Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 06, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed Ana pull sea the Winnipeg free press company limited so Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba authorized Ai second class matter by the Post office department. Ottawa. Victor. Sefton Grant Dexter. Publisher. _ editor. We. Lord Bruce Hutchison. General manager. Associate editor Winnipeg saturday 1949 parliament s first session when the new Canadian parliament begins its first ses Sion on september 15 it will face some of the gravest prob lems in the nation s history few parliaments of the past none in peacetime have shouldered such heavy burdens the jubilation of the victorious Liberal majority in the House o commons must be tempered by these facts which at the same time should compel the Defeated opposition to Ponder it mistakes of the past and erect a policy for the future. The National election Campaign ended Little Moie than a month ago. Already much of its argument is outdated by the Swift Rush of events it was known before the poll that the world Economy was deteriorating under the Impact of wha is called rather misleadingly the Dollar shortage. But the depth of this deterioration did not become apparent until the with the sudden announcement of Britain s latest plight the summoning of the Commonwealth Ted in London to grapple with the world problem in Washington in september. Clearly conditions Arete nun Graver today than the Canadian government or people or indeed the government of any country suspected when the present parliament was chosen. The the world crisis Are familiar but it is to be doubted that their impingement on Canada is yet generally appreciated in this country. Our dangers Are temporarily hidden by the continuation of the Only Boom still under Way any where in the world. If we have been thus in escaping so far the desperate state of Western. Europe or even the minor business recession of the United states this preferred position must be considered As Short run at Best. We cannot Long escape the forces which assail other nations especially those flowing in the. United. States. Unless the trashing torn conference next month contrives some solution for the general problem. Canada unquestionably faces through fault of its own Fri other heavy losses in overseas markets and the ultimate danger of being squeezed Between the Dollar bloc and an All out Sterling bloc. L without going Anto the Complex details of this situation . World wide and beyond Canada s control it seen that the new Canadian parliament confronts a problem quite unlike anything confronted by any previous parliament. It confronts nothing less than the probability for a time at of a world for which the Economy of Canada was never built and hence the necessity of Sharp readjust ments it Normal pattern of economic life., under these conditions the obligations of a government. Viewly elected with a huge majority can hardly be exaggerated. The leadership of or. St. Laurent and his colleagues be put immediately to a hard test. The Heady wine of electoral Victory is replaced now by the bitter bread of responsibility. The Core of our democratic system however is Parlia ment. There the supreme responsibility must reside. For better worse it is the members of the new parliament who must carry. Canada through the next four or five years of crisis. Within the parliament it is a time for greatness. From the government the people who elected it cannot expect miracles. They cannot expect a Canadian government of whatever party or policy to isolate a single and exceedingly vulnerable nation from the shocks shake the surrounding world. They have the however to. Expect from the government Complete frankness on the actual condition of the state and the clearest statement of the govern ment s intentions in grappling with them. This is especially True of the major Factor which immediately imperils us the distortion of our foreign Trade on which we so largely live. Before parliament is Long in ses Sion the Washington conference presumably will have reached decisions vitally affecting the future of the world Economy the future of Canada. On these decisions the policies of the Canadian government must be based. Parlia ment and through it the people have the right to hear without unnecessary delay what these policies Are and since they Are not Likely to be pleasant Why they Are necessary and where they Are leading. Parliament will fail in its duty if it does not give those policies the most searching scrutiny in every particular. It is to time for Hasty decisions and least of All for the purely partisan oratory which marked the pre election session earlier this year. At such a time the duty of a parliamentary opposition is Large. The opposition enters the new parliament weakened by internal disagreement split on Central policy and largely discredited through its attempt to win an election by abuse and distortion. It is thus ill to perform its essential task of criticism and examination. The weakness which has marked the parliamentary system Here for so Long through the failure of the opposition to find either a policy or an effective Leader thus continues at the worst of All possible times. Whether this weakness in criticism can be repaired whether the opposition can Hope to erect a possible future alternative to the government the forthcoming session should begin to show. The partisan May gloat Over the debacle of the conservative party. The intelligent citizen understands that the parliamentary system requires for its most effective functioning not Only Strong government but Strong opposition a balance of policies and counter policies and above All the continued Assize of the Public business. Tjie details of the business now awaiting parliament will require fur the r discussion. The first thing to be understood by parliament and the people is that present term will be fateful and May Well prove decisive the life of the nation As far ahead As any Man. Can see. . Oil policy the current Issue of Saskatchewan news official publication of the . Government in that province provides a report accompanied by a map listing the areas of on which exploratory Oil permits have been issued. Such permits give the company receiving the award exclusive rights to search for Oil and first Choice of 50 per cent of the land for production leases. The total area so awarded under permit is placed acres and the companies receiving permits for the larger areas Are Tidewater with acres so Hio with acres Huskey Philips acres and Shell Oil has just been granted permits for acres. There Are other miscellaneous holdings. And the province is withholding acres As Crown reserves. The total area slated for Oil search is placed at acres. Over the area now covered by per Mit the great bulk is held by uni Ted states companies and in the official report the Only Canadian company mentioned is Central Leduc. Oils which has obtained 000 acres thus the Oil and Gas re sources of if there should prove to be such . Will go into the Possession of uni Ted states companies for the Naos part with. Canadian companies having second Choice by buy ing Crown reserves after discoveries have been made. That is the development set up of the . Government in Sas Katche it is especially interesting in View of the attitude of in Alberta towards Oil development there. In Alberta the . First held that Oil development should be entirely and exclusively a government undertaking. Then when it found the present system work ing out fairly Well it shifted its ground to protesting against Oil rights and leases going to United it is interesting to note that states companies although the great bulk of Alberta is held by Canadian companies. Their protest against the invasion by american capital was Morous and bitter. But what the Kcf government has done m Saskatchewan is completely at variance with Kcf. Policy As an oppose lion in Alberta. Perhaps the planners at Headquarters at Ottawa who an endeavouring to arrange a Tion act for the party Corpse should to straighten of such divergences by establishing policy on a firm foundation o. Sound principle. Otherwise the Levi tation show May be somewhat ludicrous. Take it easy while there would appear to be no need for conservationists in this province to become unduly per Turbed about recently announced plans to open luxury lodges at Sev eral Points on Lake be serviced by air plane it would Wise to keep an Eye out for any moves that might Lead to at tempts to exploit. Manitoba game and sports fishing on a wholesale scale by the use of planes. It should be recognized that this s a present danger in other Large Hunting and fishing areas As was pointed out the other Day in these o urns in respect to the Quetico Superior Forest area in the Rainy take i watershed. Canadian and . Conservationists ironed about using became planes Al for wholesale Hunting and fishing there after the War and have Al ready succeeded in having certain restrictions imposed on both the Ontario sideband in Minnesota. The Point is that the. Very inaccessibility of much of the. Remain no Good Hunting and fishing Ter in the Northern part. Of the continent provides Protection for game and fish stocks. Planes of Jourse would soon end that. They Giuld. Set Down parties of Hunters r fishermen anywhere in a mater of hours and present protect Ion would be diminished a Hundredfold. It is True there has been an in leased use of planes to take fish no parties into Northern Manitoba n recent years but As yet Thi As not meant any serious Dele Ion of fish in the abundant locked Northern fishing Waters n fact it has taken those Fisher men who can afford expensive rips to the North away from the More easily accessible fishing Ter Story such As in the White Shell and other areas served by Road re using. The Competition for Fis Lere. The lodges on Lake Winnipeg a Headquarters on Elk Island ill be More in the line of Boa rising centres with fishing con Ned pretty Well to the Lowe eaches of tributary Rivers such s the Winner ego blood vein and Erens. There would be no inva on of waterfowl or game areas because these Are not readily accessible by boat from Here. But if Northern Manitoba were open for mass Hunt a and even fishing by air plane arties it would not be Long before his province had few game Anc so left. Charlie Chaplin rides again the Gold Rush socialism in tory clothes the right Road for Britain portrait of Canada the Magazine press of the uni id states so Long ignored Canada and then discovering it often Dis red its character that Canadian a dvrs will be gratified by a full nth portrait of their country in recent Issue of the author or. Sydney Morrell Ade an extensive tour of Canada St year incidentally spending a odious week in Winnipeg. He was arching not alone for what the urn Alist Calls the usual Immo Dity in the Magazine but r real knowledge of this nation and the ways of its people. Within e space allowed him he has com a remarkable portrait of Inada s outside m. But something Uch rarer in in i standing of the inside. The aders of the United states have Cei Ved from or. Morrell a Pic their neighbor which is a irate exciting and penetrating Anada will be delighted to re Ive More writers of this calibre. Chance for test or Berry Richards who reprinted the Pas constituency in the gis lature for the . Up to his aulsion last month is going to n again As an Independent Bank g on the fact that there is Good port for his kind of poles among the rank and file of. E co operative Commonwealth Emeralion. Mr.-. did not actually y that or. Coldwell and those to support his stand on the at tic pact were in a minority of e . But he did declare that s stand was that of. The sask Chewan and British Columbia Anches of the party where the latest strength of. The . Lay. As far As. The Pas is concerned should be easy to test the valid of the views of or. Richards 1 running against him in the Ovin Cial election elsewhere it is ipos Sibie right now arid so the Ionia must remain who Are the cuckoos in the of. Richards or the Tidwells i the platform upon which Britain s conservative party 1 fight the next general elec Lio n has now been is an a Teresing and instructive Docu ment. The right Road for Bri it is Clear is not a Broad. Smooth Highway but a hard Humpy Trail which varies More in direction from that at present being travelled by the nation. The Manchester guardian in i review termed it tory socialism the London times described it a an acceptance of the welfare Sta Vith All its the Lon Don economist said it would been sheer the. Conservatives to have indulged in a orgy of de nationalization 1. But this general Ween the right Road for brain and labor believes in by the two election Monife Oes is not says the times in i Elf had there would be serious Rea son for disquiet if this were not so. Democracy in general and the British two party sys tem in particular can work Only so Long As there is a wide measure of agreement be tween the parties and so Long As a change in government does not mean a violent change in f the immigrants from India admitted prior to 1930. Are growing Aid they . Help of younger Lati ves. Had -.become. Cana Ian citizens but they still did not ave the Canadian naturalized citizens from Europe who Are permitted to bring in their relatives. Every country had the right to regulate immigration. But having granted citizenship to a n Immi Grant there should be no discrimination. He hoped eventually for some regulation of entry of new immigrants India for a cer Tain number instead. Of a whole Sale bar. A rep Diler asked Jock Early whether India would permit him to go there to live permanently. Open door we would Roll out the red car the High com missioner jokingly. India immigrants except undesirable per sons. Contrary to the belief of some there were still some 40 to 45 million moslem in India. But India also had a problem in some 70 million refugees from Pakistan who had to be settled on other lands. India was importing locomotives and railway equipment on a big scale from Canada. India also needs much machinery for her projects of huge Hydro electric development and More capital to build them also unlimited agricultural Machin Ery for her project of making India self sustaining in food As before the War. She needs also newsprint and a Long list of manufactured articles. Her Trade with Canada is almost balanced a Little yet in Canada s favor. India exports to us chiefly jute and Burlap for bags Tea and hides and skins. While India s Collon Mills Are second largest in the world Domestic needs Are so great the Mills can barely Supply them and Here is none for Export. India Hopes to raise enough wheat and Rice for tier own needs by 1951 he is stall an importer of wheat aking some 10 million tons in he last year. Or. Malik said relations Between Anada and India today Are sex remely Good he had met Friendly feelings everywhere for the new Ndia. He thought the development to the London conference where Ndia s representatives agreed that Piile India was a Republic she look to the Crown a. Member of the Commonwealth had neen extremely helpful no these Friendly relations with Canada. Or. Malik is being succeeded Here s India High commissioner by or. K. Kir Palam an experienced Diplomat who has Label been Sta Onedas India s Consul general san Francisco. By . Healy in the bound i. J volumes of the old Canadian Ion Lily and National review in he stack room of the chamber o the in win Peg Are to be read contributions in producers of the Canadian lit nature of three score and ten ago. Of whom but very few re unknown to of to the time Charles Roberts and Bliss Carman were Oung men writing their first Poms. That was edited by Goldwin Smith who had Roberts Secretary i each Era has its outstanding world s his Mong cures a Man whose celebrity is destined to die., soon after them Uch was. Goldwin Smith who asked sides of the Atlantic As a historian and pub Cist. Reading figure he began his career in England y being the leading figure in the a organization of the University of Ford by a Royal. Commission related by parliament. In politics her on he crossed swords with israeli who became prime min Ter in .1868 and Earl of beacons eld a 1876. After the. Publication of Bis Aelis most celebrated political Vel Lothair in., which he put Mith As a character smith1 wrote and made Public a Brief letter to which ended a this Way when sheltering under the liter by form of a. Work of fiction you Elk with impunity the Lara Ter of opponent our. Expressions touch. No an s Honor. They Are the sting is insults of a lit -1875 he. Decided 16 live. In Oronto where he married a wid of wealth he was himself a an of mrs. Boulton Hose husband was the son of Arcy Boulton one of e Heads of the family compact against which William Lyon Mackenzie led the rebellion of 1s37. Smith maintained that Canada paraded by great barriers run no North and South into four was destined by its natural figuration to enter into a com Erdal Union with the United states which would result in our political connection with great Britain giving Way to the. Union of the Anglo saxons of thai continent into one. Great e approaching Sion of a new. First ses Dominion Al parliament has reminded this writer of some so achingly Sarcas tic writing done by Goldwin Smith in january 187-7, about the vice regal reception at which the Prin Cess Louise by. The Side of the Marquis of lome new governor general curtsied to by the ladies attending that re a Ellioh which then As now was held in. The Senate chamber on an evening soon after the. Beginning of each session. Before that reception an order was issued by major. Littleton the governor general s military secret Ary that ladies Are to Wear Low necked dresses without court and that ladies whose health will not admit of their vearing Low necked dresses May on forwarding tothe . In a waiting a medical certificate to that effect Wear Square Cut dresses. Dresses fastening up to the Throat Are not to be that requirement of a medical certificate. Was a severe regulation at Queen. Victoria s court at that fungus growth Goldwin Smith wrote ships have come in different Ages with special freights of Good or evil from the old world to the new. The barque Columbus brought european civilization and christianity. The brought the religious Republic. Barque of John we Slev brought methodism that of Hawkins brought negro slavery. The Allan steamship sarmatian Las brought etiquette kind Ness of the Root of All True Joli Leness and Good manners would never command a lady to present to a medical certificate of her inability on the ground of her health to Wear., a Low necked dress such etiquette is known of the student of history As l fungus growth of monarchy in ;