Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 22, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published the Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. Authorized As second class matter by the Post Tolice department Ottawa. Victor Sifton president in publisher Grant Dexter editor r. S. Malone vice president we. Lord general manager Winnipeg Friday August 22, 1952 Britain and Canada the current debate on rearmament in Britain As recently reported by the free press London correspondent on this Page is of intense interest to Canada first because any change in British defence policy must affect the Atlantic partnership of which Canada is a part second because the reasons governing the revised British policy undoubtedly Are affecting the mind of the Canadian people -. It is therefore important in Canada As in Britain that the arguments of the Churchill government should be under stood when it proposes a new pattern of or. Churchill gives two reasons for a downward revision of the defence programme. The first is obvious in its present circumstances cannot carry the existing Load on its Economy. In or. Churchill s words there can be no Assurance of lasting military strength without a firm economic foundation and no defence programme can stand without the economic resources to carry it through. The defence programme must be kept within the limits of our economic strength this diversion of resources from defence to the Export drive is just As necessary for our military strength As for our daily life not to make it would mean a plunge into that is the economic argument but there is another of a purely technical nature. The science of War has been altered by the discovery of new weapons and some existing Wea Pons Are therefore becoming obsolete. Moreover the United states Progress in the manufacture of atomic weapons has altered former military calculations. The development of new aircraft profoundly affects the tactics of air warfare and air so does Britain s recent Progress in the creation of guided missiles and rockets. These improvements says or. Churchill will have enabled Many practical economies and reductions to be made in the original programme with a positive increase in War Power even if we had not been called upon at this time to make new efforts to stimulate exports and re Duce the investment programme and social expenditure at Home it would have been necessary to review the whole a a in other words Britain cannot afford the economic Drain of the existing defence programme and it not have to Bear it for military reasons. Hence there is to be a reduction in total Cost. Less Energy manpower and materials Are to be used in defence and More in the manufacture of scalable exports or goods consumable at Home. The temptation in Canada will be to say that or. Church ill s analysis applies Here As surely As in Britain. A moment s thought will show that this is by no Means True. On the one hand Canada s economic position bears Little resemblance to that of Britain. Ever since the first world War the British Economy has been growing relatively poorer this downward Drift being Long disguised by temporarily favourable terms of Trade and by the quiet tapping of foreign investment the nation s ancient Capi Tal. During the second world War this process accelerated when Britain stood at first alone and survived by a Miracle of courage at the Cost of depleting its capital to the danger Point. After that War a labor government misjudging the nation s True position attempted social expenditures which however desirable were beyond its Means. And today As or. Churchill says the spectre of final bankruptcy is never far from Britain s door. While Britain has grown poorer Canada has. Grown Richer with the rapid development of its huge natural resources. It is now not Only Richer than it Ever was but. Incomparably Richer than any nation of its size in the world s history it does not have to make Britain s Choice Between defence and solvency. It can Well afford its present scale of rearmament As proved by the fact that our Standard of living has risen in the course of the defence programme. That is Mot to say of course that the government of can Ada is spending no More in total than it should spend. It is indeed spending too much and with the Junior governments is now absorbing about a third of the National income which As a recent Senate committee says is far too High a rate for safety in times less buoyant than these. But the needed econom ies can be effected Here even if they cannot be effected in Britain outside the defence programme and by the elimination of waste within the programme itself. On the other hand the very fact that Britain must reduce Tapo. After the War this Man a per manent invalid whose searing eloquence seemed to be consuming him As he spoke stepped Forward As the acknowledged socialist Leader of Germany. The hero of Thi underground., How Ever was not always a Wise poly tical Leader. He fought or. Aden Hauer almost As fiercely for working with the West As he fought the communists for try ing to betray Germany into rus Sian slavery. Swift in a n g or mercurial in mood inflexible in a difficult colleague. But this socialist who had be come a Prophet of German nationalism was so clearly the dominant Force in his party that his authority could not be with stood. Now the Martyr politician his faults softened in the last Mer cies of death will again reach the stature of heroic legend. If his party swears fealty to his memory and adopts his grievances As its principles then Schumacher dead May be As vibrant and corrosive an influence on German politics As Schuma Cher alive. The party now has the Chance to think out anew its the european army and to co operation with the Western democracies. It will do so now without Schumacher s help. That tormented figure at once a glory and an encumbrance has joined Bebel and Liebknecht in the classic tradition of German socialism. Worthy of study the Manitoba government is showing commendable in going ahead with development of the remaining Power potential on the Winnipeg River. Recently however As an alter native to its plan to develop me Arthur Falls an expensive undertaking As is generally recognized or. K. C. Fergusson a veil known Engineer and mayor of great Falls has publicly suggested a further development of the great Falls Plant of the Winnipeg electric company. This plan seems to have been dismissed rather abruptly by the govern ment and or. Don Stephens chairman of the Manitoba Hydro electric Board or. Fergusson claims additional Power can be developed at great Falls for per horse Power. One is just a Pussy convention of the teachers federation press interview to clarify the Survey the Canadian research Blic mind re educational of committee composed of repro lairs. During the past of agriculture com Combine charged the recent. Record n the matter of common list at that time was a direct descent varied at will the other Reading rating arithmetic by k. M. H. During the recent deep concern to Many Journ in our midst of the teachers As witness for in stance president Myrtle con Canadian president now past president Tom Parker Halifax undertook through a Way s address last Winter to the Manitoba trustees association. Last autumn after a four year in is reported As saying there Lave been numerous articles condemning the kind of pupils turned out by Canada s schools. Teachers must be careful in their Public statements in order not to lend support to reaction Ary opinions which would return education to the three is and a philosophy of the survival of the fittest would t it have More to the Point for or. Parker to have Dis covered Why it was that there Mcrae education Industry la Bor with had and been numerous articles what was the justification and the Homes working co operation from the can recommendations teachers strive to a i i a n education association brought out its report. Among i t s Earnest Are that All develop Clear and logical think ing by their pupils. That All teachers insist on High standards in Oral and writ ten expression. That More emphasis be placed on the fundamentals of arithmetical every Day computation a n to arithmetical prob lems and that Short daily Peri Ien the for them astr the three r a might he not have discovered what the position is and by continued through announced his m school Gard to them is the Public Toj gather that or. Parker Job Dors Thorn As old hat and some i thing quite beneath the As to or. Parker s anxiety nebulous philosophy of pro that educational authorities May Grossie educationists what has he discovered that f 1 prices in the rubber foot Dant of that set up by the Hardy Wear Industry the following ex-1 and Badden agreement being change Between commission i i a d is t j kept up to Date through forma counsel and or. A. R. Kaufman appears significant. Or. Kauf Man was asked now am i put Ting it correctly when i say your ments would mean nothing. Has so Many character building qualities As the multiplication table or deeper implications than the wondrous discovery agree Macic by Mankind sons ago. Which marked a decisive step up and Waterproof ranges have been noted in earlier articles. Evidence Ilion gathered by the association is to show that the can. Off information was Jas Range for 1948 was agreed required by the commission of upon at a sales managers meet bearing on May s. 1947 and the water the 11947 agreements on Canvas Jin his development that two and it was found that when the Hope was to secure Price control Jan companies in he replied w5thin the extent that we could make a Little report Page when government of the comp amps were took effect the Kaufman separately the Dis had been caught with discounts counts granted bore no consistent somewhat More Liberal than those i relation to the volume of Busi of other companies. At a meeting i Ness done with the individual classes Al Range at meet inns Leld october 9 and november 6. Minutes for a meeting held january a 1948 Are somewhat abbreviated it being noted that the recent visits of representatives of or. F. A. Mcgreg two make four what has he found that so contributes to Clear thinking As the ability to express oneself clearly How Are the thoughts of others to be apprehended by those who can not read with comprehension Retro Gress to a system which makes for the survival of the fit test might he not consider the Tough Job which the fittest have to survive in his Here we go gathering nuts in May Philo Sophy it is towards the medi Ocre that Public ally controlled education sets its sights and it is towards those of mediocre endowments or often the sub nor Mal to which the full energies of the school Are directed. It is the gifted those who have the most to give to their generation those upon whom the survival of and what is or. Parker s rest of us May Well depend to the rising Wail of pm who Are shoved to the sidelines. Players from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island regarding the crass ignorance of t h o s e who apply for jobs what is his an or s office . Of the to Canadian universities of company sales managers oni Compario. But when the sales to rubber Canadian Normal schools i car came up for to hold classes in ele arithmetic writing and for their supposedly Sec against at Mcarthur you Fonow we Are reviewing May a 1947, it was agreed Aniball companies to each account in Effort should be made to were aggregated and shown this the discount differential up alongside the discounts granted before Canvas Page 469 or. Pequegnat of Kaufman writing to or. P. H. Chares t Al Fred Lambert in August stated on the face of it a development which May save per horse Power is qualified for care Ful study. He also claims the improvement of great Falls he suggests would gain 55 horsepower Over the proposed development at Mcarthur Falls. This if True is another very Strong argument in favor of his plan. Or. Fergusson s figures on flow and water Levels have been questioned but doubts have Arisen about the real facts because apparently his figures Are the same As those used for other Power surveys produced for the govern ment. Since these reports have never our Industry list of classified accounts and. Want to get in line commencing with the Canvas sea explaining this in evidence or. Pequegnat said we were Frozen and of course some accounts were on the list that per haps were riot in the right class. We did not want to be an upset Ting Factor with the other companies in Page 4i59 the Industry discount Structure its programme that other european nations May be compelled been released for publication it. is not possible for the Public to to do the same Only increases the need of maximum strength in America which can afford it. Last Winter at Lisbon the nations of the North Atlantic treaty organization fixed the targets of defence considered to be an absolute minimum of safety. Nothing has occurred since then in International politics to suggest that the targets were too High that the world situation has significantly improved that the risk of War has diminished or that the need to prevent it by the combined strength of the free nations has disappeared. Yet even the Lisbon targets Are not being achieved. In a recent Public statement of highest significance which he would not have made without the most compelling reasons general Ridgway the nato commander in Europe said there is doubt that the allies can reach their 1952 goal of 50 divisions and planes that there Are serious inadequacies in several vital there is no reliable evidence known than Akes Are Fulli and to me of any reduction in the threat of aggression. These Are of an Early Power disturbing words from the Man primarily responsible for eur a shortage is thereby greatly re appraise this Point at All events or. Fergusson has performed a Public service in making his views known at this tune and it would seem Wise to give them More thorough study. The Public interest would certainly warrant a Public in Quiry by a competent and completely disinterested firm it May of course be objected that such an investigation take time. But fortunately the position on the Winnipeg River is now greatly improved. The flow is higher this year Ope ? defence and with no interest in National politics. For these reasons Canada s sound economic position the continuance of danger the evident decline in the British programme and above All. The need to create total Allied Power sufficient to discourage aggression before it begins Canada is bound by its own supreme interest the maintenance of peace to maintain its defence Effort. It May be altered for technical reasons. There is nothing in the present situation to justify any reduction in its total results any easing of our National energies until the Job is carried through. Or. Pearson has said repeatedly. No doubt reflecting the government s considered is no time to lean on our oars whose weight is Well within the strength of our Muscles. Diced. Indeed if such a shortage were in Prospect the obvious and Only Way of meeting it would be to build a steam Plant instead of Mcarthur Falls. It would take our years to construct the latter and a much Shorter time to get steam Plant in operation. There is time to take a Good careful look at the Fergusson Jan. It May turn out to be in Kurt Schumacher it has been remarked that there is this much to be said on behalf of the future that it usually comes Only one Day at a but the Day s news which announced the death of or. Kurt Schumacher Leader of Ger Many s social Democrat party has certainly altered Germany s future. Schumacher together w i t h Mierendorff and Haubach tried to save Germany from the nazi plague in the final the Weimar Republic. Hitler threw All three socialist leaders into a concentration Camp when he came to Power in 1933. Mierendorff and Haubach broken in body but not in spirit were re leased six years later. They both joined the plot to assassinate Hitler in the closing stages of i the War. During an air raid Mierendorff was killed. After the plot collapsed Haubach was landed. Schumacher s tale is a grim heroic one. He was released from a concentration Camp in 1943 when the nazis decided that they had finally beaten him into a pulp that could cause them no More alarm. On his b p d y he bore to the hour of i s death the sinister Marks of Hitler s in Famy. Many people believe he lost his Arm in the concentration Camp. That is wrong. He lost it in the first world War. But his suffering at Dachau where he was Baaten brutalized broken and almost blinded made him a legend in Germany. For his hat red of the nazi tyranny inspired the Small band of Noble men in Germany who Refu sed to be crushed into silence by. The Ges Sion. In View of the fact that the joint Effort of the Industry has in 194s, it became apparent to eliminate wasteful prac discounts were in fact related tit icon in production and Dis Tribu aggregate purchases from All the Tion with a resultant favourable Page 472 Mondary school certificated entrants this situation is far too Well authenticated and far too despite its attractions to the Industry this system had the Dis advantage that it enhanced Ware House and freight costs and hence no doubt ultimate costs to the consumer. J effect on Price Levels it was the nationally humiliating for or. General conviction that Industry Parker to dismiss it. A toting a the significance of however the most dangerous of or. Parker s observations probably also the most reveal ing is. His suggestion that teachers must be careful of has the federation then a party line to which its past president would Force its members to adhere Why should teachers be denied free speech who has More right to speak on education who is More fitted to speak on it and who has a greater re meetings should be the Canvas Range three months later the Canvas Range for 1949 was the subject of discussion among company Man agers. Report pages 47s-s4 How these arrangements were moreover it is which is a possibility in the matter in agreements on classified lists and discounts the report observes that they necessarily defended by company represent a presuppose an understanding on tics appears from the evidence list prices for if these could be r the politburo t is reported from Moscow of the successor co inform through the Agency of an All Union communist Congress changes Are to be effected in the upper party Structure and thus indirectly in the machinery of the soviet state. In View of the fact that in Russia forms rarely correspond to realities such reports Are to be treated with considerable Reserve. The plan apparently is that the politburo will disappear to be replaced by a presidium which will guide the work of the party s Central committee be tween sessions. At present the politburo is the supreme instrument of the stalinist dictatorship though it is nowhere mentioned in the Constitution it stands above the Council of ministers. It is All powerful its meetings Are shrouded in secrecy. The subject matter of its debates Are unknown to the Public until they emerge in decisions. Object of distrust the change outlined in the new party statute May Well be dictated by reasons of convenience without thereby signifying any essential transform worthy of support but surely it Tjon o the soviet regime. In should not be rejected out connection the analogy with land. From Hie Golden books from epilogue by Kobert Browning one who never turned his Back but marched breast Forward never doubted Clouds would break never dreamed though right were worsted wrong would Triumph held we fall to Rise Are baffled to fight better sleep to Wake. Today s scripture surely every Man walk eth in a vain show surely they Are Dis quieted in Vam he Heap eth up riches and know eth not who shall gather them. Spa. Birthdays a. P.1 White Winnipeg born Winnipeg August 22, 1882. e. Clegg Binscarth born Listowel Perth county ont., August 22, 1880. Andrew Embury Man. Born August 22 1869. The old comintern will be immediately obvious. For Many years Down to 1943 the co Mintern was the object of uni Versal distrust because it was dedicated to a Mission of world revolution. It also became an instrument for controlling Sta Linzing and establishing the political line of the communist parties in other countries. In de Cember 1.940 for example a Deci Sion of the comintern vested a meeting of the yugoslav then illega.1. With the Powers of a Congress. But in 1943 to impress the outbid world and especially the democracies then Al lied with Russia against Germany with the benevolent intentions o the Stalin regime the comintern was formally dissolved with a great flourish of propaganda trumpets. What h a p p e n e a Between that Date and the founding in he Post War governments in most East european states were subverted and crushed. The mis Sion went Forward uninhibited by any Lack of organization or effective communication with the robot National parties and greatly aided naturally enough by the presence of red army garrisons at All crucial Points. When soviet policy required a new instrument of co Ordina the co inform was called nto being and was subsequently used in the trial arid convict Ion of the heretical. Yugoslav communist state. It need not be doubted that the dictatorship desires at the present time to use a party Congress As a sounding Board. But the Congress itself is evidence of the manner n which soviet forms Are Divor ced from soviet realities. When t so desires Moscow can attach the greatest significance to forms indeed it was made a special grievance against Tito that the yugoslav Central com Mittee consisted in 1948 largely of co opted members and that no party Congress had been called to rectify matters. Yet in the user no party Congress has been called in 13 years this despite the fact that in the Constitution incidentally the sole reference to the subject the party is described As the Van guard of the working people in their struggle to strengthen and develop the socialist system and the leading All organizations of the working people both Public and the essential Point is that the party no less than the masses of the people is controlled from above by a Suhali omnipotent group standing outside the Constitution. Whether it Calls itself a politburo or presidium is not a Point of great consequence. It will be of interest to observe what decisions Are rubber stamped by the party Congress but it would be sheer est illusion to imagine that through the ratification of such changes of nomenclature the state controlling oligarchy is withering away. Of a Goodr Icli official i know one of the great losses of the Industry was due to wastes in Range. During the War we Cut Down our distribution costs and Laid off a lot of salesmen and closed warehouses around the country which had a real Bene to rom a g Why Are Youngf Birds left to die in West or. C. S h a a Cliff Yorkton sask., past. Presi Dent of the Saskatchewan natural history society we have received a photograph of a Ruby throated Hummingbird s nest con Taining two dead fledglings found last fall at Willowbrook sask., by or. Gerald Churko. Nearly every fall we get reports of a similar Fate happening to Young Birds particularly the late nesting and Many brooded species and one wonders if the parents died or facial effect in getting our costs were killed or lost the parental Down. And it was thought that urge and deserted the Young to the sales managers under Leneir a sitting companions. Rubber control period had done a splendid Job. And that is what we wanted them to do to continue to do along the line of keeping costs Down in our Page 486 the report finds that Many ancillary such As service charges payment of express charges location of Branch Points vere matters of agreement. At one stage Gutta Percha came in for criticism for its reluctance to close one maritime Branch. I Mather of that As suranic to or. A. J. Minister of Goodrich in a letter dated gust 19, 1947, adding you will remember that at our last meet ing we agreed to fall in line and discontinue As soon As possible carrying stocks at Regina Page 496 Basic period Price while the footwear minutes infested with Fly parasites which so weak ened the Young Birds that they failed to leave the nest and were left to starve by the. Parents. This happens when the clean nest boxes m fall. In the Davs up nesting boxes we were advised to clean out the old nests in fall but Thomas Allen ltd., Toronto. Were purged when officials be nesting Box is too Small and the came nervous in 1947, the com parents Are unable to attend prop Erly to the sanitation of the nest Sion recovered documents Mac no positive proof Abling it to identify certain of this is the reason for the Deser the deletions made at that . The mention of. Sanitation re these relate to prices. Thus or. Minds us of the warning do not f. R a 11 minister discussing a report of the fact finding committee re Garding City boots observed they feel that the Basic period Price marked up by about 17% per cent the average Mark up on other lines would be reason ably profitable subject to a Check on present costs of noting the committee s recommendation that delivery of these boots be postponed to Jan. 1, 1948, the minutes continued with the deleted sentence in the meantime the group should re View costs and decide upon sell ing prices consulting with Bata on the Page 498 the report finds the conclusion inescapable that the arrange ments described in come within of the combines investigation they were. They have hatched in o two most unpleasant looking whitish grubs which Gorge upon the nest refuse from the Flicker icle. Like other creatures these deciles occupy a special Niche in nature s scheme so we returned the adult to the nest Hole to continue her egg laying without learn no the useful lady s name. So in order to protect these scavengers and the Bird parasite cillers leave the cleaning of your nesting boxes until Spring but do so before the migrants return. The tame Hummingbird. The baby Ruby throated hum Kingbird which was rescued last fall by mrs. H. Parry tethering Iton Avenue Winnipeg and cared or until it reached maturity and successfully melted last april in Ortuna Cly flew into the Verandah Vail on May 16 and did not recover consciousness. It had attained full Ruby Throat of a male and was n excellent plumage suites mrs. Parry. It was As tame As Ever and continued to Perch on my Fin Ger or training stick while being fed. It had full Liberty of the House but preferred sunny windows with their flowering plants. After car no for it for nearly nine months miss it very added mrs. Parry who was hoping it would attract a mate and nest near their Louse. A Ciosci up of Hummer life miss Gertrude Childs fort Garry informs us that a female Ruby throated Hummingbird built her nest within three feet of a window of or. And mrs. C. D. Lees House on Oakdale place St. Man., affording them a wonderful Opportunity to observe the t i n y West and her. Two minute Young which left the nest on August 6 and t. A new Book on mammals the famous Field guides of Roger tory Peterson which introduced a new system of depicting nerds for Field identification proved so popular that demands have Arisen for guides along the same Ines covering other subjects. The test is entitled a Field guide to the sponsored by he National Audubon society and the National wildlife federation and distributed in Canada by to has been discovered that this policy results in the destruction of scavenger insects which feed on excreta and of insects which Are parasitic upon Bird parasites. While at Star Lake recently or. De. Dowton St. Vital Man., in formed us that he had found Large Carrion beetles and their White grub like larvae feeding on excreta in a Flicker Hole in a Poplar on his Lake lot. The Hole has been occupied by a pair of flickers for 30 years and is now Over four Leet deep or Dowton discovered the beetles when a Woodpecker drilled a Hole in the decaying truck at. The base of the Flicker which permitted him to Rake out the Rotten Wood etc., for examination. On August 9, or. Dow ton fished out a Large flattish Black Beetle of the scavenging family and two creamy pellets which we took to be insect eggs As soon As we opened this guide we were captivated by the Excel Lence of the color pictures and the presentation of the text and draw Ings so turned to read about the author and artist. The former is or. William Henry Hurt professor of zoology and curator of mammals at the University of Michigan and the latter or. Richard Philip Grossenheide. Well known artist on the staff of the fit. Louis zoo. This team has seated the Best mammal that we have seen 20u color pictures of All mammals North of Mexico some illustrated for the first time five Black and White plates of sea Lions seals and whales eight plates of photo graphs of skulls plates of tracks Many maps of ranges and innumerable sketches of identification details and habitats a veritable treasure House of information ;