Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 30, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade lib cry of religion Equality of civil rights printed and published free press company. Limited. 300 Carl ton Street Winnipeg. Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe Victor Sifton. President. Genera manager. Registered at the Mcneial Post office. London ens. For transmission through the Post in the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg tuesday january 30, 1940 National government keeping our eyes i fixed steadily on the main objective for in mine care Anion for i countr 1940 the winning of the War it is important to sex re Lilly what underlies the proposal first made by or. National government including the Best brains and now taken up by an increasing number of pleasures of pies tarts sauce dumplings and even the new Apple Nice cocktail due to the cheap Ness and High Quality and variety of the recent Apple Are not oing to find that much of a hard hip that is one Campaign we cheerfully undertake what does the proposition mean what does Ces in Ontario. Solve woul i i hop to win the War it will be noted of All that or. Manion made his pro 1 not in Ilij in Iii ii of commons during the Brief and fiery but next from his office in Ottawa after or. King announced his intention of going to the country with his t the prime minister and All his Collea the Orivl off Iive leaders of the Liberal party in Canada 11 included in he sweeping denunciation of or. Manion on floor of the House. It is Illa Tive Leader proposes therefore obvious that the con to include none of them in the a Al Over Ament he proposes to form even if some of them prepared to desert or. Kin the most unlikely kind. At this moment a contingency ranted that or. Manion does not. But it must of taken for or making his Oil postal. Intend to form a purely conservative i Vern mint. That would not be. In any sense of the word a therefore there must be some other whom he Hopes to reach and bring in to these May be men outside the National government. Duh rent scope of Canadian Public life. But it is not Likely that v very lame number of these unknown persons could be arsons in the county is proposed War Colm Mist ration. If actively Given Cabinet rank As one or two might be Brough was clone in great Britain during the last War. But even Britain successive War cabinets did not include Many men Iho had not been previously in Public life r this Narrows the Field of potential Cabinet material to non baser natives in Public life who Are not tied by one loyalty 01 the Liberal party. And this in turn practically available to whatever or. Manion social creditors or new democrats and Homework my m attract whatever three provincial governments who Are not More or less Tiec she Federal Liberal party the governments of or. Mitchel or. John Bracken and or. William Aberhart. It will seem to most people highly unlikely that or. Manion going to coalesce with either the c.c.f., the social creditors o i the or. Her Ridge of the new democracy who denounced Thi Kos Ergative party platform at the convention which elected Manion As Leader. This leaves As potential Cabinet member provincial followers of or. Bracken and or. Hepburn and these two the invitation is very obviously being extended t 5e latter. What or. Manion s statement therefore Means is Jat he wants to form a government composed of the followers himself and or. Hepburn to whom he is now opening the door. Hie strategy behind the move is to split beyond All Hope of Lunion the Liberal vote in Ontario and thus ensure himself a in that province. Whether or. Hepburn will Avail him ill of the invitation nobody yet knows. We doubt however whether under any circumstances such government if and when it was formed could be properly lied a that term can be justly applied by when the major political parties in the country Are behind a Manion Hepburn combination would face opposition and i Utility of the most powerful kind in which the natural Divi in that lies Between the Liberal and conservative parties Buhl be accentuated by the feud Between the main body of the Liberal party and whatever Rump had followed or. Hepburn to the so called National ranks. A it is not unfair therefore to say that or. Manion s suggestion a National government is designed rather to ensure the of Spory of the conservative party at the polls than to Lay the i Undaton for that greater Unity which the average Man As jines is implied in the idea of a National Union for. Victory Lis May be perfectly legitimate Campaign tactics on or. Tenion s part but it would be disastrous to place the issues i Hore the people in such a Way As to make them think that his Jickess at. The polls would because of this National govern ment slogan dissolve party lines for the duration of the War. I would in fact operate in exactly the opposite Way. A real National government can Only be formed in this Lunty after prolonged careful and Friendly consultation be the leaders of the main political groupings. It was Only University popular lectures the popular Friday lecture series arranged for every february by the University of Manitoba will be started on february 2. The series will be the thirty fourth annually arranged by the univer the lectures will be Given is usual in theatre a of the Broadway building and will be Ilso As usual free to the Public. Next Friday evening s lecture starting the series will be on modern magic and prof. H. H. Saunderson of the department of chemistry will show samples to illustrate his lecture. The next lecture that on february will be on american foreign policy isolation versus. Intervene the main currents in United states foreign relations since 1918 will in the course of the lecture be traced by prof. R. O. Macfarlane of the department of history. The strange and devious ways in which medical knowledge Hap been handed Down will be Learned from the third of these popular Friday evening lectures which will be Given on february. 16 by or. Ross Mitchell of the faculty of Medicine. The series will be ended on february 23 by a lecture on some virus diseases of in this lecture prof. Alfred Savage of the department of bacteriology will show How. Incidentally living organisms in visible to the Microscope Are studied by scientists. Arthur Macnamara by . A Fine target Jug. _ vim he Luul o l1ju 43 a. Of tar negotiations of this kind that the Union government of it jb17 was formed yet it failed As we All know to bring into its f " is a Complete representation of All shades of political opinion. V proved to be at that juncture a powerful weapon for the 1, Jaitt Nancy of our War policy at High pitch. But it owed its of Fence to the fact that there had appeared in Canada a part of of the ways. A violent and disrupting Issue had Cut across be nation. No one can say with any semblance of accuracy any such Issue faces us today. The reason for a National ivern ment has not Arisen. The plea for a National govern on the terms proposed by or. Manion is camouflage de or. Conanr1s threat things have come to a pretty pass in this country when or. Conant attorney general of on Tario warns or. M. J. Coldwell one of the leaders of the c.c.f., that action May be taken against him if he is not careful what he says in Ontario. Or. Coldwell before the dissolution of Parlia ment had criticized the prosecution of c. H. Millard organizer of the . For alleged subversive statements. Or. Coldwell made similar statements and challenged or. Conant to prosecute him. The attorney general then gave warn ing that or. Coldwell s position As a Mem Oso of parliament would not protect him from the operation of the defence of Canada regu lations which it was the duty of the attorney general to enforce. Or. Coldwell is no longer a member of parliament but or Conant would be treading danger Ous ground and creating a pro found Issue in the coming election if he attempted to interfere with Freedom of speech even on the part of Public men As he has threatened to do. The Only re Striction on Public utterances that should be enforced anywhere in Canada is upon any information that would give Aid to the enemy. The expression of opinion on War policy and on the government s conduct of the War must been tirely free. Unfortunately that has not been great and unquestionable Al economic advantages that will flow from the St. Lawrence improvement make that project one of outstanding importance but it also provides a grand target for the Active opponents in both Canada and the United states who fear that their interests will be affected. In the Van of these opponents Are the private Power companies and railways of both countries. With the negotiations for the. Treaty going rapidly ahead the opponents Are gunning harder than Ever and they can be de Pended upon to exert All the in fluence they can command to prevent the treaty going through Congress and through parliament at Ottawa. The previous treaty for the St. Lawrence project in 1932 had the support of a majority of the United states but it failed to get the required two thirds majority. That is the hurdle that the new treaty has to take with opponents striving to make the conditions As unfavourable As possible. But in the present negotiations an Effort is being made to meet some of the objections of the hostile senators at Washington. For instance the estimated Cost to the United states is. Being reduced chiefly by adopting the one stage rather than the two stage development in the International Sec Tion of the River. But no change that is made in the plans will Lessen the opposition by . States. Four governors in Suc cession have demanded that the Power to be generated must be owned arid controlled by the state. That would mean Low rates and Competition for. The Power com zanies which they would not relish. Before the treaty is even signed r sent to the Senate of the United states the opponents have Laid a Ine scheme to waylay to so to prevent the project being approved for an in definite period. They. Descended upon Washington recently and after conferring together issued a statement declaring that the advantages of the project were far exceeded by its detrimental effects to them of and that the whole scheme. Should be vigorously Trust them. At the same time a member of the i House of. Representatives introduced a Resolution proposing an to cover other Aims. Loyal canadians further evidence that most of foreign origin in Canada so firmly behind the Allied so is seen in the support Given i publications like the German Der nordic Stan and ukrainian Kann sky Farmer i the recent War loan. Ycre would have War he Gorman people had been i owed to vote on it. Declares Der which says it was j cat mistake of the nazi regime presort to threats and the use of germans in Canada As i have no responsibility for they Are Good Loyal Cana but they arc descended the people who today Are a with great Britain. In this 0-fact? lies a great i an inner tension which i easily but it say is Clear to follow the Sivan by the Canadian gov not. He great difference Between the of this country and the it in Germany today is by Der and of the railways and Power companies. A . For the whole project is the Only thing that will satisfy them. The Power companies Are spurred on by the termination of the state of new York to ensure Public develop ment of the horse Power that will be available to the United n the Canadian army. Some Meiu a on their Way to the front Anc others will be going it says and Hose who Are not do their duty by helping the country with their it described the War Bonds and urged Ukrain ians to buy them As far As they were Able. This is Welcome proof that canadians of foreign origin have a sound attitude on the War and Are anxious to support the Effort which this county is making. It ensures greater Unity in that Effort and this is essential if our support for the Allied cause is to be fully effective. Admitted by the attorney general of Ontario nor by col. Drew Leader of the conservative party both of whom show an arbitrary intolerant spirit in regard to what people can or cannot say. It is not Only in Europe that Freedom is at stake it is to a certain extent an Issue in Canada. And is it not absurd that there should be close restriction upon the expression of opinion in a province whose political leaders led the legislature in attacking the Dominion government on its conduct of the War doing it in a Way calculated to cause disunity in the country the fact that it is within the Power o a provincial government to enforce the defence of Canada ution recently passed by the opponents which carries All their Ames railway Power and Coal companies and associations rep Vesentini those interested in the waterway by the Erie canal and Urbany River and in the North Atlantic seaports Etc. Perhaps it is not surprising that be should have received this communication since the president of he Canadian Pacific railway on to occasions about a. Year ago indicated his opposition to the St. Project. In a broadcast dec. 21, 1938, sir Edward 3eatty spoke of waterway compe exhaustive investigation of the economic justification of the project and pointing out that the waterway would be Frozen Al Winter and questioning whether the United states a Neutral nation should make such a. Treaty with a belligerent. The same member called on the Secretary of state to suspend the negotiations for the treaty pending the result of the investigation. Or. Hull refused to do this but the project will Evi Dently be fought in both houses of Congress though presiden Roosevelt believes it will go through. Knowing that the free press believed in the National advantages of the St. Lawrence improvement the solicitor of the Canadian Pacific railway at Washington a kind enough us the Reso Union government saturday night Toronto the article appearing herewith was written before the session of parliament began but reflects ideas shared by Many regarding the government in Canada at the present time. If Success who would head it a Federal Liberal of the calibre o or. Dunning or or. Ralston there is not such a Man in sigh regulations As Ontario is doing clearly shows the need for Amend ing the regulations to take away that Power. Suggests that our people of origin should be thankful is no government in there Laa which oppresses our con Pence and dictates our thinking emphatic word and the use Kana sky Farmer that the ukrainian Popula Appie campaigning the Federal department of agriculture announces that canadians have eaten 150 per cent More apples this Twelvemonth than the previous most of which in crease is due to the propaganda in activities of said department activities that pointed out the Juicy Joys of Apple eating in an Effort to prevent the waste of a bumper Apple crop made worse by a diminution of Export and despite tills miraculous in crease in Apple consumption department is going right on with its vigorous Campaign. There Are Many More apples to undergo gustatory assault yet Well those of us who have discovered under from the Golden books recalled Fyk. Mellersh in Chambers s m so now i Corne unto my Long Road s end. With dimming eyes and weary Way worn feet. I paused a Little Ere i went to meet the messenger who bids us to the descend Stair of turned to Bend silence and i my glances Back to life which seemed a Street bordered by dwellings where i used to Greet those Best As Kindred or As Friend. Were All the windows darkened were All nay by a taper s Light i saw one ill me i raised my head i met the eyes of one who loved me still and called my heart. I will go i said i will go Back to life it is Sivility of forming a coalition govern the question whether there should or should hot be a general election in 1940 is answered by most politically minded canadians according to the expectation which they entertain of its prob Able results. Liberals Are confident thai it would result in a lib eral Victory and Are therefore inclined not to disapprove too strongly of the idea. Conserva Tives have Little Hope of a conservative Victory and most of them can therefore see grave National disadvantages in the hold ing of an election. The Best that they look for is admission to a share of Power As the result of the formation of a Union government which most of its advocates seem to think could be brought about without an Appeal to the people. It is our very Strong conviction that this last element of Union government thinking is wrong or. King will not enter a Union government and most of the promoters of Union government would not be interested in it if he did. But also he will not hand Over the seals of office to a Union faced with so Large and of influential a defection from his Orr ranks As to make resistance hopeless. And we can not see tha smallest probability of any such defection. Any conceivable Union. Government would therefore have to go to the electors in opposition to what would be left of the Liberal party under or King under via t leadership could i Canada is Well represented the department s prodding the god s Itin and of the revival of the discussion of the St. Lawrence Leep waterway. My own said is that this project is not needed at the present time and would involve enormous expenditures of Public Money with out obtaining any beneficial re 35 hears that Arthur Mac Namara Manitoba s Deputy minister of Public works and labor will probably remain in Ottawa permanently now that the Federal government has borrowed him to straighten out the tangle of dependents allowances in can Ada s armed forces. And one would be inclined to believe it for the big leagues have tried to get him before this. The scouts have had their Eye on him for a Long time. So when his six months As chairman of the allowances Board Are up Ottawa will prob ably have other big time assign ments for him. But if he comes Back Manitoba should be careful never to run the risk again of losing him. The other Day we were talking in the manner of newspapermen who talk shop of Public executives with whom we have had dealings in the line of duty which is to get news for the Public. We thought of the two or three years in the press gallery of Saskatchewan Anc the three years in the press gallery of Alberta. Then we ran Over the list in Manitoba. There Are Many capable men in the service of these three provinces. There Are some who could make vastly greater incomes in private business. So and so we recalled is As capable an. Administrator As you la find. So and so is smart and efficient. This Man knows his work inside out. And that one is a swell Guy. And so and so is a so and so As far As newspapermen Are concerned and he should get a Crown of Poison Ivy to remember us by. A Jck but Arthur Macnamara is the Best Deputy we aver in the West and he May be the Best Deputy in All the provinces. Of course the measure of a Man s value in the Public service is hard to estimate. It certainly does not lie altogether in his ability to get along with the newspapers. But it does lie in part in his conduct of relations with the press for the newspapers represent the Public in securing realize. He is the administrative Lead of a department on whom the Public depends for getting its Money s Worth in the efficient Ana economical operation the department. The minister is the executive head. Some ministers do not realize the difference poor things and spend their time Bung Ling the Public s business in mat ters which Only an expert Ems d administrator should handle. But a Deputy minister must be More than an administrator. No matter How capable he May be within the four Walls of his office let him be a narrow bureaus Rel let him Lack the sense of trustee ship towards the Public let him fail to recognize that the Public has the right to know How its business is being he violates the primary principle of democratic government. Democracy must its Money is spent and How its Laws Are enforced. No Covert bureaucracy will serve the ends of the Cana Dian system of government. So our civil service has a responsibility that extends beyond efficiency and honesty which qualities Are precious in them selves. A sort of sixth sense of Public relations in the administrators of Public services is the vital Quality that safeguards the processes of democracy. It is the ability to command the Confidence of the Public to satisfy inquiries and meet complaints to accept the interminable representations that come before and publishing information re Garding the Public s business. The function of a Deputy minis Ter is More important in our sys tem of government than Many deputies and Many private citizens government to maintain Liaison with the press or. Macnamara has this sixth sense and we predict he will Tandle the Tough assignment Given rum by Ottawa with capacity and skill. His going if it happens in be permanent will leave n Gap in the machinery of provincial Fiovo Ern ment. But one compensation for Manitoba is that the men who worked with him and Learned his methods will carry on his tradition of Public service. From holy writ therefore if any Man be in Christ lie is a new creature old things Are passed away behold All things Are become new. Corinthians about the same time sired Ward addressed the railway club of Toronto and advocated the charging of tolls on canal traffic. He remarked we might keep away from major expenditures on Waterways until we have made previous expenditures no Burden on the the Montreal Gazette and the Montreal Star have been vigorously hammering the St. Lawrence project. It happens that they both have shown a particularly Friendly interest in the . To proceed with the project would be Folly according to the Star and the Gazette has Laid a veritable bar rage upon the St. Lawrence As the negotiations Between the two governments were being rapidly advanced. The Canadian Power companies would do nothing to Dis courage a this opposition. The treaty would. Have to pass the Canadian parliament of course not Only the House of commons but also the Senate some members of which think it their duty to see that vested interests Are Well protected in that connection a. Recent item of news that is of interest. At the War loan banquet in Toronto a fortnight ago senator february by the Bookman who would participate. Introduced or. Ralston Cial Liberal there is or. Hep minister of finance and in doing Burn. Would Canada put or. Hepburn at the head of its Federal government an older generation conservative or. Bennett is out or. Meighen a younger conservative what does one do with or. Manion or will or. Manion do and who else besides or. Manion has had. A Chance to make himself a National figure since or. Bennett took to making the party a one Man show or a provincial conservative there is col. Drew. Col Drew is almost certainly the Best available but will he suffice in a contest which would have to be carried on in every constituency in the Dominion the question surely answers itself. Be it remembered that this is not a Situa Tion which can be handled by a Cabal within the present Parlia ment like the elimination of Asquith in Lloyd George in 1916. There . A any serious split could be effected in or. King s following in the present parliament. The be to the electors not to Thame Robers. And that Ous split effected even among Over the Hepburn a sign or. Are not the liberals who voted against him an i the resolutions from Liberal organizations All Over the province a Siton to the so he implored the minister not to approve any major undertaking not directly connected with the War Effort. This has been taken and we think properly so. As a reference to the St. Lawrence waterway scheme. What does it presage senator Meighen is Leader of the majority party in the Senate. He was a Strong advocate of railway unification. Is he going to throw his influence against the proper utilization the immense Opportunity that nature has provided in the waterway leading in to the heart of the contine.? go to the people with any Prospect contrary.? so he a the Richmond times dispatch an article in the official soviet Organ pravda published in mos cow the finnish lumber Kings dream of conquering Russia As far As the urals. The danish people Welcome the breath of fresh air the soviet Union is bringing to the bacteria infected Region called Fin s in this february s Atlantic monthly an aware Ness of conditions in Europe that impresses one Reader desperately Especial by diary of Captivity by a polish nurse pages written in sleepless nights in the face of death and the horrors even the opening article America looks at the War by r. De Roussy de sales is depress ing. The writer has been the american correspondent of two Paris papers for eight years and has received honors in France and in the United states for services French american Friendship. The editor says his Effort to gauge our temper before and after the declaration of War will be Dis missed by some As propaganda and respected by others for its a not a non committal comment but or. Weekes is a Wise editor. M. De sales discusses his subject on All sides and his accuracy never interferes with perspective which is or ought to be objective. Just a Mere word from him though it will give no notion of the scope of his Dis course. Liberals the world Over but especially in America Are bearing their Cross of confusion liberals Are classified hol land Belgium Switzerland compulsory neutrals Sweden Norway Spain Public service neutrals Italy Japan wait and see belligerents United states non combatant on the finnish front by a b. Elliston an editor of the Christian science is a report at first hand of the soviet invasion of Finland. As american correspondent he was on the spot and his descriptions of everything seen and heard Are informing since and before 1555 when "20 finnish peasants repulsed russian that Little nation has been fighting either to win 01 to keep her Independence. Even during subjection to the tartar she remained lutheran and retained a customs bar against rus Sian products. But she Well knows that there would be nothing of that sort today under con quest. She. Is fighting As her fore fathers fought so Long ago. Sian woman in a train at Sunrise dozing while Reading his new testament fell and awakened him but the peasant woman picked ii up and was turning the leaves of French. Suddenly she took from a hamper above her Bible bound in red leather and shabby from use. Other travellers watched curiously while she found a pass age and compared proper names and numbers with the French text. By pointing to words in both bibles and questioning with her eyes the pastor answered by nod Ding his head. Her eyes were to read. The word was he mine i nodded again and her face became then m. Roser took both books and made her understand the text Grace to you and peace from god and the woman s face was More Radiant than the morn ing Sunshine. You need to read it yourself to realize its perfection As Lucid narrative and exposition in a nutshell sir the end of per Sonal Faith in Pacific ism. The second instalment of sir John Lavery s 1 self portrait is the real truth of that every Reader will be persuaded. The last instalment will come next month. The regular Atlantic portrait the boy from is drawn in several chapters from the forthcoming study of president Coolidge. Number 38 becomes a citizen is or. Max Ascoli s account of How it came to pass thai an italian writer and teacher win came to the United states is a research fellow in social sciences Rockefeller foundation decided against returning to Italy and fascism. To become naturalized was the right thing. I do not. Mind confessing that Many years ago with my warm approval my son became a naturalized citizen of the United states where to has made a Good living. since there Are Only .42 russians to every finn the Conquest ought to be Edisy for Finland. The Gigan tic finnish army numbering in the Vicinity of men aided by All four finnish gunboats should be . Red army and Navy in one stupendous Blitzkrieg. Verily the Kremlin must be Rock ing to its foundations. The prize of for the Best essay in the contributors club goes to Henri Roser a French protestant pastor who has been imprisoned for pacifism. He is Secretary of the French Branch of the International Fellowship of reconciliation. His essay of one thousand words is a simple vivid account of communication without speech Between himself and a rus Petely. Birthdays Franklin d. Roosevelt president of United states born Hyde Park. N.y., Jan. 30. 1802. Richard t. Leonard Oak Man. Born Brantford ont., Jan. 30, 1862. William Burns Winnipeg born Bendrew ont., Jan. 30, 1860. Walter h. Pratt Winnipeg eng., Jan. 30, 1861 tribute to Dom Colca by h c Collier in the Canada a Cut indies Dominica has been acclaimed by Many As the most Beautiful of the West indies islands. With Beauty however it is hard to differentiate and ail of the Caribbean islands have their individual charms. Hers is of a nature entirely unspoiled by too close Contact with the out Side world a wild voluptuous Beauty the very poetry of which no one could recite com ;