Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1937, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights printed and published the Winnipeg Ste Ifresse company limited 300 Carlton Street Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe Victor Septon president. General manager. Beira stored at the general Post London enr., for transmission through the Post in the United King Dom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg wednesday april 21, 1937. Placing unemployed veterans an Active and systematic Effort is now being made through out Canada to find work for thousands of unemployed sex service Junen Are on Relief. A Large committee of businessmen has been formed in Winnipeg As in other centres and it is now seeking the co operation of employers and of others in studying the various phases of the problem of the unemployed veterans. T is a Well planned Effort deserving of general support. Many of the veterans have been handicapped by their Dis abilities in securing employment or retaining it. The younger men have been handicapped also by the fact that they were away overseas during the important years when they would otherwise have been getting the training and discipline which would have helped them in their chosen vocations. When the depression came these men soon found themselves out of employment they were compelled to go on Relief and they have Jound it so difficult to obtain employment again that Many have practically despaired of doing so. The seriousness of this situation the deterioration in the men which was increasingly evident and the danger of a Large number becoming unemployable and a permanent charge upon the country was brought to the attention of the special Parlia j Centary committee three or four years ago. The Hyndman com Mission was appointed and in its report in 1935 recommended that special attention should be Given to the position of unemployed veterans that an Effort should be made to have them placed in the Ordinary employment Field and that the govern ment should also take special Steps to create employment for certain classes of veterans. It was also recommended that the organization of this work should be placed in the hands of a veterans assistance commission. This body under the chair Manship of col. J. G. Rattray was appointed last year and after consulting the veterans associations in different parts of the country they undertook the organization of local committees in Al the provinces to co operate and really do most of the work of promoting the re employment of the veterans. I the unemployed veterans of the Winnipeg District have been classified those who Are generally fit those partly fit and those who Are now unfit for work. The citizens committee has an office where the lists of the fit men Are kept with information As to their qualifications which Are very diversified. And employers. In. Need of additional help Are invited to consult regardless of the scheme under which they were coming there was propriety also in his suggestion that since the free British Market for Canadian farm products meant everything to Saskatchewan it would be Wise for the people of that province in their own interest to show. A Friendly spirit toward great Brit of whose problems was surplus not take too stiff and uncompromising an attitude on immigration. An amendment to the Resolution was then passed in favor of the Dominion government consulting the British government with a View to promoting an immigration i scheme. As the office of the committee and use the veterans As far i possible. I the War is not Over for these men insofar As their present i unfortunate position is due to disabilities attributable directly or indirectly to their War service. What they need More than anything else is an Opportunity for useful work. It is the Only Way they can re establish themselves and retain their manhood if they Are not helped and encouraged to better themselves in this Way their condition will steadily become and the Many thousands who Are already unemployable will rapidly increase. This Effort of the citizens committee then is a matter of helping the veterans to help themselves by finding the employ ment of which they Are. In desperate need and by thus keeping them in the employable which their whole future depends. If employers considered Only their own interests they j might be cold to the Appeal of the committee but if they under stand what the committee is doing and what it Means to. The veterans who gave a Good account of themselves in time of need their attitude will be sympathetic and they. Will try to use the facilities for employing the veterans it is suggested that where the efficiency of the men May have suffered from Long idleness they could be engaged at slightly reduced wages for a few weeks and then increased As they regain their efficiency. The principal thing is to give them a Chance. The work and methods of the local committees Are largely experimental. They know what they want to accomplish and they will learn by experience How Best to do it. "7? an organization called the corps of commission Aires is also being formed with unemployed veterans who make application it is said that they will Wear uniforms and be engaged in such work As that of Ushers doormen guides porters elevator men watchmen and chauffeurs. It is further proposed to place on Small plots of land some of the men who will not fit in to other employment. A group Settle ment of this kind for Twenty men is now being started near Toronto. Community farm settlements Are also to be considered. At the last session of parliament or. Bennett made a plea for the unemployable veterans and or. Power minister of pen Sions and National health said that consideration would be Given to a permanent policy. During the summer the veterans associations would be asked for suggestions. As for the men who Are fit but have been unable to obtain employment or. Opening the Public Campaign in Toronto to assist these men through the local committees bespoke for them a Chance to retrieve their citizenship and to regain their self respect. And he said this May be our last Opportunity. A we do not succeed now i fear the the Effort which is now being launched May be expected to gain wide support and to inspire a determination to attain the largest possible Success. Calendar Reform still lags the Reform of the Calendar has been considered by the nations for fourteen years with out the anachronisms of the Gre Gorian Calendar being revised accommodate an age and Circum stance no More expected to be served by it than is the time of Day expected to be told by dials. Suggestions Lor revision of the Calendar submitted to the league have been reviewed by its advisory and technical committee for communications and transit but while some in their superiority would be admirable in adoption no nation could venture on an initiative which All other nations did not take. A Model Calendar offered for adoption by the chilian govern ment is now being referred to the league s states members and observations on it Are requested so that the question May be discussed at the next session of the As Sembly. This chilian Model divides the year into equal halves and quarters making every year identical. Each Quarter contains exactly 3 months 13 weeks and 91 Days each begins on a sunday and ends on a saturday. The month in each Quarter has-31 Days and the other two 30 Days each. Every month has 26 week Days. And january 1, new year s Day would always fall on a sunday. To perpetuate the identical Ity of we Calendar for every year while retaining astronomical accuracy intercalary Days Are inserted. The 365th Day of the year called year end is placed Treasury stables jockey Neville Well of faithful one More budget race and now i la say taxpayer horse i suppose it s too much to Hope that no one will take your place jockey Neville yes but Don t worry you la go on losing just the at the Parish pump 86 12 i k aci5 add 8c 3c 3ji 4c the British budget in View of Britain s Tremenda to increased expenditure on laments the budget and the Bew taxation it would contain with unusual inter est British taxpayers have not i teen hit More than they expected j probably not so much. Budgeting w such a wealthy country is Dif went of course from doing it in i without the same sources. Revenue. By an increase of Jenree Pence in the income tax the Ian cellar gets an additional the Standard income will now be five shillings in e Pound or 25 per cent As it was before. That is heavy enough j and the tax on higher incomes is 1 sw1 heavier. Other principal Means of the Revenue is a stiff on excess profits. It will be a Kner Auy accepted As a very pro method of meeting the in Cost of National defence. Less is booming in Britain a considerable degree to the great activity of All the in producing munitions or supplies. Great profits Are earned and the government to take a Large slice of creased profits to meet some the expenditure on defence kids not earning More than and companies not earn ing More than 15 per cent will not be but liable to the tax will pay one third of the in crease in their profits. This is expected to yield Over next year. The rearmament costs Are not being fully met by increased Taxa Tion of course. The government _ also borrowing two billion Dol Lars and this Burden will be borne for years to come. Of interest to Canada Are the provisions of the budget for changes in the preferential duties on certain articles entering Bri Tain. This is in fulfilment of the terms of the new Trade treaty be tween Canada and Britain. Leaving fhe Way open in opposing a Resolution in the Saskatchewan legislature moved by the . Leader and declaring against any scheme of assisted agricultural immigration until the Farmers enjoyed reasonable eco nomic Hon. G. C. Spence minister of Public works stated that no one wanted the in discriminate dumping of British immigrants in Canada and leaving them to fend for themselves. But lies held and quite reasonably that it would be a mistake to put up the bars against All settlers Between december 30 and january 1, and is to be considered a extra saturday. In leap years the 366th Day called leap Yeai is intercalated Between june 30 and july 1 As an extra Satur Day. These intercalary Days Stabi Lize and would probably be observed As International holidays. The. Chilian government promises that its proposed Calendar unlike some proposals for Calendar revision provides an. Adjustment in which the transition from the old to the new can be. Effected without disturbance. Then Why not adopt it satisfy Learned examination or perhaps adopt one of the Canadian proposals for revision if similarly practically every nation is. Agreed on the disabilities of the present division of the Calendar year. But All nations Are not in the league of nations to. Implement. What reason recommends. The nations Mark time and their procrastination does Little credit to the human intelligence. They resent the bewildering and confusing Vari obleness of the year s seasons but submit to the irregularities of the existing Calendar periods. Notes and comment Loans totalling More than had been made under the Home improvement scheme up to March 15, and the amount has probably doubled since then. That Means work for thousands of men. Defence in a world which thinks collective Security an Idle dream comes pretty High. In great Bri Tain just increased the income tax to Twenty five per cent and added a mounting tax on Canada next the promoter in the legislature of the special milk Board Legisla Tion declared that it was not for the purpose of increasing prices to the Consumers. A note of this for purposes of a Check up later might be made. The neatness of the title of the fascist organization which for the first time this year Council was unable to get through its business on monday night and had to adjourn until tuesday afternoon. The monday session was in fact pretty Tough stuff it ended up with Alderman Bardal s feet in his wastepaper Basket. But even at that the Alderman objected to adjourning. He certainly can take it. The length of the session was without doubt due to the unusual number of delegations who had. A great Deal to say some of. Which was to the Point and nothing More so than the speaker who addressed the. Assembled aldermen ladies and gentlemen you Are Intelli indeed the delegations on the whole were the highlights and listening to and. Observing them was an evening Well spent. Take for example those whose attention was glued with Leech like Persis Tency to the matter of Daylight saving. There was or. Morkin who thought that an extra hour of Sunshine in come in very Handy the roof or decorate the Lawn. There was sex Alderman Anderson who disposed of the objection that people could t get to sleep easily under Daylight saving by re Ferring to Iceland s Summers where Daylight does t prevent people from going to bed at o Day and night As Hamlet said but this strange there were three delegates who spoke against the idea. The first was a Stocky Well built Well spoken Mechanic who had a Nice by . Sense of humor. He pointed among other things that the sports arguments in favor of Daylight savings were hardly valid at least the monarchs had won with out Benefit of such measures. The second speaker an irishman with a wonderful Graustark Ian hair dress a pugnacious delivery and a sense of High seriousness declared that Council had no Man dad ate sic to change the time. But the delegations against the measure May have wasted their breath for if the bylaw passes thursday Daylight saving is to come into effect on sunday night next for City employees with the Hope that business firms will fall and there is to be a plebiscite at the autumn civic elec Tion. This was Alderman Rhodes Smiths contribution to the debate on Alderman Mcwilliam s Sugges Tion. Interesting to was an amendment to an Amend which shows that the Ripples from the Large boulders dropped by the. Recent legislature have reached out to Remote Corners. The. Aldermani discussion. Upon the Daylight saving measure was As might be expected both erudite and exciting. Alderman Flye was however not entirely in favor of putting it into effect without consulting the people. There is a Dif Ference Between work and. Work he said referring no. Doubt. To the Well known Lack of Wear and tear of. Life upon mental labourers. But Alderman Mcwilliams was Little interested in such differences. She wanted to know the difference Between Montreal Toronto Cleve land Chicago and such places As Only one Way from a recent address by Cordell Hull . Secretary pit state has Arisen in insurgent Spain to j take full charge will attract at Tention. It is too quote in full but part of it reads thus the offensive nationalist Syndi Calist the fears of the Quantity of goods that would bring Back with them under last year s custom change were entirely unfounded. They brought Back Only Worth of and the change probably saved the much More valuable Trade in goods taken Back by the United. States Tourisse in Canada. The problem of removal of Trade barriers is much More difficult than it was in 1927 of the depression created obstructions to Trade and brought about impairment friendliness and fair dealing in. Commercial relations of such scope and destructiveness As would not have appeared possible even a Short time ago. As a result the volume of International Commerce has been drastically curtailed and a Large portion of what remained has been arbitrarily diverted away from channels of economic advantage. The task of correcting these artificial shifts and of re pairing the damages of the eco nomic War is indeed one of enormous magnitude. Moreover the situation today is complicated by Many new factors of them constituting direct repercussions of the of intense economic hostility. During the past Tew years there has been in Many parts of the world an alarming deterioration of All essential International relationships. Solemn obligations among nations have been set aside with a Light heart. Inter National Law has been breached and flouted. Animosities and resentment in the sphere of commercial and financial and economic aggression and retaliation which they have provoked must Bear an share of responsibility for the depth of economic distress into which some nations have been plunged. Out of such distress Springs temptation to seek a greater measure d f self sufficiency by Force of arms. We have witnessed the spec Tacle of some already in the throes of economic poverty straining their meagre resources for the creation of unprecedented armaments. We have seen other nations drawn into the suicide upon a policy of peace in a determined and concerted Effort to rebuild International political and economic relationships upon a race. The. Construction of Arma ments vast a scale gives the impression of intensive end Hornic activity is like the unhealthy flush of fever. It destroys rather. Than builds. The seeds of Dis Aster either form or a Mil itary explosion or of an economic collapse. There is Only one Way to Avert this impending doom., it is for the nations today Bend their major Effort ration for War with those other nations which Are intent have Daylight saving and Winnipeg which seemed behind hand. They re not interjected Alderman Sara. Speaking against the idea Alder Man. Penner objected to the Fig ures Alderman Mcwilliam gave when she referred to the 1927. Plebiscite which Defeated an attempt to introduce hour fast time. Alder Man Penner said that the margin of defeat was much greater than that Given by Alderman Mcwilliams and declared that her Esti mates must be inaccurate. Alderman Mcwilliams but i have the City clerk s aldermen Penner i got mine from the loud laughter crackled across the chamber and Alderman Hon Eyman cried out quite cheerfully what can you it was then that Alderman Rhodes Smith came along with his Bright suggestion that Daylight saving be Given a trial so that people would be moved not by prejudice but by experience when voting came. And that carried despite Alderman Thompson s proposal to leave the clock alone and Alderman Sto Bart s Wistful declaration that he liked getting up in the morning when he had to get up and that Daylight saving would t help him in the least. The chief Bone of Contention of the evening however was the matter of the so called Relief workers strike. The bomb was set off by sundry allegations of intimidation from a gesticulating Young was a Delegate of some sort and who before the fur began to Fly in. The chamber took himself off to safer stamping at least he disappeared much to Alderman Bardal s annoyance for his attacks were directed at the said Alderman Pasis of friendliness and co opera. Whose spirited reply the Delegate might have stayed to hear was he afraid of it As a matter of. Whole Tion. No outcome of an Armati conflict can possibly the nations concerned than they can greater derive benefits from a peaceful and fruitful Exchange of goods and services developing in a Liberal spirit upon a basis of fair dealing and Mutual regard for each other s needs and. Rights. It was this Type of economic peace. That Woodrow Wilson urged upon the world. The acceptance by the nations. Try the Basic ideas which underlie it is even More desperately needed today when the dark Clouds of a possible new War or of another economic catastrophe gather ominously on the horizon. From the Golden books orbiter dicta from Walt Whitman i am convinced that there Are hours of nature especially of the atmosphere mornings and evenings addressed to the soul. Night transcends for that purpose what the proudest Day can bathing in the Clear Waters of the running Brook taking every thing leisurely with Many rests. Slow promenades on the turf in the Sun i seemed to get identity with everything around me. Per the inner never lost rapport we hold with Earth Light air Trees etc., is not to be realized through eyes. And mind Only but through the i whole corporeal body. Here i realize the meaning of that old fellow who said that he was Sel Dom less alone than when unfold age referring to Eis Mili tary nursing in the civil War these ecstatic life pouring As i1 were of precious wine or Rose water on desert Sands or polluted Rivers taking chances of no re Are they but the of Christ or of All divine1 having looked at the objects of. Nature i find there is no one nor any particle of one but has reference to the birthdays Princess Elizabeth born London eng., april 21, 1926. J. H. Brown Winnipeg born Hall fax bus., april 21, 1862. Of the ensuing debate. Upon the charges was electric with terrific social antagonisms. A Poten something was. In the air and everybody was seeking knots in the bulrushes. The debate turned upon asking Relief recipients to work at Street cleaning for their Grants. It was the thin Edge of the wedge cried the leftists. I was a labor Man who first pro posed that the men work cried the rightists., Alderman Blum Berg shouted that the proof of the pudding was in the words no doubt referring to alphabet pud Ding. The same antagonistic spirit prevailed when Council came to the report of the committee on legis lation and reception because when. It asked for the. Postpone ment restoration of civic wage cute due to the City s Finan Cial situation the leftists again sprang into the fray. They would not even try to listen to the right its plea that there was really no Money to pay increased a what with the present Relief Bur Dens but none of the rightists remembered to draw Council s at Tention to the. Small but revealing fact that when labor was in the majority it Only restored 3 1-3 be cent of the civic cuts and did no Start talking its majority. Big until it. Los Alderman Barry summed up the spirit of monday night s Council when he said what s the use of debating w won t change our and so out into the april nigh to see bulb Beds rest ing hopefully on the Olive Gree town Hall Lawn. They said Soo will Issue Forth Lusty Spring a Dight Iii leaves and Flowers. Be her come. Wheat by . Calgary april 20 the Turgeon Grain Corn Mission listened All Day o wheat Pool history. It is an id Story but the 1937. Version has Een edited. This is the first time lie whole Saga of. The Pool has Een Given under oath. Judge Turgeon is getting facts and Fig ures which Don t quite jibe with ool publicity of years gone by. The historian is Paul Bredt resident of the Manitoba Pool who seems an Earnest soul and cutely conscious that before he tarted talking he kissed the Book and promised the whole truth. 5-uiding him through his evidence s or. Milliken k.c., Homespun Saskatchewan lawyer who has Ong been counsel for the Pool in hat province and knows its Busi less backwards. Or. Bredt is offering the com Mission Only history no proposals or the future but even so his testimony is. Slow going. Let the past Bury the is not the Logan of this inquiry. Eminent especially or. Pitblado ire checking up or. Bredt s facts is he goes along and making notes. At the end of his second Day in he witness Box he is half Way through his Long statement with Ross examination not started. Or. Bredt s ordeal May last All week. Today he described the Pool s acquisition of. Elevators the size of its business in its heyday and to Selling policy. Familiar Statis is were quoted. The Pool bought and now owns roughly 30 per cent of the country elevators. It serves 6 per cent of the elevator Points. At its Peak in 1926 the Pool Mark eted 53 per cent of the wheat crop. After the debacle of 1930 it accepted voluntary deliveries for a time but these were Small and the Pool speaking is no Onger a Pool but an elevator com Pany. During or. Bredt s telling of this Well known Story contentious Points were raised. What use did he Pool make of the futures mar Ket the Pool he said every fall sold wheat for future delivery technically then the Pool was a Short seller once a year. Die you futures quotations asked judge Turgeon or. Bredt said yes and he agreed also when first asked that the Pool had. Made Money by doing business in the futures Market. The same question was put again be seemed to regret his kind word for the Lombard Street ambling hell and said he really did t know whether the Pool was up or Down on its trading for future delivery. One new fact came out of or. Bredt s evidence on Pool sales. He gave figures on the Pool s carry Over at the close of every Selling season in which it did business. At one year end july 31, 1927 the Pool held 69 per cent of the unsold Canadian wheat. Two years later which was when the nig surplus began to pile up the Pool had two thirds of the carry Over. This is we believe the first Public admission that the Pool Ever j held More than its reasonable a the wheat carried from one season to the next. Eyebrows were raised As or. Bredt s figures were read. He i May be asked to reconcile them with his remark that the Pool was an anxious i there was a discussion about the i Pool policy of maintaining agents i in foreign cities and through Themi Selling direct to Millers. John i. Mcfarland when he took charge of the wheat surplus in 1930, closed these overseas offices and announced he would sell through ,1 regular channels. The Pool Evi Dently is not prepared to cheer for that decision. Though or. Me Farland was Friend and Champion of the coolers they decline to rally round and give their Blessing Nis Selling technique. At any rate or. Bredt said closing the offices was a mistake. He denied that the Pool salesmen abroad were a Thorn in the Side of British and european Grain Trade. According to or. Bredt they were popular citizens and their customers were sorry to see them go. Or. Bredt said he had letters to prove it and this started an argument because or. Bredt was reluctant to produce the letters. Or. Pitblado k.c., Lor the Grain sex wanted to see them. He likes the evidence to be where he can take a look at it not in a vault. There was a recess during which the barristers conferred and the upshot was that Paul put his epistles into the record with some conditions about keeping names confidential. He read a few of them and they were not too impressive As Evi Dence. The Paris agent of the Pool a or. Jardin wrote to say that closing the Paris office would be a disaster. Somehow or. Jar Din did not seem a detached wit Ness on this Point. More weighty was a Cable from the co operative wholesale society expressing re Gret at the closing of the London office. Or. Hanke the eminent British Miller wrote to the same effect but it came out that or. Hanke s firm had an agreement with the Pool details not Dis closed under which apparently he got a special Price and agreed to buy no Canadian wheat from Pri vate firms. Or. Ranke was afraid the shutting of the London office would Cut him out of this arrange ment or let Spillers in on it. So or. Ratike s epistle did not sound conclusive. Or. Bredt seemed Here to be answering an objection not made. The people who resented the Pool s direct Selling were not Millers but brokers and merchants who find ing themselves separated from Canadian business took to Selling argentinian wheat. But or. Bredt has a lot More letters and maybe his argument will improve with age. Today s scripture from St. Luke 15 and he spake this parable unto them saying. What Man of you having an Hundred sheep if he lose one of them doth not leave the ninety and nine in the Wilder Ness and go after that which is lost until he find it and when he hath found it he Layeth it on his shoulders rejoicing. I say unto you that likewise Joy shall be in heave ii Over one sinner that re Kenteth More than Over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. Readers moles books Are finer world within the parliament at prayer is a subject that covers Long centuries but the first record of prayers for a new Sovereign is that for Richard ii in 1377. The first thirty three pages of the current nineteenth Century review is filled with the records of prayer in parliament since 1426, and an appendix is added giving the Long list of Chap Lains to the House of commons since 1660. It is written by the Edi Tor who tells us that from the Earli est times prayer has always proceeded executive action and Public in of in 1554, in Mary s reign both lords and commons attended St. Paul s to give thanks to god for their conversion to the Catholic in Elizabeth s reign daily prayer in the legislative chamber whole House on their Many special Long prayers of the Remote past Are quoted in full. The Gunpowder plot of 1605 was the occasion of composing a special prayer. Not so very Long. During the Commonwealth Pray ers in commons were somewhat of a Conven Ticle. An example is quoted from the commons july 14, 1653 As. Soon As a Small number of the members of Parlia ment were this morning met in the House they joined in prayer and As they Doe every morning one praying after another until theer be a full number feb make an House. And then or. Speaker takes the during that period or. Speaker had no authority Over prayers. T until 1846 prayers were not read on the first Day of the session for there could be no prayers until the speaker was elected and appointed the chaplain. The worship is private speaker and chaplain take their places doors Are closed and no member can enter until with the cry prayers Are the doorkeeper throw them both houses begin prayers with the prayer Book version of the 67th psalm. During the War two additional prayers by whom writ ten not part of the daily worship. On november 11, 1s18, prime minister Lloyd George read the terms of the armistice and proposed that the House proceed the next Day in a body to St. Margaret s to give Humble thanks for the world s deliverance from the great peril. The editor reminds readers of the nineteenth Century that England is a Christian coun try and its Only representative body the House of parliament is and behaves As a Christian As the Canterbury says that Many members would be glad if the daily prayers were As of old More closely re lated to the seasons and to current events. Other articles discuss the future relations Between Church and Barchester revisited the future of English the Reform of the Law homicide on the King s two articles on Spain impressions and reflect and civil two articles on British defence one on. The new greek regime and one on culture in a Centenary appreciation of Swinburne is promised for june. Surely the last word will have been said about that Genius before june. For Over Twenty years swin Burne was a contributor to the nineteenth Century. He was an interesting and a scholarly critic. Oi3 files of the review Are in the legislative Library. They will be Well Worth looking for. Among his essays there Are the study of Ben and essays on half a dozen elizabethans whom he knew Well. He once said that Lamb s elizabethan Book taught him More than any Book except the Bible. His first contribution was the Essav on Wordsworth and Byron which filled 52 pages in two issues of the review. Bookman. P i ;