Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 1940, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Rree Winnipeg Friday june 28, 1940 and published Uran Peg free press company limited 300 Carlota Street Winnipeg. Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe. Victor Sifton. President. General manage. Registered at the Genera Post office London ene Tor transmission through the Post in the United Ivor Sodom at the newspaper rate of postage. No Reali months of War that has engulfed the continent of test roved the Structure of its life and is already stretch us bloody hand across the seas in every Quarter of the canadians will read the platform on which the a pub or ten itch states proposes to fight the presidential a 1 with mingled amazement and dismay. The Well being ii Ity of this continent is vital to Canada which knows oceans that surround it on either Side Are not protective but the main roads which connect it with the world. We recognized that fact by our entry into the War bar. Since then Many of the defences upon which for our Protection have been overthrown and others y threatened and beset. We recognize that the dangers her. Have become infinitely More real in june i had been our Hope that these facts so obvious to us Manifest by now to our powerful neighbor future we share in so great measure. I be unjust to say that there have been no signs of responsible for the direction of foreign policy and of United slates have shown the clearest perception needs of the has been an up i till c opinion in re and one which will since the safety i depends upon it. Olphia the party tuve succeeded in _ i pint form designed it the. Forces of a in s to Ciao in More Ever m the Man Thev Liate above Ali ajor general William a. Griesbach c.b., c.m.g., . With v.d., k.c., and honorable senator of Canada who was Canada s youngest mayor when elected mayor of Edmon ton has been appointed inspector general of Canadian Active service Force units in Western Canada. There must have seemed to the people Alberta something wrong with a British War that did not have their Billy Griesbach in it. They know he has not ceased to prepare himself to be ready to go to War Ever since he came Back from the War in South Africa. That has been a guiding doctrine in his uce. It was imbued in him As a trooper in the Canadian mounted infantry in South Africa by his sergeant major who was a Learned scholar a Fine gentleman and a rugged plainsman. That was the late Justus Wilson a magnificent specimen of Canadian Man Hood who fired the last shot at Duck Lake in 1885. His Pupil was commissioned in the 19th Alberta dragoons and was a major in that regiment when appointed second in command of the 1st Canadian divisional cavalry Squadron Point overseas in 1914. He was returned Jin december of that year to j Over recruit in a few Days the 49th Edmonton battalion. That unit splendid isolation it. The operators of a political machine j served with distinction under his italia England or the United states Seldom j command from october 1915. T ill j shrewd or astute in Long run judgment. Vans promoted to be brigadier i. The world Lias come to expect an erratic course from Henry Ford when it comes Down to the us of War preparedness and peace. No one at this moment and to one at this moment k ail itself. The present is the important thing. I j a neral command of the 1st us uie Iphia managers having congregated the brigade of Canadian Tion of needed Val. Fol. I he . From ail Corners of the United states. M 1 Coluar a 1j1 the allies than be. His Detroit their time whooping up the old slogans regardless words arc being shouted into the vacuum eruption across the Atlantic of a vol Canic Revo Rico whose Powers of destruction have Only now begun Reives and Are still capable of infinite expansion. A j he Republican party moguls sitting in the traditional Billy Griesbach belongs to the West. He was born raised educated in it and has lived in it except when at War overseas or at War at the sessions of parliament. The election defeats lie suffered in his political career would have ruined his reputation if he had of the convention have produced a sustained them in the Field of of the social that was the new Deal has been accomplished and henceforth if they Are to have Validity must tiie immediate strenuous adaption of the whole to the needs of War. The party managers presidential third term they talk of the balancing the Reform of labor legislation the retirement of the debt Protection of markets Home Rule for Hawaii How depend on that one and final settlement of Indian turning to foreign policy the platform makers cautious sop to those who believe actual intervention or the provision of every material Aid Short of the course of american Wisdom. Its terms Are hive been profoundly stirred by invasion countries and by disaster to nations whose ideals resemble our own. We favor the Extension to All for Liberty or Liberty is threatened. 01 of not be in violation of International or in the requirements of our own National defence. Sympathetic disinterest they couple a denunciation president for seeking to adjourn Congress with the purpose to country into War in its absence. The fateful years of the Locust the free press incurred and unpopularity by joining it s voice to those uttering the most urgent warnings of the Wrath that e to Canada to Britain and to France. It was con in those clays to denounce such persons As Dis alarmists and the like. In of the peace War mongers of that experience and the lamentable fulfilment of prophecies made at that time it becomes the duty of a guv neighbor to utter those warnings once More couched in of the bravest and most acute concern. Natter of no concern to outsiders whether the republicans or the democrats Rule the congressional Roost in the United states. But it is a matter of the greatest possible concern to Canada that the dominant Power of the Western hemisphere not repeat in sad succession the errors committed Down plants can quickly expand their Eagle. He that Ford reckoned no doubt would forget nazi bestial ties in contemplation of the Industrial stability of the regime and thus indirectly help the Ger Man Eagle to spread its wings. Record As a peace advocate is a strange Story. How engines and he is going to make capacity for making the air plane he a vol. Imag Ifie that his peace expedition to Europe in the last he chartered party of 160. United states he will make Battle. He has an unbridled habit of saying what he believes and what he believes is sometimes As wrong As his statement is emphatic but because of this Frank Ness his political associates were known to declare that they could elect him if Only he would keep out of the election. In the Field of military science he has adhered to beliefs with Complete indifference to claims that he was wrong which often had to be reversed Long afterwards. Major general Griesbach is what is termed every Inch a and none admits that More willingly than the troops who served under him under fire. But he is not the Soldier of the text Book. He believes that the Best Canadian Soldier is the Soldier who is first the citizen. He said so at the out set of this Wailand events have transpired to show How right he thousands for the government. But none for great Britain he will not help any foreign country to carry on War. The British purchasing commission will have to place the contract with other manufacturers and this Means delay and perhaps slower production Ford believes in the defence of the United states but he cannot see Many Clear sighted Ameri cans do that the first line of de Fence for the . Right now is on i the present Battle grounds of Western Europe. And with the Fate of Britain and of the defence of tiie world s Freedom in the bal Ance Britain s fighting Billy Griesbach s career in the War was nearly shattered because he. Openly condemned the Ross Rifle As a weapon in the Field and did not shirk from ordering his men to them selves with the Enfield whenever they could get hold of them. He was in cavalry trained Only in cavalry Drill and tactics when he was Given command of an infantry battalion to go overseas. Wise acres shuddered at How the Cavalryman would mess up the infantry. But it was the personal by its fellow democracies in Europe. Yet the bestowed by lord Kitchener i ii i contains no hint that the terrible realities of Europe Ai l but one Short step removed from tomorrow s realities across the sea. An american observer of the european scene Frederick l. Iari. Bringing to an end his acute analysis of the Steps which plunged that continent into the abyss reflects sadly upon e scene at Home timer on the foreign policy of the United states in cars of Europe s decline does not encourage optic q ctr in the disintegrating world society of the 20th buy is not to be found by the Roadside nor handed Down have nor achieved by waiting or by Compromise or by to indifference or isolationism. It can Only be earned. A to it the is High and difficult of payment. If the to escape Europe s Nemesis they must profit can experience. Prophetic words and time is precious there can positive immediate action on the largest and fastest Agi Nable is the desperate need. The Rush to arms must co Pov by of the United l tomorrow common the search for friends for even the vast states itself May prove inadequate to the s defence. The time for Domestic bickering and currency of partisan peacetime politics is Over. A facts. But of any realization of those facts Republican platform gives no sign. The league there is material for sad Rei lec or. In the news that the league i in Many quarters the world Over the conviction must have been driven Home by the collapse in the 89 a Geneva last few years that the Only pos a sible Hope for peace is through the its nominal existence j collective and Resolute action of of the War. The nations that want peace and the Extension the world had the Opportunity but threw it away. No one knows when it will return. If it should be soon it will be a great mercy. The fateful decision will not be Long delayed. Whatever happens human Freedom and inde Over inc the ideals of the have no King or plans. Last important act of apparently repenting a previous neglect was in King soviet Russia for invading at his inspection of the Canadian troops in England that won for the 49lh the coveted Honor of inclusion As a unit in the Canadian corps in France. Major general Griesbach s Job is now in a sense to Jack up the troops. He is to see that the train ing and the equipment Given the Active service Force units in Western Canada Are adequate to the requirements for which those troops Are enlisted. He is a great Little Jacker up. His head bears resemblance to a shaven Caesar yet it carries an inexhaustible fund of witty stories. He has a Power Ful voice of command but with creamy smoothness insists on addressing men far older than him self As my dear boy he Learned warfare As it is no longer fought. He Learned his warfare when it was mostly gained on the Parade ground and the Drill Square. He ditched that when he was one of the most ingenious of commanders in France. And he is still capable of forgetting what he Learned in France to be Able to master the mechanical technique of a War combining the aircraft and the tank. No officer cared to look smarter in the old style uniform than did brigadier general Griesbach com manding a brigade in France. None will look any smarter or More Workmanlike when he dons the Battle dress of this War. For of the urging the members in to give Finland All assistance cannot be permanently suppressed and in the new Day the ideals of the league and its plan for ensuring peace will be fully accepted Chance so dependent on speedy Aid from the friends of peace and free Dom Ford s decision is critically important. A s not Only a business Genius but a Man of Good impulses who has been interested in social improvement and has condemned War utterly because of the suffer he is b ing and misery which it brings. But it is strange that a Man who has shown such shrewd Intelli gence and foresight in business should hold such Short sighted and impractical View s in regard to advancing the cause of peace As he has done. If there were a serious conflagration in Detroit approaching his property he would be anxious to see that it was headed off. He refuses to Sec the International conflagration that has come much nearer his country in the last two months and he disregards the very real danger of the United states having to fight it almost alone if it gains further headway. He would do All he could to establish the permanent Security his business against any in a Vornle developments but he has never recognized the principle of collective Security As the Only practical Means of gaining world peace. The sincerity of Henry Ford is beyond question. But at the same time Hitler knew what he was doing just two years ago when he presented Ford with the grand Cross of the order of the German War could succeed a boat and took a two weeks after Landing in nor Way he returned to the ., Leav ing the party to make a few vain endeavours in Norway. Holland and Sweden. There was quarrelling in the party and it soon disintegrated. Before the peace expedition had set out. Ford had opposed defensive preparations in the United states and he opposed the Anglo French loan Mission. He was quoted As saying he would tie a can and Send them he was Ako reported As intending to foment a strike of the fighting men in Europe. Many British news papers refused to publish his peace the above biographer there in going to be another world Wai anyway and the United states should get into it at the beginning and clean them All in 1930, he was going Back on his previous discovery and saying the Only Way you can end Wai is to teach the Fellows who profi by it that they can profit More some other Way and get the idea of War Cut of their three years later he declared International conferences and Al that machinery do Little Good. You can t legislate can Only people the world with peaceable nations. Make it profitable Fol everybody to attend to his own business and there will be no More there is some truth in that Las Long As nothing happens in the meantime. T ast september after this Wai had begun he opposed the amending of the . Neutrality act because he said the sole Pur pose was to enable munition advertisements. This was his Mancra to profit financially preparation for the attempt to get the. Boys out of the trenches by when he reached Europe he found that no one in authority recognized his Mission and he at once saw that it was a failure. It Cost him when he got Back he said he had Learned something Worth while about the causes of War. He for Merly thought that Bankers manufacturers of munitions and armament were responsible but now he was convinced that it was the people themselves who were responsible. The men doing the fighting he said had been Content to let those ruling them do their thinking. And republics were As bad the people paying too Little attention to their government. He said i have been a voter 31 years and in All that time i have voted Only six a a a authentic biography of r a h. Henry Ford published in 1923, Allan l. Benson said he told me in 1916 that he would not be in favor of resisting even in Vasion by armed two 3rears later when the . Entered the War his views had changed. I want he said but i will fight like the Devil to get the Ford j plants produced munitions whippet tanks ambulances. He Ilso built submarine chasers. After the War when the flare up Between Britain and Turkey occurred Ford said according to through what is nothing less than mass evidently he saw nothing in the issues at stake in the conflict in Europe no nazi menace to the world no reason for giving the allies some assistance in defeating it. This giant in business and an intense realist in that sphere is a pure a peace advocate. His condemnation of War and his desire for peace Are entirely commendable but they appear to be Only sentiments with him. While vowing the importance of peace he has expressed amazingly superficial ideas about How to ensure peace and he appears to have Given the subject no serious study although it is a matter of critical importance to All humanity. From the Golden books from the Green Linnet Wordsworth once have i marked the happiest guest in All this Covert of the Blest Hail to thee far above the rest in Joy of voice and Pinion thou Linnet in thy Green array presiding spirit Here today Dost Lead the revels of the May and this is thy Dominion. My dazzled sight he Oft deceives a brother to the dancing leaves then flits and from the cottage eaves pours Forth his song in gushes As if by that exulting Strain a mocked and treated with Dis Dain the voiceless form he chose to feign while fluttering in the Bushes. Today s scripture from Ecclesiastes s there is no Man that hath Power the spirit to retain the Noil for Hirvi ii rom apr in the h. Hudson Bird fancier time Birds flying feeding sing Ling in the gardens this june Send us to the books about them again and again to the poets too and revive the old interest in their nesting. Has any Bird Lover writ ten about Birds of the red River barring the steady writer of Chickadee he could now compile chapters to fill an informative Book with remembered lyrics added. W. H. Hudson most poetic of All naturalists was passionately interested in wild Birds from child Hood on farm and ranch in Rio de la Plata until his death in 1922 in England whither he had gone at the age of Twenty eight. W. H. Hudson precious Complete shelf in will any fill family Library. They Are books to be kept for re Reading with sheer enjoy ment not a Page of proverbial writing in them. His Birds in a taken from the shelf today. Suggested a Book on our own Birds. About the Middle of May so he begins the Little Book the passion spirit neither hath he Power in the for wild nature and the compan Linn Hirv of Vilm Day of his death. Ion ship of drove him to St by the Bookman. James s Park and he was having a Good time when he noticed three children the eldest about ten feeding both land and water Birds and talking to the younger ones eagerly. He listened and asked her some questions. This is the Canadian Goose there is the egyptian Goose Here is the King Duck and that Large Beautiful Bird that will not come to be is the Golden not their real names she did not know them and named them herself to wit the feathers of the Golden Duck would Shine in the Sun like Gold. Hudson was greatly attracted and told her about the Birds before them and those of other lands that have a nobler Bird life than All at once she pressed her hands together and cried of i do so love the the Happy incident was in his mind and finally off he went into the country and stayed in a Village to watch the Birds recording his observations. On his second Day there a Nightingale was singing in the rain. Going softly he won to some eight Yards of it sitting on the dead Twig of a Low Thorn tree. He is grateful to that night Stigale for sharply calling to my mind a common pestilent delusion. Which i have always hated but had never yet raised my voice against namely that All wild creatures exist in constant fear of an attack from the Subtle or pow Erful enemies that Are always waiting and watching. He sets Forth the truth in denial of that belief and i am sure he agreed with Wordsworth that the so dark and Blackbird and other winged creatures had Happy youth and Beautiful free old age. Here was the Nightingale singing not five feet above Bare ground see ing but not heeding and be Neath was a Black cat with yellow eyes. I did not see the cat at first but have no doubt the Nightingale had seen and knew it was the cat sprang on a spar Row and there were some exciting few minutes but the exposed Nightingale Sang on undisturbed. Hudson knows Browning and says that had he been Home in murky London he had Likely been Seeling pleasure in Reading that poet but in this pleasant country Side it is Melendez that suits his mood. And he introduces us to a Spanish poet of the 18th Century finest songs Are without Luman he describes Melendez As a purely Lyric poet. The latest aggression Russia has not decorated her invasion of rumanian Terri tory with anything like the same amount of lying As accompanied her attack upon Finland. Such pretexts in the darkening euro Pean scene Are no longer Neces sary. He who has the strength takes what he can. Russia con siders that Bessarabia and North Ern Bukovina Are important to her. Therefore her soldiers March Russia seeks to control Rumania s outlet to the sea. Therefore her warships sail her planes Fly. King Carol who has been walking the Tightrope All these months Falls off. He becomes the puppet. What is much More interesting than the spectacle of Carol Losin what his country took after the last War is however the Specula Tion As to the significance of the russian invasion in its relation the German position. Is this move being made after due consultation with and consideration of Berlin is it on the other hand a debian gesture made by a Russia now terribly fearful of the consequences to herself of Hitler s rapid Conquest of the continent has Stalin decided that unless he strengthens his own position he is himself marked Down As among the next victims of the Naz juggernaut or is Hitler now so preoccupied with plans for the attack upon his greatest foe Grea Britain unable to make a move in the Balkans the answers to these questions remain in doubt. But one thing is certain. The Balkans have Ion been the ground where rival Continental imperialism have fought it was pan slavic interests in Serbia that precipitated the War of 1914. Russia refused to let Austria trample Down that Little slavic nation. When Austria attacked Russia intervened promptly. These fundamental Long run influences Are still at work in the Balkan Peninsula and when one Grea Power improves its position its neighbors All become increasingly restive at the growing insecurity of their own positions. This yeast of discontent is now bubbling Over the Balkans where not Only Russia and Germany must in the Long run clash but where Italy is desirous of establishing herself More firmly. It May be that the time for a show Down is not far Distant but it is impossible to believe that Ger Many really approves that latest russian aggrandizement and Here lie the seeds of a dispute which in due course will become serious for both of them and contrariwise work to the Benefit of great Britain. The letter Box views of free press readers plea for tolerance to the editor free i be permitted to voice through your columns a protest against the unjust tide of race hatred that is now sweeping across Canada. In reasoning panic Over the so Callec fifth column in this country it causing Many people to lose their nerve entirely. Fear of nazi Sabo Tage leads on to hatred of All canadians of German origin although the vast majority Are Canadian torn and fundamentally Loyal and this leads in turn to a Blind prejudice against canadians of All euro Pean origins whether slavic Magyar italian or scandinavian. On every Side one hears of men and women dismissed from employment simply because their names Are not Anglo Saxon. At i mass meeting of Public Organ nations held in Winnipeg last week there was a perfectly alarm no disposition to denounce All european canadians As foreign is and a menace to the country. This is insanity of a perilous sort. Do not minimize the reality of anti Canadian activities on the part of certain Small groups for i have had very specific knowl Edge of such groups and have not in stated to disclose it on occasion. Handling such Gentry is however a police Job and not a Case for a Community Hue and cry. The Anglo saxons who now constitute Ess than one half of our Canadian population should remember not Only that the european canadians amount to nearly a Quarter of our population and Are in an actual majority throughout much of the West but that they have been overwhelmingly Loyal to Canada. A like the ukrainians Are Over their quota in enlistments and even the German mennonites have teen giving Large sums to the red 3ross and to polish Relief. During the past fifty years we have gone i Long Way towards building All these nationalities into a single Canadian people. The second and third generations think of them selves primarily As canadians. And now some wild eyed Anglo canadians crazed with fear Are endangering this whole achievement by their indiscriminate hatred and Justice towards the whole two and a half millions of these canadians of european origin. Nation building is a slow laborious Busi Ness but nation wrecking can be done with appalling rapidity if such hysteria proceeds to wrong and emitter Large sections of our population. The most dangerous fifth columnist is a Patriot in a panic for he can do More to destroy Public morale than half a dozen timid spies. Let us have an end of Public panic meetings on the fifth column problem. Calm ustice at Home is the Best Guaran be of that Strong and inexorable foreign policy by which we shall contribute to a British Victory. Yours faithfully Watson Kirkconnell 972 Grosvenor ave., City. Birthdays William Ivens Winnipeg born Baxt lord eng., june 28, 1878. A. C. Emmett Winnipeg bom Cambridge eng., june 28, 1872. Jolin Mcbeth Winnipeg born St. Paul s Parish Middlet Macb Man., june 28. 1854. William e. , Winnipeg born Kildonan Man., june 28. 1876. J. S. Reid Melita Man. Born Eganville out., june 28, 1862. A Chickadee notes of. Bird invasion continues Nineteen forty is indeed proving a Banner 3-ear for parities in Southern Mani Toba la circumstance which appears rather curious in View of the paucity of regular migrants which were reported in Many parts of the province. One cannot but wonder if the unusually severe Winter weather in the Southern states forced wintering Birds to areas outside their customary win Ter ranges and so into different Fly lines in the Spring migration. This of course is pure Specula Tion suffice it to say that unusual conditions have brought North Ward Many strange Birds. In Taverner s Birds of Western cans a appeared a coloured illustration of a that is not included in that old stand by Reed s land Bird guide East of the so that to most Prairie observers the Bird was a stranger. We refer to Bullock s Oriole a Westerner that in Canada is listed As ranging East to South Western Saskatchewan where however so far As we know no specimen has yet been taken. From time to time we have had this Beautiful Oriole reported but Lave never been Able to verify the identification so that we Are glad to receive from miss g. Irene Todd Brandon Man., an excellent account of a pair of these Birds hat visited her Garden on May 24 and again on the 26th, these being the first recorded for Manitoba. Miss Todd writes at 5.50 . On May 24, i was awakened by the song of a Bird just outside the window. At that hour in the morn ing its whistle rang Clear and Strong and at the finish of each song a protesting scolding sort of Buzz was heard which i thought of course came from the female. Looking out of the window i saw an Orange and Black Bird sitting on Branch of a Maple a few feet away. It had apparently had a Bath a Short time before As it was preening its feathers pausing now then to whistle. A Little lower Down sat his mate which had apparently just finished bathing and Bullock s Oriole iad flown to the tree. Perhaps she wanted a Little peace and quietness at that hour. Anyway it was she hat was protesting every time he whistled. But did that Stop him miss Todd immediately recognized the strangers As she knew hem in Southern British Columbia and plainly saw the Orange face yith the Black line through the Eye Vilich distinguished Bullock s from he Baltimore Oriole the conspicuously White and Black Wing and the Black centred Orange Tail. The female is a duller More Yel of Bird with Olive Back and rings and Black Throat marking. Arkansas Kingbird commoner we have noted More Arkansas Kingbird along the highways this Pring than any other and were delighted to have a pair come to Garden on june 3 and com Mence to build on a Cross bar of a Hydro pole in the Lone. However he nest was blown Down twice and the Birds left to build in an Wilher pole two streets away on Une 12, taking the Many bits of Tring and Wool which we had Pread out for them. L. T. Mckim k.c., Melville 3ask., writes about 15 years ago pair of Arkansas Kingbird nest d behind a tin can on an electric ight pole at the Back of my House reported the matter to h. H. Mit hell then provincial naturalist o stated he had no report of his Bird As far North As Melville. He Birds returned the following free years and used the same Lesting site. There is i think no question that one or both of the ame Birds came Back every year and successfully raised a family. During this i did not see nother pair anywhere in this part f the province but since then Rivere have been an Odd pair nest ing in town. I think i. Can say very unusual Bird in Melville is reported to me and there has been o report of this Bird for the last Tiree years. This morning there vere three of them in my natural history society members and friends will visit Ictoria Beach on monday july 1. Ake the first through train ;