Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 21, 1932, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Tuesday june 21, 1932 would withdraw from league the value of the work of the league of nations is so slight the opinion of the Montreal Gazette that Canada s member in he league is not wort i while and we might As Well save the of 33 000 a car that we spend on it. Even in the league Canada could just As Well be resented by the delegates from great Britain according to the newspaper because if Hie Canadian delegates Impi Awe with those from Britain they Are not necessary and if they Dii i or from them they Only make complications within the British Cornmon Vealla. This is a surprising by insular mile Canadian attitude and Man anted dem rat Ion of i work of the league. Their speak i in discussions and deliberations of the e so far As Liis country is to armied have been h also reclaims that there has been in in lean tie valueless. Caused by a machinist s Drill com ing in Contact with fumes from the Oil cargo. The property damage May run. Into millions of dollars. The tragedy has cast a gloom Over Canada which is relieved Only by the Noble self sacrifice shown by those in. The Rescue work immediately alter. Of any practical results that could he construed As being either directly or remotely beneficial to to one expect a that the league would be entirely Suee Ess Ful or that it would not Progress slowly towards its objective. But it is a real influence in International affairs in spite of its j apparent failure and its recent floundering. The league stands for co operation among the nations and As Long As it keeps bringing them together endeavouring to promote co operation and to remove differences it is doing something worthwhile. 1 the present unfortunate economic condition Canada and of tie whole world is mainly an aftermath of the War. If the league is to some extent an insurance Agency against it Las prevented War on a number of it is Well Worth the annual Premium. A serious War in Europe though Canada took no part would seriously affect this country. An immediate stimulus to our Export Trade would be followed by another had slump in the Export Market due to the prolonged prostration of Europe. And is Canada interested in disarmament Only As a Means of ensuring peace if Europe and other countries As Well were relieved of the colossal Burden of preparations for War there would be. A vast increase in their Ordinary purchasing Power. There would be a Rise in the Standard of living and increased consumption of wheat. Can Ada s leading Export commodity. If the league were disbanded there would be an immediate increase a the danger of War. There would be a growth of International jealousies suspicions and hatreds and an unchecked renewal of the armaments race. The world must cling to the league for safety. It May not seem to be accomplishing much but it is doing a great Deal if by constantly bringing the nations together it secures some co operation and does something to prevent them from being drawn into the Whirlpool. The nations cannot turn Back they must struggle Onward. It is in that spirit that the discouraging experience in the Orient the clash Between China and its implications must be considered. The smaller nations have no guarantee of secur Ity against a aggressor. The league will use its in the Orient it did not try to enforce its decisions. Would it do so in other eases perhaps the league did All it could wisely do under the circumstances to prevent hostilities Between Japan and China Iraq the result leaves a great uncertainty As to the effectiveness of the league s efforts to prevent aggressions. What then abandon the league or maintain the Effort to strengthen its influence and moral authority there is no Choice. But it must be Clear that there is urgent need to try to remove the ranking injustices Many of them due to the peace treaty which perpetuate grievances and ill will and which Are calculated to foment trouble until they Are attended to. The cultivation of Public support for the league among the member nations is also vitally important. When International fears and suspicions Are abated there will be a better Prospect for disarmament. As regards the value of the work of the league the London Mes recently commented on the important matters lately dealt with by the Council of the league. The times intimates that it is quite proper to scrutinize the expenses of the league and to keep a reasonable Check on them. It thinks that this year with All nations represented at the prolonged conference on disarmament a very Brief session of the Assembly of the league could be held. But it says in conclusion i v a is no there is none on the part of me British impair the usefulness of the league crippling its resources. It is being More clearly realized. Wry Clay that hardly any question nowadays admits of Solu Tion except by International action and Geneva provides the most convenient machinery for the purpose. The tendency of we age is for sectional Effort to grow less and for the scope of common action to be enlarged. The Cost of the league and of its subsidiary organs to the nations of the a Mil lion and a quartet pounds not be considered exit the league adequately fulfils its i fee Farmers and fiscal policy upon the country when they Oast j their ballots in july the i conservative candidates. The i of announcement that. Ontario others that in Tulat election Mars a .ollpi8 of thousand to the Toj or accompanied possibly by their cent mers from other provinces Are upon the government on 15 to Mase representations to favor of Freer Trade Between Nada my great Britain is very the results in Winnipeg completion of the counting of the ballots in. Winnipeg gives the Independent labor party four members in. The legislature the conservatives three and the lib eral progressives three. This is a. Little surprising since the total number of first choices received by the parties was conservatives labor Liberal progressives the Large Rote for or. Evans however included at least rotes of persons be longing to other groups or who at least did n the conservative ticket As was clearly shown by the Transfer of or Evans surplus. Those rotes did not help to elect other conservative candidates. The Independent labor party of the other hand benefited very greatly from the second choices of those who gave their first choices to Independent labor candidates or other Independent candidates. The Liberal progressive candidates also benefited considerably from second choices from other groups and elected three candidates though this seemed at first Only a Bare possibility. Conservative candidates other than or. Zvans benefited less from transfers from other groups than did both the. Liberal progressive . Candidates. The election of an. Additional labor member for Winnipeg and the capture of St. Boniface by the same party increases their representation in the legislature from three to five which is is not unnatural political result the pres ent serious economic conditions including the Large amount of unemployment. Winnipeg s four new members Are Hon. J. S. Ai Diarmid an-1 Ralph May Bank Liberal progressives major general Ketchen conservative and. Marcus Hyman labor. The fact that . W. Montgomery Ivas not returned is greatly to be regretted. The Man who is merely interested in Render ing Public service and not inter ested in party politics does not seem to stand a Good show. The people of Winnipeg May later recognize More fully the import Ance of tha Advance in. The pro of the Public health that was made under or. Montgomery. As regards the liberals it is to be noted of the three government candidates elected in the City were fus Ouist liberals while the three straight Liberal candidates All lost their deposits. degree of Independence shown by the electors in marking their ballots was a notable feature of the election in Winnipeg. Notes and comment alarming Iario s to the Montreal Gazette is the statement by an on paper that the Farmers Taat they have had no hand Ever in shaping the fiscal y of country years made in justify a this March upon Ottawa tha Gazette says Rue that the a i it affluence to shaping the demand for a r a to fee r exemplified n from the whole the statement is technically syncs g that the people vote nevertheless whether thousand the Montreal disaster the Shock of that terrific explosion on the Tanker cymbeline in the dry Dock of the Canadian Vickers ltd., Montreal was Felt All Over the Dominion. There Are Twenty four known dead and three still missing. The sympathy of the Canadian people goes out to those relatives of the victims to whom death came so suddenly and unexpectedly. As always in major disasters of this nature the work of Rescue assumed heroic proportions. Out standing in this is the name of Raoul Gauthier Montreal s Cour Ageous fire chief. Undeterred in the face of almost certain death chief Gauthier led his men on to the blazing ship in. An Effort to save those trapped Between decks. He was. Swallowed up in a Wall of followed a second explosion. His body Las not yet recovered. The cause the explosion is provincial part ism is a political Weed that is now pretty thoroughly scotched by the recorded tote of the people. A backward nation is one which has not got a lot of expensive machinery rusting in idleness and thousands of persons hovering on the borderline of existence. A Little More bearing Down on the Hail Hitler theme and the Brown shirts will in truth Hoch the. Fatherland. To i dear dead pays forty years ago. Today the Winnipeg bicycle club elected its presi Dent and executive. And probably appointed a. Committee to investigate the pedestrian problem. After All is a Milder trading principle than Scalp for Scalp. Twenty five million unemployed people in. The world represent the casualties from the idea that Trade is War. From Trade is. War inevitably flows the consequence that War becomes a. One of the fruits of Western culture Caina last year imported seven Worth of arms. I died ta4 Jimh Slud the Winnipeg free press company limited a joint Stoefen company incorporated under Tae lairs of Manitoba at its head office and place of business. 300 Carlton Street in the City of Finni Ptg Manitoba e. H. Jack lid. President and general manager. Refit Sierd at the general Tost office. Enjr., for transmission through in ten itch kingdom 3-t the of postage. Fhe Banner with the strange device bight Hon. Stanley Baldwin speaking in the hoi Jae , As reported in. A despatch on saturday said i May remind the House that the principle of free Trade within the Empire a now embodied and. Embodied Oil purpose in the import duties preference and the conference today s scripture from Job Man is born of woman Brief is his life and full of trouble. Like a Flower he unfold eth and Vadeth away like a Shadow he flite the past and hath no substance. Yet Over such a. One thou keep est constant watch and him thou Dost summon to of if there might be found out one pure Man among the but not even one prom the hebrew by by. M. Button agony column m the of tests Cine end by a Ottawa or. Bennett was quite Frank in telling the British Dele Gates to the Imperial economic conference of 1930 what Canada nost desired from the United kingdom. He said the primary concern of Canada today is profitably to sell its wheat. We believe that we shall be reaching towards. A solution of that problem ii we can establish a better Market in great Britain. Liis Market we want and for it we arc. Willing to pay by giving in the Canadian mar Ket a preference for British Bennett demanded an immediate answer to his proposal. There had been other plans but none said or. Bennett was satisfactory to Canada except the one he himself had suggested. At first there was some confusion in the minds of the British delegates As to what or. Bennett s really meant. It was sup posed that he meant a preference of ten per cent. That is to say if the preferential Tariff on a commodity were 30 per "cent., the intermediate Aud general tariffs would be at least 40 per cent. But. The next Day or. Bennett in a interview to the. London times explained that he meant a prefer ence of ten per existing duties. Using the same illustration he meant that if the preferential rate were 30 per cent., the intermediate and general rates would be at least 33 per cent. It quickly became evident that the Bennett proposal was not regarded with enthusiasm by the British delegates. Thus on october 15, lord Halsham who will be one of Britain s representatives at the Ottawa. Conference said i am rather disappointed with the offer made by the Cana Dian. Government to our Man fac the official answer How Ever was Long delayed and in the interval or. Bennett did a Good Deal of Public speaking. On. Nov. 7, he addressed the Empire parliamentary association. The meet ing was supposed to be private but the Manchester guardian car ried. H report of or. Bennett s speech which caused a or. Bennett in an interview declared he had been betrayed. His explanation which also of his remarks was As any statement which has published is. Absolutely unauthorized and a betrayal of Confluence. I did say that wages in Canada were Multi lither than in Lancashire and that consequently Canada must put up. A Tariff sufficiently High to. Safe guard her own against unfair Competition but that was a private statement and i see no Why i should qualify it. Nothing was said about sweated labor and the fact that mention was made of it in the report Indi Cates that the report is a pure Fabri cation. I have been betrayed but i shall get to the Bottom. finally on november 12, in the dying Days of the conference the Bennett proposal definitely was refused. The Cable report announced British govern ment has definitely turned Down tie Bennett offer of reciprocal nor did better Fate attend mr., Bennett s request for a preference of wheat in the British Market.5 the conference closed with delegates freely admitting it to be a failure. In the final sessions however or Bennett urged that adjournment be made for one year the ence to be resumed at Ottawa his suggestion was accepted. Following the conference Mem Bers of the British Cabinet had More to say about the Bennett policy. Of nov. 27, in the British. House the labor government was under fire for having failed to achieve Success at the conference. B.1.Hon._j. H. G. D. Gate at the Ottawa in defending the the government in duty bound would have accepted any proposals which could help Trade or give employment in. This when asked Why the Bennett proposal was not accepted a re for the simple reason that there never was such Humbug As this at the same time it. Hon. Phillip Snowden dealt with the Bennett proposal As or. Bennett s offer was t am not going to reduce the Tariff against the United kingdom but i will raise the Tariff against the foreigner by ten per cent of the present rate this Means that a. Duty 30 cent would be raised to 33 per cent against the foreigner. The Canadian prime minister made preparations for this conference. He was returned to Power a few weeks before its opening and for a fortnight before he left Canada lie was engaged in. Preparing for the conference by making Large additions to Canadian duties on British products. Then or. Bennett came Here and said if you will tax foreign wheat i will give you not reciprocity the. Tariff against this country As Iris the Tariff is a prohibitive Tariff. Both or. Bennett and or. Scullin Are perfectly honest when they say -.tlieir. Policy is to give preference to British imports where they in ust. Import these goods where British imports compete with Canadian or australian goods then they will impose a duty As Protection for their own. Goods. The do minions Are putting up a Tariff Wall such As to compel us to dismantle our Mills Here As was done a few weeks ago in the Case of a York Shire Mill whose machinery was sent to four Days later or. Bennett replied to or. Thinas. He declared that the Canadian. Govern ment deeply resented the language used by or. Thomas. It. Canada s proposal was to be thus contemptuously government could Only accept the rejection and take other Means of strength ening the position of this Domin Ion Iri. The world r the conference closed in this atmosphere of controversy of strained relations. Or. Bennett returned Lime met parliament added further to the Tariff against British imports in the budget of 1031. The Canadian government also began to make free use of special Powers conferred in 1930, and numerous special duties were put into effect against Bri Tain by order in Council. Not a was said about the adjourned conference until after the British election in the fall of 1931. Hoover and unemployment by Tom King Washington just what is the conflict Between. President Hoover and Congress Over the Relief of the unemployed and. Desti a month might have been said that did not believe that the Federal govern ment lad. Any responsibility. Premises while members of con Gress generally thought that the situation a National calamity which called for action by the National government. To Day both the president con Gress realize that something must be done by the Washington gov Erna edit. Congress has a general option that improving Waterways constructing Public buildings. And highways would be the proper thing to do. And that the Noney necessary should be raised by huge Bond issues. the other hand the president is unalterably opposed to any More Bond issues. He is willing to have the reconstruction finance corporation raise Twa billion or three billion necessary bythe. Sale of debentures but the Money thus would not be expended., on Post office buildings a and other unproductive enterprises. Instead in would be loaned to Corpora Public and private for the of Revenue producing them self liquidating. This would mean no ultimate loss to the government although the reconstruction Al sauce corporation s Deben Tures Are government guaranteed because the Money thus advanced whether to states municipalities railway companies or other corporations would certainly be re paid. The president it is True throws a sop to cerberus by Sug Gesting that the reconstruction finance corporation might Pur Chase the Bonds of states and municipalities or finance them in some other Way where they urgently needed the funds to relieve destitution. In Short Congress believes that a. Great Deal of Money ought to be spent by the Federal government to relieve unemployment Dis Tress even though it involves the construction of Post offices and Post roads which might Well be dispensed with. On the other hand the president feels that the government should not give away Money or spend it upon unproductive Public works but should lend it to corporations Public aug private to finance projects of Revenue producing character which will eventually pay for themselves he approaches the problem from the standpoint of the business Man while Congress is undoubtedly motivated by a certain Amoun of sentimentality. Up to Date the Are far , but both have an Eye on the coming election am this May result in a Compromise unsatisfactory to. Both lated to do something to mitigate nation wide unemployment and the of Greece mayor Jimmy Walker by . From the. New York times who would riot be. Encouraged to agitation if he. Could know that he would be banished for it to a grecian Isle especially the particular one to which general theodoras Pangalos is to be sent it is Corfu was received by Nausicaa and escorted to the town of her fat her Artmous. There the bark bore him turned to Stone As the legend is lies like a great Ocean liner in sea. One could enjoy being imprisoned there or up on the Crest of an overlooking Hill in the sometime Palace of the sometime emperor of Germany. On this Island As Nausicaa said her people lived apart in the Wash of the Waves the outermost of men. And had dealings with no others. It this were True today it would be an appropriate place of exile.-. Nearer Athens Over in the Aegean there 5s the Isle of Syra where Eurna us. Said in the Odys sey that sickness does not fall on mortals. But it is doubtless ill too close communication with the port of the Piraeus for it. Is Only a few hours Distant by the boats thai in regular service though its remoter pails where Jio Home Stead has Ever been that most observing traveller in the Aegean or. V. C. Scott o Connor finds vast solitudes at heaven Brood ing Over wipe out any result of judicial inquiry into his conduct. The Public remembers too his picturesque gesture of shooting across the continent to san fran Cisco to help free the imprisoned Tom Mooney in response to a letter from Mooney s Mother. Mayor Walker went into the matter with his sunny governor of California. Nothing came of it. Mooney is still in prison and. Seems Likely to remain there hut the effect of Walker s gesture remains. He has an amusing habit of Wise cracking in High places that tickles the fancy of the crowd. Wherever Jimmy is there also is sparkle. People read about him and chuckle. He reflects their own private opinions on Many subjects particularly prohibition. The Seabury investigation has been going on for Many months. Samuel Seabury with dogged persistence has been burrowing through a pile of evidence perhaps hoping to find at its Core the mayor new York himself some of the investigations in respect to vice prevention in new York have uncovered incredible injustices. Part of the evidence showed members of the vies squad deliberately framing innocent women merely to obtain a. Conviction. Graft and perjury has threaded its Way even up to the magisterial benches. During a Large part of the investigation mayor Walker was in Europe. Cabled reports of his sayings distracted . Of the tabloids in new York from the facts revealed by Samuel Seabury. A Story that our Jimmy was half an hour late keeping an appointment with some european Magnifico warmed the cockles of the Republican heart. In. Fact so habitually is Jimmy late foe a company had bought mayor Walker a letter of credit for later increased by for his trip to Europe. The inter est of the Public in these and similar revelations was less in tense than its interest Jimmy would take it. In. How Jimmy took it in. True form just As he was expected to. Any maa that cannot take it does not belong in politics in these he said. To take it on the Chin and Grin Back. Several factors spied in the mayor s favor. Perhaps the most important was the Public realization that politics played just Large a part in the prose cution As it did in. The defence. An other was the finding of the body baby Lindbergh at the Tima that Simmy was being questioned. Still another was impudent manner Jimmy in the Box. Almost a a much space in some papers was Given Over to Jimmy posing As to the evidence. Nona the less Seabury presented his findings summed up in his remark that the mayor of new York can not buy Stock or hold Stock in company that has City the matter is now before Gover nor Roosevelt and the legislature at Albany had been the evening after he questioned mayor Walker attended a prize Fig lit in Madison Square Garden. Walking Down a. Gangway he Shadow boxed All the Way. Its approval. The crowd roared. Jimmy was taking it Oil the Chin in. His customary manner. Ointments that Sider it a hard Many now and fast con and finished part. Of his technique for keeping himself favourably in the Public Eye. But the investigation went on and Seabury tenaciously clinging to his findings reached the. Day when mayor Jimmy Walker was put in the Box for questioning. Seabury revealed that mayor Walker had been giver Worth of Bonds by a broker named Joseph. A. Sisto. Sisto issued the securities of Parmalee. Transportation company Wiick. Owns two. Thousand three no Midred taxi cabs in. New York. Some time later mayor Walker ordered an investigation in. Taxi cab and still later pushed through legislation creating a Board of taxicab control. Empire minded grocers special London correspondence Empire food products Are displayed in a Way calculated to strike the imagination at the nation s foods exhibition now in Progress. This exhibition has been promoted by the greater in Mon Council of and is in. Olympia. The Empire marketing Board a giving direct help Aud encourage ment. So Are most of the Empire governments nearly All the Empire organizations and societies grocers associations the Empire Hall at in the United kingdom and the larger firms engaged in packing or distributing Empire proprietary commodities. One striking feature of the exhibition is a Street of Booths which has been built so that it looks like the Cheapside of 1660, when the Spicers and working in Low Oak beamed shops were laying the foundations of the grocery Trade. British Over seas Trade was still in its infancy in. The Middle of the seventeenth Century and Cheapside was then its chief Market place in London. There is also an old English Market place. It is a Square and along each Side Are picturesque old fashioned Booths with ancient frontages wooden doors with great ornamental Iron hinges imitations of weather beaten Oak beams. To Complete the Atmos phere a few pieces of plaster missing from the Golden books the plough Speaks e. Temple Thurston i am the precursor of the Earth divides at my Blade. Upturned by me beneath each Sod the seed of the soul is Laid. The Earth divides at my Blade like water the furrows Roll by my Bright steel the. Bed is made for the delivering of the soul. The seed of the soul is Laid the warm wind lends it breath i am the implement god made to out Root the Weed of death. It. Is amazing How Wise great statesmen can to when it is ten. Seabury also showed that a bus years too Lloyd George. Birthday congratulations to John Wardrop. Bom books ire a finer world the Day. 1 ran across this peremptory axiomatic declaration which strikes me As needing re serve " i am the foundation of All business am the source of All Prosperity i . The Parent of Genius i am the Salt that gives life its Savour. I have Laid the foundation of every Fortune t can do More to Advance youth. Than his own parents be they Ever so wealthy t must be loved bet Ore i can bestow my greatest blessings and achieve my greatest ends i am on the other hand we have known and read of work Drunken Ness which is not Good for body or soul. And is it not True that to Lay foundation of Fortune work requires the one thing More Many a steady hard worker from youth Onward gets nowhere in the sphere called Success. And every youth needs the parents moral nurture and admonition. the Savour of Salt there is the old adage All work and makes Jack a Dull there it is that sport comes in Pat once More is work the Parent of Genius rather work is its trusty servant. When Ruscin would hear about some new Genius his first question was does he work 1" Sams have defined Genius As a capacity for hard was it George Eliot True there Are those who have a Genius for work which is another meaning of the word. It May he that the saying is a misreading of Carlyle s dictum in Frederick the where he transcendent capacity of taking which is not a Defini Tion. Carlyle. Threw off Many and various dicta on both Genius and. Work. In. Past and. Present he defines a Genius As an inspired soul direct from nature s own Reat fire heart to. See truth and speak very High brow in the same Book he challenges Mae Cenas twid Ledee do not certain living multimillionaire fit the scornful "0 Maecenas twid Ledee has Tho ii any notion what a Man of Genius is Genius is the inspired gift of. In. Latter Day Carlyle the. Talker has scathing passages on work and on words. Are those a love with eloquent talk the like Liest to discern what Man it. Is that has worlds of silent work in. The age that admires talk has Little discernment foe inarticulate work or for what is deep and Genu no grand doer in this world can be a copious speaker about his. Among definitions of Gesuina thrown off by famous men Amiel s in his journal is Worth doing easily what others find difficult is Talent doing what is impossible for Talent is the word i hits other meanings in com Mon use for instance the pervading spirit of a people or a Lan Guage the disposition or Bent of mind Peculiar to a person an imaginary being protecting or ruling persons Etc. But that intuitive Power called Genius is rare. Work is not its be getter Bat As right Airm. V ;