Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Printed and win Liptz company Jim id. We Nyimi Manitoba clan matter by tha fort it Putman. Ottawa vie Ron Sifton in indent pub intr Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights another Milestone it frequently happens that historical significance of a state e is not appreciated until Long after its enactment to illustrate the British North America act was passed by the parliament of the United kingdom Early in 1867. The actual Bill which received Royal assent in 1867 was not even thought of As a document of great historical interest and significance until 1937, 70 years after its enactment after All the statute appeared in the bound volumes of British and Canadian Law and was readily available to All who cared to read t in 1937. A Young Canadian journalist i Norman Smith of the Ottawa journal happened to be at London and thought it be of interest to see the original British North Amend. One West mins a great mass of Dusty papers in the lumber Tor and of course it is now preserved m a suitable style. This could Well apply to the Bill now before payment at approved by the then sent to London where the Tho to to act at that time was Domi parliament in acini u. Ine a filed entirely in the United kingdom. It Wasi a British since then the Canadian parliament m the fall of 3 through another Resolution asking for an amendment to the b n act which would enable our parliament to Amend from time to time the Constitution of Canada except As Rossl ters coming within the classes of subjects by is a Masnec exclusively to the Legislatures of the provinces yes or closed sea have for n Al months been subjecting swedish ships to very rough treatment. They have arbitrarily declared that their territorial limits extend 12 Miles out to sea and this claim has been enforced in a High handed fashion. But in the present instance the calculation seems to be considerably wider. They Are endeavouring to frighten the germans into Reudi the treaties with the democracies. The ques Tion a p p a r in 11 y is. Simple against whom can the terror Campaign be conducted with the least risk to the soviet Union if this is True the answer is obvious. Of the fully Independent nations bordering the communist Empire Only Sweden is completely isolated. Incidents involving the nationals of other states involve serious clangers but the swedish foreign office can Regis or Little More than angry pro ests. So with a minimum of Isk the swedes can be harried o write an object lesson for the la video germans. But this Campaign of fear May easily miscarry. For the True Les son surely which should be appreciated by the German Public s that in these Days of common St imperialism it is dangerous to walk alone. Winnipeg wednesday june 18, 1952 Protection at All tests As Reg this Resolution was at Westminster As an act. O sent to London and was also enacted amendment to Section 91 of the . It by virtue of this amendment of 1949 that parliament at Ottawa is now dealing with a Bill to Amend the British do so directly and without the s is w Holly within Federal jurisdiction and which therefore tree planting tour during the next month the acadian forestry association will continue its tree planting tour in Manitoba. Its classroom on wheels the railway coach with the big White lettering tree planting Campaign will visit Many Points along the Mam line of the . This is one of the most Valu Able services being performed for Western agriculture As Well As chaos without Para Lui bewilderment in . Special correspondence v Ictoria the political history of Canada whether Federal or provincial holds no parallel to the total chaos now prevailing in the politics of British Columbia. Not even sir John a. Macdonald s famous o u b 1 e prior to confederation compares in double distilled con fusion to present conditions Here. The outcome not Only will decide the immediate future of can Ada s third province but no doubt will substantially affect the trend of National politics in the West As Well. Not even the actual facts much less their results Are Clear after the provincial ballot of june 12. On the first count of the com plex new alternative voting sys Tern one . Candidate and one social credit candidate have been definitely elected by a majority of the first Choice ballots . Candidates Are leading in 20 seats in the legislature of 48 members social creditors in 13 liberals in nine conservatives in revolt of the tories or. Churchill cries alarm London or. Churchill last week sounded what he him self called an alarm about Brit Ain s economic position. He warned the country that it rested on a treacherous varying the metaphor he went on our Rte to or country generally. Thou head is above water but it is not age Breed so Long As this country endures not because dealt with redistribution and decided that Saskatchewan should lose seats instead of five. Not will because Here for the first time Remer Breed the parliament of Canada with Terence he Parit Ament at Westminster amended reference country the British North America another mudstone Irethe achievement of i elfin Canada and especially the skilled and better educator. Sandwell might have cited As an illustration the cover what manner o the saturday review Canada this month the editors or Harold Mclntosh who grew out the Constitution of t act. Here indeed is full self government. Report on Canada More for the Sands of people old and Young have Learned from these Tours How to use Trees to offset the damage caused to Prairie soils by Over zealous land Clearing and disturbance of the natural dram e Structure. They have gained Correct Conception of the place of Trees not Only for beautification of Prairie Homes but for the More vital role they play in pre serving our great heritage a Fertile soil. There will be practical advice be had for the asking on the use of Trees to conserve moisture protect crops from erosion Fri Home beautification and As a a enough to to float. We have to by t. W. K. Of the United states a we mpg was educated1 saturday review devoted the greater part of their june 7 Issue to answering that question for their readers. They have called our Public and Art schools and who until the War was employed As a commercial artist by a Winnipeg firm. In or. B. K. Sandwell. Editor pm a the influence of the United coitus of Tine Toronto on Canada is great and night to set the stage with it is an amiable in sketch of Canada As a National Fyk Lecei Dut at times it May entity in its relation to the incr Isom to us a bit overpowering. Need be then fear As or. J. Liable annual crop to be taken from a farm woodlot operated on a self sustaining basis. The know How worked out by a generation of experience on the Prairies in rebuilding our for ests and farm woodlots will of offered in talks and films. No farm family should miss the classroom on wheels when it stops at the various Points on its National scene. Or. Leo cd conc route. Inconsistency Wim. We have to swim Success fully and we have to swim against the the economic crisis he said was different in form but scarcely less vital than the military crisis of 1940 when France had fallen and Lon Don was being bombed. Behind the general phrases of this speech Lay the first official admission that the government s measures to balance overseas payments and save the Pound Are not going according to plan some tightening of economic policy which had begun to look increasingly lax As the govern ment yielded to various pres sures is now Likely. But the speech also had an other significance. It was in or. Churchill s heroic style. It was direct Call to the nation i warn you that without an intense National realization of our eco nomic position in All parties and by All classes All that we pos sess and All our glories might quite rapidly become nothing. But have been discussing ways of persuading or. Churchill to re sign. It is believed that such a move would have the support of Well Over half of the conservative party in parliament. The immedi ate difficulty however is to find readers. There is no wish to implicate ministers serving under or. Churchill in a move to oust him. On the other hand he is unlikely to pay attention to pres sure coming purely from the Back benches in parliament. No men of sufficient standing in the party yet outside the govern ment have so far been persuaded to take the Lead. Foreign office and concentrate m the Post min Ster responsible mainly for Domestic affairs. To this end he would be Given a sinecure office Ike that of lord president of he Council. The present lord president lord Woolton has been the least successful minister among the prominent conservatives. To give Lis Post to or. Eden would enable him to fall Back gracefully o a minor position. Three and labor in one. Majority question it appears quite impossible tha any party will approach a major Ity in the legislature. The Only question among practical politicians is what party will have the largest group. Both the and social credit parties Hope to occupy this position and to form a government. The libera party under or. Byron Johnson who May Well be Defeated in i own Riding will be fortunate in deed if it emerges from the Fina count with the second larges group. Clearly the Liberal govern ment has been decisively Defeated both by the measurement o elected members and by the to he . Thinks it is entitled to inaugurate socialism against the declared will of the people. Or. Johnson the key figure in he constitutional crisis now uner Way has said Only that he is disappointed. He has not indicated that advice he will give to the Crown. Or. Herbert Anscomb the con Ergative Leader Defeated in his in Riding says there will soon e another election and that his arty must prepare itself for a Evial. This appears quite in since the official con Ergative party As in Alberta May Well have been extinguished permanently As a real political Force in British Colum a. As soon As the final count is finished and the exact standing of the parties known or. John son As Premier must advise the lieutenant governor to retain him in office or to appoint a Suc Cessor. Obviously or. Johnson does not know at this Point what he should do and cannot be expected to know until the count is completed probably about july 10. T the moment no party seems capable of forming a government which could last even a few months. This question will be put to the test without delay. In such a situation the new legislature will have to meet Dur ing the next few weeks and Ren Der its decision. Or. Johnson no doubt will con Fer with other party leaders and sound out his own prospects and theirs. He will be bound to advise the lieutenant governor either to retain him in office until the legislature meets or to Call upon some other Leader who seems to who is an american then arc incr suggests in his guest. Forward and makes a deep that the irresistible toward our Industrial achieve look of american books Perio mems and our natural resources. Decals films broadcasts and Tele our literary and musical a com a Plis ments and possibilities Are summed up by or. Desmond Pacey and miss Lauretta Thistle and or. Horace Button presents a racy travelogue of Canada s Scenic wonders. The writers of these and other articles Are careful to Point out that americans Are amiably Dis threatens to submerge distinct Canadian it does not seem so. No culture can escape the influence of other impinging cultures nor should it wish to do so. Canada is what it is partly because it is fortunate enough to share its Border with the United states. But Canada is not Only a geographical location _ posed toward Canada but is 14 million canadians Little about that beige Blob cannot astonishingly Little on schoolroom of the United states Canada a the vague beige tween brought into Sharp focus be the covers any Book. It the attempt to tighten up the criminal code by the amendment to Section 285 covering Drunken driving would seem to contain an inconsistency that can work injustice to citizens unable to pay fines prescribed under sub Sec Tion 4 under sub Section 4 of Section 285 Drunken Drivers on first of Fence have automatically been receiving a seven Day jail term As Well As having their autos impounded three months and driving licence s suspended six months. Sub Section 4 Ca is intended to As a vague beige Blob Cut of arge and it reaches too off near the in their f a Down to Canadian hearts attempts to bring that vague Blob into focus for their . Readers they marshal an impressive mass of material. Canada or. Merrill Denison re minds us is the world s third largest Only the .b.k. And China Are larger in Trade the third but in Popula Tion Only the Fortieth. Her per capita productivity is phenomenal. She is the world s largest pro Ducer of newsprint Nickel Radium Platinum and Asbestos she ranks second in Wood pulp Alum Winum and or Cherne looks with astonish risks of neutralise the murderous assault by russian military aircraft upon an unarmed swedish flying boat searching for a transport which disappeared in highly suspicious circumstances Over will arouse not Only resentment but also some rather bitter Sec Ond thoughts in Stockholm. Sweden unlike Norway and Denmark decided to remain put Atlantic treaty in our not a liability great latent Powers it is therefore still doubtful whether the movement again or. Churchill will acquire any real Active Force. It May decline temporarily at least if he makes a few More rousing speeches in the next few weeks. Moreover even if or. Churchill was directly pressed to resign his response is highly doubtful. He would go if he genuinely Felt himself to be a liability but unless his health deteriorates he can probably find Good grounds for thinking he is or. Eden s obvious successor at the foreign office would be lord Salisbury who is Best Quali fied for it by ability and experience arid who also enjoys or. Churchill s Confidence. But his health is not of the Best and it is doubtful whether even or. Churchill would think that in these times a foreign Secretary can sit in the House of lords instead of the commons. The More Likely candidate is there fore or. Harold Macmillan the present minister of housing. He has the ability needed at the for eign office and his Transfer would make it easier for the government to Retreat from its present Over ambitious housing policy a Retreat that is Essen tial if a sharper dose of disinflation is to be used to improve exports. Pular vote. On the first coun with a few Remote polls not yet reported the Liberal party has secured about 24 per cent of the popular vote the conservative official opposition 17 per cent., the . 30 per cent and so Cial credit 26 per cent. T will be seen at once that cover the Driver who May not be drunk but is found driving while to drive is impaired through use of alcohol. However in the Case of the Les charge the Law Calls for a Fine i first offence of not less than or imprisonment for not More than three the prac Tice has been to impose a f me of with a 30-Day, jail option with provision also for impound ing the Auto and suspending the driving licence. The Man charged under sub Section 4 a with impairment of his ability to drive which not not Only in these islands but throughout the British Empire and the Commonwealth have Only to be roused to conquer. We have never been beaten yet and now we fight not for vain glory or material pomp but for our survival As an Independent self supporting and consequently self respecting revival badly needed in such phrases As these or. Churchill offered the moral leadership through difficult times the spirit of determination and Hope that is the greatest of All his qualities As a statesman. The re Vival was badly needed. In recent months such leadership has been sadly Ever since his visit to Washington and Ottawa at the beginning of the year or. Chur chill has seemed unusually dispirited. His speeches have been Brilliant debating performances but not inspiring Calls to the a naturally anxious to be prime minister at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth h next year. And As his last speech has shown he still has great latent Powers of leadership to use Iran emergency. He might Well for a time dig in his toes against the strongest pressure for his resignation. The rebels themselves Are sufficiently doubtful of Success to have an alternative plan. This is that or. Churchill should remain prime minister but that he. Should be persuaded to refashion his administration. The main proposa1 depends on economic situation it is quite possible that nothing will come of All these proposals. The Power of or. Churchill s critics depends on How the eco nomic situation develops and on whether the threat of War appears to increase. But it is highly significant that moves against or. Churchill and for a re shuffle of his government should be made so Early in its life. The prime minister and his col leagues have a great Deal to do if they Are to get both the coun try and themselves safely through it will be seen at Onte socialism has been overwhelmingly Defeated with less than a third of the approving it and some 70 per cent., rejecting it. The . Popular vote on the first Choice ballots actually has dropped perhaps by two per cent from its total in the 1949 election. Socialism has made no Yards in this province but it has benefited temporarily from the splintering of the anti socialist parties. The first stage of the Ballo count has left All the party Lea Ders bewildered. Social Cre Dit which has not even chosen a Leader has blandly offered to form a government. Or. Harold Winch Leader of the ., obviously is ready to accept office but so far has confined himself to denouncing the ing system which he says is designed solely to keep him out of Power. This can Only mean that have the Prospect of carrying a vote of Confidence. Perhaps no Canadian prime minister has Ever faced a More baffling question or. Johnson s position will be peculiarly difficult it after the de sea t of his government he him self is Defeated in his Riding of new Westminster and cannot enter the new legislature. Party split birthdays mrs. Colin h. Campbell o.b.e., Winnipeg born Palermo Hal ton county ont june 18, 1862. H. Knowles m.p., born los Angeles California june 18, 1908. A revised study the great plague the Miracle of modern Medicine and sanitation is Tion. He seems now to have Felt once again that the safety of the coun try depends on the spirit that he can do More than anyone to create. And perhaps he has sensed also that the Unity of the i government and the conservative at the time Cou but under the ment at our country which Init incl with out and out these Days of restrictions red was brought to Bear upon threats the tape planned economies and economic rigidity shows a sur plus for six years in the National budget which welcomes Immi Grants which Abandons Exchange and import restrictions and which places its Faith in free competitive but the saturday review s re port on Canada does not hesitate to mention the More disturbing aspects of Canadian life. Or. Sand Well who writes As a Canadian looks with concern at the Drift of population to the United states _ i or. I Northern countries by the soviet government. In the Case of nor Way and Denmark this russian Campaign merely reinforced the determination of the two Parlia ments to find their shield in col Active Security. In Sweden on the other hand it was argued that such a course would be unnecessarily provocative that prudent self interest counselled against taking sides that Neu travism had worked Well in two great wars and that the russians would respond to a policy of the More driving. This is what this country gains by its Liberal immigration policy it loses in a very Large measure by its failure to hold its own citizens. When the difference Between the Standard of living in Canada and the . Gets too High it sets up a dangerous Drift away from Canada. That Drift is unfortunately highly selective Tak ing away careful Friendship. It is not improbable that Many of the swedish people now shouting we will see Stalin hanged Are the same people who a Short time ago were so thoroughly convinced that it was possible to do business with the same dictator. The soviets determined apr patently to make the Baltic a quor can escape a jail term pro Viding he can pay if not he must go to jail for 30 Days or four times As Long As the Man convicted under sub Section 4 of serious charge of drunk obviously an anomaly that needs to be corrected in. The interests of common sense As Well As common Justice. From the Golden books from the Piccolomini by Samuel Taylor code Edge Stan d dig nity tis soon forgotten max., by what Road we ascended. Believe me. Many a Crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning resignation. Of or. Churchill s handling of his administration first began to develop within the conservative parly about two months ago. It has since grown conservatives keep their internal dissensions pretty Well to themselves. The teat volume of criticism of or. Churchill has hardly been reflected at All in Public. Outwardly today s scripture thou Rrt not a god that hath pleasure in shall evil dwell with thee. Spa. 5 4. Artly illustrated Fey a revised study of the great plague of London 1665 by w. G. Bell. Most people think of the great plague in terms of Defoe s Journ Al of the plague years. But re search proves feat Defoe s work is largely imaginative. O t h e r s see the plague through the eyes of Pepys who lived and moved about London at the time. Yet Pepys references Lack a sense of horror and of fear. Of course in those times London and other Large cities were never free of plague. In Shakespeare s time a Long lifetime before the great plague the theatres in London were regulated by the number of deaths from the plague. Or. Bell s Book upsets a Good Many set opinions about the great plague. It is. Commonly said in history books that the plague was ended by the great the party remains As United Ever. Yet in fact there is within it a revolt More powerful than Bevan has yet succeeded in stimulating on the other Side. If the labor party where members always advertise their differences As critical of or Attlee As the conservatives Are privately of or. Churchill everyone would be that split in various d ass i d e it groups credible suffering of the London ers of that Day. The Normal population of greater London including the liberties and the adjacent parishes was then 000 but very Large numbers of people fled the City in. June when he epidemic was beginning. The Normal death rate in greater London at the time was 350 persons per week in itself a staggering figure. In the last week of june 1665 there were about deaths of which 640 were ascribed to the. Plague. Consider what followed by the end of july the death rate was 3000 per week. In the last week of August persons died and in each of the first two weeks of september the deaths exceeded or More than per Day. Fire which Burnt Down London including the first St Paul s Cathedral fact is otherwise. The plague ran its course and had died out before the fire. This was the common this was the plague proper. But it had been presen Early in the year continued with diminishing Marta Ity after september. In 1665 we Over persons died in Lon Don. The death rate was scarce less than one in three for at Leas had left the town for the there ,.had been plague 1647 As severe As in. 1665. To. Read of London in the grip of the epidemic is to realize1 riot what strides Rhaye country. No effective measures wer taken to combat the plague be cause none was known. Sue hospitals As existed were terme pest the City Regul the inmates of an 3 be locked m. And kept indoors until they died or were free of it appears probable that both or. Johnson and or. Anscomb will resign their leaderships if the final count shows them person ally Defeated. The Liberal party contains no adequate successor to or. Johnson. His first lieu tenant attorney general Gordon Wismer has broken with the pre Mier on the Cardinal Issue of hos Pital insurance has split the party and probably of himself assured its defeat. While or. Wismer might claim the party leadership if he were himself elected in Vancouver Centre he is not leading the poll on the first count and May be Defeated. After or. Johnson and or. Wismer there Are no outstanding Liberal leaders. Or. Winch is secure in his . Leadership for the moment anyway though his party like ithe liberals and conservatives is deeply divided Between the right and left wings. The social credit party has yet to choose a Leader. In the recent Campaign it was managed by Rev. E. G. Hansell an Alberta politician who says he would consider the acceptance of the premiership. The thought of an outsider taking Over Brit ish Columbia appears fantastic to most British columbian. Or. W a. C. Bennett a conservative he disease. The killer was the bubonic Lague. The Bacillus which causes is spread from infected animals rats by Para Tes. The arose from Otting refuse rubbish and filth Oward the end the londoners believing the disease was air Orne built Large fires to cleanse he air and thus set fire to the Ity itself. Yet before this Hap ened the disease was already vanishing doubtless because Hose still living had become immune to it. In the London of 1665 carts tumbled through the streets by night to the accompaniment of he cry bring and even today the tragedy of Hose months lives on in Church Yards like that of St. Giles which three to four feet above Thev natural level of the ground because of the mass burying. Dwellers in a modern City with its skilled medical services and its great hospitals canno conceive of conditions such As prevailed in London in 1665. Tha persons could perish in greater Winnipeg in the space of a single year from any cause or group of causes is simply unimaginable. Yet that is what actually happened in London in politician who broke with his party to accept social credit and who has been definitely elected to the legislature will make a Strong bid for the party Leader ship and certainly Hopes to be come Premier. The future beyond superficial confusions of the present crisis the larger question is the future indeed the preservation of the old parties. Only a Miracle under new leadership can Hope to maintain the conservative party As a going concern in British Columbia. Its position in control of the right May Well have been taken Over permanently by social credit. For the Liberal party the Clear and present danger ii that in another Early election the voters will be polarized Between extreme right and left by the social credit party and the . With a majority of British flocking to social credit of avoiding socialism. The problem of liberalism therefore is not so much to retain office against the recordist will of the voters but to retain its position As the Middle of the Road party Able after another election to unite a divided pro Vince or at least to keep Liberal ism As a permanent and powerful Force in the politics of British Columbia provincial and Federal ;