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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 15, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published Junsay by he win pts free press company limited. 300 Canton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. Author led Ai second class matter by the Post Ohaco department Ottawa. Victor Sutton president pc publisher Grant Dexter editor r. S. Malone vice president we. Lord general manager Winis Jipei monday september .15, 1952 the British preference the november conference of Commonwealth prime minis ters doubtless will hear from those elements which have always relieved that the Commonwealth can increase its Prosperity by folding Down the importation of foreign goods to a minimum. The ghost of the Ottawa treaties of 1932 will walk again in London. In the meantime a study of Canada s current Trade with Britain and the Commonwealth indicates clearly that they Are hardly beginning to take advantage of the Tariff advantages Al ready assured them in Canada by the British preference system invented by the Laurier government just before the turn of. The Century. Over a wide Range of products Canada charges a lower tar Iff on imports from Britain and the Commonwealth than on imports from other countries. Yet in the Case of most of these products Britain and the Commonwealth sell relatively Little More. Other exporters hold the lion s share of our Market even when they must meet a relatively High Tariff. The Canadian government is now completing a statistical study of these matters and will present it to the London Confer ence some of these figures As published in the financial Post Are striking. They show for example that on such products As furniture bananas canned pineapples Cotton yarns diesel engines socks and stockings electrical precision instruments Citrus fruit juices Ball bearings engineering tools electric Mot ors jewelry and manufactures of steel and Iron the British pre Ference gives the Commonwealth heavy Tariff advantages in the Canadian Market. But in every Case except bananas and canned pineapples Canada buys far More of these imports from the United states than it buys from the Commonwealth. The reason of course is obvious exporters in the United and trouble could also develop Tor or. Drew in Ontario where he might normally expect to fight on favourable terrain. There is at the moment nothing to indicate Low has any real Prospect of electing Federal members East of Alberta. But it seems Clear that the party at least intends to Field candidates across the country with the result that two right Wing movements will be oppose j ing each other in addition to fac ing the powerful Federal organization of or. St. Laurent. For or. Drew who has had his share of political disappointments the resultant Outlook must be singularly Bleak. Stumping it is now taken for granted in Canada As in the United states that political leaders will stump the country at election time. But this was not always the Case. A new York times writer Points out that until Harrison s "1 o g Cabin Campaign of 1840 the Rule enunciated by Washington that the presidency is not an office to be either solicited or declined was generally respected in the United states but the innovation o f that year was apparently states and other countries offer Canada lower prices than those regarded As somewhat dubious offered by the Commonwealth even though they have to Over because it was not until 1sso that _ relatively High Tariff. That Tariff differential evidently is not sufficient to overcome the High Cost and Price Structure of the Commonwealth countries which by inflationary policies at Home tend More and More to Price themselves out of the Canadian and the world Market. The solution of this problem offered by those who believe in a closed Commonwealth Market is a still higher Tariff against non Commonwealth goods a return suitably disguised no doubt toward the restrictive Trade policy which proved an. Instant and disastrous failure during the great depression. 1 this resort to the storm cellar of Protection would have three effects. It would reduce the total movement of Trade throughout the world. It would raise the prices of goods imported into Canada and hence the Cost of living already High and lately rising. It would raise the Cost of producing All kinds of goods in Canada and hence the Price of our exports which already Are beginning to meet increasing Competition m the Mai Ket. These facts being obvious it is not surprising thai the Canadian government resists any attempt to damage the big question a famous journal glancing Back at the peaks w Ith a recent Issue hib Bert s journal the Quad Erly review of religion Theo orgy and Phi of Sophy reached its fiftieth birthday. Think that he would never have fainted or fallen if he had stood there through the revolution of in april 1931, sir Oliver Lod the most interesting part of be wrote menial processes Are demonstrated by the interaction of mind and matter. If the particles Are damaged the Demon stration is interfered with or sus Pended. Mind itself is not necessarily damaged by damage to the brain. A Hatchet used on a loud speaker will interrupt its flow of words hut will have no Luence on the ethereal cause that flow. Only the machinery this Jubilee number in the reproduction of outstanding articles from past issues. Here is Tolstoy writing in april 1911 a few Days ago a Learned pro Fessor explained to me that Ali Thep faculties of the soul have now been traced Back to mechanical Only ethereal Ness is not yet quite the symptoms and the disease stumping by presidential Candi dates became a feature of every election. How and Why this happened is not at All Clear from the article in the times. In 1s44 Clay spoke Polk remained silent. Polk won in 1s4s both Taylor and Cass apparently impressed by this re suit remained silent. Pierce avoided the stump in 1s52 while Scott made an inspection tour of possible Sites for a Soldier s Asylum. Pierce won. In 1856 fre Mont stayed Home and so did Buchanan. In i860 Lincoln stayed Home not so Douglas the candidate of the Northern democrats who conducted an Active Campaign. Again the stay at Home won. Seymour in 1s3s, Greeley the country Anatomy of the world problem of Trade is largely the measure a frictions an incentive is thus ment of other nations Dollar Given to the production of goods Economy in a Mon wealth nations. Fruitless attempt to Aid the other com against who Clung to the Britain and the Commonwealth will solve their problem tradition of silence and won. Strange in More the Canadian Market satisfactorily Only when they offer us parties by 1sso had become so oods at competitive prices when they take full Adan of the Tariff preferences already in existence As they Are not doing now. They cannot Hope to sell adequately in the can Adian the United states or other Dollar markets if they cont Mua to raise their Cost of production by wage increases at Home or by devoting too Large a share of their productive energies to various social services which however desirable cannot be afforded at present. On the other hand when Canada rightly insists on buying at competitive prices apart from the Field of in convinced of the advantages of campaigning that presidential elections have been marked by Tours and speech making Ever Nee. Notwithstanding poor communications and a tendency to pre serve patterns of the colonial Era it became accepted rather earlier in Canada than in the United states that it was the duty of a Leader to conduct a to resist the protectionists at Home As it resists them abroad. For example British automobile manufacturers at present Are planning to reduce their prices and thus to promote the Sale at their Small cars in the Canadian and United states markets. British companies intend to sell Large quantities of pre fabricated houses some of them constructed of aluminium in can Ada As they May Well be Able to do when our own building Cost s Are at their current High level. At once we May expect resistance to such imports from Canadian interests always preaching free Enterprise generally resist the Competition which is the basis of that sys tem. In the same fashion the High Cost Canadian shipbuilding Industry has been resisting the government s plan to buy a j Large new ship built in Scotland if the scottish Yards can in de bid the Yards of this country. If the government were to yield to this sort of pressure for Protection it could not say As it can certainly say now that it gives Britain and the Commonwealth full and fair opportunities in our could not say either that it is protecting the Canadian consumer from the protectionists who could raise All and our exporting industries from excessive costs which damage their sales in the world Market. Assuredly Canada needs Protection but not of the kind advocated by the High Tariff school Here and in Britain. It needs Protection from those who would increase our Cost of living and our Cost Oje doing business in a world Market increasingly competitive. It needs Protection from the kind of High Cost poli cies which already have inflicted great damage on Britain and other Sterling countries. Of his party. The first real Post confederation party Battle was the election of 1s72. Sir John Macdonald worried by the and vent of a Liberal government in Ontario began a Western tour although he had to suspend this because of the threat to his own seat in Kingston. He wrote after wards i had to fight a Stern and up Hill Battle in Ontario and had i not taken regularly to the stump a thing that i have never done before we should have been completely the parties being in origin Loose coalitions it was usual at first to leave the local conduct of campaigns to local leaders. But in 1s7s or. Mackenzie con ducted meetings As far East As the maritime. But that time sir John had espoused the National of Protection which he had been urging up and Down the country at political picnics banquets and Public meetings. Since then National Tours have been the Rule at every Canadian general election. The International monetary fund a n organization which cannot be suspected of any partisan motives and is under the influence of no government or party has recently Laid Bare the Anatomy of the world rent economic problem. In Brief it holds that too Many countries members of the fund Are at tempting to live beyond their that resulting inflation throughout the free world has obstructed the fund s purpose of stabilizing world currencies. All this of course will be unpalatable to some National governments which have made a pol icy of living beyond their Means and particularly unpalatable to socialist parties which seem to believe that nations can always live beyond their Means provided government regulates them properly. But the authorities of the fund Are not inter ested in such disputes. They Are concerned solely with the facts a find them. Inevitable result the fund s report covering the postwar period up to the end of april last says that the demand for goods throughout the world has exceeded Supply and produced the inevitable result of inflation for. Two main reasons first vast quantities of materials and manpower have gone into the essential but uneconomic process of armament have pro Woods where the fund was established. Among them the re port mentions the protectionist policies of the United states whose so called favourable balance distort the production and Trade still remaining goods considered by the authorities to be relatively less essential tend to be a favored object of import res said he with striking naivete. We already understand the whole machine Only we Don t quite know by what and How it is set in motion this Only consciousness the Only is delightful is not yet explained by a mechanical process not yet but the professors evidently convinced that any Day the news May arrive that some professor Schmidt of ber Lin or Oxenberg of Frankfort has discovered the mechanical cause of consciousness that is of god within the soul of Man. Is it not Plain that an old woman believing in the Kazan Queen of heaven is not Only morally but mentally incomparably Superior to that Learned professor what s to be done where is damaged and accordingly. The source or mind can no longer operate so a s to Appeal to our senses. If we. Cannot observe particles of matter we can observe nothing they Are our Only Means of observation. Menial inference Are we to get Hie foundation of our world Conception since Rea note that even color is a mental inference. There is no thing in external nature but rates of vibration we interpret them As color. So also we inter pret a picture or a piece of music physically such things Are insignificant. What is a poem physically Black Marks on a bit of paper. The Unis Erse As we perceive it is largely our own interpretation though our faculties doubtless depend on our sense organs and on the information they have Given. Stresses the shortage. The fund Al magnitude and Ranga o f United states production and productivity which have placed that country in a position of predominance in the world Economy and this situation demands Dif zoning the activity of the what reality actually is and supplies no such it might Appeal to a differ Man than. In other know ent order of being be can make of this that is to say when a nation restricts non essential imports Home producers thus protected immediately increase the production of similar goods the very kind which the nation can least afford when it should be concentrating on essentials for Export or for its own use. And at the same time there is. No cult both the adequate incentive to increase United states and the rest even maintain the production he world. Agricultural certain Basic foodstuffs Ana Ion in Europe and the United raw materials the shortages of i. Nii inti n Tir a has Man then no other know ledge than that obtained by Rea a zoning the reply is obvious each Man within himself is conscious of a knowledge quite Dis Tinct from reasoned knowledge Arfa Independent of the endless Chain of cause and effect. This knowledge is his consciousness of his spiritual ego. When Man discovers this consciousness directly for himself states still creates difficulties or some countries and other protective policies maintained in he United states despite its competitive Power also continue to Embarrass other this is Only the expert s method of saying that the poorer nations Are not facing up to the fact of their poverty and that the United states is not facing up to the fact of its incomparable wealth. The poorer nations must produce More goods at he Calls it consciousness1 this Story no pretence to know. We can Only Grope along from step to step and Hope that As far As we go we Are going right though we Are Well aware that we Are Only animated Organ isms in a great and mysterious universe the full meaning of which we can Only surmise by Dean Inge in january 1948, which Are an important Factor perpetuating International Dis finally the report denounces the whole theory of Trade restriction in this striking conclusion attempts to meet payments problems by relying on the Shel Ter of import restrictions or on the assistance afforded by other countries restrictions Are Likely Over a period of time to Lead to a More wasteful and inefficient allocation of resources and make the countries relying on when he finds this consciousness which is common to All Mankind in religious teachings in distinction from reasoned knowledge he Calls it Faith " scornful smile social credit it is reported by the Ottawa correspondent of this newspaper that social credit emboldened by its provincial victories in Al Berta and British Columbia is now planning a major offensive with the object of establishing it self in strength in the Federal parliament. In this regard there is doubtless considerable discrepancy Between Public professions and the sober appraisals of party leaders who cannot be unaware of the obvious fact that a Situa Tion existed in British Columbia which has no counterpart in National politics. The Liberal government under or. St. Laurent s Leader ship clearly has of committing suicide in the manner of the late administration in Vic diced weapons which Are desperately needed but cannot be consumed. Second Many nations have tried to translate into real Ity the widespread desire for economic Security and better ment on a scale which t h e j cannot afford out of their cur rent Means. These twin drains of defence and spending for social purposes have overtaxed the resources available to various great nations and aggravated inflationary pres sures. In some countries the re port adds efforts to Check a deterioration of former living standards have produced the same result. In Layman s language this simply Means that some coun tries Are striving to achieve or maintain standards of living which their present resources will not permit however they the election some sort of Deal could be made with the social creditors assuring or. Drew of a narrow margin in parliament As it then appeared social Cre Dit was a movement of the Pught filling what was for the con a a creatives practically a vacuum in the province of Alberta. Now the Appeal of social credit for conservative voters is More apparent than Ever in British Columbia the party led by a conservative rebel has virtually conservative party and according to news despatches one of the few conservative survivors was recently offered a social credit Cabinet Post. Manifestly the conviction is growing among social creditors that they Are the potential heirs of the conservative party. The contrast with 1948 is thus apparent. Then social credit be Toria. Yet it May Well prove that cause it was virtually confined to the revival of social credit in Terest in the Federal Field is an constituting a very direct threat to the official opposition led by or. Drew. There is in the present Situa Tion a certain irony for in-1948 Alberta was a potential asset for or. Drew. Now that it has re covered its Federal amb it Ioris even if it fails to develop serious strength it threatens off that strength from Mic Drew s candidates. Where its Quebec off Spring the former Union of elec conservatives made nose tors appeared it was Cret of their Hope that following largely at conservative expense from the Golden books from Green River by William Cullen Bryant that fairy music i never hear nor gaze on those Waters so Green and Clear and Mark them winding away from sight darkened with Shade or Flash ing with Light while o or them the Vine to its Thicket clings and the Zephyr Stoops to freshen his wings. But i wish that Fate had left me free to wander these quiet haunts with thee till the eating cares of Earth should depart and the peace of the scene pass into my heart and i envy thy Stream As it glides through its Beautiful Banks in a trance of song. Though forced to Drudge for the Dregs of Nien and scrawl strange words with the barbarous Penang mingle among the jostling crowd where the of strife Are Subtle and i. Often come to this quiet place to breathe the airs that ruffle thy face and gaze upon thee in silent dream for Iii thy lonely and Lovely Stream of that Calm life a that win . In my. Greener years. Prices acceptable to the world j Market if they Are to pay their Vay. The United states must be prepared to buy More of these goods As the Truman govern ment and general Eisenhower Are both urging and to that end should modify its. Protectionist policies by still further Tariff reductions. Inflationary policies the inflationary policies of the poorer nations and the Protection is policies of the United states thus Are equally condemned by an impartial world authority. The fund report with evident alarm that in the last Many nations have attempted to evade the Clear facts of heir situation and to seek a Solu Ion of their problems by resort to import restrictions which Only deepen the disease. Even where the Long term consequences of these acts of impoverishment Are understood the re port the need for immedi ate action to Deal with a critical situation has made it difficult to these methods less rather than More capable of dealing effect Lovely with their International payments there be a clearer verdict than this against the whole theory of Tariff Protection n general and in particular against the theory that the Commonwealth nations can solve their problems by relying on one another s discriminatory tariffs. G. K. Chesterton in the Issue of april 1918 concluded a review of the life of Stopford Brooke with these words Stopford Brooke stands on a Peak but he stands on a Preci pice. He stood and stands securely out beyond him there is no step save into the void which he most deeply disdained. He still looks May be redistributed. These countries in Short Are trying to spend what they do not possess. This Basic disorder the fund says produces its immediate out Ward expression in balance of , chiefly the Long standing Dollar shortage of the Sterling countries. And West Ern Europe. Apart from the inflationary policies pursued by various coun tries in an attempt to disguise the real disease the fund report mentions other factors which have upset the equilibrium of the world Economy and thwarted the postwar Hopes of Bretton birthdays John Hume Oak River Man. Born Arkell ont., september 15, 1sto. I sometimes remember the Story about Bulstrode White Locke Cromwell s envoy at the Hague he was tossing sleepless on his bed when his servant who was sleeping in the same room said sir May i ask you a question yes do you be Lieve that god governed the world Well before you came in to yes and that he will govern it Well after you have left it then sir cannot you Trust him to govern it Well while you Are in it the tired Ambas Sador went to sleep. While i wait for that Well Down into it with that scornful contented Day when that churl smile which i have seen when with a sweep of his hand he would put All modern scepticism and pessimism behind him with that repose Ful irony which sounded once when i heard him sum up the latest philosophies in a Stern parody of. The song of Bethlehem glory to annihilation in the abyss and on Earth strife. Something sustained him like a Saint upon a column just above that chasm in a sort death my Bones with dust shall i remember the manifold blessings that i have enjoyed and also How Many men Wiser than i am have predicted evils which have not come to pass. The body politic generates anti toxins As Well As toxins pendulums swing and civilization is fairly Tough. If we escape an other War our grandchildren May after All see happier times than i can venture to Hope for of Radiant contempt and up until recently Waskada Manitoba was just another Boom town by c. S. R. Of it tvs or Deloraine Many give attention to such results. But in the Long run airy Retreat to the storm cellars of restriction will prove futile. In consequence of these import restrictions the treatment of Exchange the re port finds has frequently been symptomatic rather than Radical it has been aimed at outward manifestations of balance of pay ments pressure rather than at its not Only do restrictions reduce the total movement of world Trade and hence the total amount of goods available to the world s people but says the report they fifty minutes to Montreal from the journal Best aviation news in 1. Months has been Given by or. Chairman of the air transport Board. It is a Happy release from the talk of 600 Mph Jet airliners and flying Leviathan to carry 100 passengers to the ends of the Earth. Or. Baldwin with a careful peek into the future suggests the helicopter will in fact bring cities nearer to each other. With the advantage of expert knowledge he looks to the Day when a helicopter flying from a downtown area of Ottawa will discharge its passengers in Down town Montreal 50 minutes later this in effect would make Mont real an Ottawa suburb an Ach i element far More impressive to us than breakfast in Cairo and lunch in Karachi. Today s scripture o come let us worship and Bow. Down let us Kneel before the lord our Mckeiv for he is our god and we Are the to people of his arid the site close to the 6, 7 sheep by his spa. 95 1ss3 when the Canadian Paci fic branched out to the South West from Deloraine. Since then the people of Waskada have lever been out of touch with the oiling Prairie which stretches it toward the Antler River and Svay eastward the Turtle fountains. The Prairie was the reason for he town s existence arid who her like de they dug heir livelihood directly from the or carried on the business f the town itself the people of to Cikada could never forget that t was the land the Black soil edging up to their very door tips upon which their fortunes depended. Their fortunes May not have Jeen spectacular but though the Earth was sometimes Pickle it Vas More often generous and Here were Many Farmers and townspeople who. Could -.say, As did mrs. De Mcgregor we had t quite hard sometimes but we Lave been doing Well these past few of the Farmers and townsmen had cars and radios. They were Able to move about freely and when they met at the Post office or the Canadian legion they i ments in world affairs As Well As the immediate problems and gossip of their own Little com the Pacific. For millions of years far beneath the Black top soil on which Waskada lived a River of Black Oil had lain hidden. Last week that River was tapped. T is too soon yet to know for sure How Rich or deep that i l i the latest Unity. It was a Good life and it did not have to be Dull. And rewarding a Good life but it does not take Many Farmers to cultivate. A great expanse of Prairie soil and the town did not grow very big or very famous. The trains came in Al most every Day one Day from the East and the next Day from the West but not Many people stopped off and there seemed to be no hotel. Twice a week there were moving picture Litows and after the show a Young Man alld his girl could find a Booth in the cafe. Or per Hap s they would drive out to but sometimes it did seem less exciting and adventurous than it Milit have been especially to he younger men and women and when a Chance to establish themselves in some Arger and More Complex town or City they were Apt to take it but in spite of this Drain on the Youthful population there were Many people who found life in and around Waskada sufficiently Rich and rewarding and who saw no reason in the world Why they should Ever move away. There is of course nothing in All this to distinguish Waskada from hundreds of other Canadian country towns Strong steady and unspectacular fluctuating in size with the ebb and flow of the agrarian tide spreading out with is no longer a quiet Little Mani Toba town. The Man buying his Cigar at the drug store is not Likely to be discussing affairs of state or his neighbor s Harvest. Oil it la be another Redwater i Tell you. Look what happened up there. And we be got it Here to the real Alberta Leduc Turner Valley Lloydminster these Are the names around which conversations Are built to Dav. It could of course All come to and Waskada after a is tic interlude revert to its quiet ways. But what Point is there in contemplating that the future May be but the signposts Are guiding engineers and businessmen Wildcat ters and adventurers toward Waskada. Changing course these signposts indicate that for better or worse the people of Waskada Are entering a new life filled and new More aggressive or fortunate with new freedoms responsibilities. For the influx of some new business some perhaps it will bring tra Enterprise or dwindling in anti Heartbreak too. But face of Competition from some the men who till the soil and who through the years have watched the shifting skies have Learned to accept nature s Chang ing course and to Trust them selves. If now they have indeed wrested from its secret Cavern Aladdin s wonderful but some times surprising Oil lamp May it bring them Only Joy. Neighbouring town but always playing its essential its vital role in the life and Economy of can Ada. But on sept. 5 the picture changed. The Little town of was Kada population 325 made the headlines from the Atlantic to ;