Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 6, 1951, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press n t m a i Row Victor Sifton president pc publisher Grant Dexter editor h. S. Malone we. Lord general manager Winnipeg tuesday november 6, 1951 Hollywood Rommel paying for pensions from the beginning it was generally supposed that a uni Versal old age pension system in Canada would be based on the contributory principle. As equitably As possible All canadians would set aside a fixed part of their income during their years of Active work and receive these savings Back in pensions when they could work no longer. In fact every worker would buy an annuity through the government. It was never supposed of course that All workers would contribute exactly the same amount to the Central pension fund. Some of those in the lowest income brackets would be unable to place As much in the fund As they would later take out in pensions. As a result others would contribute More than they would ultimately receive. But with these variations taking into account the individual s ability to pay the scheme was to be in effect an insurance policy against old age standing on its own feet and not dependent upon the Ordinary revenues of the state. As finally contrived after months of consideration the fed eral government s pension scheme can be called contributory Only by stretching the meaning of that word almost beyond recognition. The Cost of pensions now reckoned at about a million Dol Lars a Day will be provided by three separate taxes. The present income tax will be increased on july 1, 1952, by 2 per cent to raise about millions but in no Case will any income tax payer contribute More than 560 a year through this Chan Nel. The corporation tax will be increased on january 1, next by 2 per cent to raise s65 millions. Finally the sales tax will remain unchanged at 10 per cent but a fifth of the total Levy about 5145 millions will be diverted from the general revenues into the pension fund. A Only the income tax increase can be called a direct contribution toward the Cost of pensions but that contribution will Cone from a minority of the income earners of the nation. Less than half the earners of income pay income taxes. A majority is exempted and thus will make no contribution toward its pen Sions through the income tax Channel. It is evident that the government at first considered the possibility of making the whole scheme directly contributory by charging it to income tax and by making that tax so far As pension costs Are concerned Universal for All income earners or nearly so. This plan apparently was abandoned for both Finan Cial and political reasons. Compelled to raise the income tax for defence purposes the government clearly thinks that it has attained its practical limit with the increase of last july and the present Rise of 2 per cent for pension purposes. A breaking Point has been reached beyond which in the governments Opin Ion direct and visible taxes will discourage work and production. And politically a higher income tax is More unpopular than an invisible tax on goods. Hence the decision to tax corporations and to ear Mark part of the sales tax for pension purposes. In so far As it is paid by the shareholders of business enterprises the corporation tax is admittedly unfair. It Means that the shareholder pays two income taxes the first when the profits of the company Are taxed and the second when his dividends Are taxed As personal income whereas the Bond Holder for , pays Only the latter tax. Actually however corporation taxes not Only tend to be handed on to the consumer in higher prices but beyond a certain Point encourage wasteful and extravagant management. Hence it cannot be assumed that in levying part of the Cost of pensions through the corporation tax the government is taxing some Rich industrialists who can Well afford to pay. In some part it is taxing shareholders who in Many cases Are people of Small Means likewise it is taxing All Consumers through prices and finally it is encouraging careless manage ment doubt the decisive consideration with the government was that in this Way a further and politically costly increase in the personal income tax could be avoided. The setting aside of part of the sales tax for pension Pur poses is based on somewhat the same considerations. Since the government is not ready to Levy a pension contribution on the lower income brackets at present exempted from income tax it must reach these people somehow and it will reach them through the sales tax which every consumer of goods must pay. In so far As the sales tax is Universal there is a Universal contribution to the pension fund but it is a rather haphazard contribution completely divorced from the insurance principle and taking Little account of ability to pay. No Man can possibly know How much he has contributed to his future pension through sales taxes when his years of work Are done. In one respect the government deserves High Praise. When there is a Revenue surplus under heavy attack by opposition parties it is a natural temptation for the government to use it to pay the Cost of pensions and thus avoid new taxes. This unwise course the government largely rejected knowing that pensions could not be soundly based on a surplus which might Well disappear As defence costs Rose or As revenues fell. The temptation was not rejected entirely however since a part of the existing revenues from the sales tax has been diverted into pensions. It May Well be that at the present time when taxes Are High and when the government is under fire for Over Taxa the pension scheme is about As Good As could be expected. Certainly no better plan has been proposed by the opposition in parliament. Be brought to a victorious conclusion that year. Many times have i pondered upon that extraordinary a report was duly prepared predictions in his latest volume on the second world War now being published serially in the United states or. Churchill makes an interesting comment on the pre science of professional soldiers and politicians. It will be recalled that one of which sir Robert says was wholly superseded by events within less than one month. The War was Over and won within four months. Soldiers the military experts were wholly yet the greatest most renowned it win it no Uckin a ii in. Win the most baffling facts about the unaware of the situation. They first world War is that no one believed that the allies would be foresaw its end on november 11. 191s. I sir Robert Borden in an address to the professional Institute at Ottawa in december 1930, told How in june 191s, at the Imperial War Cabinet a com Mittee comprising the prime ministers of the Commonwealth had been appointed to Ascer Tain by inquiry on All sides from every possible source of in formation what further Effort would be necessary to win the War in what sphere. In what ii excl could the decisive blow be most effectively struck and at what time. From first to last during our investigation there was not one Man Soldier or civil Ian who Ever suggested or even dreamed so far As i could understand that the War could unable to do More than to hold on grimly until june 1919. There after Success might become pos sible. The United states War leaders were equally at sea in 1918. It is recorded that in november 1918 the . Navy actually awarded a very Large contract designed to help resist a Ger Man offensive in 1919. Or. Churchill in his latest Book tells of an incident along these lines. He says that Early in december 1943, after the Teheran conference the British and . Delegates stopped Over for a few Days at Villas outside of Cairo and near the pyramids. The meeting with Stalin at Teheran had been unexpectedly successful. The Date for the in Vasion of had been agreed to and the major operations for 1944 had been concerted. Back at Cairo or. Churchill gave a dinner to the combined chiefs of and one or two other non military people. Or. Churchill writes i remember being struck by the optimism which prevailed in High service circles. The idea was mooted that Hitler would not be Strong enough to face the Spring Campaign might collapse even before overlord was launched in the summer. I was so much impressed by the current of opinion that i asked everybody to give his View in succession round the table. All i h e professional authorities were inclined to think that the German collapse was imminent. The three politicians present took the opposite View. 0f course on these vast matters on which so Many lives depend there is always a great Deal of Guesswork. So much is unknown and immeasurable. Who can Tell How weak the enemy May be behind his flaming fronts and Brazen mask at what moment will his willpower break at what moment will he be beaten Clown in 1943 the politicians were Wiser than the soldiers. But again As in 1918, the unpredictability of War was demonstrated. Or. Churchill gives no clue to his own views or those of or. Roosevelt. Upon the following clan he insisted that president Roosevelt see the Sphinx. They went together. Roosevelt and i gazed at her for some minutes in silence As the evening fell. She told us no thing and maintained her inscrutable smile. There was no use waiting this is or. Churchill s Way of saying that he was Content to do his utmost leaving the Shadow of the future to be illumined by time. Frogs As prophets just a few Days ago Accord ing to a news report from dry Den ont., frogs still were gaily hopping about and presumably croaking in notes of highest optimism. The apparent import of their trumpeting As interpreted by indians and others who profess intimate knowledge of nature lore and what it Means in terms of weather is that win arrive late this year and a prolonged fall still lies ahead. Naturally it is not Given to the Urban Cliff Dweller who studies weather by peering at it from an apartment window to know what precise dividing line Between fall and Winter is recognized by frogs indians or even scribes at Dryden or How cold it would have to get to con Vince a Frog it had erred in its prognosis. Still up to a Point there is a ring of plausibility to the explanation Given of the Way in which the Frog is sup posed to Junction As a Prophet. Frogs it is contended normally dig beneath the Frost line in mid fall to establish an abode four to five feet Down where they remain until the Frost has left the ground in the following Spring. It follows then or so the argument goes that frogs remaining above ground after the first snowfall As they have done this year must possess private information that time remains to Complete those burrowing operations before the grip of Winter becomes final. Obviously if rational frogs re main on the Loose and cavort through the Snow instead of gaming Refuge from it there could and maybe should be an even the one reported from Dryden. Among non experts on frogs however some lingering doubts and questions will remain. What for instance is there above ground amid the snows to in Vite the lingering of even the most perceptive Frog no matter How privy to the vagaries of the weather anyway could t this be the year in which men will find themselves smarter than frogs on at least this one particular that last happens occasionally for whatever satisfaction men can get out of it. As for the frogs perhaps there will be a report from Dryden soon telling How frogs legs taste after passing through the Quick and very hard freeze process. From the Golden books from the vicar by Winthrop Mack Ortli Pracht he did not think All mischief fair although he had a Knack of joking he did not make himself a Bear. Although he had a taste for smoking and when religious sects ran mad. He held in spite of All his learning. That if a Man s belief is bad it will not be improved by i burning apostle of the class War t consulting the Oracle the opening the desert i showing in Winnipeg t h o Nar Rator As author the Book on which the film was based de clares what follows is the True Story of Ance the film denies itself i h e or. Sevan s rising Star he British general elections which restored or. Bor party during the election Campaign May be credited with War Churchill to no. 10 Street also greatly enhanced some plausibility to the Success the political prestige and Power of or. Sevan s hysteria Cam of or. Aneurin Bevan whom pain which depicted in. Some regard As a probable fut Churchill As a Man addicted to ure prime minister of Britain gun boat diplomacy and Bent on before delving into the Rea 2 United kingdom is _ heading into difficult times. Fuel and food crises Are Van what is his background the balance of pay where does he stand in British ments problem is becoming increasingly serious and the pro Gress of rearmament is bound to sons for this and its significance for the future it will be Well to Clear up certain preliminary questions. Who is Aneurin be politics Cial ism and chairman of the largest miners Jodge in South Wales. Though not a conscientious objector he avoided Mili tary service in the War. Failing world to answer his was brought into exempted on the ground that he was suffering from nystagmus an Eye i ease. Rather dramatically he in formed the magistrate that i will fight but i will choose my own enemy my own time and my own and i won t have you do it for no Compromise position after attending the Central labor College in London or. Bevan was some years unemployed for eventually becom a dispute agent. He took a no Compromise position in the general strike of 1926, continued to be Active in mining poli tics and was elected to Parlia ment in 1929. Subsequently he became Well known As a Man whose Elo Quence was matched Only by his bitterness. He always stood somewhat apart from the other labor leaders associating with Small group of leftist Intel lec citations. Duals in Chelsea. During the. War he expended a Good portion of his energies in violent attacks on Churchill. Showed a marked Talent for and snowed a. Appears in Jaci in be min Bijj ministration his chief work be tn0ugh a popular front ing the National health service. 7_ the ate Gao s he did not. Fare state and a proponent of More rather than less socialism. His break with the Attlee government occurred earlier this eminent to ignore me in Pic year officially it was in protest be of the Post War period University Library against the removal of false arguing As the Only National Teeth and spectacles from the need was for More Antt More free list in fact it represented c Cial ism. When the cold War got a much deeper rift in the has Way in turn Sci his Petu Lant indignation against the uni Ted states. When it became Evi Dent that something would have even the recovery of the la government was required and it is most unfortunate that the new Churchill ministry will have to operate on a narrow margin. Such circumstances Are Cert Ain to place a Premium on poli tical partisanship. And it is right Here that or. Bevan must be considered. From the character of or. Be Van s speeches it would seem fragments of truth minutes of now with that utter significant role his command of the Africa Korps in its Darins drive toward Egypt and the Suez canal which came so dangerously close to Success. It earned him inc name that forms the picture s title but that is the total of attention Tho film pays the matter. Oddest right to the sympathy much less the acceptance of any observer who is acquainted with the a few of a hire of truth. Included. Ami with them Tho film the thin of gathering to Roaches its Point i All pc thru some facts in a Peak Puin irony von them selectively Ami though i in was Nuli disregarding other facts which k d . Those Lew Are equally relevant but run lion passages a r r Rotor la a to counter to the viewpoint Boon Lakon from Ano Ihor developed does not constitute film which had Rommel As its telling the truth no matter How inspiration. Many fragments of truth arc in it was Dos Crl t ii e eluded in the mixture. Groat British documentary it is in this Way that the Story which with her current burdens to step up output sufficiently to make a decisive contribution to this project or. Bevan omitted to explain. In View of the authoritarian highly intolerant cast of or. Be Van s mind it is perhaps hardly surprising that his current hero is the yugoslav dictator. It is not Clear whether he admires Tito primarily for his Independence of Russia for his treatment of parliaments or for his program Mes of More socialism. Carried a Tony by reception in any event or. Bevan was sufficiently carried away by his reception in Dalmatia that in the course of subsequent Lauda tory articles lie even found occasion to Praise or. Churchill for the imagination he had shown in his dealings with the yugoslavs during the War. Added to his other qualities. Or. Bevan apparently possesses a burning ambition to take Over of Field marshal Rommel is told the desert at Best it is one Man s version of rom Mel s qualities and actions which Are most Likely to be found acceptable or praiseworthy now by those whose memories remind them that he once was a danger Ous enemy. These things arc stretched glamorized romanticized Given the full Holly Wood show him As a a e r o treat ment to produce something that amounts almost to idolatry. In the process Tho film quite overlooks the fact that Rommel was regarded As the greatest of All military interpreters of hit Leriss and not merely As a Lead the Mel s forces Alamein for r ing German general up to time of his defeat at Al Alamein that he was through years Hitler s favorite military figure. And it grossly under emphasizes the fact that he joined the plot against Hitler Only alter Ivory Hope of German Victory under the fuehrer had been shattered. After such omissions what re Mains is not the True not an account Lobo swallowed at All much less whole but a Hollywood confection. The film simply does not support the claim made at its outset by Brig Adier Desmond Young As author of the Book the Story of rom on which it is based. Moral repugnance what it was the turning Point in the second world War. Few tilings could in less appropriate than inclusion of these scones in a presentation offered in the now we love Ron Uncle mood Tho desert Fox is spar _ in its Ulton Tion to rom Mel As a military Man of Ariton it is Jiosi ictus usos ladle which drips sloppily its efforts to show him As m awfully decent fellow after a 1 i. Main emphasis goes to his for his wife and fair Ness toward his Mon find How it won their loyalty and Whoso things inter playing with his maturing mistrust of Hitler. All s j that labor s most eloquent and the labor party leadership and upon 01 a challenging figure is still As prime minister him. They arc said rather desert Tho Vun Rirl of the depressed Britain. Until now ins Elio rih to up Lisp of in saying these things Liere is no thought of fanning old angers or insistence upon still for All this emphasis nothing arises to s u k k f s t to it free Peoples any Horo two. Rommel any particular debt not. Even the circumstance that i plotted ultimately and fully against Hitler and paid with his lil i for doing so. While James Mason undoubtedly was cast to give a sympathetic portrayal of h o ill in c i those who recognize the distortions running through. Pic Story arc unlikely to find themselves warming to him. And Luthor Adlor cast As Hitler offers i 11 1 c better than a silly burlesque in his Effort to provide an evil contrast to the Rommel Meta morph sized into a Noble per son. Even after Rejo Ollna a claim of truth advanced in the world of the depressed areas in the 1930 s. Forgetting nothing and forgiving nothing he still chants a hymn of hate still considers his opponents lower than vermin Silil thinks of social measures in terms of class War still conceives the re distribution of wealth As a Mea sure of a fair Sample of his irresponsibility was his remark in 194s that the British press was the most prostituted. In the before Long the same or. Be Van was saying that individually British journalists had higher standards than journalists in other countries. His own government s found no Tate his earlier reckless Cuenun press inquiry had evidence to sub Stan highly insular mind it does not appear that or. Make headway unionists among the have i cause it stirs a Strong sense of s have not Suc i Ora the party locals v needed but in his influence is very Strong. It can hardly be an influence for moderation As and if it grows it is Likely to Force the More responsible leaders into a policy of fighting fire with fire a policy from which the British people stand to lose much in their do Estic and foreign fortunes. Almost deserving our to have this Donc in the name of All on the strength of one Man s poorly supported opinion. One of the Odd features of the film is that it takes no More than a fleeting look at Rommel in what was historically his most t i f for room for mystification remains As to Why Brig. Young a Brills h officer Ever offered it in that Guise. Of there is an explanation Trio film fails to make it evident. By his own account Rig. Young saw Rommel just once and never Mot him and based his Book in if pc. Part on interviews with friends and relatives of the Field mar Shal after the War fairly insubstantial historical . The University chair in icelandic preliminary by Skuli t ments for the university1 i it does Noi Appeal Mai. Afterwards he was brought in Bevan Nail shown much sym to or. Attlee s government and Pathy in communism. His mind to. J n in Ial pt11 3q _ _ 111. Appears in fact to be highly in ing the National health service. A the e he continued to stand with the joke some Oje his Cone Agues tra leftist elements in the party vol in threatened european Foremost advocate of the Wel countries. He is not famous As one who warned of things to come. In the same Way he has tend to ignore the whole world endowment fund is nearing Hie figure originally adopted Al though an additional amount will be presently required. The Library facilities Are adequate for the present. The Olson collection and the Jon Bjarnason Aca Demy Library constitute the nucleus of a working Library. To it there is annually added the gift of publications in ice land authorized in 1939. Moreover the journals Are be ing eked out this year by a Dona Tion of seven Hundred sets from a Clergyman in the West births comprising about volumes. The books of the department will be housed in a suitable Sec is second to none this is indeed no meagre commendation. Since the appointment of professor cud Munsson the Rector has cabled that his selection is he stir enthusiastically acclaimed throughout Iceland. To this Young scholar the party which was bridged Only temporarily when or. Bevan declared a truce for the period of the general election. All returned to parliament though the Attlee govern ment went Down to defeat on october 25, or. Bevan and his principal Ian Mikardo or. Harold Wilson or. Michael foot or. John free Man mrs. Barbara Castle and his wife miss Jennie All returned to parliament in most cases impressively. It will certainly be argued though fal la piously by admirers of the tempestuous welshman that or. Attlee s failure can be attributed to what or. Bevan obviously considered the milk and water programme offered by i the official party leaders in their bid for in addle class sup port. Of Dent. To be sacrificed in the face the re armament programme he quit the Allee government ing that there should be less re-1-----1 armament. In the process of in which also will be kept paintings sculptures and other material manifestations of icelandic culture. This enlarge ment scope is due to the sym pathetic foresight of the presi but also a writer of importance. As one contemplates now the extensive bibliography of h i s writings from js9d to one is naturally fit the areal variety of his subject matter and i he Wido r a n u c of his scholarship. Moreover jul possessed a pellucid clarity of style. His first work of importance was his thesis in Philo Sophy i Hitold Don sym Patske Forstka Csc i Copenhagen Iii l of which he at once sent a per Sonal copy to the writer per haps to remind him of choir talks about Plato and Aristotle. When this essay appeared in French As sym Patrique Patis 1913 it receive Well merited attention. Spirit the first occupant of the at the same time to give his chair As has been announced argument a touch of respectability he argued that funds should be pumped into vast Aid projects abroad though just How a Britain whose production was already inadequate could expect today s scripture let love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain Stran Gers for thereby some have entertained Angels hebrews birthdays Thomas e. Canfield. Winni Peg born Huddersfield York Shire England nov. 6, 1s69, will be professor Finnboga Gudmundsson an honors graduate in icelandic from the University of Iceland. He has already had some experience in teaching languages especially icelandic and latin and has done some textual work in old icelandic. He is rated by the Rector of the University with t h e concur rence of his colleagues As the Best Al around graduate of the department of icelandic. As the Rector has an International recognition As a philologist and is one whose favourable opinion is not easily earned and As the department in icelandic adage of Ovid May to readily applied studies enter the Char Acter Abent studio in he was reared in a Home where culture abounded and where literary preoccupations naturally prevailed. It was the writer s privilege to be personally acquainted with both of his parents the Mother he met at graduation exercises at Reykjavik the father he came to know More than 40 years ago at Oxford. This acquaintance was renewed in 1015, when the Fath or or. Gudmundur Finnbogason seas a visiting lecturer in can or. Finn Bok Ison was t r n 1 of and i spirit we overcame i to limitations of Lii lot. He had to str Jirec Blain an blur Atlon to Pipiu fied in a Field Little understood Liis follow Dixons and Little up priv Ianc a by them and to unable Savo for a Short while o serve his country As a p Fessor in his special subject. In his son to have Hope is exemplified the saying of he Ace from sires Bravo and Good arc born the Brave forts Arcantur Fortilus it b o n at nil events infested some of the Marn act Ristics of his air he will labor with fir Oaler opportunities in one in which he wider Aroa in frequently find traces of his father s loot lie will not is unknown stranger to an in Fame Ada in support of the land but into the midst Otance of icelandic nationality on this continent. Not Only was or. Finn of Ason an excellent lecturer friends who will love to mix their labors with his in an undertaking Whoso consummation will be Nowise mean ;