Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 07, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Fott printed and published the Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Carlton Street. Winnipeg j. W. Dafoe Victor Suton. President. General manager. Registered at the general Post office. London. Tor transmission through the Post in Tow United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg thursday july 7, 1938. The wheat decision in order to understand the decision of the Federal govern ment to establish for 1938 a policy of paying a minimum Price for wheat coupled with participation certificates to Farmers it is Only necessary to refer to the terms of the Turgeon report which was tabled in the House of commons this session. In it or. Justice Turgeon declared that a return to a free Market was most to be desired but that such a return was dependent upon a return of Normal conditions but upon the facts before me today i must say that such a return is not immediately in after reviewing the world prospects of yield and consumption he continued As follows i feel that i can suggest the immediate dissolution of the Canadian wheat Board. There is a Strong possibility that conditions May develop which will require a measure of assistance in the marketing of the coming crop and i know of course How Long these conditions May continue after the final chapter of this report is written. In the meantime i can think of nothing better to suggest than that the Board be maintained to meet any situation that May arise. The government presumably has come to the conclusion that the conditions named by or. Justice Turgeon still exist ., that an emergency threatens and therefore it is following its expert advice in taking the course which has now been announced. Much will of course depend upon the initial Price that will be fixed. Every consideration of common sense demands that it should be under the Market Price of the Day not Only under Market Price but Well under it just As was the Case in the old Days when the wheat pools operated upon this basis. The pools were Safe so Long As they could carry through their marketing programme with a Good fat Cushion Between the initial Price paid out and the actual Market Price. They col lapsed when mis gauging the future course of prices in an extra ordinarily difficult year they paid out in the beginning More than they could in Trie outcome get for the wheat. That experience which will never be forgotten in the West suggests the greatest caution in setting the initial Price this year. The very fact that the term participation certificate is used implies that the initial Price must be cautiously set. The producers Are to participate in any surplus which May accrue from the wheat Board s operations. There is no suggestion that they Are to participate in carrying the Burden of any deficit. The fact that the Farmer is thus limited in his obligation is All the More reason for the wheat through it the Canadian give itself a Safe margin for its operations. Nobody wants to see any repetition of the events from 1930 to 1935. 9 How shall the initial Price be fixed or. M. J. Coldwell of the . Had a ready made solution of this difficult question. He proposed to the House of commons that. The government should ascertain the average Cost producing a Bushel of wheat and delivering it to fort William and that the Price should be set at that level which he stated was he asked for a fair and just Price for Western producers by which one presumes he Means Cost of production plus a certain profit. It is not Likely that or. Coldwell s demand will be met. For it does not take Long to figure out what the consequences would be if the wheat growers the members of Canada s most important Industry Are to be guaranteed by government a return equal to Cost of production plus profit there is no reason on Earth Why the grower of. Every other agricultural product should not get the same guarantee. Nor indeed Why government should not guarantee the Price of every other commodity be it grown in Field Forest or Stream off the coasts of the country or under its surface As Well. Let everybody be guaranteed on everything and Canada lands itself at one Large jump into the full fledged socialization of production distribution and Exchange. This is a condition which cannot be contemplated with any ease of mind and it is one which can be demonstrably shown to be disastrous to the future of Canada. For this reason alone it is Clear that or. Coldwell s airy suggestion will not be adopted by the government or the wheat Board. F nor is there any reason to believe that the wheat Board once it is functioning will forget its statutory obligation to sell wheat because of the Jackpot into which this country landed As a result of paying More than the Market Price for wheat up to 1935 there developed a tendency to hold wheat off the markets in the Hope that in time a lean year or two for the world at Large would Swallow up the costly surplus that piled up in our elevators. Because of this history the wheat Board legislation contains a definite provision that wheat must be offered this is an essential clause for any sensible wheat Board operation but it will become a dead letter if the Board is saddled from the outset with an obligation to pay More to the producers than the world is prepared to pay the desire for the Board to make a Good showing to come ou1 at the end of the year with a profit would under such Circum stances inevitably tend to slow Down sales and at All costs our place in the world s markets must be strengthened and maintained. Rapids of the drowned slave River Northwest territories by Burt Gresham. 200 years ago. Perhaps that Indian Warrior knew the indomitable French Canadian explorer whose bicentenary we celebrate this september it is a not too far fetched thought. There must As yet undiscovered traces of the la Verendrye Era in Manitoba s Story and As development of this prov Ince continues we can expect to stumble upon them from time to time. They will add to the record and they will help us to realize the great debt the West owes to that intrepid explorer. Keeping men bad Indian rights clarification of the rules re Garding the development of natural resources situated on Indian re serves was embodied in legislation passed at the last Ottawa session. Doubts have been expressed lest the new amendments would weaken the position and rights of the indians themselves but a Reading of the text and of the Hansard discussion makes it Clear that this question did not arise. In some parts of Canada the indians enjoy the Mineral rights on their re serves. they . The new regulations will it is believed make possible a More uniform method of dealing with situations As they arise. The object of the legislation As stated is not to deprive the indians of any value that might be found in the minerals within their reserves but to enable them to be More effectively dealt with for the Benefit of the indians themselves. The practice in the past has been not to prevent development of re ,.sources found on Indian reserves but to Grant concessions on a Royalty basis and such royalties Are then placed to the credit of the Indian bands concerned. Al most of band funds now exist As a result of deals of this kind made in the past. The government it May be taken granted will never forget that i they Are in the position of trustees j of the indians upon whom the Impact of civilization in several of its forms has had a distressing result. The whole problem of Oil and Mineral development on Indian reserves cannot but in crease the difficulty of adequate and it would be in accordance with., general Public opinion to abandon the develop ment of resources on Indian re serves if it could be proved that to go ahead with the project would have a harmful effect upon the native bands. In Many cases however development can be safely permitted and the present minister of Indian affairs Hon. T. A. Crerar and his superintendent general or. R. A. Hoey. Are both men who will never forget their responsibilities of trustee ship. Historical Manitoba the discovery a few Days ago of an Indian grave near Dauphin attests once again that Manitoba has a history behind her Brief two Hundred years that it be. Who was that re skinned Warrior buried so Long ago with All his worldly possessions for use in the Happy Hunting ground what Brave Days had been his who were the Whitemen from Montreal that he met and traded his furs for knife and. Pot and. Scissors and trinkets that they there. From Montreal is Clear from the evidence of the bangles stamped and we know from records that la Verendrye was in those parts just military flying training the offer or the government to train in Canadian military flying schools British or Canadian pilots desiring admission on their ranks into the Royal air Force has been accepted practice in Australia for some years. Officers selected from the Royal australian air Force Are automatically commissioned in the Royal air Force being qualified by the Standard of the military flying they have been Given. A grave Issue of a purely service or professional nature raised by the Canadian offer vitally concerns the Quality and the sufficiency of the training Given in the Royal Canadian air Force. Its efficiency and its sufficiency have been expressly doubted by capable and disinter ested Canadian critics who have written and spoken on the subject frequently within the last year. If Canada agrees to give Mili tary training to pilots for the Royal air Force it must logically expect to give them the training which meets the standards set by the British air ministry. This would be a very fortunate out come of any co operative plan now being discussed. But when the British air ministry proposes to establish its own military flying schools in Canada it. Revives the very questionable experience of 19-17. It organized a military flying school in Canada in that year at inordinate Cost. The British establishment sent then to Canada by the Royal air Force did of course turn out a number of pilots capable of flying in the but its ignorance of and disregard for the Canadian mentality of men whose Brothers at the time constituted a third of the serving Royal air Force established a precedent which in the interests of Good will alone should never be allowed to be repeated. In military flying training Between the Canadian government and the British air ministry should be As feasible As it is in Australia. That that train ing should have to stand Ards is As desirable As that munitions manufactured in this country should have to Bear inspection. But the proposed training is not implemented solely by the suggested expansion of military flying instructional schools directed by the department of National de Fence. It imperatively and essentially that the Standard and the sufficiency of existing military flying training in Canada be first examined into. Birthdays h a. Wise torn North Milton . F. W. Handel Winnipeg born Ger Many july 7, 1862. It is an elementary principle of British Justice that a person is presumed innocent until his guilt has been proven and Section 162 of the Penitentiary regulations reads a convict shall not be punished for violations of prison rules until he has had an Opportunity of hearing the charge against him and of making his As the report of the Royal com Mission on the Canadian penal system Points out it is categorically imperative that absolute Confidence in Justice and fair Flay be instilled in the minds of prisoners if the interests of Reform Are to be served. Unfortunately the com Mission found this was not the practice in our prisons and Dis covered flagrant examples of the denial of their element Ary rights. The Warden at Kingston Penitentiary the commission reported violated the Section quoted above under the direct authority of Gen. D. M. Ormond superintendent of penitentiaries. The Warden had tried a convict named Price on a charge of attempting to incite trouble and. Had found him guilty of two other offences mentioned in the regulations but not included in the description of the offence in the charge. He was sentenced to be flogged with 20 strokes of the leather strap. The Warden sent a copy of his findings to general Ormond. A a in reviewing the evidence again Price the commission found it would not support a conviction in a court Appeal even for the offences of which he was convicted but charged. General Ormond instructed the Warden to re draw the concluded his let Ter with it is considered that Price has been sufficiently put on trial under the charges As now re drawn and that he is guilty of Gross misconduct requiring to be suppressed by extra Ordinary he. Confirmed the sen tence. Anal apus procedure in City police court would be. For the magistrate to. Find a person no1 guilty of. Selling cabbage without a License with which he was charged but to Send him to jail for six months for Selling Home brew with which he was not charged. The same Price complained to general Gonnond that he had been badly manhandled by a guard. The general made this note Case investigated. This Man Faker was perhaps badly handled by guard but not there is no suggestion that the guard was Ever reprimanded for the manhandling the commission reported is the same prisoner was shot during the disturbance of 1932. He is a Young Man who has several times been convicted for crime and for the purpose of this report May be assumed to be an incorrigible offender. But nevertheless there is no place in our administration. Of Justice for the treatment he has received at the hands of prison authorities. He was shot without Legal justification flogged on charges on which he had never been tried assaulted by a guard and kept indefinitely in segregation. In the opinion of your com missioners it is incumbent upon Hose engaged in the administration of Justice to see that their officers Are vigilant in obeying tha Law. No place is this vigilance More necessary than in the administration of a prison system. Wanton and unlawful acts by prison officials toward prisoners Are degrading and bring the Law into disrepute. They also tend to develop violent and. Incorrigible a under Canadian prison regulations there Are 54 rules for the infraction of which either Acci dentally or wilfully convicts May be punished. These run All the Way from assaulting guards or other convicts to singing whistling or looking into a cell while passing Down a corridor. Punishment ranges from loss of tobacco Privi Leges to solitary confinement and flogging. English prisons get by with Only 17 rules. According to the commission the regulations provide so Many trivial offences that May be punished in a drastic manner that it is almost impossible for prisoners to avoid committing some punish Able breach of the rules. It is therefore necessary for them to exercise constant vigilance and to evolve methods of avoiding punishment. They soon become expert in the practice and on release from prison carry with them a habit of concealment. The present system is bound to result in a gradual demoralization of those subjected to it. They become spiritually As Well As physically anaemic Lazy and shiftless physically and ment ally torpid and generally ineffective and when a prisoner is charged with breaking a Rule he appears before the Warden and usually finds it advisable to plead guilty because of the fear that if he does not the punishment will be More severe if he is found guilty. If he pleads not guilty he is sent to an Iso Latich cell where he is deprived of tobacco and Given a hard bed and no seating accommodation Pend ing trial. The commission found even when the Warden suspects or knows that a guard is lying he has no Choice but to take the guard s word against that of the prisoner. During the year ending april 1, 1933, there were offences charged against prisoners or an average of three a Day for the six penitentiaries. Only 144 were acquitted and Only 85 got suspended sentence. In the nine months end ing dec. 31, 1936, there were charges 48 acquittals 15 sentences suspended. At. Stony Mountain Between 1930 and 1936 inclusive prisoners faced charges. Three were acquitted and two got suspended sentence. V a a the serious defect of the present prison court system the commis Sion found was that the prisoner has no Opportunity for redress or outlet by Appeal. The commission urges that officers and guards should be allowed to use judg ment and discretion in making reports and should not be compelled to report trivial offences when a warning would suffice and that guards who nag and goad inmates in order to provoke in Solence should be discharged. It also recommends that prisoners should be tried by a Board com posed of the Warden the chief keeper and the physician and tha they should have the right of Appeal to a Board of prison visitors. If a Normal prisoner believes that he and his fellow inmates Are lastly treated and Only punished when guilty he will be amenable to prison authority and much disciplinary trouble will Dis the commission declared in its report. If on the other hand he feels that he is unjustly punished without a fair Chance to defend himself he will become anti social embittered and uncontrollable this state of mind is contagious. And will be aroused even when i himself is not the victim of the injustice. It is a major contributory cause of breaches of discipline conspiracies assaults and riots in not being an authority and diligent research among our col eagles bringing no enlighten ment we cannot say whether or not preachers in these Days eloquently advocate the fifth commandment. But if so they must voices crying in a Bronx cheering wilderness. Parents judging by a fairly Long list of Best by at least As Long a list of psychological and sociological authorities or at least addresses of Ings which is. Practically the same not going so Good just now. Earlier efforts of Litte raters seem to have been mainly directed at debunking the premise that father not Only knew incomparably but knew everything. Dickens Butler and Gosse notably took that legend for bitterly merry or merrily bitter rides. There seems to have been Little or no realization that the stuffed Shirl Given the Heads of families to Wear May have had its hairy Side. It inst be lonely be always know Best or be expected to. Recent efforts of. The fiction writers have been directed More at the distaff Side but none the less bitter for that. When the is usually a gets through with the Sweet possessive clinging Life suck ing dependent Selfish Mother character there in t anything left to do but pour one s favorite per fume Down the Drain take a Bath with laundry soap and seriously consider taking to drink. Now the sociologists and the psychologists Are at it. They have got along past the dark remarks about complexes and inhibitions which have done so much of late years to add erudition or its seeming to conversation even if they have made one wonder if it really were Safe in Famille to but further summaries of the report the Hoyal commission on prisons will be published on this parc from the Golden books from lady s Slipper Bliss Carman who passed this Way and left this Trace of Beauty in so wild a place to stir our souls with marvelling at so incredible a tiling who sent this living Miracle in the deep Northern Woods to dwell where Only Hermit thrushes Conn and the shy Brown Bear make. His Home deep in our hearts glad tidings say Beauty herself came by this Way cast off her Sandal As she sped lest we should miss the Way she fled. Wherever the Long Way May Lead to keep the Trail is All our need on simple fare in poor attire torn and waylaid by Flint am Briar with the Lone Dawn upon the height of the great desert stars by night through burning Sun and blinding Snow untiring and Content we go if Only so we May behold dear Beauty s self Ere we Are old can opener cookery from the Ottawa journal there was a time when the Good housewife looked with deep suspicion upon food that was up up in this and the crop of joke about women who prepared meal with a can opener was founded upon the Assumption that food bought ready made must be greatly inferior to jams and jellies Anc pickles and preserves put up in the Home Kitchen. That Point of View has disappeared however and food sold in tins and bottles is a commonplace item on every vege tables fish meats. This has be come a fact through the obvious advantages of mass production the High Quality of canned goods that has been the result of improved methods of manufacture and eager acceptance by a hos of women of a development tha increases their Leisure. Current advertising of the can Adian Canning Industry emphasize the Quality of the Canadian product makes also the important poin that this Industry contribute Weig tily to Canadian Prosperity by the Market for affords last year of peaches alone ten million cans were produced in Thi country and that process mus have Given employment to a Grea Many it gave pleasure to innumerable dinner tables. A plea by . For quite some time now teach ers quite a hyphenated and no introduced by any chairman have on those rare occasions when pedagogues let Down their Back Lair said that very thing. They have appended chapter and verse by pointing to the Superior records suggest. Please passing the Ter now they Are out in. The open. At the Canadian conference on social work held recently in Van Couver or. J. M. Ewing depose c that should be the problem parents not the delinquent children. At about the same time Raymond Henniker Heaton known in the Best psychology was telling the British Union of practical psychologists that parents were Public enemies no 1 and 2 of the growing generation. The Mother probably living up to her poetical reputation As the the was the More deadly by the father came As close a second As possible. The press reports. That this observation of or. Henniker Heaton come now psychologically Why not shocked or the delegates which makes one wonder if said delegates had been confining their Reading to series and the Rollo books i of girls to schools number and of boys in secondary the much smaller girls in retarded classes. It. In t that the girls Are really any cleverer than the they assert but mothers coddle. Heir sons More. Doubtless fat ers would do As much damage to their daughters Only they Are not so definitely in the Home picture. It is mothers who Are the chief none of this it May at once be acknowledged is the Motif of mothers Day. Neither does it interfere with the Hall note cadences of the what is Home without a Mother ballads no matter How often persons devoted to the higher thought or at least some thought May rudely question Well just at this juncture one notes father heroically struggling with the Home work calculation carry ing the Basket Ball Bat extra wraps and what have you at the picnic wondering if he will be Able to make that life insurance payment leading in thousands and hundreds of thousands of cases lives of quiet their whole Hope ambition and Joy of living invested in sons and Daugh ters who May give them the daily recompense of an hello salutation. And there is Mother delving into the calculus to make Twenty five cents do a Dollar s Worth soothing father when son takes his pet socks forming an intervention committee when the Ane Ieni family brother and sister argument threatens open hostilities arid on and on and on. Thou Sands and hundreds of thousands of too. Talk about practical psychologists it might be of so illuminating to various of this ilk if they for even one Day into these father s and Mother s re Soled shoes. Perhaps. When the oratory and the Printer s have faded out it May be discovered that after All parents human. Which is a disturbing thought since it makes them so very like the rest of us. Today s scripture from proverbs 11 by the Blessing of the. Upright the City is exalted but it is Over thrown by the Mouth of. The wicked. He that is void of Wisdom de Piseth his neighbor but a Man of understanding hold eth his peace. A tale bearer reveal eth secrets but he that is of a faithful spirit con Zealeth the matter. Where no counsel is the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is. Safety. boots Art finer Wilt within the death of e. V. Lucas would be a Surprise on both sides of the Atlantic. His weekly Casserie a wanderer s. Was in the last sunday times to reach this desk. His subject was a cold in the which he treated in his vein. Or. Lucas was a voluminous author arid his. Books used to be popular among a Large group Here in Winnipeg. On my own shelves Are thirteen of them left some having gone off into space. Among them Are his definitive life of Lamb the wanderer in and several of the wandering books in european picture galleries. How be when he came to a Van. Der Meer. His Cor Respondence anthologies too Areher infinite variety has vanished. His fiction or. Over. Down the Windfall s London and the rest caught on at once and must be the Best Light fiction of this Century. A c or Lucas was a regular contributor to punch and besides being a steady journalist he was chairman of. The publishing. Firm Methuen had honorary doctorate from Oxford and St. Andrews universities and was a companion Jpn. Honor. He wrote the Memoir of Lamb s Friend. Bernard Quaker poet. The number of books to his name must count up to nearly a Hun dred. He was constantly dipping into the past and naturally wrote his reminiscences which he entitled Reading writing and re but he had Only reached the age of seventy when death came after an operation inv despatch says. Or. Lucas was born of a Quaker family in Sussex. In Early life he served an apprenticeship to a bookseller in Brighton and later worked on a newspaper. Then he went to London where he soon made Good As they say. A Quaker Uncle of Means meeting Bun on the Street one Day greeted him with Edward i owe thee five that Cash and what he earned on a London paper gave him a course of study at London University under professor w. P. Ker with whom he formed a close Friendship unbroken until that widely beloved scholar died when at All souls or was it and professor of poetry at Oxford. Before he was Twenty one Lucas filled four manuscript books of verse. No love sceptic s he recalled. At Lon Don University he took latin under a. E. Housman and that was an other unbroken friendship., the list of correspondents in Post bag diversions fills two columns nearly of that ing Book. Letters and writers Are explained As you read. Here is one from lord Byng of Vimy in reply to one from Lucas when Byng assumed office at Scotland thank you. I pleaded old age varicose veins and senility corns craziness and inferior Complex liver Lumbago and laziness giddiness Girth galls and Gagg Adom melancholia mysticism and but to no purpose. I finally Capitu lated and must now Endeavor to get your lord Byng was a witty correspondent. The most laughable of All is a Long pages of a girl to her aunt telling about experience at a dinner party. One from a Schoolboy of Over a Page asks the author if he has Ever read Burton s Anatomy of Melan adding it is awfully quaint and a note to a letter from St. John to Lucas complaining of his absence when his St. John s play written and his sister was produced our author confesses blessings on his memory that he is against All plays about authors especially one about the tragedy of the i could not even get myself to the Barretts of Wompole Street and More reluctantly should i have approached the recent dramatic Effort of which Francis Thompson was the Centre haying known him How could any play Wrigth of mercy bring himself to use Lamb and his sister As persons in a play to watch an listen to that play would have been torture to e. V. Lucaa. Bookj1an ;