Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 1932, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editorial Section Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Wednesday june 22, 1932 the West and the conference whatever differences of opinion there May tie among the various interests in this country As to the action which Canada id take in regard to economic co operation to within the Brit ish Commonwealth Canada s position will be stated at the Imperial conference by the National government it May have representatives of different interests at Ollavia during the con Ferenee but when Canada s ease is presented., it will be done by the government which officially represents the whole country. Obviously that government should give fair consideration to the interests and welfare of All parts of the Dominion As they May be affected by the results of the conference and the measure of co operation that May be agreed upon. Eastern interests have had plenty of Opportunity to impress their views upon the government and it is quite in order that the West should preset its views in most effective Way possible. It for that purpose that the Western premiers have just met at Retina and that the four provinces will speak with Cue voice in a memorandum to be presented to the Dominion government. There is no part of the country that would ire More directly and beneficially affected by an increase in the Trade Between Canada and great Britain than the Prairie provinces while . Would also obtain very material Benefit. That is not to exam Ferate the importance of any arrangement that might be made for marketing Canadian wheat in great Britain. Britain could not begin in take All our Export wheat and any displacement of foreign wheat in the British Market would make greater com petition for our wheat in other markets. The Benefit from sell in More wheat in Britain would be limited but there Are other farm products which could be produced and exported to Britain in much greater volume than at present to the great advantage of Western agriculture. There is a Market for live cattle for beef and Mutton Bacon Dairy products and poultry a real stimulus to Western agriculture through the opening of a wider Market in Britain for these products would not Only mean a Ireat Deal to the economic welfare of these provinces but the reflex effect would at once be Felt in the East through the increased purchasing Power of the West. Great Britain is plainly prepared to make an arrangement by which she would take these and other Canadian products in greater Quantity. A really valuable Opportunity is thus at land. And it is not Only a Western Opportunity but a great National Opportunity because of the indirect effect of stimulating agriculture and because of the Mineral Forest and other products which would also find a better Market in Britain under suggested Trade arrangement. But Britain As Well As Canada needs markets and she wishes to sell More of her manufactured goods in this country in return for taking More of our products. The Only thing that can prevent a very advantageous arrangement for both Canada and Britain will b e too much consideration for the protected manufacturing interests. As against their claims for immunity from outside Competition the government must consider the vital necessity of cultivating the Export Market for our surplus products. That is fully Asim portent to the general welfare of Canada As safeguarding the manufacturing Industry. It is even More entitled to consideration since at present our Export farm products must meet world Competition while our manufacturers arc always assured of a certain amount of Protection. Why should Canada provide virtually Complete Protection for manufacturing Industry in the Home Market when agriculture has no Hope of being in that position and must meet open Competition in the Export Market even if Britain were to put a Tariff on foreign food supplies admitting those from the dominions free it would not by any Means be an exclusive Tariff and our products would still meet Good Deal of Competition in the British Market. It is absolutely necessary if the is to obtain the Bene fit that is open to it from larger Trade with Britain that there shall be a policy of Compromise in regard to the Protection of manufacturing Industry so As to allow British goods to enter Canada in greater volume. The Canadian manufacturers need. Not be too fearful about that for if they should lose some Busi Ness to the British manufacturers they will also gain new Busi Ness As a result of the stimulus to agriculture and the. Increased purchasing Power of the farming population. Industrial Prosperity in the past has always been accompanied by heavy import Trade. The West will look to the Dominion government to see that full consideration is Given to its Point of View and. That the Opportunity for obtaining Benefit for this part of the country is not sacrificed because of disproportionate and unwarranted consideration for other special interests the governments of the four Western provinces will unite in urging upon the Dominion government the necessity of allow ing Freer entry of goods from other parts of the order that we May Export More of our products. They will also urge consideration of a stabilized currency for the Empire. If Canada is thus put in a better position to. Sell its surplus Fern products and its Copper lumber and other exports there will be marked advantage to the whole country. That is the Opportunity that is knocking at the everything depends on whether and to what degree the government will do its part and secure for Canada the great Benefit that is now the consumer Bas no Chance of benefiting. All efforts Are tent on keeping up the volume of profits. Hence Over capitalization is not Only a serious cause of instability of industries but it is also a mater of general Public importance. It is one of Tbs things that bring the capitalist system under criticism and it is a practice strictly curbed. The main charge against capitalist system is that there is a very inadequate and defective distribution of wealth that some people Are enabled to make undue profits and that there is an in creasing division Between the Rich and the poor. The greedy conduct of financial promoters whose aim s to keep industries producing undue profits rather than to give the consumer a Little consideration As one of the causes of the defective distribution of Weall. There is pretty general agreement that the capitalist system must he improved and controlled and this is a Case in Point. 1 condemning Over capitalization in addressing the Canadian manufacturers association at their convention at Ottawa Hon. H. A Stevens minister of Trade and Commerce blamed Over capitalization Tor much of the difficulty industries Are now experiencing. He said jit06 Teo Palcal manager of a con tra was not consulted As to the thl i need5 of concern and Fancler was supreme. And 1m was t be the latter that the Industrial in this respect. Him a amount i ten far in excess of nos h Rechul regents Ana upon to produce a dial Plant in my the trouble we Are a u that has been in Industry. And it is asked Antl pay the c03t of cat Rasonable profit to at should never Nave a the Industry at Nei sprint Industry might cited As an example a number of Large Power enterprises including Beauharnois and various other undertakings. When times Are prosperous the financial promoter gets away with his work and makes through the Sale of securities to the Public. When hard times come there is sure to be trouble for the Enterprise that has far More Capi Tal than was Ever justified it is hopeless for the managers of such industries to try to earn a reason Able return on All the capital and the investors lose a Large part or their Money. For this unsound method of financing Industrial enterprises there is Only one for profits. It is a Means of conceal ing profits to a certain extent and obtaining them in an indirect Way through the payment of Ordinary dividend rates on an amount of securities that is not justified. A successful and very profitable Enterprise could afford to reduce the Price of it s product giving the1 consumer the Benefit and stil make a. Good return to investors but capital pc inflated not so smart the conservative party in the ate Campaign suffered from the activities of organizers who regarded themselves As wonder workers. They were adept at thinking up telling strokes in tended to capture votes but they never estimated the effect of pos sible there was for instance the Case of the Appeal for support made to those who during the past five Vears have been fined under the compulsory education act for failing to Send their children to school. The names of these Vic Tims of a tyrannical Law having been obtained by the device of moving for a return in the Legisla ure each person on the list had he Honor of receiving an official Etter from the Manitoba conservative association duly signed by the party s organizer. In this let Ter he was told that it was the purpose of the great conservative party to look into the Circum stances attending his prosecution with a View to repairing the in Justice done him and he was asked to sign a form requesting his intervention upon his behalf and return it to the association. It is not probable that Many of he recipients of this communication Felt themselves honoured in its receipt while the letter when made Public excited Public resent ment and disgust. In the Public mind it linked up the conserva Tive party of 1932 with the old Hoblin government whose resist Ance to compulsory education one of the causes of its Odorth Roxy and tended to confirm the Preva Lent opinion that it was not to be trusted with Power. It is not probable that there was anything More behind the Manoe vre than a Hope that by this Slick trick a few Hundred votes could be picked up. Its designers had not. Enough imagination to. See that. It identified the party with educational reaction and. With the political control of education and that it would Cost the party votes possibly seats. Printed the Winnipeg free press company limited b lint Stock incorporated under the Laws of at its. Head office and place of business Street in the City Manitoba. E. H. Macklin president and general manager. Registered to the general Post office. Ii Ondon. Snir. For transmission through the Post in the United. Kingdom newspaper rate of postage. What Price peace Gage i t 4g s in Quebec s viewpoint notes and comment leaders at Lausanne to tackle says a headline. Tackle or tickle the weak Point in. The plea to Many of. Our politicians to be Empire minded is that it assumes the existence of a mind. With thirty five seats for the Manitoba fusion government Dif of unionists is an Apt name for the Defeated opposition. W one armed Drivers might Well remember that while love can laugh at locksmiths a ten Lon truck and. A ditch is a different matter. It is says or. Lloyd George How Wise great Stales men can be when it is ten years too he cannot he referring to can. He the actions of Belgium Holland and Luxembourg May show the great nations Lead them. The Federal government has re moved the dump duty from asses. Let us Bray Gold. By Thomas Hood Gold Gold Gold Bright and hard and cold molten Graven hammered and rolled heavy to get and Light to hold hoarded bartered bought and sold stolen borrowed squad hatred doled spurned by the Young but hugged by the old to the very Edge of the Church Yard Mould Price of Many a crime untold Gold Gold Gold Gold Good or bad a thousand fold How widely its agencies vary to save to ruin to curse to bless As even its minted coins express now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess and now a bloody. Jia Rrt unless a More reasonable pro portion is established in the d to Tibet pm. Of profits Between the wages of employees and the Sal Aries of the higher executives be Soleil Quebec Liberal daily says t will be impossible to prevent he spread of socialistic and communistic doctrines. We live on a continent where the Bounds of Ordinary decency Are unknown. In the United states where we too often find our rules of conduct we see baseball players re salaries two or three times higher than that of the president of the Republic. Prize fighters and movie stars sometimes earn More in a Day than government ministers do in a year. It is the world at Topsy Turvy. Naturally we do not want to wipe out the in comes of citizens who have succeeded in amassing for tunes by their hard work and cautious investment but we do want to see Somo Effort to recover the balance which was upset by the return to Barbar ism which followed the great War. Or. Cardin never said a truer nays be Devoir Montreal Independent daily than when he Laid the blame for much of our present distress on too much centralization in the past. It is All very Well he said preaching the return to the land but the proper place to begin is the end of Cen a Lizaol on. At the rate we Are going says be Devoir our population in one or two decades will in habit one or two cities and the Rural centres will go into a decline the great bulk of our population cannot As a of fact see any other future at. The present time than to enter the service of the government or to take subordinate posts in big companies. If this is to continue much longer we . No longer be pretend that the most centralized country in the world is France where practically All activities Are in Paris it will be. Tho province of Quebec with Quebec the seat of government and Mont real the business capital. Out Side what will happen to the Little towns which were once important and Are now rapidly becoming places where people stay Only because they have not the Niewaus to leave f tie minister of Trade and com Merce it appears does not agree with the estimate of the political science association of Toronto that there Are unemployed in Canada today. The employment Index is higher than it has been since the beginning of the year says or. Stevens. Be Canada Montreal Liberal daily thinks or. Stevens is confused in his figures. The Index which lie quotes Canada explains does not refer to the Industrial activity of the country but to the activity of the manufacturers Only. But manufacturing activity is not the Only Industrial activity in the country. Far from it. There is also lumber ing mining transportation construction Etc. And unfortunately there is no increase hut a recession since january 1 in the general Index of Industrial employ a ant embracing beside manufacturing All branches of activity. From the beginning of the 3rear to april 1 the coefficient fell from 91.6 to s7.5. When every thing is taken into consideration there has been no improvement but the reverse. But How can we Hope to extract this admission of Rorn tie minister of a government which Spears Only by the Canadian manufacturers association today s scripture from Leviticus 19 when be reap the Harvest of your land thou Shalt not wholly reap the. Corners thy Field neither Shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy Harvest. And thou Shalt not glean thy Vineyard neither Shalt thou. Gather every grape of thy Vineyard thou Shalt leave them for. The poor and the stranger i am the lord . Be shall not neither Deal falsely neither lie one to another. And be shall not swear by my name falsely. I great Britain., is vitally Eon a corned with the., income which it gets from foreign investments. Or. Hammersley . Books Are a finer world the the Alpine club of Canada has always been fortunate in the Edi tors chosen for its journal an exceedingly valuable annual that ought Sci be on the shelves of every Public Library in the Domin Ion. For it is full of scientific in formation about the Rocky mountains that you can get nowhere else in the compact popular Fonn. To edit such a Magazine involves an enormous amount of thought and work. The last two issues have been edited by or. A. A. Mccourey of the car. Engineering department. The present Issue volume xx., contains very much More Intelli gence of mountaineering in the Rockies geography and of the sciences germane to mountains than you will get in any similar Magazine. One article alone giving an illustrated history of the Retreat of Many great Gla Ciers is i Worth the Price of the journal. Or. Wheeler who has been measuring changes in the Yoho acid Robson glaciers for Many years goes Back to the be ginnings i in 1ss7 when the Vaux family of Philadelphia undertook to shrinkage at the foot of the and Saul Kan glaciers and to keep the records i among later observers and markers of glacial Retreat in the Canadian mountains near the railways in remoter regions Are of Philadel phia messes. A. A. Mccourey Don professor Sherzer or. Coleman and or. Collie. We read in the paper the other Day the leave Brothers Winnipeg climbing it. Collie Yoho on skiis. The journal has a Short account of it and a longer account of Winter climbing on my. Resplendent which rises out of. The Jereau Robson Glacier. At least it looks so. From the pass. Well save the highest reach of that Beautiful Snow Mountain twice it has been climbed on skiis. The Steep last Snow slope to the sum Mit they climbed with crampons. They say., that both resplendent and Collie Are far More easily ascended in Winter using the until the final and Shorter Dis Tance. Winter climbing is an old sport in Switzerland and it will be Well established Canada Ere Long. There Are six Lively articles ski Section journal. In an. Article of the ancient Trees of the coast a. Pic Ture is shown of a living tree the oldest known in Canada probably years old. It must be Sawri across to verify its. Age. A second one is shown As probably years old. An article on the Northern mountains. Of Labrador is by or. N. B. Odell of Everest Fame who recommends that Field As Good mountaineering country. An article on climbing in new zealand is by miss Gardiner who has climbed in the Rockies for several seasons. And there Are other articles of great scribing climbing in the ranges on and near the coast. You will learn from them that Canada still holds surprises for world wide climbers. An englishman who., has climbed much in Switzerland was a guest at last summer s Camp in prospector s Valley. He was de lighted with Camp and Camp fire with the climbing and especially with the forests and the wild Ani Mals of the Rockies. After the sparse Pine Woods of Switzerland they the forests were a revela Tion of i must not forget the coloured Lakeland five of the bookmark. New Alpine club Cabin All devotees of mountaineering in Winnipeg Are particularly interested in the Elizabeth Parker Cabin been donated by the Canadian Pacific railway and rehabilitated and furnished by the Winnipeg Section of the Canadian Alpine club. Set High on the Meadows near Lake. O Hara this charming Cabin of peeled Spruce logs with its cheery living room its huge Stone fireplace its Well equipped Kitchen and its Small the Elizabeth Parker Cabin hut Annex will certainly prove a Happy Haven of rest for weary climbers As Well As a Fine base for longer expeditions throughout the Lake o Hara District. Because this spot was one of the first and most Beautiful to be chosen site it is fitting that the Alpine club should have decided to1 name the. Hut after one of its founders. In Early Days mrs., h. A. Parker gave her Active support to. Every phase of mountaineering. No after Twenty five years her enthusiasm has not and pen she still delights to. Lend her. Help. In mentioning the part she has the Alpine club a writer in Alpine journal pays her this tribute through her daily Caus Erie in the Winnipeg. Free press she has. Given prominence to Alpine literature and conquests and in her charming Home extends hospitality to visiting mountaineers As Well As of her own Section. It is hoped that mrs. In the course of time see her. Early vision of the club completely fulfilled and. That the Chain of Cabins will he extended to other from the on the Mountain Gohrey Winthrop Young he meets me. On the Mountainside where the White Van of Snow bursts through the Sentinel Grey Pines to shatter on the serried lines of fir Wood far i never see him but Iris tread sounds just to Fattore my own one thought task of Day one Effort wins the Onward Way yet. Alone. One Hope one Vigour of intent swayed by one Resolute consent of sympathy unsaid. He Waits me at the evening halt upon the Glacier Brink when in the hour of Mountain peace tha passion and the tumult. Cease As the red Sun floods sink and the Pale lords of Sovereign height watch the cold armies of the night mustering their first assault. So on wild Range and Rocky Crest the soul of All that s in me Best at . Birthday congratulations to e. A. Mott Brantford bom Brantford ont., june 22, 1s69. Or. Chester Martin Toronto born St. John n.b., june .3882. Hon. John Bracken Premier of Manitoba born Ellisville ont. I june 22, 1ss3. The years of balance by t. Writing a Ier journal at bal moral on., june.20, 1896, in. Her seventy seventh year Queen Vic Toria soliloquies a As follows fifty nine years since i came to the throne what a Long time to Bear so. Heavy a Burden god has guided me. In the midst terrible trials sorrows and anxieties and Lias wonderfully .1 live lived to see my dear country and vast Empire Prosper and expand and be wonderfully Loyal received Many kind even while her majesty was re cording these thoughts the forces were in Progress which eighteen years late i would bring Down the whole imposing and Beneficent Structure of tie victorian world to include generally the to sentries of. Europe Dur ing the period of Hie Queen s reign. Only Sis months earlier her majesty had sent a letter to the German emperor expressing her deep regret that lie should have sent his celebrated Telegram of congratulation to president Kruger. The antagonism which was finally to destroy the victorian Europe had begun to. Deepen and Widen its channels. No one. In that generation quite grasped what had Happe ried during those past eventful fifty nine years. Its significance As the numerous Post War memoirs show clearly enough was instinctively but vaguely Felt by those . But its mean ing escaped them and nowhere was it less realized than in Ger Many the country for which that half Century had. Done most. The thing that yet organism had achieved was not the spirit of the age was misconceived and misinterpreted and the Conse Quence was the disappearance of one of Europe s greatest epochs in the disasters of a Universal War which destroyed the political co Hesion of the european continent and loosened the general International Structure. When or. Leonard Woolf likens the War of to the break up collapse of Imperial Rome his analogy is quite accurate. The existing conditions in which All the countries Are struggling will never be under stood until this is grasped. We never Era an Era of broken Anc scattered energies and Coria use purposes. We do nol know wha is because we have not yet picked up to our own times and we. Can see what the clue is by looking Back to the victorian world which was. A ready undermined before the great death and which crashed helplessly in ruins fourteen years after her departure. What Europe had achieved Dur ing the victorian Era was the priceless Boon of stability. Victoria was born in 1s19, four years after the. Congress of Vienna Redavid de Europe and. Left a new crop of National problems to he worked out and solved. In the years tween.1837 when the Queen began Lier. Reign and 1st1, these in. Finished problems had. Been adjusted and Unity established in Europe. The architect of the new Europe was Bismarck and his the creation and establishment of Imperial Germany. His methods , his personality Are All at the. Disposal and the mercy of historians but he left Unity where found division and lie produced. Equilibrium where there had previously been eccentricity. Frpm-ls71 to 1914, Europe and All the world enjoyed four decades o f a example d and Bene in every Branch and department of human activity. A political balance had been obtained in. Europe which enabled the people in countries to expand their energies with the least amount of International restraint or opposition in the widest possible ranges of interest. It is curious How Little this is recognized or remembered now. But for forty years High politics was a mystery of outer world Mew nothing nothing. Foreign policy business for a. Few crowned Heads and Aristo the Middle classes were pre occupied in out of Commerce and Industry the working classes were kept in reasonable Tranquillity by the aver age steadiness employment. People went from one country to another with the minimum degree of interference from official formality. The music books the theatre were subjects of absorbing interest to the average person and the volume of International Trade Rose to unprecedented Heights from the general Freedom of International Exchange. All these Good things followed from the stabilization of Europe brought about by the emergence of the German Empire under Bis Marck s control. It needed his control and while he was in control of. Germany the european balance spun upright on its Point. With his removal it swung into b. It which Mark the diplomatic history the years rom 1s96 to the but so had the equilibrium been established that Twenty years of oscillation were required to bring it Down. After twelve years of Uncertain y and accumulating dangers we May now begin to grasp the fact that it is foreign policy which con Rols our fortunes. The economic crisis is merely a secondary con sequence of Lack of internal ional political Unity and the re establishment of Unity is the heart of the problem. It should soon be generally apparent that Only by drastic alterations in existing a. Augments can. Unity be the most important thing the de pression has done is the truth that the world is going to hits economically because co Hesion has gone out of International political relationships. How the Unity will be restored is the grave question much More serious now Han in the years when. Bismarck was stabilizing Europe by welding the German states into the Central Empire. . And the dartmoor sentences or. A. B. Shaw writes to the Manchester guardian attention has just been called to a report in your Issue of the 7th, in which or. Alexander Jota Well chairman of the prison commission is said to have told the Oxford luncheon club that my. Bernard Shaw had suggested fines instead of lest anyone should infer that i have put Forward fines As an effective Way of dealing with the unfortunate scoundrels who have just been sentenced at dartmoor to if they sur Vive socially dangerous periods of imprisonment let me say that i have dealt explicitly with the Case of the unt Amable criminal who can no More be left at Large in human society than a cobra or a Man eating Tiger. He or she . Given a Good dinner with a Liberal allowance of alcohol and put to bed in a comfortable cell with instructions to the warder to turn on the Gas unlighted until morning. 1 reject the suggestion that a Tew remark Able specimens spare for Whipsnade As 1. Think Nero would have Good grounds for we shall never tackle this prob Lem of our criminals kindly and until we get rid of the idea of punishing Larnin pm to be toads and face the fact that they Are what they Are and until we can split their atoms or can never be changed into anything better. We shall then without malice Weed out. The Unta Mables in a humane manner and in an apologetic spirit keep those who need Only Tutelage and control As. Soldiers Are kept Good sol Diers even Victoria Cross heroes find themselves helplessly in the Dock the Day after they Are de and As for the Trum Pery slips that we All make in moments of moral illness though so few of is Are found out or brought to Justice the patients can be made to pay Cash for their misdeeds by judicious police Dun Ning or distraint As they Are not real criminals at All and present no serious problem. Or. Maxwell thinks that the Only Way to make them pay is to Send them to prison but that is in fact the surest Way to deprive them of the Means of paying for they Are not All or. Pickwick. I Hope it is now Clear that when i offer advice about criminals i know what i am talking about. Curious or enough people officially connected with prisons never do. G. Bernard Shaw. I Whitehall court London . 1, May 19. Ocean flying from the new York Sun Ocean flying casts a spell Over airmen a new flock is ready to hop off across the water for and what remuneration is to be had. In the Early flying Little was known about instrument or lives were sacrificed in the cause of Aero nautical Progress. Those who were successful in spanning the Ocean in those pioneering Days were for the most part Lucky others had unconsciously trained themselves for the Ideal by continuous flying Tor a number of years. In those Days when the Early chapters of aviation history were being writ ten risks were taken and human sacrifices were made to prepare the Way for that Safe Ocean travel by air which eventually will be come a reality. Today the situation is different. Blind flying instruments have been developed and perfected reducing the Hazard of transoceanic flying the Pilot is trained in their use. If he. Is not qualified for instrument or Blind flying the instruments on the dash of the worthless and Are Only so much extra weight. Instrument flying is essential distance and Over water flying. Most pilots will say that they can Fly with instruments but can they they obliged to prove their ability to Fly Blind their clearance papers Are issued for transoceanic flight. To permit a Pilot the details of his calling to Start across tha Ocean in a land plane practically amounts to endorsement of ;