Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 06, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Unification takes a Holiday the Senate committee inquiring into the railway situation came to no conclusion but recommended that the committee be next session to consider the mass of data that had submitted. Ai. A matter of fact the drive for amalgamation we let Down very badly by the disclosure before the committee details of the railway abandonment the closing of railway and other economies proposed by the Canadian Pacific in. And there would be Little use in the committee resum ing at the next session unless the . Is ready to reveal also i plan for the division of the net earnings in Case of unification the respective treatment of the holders of the Bonds and Stock of the . And of the people of Canada As owners of the the officials of the Canadian National made out a Good Case before the committee in reply to the charge that the operation of the system at a loss was threatening the ruin of the country and in reply to the claim that unification and the abandonment of Miles of railway service were necessary in order to effect a Large saving in the Cost of railway operation. President Hungerford took the entirely sound position that most of the proposed savings were unreal Zable because they involved of great a sacrifice of the Public interest. He also showed that tie . Was giving valuable and needed Public Tould not be that it was in the position of a Pioneer railway aiding greatly the development of the country. In the matter of . Finances his evidence was that in the Steen years 1923 to 1937, the operating revenues exceeded debating expenses by or an average of year in the bad years 1932 to 1937, the earnings on operation Jere above the expenses an average of Kjear in the prosperous years 1925 to 1929, the operating revenues were Over operating expenses an average n per year. The financial position of the . Will improve again with better crops in the West and the expected advancement of the country. Sir Edward Beatty told the committee that railway inf Ficini a few years would increase to the level of 1930. The unfavourable effect of the abandonment of railway ser vice in the . Plan for drastic economies was always soft pedalled by the officials of that company. It was recently shown in these columns that the effect of terminating the service on the National transcontinental from Long Lac to Transcona would be much More serious than was suggested affecting Many More people and important mining and lumbering industries. Another proposed abandonment was that from Diamond Junction oppo site Quebec City to Edmundston n.b., 225 Miles and from Chipman to syr in new Brunswick 146 total of 371 of the National transcontinental. This Section is More than paying its Way according to the Moncton times which holds that there is no reason for discontinuing the service and every reason for maintaining it. The population served is and the Industrial develop ment amounts to some because of the High Standard of construction of the National transcontinental there is an annual operating Economy of on the through traffic on the 371 Miles i question As compared with the operation of the inter colonial or the . Through the state of Maine to Saint John. Or. W. U. Appleton general manager of the Atlantic Region of the . Told the Senate committee that this Economy was More than sufficient to maintain that portion of the . And keep that important traffic Lane open. The earn Ings on through traffic pay the capital charges and maintenance tests of that part of the . And there is a balance sufficient to pay the Cost of local transportation service. Not Only has the . A strategic position in time of War but the abandoning of this Section would mean the end of through Graffice to Canadian ports according to or. Appleton who says that neither the . Nor the . Could hold it and that it Tould go to United states ports. Is it any wonder that the maritime people were amazed at the Cool proposal to abandon a Large railway mileage that is paying Well and giving the country valuable service in the amalgamation Campaign previously carried on much was said about railway amalgamation in great Britain. Before the Senate committee this was hardly Auu ded to. That is unfortunate because the facts in regard to the railway situation in Britain support the maintenance of the present railway set up in Canada and do not support at All the proposals of our amal Gama zionists. What happened there fifteen years ago was the merging of a great number of Small railways into four Large systems but com petition remained an important Factor in railway transportation. There was a Large saving hut not nearly so Large As the Public had been led to expect. And no one suggests the amalgamation of the four present companies. Railway authorities do no believe the saving would be very great and there would be serious disadvantages including that of monopoly control and the likelihood of deterioration in railway service. The stressing of the railway problem so called in Canada is Apt to create the impression that most other countries Are More fortunate. The reverse is really the truth. The United states has a very serious railway problem and most european countries have worse railway troubles than we have. In spite of present difficulties the Prospect of the railways in this Young and developing country is. Very hopeful and there is plenty of reason for Confidence in the future. Or. P. G. Padwick or p. G. Padwick s name will he Long associated with the development in Winnipeg and Mani Toba of school orchestras but the whole sphere of his influence extended Long past the boundaries of this province. His main organization was known most recently i the Western Canada Junior eympa0ny orchestra and attracted players from near and far. His secret was unbounded Energy a flair for teaching and endless patience. He loved music and his i love and enthusiasm he transmit i effortlessly to hundreds of the i players with whom he came a touch. J or a Long time his work with i fee Junior orchestras was in facial loaded on top of his Many teaching duties. More re Ca he was made director of orchestras by the school Here and this move was received As a Good step for in the development of an important phase in local musical ideation. Or. Padwick accepted of a Post with pleasure and threw into his expanded duties his usual Zeal. These have been Cut Short by his death Jim Jitich was untimely and sudden. Health had not been Good for time due undoubtedly to his lagging efforts in music in which almost All his Leisure was spent but no. One suspected that he had neared the cracking Point. He will be hard to replace not Only locally but As a Leader in Junior orchestra radio work for which he carried a Large share of responsibility. Empire defence senator Meighen s stirring and fiery Appeal for a common Empire defence policy which yesterday set the conservative convention at Ottawa on fire lends further Point to the suggestion made last Mon Day in these columns that or. Bennett s speech in the House of commons in its closing hours on the same subject was part of a plan to commit the party to a Defi Nite Point of View on this difficult and dangerous Issue. Until the party platform is formulated and published All that can be said on the subject is that the two speeches taken together represent an important body of conservative opinion of its sponsors May easily assume an even larger place than it does now in conservative doctrine. It is at the same time interest ing to note that the implications in the speeches of. Both or. Ben Nett and or. Meighen reveal the. Advantages of what or. Gladstone Cal rid a position of greater free Dom and less the or. Bennett who was prime minister from 1930 to 1935, the senator Meighen who also held that responsible Post Are not the same two gentlemen when they Are freed from the heavy Burden of office. Writing in the current number of the Canadian forum that pungent commentator prof. F. H. Under Bill said this of course the fact is that when in office or. Bennett always care fully sidestepped any entangle ment in British foreign policy just As or. King is doing at present. But his present language if it Means anything can Only mean that the conservatives think that the time has arrived at Long last to bring the old Flag Down from the attic again and get ready for another 1911 it is too soon to say that this is the Case. The National Conven Tion has not yet said its last word on the subject but the twin efforts of or. Bennett and senator Meighen suggest where their in fluence will lie in the party s councils. What parliament achieved the government s action to stimulate the construction of Low Cost houses and building in general and its offer of in Loans to municipalities for self liquidating works All calculated to provide employment and take men off out As one of the Best achievements of the session just closed at of Pitawa. This includes of course the exempting of building materials from the eight per cent sales tax. It was ail a Good piece of constructive policy designed to create a great Deal of employment without a very heavy ultimate Cost to the Dominion. Just How any such programme will work out depends upon experience and upon the condition of the times among other things. But this is clearly an Earnest and vigorous Effort of the government to Deal at the same time with the two great problems of unemployment and decent housing for the people with Low incomes. It is to be hoped that nothing will inter Fere with the fulfilment of this aim. The discussion of foreign policy vital importance to the the extent of placing on the records the views of the leaders of the parties was a High Light of the session. Opinions differ widely amongst the Public and the discussion of foreign policy and a better understanding of All that is involved Are in every Way desirable. The Complete nationalization of the Bank of Canada leaving no question of the Public control of credit was a significant event. And among other things. Parlia ment provided for a new trans port Board taking Over the duties of the Hoyal commission and hav ing jurisdiction also Over air transport and Over water transport to some extent. It remains to be seen whether the Power to establish agreed charges will help the railways to meet Competition from other forms of transport or will intensify the Competition. It is an entirely new principle on this continent. The session was notable also for some of the things it did not do. The Senate inquiry did not Lead to a pronouncement in favor of railway the Bill to Amend the divorce Law As was recently done in great Britain passed the Senate but was rejected temporarily at least by the House of commons. The govern ment Bill to require the approval of parliament for All Export of Power was not passed nor was the Bill to authorize the govern ment to appoint a prison commis Sion of three men. Source of party chiefs one curious Point about the leadership of the Federal conservative party now at stake in Ottawa has perhaps not been noticed. If any one of the present favourites in the contest should win he will be the first Ontario Man to Lead the party in this Century. Sir Charles Tupper Leader from 1896 to 1901, was a Nova Scotia. So was sir Robert Borden his successor who headed the party from 1901 until after the War. Next Carne Arthur Meighen. Though born in Ontario he was a Manitoban by residence and Al ways represented a Manitoba seat in parliament his successor was r. B. Bennett a native of new Brunswick who began his Public life in Alberta and still Calls Cal Gary his address. Considering that Ontario is the chief stronghold of the conserva Tives in Canada it is rather remarkable that the party has been led for these forty two yes by two mar timers arid two Western maybe the Ontario Dele Gates at Ottawa is. On Tario s Supply a chieftain. Wednesday. July 6, 1938 is it peace or War printed and published daily to kept toe Winnipeg free press company. Limited. 300 Carlton Street. J. W. Dato Victor president. General registered at the general port office. London. Eni for transmission through the Post in United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Prison red tape for the youngest first offenders and the oldest incorrigible alike life in Canadian penitentiaries is almost intolerable and it is Only comparatively less so for the officials and guards. They Are engaged in work for they have in the m Ain no Talent they Are for Bidden to use any initiative have no Job Security and May be fired without being told Why Are subject to the most rigid discipline and receive relatively Low pay. In 1934, without consultation with the wardens general or mond issued a new list of 724 regulations to replace 194 rules then. In effect. The commission noted that from 1932 until 1937 he sent out Over 800 More bulletins clarifying or enlarging upon regulations. The effect of these was to destroy All initiative and self Reliance in the service and wardens and officers were compelled to spend half their time inviting communications to the office of the superintendent. Centralized control with a vengeance was instituted the extent of which May be gauged from the following examples a Warden desiring to charge 12 cents to a convict for a broken tooth Brush first had to secure authority from the superintendent. He had to get authority to replace a five cent scribbler that was destroyed. When a prisoner applied for leave to write a business letter the Warden had first to secure authority from the superintendent. If a Warden required the replacement of a pail condemned by the Survey Board he had to get permission from the superintendent. He had first however to get an estimate of the Cost of making or replacing the pail and include this with his request. If the pail was to be made in the Penitentiary the Warden had also to make a requisition for galvanized Iron and explain what it was for. In one Case where hinges Worth 16 cents were required to put on a storm window they could not be. Bought without first getting the authority of the superintendent this is not from Gilbert and Sullivan it s from the Royal com Mission s report when an emergency arose that demanded Quick action and any body did anything without author Ity from the general there was the Devil to pay. Here Verba Tim quotation trom the report in the. Summer of 1935 the farm at Dorchester Penitentiary became overstocked Young the farm instructor found it necessary because of Lack of facilities to keep about 85 Young pigs in one pen where in a few weeks Many of them became lame and it appeared a Large number would be lost. However some wire which had been purchased for a line Fence was available because it was not yet required for that purpose. In order to save the pigs the instructor utilized this wire to Divide the pigs into a number of pens and As a. Result saved the entire number. Immediately the emergency had been met he submitted a requisition for More wire. When the superintendent Learned that the farm instructor had saved a considerable loss of Penitentiary property by utilizing the wire however he wrote severely Cen Suring both the Warden and farm instructor because they had not first written to him for Permis Sion. If the farm instructor had been As punctilious As the superintendent in observing strict formalities Worth of pigs would have sickened and a great majority of. Them would have died. Correspondence on the subject was maintained for an entire year before the incident was there is no such thing As Job Security in the penal service. Of the 707 officers in the service on August 1, 1932, 303 were released by nov. 30, 1937, and 224 prior to oct. 8, 1935. Without warning officers were peremptorily Noti fied that they had been retired to promote efficiency in the ser no further explanation was Given. On this aspect the Royal com Mission reports that charges of neglect of duty were taken to the minister of Justice behind the officer s Back without his being Given an Opportunity to explain or defend his conduct. When a Warden protested against this procedure it almost precipitated his in 1928, . W. H. Cooper then Warden of the British Colum Bia Penitentiary was retired from the service to promote efficiency and 1932 he was r e appointed Warehi of that institution and in 1935 was transferred to the commission found serious conditions prevail ing there due in a Large measure to his mismanagement. It reported that he was unable to command the respect of either the officers or the prisoners that he carried militarism to the extreme was overbearing Anco arrogant and constitutionally unfitted for the he occupies at that institution officer was punished by being kept on was terrorized and no one knew whom they might Trust. The Warden even admitted receiving reports from inmates about the. Staff. Offic ers i at Stony Mountain and Dor Chester Are disgraceful the Tene ments at Stony Mountain ii which the guards live were built 5.0 years ago contain no sanitary conveniences and Are inferior to the cells in which the prisoners Are kept. The same was found. True to lesser extent at Dorchester. Any attempt by prison officers to show initiative particularly in the reformation of Young convicts was promptly squelched by their superiors. The commission report quotes this order which the War Den of St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary issued to his staff recent incidents have revealed that certain officers have taken upon themselves to bold conversations with convicts. We wish to remind. You All that convicts should not be talked to except from necessity in the course of deity. Those having contracted this bad habit will have to discontinue this practice immediately As any one Rule in this connection shall be liable to disciplinary it is surely Small wonder that the staffs of the Canadian penitentiaries Are of such unsatisfactory calibre. How in the face of such conditions of employment could they be otherwise further summaries of the report of the Koyal commission on prisons will be published on this Page civilization and War Anne o Hare Mccormick in the new York the watching world blows hot and cold As noncombatants Are bombed to bits on two hemispheres. Tjie heart Burns with an indignation that goes deeper even than pity for the victims for humanity itself is outraged by a form of warfare that blasts human flesh As carelessly As Sticks and stones. To argue that any so called military rail Way Hue or a storage fies shelling cities. Crowded with helpless a kind of final insult to life and the human spirit. The very sense of civilization Dis solves As men destroy other men to no purpose with the insensate callousness of forces of nature. But if the heart Burns with indignation the mind is chilled with dread at this preview of what will happen to any City in the wars of tomorrow. Whether they Are declared provoked or unprovoked civil or. International makes no difference in the pattern of future wars. What sort of people would emerge from the reign of terror compared to the effect of modern War on whole populations regimented from within and bombarded from without As they will be military Victory and defeat Are Al most equally unimportant. obvious even to people who seek escape from and who can blame them it was so obvious after the world War that governments although they learn much More slowly than human beings were ready to sign a covenant to end War forever. Today it is still More obvious that there Are Noi limits to modern conflict. In the 1914-18 edition of armageddon there were zones of devastation. There were in scarred continents and scores of Neutral nations. Yet even that More or less localized struggle up set the universe to Settle nothing. In the next War there will be no neutrals it is perfectly Clear already that if they Don t fight one another they will fight them selves. Zones. There no safety the devastated areas will the Field of it will be a contest not of armies but of popu lations. Not be confined to military operations. Gratitude hero mite new York times it is not so common nowadays to hear people say has been to them. That is the. Opinion expressed in a new Jersey will. The testator dying at the age of 57, leaves his savings of approximately to the United states government. He was brought Here from Italy As an infant grew up. To be a Mechanic never married and Felt that his Money should stay in the country where he earned it rather than go to Brothers and nephews in Italy. Measured in dollars there Are a Good Many people in the country native and immigrant to whom America has been much Kinder. The present legacy Means perhaps a year saved which might be done without difficulty by an unmarried Man on a Small wage. Please let no cynic suggest that this Man left his Money to _ the government not because he liked the United states More but his relatives less today s scripture Artim psalm 49 hear this Allye people give ear Allye inhabitants of the world both Low and High Rich and poor together. My Mouth shall speak of Wisdom and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. I will incline mine ear to a parable i will open my dark sayings upon the Harp should i fear in the Days of evil when the iniquity of imy heels shall com pass me about they that Trust in their wealth acid i the multitude of their riches none of by any Means redeem his brother nor give to Tower guard for 18 months. A him for the re whole staff the commission demotion of their soul is precious Quebec comment vigorous comment on a recent free press article one of a series on polities in Quebec appears Over the signature of Jean Charles Harvey in be Jour Montreal weekly newspaper of which or. Harvey is editor. Or. Harvey makes the free press Story a text for criticism of the leaders of French Canadian education particularly at the University of Montreal. The Story contained an interview with Roland Guy 27 medical student at that University. Or. Guy was the student who led demonstrations of protest which induced the mayor of Montreal to forbid Public addresses by a delegation from loyalist Spain. Later the students by the same Means silenced other european visitors they classify As or. Guy told the free press he favored French Canadian state. He said the English canadians had not been fair or generous in recognizing bilingual rights. Though Montreal was a French City he said More English than French signs were to be found on its streets. He spoke of the predominance of English canadians in Good jobs available in the City mentioning especially executive posts in Bank head offices and at the port of Montreal. Told by the interviewer that French was not much spoken in Western Canada he said then you can see How Little this great Canada of ours Means to us in Quebec. What could Winnipeg mean to ninety per cent of University of Montreal students or. Guy said shared his opinions. Quoting these passages from the interview or. Harvey publishes a column of comment on be Jour s front Page his article is headed Lane instruct the educated translated it reads in part i find this interview so typical of the stupidity of some of our students abetted by the teaching of ignorant and egotistical that i offer it to the reflection of those in Quebec who do reflect. It was surely a bit of Bragga Docio though to claim for the ideas expressed the support of 90 per cent of the students. We will never believe the Young men at tending the chief French Canadian seat of learning at Montreal Are almost All half wits. The fact simply is that Normal Unwar Ped people who go there Are obliged to keep silence for fear of injuring their careers. But it May be that a majority of the students Are contaminated by a kind of instruction which for some years past has studiously fanned the flames of extreme nationalism prejudice and hatred. Separatism Here did not originate spontaneously As has been said. It was cultivated by people who had the Ascendancy Over Pur children and adolescents and who knew what they were doing. They have succeeded by culpable and unpatriotic tactics i instilling in the Young people a contempt for their own country Canada. They have disparaged every move to Ward Canadian Unity. They have discouraged the Bonne entente with English speaking Canada by making fun with the word Bon extent site and throwing it As a insult in the faces of men of peace and Goodwill. They want to set up Here a Little provincial nation precursor of a weak and poverty stricken country of the kind which in Europe is forever Between the Devil and the deep sea and takes All the knocks. They did these things believing it would be Clever Cut the ties which bind French canadians with the rest of the country. They imagine the flock will be More docile healthier and More profit Able if forbidden to learn by any other Torch than their own. Follow the reasoning of the Young student. He says we have no great French Canadian Bankers let us separate. There Are Many English notices posted in Montreal so let us separate. There Are not enough French canadians in executive positions at the port of let us separate. Winnipeg is not sufficiently let us separate when readers of the Western newspaper read these things from a student with ten or fifteen years of study behind him they May Well think that our institutions Are designed to produce educated donkeys.1 perhaps no place in the world Are there As Many distortion fac tories As in Quebec. It makes one weep. And it makes outsiders who look at our province laugh till the tears from the Golden Book s Birds at evening Marjorie pick Hail when the Rooks Fly homeward acid the gulls Are following High and the Grey feet of the silence with a Silver dream Are shod i mind me of the Little wings abroad in every sky who seek their sleep of god. When the Dove is hidden and the Dew is White on the Corn and the dark Bee in the Heather and the Shepherd with the sheep i mind me of the. Little wings in the Elm Oak and the Thorn who take of him their when the Brier closes and the Iris Flower is furled and Over the Edge of the evening the Martin knows her nest i mind me of the Little hearts abroad in All the world who find in him their rest birthdays Osborne Scott Winnipeg bom St. Andrews Man., july 6, 1881. J. M. Boyd Winnipeg born Mont Rose scot., july 6, 1859. Sydney l. Davis Winnipeg born Ottawa qnt., july 6, 1879. Books flan work within As matter touching politics seems to be known that the visit to Canada of the Dean of Canter Bury was not in the interests of the Church but for promoting social credit propaganda. There was talk about it Here and there. A contributor to the current Queen s quarterly refers to it in an article should the Church interfere i business and in in a recent Book sir Josiah stamp told How his refusal to accept an invitation from the Rector of his own Parish to president a meeting in advocacy of social credit was misrepresented. The Rector took sir Josiah s refusal As against a Christian in the same Book other examples Are Given of activities by the clergy in the social credit movement. Allen Taylor writer says that since the whole scheme has been condemned by eminent so by the labor party of great the Macmillan commission on finance and is not endorsed by a single reputable economist is the old or new he trembles to think of the confusion and desolation which would prey ail if its supporters m the Church were to interfere in business and crusader s new Jerusalem is worlds away from the sacred purpose of the historical crusades today the objective is an econ proc and political state for Wade through Rivers of blood drive races into exile ancient institutions land liberties or Taylor proceeds to outline the Powers of Christian ethics in an exceedingly for readers in economics with a capital like this Causer. There is very much that the Church can do and such functions Are pointed out 1 can note but one and that is family life behind the industries of a. Country Are its Homes product of a factory de pends in no Small degree upon the prudence and intelligence of the women who make the Homes of a country and in Many cases Mould the characters the men who Man the industries of a years ago an Ameri can economist warned us that the modern crusader was in danger of substituting the will to Power for will to peace which is christianity. He has done in Canada s debt to the car Negie Lawrence f. Burpee writes about the immense sums Given to Canada by that wealthy and enormously Benefi cent institution. Readmit and you will feel Wordsworth Ian gratitude As part of your religion. Next to that revealing article one on can Adian Art today is appropriate Sinclair Ross leads in a Day with an inimitable Short Story of farm life in the West. Or. Ross s baptismal and surname suggesting of . Western families is a Bank clerk in Winnipeg whose Short stories have been printed in this Terly. A. Day a Little masterpiece of a horse Story. Or. Ross has a future according to the Promise of his Artis tic imaginative sketches. Good Luck to him and distinction in can Adian fiction. William Colgate of the Toronto Globe and mail contributes the history of the morning Post under the. Caption death the portrait of a his essay is based on Wilfred Hindle s Book the morning Post 1772 1937." i suppose a merger Means the practical extinction of one paper when two the great morning paper known to our tune As victorian and tory founded by a. Clergyman of dubious character when Lamb wrote for it and thought himself Well paid at sixpence a joke it was certainly rather Radical. E. V. Lucas gave us in his definitive biography of Lamb Many pages of those quips. News comes of Lucas s death at 70 Coleridge and Hazlitt sat in. The commons press gallery for the morning Post. One poet fell asleep Dunn of a by Pitt but he knew the subject and wrote a re port which answered the purpose. A word of Hazlitt s though the Best speeches Are the worst re ported the worst Are made much better and so both find a paper Bookman ;