Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 30, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press Prillm Ana put Lyneo Daviv except Sun Aav of the vein nope free press company limited. 300 Carlto Winnipeg. Manitoba. Authorized As Secomdi class matter by the Post of Loco department. Ottawa Victor , Dexter. Publisher. Editor we. Lord Bruce Hutchison. General manager. Associate Winnipeg saturday july 30, 1946 import restrictions or. Howe s recent suggestion that Canada May be compelled to increase its restrictions on United states imports doubtless will be a subject of Early discussion in the cab inet. It will deserve most careful consideration. When the 1947 Dollar crisis compelled Canada to pro Hibit the importation of some United states goods and to place others on strict quotas these Steps were regarded As temporary and were designed solely to meet an immediate emergency. Fortunately they were accompanied by the new Geneva Trade agreements through which Large new United states markets were opened to Canadian goods. As a result of decreased imports in some lines and increased exports in others Canada s Dollar position improved remarkably throughout 1948. We began to accumulate not an adequate but e fairly comfortable Supply of United states currency and Gold. The government breathed More easily. With conditions thus improving it was possible to relax Many of the Emer gency import restrictions. But this year world Trade has deteriorated mainly be cause the Sterling countries Are unable to sell their High Price goods adequately in the Dollar markets of America where prices have fallen. This Means that the Sterling coun tries have less dollars to spend in Canada. At the same time we have continued huge imports from the United states. The net result of All these factors has been a new Drain on Canada s Dollar reserves. Hence or. Howe s indication that further restrictions on imports May be required. This is disturbing news. Had world recovery continued As expected had the Sterling countries been Able to adjust themselves to the seller Market and increased or even maintained their sales in America Canada s position today would have been much easier than it now appears to be. By this time it had been hoped the import restrictions would be practically liquidated. That the Canadian government is even considering an increase in restrictions is one striking measure of the general Trade crises emerging out of the dilemma of the Sterling bloc. It May be that such a backward step is unavoidable for the time being. But everything possible should be done to avoid or at least to minimize it. The import restrictions of the last 18 months though necessary have improved our Dollar position at the expense of Little noted bul very real damage to the Canadian Economy. Acting As the most drastic form of Tariff the restrictions have Given Protection to various Canadian industries which without readjustments in their operations could not compete with similar industries in the United states. The Canadian consumer has sometimes had to buy the Canadian made article at a Price higher than that asked for a similar United states article. Like All protective devices this is one of the factors in High prices which have not declined Here As markedly As in the United states. Apart from the Cost to the consumer the More serious result of the import restrictions could they continued Jon the development of a Large segment of exotic High Cost and uneconomic Canadian industries battering on the barriers against United states Competition. How dangerous such a situation can become already is Well illustrated by the problem of Britain which having created a High Cost Economy cannot sell its goods in sufficient volume abroad. Or. Abbott said on his recent return from London that Britain s task was to make its prices competitive. It is to be hoped that he will apply the same logic to Canada when the Cabinet considers further import restrictions which inevitably tend to keep prices up Here and thus can damage Canada s competitive position in the world mar Ket later on. Another danger arises out of the restrictions. When Only a fixed Quantity of goods May be imported from the United states the importers Are Given fixed quotas which they can not exceed. If such arrangements were prolonged a quota could thus become a kind of vested interest denied to those who new in business would be unable to import in Competition with the Well established firms. A Man who holds a quota could peddle it about like an exclusive franchise. No thins is better calculated to repress Competition to encourage inefficiency in production and. Of course High prices. But the process does not end there. Having decided that Only a fixed Quantity of certain goods May be imported the government finally will be bound to decide not Only who May import them but who will process them for the govern ment cannot possibly freeze business altogether in existing channels by allowing Only Well established firms to do All the importing and processing. Restrictions of this More drastic than any Breed increasing govern mental control of the Economy if they Are Long maintained. Finally the government must consider the effect of restrictions on the policies of the United Stales. While the uni Ted states has been generous and understanding toward Canada and accepted discrimination against its patience is not unlimited. If discrimination is carried too far the United states might feel compelled to retaliate with grievous con Canada in the United states Market. Whatever the Canadian government May be compelled to do in the latest Dollar emergency the Only real solution of this nation s Trade problem lies in the earning of More dollars by sales in the Dollar markets. The government it is to be hoped will concentrate less on the negative and dangerous of method of import restriction than on the positive and Only hopeful method of Export expansion. To remove Breed mosquitoes and arms for Europe there will be an understandable reluctance on the part of canadians to comment on some aspects of the congressional debate on or. Truman s arms programme for Western Europe. Many of the is sues raised in that debate relate do Domestic politics and fire the concern of the american people. Others however touch the larger theme of the Security of the Western world against soviet aggression. One item in particular deserves comment. President Truman in his Mes Sage to Congress Drew attention the fact that Western Europe was spending s5 a billions on its own defence. This reduces to non sense the charge of senator tall Nanri senator Wherry that the american people Are icing asked to pay a huge military Bill for nation which arc unwilling to pay for their own defence. The Correct description would fee that Western Europe has Al ready strained its available re sources to erect ramparts of de Fence against russian penetration. The sum of si.2 billions now be ing asked of Congress by president Truman would provide the margin of safety to a Security programme which otherwise might be in Dan Ger of collapse. The Security of the free world depends upon having a Well considered unified adequate system of Mutual defence. Congress will be neglecting the self interest of uie United states As Well As the larger considerations of world pol icy if it reduces the arms pro gramme below the safety Point in the mistaken spirit of Short sighted Economy. Age arid latterly ing places for weeds. But periods of drouth and Gen eral experience have brought it Home that the Structure of these Low areas was part of nature s method of conserving water sup ply. Now. In Many areas such reservoirs Are being Arti locally constructed to re create water re serves. A great Many sloughs and Small bodies of water were drained Over the years in All three Prairie prov inces in Many cases to bring Only sub marginal land under the plough. When dry years came re pm Oval of the natural water retain ing features of these areas made it that much easier for soil to Drift and Bostons to occur. This All bul ruined whole sections of the. Prairie provinces. The major Effort of the Prairie farm Rehan imitation administration for the past 15 years has been to restore these water retaining features by digging thousands of dugouts and mall Ponds and by building re Taining clams and other works. This has gone hand in hand with extensive reforestation work. There has been a similar pro gramme in Ontario. A recent example of the changed attitude of Ontario Farmers is the recommendation made by delegates from Perl Huron and Wellington coun-1 ties to a select committee on conservation of the Ontario Legisla Ture. They asked for amendments in that province s drainage act which would permit a closer Inte ration of drainage and conserva Tion work. They expressed the opinion that open ditches and the drainage of swamps had been responsible for to costly Damag no run off floods the Spring and l loss of soil values dependent on us surface water. This holds for most Low bonded areas in the midst of arable land which along with Trees play so important a part in water conserva Tion. It is just As True on a larger scale for example the swampy and Boggy areas in this province South East East Northwest and Between the lakes have their function along with our subs Lancial forested area in preserving the province s Over All water Supply. Now comes the difficult member of the . Family the Elm As first Choice w Winnipeg s Trees by or. H. M. Speechly hex Trees were first Plant Beautiful Birds the evening and de on Winnipeg boulevards the Pine Grosbeak during the per say some sixty years ago the Iod from january to March. And Manitoba Maple so easy to about the american Oak the Ash Hardy and stubborn but Well. Winnipeg is so close to the late in leafing and Early 10 drop Northern limit of this tree thai it its leaves in the fall and even the is too Dwarf 10 Shade or even Basswood had their Vogue but it ornament a Buuri Evari. Was some Lime before the Elm was attempts to grow the Ontario recognized As the finest and most hard Maple Here have tailed and ornamental. Though a few specimens of the j the first considerable use of the Ontario Soli Maple May he seen was on Broadway and its around Vale Avenue tins at Literals where owing to lace seems to or Hul Short Ling most of them still stand asilivet1 nor i chestnuts thrive in an example of How not to Plant this climate elms. This accounts for the Large number of Small specimens there. Ill was Noa at first realized that i the Elm would prove the finest tree for Winnipeg. I common mistake r is Clear thai Ilie tree to equal the Shade and he Autv 1 is no Elm for form. Hut it has some defects unforeseen when planted according to the lire sent plan. Over and above the of another common mistake was Street lights caused by grow in the from of any and lofty branching any of the above mentioned Trees a Hurc Competition for moisture is which even now Over Shadow be rills its nigh houses. Later on Young elms of " yes. Jabout 10 years growth were Plant roots expand Itilio gardens de on the unoccupied boulevards and of our Beds they even uniformly about feel part. 11u1 under ground water sometimes More sometimes less. And cause trouble with the desirable Quality of a Spring the Elm produces Mil ions of seeds just before leafing which rapidly develop into As Many in the fall a tremendous drop of dead leaves arc a Boulevard tree is that it shall grow fairly fast that it shall provide Good Shade without Obs True lion to a Street lights. And that it shall have. J Well developed foliage not too sensitive of Frosi gardeners and Jan forgive treason newspaper cartoonists Are traditionally in the same category court jesters. Because of their reputation for wit and humor they Are occasionally permitted to get away with a commentary on people or events that if offered by lesser mortals would invite the commentator s destruction. This traditional indulgence for cartoonists must however of strained to the breaking Point in Vancouver. For the artist on one of the papers has gone too . He has so strayed from the path of decency and civic rectitude As nationalism to the forefront Stalin s Russia real nuisance to or to insect Batuick. When defoliation of Trees by Mill t loaners v canker Worms or other Hal i occurs it is the Manitoba such ugh to in that suffers most whether in a City or in Rural parts. For dose four to Luff reason this Maple is never used z nowadays. Los Lents to 1nc inclusion _. Elms Are planted too close to the Basswood us rarely Lher. R Ribisl Jap he and displays Noi Only a i Ejof Clit Tim the tic marriage of the in Erna ional ideals of the revolution to National sentiment was bound to occur. It had happened n the French revolution. It had i begun to happen in soviet Russia Long before Stalin took charge of in i review of a recent i Nirri Iphy of Stalin the Timo literary supplement makes the following observations on the purely National character of the present communist re Gime in Eden fulfilling them. Her destinies the first occasion on which patriotic and revolutionary feelings were conspicuously blended and intertwined was the against Poland in 1920. I Anu the Long isolation of soviet rus land Point of Broad heart shaped Leaf but in mid Phil Semi july hangs Oul clusters of tradition which they had supposed scented yellow tinged Flowers. Even Melv by vanquished in 1917. Ten Alai is of the woo i Pecker other or later when Lenin was dead Velar to Bellil d sap Honvo its bark have hic Joh thai would Man. Ind who Hul a flecks. Bul would undertake in 1 wot Lri the easy pro Parks do in or Woisil Ipa gation of elms from seer make a with some leaders who had mostly represented the International and Western elements in bolshevism. Trotsky. Zinoviev and Kam tree part. There is Only mercy for the situation tie Cut Ting blown of every Call along the boulevards you Ever i Housel what a the West were no longer capable of to mention lures like Radek. Krasin and Basswood is More difficult minor Fig to Evite to a the persistent hostility of the greater part of the capitalist world were bound to reinforce the trend. When Stalin in 3924 pro claimed the possibility of socialism n one country he was. Without knowing it. Appealing to the deep Springs of a National Pride which or ten years had been not Only dead but damned. He told his Fol Owers that russians could do precisely what Lenin and All other Iol shevitts had hitherto believed to suggest that All is not Well me them incapable of doing. Russia will do it for he might have said parodying Cavour. Marxist school ousted backward was the Standard epithet to attach to the name rus Sia Stalin changed All that. He up out of business altogether the marxist school of historians headed by Pokrovsky whom Len in had highly praised and Anc. Rehabilitated the russian past. New found enthusiasms tend to exaggeration and Victory Over Hitler was an intoxicating achieve ment. Soviet nationalism sinc e the War has taken some forms which Western observers have thought sinister and others which they have thought absurd. But it has perhaps not differed As much As spare that Slough one of the results of the in creased interest on the part of Farmers in water conservation in recent years has been their changed attitude toward swamps and sloughs. In the Early Days when the West was being settled and for a Long time afterwards very Slough and swamp was looked upon As something to be drained to add to productive acre Teoro logically in that City where rain in the tourist season is i thinkable. His valor was not sufficient for him to come out Flat footed and show rain falling. After All even the bravest men falter but he did have a crowd of angry Ball players golfers and vacation its banging on a door and boiling a Mon lurking behind he door and peeping fearfully out is the Sun. Obviously if it were simply a question of Cloudy weather and no thing More there could be no an Ger. Clouds alone present no deterrent to the golfer or Ball player. There must indeed have been More to it than Clouds. It must have been a a in in a. In would be interesting 10 know what penalties the cartoonist paid or his treason. In the old Days of to years ago he might have been armed and feathered or driven nto English Bay by angry mobs from the City Council the chamber of Commerce. The tourist Bureau ind the Vancouver league for the suppression o bad weather. But men and cities Mellow and mature with the passage of years perhaps this growing spirit of tolerance and brotherly love has enabled him to escape with nothing More than a few broken ribs and a pair of Black eyes. Such was Lenin s dream in 191.7. Tovsky had All been overthrown. But it was from the marxist stand a the hidden Force or the russian Point an anomaly and from bureaucracy pol a tragedy. Oft tical and cultural roves bul As a Loo that the first victorious socialist look revenge not by destroy value. Have revolution should have occurred in be revolution bul by names one or what was economically socially and politically the most backward of the great countries of Europe. Lum r contractor in take on the . I say in the tall with due esp pc. For the daily use of the i presumably the branches would the Ash Sall very Well in to he lopped off first and Boulevard Iree away to he Siack a to austere and has no great then the Ircink would sing it to themselves in order of narrow National fulfil it in framework. These forces carried Stalin in Power and made what he remains Loda. Lave a look at Toronto be divided in such n Way two neighbouring streets. Would preserve lumber value you Rioual this. Deeming Quality there is one common to the workers who were called on to build the first socialist order had been for generations the victims of economic poverty. Social inequality and political repression common Sig were More extreme than those pre i i 1. Grass Semi a in and other Prest i him seeds a great attraction to Tho re it might have and finally inn Holo thei Anri Root would have to be hacked Hauler Oul and where to thus the problem evidently needs Omo Clear thinking. Ighel on the Short arid Prairie is the is in any other great of ,-1. The socialist order in Russia could veal her be a ten cat Sene by Wilfrid draw aled i nor or tired neither on the wealth Cre Ipi boards of de farmsteads of the the p even Enterprise i windows perhaps the wreck of Lilica experience a Reu. Of Bourgeois Tho end of his of an old the Gap i g pane less arid country. In is not a new Host of Forest emerge into the now environment i Here Are no forests no logs for Semi Cabins no rails for in Cracy. At the ver Lenin began to realize to the handicaps imposed by shortcomings. In Fullio i h Ese i Chinery the cylinders and Bull i Rector. A Cluster beaten Maples or desiccated marking the site of a Windbreak and the Border of a this was the danger which Len Ivanish Crl Garden. Much of the a hut it deserves to he better known appears to be. The great Plains was written by Walter Prescott Webb. Professor of american history at the univer sity of Texas. Hook Springs and running is roam. Fms by Kork them is wide incs to d by a fierce or in. With the Clear sightedness of Genius diagnosed in what he saw around him in the fifth year of the revolution. It was implicit in the continued isolation of socialist Russia from the rest of the hos arises out of the conscious Ness of the observer that the Des Eteri Homestead is a Mirk and and in the necessity of building. Socialism in one country memento of human defeat that men and women came Here with resolve and drouth or world High Hope and Stout were beaten he the i the Hail or the Grasshoppers and i take when from it he was the humid isl Webb s parents was a Cihiy out land Reed of indians mounted ferocious. In Contti Errahle. Lerr Ihlo in met icily soness. They up a natural har ii irm made More formidable by a North America and threw them the Semi arid Plains and that Ihbe Hook was in part an All empt to explain for by. Upon this Barrier of i Woodlands pioneered inevitably Ilu a 1 Airl in their his own satisfaction what happened when people moved first efforts and they continued to fail Lucy Ivor Karl West across America Ami International marxism and inter eventually pulled out leaving i Yeilhe borderline from the forests and National socialism planted in rus Floral passed adapted in the Plains rather than the Ion. It May he. To be re of richly grassed Prairies Sian soil and left to without Challenge by the found their International . And the Jack Rabbit. Is sometimes supposed from to the constant sapping i have of other great Powers at the to land mining of the russian National j which throws new lighten All the been Reading a Hook from the Golden books underwoods xxiv by r. L. Stevenson leave not my soul the in Houghten Field nor leave thy debts dishonoured nor thy place desert without due service rendered for thy life up spirit and defend that fort of Clay thy body now beleaguered. Today s scripture we looked for peace but no Good came and for a time of health and behold trouble Jeremiah ment of their ascent to greatness. Other aspects of Stalin s return j to a National tradition May weigh More heavily against him in the Scales of history. The real charge against stalinism is that it abandoned those fruitful elements of the Western tradition which were embodied in the original marxism and substituted for them Retro the easier Way la . S arriving in Canada Ito be acquired do not somehow. Or. Have the Chance loj Ceorge Smith the sex chief of pol learn the language of the country ice. Used to Tell a Story that in Tiow being provided in Winnipeg Byju stantes the Point the school Board s special classes. The immigrant Short grass plateaus. Semi arid into the elevated skill the great Plains is a Story of the american Experiment and in. Deals largely with the problems of Texas Hill no resident of if Short grass country of Western Canada could read it without understanding a huh better what his pioneering ancestors undertook they settled there. Protessor develops with great skill and with he of Many striking illustrations. The Light of his Nan alive we see so much More vividly what pioneers of Western Canada untie look in the Early years of Iphis Century. It is True thai during the i Ltd Century an answer had Beer in outlying sections where Many of Grade and oppressive elements them Are settling. Learning eng he was gaelic speaking drawn from the russian tradition. Many Western ideas used marxism stood on the shoulders of Western Bourgeois Liberal demo Cracy and. While ultimately reject ing it. Assumed and adopted Many of its achievements., this is the meaning of the insistence in the communist manifesto that Boureois democracy had been in its Day a progressive liberating Force and that the proletarian revolution could come Only As a second step after the consummation b the Bourgeois revolution and Many of so can present great difficulties. Even so. These Are being determinedly overcome. As witness the news item the other Day about a Young settler near Meadow Lake sask. Who spoke perfect English when applying for his citizenship striding along Tecumseh Street professor Webb s main Point a Way of life on the Short concerned was a that in was a revolutionary move Semi arid Plains had towering Scot from the hebrides. La of Lyle Woodlands of Ohio Oul those who with to the Bare Upland Plains the Canadian Short grass country English. But he was such a Fine figure of a Man thai the City pol ice Force was unable to resist and he was soon in Miford. Of West Texas. Nebraska Dakotas or Montana that nearly .50 years settlement paused uncertainly on the Edge of the great papers though he had been in he Cam e upon a stalled milk j country barely Long enough to Rig. With a horse dead within the qualify. He said i picked it up shafts. Walked around to from Reading the in the Early Days of course difficulties in Rural areas were even such new techniques and fared on the whole much Beller than those who made the leap direct from the Wood Plains that before the great Plains j lands of the East. Hol Sands of the pioneers into Western Canada Early especially when on his first tour of his beat he could be permanently settled Manj had to adapt himself to an en-1 Lirely new environment and that Man could not survive never mind in this flourish until he had Learned the the Park belts were All full and birthdays a. B. Rannard. Pasadena. Calif born Boston. England. July 30. 1370. Edward t. Deacon. Me Lita. Man. Born Lloyd town. Ont. July 31, 1863. A. J. H. Dubuc Winnipeg born St. Man., july 31, 1873. Tended to stick pretty close to Gether. Much of their the first legislative acts be with fellow nationals or Cla rations of the Soviel regime in those who spoke their language Russia were inspired As much by land it was easier to maintain soc ithe ideals of Bourgeois democracy Ial and business contacts in their a. I economic and Triangle it first shunned Praise the situation and then got which had to he observed there. I began to be thick out his note Book make his took on Odds which the most re Nanri i 1 sour cell and successful settlers of Reater than now ethnic groups he wanted . 10 make a in particular Man had to de line Dakotas or Nebraska could first of Vise new weapons new methods beaten. Though very annoy transportation new fencing new of the Semi arid Plains As by those of socialism. When the moment came to pass on to the realization of socialism this meant not that democratic ideals could be abandoned but that they would be fulfilled As the de generate Bourgeois democracies of Jown Tongue than struggle with English. Adult education As we know it now was unheard of. But in the cities it was differ ent even then. Most occupations called for Good rudimentary knowledge of English and it had impression with facial act. Bul to Ance found himself unable to spell water supplies and new ways of i were settled and then abandoned. there ensued much farming. Such extensive and study of the regions will show head scratching Pencil sucking inventions were not that those first logo were mostly and lingering bafflement. Then in Ito be expected overnight. The first direct from Eastern Woodlands and spiral Ion struck. The Story goes generation of pioneers were in of cities and thai immigrants from that he i eled off his Coal carried a fact. Doomed to defeat. The american with a Gen the deceased animal Over o Ross j Webb s exact words on of adaptation there behind Avenue brought along the Wagon theme Are so Strong that tended to stay to acquire assembled them Tisl As found on must be quoted in the Lirosi Halij Thi abandoned lands and to find Tecumseh and with a Fine flour of the nineteenth Century we sepia basis for survival and even for ish completed his report. The Advance guard of this moving relative Success ;