Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 01, 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. Carlton Street Winnipeg. Manitoba j. W. Dafoe Victor Sintow president Genera manager registered at the general pcs. Office London eng. For transmission through the Post in the unite i kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg saturday june 1, 1940 the War and the individual last. Canadian citizens in the great major Elliis country is at .-.re. The aspect of the evolution of pre War so deeply disturbing to observers of those could appraise their significance and which of maddening was the impossibility of awaken ends of the democracies or the people themselves of the future unless necessary counter Meas i movement was revolutionary and bound to internal violence which was immediately Clis aggression promptly resorted to when movement and that Europe could not i half totalitarian was a fact which should have observers. But. As we now know Only too o were in positions of Power and responsibility Allied countries could not or would not ult that the Public in All these countries where period of Hospital into War. Was mentally unprepared to Ducs i cations of what modern War would mean to Hospital service plan the Story of Winnipeg s Success the Hospital service Assoc a the Canadian welfare Council. In the first year ending dec. 31 groups in last there were 419 rolled consisting of sub scribers dependents making participants in the plan. Enrolment has continued at a satisfactory Pace this year and the number of subscribers had in creased by on april 9, and the total number of participants had reached 29.157. Subscribers pay monthly dues and they and their families Are entitled to Hospital service. The financial results of the first year made it possible to increase the care for the Case in great Britain it was still More diff a Here a. Canada for the Ordinary citizen going about his . O realize that he was himself individually at War to him might be calamitous country was at War that it was rightly at War participation in the War with men and would be a heavier Burden of ii others Akin to them were accepted in a mood quiescence. But All these things were matters it would do what was necessary. Alert opposition. In due that it would be a Long and somewhat the inevitable in result of these sacrifices d would be reached. Winnipeg s Success in this mat Ter is commended by welfare to other cities across Canada. And it Points out that sixty communities in the United states have non profit Hospital service plans with a total of subscribers. Glory without end War correspondents seeking a parallel with the Story of the final stages of the Battle of Flanders j have found it in the Story of sir j John Moore s Retreat to Corunna in 1809. But that deathless Story pales in the Light of the fierce and terrible Story which has now been imperishable recorded in flame j and blood upon the Hills of Kem this is the word that fits and it is being Icin ulessly to the attitude of governments and i Divi everywhere been destroyed and has been i wariness of the danger of the situation the measures the pressure of time the desperate i balance. To repeat ourselves the individual the realization that he is in this War for every t or everything he Hopes and he has the most interest in everything that pertains. But it a question whether the Ordinary citizen is not going one extreme to the other. From being too willing to leave everything without question to others he has now immersed himself and most of his interests in the War which he is fighting out in i at most hours of the Clay and Many hours of the it. Every . Is his own strategist he notes the blunders c the Allied Side As he sees them he outlines the counter stroke that would change the tide of War he watches the tide a Battle As it i recorded fragmentary in press despatches Ancle radio other words the War is Ever with him to the of his routine and the lowering of his capacity to attend to his daily affairs. It May be questioned whether the average citizen of Canada can at this moment make a More valuable contribution to can Ada s Effort than to establish and maintain a sensible mental attitude towards the War. This would include of course a full understanding of what the War is about and the necessity for Victory readiness to make any sacrifice or contribution within Power insistence upon those who have the War Effort in i hand Bini on to their beyond that a Tranquillity of mind and a Stout Ness of heart which will exclude undue concern and alarm about matters beyond the Range of personal know Mel and Cassel the nieuport dunes and the beaches of Dunkirk. How precious Nave been the Days saved to the allies by the dauntless and Savage fighting of the British rearguard Only the future will fully Tell. But the sacrifices made Are such As to re Call the Noble words of Pericles Over the athenians who fell in Battle More than Twenty centuries ago and when Athens shall appear great to you consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men and by men that Learned their duty by men that were sen sible of Dishonour when they came to act by such men As. Though they failed in the at tempt yet would not be want ing to the City with their Vir tue but made unto i. A most honorable contribution. To few men is Given the gift of speech adequate at this moment to meet the Welling need of express Reynaud s record always right Paul Reynaud is prime minis Ter Paul Tardieu. Sex prime i not taken this action in ledge and responsibility and convey to those who Are carrying Burden of War direction almost too heavy to be borne the feel ing that behind them Are the citizens of Canada confident and unde pressed even when the news is not to their liking and Resolute in their intention to answer every Call that May be hade upon them. Sion. Let the words Pericles today sound softly Over the British dead. Burning up space France and Winston minister and still a great political Churchill is prime minister of Force opposed this action and great Britain. It is recognized sought to enlist the co operation of universally that these men Are in Paul Reynaud who was then the their right places and that their services Are incalculable value to their respective countries and to the Allied cause. It is very saddening to recall that in the years of the Locust when this War was in the making these men in their respective parliaments were voices in the wilderness. Alexander in his Book France and in which the Story of France s descent to the Depths of Munich is set Forth with full documentation makes an occasional reference to statements made by Reynaud and to the poli cies he urged As a member of the Daladier which in retrospect Are seen to have been compact of Good sense. But or. Werth has to explain that Reynaud had no influence upon the course of events. It was he and m. Man Del now his right hand Man in his heavy task of saving France who within the government resisted stoutly but unavailing by the defeatist Munich policies which m. Bonnet and. His associates imposed upon the doubting m. Daladier prime the Story of the French descent i to the betrayal of Munich under the direction of m. Bonnet As told by or. Werth. Is much worse than that of the Chamberlain govern ment with Clements of unbelief ble treachery and hypocrisy. Bonnet it is were determined that Czechoslovakia should be betrayed my that the betrayal should be so managed that the responsibility Ould be placed on the British government. When at the last moment the British government Ssu cd a statement suggesting resistance if Hitler attempted Force the French defeatist press pub chairman of an important political Manchuria and her t be Cav o by . Though As a alter dam Rosch says Quick motion should hardly be considered an objective in Speed is a fascinating subject and All studies of it Are avidly examined. The rapid movement of a body from Point a to Point a whether by land or water or air invariably commands the attention even Points out that we shall probably never get beyond 750 Miles per hour by air plane or the rate at which sound travels. The reason for this is the compressibility of air. Sound is a wave of compression and if a plane were to move at the Speed of sound it would have to bore a Hole in the air instead of pushing though that movement has Little Jit out of the Way. Such a process 5ht t a Lulu violent now that canadians have awakened to the realities they that the strategy of the Allied Powers is to a the nazis to effect a sudden decision by total and thereafter by slow accretions of strength by i courage patience and endurance to so change the balance that will be ultimately attained. It will be a hard and prob Jeb Yalong Road. Our men in the Field on the sea and in the is have these qualities and have set their feet upon this Road. J iut they can Only follow it resolutely to the end if the Home matches them in coolness steadiness patience a most our air units overseas the air Force auxiliary squad Ron which was established Here and bears the name of Winnipeg. Landed safely in England on wednesday. It is quartered there with the auxiliary Squadron that was similarly established at Toronto which reached England on february 25. These strictly Volun units were non permanent of the militia air ser ice. Command of the Toronto Aux iary Squadron was Kivon to a permanent . Officer. Sad. Or. W. D. Vanvlitt who belongs essential and courage. The Home front is made up of every one of whom As we have said is in the War its strength and endurance will be the sum of these i Divi Nal Yudities a cheering report the sceptic have been declaring because Canada is at War her Trade with the United fees May us Fer. Well the lat report indicate that the Scep Are Oins to be confounded in 5 big during the month of a Oij Al of tourist our wards nursing education should be considered in auditing the work of these institutions. He mentioned the number of nurses no which have been graduated from the Winnipeg general who had built up a reputation for their school As having one of the most efficient nursing school staffs that can be found in this Dominion a scary headed this Way and in an increase of exactly Over March of 1939. S certainly reassuring news. If during All of 1939. A grand of tourist Automa Tes came to Canada we can look to something like j pm visiting automobiles this year. Aey win be Welcome and or. For that matter elsewhere.1 in Southern j Lac acc or scr acc As Well a of its other phases. Or. Cal Hac some remarks to make concern inf the support Given to the Genera Hospital. In his travels through out the Dominion he had been interested in hospitals and that most of them experience financial difficulty. But in othe communities seems apparel education for nurses i at the recent graduation of the school of of the Winnipeg Hospital. Chairman w. M. Marie orc observations of duty f f the Public towards the of nurses a duty which seemed to consider exceeded of giving the girls a hand As uniformed column Tei Ched by. He pointed out that " though nursing education is by the government officially As it is Regis Vereti by direction and authority that citizens directly or govern do extend a More Generou measure of support than has Bee experienced in our Case yet the general Hospital commercial value and no moral significance. The manner in which Speed thus bewitched us has no explanation it is inscrutable and it is perhaps enough to acknowledge it and satisfy it with All available in formation. No doubt that was the reason the recently carried a Alk on How fast can Man it was certainly the Eason Why a great Many people listened to the talk. The speaker Vas Morley Lazier who is lec Turer in applied mechanics at the University of Toronto. Or. Laz o Winnipeg and was Bush flying Here before he got into no . Command of the Vinn ipg auxiliary Squadron w allowed to be retained by sad. Or. W. F. Hanna who flew As an observer in the last War and in life is a scientific research the rust Laboratory the University of Vorker in attached to Alan Toba. The preponderance of the flying these two Volunteer officers in squadrons comes from the West and they must feel honoured b he first fighting units to represent Canadian military overseas. Is statistics on Speed Are Worth preserving in print. Speed of course depends upon number of circumstances. The izing it in the process. Would create an enormous drag and would destroy the lift of any plane s Wing surfaces. The Only known answer to this natural obstacle says or. Lazier is rockets and they May be commercially possible if scientists can improve on fuel Energy. But who wants to go faster than 750 Miles per hour anyway certainly a generation which travels ten times faster than its predecessor is not necessarily ten times More civilized. And As Shakespeare reminded his com patriots. He tires betimes that spurs too fast maybe that is what is the matter with us we Burn up too much space and our own souls without real Speed of an organic body depends for example upon the size and weight of the body upon the length and strength of its legs upon the length of its stride and the number of strides per Minuit. A Man can get Over the ground at something like 18 Miles per hour he is Jesse Owens or Nurmi in which Case he proceeds writing change constituted an injustice to he got no sympathy from Reynaud who wrote him in these terms you complain that the aggressor is the victim of injustice. Further Imore you denounce As a danger this common action which to me seems an important Date in the history of humanity. And so just at Thi moment when grcv.1 Britain is doing what we have been asking her to do during the lat fifteen you want to pre vent it. But unfortunately in was tar Dieu and not Reynaud who spoke for dominant official opinion. The French government co operated in making the sanctions ineffective and afterwards in destroying them thus reversing the league policy to France had ions of the most disastrous turning Ever taken by a nation. In the world of today democracies Mast find a Way to get the right Man in the right Job or it goes hard with them. The present Day examples supplied by France and great Britain herewith noted arc conclusive on this Point. Unfortunately democracies often get the right Inan very late in the Day. British government for the part when an enormous Quantity of lost it had played in supporting sane ground has to be recovered by tons. Great Britain he said had sacrifice and Travail. 9i u f i handling fifth columns by Grant Dexter shed it with qualifications such As suggestions that it was a Forg that it was not that it was Only the opinion of an of prior official and so Forth. This indicates the character of the combination against which Paul Rey Naud struggled hopelessly. Ottawa since the German invasion of Denmark nor Way and the Low countries the government has been swamped by demands for a Home guard to Deal with fifth column activities. This demand has been met by e announcement that 12 companies of men each will be recruited. A new Days Alicr this announcement was made the government said that this Force would enlarged. At the same time a n earlier incident ant dating the period covered by or. Worth s Book reveals m. Reynaud As standing firm on what had been an accepted French policy when other Public men then of greater prominence and authority than he abandoning it. When the league of nations applied sanctions to Italy in the Case of Abys the government announced that 28. In this statement the police pointed out that innumerable Tele phone Calls and letters were hampering not helping their work. We must stress the the statement said that members of the fifth column would like nothing better than to have us run around petting nowhere investigating false reports birthdays William h. Hack. Oliver. . Born Batter sea Surrey er.g., june 1, 1850. Mrs. Susan m. Donley Minto Man bom Lansdowne 1858. Out., june 1, William Fowler Pilot Mound Man. Born Markham ont. June 1. 1872. F c. Hamilton. Winnipeg born to Sanquist ont. June 2. 1871. Major general v. A. S. Williams Toronto born port Hope out. June 2, 1868. Harry f. Moulden. Winnipeg born both Ley eug., june 2, 1861. W w. Burdett Winnipeg Bori Thrapston eng., june 2, is7s. Books Are a finer within the citizens from productive work to Deal with matters that can Only be handled by the police would be to help the enemy. Or. La Pointe also said that All precautions have been taken to safeguard Public works communications transport facilities and other property from sabotage. If further evidence is required it will be found in a statement issued by the divisional Headquarters of the . At Montreal on May latest among Many Little Al books dealing with a Chris Jitian attitude to the War comes from or. Temple archbishop of York. Messes. Macmillan of can Ada it contains addresses some Aua jul clhilc11113 awl. At a slightly faster rate about and writings partly re Miles per hour even this rate however would not save a Man from a charging elephant. When jumbo is very annoyed he can hit a breath taking Speed of 24 Miles per hour Gigious and partly political while from the Golden books cheer breath taking for the person who happens to be in front of him. A aviation greyhound though would be sole to keep ahead of an elephant Dasilv. Since his maximum rate is about. 36 Miles per hour. And a cheetah probably the fastest one discusses certain change of View in theology since 1920. And two appendices contain War this War and the Sermon on the mount by the late Canon Streeter and or. Temple s lecture Faith and thoughts in War time is the title and the contents Are in three sections religious political and the theological which consists of the discourse passing there was no need or a Saviour there was the Power that makes for righteous Are they not Matthew Arnold s words what the Church iad to do in the face of that Arthur Hugh Cio Ushi say not the Avail eth struggle naught labor and the wounds Are vain. The enemy faints not. Nor fail eth and As things have been they re main. If Hopes were dupes fears May be liars it May be. In Yon smoke concealed your comrades Chase e in now the fliers. But for you possess the Field. Hich the nursing school was while 1hc tired Waves vainly manifestation had kept abreast cd medical science in the school the Shorter Day had been instituted and maintained. In consideration of what it stood for and what it had accomplished the general Hospital nursing school stood to the fore among educational ser vices and As such it deserved High evaluation on the part of the Citi valuation which should that body it receives no govern thes Aid directly or indirectly. Cal considers that under a circumstances at least the seem Here no painful Inch to Gam far Back through creeks and in lets making comes silent flooding in the main. And not by Eastern windows Only when Daylight comes comes in the Light in front the Sun climbs slow How slowly Westward look the land is Bright an eve have added to it not Only what is done for individuals taking the training but also what this train ing May mean in the maintenance of health standards in the com of the Hospital to Unity. Let s Hope so and London Clarence k. Streit declares that the chances Are Bright for a True federation of every free nation devoted to right before might. Mammal would quickly outdid Tance either of them. A cheetah would be a Good thing not to Bej chased by his 70-Miles-per-hour rate might give Rise to a slight Case of embarrassment on the part of the pursued. In any study of Speed however we soon pass from the speeds made by organic bodies to those made by Man invented inorganic ones to the speeds made by motors of various kinds. The trick Here is to liberate heat making Energy and to apply that Energy to wheels or in the Case of air going mechanisms to air screws. Using a railway engine a Man can travel slightly Over a Hundred Miles per hour using an automobile he can better 300 Miles per hour and taking to the air he can go in excess of 400 Miles per hour. It is in the latter Field that Man travels Best and fastest and in which it May be possible to in crease rates still More. What will the maximum be under present conditions and Basing estimates on present knowledge or. Lurier mentioned. The first Section contains As an introduction a Sermon on the text tear god Honor the by or Temple on sunday evening August 27, now printed by request. That was on the eve of the War it a time of crisis and the very word crisis is the greek word for this religious Sec Tion contains eight further Short discourses on such themes touch ing War As these War As a divine judgment. Love and Justice the morality of a nation is life sacrosanct. Prayer in War time. The political Section contains but four discourses. That much of the con tents is Given for the Sake of prospective readers and no doubt most of them will be strictly Christian the archbishop is a Man of Faith and of sound reason. First a sentence or so from theology or. Temple s contemporaries grew up in a stable Christian in profession and so far sincere As to be distressed if charged with ignoring Christian standards of conduct but its own standards were a Christian heritage the victorian agnostics would retain the ethics but discard the doctrines of christianity and took it for grantee that All men of Good will Wouk do the same. Side by Side Vith Al that they believed in automatic Progress and the rationalism of the .8th Century. They were so sure hat education and scientific Dis Overy would keep Pace with Christian standards of life. Evil Vas merely survival from a the k.c.m.p., now Strong is being increased to such an extent that every eventuality will be taken care the decision to enlarge the . Has no connection with the present demand for a Home guard. This decision was made some time Igo. The Home guard however was adopted almost certainly As a Means of quieting pub Lic anxiety. The government made it Plain at the time that this Force was regarded As not necessary. The Point of Vici at Ottawa As disclosed in statements made by ministers and senior officials is that the popular demand for a Home guard is largely a symptom of Public hysteria. The govern ment has yielded grudgingly. Or. Lapointe in a statement made a few Days before the Home guard was announced expressed the View that it would be a mistake to withdraw a single Man from useful employment to Deal with matters that Are being and can Only be handled by the indeed he said that to do so would be to help the enemy. Not Only do ministers begrudge the spending of a Dollar Unne Ces it could be spent to Aid the Allied they Point out that it is a Well known part of nazi propaganda to create fear distrust anxiety and hysteria enemy countries to so distract the people As to hamper and weaken their War Effort. That when the 3cople that to persuade such they needed a Saviour and that god is something More than a diffused essence of this one of the longest will be of keen interest to the a logical students. I Lave scarcely touched it. There is not an abstruse phrase to hinder he Plain person s understanding. In Faith and or. Temple shows a religious comity that is far More than toleration. Calvinists and jesuits who had .10 belief in Liberty As a principle were yet its champions in practice because they set a limit to the omnipresence of the state in the right of All men to worship god according to their consciences. It is impossible to exaggerate the debt of Freedom to the protestants Holland in the 16th Century or o the English nonconformists both roman Catholic and Puri is in the seventeenth. Lib erty of worship necessarily involves for a Christian Liberty to think and speak and act in such matters As keep Cool of Awa urges what the Public fears apparently is the fifth column. But As Ottawa sees it Home defence units arc useless in checking sabotage espionage and the other activities of fifth columnists. This is the Job of experts of men who have been trained for Many years and who Long ago established their contacts. In Canada this work is done by the . The Force has been doing it with great Success for Many years. It is being said to Day that the . Feel unable to Cope with fifth column activities and have asked for assistance. This emphatically is untrue. Per haps there is nothing t be police Are More nervous about than that the government will compel them to co operate with a Home guard can. Tiina ii i. In i t. Those affecting men who of the police Sfax Emend by r. C. M. P. Secret service work it is pointed out Here can Only be done successfully by specialists. And it is largely International in scope. The . Works in the closest co operation with Scotland Yard and the French secret service. It also works with the United states secret service. One reason Why the Public become anxious is that they Seldom hear of what the . Is doing. The work of necessity is secret service. There is no publicity no court cases. The explanation . Pick up enemy saboteurs As they Are doing almost daily they never let the enemy head quarters know that their agent has been nabbed. On the contrary they Hope and often it so turns out that the enemy will continue to Send instructions to the agent and thus give invaluable information pending plots and accomplices. And it is pointed out that the True measure of Success in this work is not to catch saboteurs after they have blown up a vital Plant but to forestall was done in the plot to wreck the smelting Plant at Trail. It seems nonsensical to the experts Here that people should think that any member of Home guards could help in frustrating the work of the fifth column. Home guards no doubt can be used to reinforce the patrols at key Points but this is regarded As an inefficient and inadequate of dealing with sabotage. The damage will have been done and it will be Small Comfort to catch the saboteurs. One other Point arises. There is the fear of riots civil disturb ances and so on. The View Here As expressed by or. Lapointe on wednesday afternoon is that this is a matter of Law and order. It is the duty of the municipalities and provincial governments to maintain Law and order. If they feel unable to do so. It then be treatment of the poor or peace and i would be rank est amateurs. War. A Liberty to Pray that god s will May be done becomes mock Ery if it is accompanied by a prohibition to do in another part of the Book pleading for a just peace when the War is Over. Or. Temple pleads for a truce for five years Ere a. Permanent peace con Gress met and made a peace that meant Justice for the generations yet unborn in All he canno suggest the terms of the truce but they would be of it on the Point of whether or no the . Believe they Are in Complete command of the Situa Tion or. Lapointe made a state ment in the commons on May 23. He said the . And their secret service Are in Complete control of the situation both at pres ent and As it May develop. Persons of enemy origin suspected of nazi comes their duty to say of. The Dominion government will come to their assistance promptly armed if need be. Today s scripture from Ecclesiastes 8 who is As the Wise Man and who know eth the interpretation of a thing a Man s Wisdom Marketh his face to Shine and the boldness of his face shall be changed. Truce out Iney Vav Uriu us it vol Iun most consequence for upon themiactlvltie5 Nave been per there is no Man that hath Polo would largely depend the Possi sons of potential enemy origin ability of such a quieting of bitter feelings that the real peace con Gress acc a meet with Hope of Bookman. Are known and Are being closely he added that Only the . Can handle such mat tigers and that to divert Abl so bodied to it. Over the spirit to retain the spirit neither hath he Power in the Day of death and there is no discharge in that War neither shall wicked Ness deliver those that Are Given ;