Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 29, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Libony of religion Equality of civil rights. To win n i no or h r up Yvel 1 printed wiil Public Hal Winnie Isi . Carom Street. Winnipeg Manitoba j w. Da7oe. Victor Frow i esdent. General Betti used the general poet Tor Tom Mahelon through the poet Kartom at the new Ieper rate. Of Winnipeg Friday March 29, 1940 the Alberta voting there will be no great Surprise in the news that the Transfer of votes in the Alberta election has now reached the stage where or. Aberhart can confidently look Forward to another five years of office. But it will be most surprising indeed if or. Aberhart looks Forward to his second term in office with the same keen enjoyment with which he began his premiership in 1935. Times have changed. He no longer has the Avalanche of support behind which lured by a series of false and fantastic promises swept into office. Nor has he the Power even if he a the inclination to continue the system of confiscation and pillage which marked his hey Day. For the first time in his Short but spectacular career he will be faced in the new legislature by an effective and Able opposition which has behind it a very Large percentage of the people of Alberta. These Are the independents elected by a spontaneous uprising of anti Aberhart forces in Many constituencies. It. Is galling to reflect that this minority of independents today could easily have been a majority had not outside influences completely unfamiliar with the Alberta background and bigoted in their desire to enforce a system of part ism repugnant to albertan. Persistently fought and impeded the Rise of the natural opposition to the social credit forces i the independents who at the last moment took the Field were representative of no party at Al. If they sought a name or title none better could be found for them than the simple and honorable one of this would be denied by or. Ata Erhart. Whose language during the Campaign was of a kind Seldom paralleled in our political annals. Here is a Sample of the furious demagogic Appeal he made to the people of Alberta the people Are not going to be misled cajoled cheated and robbed their votes because these disguised old line party financial henchmen sit Back like jackasses kowtow ing and braying to the stars the one phrase. Lick it take More than All the mountains of Money the big shots can pour into this election or the most ridiculous cartoons some Moron can conceive it will take More than the most unscrupulous whispering Campaign that the mind of depraved reprobates can devise to the votes of these mothers wives and daughters. So let them Roll out their barrels of financial moguls. Let them bring on their dirty rumours their vile whispering campaigns let them pub Lish abroad their vicious distorted cartoons and print their Malici Ous half truths in their Low Down degraded yellow press these henchmen of financial bondage. Let them Spring every nefarious trick they know. The Independent candidates it is unnecessary to say bore none of the labels thus plastered on them by a master of invective. They were men who had something quite different in their minds than the interests of big shots and the result of the voting showed it. They believed everyone of them that the attempt of or. and his followers to Cut Alberta of from the rest of the Dominion to build a picket Fence around the province inside which albertan could dwell while outside i canadians lived in a howling wilderness was something not to be tolerated. The independents in a word were patriots who believed that Alberta was a part of Canada and that their pro Vince should co operate gladly and freely with the ten million canadians living in the other eight provinces. They believed that nothing but disaster awaited a province that deliberately Cut itself off from Canada making vain and foolish attempts to get up an absurd and impossible scheme of monetary Reform in Defiance of the Laws of the country of which it was a part. I to t this was the basis of the attack on or. Aberhart and i feeling ran High during the Campaign the kind of speech cited above provides an adequate explanation of the prevailing temperature. The independents failed to overthrow the govern ment but the size of the vote they polled and the later results in the Federal election show very clearly that the High tide o parochialism is receding fast and or. Aberhart of whose poll tical astuteness there is no room for doubt will doubtless recognize that fact As he faces the task of governing Alberta in the future. It will be a matter of some Surprise if at the end o his second term he has not worked hard to win some kind o reputation for action other than that based on intimidation illegality and confiscation. Up to a certain Point a politician May win cheap applause by forcing passage of illegal Laws beyond that margin of tolerance he can rapidly win Himsel Only the name of being the improper Leader of a futile Paliuca party. The events of the past week suggest that that Point a now been reached. Minimum for teachers a s700 minimum salary for teachers in Saskatchewan was provided for at the recent session of the legislature. The govern ment pays a Grant to each primary school and the balance of the Cost of school maintenance must be paid from local taxation. The very Low salaries paid to some Saskatchewan teachers had gained wide publicity and the new mini mum of will be a great improvement. But the raising of the salary level brings up the question of the Best and most economical plan for providing Rural Educa Tion and the Saskatchewan government is following the recommendation of the Royal com Mission headed by chief Justice Martin and will Experiment with the consolidated school District now adopted throughout Alberta groups of school districts in Sev eral parts of the province which wish voluntarily to try the new plan will be encouraged to do so. The Experiment will be for five years when it will be decided the plan should be generally adopted. The establishing of the minimum a writer in the Regina Leader Post Points out was made possible Only by the drastic Steps previously taken by the govern ment to compel the payment of local taxes. After the years of great adversity with a heavy accumulation of tax arrears an adjustment was made and a consid Erable part of the arrears written off. But taxes were not paid up Well after that. Many taxpayers Hung Back believing that they might secure another adjustment municipal tax collections for school purposes in 1937 were Only As against the Peak o in 1928. But the government stepped in last year a Farmer could no sell his Grain without a certificate rom the municipal Secretary treasurer unless his 1939 Taxe and seed Grain advances wer Laid. This proved effective the municipal Revenue increased an he teachers will be better paid parliamentary and political which me into operation if a Promise transmuted into a definite policy. In consequence the prom is were either wholly ignored r greatly modified. Or. Manion had less authority to make promises in 1940 than or. Ennett had in 1930. They had be made subject to his getting he consent of a party which he As trying to bring into existence and the direct approval of col Agues of whom he apparently new nothing except that they Ere going to be the Best brains i Canada. How did he know hat the Best brains " in Canada assuming he could get them into is government would accept without question the Hodge podge t promises which he scattered so promiscuously As he passed along he political highways take As n illustration his off hand Assur nce that he would wipe out the Adio License and look to the fur Ler commercialization of the Naonal system for the necessary revenues. Before he could get any Uch retrograde proposition As this nto actual operation there would e resistances to which he gave o thought when he was hot on is venture of wholesale bribery. Politics a la Zience from the colonel has anybody heard anything lately of one colonel Reynolds Ead of the Canadian corps Asso nation who was blowing great uns at the beginning of the elec Lon Campaign in addition to pub c appearances colonel Reynolds Nade a trip across Canada for the purpose of letting meetings held n various holes and Corners know that the Duke of this and that r lord so and so or general that is his name imparted to in while he was in England last autumn about the undesirability having Canada s War efforts trusted to Mackenzie King and Lis colleagues. The silence that iut an end to these imaginative lights must have been imposed upon the colonel by his associates who could not see Why an Organ nation which they had brought nto being for worthy and useful purposes should be destroyed by to temporary head in an Effort by to gratify his political hatreds. Dor to jeep you More school of girls by . Did t puppets get to see performing the but Twenty five girls talking at once told us How they were made and How they worked and was t it fun these weren t Ordinary puppets. They were puppets put together with plasticine and enthusiasm. But our guide did t let us linger Long. The principal had asked us would we like to see the the William we setting Down our Teacup and arising leisurely said that we would be charmed. It was the last leisurely act of the afternoon. At once Anne swept into action. The sewing room is this she stated darting Down the Stair Way with us alter her. It s a Model she explained or at least it is going to be when the girls get it finished. Here s the dining room. Pretty smooth in t it though i m not sure that we Are going to have More she let us go slowly Over the titles. A lot of them i have read said. I got them at tile Public Library but it is Nice to have them Here right in our own school. Well get More and soon we will have the Walls All lined. Lined with what do you think of Gold inquired Anne. Well what did we think of goldfish if any thing some one brought us tank with she went on. To explain so we keep them after All one must be Broad minded. Then we were led to the table where reposed the Pinnacle the school bulletins and Magazine of the writers club. Anne s club. At once we had All the time there was. Did we wish to read the once a fortnight and just let our the class did the luncheon set. Eye rest on that Magazine issued revelations by Low by . Wide open it is Well to have or. Justice Donovan s Assurance that the in Quiry into the City s police department will be wide open and hat anyone who has any charge r complaint to make can do so. Everything should be cleared up n this investigation. The attorney general has ranted the request of the com Mission for special counsel and hat is Well. Or. Preudhomme solicitor should have Only a watching Brief for the City Council. When one civic depart ment is under investigation the responsibility for presenting the charges should not be placed upon he head of another civic depart ment nor should he be closely associated Tion. War is the Only subject have no to Earth or material c cartoon in wartime but the indignation generated As least 100 of the original Low himself says at the spectacle s Toons and caricatures being Man s inhumanity to Man. They a at the auditorium Art gallery the flocks of humbugs drawn before the War began. And incompetents who the Steps they ascend Are Low again says always to that led up to this War. And flourish like the Green t theme is its prelude but tree in time of War. There treatment is never repetitive Little mercy at the cruel Point was the theme of the his Pencil. Many great figures cartoon which was. Low the world s stage Are bitterly that the enemy is a fool and but the deed they blackguard and our Brave rather than the Pun iness will kick his Low their souls is disclosed to shame. Mistakes the enemy for a fool personages must writhe but usually shows to be a would rather be in than be guard. An hour or two out of a Low cartoon for to these cartoons leaves you noticed by of itself smacks ing whose pants Are being Fame even if it smarts till it free press readers have enjoyed David Low s cartoons familiar feature in this the work of this master of most of the cartoons in the is nothing prosaic exhibition have appeared in Patitu Dingus. He erases free to show Plain fact. This Low s cartoons lift lids to his. Cartoons timely and Apt stews Are in the International they appear in the columns Chickadee no. 992. Robins Devi try engage cd in by pne mrs. J. Phippen s recent instead it was regarding a pair of Robins carrying away their eggs when their nest of if not All of in curlews present on Layman in danger of being robbed by the time we were there. In other Crow brings from c. P. Barager flin flon Man., a report of they indulged in organized working about the Island egg carrying incident but in troops accompanied by numbers Case the Birds had no enemy Turnstone and an occasional Plover which were partners or. Barager writes one crime with the Curlew. The ing some years ago while watching a pair of Robins fussing jammed their Bills straight into the lighter shelled their nest in a Maple tree i but the Curlew frequently at entry saw one of the Birds got Access to the contents of the tree with something quite larger eggs by raising them in in its beak. It carried the Bills and then dropping them with their presenta Atout fifty feet and then dropped it near to where i was standing. As i was certain it was an egg i step Ped Over to examine the broken Shell thinking perhaps another Bird had intruded upon the Robin s nest. But that was not the Case for bribery by promises one of the most object Iona features of the Campaign was d Manion s attempt at wholes bribery of the electors by Promise ensuring Public expenditures. Apparently a special study was mad n every District of the Public i which would be most acce Tab to it if it could be obtained an when or Manion reached the Clis strict a memorandum was hande n which he proceeded to in corporate in his Appeal for sup port with no More consideration Han perhaps an enquiry As to How Many votes it was Worth. The fraudulent character of these promises was so evident upon inspection that an elector who changed his vote solely on the strength of them is open to commiseration upon the double ground of shortage in character and a Complete Lack of Intelli gence. No party Leader in a political Campaign in promising handouts Grants concessions Public works n give any Assurance that he can make his promises Good even in the event of Victory. Not one of the major promises made so lavishly by or. Bennett in 1930 was implemented. He won the election he commanded a sub Stantial majority in parliament he was very much the Boss but when it came to building the Bridges and the railways and the highways and to making the prom ised Grants he found that it could not be done. The thing that looked so easy to Promise in the face of a crowd of electors prepared to Exchange a vote for the Promise had a very different appearance if it was proposed to submit it to All the tests administrative typhoid epidemic the health authorities Are presumably taking All possible Steps to Check the outbreak of typhoid fever in St. Boniface and in the St. Anne District and to discover the source of the disease which has already caused one death. Infectious diseases Are so Well controlled nowadays that any thing approaching an epidemic of typhoid is unusual. What a change from the Days of Long ago and How thankful we should be deadly epidemics were once regarded As an act of strange As the expression seems. After people got past that idea preventive action was not always prompt or effective and the re Cults were sad. Now we know that these things should not happen at All that they Are nearly always due to inexcusable carelessness on some body s part and that prompt and vigorous action must be taken to control any outbreak of disease and to find the cause As a Protection for the future. More Power to the health officers from the Golden books Ireland Sidney Lanier in 1880 hear some Ireland winsome ire land charmer of the Sun and sea Bright beguiled of old anguish How could famine frown on thee the Shell was the contents of the egg were not de composed but appeared rather to be in a state of non Fertility. I climbed the tree and looked in the nest to find Only three Blue eggs whereas previously there had been about a week later three hungry Robins came into the world in thai very same nest and i have no reason other than to believe that those Parent Birds knew in Advance thai one egg would not Hatch hence it was this is a new Angle in regard to egg carrying. Some Birds will re move a punctured egg from their nest or one that has not Hatchet out. But we have never heard of a Bird detecting an infertile egg in Advance of its Normal hatching time though it is unsafe to regard this As an improbability. Egg carrying extraordinary we have always liked the Story of the old gentleman at the zoo who while gazing goggle eyed at a Giraffe said i Don t believe it there Ain t no such we feel much the same Way about some of the wonders of nature certain incidents or habits seeming absolutely unbelievable. Here is one of them a Curlew with a Long slender Wisp of a Bill a Bird regarded As quite harmless carry ing an egg nearly three inches in length As our Gulf Stream thee Ward drawn to turning from its northward flow and our wintry Western head lands Send thee summer from their Snow thus the main and cordial current of our love sets Over tender comely valiant streaming warm to Comfort thee. From holy writ be Are the Salt of the Earth but if the Salt have lost his Savour wherewith shall it be salted it is Good for nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men. The above illustration is from moving picture film made by d. I Dickey on Layman Island a Dot in the Pacific Ocean Northwest of the hawaiian islands of a bristle Thig hed Curlew stealing an leg from Man of War Bird s nest. Or Dickie wrote a. C. Bent for i monumental life a histories o North american As follows this was not a sporadic bit o of this newspaper and it too re Veals their Stark meaning when seen two or three years later As when exhibited now at the auditorium. But Low with his Pencil and pen is no More bleakly sardonic than was Swift with his caustic wit. Low has his fun. For Long he took infinite Delight in Carica Turing his employer lord Beaver Brook and one cartoon in this col Lection shows doing so. It May be remembered that lord Beaverbrook preaching Empire isolation for a spell suggested that the capital of the British nations be removed to Canada. Low re moved it next Day. In his cartoon smiling an icy Labrador Bank the Union Jack floating above and supporting on his left is lord Castle Rosse his chief reporter on the daily express and on his right Low his famous cartoonist on the eve Ning Standard. And there Are Low s water colors in the series showing the Rake s Progress. One should be Able to identify the numerous personages shown in these sketches to get the Rich Cream from off the milk of the Sake s sad though instructive Progress. In the first of the series the press discovers the Rake As a new celebrity. The huge bulk of Castle Rosse takes up but they did these slips and nighties and suits. This is Mil dred s i we Only had time to opine that a fire and escaping in what she had on would hold no terrors for Mildred when we found ourselves in the bedroom. The girls went in for said Anne made that Bedspread themselves and of course the Dresser and All. Just come into the bathroom. All those and worked and this Case full it is what the group Are knitting for the red Anne allowed us As a minute to observe the pile of the Nice girls love a then swept us into the cooking room. It seemed pretty crowded with the troops who were supplying the Tea so Anne giving her Blue Tunice classmates a Quick appraisal executed a Sharp right about and landed us in the a mischievous impish Max sits fishing from sewing gardening ways said laundry dancing the girls class were from there the but taking in tubs wringers and Iron ing boards in one flying leap we arrived at the Case where the Wool was displayed in processes from the fleece to the Ball of yarn. Now conceded Anne is Library is on the next Al Anne announced. If there is anything More on this floor to see while we Are we reasoned having caught sufficient breath let s do that. Rushing up and Down stairs has its Points of course but the olym pics being off this year we have rather let our training Well we could see the singing and our guide agreed. But port was barred. Too end of each term this said Anne has been going Twenty five forty centuries o arlook us from Yon Pyramid s vast height Twenty five we echoed. Repeated Anne firmly getting out a Magazine about we were allowed a of Art room. There were a lot of clubs in the school it seemed Al Home Craft writers dramatic music marionettes Art dancing weaving and knitting. Each girl has two periods a stated our guide and. In that time she can work in the club of her i nearly forgot the broadcast ing Anns called Back to us As we gave determined Chase. You must see it. It is keen. Down Here in the always willing where machinery is concerned to let some one else do the pressing and pushing and take their word for How it works we accepted Anne s statement that ack on the hard Sand until they Oroke. They can pick up and run away with an egg up to the size of a Man of War Bird s egg in the Case of the latter the More dexterous Birds seized the egg and held it Bendwise in the Bill. It seems difficult for them to pick t up owl emulates the Phoenix last week mrs. J. L. Bathgate Wellington Crescent Winnipeg received a distinct Surprise when on setting a match to an indoor fire a Small bundle tumbled Down the Chimney into the room fortunately missing the flames As the fire screen lad been removed. It was a screech owl in the Grey phase but so thoroughly be Grimes with soot it appeared almost Black. Over the week end it was cleaned As much possible fed on raw meat and re leased being none the worse for its adventure. The screech is the Small horned owl mentioned a couple of columns ago As now nesting within the Winnipeg limits. The first nest recorded was found on july 31, 1918, and not 1938, As printed in column 990. Mountain bluebirds return one of our most Beautiful Birds the male Mountain Bluebird arrived on March 17, reports Stuart Cradle tree Bank and on the same Day a Crow was seen. Unlike the Rufous breasted Eastern Bluebird its Mountain Cousin is a Clear metallic sky Blue lighter on the underparts but so gorgeous it has All the appearance of a Tropi Cal Sun Dweller instead of a Hardy Northern species. Originally a West Erner it is spreading eastwards and has already been recorded East of the red River. Or. Criddle noted the first Prairie horned Lark on feb. 16, Andev. Latta Whitemouth three on March 8. On March 25, or. Criddle saw a flock of about 90 Bohemian Wax wings feeding on ground Cedar berries which Are plentiful on our Hilu ruffed grouse have been strutting All Winter but drumming has not yet started. We have had As Many As 14 coming to the House to feed. Blue jays Are very scarce Only one or perhaps two have been seen All Winter. Nine evening Gros bunks and five Redpoll were also noted on the 25th." natural history society on monday april 1, c r. Ridley will give an illustrated lecture on aviculture. Or. Ridley has the largest aviary in greater Winnipeg and has bred Birds from All parts of the world. The meeting will be held in theatre f of the University building commencing at 8.15 . The Public is invited. The foot of the bed As he elicits Many persons had thought of it an interview to find a thought for first. So to the Library we Cata a typical express Story and pulled. There Anne came to Sud Margot Asquith pries into the Den rest. She said and washstand to get a column. But her voice took on a sudden lilt. It is not my intention to spoil the cocktail party or to show lord i Derby being shocked by the Rake s i conduct on the turf while the Aga Khan is delighted or even to try to describe the scene when the other Jady tries at the wedding to break in on the archbishop s Blessing. Programmes came Over to inc classrooms and so did records for their dancing and illustrations for the music appreciation course. We were shown to the door by Anne and several of her class mates. Do you like our Askild one. I certainly do. You must be proud of we Are. Come again you will be very they opened the doors birthdays Hon. I. B., Griffiths Man. Born Wazall Shire eng., March 39, 1883. John Winnipeg born Winnipeg Maroti 39, 1b87. Henry Puller South tmntcoof., Man. Born seven Oahu eng., March 29, 1858. William j. Horton Winnipeg Bora. Hil tax 28, 1m7. Books Are a finer world within the is fiery preaching in the a sermons in Low s cartoons. Going Back to the ethiopian Campaign is on the one Side is the barbarian woman playing with her creeping infant in the Placid innocence of the and on the other Side is the Hole and desolation left by the bomber banking away. In Uncle Joe s Ribben trop asks Stalin How much can you give us on and Forks out a measly Swastika while hit Ler covertly watches to see if any one sees them. In Himmel they mean Hitler s Shock at the Strong attitude at last taken by the allies startles Ign Omi Nousis and blanches the Cheek of Ribbentrop. It is this rape of civilization that tears the heart of Low. This is seen again and again and shown with Devilish satire. Stumpy Franco stands Solita Rily amid the deserted ruins of a Basque Village and abjured nobody in sight you be got to admit i m bringing readers who wish for entertainment and who have read the american Best seller we married an by Ruth and Helen Hoffman will need no urging to read their second Book our arabian nights Carrick Evans . The authors Are known As the Hoffman twins. They were educated at the University of Minnesota and at the school of Fine arts Fontainebleau. It was Ruth who married the englishman Douglas Brooks member of an engineering firm in Iraq. We want be but we Don t want ,4o be comfortable we want to live like in Baghdad dwelt in an old Arab House and for gathered with All social ranks native princes diplomats officers colonial English and bedouin chiefs making friends with them All and they explored every foot of that ancient City of the arabian nights. We mind the lad Jarne a Barrie and his Mother getting that Book out of the Library and their disappointment Over the title it was nights not knights. In Baghdad women would play Bridge in the morning instead o marriage and they have lived in abridge and Iraq for the past few years. The twins one of them mrs. Busy. Peace to the and poor suffering in another car Toon Franco with Mussolini and Hitler smiling approvingly behind listens to an officer report How excellency the moorish troops Are disturbed they say our. Conduct of the War is in these cartoons drawn by Low Are for the British people Pri Marily although they have become the property of the world. They reveal the tragedy of the world and Are not to be told about they Are to be seen. The joke can be seen instantly in these but steady Long careful study of its treatment makes it hard to purge the bitterness of watching the crash of decency and kindly relations Between Peoples As Low shows it in the afternoon to these affairs.1 much of interest they had to keep them Douglas Brooks were in Paris Busy writing when a letter came irom Douglas with a plan to go and live with the Arab tribe Sumer while he was engaged on a new Section of railway. It would run through the territory ruled by sheikh Fulan chief of the tribe who was to receive half the Lor his permission and his Protection. The partnership was called sheikh Fulan Murdoch Brooks. The twins had seen and knew All about the noted chief cynosure of All eyes wherever he was in tent Palace or european setting and respected for dignity and strength by his people in Iraq fifty thousand Strong. A dinner party Given by in Baghdad is described the Host being the Only one in Arab dress. He de serves the grandeur of the open sky we tent instead of a room and a Fine carpet in Stead of such a spindly chair As he was sitting on among the guests was an iraqi pro Fessor who wore horned glasses and spoke English carefully. So you have become authors Well that you he can had hardly Call us just published the new Iraq its problem of bedouin with foot notes sticking out As thick As a Pincushion Lull of not a footnote in the twins popular Book while drinking their after dinner Coffee they had a Chance to ask the sheikh about their going up to the tribes. My Palace is if you Don t mind a Shaikh it is the Black tents we want to live no up to the Black tents these eager adventurers went without any opposition and first Day in he harem awaits us further n the Book. As they Drew near Camp a dim Light shone from tent flaps. Five women were waiting for us they woke up in the Middle of the night a strange sound and movements la he tent alarming them. Turning on the flashlight they found to goats beside them eating the 3oor. The goats were As much surprised As the twins and bunk out through the tent door. Tie rest of the night donkeys braying and chasing each other round to e tent forbade sleep. How differ ent from nights on the Baghdad Early in the morning Maida the sheikh s Beautiful daughter first lady of the trib a stood in the tent door. Win the Best looking bedouin girl Ever seen was about Twatt Tif and had refused to marry. No Rouge on her Chok. But or forehead and it align in Blue. The visitors were Fine it was to begin the Day at bedouins what a Hai Lihr life etc., when just oui def they Law a table with a White cloth on to in eating 00 the might just As Well at tin had of crts and not a Dumarais in rom. After break fort Feuy Drift of in and no standing Raan left the harem wat the occasion in Silks and a attics. The twins spent the rest of morning in the big harem sprawling on the floor. Bookman ;