Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 07, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published toe Winnipeg free press company. Limited. 300 Carlton Street. Winnipeg. Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe. Victor Seton. President. Genera manager. Registered at the Genera Post office London eng. For transmission through the Post in kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg Friday june 7, 1940 the banned organizations the sixteen organizations outlawed by the minister of Justice an of the defence of Canada regulations include fascist to a As tarty. He a communist bodies which antedate the War. in peacetime of pursuing purposes which Cost of unrest and disunion and since the outbreak Piave Beer under surveillance As Likely sources of activities. Nto doubt definite information that these ave been verified accounts for or. Lapointe s action. Of banned organizations Are openly com infiltration have been greatly influenced by the openness with which the communist party its activities in the British countries has at last icti1 f reprisals. Here was a recognized political elect members to parliament and thus to take part of the country which openly and audaciously on the War under the instructions of a Friendly country and has since pursued policies a i d towards the defeat of the Allied armies. Oiler Day from a letter to the English press in Rohli singly stated what the Moscow Cli rect the current Issue of the new Republic outlines cd followed in the United states and it conforms i h he English revelation. The new Republic persist in saying that Hitler can to s win his armies will be so weakened that ire o anyone else for years. They persist in in which Brawny riflemen will Triumph. Ember. And flame throwing tanks. They persist in ind France Are the warmongers and they a new United front with the incs but also she Luzy minded. The pro to every progressive measure that the scary in Canada led and office red by cans the wants and luxuries desired without cramping its output in obeisance to War industries. As a matter cold fact saving Money at the present time to spend later is the Only Way any advantage can be obtained out of increased pay checks anyone who has been existing on an insufficient living Standard through Lack of full time work of course must satisfy his needs. This additional buying is not the Type of buying that would bring on a High degree of inflation. The buy ing that would be harmful is excessive spending of Money. There Are Many methods of saving Money and Many channels that Are open for investment. One that is particularly attractive both from interest returns and As a Means of crushing the cancerous nazi movement is investing in Canada s War savings certificates. Stamp them Outi Manitoba Burns up the summer has hardly begun before there Are reports of Forest fires in Manitoba Forest fires that Are getting increasingly dangerous and certainly increasingly Damag ing with every hour they Burn. From the Lake Winnipegosis Swan River Sandi lances and Lake j Winnipeg areas come the accounts of uncontrolled blazes discouraging efforts of fire fighters and has been receiving these instructions imperative need of soaking so far As it dared. Its position is More pcs eve Civ Hosi of the organizations foreign born As to direct Ion which have been trying to betray the i von them a Home and Many of their Mem year the Story is pretty much the same and though some of the fires May be unavoidable such As those set by of them should started. Statistics re to sweeping measures of restriction and Cal that 85 per cent Canada s has been chiefly its activities that have he Large bulk it. With some reluctance As has Forest fires Are lit by careless or reckless persons. This is n highly distressing condition and must give Rise to worry on the part of every thinking Citi zen. Our forests Are of immense value both directly for their Wood Are person who have not con a products and indirectly for their aware of the real objectives of the directing flood control and erosion arrest qualities to say nothing of s disappearance from the list of Canadian Politi i wart line necessity. Hat the declaration docs not bring within a id-1. Persons who have been up to the time there is Here an Assumption warrant that in the membership to find in these bodies room for social cultural cities which were not regarded As limit to Canada. This is certainly True in very con e. Of some two or three of the banned Organiza v and flagrantly associated with anti democratic been the victims of Boring from withdrawing forthwith from these Organ Orfi animations defence can hereafter of Lack of knowledge As to what Mem the absolution of an organization does not of course give last acts against the peace and Security y Protection against a their recreational potentialities. No doubt with the catastrophic International events in the Public Eye there is a natural tendency to relax some of the attention usually Given to Home problems. That tendency should definitely not take command of our forestry situation. In fac. In time of. War Forest products have even greater value than in time of peace. And for that fact alone to say nothing of the Long Range value of the forests there should be no relaxation of forestry vigilance. Perhaps the vigilance should be increased if anything for in time of War the possibilities of undetected Sabot age 011 our forests with fire Are easy to imagine. Everything feasible should be done to put out instil v their Banning and these parties Are to prevent others from starting. The there must As have said be evidence connect i of these with illegal acts of so Seri the presently burning fires and a he Rigours of the citizens due punish a the concentration Camp. Or. Conant. The some attorney general of Ontario thinks there if or tip the officers of All these Organiza would be a hit or miss performance which to be effective than a methodical scarch Vitich would bring within the net All who ought to i Cave outside the guileless the innocent and the opinion on this Point is not unreasonable it does Eccl to be placated by extreme action. But it is agreed on All t residents of this country who have enjoyed the free of action and of thought which goes with such residence a have been Given the Confidence of the Canadian people and to have betrayed this Confidence and misused this Freedom to act or intention in any aspect of its War Effort r. R. Rats and plague not because the country has not enough trouble now but because it has and docs not need any More Regina s medical health officer warns that the increasing rat with promptly and drastically not. Only As a con their own acts but As a warning to others. Problems of spending woman Ordinary necessities and luxuries if the country Are Bein in the Normal amounts. Produced population carries with it some danger of the bubonic plague. The rats that have infested the United states and the Eastern part of our Prairie country Are now moving gradually across Saskatchewan. Hence this warning. The danger of a deadly infection May not be near but it is possible according to Regina s health offi cer writing in the publication of the Young men s Section of the Regina Board of Trade. Bubonic plague affects men and everyone was wrong Ottawa since the break through in France this country has suddenly realized that by Grant Dexter people that the British govern ment had been consulted and Britain s advice was being accept we Are at War. Tens of thousands led. You will find members of the of people for the first time Are i government saying this in the asking about Canada s War pro special session of last september. Gramme. What has been done what Are we doing what do we intend to do if you Trace the record from sept. 4. You will find that we have never had a Clear Cut plan. Our War programme has been the re sult of decisions of the moment. Sometimes the government has acted on its own. More often it has accepted advice from Britain or yielded to pressure Public opinion at Home. Varying Points of View traces of Many Points of View can be discerned in this pro gramme. There Are the realists who knew the kind of War that was coming and wanted to prepare Lor it. There is official opinion at Ottawa which prior to the War took the line that Canada never again would Send an expeditionary Force abroad. Premier King said so in parliament last year. Can Ada s Job in War would be to pro vide War machines and to train the skilled fighters to Man them. War had become a specialists Job. With rifles and on nov. 24, Hon. A. L. Ralston put it his Way first the Job is to do the thing or things that will count the most in winning the War secondly can Ada s Effort should be not the minimum but the maximum we can put Forth within our capacity thirdly we must consult our allies the United kingdom and France who Are in a far better position than we to know the needs which the strategy and tactics to be adopted Call for. Or. King referred to it again and again in the election Campaign we had already begun direct and daily consultation with Britain. We have since continued such consultation. He Cov ered this ground in detail in his Campaign broadcast of feb. 21. British advice changed it is True that Britain s advice changed with the fortunes of War. After the collapse of Poland the air training plan was suggested by Britain and Canada at once agreed to it. But in the meantime the Cana Dian Public had been demanding an expeditionary Force. This was masses of men bayonets no longer meant any con Ary to British advice and to thing. Official opinion Here but the gov then there is British opinion enl ment yielded and a first Divi he says. It is carried from boosts in Airi Fec cd rat to Man by the rat in pay whether j Anci salaries that arc being Al the pc sent time Are being us Nita improve Click acct by the quickly acc Cler Lucre Are few j of War industries. With Lac Moncy irom Hose increased to is pushed right Back re. Greater til Jinto circulation again through i a pay Sikying of commodities and minor Tiric in months flux urics in excess of amounts a period of l purchased there can be Flea. Some Clay in the future the plague germ May infect our rats. 1c this Ever happens we can sex plague it Liis occurred and there were associated with it a lowered Standard of living poorer housing or other conditions that War might bring the Black death might America As it once struck time in Canada i aching that is War Effort is Ris they step up Only one result. With additional in circulation to buy these things there wll be a tendency for prices to Rise on the increased demand with the net result that be on More men a More Money will be required to buy goods than was required by arc enjoying in . Fore the Rush to turn out War a Goh a u do with trials started. If increased Sal the Are at once used up through d one is to prompt buying eventually a Situa buy that Tion will arise where the increased Little More will buy no More than Lilly Little somethings smaller salaries brought in before were considered the increased Tempo of War pro uric previously induction was established. Larger a Vlra of. Far off Green j salaries would bring no practical Ordinary circumstances to out to convince r this is possibly a Little of a audience. At the Lime nevertheless spend chock Var every sex Benefit and would Deal out a great Deal of harm to those in the do minion who work on peacetime industries and had not Felt any Industrial Boom with higher Sal Aries and wages. This is we inflation. If inflation to economists Call to be avoided that is earned Best serve those receiving it and the country generally if this additional Money is being de a Money is saved. Then at a Laler time it can be spent when peace Reeds of the country time Industry can better Cater to pet stray cases of the bubonic the moral is to defeat the rats by starving them out having All buildings including granaries and All farm buildings so constructed that rats cannot enter and by leaving no accumulations of rub Bish and refuse for rats to feed upon. From the Golden books from the Skeleton in Armour then launched they to the. Blast Bent like a Reed each Mast. Yet we were gaining fast when the wind failed us and with a sudden flaw came round the Gusty Skaw so that our foe we saw laugh As he hailed us. And As to catch the Gale round veered the flapping sail was the helmsman s Hail death without amidships with Iron keel struck we her ribs of steel Down her Black Hulk did reel through the Black water the Public schools in England should and must be opened to the ability of the nation and not to the ability of one Mark Bonham Carter. Which has changed from time to time but has always been quite school of thought in Canada. In Britain there has never been and in t now any real appreciation of Canada s potential Industrial capacity for War. Another highly important View Point was and is still held by Large masses of the Canadian people. War meant soldiers and Canada could t possibly be doing anything in this War if we had not an army overseas. The Canadian people obviously arc thinking in terms of the last War. When War broke out. The Cana Dian government set aside any views it May have held and assumed the role of Junior partner to Britain. The government asked Britain by Cable to Tell us what we should do. The British govern ment sent Back a Long answer which was made Public at Ottawa on sept. 19. Few people today recall that statement but in View of what has happened it is highly significant. Britain listed the things Canada could do in order of importance 1. We could help Britain buy essential supplies in Canada. 2. We could build naval Craft and enlist and train naval personnel. 3. We could train an air Force. 4. We could enlist technicians for special service Sion was followed by a second a Hird and the greater part of a fourth. During 1he whole of the world War Canada spent just Over ?1.000 millions. In the first six months of the present conflict we spent s118 millions and in the Fis Cal year which began on april 1, the estimated Cost will exceed millions. This estimate has had to be increased from week to week and it is quite evident that can Ada having taken Over most of Britain s part in the air training plan will need millions to see this fiscal year through. We Are already committed to a greater expenditure on the military Side than in the last War for the reason that a modern division costs much More to equip and maintain than the division of 1914-18. And in addition we have vast commit ments for air training for the Navy and for supplies of All kinds. Some foresaw the confusion it would be foolish to pretend that there has been any real plan Ning in this War programme. It would be equally foolish to argue that our programme bears any re semblance to the kind of War Effort this country is Best Able to make. No doubt the British government. Char pics electricians engineers signal men and so on. 5. We could raise an army but must be careful to avoid Indis Criminate enlistment. Every Man must be used to the Best advantage and under no circumstances must a Mechanic be allowed to be an infantryman. This programme was at once adopted. We repatriated s92 Mil Lions of Canadian securities held in Britain and stood ready to go the limit in helping Britain buy in Canada. We launched a naval programme As quickly As plans could be obtained from Britain and All our Yards Are now running to capacity. We enlisted naval personnel and so on. All the through the Cana Dian government kept telling the that Britain would never be Able to carry out her part in it. But there were not Many of them and their voices would never have been heeded in the Early Days of the War. Today there Are any number of people who condemn the King government for not carrying into War the policy of autonomy. The government was wrong to have asked Britain for advice and doubly wrong in accepting it. Why did t we run our own War everyone has erred this kind of criticism infuriates Cabinet ministers. They speculate upon what would have happened to them if they had announced to the Canadian people last fall that Britain had asked us to do certain hings but that they knew far bet or than the British government what was needed and therefore they were ignoring the advice. The truth is that As a result of unexpected events at the front the advice Given to Ottawa by the British govern ment was not Wise advice that the people Canada were also unwise in pressing As they did for a Large expeditionary Force that the Canadian government lacked the Backbone to stand up for the kind of War programme it believed would be most effective. Everybody has missed the bus. The Canadian people can plead ignorance. The government at Ottawa no doubt can ask for Complete acquittal on the ground that if the British government could not foresee events they could not be expected to do so. 3ut, perhaps the greatest weak Ness of All has been the absence of real Contact Between the Cana Dian government and the people. Chickadee notes no. 1002. Three More rarities having trained some and millions of unequipped Birdman have been crouching about the poor migration and Lack of Birds this Spring but As to compensate for their disappoint ment a half dozen most unusual records have been reported and some More Are in the offing As soon As they have been verified. The most spectacular is the find ing a scissor tailed Flycatcher at Cormorant mile 41, . Ry., which was shot by a trapper about May 20, and sent to prof. V. W. Jackson by w. R. Taylor for identification. The specimen was badly damaged but it has been presented to the Winnipeg auditorium museum for preservation. About the size of a Kingbird this handsome fellow has a nine Inch Black and White Tail which it opens and closes like a scissors while in flight but holds in a thin wedge when perched. The body is Pale Grey with Salmon Pink sides and underlings which Are in striking contrast to the dark upper wings. Not Only is he extremely Beautiful but he has the dashing airs of his Kingbird Kin and at tacks the largest Hawks with Reck less courage. We have a Fine description of his habits which must keep for a later column. Breeding in the South Central United states this. Texan Bird of Paradise has been previously recorded in Manitoba six times in the past 60 years at York factory on Hudson Bay in 1880 and 1924 Portage la Prairie 1884 six Miles North of Winnipeg 1899 Victoria Beach 1927 and Why Tewold 1930. The present is the fourth actual specimen for the province. We have one record for Manor sask. 30 Miles West of our Border in 1916, but no others Are known for the West. Wood Thrush recorded a. Haak Norwood Man., had the Good Fortune to find a Wood Thrush in wild Wood Park. Fort Garry on May 14, feeding on the ground amongst the leaves in a Wood along with a number of White throated sparrows. I am positive of the identification by its numerous and Brilliant Large round spots on the breast and by the deepening redness about the head. To was smaller than a Brown thrasher and lacked the Long Tail but its color at a distance is Simi writes or. Haak. This Eastern and Southern Hrush reaches Southern Minne Sota regularly and has been sex i ending its Range there North wards so it is to be expected Here. T was first recorded in Manitoba a v. B. Latta who saw a Bird at close quarters in both May and August. 1934. The identification of the Wood Thrush requires care and experience with the other Manitoba thrushes. Third wild Cardinal reported another Bird of tropical Plum age that is a rarely in Manitoba is the male Cardinal a Scarlet Bird with a Black face and Throat Patch a High red Crest and a Large Coni Cal Bill. The first Manitoba re port in 1932 was traced through Chickadee notes As an escaped male Cage Bird which successfully ived through the Winter in Winni Peg. The next was a female or Young male noted by a number of observers in december 1933. In. St. James and the third was a male observed in june 1934. In North Kildonan. Both these latter apparently were wild Birds. Mrs. Harry Anderson Morris wan., now informs professor Jackson that on May 18 a male Cardinal spent the Day feeding on he ground and singing in the Trees near their House but it had disappeared by next morning. The description leaves no doubt As to the identification. The Cardinal is a common Southern Bird but it is Hardy and is established As a permanent Resi Dent in South Eastern Minnesota from where it is extending its Range Westward and northward. It should be looked for in Southern Manitoba in open Woodlands where it lives in the undergrowth Adolf sees the Light Philadelphia evening bulletin if it is True As reported that Adolf Hitler s mein kampf has been withdrawn from circulation Germany while Der fuehrer prepares an amended edition minus All harsh references to Russia to replace it. Some of the Best bits in the Book parts that gave Hitler his first grip on his people Are due for discard. The present Day rulers of wrote Adolf in his More logical moments have no intent Iori of entering into an Alliance Honor ably or of sticking to that comes out of main in its place May be a few words com mending red Stalin and testifying to his pledges. Hitler called rus Sia s rulers blood stained criminals of a tyrannous guilty of bestial cruelty and Ful of lies plotting under the mistaken belief they Are called now to gather the whole world under bloody some editors believe that when All attacks on the russian reds mein kampf it Are Cut will be from Vest on its hands at Home wonders Why Canada insists upon adding to their number. No doubt there Are millions of canadians who cannot see much sense in spending hundreds of millions on a Navy who would be outraged by the thought that we should concen trate our Effort in Canada on the production of the machinery of War needed by those millions of unequipped British soldiers and meantime forget about an army of our own. There were men in Canada who foresaw the confusion which has now engulfed part of Canada s War Effort. These men were opposed at the outset to accepting the advice of the British government. They said the moment they saw the air training plan White paper. That the plan could never work building men. Pocket certain it is the work will be wholly different for the Kettle will Call tiie despot White birthdays h. R. Drummond Hay Winnipeg born Belmont Man., june 1886. Gordon e. Hunter Winnipeg Horn Brampton ont. June 7. 1888. J. M. Speirs Winnipeg born Winnipeg june 7, 1888. K. B. Boreham Winnipeg Winnipeg june 7. 1891. Born the boy scout movement the Regina Leader Post Here is a youth organization without Goose stepping. Here is discipline imposed from within by developing a habit of unthinking obedience. Here is a youth Organ to All on equal terms regardless of race Creed or social position. Here is a youth organization that Hopes to serve its country and its people chiefly by but perches in Trees to sing. Both sexes Are famous songsters their notes being a Medley of loud Clear whistles and characteristic sounds which they utter throughout the year. Migration notes including the three rarities 11 new arrivals were reported last week Mak ing 203 to Date which is about the average number of migrants reported each Spring. Scarlet tanager. June 3 warbling vireo. Lark Bunting. Mourning Warb Ler. May 29. S. Griddle tree Bank. Red he. Woodpecker. June 3 can Ada Warbler mourning Warbler rested Flycatcher. Chestnut so. Warbler Hummingbird 1st. D. Shanks Pinawa Man. Indigo Bunting. Chest so. Warbler red headed Woodpecker june 2. Tom Rogers Hillside Beach. Ruby thud. Hummingbird May 24 Baltimore Oriole 20th. John Garden Wolseley. Sask. Wood Pewee. June 2 Traill Fly Catcher mourning Warbler. 1st Chestnut so. Warbler. Cliff Swallow. May 29 Connecticut Warbler. Scarlet tanager. 28th Ruby thud. Hummer 27th. V. B. Latta. Whitemouth. Mourning Warbler. 27th Goldfinch Cape May Warbler. Black Burnita Warbler. Piping Plover. 56th. A x. Garton. Port Arthur natural history society on saturday june 8, members will visit fort Garry meeting at the Home of or. And mrs. J. Dewey Soper 827 Riverwood Avenue. Take Park line car no. 97, Leav ing the Corner of Portage and main at 2 . Take along your eats. Is books Are a finer world within the name and Fame of Blaise Al Pascal has Long been known to modern readers. Born in 1623 and dying in his thirty ninth year Nis was not a single Genius for he was a mathematician whose discoveries and. Experiments were the groundwork of later scientists. Before the age of sixteen he published a work laying Down some effectual conclusions that remained for the Benefit of those who followed. In philosophy and religion letters and life he was even a greater Genius writing continually. Pascal s pences goes the category of controversial classics. He became a Leader in Jansen ism a school once flourish ing within the Catholic Church at a monastery not far from Paris. The pascals were enabled by Louis i but never assumed the distinctive Blaise had two Sisters one three years older and one two years younger. All three were brilliantly gifted the Young est who never married lived in intimacy with her brother. In the last contemporary review reaching this table there is an interesting paper Jacqueline Pascal a True she was daughter of Only a year old when the Mother died leaving a distracted father to bring up three delicate and Clever Chil but they grew up in a company of Clever people chiefly scientists to whom Blaise listened coie Reci eagerly while they discussed such order possibilities of the future As sub marines and air planes. Well a Century and More earlier there had been Leonardo. While the future of science filled discourse among them Jacqueline was writing verses. At eight years she was known for her verse and at twelve a sonnet won for her repute at court. The happiness of Home was Sud Denly broken by the father s exile owing to language against Cardi Nal Richelieu Over some financial affairs. However when the child fell ill of smallpox he returned secretly and nursed her. In spite of her marked skin Jacqueline was chosen for the leading part in a children s play performed for the pleasure of Richelieu. She succeeded splendidly and immediately after the play she approached the great Man and re cited some of her verses. He was so charmed that he took her on his knee and then she pleaded for her father Etienne Pascal. The child succeeded in that More splendidly still. Touched by her courage he not Only pardoned her father but appointed him Inton Dant at Rouen. Hence the Pascal fear family settled in the town of holy Temple. Corneille who welcomed them especially Jacqueline. She at once became the protege of that drama t. When she won from All France the annual prize for poetry on holy Conception Day Corneille Rose and thanked 1he Assembly. Where could the Winner of four teen years be her Friend found her with her dolls and not the least elated Over the prize. He Blaise and his Young sister were converted to Jansen ism which aimed at austerity purity and she was ardent in her religious life Ever after he went Back to his scientific work and his health failed. Then his father sent him for medical treatment to Paris in care of Jacqueline. While there he would go with her to Church and to port Royal Abbey but kept in touch with scientific move ments. Jacqueline eager the veil was never free to do so until her dearly loved father died. Blaise. Too opposed the life Solitude for his Brilliant sister but ultimately he was converted anew and became More impetuously and Auster Elv religious. When this Brilliant but saintly girl and woman entered the con vent she became sister Euphemie and in the course of years super visor and teacher of novices. She taught Reading by a new method Learned from her brother per haps the original of the phonetic she taught both novices and children. In a museum built on the site of the ancient Convent there is preserved the Only portrait of her sitting dressed in a Cream Robe of the Bernardine on the scapular which covers her breast is a Large red Cross. In that same Small museum is preserved the Iron Chain which Pascal wore in penance next his skin. Jacqueline remonstrated with him concerning the too severe tortures self afflicted. I ought to have noted that among her pupils was Racine the dramatic poet then a boy of sixteen. Bookman. Today s scripture from psalm 5 give ear to my words o lord consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry my King and my god for unto thee will i . My voice Shalt thou hear in the morning o lord in the morning will i direct my prayer unto thee. And will look up. For thou Art not a god that hath pleasure in wickedness neither shall evil dwell with thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight thou latest All workers of iniquity. But As for me i will come into thy House in the Multi tude of thy mercy and in thy will i worship toward thy ;