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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 15, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Hughes significant flight any world flight which Aims to establish a record and is partially intended to draw attention to a fair like that of new York next year is something of a stunt and or. Howard Hughes Aerial navigation of the Rock of the world does not escape the defects of an achievement whose thrills Are More enjoyed by the Public than its confirmation of important aspects of aeronautical practice is recognized. Flying Miles Over a wide ambit of the world s surface is not without risks but the flight begun at new York on sunday evening and ended there yesterday morning sfas not any daredevil adventure. Or. Hughes is a Rich Young Man whose intensity of nature and scientific aptitude preclude him from courting the spectacular and he stands alone among his generation for fruitfully applying his ability and expending his Means sanely to Advance practical aeronautics. Wild claims unreasoning claims Are being made for or. Hughes but they will be denied first of All by him. He will be the last person to claim he has circled the for to make that claim would be to assert that he has done what was Only nearly done by miss Amelia Earhart and her navigator or. Noonan when in a heavier than air machine a lesser lock heed they almost circled the world at the Equator. Or. Hughes Nas flown round the top of the Earth in nearly half the time or. Wiley Post took to Fly it five years ago. But the greater feat still belongs to or. Post. He flew alone while or. Hughes flew accompanied by four very expert companions. Or. Post flew without the instrumental aids to flight that have come in the ast five years while or. Hughes flew in an airplane., among the test in production and equipped and powered far far beyond he comprehension of or. Post s Day. Or. Post pioneered an air route across Europe to North America which has since been flown regularly by the russians but is still an imperfect Airway. Or. Hughes brilliantly magnificently followed or. Post but excelled him by the confirmation his flight gives to various phases of flying and world air routes. Technical opinion on the operation of world air routes has divided on the relative values of the seaplane and the land plane. Of course this has had a special bearing on air routes Over the Atlantic. The British through Imperial airways Long shied from the use of land planes Over the North Atlantic actuated in this aversion by a proneness to use seaplanes in the far East to which Australia strongly objected for a Long time. On this continent greater Faith has been put in the land plane although flying the Pacific Ocean has imposed obligations on pan american airways to use flying boats which Long ago raised doubt As to whether flying the Pacific at its widest is the Best Way to Fly to Asia from America. The French Fly land planes in their service Over the South Atlantic and the British have resorted to a pick a Back contraption expected to engage in test flights from Ireland to Canada this summer which shows a gradual recession from the seaplane to the land plane. This gaining appreciation of the greater Efficacy of the land plane is increased by or. Hughes performance in the Lockheed 14 he has been flying tremendous distances irrespective of whether Over land or water. Or. Hughes plotted a course he flew swiftly and unimpeded across the entire stretch of Western Canada but did not have to refuel at Winnipeg As his organization arranged that he should do. Had he landed Here his plane would have stood to be refuelled beside three other machines identical to the one he has flown Miles without a hitch. Similar planes in the air above Western Canada when he was in the same air ships passing in the Are being flown by trans Canada airlines. J or. Hughes flew diagonally across the Prairies As another lock heed 14 took off from Winnipeg to land mail at Vancouver six hours later last night and As another Lockheed 14 took off from Vancouver to land its mail in less than six hours at Winnipeg a few hours before or. Hughes was expected. S the outstanding deduction probably to be drawn from or. Hughes performance can Only be realized by viewing his route in the reverse order he flew it. Consider him beginning instead of ending by flying across Western Canada to Siberia. He would have been in Asia in two Days. This Overland air route to Eastern Europe and Asia has Long been advocated in some quarters but it has been opposed by established routes across the Width of the Pacific and the neglect of the British to help develop the Canadian route to Asia while they pushed untenable Mediterranean routes to the far East. Or. Hughes has profoundly added to the significance of the Overland air route to Asia. He has now Only eclipsed the evidences Given by the russian fliers them selves and incidentally by the canadians flying in and around the Arctic or Northern route and he has done so because of advancement in aeronautical science and Superb achievement in machine production. His performance remarkable because it is so ordinarily possible. But it is impossible that his performance will not help bring about ultimate revision of the routes of expediency which now link Europe and North America with Asia and Russia. In this regard but not in this respect alone or. Hughes and his four companions demonstrated again the inevitable inter hemisphere air route although for me momentary gratification of the world they May be said to have indulged in a the West and tariffs an article on this Page yester Day containing ideas about the Tariff submitted to the free press by or. L. A. Skeoch of Saskatchewan was interesting As a sign of continuing Western discontent with Federal fiscal policy. Or. Skeoch submits that the West fays a heavy subsidy by Way of inflated prices to protected Canadian manufacturers and gets Little or no Benefit from the Tariff in re urn. He suggests that the West should be compensated and pro poses an excise tax on manufacturers to provide the funds. The a would be a percentage of enhancement of Price due to the the notion of compensation to the West for the Tariff Burden it bears is not new. It has been cur rent for years. It appeared in several briefs to the Rowell com Mission. In one form the proposal is that Western Farmers should be guaranteed a fixed Cost of production plus a fair profit is suggested As the the Dominion govern ment another plan Calls for j Sants from Ottawa to Western j treasuries the Money presumably j be spent for the advantage of agriculture. Or. Skeoch s idea is j variant of this second plan. J these schemes for compensation 1 into Tough theoretical and practical difficulties. First of All Jere is the impossibility of Meas Winnipeg Friday july 15, 1938 printed and published the Winnipeg free press company. Limited 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe Victor Sirtom 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. Prevent the manufacturers from saying to the government if we Are to give a Bonus to Western f armers out of our profits we must have a higher Tariff to enable us to pay that is what they would say and they would get their higher Tariff. The free press thinks the Best line against the protective policy is still direct attack. Guilty Japan has been Wise in cancel Ling the 1940 olympic games but the Semi official reasons which have been put Forward to support the decision Are probably so much Apple sauce. Cancellation of the games does not mean that Japan expects the War to last until 1940. Militarists Are always More confident of their plans than that. Nor does cancellation mean that Japan is broke and can t spare the Iron steel and Concrete for the construction of stadia. Japan is not so badly off As that. Nor is it Likely that the japanese militarists dislike having the games on japanese soil because they would Foster internationalism. The games unfortunately have never done that. No the real reason lies deeper. It is much More Likely that Japan has cancelled the games because it feared too Many nations would refuse to Send teams to Tokyo. Even the countries that perhaps would Send teams have been hav ing heated discussions about the advisability of sending them. Everywhere the fact that Tokyo was to be the scene of the olym pics has thrown into Clear Relief the policies and practices of Japan in Asia and Japan most probably has Felt that these olympic debates were it was bad for Pride and bad for to have openly discussed the merits of participating in the games on japanese soil and if important nations decided not to Send teams it would be disastrous. Rather than take a Chance of receiving these rebuffs Japan now announces abandonment of the whole project. What a confession of weakness implicit in the government s decision is the realization that Japan by Ordinary standards of inter National morality stands condemned. Japan of course feels justified in its policy but it knows today that the world considers the aggression against China from 1931 to 1938 has been a wicked unconscionable thing and the cancellation of the games comes close to an admission of turpitude. Using Tariff burdens exactly. Nex there is the Well known fact tha what troubles the Farmers in their darkest years is not. Tariff at All wheat . The drouth Belt have not been seriously injured by the Tariff in recent years. They did not pay enhanced prices for goods. They had no income to buy goods at any prices. So that reimbursement to them for what they have lost by the working of the protective policy since say 1935 would be Small Comfort in deed. But the most serious objection to these compensation schemes if that they set up a political Doc Trine whose final result might bedevil the whole system of do minion Public finance and up intolerable Strain on the Federal set up. If Western Farmers Are to be compensated for Tariff burdens the East could reasonably ask compensation for policies de signed to Benefit the West. Towns people could put in claims against country people and vice versa. There would be no end to the counter claims and demanded adjustments. Or. Skeoch s tax proposal is open to objections As a method leaving aside the Merit of the compensation principle. Or. Skeoch says that manufacturers could not make Consumers pay his excise tax because if they tried to it would become profitable to import competitive goods and pay the duty. Yes but nothing would a civic executive an incidental Point to which some attention might be Given by the commission which is to begin an inquiry into Winnipeg s civic affairs on aug. 15, is that of the desirability of an executive body to co ordinate the work of the various departments. All Ontario cities have boards of Montreal has an executive committee serving the same purpose. In american cities where All executive authority is vested in the mayor a political head City managers Are appointed in Many places. The National municipal league is said to favor the City manager system or a Cabinet As a Means of co Ordina Ting the municipal administration and ensuring efficiency. Winnipeg is almost unique a City of not hav ing a Central coordinating body is the Council and committee plan which May have been Good enough for a smaller City Good enough today the standing committees attend to the business of their own departments. The members Are often not very conversant with the business of the other departments but they Are required to Deal with them when they come up in coun cil. In the Ontario cities the com Mittee reports Are considered first by Board of control which approves them or suggests Amend ments As they go on to Council. Is there not a need for a Centra executive viewing the whole Field and considering questions of Gen eral policy As Well As seeing that the operations of the departments Are closely linked up Winnipeg s present form of civic government is very Loose and not Only logic but also the practice of almost Al other Large cities suggests tha there would be definite advantage from some Central coordinating Agency. It would be Well to have the opinion of the commission of inquiry. Birthdays Henry Flett Walke Burg Man. Born Little Britain. Man., july 15 1870. George Stockdale St. James Man. Born Yorkshire eng., Biily 15 1850. . Fairfax Holland Man. Born Horley Bra Borough Oxford eng. July 15, 1860. Kelly Boblin Man. Born West Mcgillivray. Ont., july 15, 1858. George m. Anderson. Melita. Man. Born win Ghana ont., july 15 1869. To. Let s be generous tomorrow health service set up by k. . When the Royal commission on Dominion provincial relations packed its first bags it probably included along with headache remedies a copy of the . Act but it scarcely could foresee that its meetings would be the background of numerous family arguments including Dominion health services. Yet this presen tation revealed not agreement but the curious circumstance that amid rampant disagreement a health service set up is slowly coming into being. True the Only province which has a health insurance act upon its books has not As yet implemented its pro visions due mainly it appears to the determined and almost unanimous opposition of the medi Cal profession. On the other hand in almost All the provinces provision has been made with the full Accord and indeed upon pressure from the profession for medical care for persons on Relief. The Cost of this item for instance in this City is rising to such proportions one Hundred and fifty thousand Dol of its own weight it is forcing consideration of some sys tem of insurance. This is a phase upon which it is difficult to discover that the medical profession has done any constructive thinking or if it has the results have not As yet been presented to the Public. In the meanwhile apart from the situation in regard to Relief cases there Are certain departments building up within the profession which must have definite repercussions along this line. For years for instance there have been the Dominion and provincial depart ments of health which As they grow in effectiveness have taken Over widening territory especially in the preventive Field. Manitoba s department with the Blessing and assistance of the medical association is engaged upon the instituting of a study into the maternal mortality rate Here. The intention is of course to find the cause of such deaths and As far As possible banish them thus lowering the motherhood risk. True the initial impetus for this action came not from within the province but had its genesis some years ago in a Dominion Survey report which gave Manitoba not too proud a place in the not too proud Cana Dian record. It is mainly women s organizations which have not Al Lowed the Issue to die. Another outstanding Factor in this province having an influence probably unconscious in Public health education is the Sanatorium Board of Manitoba with its Sanatorium at Ninette Centra tuberculosis clinic and tuberculosis travelling clinics. It is teaching patients patients fam Ilies and whole neighbourhoods their responsibility towards one phase of Public health. It is also the medical profession whose Good will and co operation it has what such a provincial service May do. Its whole philosophy is not to interfere in the individual physician s Field but to offer its facilities As an Extension of that Field. Beyond a doubt that is the philosophy upon which the most effective system of Public health services must be built. In no Field More than the medical do the special gifts of the individual physician count both for the doctor and the patient. Equally in no Field is there a closer relationship for Good or evil Between the individuals concerned and the Community in which they live. Curiously enough the full weight of these implications is realized by the registered nurses organizations whose Canadian association placed before the Dominion provincial relations commission a Brief lucidly setting Forth the Public health situation As it is viewed by the nursing profession but mainly not As the situation affects its membership but As it affects the Public. It Points out there Are registered nurses in Canada sufficient to give adequate nursing care for All who require it. There is however a difficulty of distribution both of individual nurses and of nurses services As among Urban communities themselves and As Between Urban and Rural communities. There is too the economic Factor. In its recommendations the Brief suggests that before health insurance is applied there be com plete Survey of All health services that the preventive aspect be stressed that any set up include provision for nursing service and that the organized profession be consulted on All clauses which concern the nursing aspects of the plan. Since already any Public health services whether undertaken or at the instance of private philanthropy Are deeply and continuously indebted to the nursing profession and since it is doing More much More than any other one set of persons in the Field of Public health these recommendations if they err at All do so on the Side of modesty. The nurses association should not have to ask that its representatives should be included in the personnel discussing health insurance. Any government do minion or provincial thus deciding to extend its Field has Here ready to hand a body of citizens who know by actual experience the subject under discussion. Even in governmental circles this should not be a disqualification. Today s scripture from n corinthians 9 this i say he which Soweto sparingly shall reap also sparingly and he which Soweto bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every Man according As he Purpo Seth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly nor of necessity for god Loveth a cheerful giver. And god is Able to make All Grace abound toward you that air ways haying sufficiency in. All things May abound to every Good work As it is written he hath dispersed abroad be hath Given to the poor his righteousness re main eth being en7 Riched in everything to All Bountis fullness which Mauseth through us thanksgiving to god. Shifts and Dodges the confused situation result ing from the division Powers Between the Dominion and provinces has for years been stimulating the ingenuity of parties who do not propose to have their plans interfered with because a Law stands in the Way. The game of getting around under Over or through the Law has been gaily played by the Dominion by the provinces and by persistent private finding loopholes persons with the courts intervening As occasion offers. The method is nearly always the same in intention though the variations in its application Are endless. It is to put a legitimate Power to illegitimate use for the by indirection of an illegal end. One or two illustrations indicate the technique. A few years ago the British Columbia government decided that it would like to pen Alize the Export of saw logs from the province. To do this directly would be patently illegal and therefore the government sought its end by levying an internal tax on saw logs and then rebating the tax if the saw logs were turned into lumber in the province. This was an easy one for the courts. Again the Bennett government s natural products marketing act was enacted upon the Assurance that it did not provide for fixing prices which everybody knew to be beyond parliament s Power. But the boards brought into existence by this legislation proceeded to create agencies which did attempt to fix prices. The courts. Also attended to this subterfuge. A More recent attempt to circumvent the provision that a province cannot interfere with inter provincial Trade has now come to grief in British Columbia. The Story is told in the judgment of judge Manson a sad . Quashing a Fine in Story flicked upon Andrew Ritchie of Glenmore for contravening the order of the . Fruit Board. In quashing the Fine judge Manson quoted lord Bramwell s Apo them the Law will not permit one to do indirectly that which it cannot do that he said was what the Board had been practically doing in this Case. The procedure which thus came to grief was As set out in the judgment most ingenious and complicated. The . Fruit Board can Levy License fees minimum amount on shippers and packers but they have not the Power to control shipments outside the prov Ince. This however the Board was determined to do and to gain its end worked out a a phony plan. The three i company rectors of the fruit Board formed them selves into a company called the . Tree fruits Ltd. This com Pany had three directors and three the same men and the paid up capital amounted to or one Dollar from each of the shareholders. This company then made an agreement with the ship pers by which they contributed to the company on a basis which worked put to a fixed Levy per Box of fruit handled by them and out of this fund the company paid the License fees in bulk to the fruit Board. This arrangement favored the Small shippers because in its working out it meant that the shippers with the Large volume of Trade helped to pay their License fee. In the agreement Between the company and the shipper there were a number of provisions one of which stipulated that the purpose of the arrangement was to regulate the volume of tree fruits to be placed upon the markets of this provision was the milk in the Coconut. All this make believe was to put into the hands of the . Fruit Board by indirection a Power it do to control the inter Nat work provincial movement of fruit which i could not do directly under its authority. Or. Ritchie was apparently an individualist who stood on his rights to ship a portion of his fruit outside the province As and when he pleased and for doing this without first having is books Are a finer world within the seventeen pages of the current Canadian historical review Are filled with titles some briefly an notated of recent publications re lating to Canada. Articles in magazines and pamphlets Are included. Among books More about Nova Scotia my own my native land is by Clara Dennis of Halifax. Or. Dennis is now preparing a volume on Cape Breton. One maritime Book out of Halifax by Wallace r. Mac is a limited numbered edition at a volume with photographs of ships and the sea. In reviews of books or. W. F. Ganong writer on Early exploration and maps and place names of the Canadian Atlantic coast line reviews or. G. R. F. Prowse s cart logical materials vol. I privately issued. Or. Ganong pays Well merited tribute to or. Prowse s half Century of devoted research in. The historical cartography of his native Newfoundland and and Jaceil Labrador and Canada. Three Mere volumes Are to follow and he is now pre paring the second. He comes naturally by this interest for he is a son late judge Prowse author of the Standard history of or. Ganong de votes nearly two pages to the work of this investigator referring to his conclusions that differ from past and present workers in the same Field. He says that it seems Clear no future worker can afford to neglect or. Prowse. N the Canadian historical review maintains its significance As a Magazine for publicists and teach ers from the Day school up to the highest institutions of learning for politicians and All Lay readers interested in the Dominion s past present and future. Where else would you get. Such information As sidelight on the Hunters lodges of that was the name of a secret society extending from Maine to Vermont its Pur pose being to seize Canada it May be said that such a society had Best be forgotten by canadians and americans it is interesting As Epi Sodal history. Proof is provided in several official state letters. Another review article entitled Canada and foreign is a Survey of composite writings in journals. Among Winnipeg writers Are professor lower of Wesley College e. J. Tarr k.c., president of the Canadian Institute of International affairs and j. W. Dafoe whose paper on Canadian foreign policy at the conference on Canadian american relations last year was one of three which Drew High Praise from or. Shot Well i have never been at any conference which presented such for the stimulation of. pro Fessor lower wrote in january of this year that the technical experts in the department of National defence Are losing no sleep worrying about bombing raids or Tarr and world laying emphasis on our North american position. Can Ada s task was to achieve a Defi Nite and Clear Cut North americanism that would result in a North american nation with a Strong pro Britain in de Fence and National Unity Mac lean s Magazine his chief Points were the futility of the league of nations the elimination of the United states As potential enemy and a National policy based on Canadian interests. Above All can Adian statesmen should be aware iest4hey undermine National Unity. In recent books on the Canadian Northland and the Arctic h. A. Innis covers eleven volumes and the review is naturally syn optical. So is it throughout the Magazine. New Light has been thrown on three Arctic tragedies that of sir John Franklin and his men of Captain de Long and most of his Crew and of three men in 1927. The account of the latest tragedy is in a Book unflinching a diary of tragic by Edgar Christian the last of the survivors. Bookman. From the Golden books the Anatomy of melancholy Duncan Campbell Scott i read once in an ancient and proud Book How Beauty How stale will Helen 1 or Leucippe 2 grow when custom Vadeth. I when the Black of has. Trodden on her toe 3 Beauty will alter and love that lives on so it said will fade and then while your mistress wrinkles and grows sour o Sage sardonic what Charm preserves your virile strength and show what potent tonic an elephant has trodden on your toe your look grows bleary Leucippe has Quick eyes her love of you is Dull and dreary. I Laid his Book beside a chinese Rose Jar old Robert lifted the dragon guarded lid acid faint and Uncertain frail Rose ghosts of Rose gardens All in blow haunted the room _ the spangled Dew the Shell tints and the Moonlight. Lived in the fume and still shall linger in the leaves until the Jar shall perish. So the True lovers in their Mem ories Stow the things they cherish and Loose them in the tender after glow of life s Long Day till memory Dies and the world with All its passion passes away. 1. Helen at Troy. 2. Heroine of a greek Romance 5th. 3. Meaning care paid to the fruit Board for a License he got into trouble with both the fruit Board and its double with the resulting sequence of Fine an apr peal to the courts and the winning of the Appeal. The decision was based upon the fact that the fruit Board could not enforce a License fee against one individual when it had made no attempt to collect from the other shippers but had looked to the company for pay ment. As far As it said judge Manson this system of control is in a class by itself quite without a precedent under the British a hungarian View Stephen Beth an in the hungarian quarterly Hungary Lias every right to expect that Germany now that she is once More beginning to have a decisive say in International affairs should do All in her Power to help a crushed and mutilated Hungary to regain her rightful position in the Danube Basin which she has occupied throughout the centuries. Such a policy Cor responds entirely to Germany s interests. Viewed from a historical perspective a slav expansion in the Danube Basin might in time come to real danger to the German nation from the South East and the surest obstacle in its Way is the existence of the Hun Garian nation and the maintenance of its position of Power Between the Northern and Southern slavs in the Region of. The Danube and Tisza. At the end of the tenth Century this danger was dispelled for a thousand years by a Germanor hungarian combination at the Battle of Durn Krut. The great War revived its actuality. A slav corridor in the Burgenland was within a hair s breadth of being realized at the time of the peace treaties. Had Russia at that time been Able to participate in the Dis a cushions among the victors to the full of her capacity then Hitler s soldiers would have been greeted at Hegyes shalom a few Days ago by soldiers of Trie vassals of the rus Sian colossus instead of those of even so it is doubtful in such circumstances Horthy. Whether Hitler s a appearance in Vienna would have been possible. Bismarck Germany s greatest statesman i thought in terms of centuries that is Why he was Friend of the Hun Garian is Why he joined with i ilium Andrassy the elder in order that the hungarian nation As. A Friend of Germany might stand on. Guard on the shores of the a Strong and within the monarchy thus precluding the possibility of the monarchy being transformed into a Power with a slav Majenty and under slav control. If the German nation wanted this at that time her need for it is Hundredfold today when of the Danube line has had. The arms knocked out of her hand by Rianon when the bulwarks of defence occupied by her for a thousand years have been Dislis mantled or seized by others and when she is enclosed by a hostile besieging Circle which she has been resisting heroically completely alone and forsaken for the better part. years. It. Was often difficult to resist. Many a time it would have been easier to become incorporated in the ring of the Little entente for that would have meant exchanging our conditions of life for far More favourable ones than those exist ing at present. We could have sold our Birthright for a Mesa of Pottage and Given the possibility of a hostile great Power coming into being on the Southeastern Frontier of Germany which might have completed the work of blockading her. We did not do it although there were those among us who might have been won Over to this policy. We did not do it because we Are a nation proud of our Independence and jealous of. It arid be cause we Are fully conscious of our historical Mission and of the conditions of our National exist ence. By not doing it however we have rendered the German nation an immense service and we Are still doing so. Today when this Road might still be open to us. The second doctor Leader Toronto Globe and mail Hon. R. J. Manion is the second conservative Leader since confederation from the ranks of the medi Cal profession. The first was sir Charles Tupper who was recalled to Canada in .1896 from the High commissioner ship in London to the mouldering branches he was Defeated by Laurier after Only six months As prime minister. With the exception of sir Mac Bowell who was a paper editor All the other conservative leaders since confederation have been lawyers sir John a. Macdonald sir John Abbott Thompson sir Robert Borden it. Fin. Arthur Meighen Hon. R. A. Bennett. The Liberal party has had five leaders commencing with Hon. George Brown since confederation Brown was the founder of the Globe Horn Alexander Mac Kenzie the second prime minister of Canada was a builder and con tractor and later an editor Edward Blake and sir Wilfrid Laurier. Were the present prime minister it. Hon. Mac Kenzie King was a journalist in Toronto for a time and later Deputy minister of labor and dressed a meeting in see Burton s Chatham House on Canada in. An tons editor of the labor Gazette ;