Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 17, 1932, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Winnipeg june 17, 1932 pria Tei a bushed Winnipeg a joint Stock incorporated under the Laws of Manitoba at i head office and place of business 300 Carlton Street in the cite. Of Winnipeg Manitoba. E. H. Mackun president and general registered at the general Post office London knf., for transmission through the Post in United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. The government sustained election results up to the moment of going to me a sweeping Victory for the Liberal progressive government Manitoba. The government has gained a number of new and established a commanding Lead in the country constituencies. Even tiling Points to an emphatic end oration by the electorate policy of Union on which the government the election the conservative Appeal on the straight part position failed to carry conviction against the opinion that at such a time As the. Present the interests province Best he served Liy a government which combines the Abili on nov political parties than one. This is the position i i by in Cpl Hiir Alk endorsed in Manitoba. for tie Vii line of a Louel Taylor a party to make greater headway than it did. May be found in the character Capaiu u which the conducted. They fought of two positions which really cancelled one another out. Had colonel Taylor taken the line that the government was to be fought on the score of being extravagant and that he would re Pfarr. It by an pledged to stringent economies. He would have offering an explicit alternative which could have bar ii considered of. Its merits. Or had he accused the government of Pai Sinio by and undertaken a More Liberal manage ment provincial services he would have been offering a comprehensible position too. He tried however to stand on both these highly contradictory privileges with resultant Shulti fiction of his plea for support a Shulti fiction which As the result shows was clearly apparent to the people province. There cart be no doubt that in the country where there is normally a volume of conservative strength a powerful under Tow was working in this election against the provincial con i creative policy. This undertow flows from the discontent engendered by the Federal conservative policies which have had not him but the most unfortunate consequences for the noun try since they were applied. The result Manitoba election will be regarded and properly regarded As an Indica Tion sentiment of this province on the larger aspects of conservative policies and if it is also regarded As Art augury Verv Little mistake will be made by the observers. It is beyond doubt that a conservative Victory would have been acclaimed As a re end oration of a Var. Bennett s Tariff policy. The emphatic rejection of colonel Taylor fighting of an aggressive party ticket must consequently be Given its full measure of significance in relation to the Dominion situation. On these Points and perhaps also on the personnel candidates the Appeal unionists has succeeded. In the City of Winnipeg the conservatives have scored notable re mits in. The election of or. Evans who headed the polls and by the great number of first choices received by some of their Ether candidates. The City has come rather severely under the tax imposts provincial government and a swing towards the opposition by Way of protest was perfectly natural. Or. Evans Larne vote will be received with appreciation every where irrespective of Parry convictions As a tribute from his fellow citizens to his Fine qualities and his Long career of Public Lervile. Labor has Given or. Queen its support with a heavy poll of first choices which at the moment of writing makes him second highest Man Oil the City ballot. The government members have done about As Well As could be expected and on party position generally the City representation in the new legislature Wil probably not show much difference from the last. It has been heavy poll and the magnificent weather afforded the people the Best possible Opportunity to Register their decision As to the Type and character government they wanted. Union has proved to be what was wanted and the develop ments immediate future will undoubtedly prove the wis Dom Choice that has been made. Manitoba needs the Best minds she can produce and this will be More closely realized As time goes on. Minion Competition should emerge saw off at Ottawa by which Ach protectionist government Ould be reconciled to the refusal f the other governments to lower duties by the Complete Freedom which this failure would give for he increase or its own Tariff is a 7 no Means impossible outcome f tha Ottawa conference. Canadian Banks will Rogers writing in the new Stork times suggests to the Bankers Institute of United states sow in convention in Beverley kills California that the sessions face adjourned and the members take a trip up to Canada to investigate it is that this country is had Only one Bank failure in ten years. He adds that he does lot think the idea is copyrighted. Apparently Bankers May be to the prophets who not without Honor save Japan s Tariff hits Canada Japan has increased her customs on. Treat from 25 to 12 cents Bushel and has increased the on hour from ?1 m to m per 132 pounds. This will injure Canadian Trade. We sold Japan Early bushels of wheat St year and were beginning to hour to Japan having sent Worth last year. The government of Canada is in a Good position to make protest As Japan is following Tariff Pouch persists. Apparently senator my lae is still where he was in 1920 when he outlined to the House of commons of which he was then a member an elaborate plan for the Settle ment up in the. River country of a. Large number of immigrants from great Britain. The action the present government immediately upon taking office in cutting Down upon All ii Migra Ion making no exception in favor great Britain or any other British nation must therefore have failed to earn senator my a s approval. The policy not Ettag British immigrants in and. Of relentlessly expelling those that Are in if they can be brought within the operation Immi Gration act is still in Force. Be Ore any such plan As that Sug reste d. In very Genera. Terms by senator Mcrae could be considered by the conference there would have to be a Complete re t Ersal of policy by the present government. Without committing itself in any Way to general Mcrae s Zeular proposal tue free press does not hesitate to say that the present exclusion is regulations Are not in the interest Hie country and will not much longer continue. Canada will look Back upon them with regret As an in i worthy manifestation of nerves j and hysteria. That the times j blood is not thicker than Cotton despatches from Ottawa Ana Montreal indicate tie delegation of British Cotton manufacturers was discouraged by the reception it got from Canadian Cotton men and the Canadian government. One report stated the delegation was leaving Montreal today but later reports indicate the possibility of further negotiations. The purpose delegation was to arrange some fair division Canadian Market so that British severely crippled by the Tariff could be partially restored. The worst House in the City by z. Z. The House stands amid the imperfectly dishevelled grandeur of an earlier generation. A thousand persons May pass it a thousand times without having their curios Ity excited but should it be they generally can see in the Bouse Only a Large shabby habitation distinctly uninviting. Certainly its aspect la forbidding. Soine Ottlie windows Are boarded up and through none does any inner domesticity disclose itself. The House is not one of lights and shades but of darkness and seclusion. Its outward depreciation is deplorable. One Chimney stands tottering by. An end wide Verandah has gone and ration that has been superseded of conglomerate ornate and. He crude and open and the closed is located the House that Las been described As the worst n the City. The police Are under stood to think it is a judge of he supreme court has been heard o confirm the description. As i loitered a the Shade of he. Trees on the opposite Side of he Street several men of sullen Mien lurched idly on the Verandah. called for special care in. Admit-1 the remainder slants like the deck Ting immigrants is of course admitted but there never should Lave been a stoppage in the efforts to get for this country British settlers right practical and efficient agriculturists with moderate capital. Keep ing out people who Are fit to come in and who want to come in has never yet made Canada Prosper Ous. Indeed Prosperity and an in flowing tide of immigrants have Ever been in association. Senator Mcrae is therefore Likely to see his ideas once More in the ascendant even though his particular plan May not be acted upon. The observation might also be made that it is not Likely that an offer by Canada to accept Brit ish population would be accept Able As a set Oft to preferential favors for Canadian goods in the British Tariff which senator appears to suggest. Migration and. Trade Are separate subjects and should be kept in different compartments. Our Snappy contemporary City newspapers Are tame in personal or at least impersonal things. The Good old Are gone forever. But not everywhere. Not with the Vegreville observer. Note this item Archie Matheson m.l.a., took umbrage at the observer s state ment that he Archie had not been in Vegreville for Many moods. Or. Matheson says he was in town a whole Day just two weeks before the observer thus slammed he wants to know what we Are going to do about it. We do not question or. Matheson s veracity in the least. If he says he was in then he was in town but we did t see him and As a Rule we can spot him a mile o of without trouble. There s Only one Archie Matheson notes and comment some men Are born great. Some achieve greatness. Others claim they re misquoted. The first step toward disarmament should be to remove the army and Navy technicians from the scene and1 throw their foun Tain pens in the sea. A news despatch announces the inauguration of e. Liberal Trade policy Between the Argentine and great Britain. The Argentine grows a lot of wheat too. In putting a Tariff of seventeen cents a Bushel on our wheat Japan no doubt thinks that what is sauce for the Canadian Goose is sauce for the japanese Gander. Canada s Cotton manufacturers apparently Are reluctant to permit any interference with their Indus trial Dole. Of a ship rolling in the trough. Panes of Glass. Are broken and stuffed Vith bundled garments. The grounds Are unfenced and Bare of Sod but so might be any other Garden in like Circum stances. A team of horses often May be seen a hitched beside a on one Side House and several battered automobiles Are parked almost constantly against the opposite Wall. My attention May first have teen drawn by the slim Sallow Man feeding the team of horses. Or again it May have been attracted by the bedraggled Automo Biles. But it is reasonable to believe that i would have Given Little thought to the Down at fender cars had i not noticed the next Day that a new car of Fine make had nosed itself in among them. And that same evening i observed that another car of even finer make was parked in the Garden. Questions about these cars came to my mind and could not be answered. How came it that in such a House should be living so Many persons owning so Many cars what commodity was transported in the cars to where to whom this Early curiosity was unreal. Honable for there should not ordinarily be anything sinister in finding a broken Down House in a District residentially perhaps the choicest in the City Only a Little while ago. The District is not a Low one. The Street is not one notoriously worst streets in the City though the reputed worst worst streets May not be far away for so contaminating is the huddle of Urban existence that Many a highly respectable District Butts on to very questionable resorts. The District itself has so recently been a fashionable Section of Winnipeg that there has not time to divest it entirely of its earlier pretensions. Its Eye sores Are dilapidation brought on by. A misfortune that May dealt. Unkindly but never meant to be a menace. The Section still is indeed one of acceptable addresses and imposing structures. Some older mansions continue to reflect the affluence of families preferably abiding where they made their Homes other houses turned into boarding establishments manage to preserve something of their former exclusiveness. And some have been demolished to make Way for places of business or buildings or apartment Public blocks the District has an air of restraint and authority which com ports aptly Vith. The presence o the churches whose towers and steeples Cleave the thick foliage Shade. Trees lining the Street. Yet in this so romantically suggestive of g from the Golden books argument for mete psychosis Cicero As the soul is evidently a simple substance without any dissimilar parts it cannot therefore be divided consequently it cannot perish. The facility and expedition with which youth Are Laught to acquire numberless very difficult arts is a Strong presumption that the soul possessed a considerable portion of knowledge before it entered into the human form and that which seems to be received from instruction is in fact no other than a reminiscence or recollection of its former ideas this at least is the opinion of Plato. French armaments special correspondence Phev talked intermittently to t i i i f three Stout ungainly Aud . Poltl civils Angle of two or untidy women. These inmates matched the House s exterior. They Ivere As unkempt As apart. I tried to think How i should feel had i to take a room with them. The idea made me uneasy. I looked again at the big window heavily boarded up so that Light could not Shine in the room that once must have been a dining room of handsome proportions. What i asked myself goes on in that darkened a Man in a yellow undergarment shaved himself at a dirty window on the Topmost floor. As lodger he did not Appeal to me. Against this seeming poverty i contrasted the wealth implied in the expensive automobiles parked amid the decrepit array of cars at the. Side House. The contrast was one of several that added to the incongruities place and its inhabitants. This troubled me vaguely. I was not afraid for i was outside in the Sunshine. But i would fear to go inside in the silence of dark night. When i passed by next Day the Verandah was empty. The House seemed deserted though some the. Cars remained. The front door was shut and not a sound came from within. I studied the situation at greater Leisure per haps ridiculously suspiciously. I grew conscious malevolence of a spirit lurking about the place and agreed that this might be the worst House in the City. But so agreeing i realized i had not a shred of evidence to support my charge. That May be the trouble. The police too May not have the evidence to support their firm conviction. As i was thinking in this vein the front door opened and a child of four or five toddled out on to the upper step. In the smudged face she lifted upward to the Sun shone the Light pure innocence. The doll she carried was deposited concern. Then the child called to someone inside. The big door opened hesitatingly to let out a smaller child. He was a boy and. Seemed Well nourished As was the Little girl the two brooded a moment Over the sleeping doll before slipping with exaggerated caution Down the Steps. They started playing in and out among the parked cars. I continued on my Way not quite so positive that the House i had been looking at can be the worst in the City. Wet and dry votes Geneva France wiose1 insistent demand for additional Security threatens to wreck All chances disarmament not Only Las the most powerful military machine in the world but is spending More annually pm. Her National defence any other country. Despite protestations her statesmen Ami representatives at , she is not militaristic Aud that Slie seeks Only safety against external " a France according to facts which in All probability Wui be aired soon in. The private commissions disarmament is yearly growing More powerful militarily. Further More she is in preparation for Iraq about thirty three per cent More than her military naval Aud air Force Bud gets disclose. Her National defence expenditures As submitted to Tbs league in accordance truth covenant pledges for the Calendar year of Are estimated at francs for twelve months. Actu ally however they will be francs for tha nine months Between april 1 and december 31. Trader a. Recent Law the Calendar year replaces the fiscal year be ginning with january 1, 1933, so this year s estimates Are for a nine month period instead of twelve months As heretofore. Calculated on a twelve month basis France s National defence expenditure for 1932" will be around francs in Slead thirteen billions the government and militarists would have other nations believe. Add to this approximately francs More which parliament will provide for strengthening on the German and italian frontiers during the present year Aud the grand total will exceed Twenty billions of francs. The reason for the glaring Dis Between France s pub National defence expenditures and her actual outlay lies in roads specifies for construction of strategical military railways francs. Article 90, finance Law provides for experimental work and re search studies for National de Fence francs. Article is finance Law author Zes Over and above amount fixed n air Force budget for new construction and equipment for air corps francs. The ministry of Interior budget provides for the Garde Republic Caine francs. Article 70, finance Law for bar and quarters for Mobile Garde Republican uhf francs. Article 71, finance Law provides for educational contracts to industries necessary for the National francs. Article 73, finance Law proceeds from Sale of abandoned Barracks and fortifications to be used for Purchase of new military equip ment to the extent of . The ministry of finance budget carries for professional soldiers pensions francs. Article 79, finance Law provides for expenditure Over and above naval budget of francs. These few items alone add to the total military expenditures a the estimated one billion francs for fortifications is included the neat sum of francs showing that More than one third of France s armaments expenditures Are camouflaged. One argument put Forward by French militarists As showing Why France cannot afford to reduce her armaments at this time is that because of her heavy losses of life during the War years 1911-1918, the conscript classes Young men reaching Twenty one for some time to come May be insufficient for the army s Nee is. The French delegation however have overlooked one thing namely that while their military officials announced that the annual aver age contingent of con scripts needed to fill the i Anks was Short last year it will but 7.500 men below average this year. Furthermore the War ministry estimates thanks to the camouflaged budget system. Ai today s scripture from Job 34 forms eyes Are upon tie of Man. And lie seeth All his go Ings. There is no darkness nor Shadow of where the work Erse iniquity May hide them selves. He shall break in pieces mighty men without num Ber and set others in their Stead. They cause the cry poor to come unto him and. Lie Heareth the cry afflicted. We re fed up on Reading about so Many National questions. What we want now is some by Tom King Washington . Both Politi Cal parties Are trying to please the wets without coming to grips with the Drys in the presidential election. It has even been pro posed that the prohibition Plank in each party platform be identical. This would get out Way an Issue upon which the rank and file of both political parties Are hopelessly divided. However it is not easy to. Take out of politics any Issue upon which the great bulk people Are intensely interested. The two party plat forms were substantially identical in but the election was sup posed to hinge upon the wet and. Dry Issue because the democratic candidate made no secret of his personal desire to Amend or repeal the eighteenth amendment. The democrats appear this year to be in a better position to Angle for the wet vote in the North with out off ending the dry vote in the Southern. States. Apparently the democratic Southern states which voted for Hoover in 192s Osten Sibly upon the Issue of prohibition Are now ready to support Gover nor Franklin d. Roosevelt for president although. Or. Roosevelt has frankly to be in favor of repealing the eighteenth amendment. On the other hand the to go moist would have to same candidate Vith whom they marched to Victory four years ago under the milk White Banner of. Prohibition. The Job before the Republican National convention will be to find a formula which will be pleasing to the wets and can. Interpreted by the. Drys to their own satisfaction. It to ill also have to be a for Mula. Which will not place or. Hoover in a. Ridiculous position and none of course can be adopted without his express consent tha convention will therefore probably straddle the Issue by promising to re submit the eighteenth amendment to the states. This would please the wets and could be easily explained away challenged by. The Drys. There is course no such thing As re submitting a Amend ment after it .3ias. Once been Rati fied by. A., sufficient number of states. Congress would simply have to submit a new. Amendment which. Tould not become effective unless and until it was ratified by. Thirty six states it thirteen or More states took no-action., at All there would be no Way to. Force them to Call constitutional conventions or Legislatures take decisive action. There Are today Many constitutional Amend ment proposed by Congress which never been acted upon by. A number of states two of them running Back to 1789. Neither is it at All. Likely that All re publican members of Congress elected next november will feel obliged to carry out the party platform and vote for another amendment., to the Constitution. Each member will have a mandate from Flis own District on the subject Republican candidate for. President undoubtedly would Ibe bound by the it happens that the president has no voice or vote when it comes to amending the Constitution. to Hon. Thos. A. Crerar Winnipeg born a Molesworth ont june 17, 1s76. Prof. M. A. Parker Winnipeg bom Renfrewshire scot., june careful study various items in the different budgets for 193 and the financial Law reveals that at least francs ear marked for military needs Are included in budget estimates of other asian. The army Navy and air Force ministries. Nor does this include the billion francs spent on new fortifications or another to be paid out in pensions and Grants to professional soldiers. France s official military expenditures Are Given As follows francs War overseas forces colonial forces air forces Navy department total for 9 a careful scrutiny of other departmental budgets however re Veals nearly three billions of francs for military items. For example article 89 finance Law authorizes expenditure for air corps Reserve material of i 000 francs. The Public appropriates for needy., wage earners Are in the army the ministry of agriculture Bud fret contains for Purchase of re mounts horses for the army francs. The department of physical Edu cation budget sets aside for Phy Kcal education in the army francs. The Public works budget which High average of physically fit recruits due largely to improved physical education of France s youth after 1933 there will be a surplus of Over the Neces sary contingent. Even though the actual number of men called to the colors May fall below the average in the next few years the High percentage of physically fit will More than make up for the deficiency., it is pointed out. Another significant refutation of France s pathetic plea of insecurity which confronts her Geneva delegations is the fact that France this year has a regular standing army of officers and non commissioned officers and men altogether professional soldiers. Her trained re serves consist of officers and non commissioned officers and men altogether troops. All told France has ready for use fighting counting her event of hostilities. All told France and her allies Belgium Poland and Czecho Slovakia today have a superiority of 523 men against one in regard to Germany to say nothing of Arma ments. France has fighting air planes and an. Air corps of officers and men in her air Force. Germany has none. And yet France demands Security and still greater Security before even being willing to consider limitation to say nothing of a reduction totals for rail existing armaments. Books Are finer Soili. Within the Oxford University press ounces nine books for the Goethe Centenary books directly about Goethe or touching the period in which he was the autocrat of Ger Man literature. One his books abridged and dramatized bearing impress retails for one and1 sixpence and an essay Goethe a Century. At three and sixpence. One is Crabb Robinson in Germany being extracts from that famous diarist s volum Inous correspondence but the Price is another volume perhaps still in preparation deals in detail with Goethe s knowledge of English literature. Goethe thought dynamic poet and linked him . For that matter most of Europe thought Byron dynamic. But Goethe acknowledged Milton to be a stately and Sublime his criticism of satan not Milton s Devil a. Highly poetical in satanic Nevis human of All Tine characters lost and consequently the most attractive and most Byron hoped to visit Weimar and had Likely done so had he not that his tragedy in. Five acts Saran Rapalus is dedicated to the great German in these terms to the an of the author of this Book believes that Goethe s admiration of Byron was born English poet s love of Freedom. This year is also a tercentenary. The philosopher Spinoza was born on november 24, 1632. Or. Hick son of Montreal has written appreciations of both Goethe and Spinoza and Lewis Browne author of this believing has a the blessed the word being the meaning of Baruch the name Given by his jewish parents but changed by himself to Benedictus the latin equivalent. For we must know that he was excommunicated by the synagogue in Amsterdam. Though his family was hebrew Spanish Spinoza s Grandfather migrated to Holland to escape from persecution in Spain. Hence the philosopher is known As dutch. He died at forty four after a life of singular modesty Thrift and retirement. According to the Cus. Torn of his race he had Learned a handicraft and was in youth a grinder of optical lenses. Hebe came an optician and indeed wrote an optical treatise on the Rainbow in those Early years. A came to know Leibnitz and Huy Gens and thus began his deep study of philosophy which was to be his True vocation. He was the leading spirit in a club of Young men who studied Descartes and a to this club he Drew up. Drafts Sumes to offer the homage of. A literary Vassal to his Liege lord the first of existing writers who has created the of his. Honor country Ami illustrated that his own views. One of. Them loft him a modest Fortune which to could not accept on a. Point the Bookman. I ;