Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 13, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Printed and published daily except sunday by the Winnipeg tee press company limited 300 Carlton Street. Winnipeg Manitoba. J w Dafoe Victor s1fton. President., general manager. Re sintered by the general port of Clef. London ens., for transmission through the Post m the United King Dom it the news paper rate of Winnipeg tuesday april 13, 1937. What parliament accomplished there is really a great Deal to show for the Short session at Ottawa which ended on saturday night. Outstanding in import was the decision of the government to appoint a Royal commission to study relations Between the Dominion and the provinces. Provision was also finally made for a revision of the Spital Structure of the Canadian National railway. The new Trade agreement with great Britain was approved. The anti combines act was materially strengthened. And the need Foi Jeater preparation for the defence of the country in View of the a certainty of world conditions was recognized in the increasing defence appropriation to a1 notable feature of the session very creditable to or. Ben eur As Leader of the opposition was his restraint and moderation throughout. He criticized and opposed the government when he relieved that this should be done Public interest but to j not oppose merely for the Sake of making trouble for. Thel government and he was free from the bitterness of feeling which. Soo often in past has seriously marred the discussions in parliament. It is commendable that the opposition Leader has kept the Good of the country Well before him and has not ii Jjose conditions unduly sought party advantage. J the personnel of the Royal commission will be awaited j interest to View of the exceedingly responsible task which j men of the very highest capacity Are required i administrative duties and taxing Powers As Jet Ween Dominion and the provinces has Long been needed because of the vast change in conditions since 186-7, when the present arrangement was adopted. The need of the readjust Merit is Felt particularly in the West where the provinces and j municipalities clearly Lack the Revenue resources to meet the Cost of the services which they provide. But Iti is needed also in the East because of the desirability of transferring certain administrative relating to social in its starkest forms torn the provinces to the Dominion since they should be on a accept this plan and provided National basis. Obviously this investigation which is expected perfect Lead to a new National set up is of the very greatest importance. mean an historic reshaping of Canada s Constitution. Coming events consequences in Short aut Archy the details Canada will become a Paradise among the nations. This or. Herridge declared with intense earnestness and the most the government won out in securing a Lew accounting evident sincerity and his great system for the Canadian National railway and the writing Down audience listened with interest of its grotesque capitalization. Tremendous opposition had been attention and with obvious per raised in the country by the Canadian Pacific railway and. Its Sonal. Sympathy for the speaker allies. But neither this opposition nor that raised in parliament j but it might be said that it re Homeric by doings on the Western Plains Healy provincial librarian Maine cold to the somewhat shopworn formula accept my nostrum and you will be saved reject it and destruction will Over take or. Herridge presumably in prevented this important change from being authorized practically As proposed by the government. It successfully resisted the attempt to include in the balance Sheet of the Canadian National railway the history of All the Aid Given to it by the country. The Only Concession made was to provide for a note at the end the balance Sheet stating that the amount of Aid that had been advanced would All be shown in the Public accounts of the Dominion. The government is to be commended for main firm stand on this matter and depriving the enemies of the publicly owned railway of a favorite weapon in their per a very Irich that he will get very Sis tent attempts to destroy it. J far with a programme which is the new Trade agreement with great Britain was not merely j wrongheaded in More ways than an Extension of the old agreement. The latter was the result of j any which has Ever been batted very hard bargaining on the part of the former government at up to the Canadian people with Ottawa and it caused serious resentment in great the possible exception of that great As to endanger the free Market for Canadian farm pro fathered by or. Aberhart. Ducts in Britain. The new agreement was negotiated in an entirely different spirit. It was recognized that the balance German Liberty party among the heroes whose have lived in human minds since smote his Bloomin Lyre is Ajax who defied the lightning. That gesture against heaven tempted Many a sculptor to try to make it alive in Marble or in Bronze. A like challenging of the Powers was once done rage by an Indian chief whose name was Zahwee she Capri in the i Quappelle Valley in Sas Katche tends to take his theory to the people in some political Way by some Agency not yet revealed is his right. But we doubt but there was no Homer to make the memory of it last. There is no record of it in any Book. Isaac Cowie in 1913, the year in which he finished writing that front rank Canadian Book the an Arrow against the Sun. Comi Down and fight like a i called out wildly. Do riot be Lifa a cowardly slinking dog a Kille of children. Fight me a Isaac Cowie told a strange store of the death of Dis Marlais. fall of 1869 the Medicine Man Fel into a trance and his sons wheat trl Ohk Ghafil by Edmonton alta., april 12" four North Alberta Farmers a quartet. Of Rural characters testified Oday at the Turgeon Grain com Missi Orr s first hearing since it got Back to the Prairies and Clear Sunshine from misty Vancouver. All four were volunteers. They sked to be heard. They were j not invited beguiled or Dragoone nto town. Yet if they had been hand picked they have done a better Job for the open Market system. All said they were of. Posed to either a Pool or a Board handling 100 per cent of the wheat and want Freedom to sell As they please. If this score of 4-0 looks too Good to be True for the Grain Trade and seems to Point to rounding up of witnesses the answer is that the other Side has the same Chance. Long suffering or. Justice Turgeon will hear anyone. Pro Pool a witnesses May yet appear. Meantime the free Dom lovers speak for the Farmers of North Alberta at least for the men of substance. All four farm on a pretty Large scale and seem prosperous. The first was Andrew Murchie an Ayrshire ploughman in thick speech red face slow humor and Independence a sort of Robert Burns with most of the poetry left out. Or. Murchie did in fact come from Ayrshire to peace River in 1914. There he farms three Quarter sections and firmly maintains his natural right to sell his Grain when and to whom he likes. Next was Herman Bechthold an immigrant from Shermany to the peace River country. Or. Bech Thold is one German who does t plus a fair profit. He thinks the Farmers Are entitled to this compensation for the Dominion s checking of the Price Rise in Post War years when . Wheat climbed to four dollars. Or. Coyne Junior counsel for the Dominion did an expert Job in steering these witnesses. Or. Williams k.c., Only Pool counsel on hand today examined All of them. He did not Budge them he did not try from their anti Pool but he brought out that they Are substantial Farmers who do not need to sell their whole crops for Cash in the fall to satisfy creditors. A the eminent counsel did a bit of sparring with or. Mcdonell. Maybe he exasperated them by his proposal that in farming As in the so called Learned the incompetent should be thrown out on their ears and forbidden to general Ketchen who often sits in the House for Days on end j without saying a word evidently i believes the sound military Maxim Don t shoot till you see the Whites of their he shot yesterday i and it looked to one observer As i if he had scored a direct hit on i the matter of text books in our schools. The Price of these Dull but essential educational tools has Long been a subject of violent do practise. The simple answer is Bate in Lomes where it has been hat lawyers not j Learned that similar texts in Mani i Toba Are much higher in Price i asking or. Mcdonell what he than they arc in Ontario. General Ujj Ifould do with the inefficient Ketchen speaking with careful him to be dead. They went to the like Goose stepping which is May fort arid got Cotton to wrap the body in before burying it in Birch bark. They made a grave and were preparing for the burial when the old Man opened and spoke to them. In or two after that he was telling them in a croaking voice that he. Had company of the been in the land of spirits. Trade was very much against great Britain and that if she were expected to take our Export products on such a Large scale we must admit British goods More freely. The duties were substantially reduced on textiles and other lines. The better under standing thus created and the much better feeling toward Canada. Is the spirit Liberty in Ger Many about to struggle to break its chains the circulation in Berlin of the manifesto of a lib erty party is a matter of world will be All to our advantage. Both Consumers and producers will wide interest. Benefit from the agreement. Necessarily the origin of the manifesto is kept secret and Little the amendments to the combines act were aimed at strengthening the hands of the government in dealing with predatory business organizations which join in increasing their profits at the expense of the Consumers. The enforcement of the act is now transferred from the Trade and Industry commission the Tariff Board Back to the labor department. And the government will no longer be hampered in securing effective action against combines after a Prima Facie Case has been made out by inability to use at the trial the documents produced at the preliminary investigation. The Senate showed greater regard for the combines than for the Consumers of the country by insist ing on an amendment requiring the approval of the president of the exchequer court or the chairman of the Trade and Industry commission before anyone could be compelled to give evidence or to produce documents in a departmental investigation. There suspicion that if the government s Power to investigate were not closely restricted it might be used too freely and with improper purposes. The Well founded suspicion that the combines will get away with All they can might have suggested leaving the government just As free As possible to investigate and control hem. The minister of labor protested the delay that would be caused by the Senate amendment in proceeding with investigations and he properly declared that if it were found to have a tampering effect he would later move to have it repealed. Other achievements of the session were the provision for z fans Canada air service and the clothing of the government the Power to control exports of munitions arid and to control also the profits in the manufacture of defence and supplies. Deficiencies in the government s record at this session were failure to make a greater attack on the problem of unemployment and Relief and the failure to implement More fully he previously proclaimed Low Tariff policy of the Liberal party the government s performance in these respects is disappointing and greater activity in carrying out the policies to which it i emitted will be looked for in the future. Utopia unlimited the and damnation if something is no done about it lighten the heart great audience which the i bowed Down by this weight of woe known of the strength of the movement. No rapid development could be expected in. Any Case because the dictatorship will Ruth Essly suppress it As Long As possible. But nothing is surer than that he Complete abolition of civil and Liberty Germany will m time bring full reaction and the dictatorship will destroy itself. The present attempt to gather sup port for a Liberty movement May the first rumblings and they May Well be regarded As ominous by Hitler and his aides. The German race May riot be the perfection of human develop ment but it is too Strong and virile race to endure very Long the Complete subjection of the individual to the state and. The entire suppression of Freedom of thought and expression. The righting of the situation in Germany will come beyond the Shadow of a doubt. It is Only a question of time and in All probability it will not be delayed Many years. Year before he died told the writer of these lines the Story one Day in the free press office where he was an almost daily visitor after his retirement from the service of the Hudson s Bay company. Among the indians who wintered near fort Quappelle in the Early 1860 s was a very old medi Cine Man who was the son of . Isaac Cowie was then in charge of that Post of. The company. He described i the old Medicine Man As a with ered wrinkled ancient whose eyes looked piercingly out of his wizened face and whose trembling hands were like claws. He was known As Dis Marlais. From him Isaac Cowie had the Story of How his father in rage and grief after the death of in convulsions put on his War paint and taking his Bow and Arrow went to a High open place and danced the War dance shouting and chanting Defiance and at last shot Ulysses of the Plains who had crossed the styx tothe underworld and gone among the shades. He looked with weird unearthly eyes and a Haggard Grin twisted his face when he saw. That they were Farmers whom he regards As the curse of the country after he had thrown them off. Or. Mcdonell lad no Clear idea. Nor did he explain what damage the slovenly preparation cited ease after Case of these higher prices not Only Ujj somewhat higher but much higher a there Are economic reasons which i Farmer does to his Alert neighbor i account in part for the higher Prairie level of prices. The Gen i Cral believes that bulk buying by j the three Prairie provinces could offset this to some extent. Except by spreading weeds. Or. Mcdonell was also exam ined at length about a guaranteed Price. The lawyers brought out these Points. Cost of production differs and an average might not be discoverable. Guaranteeing a Price equal to this figure ing it were found would keep in competent Farmers on the Job and encourage the sowing of. Sub marginal lands. Such a guarantee would be no Good to the Farmer whose crop failed. It would not be the equivalent of Tariff Royal tics have been paid to Mem Tion because it would not Neces Jis of the advisory Board for wors the use of the books which the Market Price. Advisory Board has chosen. In or. Mcdonell s slow moving one Case the general alleged that scottish mind followed a Lap tie q sub Corn Mittee on text books Hind he was us but he went on to discuss other i and More serious matters alleging 5 that members of the present and j visor Board which chooses text books have often chosen books i written by their own membership alleging also that Large fees and j accepted three of its chairman s j wits Tsuiji Huotu i stand but the Legal fraternity was own books. In another Case he really telling the Story. He was two Manitoba cd impressed when or. Ralston pc cation its had split Between f a be Why he left Home. As the mos Luminous wit of the commission party said or. Bechthold maj suffer from Hail but never from Heil he is against either a compulsory Pool or a Monopolis tic wheat Board. He also likes an occasional flyer in futures. We Haje to Haf a Little fun on the said or. Bechthold. Walter Shultz of Mamao s Hawk nosed Blue eyed Pioneer testified to the same effect. Or. Shultz will take his own judgment thank you about when to sell. He thinks he can guess the Market As Well As any Pool perhaps better. Fourth of the group was Angus a Glengarry Scot with Beutling brows and a red Mous in a few weeks he lost con-1 tache. If some Farmers want a scion Ness again apparently and again his sons prepared to Bury birth. Again he startled them by out that he had come Back from the land of spirits. Not Many Days after that when it was late in the fall he became unconscious once More and his sons hurried him to the grave. When Isaac Cowie went Over from the fort to see if he were still alive he found that the sons after they filled in the Earth Over the. Body had stamped it Down Well and poured water on it and it was now Frozen hard. They did not want to have the old Man coming Back a third time from the spirit land to frighten them1. Pool he has no objection but he will not be forced into it or coerced into delivering to a Board. But or Mcdonell wants a guaranteed Price equal to production costs ,00----- or in the Way of royalties on j for help next books and that one of this ing Farmers which seems firmly pair is a member of the advisory lodged in the directing minds i Bourd. This inquiry. The it a a Cly these makers will be further discussed after the ses Sion is Over in Hie special select payment per fixed Price will help the Farmer plagued with drought or grass hoppers much As it helps the committee which has been chosen other witnesses today were to talk text Book matters. The or f a Wyatt an untidy pro-1 general is a member. Meanwhile Fessor from the University who gave a succinct account of the soils of Alberta and r. H. Settle for the Edmonton Board of Trade or. Wyatt against wheat growing in the Northern Hinter land the Grey wooded soil country which seems a slightly futile idea As wheat is now being grown there. Or. Settle wants a lower freight rate on bran and shorts shipped to British Columbia which leaving out the fact that the railways must live looks like a Bright suggestion. Notes books Are a finer world Rithia the thoughts on being in bed by Audrey Alexandra Brown Ian club yesterday provided for or. Herridge was a Mani is anon of the regard in which a s held As a serious minded and patriotic Canadian who is deeply about Canada s present still More about its future. This audience or. Herridge his doctrine and his philosophy. Its members How found Little that was novel 10 to matter and still less in the Banner of its presentation. It to a class or kind of to which Western have been so freely sex that its effectiveness has considerably impaired. First paint the existing constr in the gloomiest colors arge them up to the obsolescence the existing Prophesy by suggesting that All is not yet lost suggest that what is wanted is a Brand new system hint that there is a plan but be indefinite about the details and then swell. Out in confident and triumphant tones with the Assurance that Utopia is at hand to be had for the voting for it. Such is the tech Nique it is As we have said not new to audiences in the West. In notes and comment the Osborne Bridge chose a Good time to collapse Early in the morning before traffic was started. But what about previous inspection of the Bridge with a View to Public safely hard pressed in a discussion in the House of commons about foreign policy lord Cran borne under Secretary for for eign affairs said sphere of example we Are Miles ahead of. Any other nation no doubt it helps to have a Good opinion of one s self. 4 the Dominion says that if Alberta pays its full interest charges it will. It a temporary increase in subsidy. If Alberta heeds the advice of the governor of of Canada it will accept the Dominion offer. Deed it has been on occasion too successful politically for the Good of the electors fascinated by it. Or. Herridge gave some rather vague outlines of his plan. Apparently it Calls for the Consolida Tion of confederation into a unitary state an Economy planned to the. Last degree the destruction of free International Trade and the substitution for it. Of barter under monopoly conditions the regimen sepulchral tones ruin death tation of business life with All its it was t anything to fuss about a slight but persistent pain in the. I have Learned with great difficulty and at some j Cost to beware of All Small pains that persist. So i took the whole affair Down to said reassuringly that i had prob ably a Little then he put on a cosy Bandage and told me to spend a week in at our boarding House or at the he said would be More thorough going but he believed that if i did t go up or Down our boarding House would do. I got myself Home to dinner for which i did t feel particular appetite you have to go up and Down stairs at our boarding House As the bed rooms Are Aboye and the dining room below there s no Way out. Of it unless you go without food or train a tray to walk the latter would be hopeless for me who can never get even a dog to obey me. _ after dinner i told the general Secretary what the doctor had said i did t ask her if i could have my meals carried up t had t the audacity but the moment be had heard All she proposed it her self. Now personally i Don t think i have any business to be Pam that would put prov inces All on the same footing. Add tills to the. Case against nazism the Nobel prize Money awarded to Carl von Ossietzky has been at any rate taken Complete Possession of by the German state. Nothing of the Large says the Mant Chester guardian is available either for himself or his Daugh who is seeking an education in Sweden Perez like that and i told her so but it did t make much differ ence for Here i am my room is a very Nice one to lie Abed than it used to be for at the beginning of the month the House Secretary fell to re decorating part of our Board ing House and i with others was dispossessed in favor of two men and a pair of ladders and a couple of pots of paint. At the time did t Delight in this development As i ought neither did any of my fellow sufferers demanded Joan the Yorkshire girl do All one belongings look so awful Whei they re stood in the passage what do they look like t which Irish Nora returned Cruell and truthfully with a like junk my girl absolutely like i Felt embarrassing denuded but. How pleasant to Days later moved Back into spotless affair of Lemon yellow alls and Ivory room hat looks As had never been lived in before. When you lie in bed and there s corridor outside your door you re it to pay considerable attention a footsteps. And All sounds As ume a disproportionate but in resting importance. For in Tance if i could see the baby ratio with its Mother and Small Rother moved in last monday it Tobaly would t intrigue me As t does now being Only a voice. And what a voice i first became acquainted with it through a Ter Ifica thump followed by shrieks n the Middle of the night apparently it had fallen out of bed Hough without any real damage. Since heard it for Large arts of every Day i had an idea t was a girl and it is though two or three years old and Able to walk it never Speaks they t just bursts into tears when it wants anything. Poor mite i Don t see How a child who cries so Constanty can be Well but its Mother seems unperturbed she s used to it. The family Are Only Here until they can straighten out some tangle which keeps them rom being admitted Over the Bor Der. The leading article in the can Adian historical review this Quarter is professor Chester Martin s the United states and Canadian a paper read before the american historical association on december 30, 1936. To know and teach history by voice or print must mean concentration enor Mous Reading and All the shrewd co ordination that leads to detached scholarship. The history of Brit ish North America itself seems enough for one head to hold in accurate perspective Down to this Day. To see current making of history in perspective 3s beyond the gift of Clio for All i know. Professor Martin Points out. At once that nationhood for the uni Ted states was achieved in less than ten years. Self government came with Independence Union through the revolution and confirmed by the Constitution of 1787. In Canada nationhood was achieved by stages at Long intervals and by a tech Nique which forestalled revolution but made Independence eventually inevitable. Responsible government which began Down in Nova Scotia was the first stage confederation was the second expansion to the Pacific the third and International recognition in the league of nations the fourth and last stage. All four Are sketched from intimate knowledge of each stage in Canadian history the Ordinary Lay Reader like this will be interested in a footnote concerning the National endowment of the Canadian Paci unceasing prophecy but that is perhaps too recent the next article in this Issue the preview is j. B. Tyrrell s David Thompson and the Colum Bia being a reply to professor Morton s hypothetical journey of Thompson and Duncan Mcgillivray in 1801, across the Rockies to the Columbia near its source and Westward to the Koot Enay River and Kootenay Lake returning to the Columbia thence to Athabaska pass and finally to Rocky Mountain House. An impossible journey at that time of Between one and two thousand Miles. Or. Tyrrell who prepared the journals of David Thompson for the Champlain society and who is the reliable authority on that explorer shows in his reply that Thompson wrote of where he had lived from 1784 to 1814, and the note on 1801 is Winter at the Rocky Mountain House to june then a feeble attempt to Cross the mountains. The Indian guide led us to Steep rocks and we had to return and i passed the sum Mer at the House Rocky Mountain House on the North Saskatchewan River Thomp son s note books in Many vol Umes Are in the Ontario archives. Or. Tyrrell s is a Long informing article. He delights in writing of that hero and no wonder. The Bookman. He approved strongly of or Schultz s suggested new set up for the department education and tie Bill passing its second rend ing moves today into Law Amend ments committee. Most by the rest of the Day was taken up by jockeying Over the wage tax. The labor party brought in new amendments Pur porting to suggest substitutes for the tax they hate so much. They propose steeper income taxes a turnover tax and a tax on interest. The government has become so j i dept at parliamentary manoeuvre that this was just. Duck soup for or. Garson who immediately thanked the labor Pally for their help and moved an amendment to the amendment that the proposed taxes should be studied at length during the recess. The wage tax it May be confidently predicted is going to stick with us for some time to come. The government when pushed hard enough always suggests it would be most unwise to give it up until the Royal commission has reported on what should be done about Prairie finance. That Royal commission has been talked of so much and used so much As a Ria son for cautious delay that the very syllables of the words re f sound in the ears like the Dull thud of Savage War Drums in the african Jungle. One. New argument of or. Gar son s caught our fancy. He does j not think much of a Tux on inter j est. He said if we did finally i decide to go alter our Bond holders there no use doing it from the Golden books in a Ziffling Way. We should get our Money s Worth if we decide to incur the stigma Cut the ruffians throats completely this was one of the few suggestions that scorned to be approved by or. Litterick who. Late in the evening gave us 3 lecture on the mind and morality from the eve of St. Agnes Ikea St full on this casement shone j of the property owning classes. The wintry Moon members or i asses who be and threw warm Gules on Madeline s fair breast Ialie railway in expansion to Down she. Knelt for heaven s brackets could pay much More he the second or third Day after i my bed the lady pro Fessor heard of it. I be mentioned the lady professor she tapped at my door and came in looking like a Spring morning in Devonshire. In her hand was our boarding House s Pewter tray which supported two boarding House cups and saucers also a very Beautiful Silver Tea pot and sugar Basin which were unmistakably not boarding House. I thought you d like some she explained and i thought you might like it better out of my very own Teapot. Silver does make Tea taste nicer and every Day since though her wrist is not Long out its splint and she is a heart Case who ought to avoid undue exer o clock brings her tap at the door and the Butler a i am Lucky in my Corner of the world. They Are Good to me. In his sketch of the process of confederation professor Martin recalls the prophecies of Consul Taylor and governor me lavish of the Hudson s say company that this Region of the West was sure to be annexed to the United states. That was As late As the sixties. Consul Taylor that it was m editable and governor Mctavish i doubt not this will be its ultimate destiny. Indeed it is r the interest of settlers Here that annexation should take place at the red River Settle ment saved this Fertile Belt to the British. More intricate history is outlined and the whole paper will be interesting to Canadian readers As it doubtless was to hearers. No reference is. As though made to Goldwin Smith and Crossi soft ,._ Pacific a Cash subsidy of if and Boon completed sur Feu on her hands to Vacys to the value of government Loans of nearly and 000000 and a. Princely Grant 01 acres nearly As Large. As Pennsylvania. The . Has been the Only one of the great Ghe transcontinental which has never fest Pone into the hands of a receiver. Long to the higher income j in he. Silver amethyst and on her hair a glory like 8 Saint seemed a splendid Angel save wings for heaven porphyry grew faint she Knelt so pure a thing so free from mortal taint. Soon trembling in her soft and Chilly nest i thinks and still have lots of i Money left to Carmosin personally we have some sym Pathy with or. Litterick. We like him would like to have enough non cry to go Carmosin around and we Are quite out of sympathy with those who have the Money to make Carmosin pos then Don t Caro Osc. Let this be an Appeal for More and better Carmosin. If you Don t in sort of Wakeful swoon per j caboose you Are not playing t he flexed she Lay her soothed limbs fatigued away and part to you in a capitalist society by or. Soul . Flown like a thought until the j Morrow Day i blissfully have Ned both from Joy and pain clasped like a Missal where Swart pay Nims Pray blinded alike from suns inc and today s scripture from psalm 103 he hath not dealt with us after our sins nor rewarded us Accord in to our iniquities. For As the heaven is High above the Earth so should shut and i great his mercy toward them be a Bud again that fear him ;