Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 14, 1938, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Printed and published be Winnipeg free press company. Limited. 300 car too Street. Winnipeg. Manitoba j. W 0afoe. Victor Sifton general uan acer registered at the general Post office. London. Eng., for transmission through the Post in the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. At the Flash Point if War is to be the outcome of. The crisis now rising to fever pitch in Central Europe there will be a great hubbub of conflict ing testimonies As to the responsibility for it How it began and who began it. But for the Calm minded observer there will be Little real doubt. Though much of the evidence is indirect the total is conclusive. The responsibility lies upon the shoulders of Hitler. It is to be noted that events Are taking the exact shape which predictions made Long since have set Forth in detail and for which the invasion of Austria last March was a dress rehearsal. There will be in All likelihood no such thing As a declaration of War with a formal statement of the reasons therefor. The amenities of the old world diplomacy were buried in the Avalanche of courtesies which preceded the War of 1914. Instead there will be a series of incidents accompanied by bloodshed in. The area of mixed population in Czechoslovakia. These incidents indeed have already begun. They Are easily stage managed and can be endlessly multiplied at the demand of the producers of the show. They will be used As the pretext for nazi intervention in the defence of the oppressed already the German press is thundering the overture to what May be a grim symphony of who now strikes a sudeten German strikes Germany Force can Only be expelled by the sudeten Appeal to their protectors. The protectors throw themselves across the Frontier. It was in the expectation that something like this would happen at or about the time of the Nuremberg nazi Congress that led the British government to put pressure upon Germany in order to discourage adventures of this sort. The fear was that Hitler in his final oration would give the formal signal for in Vasion and when he completed his ungracious snarling quarrel some speech without any formal announcement of his intention to give effect to his known purpose the inference was perhaps too readily drawn that in thus abstaining he had yielded to outside pressure to this extent at any rate that time was Given for further consideration. In the sequel however his speech was followed with no delay in time by practically All the developments that had been feared. Over night conditions in the German areas became so disturbed with such violent clashes that the czechoslovak government did what it had to do to maintain order and declared martial Law. There followed an ultimatum from the sudeten German Leader for its removal the rejection of the ultimatum and the situation As it is at this moment of writing late on tuesday night is the result. Historical controversy May at some future Date Centre upon i discussion of whether Hitler s monday speech was the signal agreed upon or whether it was so interpreted by the hot headed tools he has employed in the sudetenland. The time table of events May be Hitler s own it May be one imposed upon him by the rashness of his followers. It matters Little. His threat expressed at Nuremberg to come to their Rescue if they complained of maltreatment May Well have fired them with the determination to engage in Domestic disturbances which would give them a Colo Rable claim to the fulfilment of Hitler s threat. Proposals at this eleventh hour Are being put Forward for a plebiscite in the disturbed area. This proposition finds favor in Berlin but it is unlikely that it could be seriously discussed or honorable maintained among the nations upon whom the responsibility of collective defence now Falls. A plebiscite a racial referendum is a proposal mischievous in its plausibility and it is natural that the columns of the London daily mail should be giving it its last no one denies or has Ever denied that Czechoslovakia is a mixed state. But those who suggest a plebiscite today Are those who Are prepared to sacrifice the rights and liberties of More than czech slovaks for the Sake of freeing sudeten germans who have deliberately turned probably at the Behest of their nazi Over of constitutional concessions which would have placed them in a position of Complete Equality with their racial partners in the state. The sudeten have not even made a Effort to try and work out the constitutional reforms proposed. They have flatly rejected them. S if a condition of War develops through resistance being offered to the Entrance into Czechoslovakia of nazi troops a grave and inescapable responsibility will rest upon the guarantors of Czecho slovak Independence upon France and Russia and upon great Britain through the treaties which bind the first two and involve great Britain indirectly to come to the czech defence. The alternative is to stand by and look on while Czechoslovakia is obliterated As a Sovereign state and incorporated in the Reich. This would be a manoeuvre of treachery and duplicity which would be Patent to the world. The responsibility of defending czechoslovak sovereignty will devolve also upon the member nations of the league. Since the crisis has been manufactured and brought on under orders from Hitler it is apparent that he thus chooses to express his contempt for the protecting Powers whom he evidently considers either unable or unwilling to give effect to their pledges. In the same compendious gesture of Defiance and con tempt he includes All the nations that Are members of the league a nations whose Assembly with Canada s representatives pres ent is now in session at Geneva. The voice of the Assembly has not yet been heard but its deliberations cannot fail to include a discussion of the crisis which now cannot be Long deterred. Winnipeg wednesday september 14, 1938 in Boine is Only navigable a Short distance for Small pleasure canoes and launches the Hea can be easily ascended As far As St. Norbert with out any trouble and even farther by More adventurous and it s navigable downstream to the Lake. Commercial Enterprise is Dis covering the possibilities of the red and this year there has been More wharfage Ancl boat livery and boat storage than Ever before. And with of course a corresponding reduction in charges. These facile ies should increase in 1939, Mak no Winnipeg s Rivers a Means of constant summer Joy. There is another Side h the Price of wheat should Isnain at about 60 cents the financial Post says the minimum Pace of 80 cents will Cost the government heavily. To the Post two Jact Sticks out very Promin and it repeatedly remarks that every Canadian is in the wheat inferentially to his great regret while the situation is not to be regarded lightly and while the principle of establishing minimum prices is Likely to be the subject much discussion and opposition is another Side to the present ration to which the Toronto financial journal might be expected to give some attention thus lowing appreciation of the whole and not just one Side there were no minimum Price the Market Price of wheat remained at say 60 cents the Manitoba Farmers would get an average of 48 cents and the Saskatchewan Farmers about 44 that is for no. 1 Northern a Large part of this year s will be below the no. 1 Grade. Manitoba Farmers would probably hot receive More than 44 cents and the Saskatchewan f Arm ers 40 cents. Is getting very close to the disastrously Low prices of a few years ago. Has that occasion Beer forgotten with its Complete prostration of Western agriculture and the paralysing effect on a consid Erable portion of Eastern business it May be frankly admitted tha the problem is not easy of Solu Tion but when our contemporary is giving so much attention to on Side of it How would it be to include the whole picture and discuss both sides rediscovering the Rivers when he opened the final Satur Day night showing of the la Verendrye pageant in the. Civi auditorium Alderman Rhodes Smith used a phrase that was full of suggestion. He referred to the la Verendrye River Parade on Suu Day recalled la Verendrye s Dis covery of the red and Assiniboine Rivers two Hundred years ago an said it is time for us Winnipeg Gers to rediscover our. The season is too far advanced for much of that discovery Thi year but the thought should b Given Alert and Joyful action nex Spring. Winnipeg should have capitalized on her excellent River frontages years ago and with the operation of the sewage disposal Plant there can be no excuse for further delay. Although the As meals on wheels diet conditioning of the trains is a great Boon. Of course the railways took Long to do it but they usually Wake up after they have lost enough traffic. They discovered that it pays to give passengers on trains what those passengers want to eat and not try to Force them to eat More than they can eat and still travel in safety. The old system of stoking a traveller till he could hold no More often wrecked the system of a Man who thought he had reached his destination in reason Able safety. The passenger feeling nip pish and wanting Only a spot of food to tide him Over a mile or two More was staggered by the Only meals he could order and was supposed to eat. Past generations of railway travellers suffered agonies of indigestion the rising generation need never have inflicted on them. Passengers can now get snacks and sandwiches when before they could Only get a meal for a heavyweight out of training. They can go into a Buffet car. That has All the damask caste of the dining car. Their peckish appetites can be lightly satisfied when before they had whether they liked it or not to be served with a Platter Laden with a slab of beef and then Wade through a Garden of salad and could Only weakly gasp for the Bill after devouring a ballasted dessert known As Apple pie. The evil of their ways has been seen by the railways. They con trively looked into dietetics when passengers whose stomachs had been overloaded discovered thai their Bill folds had sagged. Less eats More appetizing and less costly Are now pro curable on trains. There appears to be lighter eat ing All round on the railways. English railway systems advertise that passengers Are not forced to consume roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Snacks and snips and tid bits Are served in Buffet cars on the most famous Long distance expresses. A passenger can begin a breakfast on the flying Scotchman without being forced to eat a bowl of porridge. The lighter menus Clear the mind to improve the scenery. The americans per haps led the Way their air conditioned coaches filled by diet conditioning their dining cars the dietetic change came on the railways when passengers got fed up paying for leaving More than they ate. The railways took Long to see this but Are to be praised for at last providing passengers with what they can eat and with what they want to eat. Passengers Are no longer scared to go into either a Buffet car or a dining car. They have found the Price they will have to pay for the Light meal they want is not Grea enough to mislead them into thinking it bought them a con trolling interest in the Stock of the company. Coming Vienna trials from the London Spectator by setting up a special court to try their austrian sex opponents the nazis foreshadow yet another episode of brutal and repellent trampling upon those who Are Down. The scope of the court however seems to be misunderstood in some quarters. It has no to try charges of treason and Wil not therefore pronounce death sentences. Its penalties will property and o citizenship. Likely therefore tha its typical victim May be not or von Schuschnigg but Baron Louis Rothschild. The latter who is head of the Vienna Branch of the family a millionaire banker with very wide financial interests has been treated Ever since the anschluss with mediaeval bar victim of a concentration Camp where he appears to be held for Ransom at enormous Fig the device of. The tria would enable the nazis failing Tri Bute from the rothschilds else where to confiscate by Legal pro Cess the whole of his property. The significance of this would by not merely by Way of a Treasury Windfall like those obtained Al ready by robbing jews in Germany itself the head of the Vienna rothschilds has Large in some cases majority in the shares of very important czech concerns. Their confiscation would give Berlin new levers inside Czechoslovakia. You get. But of your career jus As you get out of life you up into it. If a Singer is unsuccessful it is largely his or her f Carmela Ponselle. Proper measures the Empire and fhe league three years ago today on sept. 14, 1935, the free press published the leading article from the London economist which had appeared on August 30. Today we re publish it for its words today Are no less True than they were on the Day they were written. The perils of the present situation throw into Relief the very dangers which the economist then outlined. The article was published it will be recalled on the eve of the imposition of sanctions against Italy and Only a few Days after the speech of sir Samuel Hoare at Geneva the speech which brought such unjustified optimism for supporters of the league of. Nations everywhere. It is a hard and crucial fact that British interests Are bound up with the vindication of an inter National Rule of Law that the Empire and the league stand or fall together and that the collective system of Security is the British Empire s last As Well As first line of defence. Some englishmen today seem actually to be looking Forward to a breakdown of the collective system with a kind of Gleeful schadenfreude. They Tell us we shall be Back in the Good old pre War world and after All the British Empire did not do so badly for itself in the nineteenth this is just about the most dangerous illusion in which any englishman of this generation could indulge. For to dream of bringing Back our British nineteenth Century is As fantastic As whistling for the wind. In the nineteenth Century All the great Powers in the world except the United kingdom herself were cooped up on the european continent our More rapid expansion was due to the Early develop ment of our Coal resources to our command of the sea and the ubiquity of our merchant Marine to our abandonment of agricultural Protection with the resulting growth of our population and Trade and to our almost Complete financial predominance. In these circumstances the British Navy was More than a match for any conceivable anti British naval combination. And behind the impregnable Rampart of this British predominance on the seas we acquired and Consoli dated an Empire scattered Over the face of the Earth which had. And needed no defence except the Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets. This situation was tolerable for the world because for the most part these territories As Well As the United states were open to emigrants and Trade was free. To Day this straggling world wide Empire is still but its naval defences have been turned by the fact that some of the greatest of the present great Powers Are situated overseas and have built themselves great navies and partly by the fact that the invention of flying has welded the metropolitan Island of the British Empire on to the european continent a a consciousness of this change for the worse in our dominant strategical position is Only the considerations that have turned us in this country into consistent sup porters from the Start of the league. But perhaps most of us have not even yet realized clearly and vividly quite How defenceless the British Empire will be and How alluring by it will invite at tack if the collective system of Security now Breaks Down. In that Case the states of the world will be reduced once again to Reliance for their Protection upon their own physical strength exclusively without haying any Law to invoke against an aggressor or any claim to demand assistance from their neighbors. If we relapse into a nineteenth Century anarchy under the strategical conditions of the twentieth Century the British Empire will be at the mercy of a coalition of the hungry Powers. What could we do for example if Germany attacked the British Isles from the air while Italy closed the Mediterranean route by air Power and occupied the Nile Valley by land Power from bases in Libya and and Japan simultaneously attacked Hong Kong Malaya new zealand and Australia by sea against such a conspiracy the British Empire would be helpless. It would simply be partitioned. And we need not think that we could buy our predatory neigh Bors off by conniving at their depredations against the smaller Fry in imitation of the unscrupulous Young lady of Smyrna who seized up the cat and said Granny Burn when her grandmother threatened to Burn for who can suppose that Italy s appetite will be satisfied with Abyssinia or Japan a with diet is All special London correspondence a British doctor claims to have found the perfectly healthy child. Secret of his extraordinary health and. Vitality is his diet according to. His parents. Christopher whose surname is not disclosed in his own eats no meat eggs or bread but is allowed to eat bread and butter and cake when he goes out to Tea about once a week. Sir Leonard Hill writing in the British medical journal found the Hoy after a fortnight s exhaustive study under Laboratory conditions in a remarkable condition of physical fitness though his diet is hardly sufficient to feed a Small Christopher is aged 9, weighs 59 pounds is 4 it 4 i. In height. He walks ten Miles a Day takes a cold Bath every morning and an air Bath out of doors. His diet is breakfast after walking five Miles to Church and Back one thick slice of pineapple. Lunch baked spinach and onion pie with a very thin crust made of wholemeal flour cheese and milk. About ten ounces. Tea two apples one Orange two Small tomatoes including the skin of the Orrige. One Small ice. Twelve ounces. Sir Leonard Hill Chris Gopher Bright arid intelligent with Clear and eyes rein arable Power of expansion retraction due to breathing Christo Pher has a sister Pixie aged 13. Pixie eats normally at school but Eves like her Mother and father and brother on the diet . She begins the holidays with a fast. Both she and her brother sleep All the year round in tents . Since publication of this article other healthy children have been found and described in. News papers. One of these is 13-year old Diana of Walton Ron thames. In Sun rain or Snow she wears Only Cotton knickers sandals and a Cotton frock. In the coldest weather she sleeps under Only a single Blanket. Her food consists of fruit vegetables salads dry crusts. She does not eat bread and cake or sugar. Tier Mother Points to her Teeth which have never decayed her thick Glos by hair and Radiant skin her perfectly proportioned body. Diana has Only once in her life been epidemic at school. Then she got Over it very quickly. Her Mother has collected Over 200 starch less recipes to vary Diana s daily diet a specimen is breakfast two or three apples and plenty of Honey sweetened water with a dash of top milk. Lunch steamed cabbage with grated cheese. Dry potato. Supper salad and Creart cheese. Fruit meringue. Between meals All the fruit drinks wishes Manchuria or Germany s let Austria and Lithuania these craggy bits of cat s meat will simply whet the great carnivores appetites for the a Quarry that lies under their noses that Quarry is the British Empire if we allow Italy As we have Al Lowed Japan to. Get away with it in her Lawless attack upon somebody else s property Thi italians will be no More grateful to us than the japanese have been. They will simply and judge correctly that Thi British Are on the and they will then conspire against us wit the other Powers who have Al ready succeeded in defying the Law without having yet succeeded in filing their bellies. The whole pack of them will take their second and satisfying helping o the Good things of this world a the British Empire s expense. We we shall to fight for our own lives after having allowed the league to be overthrown we shall certainly be Defeated. And this not merely because our strategical position will be hopeless but because i shall have neither allies no friends nor sympathizers. In fact if we carry out to the end of present economic policy of turning the old nineteenth Century free Trade British colonial a closed Market for British Industry the sympathies of the world May actually be on the Sid of the pirates As they were on Drake s he harried the Spanish main. But the British Empire will continue to be the Best guarantee of the world peace so Long As it is Broad based on political and economic Freedom eschews a dog in tile Mange policy and makes accessible the great resources which it controls for the needs of other Peoples. The policy of. Salvation for the British Empire is to stand up boldly for the league and at the same time to implement article Xix of the covenant by a Poolin of colonial markets and sources o Supply. The one absolutely Fata policy is to. Show that Wear afraid to risk a collision with any other great for the Sake of our supreme British in Terest in the maintenance of inter National Law and at the same time to exclude a foreign ers from any share in those Vas colonial markets and sources o Supply under the British Flag Here is the. Issue that lies be on the British. Government. I wonder whether there Are any happier people in the world ban the Farmers Ardithe villagers if Quebec. I have now modest Jack on Back walked eighty Miles a Short distance on the South bore of the lordly jut mostly in. The Lovely Valley f the Richelieu. Whatever fiery ideas May foment in the Heads of aspiring poli Iciano or City youths the country Oik of Quebec remain untouched and unchanged. And in the Long in these Are the people guided by their priests who will control developments and determine tend ocies. The policy of France turns in the last resort on the French peasant and the attitude of que dec nationally and internationally will be mainly influenced by the people on and near the soil. What attracts me first of his province is the evidence one yes everywhere of age continuity liability. At Boucherville opposite he Church on the River Bank stands a statue in. Honor of Antoine Girouard born in that Village one Hundred and seventy six years ago who in 1811 founded St. Hya Cath College. At Vercheres you see the Monument to Madeleine de Vercheres that re Calls a shrewd and valiant Inci Dent that happened two Hundred and forty six years ago. In the delectable Little Village of St. Ours on the stately Lawn of a massive Manor House rises a courtly bust of Pierre de St ours Chevalier and Seigneur born in 1642 year of the. Death of who lordly Grant of land was made to him in 1672, two Hundred Anc sixty six years ago when Loui Xiv was at the Zenith of his Power. He died Here two Hundred and fourteen years ago and i remains rest in the crypt of the Village Church. At St. Denis am St. Of the Village Strung like pearls on the Riband of the. Pretty Are monuments to the patriots of 183 who fought Well under the Fier incitements of Papineau. The s1 Charles Monument bears the names. Of Twenty file killed i one engagement the Church o St. Mathias celebrates its to Hundredth anniversary in 1939. The modern Parent win not respect flattering titles to any i know to give fat j3te would my maker r carry me of hear men give ear unto me men. Of Tutt ;