Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1944, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. The . Voice of monopoly Ftp Lack "fp1i7 Ritter 4v.rt tit Pung the last few Days the . Press which l be its party fits continually from one Issue to another has con grated its fire on the problem of International cartels and Estic monopolies. Nation wide publicity is being Given of recent speech by or. Coldwell on this subject and Apparaj or a time at least this is to be the main line of attack not the existing system of democratic society the . Attack on cartels and monopolies is to be Omed. So Are All objections to these evils from and _ if they Are sincere. Unfortunately the attack cannot meet the test of sincerity for the . Is the chief advocate of monopolies and cartels among the political parties i this country it is True of course that the ., if elected to office v0uld destroy the existing Domestic monopolies and International cartels but Only to turn them into government monopolies at Home and government cartels in International Trade thus the Public is asked simply to believe that monopolies and cartels a bad thing in capitalism would be a Good thing socialism that the . Is not opposed to the principle of monopolies it cartels is Clear from All its literature and from the speeches of jts leaders. As originally proclaimed in the Regina Mani festo reiterated in the party handbook make this your and clearly explained by or. Coldwell in his state ment to Maclean s Magazine the . Intends ,.to organize All the main industries of Canada As monopolies far mor Complete than any now existing. These industries would become government monopolies so that they would not be affected by any danger of Competition from More efficient private industries. This is perfectly consistent with the socialists Long and traditional attack on Competition As an evil in itself which was repeated again and again in parliament. Equally Clear is the . Proposal to conduct foreign Trade on a basis of monopoly and through the familiar machinery of the Cartel. As he states in his interview with Maclean s Magazine or. Coldwell proposes that foreign Trade shall be conducted through government boards. These boards would buy up All the exportable supplies of any surviving private producers like Farmers to whom socialism would not be applied immediately at the beginning. The boards also would have at their disposal the products of the government industries. Then the boards would Trade these exports abroad swapping them Loran imports which the government considered Desir Able. The exact Quantity Quality and classification of All imports would be determined by the government not by the desires of the consumer and naturally the imports would be As Small As possible so that they might not compete seriously with the government s own industries. That Trade by such a method would be kept at a minimum o protect government industries in each country is certain and that such a method would often be used for purposes of economic War is indicated by the history of Germany which perfected this very system of barter. Equally certain is the fact that this form of Trade is based on the existence of cartels. Each government in fact would create a Cartel which alone would have the right to Trade in any article. Then making its bargain with another govern ment it would Divide the world s Market in that article decide where goods were to be bartered and on what terms. By agreements Between the participating governments the whole world could be Cartel Zed in a fashion now impossible even with the strength of the pre War private cartels. When the . Attacks monopolies and cartels therefore t is the old Story of the Devil attacking sin. These attacks will continue for they Are useful politically in attempts to Dis credit our existing society. As has been pointed out in these columns since Days Lent prior to the . S birth monopolies and cartels Are indeed a great evil and the very negation of capitalism. But bad As hey Are they have not destroyed the principle of Competition in the world. Before the War fierce Competition still existed p. Most parts of our Domestic Economy in this country and in other democratic countries. Competition also existed in inter National Trade where nations were obliged to maintain com Letitie prices in most articles in order to sell them. The reason that the evils of monopoly and Cartel nation appear so glaring today when they Are revealed is that they tand out vividly from the background of Normal competitive siness. However when the system of private Enterprise weeks to rid itself of these evils when the revelation of them comes chiefly from the advocates of free Enterprise when they produce the evidence which the . Parrots and represents s its the . Argues that the whole system is corrupt Anil in a state of collapse. On the. Contrary its enduring Igor is demonstrated by its revulsion against corruption. Is this could hardly fail to affect the Dom Filon election when it comes. The Public Power policy has much support in the province including that of la Presse the Lead ing French Canadian newspaper and l action cat Olique which Speaks for the Church. But the Bill in the legislature was strongly opposed by or. Duplessis Leader of the opposition party the Union rationale and by two other prominent members of that group. There is thus a Clear Issue. Supporting the Bill in a front Page editorial la. Prease said or. Godbout and his col is Are doing a courageous an taking this step and they Are certainly opening up an Era of Prosperity for the province of Quebec. The people should know now to recognize the energetic of the Hon. Adelard god bout and help him Forward with an Enterprise of such importance from which everybody will Duplessis was attacked by l action cat Olique As the tool of the Montreal Power company and big interests in general. Knowing the repercussions of provincial politics upon the fed eral the conservatives in the do minion have More than once thrown their support to the que Bec nationalists and against the Liberal party As was shown on this Page on monday. If it did so in the coming provincial elec Tion with Public Power policy the big Issue it might do itself great harm in the other provinces. Something May depend on whether All the nationalists can be United against the Godbout government. Or. Duplessis is re ported to be seeking an Alliance Between his group the Union National and the bloc Populaire it would not be so much a question whether they stood for any Clear programme As whether they generated a wave of nationalist feel ing. There is always that danger though there Are Strong influences supporting the government. Fortunate British Columbia the printed copy of or. John Hart s budget speech in the British legislature now to hand reveals an astonishing change in the financial position of the Pacific coast province and a change for the better. It can be summed up i the statement of the Premier and finance minister that the net Public debt of British Columbia Nas been reduced by in i sold cold flows again before the War the world s owed in a steady yellow Stream into the vaults of the United states government at fort Knox Kentucky. Now it is flowing out again during the last year the huge Metal Hoard has shrunk by one billion collars but it is still Worth s21.7 billions and is 60 per cent of All the monetary Gold in the world. Present outward movement i Gold is a healthy injection in Tae economic arteries of the world. It Means that various countries Are acquiring Gold which they can use the period of War shortage b Over to Purchase goods from neighbors. Thus Brazil has creased its Gold reserves by Mexico by a Colombia by Uruguay by Venezuela Switzerland by Sweden by 30 Turkey by Spain these nations re the new Gold by shipping a period of Scarcity at Home. Whereas it used to Export More their goods to the United states accepting Gold payment. They a that after the War will have its ancient value will Purchase needed goods the War the United states -3-ncted its importation of goods than it imported the United states last year imported 53.4 billions in goods and exported Only 51-9 Bil of course from its free Export of billions under the lend lease formula. The most intriguing fact about Gold today is that 52 billions of it Are altogether s4 Bil Lions of Gold have been mined in the last four yet the known Gold holdings of Central Banks Are up 52 billions. In the United states according to the Christian science Monitor experts shrewdly guess that Britain and Russia Are holding most of this missing amount. Neither has accounted for its holdings since the War began but both doubtless believe that whatever s3 Stem of International currency is established after the War Gold will still be useful in settling balances Between nations and will be accepted anywhere. The Quebec elections the Public Power policy in Quebec has now been put into effect by the appointment of a commission which has taken Over the Montreal Light heat and Power company and the Beau Harnois company. Not Only is this an important step in a formerly instead received Gold pay conservative province but taken for its own exports. As a at this time it has a wide Sig wifi feul of its Gold purchasing policy i c Ance in the political Field. In the w piled up at fort Knox at huge provincial elections in Quebec to the american taxpayer and i which have been fixed for sep 5 time this process would have tember according to latest report unsupportable. The Only the adoption of the Public Power in which the United states j policy As a Means of widespread escape the Midas predicament Benefit to the people will be the much Gold is to ship its feature in the programme of in payment for foreign the Liberal party headed by pre As it is now doing during Mier Godbout. If the government Winnipeg , april 21, 1944. Down in the Valley Victor Tifton. Publisher. George v. Ferguson. Executive editor. Grant Dexter associate editor. Bruce Hutchison associate editor. Row Over censorship by George Welkjr Chicago daily Newt photo by Ken Laddell is this isolationism american people Are now engaged in evaluating the Republican primaries of Wisconsin which suddenly ended the presidential career of or. Wendell Wilkie and subsequent primaries in other states. While at first Blush the swing of Wisconsin behind or. Dewey was accepted by Many As a vote favourable to some degree of this was or. Winkle s interpretation of some students of distinction now deny this interpretation. Or. A Muir Krock the Washington correspondent of the new York times insists that Wisconsin did not vote for isolationism. Or. Walter lip Panann a most vigorous internationalist in the journalism of his country appears ready to Trust american foreign policy to the Republican party and doubts very seriously that or. Roosevelt the last year. Even More signify a fourth cant is the tact that the province s i annual debt charges now k is s Gnu Vicant that both writ 716, Are less Are republicans and both have were in 1933. Anti Roosevelt in Many in this reduction was made pos ipod Tant respects the president s sible by a steady retirement debt As it matured during the last air Krock s analysis of the wis ten years. Altogether or. Result and s has paid off in retirement begins with and made new borrowings of the Assumption that the leaving the net debt re Are engaged in Wishful thinking. Surrender part of its sovereignty but he will decide according to his in the interests of world peace under the control of a world parliament. All this an International is like or. , representing the new York times an old and Gallant fighter for the league of nations finds very encouraging. Or. Lippman who has done More than any other american writer to explode the legend of America s safety in isolation has written a most significant article warning or. Roosevelt to think twice about a fourth term but whether this was written before the Wisconsin primaries or after i conscience. The issues Are too big for vanity or ambition in a Man who already has served longer in the presidency than any other Man and whose place in history now looms up beside that of washing ton and Lincoln. But the president will want to be convinced about the conversion of the Republican party. He will want to see the Republican Candi Date and the Republican platform on foreign policy and he will want to be sure if the platform is Satis factory that it will be carried out. For or. Roosevelt is the same Man wards is not Clear. In Short or. Ran for vice president in 1920 on the league of nations Issue Lippmann holds that the president can Only justify a fourth term if he is absolutely satisfied that the Republican party would betray his plans for the peace and the vital interests of the United states in these plans. Or. Roosevelt says or. Lipp Mann has no right to assume that As a matter of course the republicans cannot be trusted. If he be went Down on it watched the Republican party Promise to support the league of nations and then watched them reject it by amendment reservation and Man oeuvre. He will do everything to pre vent tills happening again. At the moment the president is trying desperately to keep this whole lives that the republicans can be Issue Olla politics to be trusted with the prosecution of agreement Between both Par and the making of the peace ties on foreign policy and if this agreement can be achieved with sincerity on All sides then Ameri diced by during a Tho democrats he says naturally single decade. This is a remark i want the nation to believe that Able record which confirms or. Only the re election of or. Roose Hart s High reputation As a pro-1 velt can protect the nation from nation Vinci Al treasurer but it is Duel isolationism. Thus they Are glad says or. Lippmann his own retirement would be Best for him for his party and for the he should retire now before he is finally driven from office with a fierce and bitter division of the largely of course to the Prosperity to interpret any development like of British Columbia and its heavy the Wisconsin primaries As show revenues and these Are due in j ing the isolationism and hopeless orients. No Man wants to stay in turn very largely to Federal Ness of the Republican party. Without doubt the presi Dent will weigh these argue policies in the Var period. British Columbia also is enjoy ing a huge income from its Forest therefore in or. Krock s View the defeat of or. Willkie has been exaggerated by democrats As industries which operate on assign of Republican isolationism. The White House in a continual agony of tension and Strain for sixteen years merely for the fun of it. In such great matters or. Roosevelt unquestionably will de wasting asset and this fact is re-1 according to or. Krock thelcide by what he conceives to be Garden As so serious that a Royal Man favored by the to the nation. He May commission is now at work at a voters of Wisconsin or. Thomas decide wrongly As events turn out tempting to devise permanent divey has not proved himself an policies of Forest conservation. Isolationist of late years though when the present Virgin fir was always so regarded up to is largely Cut out during the next Anc including the Early stages of decade or so British Columbia s j Thini War and is still so regarded position May not be so Happy and j by or. Willkie. Or. Krock recalls it May be More willing to consider some formula of finance like that that or. Dewey last year advocated a Post War Alliance Between b proposed in the Rowell Sirois re Britain and the United states port which it rejected out of hand j which Russia and China would be invited to join to act As trustees until a world peace order could be organized. That says or. Krock is almost As far in International ism As any presidential possibility has yet ventured. It More significant to or Krock is the other result of the Wisconsin primaries in giving second place to lieutenant com Mander Stassen former governor of Minnesota. This Young Man now on Active service in the Pacific has gone further in the direction of internationalism than any Emi nent United Stales politician has advocated a world government and has written that like the great Wall of China the Walls of Ameri can isolation have crumbled for in 1941. Or. Hart has made at least a gesture towards some More stable financial relationship Between the province and the Dominion for he says it is hoped that Dominion provincial fiscal relations will be placed on a sound basis and that dual assessments and collections of income taxes will not be re but he insists that the province must be allowed an equitable and sufficient share of any Levy eventually imposed upon corporate and individual income a proposal which of course would Cut the foundation from be Neath the Rowell Sirois formula. British Columbia May think differently when it meets with the Dominion and other provinces this year and sees the facts of our Post Var position in Canada the enor Mous new obligations which the Federal and provincial govern ments must accept and the inadequate tax base on must be performed. Which they from the Golden books Dirce by Walter Savaste Lander stand close around be stygian set with Dirce in one boat conveyed or Charon seeing May forget that he is old and she a Shade. Birthdays Hrh. Pincess born London ens. April 21, 1926. Ever. The people of America including the Middle West Are can foreign policy will be Safe for the world whoever wins the in autumn election. The next few months will show whether such agreement is possible whether the Republican party has returned from its adventure in isolationism to its original place As the party of internationalism. New York the fable that there is no political censor ship in Australia has finally been exploded by the australian authorities themselves. It is no secret thanks in part to the stiff australian american political censorship both the United states and Australia have been badly informed As to each other s reactions on such important mat ters As the ownership of Post War bases and the Aims of the australian new zealand pact for political initiative in the Pacific. The two political censorship often suppress non military mat ter which has appeared in the australian press and deny Ameri can and British correspondents the right to transmit it abroad. The pretext for these suppression is that the facts Are opinions for Domestic consumption a us Thalia held at the be ginning or the War a series of trials which involved prose cution of a pro japanese appease ment group of crackpots in an organization called Australia this correspondent tended the trial in Perth. At All testimony was printed in full in australian newspapers but the australian political censorship would not allow details to be transmitted to the United states. A direct Appeal to Premier Curtin rejected he refused to allow the american Public to learn what the australians were Reading every Day. Many stories having to do with strikes and labor troubles in Australia cannot be transmitted to the United states. For six months an almost airtight ban was maintained on the controversy about whether the australian militia could serve outside Australia. When the conservative Sydney Herald headlined the fact that Gen. Macarthur had asked Curtin to take a stand on the matter the Story was suppressed. A Merican political censorship banned All comment by Cor respondents on president Roose velt s Short lived appointment of Edward j. Flynn As minister to Australia. An article commenting on Secretary of the Navy Knox s Early pleas for Pacific bases was suppressed. Two Sydney newspapers involved in the present controversy the conservative Herald and the Liberal Telegraph had criticized the authenticity of Macarthur s communiques in Long editorials. The Telegraph referred to them As your correspondent tried to Send excerpts from each editorial with out comment. The censorship both american and australian re fused to allow the australian criticism of Macarthur to go to the United states As being for Domestic consumption to study English history from 1ho Toronto Star a department for the study of English history has been set up in the history Institute of the soviet Academy of sciences. It will co ordinate such work now being carried on in other parts of the Union. Interest in English history was heightened in 1940 when in connection with the 300th anniversary of the Long parliament a group was established to study the history of the English revolution. A popularly written history of the English people is now being pre pared by the Academy for general use by the soviet people. It i a no. S ought on mourning doves today s scripture take heed that be despise not one of these liitle ones for i say unto you that in heaven their Angels do always behold the face of my father which is in heaven. 18 10. May come As a Surprise to Canadian nature lovers to learn mat the Beautiful and beneficial mourning Dove fully protected in Canada is regarded As a game Birc in the United states where it has Long been a popular target with gunners and subject to lengthy open seasons. The mourning Dove in spite o its Breeding in every state of the Union and nearly All the Canadian provinces is definitely on the Dan Ger list As the increased shooting controls exercised during the Pas four seasons following a Winter o disastrous Southern storms hav not resulted in bringing the Bird numbers Back to a satisfy actor basis. In order to formulate a sound management policy the fish and wildlife service has issued a special memorandum stating t information on the Bird s status is urgently needed and requesting in particular answers to the following questions 1 the relative Abund Ance of the mourning Dave 1 year As compared with 1943 2 the months in which occupied nests have been observed and 3 the number of i occupied nests noted in each month. In Manitoba the mourning Dove nests from late april until septem Ber the longest Breeding season . Purple Finch. Brown creep r. Mourning Dove 16th. V. B. Latta Hoebe. 36th, miss Ger dire Lawrence Venn Peg. Purple Finch. . Sap sucker Lgth j. L. Morton Tuxedo. Natural history society the annual meeting will be held 1 monday. April 24. Nature movie a-1h be shown. Usual to in members and guests Only ;