Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 24, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Winnipeg wednesday August 24, 1938. Printed and published the Winnipeg free Prossi 300 Carl too Street. A Snipes. Manitoba. J. W ijjafoe.1 Victor s1ftom. V. President. General manager. Registered at the general Post office. London enc., for transmission through the Post in the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Courting disappointment the present attempt to get canadians steamed up on Ambi us schemes of assisted land settlement has practically no dance of Success. The idea seems to be that if a Strong sentiment Aid be created in favor of such a policy the governments be persuaded to get behind it. The latest evidence of the Ling to responsible quarters in great Britain is against this and in Canada there is also a Lack of Faith in the abilities of assisted settlement. None of the schemes of the test have been successful. We need More people since Canada is equipped for a much Ner population and the overhead Cost of that equipment will lighter when there Are More shoulders to carry it. But the method of increasing the population is by the immigration of people who Are attracted to the by its opportunities. For the greater number of British who came to Canada in the past came in that Way Landing on their own resources except for cheap Ocean Pas is and As the overseas settlement Board recently pointed t it is this infiltration of britishers to Canada that we now depend rather than upon organized and . The desire of the railways and Otner interests for the immedi the Benefit of immigration on a considerable scale prompts the Over est in favor of . Sir Henry Page Croft up chairman of the Empire development and settlement research committee has been brought to Canada in connection the movement and he Speaks of a plan to bring b Tish to a new area in Canada at a Cost of rfcs would be done by a private non profit corporation the theme to be underwritten by the British government. The std tude of the latter however has been to make its support Tingent upon substantial co operation by the Dominion above stated there is now Little Confidence i assisted settlement schemes. Sir Henry has been at Prince near which there is much land suitable for settlement and he has visited other areas. He is quoted As saying we have in great Britain Given hundreds Lions Fly pounds in Loans upon the continent of Europe in Many cases where the return has not even amounted to the capital advanced. If this can be done surely for Empire migration policies we can afford to Advance such Money As would make a successful policy but Why ignore the prevailing opinion in great Britain . The report of the overseas settlement Board and the discussion in the House of lords which is against sir Henry s proposals the feeling there is reflected also by a in the Spectator who refers to the question whether migration from Britain to the dominions will increase the Security of the Commonwealth As a whole and who asks will it be strengthened or weakened if men and women leave the British Isles in Large numbers for the overseas dominions bearing in mind that migration of the contemplated kind would take away some of the most vigorous and enterprising of our Stock at the prime of life the very people which a country facing an imminent fall in its numbers can least afford to sir Henry and those who Are seeking to develop support for assisted settlement will meet the Saskatchewan government on Friday it is understood with a View to advancing proposals for the settlement of British families in that province. Will Hon. J. T. Taggart minister of agriculture be there in an address at Lake co Chiching last week he said that Saskatchewan had no room for immigrants. He based this opinion on his knowledge As a scientific he the nature of the soil and the agricultural possibilities of the province. He stated that of acres officially declared to be arable land were now under cultivation but that experience had convinced him that for Many years there would be a considerable abandonment of cultivated land. The abandonment of. Subpar Ginal lands and their conversion into pasturage. Was necessary he said and his opinion was that acres should be abandoned of which about half that area had already been evacuated. The Saskatchewan minister of agriculture intimates that practically All the really arable land is now taken up and with the Outlook for abandonment of poor land he believes that there is no room for immigrant settlers. If the Saskatchewan govern ment accepts his View How can it support or encourage any scheme for assisted settlement Premier King and or. Crerar minister of immigration and colonization Are to be interviewed also by the promoters of this policy it is reported. They May Point out in reply to sir Henry Page Croft s Appeal to canadians to once More make possible the open Gate to British that the wide open to people from great Britain to come Here and Settle on the land or take advantage of other opportunities if they have the Means to support themselves and become established. Sir Henry asserts that great Britain can make a gift to Canada of hundreds of thousands of Fine citizens who can come under the plan we have in mind and who can make a How Many of these would be from Britain s agricultural Popula Tion when so much assistance is being Given to. British agriculture and when food production is being stimulated As a feature of defence policy and the suggestion that such a plan would be largely successful is contrary to All past experience. We want people from great Britain and there was a laudable purpose in the advocacy of emigration from Britain to the dominions in order to strengthen the Commonwealth but that has been made doubtful now by the new conditions that Are influencing opinion in Britain. In More Normal times however we must believe that the inevitable economic expansion in Canada will provide the opportunities that will attract considerable numbers from Britain Scandinavia the United states and some other countries those people coming on their own for cheap from establish themselves. With their own a Young developing country something to spend another on a Black Panther House or a Tiger House if somebody gives us a Tiger and having built lion Panther and Tiger houses Are we prepared to go on keeping them filled with worthy representatives of the respective Breeds this May mean in time that purely out of politeness to the Nice people who give us Lions tigers and panthers we May have a great big first class zoo on our hands which will Cost us a lot of Money to keep up. Civic finances Are now being examined by the Goldenburg commission. How about throwing the Lions into the inquiry let the commission decide. The West about route the insecurity of established transport routes of the anxieties of the times. Where new canals established routes in peace time none of these is pass Able in War. The Mediterranean is the bottle neck but passage through it in any War would be dangerous and losses in it could not be borne. For it an alternative route by water or by air has to be found for flying Over the Mediterranean to the far East would be As impossible As. Would be sailing through it in War time. This is Why publications like the Navy which is the Organ of the Navy league in great Britain Are anxious to have discarded shipping routes restored. They plan to avoid the Mediterranean by sending shipping along other older lanes. Two alternatives of Fer. The Cape route to India was abandoned a few years ago by All but the occasional cargo ship but has actually been revived and Cape town has been reinforced As a naval station of much in pregnancy and its Harbor is being enlarged to take any mercantile tonnage. There is however a better Shorter and quicker Altern Auve route to Australia and the Orient. That route takes in the Lane across the North Atlantic which can be controlled for British shipping and then pursues its Way Over Canada to the Westward shipping service from Vancouver. But on the Pacific that Westward route at present runs up against Competition from american Enterprise and British shipping has almost been driven off the Pacific by United states Treasury subsidies of no less than ten dollars per mile steamed by american shipping services. This May not be profit Able to the american any More than May be heavy subsidies paid american air transport Over the widest stretches it provides Competition impossible to be met by a British company not paid one Penny More than it earns. This West about route whether for shipping Over the Pacific or for air transport across Canada to the Orient and Australia was ignored when the British planned world transport routes after the great War. Its is now Plain and slighted by Hose charged with establishing the British Imperial shipping lanes and airlines to the far East. The routes they chose and upon which they lavished their entire Atten Tion will be closed once a gun be fired. They will. Have to be Dis carded for routes More secure. A Hundred Plain facts insist that the be established both on the. Water and in the air for it is the sole Safe and feasible British transport route to the far East whether by ship or by plane. Vopni c to people of an Independent and energetic Type in the older countries. About those Lions we Don t want to be mean about 6 who have not got a place to live in just now but Sunn Cuy takes to spending on a lion House we want a few questions. 10 were 5iven to the they did not Cost us a dime. Were Jaid Down Here . We had to do was to find some Straw and a couple of a Day. On that basis we a m favor of having Lions at the City Park. Lions by ready belons out Winnipeg has no zoo in the of the word. All we Nice Little collection of animals mainly Western and no serious attempt is made to present world wide Fauna to visitors. But if we begin spending on a lion House we Are almost committed to keeping it filled with Lions from now on. Lions get old and when our present two Lions die the grand new lion House wih be empty. Are we then prepared to buy More Lions in order to keep the lion House occupied the City Council had better keep this in mind when it starts building lion houses. We can t be sure that Sweet Charity will always miraculously provide us with Lions. Let us suppose also that some body gives the City a Black pan ther or two . Agriculture Only a few weeks ago wheat Loans were announced in the United states in order to keep wheat off the Market. This will mean substantial help from the . Treasury. Secretary of Agri culture Wallace now proposes to give Export subsidies in order to help in the. Disposal of bushels of surplus wheat. In other words the american tax payer is being asked at the same time to dig into his pockets to provide Money to keep wheat off the Market and to dig Down a second time to provide Money to Force wheat on to the Market putting this into other words it Means Washington wants to keep bread prices High at Home and same time tries to keep bread cheap for foreign Consumers it is All very Odd and part of the general Topsy Turvy effect that has been chronicled in that coun try Ever since the administration has sought by artificial Means to make the Farmer prosperous. The conflicting methods by which this laudable purpose has been sbugb.1 Are Well illustrated in this last piece of confusion. We venture the opinion in. The Long run the Farmer is suffer under these ministrations More than he has Ever suffered before and that will profit at All. The initial objective of Liberal ism is to free men and Enterprise from arbitrary political overlord ship.-h31enifefrank, Aesop s Tortoise and the Hare 1938 speaking at Calgary Premier said no great reforms had been accomplished in Alberta yet. Or. Churchill and Security t test of right Hon. Winston Churchill s contributions in literary form to the history of our times is a of speeches on foreign affairs and National de Fence. There Are forty speeches in the Book of which All but two were delivered in the British House of commons. he period from the Early summer 1932, when appointment of von Papen As Chancellor marked Ger Many s departure from the conciliatory policies of Stresemann and Gruening to the Spring of 1938 when Hitler annexed Austria. It is proper to mention these two events As the Book s time limits because or. Churchill s main theme is Germany and the relation of Germany main to the rest of s Germany Europe particularly great Britain. The title of the Book arms and the suggests a rather wider scope than the speeches actually have. In nearly All of them or. Churchill is pre occupied with the German question. The Book in fact is divided into three parts corresponding to Well marked periods of time headed Ger Many disarmed Germany re arming and Germany armed. Or. Churchill s son Randolph compiled the speeches. In a filial introduction he Calls attention to his father s prescience and says of him As a poli Freedom from Titian or. Church ill suffers from the disadvantage of being strangely free from the prejudices and ideologies which constitute such a Large part of the mental equipment of our More successful Public the truth of that statement so far As it refers to or. Churchill anyway would probably be conceded by any student of or. Churchill s career or Reader of this Book. He is no doctrinaire politician preaching a Dogma detached from the known facts and realities. On the contrary he May surfer a the estimation of col leagues and admirers from the opposite defect. There is a dash of opportunism in or. Churchill and it appears in his performance As chief critic of. British foreign policy in the premierships of Mac Donald Baldwin and Chamberlain. Trained in a military or. Churchill is by temperament a tactician looking for the right place to fight his next engagement he has no for All occasions. He has a plan to meet the situation As it stands plan will vary with the Circum stances. That is not to or. Churchill s discredit but it explains Why his by . Present enthusiasm for the league covenant is no doubt unjustly not completely trusted by men in England who have Why Lack of been Strong friends Confidence of the league since the beginning. Or. Churchill today wants the British government to declare As a Signa tory of the that great Britain will defend Czechoslovakia against nazi Germany. He took that March when Hitler s soldiers marched into Vienna. Or. Churchill is now to be counted clearly among the Strong pro league men in British politics. What these speeches suggest though they show an orderly progression of thought is that or. Churchill is a convert to the league Side since the totalitarian states began their careers of treaty breaking and Conquest. The first period covered by the Book roughly the year preceding Hitler s election As Chancellor or. Churchill appears As a hostile critic of the disarmament conference. His doctrine then was nov. 23, 1932 Reform then that the removal disarm of the just grievances of the vanquished ought to precede the disarmament of the he repeated that sentence in several parliamentary speeches. It gave the key to his views on policy at that time. He thought that encouraging France to reduce her armaments was an error which might be disastrous. He resisted the proposal that Germany should be conceded armament in Advance of the settlement of grievances. He was prepared to reopen disputed territorial and Boundary questions but he held that the victors of the great War should retain marked superiority in armies while these questions were considered. Preparedness was or. Church ill s theme in the next period the period of German re armament. In speeches delivered during hit Ler s first three years of office he was a gadfly to the defence ministers in the House of commons constantly warning them of Ger Many s Progress in air armament constantly mentioning Britain s vulnerability to air attack con stantly reminding parliament of an undertaking by or. Baldwin that British air forces would never be allowed to fall below the air strength of any other nation within striking distance i is the heading Randolph Churchill puts on one of these speeches. That was or. Churchill s keynote in 1933-36. It is from the evidence of these sunday recreation from the Regina Leader Post Toronto City Council has decreed that the Parks of the City May be open on sundays from an hour after noon until dark and that All recreation facilities within these Parks May be used to heart s Conr tent by All who would Avail them selves of them. This Means that there May be sunday baseball in Toronto Short of organized matches1 for which a charge is made that football May be Al that swings Toboggan slides skating and hockey May be permissible. Sunday Tennis and Lawn bowl Iii in the Parks is also sanctioned. The decision of the Toronto Council appears to fit in with a trend of the the View May be fairly widely held that whole some sunday recreation in the open air is vastly better for both children and adults than a Day of restriction and inactivity. Sun Day is properly regarded As a Day of rest but recreation can have its place in rest where not carried to it is indicated that Toronto churches Are suspending judgment on the City Council s decision until it is seen it works out in practice. that there is a place for moderation All things. If sunday recreation or sport becomes an interference with religious services if it May annoy or affront persons who would claim their right to religious worship in peace and quiet it Rould easily become As Tyran Nous a thing As. Any sunday ban on such recreation itself. Some thing of the spirit of give arid take with regard All round for the rights and feelings of All concerned May make for smooth working of the Experiment to Ronto today s scripture from proverbs 10 the labor of the righteous tend eth to life the fruit of the wicked to sin. He is in the Way of life that keep eth a Striction but he that ref Seth reproof err eth speeches that or. Churchill has been described As not truly league Man but rather an adv of the policy of encircle meaning the creation of an Iron ring round encircling Germany to keep an aggressor that country in its place. He was aware of this critical comment. He discussed it in a speech of March 26, 1935, three weeks after Hjtiger s military occupation of the Rhineland in Defiance of the treaty of Versailles. Or. Churchill said then in a paragraph which comes closest to summing up his Point of View we hear talk of the encircle ment of Germany. The last speaker said quite justly that War encircle ment would be intolerable but peaceful defensive encirclement May be inevitable before the alarms of the nations Are allayed. We would impose no arrangement on Germany that we would not submit to ourselves. It is not a Case of the encirclement of Gerr Many but i the. Encirclement b the potential if. We Are the aggressors let us been circled and brought to reason by the pressure of other countries. France is the let her be restrained in the same Way and if it be Germany let Germany accept the measures meted out to her by countries who. Submit themselves to the Law which they Are prepared to take a share in a to thether that is orthodox Vav league of nations doctrine and soundly based on the covenant might be arguable but Only in an . This was an Effort by or. Churchill As a prac tical statesman to state the Prin Ciple of collective Security As it applied to. An actual situation in 1936, for he was by this time a thorough going Friend of the league. He had said in a speech on Mussolini s Conquest of Abys Sinia if i am basked How far will. You. Go in whole hog for support of the the covenant covenant of the league of a i shall say. We ought to go the whole Way. With the whole lot that line of policy Natur ally demanded strength in the enforcers of .sanctions., or. Church ill continued to press for Speed in building War planes for official recognition of an for a new department the govern ment to get British Industry equipped and ready to Supply War needs. His speeches were of the same Tenor in period covered by the Book the eighteen months preceding the annexation of aus Tria but couched in still firmer language. This is the period of Germany armed and it finds or Churchill deploring the years that the Locust hath years when there was time to appease an unarmed Bui now More than Ever he pins his Hope on collective action. Or. Churchill As the world has Long known is a Brilliant mind and an eloquent writer., these speeches prepared with the utmost care Are in the great parliament Ary tradition and make a Book As fascinating As any contemporary european affairs. An excellent feature is the insertion before each speech of a Briel chronology of events in the interim since the last. These make. The Book almost a one Point of the last six years in Europe. It is a Book in the trite but sometimes accurate phrase to be read by everyone interested in the current politics of the world. Arms and the covenant by the it Hon. Winston s. Churchill. Compiled by Randolph s. Churchill. Oxford fuss up. At the Parish per trip by c. C. Are few things in this a dim vast Ivale of tears More lugubrious arid Riore provocative of of melancholy than City Council and on monday night it was quite definitely fortissimo. The left in vented questions and the right in vented answers and the. Press boys were none the Wiser the left pretended to understand that they did t and the right pretended not to understand the things that they the press. Boys were utterly baffled. The debates conspire to spin a web of strange councillors watch the plotting dire contribute spouting league on league they cannot Tell the go r they flounder victims of mischance and still they cling for. Weaker woe ignorance. With senses dulled from All this Strain press boys gather up the news sometimes their efforts seem in vain for who can catch views they Wear their theories to the Bone nor Stop to give a questing glance but show with All the Zeal they own their Kenius for Sweet ignorance. The meeting on monday night started off brightly enough As usual with the mayor in a Dollar dinner mood though a trifle breathless from being five minutes late. He steered the clerk through the presentation of communications to Council with his customary astuteness even show ing an unexpected Flash of in tuition when a letter complaining about the throwing of dirty floor water into lanes was announced. Mayor Queen read the clerk blushing from pretty con fusion but it s All jumbled up your worship. It does t make mayor Queen with a rhetorical flourish Send it to the health committee Alderman Zehner too was in an inspirational mood As the meet ing opened and when Alderman Honeyman moved participation in the Cost of improving certain houses erected under the Rural rehabilitation scheme he wanted Alderman Honey Man but i have no information. We re Only 25 per cent partners in this idea. And it Oxild be an aesthetic and artistic godsend if these buildings were fixed Alderman Stobart agreed but he did t like the Way the godsend was going to be worked no miracles except on a fair wage basis is his. Motto. Alderman Flye made some vague sort of threat about moving to Tim Bucton where living came easy but no one took him As usual and thereafter things began to go into their familiar snarl to be come accentuated when Alderman Honeyman moved the setting aside of certain City lots for operations under the National housing act Alderman. Penner tried to get the motion amended and Alderman Gray tried to table the whole thing for a fortnight. Both efforts came to. Grief after bitter exchanges. Alderman Thompson Sang Lyric ally of Little Grey Homes in the West where a few Good old fashioned people who did t mind roughing it would gladly buy lots and build houses and other things. Quoth Alderman. Thompson with a joyous gleam in his Eye the ability to build something within one s Means More Happi Ness than sewer and water con Alderman Honeyman s motion finally passed which Means that the housing act now operates More easily in Winnipeg which is a Good thing a further of con Tention the matter of extending on Aikins and Salter streets former carrying and the latter being referred Back usual acrimonious discussion. If in these paving problems the aldermen would Only Lay their Heads to Gether they would soon be done but they Delight in arguing. The final Points of debate were Over Thev preparation of voters lists respecting those a persons. Olio Are. Tenants in. Single rooms and Over the presentation of the Relief rules and regulations of the greater Winnipeg unemployment advisory Board. In both instances Alderman tenacious As flypaper sallied Forth in quest of left Wing Justice. He acted like a Man who Hopes not much and fears not at All though he looked As unhappy As a jellyfish on stilts when amendment after Amend ment was voted Down. And thus the misanthropic night by twelve thirty the galleries had thinned Down to a few Hardy souls ;