Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 28, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of i Volt printed and published Dau except the win Aripez free press company u class matter by Post office 1 Malone lord general manager victors on president pub Shaf Dexter editor october 1953 declining foreign Aid before his death the late senator Taft indicated that the Republican party in the United states Congress would oppose any foreign Aid after the end of the current fiscal next june 30 Jow senator of perhaps the most powerful Democrat in the has issued what looks like party manifesto to the same he said he and Many of his colleagues would support reasonable requests for foreign military Aid next smaller amounts than those voted in the current year but he thought the time had come to end All economic perhaps having in mind Frances failure so far to ratify the european defence he would limit All military Aid to countries which show concretely the ability and willingness to rearm it does not necessarily of because the late senator senator Russell and other leading figures on both sides of the Senate take this View that there will be no More appropriations for economic Aid after next but it seems pretty Clear that such if will be drastically the period of direct United states subsidies to the economies of other nations evidently is drawing to a this has Long been foreseen by the United states Benefice who will not be caught by in the last eighteen months or so most of them have improved their Trade balances with the Dollar accumulating substantial new supplies of Gold and they should be Able to with less Shock than they had the tapering off of subsidies now in in any Case the Stream of Money will not cease Over night since appropriations made in any year always overflow into the year in the fiscal year ending june 30 for after the Congress had begun to reduce its foreign Aid of All sorts reached a record figure of the bark of Congress usually being worse than its it is probable that some Compromise will be reached Between the views of legislators like senator Russell and the Eisenhower government backed by Leader of the democratic party which like its predecessor is determined to prevent any Chance of economic collapse among the United states if As certain appropriations will be reduced sharply in the future the alternative proposed by president Eisenhower becomes All the More that much sounder and More durable policy than a revision of the United states foreign Trade the president has said Over the protests of some of his protectionist that foreign nations must be Given a larger Opportunity to earn dollars in the United states Market by the Sale of their goods even with subsidies they needed that As the last Commonwealth economic conference urged so without them the need will be instantly Eisenhower commission of inquiry into tariffs and Trade is now at work according to official should make its report Early next during the intervening period United states foreign As voted by the will thus under the presidents schedule there should be no possible Gap Between subsidies and Trade Between the United states and foreign the president cannot safely delay and evidently has no intention of delaying a decision on Trade policy beyond next the Day when he must confront the protectionists of the most of them is not far off and it May Well provide the first serious test of his wisely the United states partners in the Geneva general agreement on tariffs and Trade Are disposed not to hurry or Embarrass the president by proposing any Basic change in the agreement at the it will stand for another year while the issues raised by Eisenhower and his investigating commission Are faced and but any Long despite his would encourage the protectionists of other especially the Sterling and perhaps result in a Retreat from the Geneva principles with the gravest results to All All these factors combined make certain that the next six or nine months will deeply for better or the prospects of Canadian taxpayers Money was paid to Prairie wheat banners in partial compensation for their losses under the wheat was it that Howes Gard with Wes Sonj the head of the Saskatchewan wheat to London in 1951 to demand millions from the British government As compensation for losses under the wheat agreement it will be re called that their demand was if Howe cares to consult he will discover that the estimate of the loss which he now Calls fantastic was made by none other than his predecessor in minister of Trade and Commerce from 1940 to Mackinnon calculation will be in his own in the Hansard of july 1947 at Page Howe May be interested to know that Mackinnon went further and told the House of commons that who had negotiated this agree would Endeavor to recover the Gardiner did Endeavor As the event did not Howes apparent is not too just As a and with particular reference to the adjective fantastic As applied to the Post War loss inflicted by the Federal government the Western wheat Howe might turn to the Page of Hansard referred at that the Federal under the wheat was Selling wheat at per Bracken can min ister say what the world Price is today Mackinnon minister of Trade and Commerce yester it was a it would be interesting to know what adjective Howe would regard As More appropriate than fantastic to describe a loss of per Home stretch there is still time to the Community but not much Winnipeg is now into the final week of its red Feather ten Days ago the re sults looked but last week the returns began to taper off and unless there is a Sud Den and generous spurt of giving in these final Winni Peg will fail to reach the of there Are Many thousands of Winnipeg citizens who know that they have done their full share for the Chest Many who have done More they have gone the second but there Are others who know in their hearts that they have hidden behind the anonymity of a voluntary Community Effort and have saved their conscience a Token Are families in Winni Peg in spite of the buoyant state of eco the breadwinners pay envelope is still too thin for Comfort where every Dollar is carefully scrutinized before it is sent on its in such a family the husband and wife when they Are talking Over the Community Chest May decide that if they did donate anything the donation would be too Small to they might even feel embarrassed handing the seemingly trifling amount to the can they should not feel there Are thous ands of families in the same and their however Are not there is an old scotch saying that Many Mickles make a their gift will be free 4y Given its Merit cannot be measured by its size and it will entitle them to full membership in one this cites finest Fel there Are other fam Ilies in the might have been More reconsideration is still can still be filled Feut it wll Only be filled if each citizen thinks of it riot Community responsibility but As a personal the individual citizen who shoulders his full share of the Burden will receive no Public acclaim nor is he Likely to seek he will carry his Reward about with in his Howes address two Points in the address tuesday evening by Federal minister of Trade and at the an Nual meeting or the Manitoba invite Howe said you will re member the criticism levelled against the that it kept prices from rising to what some paddle considered to be a proper fantastic estimates were made of the losses incurred by Western Farmers As a result of the the government was accused of sell ing the Farmers wheat for less than it was and again Back Over the years since and particularly the years since the end of the i do not think that under any marketing completely free mar Ket or a voluntary ers would have been Able to dispose of As much Grain at such consistently Good in the first quotation Howe was referring particularly to the first International wheat while it is True that our Farmers lost Money because the first Iwa Price was substantially below the world Price As declared from Day to Day by the wheat Board the main criticism in postwar years was directed against the United wheat agree ment 19461950 under which 600 million bushels of wheat if Howes statement is How is it that the Laurent of which Howe is a distinguished put through ment in 1951 a vote of Mil Lions this 565 millions of the the humanities the latest organization re Cruit to the Side of the Angels Here is the Winnipeg Branch of the humanities association of its programme of four announced to com Mence october 30 and carry through until March is most Provost see Trinity College Toronto leads off with the humanities and the free James department of English at the University and a poet in his own right has the second meeting when he will speak on the artist and the in january Gwenneth Lloyd will take speaking with the authority which none of our Ballet Manes will deny on the shape of visiting professor at the United will conclude this seasons meetings with an address on whither education Canada unashamedly High the association has its doors open not Only to those who take an Active interest in the contest for time and place in our universities Between things of Sci ence and those of the humanities history and so Forth but to All who find re freshment of spirit in realities which have not to do with material the meetings will be held in the auditorium of Johns Hiscocks filling the office of message for you railway freight rates the application Ottawa Canadian Pacific application for a Radi Cal change in the present method of setting railway freight rates now rests with the Board of transport hearings on the Case having been completed Here last the company seeks a Permis sible return on dts net railway investment by the at millions of per a if the Board were to Grant such a request without the would be permitted to earn millions annually on rail oper quite apart from its sub Stantial revenues from other this would be almost three times the net rail earn Ings last year and considerably More than the company has earned at any time in its his remembering that the general rate increase Neces sary to attain such a return for the would also have to be applied on traffic carried by the Canadian National rail freight rate experts calculate that it could Cost ship pers As much As millions annually in higher donations and Grants the concluding hearings of the Case Here last week were by not As a weapon for increasing railway freight rates to the people who contributed Canadian Pacific Case rests on the Assumption that the com pants railway operations and investments can be arbitrarily segregated from other and must stand on their own feet As though they were a separate corporate this is a concept which the provinces refuse to the highly profitable non rail operations o i 1 were All either with railway sur pluses or publicly donated proceeds from these operations have been Given to the and have never been used for the Benefit of the people who originally financed the shippers and consume i m Macpherson of who delivered final argument on behalf of the eight Western and Atlantic pro Vinces opposing the warned the Board of the Dan Gers in accepting such a Doc even if the Board were to take Only the Hal measure of setting a figure on the net rail he the other income Issue directed at an examination of j might be forever from the Golden books from wanderlust by Percy Bysshe Shelley arise and come away to the wild Woods and the to the pools where Winter Rains image All their roof of where the Pine its Garland weaves of hapless and Ivy round stems that never kiss the where the lawns and pastures and the san Hills of the where the melting Hoa Frost wets the Daisy Star that never and wildflowers and which yet join not scent to Crown the Pale year weak and where the night is left in the deep dim and and the Blue Moon is Over and the multitudinous Billows murmur at our where the Earth and Ocean and All things seem Only one in the Universal Canadian Pacific donations and the subsidies of one kind or another Given to the company by the Federal and provincial governments during the Early construction the company argued that to exclude them from a rate base that from a net investment figure would be tantamount to confiscation of private property without the pro Vinces in reply produced Evi Dence to show that the subsidies were for construction Early operation of the line and had never been intended to be considered As part of the com pants net the acres of land granted to the for sex were to be used for for and As Security for such a figure would return to haunt the Board for years to and would be used by Canadian Pacific As a claim for higher the Legal Vic Epresi cited Carta and the United states Constitution in an Effort to demonstrate that neither the Board nor the Federal Cabinet could impose confiscatory rates on the he applied the same argument to the exclusion of donations and Grants from net lacking Canadian statute or Evans argued that the absence of specific authority for confiscation in Ca n a d i a n Law compelled the Board and the government to provide the with profit Able Macpherson suggested Progress to peace from the round table parallel Between the at 1 tempts to restrain aggression in Abyssinia and Korea is sufficiently close to illustrate the Advance in the practice of collective the essential Advance Over the previous unsuccessful Experiment does not reside in the fact that Abyssinia was conquered in Defiance of the league while the United nations succeeded in preserving the integrity of South but rather in the proof that at the first general Cal for support from the Security coun weakened As it was at that time by the recent withdrawal today scriptures blessed Are they that mourn for they shall be 5 birthdays born october my West born Little october of the the Western members honoured their Obliga having honoured they remained Loyal through three years of wearing with no Prospect of material Many Small with no interest in the korean Frontier except the Universal civilized in Terest in maintaining the sanctions of International sent their at the lowest estimate of the gains of the korean a collective warning of unmistakable Force has been Given that the peaceful countries of the Western allegiance Are capable of acting promptly and get a Load of this that the company was trying to frighten the Board with such confiscation was not an Issue in the even if it the Board As the Crea Ture of a supreme parliament had full authority to impose whatever rate level it considered just and confiscatory or the boards Powers if there were any doubt a bout the boards Powers to set rates which the railways con Sider this had been settled in 1903 when the Board of railway commission ers predecessor of the present Board was Parlia ment had in effect confiscated the right of railway directors their own rates and had transferred this authority to an Independent the question which the Board must now decide is whether or not it will attempt to abdicate some of the Powers bestowed upon it by a favor Able decision on the application would commit the Board to a rigid formula for estimating the company net rail for guaranteeing a minimum return on invest ment in Good times and for imposing an inevitably higher level of freight rates of noncompetitive areas in West Ern Canada and the Reuther on wages to Vancouver recently Al waiter president of the and one of North americas most powerful labor offered some advice to the Trade unions of he according to the Canadian that like United states should continue to drive for higher wages in 1954 because we Haven yet reached a satisfactory solution of the distribution of Reuther comes from a nation which earns a minor though vital part of Ite National income by foreign he was speaking to canadians nearly one third of whose in come is derived from that in the Case of both Naas of All exporters every the world Market sets the Price of and that Price must be met if the goods Are to be since wages Are by far the largest Factor in the Cost of producing and marketing it follows that the Cost will be too High for the Market if wages Are too obvious fallacy it May be quite that the United states Economy not much concerned with these calculations because it Sells All but a Small fraction of its production in its own the fact is that some United states Indus notably Are heavily dependent upon foreign markets by their production already have reduced their Cotton being a notable and disastrous but even assuming for the Sake of Reuthers argument that the United states can afford largely to ignore the world obvious such Assumption can be made about a Canadian which lives so largely on foreign the proposal that wages and hence the Cost of production should be generally increased in Canada comes at a moment when the costs of some import ant Canadian industries already Are near or past a Point of diminishing for much of the great mining Indus try of Ontario is closed by wage demands which it feels unable to meet when a Large part of its output must be marketed what is left of the Canadian merchant Marine has been Dis mantled for some time for the same the Lum Ber Industry of the British co Lumbia Interior is likewise and every granary Reuther floes not it would appear from the state ment quoted income of workers should braised to solve the of Dis Tribu Reuther expects higher wages almost automatic caly to absorb the available perhaps they might absorb the output of the automobile with which Reuther has Long been As but no wage scale in no matter How can possibly absorb our fish and other Basic products which we cannot ourselves use and must whose logic is difficult to also said in Vancouver that we need to learn if we Are to Avert world War that social jus Tice is we cant have half the world fed and the other half starving and expect the world to live in no thoughtful Man will question that for a but How is the Prosperity of North Ameri Ca to be exported and shared except by the Export of its goods and How can they be exported unless they can be sold at prices that foreigners can afford to pay after they had listened to the reaction of labor meeting at the British Columbia trades Union con Gress in was still More the Congress held that in creasing unemployment could be traced directly to Short sighted National policies under which the nations natural re sources Are exported instead of being manufactured it urged the Federal government to revise its immigration policy is reduce until the Canadian is developed by expansion of our own resources and restoration of former particularly those of the Commonwealth nations which would result in Mak ing Canada a greater manufacturing and exporting a Paradox the Paradox of these Consi dered judgments leaps instantly to the in the first if the wealth of North America is to be shared with the How can it be shared More restly and effectively than by the admission of to Canada and the United states if our Commonwealth and other overseas markets Are to Blex handed How can we sell goods on a basis of production Cost far higher than that prevailing in those countries and thus at and barn of the Prairies is Over prices which they cannot pay flowing with wheat which must ultimately be How Are industries to sell their products if their Cost is to be pushed up still higher if we Are to be a greater exporting country How can we re fuse to Export the kind of including that the customers demand we were in Assiniboine Park the other lean ing on the Duck Pond railing and idly flicking Popcorn at the upending when we heard for the firs time Abonit could be Tivoli in cop said our there was a far away look in his eyes he said he had come out from Denmark Only two years ago and Copen Hagen seemed a Long Way we swept a Mound of yellow leaves off a Bench near the rail far across the Pond and open Field we could see the Pavil its Flag drooping against the pole in the autumn and our companion told us about Tivoli is a nowhere nearly As big As the Park in which we sat perhaps the grounds of Manitoba legislative buildings would cover about half of you pay to get in something like 25 cents for adults and a dime for Tivoli is run by a private company and it makes a on the closing night of last season there were paid subdued colors Copenhagen Tivoli by 1 what gives this relatively Small Park in the heart of Copenhagen its magnetic Power said our let us suppose that Are ing Tivoli a Summers even your path is overhung with some of them quite old they were there when Nelsons Fleet bombarded Copenhagen in thousands of Small elec tric lights stain the darkening branches with subdued you can turn off the path to wards the pantomime theatre our companion assured you will if you do not know it that Panto mime can be a charming and Lively form of entertainment 6ryou May prefer to stroll along artists Lawn and Crane your neck to watch the trapeze and High wire artists perform against the evening just across the Way is the Nimb its where you Dine in the open overlooks one of the most Beautiful spots in you look out across Beds of Flowers to wards Gigantic fountains spark Ling in the coloured floodlights and you if you have a mind order As Fine a dinner As you Are Likely to find anywhere in Europe or you can Settle for open faced sandwiches with Beer and1 there Are other less Tivoli is surrounded by there Are open air cafes where you Are Welcome to bring your own Sand Wiches and order nothing More than a cup of Tea or k along is the Ferris l the games of Luck and Chance the 5 cent Roulette and horse races the House of shooting galleries and All the Happy nonsense you would expect to find in any Well run fun if you Are suitably accompanied you May wish to stroll Over to the open air dance it operates on a sort of dime dance basis and the said our danish seemed to rethinking of some particular is top notch then there is the a great glazed in Pavilion in which you can Settle Down for an evening of Fine except when some world celebrity is on the stage these concerts Are and the charge is moderate about the Price of an there Are other More than we our companion had seen them All and he obviously ing them again in we were get the notion that the whole place must be one general pan Demon not at he there is the parterre for exam where the rumble of the City traffic and the shouts of the rollercoaster fans reach you filtered by the intervening and into no More than a subdued and pleas ant sort of backdrop of summer Here you can sit quietly by a Flower rimmed Pond and listen to the gentle splash of the coloured fountains watch the As we were watching them now in Assiniboine searching for food at the Waters older world it seemed to must be a pleasant and Carefree place we spoke of the Rainbow stage in Kildonan Park and of the English Garden which behind us and wondered if Winnipeg would Ever have a Tiv our companion did not think it belonged to an older to a different anymore settled it May be Sobut the threads of Canadas culture reach Back not Only through history of Denmark but through the history of every country in Europe and what it will be like when the pattern is com plete no one can in Copenhagen a Park has be come the physical and spiritual heart City no Park in Winnipeg has yet assumed that role or Ever but their it less is no less they Are what Mackenzie King once called the lungs of City they let the air Winnipeg May not be ready a but it seemed to As we walked with our companion through the Dusty leaves towards the As the streets and buildings sprawl out and Seal off the Prairie soil Nipe Gwill do Well to see that tha Home of every citizen is with in easy walking distance of a quiet ;