Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 22, 1946, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Winnipeg free press authorized a Victor Sifton. Publisher George v. Ferguson. Executive editor. Latter by the Pott Ohidee Grant Dexter. Associate editor. Bruce Hutchison associate editor. Winnipeg Friday february 22, 1946 to japanese is is of course a is a moral Issue the first impression of the opinion of the supreme court which is now to be appealed to the privy Council with respect the Validity of the three orders a Council dealing with the that it will weaken the policy of deportation. There a difference Between a judgment of the court which an opinion which May or May not inconvenience the government but which in actuality decides nothing. The opinion of the court is that the three orders Are valid except for one clause which enables wives and children to be deported along with Heads of families. The court is of the opinion that the wife and children under 16 years of age can not be deported simply because the husband is so marked Down. In practice this May Well complicate matters considerably Al though no doubt Many dependents would prefer not to be separated from the head of the family. Had the opinion of the court been against the orders it would have been decisive. As it is the question remains As it always has been a moral and not a Legal Issue. As such it is of the first magnitude. Before dealing with this aspect of the question it will be helpful briefly to recapitulate the facts. There Are some 24 000 Canada they were asked in the Spring of desired to be sent Back to Japan after the a total comprising adults and to be deported and of these were japanese nationals were naturalized canadians and were native born canadians. Before september 1 last some 200 of these had changed their minds and so advised the govern ment subsequent to that Date about did so. Against these figures the present policy of the govern ment May be measured. It was decided not to Deport any can Dian born japanese at All. Japanese nationals however were to be deported whether or not they changed their minds. This leaves the Large group of Canadian citizens of Japan Ese birth. If these elected a year ago to be returned to Japan but changed their minds before september 1, the government would not proceed against them. But if the change occurred after that Date the government would do so. The government therefore still proposes to invade and set aside Canadian Citi japanese in whether they desired end of the War. Mands upon the country. We have slums All Over the United states where the Money could be used profit ably Lor the Public Good. A file i sympathize with great Britain and the plight that she finds herself in first of All i am thinking of the United states of this kind of rabble rousing a peal to America Clear attempt to rally the old latent forces of bound to produce Strong support and cannot help affecting the deliberations of the Senate on the British loan. But it is econ Omic lunacy. The fact which senator Wheeler and his friends will try to blur is that the loan is designed to serve the economic interests of the United states by restoring its Trade in a trading world. And How would the refusal of the loan help the United states its veterans and its under privileged communities does senator zen ship. The supreme court s decision does not touch the real Issue which has nothing to do with the Law. The government of can Ada has the Legal right according to the supreme court to proceed with its deportation policy. No court can give it the moral tight do to this and the court was not asked to consider and could not consider the Wisdom of doing it. The evil of the government s attempt to do it has been Evi Dent to parliament and to a great part of the people the beginning. They have understood that this attempt does not involve Only a few japanese canadians but every citizen of this nation for the government has undertaken to Deport Canadian if it can Deport Canadian citizens of japanese origin it can Deport citizens of any origin. The precedent which the government is trying to establish Here jeopardizes All Racia citizens can minorities in a nation of minorities. It strikes at the Root of our citizenship. Why is the government doing this not certainly in obedience to the will of the Canadian people As presented m parliament but Pacific coast. Wheeler imagine that the major exports which the United states can make in a trading world could be used to help these people for example if the United states is unable to Export Cotton can it be used in the United states which already is Labouring under a huge Cotton surplus can it be turned into houses can it Clear slums or set vet Erans up in business what of the huge surplus production of America s new heavy Industry can machine tools locomotives and the like be utilized to feed americans or improve their Homes it is obvious to anyone who thinks and is not blinded by a Mere hatred of foreigners that the Prosperity of the United states depends upon Gigantic exports As it requires Gigantic imports of certain goods. These Are the hard economic facts which senator Wheeler and the isolationists will try to hide by an Appeal to prejudice and old grudges. An unique institution by . And now for the next step the United nations Organiza Tion has successfully weathered its first tests in London but its disputes were relatively superficial. Their settlement touching Only the surface of world politics left unsettled the great Basic problems in the establishment of peace. While the Uno delegates were debating the issues of Iran Gre Ece me pressure from a Small minority on the clearly indicated to the government the whole deportation policy. It compelled the gu7nment7o wits St Bui 15, its new emergency Powers it Tat autumn and to delete from it the very clause which wild enable the government to put the deportation to icy thereupon the government in Defiance of Parlia to into effect rent s dec. S obvious will proceeded to pass the japanese orders rats Ovorus Council under the terms of War measures act a few Days be sed apart altogether from the moral wrong involved itself the government has undertaken a grave Ore Lap citizenship it the people. A fantastic Story the decision of sir Charles Vyner Brooke Rajah of Sarawak to hand Over his state to Britain recalls a fantastic chapter in the development of Empire. It is the Story of an Empire which against its will through the Chance activities of a Brilliant Ted adventurous group of englishmen. Stamford Raffles and James Brooke were two of a Type whose names fill the role of employees of the East India company. They operated far from Home and Well beyond the War changed much. Sir Charles Vyner Brooke was driven from his principality and its re Conquest was the work of the australians. Now he has Given it to the British As a Crown Colony. Sarawak was an anachronism romantic one and if it of its flavor in recent it remained a Monument the adventurous in the soul of revising our textbooks one of the weaknesses of the provincial school system in can Ada has been the variation in. Text books Between the provinces. A child moving from one pro Vince to the other was seriously handicapped. To end this discrepancy the Manitoba department of Educa Tion has been working with Simi Lar departments in the other Western provinces towards a uni form system of textbooks. The first results of the inter provincial committee will be issued to Grade one this year. Meanwhile the committee will continue work on textbooks for other grades. To keep the Price at a reasonable level an in creased subsidy will be paid the text Book Bureau. The Manitoba department and the departments of education in the other Western provinces Are to be commended for a Long step in the right direction. Varia Tion in textbooks was an unnecessary piece of provincialism. The West is rightly ending it. Text books should be Canadian not provincial. Indonesia and other territories the business of peacemaking was going Forward in another part of London. The deputies of the big three foreign ministers were meeting to take up the task of drafting peace treaties where the foreign ministers themselves dropped it in disagreement at their fateful september Confer ence. Already the deputies have run head on into the same issues which divided their chiefs. While each of these separate disputes is important enough in itself and affects the lives of Many human beings jointly they represent something much larger the efforts of the great states to establish a peaceful world. At the same time an opposite process is now under Way Thi great states Are beginning to in crease their Confidence and risk More of their vital interests in the Uno. The struggle Between these two policies Power poli tics on one hand and collective Security on the other will continue to be the most important political process of our time and in the end will decide the Shap of the world and the chances o after the Uno meeting which launched collective Security As i real Force the big three now urn to the peace treaties which being outside Uno control offer the Opportunity for hard bar gaining and the realignment of Jower. The specific issues which must be considered afresh Are these Germany it is now Clear beyond doubt formula for that the Germany Potsdam has not settled its Economy of Germany Industrial heart of Europe is not being satisfactorily re built and it cannot be re built until the allies have decided what kind of Germany they want. They have not made that decision yet except in the general terms of Potsdam. Until they decide whether the Rich Industrial Rhine land is to remain in Germany or outside it the future of Germany will not be fixed. Months of deliberation have brought no agree ment Here with France insisting on the detachment of the Shine land and the attitude of the United states Russia and Brit Ain still not Clear. The Mediterranean Here historic zones of Power come into collision As they have done of the last Century. The Whol meaning of the great Powers re cent disputes in this Region is no stated at internat onial Confer Ferencek but is known to All. I is the unceasing struggle of rus Sia to break out of the Black be into the warm water of the med can. Walked in the Cri War and again after the Terrane an mean the . S two networks by Chester a. Bloom Sackville n.b., at Montreal on but Ost some control. They added thousands of Square Miles to Brit Ain s territories. Raffles oper need in malay. Brooke founded a dynasty in Borneo. As so often happened in the development Britain s Eastern Empire it had no connection with official British policy and in fact against it it had almost nothing to do with the East India company. But Brooke was bored in malay and did something about it. He bought a Schooner enlisted the help of some friends and to free the malay Arch from he the Sultan of Muda from headhunters and the grate Ful old Man made him Sultano Sarawak. Since then the Brooke family ruled Square Miles o North Borneo an area Rich in Oil and rubber and which before the War had not a Penny o debt sailed Pielago rescued ears Ottawa How is the Csc doing during the last couple of years it has gone through a process of expansion and now has two full fledged networks in operation. It is planning further expansion and has plans Well under Way for More stations. Canadian radio listeners May be High Power and one Low Powe tation at Toronto the Hig Ower station at Watrous sask and a Low Power station at Van interested in an examination men. Isolationists emerge from storm cellar the expected Campaign of american isolationists to Block a loan to Britain has been opened with a ringing speech from senator Burton k. Wheeler who emerges from his storm cellar to in this Issue his first recent Chance of political profit since 1941. Senator Wheeler and his com Panion senator Edwin c John son have clearly indicated the line of strategy which they will follow in the Senate. It is from the Golden books Paradise by John Milton far off the Empyreal heaven extended wide in circuits undetermined Square or round with Opal towers and Battle ments adorned of living Sapphire once his native seat and fast by hanging in a Golden Chain this Pendant world in big Ness As a Star of smallest magnitude close by the Moon. Today s scripture the wicked borrow eth and pay eth not again but the righteous show eth mercy and liveth. Psalm briefly that if America has Money to loan or give away it should go to the american people and particularly to War veterans. Says senator Wheeler if we have billions More to give away let us turn our attention to the United states where we have some very difficult problems. We have millions of veterans coming Back. They Are going to make Large de birthdays most Bev. A. A. Sinnott Winnipeg born Victoria p. Sex feb. 22, 1877. Joseph Hamelin fort Garry Man. Born St. Vital Man., feb.22, 1873. Mrs. Helen j. Robert son Roblin Man. Born Glas Gow scot., feb. 22. 1864. J. H Unger Plum Coulee Man. Born gait ont feb. 22, 1864. Alexander f. Bain Virden Man. Born thames Ford ont feb. 22, 1853. Stefan e. Davidson Selkirk Man. Born Iceland feb. 22, 1873. Some of the highlights of Csc development in recent years. In operating the new Dominion network it has been the objective of the Csc management to main Tain a somewhat lighter tone of entertainment than the More ser ious level of the Tran Canada network the first and biggest still of the two. It is somewhat difficult How Ever to draw the line Between the two networks. From an operating stand Point Tran Canada most of the Csc owned stations. It also however used Many private stations which with one exception Are the same Power the private stations used by the Dominion network. The Dominion network has been rapidly expanding since it was started two years ago. Excepting one Csc owned Toronto station the Dominion network uses private stations at the following locations Campbellton Moncton Charlottetown Antigonish Halifax Yarmouth Sherbrooke Montreal Pembroke Brockville Peterborough London Ottawa Toronto Chatham port Arthur Kenora Winnipeg. Brandon Yorkton re Gina Moose jaw Saskatoon. Prince Albert Calgary Edmon ton Chilliwack Vancouver an Victoria. Csc owned stations carrying the Tran Canada network while of higher Power than the Privat stations Are much less in number big gaps in the Chain of Csc stations in Manitoba and Alberta Are filled in by the use of Privat stations. Csc owned stations in dude the High Power station a Over. It is thus obvious that the trans Anada network still uses a maj r number of private station Hough it was planned before he War to fill in gaps in Mani Oba and Alberta with new citations. No plans have been mad the present however of building new Csc stations. Recently the Dominion net work has been acquiring a Large umber of popular american and Canadian programmes. They in Lude Philco Hall of ame music or canadians Texaco Star the tre Northern electric hour in formation please contented hour Arade of songs Alan Young Bob Hope treasure Trail Ellery Queen Jack Carson Light up and listen Rudy Vallee show those websters Gillette fights Dick Haynes show and National barn dance. Tran Canada still carries most of the big shows including sing no stars of tomorrow and Star dust serenade Ozzie and Harriet Charlie Mccarthy and Bergen album of familiar music Csc weekly drama Canadian cavalcade. Citi Zens forum Fibber Mcgee curtain time Bing Cros by in music Hall Waltz time metropolitan opera peer less Parade Toronto symphony orchestra and hockey broadcasts St world War Russia is now renewing her Effort to shatter to old strategic lines. Britain receives this move with misgivings. Russia in the med terran an or. Bevin says would put throttling hand on Britain s Throat on the lifeline to India. Pursuing its drive into the Mediterranean Russia is asking n the present negotiations for a Uno trusteeship in the italian Olony of Tripoli Tania. Britain flatly rejects this plan. The United states in the role of mediator proposes that All the Talian colonies of Africa be placed under a Uno trusteeship of several nations for ten years and then Given their Independence. The russian bid for a base in he Western Mediterranean is probably the most dynamic Issue now faced by the drafters of peace. But there Are others in the same general area. Russia is supposed to be seeking bases in the dodecanese islands screening the Dardanelles and As a counter to Britain s Strong position in Greece. It is pressing Turkey for territory overlooking the Darden Elles itself and its government controlled press has lately started an agitation for the Restora Tion of armenian lands acquired by Turkey from Russia after the first world War. The recent russian activity on the Northern Borders of Iran was part of the same general to push the zone of russian in fluence outward and thus to protect its whole future position in the Mediterranean world and the Oil Rich near East. The rus sians Are attempting to establish Here the same kind of cordon san Taire which they have largely built already in Stettin to Trieste. But the Stettin Trieste line is not yet accept of by the other Al lies. Peace treaties covering it have to be established for Italy Yugoslavia Austria Poland Fin land and Back of the line for Hungary Rumania and Bulgaria. It was ostensibly Over the Man Ner of drafting these treaties that the London conference of sep tember broke Down. Now a t was with mingled feelings of regret and pleasure that we read the announcement that the Beaver club in London had closed. There was regret for the kindly hours spent dozing or eat ing flapjacks and doughnuts at the club pleasure that the need for the club had now ended. For Otner ranks of the Canadian forces in Britain there was since the summer of 1940, no better place where they might escape the presence of officers eat a Good meal which Cost them about 25 cents and while away the quiet afternoon hours be tween closing and opening time at the pubs. Doughnuts and flapjacks in the snack bar upstairs More solid fare in the basement cafe Teria deep armchairs Home town newspapers soft music and drowsy atmosphere in the draw ing More could a simple child of nature wish when seeking sur cease from the Andors of the military life with its con Stant emphasis by officers and sergeants on the Virtues of Al ways doing with its narrow prejudice against open honest loafing. During its first few weeks of its life in 1940 the club was virtually empty for at that time Only soldiers of the first Canad Ian division visited it. As it be came known for its Good works which consisted in serving splendid viands and in leaving its guests strictly to their own de vices a condition which a sol Dier on leave finds Lesii table above All others men of the Al lied forces began to inti the club. By Early 1941 the atmosphere although it remained predominantly Canadian a seasoned with International ingredients. There were indo chinese am French sailors polish soldiers norwegian merchant seamen British mommies. Later ther n were americans seeking Peac and quiet greeks yugoslavs i fact a Large proportion of the United nations. All were we come All took their place in Lin with the canadians at the snap a. Although the club became enormously crowded As the years Assed no one even dreamt of suggesting that the club be made exclusively Canadian. It was Tak n for granted that All fighting in were equal. Canadians Houim interesting and instructive to hat with the men from Otho countries and these in turn Loun i Leasure in the company of can Diane. By 1943, the Beaver Clil and become perhaps the mom International club in Britain. H no the most crowded his atmosphere added zest in be s visits there. Newcomers arriving in Britain from Canada soon a sorbed its traditions. Full of in and the Joy of life upon arrival they found during the till hours of the afternoon to response from the weary Pat on who did t want to do any Hing any More but who Jum wanted to sit in an armchair he fire and doze comfortably. We recall one Chap fresh from Canada who blustered into tin rating room looked about him or a moment then bellowed "1 can t stand it. In t anyone n several veterans stirred in easily in their sleep in the deep armchairs but otherwise ther. Ivas no reaction j rom anyone. Then the newcomer in a Virr loaded with frustration cried some Day i m to Mimir in Hen with a ten foot of and drop n on All your Heads. That la War you the snores continued we ourselves were half awake Ai the time. Blazing blankly at the society pictures in an old copy of the taller. But we were a inattentive As the deepest sleep ers there. It was something in the atmosphere something which seemed to us peculiarly Canadian something tranquil and ser Civ which prevented us from dash ing madly about when there seemed no Rood reason for dash ing madly about. That was the Beaver unique institution which service men will ions remember after they have fors olten the Cun the in fit patrols the air operations and the sea convoys. No. American magpies still increasing increasing numbers and observations on that method of drafting has been adopted. Only the big three will the original drafts which will then be submitted to a Gen eral peace conference of the Al lied nations. After their views have been heard the big three will make the final drafts. Many detailed issues have to be boundaries Between Italy and Austria the control of the strategic port of Trieste Mediterranean outlet of the bal kans the Boundary Between Greece and Bulgaria the new boundaries of Western Poland and Western Russia. But these details Are less important than the desire of Britain and the United states to prevent Russia writing into the treaties pro visions by which it can dominate the Economy and politics of Eastern Europe As it has Al ready done pretty completely in the Case of Hungary and Poland. Add to All this the great unsettled issues of final relations Between Russia and China in Manchuria the future of Japan it will thus be seen there is not much to choose Between the Light entertainment features of the two networks. The Tran Canada however carries More lectures commentaries and like features. Another article will Deal methods of payment of net work broadcasts which Are in dispute Between Csc and private stations last week s note on the grow ing abundance of the Magpie around Souris reminds us that this species is one of the few Birds that have receded before the Advance of civilization and then staged a comeback. In the Early Days when vast herds of Buffalo roamed the Prai Ries magpies were abundant. T. in his Hudson s the Magpie was plentiful in the Interior parts of the country where our people met them at All but that he had never known them to Migrate to York or Severn forts in his 20 years at Hudson Bay. A Hun dred years later 1858, professor h. Y. Hind when exploring the Prairie regions reported magpies very numerous and in 1870 they were still recorded As plentiful but when Seton Thompson wrote his Manitoba Bird notes in 1882 1887 the Birds had disappeared except in Western Manitoba and they remained scarce for forty years or so. The Birds held Sway in Saskatchewan and Alberta for a longer period but virtually Dis appeared As civilization spread westwards and they were regarded until recent times As Birds of the Western Foothills and mountains. While delving into the Story of the nesting of the solitary Sand Piper we discovered an article on the return of the Magpie by a. D. Henderson Belvedere 9 Alta. Written in 1923. Or. Hen Derson was informed that when pack trains were no Novelty pass ing through to Edmonton mag pies were common and were regarded As objectionable Birds As they attacked Cayuses with sore he never saw one from his arrival in 1898 to 1918. In september. 1919. He saw the first More came in the fall of 1920. Became generally distributed and remained through the Winter. All but one pair disappeared in the Spring and this pair raised five Young. No other Birds were seen move Birds remained to nest the follow ing years and to spread to new territory. Wrote or. Hen Derson did magpies abandon the country for Over 20 years and Why Are they now reoccupy my that summer within an area 60 by 30 Miles until late August when they began to appear in when the tourist Vancouver province a correspondent from Niagara Falls complains to the Globe and and the revolting dutch mail that Canada offers no in Tel following their return to Al Berta magpies spread across Saskatchewan and Manitoba appearing in new areas in the and Winter and retreating again in Spring. Gradually More and More pairs remained in the new districts to Breed and now Bird has a firm hold of the Prai Ries West of Brandon and is still marching eastwards particularly along the River courses. Magpies Are handsome Black and White Birds measuring 20 inches from Bill to Tail but not desirable cig bouts in numbers As they Are or t robbers and some have developed Chr habit of attack ins son s on live Stock and injuring the Zimmak , special control must be adopted to in Mich Empire of the it is Clear that the world will grapple from now on with the most com plex problems of modern his tory growing equally Clear that eventually they will not be settled nor will the present peace settlements be secure until collective Security has finally become stronger than Power politics. Duc ement to american tourists to visit Canadian cities or see the country. At the Boundary says this correspondent Canada says to the visitor now you Are in Canada. Take this Road step on the Gas and you can be out again in three or six or eight hours. And he Steps on the Gas flashes along the pavement sees nothing buys nothing but a thankful of gasoline and a hamburger or two. A so Canada loses her Opportunity Only. Measures reduce their numbers. No horned the Prairie horned Lark is 1n" earliest of our to arrive and its Sweet song from a Snow free Patch of Prairie or Roadway is one of the Gladsome Moriis of Spring. Officially our four races of horned larks arc listed Fis summer residents but even thirty years ago the of Weme Trec Bank Man., Recor ded in the Ottawa naturalist that Odd individuals had throughout a Winter but these were exceptions. So far this year we have received no Manitoba report of the Lark s return. Natural history society on monday. February 25. Ohff 1945 color film of ducks on limited will be shown in the arc f of the University commencing at 8.15p.m. Members and friends ;