Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights press primed Una plums lung Luhv. Exc tip Winnipeg free. Priss limited 300 Cariton Street Winnipeg. Manitoba. Authorized u Hond matter by us Pott of fact department. Oulu Victor s1fton pub intr Grant Dexter cd Tor r. S. Malone let Pru Deot we. Lord a neral Winnipeg monday january 5, .1953 to protect the Dollar apart from foreign policy the Sovereign problem facing the Eisenhower administration is concentrated in the value of the United states Dollar. It is at once the proof of the management or mismanagement of the nation s finances the Index of inflation or deflation and of itself a major Factor in the economic climate of the world at All general Eisenhower s domes tic policies Stem out of his determination to restore the Pur chasing Power of the Dollar after Many years of inflation which has Cut it almost in half. There Are two methods of protecting the Dollar and All the fixed savings which it represents. One is the method of direct Price controls attempted without real Success by the Truman government. The other is the indirect fiscal policy As enforced by the Canadian government against the protests of the parliamentary opposition. At the moment the United states Clumsy and unworkable Structure of direct controls is virtually in ruins. It has become Little More than a Legal fiction ignored even by the government which has deliberately violated the wage controls essential to its enforcement. Apparently the new administration and con Gress Are preparing to abandon the fiction. From his own speeches and from the views of his newly appointed colleagues it is evident that general Eisenhower proposes to attack inflation by the indirect fiscal method As Canada has done. This is most clearly indicated in a formal speech which general Eisenhower wrote for delivery in sep tember 23 last. It was Laid aside so that he could devote his speaking time to controversial affairs of his running mate senator Nixon the nominee for vice president. Copies of the speech were circulated to the newspapers and have now been published. In it general Eisenhower attacked direct Price controls As a failure and a delusion. In any Case the speech argues the administration had assured the failure of its programme by Fol lowing a cheap Money policy for political purposes. That is to say while attempting to control prices the symptom of Mone tary inflation the administration was assuring inflation by the creation of a Supply of Money in excess of the available Supply of goods. The speech goes on to assert that the United states Treasury had prevented the Federal Reserve Board which is supposed to be above political control from curtailing the Supply of Money As it desired for the political convenience of the government. Then general Eisenhower Laid Down the Basic policy which he proposed to follow in office we shall create an atmosphere in which the Federal Reserve Board As an Independent Agency and the Treasury department act not As political enemies but As economic allies in the War on the emphasis on the Independence of the Federal Reserve Board As intended when that machinery was established in Woodrow Wilson s time is highly significant. General Eisenhower s intentions Are not confined to his speeches. He has lately appointed to key positions in the management of the Money system men who have always stood for indirect fiscal weapons against inflation and for the in dependence of the Federal Reserve Board. One of these is or. W. Randolph Burgess who will be Deputy to the Secretary of the Treasury in charge of debt management and monetary policies formerly an officer of the fed eral Reserve Board latterly a private banker the author of several books on monetary problems and widely known As the defender of indirect fiscal controls Over prices. In recent state ments or. Burgess has outlined clearly the views he will represent in the Treasury. Be begins by insisting that there can be no effective attack on inflation until the National budget is under control and its present Large deficits eliminated since Federal government borrowings and increased debt almost inevitably increase the Supply of Money in circulation. Increased he says greatly expands the Money sup dangerous at a time of inflationary psychology. Political pressure for spending and tax reduction is so great that much can be said for. A fixed statute requirement for debt in Short or. Burgess sees the. Whole problem of inflation and the future value of the Dollar dependent upon the ability of the government to live within its revenues instead of creating new Money to pay part of its expenses. The utter impossibility of com Bining self government with a single voice. Likewise they Over looked the implacable hostility to their theory of Australia South Africa and new zealand to mention the impending revolution in Commonwealth re lations caused by the exit from the Commonwealth of Ireland and the emergence of the Republic of India. No doubt the observations the other Day of Premier Holland of new zealand at London Are of Small interest today. Yet it May be Worth while to place them on the record. The report is from the London times or. Holland did not think there was need for Reform in inter Commonwealth relations nor for the establishment of some kind of Commonwealth consultative Assembly. There was already constant Consulta Tion Between member such a statement to ild have been sensational a generation or two ago. It would indeed have been of major significance five years ago. But today the doctrine of consultation and not centralization is an accepted principle throughout the Commonwealth. It May be doubted if the stoutest of the conserva Tive old guard at Ottawa or even the Globe and mail will wince when they read or. Holland s words. Or. Hepburn the sudden death of Mitchell Mitch Hepburn at St. Thomas Ontario Early monday morning close one of the most colourful careers in Canadian politics. Or. Hepburn entered the House of commons As a Liberal in survived the election of 1930, and became provincial Leader and Premier in 1934 at the age of 37. After eight Stormy years he turned Over the premiership in october 1942 to or. Gordon Conant then attorney general who died a few Days ago and became Provin Cial treasurer. He retired from the government and the Leader ship of party a the Ontario Liberal few months later. In March 1943 or. Hepburn announced his support of the fed eral conservative party. He did not run in the Ontario general election of 1943 and although he made occasional forays into politics in later years he was never again an important poli tical figure. While very popular in the earlier years of his premiership the policies he advocated and adopted with few exceptions were ill considered and unfortunate. He left the Liberal party in Ontario divided and condition from which it has not yet recovered. Liberal revolt Ottawa policy opposed by v. J. M. 1 0 radio reacted and like Televik time bombs at the recent meetings Here of the advisory Council of National Liberal federation. Or earlier in the Day sessions of the top governing body of the party policies of _ the Federal government had a pm under Sharp criticism and set the fuse simmering when the television question was thrown onto1 the. Floor of the closed meetings it blew the lid it was a manifestation of real Liberal ideas in regard to radio and. Television. The delegates As they packed up to go Home agreed that the explosion Over television and the rumpus Over radio was a Good healthy sign for the Paity. It was an indication that the rank and file liberals across the country Are alive to important issues and ready to Challenge the government if and when they think its policies Are not entire y in line with sound Liberal Doc Trine. In for trouble the government knew it was n for. Tro Ufele Over its radio policies shortly after the advisory Council meetings got under Way As a certainty now that the radio licence will be abolished before the next but. The of the federation was wrestling with still another radio question. It had. Before it a Resolution i which recommended the forma Tion of a supervisory Board Simi Lar to the Board of transport commissioners which would sup. Revise the Canadian broadcasting corporation and private radio in Canada. It became common talk among the delegates that this potentially explosive Resolution was being gingerly tossed Back and Forth by the members sitting on the resolutions committee. Never emerged it never emerged from the committee and consequently was never put to a vote before the main body of the meeting. What happened to it was a question the executive declined to discuss. Other delegates claimed How Ever that the government got wind of the Resolution and applied pressure to prevent it Ever reaching the floor of the main meeting. Delegates following the federation meeting were revealing a Story that at least one Cabinet minister had threatened the Resolution was e the federation and began the serious if considering Aioli placed Belo Ion of the licence fee Lor meetin2 and radio receivers was advocated certainly such a Resolution if one Resolution. Jit Ever should be introduced and this immediately passed by the Liberal federation International wheat agreement a prolonged discussion Lor and against the collecting of the a would be directly contrary to the policy of the Liberal govern How the . Views renewal this also was general Eisenhower s reasoning throughout the election Campaign. He stated repeatedly that the first objective of the government must be to balance the budget by strict Economy by slicing the fat out of excessive expenditures on both civilian and military account. Fortunately this task will not be As difficult was it appeared to be a few months ago. The prospective budgetary deficit for the fiscal year ending next Midsummer will be far lower than or. Truman estimated. He expected from the prevailing rate of Revenue and expenditure a deficit of ten billion dollars. It now appears that he Over Esti rated expenditures and under estimated revenues and the Cash difference Between the actual Money collected and spent by the be in the neighbourhood of four billions. Or. Truman expected to spend billions in the current fiscal year but the actual expenditure seems unlikely to exceed billions. In the next year or. Truman forecast a expenditure of about billions. General Eisenhower s evident target is a budget of not More than billions. In the test now facing the new administration As it attempts to alter the policy of its successor the Canadian government will be an interested Spectator. For it has Long refused to follow that policy of unworkable direct Price controls and has largely succeeded in its opposite policy of indirect fiscal controls. Its have been increased by a failure to economize. But this apart the Canadian government s policy so often attacked by the opposition has been handsomely confirmed by the think ing of the men who will shortly control the monetary system of the United states. Moreover Ottawa s policy will be immensely strengthened if the new Eisenhower administration carries through its present programme. Attention or. Zuke it is sad to note the unanimity with which the inner Cance of the communist pure in Czechoslovakia is recognize throughout the free world. One again the detestable head of racial persecution has been raised Here is the comment of the London times once the elimination of Slan sky had been decided upor which naturally involved the fall of his closest associates am proteges the full catalogue o current crimes had to be fast ened on to them. Among these crimes zionism has taken a conspicuous place. Zionism has Al ways been a proscribed move ment in communist countries but never before has it been credited with such malevolent Power As in this trial. Eleven o the fourteen accused were jews and throughout the trial their race and their racial links with the outside world were Emp a Echo it is just nine years ago that a speech by lord Halifax then British ambassador at Washington at Toronto provoked per haps the last flurry of Contro Versy Over the autonomy of the individual members of the Commonwealth. Lord Halifax who must be held to be innocent of any intention of causing controversy expressed the View that the age of Titan Powers had arrived and that the Only Way the British Commonwealth could Titan status As the equal either of the United states or of Russia was to speak with a voice that is to agree upon a common foreign policy. Lord Halifax incidentally completely reversed this Toronto speech in a later utterance at new York. In the subsequent flurry of argument in this country the Globe and mail was the e chief advocate of the single voice although there were mutterings of concurrence from the conservative benches in the House of commons. Looking Back on this incident which May be regarded As the last faint Echo of the Sta Tus controversy of it is remarkable that the advocates of the single voice theory seemed to believe that their Only real opponents were Canadian nationalists. They seemed unaware of the debates which had taken place in the British parliament the War some of them initiated by lord Bennett which had demonstrated Over and Over again from the Golden books from great nature to an army a by Richard Watson Gilder great nature is an army Gay Resistless marching on its i hear the bugles Clear and Sweet i hear the tread of a million feet. Across the Plain i see it pour it tramples Down the waving grass within the echoing Mountain pass i hear a thousand Cannon Roar. It swarms within Rny Garden Gate my deepest Well it drink eth dry. It doth not rest it doth not by night and Day it sweep eth by ceaseless it Marcheth by Iny door it heeds me not though. I implore. I know not whence it comes nor where it goes. For me it doth not whether i starve or eat or sleep or die or sing or weep and now the banners All Are Bright now torn and blackened by the fight still through the night an d through the Livelong Day the infinite army i Arches on Iti remorseless Way. Washington within 10 Days of assuming o f f i c e the new Republican administration will have to define a policy on the important Issue of re Newing the International wheat agreement. Since the world wheat Council is due to meet in Washington january 30, it is not surprising that or. Ezra t. Benson the incoming Secretary of agriculture has publicly accorded it very High priority. Indeed the necessity of reach ing Swift decisions on this mat Ter May Well have been a Factor in the calculations leading to the recent appointment of an interim agricultural advisory committee headed by Dean William i. Myers. While All three major . Farm groups favor an International agreement in principle close observers rate the chances of a new Accord As a Little less than in each Case the assent of the. Farm body is conditional and it seems fair to say that in the thinking of them the powerful american farm Bureau federation and the National Grange the conditions loom As considerably More important than the desirability of participation. Anything approaching fervent support is to be found Only in circles of the rather left Wing National Farmers Union. Political shift the political shift uni Ted states has to some extent been mirrored in the fortunes of the rival farm groups. Or. Brannard the outgoing secret Ary has always been close to the Farmers Union while the highly critical farm Bureau Tias been a Thorn in his flesh. In the other hand i. Benson been an Independent. His appointment has of course been approved by farm Union officials who insist that he is fair and also Point out that general by Maurice Western Eisenhower was careful not to identify himself with the pro gramme of the farm Bureau nevertheless it is agreed on Al sides that or. Benson is a conservative and his own state ments indicating opposition to the planned and subsidized Economy. Accord generally those of the Bureau Lead As regards the wheat agree ment the farm Bureau s Posi Tion was affirmed in mid dec Ember at the Seattle convention As follows we. Favor in Prin Ciple the idea of an International wheat agreement however any renewal of the present agreement should reduce the subsidy Cost to the . Government provide a formula for varying prices As future agreement economic conditions change and assure a fair Al location of Export e other words the farm Bur in views the wheat agree ment in the Light of its general attitude to subsidy policies. It is bitterly opposed to the policy of High rigid parity Price sup ports favored by the Farmers Union. It is uncomfortably aware that the department of agriculture now has billion tied up in Price supports and that International wheat sales have Cost the Treasury up wards of the . Farmer unlike the producer does no have to accept the agreement Price it is the . Treasury that meets the difference be tween this and the Marke value of the wheat. But the farm Bureau maintains that the heavy subsidy policy hurts the producer in numerous ways it forces up taxation the Bureau is also sharply critical of the free spending de it ment of agriculture creates ill will among the mass of tax paying citizens induces excessive production of. The subsidized products twists the agricultural Economy out of shape and by creating surpluses necessitates government Regula Tion through acreage allotments and marketing quotas. These in turn mean serious loss through under utilization of costly machinery and equip ment. Or. Brannan himself has lately been calling for Volun tary cuts in wheat plantings to avoid such measures. Subsidies As seen by the farm Bureau merely delay adjustments and mean less in come for agriculture in the end. Future prices if there is to be a wheat w5s John Morley s wife by Janus in the London Spectator John Viscount Morley was alive he died in 1923 there was considerable mystery about his life and a Good Deal of doubt s to whether he was in fact i married. Mrs. Morley never a eared in Public. A Liberal official who had to arrange1 Many formal functions consult d a Cabinet minister As to nether he should put and on Morley s invitations. Of he was told we Al ways treat him As a Ohn Burns who frequently vis Ted Morley at Wimbledon As that he certainly was married and that his wife was a very Nice actually i happened to be one a Small number of people who knew the facts but or. W. Robertson Scott is prob by right in saying that the Ory had not appeared in print tithe told it in his Book the life and death of a news Pap published recently. He says both Morley and lad y Morley have now seen dead thirty years and in any Case the Story is All to Morley s credit. A Young woman with whom he had contracted a completely honourable Friendship came to his rooms late one night and said she could Bear her Hus band s brutality no longer and had left him without a Penny in her pocket Morley kept her night sleeping himself in his sitting room. In the morn ing he said that even so he had compromised would marry her to secure a divorce she and she and lived to Gether till her husband died. Then they married. Some years later one of her sons by the former marriage forged Morley s name for a Large sum and was sentenced to ten years penal servitude. Morley s u p ported his wife and children till the Day. Of release. Agreement the Bureau argues in effect that the Price should approximate the Market in deed the bargaining ceiling of 52.50 mentioned by . Dele Gates at the last Council meet ing corresponded closely with the Price of wheat at the ports and accorded with Bureau views. To the importers and to some other negotiators it appeared fantastic. Moreover if. Future prices Are to vary farm Bureau officials incline Strong y to the opinion that the Cri Erion at any time should be the Price at which wheat out Side the agreement has been moving freely on to markets it is probably fair to say. That Ilse farm Bureau would not be greatly concerned if negotiations fell through. However the organization is greatly concerned finding so me Means of disposing of wheat in Dollar Short countries hence the great emphasis at the re cent convention upon lower tariffs customs simplification and Trade not the position of the National Grange. Is somewhere Between the other1 two farm groups though closer to that of the Bureau. An agreement will be acceptable Only if provisions Are incorporated to prevent inequitable burdens on american mean ing say Grange spokesmen tax views of Farmers Union As for the National Farmers Union it has expressed no Par. Titular concern Over the effects of subsidies favors 100 per cent parity backed an internal to licence fee. There were ment at Ottawa. The government who continually urged the present is committed to the oration to leave it up to the 0-f vesting control Over a Ern ment to decide and when Dio in the Caradan broadcasting the fee should be dropped. As now constituted did not think the federation should a fiddle in such matters. Tender spots other delegates made it government is obviously Plain that they had not tra sensitive on the subject of radio veiled All the Way to Ottawa broadcasting and control. The simply to endorse the Liberal and administration developing ten ministration s action and in regard to to too stamp resolutions in Praise of As this writer will show in a sub the government s policies. The upshot was that among the first resolutions to be passed and to the press from be Hind the closed doors was one which requested the government to give consideration to the immediate abolition of the radio licence it is regarded Here birthdays William e. Browne Norwood born Halifax county n.s., Jan uary 5, 1885. William a by bus Lariviere born Huron county ont., january 5, 1s70. Sequent article on the meetings of the Liberal federation. The government apparently relished no full scale radio debate among its followers at this Date. It succeeded in smothering what might have been an explosion. However the Cabinet was made uncomfortably aware that its system of controlling radio in Canada is not popular among the rank and file of the Liberal party. This and fhe develop ments with respect to to have come As a major Shock to ministers. Spokesman for Freedom from an address by Anthony Kdan British foreign Secretary w tonal agreement on both pre Vious occasions and will do so now unless the Price Sfax out. Of line. Has mentioned conditions suggesting that Iwa. E related to an farm parity a since no such thing exists some National Index would presumably be acceptable. But the Union attaches importance to conditions than do the other groups and one official sum Ned up its current feeling on he subject of renewal in the remark that we Are intensely interested but not too e did not Send our sol Diers to Korea for any aggressive purpose. They went o resist aggression. They went to meet Force with Force by collective action in defense of a moral principle. It is this. Collective support of International a that distinguishes the korean conflict from any that we Lave known before for what Ever or. Vishinsky May say it s by decision of the United nations and under the United nations Flag that each political step and each military action has been taken. Now the principle has been defended. The aggressor has been repelled. Once this had happened we did not hesitate to discuss terms for a settlement. Over a year ago the offer of armistice discussions was made. We at once accepted it though the military position was at that time in our favor. That fact alone should prove to our opponents that we Are not pursuing any aggressive or imperialist purpose. We want to see a settlement for reasons that Are not Sel fish. I need not dwell upon the human problems involved the casualties on both sides the sufferings of the people of Korea the. Danger that the conflict May spread and All the other considerations which must be pre sent to the minds of an Assembly such As this attempts to abuse example. This calumny has been primarily directed against the United states which coun try carries the main Burden in Korea. It is in vain that the charges have been denied. It is in vain that we have offered to have them examined by impartial investigators. That is always rejected. It is hard to understand How anyone can sincerely believe these charges. But if they do How can they refuse a serious investigation of them an example the year has been marked by an increase in propaganda de signed to arouse arid intensify hatred Between the nations. Far irom seeking to enlighten and clarify. Communist publicity Las surpassed itself in its at tempts to Blacken and abuse the free Peoples of the world. Monstrous allegations have Een made on All manner of subjects. Germ warfare is one today s scripture Jesus increased in Wisdom and in stature and in favor with god and Man 2 w b.3.v. Nor is it Only t h i s alleged germ warfare. Communist propaganda has been Ever More extravagant. Her majesty s government and Many of your governments also Are frequently described As Canni nobody of course believes that grisly accusation not even those who use the but it is just an example of that abuse of language which makes All communist statements so suspect. The russian people like other Peoples of the world would no doubt prefer to think Well of other nations Are told of pitiful slums and Stuffy works tops in London Paris and new York where 7 and 8-year-old Day and night their faces emaciated and the red Fleet alleges that in 1951 British and in part ular British marines were engaged in spreading leprosy in the Northern areas of these Are but a few examples or. President. Is that the Way o bring men and women to Gether in peace can real understanding Between the nations be built up against a background How can Sian. People and Peoples of Eastern Europe and of China form a True judgment of the rest of he world when this is the in formation they receive is truth a Bourgeois fiction too danger Ous to be allowed to pass Over he frontiers to penetrate the Iron ;