Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published Winnipeg free press company. Limited. 300 Carlton Street. Winnipeg. Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe. Victor Lipton president. General manager. Registered at the general Post office. London. Ene. For transmission through the Post in the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Urgent matters the immediate course that Canada will take in the War is fortunately so Clear Cut and simple that nowhere in this coun try is there the slightest doubt about it. France is Defeated and As a military Factor of importance destroyed for years to come great Britain in most desperate circumstances stands alone in Europe to face her foe. But she is not quite alone. With her in the vital theatre of War stands Canada while in the Mediterranean and elsewhere three other dominions play their parts. In these circumstances no Canadian worthy of his name or heritage doubts that Canada will fight on rendering to Britain every Aid that can be Given her providing a maximum of Mili tar assistance a steady flow of supplies and at the same time providing an Asylum for the weak and helpless who should not be left Obear the Brunt of things in their Homes. So Long As Britain on. Canada will fight too. Whatever requests Are made upon us while the conflict lasts will be met with a ref.n1." response. All that is certain. N but canadians As they soberly Survey the consequences of the French defeat will soon recognize if they have not already done so. That their Only Hope of salvation lies in a Thor Bush comprehension of the fact that they Are living in the midst of a world revolution whose scope and magnitude extends Day by Day. More than the Thunder of guns echoes in our ears today far arc watching hour by hour the collapse of an old familiar world. We Are watching and sharing in the birth pass of a new order. Its foundations Are being Laid in blood sacrifice and suffer in c and the nations which do not adjust themselves with All Speed to he demands it makes upon them will go Down just As the of Cru a have gone Down. This is the sharpest and most vital lesson Canada must learn from the collapse of France. The demands this situation makes upon the people of Canada and their government Are enormous. They involve not Only a difference in the degree of our War Effort but a revolutionary difference in kind. The life of our country which has proceeded normally since last Canadian citizen Lias been forced to change his manner or Mode of living since War broke be swung Over with the least pos sible Cielava to total mobilization for War. This involves not the recruiting of a handful of men Here the granting of a contract there the employment of 100 men at one Point the construction of an Airfield somewhere else. It Means that Canada if she is . Will organize men and Industry under government control. She will safeguard her financial strength by the institution of Price fixing and controls by rationing and restriction of con sumption for All purposes save those of War. Food in this country need not tie rationed. But War rationing has a special purpose. Unless controls Are established right through the whole Field of economic life restriction of consumption of Oivo certain articles will result in the purchasing Power thus saved being poured into the buying of unrestricted commodities. There Are no shortages in this country and this rationing is no Ineata o Deal with shortages. It should be imposed in order to Force everyone to save Money with which to pay taxes and to lend to he government. Tho government itself and the House of commons also a meat readjustment in thinking. There have been too signs that the members of parliament Are still thinking a categories of partisan thinking which Are now dead and buried. The concentration of National Effort now desperately needed ? of no such luxuries. Not Only have the Ordinary Divi Sions of opinion that separate our political parties temporarily disappeared. It. Is Likely they have disappeared for years to come. Might As Well forget them at once. The government and the departments of government a cd to be overhauled revamped and enlarged without delay. As sin and again witnesses of the Ottawa scene report the artist the and exhaustion of our Cabinet ministers and their chief officials. The government has clone a Good Job since War broke thru were endorsed As a team last March by the Canadian people have shown Powers of adjustment to the Cata changes in conditions that have twice in the last month up it their plans. But they need first class brains to help them d in Large numbers. These they should enlist without delay. It any department has become overloaded and unwieldy in size. It should be divided and a Good Man brought in to direct it from the ranks of parliament on. Either Side or from the world of business labor or Industry. Canada will not care who they arc what their politics Are or anything else about provided they have dynamic Energy Good judgment and physical strength. Reshuffling of a few familiar names in our Public life will not satisfy the Public nor the demands of the War. There is not a competent Man in this country from one end to the other who is not ready at this moment to put his services at the Goveri Rojc ill s disposal. Harness such men. How Long Are Cabinet ministers to be forced to carry double loads like or. Howe h the departments of transport and munitions and Supply on his shoulders it is doubtful if the government is aware of the bad effects of postponing Cabinet reorganization and the filling of vital posts some of which have been empty far too Long. At the same time the members of the government could rid of an intolerable Load if they adopted at once the excellent system of under secretaries which in the British House of commons relieves the Cabinet ministers themselves of so much detail and attention to parliamentary debates. The free press has urged this repeatedly in the past. Let us beg or. King once More to adopt this plan before he wears his key men out by forcing their attendance in the House of commons for hours on end. While the work on their actual conduct of the up and up. These Are some of the tasks that face us As a people and a government. All that we have All that we Are. Capable of doing must be directed by a government determined to throw not Only our surplus resources but our whole resources into the Campaign that lies ahead. Nothing less will suffice. Tidally from the use of All shipping communications. Unless All ire land be kept untenable to the enemy the Irish Channel can no longer give free and Safe Access to Britain s Western ports. And since now she has no others at her disposal the strategical importance of Ireland becomes vital to Bri Tain s Security. _ there is a saving Hope. The British have by warning and solicitude refrained from making military dispositions in Eire but they have had a free hand in Northern Ireland. Whenever then. Germany Eire in which it has Many traitors to help it the Only real Hope of Protection for the de Valera governed Eire will have to come from the North. Or. De Valera s strange thinking and vague aspirations have at last got into a Box out which his sinuosity cannot get him. His vagaries of mind May even be the final peril confronting great Bri Tain. It May prove another of those mad Irish paradoxes which Are incredible among other nations. The South May gladly join hands with the North to save the All Ireland that cannot unite politically to defend itself from the foreign invader. The Effort May bring North and South together for once but unless it succeeds it will mean that Ireland will be sunk even though Britain should be vanquished. Winnipeg tuesday june 18, 1940 patience called for let us have patience about any delay there May be in the authorization of the Volunteer Reserve unit which Premier Bracken col. Bitten off More than he can Chew Jiahe Allied commands and the Al Ahmed Peoples May take Dif Ferent meanings out of the German raid of some 200 aircraft Over Paris. The raid was insensate in to Wanton lust ulness taut it was not More cruel than the continuous operations of the enemy air Force since it invaded the Low coun tries. To raid Paris was not an offence in the minds of a nation which has made a Point of machine gunning fleeing refugees and attacking the unguarded wounded and their nurses. The Battle of nerves is Over Long ago. It holds no terrors any longer for the French people and its worst perpetration have Only steeled the British in an. Endurance that will resist to the end. Want allies to waste strength military considerations must policies defensible but fatal no citizen of any British country has a right to reproach the United states for its attitude in recent years towards Riley and col. Baxter urged upon the developing International Situa the Dominion government at the end of last week. The registration Here is being completed and litle Ottawa is so pre occupied with other far More important matters we Here can Mark time. The need for the formation of such bodies we feel sure will be recognized in the not far Distant future. This is the predominant feeling of the men who waited upon the government and their leadership is prudent and Wise. The intend ing members of the unit itself and the Public As Well can follow their example. The . Success the attainment of its objective by the . War service Campaign in Manitoba has been a great and warranted satisfaction to the Campaign committee and to All who supported this important work. After the previous appeals for support for auxiliary War ser vices the ., making the last Appeal had a difficult Job. A patient and persistent Effort was necessary but the committee achieved the Success which it knew it could win in time. It was wide recognition of the value of the service rendered by the . To our men on Active service that ensured this result. Twelve thousand contributors provided the that was needed and this was a Good response under the circumstances. Credit for the Campaign should be widely shared but reference May be made to the Active leadership of or. G. L. Wright chairman of the com Mittee. Similar Strong leadership Given by president Sydney Smith to the National Campaign of which of was chairman. Ion. To go Back further there is such a right As it is now Clear n retrospect that the and perhaps it was Only a Bare change at the league of nations could ensure peace to the world disappeared when the United states declined to Honor the signature of Woodrow Wilson the treaty of Versailles. Recognition of this terrible fact is now coming Home to the people of the United in a broadcast on sunday which was heard Over arge parts of the United states and Canada Raymond Gram swing the Well known commen Tator put the Case of american responsibility in a form not to be easily answered. But in the later International situation beginning with Japan s aggression upon Manchuria which first revealed the worthlessness of the league guarantee of collective Security. The course of the United states has not been More Blind than that of other countries in some respects it showed a greater sense of awareness of the dangers of the developing situation than was possessed by the governments that should have been More rather school year books the annual crop of Winnipeg High school year books is now being harvested and judging by those so far to hand it is the Best crop to Date. Not Only Are the formats of the various numbers More attractive than usual but their contents Are higher in Quality. Furthermore there is a sound moral tone using the Erms at philosophy which is encouraging not to say inspirational. When one of the Youthful Edi ors speaking for All realizes that our school spirit of today will be our National loyally of Tomor there can Only be reason to rejoice in modern Young canadians. They Are of that stuff which makes their elders reassured for the Morrow. The year books Are the evidence. Ireland enmeshed people in great Britain have in with increasing in on their Western flank Thich can be attacked from ire tend a he Shulhof which is Fer tile for fifth column Penetra Tion. Army of Eire Lias been bought up to strength but that is enough either to save ire and from invasion or to prevent no Island being used As bases for Stenc cd Britain. Or. De Valera seeing what is under nose by too Long looking too far into the past and had when 01 gah by three weeks ago. To declare when pleading for Volun Thea that there is danger Over de Valera has Long been in the bog of verbiage. In spite of his Shilly shalling protestations the germans by in Trigue and by the help of always willing to sell out Ireland any time to get their own Way have made plans in Eire already to be carried out when the invasion of Britain is decided on. Can Eire can Ireland protect herself and so save herself from being used to help devastate Bri Tain the British Are anxious. They have been helpless to Correct what they have seen coming for to offer to co operate with the de Valera government would be tantamount to giving the weapon of revolt to the traitor Irish re publican army. This threat to the use of the British Western ports has become More alarming since the Eastern ports have been withdrawn prac than less alarmed. It is not of course Correct to say that the United states was prepared to Stop japanese aggression in Manchuria by Force and that great Britain refused co operation though this twisted version of the actual facts is widely Curioni in the United states and was recently re stated by senator Hiram Johnson the last survivor in the United states Senate of the Little group of wilful men president Wilson s phrase who were instrumental in keeping Tho United states out of the league. The United states declined to co operate with the league when in the Early stages of the manchurian trouble it tried to adjust the difficulty by the exercise of its authority for the reason As admitted by or. Henry Stimson who was at that time Secretary of state that it accepted the assurances of the japanese ambassador at Washington that the japanese government would itself curb the army and adjust the difficulty. Later when it became evident to or. Stimson that he had been deceived in this matter he made two overtures for co opera Tive a Ion with great Britain both of which received very Cavalier treatment at the hands of sir John Simon the British foreign Secretary. Great Britain declined to match the United states notification to is books Are a finer world the in life Isle i not so obvious the new York be and death of the Span Republic Henry w. Buck Ley gives you a history of Spain from april 14, 1931, to april 1, i flab eight years of a Republic. Messes. Musson Toronto in some 420 pages he packs a close record of that Experiment in democracy tried and found want ing As he says. Throughout the whole period or. Buckley was a British newspaper correspondent keeping watch Over events in Spain from the eve of King Alfonso s departure from Madrid until Manuel Azana went into exile. A roman Catholic himself a keen observer and journalist with the added advantage of per Sonal acquaintance with nearly every Man of prominent action in the period he Drew upon his own experience and knowledge for the stuff of his forty seven chapters. Or. Buckley s Book was finished when the present War broke out Early last september. And he considers a study of the Rise and fall of the Spanish Republic important during this greatest struggle of our Empire. For he believes that the democratic sys tem adopted by the Republic when King Alfonso left the country was in no Small part responsible for Spain s but he gives the men who first took control credit for being on the whole honest and competent. The body of the people were not equal i to a democratic system. He thinks i that the British and French de if the Railroad problem is Arimo crazies in 1331 ought to have Bottom a matter of placing the sex warned the Young Republic to get listing systems in a position where they can earn expenses and a reasonable surplus for investors it would seem obvious that trackage that no longer pays its own Way should be abandoned. The problem actually is less simple. The fact that a Branch line May have ceased to be profit Able does not automatically justify its abandonment. Many towns and cities especially in the newer parts of the country grew up originally and have continued to exist Only because of the Railroad facilities provided them. Railroad transportation has often been for them a matter of life and death. The railroads in encouraging the building of communities along their routes have assumed responsibilities for continued service that they cannot casually accept or reject solely on the basis of profit and loss. Rid of its Feuda elements before it could Hope to build anything new and stable. That and much More touching National democracy Freedom and so on in the fore word. Also throughout the Book problems for statist and the constitutionally minded. I watched the process year by he says and though he saw that something necessary was lacking it was years before he began to see what it was. Whether those of political judg ment agree with or. Buckley s views or no they and the Ordinary Reader will find the Story of the Spanish Republic and its collapse an informing Book to be read with interest. He Hopes that in his narrative and search for its failure he and his readers May stumble on truths which if applied to our own political and economic system May come at the right moment in order to help us to Render the Structure of the British common wealth impervious to Many at tacks now being made upon perhaps it May be said by the critics that this author was too near the events and conditions to write of what he witnessed with his own eyes. But no critic will doubt the sincerity and truth of his records. It will thus be a Staple Book of research for the scientific historian. There is space left for a note on one of the interesting spaniards figuring in or. Buckley s history and it is a woman and a communist. He tried Many times Ere obtaining speech with Dolores Iba Ruri called la Pas Onaria. At last lie succeeded by climbing to communist Headquarters and per sisting. I am said her Secretary but she was very Busy. Would the englishman write out his questions and they would be sent Back with answers. I objected wearily that an interview done in that Way was no Good at there was some delay but finally he was face to face with the Only Spanish politician i Ever he describes her As tall Well built arrogant talking violently for three quarters of an hour quite oblivious of her inter viewer. I walked downstairs with my head round in of Humble Basque birth she had been a servant had married a Miner got into politics and the communist party and had become Well known As a speaker. Bookman. From the Golden books Tecc and thou Marc arc Wymer in Chambers s journal if we had lived in Olden times in Days of Long ago. When lovers told their love in rhymes and ladies curtsied what would your answer then have been if you had worn a crinoline Oil what a careless hand of Chance that charms those bygone hours and weaves around them some Romance As perfume clings to Flowers. Would you have wished my life if i had wooed in powdered hair if we had met in other Days and matched our clashing wills could i have suited loves Sweet ways to Satin lace and frills would you have answered then As now if i had called you thee and thou i Japan that it would not recognize the seizure of Manchuria by Force though later a declaration to this effect was made by the league of nations largely or so it is claimed on his the in stance of sir John Simon. Still later or. Stimson suggested to sir John that the nations which had signed the nine Power pact should Convene to consider what action should be taken to repair its breach. Though tile record on this Point is obscure it appears that sir John stood or. Stimson off by pointing out that the league of nations had the matter in hand. Thus two promising leads made by the United states which if followed up might have led to fur ther useful co operation were turned aside. A a n the matter of Abyssinia the known record tends to sup port the View that it the league of nations had applied Oil sanctions which were necessary if italian aggression was to be stopped the United states government would have found Means to co operate by limiting or completely stopping Oil exports. It is a matter of somewhat bitter re Flection that the Canadian Mem Ber of the sanctions committee suggested the imposition of an embargo on Oil and that his action was repudiated with a consider Able show of indignation by the government of Canada. But with the deepening of the International the re militarization of the Rhineland the outbreak of the civil War in Spain the renewal of sino japanese hostilities in Asia the seizure of Austria by nazi Ger Many All Steps leading up to the world conflagration of United states government in keeping with the pressure of pub Lic feeling and to the obvious Dis Tress of the president who could see much that was hidden from the sight of his countrymen has pursued a course of isolationism detachment and apparent indifference to Europe which so Power fully seconded similar policies followed with much less excuse by great Britain and France As to give nazi ambitions an Opportunity of which full advantage was taken As the Battle records of today Bear testimony. A a f or. Chamberlain in 1938 could not see Why great Britain should be troubled about the prob lems of a faraway country of which we know nothing Czecho the people of the United states Are certainly not open to criticism by anybody who though or. Chamberlain was right be cause they have had the same idea about Europe. But this defence of the . While technically conclusive is academic and really misses the Point. Into the hands of Grea Powers is Given however in Welcome the gift responsibility for the state of the world and if they deny and ignore this responsibility which it is within their Power to do they May Fine themselves quite unable to ignore the consequences of their refusal every British citizen knows this today to his Cost every citizen o1 the United states will know it to Morrow however Blind he May be today. Therefore while it is not open to the British and the French to reproach the United states for policies not More Short sighted and wrongly based than their own it is quite in order to suggest to them that they might profitably consider where their policies of aloofness if persisted in Are going to land with very Little delay in time. I estimating air strengths Lave induced the germans to undertake a dirty task so much to their liking. They cannot be Satis fied that the Allied air strength is at an ebb so Low that it cannot yet. Surpass their own strength. French authorities announced a few Days ago that Germany has lost aircraft or perhaps half its front its immediate strength. The germans calculate that the allies have lost a heavier proportion of their first line strength. But where both sides have lost heavily the germans wait Assurance that the disparity Between their preponderance and the limited Supply mentioned by or. Churchill is retained. To secure that superiority in the ail must be a pressing need of the germans in the new phase the War on which they seem about to enter. The Allied commands May then very probably see in the raid on Paris an incitement to raid German cities. Apparently the raids made in retaliation for the raid on Paris were incompatible either with gaining Mili tary Success or with losing Many aircraft. But since ordinarily aircraft that has to be saved for More direct military action must be risked if sent on bombing raids it is the Hope of the germans that heavy Allied bombing raids will give them their Chance to reduce the Allied air strength without materially reducing their own. There can be Many Good reasons for the germans wishing the allies at any Cost to risk their effective fighting ail Craft. Above All these reasons must Rise the constant fear that As the allies obtain greater supplies of aircraft the germans will find themselves outclassed in the air. Apart from that vital matter of accelerated Supply for the allies and to some extent a rate of Supply in Germany which cannot be expanded there Are other Means of effecting strength in the air than by directly increasing the number of aircraft. A marvellous bomb sight it is curious that these Means have been so Little heard of and pertain More to what the scientists in the laboratories mean to aviation than to the military strengths accrued to fighting air fleets. One of these aids that would be of supreme advantage if possessed by either belligerent is the secret bomb sight used under exclusive conditions by the United states air corps. This bomb sight is one of the two supreme secrets in military air Craft at this time. Using it gives the perfection of first class Rifle fire and has from Many credible accounts raised the Standard of bombing effectiveness in the United states far above that of All other countries. Every Means conceivable has been taken to steal or get hold of this bomb sight and Only a few weeks ago a sentry standing guard outside a hangar in which was an aircraft fitted with one of these bomb sights had to fire on a Man trying to steal it. The germans the italians have not got this bomb sight. Neither have the allies. But As the United states people awaken to the Fuller implications the War and seem More and More disposed to help in every Way to increase the fight ing aircraft strength of the allies it May at least be imagined if not hoped that this marvellously accurate bomb sight May be at the limited disposal of the allies when they feel disposed to bomb Ger Many in Earnest and in full repay ment for All the horrors the Ger mans Are perpetrating on civil populations. The Sperry Detector the bomb sight is however an immeasurable Aid to efficiency in air attack. A More miraculous instrument is understood to be of even greater Aid in air defence. This is the newly devised Sperry Universal Detector. This singular achievement compares with those other Sperry instruments which rave accommodated flying to its present uses for Man. It is As marvellous in its ingenuity As was the direction finder the Gyro Compass and. The so called Gyro Pilot. The Sperry have scientifically applied old truisms such As have existed in the Gyroscope toy for centuries to make instrumental flying transcend every Conception of flying s uses since the Wright Brothers first flew a crate heavier than air. The Climax of their extraordinary achievement As their remarkable works Are de scribed in a recent Issue of for tune is the Universal Detector. An Allied commission studied this instrument at Washington about a month ago and is thought to have obtained a number of them. Its uncanny properties Are directed toward bringing Down raiding aircraft. To describe this Detector simply inadequately suggests its Powers but it can Only be told about simply in this article. By telling the functions it com Bines within its Box May give an indication of its marvellous Ness. It finds the Range of the raiding plane and discovers its Altitude. The Detector somehow does a series of incredible calculations to integrate Altitude air Speed wind velocity Drift and other factors. It then mysteriously transmits this mechanical intelligence to the nearby anti aircraft Battery. The Raider is heard twelve Miles away and is framed in a Sperry arc Light that for 200 Miles throws a beam As Bright it is said As summer sunlight in new York. The fire on the raiding aircraft is then con trolled by the Detector in a port Able Box. The Foulness of the raid on Paris affronts the world of decent living Peoples. The germans May have counted on the resentment of the French people to Spur the allies into risking fighting air Craft that must be conserved till procurements of More aircraft from a Friendly United states and their own air forces have a combined strength that can overwhelm any Hitler and Mussolini can put into the air. Birthdays Hod. G. Howard Ferguson. Toronto ont. Born Kemptville ont., june 18. 1870. Rev. Stanley h. Knowles. Winnipeg bom los Angeles. Calif. June 18, 1903. Mrs. Colin h. Campbell . Winnipeg born Palermo. Halton county ont. June 18, 1862. Today s scripture from colossians 4 masters give unto your servants that which is just and equal knowing that be also have a master in heaven. Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving. Walk in wis Dom toward them that Are with out redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with Grace sea soned with Salt that be May know How be ought to answer every refugee children with the willing and whole hearted co operation of its welfare organizations Manitoba is ready to do its share in receiving and caring for refugee children from the scene of warfare across the Atlantic. It is proposed that this province take up to of the children. The provincial child w fare department and the Chil Dren s Aid societies have been Active in the matter. Applications Are invite Raj from families willing to take one or More children and these applications can be sent to the Central Volunteer Bureau 460 main Street from All parts of greater Winnipeg while applications Are being received also by the Chil Dren s Aid societies in Portage la Prairie Brandon and Dauphin. From St. Boniface and the country East of the red River applications will go to the hedren s Aid society of. St. Adelard in the great West permanent building main Street Winnipeg. Applications from any other part of the prov Ince can be sent to the director child welfare 320 Sherbrook Street Winnipeg. There is a due sense responsibility in the placing of the Chil Dren and the Homes offering to accept them will be visited by Public health nurses to see that conditions Are satisfactory. In the present emergency with Britain now expecting attack there is the utmost need of pro Viding safety and care for these Young refugees. They will prob ably come Only from great Britain since the hostilities Are ended in France but there will be a great number to be cared for and the people of Manitoba will wish to do All they can to help in this project of kindness and mercy. The Chil Dren May be expected very soon and those intending to make application should do so without delay ;