Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 11, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. F Winnipeg monday july 11, 1938 printed and published the winnipeg1 free press company limited 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe Victor. Sifton president. General manager. Registered at the general Post office. London. Eng., for transmission through the Post in the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. A Happy transformation in spite of the disagreements and differences Between the provinces we Are sure that All parts of the country will rejoice eth Saskatchewan and warmly congratulate its people upon excellent crop prospects which Are in such striking con tast with last year s desolation. The crop is not harvested yet of course and one might suppose that Saskatchewan would feel like holding its breath until the Grain gets past its numerous enet Nies. But with the present cheerful Promise after so Many years of utter disappointment and discouragement can anyone 55 surprised that the people can hardly contain themselves consider the Farmer who looks at his Fields with a growth Cuch As he has not seen for nearly a decade and is Joyful at Jive thought of at last getting a break consider the Farmer s and her new Hopes for the family welfare think of the toys and girls of 10 or 12 years who have never before seen such an amount of Green growth and think of the merchants and other townspeople in those areas dependent on the pros Perky of the Farmers v latest reports from Saskatchewan suggest a wheat crop Between and bushels. A week Hon. J. G. Taggart minister of agriculture said that an of bushels was somewhat optimistic but quite the wheat Pool s reports on the condition f the crop at that time indicated an average yield of just under 8 bushels to the acre which would represent a production of 33.305.000 bushels for the province. But the Progress of the Rop is liable to be affected by various things before it reaches maturity. This year the dangers Are Grasshoppers and due to he lateness of the crop rust and Frost. Less than half the acreage is planted with rust resistant wheat and already there Lave been appearances of rust. Hence the advisability of re training optimism though the general Prospect is favourable not Tor a bumper crop but for a Good average crop such As Saskatchewan has not garnered for Many a year. The Regina Leader Post Speaks rather jubilantly of the spanking Rains real old fashioned that spoil picnic parties make the roads impassable and Wash out the railways in some places. Saskatchewan people Are ready to smile at such says the Leader and the whole country can under stand. The drouth period is definitely broken it says the province is coming Back and the spirits of the people Are going to be the Best in a vast millions were required in Relief from the Dominion during the drouth period and the request for that assistance was the claim steadfastly maintained that Saskatchewan could come Back. Many Eastern people May have had doubts and Felt that an enormous amount of Aid was being Given. But the Dominion government and the people of Canada May now feel satisfied that Saskatchewan was Worth saving. The stimulus to the business of the country from a few Good crops will increase the conviction that no mistake was made. Everyone who contributed voluntarily to the Relief of people in the drouth stricken area will be particularly interested and pleased with old Man River convention after thoughts by . Products. And yet in these pages one sees that Canadian authors books have imprints of publishing houses in both new York and London As Well As Toronto. It is clearly impossible to confine authorship by National boundaries without inestimable loss. Liis is Only some of the information that can be gathered from these pages. The Toronto Public Library should be commended on its annual Survey which though it does not undertake to do All the University of Toronto s letters in Canada does is nonetheless a valuable ready reference under authors names. Piear a the happier situation this year. Canadians All Over the country helped to fill the thousand cars of vegetables fruit and other supplies that were sent to Saskatchewan. It was a splendid manifestation of practical sympathy and of the feeling that canadians Are All one family. While the scene in Saskatchewan is entirely transformed almost More than could have been hoped for in one year crop predictions must be taken with Reserve and the outcome Pati Nelv awaited. Dangers Lurk in various forms and there inviting undue disappointment. The crop will a is no use m is no us 111 us v in Ting a i patently be much better than for some years but How much better no one vet knows. Saskatchewan cannot Cash m on the present Outlook. If it can end that will be All to the Good and the people of the neighbouring province will doubtless remember henceforth that the biblical injunction Ryjoi Enito. _. _ the seven years of plenty and the ensuing years of particularly to their Section of the country. In the years _ y the reserves must be Laid up for. The period when they will be sorely needed. Rescued by planning Cotton is a Branch of agriculture which has been the subject of very special solicitude on the part of the United states depart ment agriculture. The Cotton its just for this Rea son the historical review says there can be few regions of equal area especially in America that Are favored by so Complete an organization of their cart logical men of foundations. No future workers growers have been bonuses con can afford not to take careful account of or. Prowse s writ these appraisals of the studies concluded by or. Prowse in the ten years since he retired from teaching in Manitoba Are a tribute to the engrossing Devotion of. S lifetime. The task has been tremendous. The volume reviewed contains 400 pages of descriptions and discussions of maps and other cart graphical matter arranged under entries of which Are maps. This is evidence of a knowledge hardly rivalled. It is the Harvest of a life s concentration on an erudite aim. Trolled regimented and legislated for with All the Zeal of the plan ners. Prices have been fixed and acreage for the purpose of rescuing the South from its economic plight. How it has worked out in Texas is summarized in the weekly. The estimated Texas Cotton i acreage this year is the lowest m 37 years and the total income from Cotton during the current j year including All the so called from the government cannot possibly be much More than the equivalent of half the annual income from Cotton Dur ing the years prior to 1930." the weekly adds there is no Outlook whatever under present government policies that this level of income can be materially increased next year or the next or at any time during the present a distinctive study tribute is paid by or. W. Of Ganong in the Canadian historical review for june to the erudition embodied in results of 50 years devoted by or. G. R. F. Prowse Winnipeg to the historical study by maps of discoveries and land fells of parts adjacent to Labrador my Canada. Or. Ganong is reviewing the first volume of or. Prowse s Carto logical the work he says must take and hold a distinctive place in our cart logical it was recently alluded to by or. Lawrence Martin thief of the division of maps in fee United states Library of con press in which it is listed As among the More important accessions during 1937. Or. Martin wrote cart logical materials comprises a remarkable contribution to the cartography of North America both in the vast amount map material digested and in canadians 1937 the arrival of the Toronto Public Library s annual Canadian Cata Logue of books published in Canada about Canada As Well As those written by canadians sends the Eye gleaning along its columns for information about the state of Canadian literature. It seems to be in a pretty Stout condition As far As bulk goes. There Are nearly fifty pages of double columned listing of books about almost every conceivable subject. On the one hand there is an introduction to the. Use of mathematical formulas with answers by an energetic gentleman in Montreal and on the other there is a compilation of proverbial sayings and citations As elements in Ibsen s style by an erudite professor in Saskatoon Canadian authors can certainly pick their subjects and they Are nothing if not versatile. It is interesting to find too in this compilation evidence of the internationalism of authorship there has been a great Deal of unwise shouting about Canadian literature for canadians keep out the other stuff. The reciprocal aspects of that of course would be that Only Canadian publishers would publish Canadian authors adventure in education one of the finest adventures in current adult education is that of Banff school of Fine arts that has been conducted annually in August since 1933 by the Extension department of the University of Al Berta. There Are courses in Art theatre and music for both begin ners and advanced students. The Success of this yearly Gath ering of givers and receivers of knowledge about the Fine arts should encourage Manitoba to attempt something of the sort though perhaps at first on a More modest scale. There Are certain facilities at Clear Lake that could be turned to Good account in Brief summer school of this sort. Or if the Manitoba handicrafts Guild should organize a summer school of instruction in several of the Many european and indigenous handicrafts that Are being Practised in this province it could be assured of immediate and wide spread interest. A great Deal More could be done than is being done along these lines in Manitoba. Albertaha shown its initiative. Are we going to be left behind much longer there is no Lack of competent Loca instructors there is no Lack of subject matter. But there is Lack o directing Force. Perhaps a leade will Rise to the wonderful Opportunity these circumstances present North knowledge More Active Field work than eve _ being undertaken this Summe by the department of mines am resources. Fifty eight Survey am exploration parties numbering company of close to 300 experts Are combing Canada from Quebe to the Yukon for information on minerals Topography Physiography Fauna Flora contemporary native culture and Indian archaeology. This is excellent Enterprise an it will mean a valuable enhance ment of the already voluminous data accumulated in Ottawa. An since most of the work is Bein done in the not yet Well known North that data is All the mor Welcome. Canada s future it is perhaps not too much to say lies in the North. The resources there i Mineral and forests and fur an in Touris important water potentialities possibilities in the Aerial Trade routes of the twentieth Century is beyond easy Coin mutation. Therefore Knowledg about the North is imperative the Best is to be made of Thos dreamed of Hopes. The Depar ment of mines and resource appear Well aware of this fact. From the Golden books Trees Joyce Kilmer i think that i shall never see a poem Lovely As a tree. A tree whose hungry Mouth Prest against the Earth s Sweet flowing breast a tree that looks at god Allda and lifts her Leafy arms to Pray a tree that May in summer Wea a nest of Robins in her hair upon whose bosom Snow has Lai who intimately lives with ram. Poems Are made by fools like m but Only god can make a tree the British nations the colonial Empire there is As the editor of the monthly the Crown Colony re entry complained widespread in Orance confusing the people of he self governing overseas do minions with the Peoples of the British colonial Empire. People in be dominions resent being styled but often do not real be that there is a British colonial Empire of 55 million inhabitants belonging to Many different races different stages of civilization used by 30 separate governments under the British colonial office people in great particularly in great eem unable or neglectful to understand that the Peoples of the Elf governing dominions Are no Onger colonials either by Dis position or Constitution. The of ence conveyed May not be in ended but it smacks of an irritating condescension. It is sex usable Only because no substitute Vord for colonial has been joined. One was suggested by a contributor to the London times a new weeks ago. He suggested that word has Al East the Merit of indicating inhabitants of dominions and its acceptance might prevent misuse f the word which has a very explicit connotation to the second largest colonial Empire. The French colonial Empire is Arger than the British but France has no association with self governing countries As Britain has in he Commonwealth of British nations. Neither has the French colonial Empire the diversities re counted in the annual review of he British colonial Empire submitted to the British parliament ast month. The. Submission of this review is new. The very superficial explanatory statement that used to accompany the Esti mates for the colonial and Middle Eastern services had for year1 aggravated the British. Parliament but. Last year the colonial Secre tary or. Ormsby Gore now lord promised that the presentation of each year s Colonia estimates would be prefaced by a report of the More important developments during the preceding year. Very few persons in Grea Britain Ever read the separate re ports presented by each Crown o other Colony to the colonial offic each year but More will becom aware of conditions in those col onies through the medium of Thio new comprehensive Survey. The need for this enlightenment was emphasized editorially by the times. Recent events in the West. Said the times have shaken the complacency with which most people in Thi country have been accustomed t regard the colonial Empire. The have shown that in one group o dependencies and that the on which has been longest under Brit ish Are very a from being what they should b under British administration an they have created an uneasy suspicion that economic and Socia improvements May be just a badly needed in other parts a just what those conditions known or unknown in other Par of the colonial Empire May by and just How they Are being recognized and what is being done 1 improve them is the purport the colonial Survey submitted when the colonial estimates a moved in the British parliament. Studying the Survey keeps the Finger tracing Remote areas on the Globe. For the greater part o 1937 increasing exports Brough Prosperity to producers and governments in Northern Rhodes Ceylon and Malaya and in Nigen and the Gold coast. The Valu of these exports averaged 40 be cent More than they valued i 1936, and they doubled their values in the depression years. By the Prosperity last year Wane Ward the end of the year and continued to Wane during the Early months of 1938. This was another illustration of world economic in dependence. The decline in prices reduced the values f most colonial products except Hose of Gold and Tea. The de argement was due mostly to the ailing off of United states demand or tropical raw materials. Expectations in other respects did not Alfill the worst fears. Events in be far East says the colonial Urvey caused less disturbance in he currency of Hong Kong than might have been expected. Con durable increase was made in the ote Issue of the Hong Kong and Shanghai banking and this is the chief form of cur ency in the Hong Kong Colony. Be effect of the Spanish disturb aces on Gibraltar currency had Een to double the volume of cur ency in circulation and Spanish Eseta notes which used to circus ate freely have disappeared. In Alestine however the disturb aces have decreased the amount if currency in circulation. Above these immediate matters s the steady intention of the colonial office to build up a colonial service fitted by admin Strati be capacity and expert Rowledge to see that the Best methods Are employed in every colonial territory and that the social existences of the natives Are benefited. For instance the Imperial colonial development advisory committee provided a Mil on pounds for constructive schemes in 1937. Another Imperial Effort deals with the Public health and nutrition of natives. This is the economic advisory Council on nutrition. Nutrition problems in special reference to school says this year s sur vey have been receiving Atten Lon and experiments in the feed ing of school children and in the diffusion of information regarding suitable diet in tropical conditions and the growing of necessary food crops have been begun in several the colonies on their part Are expanding their defence measures. Ceylon Sierra Leone Nigeria and the Gold coast have organized naval Volunteer defence forces. Additions have been made to the local naval defence forces maintained by settlements Hong Kong Kenya and Gambia. Strengths and equipment have been added to in the King s Afri can rifles the Kars of East the Royal West african Frontier Force the the Northern Rhodesia regiment and the Somaliland Camel corps. In the opinion of the times gives on the whole an. Encouraging account of the Way in which the multifarious tasks Are being handled by the various col onial governments whose activities Are in different degrees con trolled by. The colonial office. But says the times the review leaves however the impression that if this great heritage of the colonial Empire is to be developed to the greatest the native inhabitants and of the Avoir old which uses their products there is needed a greater and More comprehensive Effort directed by far seeing statesmanship backed by a More generous use of the financial re sources of the Home country and sustained by a Keener and better informed Public today s scripture from romans 12 be not conformed to this world but be be transformed by the re Newing of your mind that be May prove what is that Good and acceptable and perfect will of god. For i say through the Grace Given unto me to every Man that is among you not to think More highly of himself than he ought to think. For one who were likewise when he j to prove the truth of Home the second thrust. Dams s postulate that party saw it through because they is but Breed the at least Toji ave the Satis organization of the of frustrating the Man onal. Conservative convention to oust them from the Ottawa last week would very fruitful if unhappy it from any standpoint will and it is impossible not the hatreds there reach the same conclusion. No five fold racial As politically experienced As Oci Al political and Bennett or a Meighen could and yet. Who is. There dares fail to foresee what these a that such a democratic Way would bring about. But Ealing with a nation s Quebec delegates stuck. They s not Best and they also struck. They a blow for or. Manion that who s to him into the leadership. The fault during those having done so having de headless hectic Days of the Challenge deliberately Emper baiting was due out they be gone Home to lot to any fallacy in the villages and cities and coun t must be Laid on the disillusioned dismayed squarely on the shoulders of and As far As the con those Pride it is blatantly to party is concerned Dis Pouse the tenets of if through the influx hey Are the ones to blame. Of cooler Heads they remain lot the least blameworthy integral part of the National hem is he who held his head party it will be in Ligh in missionary Zeal. It a Miracle it will be solely he it. Hon. R. B. Bennett of respect for the Leader whom Vas primarily responsible for splitting wide open that backed. I talked to groups of them before they left and the gathering of men and women that emerges on All sides very one of Canada s 245 this we Are through. C est Oral we Are not wanted. All True the first Stone was we shall form our own a senator Arthur Meighen be threw it he was quite Frank religious Issue was stirred forming the convention at Well As the racial. It is to the Behest and request of or. Of at least some of the on he had been going to Deal orangemen present that they fiscal problems in the fateful it came to actual balloting note speech he said but this staunch to the Side of the ing question of Empire they wanted for Leader Des had emerged and or. His roman Catholic religion. Thought it should be dealt with first. One can Sirr Mise that the reason took Little urging to induce the Man who spoke of War in was All this done at whose instigation was it ton thirteen years and so done Well Here s where at Winnipeg in 1927, to stir Borders on precario coals of passion once in writing about this the coals of passion up to now i be kept stirred both racially and Clear of anything but news Ousby by that first bitter news behind the news. But of Arthur Meighen and is an editorial Page piece and again when the opinion is allowed. Leader himself undertook the my belief there were two lowing Day to define to that factors which aply dangerously hostile the first or. Manion was from the meaning of to be an out and out of Pire loyalty and the of railway unification. He of nationhood within the. Belong with the Bay Commonwealth. It was Only crowd nor did he rank in the exercise of almost James Street. He made his beating tactics by a few of abundantly Clear in the harder headed among the of his acceptance speech. Canadians that they did gave five1 sound reasons Why the convention on that first As a former minister of rail but they. Of five years standing was against amalgamation or uni fica again they were restrained with utmost difficulty it smells As Sweet by any other As Hon. R. B. Hanson or. Bennett lectured them of the resolutions committee next Day in the course of his observed on the closing ring valedictory of the conclave. Sir Edward the Only reason they remained arrived in town the Day All was because they knew Manion made that acceptance Well that it was to drive from the convention that other Factor in this strategy Meighen speech was made in the i was As More than one first place and that or. Bennett s press gallery by it books Art finer Wozhou like adverb motes an elegant Little Book in Bridge a Stone s throw leather with an ingenious device attaching covers and pages to the River Bourcq. The Sermon delivered at the dedication of the Joyce Kilmer Back which will prevent Library is Given in Ful in our dry climate is Kilmer the Sermon at the close o Campion published by the Campion Jesuit High school Prairie Duchien Wisconsin. The ceremony. In the faculty Are thirty eight Jesuit fathers and seven laymen. Among the poems besides Thren Odies by Campion piece is a photograph of Are several in part or Kilmer s handsome by the poet himself include face with his Beautiful eyes the Rouge written at the front in memory of com ing straight at killed in the Wood of that the various illustrations the House with nobody Campion s Fine buildings one and excerpts from them the Joyce Kilmer other poems. Library show their Parkland magnificent Trees. His is doubtless True As the Dean poem naturally has a prominent place by itself on one of the first pages in the St. Paul s says that Many we educated persons Are profoundly ignorant of the to Derry critical whose authors Are various fathers of the College. A chronology of his life from birth 1886, in of the new testament. By books on the whole or on Par of the new testament continue 1 Jersey to death in action at the front 1918, makes Clear tha Joyce Kilmer was a Well educated Man and filled important positions being a graduate of from the press one of the latest is an argument for the Validity of the gospel record another one entitled an introduction to the new testament University. In 1912, wife also a poet joined the Romar Catholic Church. He became. Deeply attached to Campion which with controversial views. The synoptic gospels Matthew Mark and Luke Are once More to the fore in discussion. The de him As an alumnus or perhaps it was the other Way round View of scholars has been that these gospels Haye two he adopted Campion As an Mark and a document mater. He and the jesuits by both Matthew and Luke. Much in common and soon were fast friends. In his Short Bush life he produced six books an Effort has been made to discover the origin of Sll that is contained in the sources. The first summer of love 1911 Baker and the have been viewed As folklore but this new Book Hole dreams and images 1917 Boni a Catholic anthology from Patmore till the . He was greatly impressed with Gerard Manley Hopkins reason that the gospel o St Mark is chronologically arranged and not a More or less arbitrary collection of floating Jesuit poet attracting so much attention of late problem of St. John s Gospe is an old one. In the Middle o a Century it was believed that in the War Joyce Kilmer gave the Best basis for an awarded the Croix de Guerre. Actual life of Jesus. Today a his last action he had would be based on mar permission to Advance with the author professor Lake first battalion which was Harvard who is a noted Theo and he went out to logical scholar. Fragments of an the enemy s machine gun coming from a when the battalion advanced papyrus and recently published his position he Lay dead May throw Light on the origin of through the head he was Buriet fun i cof John s gospel. I Twat. Erased it on that fateful Bennett does t want to quit. He till wants to be coaxed Back into he and leaving out he railway innuendo altogether s far As he s concerned but not o Meighen the belief Ray belief t any rate is that or. Bennett a in that Imperial defence Issue Chance to make a play on some Hing genuinely and sincerely lose to his. Heart and he was Ither Blind to or willing to Over ook All other implications and veil complications in order to get he Call of duty put across once gain. Add to that the fact that or. Lanion and or. Bennett do not be Eye to Eye on several things it in a dash of the further fact hat when . Hates he hates and maybe the picture is com Lete. And yet it in t altogether. Because Meighen and Manion Are friends. At least they always have been. And the situation May be Urther confused by the fact that while Bay Street wants amalgam Ion they Don t want even the Bennett Brand of Reform so that was Meighen doing in his opposition to Manion who did not have to put it mildly the Bennett Brand but Bay Street keeps strange company and tries to change Many men. One Man Bay Street did t change however was a Westerner named Sidney e. Smith. Gossip has it that when in the Early Days of turmoil they were looking about for a Brick Bat with which to beat Back Manion they held out the hand to the president of the University of Manitoba. They Tell of a private of very private dinner party in Toronto where among the score or so of guests a Fortune of close to one Hundred millions was represented. But president Smith in his Wisdom and in his Honor decided to return to his Nome of intellectuality where the red River skirts the Campus. So they searched for other leaders. Other ways and you know now what happened at the convention. Page or. Herridge Well none of this is very pleasant. Nor was it pleasant that torrid trenchant Day when a Man named William her Ridge drove a knife at the heart of his party. He called it a surgical knife. He said that the party he stood for had allowed reaction to stifle Reform. Others called Trie weapon that or. Bennett s brother in Law wielded a Dagger. At any rate it turned in his hand. Thanks to shrewd Able amiable senator John t. Haig that Ottawa resolutions committee was Well armoured. Not even a Battle axe could have penetrated. But once again passions were stirred. Class against class this time. The capitalists against the banking printing press. Orthodox Economy against planning. Free Dom against regimentation. Some say that that Herridge speech represented Only the hand of Esau. But or. Bennett before he left for new Brunswick on Friday said that he would sit in the House again during the next session. One Felt however that As he left the coliseum on that thrilling wednes Day of his Farewell speech not too far beneath the eloquence of his words and not too deep within his thoughts came recollection of those priceless bar dial words when love begins to sicken and decay it Seth an enforced Cere there iwas a sadness in his speech arid Mien that told of bitter struggles far within. Which brings us to about the end of this dismal Dirge except that there is this to be said of the future of the conservative party its preservation is vital to the Well being and to the welfare of this Dominion. The alternative the Only alternative is a third party set to go far far to the left. Against almost inhumanly unfair and unfortunate Odds or. Manion. Has been entrusted with the Job of piecing together the party that so proudly and so Well has functioned from Macdonald Down to Bennett. The Job of rehabilitation that faces him is terrific. But he in his boldness and with his surgeon s hands has taken it on. Let us in pointing to the enormity of his task not Overlook the ques Tion of the Liberal line fences As Well. Let us wish him Well and give him sympathy but let us also profit from the lesson of this Ottawa tory tangle. Birthdays d. K. Elliott Winnipeg born Pak , ont., july 11, 1853. John Muirhead Harte Mac. Born. Clinton out., july 11, 1877. T. A. Sparks Winnipeg born Vars ont., july 11, 1883. Kenneth Mcleod Portage la Prairie. Man. Born Kirk Blu ont., july 11, 1860 ;