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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 10, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Victory for Trade much has been said and written of a tendency in the United states to raise tariffs. The restrictions by Congress of imports of Dairy products is a Case in Point. The official protests lodged or Washington by the governments of the United kingdom Italy arid other nations and the grave alarm of responsible publications throughout the free world All testify to the peril of a revival protectionism in the United states. But while those who Are prejudiced against the United tales never weary of pointing to this peril of playing the of Cassandra few note the developments which contradict r fears and give encouragement to advocates of Freer Trade. One such development is of Especial importance. For some past a Large number of applications for Tariff increases Winnipeg free press a Rind and published Winni pcs press company limited. 300 Cartton Street. Winnipeg. Manitoba. Authorized club matter by the Collict department. Ottawa. Victor Lipton president it Grant Dexter editor k. S. Malone Vlot pm Dent we. Lord general manager Winnipeg thursday july 10, 1952 stood there was a certain great statesman and he came Forth regardless of his this gentle Man reported now is the plague most cruel and the soldiers and the people suffer very bitterly nor can they rest from their fear Day or his solution was that an emissary should be sent to the great taoist suggesting that he come Down Pineir make our trouble known to god so that he May drive out this plague and save the never a word in these times to explain that it was the United states which with Devilish ingenuity was dropping germs about. Of course it was seven ions has been reflected in the protest notes already Renej ecu Hundred years ago and plagues but now the . Commission has delivered judgment on not new then in China no. Motor in doing so Lalas have they the Cen to is flit Loo have been under consideration by the . Tariff commission. Tito fear Luu the commission might approve of these Apphia the protest notes already referred but will it hold them in november from Mountain and Call a mass seven Days and thus can his for we first these applications As rejected the plea for higher tariffs. While motor cycles Are not a Large item of International Trade they were regarded As a test Case before the com i Virv _ Ustiy i. Had the commission approved the application the president have disallowed it. But the commission. A been a Clear indication that it is determined to support the present protectionist drive. Instead the com Mission refuses to touch the Tariff rates fixed by the Geneva Irac agreements to use the escape clause by which tariffs Mav be raised if they cause damage to United states Indus tie s thus before an impartial tribunal looking solely at the Fonovic facts the Low Tariff policy of the Truman government has won an important Victory. Turies have rolled. 3 Likely that the reported spread of infectious disease in China to Correct. What must cause even in that ancient country which has witnessed such s Long scroll of re corded years is the Endicott explanation. Fifteen other similar higher tariffs on col. Harry Mullins the death at Toronto of col. Harry Mullins for Many years a resident of this province and a Pioneer the Prairies will be noted with sadness by All who 1 i Izui 1 my i it i j maj invt 1 i i a i .jn.w. A or has bicycles. Bone China tobacco pipes watches Ana knew him co Mullins was in i it Tylnn c he i _. _ _ f i i 1, r pending and the commissions de be awaited with anxiety. But at least the commis the Case of foreign motor cycles which sup the United states Market that it refuses to protect a single United states various minor visions will sum has shown in ply about a third of the Geneva system to of this decision can Best be judged if the an opposite verdict Are considered. Had the Tariff prepared to strike a blow at Geneva m this meaner almost solely to penalize British exports Britain and her european traders might Well have lost heart in their at empt to earn More dollars As they have been urged to do by a unfed states government. The psychological and Pohn the no results of such a ruling would have been far More serious intrinsic effects on the British motor Cycle a Dusty. Cycles could thus be penalized what foreign exports _ _ of the Rhian the intr in if Motot would be Geneva Tariff rates we Safe from sudden interference in disregard of Xor turn Vorm Herloss. As such publications As the new York times and the journal of Commerce have pointed out. A Campaign is getting under Way in the protectionist encouraged by its Success in imposing. G Dairy re Viu cd states. ions in naked violation of the Geneva agreements and ,.___ protectionists not Only Wilt Defiance of the protectionist lit present applications before the Tariff commission it non present others. They have influential friends a among them senator Taft. Who has generally Trie Congress. Supported All moves to Rai Dairy restrictions. The Manchester guardian observes m we a Cycle decision the forces of Trade and protectionism 1 i i in i in raise the Tariff and who voted Tor the welcoming the a cig i j Inelve balanced in Washington and their equilibrium could be by u. His 91st year he would have been 91 on August 27. Thus his memory spanned the life of this country since confederation in 1s67. Born in England near the Der of Wales he came to this country in 1871 was educated at Lindsay. Ontario married Annie Langrill of Toronto he is survived by two married daughters and came West in the Early so s. He was a Cowboy and Rose to be the cattle trader and manager of the Large Cochrane ranch in Southern Alberta. Later col. Mullins went into the cattle business on his own transferring his Headquarters to Manitoba. His interest in Public affairs led to his candidature in the conservative interest in the provincial seat of Russell in the general election of 1900. His Leader was Hugh John Macdonald Only son of sir John a. Col. Mullins was elected but his interests led him to contest the Federal seat of Marque lie in 1904. He met defeat. In the first great War his knowledge of the cattle business brought him a colonel s commis n o the mortgage Ami companies association of British . To world wars and the inter Lehat the search for Man made Sec ,.l t it a Sitf a c i five t search for Security _ vening depression have left a legacy of fear and have Inten-1 Eif cd the search for social Security. This search for social Security has been accelerated since the War we sense arid see it increasingly encompassing us. It has its roots deep in the hearts and minds of the labor and the agricultural groups. To them the search for Security has always been Stark and Rea i. In this search lie the roots of most of the Radi Cal changes which have taken place in our philosophy of the junctions and responsibilities of government. The most insidious course is the far reaching control which the government has assumed Over the redistribution of the National income. This has been done Unity in itself inevitable As life May perhaps lie least in what appears to be the obvious direction. Just As inevitably each poli tical Folly has its own economic consequences so each succeed ing step taken to provide some degree or other of Security for some Section of our Economy out country or our people gives Evi Dence of the necessity of corresponding governmental restrictions policing and enforcement. If carried to its logical conclusion material social Security can become a hollow Victory if it is exacted at the sacrifice of the reality of True Freedom. Any con vict will confirm this for he is at the end of the Long line of various degrees of Complete Security in which there is no Freedom and the use of the progressive smallest Bei pics arc tax and by Large payments from the Public Treasury to various groups in the Economy based on some so called such pay ments Are old age pensions unemployment Relief family allow ances agricultural subsidies and so Forth. Direct reflection this is a direct reflection of the search for material Security which was earlier voiced in the communist Creed of from each Combine charged tire and tube Industry t e manufacture of tires and _ tubes is by far the most important sector of the Canadian rubber Industry indeed the value of such sales since the War has exceeded the value of All other rubber products in this country. 1947. Or. Smith could not recall whether he had made actual changes in these minutes. That they gave concern to various tire executives prior to the review is however evident from the follow regarding i ices and discounts As this might get into the hands of certain people who would then while these goods Are pro eng comments Ducco in a great Range of sizes and to various specifications tread rubber thickness number of plies file they fall generally under three Heads passenger bus and i Ruck and implement and tractor tires and tubes. To ally Fidentia categories the great bulk of production has been concentrated in Rions. The Tariff Issue Flection by general Eisenhower who of his views on a considered statement a few popular or common sizes. Sion and the task of inspecting two preliminary Points should meat supplies and food noted about the Market. In he was elected to the first place it is divided be of commons for Marquette in tween the original equipment 1925, Defeated in 1926, re elected Field head of c i cell Luoc. Niec foreign policy declares that the state the nations and the arc Able to Trade freely that May do gals that Are vital to our country of anything a i. With those areas from which we obtain raw mater this definition which general Eisenhower regards As a Uhls minimum would in fact cover the free world since directly or fusions of an will retire conditions in drive tuition. 1, Iii Iti i. The United states buys virtually everywhere. Whether Eisenhower becomes president or not. It is m v to find within the Republican party so Long the advocate of protectionism a Large element which realizes with general that political internationalism cannot succeed or. A basis of economic isolationism. At the moment the government is weakened m its Long not he Kholv successful struggle to reduce the Tariff by the con sul Campaign by the fact that the president Early next year and by the increasingly competitive the Economy which encourage the protectionist some industries now resentful of foreign compe the Low Tariff policy launched by or. Cordett run and successfully maintained successors under nost constant attack has widespread support in both political parties. Among thoughtful businessmen and m he it. Is As an essential part of the nation s general Foi for if foreign Trade always has been and still is a Small of total United states business it is vital to the a move allies abroad. Only by entering the United states markets a the rest of the world Ever Hope to close its Dollar Gap and us its dependence on United states gifts of Money. The argument for larger imports into the United states Hoth to revive other nations and to enrich the american con Sumer the Folly of maintaining an excess of exports Over am ports and then covering the world s resulting Dollar shortage by Money gifts Are obvious but it is Only in recent times that these facts have been widely understood in the United states. Those who try to deny the facts in the interests of a few local industries have relied on the Tariff commission to help them. When the Tariff commission in a Vita test Case refuses to yield to this pressure the world has reason to be hopeful about the Tariff policies of the next in 1930 and appointed to these Nate by Premier Bennett in 1935. After 15 years in the red Cham Ber he retired because of advancing years and illness. Col. Mullins will be remembered first As a True Westerner. He grew up with this Prairie country and he loved every acre of it. In the second place he was a cattle tic years when wheat seemed destined to oust ail rival crops in the West were a trial to him. His sympathy and support was always at the Call of the live Stock Man. Both in his Public and private Jiff he gave unwavering Aid to All. Policies which he or plants directly to the vehicle manufacturer and the much larger replacement Field served a confidential memorandum or. C. B. Cooper Goodyear s general sales manager in a con memorandum to his Field organization september 1946 observed it has come to our take it to Ottawa there according to his ability to his each a mockery. At the moment we think we recognize each step As a us to future bounties and eventual social Security. Such mileposts in the search for Security arc mileposts on the Road to serfdom a successive Steps such As we have witnessed along the Road to material socialism must threaten us sooner or later in terms of restrictions on personal Freedom. It can be demonstrated that this is an axiom As secure Jas any propounded by Euclid. The sians being practical if nothing else Long ago found it much less expensive to discard this Shibboleth in favor of the deification of Stalin and to Flay the decadent character of the democracy of the West. In recent years the sum of pay our Public Treasury has been greater than the total Federal expenditures for All purposes in 1q09 there Are Many conc omit fore it had been deemed of this search for material Able to Correct the minutes of Security there is the desire for september 9, 1946, completely markets Wilh Saccom eliminating one paragraph. Iran Vinoff artificial ties and Regula or. I. G. Needles answering there Jug governor Neil entry from head office explained a Widel. And wider ii id of there was no objection to the government is now Ings or to individual annuity business the regarding what each and Elc graph business policy was. The offence Lay is the Railroad business and the the course of human forces set hotel business. Our government Dom runs smoothly and in tha proof lies All around . Blur red perhaps at limes and confused by the March of our National Prosperity. There is also an obvious and understandable reluctance to reject an illusion so much in error but As deeply cherished As the that t h e i believe we will for i do not feel that the final decision when it comes will be to deny our traditional desire for Liberty and our deep rooted instincts for the preservation of the democratic process. But it will take a degree of social courage in which time must patiently be permitted to play its part. Great getting together and agreeing on prices. He promised More in formation on the subject observing in the meantime just. Atle nation keep that word agree out of the that some minutes of Branch or minutes and do not be a party Industry meetings clearly Indi to actually having anything on Cate discussions relative to mat-1 record regarding agreements on tors relating to Trade terms and conditions of particularly prices and deals " report Page operates airlines summer pervading atmosphere of Penlight i Cilc disparity Between prices in. These two Fields indeed manufacturers prices appear to have had i relationship to replacement prices being based As or. 1. G. Needles then vice president of Goodrich testified upon the relationship to a similar pricing Structure in the United report Page shielded from . Competition or. Cooper insisted that under no condition should such subject r recorded words termed Misnomer records most witnesses argued in Oral added it must by testimony that words like agree clearly understood by All com and agreement appearing in the believed of Benefit to livestock the second Point is that the in production. As Well col. Mullins had a Lively interest in the history of the West. On one of his last trips to this City he applied All his own and acquired information to the fixing of the exact place where Scott had Boon murdered in the Riet rebellion of 1s70. Me identified this spot about Midway in our present main Street jus North of the Bridge across the Assiniboine River. He Felt that it should be marked by a brass Tri Angle or Circle driven into the pavement. To write of col. Mullins today is to recall political Battles of Long ago some Happy and others not so. But memory of him now is mellowed by the years and the realization that no truer Patriot than col. Mullins Ever gave his heart to these Prairies. From the Golden books from heat by Archibald Lampman beyond me in the Fields the Dusty has been largely shielded from . Competition by duties of 25 per cent under the Tor Quay agreement per cent against the United states. Pre Endicott shut ii Chuan a famous chinese novel of the thirteenth Century translated by Pearl Buck has to in its sulter from it let in the Spring of the third year by forgiven there More of the time called Chiayu there m by made let ister named Chao Che and there was a lesser one. Wen Yien to and they came Forth and said now is rhe plague heavy upon Capua City and _ he soldiers and the was a great plague of sickness Over the whole country and from the Region South of the great Iver to the Eastern and Western i capitals there was not one of the a Cople who did not suffer from. The Imperial punishments be lightened and the taxes on the people lessened let and thus heaven be the emperor tried it but it. In every City and every town Pond All expectation the plague there memorials to the grew yet More heavy. The pm i Perot Jen Chung heard of this and his sacred dragon heart could know no peace. Again he gathered together All his ministers to Lake counsel with them. Now throne in number like drifts of the emperor sat in the Audi ence Hall and asked for information. Then from among nil the soaks in the grass and hath his will i count the marguerites one by one even the buttercups Are still. On Brook yonder not a breath disturbs the spider or the Midge. The water bugs draw close be Neath the Cool gloom of the Bridge. Where the far Elm tree Sha Dows flood dark patches in the burning grass. Cows each with her peaceful cud. Lie waiting for the heat to pass. From somewhere on the slope near by into the Pale depth the noon. A wandering Thrush slides leisurely Pany representatives that such could have serious re evidence were Misnomer loosely used or with mental reservations percussion if Tor example. Regard to performance. A and radio networks. They Are in the insurance business the Tele phone business the bus business and the electric business. It is not unknown i May also add for an officer of an insurance company to have some firm views on the Folly of governments which under take impractical hospitalization schemes. These Are the mileposts in the search for Security. The fact that we have gone from one to another so smoothly suggests i believe that even fur ther Steps of this kind May he minutes came to the Alle lion of the commissioner under the combines investigation re port Page on perusing a copy of this directive or. C. N. Larsen Gutla Percha noted that he had also been disturbed at times by the revealing frankness of some of the minutes that come before yet he did not see How it would be possible to write min utes without making reference to Trade practices including prices and As he put it just spokesman for one of the smaller ened democracy the course is Likely to be. Even More uneven. Our great Hope must continue to lie in the inevitability of t h e course of truth and the trans tendency of desire for Freedom. At the moment what looks to be an increasingly dangerous threat to our democratic institutions will t. Think be eventually so modified changed or discarded that it can by absorbed without seriously threatening our Way of life and in the process of time will be forgotten is another incident in the incessant struggle for fair anticipated. What i do Sung Cal and Freedom. It is charged in the report of Over rhe minutes of the tire the combines commissioner that substantial restraint upon com petition in the Market was effected by eight companies and the rubber association of can Ada and further that Competition was lessened to an extent that is to the detriment of the Page of the companies named the three largest Are the Goodyear tire and rubber company of Canada Ltd., which is said to have exerted a dominant influence on the common report Page 689 Firestone tire and rubber company of Canada Ltd., and Dominion rubber co. Ltd. The others Are Dunlop tire and rubber goods co. Ltd., the b. F. Goodrich rubber co. Of Canada Ltd., Seiberling rubber company of Canada Ltd., Gutta Perch a arid rubber Ltd., and the general tire and rubber com Pany of Canada Ltd. Not a producer but operating under a Cost plus arrangement with Dun lop All the above companies were for most of the period surveyed members of the rubber association within which they. Constituted the tire division or rejoice thou Hast Given him sales managers meeting of the 1st inst., held in Toronto and you will see what i mean. There Are half a dozen topics discussed at that meeting and recorded in the minutes which indicate Industry agreements in regard to prices and terms. I am afraid that or. Mcgregor of the combines investigation department would con Sider these minutes just As incriminating As if they had dealt with the discussion in greater de or. Larsen Felt however that or. Cooper was quite Wise in sounding a note of report Page prices and discounts companies explained that he Hadj led others to believe that he was subscribing to their prices and arrangements that he had immediately deviated and when con fronted with his deviation died or bluffed his Way out of it. It was also argued that the purported agreements carried no penalties or enforcement Mea sures. Report Page what importance the companies attached to these arrangements May be judged from the evidence. Here it will suffice to note the commissioner s comment an agreement does not have to be formal or bolstered by enforce remedial measures to come under the provisions of inc combines investigation act which contemplates actual or tacit. Con tracts agreements or arrange setting the record straight by. C. A. B. Ottawa striking United states or upon to of misleading statements cording that come almost sex constantly made by or. M. J. Coldwell Leader of the . In concerning radio and television occurred on the last Day of the recent session. During discussion of the Cana Dian broadcasting corporation plans for television or. Cold Well decried licensing of non government owned local Televik Clu sively from that country and have a distinctly american the first part of that sentence is a mis statement. Virtually All the live american programmes brought into this country arc imported by the Canadian Broad casting corporation networks. Mints report Page Sion stations because they might non government Independent Sta television films made in the Lions Are absolutely forbidden by de. To operate networks. Only observation of what four of the 135 non government Independent stations Are in sufficiently close proximity to the . He added from my has been done in radio the Pri vate stations very largely rely on programmes that originate in deutschland uber Alles from the Manchester guardian aking the texts of a was were after All nationalists Icv j. Tonal anthems it can hardly be said that they reach a High poetical or indeed ethical so or. Percy Scholes the sing Only the innocuous scholar in his companion to verse. Whoever Sung the enough in their Day. It would be hopeless As the government has suggested to third third president Heuss of the verse of any Anthem especially when the first verse . Border to have a direct . Connection and three of these arc casual and irregular. All the other non government stations receiving outside pro grammes from the Csc s transit Canada or Dominion networks Are thus compelled to use the live United slates programmes brought in by Csc or do without. Recordings Factor minutes to. His head office. Some representatives had been advised that our minutes should not carry any information indicating that we had made an agreement today s scripture the King shall Joy in thy strength 0 lord and in thy salvation How greatly shall to officials was there a Eert Nin min among the ranks of them As they. His thin revolving tune. Group. From 1936 to 1943 More than 150 meetings took place at a tended usually by general Man agers or sales managers of the firms concerned. Minutes were kept and copies distributed these were among the minutes which were reviewed by or. G. B. I Smith Secretary and manager of the association when the investigation began in the summer his heart s desire and Hast not with Holden the request of his is. For thou prevent est him with the blessings of goodness. Birthdays a. S. Maguire Elgin. Man. Horn Toronto ont., july 30, Robert Findlay Winni Peg Horn Perth county ont., july in 1s6-3. Instate deutschland uber As the German National hymn would have clearly preferred a song with Jess unethical associations. The social democrats for whose hatred of nationalism even if it is confined to the words we should be thankful agree. This ill timed decision proves that the government has never shown any tact to wards victims of German nationalism and National socialists Here or abroad. I thai is sweeping of course but secondly or. Coldwell s Allega Meuse to the Here is a song for the times. Yet or. Scholes no Lover of the narrower Type of is quite firm about the poetry there is nothing whatever of the Ideal of world conquer ing that a misunderstanding of the title has sometimes led foreigners to believe a mis understanding that has some times appeared to exist in Germany itself. The Lyric was in fact written in the eighteen follies by a member that Liberal generation which Laving h distinctly . Flavor is a half truth. They simply because they Are forbidden to use networks competitive with Csc which enormously reduce the Cost live programmes. Thus they must depend on recordings to a Large extent and the great bulk of recordings Are . Made. For example the most Power Ful government owned Csc Sta Tion in Toronto has in its Library some recordings. More than 90 per cent of these Are . Made records with a Dis lint la american that s with a Core of truth. The Horst looked Forward to the unification Wessyl song May have taken Germany. No reflection on the Csc station Pride of place under Hitler. It Only became no reflection uber Alles still nationalistic now urn the to fied nation carried it off with it recently to the Fields of 1914 and and ;