Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 19, 1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Winnipeg free press printed and published the Winnipeg free press company. Limited. 300 Carlton Street. Winnipeg. Manitoba. J w. Dafoe Victor Sifton president. General manager. Registered of the Genera Post office. London eng., Tor transmission through the Post in United kingdom at the newspaper rate of Winnipeg monday june 19, 1939 or c so critics change their tune the Odds Are usually against a government when times Are out of joint but that depends on whether the opposition is Well sized and subjects the government to really effective critic Canadian electors have shown repeatedly in the last year or two that they do not favor change for the Sake of change. They did so in the provincial elections in British Columbia in Saskatchewan in Ontario and in Prince Edward Island. They Are Likely to show the same discrimination in the Federal Field. What then of the sort of criticism of the government at Ottawa that is heard in the country a year ago the charge commonly made was that it was a do nothing government helpless in the face of serious problems and showing no Leader ship. That charge is no longer heard. Everyone admits that the government has done a Good Deal but there is an interesting variety of criticism of the Quality of the action taken and of the reasons prompting it. The critics have All changed their tune. The government is now alleged by some to have gone socialist and collectivist and by others to be throwing special favors to the . Whatever it is doing is prompted solely by the necessity of facing the electors before Long. But after All the negative charge has been dropped. Some thin has All in the wrong Way according to the critics. They be expected to give the government credit for seeking effectively to improve the general welfare though that would be the soundest method of preparing its Case for the electors. A the government s efforts to create employment supplementary to its policy of increasing exports is scornfully de scribed by the Ottawa journal As a Pale copying of things tried in other and it declares that this Liberal government is groping its old Creed of individualism and a sort of half hearted the Vancouver province another Independent conservative newspaper remarks that the government legislation passed at the last session was give the Public the. World news but it lists the ratification of for what it is Worth and Intelli formula finding portent though not exciting the Trade agreement with the United states the assistance to Grain growers the amending of the Canada Grain act the in to the Dairying Industry and to the setting up of the Central mortgage Bank and the regulating of the Small loan business and the provision for appointing the new Penitentiary commission. Thus the government has not been entirely Idle. Gent people can hardly under estimate its signify Caare and. Worth these Days. They can t take it a tireless Effort is maintained i to fasten on the government and credit is it by the Montreal Gazette for the the . A charge of inexcusable legislation of the past session. Regarding this its Chilly com ment is whether the government is to go to the country this Vear or next the foundations of an Appeal to the electors have been Laid with the elector occupying the historic role of paymaster. Once again he provides the Money which. A government is to use in buying his it deplores the present tendency of governments to Ven Ture further and further into the Field of social and says that no country can spend its Way into Prosperity by Uncle Sam looks them Over Mackenzie King honoured with a by . Will be hat country. The greater the banquet Man or the More successful his lavish outlays of Public funds. The True remedy it declares lies in a policy of rigid governmental then would the Gazette do nothing at a labout Western farm Relief about reducing the Burden of mortgage debts about unemployment Relief projects it would seem so. The present parliament of Canada should be called the according to the Toronto Globe and mail Waich says that a government and a parliament devoid of c Apa fity for constructive leadership to the individual turned state subsidy for the classes with an election approaching. The i government has been showing Leader hip in dealing with the most urgent problems of the country. The Globe and mail was formerly demanding leadership but All now is to belittle the action of the. Government in regard to mortgage pc debts Aid for the Grain growers and the income tax exemption to encourage capital expenditure on Plant extensions and improvements. .the.latter, it criticizes As in but a Tiuch More favourable opinion is expressed by Canadian business Organ of the of Commerce which says that finance minister Dunning won Universal acclaim for Bis sincere attempt to stimulate Canadian ratio lists to mean the can tiny Prosperity when he extended his new 10% income tax allow Ance of the separate identity of Ance ii Industrial expansion for a six year thei criticism of the government by the leftist groups is. Of a different sort. of. The . Dwell upon the employment assail the government for extravagance in proceeding with the completion of the new.. Terminal in Montreal rather than using the . Windsor Street station As a joint s terminal. The Complete answer to that is the definite and emphatic opinion of sir Frederick Palmer a High engineering authority that the . Terminal is badly located and should never be used As a joint terminal and that the location of the new . Ter Minal is an excellent one better in every Way and the preferable site for a joint terminal. Taking the Long View and considering the Best permanent Solu Tion of the railway terminal Tion in Montreal neither the can Adian National nor. The f ment could possibly ignore the above. Exp Ert opinion. Moreover the terminal is being completed As an unemployment Relief the work being spread Over three years and All the being charged up to the government s Relief account and not to the Cost will be about out. O f the total estimated Cost of but the completion of the , terminal is by the unify in Toronto on August 8 to leadership in the National Arena Mark his. Completion of Twenty the More certain that his career years As Leader of the lib is Over and that he must drop eral party. It May seen a Long out. That at least has been the tenure of the leadership but it is accepted Rule to Date. Not so Long considering the record president of the United in Canada. Sir John a. Macdon states though not in exactly the Aid headed his party for a longer same position. As the prime min period. So did sir Wilfrid Laurier ister in Canada is the effective and sir Robert Borden. Macdon Leader of his party. He May have Aid and Laurier had outstanding two terms but he must be accorded qualities of leadership while full the. Formal nomination for the recognition was won by Borden second election. He does not re and King More gradually. But it Tain the leadership automatically. Has Ever had three the British nations bequest for Bridges two Bridges that have vastly opened up communications in the two Rhodesia were paid for out of some left by Alfred beit to develop Road and other communications in Rhodesia and Africa. Beit Cecil Rhodes. The leadership of the opposition party also is never to be taken for granted. No one Ever know definitely who is going to be the1 Leader in the Campaign until five months before the election. Thus Uncle Sam looks the candidates Over pretty Well before he lets them enter the Field. The same with All party candidates for the House of representatives and for the Senate. They Are not Conven Robert s Case it was due less to personal magnetism than to sound judgment and statesmanship which stood the great test of the War and the peace. Or. King has sought in this divided country with its divergent interests to ensure equitable treatment for Al he has shown tolerance Anoa s striven for National unit3 in spite of All that militates against it. Whatever the reason for these Canadian leaders becoming so strongly entrenched it is something that does not happen at All in the United states. There is no divine right of leadership As president. J a in Canada Macdonald was i head of the government through six parliamentary terms though one of them was Short. Laurier had four terms and King has already had three. Can the United states allow a president three terms without inviting National ruin candidates for a third term have always been Defeated in the past but the question is being asked again in connection with next year s election partly because of the abnormal and distressful condition of the country new poems by the Bookman. The English poetry review pass thousands fleeing from the Tho Mehim new for new Noe try. Terrors continuing in seeking to create employment by offering special inducement to private capital. The government s method of relieving the. Burden of mortgage debts is also unsatisfactory. To them be cause the losses of the loan companies Are shared by the. Government the objectives in both cases Are exceedingly desirable and the . Entirely fails to suggest More. Practical the Canadian National and to have the effect of spiking their it does. And they can t take it. Hence he attempt to Badger the gov in meet and to influence Public Pinion by omitting. Essential facts tiie Case for. Quite Ian. Regard for the Public interest. Means of attaining them. Many a government is fortunate in its opposition and the government at Ottawa appears to be favored in tins Way. The government May have its faults and May have left undone some things it ought to have done. But there has been Little opposition criticism that was damaging to its record. 4 publishing the news the Montreal. Gazette says some sensible things in reply to those who think the newspapers should not publish so much news about the danger of War or the disturbed condition of world affairs. Al though this is All big news to anyone who appreciates its significance to the whole world some people seem to think that the newspapers should suppress it and allow the Public to stick its head in the Sand. The Gazette in reply to those who complain that the publish ing of disturbing news retards business Well says that any responsible newspaper that failed to publish this news would be unworthy of its responsibilities and unjust to its this so called War scare news it says Doe lot originate with the newspapers it is received by them from official or otherwise responsible sources and the comments and interpretations which Are publisher from Day to Day Are those o. Capable experienced and disinter ested journalists who Are i a position to View european develop ments at close Range and to under stand them in the Light of special Ted ,.so far As the publishing May of Fig pm. Ous mess conf .4fnce and. Activity the newspaper also directly affected As of Montreal contemporary says by still their first duty to Tell heir readers what is going on in he world. There is Point to its further statement that if the suppression of news As desired by o increased Confidence and to Sib Tantal financial commitments and if then things went Wron n Europe the men. Who have made these commitments Actu ated by a false Security. Would at once papers would accuse them. Of. Deliberately misleading their read res and the accusation would be there was some complaint says the Gazette about the publication of the news of the Large scale summer mobilization of troops in great Britain. But this., new should not have been considered alarming but the opposite. It says the Gazette to emphasize the degree of preparedness which Britain has attained and of. Preparedness there is the. Best Assur Ance of safety and othe democratic mobilization does not mean War. If Uruci ii ii would have had War Jong Ere to. Britain so far As these Sumine plans Are concerned is doing a More than has been done on a larg scale in is doing it Only for the purpose of testing the mobility of the machine which it has created. An that machine has Beerfe built up of defensive and not it is a narrow Short sight View held by a few. People i Winnipeg As Well As in Montrea the Borden had a hand it was Premier King who on half of the people of Canada invited the King and Queen to Isit this country. But the late Robert Borden really had a and in the matter. A Sovereign and visited Canada before. To lever was so appropriate that the Sovereign should do. So As it was after the passing of Wes Tahiri Ter act in which recognized Canada s full nationhood and imaged her people in exactly the ame relationship to the King As the people of great Britain this Royal visit was the. Happy Climax which sir Robert Borden As me minister during the War and at the the Terence played an important part. The War efforts of the dominions brought them in fact to full nationhood but sir Robert found t necessary to insist repeatedly on the recognition of Canada s new status. Subordination was to be a thing of the past. The new principle was accepted and the British Empire evolved in Dwing years into. The common wealth of British nations. It was As the. Uniting link in that com mom health. That the. King came to Canada. The last number of its quarterly extra prints one Hundred and seventy new poems by sixty four contributors. As a Region of sing ing Birds England today beats her elizabethan commoners All hollow. Nearly every Singer in this extra is English one or two Are scots one or two Are americans and one or two Are Irish according to the who s who at the end of the Magazine. Two Good love poems Are signed h. M. About whom no information is furnished. One has for caption the line from Para Dise. Grace was in All her Steps heaven in her the other is the voice of a Maiden my Mother bade me of men s love beware How can i Tell if love must be a tender Irish song to my birthdays Joseph Turner Winnipeg born Yorkshire. June-19. 1857. Harry Holloway Stonewall Man. Stey Trig Sussex eng., june 19, 1853. R m. Fitzsimons Winnipeg born Belfast Ireland june 19. 1881. The worst thing about getting Irto the habit of Reading poetry is that Are liable to try to write he who famous has t been Babson. I Mother is signed Elizabeth o Callaghan West whose Maiden name was. Irish. To a Willow tree is her second song a Beautiful example of Ruskin s pathetic fallacy. Mrs. West composes in the contemporary Tongue. She has the True gift. Another Irish poem a woman of the is by m. L. Ormsby who sings for Thi fairy Sidhe. Light to Rule the night by the same Poe is a song of the Moon and Moon Light from which i quote the Las stanza trailing her splendor o or i slumbering world she dares to rival Phoebus in i might till flaming banners in the was unfurled dim the Pale Glamour of he lesser two striking poems on the Sami subject in Czecho Bear a signature half scottish half English Redcliffe Mckie i. It is not old Bohemia we be betrayed loosing once More on sheltered farms and cots baying terrors of the aus Trian raid the secret mangling and the mid night shots. Pass Masaryk a Calm sleep an Benes Al to in one common grave the end of All not czech but All men s Freedom and our ii. Ancient and famous Folk Brave As when Huss lit his Lone lamp at ours and died for i to Here we bring you second martyrdom Huss flamed immortal to his starry Crown and we have nigh forgot his murderers. May you survive the fiery pile of torment we Pray belatedly who bound you on who fetched the Torch and helped to fire the faggots and smiling left the Hangman to his work will time forgive the executioner s a Long sober poem in Plank verse concerning this since before time was All j in a figure of speech concludes with he Couplet at certain periods Jove doth hold the reins but now has chaos got the upper a poem evidently of wedded love is entitled Here is the. First of its three stanzas being with you i is like the peace of Twilight Grey when thoughts and cares Are put away like the Calm of waking Day when Falls the indeed there is some Fine Iverse composed in Noble moods deep though restrained in this of chosen in constituency tons but by vote of members of the two parties throughout the constituency in what Are called the primary elections. To the National conventions which choose the two candidates for president every state sends its proper num Ber of delegates it looks like a More thoroughly democratic system. But Are the restrictions on leadership practice and advantageous Canadian political leaders have grown in stature. No one would say tha Macdonald should have retired in 1882, nor Laurier in 1904. Canadians Are Apt to wonder Why a president of the United states who is regarded by a Large Section of the population As having done Well should be eliminated from Public life after two terms d very wide executive Powei j possessed by the president is the reason for the feeling that has existed that he should not be con firmed in office for a very Ion period. He has control of All the military naval and air forces what might a president with soar ing ambition not do under certain circumstances but what could he do with Congress in Complete control of the National purse wha would he be Likely to attempt in a country so thoroughly demo cratic and with the presidential term limited to four years this of course is for the people of the United states to decide an it looks As if they May give i serious thought before next year election in Canada other parts of was a Friend of and out of his wealth left Many requests for schools universities hospitals and other institutions in South Africa. The need of Good roads was not overlooked by him. From the Revenue of the Trust much material support has been Given communications in the Rhodesia in the last thirty years. Rhodesian railways have been supported big Bridges have been built and nearly a Hundred relatively Small Bridges have been put up in Southern and Northern Rhodesia. Of the greater Bridges two Are very important. One the beit Over the Limpopo was opened to give free Access from Southern Rhodesia into the Transvaal. The other the Otto beit at Chiru Ndu is Over the Zambesi. The opening of this Bridge on May 24 gave Roadway Access Between Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia. One of the spans of Bridge is feet and is believed to be the longest single Span out Side of the United states. Its open ing removes the last serious obstacle along the new Road Between the capitals of Southern and Northern Rhodesia Between Salis Bury and Lusaka. The opening of this Bridge will too Complete a eat circular route which will Enile visits in the one Lour to be Ade to Bulawayo the Victoria alls Livingstone Salisbury us i the Birchenough Bridge Vei e the mysterious Zim abbe ruins and the Matoto Hills Here Cecil Rhodes lies buried Lis Zambesi Bridge was built by engineers and Crews Brough of Northern England. The i. R. A. The Irish Republican army is apparent when labor first came into office three years ago. What has been done for defence is agreed by the country As a whole to have been done. The claim is that More should be done. The Effort should be on a larger scale with to More expenditure and in closer co operation with Australia. This was being attained before Pacific conference and that the the aim hns been much advanced by that conference seems generally implied although Little of what was decided on has been made Public it does seem Clear that in re Gard to military material new zealand was at the time of the conference better prepared to re Sist attack than the Public had been allowed to know. The air Force was being built up. The difficulty of procuring delivery of bombers and other aircraft from England had opened discussion of procuring that equipment in the United states but nothing was decided a month ago. A major Dif Mculty was and is the Protection of shipping. In this new zealand self has Little say for its Small naval Force passes immediately under control of the British admiralty in wartime. To enlist sufficient land Force properly trained s a pressing local problem. Recruiting is vigorous and has a dynamic Leader in the minister of Public works or. Robert Semple. His remarkable Organ zing abilities can be relied on to assist the military. While defence plans Are made the people of new zealand Are said to be watching the ominous conditions with a calmness that has nothing of in difference in it. Selection for which we have thank the quarterly extra poetry i wish that the who s who appended had not omitted information about so Many of the poets represented two of the very Best poems Are by Carlota whose birth in London education and career As poet Are Given but not her identity. One of them pictures a ship sail ing away at Sunset the Blue Hori Zon slowing turning i should like to read a Lyric on landfall by Carlota. The last piece shall quote has a sound moral import often the thing that irks is but the Means obscure of higher better of Hope that shall endure. Often the pain we dread shrouds happiness untold from seeds of Flowers dead Bright buds shall soon we usually several years ahead at least we the party leaders will be in the next Dominion elections. In the United states no one knows Toda who will be chosen Republica candidate in june of next year except that he will be a new Man and not the last presidential candidate or. Landon nor the Las Republican president or. Hoover and while Many think that Frank Lin Roosevelt will be the demo cratic candidate again no one sure that he will be. Those we want him will stress not Only the value of his Strong human personality but also the importance in these difficult times of the re lation Between Public policy an human welfare. Much will depend on whether that argument Goe Over or whether the Republican produce enough to offset it. The people of the. United state doubtless think that their Politica system is on the whole As goo As any. But we wonder if wit their fixed legislative terms an fixed election dates which can b named decades ahead like eclipse of the Sun they do not covet the sporting possibilities of our system which lets a government hold election when after consulting Fortune it thinks the time to propitious. Before the next Campaign in the United states begin ours May be Over and the Issue decided whether the present re Gime should have a fourth term both countries have Good demo cratic systems but a great de on what the people with them. Keep a High boiling Point . In the new statesman and apart from machines human beings do make some slight Effort to control their nerves. The Clergyman must often wish he had a gun in the pulpit when the most moving passages in his Sermon Are constantly interrupted by the coughing of a parishioner suffer ing from alcoholic Catarrh. Yet i think no English Clergyman has Ever shot a parishioner for cough ing. Musicians again must frequently be irritated to the Point of murder by their audiences but even sir Thomas Beecham has Ages committed in England used a More lethal weapon entry and is described in the than his Tongue on a talkative current Empire review As the offshoot of the fenian brother of course it is the surviving remnant of the army which aged the War of Independence the creation of the iat led to Rish free state. It is now against the de Valera government put into Power but is More viciously against the British gov rement and against the Northern Reland government of the six counties. The says the in the Empire review has ver been attempting to stir up rouble in Ulster but its members ave always been vigorously sup dressed. They Are of course at enmity with the free state gov rement but it is not to be sup used that we can look Forward or much help from that Quarter i suppressing the dynamite ads. He name of a Well known chem St in Dublin for example was ome of the explosives. As Ridge dryly remarked it is the not Kely that he will come to eng to be asked out to dinner. Hence and to give evidence. Now if he Stoops courteously to the floor Tere were a genuine desire in in free state to Check the out Ages it would be easy to make a beginning with the the Irish Republican army has of the powerful and inventive support. That the fenian used to it from the United states. This s an Adverse Factor with which in army has to contend and o is the Lack of full support from he government of Eire itself. That is More hampering is the Lete Stalion of the outrages Felt the vast majority of people fishing to live peacefully and to roster in the free state. Those people grew heartily sick of out Ages during the troubles. So far As America is concerned the Irish Republican army now gets comparatively Little support from the United states. Up to the British surrender in Ireland every kind of outrage was advocated and plotted in the United states and he fenian brotherhood even sup plied men and arms for i Surrec Ion in Canada and the sympathy Felt in the United states is tinged with reason and weakened by gangster activities perpetrated by Irish extremists on the Friendly English. The chief difficulty is that full help from he fre e state government cannot be counted on. The article in the Empire review tells How a cer Ain Young woman was convicted and it was alleged that she was urged into her crime by an older woman who absconded from with the assistance of he Eire it was ascertained that she was As the judge said at Large in Dublin and Likely to remain at Large now his person s name is known and surely if there were a will the tree state s government would ind a Way to arrest Pacific preparations defence appears to have been at the Pacific Confer ence attended recently by representatives from great Britain Australia and new zealand and held in. The latter Dominion. It was quite possible that the government of new zealand had not been at All so indifferent to pro Viding defence As the government was made out to be. Grave threats to world peace had threatened the Dominion s Security. The labor socialist government in Neu zealand did not remain Blind to these dangers. It might be said definitely to have put aside what Ever surviving pacifist notions its the soft Grey Grace and heart let six place. Mother in years Ever surviving pacifist party inherited from the Grea War period. Our correspondent in new zealand says this change a occupant of the stalls. Self restraint has become characteristic of the professional life. Professional men however have at least the consoling knowledge that they Are paid for being irritated. I doubt whether any doctor could listen without screaming to the Jong recital of an imaginary invalid s symptoms if it were not for the thought of the fee that would come after. Even when we Are not paid for being irritated however it pays to bottle it i know a Man for example who become in tensely irritated if a woman sit Ting beside him at a dinner party keeps letting her Napkin or hand kerchief fall to the floor. He does not Tell her How furious he feels however. He knows that if he told such women what he thought of them amed in court As the source of j and assailed them with All the epithets that plead in his brain for utterance he would soon cease and with a smile restores the Nap Kin or the handkerchief leaving the impression that to keep drop Ping such things is an addition to feminine Charm. It is the Only thing to do in this world. From Hie Golden books to my Mother Elizabeth o Callas an o woman of the gentle eyes hair and simple you the songs from out your children take their those care strewn mid Clam ring voices shrill and Strong How Oft did St sigh for songs fore sworn or yearn to flee that noisy throng. did those songs by toil outlawed go running through thy brain Unsung or did they Shine through thy dark Days Ike Lovely pearls unmatched in and still you toil unceasingly though children now Are All full grown and live to serve them patiently and your Bright songs remain unknown. 3ear Mother thy unselfish heart. Thy Loving daughter Here would Praise and thank thee for the gift of song that weaves a Joy through All her Days. An Irish poet. From poetry of pert parody by sir Gerald Campbell quoted in Tell me not in Mournful numbers life is but a nazi threat while the rest of Mankind slum Bers in a cold and troubled sweat. Are our great men All behind us have we no More Heights to climb Tel photographs remind us is Goose Steps Mark time. The March of from holy writ the lord will perfect that which concern eth me thy mercy o lord end Ureth for Ever forsake not the works of thine own hands ;