Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 19, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights leg printed and published by Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Street Winnipeg Manitoba. Authorized at second class matter by the Post department Ottawa Victor Sifton r. S. Malone president i publisher vice Presl Dent Grant Dexter we. Lord editor general manager Winnipeg monday May 19, 1952 Forest conservation convincing the Canadian Public of the need for proper Forest conservation practice is no easy task. The reason is obvious. Nearly 35 per cent of our total land area is still covered with Bush or Forest. There has always been so much of it rela Tive to our Small population that it is easy to feel it will last forever no matter what is done or left undone in the Way of conservation. By and Laige we have not been greatly alarmed by the fact that Forest fires ate greedily into our Forest resources last year and that of them Are estimated to have been caused by human carelessness in forested areas. In the past 10 years nearly 2 million acres yearly have been burned Over. Last year we burned 400 million Young Trees that should have re stocked the nation s forests. Each year fires waste enough Timber to construct five room houses. This goes on de spite the fact that canadians Are now wholly dependent on this inflammable raw material for their jobs in Forest industries. To a canadians Are beginning to learn however that although Large areas of Virgin Forest remain misuse of any substantial part of our forests especially those situated near settled areas or higher up on the same watersheds carries Ines capable penalties. The deluding of land unsuitable for farming leaves Large derelict tracts that no longer perform their natural function in water storage and drainage. Beyond this wasteful cutting of forests and farm woodlots generally coupled with other improvident practices in the use of soil destroy or partially destroy the natural base for maintaining water tables contributing to excessive Spring flooding soil erosion and other likewise in the great pulpwood and lumber regions which do not directly affect settled areas there has been tremendous Timber wastage and As yet Little reforestation is being done compared with what has been used up. Despite the missionary Zeal of such bodies As the Canadian forestry association and the Good work being done by forestry services As Well As some of the paper and Timber companies it cannot be said that we have More than begun to Lay the base for proper conservation practice in Canada. One Good Forward step was the Canadian forestry act passed in 1950 which provides Federal assistance to provinces in certain conservation work and in making base inventories of present resources. But Canada still has a Long Way to go in comparison with the careful forestry management of Many european countries. We should heed the frugal practices of these old countries which have survived when others have perished because they Learned they must preserve their forests and soils. In these countries Forest management is based on Long experience and scientific research. Forests and woodlots Are managed on a sustained yield basis in such a Way that they yield a continuous valuable crop. There Are Many examples in Europe Asia and on this continent of the breakdown of land values that occurs when forests arc wantonly destroyed. One of the main contributing factors for example in the present acute water Supply prob Lem of the . Was the spoliation of that country s Forest lands As is made Clear by the president s water report that was summarized on this Page a year ago. Canadian exploitation of forests has been accelerated by the North american building Boom the growing shortage of Timber in the . And other countries and the Good Export markets resulting. But painful experience in countries where forests have been wasted should warn us that a Boom Prosperity for the time being will never compensate for the havoc that can result in time through wasteful exploitation of Forest lands. Those Are some thoughts canadians should keep in mind not Only during the current Forest conservation week b u t during every other week in the year As Well. Position of this City and the need for action in carrying through defence plans prepared by civil defence coordinator major general Penhale it is understood or. C. Rhodes Smith the at Torney general is preparing to make a recommendation to the provincial Cabinet to provide civil defence funds for certain areas including greater Winni Peg. Or. Smith is to be commended for his realistic attitude in this matter. It is very easy to be apathetic about civil defence. War has always been Remote from Manitoba. There have never been any bombs dropped Here. The great majority of people have never seen the results of Aerial bombing. Countries that have been under air attack need no prompting to carry through proper defence measures. Had it not been for the efficient civil defence organization in Britain during the last War that country would in All probability have gone Down under air Blitz attacks in the earlier part of the War and South eng land might easily have been brought to a standstill in 1944 by the a bombs. Today there is the much More deadly atom bomb to consider. And a glance at a hemispheric map will bring Home the exposed position of this City which is on the route to and from probable bases in Russia to main targets in the . This would bring in vaders Over or near Winnipeg. And under the hazards of mod Ern flying it would not always be possible for invading air units to reach their objectives. Rather than return to bases with bomb loads they might Well choose Winnipeg a vital rail and distribution Centre for Western Canada As a secondary target. It will be too late to try to set up civil defences after the fall. There has already been too much delay and indifference with regard to this now primary defence need. False fears every Canadian knows that the Issue of communism has been blown into fantastic and alarming proportions in the United states. Yet what Small justification there is for the gusts of fear and hate now sweeping through Washington. The Federal Bureau of investigation has reported that the communist party after 30 years of activity and propaganda has Rushma River near Northern railway decided to sex Inu Raiciu to. Tend its original Prairie line to diversifying and strengthening our air. Mather proceeded to say that the tonnage carried by the . In 1951 was Over 60 Mil lion tons a new record and that there is every indication that in the future traffic will reach much higher this led or. Mather to make the statement which future historians of transportation will note with great interest railway mileage is no longer in excess of needs. The develop ment of Canada has in fact caught up with railway construct the cast and to the Pacific coast the grand trunk its original line in the East Westward across the Prairies to Prince Rupert the Laurier government to build the National transcontinental from Winnipeg to Moncton and to extend the inter colonial Westward to Montreal Ever since t h is great Extension in rail lines this country has had to contend with the problem resulting from Over expansion. The first and most painful phase of the problem was the bankruptcy of the grand trunk and the Canadian North Ern their acquisition by the can Adian parliament and in 1919 the welding of these bankrupt prop erties along with government lines into the National railways. From then on the continuing and haunting refrain of All Royal commissions parliamentary committees and experts on the rail Way problem has been that we would have to carry the excess mileage until our popu lation caught up with our facilities. The rate of growth of our population in recent years has been rapid. In 1931, for example there were 10 millions of canadians. Today there Are some 14 millions. But production has advanced much More rapidly. Or. Mather put it this Way defence purposes in Manitoba. During the past 12 years a period in which population i n full us i. Creased by 25 per cent., the phys would of course be greater Leal volume of production of Winnipeg. It has been estimated goods and services has nearly that a City the size Winnipeg doubled. Might have to face up to As Many this growth has in the main As casualties and w i d e been based upon the development spread destruction of property of Canada s most abundant asset under modern air attack. It is nor vast and varied wealth of vital that a share of this fund natural resources. Since the War be made available to round out this has taken place at an in and maintain the necessary civil prec dented rate. Some of t h e defence system in this area Par present projects notably Iron titular by As greater Winnipeg has Ore in Quebec and Labrador Oil been designated a major Caria in the Prairie provinces and the Dian target area production of British recognizing. The vulnerable Columbia Are among the larg est in our history. It is upon such an Ever Widen ing base that Many industries of Canada catches up a statement historic ii in Man. 4 j Ortance appears in the address Canada Are being built. The rapid delivered recently by president growth of Canadian Industry is a. Mather at the annual meet indicated by the increase of Apins of the . Proximately 90 per cent in pm Ever since the old Canadian ploy ment in manufacturing since me of Poison of treachery As Well As the Swift stroke of 1939. This marked expansion is sabotage. But democracy mus never fight communism with weapons of repression or discrimination which destroy the Spir it of Freedom no one can expect with any Confidence that tie bludgeoning of opinion in Washington will first line defence As a result of a recent con Ference of provincial ministers on civil defence the Federal g o y Ern ment has set up a sum of million to Aid local civil defence organizations. This has been made contingent on the provinces Matching Federal funds Dollar for Dollar. The Money is to be apportioned on a per capita basis and in line with strategic necessity. Under the plan this province could secure from the Dominion for approved civil de Fence organizations which could make available for civil the primary target in Manitoba in the event of hostile air attack Shipley renewing the . Charter a opposition to monopoly surprising development in the United kingdom in the past six month s is the apparently widespread opposition to the ., state monopoly radio broadcasting system continuing in its present form. It has always been assumed that the people of the United King Dom were Well Content with the . System of broadcasting. The . C. Was created in 1922, 30 years ago and was largely the Model for . System. . Has been held up the world Over As an example of what radio broadcasting May do when Given a state monopoly. The . Charter expired on december 31 last. The question our Canadian indeed the of de future to a leaded Ridge by sir Lvi c h reported of the b about members in a coun try of Over 150 millions. That is an infinitesimal fraction of one " per cent. At that rate of Progress it would take the communist party More than years to gain will be danger can hardly be called British present form in f or not be acted charter was extended unu1 june 30 does ment in the interval. _ t have just enough religion to hate each other. In Washington today Only too Many people have just enough Faith in Freedom to ear each other. The capital has moved a Long Way from Jeffer i democracy which o Welcome All error of opinion where reason is left free to combat it. The United states has known these panic moods before. It knew them during the French revolution in the squalid excite ment of the Spanish american War and in the aftermath to the first world War. It has always the Victory of second thoughts to some May appear delayed now. Yet it will come. From the Golden books from Day is done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow the Clay is done and the darkness Falls from the wings of As a Feather is wafted Down Ward from an Eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the Village through the rain and the Mist and a feeling of sadness comes o or me that my soul cannot resist of sadness and Long ing that is not Akin to pain and resembles sorrow Only As the Mist resembles the rain. Come read to me some poem some simple and Heartfelt Lay that shall soothe this restless feeling and banish the thoughts of Day. Birthdays Joe Mitchell Souris _ born Leith May .19. 1881. N de. Note Cable despatches announce that the Churchill government has decided that the . Charter should be renewed and that appropriate legislation will be submitted to parliament. The exact terms of the renewal Are not yet Clear and probably will not be until the legislation is made Public. It would appear How Ever that the renewal will make some provision for com Mercial sponsorship in the future in British television port Unity of considering the re lated questions of monopoly ver sus Competition and of finance by licence fee versus Advertis ing in broadcasting. Indeed few things Are stranger than the policy was re nit Way in which this vast new ser Royal commission vice of education information William Bev and culture which now exercises so Strong an influence on the daily life of the Public grew into its present shape with the very minimum of Public discus Sion of whether it was the right shape. Expressions of horror by after Only 30 years any fundamental change in the tax level of or. British radio broadcasting sys come. Spec ability on its Side and some its chief sup rambers of the and some of the leading and most respected of British industries and Promin ent radio executives. Still More curious is the fact that the advocates of a competitive radio system Are Basing their Case not upon any demerits in the . S programmes or policies or expected immediate advantages from Competition but chiefly up on fundamental principle. There is quite evidently a deep instinctive feeling among wide sections the British people that a state monopoly of radio broadcasting is basically unsound. Movement made evident this movement has been made evident in Public addresses and by scores of letters to newspapers. For example the London times correspondence columns has Seldom lacked letters on this question for several months. A recent number of the Lon Don economist says of this controversy it is the first time that the lciu1jj cd Vii j 1.0 1ujk a Lull la w j in. Of the expressions of horror at his imprisoned in an Iron the impiety of questioning its pot has re appeared on the a eternal tightness could not coast. The newspapers More Heartfelt if it were the As newspapers in the East commercial broadcast ing. There is no need to deride their motives which Are As sin Cerely attached to the Public in Terest As anybody else s. Nor should they be written off As peo Unity the two commercial firms that have taken the Lead in the matter Bear two of the Tern before june 30. It is also in perpetuity removal by taxation still a Means test by c. A. B. A w a when is no maintained a built in Means lest Means test still a Means where there is no Public Humilis test James Sinclair parliamentary Lide to finance minister Abbott Tias proved to a dazed House of commons just How the govern ment s skilled tax experts have merged the two into one. Or. Sinclair was dissecting the mathematics of or. Ross that Cher the . Advocate of a Cut off of family Al Lowance and old age pension cheques to income earners of to and up. A kind government explained or. Sinclair had devised a tax system which counter balanced Universal payment of baby Bonus and no Means test old age pen Sion cheques. Paper Tvorik if a Parent who did not want to take the family allowance cheques had been allowed the Choice under the first plan of taking instead the 5400 exemption for dependent children it would have meant an enormous amount of paper work both taxation and health and welfare departments. The income tax officials had fixed that. They had so arranged a tax system that while everyone with children must take the baby Bonus cheques or lose Money actually those with Good incomes pay much More taxes for the cheques than the less Well off recipients. He took As an example or. Thatcher s own income As quoted by a Canadian Magazine putting or. Thatcher in the category of the 60 per cent income tax Levy. Under the old exemption snout they of i ice under the old exemption a. Pie of no standing in the com for dependents or. Thatcher tax sources he would be paying hip two commercial could have claimed that sum for about More than he would his one child. But because of the have been paying u n do r the Means test plan before to that meant said or. Sinclair leu i Uci jut w vain i a. P Clear that the weight of opinion he pays More tax aside rests definitely with the . From his other taxes for the the opposition while Strong and privilege of receiving a year growing is a new and wholly in family allowances. There unlocked for Factor in the Situa said or. Sinclair we action tally Are making the Rich pay therefore it goes without say toward this great social measure ing that the . Charter will even More than they did. Under be renewed. But it does seem the first year s plan where there doubtful if the renewal will be was this open arbitrary Means it is now or. Sinclair tation was not Good because the taxpayer would have been pay ing the tax just the Samo if he did not get the cheques. Or. Sin Clair said that was just the Point. Or. M. X Collwell . Leader thought t h e argument would have been better if there were no ceiling on the 2 per cent special income tax Lor old age pensions. Even for the said or. Sinclair there must be some measure of jus an old favorite reports Phat Cardinal Canadian j. Folk figure the boy with the boy in the pot by Bruce Hutchison thirty nine articles that were under discussion. It is no Small tribute to the Way the . Has been run that it should enjoy such support. The forces of criticism How Ever Are not weak. They come from two main sources. On the one hand there is a Small but to judge by the available signs growing body of people who As a matter of principle fear and detest monopoly in anything that concerns food for the mind. It is certainly significant How Many people who have had direct Contact with the . Either As salaried officers or As broadcasters Are of this Way of thinking. To them the fact that the has been such a Well meaning and Well doing Mono poly Only makes it the More dangerous since it lulls the general Public into indifference to the insidious Long Range effects of leaving such a powerful instrument of Public instruction in the hands of a single institution. Secondly there is the num have been doing for a Hundred years recently discovered this unfortunate youth with his cranium imprisoned in Metal which must be removed by a plumber. How often has he been seen flitting through Canadian life How Many plumbers and Hack saws have been required to free him when will he be finally liberated not for a Long time yet. Not so Long As Canada is a nation. For the boy and the pot Are immortal. They have a perpetual existence outside t h e narrow confines of fact and far beyond the imprisonment of Metal. This is a modern Industrial nation which Long since i a s dispensed with such utensils and yet after a Century of Progress there always swims out of the Depths of the Canadian subconscious the pot and within it the helpless it is lilt of Wiilie a r general Public As distinct from Eric ally m Ore powerful group of Small bands of particularly in people who see no Terestea persons has had an of indeed much safeguard for the silent general a Cross the ambitions of the Republican candidates in the United states Falls the Shadow of general Macarthur. For him self the general has renounced All claims to supreme office. But what would he say if he came to the convention As one of the chief speakers it now is being said he will speak the same eve Ning As or. Herbert Hoover addresses the convention. Does anyone imagine that he would discover the magnanimity to. Support1 general Eisenhower s candidature the beneficiary of doubtless be senator Taft. In. The meantime governor Warrenv has protested against Mac Artrur be Iii Sidere a. As one of. Mention s major speakers. Or. Stassen on the contrary has pledged himself if elected As president to summon general Macarthur on a triumphant mis Sion to the White House and give him some important military duties. During All this commotion the Enigma continues to Brood mysteriously in the Waldorf Astoria. General Macarthur As or. Mar quis Childs has observed re Mains what he Long has a Large and impressive body sur rounded almost entirely by Gen eral Whitney. Today s scripture .1 will give peace in the land and be shall lie Down and none shall make you inner mind which tells us so much about the inner mind of the nation. Professor a. R. M. Lower our but at least or. Eugene for sey who alone stands Between the British Empire and dissolution will Rush to the Gallant boy s defence recognizing him As a last survivor of our old Colo Nial Days As an Iron link with our Antiquity As one of those in tangible tokens which or. St. Laurent is constantly destroying. Speculations must be x left to the expert speculators. The boy and the pot remain in destructible and eternal because they have never existed and still Are More True than fact possess ing the ultimate truth of fiction. Yet the myth must have some factual origin. Somewhere at some time there must have been a boy in a pot. A Friend of mine a Learned antiquarian has spent a lifetime of research into this mystery and is convinced by his investigations that the original pot was carried by the United Empire it has been widely accepted among investigators that inc original pot was the property of general Brock because its decoration of Rosy cupids bore some superficial resemblance to Trio design of the Brock family s China. The better authorities Dis miss this theory As untenable. The two designs though some what similar Are not identical. The cupids Are in the wrong pos Ture the roses of the wrong color. Nevertheless we May be sure that in spirit at least the boy in the pot stood beside Brock on the slopes of Queenston Heights on that morning when the Amer cans were driven Back across the River. Moments of crisis Jol i Lulu. Wili Hii Al 11 boy with his grim message his loyalists out of the american a a i to n i mute Appeal h i s ghostly re minder of the past. Revolution and into the Wilder Ness of. Upper Canada. For As the earliest records agree this was no Ordinary pot. Its painted ornament of cupids and Pink the historian and the Psychol Rose which Are always men Gist May Well Ponder this Mon toned in the documents Trout and pregnant myth pr0ves that it was no in Miira about the _. .1____ i a family heirloom with which some impoverished family of professor a. R. M. Lower our l lists not Bear to part Reading historian who regard Salt wag too precious to be to was too precious to be spectacle of modern american rebels. I such exquisite distaste the with May Well discern in the potted boy the Symbol of our National loneliness and frustration our ignorance and our blindness. Or. M. J. Caldwell i have no doubt will see Here a vision of Canada captive in the Iron Laws of capitalism and will regard the pot As another debasing import from the United states. At any moment we May expect to read in the Montreal Gaz Ette that the deluge of foreign pots is threatening to destroy Canadian Industry while the Ottawa journal remarks in its bouncing Boyish prose that one can expect nothing better under a Liberal government. War of 1812 through what hardships dangers and bloodshed it was transported into the Jungles of the Niagara country we can Only imagine but it appears distinctly on the record during the War of 1s12. This As the antiquarian observes is highly significant when Canada is in danger of in Vasion there stalks out of the Northern silence the b o y in his pot proclaiming to the world that Canada though helpless confused and Blind is yet unconquerable even with a Hack saw. Unhappily in his dark cell the boy could not see that Victory he still cannot see the great nation which has grown up around Lim in the succeeding Century but he has always stood behind he Canadian people in moments of crisis he always reappears in in e of trouble he always announces with a metallic Clang Ike the notes of a great Bell that the inarticulate and myster Ous life stuff of Canada will endure forever. No wonder that the american Nader could not conquer such a spirit for it was invisible it could not be reached even by a plumber with a blow Torch and t still bobs up proud and rep Lant through the mists of time. No wonder that the cannot understand the of Canada when it is so disguised by a harmless pattern of cupids and roses and yet possesses the strength of steel. No wonder that even professor lower can never quite grasp the Canadian dream when it is so secretly guarded when the pot slips forever through his Fin Gers. No wonder that or. Forsey de Spairs of Canadian loyalty when it is so deep powerful and sensitive that it must pot and caricature itself lest it appear too naked and shameless before the world ;