Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 23, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba R in co the Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Erin cd and published the Winnipeg free press company. Limited. 300 Cahott Street Winnipeg Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe. Victor Sifton president general manager. Registered at the general Post office. London. Ens for transmission through the Post in the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg tuesday january 23, 1940 a Iid of afe itly by gals mesh dial 1 to Iov. Re old w i far Eastern crisis there i activity Anc behind the scenes these Days in both As next Friday draws near the Day upon the commercial treaty Between the United states and Japan comes to an end. Six months ago the United states gave formal notice of its abrogation thus Clearing the Way to take whatever measures she sees fit to assert her rights in the far East As one of lie signatories of the nine Power pact intended to guarantee China s integrity and assure the continuance of the open door policy. N7o indication has yet been Given of Washington s future intentions but ii i no secret that the administration has become increasingly rot less Over the repeated and continuing acts of Jon ression by j Pon. This attitude has. Beer receiving More and More support from the american Public As witness the recent letter of or. Henry l. Stimson the sex Secretary of state to the a jew York times. Or. Stimson deplored the notion which is be constantly Nui Forward by japanese propagandists that the United states should mediate a peace Between China and Japan. Such a he wrote would be lamentable instead he urged upon the administration a policy of vigor and the prohibition of the Export of arms munitions and the raw materials of War to Japan. He added the stable equilibrium of Eastern Asia in which the United states is so deeply interested and which is now menaced by Japan s. Upon China cannot be restored without a Complete reversal of the conduct followed for several years by the leaders of the japanese army. And among the influences which would be effective in ultimately accomplishing that reversal next to the courageous and stubborn resistance of the chinese nation would be the knowledge in Japan that the United states through the action of its representative Congress had deliberately and clearly taken such a weighty step to evince its disapproval. This proposition was immediately countered in More than i one Quarter by the statement that such an embargo was in effect n act of War. And that if Japan accepted the Challenge implicit the half ton of Muddy Northern France tipped exactly right. They Are As Happy to kill time seeing this go on As Are Folk at Home and they stick around till the Cook House goes just As Folk wearing ties at Home stick around fill they be got the Job. No wonder this War is different from the last War. No one in the last War had the simple idea of excavating trenches just As sewer Dit Clies Are excavated. A Golden sword of Honor should. Be., presented to the. Man who got the War office to see that it s easier and faster for machines to trenches than for men to dig them. The French were the first to see this and did the trick to help them fix up the Maginot line. Now the British Are doing what they and what we Veall seen being done a Hundred times on our streets. If this Mechan izing of warfare keeps on the Way it we won t be surprised to hear that the rum ration comes up in a pipe Aid on from the quartermaster s Tores and the great fear will be hat. Someone will forget to turn the tap. M 8 in the Boycott the United states would be unable to take up the image of Battle. Hence the conclusion followed it was to be hoped i that no such drastic step would be taken until the subsidence of War in Europe released other signatories of the nine Power pact sufficiently to permit them to concentrate upon far Eastern issues. I such an argument however makes Little Appeal to such i experts upon the China problem As or. Stimson and Admiral Yarnell. Recently retired from the command of the . Navy in far Eastern Waters. They realize that difficult As the situation is. The United states and every other nation with interests in China Are now up against the Blunt necessity of either making a stand against Japan in one form or another or of abdicating perhaps forever their rights and their responsibilities in the far East. The proposal they make is not without risk. What Worth while policy is Ever without risk but they consider after a cold of the situation As it exists that the dangers inherent in embargo Are less than the risks involved in letting the Situa Tion go by default. They believe too that Japan s extreme Vulner ability and fundamental economic weakness Are such that seven its army extremists might shrink from the Pursuit of a i policy which brought Down upon their Heads even so Light a i penalty As an embargo. Past history certainly strongly suggests this is so. The possibility of United states action however must de Pend to sonic extent at. Least upon the attitude adopted by other important nine Power treaty signatories. What for instance do France and Britain propose to do and what it is legitimate to ask is the influence of the Canadian government in the present situation at critical junctures in the past the attitude of this country has swayed British far Eastern policy notably when the Anglo japanese treaty came up for renewal in 1921 the allies however now have their hands full in Europe. Wil they because of that try now to effect some Compromise with Japan rather than to meet the Issue squarely s nothing is known of present British intentions but it is Worth while considering what would be the net effect upon United states opinion if that country found that any proposals i might have for far Eastern action met no favourable co operative attitude from great Britain. American Friendship is fundamentally far More important to the allies at the present time Anc in the Long run As Well than any possible results of an attempt to appease Japan and alienation of that Friendship would hav results of the most serious kind. So far As Canada is concerned the problem is one of Verj 1 great concern for this country now fighting Side by Side with France and Britain in Europe can never forget that she is also a North american nation drawn by Many Bonds of Friendship and necessity to the United states. If British and american policies in the far East become divergent Canada As an important i Pacific state will be faced with questions difficult to answer with satisfaction to All. They stand for Freedom the supporters of the co opera Ive movement know that it has to Chance except where there is democratic Freedom. The National co operative authority in great Britain which represents All Sec ions of the co operative move ment has therefore issued a statement on the War in which it ays Hitler has challenged the demo-1 Ratic states until we can no Onger ignore his designs. We Are aced with the Issue nazism ver us continued democratic Progress n such circumstances the cd operative movement like All other democratic movements must be prepared to use to the full its re-1 sources to assist in bringing the conflict to a successful Issue for he democratic the Canadian co operator Organ of the co operative Union of Canada referring to the above Frankenstein fizzle ova in up to the producers by e. Cora Hind Freedom in wartime statement operative says leaders British co Are economic and social idealists but their minds Are practical and realistic. The great Success the British movement has achieved is largely due to that fact expressing its own View it Well ast saturday Jan. 20, the Bacon Board went into operation and All exports of Bacon and Britain came under its control the sales being made directly to the British government. Board has issued its first Board which useful information and suggests that the Board s operation ill be modified and changed in in Light of experience. The prices for Canadian Bacon Seaboard have been set Forth y the Board As follows Lusht sizable heavy under 55 ibs. Ibs 65 ibs. Up 1 s17.70 2 17.10 17.30 16.so 3 16.70 16.90 16.50 1 17.10 17.30 16.90 2 16.30 16.50 16.10 3 15.50 15.70 15.30 this indicates an average Price f weight Grade and Selec on accounted and leaves 72c per it. For the Board from which to Vanee prices on Bacon and hogs n seasons of Light receipts and a storage on Bacon held in store rom seasons of plenty to maintain in seasons of Light the revised regulations this is no time for carping criticism or for the diversion of he Public Rind from the immedi ate Issue to academic discussions of the fundamental causes of wars. The democratic world is confronted with the gravest Issue it has Ever been called upon to meet. If its enemies Are Defeated it will be possible for the masses of the people to continue to. Work out their economic and social. Salva Tion in an orderly manner. Should they succeed the Progress so far made to that end will be amendments to the Canada defence regulations pro claimed at Ottawa on january 11 and 19, remove some of the worst features of these regulations. The government without a pub Lic statement of any kind has changed two of the 64 regulations nos. 39 and 58 so As to make them less severe less harsh. Additions have been made to a third regulation no. 62 which make the regulations As a whole apply to organizations societies or associations just As they have applied to persons. In Eastern Canada these Amend ments have been taken As Mak ing the regulations More severe particularly with respect to communists. Both the Montreal Gazette and the Globe and mail of Toronto interpreted the new regulation g2 As in some measure reviving or providing a War time equivalent for the notorious Sec Tion 98 of the criminal code which was repealed in 1936. There is nothing in the amendments . Socialist stand extremely significant to Ameri cans is the whole hearted repudiation by the . Socialist party of its Chilom fellow travellers the Day when Anels say More playgrounds Winnipeg needs Many More Wall neighbourhood Parks and playgrounds and every Effort be made to provide them or at least to secure the land in the areas of con Kosted the City is Many tax Sale properties on is hands and before these Are bought up and built upon. The total area of our present neighbourhood Parks and play grounds is Only a Little More than Hall a hat it should be according would need to be enlarged later the matter should not be elected because delay will Only Nake it More difficult to carry it this really important policy. The zoning committee is to be commended for its recommendation and also for persuading the City Council not to resell tax Sale properties suitable for the development of River drives on the North Side of the City. Alderman chairman of g. Thompson civic zoning Best committee. Quoting the authorities on City zoning. Whatever the failings of this generation one redeeming feature is the intelligent and helpful in which it takes in the Young their education and health Tiol esome recreation and the prevention of delinquency. Many Community agencies Are playing their part in this As Well As the be Clis Day Lien s provincial and civic authorities. Waking adequate provision for p ays round and Small Parks it Jaq line with this Wise policy Anc 11 is to be hoped that substantial suits will follow the consultation Between the Parks Board and civic property committee which recommended by the zoning fun digging trenches along the British sectors of the Western front in France mechanical excavators Are digging trenches just As they might be digging basements on Corner lots in any of our towns. This is mechanized warfare on the 1940 Model. It beats the old style hollow. Miles of trenches Are dug in the time that battalions of men in the last War could dig a few Yards that would not stay shored called the scoops used but the and i y Council. Approved by the much City cannot afford to spend Money this year on any Ning but absolute necessities but s the time to set aside for now part purposes any Well located properties which the City owns Tver if they arc too Small and shovels used in the last War were a fatigue party May almost find Relief in being ordered to dig trenches these Days. They sit around while the excavator carries on. They watch the Greasy faced fellow in the engine cab steer and drag the Back actor that lugs out the Earth. Then there is the Tilting of the bucket and every tilt is watched fondly As is the tilt of every scoop of Earth dug for the new building to go up on any Corner of our streets. The troops stick around to Sec stalinist communists. Norman Homas head of the american socialist party twice a candidate or mayor of new York once Foi governor of that state and three times for the on the socialist ticket made the socialist position Clear recently in a speech at Baltimore. Cheered by socialists and Bocc by a scattering of stalinist sympathizers in the audience the Emi nent chief socialist of the natio denounced Russia of every decent thing in social ism and scored Stalin As guilty of a despicable and abominable aggression More to be cursed than any action in history or. Thomas told the big Audi ence that socialism becomes a meaningless abstraction if it precludes moral feeling for the victim. Never in history he said has a people rallied to fight off a transgressor the Way Finland has. When he denounced soviet Russia s at tack on Finland As a degradation a betrayal of Hope for those who hoped her policy was he was interrupted by a storm of applause. Soviet policy said or. Thomas makes hypocrites and liars of All communists who bleat de of Russia s peaceful policy. The socialist chieftain was Sar Castic with those who booed him. They Are incapable of knowing right from he said and wherever they go they will bring or try to bring tyranny and anarchy and them. Let the boxers stand up and show their faces to no one accepted the challenge., incidentally while advocating a. Third term for president Roose velt or. Thomas said the presi Dent s message to Congress was the message of a Man who Hopes to keep America out of War but by no Means determined to keep us out of War. If we do enter the he declared it will not be on the terms of keeping american boys Home the Navy which would seem to support this View. Communists Are not mentioned. A few criticized clauses removed in amendments it while the amendments re move a. Few of the clauses which have been most vigorously criticized the amended regulations Are still much More Evere arid arbitrary go much Urther in dispensing with the Ordinary machinery of Justice Han do the revised British de ence regulations of nov. 28, 1939 by Grant Dexter it will be recalled that the British government issued defence regulations on sept a 1939. These regulations evoked such a storm of of the arbitrary and drastic Powers taken by the government. That they were revised. The decision to re Vise them was made on october 31, after the British House of commons had denounced the of All Par ties joined in the the revised regulations were issued on november 28. The defence of Canada Regula ions were issued on sept. 3, 1939. These regulations were patterned part upon the British regulations. They contain most of the provisions against which the British House of commons pro tested successfully. But. Until january i1 the de Fence of Canada regulations were not amended. On that Day a change was announced which substantially improved them Anc again on january 19 a new regu lation was added number 39b a Long Way to prevent any abuse of the Powers taken by the minister of Justice to imprison people deemed guilty of causing so it 4s All ".rather, inv flayed but the Liberal a trend tote amendments can easily be seen if the texts Are placed Side by Side As they Are elsewhere on this Page. Unquestionably these Aie dras tic changes which greatly improve these particular i regulations the phrase by word of Mouth has been the application of the Section somewhat wider. The phrase false or other Wise is stricken out. Presumably a person no longer needs to fear prosecution if he Speaks the truth subsection c of regulation 39 is perhaps an unwelcome Addi i the full Rigours of regulation 39 have been extended to cover mat Ter spread abroad by the Printer word. This is done by a new regulation 39a, which was inserted on january 11, this new regu lation however merely makes i a crime to do by printed Wor what it was formerly a crime t do by the spoken word. No curb on expression of political opinion t is the amendment of Jan. La regulation 39b, which will b hailed with real satisfaction. It now a defence against any charge brought under either regulation 39 or 39a to prove Good Faith. No body can be locked up for Crit sizing the government or Parlia ment or a legislature or the administration of Justice. There is to be. No curb on the expression of political opinion. Improved though thes regulations now they still re main in comparison with the com parable British defence regulation which happens also to be numb 39 vexatious and arbitrary there be any doubt on this poin look at the revised British regu lation which is designed to Covi precisely the same kind of off emas the Canadian regulations 39 an 3 9 a. Original Canadian defence regulation 39 sept. 3 no person shall by word of Mouth a spread reports or make statements false or otherwise intended or Likely to cause disaffection to his majesty or to interfere with the Success of his majesty s forces or of the forces of any Allied or associated Powers or to prejudice his majesty s relations with foreign Powers or b spread reports or make statements false or otherwise intended or Likely to prejudice the recruiting training discipline or adm Nistra revised Canadian defence regulation 39 Jan. 11 no person shall a spread reports or make in r ended or Likely to cause disaffection to majesty or to interfere with the Success of etc., Tion of any of majesty s forces. His b spread reports or make statements in tended or Likely to pre Judice the recruiting training discipline or administration of any of his majesty s forces c spread reports or make statements in tended or Likely to be prejudicial to the safety of the state or the efficient prosecution of the War. Jan. 19 original British defence regulation 39 sept. 1 no person shall a Endeavor to cause disaffection among any p s engaged whether in the United kingdom or elsewhere in his majesty s service British defence regulation 39 nov. 28 no person shall a Endeavor to seduce from their engaged whether in the United kingdom or else where in his majesty s b Endeavor whether orally or otherwise to influence Public opinion whether in the United kingdom or elsewhere in a manner Likely to be prejudicial to the de Fence of the realm or the prosecution of War. For an offence against regulations 39 or 39a 39b 1 a prose u to prove that the person Tion for an offence accused intended in Good against either regulation Faith merely to criticize 39 or 39a of these or to Point out errors or regulations shall not be defects in the govern instituted except by., or ment of Canada or any with the consent of. Province thereof or in counsel representing the either House of Raruca attorney Genera Lofcan ment of Canada or m Ada or of the province. Any legislature or in the 2 it shall be a de administration of jus Fence to any prosecution Ven flow receipts. It is in order to say at this Point hat every producer has the oppor Unity and should feel it a duty to Ven out the seasonal flow of hogs o Market so that the need for such Olding in store will decrease As rapidly As possible. Bacon is a More or less perishable product and holding it in store is a ticklish of at any time. The remedy manifestly Winter litters. This new system of marketing Sacon and hams is of great importance to the producers and very hog producer in Western Canada should seek an Early Opportunity of securing one of these Bacon bulletins and study it care ully to ascertain How it May affect his Sale of his produce. For example the bulletin says and no doubt correctly that the advisory committee which sat with the Board for three Days before the final draft of the bulletin was completed was unanimous in the opinion that rail grading Asad ministered through the marketing service of the department of Agri grading would certainly not be adored by a number of Western producers. It would also be a further Means of diverting hogs Tom the Public markets where there Are competitive advantages to the privately owned Yards where there is not and never can to Competition. A Mother Point requiring at Tention is the dressing out per cent in carcass grading. Wore there not. A number of tests made to ascertain what was a fair percentage and was not ,3.5 per cent decided upon As fair and Equit Able Why then Are there such complaints of hogs being bought in both Manitoba and Saskatchewan at 72 per cent and variations of that percentage and the 73.5 per cent does not this vary ing of percentages open a door to possible Price it May be claimed that this is a matter outside the realm of the Bacon Board but apparently rail grading is not. Why not inquire into both matters at the same time a very interesting paragraph in the bulletin is one which rends a close Check will be made by All packing plants across Canada of All hogs purchased each week in relation to the Price paid by the Board for producers should be interested in ascertain ing to what extent the information thus obtained by the Board will be made Public. Such comparative figures will help the Board to. Tab on whether hog prices Are in line and would form a basis or action if action proved sary. It would seem highly desirable if such figures could be culture fitted into policy adopted by the presently Bacon Board particularly in its efforts to secure a fair relation Between the producer and the contract Price for. Doe this mean that the producer Sti has the right to choose live or Rai grading it is an open secret tha the packers representative on the Board strongly favored compulsory rail grading. Do the regulations of the department still leave the seller of hogs perfectly free to choose live grading or grading on compulsory made Public. Also what action has been taken by the Board if action on either Side Libs been found necessary. If the working of the new system is smooth and regular it would be valuable to the Board for the Public to know it and equally if acts promptly if anything., is found going wrong. Very often for Lack of publicity being Given to the facts stories get twisted and trouble comes where no trouble needs to be. The idea that producers and handlers interests arc identical is a pleasant pipe dream but they never have been and they never will be. Reason that what has particular business b f hog producing and hog marketing in. The past can not be done away with and a Good working agreement arrived at. The present seems a Golden Opportunity As the Bacon Board ? Job is to hold the Scales evenly Between them All three remembering that we Are at War and Bacon is needed to help win it. Biography of Grey owl the St Lovat by the Bookman Story of Grey Biby the Ranger. And carried on a b exact wording not yet available As summarized in the times the revised regulation applies Only to propaganda on which use is made of any false statement Tasse. Docu ment or false report. It will be a defence to show that a defendent had reasonable cause to believe that the statement Docu ment or report was True. Is not the give a. But a biography., to read Page by Page and then read again because of its uncommon interest. The leading title is Aken from a saying by Grey owl himself whose strange career is not merely outlined but revealed n various periods of his life by he biographer s own method not without a hiatus Here and there and with More than a Moiety of imagination. Or. Dickson dedicates the Book to Hugh Eayrs Friend and counsellor both to Grey owl and to and in the preface or. Eayrs receives gratitude for invaluable Aid in the fight to establish Grey owl s Good also major Wood superintendent of Jasper National Park but above All others an Hareo the Indian wife whose name stands at the Bead of part Iii containing six chapters in the Book. The father s two Sisters who brought up the child put him through the. Grammar school Hastings and he passed the final examination at 16. They and his paternal grandmother had agreed to pay his passage to Canada if he still insisted which he did. One aunt saw him sail from liver Pool. For a Little he in a dry goods shop Toronto but after some incidentals he was in on from the Golden books Black out Relizabeth Barrett i must forgo the Moon her Pale and Friendly Light i must forgo the stars and the Cool breath of night. Would it were but a dream this grim necessity How happily would i Welcome the Moon s soft gleam sleep in her gentle Light and the of night. Nothing that we have done on the sea has brought into peril a single life of any Neutral lord Halifax the opposition when parliament opens this month the opposition " be shouldered with a in the pasur two years it been As Alert nor As Frank As it should have been. It has its Opportunity now to turn a vigorous criticism on the shortcomings of the government in Power. In so doing it May open the some changes in the will give a new strength to administration at a time when that strength is so sorely needed. In giving a sound Lead the opposition hearing by the Public. From holy writ now when the Sun was setting All they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto and he Laid his hands on every one of them and healed them. Luke birthdays or. We. Winnipeg born Durmer ont., Jan. 23, 1879. Archie d. Stewart Westbourne Man. Born Nairn ont., Jan. 23 1864. I will chide no breather in the myself against whom Tario s Northern wilderness. Throughout boyhood and youth and manhood he had determined to live with indians. You read All about it in or. Dickson s biography and about his introduction to life among them. He was very Quick in the Uptake of ojibway habits and ways of go ing. After a year in the Bush he walked and looked like an Indian and wished to lose his identity in two years he had begun those serious fibs touching his origin. For three years he carried mail paddled guided went walking with an Indian girl of Bear is land and married her in spite of her people who forbade him. She went Back to Bear Island later and in 1911 at 30 degrees below Zero on a betting tramp of Over wu1im us j f know most 50 Miles he fell and was found sled to the Ranger s Cabin. In the fall 1914, he unlisted and three years later a Bullet in his foot and lungs Gas he was removed to Hospital where he Lay for months of suffering. Back to the wilderness where he longed to be again Archie was adopted into the ojibway tribe As a blood brother and emerged from a Long loud conjuring ceremony As shining the Grey owl. It was a wild Indian chant of minor notes ending with a prolonged Hoot of the owl. And thus says his idealizing biographer Archie Belaney became at last an in Dian and from him As though it were an old skin he was Shak ing off there fell the last spiritual link with the White but the change from Hunter and trapper to humane Protection and care of animals to the lecturer the that is in Kipling s phrase another Story. Grey owl was no idler he used to keep notes of All his work for the wild creatures. His Tongue was the pen of a ready writer and in turn to scripture the other Way round his pen was the Tongue of a readier speaker. In a word he possessed Genius. Yet both lecturing and writing seem to have been thrust upon him. He had written an article and sent it to country life whose editor accepted and sent a Cheque described As a Windfall with a request for More. He Well knew what he wanted to put or. Paper. In a passage of poetic descriptive prose or. Dickson tells us what Grey owl was eager to write. A visitor to their Cabin who had heard him read some of those notes urged him. To go to Metis the summer resort on the St. Lawrence and give some of the chronicles in lectures. So with an Hareo his wife and Jelly Roll a Beaver he came Down to the St. Lawrence and away from the town set up tent. A lady at the resort read the lecture volunteered As Secretary advertising manager and treasurer. Her sons and their friends sold tickets. His own account when i faced All those people in a compact mass m the auditorium. I Felt like a Snake that has swallowed an icicle. I fixed my eyes on a kind looking face in the front Row and suddenly found myself speaking. A British officer spoke1 words of appreciation. I could not believe my ears. He said it was not a lecture but a poem More applause. Then the people crowded around was that not an auspicious beginning lectures v ;