Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. To t t Winnipeg free printed and published the free press company limited Noo Carlton Street Iii nil Lieg. Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe. President Victor Sutton Genera manager. Registered at the general Posl office. London eng. For through the Post in tha United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Get behind the War loan the terms of the first Canadian War loan have now been announced and the Campaign to raise begins on monday. How does All this fit in with the pay As we go policy announced last september by the government we do of course pay As we go. The Cost of the War is being met now Day by Day in the goods and services employed in the War Effort. We Are blowing away shells torpedoes and bombs. We Are wearing out ships and trucks and machinery boots clothing supplies of All kinds. Our soldiers sailors and air men must be fed and looked after. All this is being provided j asking its renewal Day after Day. In the form of wealth produced by our economic a solid Block of up publican . Trade policies a debate of great commercial significance to Canada is proceed ing before the ways and Means committee of the lower american House on the subject of renewing or revoking the authority of president Roosevelt to make reciprocal Trade agreements without submitting them to Congress. The president s authority expires june 12, next. The administration is machine1. The real Cost of the War is the consumption and dissipation of this huge percentage of our National production of goods. The government s policy is to provide the monetary Cost of the War by immediate taxation so far As that is possible. But there is realization that beyond a certain limit taxation destroys the ability to produce wealth. Therefore some part of the monetary Cost of War is to be met by borrowing. The government is asking the citizens of Canada to spend a Little less on their usual sources of expenditure to reduce their purchasing for their own Home needs and to hand that Pur chasing Power Over to the government to spend on War supplies. It is one Way of diverting the National income from its Normal channels of expenditure to the abnormal channels of War. The government recognizes that for the average citizen this Means inconvenience and sacrifice. The government therefore says in order to make it easier for you to let us have this Money we Promise you two things we will pay you something for the use of your Money now in the Way of interest san per cent per and we will let you have the whole Lump sum Back the principal in 12 years time. Then you can spend it As you see fit if the government does not get this Money it will not be Able to do what we All want it to do. What we want is Victory i in the shortest possible time. We get this War Over and done with. We want our boys Back again. We want the 1 suffering to Stop. We want the extra taxes taken off As soon fas possible. The Way to achieve this is to help the government to i organize the Victory. If we fail to help in this task the War is j going to drag on and on. We May even have to face defeat with 1 consequences to ourselves which we do not even want to think about much less to face. The Way to avoid this awful possibility j is to help in every possible Way. We cannot leave it to others to do. Opposition aided by some democrats from the agricultural states Are demanding that the presiden tial authority be revoked. One proposal is that such Trade agree ments in effect Trade treaties should be submitted to the Ameri can Senate for final approval. Tha would mean almost certain Block Ade of any Trade agreement since hostile interests could bring sufficient political pressure to Bear on particular items to eliminate them from agreements. Another proposal is that the multilateral feature of the Trade agreements be eliminated. Under the present Law where Trade con Cessions Are made in a new agree ment to one country they an automatically extended to othe countries already having agreements with the . Winnipeg saturday january 13, 1940 something should be done there is a belief in some quarters that War Loans can be left to the Rich who have lots of Money and who can lend it i for a few years without missing it too much in their monthly i budgets. This is not so. A recent estimate in great Britain reached the conclusion that even if every income Over a year were confiscated it would not come near paying for the War. The bulk of the nation s wealth lies in the hands of the i mass of the people. This is even More True of Canada than of Britain and what is needed for the real Success of this loan is that the largest possible number of people take a part of it. Meanwhile we can be proud of the fact that our country is infinitely stronger than it was when we were raising Loans in the last War. We have More resources behind us. Last time the government had to offer 5.33 per cent for the use of the Money borrowed. This time the offer is 3vi per cent. The interest Burden is going to be far less than it was 25 years ago and we will All Benefit from that. But. That does not Lessen the responsibility of All of us to see that the government gets the Money it needs in order to hasten the Day of Victory. The loan such tha proviso is one closest to the hear of Secretary of state Cordell Hull who has been steadily fighting Foi easier Trade relations and lower tariffs since the present administration took office. Revoking of the president s authority to make such agreements would not of course immediately affect the existing Trade agree ment Between the United states and Canada. But at its expiration after three years it certainly would throw great obstacles before its renewal if not entirely prevent or. Hull told the committee thursday that a peaceful world is Only possible by Active and mutually beneficial Trade among nations. The world he said faces anarchy unless it can be rebuilt economically by such methods As the Trade agreements provide. All International Law and morality asserted or. Hull have been brushed aside in a Large part of the world. The major part of the purchasing of Many nations has been absorbed in preparations for War eighty per cent of the world is living below or on the poverty line. The world is living on half rations neutrals As wed As belligerents. How about some. Doing right by Coats by . Judging from the dispatches i be feeling they Are really part of. Drouth having caused lowering of Lake Levels in Manitoba a canal is proposed from Cedar Lake to Lake win Peg Osis to help raise them. Size of the . I t is More than probable that one of the crucial differences which led to the sudden dismissal of or. Hore Belisha As Secretary for War in great Britain concerned the allotment of British armed forces to the various fronts now taking form. The Point of Dissen Sion is not new Between the supreme civil authority and the generals in the Field for successive secretaries for War had to contend with it against the generals com manding on the Western front in the last War. It reappears at the outset of this War and before any estimate can be placed on the strategic importance and Magni tude of coming spheres of action on fronts about to be formed per haps from the Northern states to the Middle East. French want must go Over in a big Way. A Channel Tunnel the great project of the St. Lawrence improvement which is if Likely to go through will appear j cantly have a counterpart in the construction of a Tunnel under the English Channel by great Britain j and France. The French minister i of Public works stated a month ago. That this project would be in the forefront of the great Public works to be undertaken after the r. Would he have made this Public announcement unless the 1 approval of the project by the i British government had been in j dictated entirely feasible from an in i Gine Cring standpoint the Tunnel thirty three Miles in length would i Cost Only half As much As the St. Lawrence scheme including the Welland canal. The British j estimate of the Cost is 1 and the Tunnel would pay for itself uth the Revenue from passengers transportation and the substantial saving in insurance rates. For thousands of years the Channel was crossed Only by water thirty years ago a daring Sou flew Over it. Ten years hence people May be travelling speedily and comfortably under the Chan Nel. The world does move. And freight in British exports. The opinion of the arguments in favor of it Are both military and economic. It would immensely facilitate Mili tary co operation Between Britain and France through the Swift transportation of troops and War supplies. French military opinion unanimously in favor of the Tunnel. Foch was very strongly of the same View. The necessity for closest possible co operation Between Britain and France in this War May have led to acceptance of the Tunnel project in Britain. An other argument is that any food blockade of Britain would be much More difficult if supplies from overseas could be landed at French Atlantic ports and reach Britain by the under Channel route. As for the economic argument it is believed that the easier and More convenient Access to Britain would bring far. More visitors from the continent there Are More than annually in peace time that the returns from this tourist Trade would be highly valuable and would improve Britain s position As regards bal a tribute to Macrae with As Little comment As pos sible we reproduce herewith an extract from the record of the proceedings at the 20th annual meeting of the Royal Institute of International affairs held at Oxford England nov. 7, 1939, with lord Astor in the chair before proceeding with the business of the meeting lord Astor referred with deep regret to the death of David Bruce Macrae editor of the Regina Leader Post and a member of the Canadian Institute and called upon or. Lionel Curtis who had known or. Macrae personally to speak a few words. Or. Lionel Curtis said i first met or. Macrae when i attended the Empire press conference in South Africa in 1936. Always brimming with fun and vitality he was beyond question the most popular member of that great gathering. When in August 1938, the group from Chatham House travelled across Canada on their Way to attend the British Commonwealth relations conference in Australia Macrae was wait ing to Welcome us when our train stopped for a few minutes at Regina. On our. Return through Canada last december or. Mac chemical warfare much of the literature put out As manuals of instruction by the War office is of a High educational value almost entirely unknown to milians. One of the recent publications is the medical manual of chemical warfare. This treatise prepared primarily for the use of medical men in the army does in its terse lucidity reveal the use of War gases As an act of Devi try. The germans first introduced chemical warfare when they sent Over chlorine on the Western front april Respirator 1915, but defensive when a against chlorine and phosgene was of help in the West the existing question concerns How big .shall.be. The British expeditionary Force sent. To France the common Factor in the British and French views is the natural desire of French As Well As British generals in the Field to be sup ported in their one sphere of action overwhelmingly by British forces. Two years ago British policy was that an expeditionary Force composed on the lines of tha of 1914-18 would not need to b despatched to France in this War that policy was accepted Canadian government Early Las year As the reason Why Man Power would not be our main Nee in this War. The French people Felt differently. General Maxime Weygand in an address last year before the Institute of International affair expressed by the British War office had been that a Small expeditionary Force was All that could be spared for the Western front when so Many other fronts of almost equal strategic importance would have to be manned from the Reservoir of British forces. Munich changed strategic plan Munich however was the turn ing Point discussions. The projected British military Contri ution to the Western front could of be viewed after Munich As it and been before. Liddell Hart admittedly influenced Hore Elisha and is. Seen today prob Bly to have taught the germans he virtue in defensive warfare which even or. Chamberlain in is speech two Days ago vaguely Intel May be lost Ori the British generals. When Liddell Hart re ised the the Western front wrote As a Munich the strategic Alance was changed markedly. For he worse. The French Public Ere. Naturally quicker than the Rittah to grasp the implications of he change in the land balance. The o British regular divisions which of Supply. He said Only a Day or two ago that the British troops now in France May. Be., regarded As Only the Advance guard. More men May be needed this despatching of such j from London the general Public has t been doing right by goats. It appears that when an air raid sounds accompanied by fire Bells horses act very much like any number of human beings is to say that they dash about dragging to safety the Bis Cuit Jar which Uncle Jeremiah won at the Coconut shy determinedly Impe Rilling their own lives and those of others. The Only Way with horses is to Blindfold them and for that you must first catch your horse. Goats it seems Are different. They proceed in an orderly Fash Ion or at. Least they proceed with out loss of any time at All to places of Security. True the Goat has been practising up on this for generations for it does appear that Early in the game he came to the conclusion that no one was going to Blindfold him or bother to Lead him out. So he got surprisingly Good at achieving a living any where from a Rocky Mountain ledge a rim on the Arctic coast a Plain of India or in the neighbor s backyard. Thus he is All ready and can take it in his Trot when the air. Suddenly becomes full of sirens shrieks and Bells. Clearly Home was never like this and without waiting for soft music off stage he gets out. And the lordly horse the in the party. So they were but at that the old lads in the Long Robes meant no Good by them. The in Tention was to do the trusting animal in As a sacrifice to Bac Chus which May be where the term Giddy goal derives. The priests of Bacchus had announced that the Goat went Lor the vines and that Bacchus did t like that cutting off his Supply so to speak. Thus the Goat was picked on for the sacrifice. True the poor men in the Vil Lages and out along the Plains thought quite highly of the Goat. They could live on so Little for one thing which is an excellent Quality when there is Little to live on. Even Moses takes the Odd paragraph off to mention the goats and the patriarchs what with their extraordinarily Large families must have been grateful to the animal or should have been for the provision of milk and hair. For weaving and skins for shoes and bottles. Trained the germans resorted to the use of the Arsenical and mus Tard Gas. Of All the known Chemi Cal warfare agents Mustard Gas is the most versatile. It fulfils the three objects of Gas attacks it inflicts casualties harasses troops and makes ground dangerous to occupy. The known warfare chemicals Are Likely to be used again and others May have been found but the new difficulty of defence against them is that they can be used much More offensively than they were in the last War. The phenomenal development of air Craft has introduced new methods of Gas dispersion by air Gas bombs and Gas spraying that will give results ghastly to imagine and vastly difficult to counteract. The function of this military manual is to train medical branches How to diagnose and to protect against the effects of this inhuman weapon at London ended with these significant words the British expeditionary Force a the time of amounted to the six Battle of Yore divisions. Now owing to our vastly increased Libil ties we shall need twelve divisions quote these estimates of the division needed quite frankly. We always a that the British expeditionary fore should be As Strong As possible. This intimation was More tha a hint Lor the intention free strength British troops of All branches to the Western front will put on the War office from which or. Hore Belisha was removed the responsibility of providing the troops to Man the other spheres of action foreseen by him. Others fronts too will have to be manned by the British. As those fronts begin to disclose themselves they May be expected to form a line that will run As an arc from the scandinavian states by the lowlands by the Western front in France through Rumania Down the Balkans to Turkey and so to the bigger Battle ground where the vital resources of the Alii will have to be we Yuan d be Tell Igent horse the beloved horse consents to follow Only consents but insists. Thus in England will you see such owners of horses Are sending out a Call for goats and Are placing them in the stables of the horses. Have got into the news vat before but that was a Long time ago. Once in a while the greek and roman poets mentioned them and they have even got sculpt usually with a Dressy Garland banging about their horns. This however was just a gesture and perhaps the Goat was t really taken in by it although garlands have been known to be fool the still the Goat has not secured a really Large place in Litera. Ture nothing at All comparable to the place which his services to Homo Sapiens should have secured him. We cannot think of a single sonnet to a Goat in marked con Trast to the numbers on Milady s we and roses and Moonlight and All the time it was the Goat who was paying the Bill. The Only line of poetry which comes to mind is concerning Robinson Crusoe who made him a coat of an old Nanny Goat As you will recollect and even that ends on a rather cautious note i w Onder How he could and now Here Are old Billy and Nanny not pausing even to shake their extraordinarily Wise looking old Heads when Mankind goes off at this newest Tangent but Allun of hurriedly starting out to where tilings Are somewhat quieter and taking with them in their train the animals who with the dog have shared most in Man s affection and Trust and respect. It is time the Goat had a few Wisest of men and perhaps of goats appreciative words addressed to also. At any Vale they appear to him. He has won them. We might have sent to France september or even the five hat could perhaps be made Avail Able when their equipment was com but a slight compensation or the 30-Odd divisions which the czechs had mobilized from their re sources. Thus the deprived of this indirect support were anxious for a Promise direct support on land from us on a much larger scale Han had hitherto , contemplated. The support on the larger scale was sent to. France under the direction of Hore Belisha in sep tember last. The plea that that support is still insufficient. Is the Echo of the general s lament for More troops to. Throw into the deadly offensive heard the last War. Generals command . Any one sphere. Of. Action invariably want f the. Troops they can Muster the wish is. As natural As it is common to whether they be. British or French and those in the Field now in France appear to have combined to press their the British the bigger Force is now being sent according to or. Leslie Burgin the minister armies in the near East. It is right that the French nation should be assured of All the sup port that the British forces can give them in France but realists As Are the French people will realize that if Only defensive warfare can be waged on each Side of the Maginot line the Battles of move ment will be on those fronts which afar off Are becoming the left and right flanks of the Western front itself. American songs by the Bookman from the Golden books from to the memory of my beloved the author master William Shakespeare Ben Johnston his contemporary to draw no. Envy Shakespeare on thy name am i thus ample to thy Book and Fame while i confess thy writings to be such As neither Man nor. Muse can Praise too much tis True and All men s suffrage but these ways were not the paths i meant unto thy Praise Ance of payments on the continent in connection with freight ship ments both ways there would be a definite inducement to use the Adam and i were entertained at dinner by the Branch of the Cana Dian Institute at Regina and Mac Rae was one of our hosts. We parted with solemn promises from him that he would seize the urst Opportunity of being our guest Over Here. Macrae was one of the most lovable human beings it has been my Good Fortune to know and also the wittiest of speakers. When this morning s Post brought me a supplement of the Winnipeg free press announcing his death and dedicated to his memory i could scarcely believe my eyes. It is hard to think that one so full vitality is no longer amongst us his loss is a blow to Western Canada and especially to our sister Institute ask you to Rise in your places in Token of our sympathy with their loss of a Noble Comrade who was also a beloved Comrade of some of us the. Thousands of friends of the Republican Solidarity by Tom King Washington . Honor Able Robert h. Jackson the attorney general knows his own mind and never fears to express it. At the Jackson Day banquet in. Cleve land Ohio he warned the assembled democrats that they coup to not be any. Too sure of carrying the next presidential election unless or. Roosevelt was. Their candidate. Louisiana leads in fur take Louisiana conservation review Louisiana occupies an important position in the fur Industry and holds it chiefly because of the Mil Lions of muskrats produced each year. During the season of 1929 30 the total catch of rats reported in the United states was of which Louisiana was credited with this catch is remarkable. The area in North America spreads from Newfoundland to Alaska and from Louisiana to Cain fornia while in Louisiana their producing area is limited to lower Louisiana yet in a single year this state contributed 75 per cent of the entire catch of North America late d. B. Macrae on the Prairies will Welcome this proof of the extent and Power of his personality from holy writ then the eyes of the Blind opened and the ears of the Deai topped. He could not say that or. Roose velt would accept but in Case he did some colourless conservative candidate was named in his party would face disaster. He pointed out that there were Many million voters who could be counted upon to vote the Republican ticket in any and every presidential election. He estimated that a much smaller number o people could be. Counted upon Etc vote for a democratic presidential candidate merely because he was labelled a Democrat. In this connection he cited some interesting figures to show the Solidarity of the for example in the presidential election of 1920 the Republican polled sixteen million votes. In 1924 they polled Between fifteen and sixteen million votes and made a like showing in 1932. How Ever in 1936, with no Hope o Success they polled More than sixteen million votes. Therefore in 1940 they could count upon polling seventeen million votes n matter what platform was adopted a incl because of the quicker i Charm and influence. Then shall the lame Man Lead As an Hart and the Tongue of the dumb sing for in the wilderness shall Waters break out and streams in the desert. .6. No matter what candidate a chosen by the Republican nations convention. Normally the democratic part is a minority party. It cannot Hof to elect a presidential Candida unless he makes a Strong. Person peal to the electorate and adv ates measures of social Reform which Appeal to the Homes and to he hearts of the american people. Hence it happened that in 1936 or. Roosevelt polled several Mil on More votes than the Ratic party had been Able to Muster in 1920, 1924 and 1928 combined. It was a Victory for Loosevelt and the new Deal Ather than a Victory for the democratic party indeed in that Campaign a num a per of democrats took a walk and he republicans polled their nor Mal vote. The achieved by the president came rom a multitude of voters who ordinarily do not trouble them elves enough about politics to go of the polls the age the applause wonder of our stage my Shakespeare Rise i will not Lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser or bid Beau Mont lie a Little further to make thee a room thou Art a Monument without a Tomb and Art alive while thy Book doth live and we have wits to read and Praise to give. And though thou Hadst Small latin and less under the title the songs that America Over 20 old songs with their music and with coloured drawings have been published in a volume to suit securely the piano rack by Simon schuster new York and in Canada by messes. Musson. They have been collected for this ele Gant edition by Hendrik w. Van Loon and Grace Castagnetta. Or Van Loon writes a biographical introduction of some 30 pages Valu Able for the Young generation of canadians especially. We have Sung or heard nearly every one of them. Another volume is promised to include the songs left out notably negro spirituals. But swing Low Sweet Chariot and deep River Are Here. Or. Van Loon explains the inclusion of Valerius prayer of a dutch hymn. He says that it is taken for granted that american history began with the pilgrims in new England. But other White men had established themselves in the North several years earlier though he does nol say the word Manhattan. That is by old Mas Ter Valerius the honorable notary of the City of veere who would have been my neighbor if he had not departed this life some three centuries before i was the Date attached to the musical setting is 16.26. In the gloaming is placed Between it and Darling Nelly the last song in the Book. The Star spangled ban labelled 18th Century eng Lish was written by Francis Scott key during the american revolution. The Brave Story connected with its writing is a Long one told in the introduction. Key died in 1843 and was buried in Frederick Maryland. Not until March 3 asked or. A Becket to help him arrange some patriotic verses which he was to sing the next Veek. Or. 3 Becket obliged him but Only after a Promise that he would neither sell nor give away a copy to any third person. The Promise was not kept and or. A 3ecket, after an absence returned o find that Shaw was publishing t under his own name. A Long Egal Battle followed that was never decided. The Story reads As Hough referring to the music. The Battle hymn of the re my old Kentucky Massa s in de cold cold Home on the Range and the mariners hymn Are included. Among those dealt with in the forming introduction is Stephen Foster author of of my old Kentucky old dog Massa s in de cold cold and Many a South Ern song that once we used to sing. T is a sad Story. He died at 39 rom injuries received a Frac tured Skull when falling. That ancient dutch song of thanksgiving is translated in the simplest popular terms. But i want to quote the last stanza of the modern America the though picturesque it is essentially a spiritual. Beautiful for Patriot dream that sees beyond the years. Thine Alabaster cities gleam run dimmed by human tears America America god shed his Grace on thee. And Crown thy Good with brotherhood prom sea to shining born Pike River 1889. Henry Ditchfield birthdays mrs. S. C. Carcary Winnipeg born Bath eng., Jan. 13, 1846. J. A. Barry. M.l.a., Winnipeg born Winnipeg Jan. 13, 1886. Judge l. P boy St Boniface Man que., Jan. 13, St. Clements Man born Ham Staffordshire eng., Jan. 13, 1861. Fred j. A skill Winnipeg born Lincolnshire eng Jan 13 1872 l. A. Mutch Winnipeg born Crystal City Man Jan 14, 1397 j. A. Matheson Springfield Man. Born Kuonan Man., Jan. 14, 1874. John Pollock born Huron county ont. Jan. 14, 1851. John a Mccorkindale Elkhorn Man. of Coll Scot. Jan. 14. 1878. Mrs. Elizabeth Matthews Winni Peg born Ashton Sussex ens. Jan. 14, 1842. From thence to Honor thee 1 would not seek for Call Forth Thund ring Aeschylus. Euripides arid Sophocles to us. My Britain thou Hast one to show to whom All scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of. But for All time and All the muses still were in their prime for a Good poet s made As Well As born and such Wert thou look How the father s face lives m his Issue even so the race of Shakespeare s mind and Man f ners brightly shines n his Well turned and True filled lines in each of which he. Seems to 1 shake a Lance As brandished at the eyes of ignorance. of Avon what a sight it were to. See thee in our Waters yet appear and make those flights upon the Banks of that so did take Eliza and our Elizabeth. James 1. 1931. Was an act of Congress passed and signed by president re making the Star Banner officially the National Anthem of the United states. the twelfth song m the Book. The familial song beginning my country Tisol is interpreted by or Van Loon As a charming word Pic Ture of his country written deliberately and not inspired As a National Anthem. Tihe song Given first place is America the com posed in the nineties by Katharine ebates a professor of English at Wellesley the women s College. She travelled Over most of her country Ere writing the poem. It is been set to music by two com posers. Then there is Columbia he Gem of the a truly National song though Gem seems the wrong word for so vast a Republic As the United states Many and Many a writer mus Tiave wished that they had name the i land it was firs Sung in Philadelphia in 1843, and the authorship has not been positively decided. There Are two one an englishman named Thomas a Becket not the namesake who spent most of his life in Philadelphia and the other David t. Of the same City both were musicians. The tradition is or legend maybe that or. Shaw midget submarines ;