Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 15, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom o. F Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights printed published the Winnipeg tree press company limited 300 Canton Street. Winnipeg. Manitoba. I. W. Dafoe. V1ctob Sifton. President. General manager. Registered at the general Post office London. Eng. For transmission through the Post in the United King Dom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg monday february 15, 1937. A big Job Worth doing Tidence that the drought area of the West was Well Worth d that reasonable stability of agricultural production g Anns ured by a thorough going rehabilitation scheme was by or. Gardiner minister of agriculture in parliament Day or. Bennett a few Days before had referred to d ought problem As the gravest confronting the country. 6 r s a serious question he said of whether great areas of Canada once highly productive would Ever producer Bennett was presumably referring to the lightest of d in the drought area which is practically useless. He a co operation with the government in dealing with the significance to the rest of the country of the reclamation drought area is seen in the value of its production which red nearly yearly in 1926-27-28, but fell to ase of sh8.000.000 in the years 1931 to 19.33 because of 811 us of rainfall. A general average of even a 3 s a very great Deal to the economic life of the country. Tangle with its Apex in Central Saskatchewan deluding parts of Manitoba and Alberta has a population of w 000 people and the future of this Large number also makes the Blem a National one. It is the definite opinion of agricultural its that by a reorganization of agriculture in this area at number of people can maintain themselves reasonably it is a matter of patiently undoing the Blind undirected to element of the country and the misdirected agricultural Effort 1 the past. And with that there must be such constructive assures As can be taken to offset the Light rainfall and the curing periods of severe drought. On both sides now it i for t is tics and agricultural possibilities of different and attempts at production along wrong lines. The huge sum of has been spent on Relief in this affected area in the last five years Accord definitely As a Public Utility and Deal with it precisely As in of Light heat Power and Telephone rates. But while the act did place the regulation and control of the gasoline business under the Public utilities Board it apparently did not give the Board All the Powers it has with respect to other Public utilities. That argues the Herald should be speedily rectified and a Complete investigation should be carried out to arrive at a proper rate basis. Whether the Nova Scotia act goes As far As it should or not the fact seems to remain that the Oil companies dared not disregard it. This is one Way of controlling the Price of gasoline. Another is by allowing enough Competition from outside by regulating the inter Imperial press. Reproduction forbidden. Sections. Jot jjcupi1 Inz to or. Gardiner and since in the future similar periods of very dry years May be expected from time to time some May ask what is the use of trying to rehabilitate such a country the answer is that the very heavy Relief Bill was not really due to the drought nor to the nature of the soil but to the reckless Way in hich the area was settled the total disregard for the character sections if this Ana had not happened and if settlement had been wisely directed and the land devoted to its proper uses there would have been far More stability of production and the greater part at least of the Large Relief Bill would not have been necessary. It is the Price. We have to pay for the mistakes of the past. The calamity to the people in the drought area and the great economic loss to Canada from the misuse of land and the Lack of intelligent organization of agricultural Effort is somewhat analogous to the vast waste of Forest wealth due to Over cutting and insufficient Protection against fire in the past and to tha depletion of the fisheries by failure to allow for their natural replenishment. Land is the greatest of the natural resources and the country loses heavily if the development of the land in every District is not guided by recognition of its Quality and possibilities. That was one of the troubles in the drought area and another was the laying out of that country in Square townships and sections and Quarter sections As in other parts of the West though this is entirely unsuitable for the drought area where Good land is mixed in irregularly with the poor land and where settlement must be arranged with a special View to water and grazing facilities. Much of the old organization must be cleared away and a new Start made in which settlement will be adapted to the natural characteristics and productive possibilities of different ions. Soil surveys of the drought area Are Well in hand and or. Gardiner states that the rehabilitation plans include resettling some Farmers around Community pastures along Rivers and near and dams where they would be Able to make a living and keep their Stock alive even in time of drought. Good farm ing communities can be established in this Way. Elsewhere Farmers with some Good land and much poor land because of the Way in which the farms Are Laid out can be re established with More Good land to each farm. The population of each District would be adjusted to just what the land was Able to support. It what is being done in the Way of water storage and irrigation was indicated a few Days ago by or. John Vallance chair Man of the committee dealing with rehabilitation work. Last year Small projects were completed including dugouts Small dams for watering Stock and Small irrigation works. Of Blatter there were 92, benefiting individual farms the irrigated ideas varying from five to ten acres to hundreds of acres. Al Kady applications have been received from Farmers for top in undertaking Small water storage or irrigation projects or. Vallance stresses the need for irrigating from eight to fifteen on most farms in the drought area and he suggests that the Farmers form District associations to receive the assistance which the government is prepared to give. The Active co operation of the individual Farmers is vital to fee whole rehabilitation scheme not Only in accepting the government s co operation in water projects but also in following proper agricultural methods and making full use of the expert advice that is made available rehabilitation scheme will take Many years to Complete must be pressed Forward in spite of greater precipitation in we years which May suggest that the scheme is not necessary. A thorough Job is done there will be a permanent population a the drought Triangle doing approximately As Well As in most other agricultural areas. That will be vastly better than leaving we area to become half deserted. While the climates does create Knous difficulties the soil and climate together have the virtue Able to produce wheat of the highest Quality. The re habilitation scheme will be a great it ensures the wat nuance of that production on a Large scale As Well As putting Industry on a much better basis. 1 they called it off Tariff. Oil companies apparently met Waterloo in Nova Scotia last when they were forced very f the cancel a half cent per crease the Price of line. New Brunswick and co Ard Island likewise from the by their action the i province u increase was eliminated the maritime. Was Nova a sold act of 1934 which so the com prevailing in Nova Scotia until january 29, the Board will sus Pend the operation of your whole Saler s License under the gasoline licensing act 1934, pending hear ing and this ultimatum was delivered on feb. 3. Two Days later the Price was restored to 28 cents per gallon. The Teeth of the licensing act had bitten Home. In jumping the Price they had failed to notify the Board in Advance As required by the act. The Oil companies were presumably not anxious for an investigation. But observes the Halifax Herald in a front Page editorial an exhaustive inquiry before the financing the Mosquito War practically everyone now agrees that Freedom from the Mosquito pest must be maintained and it is Only a matter of How the War is to be financed the civic Fin Ance committee declines to recommend an appropriation this year and favors leaving it to. The Citi Zens to provide funds through a . Whichever plan is adopted it is always necessary to obtain Large additional funds through contributions from various sport ing and other organizations. A civic appropriation could easily be justified on the ground that the Public is involved not Only through the carrying of infection by mosquitoes but also through the. Seriousness of the Dis Comfort restricting the healthy outdoor activities of the people in their gardens and in various forms of recreation when the maximum of outdoor life is Neces sary after the Long. Winter. A Good Deal of Money can be raised by a , but its Only be the Finan Cial exigencies of the City Council at the present time. And a for this purpose May eliminate some other for a commend Able and necessary object or if there Are too Many tag Days Dis courage Public contributions. Notes and comment a kidnapping Case on its hands. It will be very interesting to see what sort of Job is done by the police of that coun try. S of the spent toy tourists in Canada last year Mani Toba got had t we better find out Why we Don t be a larger share Ontario. Is naturally net up about alleged plot to Kidnap two. Of the quintuplets. Just Abou As serious As stealing the Parlia ment buildings in Toronto. All that the civic finance com Mittee has to do in balancing the budget is to get around under o nature As the Schoolboy wrote Bors a Vatican and the same May perhaps be said of Toronto. That Alert town is Ever on its Uard against the machinations of he papacy and the Public will e interested to know that it has ust been saved once again from he Pope owing to the vigilance and Public spirit of a or. George Armstrong who is a member of tie Toronto school Board. It seems that in Bowmore Road school Toronto there is a teacher named miss Gertrude Crich who encourages her pupils to do pro act we Are not quite sure that this Means but the idea apparently is that the pupils gather items about a current topic Range them and Naste them up. The result is a project and is duly exhibited to the class for its pleasure and instruction. One Day last month a Pupil of miss Crich in the papers hat Pope Pius was unwell. This s where the plot begins to con Geal. No doubt under the influence of witchcraft at the time the Pupil made a project centred with picture of the holy father. Underneath she put items about career and his illness. She ook her project to school and it Vas Hung up on the blackboard in miss Crich s room. Or. Scouts Are about it the same Day. I could not credit in App a week and a half had tacked Naus Uve inquiry Oei uie received Thalf cent increase they re Board of Public. Utilities into the from 4w Curt message gasoline business of Nova Scotia Isip is still that news paper Points out that under the 1934 gasoline licensing act it was intended to class gasoline Public is. The wholesale Price of e o a Friday Scotia to that deficit o a million Over a threatening More than dollars. In the discussion at Ottawa o rehabilitation of the drought area it was pointed out that it got it principal Start from a speech by Premier Bracken. This contains a masterly review of the Whol situation. Lord Beaverbrook and Lor Rothe Mere newspaper owners might admit that they have som influence in great Britain by they will probably Admire the Power of imagination of the Ney yorker who told a Senate com Mittee that they influenced the editorial policy of the new Yor. Times and other prominent paper of the United states. In Happy Toronto by j. B. M. He said later in describing his awful experience. Or. Armstrong however is not a Man to leave a Stone unturned or to let grass grow under his feet where the Pope is concerned. He beetles off to Bow More Road school i Stanter made for miss Crich s room and there found that the report was Only too True. Gazing Down on miss Crich s Little charges with a deceptively benign look was Pope Pius i Pontifex Maximus of the roman Church. Or. Armstrong seeing Orange at once gave miss Crich what for had the picture taken Down and dashed off to. Swing the . Into action. The Eastern District Orange Lodge passed a Resolution and wrote a letter. Fortified by these or. Armstrong turned up at the next school Board was held last High fettle. There was quite a Howdy do at the school Board that evening. One might almost Call it a Shindy. The Toronto Globe and mail had a two column report with an eight column., head roman Catholic Ontario feared by the Star gave the Story the same space heading it Stormy debate no action on Pope s photo in there followed editorials inter views counter blasts. Toronto was in. Turmoil if Toronto can Ever be said to be in turmoil. Or. Armstrong had not minced words. We quote snatches from his philippic to the Board. If this sort of thing is allowed to go on sooner or later Ontario will be by Auto to Mexico City from the Christian science Monitor far which have beckoned Canadian motorists for several decades now extend into the sub tropics for the Road be tween the Rio Grande and Mexico City is ready to use. After Many earlier false alarms it is open and in first class condition paved Over most of its 776 Miles and Good All the Way with new Bridges wherever needed and an extremely attractive assortment of scenery on every hand. The Sunshine and color of Mexico have been attracting an increasing number of visitors every year. Now the new Road Way is expected to Taring thousands of them flooding into Mexico from Canada and the United states. The Road has been under construction for some years and there have been premature announcements from unofficial sources to the. Effect that it was fit for travel. Actually it has not been in sufficiently Good condition until recent weeks. Ultimately this new Road is expected itself to become a link in a far longer Highway uniting All of the countries of the Western hemisphere. It will stretch from Alaska through Canada across the United states the length of Mexico and Central America and the building of Good roads and a e consequent growth of motor travel and automobile building did much to unify the United states erase sectional prejudices and spread Good things so May much the same happen in Mexico along the Road will grow up Gaso line and service stations tourist Camps eating places towns. Agri culture will find the Road helps in carrying produce to Market Anc farms will seek the Road. Feeder roads will grow up As they Are projected already in some places electricity will follow the roads radio and motion pictures Anc More automobiles will follow electricity. More tourists will be attracted. Mexicans and North americans will get to know one another so from one Long Highway May develop untold benefits. Down the America West across coast of South the Andes to _ Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro a great pan american Highway it was no easy task to build the portion now in regular use. It meant building roads through the mountains sometimes along precipitous Cliffs it meant contending with landslides it meant bridging streams and ravines it meant fill ing in bog land it meant hauling materials and men Over great Dis Tances. It meant Many other things but All of these difficulties have been solved successfully. The Mountain roads Are wide Anc fenced in the danger of landslides is eliminated except in one or two places where special watch is kept and Camps Are maintained so tha workers May keep the Way Safe and open the Bridges Are of steel so that old time ferries have been retired All of the 776 Miles of the Road Are paved except about 70 Miles which Are. Surfaced with gravel and crushed Rock providing equally smooth Riding. The social effect of the new National. Highway on Mexico it self is going to be interesting. As roman Catholic. What a happened in Bowmore Road schoo is an indication of How the steam roller is being placed on us. How under the Sun any teacher in the Public schools would permit such a picture to be in the room one minute i Don t know. Are we going to let this thing like a Vampire go through our schoo in the heat of his Emo Tion or. Armstrong did get his metaphor mixed. Vampires do not operate steam rollers. But the Good doctor s meaning was Clear some people in Toronto did no appreciate his Public service. Oni of his own colleagues on the Board a person named s. Tupper Bige Low said at the meeting this i the most absurd ridiculous fantastic fanatic Poppycock i be eve to which or. Armstron replied with telling wit now w Are getting people in their tru later he got Over another hot one show me a picture o King William in a separate school. The debate continued in the papers for some time. Prominent citizens asked for their opinion dragged in such irrelevant fact As that the Pope is a world Figun and that the papacy is an important institution. Rev. Stanley Russell pastor of Deer Park United Church got personal in his remarks. Who wants a Pic Ture of William of asked he the Man responsible for the massacre of these unkind observations have no effect on or. Gordon Arm Strong. After All he won out the pupils in miss Crich s room Don t have to look at a picture o Pope Pius any More. If they Hap pen to see him again in a news paper or Magazine they Novi now what to their Eye and turn the Page. It is rumoured though there is no definite report that or. Armstrong is now out t have All mention of Rome including Julius Caesar suppressed i the history books. That however will come later. For the Momen Toronto is Safe again. Happy Happy town with such Funn school trustees and so Little on it mind. Halibut from the Ottawa journal Early in the present Century the halibut fishery of the North Pacific was highly productive. But bad fishing or Over fishing rap idly reduced the catch. The fishing grounds being in the open sea and being frequented by citizens of Canada and citizens of the United states neither coun try alone could establish protective regulations. A treaty was made Between the two countries in 1924, and a commission was appointed with Powers to investigate and advise. But this did not meet the situation. The halibut catch constantly declined. In 1930 the commission was Given Power to regulate and two years later regulations were put in Force. By that time the situation had grown serious. A Fisherman took in a Day and with a certain unit of gear less than an eighth As much fish As had been taken in 1906. In the four years of regulation there has been marked improve ment. In the year just closed the catch was pounds the greatest since 1916. Regulations Are based upon extensive and painstaking research into the natural history of the halibut. It has been ascertained that the reproductive Powers of this fish Are such that barring unpredictable difficulties it should be easily possible to maintain the fishery at a High level of production. The female of the species begins to spawn at about twelve years of age when she produces eggs numbering up to half a Mil lion. She continues to grow an to increase her spawn and a Twenty years of age the eggs a number Over three millions. Another hopeful element in tha fishery is that under scientific direction opportunities open of use by manufacture of Oil an other materials that formerly wer wasted. It is strange and wonderful tha even the open sea can be farm by that ingenious land Anima Man. Today s scripture from acts 17 god that made the world and a things therein seeing that he i lord of heaven and Earth Dweller not in temples made with hands neither is worshipped with men hands As though he needed any he liveth to All life and breath and All things. Birthdays sir b. P. Hoblin Winnipeg born Sophi Asburg ont., feb. 15, 185 Mathew j. Stanbridge Stonewall Man. Born Worth Sussex. Eng., feb. 15. 1876. James Ryan Winnipeg born Perth ont. Feb. 15, 1852. S w Mccullough Brandon Man born North Hatley que., feb. 1 1r72 a Duncan Stewart Silverton Man born North East Hope ont., be 15, 1855. The British nations Australia and defence special correspondence Sydney Australia no country s More desirous of peace thata Australia. It is not merely a pose a expression of an. Altruistic aspiration. It is a definite Hope hat never again will australians e required to kill others. The military achievements in the great War covered the soldiers of Aub Ralia with much glory. Their records were not surpassed by tile records of any other country. This if course has its effects on the mind. They see about hem some traces of the War men with arms or legs missing and they read of the condition of wrecks of soldiers still in the War hospitals but now As of old the tories of deeds of men of their own land stir them and if required they would line up to repel any invader. Some would be ready o answer a Call to go Over Leas but generally speaking the bought appears to be that figh t no Here is the Only thing that can be justified. It is True that the fact that a s fighting in the great War was from these shores saved aus Ralian Homes from destruction arid that if there bad not been this Success afar off there would Lave been the horrors of War Here but not All see this. Mean Ime australian defence measures Are being pushed ahead. The Navy and the air Force Are regarded As the main details Al Hough All others have vital association therewith. The most important news in this regard was he report not yet verified thai a British naval base in chinese Waters be transferred to port Darwin. This would assist the Protection of the empty Parl of Australia the North which Al present is almost defenceless. The belief is growing that the Commonwealth government Wil experience defeat on the referendum in regard to marketing. This defeat will mean that government marketing Laws determining the proportion of products to be sole locally and abroad will not b observed. The Case decided a few months ago in regard to the Sale of dried fruits sin various state at prices to suit seller and Buye brought about the referendum in order that the defect in the marketing Laws might be remedies but As the Constitution provide for free Trade Between the states Many persons have been disposed to stand for it irrespective of the effects it May have on the primary producers As a body. There Are even some who be Lieve that the primary producers have had too much consideration a consideration which caused Ian increase in the living costs of people generally. Shouts he Man in the Street should we pay More for our butter than the consumer in England pays for it after costs of transit have been and so about other things. The country party has not been n Good favor lately and this fact will assist to make the no vote much larger than it otherwise might have been. The country party in both Federal and state spheres is held to have evidenced constant desire to be High handed and Oft has been so being confident that its partner the United Australia party in the Commonwealth and new South Wales parliaments particularly cannot get along without it. This is More or less True but the Atti Lude creates a condition which ultimately May terminate disastrously for the country party. V the Case of mrs. Freer is now Well known throughout the civilized world. The condition of thought in regard to it must be mixed for the Case is one in which a British woman carrying a Brit ish passport is denied admission to a British Dominion not because matter of National concern but because of private differences in regard to matters matrimonial. Not one reason has been advanced by the Commonwealth govern ment Why mrs. Freer should not be admitted no statement has been made As to Why she was excluded. It was merely that she was an undesirable requests were made for information As to what characteristics or happen Ings the minister for the Interior considered justification for designating anyone an undesirable per son. The minister preserved his dumbness. Some thought that this apparent using of the machinery of state in private interest would have led to the minister s resignation. This however could not be forced. He is a member of the country party and the country party supported his attitude merely on that account. My party right or wrong seemed to be the attitude. The United Australia party was not quite in Accord with its title on this matter and anyhow was not going to Cut free from its partner and perhaps let in labor merely because of a the women of Australia would have been Strong enough to compel the admission of mrs. Freer were it not that the matrimonial element involved divided them. The australian officer concerned was to marry her when he and she obtained divorces and this condition displeased Many. The main ques Tion however remained unaltered British woman was shut out of a British country without cause. Tre s finer world within the the latest Book to add to the extensive bibliography of Shelley is an elaborate and intricate study Shelley s by Ellsworth Barnard being a doctoral thesis at the University of Minnesota whose press is the publisher which announces it As the beginning of a new school of Shelley an critic whoever investigates Shel Ley s poetry and prose in search of detailed interpretation must be a. Scholar equipped for Long and patient Endeavor. Though one of the great English poets it is doubtful if his poetry is read today beyond the lyrics special passages in the Long poems and perhaps the whole of professor Barnard has confined his study to the body of Shelley s writings not so much to the Man. For myself the masterly essay Shelley and his by that acute critic r. H. Hutton has been the estimation that satisfied. And indeed Hutton is Friendly believes in the poet s idealism is aware Oil his strange Ideal and says that he was no atheist. Also his View of Eppsy Chirion agrees with that of professor bar Nard. Hutton counts Shelley a sincere pantheist and surveys his paradoxes As revealed in Dowden s biography. In his introduction the present interpreter admits that he is liable to error. So is everybody he is not concerned with the sources of Shelley s thought but with his ideas the two being quite distinct. An exception is made in relation Shelley and Godwin in order to show that the poet s opinions did not derive from Godwin As Many have believed Shelley can not be understood until Godwin is forgotten. Even in the few cases where Shelley adheres to the letter of Godwin s teaching he changes the spirit Shel Ley s works he declares Are to be read for knowledge and inspiration not for Learned treatises. But this essay is in that category. Every phase of the body of Shel Ley s poetry is considered on grounds of the author s thesis. The six chapters which follow the introduction Are summarized in the table of contents and nearly every Page is copiously documented in footnotes. Two chapters Are devoted to Shelley s the first to traditional views of his belief to the development of his scepticism and to the grounds of his opposition to Christian the ology la the sixth chapter heaven s on these Are some of til themes Shelley s recognition of needed personal re generation his Complete rejection of reason in favor of imagination his Conception of imagination As a moral Power and the enemy of self and his Conception of love As Only incidentally connected with sex. Leigh Hunt and three others unnamed were United in the Faith that Shelley was the Best Man they had Ever professor Barnard takes Shel Ley s part regarding Harriet and he says that Mary with whom lie ran off was the Only woman he Ever loved. But Mary disappointed him As a platonic Affinity. She had neither the mind nor the moral sense to share her husband s views. That in a footnote by the author himself in another note ii his wife had worshipped him As alter his death she pretended. Two dominant problems in Shel Ley s philosophy of life Are pointed out As the improvement of society and the immortality of the soul. Prof. Barnard wonders if Many of those persons who patronize Shelley Ever forgot to eat while in Pursuit of intellectual nourish ment the life of reason and the life of sensation both became in adequate. The intellectual discipline imposed upon himself was probably More intense and persistent than that of any other poet except Milton yet he found it less satisfying As years in this panegyric Al dissertation he is pronounced an Arthur and a Galahad in one the vision of the grail drawing away from the struggle he had vigorously waged. Bookman. From the Golden books from Hellas Shelley a Power from the unknown god a promethean conqueror came like a triumphal path he trod the thorns of death and shame. A mortal shape to him was like the Vapour dim which the Orient planet animates with Light hell sin and slavery came like bloodhounds mild and tame. Nor preyed until their lord had taken flight the Moon of Mahomet arose and it shall set while blazoned As on heavens immortal noon the Cross leads generations on ;