Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Printed and published Winnipeg free press company limited. 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba a w. Dafoe Victor Lipton president general manager. Registered at the general Post office London. Eng. For transmission through the Post in the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg Friday january fighting us. Trade policy the policy of the Roosevelt administration of Freer Trade with other countries will be seriously challenged by republicans and by a few democrats at the session of con is which has just opened. President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull Are Strong in the conviction that removing some Fetters of Trade is Good for the United states and an Vasion or because their Homes have been bombed. The Money will be forwarded to the red Cross in Fin land As has the already contributed by the finns Oil Manitoba. Fla. Which nent peace. Cou Vagemest to the cessation of economic warfare in the they believe must be one of the bases of per they have been acting under legislation which be renewed every three years empowering the president make reciprocal Trade agreements for three year periods and these to make Tariff reductions up to 50 per cent the d is on any class of goods. There is opposition to this Trade policy from inveterate pro zionists and certain interests which complain that they have injured by importations from other countries. They de re that the president should not be Given such wide Power. By would take it away and make All Trade agreements subject the approval of the Senate. The republicans making strategic preparations for the Side tial election next november intend to make this an important Issue at this session of Congress encouraged by the it that there is some democratic opposition to the adminis action s Trade policy. They will fight to prevent the renewal the president s expires next make add agreements and lower the Tariff. Failing that they will a to Amend the legislation by requiring ratification of the freemen is by the Senate which would delay and in All of ability virtually destroy Many of the agreements., a this controversy will be of direct interest to Canada since k Trade agreement with the United states signed on novem m 17, 1938, can be terminated on december 31, 1941, if either try wishes to do so. If the president lost his present Power forces which brought that about would probably end the Ide agreement with this country. But it is not by any Means assured that the opponents the administration Trade policy will win. In recent months looked As if it might be a critical fight. But the republicans not win without a considerable amount of democratic port and it now seems that this will not be so great As was opposed. Or. Tom King free press correspondent in washing .1, thinks that the administration will win the fight. Writing the possibility of anti new Deal democrats joining forces ii the republicans on this Issue or. King says such a happening however seems less Likely since their Leader. Senator Bennett Clark of Missouri has announced that he will work and vote for the administration s Bill. It is Seldom that or. Clark sees Eye to Eye with or. Roosevelt but he declares that the policy of reciprocal Trade agreements is the Only one that will Ever remove the blight of the Hawley Smoot Tariff act passed by a Republican Congress in 1930." or. Cordell Hull has replied to those who pointed to the por lation of Worth of agricultural products into e United states by saying that two thirds of these were non no Ettive. They were duty free in the Hawley Smoot Tariff d that the remaining third do not supplement our deficient Domestic or. Roosevelt has stated the reciprocal Trade agreements have increased United acts exports and that there is a potential Market abroad for that the statement has taken Csc memorandum prime minister s Blunt that the government no action whatever to prevent Csc employees from organizing will be reassuring to trades unions and labor people All Over Canada. The Csc memorandum of dec. 4, to which editorial attention has already been called in the free press was open to an interpretation widely made that the government proposed under cover of War measures to attack labor organizations incipient or in being All Over the country. The effect such a step or a suspicion would have upon our War Effort at this time would be far from Good. Or. King knew this and his denial of any responsibility for the memorandum on behalf of himself and the government will be reassuring. But or. King s statement throws no Light upon the origin of the memorandum itself. Its language was unmistakably definite members of the staff of the Csc who May be advised to bring pres sure to Bear on the management through a Trade Union should Rea ize that such a course in War time would involve grave considerations which his majesty s government n Canada could not disregard. A Thor increase in the Sale of United states goods. On the broader ground of the helpful influence upon the International situation of the example of the United states in swening Trade restrictions and encouraging economic co opera Between nations or. Hull has taken a statesmanlike Tii tude with the Strong support of president Roosevelt. Re Kintly assailing the foes of the Trade pacts he declared that the Sandon ment of this programme would Render infinitely More difficult the process of building an orderly and prosperous ,vorld." the difficult Days which lie he said the greatest of All issues will be whether or not the world will be reconstructed along the lines of economic Security and of firmly established order under Law. In the resolving of these issues the weight of our country s influence May Well prove to be decisive. By adhering to the Trade policy which we now follow we can throw our influence on the Side of economic pro Gress and of peace and our immense there Are Many thinking people in the United states who a Barzily agree with Secretary of state Hull. The United states of misgiving a Good Lead and apparently will continue to do so. Who it authorized is important to this phrasing ask. The closest Contact the Csc has with he government is with the min Stry of transport tout it would 3e curious indeed if this depart ment which is also the govern ment Contact with the Canadian National railways would either suggest or authorize the initiation of a policy so diametrically opposed to that in Force in the cd sir or. King s denial we May pre sume covers every member of the government including min ister of transport or. Howe. But it should be remembered that at least one member of the government or. Norman Mclarty the minister of labor had heard about the memorandum. He Wouk have been Well advised As soon As he saw it to have done something to Correct the false impression i gave. It should have been a mat Ter of immediate concern to the minister of labor that document had gone out. Such it is his Fin for Finland Hitler s wild dreams Grasshoppers in 1826 a flood in which the red and feet Washer Rivers Rose water level i the fruits of his labors deserted by discouraged so that he had no by Collaborator. These writes mrs. Macleod a through 34 years exist and to create conditions in which it was barely possible to live with any Comfort for body and Bishop Provencher s. Letters edited by Margaret Macleod and with a foreword by Donatien Frel Mont. The Bishop s biographer Wil commence in the free press Maga Zine Section saturday. Finnish tag Day the assistance of Winnipeg people has been sought for some worthy purposes but what Worth cause could there be than that of bringing Relief to those people of Finland who have lost their in the War that is being waged against them and who Are in great need of food and clothing most Winnipeg people have felt1 unbounded admiration for the Strong and courageous stand which the finns have made against the . They have held Back far greater numbers than their own and have inflicted very losses on the invading a ranks of the finnish shown amazing skill direct responsibility to see that Industrial relations in this country above All in War time Are pro Perly maintained. The origin of the memorandum should be tracked Down. The Board of governors of the Csc is responsible for the corporation s policy and the general manager for carrying it out. Was proper consideration Given to the matter by the Board of governors How Long before the memorandum was issued did the Board meet was the memorandum or the policy it up by the Board if so it Wasi ill advised and Little calculated to serve a Good purpose. Or did or. Murray consider it a Natter of routine which he him self was competent to handle if of he misjudged the Case badly. Or did both Combine in concocting his form of language so definitely committing a government which in reality knew nothing about it All these matters should be cleared up without delay. The Complete revelation of the character and mentality of Adolf Hitler his Long cherished ambition that Germany should dominate Europe and the world his contemplation five or six years ago of the aggressions and the acts of fright ulness that have since been perpetrated and his intention to persecute and oppress races which he regarded As inferior to the is All contained in the new Book. Hitler by or. Hermann Rauschning the author of revolution of or. Rauschning was from the first a leading member of the nazi party and a close Friend of Hitler. As the first National socialist president of the Danzig Senate he had Many intimate discussions with Hitler in the years 1932 to 1934, he made full notes of these conversations and these were the material for the new Book. Russian Alliance the decisive Gamble Tittler said five years ago that he might make an Al Liance with Russia if he Felt it expedient to do so and that he would turn on Russia later. He laughed at the idea of Britain and France fighting another Majo Vised that an Alliance with Russia would remove a lot of difficulties they could take joint action against Poland. But such an Al Liance he answered would not help Germany to become a great world conquering in this connection he said in a Conversa Tion with or. Rauschning on the contrary we should then distrust each other More than Ever and the end of such a pact would be the decisive Battle that cannot be escaped. Only one can Rule. If we want to Rule we must first conquer Russia. Perhaps i shall not be Able to avoid an Alliance with Russia. I shall keep that As a Trump card. And he declared that not Only would Germany become master of Europe but that nazi influence through the German perhaps it will be Gamble of my life. The but decisive it must not be made the subject of Hole and Corner literary gossip nor played too soon. But. It will never Stop me from As firmly re tracing my Steps and attacking Russia when my Aims in the West have been i could at any time Corne to an agreement with soviet he said at last As he paused and faced me. I could partition Poland when and How i pleased. But i Don t want to. It would Cost too much. If i can., avoid it i will not do it. I needy Poland Only so Long As i am still menaced by the Mission of German race to Rule Hitler was .-.he. Seriously intended to. Fight the West. What else do you think we Are arming was five years . Was Sug that no one will impede our and Vance. How to do this i Don t yet know. But that it will be is guaranteed by Britain s Lack of firmness and France s internal on another occasion he said he would attack Britain at All its weakest Points. He would attack Ndia and Canada. As in mein kampf Hitler talked in these conversations a Reat Deal about German blood the superiority of the German race and its Rule the world. Of this great dream he said to or. Rauschning Germany As it is today is no1 a biological unit. It will be Ger Many Only when it is Europe As Well. Without Power Over Europe an unequalled come. We shall awaken the world from its sleep. But we must have Europe and its heavy enemy. Forces have and effectiveness. They Are fighting not Only Toi their country their Homes and their Freedom but also in the great of All free democratic coun aggressor resistance favourable effect cause tries against ruthless nations. Their Stout May Well have _ a the Allied cause in they Are receiving needed War from Britain France and other countries including finns Unity in our fervent Hopes Are and we have an tomorrow s tag Day contribute something o Aid of those it inns who Are. Suf Fering sorely because of the., m from the Golden books from at last Whittler when on my Day of life the night is falling and in the winds from Unsun Ned spaces i hear far voices out of darkness calling my feet to paths unknown thou who Hast made my Home of life so pleasant leave not its tenant when its Walls decay 0 love divine. O Helper Ever present be thou and stay be near when All else. Is from me Drifting Earth sky Home s pictures Days of Shade and Shine and kindly faces to my own up lifting the love which answers mine. 1 have but thee Rny father let thy spirit be with me then to Comfort and uphold no Gate of Pearl no Branch of Palm i Merit nor Street of shining Gold. Suffice it Good and ill a reckoned and both forgiven through thy abounding i find myself by hands familiar beckoned unto my fitting place. The beatitudes Are in reality be attitudes they Are attitudes that come not from by from being. William Lyon Phelps. It is strange that whenever have a Small boy who is beyond control he always has a huge e. A Paine London probation officer. Fashion note Charity should also cover a multitude of Robert Quillen. Americans would dominate the United states. What Hitler said about Russia in should be interesting Reading to his present ally the dicta or in Moscow. He had been that such a t course would bring a hostile against Germany. That would be too Strong for her. He that is what i have to prevent. We must proceed step by step so famous finnish by the Bookman " thee grapes of Wrath appear under his. Name three a leads the list of Best later his first life and the was published Anc ers in the United states and for him his first Fame. Third in the English list. So works today fill 15 Taylor s Magazine the retail bookseller of which six Are novels his earliest full length the maid seems to have been it also prints a portrait and also As fallen asleep Vides a sketch of f. E. it was published the finnish writer who won the Macmillan in .1933, and tells the Story of a Farmer s Nobel prize in literature for and her death from and Short stories. Many the Scourge of Fin within the last ten years his has been before the 1920 the finnish government Academy. It is a formidable him a life pension in re Ron Mic for an English Tongue of his literary Genius the pronunciation is Here Given syllable by syllable the first to give him Leisure for writing they have awarded him prizes Foi most of his novels. In 1936, he re simply Sil the second an honorary . From a As in hut. Doubling the state University. The a in the last syllable merely unsigned from which i quote describes this famous Fin Lander As ens the sound which is Flat great bearish sort of person in Man. Put them together powerfully built and weigh Sillanpa a. His baptismal at least 250 pounds. He has an is Frans Eemil. In the sense of humor and is a first rate Teller of tales. He Speaks states his Best known Book nothing but finnish Meek a he has a Little knowledge published in new York two German and swedish arid can ago on the author s fiftieth probably his novels will All be translated into English Day. It had appeared in Long and thus have a circular nine years earlier. Although in Canada. And we Hope i maid Silja had been be a Case of reciprocity on there in 1933, it was Meek sides As. Witty. Mrs. Carry be Tage that brought the famous finnish author to the attention of american readers1 caught on As the term is. The reviewers disagreed about his faculty for telling a Story but poured out Praise Lor his philosophic brooding upon life and his cold Brilliant and irony of the highest his work says this written by one who knows even Rte its most say. By the Way Faber fab i Promise a reliable history of Finland s War of by lieutenant colonel Hannula. Of the finnish general it will give the heroic record of her struggle for Freedom in 1918, under the command of Field marshal Baron manner Heijn. Details Are Given o the principal Battles fought Anc won by untrained troops of in places is marked by a Fine courage. For nature by patriotism and a remarkable Quality of holy writ and in the portrait mine own Sake even for his features Are Large and own Sake will i do it for but it is striking should my name Sillanpaa was born on a i will not give my glory unto another. Farm in southwestern Finland. Isaiah spite of hardships in boyhood secured for himself a Good education earning his Way through University of Helsin fors. He a. Kingsland Toronto born Gan to write verses at ten and Jan. A 1869. Articles in a country paper at d. Suffield k.c., Winnipeg born Early age of twelve. The year eng., Jan. 5, 1878 his birth is not told but in. A Browne Norwood Man., Short stories and articles county. Nova Scotia showed a Good literary style "6, 1885. We must perish Renaissance will x removal of people he did t want he despised All the lesser Breed of Mankind regarded them particularly the jews Anc he told How easily the deportation could be arranged of people whom he wished to remove hmm their own countries. It a like this the Bohemian and moravian Basin and the Eastern districts bordering on Germany will be colonized with German peasants the czechs and the bohemians we shall transplant to Siberia or the to Lynian regions and we shall set. Up reserves for them in the new Allied states. The czechs must get out of Central the future of slav peasants in his plans was that they should be detached from the land and trans formed into landless labourers. That idea should also be of interest to the great slav nation with which Germany is now Allied. Hitler s plans for Hie . E disparagement and Eon ten vat expressed by the fuehrer for the United states even in 193-i, will not be pleasant Reading in that country. The Roosevelt administration was then just getting under Way. Of Gen eral conditions in the United states Hitler said this is the last disgusting death rattle of a corrupt and out worn system which is a blot on the history of this people. Since the civil War in which the Southern states were conquered against All historical logic and sound sense the americans have been in a condition of political and popular decay. A moneyed clique which pre Sumes to be Good society and to represent the old families rules the country under the fiction of a democracy which has never before been so nakedly exposed As a mass of corruption and Legal venality the beginnings of a great new social order based on the principle of slavery and inequality were destroyed by that and with them also the embryo of a future truly great America that would not have been ruled by a corrupt caste of tradesmen but by a real Herren class that would have swept away All the falsities of lib erty and finally Hitler planned. To establish nazi influence As the pre dominant Power not Only in South America but also in the unite d states. Do you he was asked that the German Ameri can rejuvenated by National socialism will be called to Lead a new that is exactly what i mean Hitler returned. We shall soon have an America. We shall Tram our and we shall have men whom degenerate Yanke Edorn will not be Able to Challenge. Into the hands of cur youth will be Given the great statesmanlike mis Sion of Washington which this t the papers of Edward. Blake 1. Which have been deposited with the University of Toronto and thus made available for inspection and study will undoubtedly throw Welcome illumination upon obscure phases of Canadian political history cover ing the three closing decades of ast period which had incidents and political develop ments not readily explicable. In the current Issue of the Canadian historical review f. H. Under Bill reproduces a series of Etters from Laurier to Blake found in the Blake papers dealing with the Transfer of the leadership from Blake to Laurier and the development by the latter of a fiscal policy for the liberals which failed to gain Blake s approval a divergence of View which temporarily had disastrous consequences for the Liberal party. The correspondence is Blake s letters Are missing owing to his preference which he never got Over for laboriously writing his letters by hand. If they Are still extant they Are perhaps to be found in the papers left by Laurier. If the correspondence in its entirety can be recovered an incident in Canadian politics about which there has been much breach Between Blake and Laurier which finally found expression in Blake s letter to the West Durham of made understandable. T Laurier s letters As pub 1 t listed in the Canadian historical review in addition to their political importance have High literary value. These were the letters of a statesman but they were equally the product of a scholarly reflective artistic mind one of these letters bears Date january 16, 1888. Blake was in Italy Laurier was in Canada preparing himself for the parliamentary session and ruefully adjusting himself to the Prospect of having again to Lead the opposition. He writes in accepting it the position o made a to what 1 consider the duty which i owe to my friends than people Are aware of. In the first place i have no taste for that All absorbing position. It is not con genial to my Lazy nature. You Are in Italy and i am reminded of the lines of Horace and i apply them to me cur Yale per mute Sabina Divitis my chief aim at this moment corrupt democracy under has trodden scholar and statesman would be to live quiet in this quiet place in the society of books and few select friends. The quotation covers the closing ones of the first ode in the third 3ook of odes of Horace in which he poet avows his preference for he quietness and serenity of his Sabina i am in contrast with the fevered life in the roman capital. The translation which perhaps comes nearest to the latin original s that of sir Stephen de vere then wherefore change my Sabinc Home. Where envy dwells not life is free for pillared Gate and lofty dome and the Dull Load of luxury professor under Bill com i men Ting upon the letter says this must have been almost the last occasion on which one Canadian politician quoted latin poetry to another with the expectation of being this gibe at the supposed deficiencies in scholarship of the politicians of a. Later Day May not be warranted but it would probably not be pos sible out of the political correspondence of. The past fifty years to match this letter in other respects. Here was a Man with no desire for the hurly Burly of poli tics agreeing to the sacrifice of his love for the quiet life at the Call of duty and going Forward with reluctance and yet with quiet de termination to a political career of great distinction and of notable achievements. Laurier s scholar ship gave Grace Charm and dig nity to his Appeal to his generation but what really counted was his courage and his Devotion to duty in her Public men which were never so necessary to Canada As at this present time. Struggle against eve Teinhold Niebuhr in the Spectator simple moralists Are always try ing to persuade us either that we have no right to contend against a virulent form of evil because the same evil is in us in some inchoate form or that we must contend against it on the Assumption that we have truth and Justice completely on our Side. The pacifists made a Good Deal of the first idea before the War and we shall be tempted toward the self righteous alternative Dur ing the War. Both propositions Are wrong. Wise men will not re quire the illusion of guiltless Ness to nerve them in a struggle against evil which has become truly de Monic in its proportions. Chickadee notes no. 980. Pigeon cotes of present and past we receive Many letters each fall regarding banded pigeons that have either been shot or have taken Refuge at a farm and the writer wants to know the Why and wherefore of the bands on the Birds legs. Such bands Are not the official government tags used for marking wild Birds but Are private bands used by Pigeon fanciers to identify their Stock for Breeding and racing purposes just As poultry and _ Canary fanciers band their prize Birds to identify the various broods and individual Birds. The sport Pigeon racing is firmly established in the Winni Peg area and there Are several clubs which conduct racing con tests in which hundreds of Birds Are entered to Fly Long distances the Birds being sent to the Start ing Point in special cages by train and released at the same instant by the starter. Each Bird wears a registered tag and As soon As it reaches its loft its owner removes the tag and inserts it in a boxed clock which registers the exact moment this is done. With the known starting and finishing times the officials can accurately calculate each Pigeon s Speed and decide the Winner. Homing pigeons of the highest class command fancy prices and their Breeding and training is. An Art. The sport is an ancient one in european countries where Birds have been bred which perform extraordinary flights Over great distances at terrific speeds but its devotees on this Side of the water have followed the age old traditions and reared Birds which have also turned in wonderful performances. From these remarks you will gather that breeders Are Only interested in Birds which return quickly to their cotes in those which do not lose their Way or loiter about on the flight. The Dawd lers and vagrants in each season s broods have no place in a racing Cote and they Are quickly weeded out in the preliminary test flights. Many of the tagged Birds staying at farms fall into this category but those shot by a thoughtless gunner May be valuable prize Birds winging their Way homewards on a Long distance race. Under no circumstances should a strange Pigeon be shot or trapped until it has had an to feed rest and be Opportunity on its Way. If it lingers about however its owner will have no use for it j. Once a Noble prerogative anyone. Interested May erect a Pigeon Cote in suit Able quarters and Breed pigeons either for sport or profit but it was not always thus. In medieval times the right. To erect a Cote was granted warrant Only to Barons lord s of the Ina rior and the clergy practically monastic House had its Pigeon Cote and in some churches the Spires were recessed inside to accommodate the Birds but no provision was made for feeding them the Birds Liv villains. The devastation caused by vast flocks of the Nobles pigeons played a Large part in in during the peasants to support the French revolution and in every european country Pigeon cotes were a source of trouble to the common people. Ruins of huge pigeonholes still exist in England and Scotland dating Back in some cases to the fourteenth Century. They vary in shape from the Norman circular and Square to the sixteenth Cen Tury hexagonal and octagonal but the general principle was the same a Tower with a few Small open-1 Ings at the top a Strong thief proof door and the whole of the Interior Walls recessed with Small compartments for nests. In the Centre of the building was a heavy perpendicular Oak beam that pivoted in sockets in the floor and roof and which sup ported a Light ladder to enable the Pigeon keeper to inspect the nests which varied from 300 to per Cote. Each nest Means. A pair of Birds and As there were probably Pigeon cotes in England in Early times one can understand the huge losses sustained in crops by the unfortunate Farmers of those far off Days and the resulting exasperation that finally made away with the Nobles privileges in regard to their private Colum Baria. Another wintering Robin g. R. Mot fall 294 Campbell Street Winnipeg was surprised to see a Robin in his Garden on Dee. 25. It appeared in excellent health. In regard to the ducks reported last week Wilfred Arnoll Winni Peg states that the Birds were mostly mallards and that on dec hundreds of them were on an open space m the Centre of Putnam Lake near Ninette. They were still going to the stubble Fields to feed. Christmas Isirdo census de. Robinson East Bay Man., noted the following Birds about his farm on december 25, the weather being Bright and moderately cold with Only a sprinkling of Snow on the ground Blue Jay 1 Canada Jay 1 pleated Wood Pecker 1 hairy Woodpecker 2 downy Woodpecker 1 White breasted nuthatch 2 ruffed grouse 7 Pinnate grouse flock Black capped chickadees 6 great horned owl 1 Pine Grosbeak 3 evening Grosbeak 5 Redpoll 12 Northern Shrike one chasing the. Chicka Dees Bohemian Waxwing 2 the latter have beep plentiful in Small parties All fall and Pine and evening grosbeaks were numerous a few Days before. Hungarian Partridge Are quite numerous in fact about As plentiful As they have Ever natural history society on monday january 8, by Cartwright will give a lecture illustrated by slides and movies on Birds in the the meet ing will be held in theatre f of the University commencing at 8.13 . The Public Are invited ;