Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 26, 1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of pm rights. Seizing bibles in Quebec it will be somewhat startling news to most canadians that in the province of Quebec the holy scriptures Are considered communistic and have been confiscated by the police. This outrage took place last Winter and the facts have recently come so Light in a letter published in the United Church observer. The facts Are apparently As follows two missionaries of shanty men s Christian association a body that has been carrying on work for 30 years went to Dolbeau p.q., from Montreal and there obtained permission from the Woods manager of the Price Brothers lumber company to enter their maps located about 60 Miles from Dolbeau. Next Day feb. The two missionaries went to the depot whence they were to Jave by snowmobile and were there met by the Woods manager of the company who explained that if their visit was not Satis factory to the priest the latter would Call All the men off the feb. He therefore wanted to consult his Superior before giving Inal permission for the journey. To this the two missionaries idly agreed since the association s policy has always been avoid any difficulty or disturbance. While waiting for the decision they went to the local railway station. There one of the missionaries or. Arnold Reynolds was taken aside by the ocal policeman who asked them what they were doing in Dolbeau. The Constable said he understood they had literature in their pack sacks and asked for samples of it. These were Iven to him. And he said he had to take them to the priest for latter s inspection. What followed is Best told in the words of or. H. G. Fore Nan the assistant treasurer of the Canadian National railways who is an officer of the shanty men s Christian association and rom whose letter to Premier Duplessis we now quote in about ten minutes the local policeman returned. He asked them to go with him in a taxi to the City Hall and have their packs searched. On arrival they were taken into the local policeman s office and he called two men who were working around the place to come to the office As his witnesses and then locked the door. Although no personal effects were taken the following were confiscated 489 assorted French gospels 24 assorted English gospels 1 French new testament 1 French Bible 1 English French dictionary. 1 English travellers guide. 20 French tracts 30 shanty men s papers 2 English chorus books several English booklets several report sheets. No explanation was Given other than that he had been ordered to take these books away from them and he also told them that he would advise them to leave town by the evening train. They arrived Back Here Montreal 8.30 a.m., sunday feb. 5. From the statements which we have read in the papers claimed to be made by yourself that the padlock Laws Are in no Way being abused i am sure that you will take Steps immediately to have this whole affair investigated and the officers and any party responsible for the actions that have been taken very severely reprimanded and the literature immediately returned to us Here. We would also like to be assured of Protection by the provincial and municipal authorities for our missionaries and that they will have Liberty in their work. The officers our association Are Christian men of standing in the Community and some of them Are ministers of leading pro Testant denominations in Canada others Are business men like the undersigned. The operative clause in the padlock Law which was pre ably invoked by the Dolbeau policeman on the apparent instigation of the local priest is this it shall be unlawful to print to publish in any manner whatsoever in the province any newspaper periodical r pamphlet circular document or writing whatsoever pro i Pagaling or tending to propagate communism or bolshevism. Read once More the list of literature confiscated in this scandalous bibles new testaments tracts dictionaries these Are the instruments of communism and bolshevism in Quebec to what new Depths can this Bomin Ible padlock Law descend the Story and teachings of Jesus Christ have become in the eyes of a Quebec priest and police in dangerous and subversive propaganda which must be confiscated and destroyed i what a country to live in in which a Law that encourages Rich intolerable proceedings is permitted to stay on the statute books. It was passed by the Quebec legislature. The Domm Ita government refused to disallow it. When its Validity is legally tested a judge of the Superior court declares it constitutional and affirms his View that it in no Way infringes on the liberties of the subject what a Law it is not yet too late for the Dominion government to take a Liand in the further Legal proceedings against this Law. The Dominion can join itself to the Appeal now pending from or. Tet ice greenshields judgment and fight the Case through fee government appears to be facing a general election. Does or. King think that his refusal so far to contest the Law is Good politics if so he will find in More than one seat that the padlock Law has become an Issue that will give him trouble. It has no defence. Winnipeg free press printed and published Winnipeg free press company. Limited. 300 car Tom Street Winnipeg Manitoba. 3. W. Dafoe. Victor Sifton president. Genera manager. Registered at the general Post office London for transmission through the Post in United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg wednesday july 26, 1939 offered by this tax exemption. The general store can be modernized. The Butcher and grocer can use this assistance to install refrigerating systems. Restaurants can modernize their kitchens. Theatres May use this occasion to install air conditioning equipment. Tourist businesses May improve or extend their accommodations for visitors or develop the natural advantages of a Good the principle is the holding out of incentive to expansion to induce speedier recovery and reduce unemployment. Duplicity in Danzig agreement Wiki Japan the basis for discussion of the trouble at tientsin announced on monday by or. Chamberlain Means everything or nothing. The British agree that hostilities exist in China and that the japanese Are therefore entitled to take such Steps As they deem necessary to safeguard their position. The essence of the so called agreement will be the interpretation put upon wording by the japanese. If they mean trouble they can declare that the presence of foreigners in the treaty ports constitutes an obstacle which must be cleared away. This they Are Only too Likely to a. But even if they do not go to such extremes they can make economic and Commer Cial life in the concessions Unten Able for the British. The language understood by the japanese is the language of Force. This is not a language which thei British Are Able to use in the far East. Their hands Are too full in Europe. The japanese know this and they know thai their military and naval forces in far Eastern Vaters far exceed the strength which the combined French and British forces can spare in that part of the world. One deterrent exists and those who distrust the intentions of the russians towards the Western Powers would do note it. There is significance surely in the fact that trouble at tientsin not proceeded far before soviet mongol armies had begun to harass the Northern front of the japanese on the Asiatic Mainland. There have been air raids and arge scale engagements. The russians it seems Are hinting and hinting hard that if the japanese Ake too Strong a line against the French and British they May run nto War with the . The russian activity in Mongolia is a Lood gesture by a Power apparently Friendly to the Western i democracies. It is help of the kind that the japanese can under stand and it suggests that Russia far from sitting on the Fence is to stand with the Western Powers should War come. Basis for recovery the new Federal plan of offset tag a credit of 10 per cent expenditure this year against future corporation part or individual business in Mcrae taxes is a Strong inducement firms As Well As big ones to carry on immediate new conduction. This Point is emphasized in a pamphlet just issued by authority of Hon. Charles a. Dun we Federal minister of finance. Applied to Large corporations or a simplified example take a company earning Annu ally which taxable at 15 per cent swans an annual tax of it decides this year to spend on new building machinery or equipment. Ten per of that amount or allowed As a credit against its in come tax spread Over five years Means s2.000 a year coming off the annual tax for five year s. This deduction is in addition to the Normal allowances for de the citation. A number of Large manufacturing mining and marketing have already begun to Taake such new capital expenditures. But or. Dunning s pamphlet Points out another Angle it says a credit against tax of 10 per cent of Capi Tal expenditures i equivalent to allowing a deduction from income of about 67 per cent of the capital outlay that is with a corporation income tax rate of 15 per cent a credit of is against tax is equivalent to a deduction of s6.67 from income on which the 15 per cent is payable. Clearly then a plan which in effect allows a business for income tax purposes to write off As an expense in earning its income two thirds of the capital outlays during the year offers very substantial the Point about this is its attractiveness to the Small business Man. The pamphlet Points of that most of the business of can Ada is done by Small firms. Col it says their capita expenditure is More important to our Prosperity than that of very Large corporations. All sort of Small businesses should aval themselves of the benefits of Thi plan which applies to individual and partnerships just As Well a to the storekeeper for example will be Able to find ways of improving his business with the help by c. C. R i there is a Rumor now current a that the 1940 fashions for women will make the ladies look Ever so much More attractive when viewed from behind than when viewed from the front. This is certainly not True of Winnipeg s town Hall. We approached it monday evening from the Back Side and were horrified by the apparition produced by its Gro Tesque Heap of masonry. The front Side is bad enough but the Back Side is infinitely worse. Little wonder we thought that discussions in the chamber itself achieve such confusion. The aldermen should be led Blind folded past the sight of that in edifying civic edifice or smuggled into the chamber through some underground passage to escape the contamination of architectural monstrosity. All of this of course is just to break the news that monday eve Ning s meeting of Council was a highly undistinguished perform Ance. The Only piece of business in the reports of the committees that was outside the usual routine work was the announcement that Steps will be taken to promote the proposed Winnipeg River drive. Property already acquired or about to be acquired by the City that will enable approach to and use of the River Bank for a civic cheese corridor boots to the manager that looks suspicious sir i know he retired in. His w the mystery of the thetis Hile the British submarine after much water had entered the thetis still lies on the submarine they got that door shut floor of the Liverpool Bay defying the thetis Sank to the Bottom All efforts to lift her a court immediately attempts were inquiry is listening to the thrilling made to blow the water out of and terrible Story of the events the submarine by High pressure inside the vessel when the Accident air. This was quickly abandoned occurred. The thetis was on its for it was realized that failure to trial voyage with a complement lift the sub. Would exhaust the of More than 100 men instead of air reserves. Distress signals were project will not be put up for Sale and the City Surveyor Normal Crew 56 the extra sent the surface but it was been instructed to negotiate when hands were experts from the some hours before vessels gather shipbuilding firm that built her. De above the spot where the r a House divided the her ridges Are coming in pairs for the next election but there seems to be political division among them judging by a news item in a recent Issue of a British Columbia . Paper the fed ration is. The . Organ announces the nomination of h. W. Herridge As unanimous Choice for . Candidate in West Kootenay this or. H. W. Herridge in ., it is carefully explained by the federation St is a relative of Hon. Of. D. Herridge Leader of the new democracy whose overtures for Point nominating action have been rejected by . Conventions in the West. The British Columbia Herridge is a member of the . National Council also of the provincial executive of the Legion farms on a Large scale in the West Kootenay District and is Active in agricultural societies. From the Golden books on the Rhine Matthew Arnold vain is the Effort to forget. Some Day i shall be cold i know As is the eternal Moonlit Snow of the High Alps to which i go but a not yet not yet vain is the agony of grief. Tis True indeed an Iron knot ties St rightly up from mine thy lot and were it Lov St me not but is despair Relief awhile let me with thought have done. And As this Brimm d a wrinkled Rhine and that far purple Mountain line lie sweetly in the look divine of the slow sinking Sun so let me lie and Calm As they let beam upon my inward View those eyes of deep soft Lucent eyes top expressive to be Blue too Lovely to be Grey. A quiet All things feel thy Balm those Blue Hills too this River s flow were restless once but Long ago. Tamed is their turbulent Youthful glow their Joy is in their Calm. Birthdays George Lawrence Kellington Nee Pawa Man. Born Listowel. Ont., july 26, 1856. James Dow sett Mir Medosa. Man born Northampton eng., july 26, 1866. Opportunity arises for the Exchange of City owned lots for River frontage property. These Are Steps in the right direction and in due course Winnipeg should be Able to boast of a picturesque driveway that will be second to none of its kind for the red River while it is mild banked and gentle flowing has a restful spirit of its own part of which perhaps arises out of its historic association the fur Trade. A was not until Council reached the business pertaining to motions notice of which had been Given that a faint sulphurous odor sprang into the air. It seemed to come from the left Side of the chamber. Part of it arose from Alderman Baumberg s Reso Lution whacking or. Bracken for thinking in terms of barter deals with Hitler Ian Gei Many. Alderman Blumberg apologized by implication for his gesture by pointing out that he did t often bring in resolutions of its nature an apology that produced a soft rustling among right Wing Alder men who Are beginning to wonder what sort of election powder will be a la Mode for this fall s blast ing operations. Alderman Blumberg in a tremendous excess of Good humor announced furthermore that he did t want to Embarrass anybody but what about the scrap Iron that Canada ships abroad to be made into munitions to kill canadians in the next War nobody unfortunately was embarrassed by Alder Man Baumberg s imagination. Alderman Penner threw his weight for the Resolution modestly affirming that since it came from an important Council it should have some Good effect on the do minion government. The allusion failed to produce a single smile. Objections however were quickly registered. Alderman Thompson was glad of the in formation on International affairs that the sponsors of the Resolution offered but thought that the Issue was outside Council s interests. Alderman Simonite adroitly twisted an old adage to further this Side of the argument he said that the greedy isms of one political Creed or another gathered Moss As they rolled along. And he preached that the other Cheek should be turned even if he himself did t practise that notion. This Little flutter of theology prompted mayor Queen to observe it looks like you re about ready for an increase in the real estate whereupon Alderman Simonite flashed a glance that revealed which Cheek would be turned in that Case Alderman Gray sided with the Resolution in a polished written speech which he read with commendable elocution Ary flourishes. Alderman Morrison opposed the wording and suggested alterations. And that Little procedure provoked such an unseemly Melee of activity that mayor Queen got excited and stopped a speech from Alderman Thompson with the admonition just a moment i want to get this mixed which was too much for us. The submarine had Lay. The one of the Speed trials and orders were Points in the in for diving. The officer in meanwhile the thetis Stern of that operation noted that and finally emerged above thetis was not taking easily to surface. The Angle at which task. He checked what is Lay was High. The trim which set which flooding compartments and torpedo tubes were empty efforts to Avert disaster which were full. All seemed to the boat attempts were in order. He then began to to enter the flooded torpedo each one separately. Compartment through one of water poured escape Chambers. Men entered from no. 5 latter which were then filled water in order to equalize the trim chit noted that no. Pressure there with the torpedo tube in the fore part in the tube compartment. The vessel was. Full. One of wore the Davis escape equip company experts however which gives a limited air him it was empty. He turned to those who Wear it. But test cock on the tube and no pressure was such that the came out. He opened the door could not stand it. The escape was almost swept off his feet were flooded Down the flood of water that and the men left them. The under heavy pressure into happened in Early even compartment. He staggered and these efforts took up most the submarine began to tilt the night. By 11 . The air nose Down. The men with getting bad. The men were tried to shut the tube door. It from drowsiness and found impossible. They their Way Back through next morning capt. Oram water to the compartment expert submarine officer de and in haste and confusion to leave the vessel by the for the Ordinary by the Here is an attractive Little organizer is the Best in that you can read in an hour shakespearean in the so at any time Day or evening from the Ryerson press or. Murphy deals first with the works of Shakespeare As a great if you know your on our bookshelves re fairly Well you will approve us of Carlyle s address As enjoy Ever word of it and if you have no knowledge of the Rector of Edinburgh University. The greater part of the Book goes to the dramas As a you will begin at once to kingdom open to the them. Shakespeare and the of men and women by some diary Man is by or. George Murphy professor of or More Gates anyone of which could be called the Gate but there Are no Dalhousie University. In a and no tolls and they word sir Joseph Chisholm been open for centuries. He that it is an expansion of an article on the subject in the the kingdom taking along with him a fellow Ordinary Man to whom he is guide having been Housie review some time frequent visitor. They visit and that or. Murphy was in the Mac to publish it Between cloth covers. For he appeals to the As you like the merchant of and Henry til his companion Reader of average intelligence a working Man who lays by his begin Shakespeare and see for the Day and makes notes pleasure is in store for him. The Ordinary person May begin they move Here and there in the kingdom. They pass out in Starlight at Midnight. My com Home or with a group of is silent but i know that minded ones in a club where the Quick forge and working can discuss the plays. I suppose that every play published is of thought he had already moulded the habit of frequent All quotations in the ramble supplied with helpful of course from Shakespeare the comments suit the thesis who is the Ordinary Man a t. Or. Murphy and answers that 3 himself is one and that there is multitude like him. But a making his Appeal on entirely of clinical surgery is not an Ordinary Man. No More is a grounds or. Murphy is not daring to offer suggestions to the searcher in fungi who is now and staff officers of uni work on his eighth technical of Many reasons Why ume and can recite Shakespeare at length to suit any moment. I dare say that or. Murphy knows by heart scores and scores of passages from the plays and poems. Near the end of the Book he tells about a Small company in a refrains from assuming a role where even Angels might show one is that i know Little of the technique of his Appeal is to read Shakespeare for pleasure and keep on Reading until it becomes a habit. Town Cape Breton forming does not mention Lamb s Shakespeare class sir which employ the very text refers to it and quotes Howe the plays. I first knew them in some Twenty six years ago. And Mary Lamb s Little charter members were or. Murphy confides that doctors teachers limited acquaintance with this Farmers Coal miners. Many mind of human nature has never read a line of him effectually in the medi and their original profession which by its very of texts and reactions to the must Ever remain As much Sage of the drama were an Art As a science because magnificent in their Are More things both of most of those first members and of Earth in the psychic fearful that the meeting would pass on the confusion engendered by the grotesque architecture of rank re scattered and some Are in undiscovered country from which than chemistry May explain or the traveller but the keenest Laboratory research in or. Murphy s essay May the building escape. We hastened to have a circulation. The club is still going Strong. One Price is nominal and the Brief member then a Coal Miner and convincing. Escape chamber in the Hope of finding boats above that would pick him up. His escape was effected safely. The men below decided to continue the attempts to escape. Four men together entered the escape chamber which wat flooded but through the Glass i was seen the men were in difficulties. The compartment v flooded Down the four men pulled out but three were dead and the fourth died in a few moments. No survivor could explain what had happened. The mouthpieces of the equipment of the four men had been torn away and one theory tentatively advanced waa that the compartment had been unduly crowded and that panic had set in. This caused More delay but at last a Seaman and one of the com Pany experts entered the escape chamber and successfully reached the surface. They were followed by an officer and another Seaman. These two also reached safety All reported that there was no reason they knew of Why further escapes should not have been made. But no More men reached the surface. The rest perished. Primary cause not sabotage what mystery underlies this failure no one knows. The survivors lucidly told their stories though Many details were vague in their minds due to exhaustion bad air and fatigue. They reported they were finding it hard to make their minds and bodies co ordinate. But All agreed that when they left the thetis and shot to the surface they were confident the rest of the Crew could follow. Some fresh Accident they Felt must have occurred in the fated vessel to prevent further activity. This is the mystery of the thetis men escape Why did not More but the evidence so far available Points to the primary cause of the catastrophe being not sabotage but the error in opening no. 5 torpedo tube and letting the water Rush in. Evan Here How Ever it is hard to see How the Acci Dent could have been avoided. The officer in charge took All necessary Steps to ensure the tube was empty before he opened the door. It is thought that the tube perhaps had fractured making the disaster therefore unavoidable. From holy writ they shall not labour in vain nor bring Forth for trouble for they Are the seed of the blessed of the lord and their offspring with them. Democracy Robert m. Hitchins president of University of Chicago democracy can survive economic collapse external pressure and the pretty pictures painted by the dictators Only if the citizens under stand the nature and purpose of the state. It will not suffice to have them feel very democratic or get emotional about it All or react habitually to such habitual stimuli As the Flag the National Anthem or the fourth of july. Under our form of government we Are ruler and ruled. The citizen must know. Standards of education the Ottawa journal Canada we fear greatly is too inclined to measure education by the number of her schools and universities and by statistics of literacy. Yet we might have this land dotted with Fine school buildings and have great universities packed with students and have the lowest illiteracy rate in the world and yet not have real education. People Are not educated by being taught to read and write. They Are not educated by being made into specialists or technicians with respect to some particular activity. They Are educated Only when they Are taught How to think about life taught How to assess human and spiritual values taught How to conduct themselves with respect to their duties and responsibilities toward their fellow men. A Case of Hay fever about this time of year Jones always began to sneeze violently and his friends finally convinced him he should see a doctor and have something done about his Hay fever. The doctor said he would have to put him through a series of tests to discover the nature of his allergy. Well Start on the said the doctor looking at Jones As though he were a common rag Weed or pigweed Type of Hay fever victim. But when they had worked through nine varieties of ragweed seven varieties of pig Weed russian Thistle Lamb s quarters the common Mug wort and the burning Bush Jones did not give the slightest sign of a positive reaction. So the doctor went through a list of about 60 More Manitoba weeds scratching a bit of pollen from each in Jones s without any results. Said the doctor i guess you Are not a Weed Type. Well try one shot of dandelion and then cats Tail and turn to the grasses. Come to think of it. You look like the Timothy Hay the dandelion and the cat s Tail was like water off a Duck s Back to Jones who Kepi on sneezing and sneezing without showing any positive interest in Timothy Hay red top Canada Blue Rye grass Oats Barley wheat and even quack grass. None them raised the slightest Welt on Jones s to show what his allergy was. Strange said the doctor. Well have to try out the tree pollens on so they started with Manitoba Maples and worked Down the list to the horse Chest nut and White Pine and even tried Bamboo because Jones said he once had a Cousin who visited the tropics. After Jones still failed to react the doctor tested him for horse hair sofas cat s whiskers circus ring sawdust Orris Root Goose feathers fish Camel s hair and common House dust. Nothing happened. It must be something handed Down from your said the doctor. So Jones thought and thought and All he could think of was his great Uncle Harry s attack of shingles in 1910 and his Cousin Amanda s eczema the time she visited Brandon. Neither seemed to have much to do with Jones s Hay lever. The office staff where Jones worked was beginning to say that medical science had met its water Loo. But the doctor gave Jones 154 More tests and put him on a different diet every week. Finally came the Day when the doctor had to break the news to Jones. Look Here old he said taking Jones by the and looking him straight in the Eye you Are incurable. Your trouble is that you re allergic to too True we All come from the same Mould but some of us Are Moul Dier than others. De clicking the Slicker the Farmer s alleged ignorance of City ways has since time immemorial made him the butt of jokes at the hands of City slickers whenever he happened to come to town. The picture of the coun try fellow with Straw behind his ears yellow shoes a tie of alternating Orange and Green stripes and a cramp in his neck Muscles caused by Loo sustained a stare at the tall buildings is a familiar one. Less familiar is the picture of the City Slicker being made a fool of during his visits in the country. When it comes to telling an ignoramus fairy tales the Farmer takes a Back seat to none. At a recent fair in Central Mani Toba a Young Man from Winnipeg who had gone out to the fair to work listened in on the conversation of a couple elderly farm ers who were reminiscing on the old Pioneer Days in this province. Seeing the youth eavesdropping the two Farmers began to enlarge on their stories. Do you remember that Winter of 77, when every Hing in the country froze stiffer n he Tail of a scared rat the Cord Wood even was so froze we could t thaw it out so s we could ild a fire that s when there was nothing to eat but Jackrabbit. Replied his companion. That s one of the toughest win Ders Ever been seen in this part of he country. Nothing to eat but Jackrabbit that and do Yeh continued the first Farmer that time we was Hunting jackrabbits just four Miles South of Here and they ran so fast that for once we could t catch up with them we was so hungry we had to end up eating the tracks. Them were the Days All the two Farmers with never a change in expression walked away leaving the Young Man. Who Nad been listening with intense interest alone. He was at the air for two Days and he always did wonder Why these two farm ers smiled so broadly whenever they passed him. A ;