Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 27, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published the Winnipeg free press company 300 Carlton authorized As second class matter by the Post office Ottawa Victor Sifton president Wjk publisher Grant Dexter editor Malone Vic president lord general manager August 1952 breaking the debt shackles the contrast Between the surging Prairie Prosperity of the 1950s and the dreary waste of depression that was the 1930s is nowhere better revealed than in statistics on while the Complete picture of this remarkable economic trans formation is for various reasons difficult to sufficient facts Are at hand to indicate the magnitude of this favourable change in agricultural fortunes and to warrant some important conclusions on the manner in which it was figures presented relate to farm mortgages and agree ments for Sale held by life Trust and loan company members of the Dominion mortgage and investment Assoc a while the total of such mortgages held by other interests was there can be no doubt that these firms occupied the major segment of the the record indicates that in companies represented in the association held mortgages and agreements for Sale in the three Prairie provinces the total sum involved being by 1942 these figures had been reduced to and then began the dramatic decline to in to in 19447 to in by 1950 this indebtedness had been halved again and last year the number of farm mortgages and agreements held by association members was Only the face amount being if these totals Are broken Down by the following facts in Manitoba the total of farm mortgages and agreements for Sale has been reduced from in 1937 to in in Saskatchewan the comparable figures Are and in Alberta and in each Case the great liquidation of farm debts occurred in the 194246 a Point deserving of emphasis is that the great Load of indebtedness born of drought and depression was removed largely by the efforts of the Farmers it is True that important measures were taken to scale Down farm indebtedness but a close examination reveals with clarity that self help was the Factor in achieving the historic reductions out lined in 1936 a Large scale voluntary debt reduction scheme was instituted for joint areas of Manitoba and in the much for on with his incomparable graces and inevitable 1 he is even More Subt and his he appeared to me in those Days hilariously i heard him Rea eminent victorians before i was and i read it Agai to myself in it caused m to laugh so loud that the office came around to my saying that i must remember that or son is a place of As an example of exact Ani Pithy criticism it would be Hare to surpass this passage his style is unduly rhetorical and in malicious to i have thought it not in Ike he was indifferent to historical truth and would always touch up the picture to make the lights and shades More and the Folly or wicked Ness of famous people More of these Are grave charges but i make them in All serious clean cereals the interesting Story of Why Canadas Grain and flour Are the cleanest As Well As the finest on the world Market is told in the current Issue of the publication of Canadian Early in world War two Ger Man submarines posed such a threat to Britain food Supply that Many ships which normally would have been used to trans port Grain were pressed into ser vice in order to build a Large rain stockpile in two suns in the sky 3ouchiching conference debating moral values soon it was found that Many latter the heart of the drouth the amount in of the hulls used were solved was and of this was written off by private lenders on mortgages and agreements for it should be noted that this is an Overall figure including lenders outside the however and this is the Core of the matter most of the write offs under the voluntary scheme pest and warehouses in Britain hastily commandeered for storage were in the same the existing and potential losses of food supplies caused by pests were so serious that top ministry officials in the United kingdom occurred in 1936 and since the 1937 figures Here cited Are for it is apparent that such write offs were not placed problem before Mem a Large Factor in the subsequent reductions traced by the As jeers of the Canadian government land asked their assistance in de immediate action by Canadian there is also the Farmers creditors arrangement act to Jve loping a method of reducing be that very substantial settlements were effected for curtailing the spoilage of cer under this act is of course the fact nevertheless emerges that most such settlements were made prior to the end of 1942 t they cannot have been Large in sum in available show that from the inception of the program until the write off on secured debt in Manitoba in Saskatchewan contrast the compar Able write offs in the period from december 1943 to March 1945 were Only in the Case of Tat hat of these Are Overall figures extending to second chattel liens and arrears of taxes and including holdings by nonmembers of the Assoc a science can Ada department of co Chiching conference would have fallen Short of its objectives if it had been concerned Only with political issues and economic it turned As Well to a discussion of moral and to an examination of the principles which sustain the democratic heritage during a time of this debate assumed various some others less there seemed general agree for that it would be possible to maintain our essential freedoms during this per Iod of intense military defence and even if the tragedy of an other War should again have to be any other conclusion of be essential by much in a forlorn it was assumed on All sides that Canada not Only could afford such a now and in the but that it was an essential part of a democratic state to establish these social welfare measures on the widest there in a moral imperative behind this drive for Security As Well As a Pursuit of social health insurance Cost to on the Roll of scepticism and humanism Are inscribed the Ever honoured names of men like Mill and Leslie Stephen and Charles Voltaire and Long years ago Pas Cal uttered the profound truth that the Man inspired by honest Faith and the Man tortured by honest doubt belong to the worlds Commonwealth Trade policy Freedom or discrimination by t Ondon Church ills go be freed controls on foreign Ern ment is taking no pains to conceal the importance it at taches to the conference of Commonwealth prime Al though the conference proper does not Start until the end of it is officially Given As the reason Why he Chancellor of the s not going to Mexico City in september for the annual meet Ings of the International Mone tary fund and the International the full Commonwealth con Terence will be preceded by pre Paratory discussions on economic policy among the policy making is regarded in London As so important that All ministers chiefly concerned with economic affairs Are to give it their Atten the International meeting at Mexico City is apparently rated of trifling importance by com Jarison butlers place there s to be taken by sir Arthur Sal or a distinguished figure who Oes not now carry any political deeply disturbing Trade might be the other Way with which the president of the Board of appears to have some sympathy is the direct it is to withdraw from tighten import con increase Sterling area discrimination against Dollar and generally try to prop up Bri Tain within a closed segment of the world of these two the first is expounded too with too Many for one to believe that the British government is Likely to embrace it the conservatives do not like dashing for Freedom and to do so would not in the end make deflation less the second policy fits in better with traditional tory attitudes and with the National mood of despair that is making Many people say that Britain has no future As a trading nation and must reconcile itself to retreating into some sort of protective and restrict Onist but in this matter speeches May be deep the champions of Imperial preference Are the most vocal As the levanites Are the most vocal but there Are other tories who would turn against the government rather than support a withdrawal from there Are some ministers in both and it is difficult to position to ideas of no guess How the decision would lie discriminatory trading on an in All this is deeply disturbing to liberals Are the Bri ish with their liking for Imperial prefer hatching some deep plot or a restrictive Commonwealth Rade policy Are they ignoring he Mexico City conference be Ause they want to show their Ernat ional basis such in Canada and Are certainly if the British government were a free in fact it is it must take account of North american it can hardly even a to ii Dii to that new disc rim it is the Man indifferent to yet the situation is to its its than the British Govin Atory practices even if and its Ern ment has not even an thin who is to be judged unfortunate and most people at the conference Learned a Hundred Ern ment has not even anything so advanced and definite As a plot in the More realistic tories know Ronto interesting times More about the moral Valin their hearts that the main Road us we Are supposed to be safety ies in Domestic Mea whole Sterling area joined in them would make the United states and Canada much less willing to give Britain the sympathetic encouragement on which a solution of the Dollar Folly for nothing could be to revealed that there was no Agre editor of from the scriptural the tact what is required is la would Estig discussion which conducted by less m and More 5tf yet it was precisely in this latter period that the spectacular reductions in farm debt were thus while indebtedness to companies of the association declined by in it dropped by in the five years follow in other words six times As much debt was wiped out by the Farmers themselves in this period As was liquidated in the years when Mcaa write offs were of major this record is of course a tribute to the Farmers them selves who were determined to stand on their own feet and took the first Opportunity presented by improved conditions to Hake off the incubus of depression there were those who would have been tempted a decade ago to regard such an achievement As beyond the Range of such doubters Are now the record is also testimony to the Basic strength of the farm while the abnormally High indebtedness of 1937 had to be set against abnormally Low re turns for agricultural the position is now completely farm reduced to a sixth of its former bears All the More lightly upon the Industry because it is now measurable against farm proceeds which have soared to record what has thus happened in agriculture is less dramatic perhaps than such developments As the feverish Western Oil Boom but of higher significance for More agriculture still being the essential basis upon which Prairie Well being say about his John May Nard Keynes and Lytton Strach Keynes Russell re was the sharpest Anc clearest that i have Ever known annihilating arguments darted out of him with the swiftness o an adders when i argued with i Felt that i took my life in my and i Seldom emerged without feeling some thing of a i was sometimes inclined to think that so much cleverness must be incompatible with but i do not think this feeling was according to the real absorbing passion of Keynes was never for economics but for the life he led at Cambridge and for his wide ranging interest in liter Ballet and when he concerned himself with politics and economics he left his soul at this is the reason for a certain inhuman Quality in most of his Many readers of Keynes will Dis Pute that but one does not have to agree with Russell to Admire the last time that i saw says was in the House of lords when he re turned from negotiating a loan in America and made a masterly speech recommending it to their Many of them had been doubtful but efficient and has done much to maintain Canadas status As pro Ducer and distributor of the Fin est and cleanest grains and flour the service has attracted the at Tention of other Cereal producing with the result that in quiries As to procedure and meth ods of inspection and prevention Are continually being received by the department of agriculture t Bertrand Russell one of the impressive facts in the intellectual life of England today is the position of Domin Ance attained by Bertrand rus the famous for years a Shadow covered his name his passion for Anc his fondness for unpopular Opin made him an irritant which of ten disturbed the complacent of the academic his audacity of thought was never More in doubt than the crystalline elegance of his but Many people did not like what he was and the fact that there never was any doubt about what he was Only in creased the antagonism to his As the sanctifying Mantle of age has graced the perpetual he has matured into Public renown and become almost a National inst today he stands with Gil Bert Murray and George Macau Lay Trevelyan at the acknowledged Summit of English scholar with a command Over pub Lic attention and respect that can be denied by no a new facet of his Man sided mind has recently been shown to England he has been seen As a citizen As Well As a laughing with a gift of humor that sets Wisdom in per he has been at his Best fir talks Over bbl famous contemporaries he has known such As and Sydney Webb or professor whose life was really an adventure in his felicitous touch be noted in what he had to when he had finished there remained hardly any doubters except lord Beaverbrook and two cousins of mine with a passion for being in a having Only just landed from the Atlan the Effort he made must have been and it proved too historic flight As the Sun Rose Over Irelan on August 26 three Young airmen took off for the spent two hours refuelling heir and were Back in Reland before they had flown Miles in their Canberra twin Jet i was the first time in history thai the Atlantic had been crossed both ways in one Wing commander Roland Bea who piloted the Black bul and his two Man Crew de Erve enormous Praise for this amazing it was a feat made possible by the Meh often n the face of great difficulties Lave pioneered and developed Jet aircraft in great it of known before this his tory making that the Faith of British scientists in Jet propulsion had been vindicated but that vindication has now been underlined in a spectacular and highly Gratifying the plane in which these three British fliers roared across the Ocean among other a the nations of the West Ern world Are bending every Effort to avoid its use As such but in this strange and uneasy age it is Good to have this witness of the vision and resourcefulness of Britain engineers and aside altogether from the Mil itary significance of the can Berra double and perhaps in the Long run More will be its effect in bringing the world another step closer to be coming increasingly important it is be important single coming increasingly absurd than to weaken or Force our liberties in the very Effort to preserve them against the so Viet the subject Cho sen for John Diefenbaker conservative for Lake Cen carried the rather melodramatic title of the Outlook of Freedom in the Garrison Canada is not a Garrison stat today and stands in no Dange of becoming die Fen with his usual Earnest argued the Case for a can Adian Bill of Eugene of the Canadian Congress of thought that Diefenbaker placed too much Emph Asis on merely Legal aspects o civil Liberty while the economic foundations of Freedom failed to receive the importance they de significant footnote a significant footnote to this discussion was presented by or Barr of Virginia University who remarked that it would be wrong or canadians to believe that the Bill of rights has failed to be a Sanctuary of Freedom in the uni Ted during the Witch Hunts organized by men like sen Ator Mccarthy and senator my the supreme court armed with the Power of the Bill of has often been Able to vindicate the authentic tradition of the United states and to prevent its principles of Freedom rom being outraged by men who vant to translate their own Hys Eria into the Law of the Diefenbaker at once took his argument As reinforcing his Case for a Canadian Bill of rights and he urged in particular an amendment which would per Mit any As of to bring his complaint before the supreme court of Canada a right which now is denied to canadians insofar As exact statutory to vision is the discussion on Canadas so Ial welfare programmes had Little relation to the Cost of Ocial those who raised he question of Cost were very1 that we should be Able to get along with our neighbors the scientists Are bringing them practically to our from the Golden books from rabbi Ben Ezra by Robert Browning but i now As who Mould est men and not even while the whirl was did the wheel of life with shapes and colors bound my end so take and use thy work Amend what flaws May today scripture the lord is my Light and my salvation whom shall i fear the lord is the strength of my whom shall i be afraid even among those who Ai Vocaty the on what a by Tern of National health insurance would really Cost in the final figures submitted to the conference varied betwee and million in trying to compute the Davis executive director of the canal Ian welfare explain that it was necessary to consider the expenditures now being mad by canadians on various kinds o health insurance and to relat these outlays to the ultimate cos of a National health Shoul one come into in Genera he defended Canadas ability t maintain its social Security expenditures not Only on the group of the country present Prosper to but also because these expenditures Are mainly Transfer pay ments which distribute income from the Strong to the from the Young to the and from society As a whole to Young the final discussion at the con on the human values we seek to should have been he because it raised the issues which Are infinitely More significant than the ephemera quarrels of the three speakers from the University of Toronto were All scholars who deserve respect Carpenter assistant professor of anthropology professor of eng ish at Victoria College and a Dis anguished critic and Lynch assistant professor of philosophy it Michaels for Eason known Only to these Emi nent men they chose to explore heir own differences rather than o illuminate the moral issues under debate the discussion therefore was Dusty and untre no one listening to them would Lave realized that for most people and in matters of this it s the conduct of everyday people hat is Al important the real action for Freedom As it con roots the Challenge of communism is a religious belief in the Sanctity of the of the great sceptic As Well s the great believer has his role Church ills answers from the London Spectator Churchill is having and occasionally Best of is the Alice Inwon Derland kind of answer that applies a logic out soaring the parliamentary this leaves the opposition comically bewildered and dialectically Laid Churchill surveys them with succulent High old time answering be prime ministers hese put him in the Centre of lie stage daily and allow the Louse and the Public to see the ast of parliament by Fence revelling in his Dexter his interrogators get every conceivable form of that ingenuity and humor can con there is the answer inform the answer s Whitehall might say the ans ver a birthdays born Bruce August rapid born August Provost of Trinity Brig my the efficiency and than they Ever did from the of the three scholars who participated in the last nights moral Law take away said and what Are the kingdoms of the Earth but bands of robbers in our own Days that glory o English has said to bring the conduct of states into conformity with the moral Law is the capital object of civilize which As yet is in its infant we cannot act As if it had been but to deny that it can and ought to be achieved Public the sin against the holy to the extent that the co Chiching conference animated by this spirit and mrose its deliberations must be accounted a notable service to he clarification of Canadian pubic last of three articles flexibility that might win a Large volume of Trade for but the government As a whole is no As yet at any to face the political unpopularity o a really Tough economic to k to this is the Basic fact in the it is the reason Why the Commonwealth Confer ence is being Given such exaggerated ministers rather desperately Hope with the help of the common dramatic new ways May be found to ease Britain Posi Tion without terribly drastic Domestic measures they think that new currency or Trade policies May somehow Lessen the need for the direction of these policies is still one Way to wards which at any has at times shown some Dis position is a dash for free some limited form of convertibility might be Sterling the Exchange rate might whole Sterling area would not join in if restrictive plans Are they May Well be intended primarily As a Bluff in the Hope that the americans will be frightened into offering More Aid As an nothing decided i this would be a dangerous and nothing is decided in the the British government May feel desperately driven to ignore North America and tighten up the Sterling a dash to Freedom is just if the other Commonwealth countries encourage but both these opposites Are possible because neither is in fact with forces pulling both it is likelier that Church ills ministers will be disappointed and the conference will produce nothing but another Batch of Short term and unsatisfactory sex the British government will be driven Back to attend to to internal policies if it has he the new High commissioner sir Archibald Nye Canada has been peculiarly fortunate in the agreeable As Well As very Able eople the United kingdom has ent Here to represent Britain of lieu general sir Archi Laid the new High commis Ioner with his charming wife and assure the main Enance of that High level of per onal As Well As official relations hats press gallery opinion after meeting the family info gallery members still remember with affection their personal Malcolm for Mer High now Olding the difficult Post of High commissioner for Southeast his sir Alexander Clutterbuck and his Friendly wife and no eed to mention our former gov Earl Alexander of now Britain defence min and his gracious to All they us a in their Young lady Nye is a Cousin of the wife of Earl Alex graciousness seems to run n Merit and Effort the new British High commis sir former ugh commissioner to has changed posts with sir Alex Ander sir Archibald representative of that Type of modest or should one say Rishman he was born in dub who win High posts in the by personal Merit by and and strive to conceal their abilities with a deprecatory he has Sharp Greyble a grading military and a soft spoken but definitely commanding army sir Archibald wounded in the first great of the military a commission and finally chief of the general staff at 45 years of age is the Type of professional Soldier who by virtue of his training and experiences is wary of press Confer he confessed to some apprehensions in answering ques ions for publication that might be he probably stood on sound ground at that lathering As a representative of soviet russian Tass Agency was resent x trusting in their sir Archi 3ald gave the newspaper men background information on conditions in Giese interesting facts were Given with optimistic Faith in the ability of India to surmount her difficulties and hold fast to the Commonwealth nothing for rus Sia in sir Archibald is an authority he held the vital Ost of governor of Madras in he difficult postwar years in demonstrating such Diplo Matic skill that Britain him Ler first High commissioner to India in sir Archibald military car Eer began at the Duke of Yorks school at reserved for sons of noncommissioned at is he left school when the German invasion of France took enlisted in the ranks of the famed Irish the in the hard his Rise to commissioned rank was after the he made a Spe Cial study of ground and Airco became for air cooperation at he spent some years in the Eastern the War office and the staff then he took Law examinations in 1932 was called to the bar and became a member of the inner Peak efficiency Back to the he Rose from major to lieutenant colonel to temporary brigadier in India thence to the War office with rank of As director of staff he was promoted to Vic chief of the Jeneral staff at 45 years of age and shortly after to lieutenant sir Archibald has one Daugh age and his step lady nya is the daughter of general sir Harry Hugh former of the King and adjutant of the lady Nye was chief of the women voluntary service organization in the Lon Don Borough of and took a leading part in caring for bombed out families during the lady Nye is also a talented portrait Painter and has Finis Heij some 100 ;