Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 9, 1943, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Winnipeg free press and published the Winnipeg free press company. 300 Cilam Street. Winnipeg Manitoba. 0. W. Dafoe. Victor Seton president general manager registered at the uen Cral Post office. London. Enn for transmission through the Post in the United Kins Dom at the newspaper rate of postage. Winnipeg wednesday june 9 1943. Kcf s great scandal a Small payment on account i leaders the writing in their publications and the echoing i of the local following that the . Is convinced it has dredged up a tremendous scandal in the Deal which exr Ariori dredged ment the Day or night and we can imagine what service is like it is becoming increasingly Clear from the course of the the and Stormy Atlantic. When sea warfare is spec says the Saint John Telegraph journal nothing on the ground or in the air can be so dramatic. Most of the time however it is humdrum routine incessant weary vigilance under the most trying conditions and enlivened by Only the briefest flashes of excitement. Most people know this and give the Navy full credit. Now special recognition is due on account of the announced Success in the War Canada s aluminium capacity. The latest demand for an invest 1 gation of the Shipshaw comes from the Canadian i forum the journal of the intellectual Wing of the party. What undoubtedly irks the . Most about the arrange Yent Between the United nations governments and the aluminium company is the magnitude of the undertaking. Their criticism fails into two parts. The first is that the government should have taken Over the company and All its property and developed the project itself. The company had expanded its facilities and improved its production methods prior to the War. When War came it was urged to expand them still further by the British government which provided it with financial Assis Tance to do so. Later the american government stepped in and asked for further expansion and provided financial assistance. Most of this financial assistance took the form of prepay ment for aluminium at a negotiated Price. Thus the company was Able to Gei the funds needed for the vast expenditures it had embarked upon. It went ahead with the expansion without regard to cosi because time was the essence of the contract. The civilized world was faced with disaster. It needed Alum Winum desperately. It needed More aluminium than had Ever been produced before. A the . Theorists would have handled it differently. They say that in this period of terrible crisis the government should have stepped in and nationalized the Plant including the company s Bauxite deposits in British we assume. Their reason for nationalization of this Plant was not because it was inefficient or mismanaged. The reason was that in addition to its ardent desire to further the War Effort it was in business to make a profit. The same motive incidentally which motivates agriculture and yet the suggestion that Agri culture should be nationalized would be anathema to the . What it wanted to do. In Short was to take time out from fighting for our lives against Hitler in order to do some piece meal socializing. It can be assumed that the entered into by the company with Britain the United states and later with aus. Thalia would yield a profit. If that profit is too Large then it of social work in clan Ila against Pride in the Canadian Navy should Lead everyone to visit the exhibition in Eaton s Annex in Winnipeg arranged by the Navy league where an excellent impression can be gained of the ships of different classes their equip ment and operation. It enables one to better understand the Char Acter of the service in which the men of the Navy Are engaged. Social work summing up once again after another years work the Council of Agen cies is holding its annual meeting to which the Public Are invited. The meeting takes the form of a dinner at Moore s restaurant to night at 6 o clock. These annual meetings at which reports of the year s work Are Given Well As a talk by a guest speaker of distinction Are always interesting and important and this one will be no exception. J the guest speaker at tonight s dinner is to be miss Nora Lea the assistant executive director of the Canadian welfare Council and her subject will be from sea to sea the Canadian welfare Council s part in the development hot Springs findings can of course by reduced or the excess recaptured not by Canada but by the governments involved. Canada entered the picture because of the Concession it the Canadian welfare Council performs in the larger Federal sphere the same function As does made to the company in order to further the Aims common Sodal for f f 11 v i i r a i or i i Rivair a us All getting aluminium produced. By pouring its capital into the vast expansion at Arvida and Shipshaw the company was expanding its productive capacity far beyond any possible peacetime use. Ordinarily this expenditure of capital which would have been made in response to stable Market be already be known in this the Canadian Navy the record of the Canadian practically a new defence e since this War began which fall was undertaking nearly bail the North Convoy service on the Atlantic and has since As Independent responsibility Convoy duty on the Northwest Douglas is an honest Man he obviously is not worried about the existence of bureaucracy but about existence of the wrong kind of bureaucracy. A bureaucracy under a system of free Enterprise is abhorrent to him. A socialistic bureaucracy is the very Core of his own programme. A majority of canadians however take a simpler View. They Don t want a bureaucracy of either sort. The Public s reasoning Here is simple but profound. It does not propose to be pushed around by officials who exercise the Power of government and usurp the functions of parliament and the courts. Behind this instinctive feeling successfully accomplished. There is every reason to Hope that the governments and authorities of the United an d associated nations will succeed in carrying out the recommendations of the con Ference with the same unanimity. The chinese Delegate or. P. W. Kuo speaking faultless English was equally hopeful of future successful co operative assemblies of the United nations. Everything we hoped to a he said has been accomplished and under most Happy conditions. There has been perfect Freedom in All our discussions there has also been Complete unanimity in reaching our decision. The spirit of by Bruce Hutchison there is a Long history and a great Deal of thought which the Public has t time to explore. Our system of government in English speaking countries is a system of checks and balances. The americans established that Prin Ciple by the very mechanics of their government the president balanced and checked by Congress and both balanced and checked by the supreme court. In our system which developed in England without a written Constitution balance and Check was assured by four devices that grew up gradually by Experiment. The government is under the control of the people through parliament. Parliament is balanced and checked by the necessity of facing the Douglas thinks however that his kind of bureaucracy would be Dif Ferent and immaculate. No such bureaucracy has Ever been seen on the Earth before and the Public is sceptical of its sudden appear Ance in Canada. That is Why it is necessary for socialists in seek ing election to denounce bureaucracy altogether. The fundamental fact in All this which the Public realizes instinctively but does not reason out is Clear our system does not govern through one Channel alone. It does not govern merely through government and politics. It governs through society outside of govern ment and politics through Busi Ness through labor organizations through countless Little local bodies people if it throws out a govern land through every group which ment. The courts balance and Moulds Public opinion. Check both government and parliament. And finally the civil this is the final vital Check and balance on the Power of the state service being permanent and ex-1 Over the individual. When All Power is handed Over to the state pert and serving governments of every complexion acts As a continual Brake on extreme policies. The present danger to a free least one of the chief in the growth of the latter Power the Power of the bureaucracy. The nature of a bureaucrat is to expand in All directions. Growth the appetite for Power is the bureaucrat s chief instinct. Left alone a bureaucracy will multiply like germs in a test tube. Any government Bureau newly established begins to Hatch out bureaucrats like an incubator. Nowhere in nature is Mother love and the urge to reproduction so powerful. A sked about bureaucrats the i. Public thinks mostly of local examples which it has seen with its. Own eyes and objects mostly to the inconvenience the delay the insolence of office and the Cost of taxes. But instinctively the Public knows that a much greater thing is involved the continuance of a free society. Instinctively it knows As or. Douglas knows that a free society cannot exist under a Strong bureaucracy which upsets the bal Ance of Power in our system. Or. Itself As it must be if state is to run everything this balance and Check disappears. The big states emerges. The government is in control not Only of All business but of All people inevitably. Bureaucracy is then Boss. From the Golden books to the poet before Battle. By Ivor Gurncy now youth the hour of thy dread passion comes thy Lovely things must All be Laid away and thou. As others must face the riven Day a stirred by rattle of the rolling Drums or bugles strident cry. When Mere noise numbs the sense of being the sick soul doth Sway remember thy great Craft s honour that they May say nothing in shame of poets. Then the crumbs of Praise the Little verse men Joyed to take shall be forgotten then they must know we Are for All our skill in words equal in might and Strong of Mettle As those we honoured. Make the name of poet terrible in just War and like a Crown of honour upon the fight ;