle head bowed in deep homage a Short clapping of lauds and a Briet spell of. Midi Tatish and prayer before the Ishrish e of the Enins of a race. Similar things on the London be sworn and have the privilege of voting. Their three preference. In other nuni the prov5nce or. More candidates Are run pensions for Montreal s aged although Quebec has not adopted the old age pension scheme the proposal is now made by the unemployment Relief com Mittee in Montreal that an arrangement for the temporary payment of such pen to t vdl1 put in that City so As to ease the names on the bal i Aper to show their second or where Only two choices "at-3 Are running the voter put the figure "1" Choice. The candidate Dis bout. M there is nothing difficult voting in the City or in other the province. In. Will find it Lake Olls a list of the candidates Vole there name on the ballot an l in not run from Ion in alphabetical order but j the Burden of Relief during the present crisis. Montreal is impressed by the fact that other cities in Canada Are receiving Large sums in. The Way of old age pensions in addition to what they receive from Ottawa for unemployment Relief. Hence it is pro posed that Montreal and tie pro Vince of. Quebec together from their unemployment Relief and that they then ask the Tjo minion government to contribute. The same pro portion As paid to the provinces under the pension scheme. They to find became of tha Lytton commission to China. A modern diplomatic conference is not unlike a meeting of rival gang leaders in the Chicago beet Belt. Typewriters make the noise but machine guns dictate the terms. It s a Dull Day now to Hen Winni Peg s fruit Row is not presented with a. New duty on Bur fruit and vegetables. The. Fact that the nations of the now find Many International conferences necessary in itself a sardonic comment on the idea of economic nationalism. Never before did the world need so much the spirit of tolerance peace and Confidence. Perhaps never before has there been less. It might resolve itself into a question of How Long ran Canada last under this Canada first policy lures metropolitan. Second and third class coaches marked us in King land. With Points indicated Wheir the , classes of coach Stop they did Stop with precision. Striking modernity subsisting with primitive orientalism. Which shall i put first or. Shall i put both together the i Nilusha still functioning but disappearing fast before the multiplied taxis As with us the horse before the motor. I had a two hours ride this sunday Little Brown Man not More than five feet High running at a gentle his rubber tired transformed baby Carriage. A few of them at the docks three or four at the door of the new grand hotel an occasional one in the Busy streets. Women on. All sides carrying As the North american squaws carry Papoose. Work men squatting at Street Corners looking strangely like our indians at Minaki or Kenora or on the Brit ish Columbia coast. Everywhere the Click Clack of wooden sandals the soles raised on Cross cleats. In the Rich Bottom lands which our electrified train ran yesterday peasants working knee deep at their Rice plants in the Sodden Paddy Fields. The villages past which we went on the Way to seated Buddhas and grim gods of Well As the purely native parts of this resuscitated half million Flimsy wooden Struc hey wish to hear about it. More Over As. One of the delegates pointed out the very people who train their facial Muscles looking at the alleged sins of newspapers Are the ones who go but and buy up scandal sheets and proceed to stick their noses in the dust this incl sides the vast majority of Canadian publications make an honorable Effort to keep the bal Ance among the various interests which clamor for space perhaps it might not be ungenerous. To Point out that the welfare move ments owe. The e sym pathetic. I a seption with which heir s have been propagated the newspapers. These same newspapers know that As a Public Force carrying Power and therefore Trust they have responsibility in the presentations of prevailing conditions before the Public they serve. does not the less Batten on the Countryside because no men Ion is made of the fac Hal he 10 m the . One of the delegates arose to Saj thit m the Lindbergh Case the publishing the papers of the fact thai help Nad been asked of the underworld had Toad a bad effect in popularizing crime. Pet1 a sub but Isu t it up. To the forces making and order in country know that such a Cal Haci been ? the reputation of the As a tactician is Noi of the Best. Well Aniwa the attack on. The newspapers gave the movies a lest 11 is onh fair that they should have a. Break Warrens o without prejudices by k. H. It May be ii the heat perhaps the humidity. Or it May just have been that the third con Ference on social work which has lately convened within our midst Felt that the time had come to give the newspapers a helping hand in their business. any rate air. Frank Sharpe of Toronto while engaged upon a discussion delinquency among boys added to statistics already in. Hand one to 11ie effect that per cent of the space in 57 news papers was devoted to anti social items. Or. Sharpe. Paused to let that note of depravity sink in. Then he went on to state that Al Capo lie had got his picture in the papers five thousand times. Finally the speaker announced that Tab Loid newspapers were a direct incentive to crime. It is a. Variation on a theme heard with regularity in the Gen eral business of the Public Check ing up on. The newspapers. But the newspapers Eio not weary. They have been pointing out for quite some time that what they print is the news and that not All commendable conduct is. News while reprehensible conduct almost invariably is. Once., again it is not news if the dog bites the Man but it is if the Man bites the dog. It is not news that a. Bridge. Continues to function As a Bridge bul it is when that convenience col lapses. The one at san Louis hey had to break before it got into print newspapers conducted for the Public and the largely in the position of the old lady they do not wish anything scan housing an enormous Pbpu-1 Dalous to happen hut Doe. Golden books White Birches t. B. Jefferson in new York times you who seen White Birches on a Hill arrayed like Pale slim ghosts against the Moon can find such Beauty nevermore to fill your Hearty although you Mark a Golden noon Betake your through Forest near and far walk by Cool lakes by Crysta streams and pry into the secrets of a Silver Star or Trace the paths comets Down sky. You who have seen their branches etched on Snow beheld them lending in a sum Jer wind can never Hope in in torn Days to know a thing More Lovely to Delight your where or. You go your heart Wil not be still. You will return to Birches on a today s scripture from lamentations 3 wherefore doth a., living Man complain a Man for the punish ment of his let us search and try our ways and. Turn again to the lord. Let us lift no our heart with our hands unto god in the heavens. We have trans Gressed and rebelled thou has riot pardoned. Thou has covered thyself with a Clond that our. Prayer should riot pass through. Thou Hast heard i voice hide not thine ear at my breathing at my cry. Olar Thoa Hast pleaded the causes of my soul thou Hast redeemed my life i am not disposed to deny t religion is an exceedingly danger Ous thing. Let a thoroughly Bai Man. Become religious without changing his nature and there is no knowing what he will do. Sir. Robert Lund. Ser generalizations Are danger Ous and Are As often overdone As Rose Macau Ayr birthday congratulations to Dingle. Winnipeg born Oshawa out june 18, 1s72. It. Hon. Arthur Meighen to route born St., Mary a ont june 16. Hon. J. A. Provincial treasurer. Repina born Iro Cju ois out june 16, 1s77. The French Canadian press unanimously or. Ben Nett s1, declaration that the judges the Dominion Are underpaid but most of them thought he might have seized the Opportunity to say something about the inordinately High salaries that Are paid some other instances. These May not always be fixed by says l eve nement Quebec Independent daily but it is the nation that ultimately foots the Bill for the state Only allows ?20.000 a year to the prime. Minister of Canada. His colleagues in. Office receive less than yet the president of the National railways receives a salary and allowances a moist inst to More than a year. The Public Paya All these salaries Aud. Knows it it 1 predates that All these Sal out of All proportion to the duties performed by those who receive them. This life cause of much of the discontent of the extremist parties it is their.-principa.1 argument in raising tin income tax and their ground for demanding nationalization in every sphere of activity. From the Point of View of equity and social order it would be a Good plan if parliament were to hold a. Debate . This controversial question of the salaries of experts captains of officers of Public Utility companies and executives of Industrial and commercial organizations. The drawn Battle followed by a race which terminated at least temporarily the Long Campaign Between the advocates of Public ownership of Power and the Cham pions of the Power monopoly in he province of Quebec has not prevented a Little Light skirmish since. L action Gat Olique Quebec Independent daily which de the assault on the monopolist trenches quoted a passage from be Soleil which Neld the line for the monopolists to the effect tha the Montreal Light heat and Power could produce their Power very much More cheaply than could the Ontario Hydro for the reason no doubt that their employees would not work so hard the Hydro. Both of these Points cat Olique ready to admit for the purposes of argument. We admit it says that production is probably cheaper with private Enterprise. And it is possible it not certain that a worker in a private company works harder than his Comrade engaged by a provincial or municipal organization. It is companies which started sweating labor in the world it is companies refuse systematically to1 employ fathers of families who passed their Fortieth year or suffer from some natural or accidental infirmity which May diminish their for production it is com which a re Down Sal Aries so As to reduce the Cost of production. At the present time everyone is Start ing to recognize that Machin Ery is displacing labor More Aud More and it has become necessary to share up work so As to give our people a Means of subsistence the system of sweated labor and anything that bears a resemblance to it deserves less and less consideration from our rulers from the press and from everybody who has any heart and eyes to see what is ahead of us. La Patrie Montreal conserva Tive daily rejoices that the five cent onus of wheat is now no longer payable and Hopes there is no truth in the Rumor that it May be renewed. The Central provinces which near the Burden of most taxes Are. Animated with the Best provinces and never had in their mind to obstruct the generous assistance of the government to the Grain growers who were sorely tried by a series of bad har vests coinciding with a de generation of markets. What gave a bitter flavor to this five cent a Bushel Bonus was the doubt whether it was of any use to those who received it. By reason of the enormous production for Export. Of the Canadian West there was on the contrary Good reason to suppose that this gift by the Law of Competition bad no other effect than to Force other exporting countries u reduce the Price of their Grain proportionately and if this was actually the Case Bonus profited the importers As exclusively As if it had. Been paid to them directly their showboat returns Proui he Christian science Monitor of levees of the Mississippi Aud along the Banks of the Ohio the Riverside populations Are Union Teddy agog. The wide Grin of the negro rustler in the trading store is becoming wider and the counting House clerks on the wharves turn every now ant then from their columns of figures to contemplate with interest a lurid coloured lithograph on a cot ton warehouse Wall. With each passing Day the negro rustler rustles less and the spun tip Louse clerks turn More frequently from their ledgers As they contemplate the poster. The showboat is coming in that Long ago when the cow rails were canopied dust picked up by a million cattle from the ranges on their plod Ding trek to the beef on the Hool buyers of St. Louis and Chicago the Burr of Industry stopped like an unwound clock the instant tha Side wheeled Craft with its Wel come entertainers threw its Haw ser on the Quay. Aud audiences unspoiled by a variety of amuse ment were uncritical Aud unfailing in their approval and applause Volien the sorely harassed hero finally dropped the hissing villain into a convenient garbage pail. Then there came a time when the track of steel obliterated the cow Trail and the Waters of the Rivers were less often churned by the Side wheels of the Drifting showboat. The visiting Ball team and the moving picture Palace had apparently captured the fancy of the Riverside settlements. One of America s most romantic institutions seemed doomed to become merely a memory. But the Pirouette of was it miss Edna brought about an other change. The showboat the water fronts is coming. Back not merely into its but in greater numbers than Ever. Graduates vaudeville con fronted with a situation in which playhouses of Many Inland cities have gone entirely Are finding1 that there is less float ing around on these riparian stages which offer Long and by engagement than in either big or Little time where Book ing gaps Are frequent and Railroad jumps Are Long and costly. The smiling negro rustlers and the counting House clerks of to wharves no longer sit on in Phoi stored wooden benches. From cushioned orchestra seats they watch the feats of acrobats who have drawn applause from spectators in new York or Brussels or eagerly follow the action of a play that has behind it a metropolitan record of Success. For the artist no weary waiting for Wayside trains at 1 . To make Tomor Row s town. When his nightly stunt is done instead of the Deso late room of the local Hostel takes his ease on deck watching the. Pale rays of the Moon split Ting into a myriad silvered reflections in the gentle Ripple of "01 Man. Before turning in to feelings Western. His comfortable Cabin Home. A soaks Are a finer Raili within the the living age is the Magazine for the internationally for most persons of intelligence Are More and More concerned about the whole world s political eco nomic welfare. Informing articles in the living drawn from the Foremost writers in All nations and therefore this periodical is the most cosmopolitan in the United covered with stamped the publication of the states. Dealing1 apart from with those the matter affairs of anxiety there Are usually articles of. A literary and As Well As a. Department letters and the and Ano ther notable one As others giving copious excerpts from opinions of great journals across the. Atlantic from men in. The Public Eye. In. Letters and the this month we get a Page and a half from a hitherto unpublished sketch by Anatole France to to dexterous wittily and satirically portrays Monsieur a typical Paris Ian lawyer through personal appearance and More especially his eloquent speeches and the various qualities of his most of the Long introduction is Given Over to the sound of the attorney s voice and you Are left with a merciless portrait. Here Are a few of the descriptive passages his feeble but distinct voice seems to be coming from such various sources As flute the descriptive introduction of h. Patru who moves in the Serene regions of the and enjoys the contemplation of a world magnificently sketch is owing to that Madame g. De Caillavet who was Anatole France s one of the most interesting pieces in this Issue is East Africa a Rosy account written by an austrian lady lately returned from a visit in Kenya. Darkest africa.? not at All. A five of clock Tea dance every Day in the mom Bassa and Nairobi hotels and even the hotel at the foot of Kiliman Faro has hot and cold running water. There Are moving pictures and Banks and very Fine this writer travelled Here and there in luxurious automobiles hearing nothing but complaints about hard times. She merely touches the Indian pro Oleni which is Nerious. The indians become Richer and europeans go from bail to the social relation of. Indians to europeans As the vexed question is briefly discussed and also the economic crisis. The eco nomic history of that Rich Region is outlined and the. Natural re. Sources. Everywhere she went tha visitor met with warm hospitality. And she. Was Given ample Opportunity to acquire information foe whistle an Harmonica a Keyhole a hell a rattle a weather a water faucet an aeolian Harp a bottle being rinsed and a-ke3t-ring that is being shaken. Never would one imagine that it came from a human Throat. It is the. Murmur of a Brook the Rustle of dead leaves the rattle of Hail against the window pane the Buzz of a swarm of bees the chirp of Little Birds in their . The whistle of the autumn wind in the mind you this is but a portion of Hilaire Bailee s article machine versus is reprinted from the he is against merger and Combine and collectivity alike. He is Strong for the Small unit against the Large and bids us strive for greater distribution., of property. Capitalism was. In the. World Long for modern machinery Camo to serve it. The Bookman. I ;