Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 28, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Winnipeg free press printed and published the Winnipeg free press company. Limited. 300 Canton Street Winnipeg. Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe. Victor Suton. President. General manager. Registered at the general past office. For trans Numion through the Post in United kingdom at the newspaper of Winnipeg thursday March 28, 1940 the political set up today to assess with some degree of accuracy or by or. King during the election Campaign that government would provide the country with a which to build National Unity and the National i s evident that he spoke the cold truth. Study of vote shows that the Liberal Victory of 1935 was v per cent of the total votes recorded. The pro s polled by government candidates on tuesday uni. Under our imperfect electoral system which wipes nut5 very Large minorities this percentage has equalled in modern times. Invert Imant not Only has an absolute majority of the it. In seven of the nine provinces its Parlia ppr is overwhelming. In one Brunswick it Only in Alberta Are its members in a even Here the picture is much More cheering s before. A fact worthy of note is that every Large Ida. Wish the exception of St. Returned govern i Daios and that the Urban constituency with the vote in the country North Winnipeg the government s War policies. Nate intr it. Signs of Spring Iven to the government though sweeping the electorate has strikingly endorsed the repeatedly by or. King and his colleagues and the War alone is All that matters today. Con that one Issue will be expected from coast to ins respect there Are neither sectional nor racial Dif fact which has an importance that cannot be pm on much. The response of Quebec in this election of Only one interpretation. It was foreshadowed last Ici Duplessis was swept out of office. But that elects in part at least upon provincial issues. Que or on this occasion has no qualification of any kind. Us ago ten years ago. Even one year ago a thousand prophets could have been found ready to predict that a result As on tuesday in Quebec was a political impose the astronomical government majorities there Are he refutation of the false seers just As they represent he soundest claim that or. King and or. Lapointe have to the tie statesman. Gratis As this is however it is impossible not to feel two veterans pass t he tidal wave that swept practically All the cities in Canada save Toronto into the ministerial column engulfed in Montreal two veterans of. The conservative party Hon. C. H. Cahan who represented St. Law rence St. George division from 1925 to 1940, and Robert s. White who represented St. Antoine Westmount for the same period of time. These men Are veterans in years As Well As in Public ser vices or. Cahan being now in his Eightieth year while or. White has just upon his eighty fifth year. They have yielded place to two Young men for whom distinguished careers can be foreseen Brooke Claxton succeeding or. Cahan and d. C. Abbott replacing or. Youth will be served. White. Both these men had political careers going Back beyond the turn of the Century. Or. White by j. M. Duncan. Ontario then prominent in the leadership league and finally a supporter of the policy of a a concern Over the collapse of the conservative party. Three of j tonal government now goes to the provinces have returned no conservative member. Almost j parliament As a member of the two thirds of the elected group came from one province on Small conservative group facing Tario and almost one half of these Hail from Ridings within 25 i Toronto City Hall. This is not a healthy state of affairs. T us. The popular vote of the conservative party across ii country was very Large but it has Little representation in parliament and that representation is leaderless. The of the Leader however need be no special liability imposes upon the membership of the party itself a new a government which has won tremendous r from the country. Of Confidence and pressing responsibility. The conservative party must would itself and it has been Given an Opportunity for House Cie Anini and renovation Given to few political parties. Crushed in and the remnants All but destroyed by the disastrous inc is of the Manion Stevens Drew Board of strategy the con party now has four or five years in which to prepare itself once More to play its historic and important role in Canada s life. The Prairie vote although there was some doubt As to How much support the gov receive in the Prairie provinces because of the stressing by opposition groups of other issues than the War it won 33 of the 55 seats with three still undecided according to i the count of the civilian vote Clicc Imata. Possible not to compare its position today with that of he democratic party in the debacle of 1928. In that election of democratic votes was broken and the party but the sudden Advent of the great depression. 10 face new issues in new ways and the Combina a lion these factors with bold vigorous leadership All Camj in Ether to sweep the party which Many observers believed was dead into Power in 1932. Which will not be much changed by the Soldier vote. The govern ment has won 15 of the 17 seats in Manitoba 11 out of 21 in Saskatchewan 7 out of 17 in the liberals secured the same number of sea s in Manitoba As j the morning after no Liberal jubilation follows already planning intensive War financial burdens income and sales taxes Likely by Grant Dexter in one sense was the father of the House of commons. Or. La Pointe holds the title by virtue of continuous service but or. White also had a claim to the Honor on the ground of earlier parliament Ary service. Or. White entered parliament in 1888, succeeding to ii representation of Cardwell upon the death of his father Hon. Thomas White minister of the Interior who undoubtedly would have succeeded sir John a. Macdonald As prime minister of Canada had he not died in or. White retired from parliament m 1895 1o become collector of customs in Montreal and thirty years later he re entered it As a member for a Montreal constituency. Or. White s political career was divided into two widely separated sections by Twenty two years service As collector of customs in his sixty fifth year an age which precluded Success when he made a bid for the leadership at conservative convention in Winni Peg 1927. At that it is quite possible the convention made mistake. He was a distinguished member or. Bennett s Cabinet and was the Nestor of the party in. The last parliament. Both or. White and or. Cahan represented seats that in Normal times were regarded As invincible conservative. Or. White had a very Large majority and. Or. Cahan a substantial one in 1935. They were opposed on this Occa Sion by men whose careers Lay before in place of behind them and this circumstance supplemented by the astonishing strategy of or. Manion in submerging the conservative party brought to a close their political careers. But they were distinguished and worthy servants of the Public and they will carry into their retire ment the regard of All who Acra privileged to be their colleagues in the last four parliaments and in addition of a Dominion wide Circle of friends. 0 Ottawa March 27 the Fea Ture of the greatest political Triumph in the history of the country is the absence of jubilation. The careless rapture of Victory the exquisite Joy of the Early weeks when a victorious party like a blushing bridegroom revels in the honeymoon of Are absent. Prime minister King was Back at his desk this morning. Ministers Are speeding to the capital. The relentless grind of work has been resumed almost As if no election had been held. There is a feeling of Relief of gratitude to the people of Canada for this harness it for War these Are the j other parties. To Hon. R. Mav Well be that the conservative party now has just i the a Lection. But the vote j Over whelming vote Confidence. Really More decisive. In for q brr of spell criticism will be an Opportunity. It is fated to opposition during the War. Ruall wars end eventually and the Fate of most powerful War so Vornel is is an historic fact in Many countries. Here them cat Opportunity of the Canadian conservatives and it be the sincere wish of every student of Public affairs in this country that it will find the ways and Means the strategy arid leadership which influence in the land. Will restore it to its traditional position of an Best be done is for the party managers to be a task made much simpler than usual by Al purge through which the party has passed. U if hey fail it is apparent that the vacuum now created in our be filled by some other group and As matters the socialists gathered round the How this Ca decide and they face a t virtue of the elector political . T Likely that Banner will profit if the conservatives do not. These mile Corn. The Imin Ediale Job on and As our Ottawa Are of course All questions of Post War con hand is to organize the country for correspondent Points out elsewhere on will be demanded of the Canadian or of at once that will not Surprise them. They sex 11 they did not the results of the election would have Civ different from what they were. New members o Are a number of new e election to Parlia it i to he welcomed. One of s Brooke Claxton Able of Montreal who the Winnipeg Canadian months ago and who the conservative Stal Hon. C. H. Cahan. Another Cyrus Mcmillan of University who was. Elected n Prince Edward Island. Professor of English he had an interest in prac nfair.-, and was a member which investing Rel maritime problems. For i Liob Litzell who won to for the liberals is a Man of the kind that is tied m parliament. His enter had brought him and he has c ideas dismissed in summary do siness and progressive n . Radio Public affairs. He heard from at Ottawa. Gibson the Liberal West Hamilton is also sonet Type of member. Roebuck s election As a candidate in Toronto vide margin Hon. Former member Bennett 7ar. Hepburn s disco i fid Cnoc shown in the King govern general in the Hepburn govern ment until he had a serious disagreement with or. Hepburn and was fashion. M. J. Edwards will be remembered As the Man who won Cal Gary West for the liberals. This is Hon. R. B. Bennett s old seat. He represented Calgary from 1911 to 1917, and after the division into East and West Calgary he held West Calgary from 1925 until his retirement some three years ago when the seat was won by another conservative col. G. L. Cunning ton. But the latter failed to hold it in this contest. Alan Chambers elected As a government candidate in Nanaimo was the Able Young chair Man of the youth committee of the National employment com Mission and his knowledge of such matters should be helpful to parliament. There will be interest in the election of Hugues Lapointe in Lotbini�re. If he should be of the same stuff As his father the minister of Justice he will be an acquisition to parliament. Rev. W. G. Brown United Reform candidate in Saskatoon will now go to a real session of parliament. He was elected in a by election last year and arrived in Ottawa last january Only to find that parliament was being suddenly dissolved. Or. Herbert Bruce 1935, Only three of the Liberal members were elected with majority votes while nine have Clear majorities in this election and another is in a very Small nearly All the Liberal candidates received Milch larger votes than in the last election. It remains to be seen whether the Soldier vote will affect the result in North Centre Winnipeg where or. Woodsworth has a majority of 114, and in Dauphin where w. J. Ward Liberal has a majority of g9 votes. The conserva Tives captured one seat Souris which was won by j. A. Ross by a Small margin. G. W. Mcdonald the late Liberal member had won the seat by Only three votes in the last election. Hon. T. A. Crerar had a majority of Over in Churchill. In Saskatchewan where the . Counted on making Large gains they elected five candidates including m. J. Coldwell and or. Douglas. The conservatives elect g. Diefenbaker former tilled and the government will Lave its Chance to attack the Des Erate problems which face the country. The absence of elation is easily explained. Cabinet ministers know that hundreds of thousands of people who Are not liberals and who would ordinarily vote against the Liberal party backed he government. C or. Roebuck was attorney former lieutenant governor of de to provincial conservative Leader elected in Lake Centre and e. E. Perley who was returned again in Quappelle. But m. A. Mac Pherson one of the leading conservative speakers throughout the went Down to defeat in Reigrut. New democracy failed to carry a scat in Saskatchewan and its Leader w. D. Herridge was Defeated by c. E. Henderson lib eral who won the seat from social credit. Hon. J. G. Gar diner was elected in Melville or Motherwell s old constituency. J a. Gregory who resigned from the legislature to run As a Liberal candidate in the Battleford Cap tured that seat from social credit the social credit or new democracy party which elected 1 members in the last election Wil have not More than 10 even if i wins the two seats still in doubt in Alberta. It has lost 2 in Saskatchewan and at least 5 in Al Berta. Seven seats in Alberta have been won by the liberals who formerly held Only one seat that of Hon. J. A. Mackinnon in Edmonton West. The . Has gained one representative in the Prairie prov inces. It lost one in Manitoba and one in Alberta but gained three in Saskatchewan. Reorganized Cabinet coming for or. King As for his col eagles there will be no breathing spell. Technically speaking a Lew Cabinet is formed after an election but the general View is that the old Cabinet will be continued for the time being until essential War measures have been enacted by parliament. A com plete Cabinet reorganization coming and there is just a Chance that or. King will tackle the Job within the coming month. Such a reorganization will involve the creation of portfolios for Supply air Force and perhaps the Navy the terrific Burden which has been carried largely by Hon. Nor Man Rogers will be divided among others. Presumably the peace time departments will be grouped minister taking on two 01 More of them but the War Effort in All prob ability will come first parliament will be called at the earliest pos sible legis lation dealing with the financial and economic problems concerned with the War will be introduced. Or. King knows that the real Job of organizing Canada for War is still to be done. Only the Mili tary Side has been advanced. The economic and financial Organiza foundation of Canada s fighting Power exists Only in Skeleton form. Or. King spoke of this once or twice in the Campaign. He and or. Lapointe re marked that Canada s maximum financial Power had been Esti mated by the financial experts of the government. The existing Skeleton organization the Exchange control Board and the War time prices and Trade at present merely control dams to prevent the great Pool the nation s strength draining away. How to Canalizo this Power to questions that now face or. King. How to finance the War Here is the problem in the Fis Cal year which ends next sunday there will be a deficit on non War account of some this includes the National railways deficit and As Well the receipts from the special War taxes imposed last september. On top of this deficit of comes War expenditures which will be approximately thus Canada has run behind about in this fiscal year. Most of the War loan of 000 May be regarded As spent. In the new year if you estimate the increased Revenue from the War taxes of last september the higher income tax will yield Revenue next month it is Plain that there will be but a slight sur plus Over non War expenditures. But the War will Cost on Canada s own account and an other for the Commonwealth air training plan. The government knows that this huge sum of approximately cannot be raised by borrowing without starting an inflation upsetting Price Levels and bringing disaster on the country. The government knows there must be ruthless Economy on non War account that something like in new taxation must be imposed. The income tax exemption will Likely be dropped from to for a mar ried Man and the exemptions for dependents Cut Down. The rate of the tax will be increased. The excess profits tax will almost certainly be stiffened and the sales tax will Likely soar from 8 to 10 per cent. War taxation will bite greedily into Canada s Stan Dard of living. But even so there will yet re main a great Gap to be plugged with borrowed dollars. Are there sufficient savings in the country to make this possible or must the government increase these savings by compelling people to spend less and save More should purchasing Power be restricted by making luxuries unsaleable or will compulsory savings be introduced paring the past six weeks government experts have been turning the War problem this Way and that cuties on every Side. And so there is no elation. The government gets no Honey it faces decisions of immense Gravity problems which seem Well nigh insoluble f knows that action must be taken which will dim today s popularity extinguish it. For unless Burke was wrong it is easier to love and be Wise than to tax and be loved. Or. Manion s Montreal. There was a similar break in his distinguished career Bulgaria s position Fth hungarian quarterly it is interesting to note that bul Garia seems of All the Danubia i countries farthest removed from wished for solid Arity. This May be ascribed to two causes. One of these is the strengthening Bond Between Sofia and Moscow the other the fact hat Bulgaria s territorial claims arc still awaiting satisfaction. At die beginning of 1hc bulgarian prime minister m. Kios Sivanov went to Berlin on october 19 lie resigned and it was thought that he would be succeeded by m. Mus nov president of die chamber Well known for Liis interest in West european ques but after a four Days delay the King cup pointed m. Kiossev mov. Many people believe that the bulgarian question occupies the a journalist he was editor of Centre of Southeast european prob the Montreal Gazette for some Penis. This May be partly due to Manion sitting in his office last night fully expecting that the voting would largely increase his following and possibly give him a majority of the returns came As a crushing blow. The voting at this writing seems to have closed or. Manion s political career. There is no place and Small consideration in politics for those who fail. The conservative party is stricken perhaps mortally. Its Leader and his chief lieutenants Are among the fallen. Or. Manion is expected to re sign and retire from Public life. Some people say the House leadership of the handful of conserva Tives will Likely pass to Hon. R. B. Hanson of. New Brunswick or Hon. A a. Bruce of Toronto. There May be a National Conven Tion this fall. The conservative postmortem began this morning. It is now agreed that or. Manion s strategy was a ghastly mistake. The scan dal Campaign lost votes every where. The abuse of opponents rallied no converts and estranged friends. The chief architects of the disaster Are identified in order of their importance As Maurice Duplessis col. George Drew and Premier Mitch Hep Durn. Or. Manion is not blamed severely although his position some people think is now Unten Able. And m. A. Macpherson is not thought to have contributed to the collapse of the party. Years prior to 1895. And again from 1917 until a comparatively recent Date. Bob White was n venerated and beloved member of the House and he will be greatly missed. A a a or. Cahan was Leader of the conservative party in the Nova Scotia legislature fifty years ago. He declined the portfolio of minis Ter of Justice in sir Charles Tup per s Dominion ministry in 1896, a decision which May have changed the course of Canadian political history. Had he entered Dominion politics at that time his might Well have Given him 1hc leadership of the party the retirement of sir Charles Tupper. Re did not enter parliament until future vague the election has wrought year from the Golden books sonnet Anonymous along the Eastern Shore the Low Waves creep making a ceaseless music on the Sand a song that gulls and curlews understand the Lullaby that sings the Day to sleep. A thousand Miles afar the tall Pines keep unending watch upon a scoreless land and through their tops swept by some wizard hand the sound of surf comes singing up the Steep. Love thou canst hear the Tida Litany i mid the Pine land wearied May but dream of the far Shore but though the distance seem Between us fixed me cometh thy soul s voice chanting love s old theme and mine doth answer As the Pines the sea. From holy writ surely shall one say in the lore have i righteousness and strength even to him shall men come Anc All that arc incensed against him shall be ashamed. Birthdays or. George Clingan Virden Man. Bora Ontario. 1808 s. Take Winnipeg born Bradford. Yorkshire bug., March 28, 1874 h c. Kana. Lies ton Man born ont. March 28. 1880. Pat. B. Tea Rining Winnipeg born Ful mortality in the ranks of the Limerick inc land March. 28, i860 agents and party standing tile geographic fact thai Bulgaria is situated in the Middle of 1hc Barkanic. Danubian and Black sea area partly to the recognition that a discussion of her territorial aspirations will remind the world that other states also have territorial claims. In any Case it. Is impossible for the present to obtain a Clear Pic Ture of what is going on in Bulgaria. There is a feeling that the bulgarian indeed the entire Southeast european prob Lem which resolves into the strengthening or weakening of the Solidarity movement depends on the european situation or rather on the estimate formed it in Southeastern Europe. It certain that the latest developments in America s foreign policy the stagnation o the offensive on 1he Western front Anco perhaps most of All the tentative manifestation of Italo soviet antagonism have made a deep Imp prussion in these parts. Not Oes books Are a finer world within the the Little cottage Clouds Hill Dorset where t. E. Law rence spent his last Days is now a shrine and belongs to the National Trust. A reverent admirer who had Long wished to make a pilgrimage thither was Able to visit the place and de scribes it in the simple terms that give readers a sense of what he saw and out Lawrence s retired life1 there. The Pilgrim y. A Dowse in j Little Over a Page of Chambers is written a perfect sketch half description half tribute. He knew that it was somewhere near More ton where Lawrence is buried in the Hardy country on the Edge of Egdon Heath. So he drove through Dorchester past Max Gate where the novelist lived and past the Church in which Tess and Angel Clare were married. At Moreton he was told the Way to Clouds Hill but it was not easy to find through a frequented roads in Woods. At last he struck the Trail and drove slowly coming to the wee House almost hidden by rhododendrons. It was a strange cottage to me almost holy ground the Home of one of the greatest men of our time that strange fascinating and Complex personality known to the world As Lawrence of refusing honors and All the rewards of state he chose comparative erty and this retired somewhat austere life and such seclusion As an importunate press would allow at Clouds Hill the photographers would lie waiting in the Rhododendron Bushes until he came out punched one of them in the face and Rode off on his motor Cycle before they could get a Pho 3 when the Pilgrim knocked at the door of the cottage it was opened by the Man in charge who left him to go through its three rooms alone. He went into the room downstairs. A log fire was burning and beside the Hearth was Lawrence s Arm chair lined with sheep s Wool his own design. Here he had kept his books. A Square leather Couch took up most of the space and on it was the Slee Pirig bag with Meurin embroidered in red by himself. Another bag with Tuum on it which he had kept for friends has been removed. His guests could Steep if they chose in any of the three rooms. Though the books were not there this room had a lived in feeling. It was not difficult to imagine a slight fair haired figure the worlds old auda of Arabia called in the Arm objective of both chair before a roaring fire that lie loved his High sheepskin slip pers stretched out to the Blaze with a favorite Book on a stand by his downstairs was the bathroom. Lawrence loved hot Baths and hot water was one the few luxuries in the cottage. There was no Kitchen at Clouds Hill. Having lived in the desert food was not very important. He could get one meal a Day at the inn and he could get plenty of milk also he liked bread water from his own Spring. Upstairs Are a Small room As big As a ship s Cabin with a port Hole window and a larger room where this Host entertained guests from the humblest to the greatest going. Here were his gramophone and records and when Lawrence was Home there was music Mozart for his Delight and Beethoven for excursions of the the records Are gone but otherwise the room is As he left it. On the Oak mantel is a pair of stainless steel candlesticks Given to him when he left the Royal air Force. The room is panel lined with Green carpet and leather sofa. No fire was burning there on the Day of this Pilgrim s visit but Lawrence s table and chair were in their usual places and the Well worn sofa cushions looked As if one had just got up and walked out. Lawrence once said always there s a feeling that i la miss old age by some Happy lord Tweedsmuir has told How the one Man of Genius As a sol Dier i have known paid himself and lady Tweedsmuir a visit one night. After he left lady tweeds Muir said he is looking at the world As the lord would look at it with Charity and understand ing. Any Man who does that can not live Long in this within h fortnight Lawrence was dead. He had found a Good Meas ure of peace in his Dorset Retreat and says the Pilgrim whom i have been quoting Riding along the narrow Road across Egdon Heath he met the Happy Accident which released his Bookman. The embrace of death from the new York Timo for the Western world the fact to remember is that the two hit Ler and Stalin Are together for better or worse perhaps till death us do then u a morbid air of death about this embrace of the nazis and communists. One begins to see the outlines of that revolution of destruction which or. Hermann Rauschning and others have told us is the real ;