Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Winnipeg free press printed and published Winnipeg free press company. Limited. 300 Street Winnipeg. Manitoba. A w. Dafoe. Victor Sitton president general Blanc ser. Registered at the general Post London. Ens. For transmission through the Cost in the United kingdom at the newspaper Rato of postage. January 12, 1940 basis of financial strength 1 what Canada is Able to do in this War will depend on her financial strength and this in turn depends on a Strong eco nomic position. To develop this in every Way and to accelerate production of wealth will enable Canada to give her Best support to the Allied cause and to Bear More easily the Cost of fee War after it is Over. Fortunately thence Are Many valuable to Fonovic opportunities before the country under the present car markets Are available for increased production of almost every products minerals newsprint umber manufactured goods in great variety. This year promises to establish a new record in Canadian exports to great Bacon cheese lumber in Par ocular. Britain will take about All that our Farmers can produce Bacon and cheese All the lumber that she can get in Eastern Anada and All for which shipping can be provided from . She is taking every Pound of Nickel Lead Zinc and Copper that we can Supply and a considerable amount of aluminium. These and other exports to Britain will be in addition to the great quantities of munitions ordered in this country. The discount on the Canadian Dollar immediately Stimus ated exports to the . Such As lumber and logs from . The blockade in the Baltic sea has interfered so seriously with the shipment of newsprint to Britain and the ., that a greater Opportunity has opened up to the Canadian Mills. Russia s in asian of Finland has lost to her a valuable Grain Trade with the scandinavian and other countries leaving openings for Canadian wheat. A notable Opportunity for our manufacturers now exists in countries to which German exports formerly went but now Are Cut off. The free press correspondent in Ottawa recently said in three areas of the world alone Germany has forfeited of exports annually. Her exports to South America and Mexico last year were to South Africa to China the bulk of this Trade consisted of manufactured goods most of which can be obtained in it is Well to know that there is at Ottawa an Alert and Ner Getie minister of Trade and Commerce in Hon. W. D. Euler to is seeking through the widespread Trade commissioner ervice and otherwise to gain for Canada the full advantage of sose available markets. We have a competitor in the ., but Canada has the double advantage in exporting to the countries n question of the discount on Canadian currency and of the act that Canadian products Are More complementary than lose of the ., with the products of most of the latin Merican countries. Canada is better Able to Exchange Trade with them for they Export such things As Cotton Coffee Corn. Ool. Oil seed. Tin. Nitrogenous fertilizers Cocoa tar and Petroleum. German exports to latin american countries have been oing As follows millions of Brazil 65.2 Argentine 59.5 Venezuela 15.5 Uruguay ,14.5 Mexico 18.5 Peru 12.5 look out Brauchitsch he s getting another inspiration chinese bamboos by the Bookman the generosity of Chile Colombia Guatemala Bolivia Ecuador Costa Rica Al Salvador 36.6 16.c 5.0 3.8 2.9 2.8 1.3 the Trade and Commerce department is seeking to give acadian manufacturers All the detailed information possible bout the nature of this Trade and to Deal with the difficulties n connection with Exchange Trade restrictions and shipping Acil tics. The latter May be met. In part by intensive ship building activity in this country. Another Fine Chance for Canada lies in the suspension of he tourist Trade which . Travellers ordinarily brought to Europe. Much of that will now go to Canada Mexico and South America. It is for our various tourist agencies and Lor canadians in general to seek to land As Large a share of that Trade As possible. That requires not Only efforts to attract the visitors but a consistent Endeavor to make their stay pleasant land satisfactory. There have been Many unfounded reports in the . About inconveniences and difficulties for tourists comin. Jio Canada in wartime. These have been pretty Well met by Jio Unter publicity. There is no inconvenience or trouble whatever land the visitors have the advantage of finding that their Money i now goes considerably farther in this country. If Canada could get 50 or 75 million dollars of additional tourist Trade due to the Access to Europe being Cut off that would be very Well i worthwhile. A it is very Clear that there Are highly important opportunities flying open to us during this crisis. They offer immediate Benefit with returns to the country that should greatly assist it in j financing its War activities. But they also offer a priceless oppor of Unity for permanent advantage to Canada. Let the Quality of i Canadian Bacon be Well maintained and let the practice i be established of maintaining the Supply round and we shall retain a permanent hold on the British Market a a valuable Trade with Assurance of better income for Canadian 1 if armours. There is a tide which taken at the flood leads on to Fortune. I it is at the flood now for Canada conspicuously so in various respects and it would be Folly to neglect it. There should be Earnest Endeavor to use these opportunities for strengthening our economic life. Emphasis now should be on recreational and cultural training. In this province where presi Dent Smith Heads the committee lectures have been in full swing for some weeks on causes of the geography of Northern recent history and Cus Toms of the French and French these Are but examples of the efforts being carried on from coast to coast. Aiding Are not Only the educational departments and the universities but a Long list of organizations including the . And the red Cross. Although so distinctly a civilian movement for the Benefit of the civilians who make up our forces it is recognized by the department of National defence through the division of auxiliary services. The Public is sometimes concerned in its efforts to retain the democratic freedoms and at the same time to engage As a nation in conflict for its life. The same conflict goes on within the personality of the civilian Soldier. It is not a hardship it is fatally easy to place one s self at the command of others slut fing off responsibility. The educational programme tentative As yet grop ing its Way has As its aim and Las within its Power to retain for the civilian Soldier his ability to walk by himself As Well As to keep step. For these reasons for the pres ent and future of the Soldier and of his country it is devoutly to be hoped that the educational programme will succeed As it will sue when backed by the convictions of those directly concerned in it and by the intelligent Good will of this nation. Educating the troops Winnipeg has an added interest the educational services arranged for the members of the Canadian fighting forces in the adult education association and the Canadian legion since or. Robert England has been an Sun cd As the senior officer in charge. But the whole plan sex lending As it docs across Canada overseas brings forcefully to attention the questions involved in 8 democracy at War and the new Jnet hods involved to meet them. The Point of Tocus is that the Soldier of our forces is not Only or chiefly a unit in a military or sanitation. He is that but being 60 he does not cease to be a citizen of Canada. He is not Only train to defend the future of this country and make such a future pc Syible but he remains himself Rittal part of that future. Working out from this thesis departments of education univer cities and organizations throughout Canada have been canvassed Anc As a result the present set up is feeding its Way towards cohesive educational facilities for the Mem Ders of the forces. Each Community is Given free Dom to set up in its own pro gramme. Thus in London where he Western University Extension department has taken charge arrangements have been made for a travelling Library to serve the also classes have been Camps opened in the local technical schoo for any of the soldiers who a desire them. Toronto University and the on Tario department of education have in mind the establishment a conversational French and Ger Man classes and a plan is als afoot for classes in the Centra technical school there British Columbia reports that s far the plan most enthusiastically for correspondence Junior and Senio matriculation. British Columbi feels that during the Active ser vice period the men Are. Getty sufficient vocational training in their War work. The this Freedom the efforts of the Canadian association for adult education 198 College Street Toronto to meet the special needs of War continue to be Well directed Anc reduced. Attention has already Een called to the. Series of Little pamphlets on various aspects International affairs., a new Ven ure has now been launched entitled food for the St Issue is this described As a guide to Good citizenship in time of it i written by or. R. S. Lambert Anc Apo graphically Well got up. Thien cent Cost is slight in compari on with what one gets for Thi Lime. The pamphlet is what it says i s a mass of factual information n current problems. Part i set jut the facts about civil Liberty n peace time. Part ii describes Lur special War time regulations our peace time rights. Part Iii describes the interpret Ion so far As it has gone of those regulations or. Conant attorney general for Ontario has done this most part in sets out the prosecutions that have taken place under the War time regulations. Opinions will differ As to the Wisdom of these regulations their interpretation and the prosecutions. Whether we agree or Dis agree on this matter this pamphlet gives us the basis for an informed opinion and the association Foi adult education must be highly congratulated on the Job. Further received courses is in Freedom in wartime the fight for Freedom this is the last of a series of Arti cles on the War time regulations in great Britain and Canada. When asked a few Days ago if the government has any intention of withdrawing and re Ising the defence of Canada regulations following the line marked out in was officially stated that on the con Rary great pressure was being exerted to put More and deadlier Teeth into those regulations. Or. Foot s address with this in mind it May be of interest to review briefly the debate in the British House of commons on october 1, which in the British govern ment agreeing to revise the regu actions promulgated at the out break of War. An address praying Tor such action was moved by or. Single foot Liberal member for Dundee. In moving his address or. Foot conceded that extra Ordinary Powers must be Given to the government but care must 36 taken not to permit the government to go farther than was necessary. These regulations he said exceeded this and he mentioned particularly the regu lation which appears As number 21 in the Canadian defence red Book. Against this regulation he spoke with passion touched with caustic ridicule. Were men to be Market with a Scarlet letter like Nathaniel Hawthorne s heroine so that none could associate with them it is a most amazing thing that in a War into which we have entered As we Are told from every hoarding and by every minister in order to defend Freedom we should Start by seeking to Fetter the free expression of opinion. He recalled a statement made in 1915 by sir John Simon then attorney general in the Asquith government in which sir John had Laid it Down As fundamental that the sharpest distinction must be drawn Between True Anc untrue statements. That distinction he said had been drawn in Britain in the last War but a not drawn in the 1939 British de Fence nor is it in Thi defence of Canada regulations or. Foot declared that an advisory committee such As is provided in regulation 22 of the defence o Canada regulations was no prope substitute for trial in a court o a. In the first place the Man who is. Committed will have n y that at a time when we death grips with Germany Hen feeling was running very go All the time pacifist meetings and pacifist propaganda were Able go on. I have always thought rat that provided one of the most Complete answers to those who a that after All Liberty in this country is merely a Sham. But Here something which it seems to a May result in completely sup Ressing any propaganda of the und that i have described. Only other Day there was an elec on which resulted in an Over helming defeat. For those who anted to make immediate peace n any terms. Most of us very such welcomed that result but of much less impressive it would ave begin if those who were in be minority had been prevented putting their views before the Tector ate. Or. Foot said that any member to believed the Chamberlain government was infallible could ote against his address. But he id not think such a View was cry widely held we All know that during the last new weeks there have been errors and blunders on a very consider ble scale. A great Many of those errors have been put right hey have been put right because f the criticism of this House from in press and from the Public a whole. One wonders what would ave happened if a Large part of lat criticism had been suppressed s a great Deal of it could be uner the Powers contained in these regulations. It seems to us that the vents of he last six or seven weeks have served to show that ree discussion and criticism Are of a source of weakness in an emergency but a source of strength. He believed the historian Trevelyan was right in ascribing of Victory of Marlborough s Day o the free institutions of Britain that was True in 1706, and there re Many of us who believe it will e equally True today. We think hat once again we can contradict the expectations of Many eople. On the continent of. Europe it it. Seems to Many of us that this Art be achieved Only if at a time if emergency and War instead of trying to suspend our free ins Titu ions we jealously preserve them. The wishes pamphlets Are to appear each month. We Hope the Standard of the first Issue will be maintained from and the. Parched ground Shal become a Pool and the thirsty Lane Springs of water in the habitation of dragons where each Lay Shal be grass with Reeds and rushes. Birthdays William Bathwell Man. Born Bally Bay. County Monaghan Ireland Jan. 12, 1856. Opportunity Cross examine i accusers. Everyone knows that Evi Dence which cannot be tested b Cross examination is worthless secondly there is no provision hat he will even know the Caus of his detention. Or the Case Thi in has to then this searing Flash we Are imprisoning a Man under this regulation because h has been tried and found guilty o any offence known to the Law no indeed because he has committe an offence of any kind but simple because the minister considers desirable that he should be detained i suppose i that is what meant by the posters which Tell so frequently that our Freedom imperilled. A source of strength r. Foot came to regulation 39 this is regulation 39 i the Canadian red Book b m1 remarking that canvassers. Of the peace pledge Union had Bee warned that they might be prosecuted under ii he went on in Reading the history of the la War i have always thought it a one of the most remarkable test monies to the genuine politic Freedom which exists in this coun wishes of All the political parties thus assuring the maximum of Freedom. In Canada the defence regulations which contain All the pro visions against which the British House of commons successful protested continue in full Force and effect. Indeed there is reason to fear that they May be made even More exacting. A the the Ontario museum of archaeology is publishing a series of museum studies printed and distributed by the University of Toronto press which is Likely to be a rival of All. The. University presses going. second in the Ontario museum series a Beautiful and valuable Book chinese by William Charles White associate pro Fessor of chinese archaeology in the University and keeper of the East Asiatic collection in the museum. Tiie text is a revelation of the importance of the Bamboo in China. The first chapter treats of the Trees botanically and we Are told that you can almost see them grow in Daylight though they grow faster at night. They have no bark. The first 11 Chap ters include essays on the Bamboo in Domestic life in prose Litera Ture in legend and folklore in poetry and in Art. The second Section goes to translations from chinese on seals scripts on the 12 months of the year and on plates indeed the whole Book is a wonderful album of chinese bamboos. A list of uses to which Bamboo is put would fill ques Tion is not what it is used Tor but what it is not used the ancient historical records entitled Bamboo books for the reason that they were made o slips of Bamboo containing data of history and Strung to Genbei on thongs. Translations Iron verses in the essays on the Bam boo in poetry Are 19, none with out meaning All Short lyrics o Ain and. More frequently writ in on paper or Gauze for Pic ures. For in China calligraphy and painting Are Allied especially n relation to the Bamboo. But chinese script is an Art confined o scholars therefore writers Are usually and artists Are writers. Actual paint ing of Bam invariably. Spoken of As in the., Section devoted to the twelve months of the year and his National tree Are two Lovely pictures of delicate Leafy bamboos Der a Fuh Moon. The frontispiece Snow on the autumn is coloured and shows he Roadway in a Fortis of the Trees approaching the grounds of five Clouds Temple near hang How. How close the slender Trees grow Oget Ber. The Boles too slim to be bought of As trunks but As Cones or they Are hollow As we know. They attain full height in one sea. On even though it might be Over one Hundred feet. Branches do not begin until near the top and the Lafage is not heavy but Beautiful. The canes Harden with the ears and do not readily Wost of the poetic script concern no the months is taken from poems by tie Man of the rain Chen and each month has its pro verb for instance. Strong re perseverance belongs to the seventh month rooted in the rocks to the eighth and Bear no up the Snow to the ninth. In translating the Veree on bamboos professor White did not give rhymes in English but sought to give accurate meaning and the chinese feeling my spirit which Are so difficult to convey in our Western he has Given us an illuminating work in picture and in the letter Box views of free press leaders of the Peoples the debate proceeded the government was so severely mauled that for a consider Able space of time sir John an Derson the minister speaking in defence of the regulations a unable to obtain a hearing. The speeches clearly prove that the members of All parties knew tha in attacking the government they were carrying out the wishes o the people at Large. Their species were dotted with quotations from the British press of which the Fol Lowin j is a fair Sample. It is taken from the conservative newspaper the Glasgow Herald Liberty i no cherished in War than in peace Freedom we Are into rec a la Kiek Stoky to the editor a trans Continental train today i read in the Winnipeg free press an editorial referring to professor Underhill s article in the. Current is sue of the Canadian historical review in which he reproduced a series of letters from sir Wilfrid Laurier to Edward Blake. One of these letters bears Date of january 16, 1888. He writes in accepting it the position of Leader i made a greater sacrifice to what i consider tie duty which i owe to my friends Tolian people Are aware of. In the first place i have no taste for that All absorbing Posi Tion. It is not congenial to my Lazy nature. My chief aim at this moment would be to live i diet in this quiet place evidently Arthabaska Ville in the society of books and a few select the last scene brought Back to y mind an incident going to show iat while honors were heaped on Lim in the intervening years the ame desire for a quiet cultural be remained with him to the end. It was my lot. To be in Ottawa n the saturday following his de eat in the reciprocity election of 911. The election had been on the thursday preceding. With his lever failing Grace sir Wilfrid a me on the Street and invited me to accompany him to his office n the East Block where we spent Iree Asar As i was concerned hours. And is was the remark he made that its in. So perfectly with his letter o or. Blake Wien i said goodbye to my life the night i left her to open he Campaign in Norfolk county told her i am going off to fight my last Battle. I expect to win it if we lose there will be a Sil lining in the Clouds for then we can go Back to Arthabaska Ville and enjoy. Our books and Flowers of the rest of our Days then with something almost pathetic in his voice he continued last night my wife met me at he station As i got Home from Quebec where he received the election and As we drove Home she said to me Well Mon Cher the Silver lining is torn from the Clouds for your lieutenants have All fallen and you must fight on merely quatrains. I must Quot lines from one that reveals the relation of Bamboo to the chinese though hardly poetry. It is tolerable to eat without meat it is intolerable to live without bamboos. Having no meat causes people be thin having no bamboos causes them to be vulgar. When people get thin they a become fat again when scholars become vulgar the Are the Bamboo appeals to the artist by reason of its Beautiful forms in Stem and Branch and Leaf also by its symbolism aesthetically and morally. The four gentle men in growing plants Are the Plum the Bamboo and the chrysanthemum. In chinese Art the Bamboo is embroidered on tapestry and stamped on Linen carved on Ivory Woodstone Metal lacquer painted on Force composed tiny 31. 3rfl2. By the official posters peril and we must defend it with Al our might. Some threats to free Dom Sievern now to be coming Jerom a Good Way nearer Home than Ber Lin and the people will look t their in parliament to Pul up a most Resolute defence Here is another Sun Day mail which is a staunch sup Porter of the Chamberlain govern ment litter Tyr what else do we fight for the people Are United we March shoulder to shoulder to defend our Liberty against attack from Eib Road. What about the Horn front it looks secure but is it the new defence regulation smack of Gestapo methods which the British Public will not tolerant in War or. In in the end sir Samuel. Hoare on Ehatt of the government announced that the regulations would be revised in keeping with the from the Golden books composed on Westminster Bridge Wordsworth Earth hath not anything to show More fair Dull would he be of Sou who could by a sight so touching in its majesty this City now doth like a Wear the Beauty of the morning silent Bare ships towers domes theatres and temples lie open unto the Fields and to the sky All Bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did Sun More beautifully Steep in his first splendour Valley Rock and Hill Neer saw i never Folt a Calm so deep the River Glydeth at its own Sweet will dear god the very houses seem asleep and All that mighty Heagy is lying still. Chickadee notes no. 981. A Pelican nesting Colony As a general Rule it is the Large Birds of a country that Are the first to suffer following the advances of Man into their territory so in the settled portions of the Contin Large Birds ars comparatively rare. The americas still have Many big species in existence but this is due Only to the compare Lively recent change in attitude of govern ments and Peoples towards our wild life As Twenty years ago there were definite signs that Many of our were headed for extinction unless they were Given Protection. Fortunately this fact was recognized in time and the vigorous conservation programme that Lias been carried out for Many years has borne fruit and the is now reversed. One of the Birds that decreased notably in numbers with the open ing up of Western North America was the White Pelican which suffered not Only through the drainage and drying up of its nesting grounds but also from the attacks of thought less gunners who seem to the Hill that every Large Bird is a heaven sent target for poor marksmen. No doubt of its appeared in Good to Tih oot a Pelican and Many a Pic Ture has been taken of a funner alongside the. Harmless Bird its wings nailed out to show its nine foot Wing spread. Such pictures now advertise the As a nature waster and Are Seldom seen. Meadowlark still present or. R. D. Bird. Brandon entomological Laboratory reports that he saw a Western Meadowlark on Jan. 7. I was Witlin 25 Yards of to and there was identity. It Lead shot in Duck s Gizzard j. A. Wallpe assistant superintendent of schools Winnipeg re ports Liat he found 79 shot in the Gizzard of. A Mallard which was shot at Delia Man., last fall. Most of the shot wore in Good condition and Only a few showed signs in the Gizzard s grinding action so that the pellets had but recently been swallowed. The Bird s flesh and intestines appeared Normal. Ducks feeding on heavily shot Over marshes scoop up pellets with their food when the pellets Are numerous Lead poisoning Ofuji re with what courage and Devotion he again took up the Challenge to serve As he saw his duty history is forever recorded. J. F. Mackay. Toronto Jan. 5. Too much in Mcberty to the editor i was most interested in your recent article scholar and in which you cited Laurier is quotation of Horace odes Lii. 1 and suggested that de vere s , it was perhaps nearest to the latin original. Horace wrote thus cur Valie per mute a Berta Divitis de vere s this passage is As follows then wherefore change my Sartaine Home where envy dwells not. Hie is for pillared Gate land lofty dome and the Dull Load luxury some scholars will believe that de vere gave himself too much Liberty in his version and i would suggest to you that a version pro posed by a Manitoba scholar in of. Skuli Johnson of the University of Manitoba hits nearer the Mark. Prof. Johnson renders the lines thus Why should i strive a Nail to rear on High with portals envied. In style new and strange for riches More laborious Why should i my Sable Rale diligent a. Winnipeg Jan. 6. 1 Elican Colony this picture was received by the Hon. Stuart Garson provincial treasurer from p. W. Durant game guardian at Norway House Man., who stated that these juvenile White pelicans were found on an Island in Moose Lake Northwest of Norway House on june 3, 1938. This Island during the Breeding writes or. Durant to or. Garson is covered with nests and Young pelicans cormorants and gulls. Sometimes wild geese Are to be seen but these keep to them selves and do not seem to mix with the Birds pelicans bred informer Days from Northern Wisconsin Centra Minnesota and South Dakota Norto wards of their Range but were gradually driven to the North and found in the. East Only in Central. Manitoba. far , they have but in greatly reduced Nuin Beds the c Breed ing Range extends from Southern California to great slave Lake. Although the Pelican is Clumsy on the air it is a Majestic flier and to see Ono fishing the a spectacle Worth watching. a Chance. There is. Every Prospect of the Birds be Corning More plentiful and nature lovers May yet have the thrill of seeing them loafing about our Lake Resor Tsas do the Brown pelicans in Florida where they Are used As advertisements to glorify the Beau ties of the state. It formerly considered heroic suits and Tho helpless and die. It is a Safe Rule never shoot a silting or swimming Duck take Only those that Fly strongly on the Wing. Miss Brandon. Notes g. Irene Todd Man., writes perhaps because of the Lack of which makes the Birds More easily seen there seem to be More Prairie Chicken Hun Garian Partridge and ruffed grouse. Several magpies have been noted and it seems strange to scare up the Odd pair of mallards now and then. Nine snowy owls were recorded during december and on the Hilt i saw a snowy Csech a Rabbit that froze on Brown stubble. It. Is amusing to watch a under a Bisish As it would into a Sno Bank. I miss Todd his a unusual port a Large flock of Franklin gulls noted on december 17- also a Flicker in Park Orn thcx19lh and a yellow bellied Flycatcher on november 29. On december 3. A flock of 17 Klue jays were seen probably on migration on the 9lh. Nine ring necked pheasants six Miles North of the City and on the 19th five Canada jays i natural history society i or. C. A Goulden president of the Winnipeg Cine club will give an illustrated lecture on color in the meeting will be held in theatre f of commencing at 8.15 . The pub Lic is invited ;