Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 24, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press Winnipeg monday june 24, 1940 printed and published the Winnipeg free press company. Limited. 300 Carlton Street we Meg. Manitoba. I. W. Dafoe Victor Sifton president general manager registered at the general Post office Lemdon ens., Lor transmission through the Post in the United kingdom at the newspaper rate of postage. Shame of a heroic people Only a few Days ago the free press predicted that no mat Ter How harsh and exacting the terms the germans sought to impose upon France the Bordeaux government would accept them. That melancholy prophecy has been fulfilled to the letter. I or. Churchill Speaks of his grief and amazement at the act. I he Speaks with the restraint his position places upon him. All the world where free Peoples still exist disgust and horror Jat the baseness of the act will fill the hearts of men. Everyone knew and everyone expected that Complete Capi 7 filiation would be demanded by Hitler and that in terms of military surrender the armistice conditions were bound to be i what they Are now shown to be. But it is Safe to say that no one in his wildest imaginings had supposed that a French gov err ent would lend its authority to so shameful a document so Lor. As its chief ally. Great Britain with whom it had sworn inseparable resistance was still prepared to carry on the s is what places the Mark of the beast upon those who represent the people of France. As or. Churchill impossible to believe such terms could have been o by any government possessed of constitutional St april four free countries have been Over run and by the nazi War Belgium hol land and France. Of these the governments of Only one has stooped to . And that is this nest or traitors and defeatists who claim surely without color of reasonable authority to represent the greatest of them All. The Republic of France. With Inhat Motu cation and rage the French people who have free Dorr to speak must greets that act. If the despicable political chicanery which led eight Days ago to the fall of Paul Reynaud and his replacement by a senile military figurehead surrounded by men whose activities in the last vital ten years have been consistent Only in their treachery will doubtless soon be made known to the late to save the Honor of France but soon enough to provide an object lesson to the world s remaining democracies. It is enough at the moment to emphasize the Elevation of Pierre Laval to the this creature s name has appeared often in the recent despatches to let us know he was a moving spirit n the Palace revolution that succeeded in overthrowing the decent honorable figures in France s always turbulent and unstable political life. In 1914 Laval was a pacifist and defeatist Deputy of the left. Politics and the amassing of a Large Fortune by methods unknown combined to make him a figure of the extreme it. But these surface manifestations of his life Nave not changed the nature of the Man himself. He is today 5 he was six years ago when he was Premier and 26 years ago he began his political career a figure of evil a guarantee of treason. Thus it is Tilting that on the Day on which he openly resumes 1a position of dominating the unfortunate Petain k protected by his years his weakness and his Lack of expert Jerico from too harsh Public Bordeaux gov eminent should announce the purge of the Patriot general de Gaulle from the French army. That dauntless figure who was . To London some Days age by Reynaud to develop and to Strong than the Liaison Between the French and British govern i merits will take Pride in his dismissal. He has countered by setting up a provisional French National committee and from the French colonies and military commands abroad come repeated assurances of help and denunciations of the Petain Laval regime. The French army of the cast proclaims its continued resistance and Many units of the French air Force likewise Are f the Recreant regime at Bordeaux. Stamps much earlier. There Are obvious reasons Why it is a Good plan. The government must borrow heavily As Well As Levy head taxation in order to pay for the War. If the people whose earnings throughout the country Are now increased did not save but spent their Money freely should very soon have inflation prices would go up and the people would be much worse off. Most people will need the Sav Ings they now make to tide them Over the difficult time when the War ends. They will be very glad that they did save their Money. And by lending even a Small amount to help finance the War everyone can feel that he is doing something for the great cause. And we have now reached the most critical stage in the War when the result depends on everyone doing absolutely everything he can to help. The buying of War saving Stamps is something to be warmly encouraged. I in spite of these cheering aspects of the situation however i it would be futile to imagine that the form and terms of the French will be joined in no Long space of time by the even More humiliating conditions imposed by not make still harder the tasks that lie before great Britain Canada and the other dominions. Apart from the moral debacle involved in the French surrender certain terms of the armistice become definitely More injurious to Britain than they would have been had the Bordeaux clique not seized Power. The i ranch Navy is to be ordered into nazi controlled ports and the great French mercantile Marine is to be immobilized. In Many cases commanders of these vessels will refuse to Honor the Bordeaux writ and will make a run for British harbours. In St Iii others the British Power of effective blockade and interception will Render the Bordeaux orders useless. But it stands to reason and we would to Wise to realize the fact that the accretion to German strength will be vastly enhanced by the abject executed by Laval and his associates. How much further their helpful association with our enemies will go Only the future will Tell. Once the infection of treason has set in it can a Apiary extend its ravages. But one thing is certain. Great Britain can assuredly Trust Weisell. And the allies now left to her Are equally worthy of con tidor.ci-. We have seen the last double Cross of the War that can x harmful to us. Though it is in the nature of things now that double crossing should appear in the ranks of our enemies. Rich in plunder readily fall out. Should any such Occa Sions arise we will be Able to take full advantage for the War is yet nowhere near its end and the lamp of Liberty still Burns in a inmost sanctuaries. We arc among the defenders of that sacred flame and in our ranks there will be no faltering or no stance. Provinces a approve a National unemployment insurance scheme is now assured All the provinces having agreed to a constitutional amendment author izing parliament to pass the legis lation. The government is going ahead with it Premier King states. Opposition to the scheme was recently expressed by the Canadian manufacturers association and there will doubtless be criticism of it in the Senate. But with the approval of the provinces the legislation will undoubtedly be enacted. The increasing employ ment makes this a Good time to get the plan established. A National employment service will also be organized it was stated recently by a member of the government. This follows Natur ally since the Success of the insurance plan will depend in part on an efficient system for placing Idle men in available jobs just As far is that can be done. These Steps Are in line with the recommendation of the commis Sion on Dominion provincial re lations that the Dominion should assume the whole responsibility for dealing with unemployment. The National employment com Mission headed by or. A. B. Purvis recommended that the Dominion should establish not Only unemployment insurance and a National employment service but also a National system of unemployment or direct in great unemployed workers these insurance benefits Are exhausted or who Are not covered by the scheme. This was to prevent an Unwar ranted Extension of the insurance benefits and the collapse of the scheme similar to what happened in Britain. But it May be assumed that this situation will be covered by the present provision for direct Relief and if the Dominion should take Over the whole responsibility for unemployment it will provide the direct Relief wherever needed. Of not so secure an Eastern journal in referring he prospective attack on siiy.-. That Canada herself not Sutler from acts of War Secail a she will be protected by a United states if necessary but this dependence on the United for our Security would Lead and that therefore Ere fighting for our National it says Canada our skins Are not a no matter what the event n to c Long As we stay in this would be True even no were to defeat great in. Tin United states would not permit German such Security. The states has suddenly Rea that it is not in a position to hence the vote of lately exposed to attack unless it brought its Fleet from the Pacific which it feels it cannot safely do. Where then would our Protection be Canada must make urgent preparation for her own defence in the first place by aiding Britain and also in strengthening our Protection at Home. It is not a matter of depending on the United states for it is not in a position to of doing our utmost for our own defence and joining with the United states if need be in the Protection of North America against attack. War savings Stamps it is strange to find a journal like the monetary times opposing the Sale of War saving Stamps and billion dollars for defensive j describing it As Stagecoach nations the proposal on top i it seems to think tha to four billions this were not Lent to the of the but went into Busi Ness the tax Revenue resulting from that business would be Worth More to the government than the Money it borrowed and on which he Prospect of compulsory by training for perhaps two n although the country War. Tie United states fears particularly would happen if germans gained control of the British Fleet. They would then control the Atlantic Ocean and the United states would be Imine i it must pay interest. That of course is not so. The government knows what it is doing and so does the govern ment of great Britain which started the issuing of War saving merely Low frequency Conrad Aikin in the new in poetry exist without form a or at its Best and in t it about time that we raised new this whole question of form and tried just for fun to see what could be done with it this so characteristic american distrust of form and haps it s time for a change that be distrusted that. Elaborate form us make no Bones about s Beautiful. It need not in the East be stereotyped or deadening or is nothing in it o be afraid of. Form plus Intel formed is this above All that the typical american poet misses perhaps has always missed. Poetic impulse in plenty but selection and control almost nil. What is needed is a Long and intense training in form so that when the poetic impulse arises it will find the Means for elaborate articulation already at its disposal. Even so it will have to struggle with this struggle against it struggle against form for its Iden Tity but it is exactly in the violent Issue from this violent struggle Between the necessity for elaborate form on the one hand and intense statement on the other the two to be managed simultaneously that the finest poetry emerges. Anything else is merely the stuff of poetry second rate impulse or second rate statement. In Short a kind of Low frequency poetry. From the Golden books Dawn in the Garden k. A. Sullivan in Chambers s journal in the morning quiet when the world is new Here red roses riot Diamonde with Dew Ere the Gold Sun gleaming lights his glowing fires Here Are lilies dreaming dim Delphinium Spires. Rises in the dawning while Day lingers yet to the azure awning scent of Mignonette and each waking Flower swings a censer Sweet in this Mystic hour at the gardeners feet. Golf is like a love affair. If you Don t take it seriously it s no fun if you do take it seriously it Breaks your heart. Pocket Magazine London. Brother can you spare a dime for the glory of Italy this is the Day of which Mussolini and the fascist spokesmen have bravely talked in recent years leading on to glory for the italian people and to a Reat and prosperous future. What Lory Mussolini has been the open accomplice of a most villain Ous International gangster and he lately joined forces with him hop ing to share in the fruits of bloody aggression. He had been dilating on the restoration of the glory of ancient Rome indulging in bold Alk of being a lion for a Day rather Han a sheep for an indefinite period and praising the valor italian soldiers. Then with supreme cowardice he seized what looked like a Safe Britain and France were locked in a deadly struggle with to attack them and seek whatever plunder he could get. President Roosevelt s vivid words will re main historic. Italy May get some Booty now but the conflict is not Over and Italy is going to know something of real War not the kind which she waged against the helpless ethiopians or in supporting the Spanish insurgents Well away from italian shores. This War is coming right Home to the italian people and it will not be All Lory Phe italians May learn too late Al of the fatal mistake they made in allowing their government to be taken out of their own hands and placed with an irresponsible dictator. There ma3r be great suf Fering and sorrow for the people and disillusionment or worse for the fascist government. There can be no Victory for Italy that is not overshadowed by Victory for hit or and nazi Germany. Italy could Hen take Only the place which Germany allowed her to have. Inhere is the great and glorious future that Mussolini has been promising with the collapse of France shortly after he entered the War in May think now that he has had an extremely Lucky break but the end is not yet and he May come to different conclusion. For the first thirteen years of his Rule Mussolini offered no serious threat to the peace of Europe or of the world. He was engaged with the development of the country the establishment of a Strong government and raising Italy s standing among the nations with whom she co operated very freely. Italy belonged to the league and took part in the Dis armament conferences. Mussolini strongly advocated disarmament. Speaking of his country and great Britain in 1928, the italian dictator said the Friendship be tween the two countries is pro found it extends to the great mass of the Italy he said wished Friendship with All other countries but must not allow any body to step on her toes. Strange it is now to read of the admiration which he once expressed for the people of the United states. I he said that they Are barely at the beginning of their Power. I be Lieve also in the spiritual qualities of the but the fascists had ruthlessly suppressed All opposition in Italy and had seized absolute Power. After wielding it for a period they became drunk with Power and it increasingly affected their foreign policy. They developed Imperial ambitions. In 1932, Mussolini had told an interviewer Italy will never be the one to disturb the peace of the world. We desire peace. Italy will never fire the first when asked the meaning of Italy s Imperial ambitions he said imperialism in the realm of thought without conquering a single Kilometre of was there dissimulation in that within three years he was waging a murderous War on the ethiopians and there is evidence that this was planned several years in Advance. Upon the assassination of Chan cellar dollfuss of Austria in 1934, Mussolini threatened to oppose the seizure of that country by Ger Many but when Britain and France came to Italy the next Spring at the stress conference to seek a common front against Ger Many which had just renounced the treaty of Versailles and adopted conscription Mussolini did not give a definite answer except to say that disarmament was All off. Later that year he undertook to seize Ethiopia. Hitler assisted Italy in that War five years ago and the close relations of the two dictators then be Gan developing finally into a Mili tary Alliance and the adoption by Mussolini of All the nazi ideas of expansion by ruthless aggression of the use of brute Force As an instrument of National policy. It is the fruition of this policy that we now see and the italian people May pay a very heavy Price for allowing their ruler to Lead them on not to glory but perhaps to disaster. Homes for refugee children by . Need be no doubt that if the matter is thoroughly understood there will be no Short age in Winnipeg and throughout the province of Homes for any children which great Britain May wish to entrust to us. Some of the alarm on this score seems to have Arisen because about two thirds of those who last fall promised this shelter have when the need has become imminent fallen Down on their Promise. A Good Deal of this was to be expected for there is a certain Type of person who in the first flush of emotion rushes Forward and then has not the stamina to carry out his undertaking. As a matter of Cool appraisal it is a blessed circumstance that Winnipeg has got this sort of Gentry accounted for. They will not now gum up the works. The children who will be sent to has undertaken one thousand and Hopes to receive be the wards of the province. They will be fitted by children s Aid officials that is by trained social workers into Homes where it is believed they will be most Happy. For instance a bar Rister s child will if possible be sent to a barrister s Home or at least to the Home of professional people and so on. Moreover each of these Homes no matter which Side of the tracks is the address will be inspected by the Public health nurses. It is reported that some persons who have offered their Homes have been somewhat affronted at this provision. If they think for a moment they will be thankful for it since its operation will ensure As far As possible the safety of every child. Indeed the list of queries which applicants must answer covers All Points except we think where one s grand Mother stood in spelling class. A this is As it should be and a there should not be the slightest slackening in the carry ing out of any of the provisions meant for the safety of the Chil Dren. One has Only to think with sudden sinking of the heart of one s own children from five to sixteen being sent thousands of Miles from Home among strangers to realize How every Assurance must be Given that All will be Well with them. This is As important for us As it is for great Britain. Our fellow citizens there can Send us nothing so precious As their children and we can receive Noth ing so precious. Therefore it is for us to formulate and acquiesce in the most carefully Laid plans so that this venture May be one thing of fragrant and lasting value which will come out of this Valley of the Shadow of death. It seems Clear that the province through the children s Aid societies Over the province and through the provincial nurses have their part of the scheme Well in hand. But Are the proper measures being taken to secure what May be the right Type of Homes for instance have approaches been made to the medi Cal association the Law society the retail merchants association the organization of civil engineers the faculty club of the University and so on through the Long list of professional and Busi Ness organizations have they been asked to find out from their members How Many children especially children from the families of their. British confreres they can take care of have the Imperial order of daughters of the Empire been asked to seek Homes in their ranks have the women s institutes has the trades and labor Council and other organizations of skilled artisans been approached there is no doubt at All that re liable Safe and pleasant Homes can be found for these children and indeed these Homes must Merit All these better that a Millstone were tied about our necks. It would be Well to this end that systematic Endeavor be made to secure the attention of reliable bodies in the furtherance of the project. Birthdays or. H. J. Melklejohn Winnipeg born Hastings county ont., june 24, 1859. Robert a. Gibb Portage la Prairie Man born Toronto ont., june 24. 1861. What should be done witty a Rural municipality in which the capacity to pay taxes has almost disappeared the depart ments of political Economy and soils of the University of Manitoba together with the departments of municipal affairs and agriculture of the province have attempted to find an answer to this question by Means of a detailed Case study of a selected municipality in the Northern area Between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitoba. The municipality of Armstrong still has people according to the 1936 census about As Many As ten years earlier. But these people now own very Little land. Of 807 Quarter sections taxable Twenty years ago All but 160 have passed from the control of the residents to Dominion or municipality. Taxes levied for school purposes fell from almost in 1922 to slightly Over in 1933. This problem has faced each of the Prairie provinces since the Days when the lure of a Homestead literary and language lore by the Bookman. Organ of of a Ford University press contains one of those incidents characteristic lord tweeds Muir. J. H. Stembridge compiler of geographical schoolbooks for that press wrote to an English daily last february i had the Honor of lunching at Ottawa with lord and lady Tweedsmuir neither of whom i had met be fore. I happened to mention quite incidentally to John Buchan that i had not got my outfit for an air tour i was about to make Over the North West territories. Some three Days later on arriving at Edmonton Airport for the North West i was rung up by a Friend of lord Tweedsmuir who said that his excellency had asked him to help fit me out for my proposed trip. As a result i was Lent the whole of the kit i. Required. I must admit that i was astonished that the governor general of can Ada should display so much trouble on behalf of a very Ordinary eng Lishman and was told that it was typical of lord the periodical Calls attention to a tract on the split infinitive in the . Series society for pure by or. Otto jes Persen a distinguished scholar of Copenhagen Long professor of English in his University. Who s who will Tell you How great a linguist he is and Tow much he has written about our language. In the tract he deals also with our complicated system of clauses. While words keep on increasing pure English must be More difficult to maintain. The barbarous practice of the split infinitive is now a lenient breach of Good eng Lish. Every sensible person says professor Jesperson will consult Fowler and he pays tribute to the King s English and modern eng Lish usage which must be Well thumbed by most writers. We will split infinitives sooner than be ambiguous or the danish scholar gives example from forty four English writers and they include Matthew Arnold Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte Browning Carlyle Dickens Hux Ley Hardy George Eliot Kipling Leslie Stephen Stevenson Thack Eray and others As eminent. S an Anonymous Causer recalls a breach of his own in an introduction to a Book published in 1893 and Long ago out of print. To gently he wrote and q sir Arthur Quiller in a Page review came Down upon me like a Load of bricks and what is More remembered the offence thirty years later. Neither Mere Dith nor Swinburne found any thing barbarous in this introduce for Many a year after wards he corrected split infinitives whenever he ran across them whether his own or other write she does not say. In modern eng Lish h. W. Fowler devotes three pages of Fine print to the split infinitive concerning which he divides the English speaking world into five classes 1. Those who do not know nor care what a split infinitive is 2, those who do not know but care very much 3. Those who know and condemn 4. Those who know and approve 5. Those who know and distinguish. The five Are Well Worth Reading. Class 2 receives two columns which make a Page. These would As soon be caught putting their knives in their Mouths As splitting an infinitive but have hazy notions of what constitutes that deplorable breach of Eti their practice however betrays not Good taste but tame acceptance of others opinions. Class 3 consists of bogy haunted creatures and Are Well ridiculed. Class 4 is not easily distinguished for a writer May split the infinitive unconsciously or he May be announcing that he will do As he will with his own examples Are quoted from news papers though it is admitted that High newspaper tradition is Strong against class 5 is elaborately defined in two columns. Writers caring for their syntax who know and will split the infinitive with discretion. Though not desirable in itself it is preferable to real ambiguity and to Patent the periodical prints this bit of verse by Timothy shy in. Some local paper reminding readers of the bang s English he Shook her till her nostrils bled with odious a usage. Just get a he Curtly said of modern English usage of Brignall Banks Are wide and fair. And girls who make a howler Are Apt to get into the hair of chaps who know their Fowler doubtless the Fowler two of them Are reference books Well used by Winnipeg writers. Land zoning by . For Drew land hungry men with Small knowledge of soil or climate to the West. Alberta Many years ago made a determined Effort to return some millions of thirsty acres to ranching. Saskatchewan is still struggling with the effects of homesteading during a wet Cycle of years a generation ago. In Manitoba s inter Lake country poor soils thinly cover the Rock in Many places and much of this land was homesteaded in win Ter. What an unpleasant Spring Awakening for some of these homesteaders but not All of the soil is poor. In the Armstrong municipality the Clay Loam if Well drained not too Stony and not too shallow three is rated As poor to fair for Grain crops. It May even be rated As Good if the Lack of phosphorus which is typical is met by application of fertilizer. This municipality however does not sell enough Grain to maintain an elevator. In Manitoba where rainfall is usually fairly adequate for crop production this variability of the soil is the chief cause of trouble. The fundamental cause of the problems in these areas of arrested development or retrogression is the absence of an adequate land policy the report declares. One map in the report shows the findings of the soil Survey and another shows the parcels of land to which the owners have Man aged to retain title. Most of the remaining owners Are on the bet Ter soils. But a Survey for land classification would have to be More detailed than any so far made in Manitoba. Detailed soil sur Veys take time and Money but if we Are to face up to our prob lems in a realistic manner they must be the report warns. A a though so much of the xxx land has reverted to govern ment ownership it is not entirely unused. It is used As Public pasture. The Farmers of Arm Strong municipality chiefly live by Dairy farming. Three Cream trucks from Winnipeg and seven or eight from nearby creameries tour the District. The average Farmer has 22 head of cattle. This need of pasture the a of the Survey observed caused local resentment against some Back to the land Farmers of the depression As the land that was Good enough for them to use was Good enough to pasture. It would seem rather a hopeless at tempt to establish unemployed in a District where the old timers could not make a living. On the Wisdom of such an attempt the report does not pass judgment but. Surprisingly adds we can say with Assurance that in compari son with the ten Farmers under the Back to the land plan whose records we have studied Are Many More resident operators who Are not farming As this matter of pasturage seems to be quite an important Factor in the living these Farmers Are making. The ten most successful Farmers in the area have not much More land than the least prosperous. But they have four times As Many cattle and Are Able to sell nearly three times As much Cream per cow. The Farmers with few cows will require much of the milk for Home use although As the report shows they economize severely on milk Cream and but Ter. The authors see the solution of the difficulties of such districts in land zoning is More than cautioning settlers away from sub marginal land or the withholding of services if individuals insist on farming land unsuited for cultivated crops. Zoning is positive control of land in those areas where tax Delin Quency is epidemic and where local government is breaking it is control of land use by Legal enactment. Adherence to land use classification is enforced by statute. The zoning Law pro Hibits certain land uses and pro Vides penalties for violation of the Law. It is the same kind of social control which has been invoked in Urban areas where restricted building areas have been set aside by municipal bylaws. Since 1929 the states of California Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan with land use problems similar to ours have classified land in sub marginal areas and then granted the counties having sub marginal lands the right to zone this land into its proper use. The state it will be noted exercises no coercion on the local such classification of land is regarded As the contribution the province can make to distressed local government. In the United states the re settlement of families now on unsuitable land is regarded As a Federal responsibility. It is admitted that the Cost such work will not be Small. But the Cost should not deter Public authorities from making a bold Start the report urges. Today s scripture from psalm 59 deliver me from mine enemies o my god defend me from them that Rise up against me. Deliver me from the workers of iniquity and save me from bloody men. For to they lie in wait for my soul ;