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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 26, 1943, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday j 26, free press readers air their or. Forsey writes final letter in controversy to he latest blast june 211 against my Book articles and letters is the usual mixture of misrepresentation and abuse again attributing to me All the literary malpractices of which you yourself have been guilty in this discussion. There arc Only five Points on which i feel it necessary to comment. 1, you say that i place great re i acc upon a rhetorical passage from Burke but Overlook the coun j tar declaration. Made in the same discussion by William thu discussion in que suon took place i june 14. 1784. It recorded in the parliamentary history vol. Xxiv. Up. D43-975. It consists of Burse s motion and speech follow and by a Noie that Windham seconded i he motion which was naga lived without a there not one syllable by Pitt from j Olar n . 2. You say thai or. King he was no danger of being Cen j in 1926. If that were Why did he not wait the vote on the Sievens motion Why did he assert in his policy speech july 23. 1326, that that motion was constitutional position. Or King s action was entirely constitutional. Lord Byng. A Gal Lant Soldier without political experience was confronted with a difficult position and As wholly unversed in constitutional usage nothing was More natural than to advise him to inquire from the heart of the department officially charged with recording constitutional precedents what was in such a Case the constitutional duty of a governor general i.e., whether he was to be guided by the practice of the Crown in the United kingdom or should exercise a personal discretion. That the Secretary of state should never interfere in such issues is obvious that he should refuse to advise if asked would be absurd. And surely there could be nothing undignified in a governor general consulting an expert instead of relying on the beyond this quotation from Buirke to the constitutional in the British parliament beginning on december 18, 1783. When George dismissed the Fox North ill Anition 111 from office following the not a motion of censure at advice of a private Secretary or though in the debate on it he had himself five limes called it so. Hansard 1326. Up. 5j32, 5135 on his own interpretation of the dicta of the writers of text books i this is a Virv state you conveniently overlooked two mint of the pos Tion. Bul . Facts a Man perhaps May count Aily satisfactory. Little even against or. King s Dis interested assurances a that the House had already when he asked for dissolution Defeated by a majority of two votes an attempt to have the words of censure struck out of the Stevens motion and that after the change of government the censure carried by a majority of 10. These votes Are recorded in the journals and debates. 3. You say that if i were a Bona fide scholar i would give or. King s explanatory statement about his suggestion that lord Byng should ask Downing Street what his course should be. The i explanatory statement is not Only Given in my Book but discussed at some length cup. In this you quote Keith As saying that or. King acted with much common sense in Mak ing his suggestion. The quotation is Correct. In the original text of my Book on file in the Mcgill lib Rary i quoted and discussed very fully not Only this statement bul another of Keith s supporting or. King on this Point. But As Keith appears to have abandoned the position taken in those two state ments i decided to omit them from the published Book. However Here they Are with the relevant introductory paragraph and my com ments All word for word As they originally appeared in the text. 1 presume the owners of the copy right of Keith s works will have no objection to your printing the quotations therefrom it is Worth noting Here that or. King was not simply Sug Gesting that lord Byng should seek expert opinion of the Secretary of state for the Domin ions. He was suggesting ask ing the British government from whom you have come to Canada under instructions. What in the opinion of the Secretary of state your course should to be sure it was the opinion of the Secretary of state which was asked for but it was the British government which was asked to furnish that opinion. Keith in his letters on Imperial says no one could deny that lord Byng was an Imperial officer subject to the Royal instructions conveyed through the Secretary at state. The Point at Issue was what did those instructions enjoin where a prime minister asked for a dissolution was it lord Byng s duty to investigate the political situation for him self and decide on his own responsibility what was Best for Canada or could he follow the British signally illustrated by the immediate acceptance or. Ramsay Macdonald. Vice in act on the advice of his ministers lord Byng was without political sex like the other passage it ignores the fact that or. King explicitly brought the British government into his suggestion like the other passage too it begs the question by assuming that practice in the United kingdom and the exercise of personal discretion Are mutually exclusive which Keith himself elsewhere denies. But there the resemblance be tween the two passages ends. There is now no mention of lord Byng s position As an Imperial no mention of the Royal instructions or what they enjoin it is now a ques Tion of getting the expert advice of the Secretary of state on the constitutional duty of a govern or general advice for which or. King s phrasing would clearly have made the whole British government responsible. Of course there would have been nothing undignified in lord Byng s cabling the Secre tary of state. But that is beside the Point. The question is. Would such action have violated the principle of Equality of status this question Keith does not answer except by the Flat assertion that or. King s Sugges Tion was constitutional it May be added that As there appears to be no precedent for or. King s request for Dis solution the fact that the Secretary of state was head of the department officially charged with recording constr Tiona precedents would in itself hardly have qualified him to give expert advice the More so us the precedents which his department was officially charged with recording were not United kingdom precedents but Only those of the dominions. Which Keith seems to have considered 4, both or. Amery in 1926, and Keith in 1940. Declared that such consultation with the British government As or. King suggested would be unconstitutional and improper. The quotations arc Given in my Book Page 249. 5. Your latest article contains numerous assertions that j have shifted my abandoned this yielded that conceded or hedged the other thing. All this As anyone who will read my Book and my subsequent statements with out a closed mind will see for him is the product of your own Lively imagination and nothing else. 1 have not yielded a sixteenth of an Inch on any Point whatever. Eugene Forsey. Ottawa june is 1943 de note this is the fourth letter from or. Forsey to which the free i press has Given space. He has of i therefore had ample Opportunity to and his personal testimony As Toi the rectitude of his purposes the accuracy of his facts the impair i Tia Lity of his judgments the con i per Ienco. And it appears to me Isis Tency of his arguments and the that or. King acted with much common sense in advising his excellency to ask the Secretary of state whate the Royal discussion is now closed on the defeat of Fox s India Bill in the House of lords and continuing for Mon Lis. Pitt a Stripling in his 25th year took Over the premiership and faced a commons in which Fox commanded a substantial majority. There followed a Battle of tactics Fox being determined to establish the Rule that a government when Defeated in the commons must re sign and make Way for a govern ment which could command a majority. In the Case in question this meant that. Pitt should go out and Fox come in. Fox s tactics were directed towards preventing n Dis solution and the Ablest of his associates in this struggle was Edmund Burke. Pitt s plan was not to resign but to have a dissolution and an elec Tion but pending a change in elec toral opinion which he foresaw he held office in Spile of repeated de in the hour struck for an . He then asserted the principle Lawrence Lowell says he invented a prime minister was a tilled to a dissolution upon demand he asked for and got his dissolution and in the ensuing election won a Victory which robbed the whigs of Power for nearly fifty years. Pitt s Doc a Trine of the right of a government j to a dissolution upon demand has governed British practice from that Day to this. Burke s address from which or Forsey quotes was delivered after the election upon the assembling of the new parliament. It was the epitaph upon a lost cause doctrine that a House of com Mons once elected should be supreme for the period of its life moulding the executive to its will. This is the real Issue in the present discussion though or. Forsey shies away from admitting it. Burke s speech was published at the time with an introduction and annotations by an unnamed editor whose style was uncommonly like that of Burke himself. In the introduction there was denunciation of the penal dissolution which the King had granted to Pitt thereby enabling him to Appeal from the commons to the electors who Defeated 160 members who had supported Fox. The free press has said that or. Forsey in ignoring this develop-1 mint in English constitutional his Lory which bears directly Tipon the supposed theme of his Book revealed himself not As an historian but As a pamphleteer who picked and chose his authorities in place of setting Forth All the relevant facts for the information of the Reader. The charge stands. The same indictment lies against or. Forsey in the matter of or. King s suggestion to lord Byng that he should consult with or. Amery Secretary for the Dominion. He labors to create the impression that or. King proposed to leave the question to be settled by or. Amery which of course would put or. King Cut of court. The free press has asked Why or. Forsey did not give his readers or. King s own statement of his reasons which would have put a different complexion upon the matter. The answer is obvious. If he had quoted or. King s statement As made to Parlia ment in the 1927 session he could not get away with the misrepresentation which was necessary to his argument. Or. Keith s refer ence to this matter is to be found in a letter in the scotsman of March 16. 1927, in which he said the vital question of or. King s action in advising lord Byng to consult or. Amery. Appears to me to have been seriously misunderstood. No one could deny that lord Bony was an Imperial officer subject to the Royal instructions conveyed through the Secretary of state. The Point at Issue what did these instructions in join in the Case where a prime minister asked for a dissolution and presented for approval an for that Pur pose was it lord Byng s duly to investigate the political Situa Tion for himself and decide on his own responsibility what was Best for Canada or could be follow the British recently signally illustrated by the immediate acceptance by his majesty of or. Ramsay Macdonald s advice in and act on the advice of Nis minister the custom of the australian states supported the use of a personal discretion but the Jailer s exposition of con-1 Stilu tonal doctrine was justly admired in Canada and evoked Only a feeble and evasive response from or. Meighen who had to argue that the governor general had Only acted As the King would have done in like circumstances an thesis. The effect of the was seen in the fact that the Imperial conference in 1926 stressed the position of the governor general As the counterpart of the King and to emphasize this took away from him the function of agent of the British government. There is no doubt As to the meaning to be Given this declaration assimilation of Dominion 1o British usage in the matter of dissolution was clearly pointed out and British usage had been rather remarkably demonstrated in the Grant of a dissolution to or. Ramsay Macdonald in 1924, Delphe the opinion of or. Asquith that on the defeat of the labor government an Effort should be made to find a ministry ready carry on and avoid afresh dissolution of parliament so soon after the election of Par claims Quality of Power vested in is absolute to the editor no i or. Barclay have never heard of the Canadian Crown i have heard of Canada s National Emblem the Maple Leaf possibly you Are somewhat confused As Between the two. Trie Stern logic is we citizens of Canada Are British subjects owing True allegiance to his majesty. King George i by the Grace of god of great Britain Ireland and of the British dominions beyond the seas King defender of the Faith emperor of India. Even if the present proclamation wording be changed to the modern descriptive language now in general use the British Commonwealth of free nations the effect would not be changed the word British re Mains so it would appear there is at the present time no such person As a subject of Canada and it would also appear that there is no such distinctive decoration As a Canadian Crown. With re scr under dispute the question of the Celeni or limitations of the Powers vested in the British Crown neither the Lucid dialectics of or. Forsey nor the emotional editorial and its ministers can possibly main Tain vary or remove the qualities inherent in the British Crown. The Quality of Power vested in the Crown is absolute in All matters affecting the state not covered by the declarations of rights embodied in Magna Charta and the Bill of rights. Regarding the 1926 episode it seems quite Clear the unfortunate incident was the result of an error Jot judgment on the part of or. Respect to the principal King. Or. King having verbiage of the free press no nor yet any incident arising from a clash of opinions Between the Crown lost the support of parliament was no longer in a position to advise the Crown with respect to any course involving decisive action or. King. R cannot be too strongly emphasized that the Victory Garde i must at no period of their growth neglect his growing or f r there will be Wor throughout the entire summer there will be work that Harvest Boisson will resign Post London june 26. Bup London daily Herald said today that Pierre Boisson governor Gen eral of French West Africa has be done and he will be kept Busy until the final at the present stage of gardening activities the should take care that weeds Are not allowed to grow Large interfere with the space and take up food and moisture Needre by the vegetables. Frequent cultivation will Heln stray the weeds and Check the c of the valuable moisture now in the soil and which if served will carry along during the arid Days be reasonably the offered French his resignation committee of to the National liberation and it will be accepted. Boisson Long has been regarded by Gen. Charls de Gaulle co presi Dent of the committee As a defeatist and pro Vichy Ite. It was Boisson it appears did attempt to. So successfully repulsed an at and it is slated he even tried persuade his excellency to Contact London for advice if this latter be True it suggests a nervous Condi Tion obtaining at the Lime not wholly conducive to the exercising of Welt balanced judgment. If or. King had acquainted his excellency of the fact that he. Or. King had lost the support of parliament and asked his excellency to consult with the Leader or Lead ers of the different parliamentary groups the unhappy incident would not have developed. C. Barclay. Tyndall Man., june 23, 1943. De. Note this letter reminds us of the Lucid dialectics of or. Forsey without that gentleman s learning to help support a Hope less argument. Says letter is full of Crocodile tears to the. It not strange How some newcomers to our shores love to Pat us canadians on the Back at every Opportunity especially if there is a Nice Sharp knife in the hand that does the patting. A further example of this affection appeared in the free press of june 12, by one who while shed Range of his knowledge upon jail of which Points the free press a in disagreement with him. The. Instructions really 67 italics mine this seems to mean that lord Byng was bound to act in a purely internal matter As an Imperial officer under Royal instructions conveyed through the Secretary of state but if so. Canada was clearly inferior in status to great Britain. This or King. Or. Meighen and lord Byg All denied. Or King did not ask the Secretary of stale or the British government what the Royal instructions really meant or enjoined a very Strong and it is it least very doubtful whether he or anyone else in Canada would have accepted the statement that this was the Point at Issue nor is the Choice confronting lord Byng stated in precise enough terms. He certainly had no roving commission to decide on his own responsibility whether a dissolution was Best for Canada. The question had he a duty to decide whether a Grant of dissolution in the circumstances would be in accordance with constitutional usage British Keith s statement in this passage of the British practice is also open to objection. It contradicts his own state ments elsewhere and also the opinions of Many other authorities at least equally eminent. The passage in the letters was written in 1927. The 1928 edition of responsible govern ment in the dominions up. Xxi xxii. Keith returned to the subject or. King had re the governor general that he might do Well to ascertain the views of the Secretary of elate for the dominions As to his ground that or. Forsey has had his say and for the further reason that interesting As the question under discussion May be the restricted space of our correspondence Page is not to be monopolized by it. The free press is quite willing to join with or. Forsey in leaving the Issue to those who have followed the Dis Cussion with one or two final observations made necessary by state ments in his letter a re fur ther illustrative of methods and confirmatory of what the free press has already that they Are those no Canadian governor general since federation had Ever declined advice. Lord Byng was without political experience and it appears to me that or. King acted with much common sense in advising him before taking a decision which As he rightly anticipated would have very far reaching consequences to ask the Secretary of state what the Royal instructions really if. Later qualified his statement As or. Forsey alleges it is but one More proof of or. Keith s ability in the course of years to be on both Sid in dispute. In this Case his Sec this bomb covered with savings Stamps subscribed by airmen and air women in . Fighter command s wings for Victory week was dropped by a typhoon lighter bomber on he nazi held mar shalling Yards near Mons. Here the Pilot and . Members stick on the final Stamps just before its delivery. Correspondent enters plea for agriculture to the would like to comment on the follow ing advertising message concerning food for Freedom in the free press of june 19, showing a cargo of beef cheese fish potatoes Bacon and dehydrated foods being unloaded in a United nations port and saying Canada s sons in the Battle lines and uncounted millions of men women and children in a War torn world look to the nations of the West for supplies of life. The Bank of Nova 1 find my thoughts better sex sewage disposal system under fire pressed than i could Hope to in the to the flooding of valuable basement space in business premises where stocks of Merchan Dise have usually been stored As Well As work rooms living quarters and food supplies being completely lost or wasted is something free press readers cannot recall in times previous to the installation of the great underground White elephant called the Winnipeg sanitary sewage disposal system. The system is not sanitary nor is it a Means of disposal of sewage the condition of downtown base ment floors after each succeeding reverse of flow from sewers to basements following almost every heavy rain proves the failure of the system. In this letter i will give the City Council perhaps As Good a report without charge As the editorial columns of your Eastern contemporary the Canadian observer at Sarnia ont production objectives for Canadian agriculture this year Are substantially higher than they were last year. Every thing looks Rosy agriculture is a billion Dollar Industry the official estimates of farm income last year apart from subsidy and Benefit payments is is or 20 per cent higher than that for 1941. But. For All the charts and figures the Farmer the brain and Power in agriculture is still a Burnem being. He made Good last Good with his own farm. He is human a machine. He should not be can go Only so far. Psychologically he responded to the Call. Physically can he keep on doing it without help like the army he needs reinforcements. A Federal farm labor plan has been adopted but it has serious Loop holes. Again we say. Pay attention to the Farmer when he Speaks of j being exhausted of the possibility i of some going hungry if he does not get Madame Chiang Kai Shek brought Forward the same Point the other Day in pleading for help for her countrymen and our Gallant allies. There is a limit to human endur Ance. Freedom from hunger. Toronto june 22. 1943. Tempt by de Gaulle and his free French forces to seize Dakar in september 1940. An Exchange Telegraph despatch from Algiers said that Gen. Henri Honore Giraud the other co presi Dent of the committee would leave for the United states within a few Days and also would visit Canada. Bonnet says Unity achieved Algiers june 26. Tion minister Henri Bonnet said at his first press conference last night that he expected the United states to recognize the French committee of National liberation As soon As its governmental Structure has been completed. It is almost completed already he said. We have established Unity have a full French commit tee and have created a permanent military i am sure All the United nations will recognize us As a French government but As trustees of French Coal dealers Short of labor Ottawa june 26. Macnamara director of National the real secret of having a cared for Garden is to attend tasks when they need doing not let the work get ahead of a careful observer will take t Vantage of the weather and do work which is Best suited a conditions prevailing at thai Correct time Lor Etc or it Plant out or every move plants Ding Crocodile tears signed himself sympathetic stranger. Synthetic stranger would have been much More appropriate. Without a doubt we could do with less commercial Ballyhoo in our radio entertainment. How Ever we have sense enough to realize we must take the bitter with the Sweet for after All the sponsors of these programmes do not get their Talent for nothing. After listening to some overseas broadcasts the general opinion of canadians is that we Are not Loo badly off and few Figarelle Pill soap and deodorant commercials might do something for the Broad casts that Spring from the land of complacency. No my critical Friend the can Adian people Are More spineless As your barbed epistle implies than Are those Canadian airmen who Are j selective service said last night he had received a Telegram from dealers of Winnipeg asking men be drafted on a compulsory basis to handle deliveries there and had advised them to establish a Community committee As was done in Toronto. He said he had sent a copy of his reply to mayor Garnet Coulter of Winnipeg advising him to get in touch with mayor f. J. Conboy of Toronto for details the Community Commilles there. The dealers association the Winnipeg Exchange had wired labor minister Mitchell saying dealers Only had Skeleton staffs and were utterly unable to make deliveries to thousands of Consumers who had ordered fuel. J. Mag. Stewart. Coal adminis Trator for the prices Board said last night that while his administration had been and now was giving a great Deal of consideration to Cloudy Days or in the ate Noons or evenings cultivate onh if sunny Days so that the weeds Ivyll get Well dried before they set Chance to Root again dusting i spraying should be done when weather seems settled and a rain storm seems unlikely. I Many Victory gardeners who aril this year cultivating new land a having their troubles fighting Era and weeds which the decent Low spell of Rainy weather favored. A Little work with toe to each Day. However will soon set i the land into first class shape id once the weeds Are fairly Well eliminated the work of cultivation will no longer be a bore some weeding is a Job which must in done and the Amateur might just As Well fully realize this tact this Early in the season. Weeds and healthy profitable vegetables just can t be grown on the same mistakes can be remedied appeals for advice being received by this department indicate that Victory gardeners who Are trying their hands at raising vegetables for the first time this year Are begin Ning to see their mistakes. Many Are finding thai too Many seeds have been . The length of the Row. Many amateurs persist in feeling that since Lej have been fortunate so Many plants started to Fiji i not possibly pull out throw them away. It is essential when seed come too thick that thrown away in order that Tai remaining will have ample to in which to develop. The animate us must gel Wise to this mediately. Thin cultivate Spray or dust should be the operational order for the army of gardeners during the coming week or two. If any particular Row of plants or individual plants appear to be turning yellow and sickly try opening a shallow Furrow along the Row on around the Plant. Places Lille fertilizer in the Furrow anti cover with soil. You will be is. Founded it the result. If the soil is quite dry it would be advisable to water thoroughly after from the Chicago in practically every so the . Yes and they were there during the critical Battle of Britain. Therefore Don t let us hurry you but i am sure you will be much happier Back in that land of perfection where they do nol allow any Mere broadcasting corporation to dictate to them Veteran world War. One. Central Patricia june 22. 1943. Favors ruthless War against nazis to the letter some time ago by Arthur g. Christmas and now his reply to j. D. Mcdonald convinces me he is Hope Lessly carried away with the spirit of peace land Goodwill suggested by his patronymic. His Alti tide Hadron of the question of rationing in Canada it had not been decided whether the rationing of would be necessary. However he added if the unil de states put in a thorough Goins system of rationing covering their exports to us we might forced provokes o ends and fact that be makes his puzzling. I too an to ask where mercy stupidity begins. The is an sex Serviceman cml cation ail the More to ration. New decorations London june 26. The King the fertilizer. Aphids have arrived aphids have made their appear Ance on flowering shrubs Eveaj greens peas and other vegetable in this part of the country ing to correspondence received this department during the. A week. Aphids or Plant lice Small soft bodied insects suck the juices. From the i leaves. They congregate in club on the undersides of leaves their feeding causes the. Foliage to curl. The plants attacked by fees a message to Gen. Dwight d. Pests should be sprayed or dusted Eisenhower Allied nicotine pyrethrum or Rote Cmel m North Africa the operation being repeated today his decision to Issue two new the following Day to get those a which have been made sick but not s 1939943 Sta the killed by the first application. 1938-1943 Star to All services who an sex Serviceman and know i speak the minds of multitudes who Germany As weaken Are agreed had there been less sentiment and More cold steel this p resent War would Nevei have a nation like lat interprets decency needs a taste of its i endorses criticism ments on his course in this matter is course bul no Reader the quotation upon which he or. Jersey s Book is taken from a Well known speech Sinuc or v which Burke delivered in the Brit Bijj or Forse ish parliament in june 1784, upon a proposed amendment to the address from the throne. The free press has said that this quotation from Burke with a Complete ignoring of the opposite View As set out by William Pitt was conclusive proof that or. Forsey had not writ ten his Book in the spirit of the historian. Or. Forsey seems to think his statement that the speech by Burke from which he quotes Drew no reply from Pitt his motion being lived without discussion is a com plete answer to this criticism. This is As characteristic of or. Forsey s methods of argument As his original failure to mention the circumstances which gave Rise to the statement Nelna la who his was written to uphold the thesis that the Crown has a right to refuse a dissolution to the government in office. Yet he Imade not the slightest reference in this disposition to accept or. Keith s views As authoritative we suggest that he should Ponder some conclusions upon the King Byng matter As stated by or. Keith in one of his later books. They cover in very Brief Compass the issues about which or. Forsey and the free press have been in dispute. Or. Keith very possibly the governor general thought that a dissolution could be voided if so he completely miscalculated and so unconstitutional was his action that the liberals by stressing the Issue succeeded in effacing the painful effect of the disclosures of Mal administration in the customs and in winning a majority which most competent judges held would not achieved had a been Given simply to or have been dissolution our radio programmes and we should Back the attack. You All remember Dieppe when everyone turned on their radio at news time to try to listen to word of some loved one. They were subjected to All kinds of stuff complained of by sympathetic. Adver Tising of this kind May have its place but its not that spot today we notice a silence of Sev eral seconds then its broken by three rapid gun shots and the most horrible dying screech. Picture yourself or one of your loved ones in a nervous condition or lying in a sick Hod at Home or in what a wonderful Aid to their nerves we Are a Long suffering people. Where Are our programme censors it s time for them to fresh but there is always a Bright Side after exhorting the Purchase of their wares they All wind up the same be sure to buy War savings certificates and Stamps is that off or on the record e. E. Payne. Oakville Man., june 23, 1943. Own Medicine. I agree with i Mcdonald Imd say without Reser vation dirt must be met by dirt and consider it the height of mis Pia cd magnanimity to rigidly and Here to Queensberry rules in the face . I could under stand the j trend of i or. Christ 1 Mas thoughts were this the first War with Germany Al though department of they have been guilty of and was told outrages in its course written and worthy of note. Your resume of the dark Days of 1940 brings out some very Fine Points and one will do Well not to make similar premature predictions. 1 agree with you also that be must not Abate one Iota of the formula Laid Down by Churchill and Roose velt that peace terms can Only come by unconditional surrender. W. H. Bloxham. 24, 1943. Vye c its course. But when consider their history Replete Sagaser vah e he. Lacs i cacti no one but a Lunatic engineers.1 these things have not been Hap pening in Winnipeg since my arrival in 1300 until the installation of the underground pachyderm. It was hopeful to see that Aid. H. B. Has courage enough to speak up regarding the latest flood ing even though the City Engineer and other City officials were stated As reporting no flooding or com plaints of flooding from the june 14 rain. Yet 1 telephoned in ajar with Germany Al though complaint to the of Thuv la water and sewerage to get the City Engineer s office. This office did not reply to the c Call and it was Between 12 and 1-o clock of that Day when a Call was put in to the City clerk s office report ing the rapid rising of with tilth in our basement. The j com plaint was answered by the s ques Tion what do you want us to in your june 5 Issue there was a letter from j. E. Grierson urging that dams be taken out of City sewers. Or. Grierson seems to know More about the new system than those who put it in or those who operate it now. Why not use his letter As a solution to the serious drainage condition i g. C. Winnipeg june 21 1943. The nazi game to the editorial Don t play the nazi game in the free press of june 19. Is Well have fought in other theatres. The new decorations Are the first to be issued since the George Cross and the George medal in 1940. Confirmation Day at St. Joseph s Church sunday june 27, will be Firmalino Day in St. Joseph s i Ger Man Catholic Church. College Avenue when archbishop a. A Sinnott will administer the Sacra ment to 90 children most of whom made their first communion last sunday and a number of adults St. Joseph school closing is set for next week. St. Mary s Cathedral school closing took place Friday evening with presentation of awards to Grade Viii pupils who Are leaving and o the most proficient in the. Other grades. Regent s Park Church will Burn mortgage Regent s Park United Church congregation will Burn the mortgage on Iwa urch this coming autumn the . Having almost secured the bal aphids secrete a Sweet Slick substance on the leaves and fruit they infest. This substance favorite food for ants who travel up the plants for this Maleri Alfor this treason the and is often condemned As a Plant pest we ill actually the Only trouble this insect is the disturbing of Plant roots by building of underground tunnels. Profitable Day promised j every Amateur Victory Gardell who can possibly do so should on. Saturday aug. 14, take the Day from his Garden work and attend Garden Field Day at the Dominica experimental farm at Morden Man for those who Are this year grow ing their first gardens the Day so Outing will be especially profitable for the pointers they will pick up there will in a very Large degree j increase the profit and the they will future. Get out of gardening Money to Clear a debt the St. Mary s Road Linn a i i Phi re Surpri and Ion our Roul Kandahar. Sask., i prefers . To the Kcf severely criticized by Are Verv p8rt the will play in the. Next election. The is anxious to give we old people enough to exist on. And the old parties pay no attention to the requests Lor an increased old Aee pension. Let us give the . A Chance to handle Public affairs next elec Tion. They cannot do worse than the Powers that be. Weary. Winnipeg june 24, 1943. Church property in St. Is. Vital the women of the congregation will when undertake the erection of a manse for the minister. Or. S. C. Studd on a lot adjoining the edifice now used by the men of the congregation As a Victory Garden. S the Broadway first Baptist or. A. To. Brace world service the Council .c.a., will preach at the a vice Broadway artist Church sunday. The pastor Rev. Arnold Westcott. Will take As his subject in the evening becoming a real person. The joint service r. Home Street Church of a at 7 p a sunday. Unite at the St. James Church of Christ the evening service which will be the last sunday evening service Lor both churches until septem Ber. Rev. C. Butler of Home Street will preach on. To bind and to Loose. Experts will be on hand to questions regarding methods to in Al sure successful growing of Able gardens and to he methods adopted at the mental station As the result of Manojl ears of experimental work. Bijj a conducted tour will behaviour of vegetables hubs and other plants on 200 acres of land and As methods by whip hey have been successfully Gro Fri there will be a display of ments and tools and ions will be Given on run Ibert drafting budding Plant storage of produce proce sics suits and drying of experts will also be on hand Ujj Deal with Plant pest problems am o explain modern methods of Ning and dry ing Garden crops. St. George s St. George s Church will hold a family service on sunday at 31 . Rev. G. H. Dowker will officiate. The girls choir will sing under the direction of Dorothy Lee. Rennie seeds Lawn crass seed fertilizers and insecticides Derris dust j. J. Cropp 221 Market ave. Pm. 86 ;