Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 16, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba R Pas. Wais i Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Printed and published the Winnipeg free press company limited. To Carlton Street. Winnipeg. Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe. Victor Sifton president general manager. Registered at the general Post office. London ene., for transmission through the Post in the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg tuesday january 16, 1940 -119 co. A uts is a general election although the life of parliament goes on legally for a Good Nany months yet. The certainty of a general election this Spring widely accepted in political circles this is easily under Tood in the Light of the government s decision to go to the country last fall. The peril of War the danger of War breaking it in the midst of an election Campaign averted the event. 3ut the a no again considering the Dea and this for various reasons. It if Likely that or. King is unwilling to carry on the Busi Ess a the country beyond the usual life of parliament without new mandate from the people especially in View of the new and violent turn that War has forced upon our National policy. R. King is punctilious to a fault in All matters pertaining to he Constitution. He is also a thorough going Democrat. Both characteristics would incline him against any prolongation of parliament s life. It is also Likely that he and his colleagues 11 supporters of the somewhat doubtful theory that a govern Lent s chances Are worse the longer an election is postponed believe that postponement of an election would work against Lem politically. This was the Factor which almost brought us to an election Campaign last fall. An election in War time however is something which should of be embarked on without the gravest consideration of All the cum stances some of which we venture to present Here a a i everybody has some shrinking from any plunge in War the. Into the turmoil of a Campaign it is important this year maintain the greatest possible Unity and concentration upon the sues of the War and it is unreasonable to suppose that Canada Ould embark on its Normal electioneering without stirring up much that in present circumstances it would be Best to leave one. There is also the argument used against an election by Dward Blake in 1885 in connection with Kiel s execution and sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1916 i would not wish to open the portals of office with a bloody no Man wants to serve is own private ambitions by cloaking them with the patriotism i the electors certainly not so Long As the overwhelmingly dominant opinion of the electorate is United As it now is upon he need to put Forward a tremendous and sustained War Effort. It is obvious however that or King himself is not in a position to make use of that argument. He would be at once caused of trying to prolong his term in office because of the for that reason it is Worth while suggesting to him that e might consider the course followed by sir Robert Borden or prime minister during the last War. The life of the Parlia nent elected in 1911 expired in 1916, and sir Robert following he example of the British parliament brought Down a motion or the Extension of parliament for 12 months but he made it ear. In doing so. That he considered himself to be in the hands f his political opponents. He himself believed a War election Ould deflect and injure the National War Effort. But if Sii Vilfrid Laurier considered the government s mandate be exec renewal he was prepared to go to the country. Sir Wilfrid sing the phrase we mention above rejected the offer of an Lection at that time. A year later however with issues sharply dividing the country and compulsory military service just found the Corner the situation changed. Sir Robert again Rought in his motion which after a Short but memorable de at. Was passed by a vote of 82 to 62. Sir Robert could have aired another year in office but faithful to the belief he had the previous year he declared that in View of the e opposition to his motion he would withdraw it. And go to be polls. Or. King in weighing the present circumstances might Ike into account this previous experience. He himself if he suggests an Extension of parliament s life treads on delicate round. Should he ask for it on patriotic grounds when every be knows it Means the prolongation of his own government s be on the other hand what motive apart from this personal be would he have for going to the country there Are in 1940, dry Unateny. No such Sharp dividing issues As those that marked he situation in 1917. Such issues have not Arisen and we May Wpc they will not arise. Should they War brings cry sudden changes with he. With a 1940 election Nituda and scope of the War loan what it will to the Dominion and just Why people Are subscribing. Films Are a Force in the world. The Brandon stenographer copies Claudette Colbert s coiffure the English waitress buys models of Joan Crawford s dresses and the american taxi Driver tries to talk like Clark Gable. But the documentary film often does much deeper than that. It can take a group of people quite commonplace on. The surface and weave them and the work they Are doing into something with Force and meaning. Canada has made a number of films in the past but few of them have had the spark to ignite wide interest. Call to a nation is it is to be hoped the forerunner of a new film Era for the Dominion. All concerned in its making Are to be congratulated. Or. Carson s speech the Manitoba provincial treasurer struck out a Fine phrase in his speech before the Canadian club yesterday which was heard Over a National radio network. He said that no one expected our dollars to be deserters in this War. His address an admirably simple exposition Canadian financial War policy made it Clear that everyone by subscribing to the War loan could help win the War. The mobilization of capital is As important As the mobilization of men. The government asks the Little Man needed for to lend the Money the Little Man is the this country s it does not lie solid Backbone of financial in the big investment houses or the Homes of the millionaires. It rests secure in the hands of Mil Lions of wage earners and salaried employees on them and not on the shoulders of the big the Fate of our War Effort rests. Ichinco him really have a True mandate from the people t not mean that he would have to go to the country again hese Are real possibilities. It May be therefore that or. King s Wisest course might x to follow the example of sir Robert Borden and put the question fairly before the present Leader of the opposition or. Lanion leaving the decision to him alone. The conservative eader has More than once expressed some dissatisfaction with 3ur War policies. Does he believe the time has come to effect j change in government if so he should be Given the Opportunity to demand that parliament s life be not extended. But or. Manion May feel that his criticisms of Canada s War policy we still on matters of detail rather than on major policy. He May feel that the turmoil of an election Campaign should be voided if possible. In that event he could properly be consult d on the matter and an amicable arrangement reached As was Jone in 1916. A great Deal is to be said on both sides m this question and it will be hoped that no precipitate decision is for which either or. King or or. Manion can be blamed. Catholic army huts during this week the knights of Columbus Are appealing publicly for funds again to establish army huts along the lines of those they established in the great War. Special attention is called to the concerts to be Given on wednesday and thursday at the civic Audi orium which Are to have their proceeds devoted to the same Pur Ose. These army huts Are to assist he Catholic chaplain service but re also havens in the general older welfare work. They Are spiritual abodes in that they pro Ide temporary chapels and As Uch they Are moral and religious treats. But in the last War they too social refuges in which soldiers got Many Little supplies ree and found recreation Anc Reading and writing materials. Seventeen of these Catholic my huts were maintained in England in the last great War 16 n France and some 20 in Canada the gratitude with which they vere entered by soldiers of every Aith is the Best testimony to the proposal them in this Var again. These army huts form Art of the government auxiliary services and will once More have s their slogan wherever they Are located everyone Welcome Anc everything not Selling socks a news item brings Back memo of 1914-18 when every few decks it App necessary to Chase and scotch stories that red Poss Focks scarce Etc. Were feeling sold to soldiers by various agents. This alarmed mothers and listers who were giving the time knit for they would hear of one who knew some one who new some one s husband or son no had been charged for some that each Story had been donated. Rew with its Repe i Ilion but always it was to the discredit o the red Cross. Once and All the red Cross Only in Manitoba but very where. Is not in the business of do Ler tin any of the things donated Lor the Comfort and Well being of older in the Field in Hospital prison Camps or wherever they Triay be. The origin of these stories is difficult to Trace but it is quite i possible to imagine that a pair of 50cks or some other article reach los the hand of a Man who does immediately need 3 wants something else y become occasionally the object of informal bartering in the j course of which Money j change hands. This is outside the be of the red Cross or an i other Agency to Check. But it does of affect the fact that every possible care is taken to avoid it and that the percentage of article which become the object of these transactions is. Wholly negligible those who spread the Storie Lay themselves open to the charge of indulging in gossip which Hope Lessly exaggerates whatever Evi there May be. Film War loan film John Grierson Canadian commissioner is already bringing fresh vital note to the Makin of documentary subjects. If to want proof you need go no further than any of the downtown Movi houses this where Call a a nation is showing. Here in terms of vivid Cinema is set Forth the aim and essence of Canada s first War loan. The picture could have been ver worthy and very Asmo Canadian documentary films hav been in the past. But or. Grier hav Aliv and his co workers evolved something that is and exciting. The cast consists o prime minister King and some o his Cabinet supported by Prairi British Columbia lumber jacks maritime fishermen Ontario Bankers and others. From beginning to end the film attention catching in a minutes you Are shown the mag the rally for civilization Allan kevins. Professor of history Columbia University in the. Now York times in world affairs there was Ime late in 1938 when Justice seemed to have no Champion orce and the fascist Naz Phalanx is had obliterated or annexed half a dozen nations. Hatred and terrorism were in the Saddle and the remainder of the world stood irresolute. But there came a final rally o magnificent unanimity and Stern Ness. The sense that civilization self was in danger that the re assured heritage of 500 years o slow Advance toward Standard of stability humanity and Hono n International relations was imperilled that arrogant perfidy an brute Force might take Comman first of Europe and then of the world rendering it unfit to Liv n this aroused Britain an trance when As yet 110 immediate Challenge had been Flung to thei vital interests it has. Aroused enlightened Peoples to their Norma if More than that i required who will say that it wi1 not be forthcoming a terrible we a Well exclaim in looking Back it. But its very blows and Losse have had their compensations stripping away some of the illusions which have blinded Gre multitudes. And it has closed Upo a note of rigorous dedication which is More than inspiring. It is not wholly a decade loss which ends in our America Republic with tens of million More fully aware than Ever be fore of what democracy an social Justice really mean with the country at last shaken out of it shallow belief that it could Stan selfishly aloof from the rest the world and play no part _ i shaping International Destine it is by no Means wholly a Decad of loss which ends with frenchmen crowding the _ Blea trenches and Brave English Rne facing the perils of mine infested seas in defence of Aims which in Plye the whole future civilization. With us again accuracy of War news or the last four months the War news has been of Sun reme interest on this Side of the Atlantic As Well As in Europe and will remain so As we run into be first critical phase of the War i bin the next few months eople frequently ask if the War news is dependable How much Ley can believe of what they read i the newspapers. It was for the Benefit of people asking this ques on that the subject was Dis used in a Frank intelligent and informative Way in the Chicago University round table broadcast n sunday. The broadcasts of hese weekly discussions have uni or Only measured up to a High Tankard for the fairness shown and the extent of the information Iven. Participating in this discussion n the Quality of the War news Ere the foreign news editor of he Chicago daily news an italian professor at. Chicago University to had been editor of a news Aper in Italy and director of the government press Bureau and the Secretary of the Chicago Branch f the foreign affairs association t was charged that with euro Pean nations controlling the e news and suppressing much of it the foreign correspondents were not Able to get the facts and give the real picture of what was going on that if they used what was Given out by. The official information Sureaux they were giving Only one Side that some correspondents were Apt to color the news according to their own sympathies and that being under the pressure of Competition they were Likely to indulge in too much speculation and that some newspapers in the United states published garbled reports and presented them in a Way to suit their own views. A a in answer to All this it was stated that most newspapers recognized their responsibility to secure from their correspondents Complete and accurate reports As far As it was possible and to pre sent them fairly to their readers. Most of the foreign correspondents were experienced and Well Quali fied for their work. If they used information Given out by the governments or if they got it in other ways and from various sources these reports were All labelled the pertinent poems by the Bookman lines from two poems j. By Swinburne written 50 years ago Are they not truer Oday r. Dark Miscovy reptile in Rancour ase Germany blatant in guile ii but we know we believe it we see it orce Only has Power upon Earth o be it i and Ever so be it. Or souls that Are beast Al by birth. Prussian with Hussian Exchange tha kiss jut sea Folk Are Iree Folk j Grace of winds and Waves. I picked them up in a letter in be of the English weeklies the ther Day. But i think of words familiar sonnet that great oem beginning _ it is not to be thought of that the flood if British Freedom. A descriptive poem signed re Garvin appears in literary to of its eight quatrains and the last the Finland Finland Viola Ger the times Here Are picturesque of its three temper in Finland eight months Are lapped in Snow and quiet you do not understand quiet Down Liero but the other Lour Are pure crystalline sparkling and the heart files High in the Pale Gold Northern air. Silver the Birches quiver Aspen and Willow along the lakes double their Silver Sheen and torrents Tumble and swirl from River to broader Waters and the world is illumined trans Lucent is Golden is Green. Knows what we All have struggle pain and sorrow that teach endurance to the stumbling soul but she knows too that after the night Dawn wakens and the spirit sings and the wounded heart is to t and now some passages from Canadian three Poeter from the icelandic in Heil Kringle translated by professor Skuli Johnson of our own univer sity. The poems Are from a opposed in 1893 by Stephan g. Tep Hansson. From a Winter s at dawning of Day when we wakened anew not wanting was bedding enough for night with her Snow had our pallets o ers Pread a foot deep in eiderdown ror had kindly Providence tinted to Ward her worshipful Best. For Over him. Had she made Drift Snow to mass and deepest upon him to rest it bitterly cold was the air when the Sun slow climbing and Cloud wading came or throats gripped a fever that ached in our limbs and closed on our chests like a irishman was a partner in an improvised Camp. From evening i stood on the platform. The car coupling by and in the draught aired me alone within was the night air oppressive 1. And there sat everyone still As a Stone. The train into space and the darkness its Way circuitous indistinct dashed and never was its Cours ing than then it spurted and hurtled and flashed but out from me straight and Unsay ing on High. Each Star in the firmament raced. From holy writ no lion shall be there nor any ravenous beast shall go thereon it shall not be found there by the redeemed shall walk there and the ransomed of the lore shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting Joy upon their Heads they shall obtain Joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Isaiah 10. When a perfectly contented with his lot in life of and the Clam cousins Fulkerson Rosita Forbes who has travelled far and wide in the East notably n Syria and the arabian deserts and also in India keeping a record on All journeys and publishing them in volume after volume has now abandoned the Orient for the Western world. Her latest Book is entitled a Unicorn in the and no definition o he word nor its classical history seems to explain the authors use of it but doubtless Many readers will understand it Rosita Forbes is the daughter of a Lincolnshire Squire. In 1911, she married col Ronald Forbes a Highland officer her recreations Are cited m who s who As travelling Hunting exploring in Arab countries with an Arab companion. Judging from criticism a Unicorn in the is a True report if tile critics know. Two Short excerpts from the Book itself. Loveliest of All sea born lands where and Clouds reflect colors unknown to the rest of the Earth the Bahamas have been in turn Thi Headquarters of vices so prodigious that they can Only be measured in terms of again they sacked a defence less City or attacked a fort ringed with Cannon delivered slaves o Cotton according to contract stole crawled committed in describable horrors died for an idea or a scrap of torn a Mast head showed prodigious courage took life and lost it with equal in worm other visitors Tell a different Story sources clearly indicated so that be Reader could take them for that they were Worth when experienced correspondents wrote interpretative despatches contain no their own conclusions based on their observations and study of foreign affairs it was plainly to in seen that the despatches were f this character. It was admitted that there was allure on the part of a few Corres and a few newspapers in tie United states but it was claimed that the great majority of he correspondents were hones and faithful in their efforts to be he real news and that most of the newspapers presented it in an partial manner. The consensus of the discussion was that this was largely True tha f the whole picture were not presented it was not for Lack of Effort or of a sense of responsibility. The correspondents secured All Thi news they could and when it a not Plain statements of fact it a in such a Way that Thi could " always it value. The effect of this discussion was largely applicable to the Canadian newspapers in their securing and presentation of War news. The free press and some Ither newspapers have their own correspondents in London. And he Canadian press association which serves All Canadian dailies i As a Bureau in. London which athers news through its own staff and which also receives the euro Pean news from the Reuters and lavas agencies and from the associated press All valuable news services. The Canadian newspapers thus a Large amount of War news from London in addition special correspondents Are some Imes sent Over by some of the second member of he. Free press staff is there now by the Canadian press. But the Canadian newspapers Are not Able to place trained Cor respondents in the various capitals of Europe As the larger news papers of the United states do Anc Lor this reason the free press secures the valuable european Cor despondency of the Chicago daily news one of the leading news papers of the United states which for years has had an ably staffed foreign news service. The United states is a Neutral country and the Chicago daily news endeavours t cover the War news As completely and As accurately As possible. The despatches from its correspondents published in the free press Shoul be welcomed by. Readers who a interested in the impartiality o the War news. In addition the British United press serves free press readers. The free press is doing its bes to present the War news As full and fairly As possible. Its Des patches indicate the sources of the news. This is done t its readers and they in turn should observe the labels so t speak and assess for themselves the value of the reports. The. Are published because they a regarded As of sufficient interest whether they Are confirmed or not readers need not be misled if in Reading , they not the authority for its contents. E Hague at this moment it is possible to ask people Reading questions about Holland s Ater defences and run no risk f being slapped into jail. The coding of the lowlands has been o nearly completed that the peeing of a couple of Gates would Irrig if to High tide in two or three hours. Pride of accomplishment has Aken the place of recent official hitters and All in All this seems to a Good place for an inquiry into he matter of the boy who saved he country by sticking his Finger nto the leak in the Dyke. This seemed to be the right time of commemorate the lad who held Back the Ocean with a Chubby Humb. What were the people of is native Village thinking As they a the Waters creeping up through he Orchards and Over the Tulip Beds would the statues that a grateful nation had erected in his Honor survive the rising tide would the Little boy s peaceful Leep in some 16th Century grave Rard be disturbed by the lapping if Waves about his Headstone one paused for a reply. What happened to others in the question cannot be told Here but this is an honest report of where be line of inquiry led and what if anything it produced. We went first to the Library Here where an ancient peered at us Over he tops of thick lenses glasses the boy who put his Finger into he leak in the he repeated what Dyke what the Story was told to him As it had been told so Many hundreds of thousands of times to american school How the Little lad was going Home and saw trickling through a Iny Crevice in the sea Wall How birthdays Charles a. Dow Gilbert Plains Man. Born Stratford ont., Jan 16, 1874. Through Ages of human trial Anc the mystery of Man the flesh a things As bad As we see an worse but the present crucifixion and mock eries of the spirit Are in some ways observer. Who plugged the Dyke by Robert j. Casey this Library appears to be incomplete. Such an important charac or should have been Given a whole Section to himself. But there you arc. Not Only am i completely Gnor Arit about him but it seems that everybody else is so we called the department Bridges and Waterways and made an appointment with one George de Vries an Engineer who once lived in the United states. De Vries did what he could to be help Ful. Another he observed when he heard the question. You he stopped the Hole with his Finger arid remained there cold and mis Erable throughout the night Anc How eventually he was found by a search party of villagers who did something to the ably Cut a piece of Cork to fit and restored him to the bosom of his distracted family. One did not mention to the librarian the criticism of Irvin s. Cobb that the boy had plenty of courage but no knowledge of hydraulics. I have never heard of this the old Mac said gravely. Much of our land is below sea level that s True. And. Leaks in the Dykes May be dangerous that is also Rue. But such leaks Are not generally repaired with Little boys thumbs. That is what makes the narrative very he went through his records but he did t find anything. I am very he said. But i think Are the 20th reporter who has tried to find out something about this heroic boy. And you be come to the right place the boy s name was Hans a a de Vries stopped at that Point for applause but he did t get it we recalled a Book that we had won for attendance Good conduct or something in the fourth Grade. Hans we mentioned was a lad who had something to do1 with Silver skates. He never played around with Fin that said or. De Vries stiffly i am very sorry. An american Magazine editor spent about on cables trying to find out the name of this boy and i told him it was Hans Brinker. So far As i m concerned it s going to remain Hans Brinker. Arid was there anything else you wanted to so one went out into the fog and canvassed policemen and soldiers and important looking persons on bicycles. One drove Ojito the Vil Lages along the water lines and questioned waiters in restaurants housewives and Barge captains with discouraging results. A Day s research established the fact that there is no Public Monument to this Noble boy and the further fact that experts Dori t see How you could Stop a leak by putting your Finger into it. One came Back to the hotel a bit saddened by it All. One had t expected that so proud and Cour Ageous a people As the dutch could be so neglectful of their heroes. But in the lobby one met major Coburn military attache of the american legation. The trouble with he said is that you waste your time going to the wrong sources. I know All about this boy. He lived in Mcguffey s fifth Reader in the United states alongside the boy who stood on the burning deck. He did t have any parents except the author x so his name must have been Mcguffey. The dutch never heard of but we already knew that. Of copyright. The Chicano daily news. Inc from the Golden books a War Tell this in some More courtly scene to maids and youths in Robes of state i am a woman poor and mean and therefore in my soul elate. War is a Ruffian All with guilt defiled that from the aged father tears his child a murderous fiend by fiends adored he kills the sire and starves the son the husband kills and from her Board steals All his widow s toil had won plunders god s world of Beauty rends away All safety from the night All com fort from the 4the Virgin Mother Speaks to the shepherds in Coleridge s striking poem. Christmas the after War the ramd table cd the peace must be a just peace. It. Must do Justice not Only to the germans victims to the czechs and the poles but to the germans themselves. That Means a peace which if circumstances permit. Can be negotiated with a Liberal German government a peace which a fair minded German admits in his heart to be fair so fair that it cannot be successfully caricatured As a ver this is even More must be a peace which at least the great majority of the Neutral Peoples can approve. For it will need More for its maintenance than the strength and Resolution of those Peoples who Are now fighting for Freedom. It will be essentially related to the wider settlement which alone can make Freedom Safe and no Subh settlement is conceivable without the co opera Tion of All the Freedom Loving Peoples of the world. Physical exercise itch Cape South Africa by the Side of a widespread enthusiasm for physical culture and a Papular fashion of keeping tit there is much sceptical speculation concerning the alleged Vir tues of physical exercise among people who claim to enjoy As Good health As their More ath Letic neighbors my yet have no need to employ their time in play ing games or executing meaning less movements with body and limbs. The British government two years ago. Gave impetus to the Vogue for physical exercise. The present British prime minister when he was Chancellor of the exchequer first announced the policy of his government to Supply increased facilities to the people of Britain fur the promotion of physical exercise. It Wai to a former British minister Joseph Chamberlain that the boast was attributed that his Only form of exercise was Riding m a cab. It would be interesting to know whether in this. Or. Neville Chamberlain approves the policy of his government or his father and which after All is the More desirable. Pedestrians to blame the Windsor Star without exonerating reckless motorists for the blame that is theirs the time has come when the responsibility of pedestrians should be plainly stated. If the average car Driver were to drive As carelessly As the average Pedes Trian walks then the streets of any Large City would be a veritable Slaughter House. There Are walk ers who break rules of safety Al most every time they Cross the Street. If anyone doubts this let him go out and stand on a Busy Corner for half an hour. When anyone dares criticize pedestrians there is usually a Cla mor set up about the rights of those on foot ;