Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 1, 1954, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published daily sunday by Winnipeg free press company limited. 300 Carlton Street. Winnipeg. Manitoba. Authorized As second class matter Fly the Post office department Ottawa Tom Kent editor chant Dexter associate editor Victor s1fton president publisher a s. Malone vice president we. Lord general manager Winnipeg thursday july 1, 1954 the eighty seventh Milestone on every Jolly 1 since 1867 canadians have had More than most people to be thankful for and As much As most people to be proud of. It is possible moreover to look Back Ever the 87 years and feel confident that Little has been lost on the Way. The Short course of Canada runs As straight and Clear As that of any nation. It has moved with no More than a Normal share of Side Steps and hesitations and diversions along paths of Freedom and Justice and enter prising endeavour. If the land were smaller that would be no matter for self congratulation. But the very size to which Canada owes its opportunities and its wealth of resources is also the cause of difficulties and distractions. We Are not a to Unity of diverse races and creeds and traditions where Unity has sometimes Hung by thin threads spread sparsely across the breadth of a continent we also have divergent economic interests. So far however the pulls of regional interests have been fairly Well resisted. And in the past few years the growing tree of the Economy has put Down new roots and put out new blanches in ways described and celebrated by or. Wilfrid Eggleston in the adjoining columns. The great Canadian expansion of the postwar period has already gone far enough to ensure that it will be chronicled in world history As one of the major features of these times. The main causes of this expansion Are not ones for which we can claim credit. The Basic cause is simply the buoyancy of the world Economy since 1945. The second cause is the wealth of Canada s resources. The third is our proximity to the largest and richest markets the United states. The fourth is that by a Lucky conjunction of technical and economic circumstances we have been Able to gain Access to hitherto untapped resources of Oil and Iron and uranium and other minerals just when they came into particularly Strong demand. And. As a fifth cause of our Prosperity. Canada for a mixture of political and strategic in addition to economic.1 reasons has acted As an extraordinary powerful Magnet for investment capital rom the United states. For contemporary Canada in Short a shakespearian tag has to be reversed. It is chiefly in the stars not in ourselves that we have been rising so fast in wealth and have begun to play a constructive part in world affairs. But while this should prevent immodesty it should not encourage complacency. Fortune is not enough. The Power that certainly remains in ourselves is the Power to frustrate Good Fortune. Canada s expanding Prosperity is the product of circumstances but it. Is not an inevitable product. While it could Wane for reasons quite beyond Canadian control it could also be held Back frustrated and even destroyed by our own actions though external circumstances remain favourable. Economic expansion depends on the constant alertness of business and government to changing circumstances it depends not on favourable opportunities but on a con Stant search to take those opportunities. It depends in other words on the competitiveness and flexibility that come from giving Freedom to Enterprise. A the danger of frustrating Canada s future lies in for getting As Many people at Many times have forgotten that Prosperity depends on constant initiative that it cannot he made fixed and secure by contrivances that pretend to keep things As they Are contrivances to keep the Farmer secure in his present Price for his present crop to keep the business firm Safe in its present Market to keep the worker secure in his present Job. In a changing world tomorrow s Prosperity cannot he the same As today s. It depends on change. Present prices and markets and jobs Are the reflections of Prosperity now not its cause and to try to keep the reflections the same by protectionist and restrictive devices is to prevent the adjustments on which future Prosperity de pends. If temporary difficulties should Ever cause a narrow minded and faint hearted search for Security to get a firm grip on the Canadian Economy it would be the end of economic expansion despite All our resources. That danger can never unfortunately be put out of mind. But the 87 years of Canadian history that have gone ought to be inspiring enough to save us from marring by faint hearts and narrow i minds the history to come. Lievert seas of vegetation they would contain chlorophyll hut a Spectroscope trained upon Mars reveals no Trace of chlorophyll. This or. Mclaughlin Points out is just Elvit to would expo. The life on Mars people Point to the famous canals Mars. Expectations. For if there Are men on Mars surely they will be that much More eager to Exchange their Dusty and in hospitable domicile for the Broad and Fertile Meadows or even for the Outback of Australia. Aldermen and yes men a recent incident illustrates the smaller hut frustrating difficulties of town planning. J a Little Over a year ago Winnipeg s aldermen passed a by Law to prohibit driveways from private property on to major traffic thoroughfares. This is sensible As a general Rule though obviously some exceptional cases Are Likely to arise. The aldermen therefore very properly invested the town planning commission i with the right to decide a j peals against inc Blanket prohibition. One such Appeal concerned a Householder who could not j drive on to his property except from Salter Street an extremely Busy thoroughfare. The planning commission under the terms of the City s bylaw rejected his Appeal. The commission conceded that the re was Merit in the Case but the regulations were Clear such driveways had been prohibited because of inc traffic Hazard. If this particular a peal was a i Lowed where would one draw the line this did not deter one City Alderman from injecting a threat if the commission did not allow the driveway he would submit a bylaw rescind ing its Power to decide appeals. The City engineering department which had previously been saddled with the work would get the whole vexatious matter once again the Engineer argued that it would be regrettable if the. New system which had been working Well were thrown Over because of one ruling. The commission there fore reversed itself and Al Lowed the entry. Certain aspects of this situation require consider j Tion. The Householder had a i legitimate complaint and j there is unlikely Ever to be i an exact duplication of Case. Yet the entire scope of town planning is endangered by such proceedings. The commission is Given certain Powers of decision and Reeoma inc nation. Already Many of the views of the town plan ner.1 Are flouted. To some sex Lent that is unavoidable. But whore the commission is Given definite Powers of Deci Sion it should be left to use them. If any Alderman can threaten to usurp these Powers j if the Are not pleas ing to him the town planners Are engaged in a fruitless occupation. It might Well be asked Why have a commis Sion at All if City aldermen simply want yes they j might As Well keep the Powers j for themselves. Earl Grey states his mind Canada and p. R. By Norman Ward a curious footnote to the thesis that a governor general can express no per Sonal opinion on Public mat ters has lain embalmed for Over four decades in the report of the British Royal commission on systems of election 1909-10. The governor general of Canada burial and after 1911 Monk seems to have lost interest in it. Earl Grey appeared before the British Royal commission As an outspoken Champion of or. The commission was aware of the identity of its witness for the first two lines of his excellency s evidence ran a. You Are the governor general of Canada a. Earl Grey not assumed a Grey told he commission that private capacity and appeared As a witness before the com Mission but also offered Forth right opinions about a controversial topic currently before the Canadian commons. The commons in Canada in the Canadian prime minister knew of his interest in or. He deposed i May say that when i saw in the newspapers of Canada a report of or. Asquith s answer to the deputation March of 1909 passed a motion j which approached him on fhe of f. D. Monk s for a select subject of proportional representation i said privately to sir Wilfrid Laurier if or. Asquith was really going to bring Forward a new Reform Bill on the basis of one Man one vote and every vote of committee to examine the Workings of proportional representation. Earl Grey was interested in electoral Reform. He told the Royal commission in july of 1909 that he had piece of Chalk and a Black Board trying to show by diagrams to the people How once stumped England with a equal value so As to secure the certainty of the will of the majority with a fair representation of Large local minorities simple would be the Applina i in proportion to their strength t regarded it As so important that i would be tempted to resign the governor generalship of Canada which i believe is the most enviable Billet in the service of the Crown in order to come Back Tion of the single transferable vote to a constituency return ing three or More realised f. D. Monk knew of Earl Grey s interest and suggested privately to his excellency and support or. beyond the founders dreams 0 Vav his excellency also in formed the Royal commission that he considered or in can Ada to be an academic question although it was brought Forward in a very Able speech by one of the most members of the House of commons a com Mittee will i Hope soon be appointed to consider x this Ria of the year our thoughts As canadians May go Hack to that warm sunny morning eighty seven years ago when lord Monck set out from Rilleau Hall in his state Carriage to by Wilfrid Eggleston us will live to see the Day when As the result of this measure a great and Power i Ful people May have grown initiate the ceremonies which i up in a vhf 5e hands when of a new j boundless for cols All around us shall have Given to smiling Fields Anri marked the birth nation to choose his prime minister sir John a. Macdon Ald to distribute honors Way thriving towns and when that we have vast resources of uranium. As recently As in the writing of the Rowell sir ois report at the end of the thirties it. Was necessary to admit that Canada s economic i life really rested on the specialized exploitation of a few i natural resources. This made us one of the among the Cabinet and then Over emf it under j great traders of the world sex pm tend thank ans. Raw for to review the troops on parliament Hill a glitter with Scarlet and Silver and Blue. Canada West and Canada East. Nova Scotia and new Brunswick. Had solemnly joined together in a Federal Union were now one Domin Ion and its name was Canada. The British Flag shall from Shore to these sentiments could by greatly extended but enough has been quoted to illustrate the mood of the hour. Industrial might one measure though one. Of Canada s achievement is to be found in her present in the Days to come there Industrial might. It is not the aspect of Canada that has frustrating hours passing planets nobody knows if there Are men or reasonable facsimiles of men. On Mars but this week is the time to find out. Mars is sides wiping the Earth this week with a clearance of 40 million Miles. Usually it is about 60 million Miles away and at that distance it is difficult to be sure about any thing even on a Clear night. If the men or whatever they Are of Mars Are Ever going to skim their flying saucers across the intervening Gap this would be the time to do it and Australia for reasons known to astronomers would be one of their most logical Landing Fields. Or. Ii. H. Full on is the president of an organization in Australia called the civilian Saucer investigation. He has announced that the saucers should begin to land any time but or d. B. Mclaughlan thinks that or. Fulton and his fellow space travel enthusiasts will be disappointed. Or. Mclaughlan is an astronomer and last week at Ann Arbor in Michigan he explained to the american society of astronomers his new theory about Mars. The great dark patches which alternate Between Brown and Green upon the surface of the planet and which therefore suggest the presence of vegetation Are really according to this theory heavy Clouds of Green volcanic dust spread by the prevailing winds into vast drifts across the Martian land scape. In Winter the winds re verse themselves and blow the Brown desert Sands Over the packed volcanic Ash. If these Marias or seas were really As was commonly be the free press ill health has compelled or. J Grant Dexter editor of the l. Free Piess since if lilo lighten his duties. He will henceforth be associate Edi j Tor of the paper working i from Ottawa. Or. Dexter thus returns to the Field of Ottawa correspondence in which he a canal they argue requires a j w is pre eminent for Many canal builder. Therefore there must be or have been men or something like men on Mars. But the doctor has taken the life out of the canals too. They May be simply volcanic rifts or perhaps faults in the planet s crust against which volcanic dust has drifted. Mars thinks or. Mclaughlin has been greatly Over rated As a place of habitation. It has hardly any oxygen no vegetables and very Little Gravity. All this however As or. Mclaughlin readily admits is merely theory. Ii is not in the least Likely to discourage the on inc australian Hills. It May even raise their years before his move to Winnipeg. Or. Tom Kent hitherto associate editor has been appointed editor. Or. Maurice Western who has been on the editorial staff of the paper since 1949, serving in Ottawa Washington and Winnipeg has been appointed assistant editor. From the Golden books from Sam sri Aemi Istas by John Milton r Over failing i rust in moral sure Nell and. Of what not in Man Doch Vallilo and vain nay thing prayed for. Hut often proves our woe our Bane photo graph by genre wine Oiw. New resources the search of North lond for my nepali. It Anisef were Many dark and frustrating hours when the faint hearted saw no future for the straggling series of communities Between Cape race and Nootka when dissolution into ineffective frag ments followed by piecemeal absorption into the United states seemed to pessimists the most Likely history for this artificial political Contri Vance i in Goldwin Smith s opinion put together in de Fiance of geography and eco nomic interest. And kept to Gether merely by the per verse stupidity of people who refused to recognize Reali to a detached intellectual that might seem to be the Des tiny assigned to but the fathers of confederation with less learning but far More insight knew otherwise. In their confederation speeches and in the debates on the Quebec resolutions they had shown that they were aware of what they were doing. Their addresses were studded with references to nationhood and of no Ordi nary stature. Commanding respect turn through the pages of the debates and Mark the language. We must unite said sir John a. Macdonald if we wish to be a great people if we wish to form using the expression that was sneered at the other great nationality commanding the respect of the if they did not take advantage of the time he added there would be bitter and unavailing regret at having failed to embrace the Happy Opportunity now offered of founding a. Great nation under the fostering care of great Britain and our Sovereign lady Queen Cartier said now is the time Lor us to form a great nation of the several Provin George Brown said sir it May be that Tome among products s manufactured goods and fuels closely dependent on the state of world markets for a very few things. Inevitably we Are still vulnerable to the climate of world Trade and to the ratio Between prices for Pri Mary commodities and Trio finished products. But our economic base has been greatly widened and strengthened. I nations Are not based on material resources alone and that he appear before the can Adian committee. As for that Grey said in England that if it was thought advisable by his majesty s Canadian mini sters that i should do so i should be glad to give evidence. It depends on them rather than upon this j remarkable Opportunity for a governor general to present a Brief to a parliamentary com Mittee unfortunately was not entirely his Oion realized. Proportional representation in Canada was not so controversial a topic that it aroused much excitement in the House of commons. The motion for a select committee in 1909 was not opposed and leaders on j both sides of the House made Clear that they had no objection to an investigation. Opposition to or nevertheless existed for the committee appointed in 1909 was not Al the governor general s opinions were of course entirely his own and he insisted before the Royal commission that his evidence was in no Way connected with his official capacity. I should not be at Liberty to say anything about he had said. His appearance before the commission was never referred to in the can Adian commons so far As i Lowed to come to anything. At know nor was the fact that he Monk s urging the committee strongly favored or. The can was re appointed in the two following sessions of parliament but never made a final report. The topic was disposed of by parliamentary Adian my s who favoured or exercised great discretion by refusing to exploit the governor general s interest in it. On year we May be forgiven for looking Back with Pride Anri Forward with Confidence. This country has vindicated the boldest dreams of the founders. Today s scriptures unto them that join House to Hotis that Lay Field to Fiell. Till there to no i Larn. That they May he plan pro alone in the midst of the Earth. Isaiah 5 r. Birthdays i excessive National arrogance most often been stressed in May a but our literature. But in the year this one Day of the 19s4, in the Middle of a technological and Industrial Revo Lution it is a striking aspect. Discussions Are beginning on the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power development. In a few weeks a transcontinental pipe line to carry Gas from Alberta As far East As Moni Treal will begin construction the longest such project in the world. The Iron Ore riches of Northern Quebec and Labra Dor Are now accessible to the smelters of the world. In Bri Tish Columbia the engineers have impounded the Waters of a Mountain plateau and Cut ten Miles through a Mountain Range to create Power for the most spectacular of aluminium developments. These Are a few of the most obvious highlights of the current expansion. Economic position it is not that Canada s Seth birthday finds her enjoy ing the most extensive Indus trial surge in her history her Basic position in the economic world has changed very much i for the belter even in the j past seven years. The Peak of the age of Coal and steel found Canada importing virtually All of her Iron Ore and with Coal vast though they were Dis advantageously located far from her Industrial centres. The years when the internal combustion engine was taking the Centre of the stage saw Canada sharply limited by Small scattered Oil Fields and therefore even More dependent on imports. All that has changed. By 1960, Canada will pro Duce Petroleum equal to her growing consumption. The Gas Fields of Alberta rival those of California and Oklahoma. We have Iron Ore to Export. With the Day of nuclear Energy just around the Corner we know men and engines by c. S. R. Last month a group of the Manchester guardian s re englishmen travelled i Porter with a Nice feeling for Down from London to the i the significance of the event Cornish mining town of South Crofty. Their journey was a pilgrimage in Honor of a steam and Down through its 10 Foo t engine. It is a pumping in How the plunger made Gine in the past too years it tip of huge bulks of pitch Pine describes How the cast Iron beam in its Hundredth year still swings effortlessly up has pumped Gal ions of water out of the South Crofty tin mines. And it is very big you have to climb up of feet to get into the top chamber of the engine House. Ii has a 3s-ton cast Iron beam and an so Inch Cylinder. But the men who made the Kev. Walter Anderson Van pilgrimage were not Partiful . Born London i arly awed by its great age its England july 1. 1ss6. W. C. Weir m.p., Carman Man. Born port Perry ont., july 1, 1s96. John r. Pitt Pierson Man. Born Carluke ont., july 1, 1885. John j. Samson Winnipeg Man. Horn ice land. July 1. 187.1. Robert Smith prior Albert. Sask., Horn Ranf Shirr Scotland july 1. 1si50. R. S. Ferris. St. James Man Horn Holland Man. July 1, 1885. Donald 1, common Winnipeg. Man. Horn Emerson. Man., july 1, Issei. Wilfred f. G. Hughes trans Rena Man. Born Carle ton a incr on. July 1, 1801. C. K. Cross Winnipeg. Alan. Hum Lefroy onl., july 1, 1860. 3s-ton beam or its so Inch Cylinder. It was not to an outsize piece of Ironmongery that they were doing Honor it was to an idea to a Symbol of a passing age the age of steam. The last of the old Cornish steam pumping engines was to be taken out of service Anri replaced by mod Ern electric pumps. It was not because the engine at South crowly was worn out that it was being replaced. They built engines to last in fifty and More feet Long and joined by Iron straps goes Down 2.000 feet to the Bottom of the mine. The sound that accompanies the movement of All this massive gear is the slight Hiss of steam the clicking of valves in the chamber below and the gurgle of water run Ning away Down the conduits. For a Century the great engine has gone quietly about its work of Safe guarding the out Moded the old steam engine is out Moded and must give Way to its Sleeker More economical and More powerful successors but it was the tireless driving Piston of the steam engine that first put into the hand of Man the lever with which he could lift the world. It was the those Days and this one was engine that gave Force still running like clockwork. 1o the Industrial and to the group of English men who made the Pilgri Mage to Cornwall and who being englishmen have a highly developed sense of his tory it seemed appropriate that the old engine at South Crofty s tin mine should sym. Belize the age of steam Power. Accordingly they have arranged that the mechanical As the guard Ian s Man Calls it shall be turned Over to the Cornish engines preservation society and carefully guarded like the fossilized remains of its pre historic prototype. The age of the steam engine is not of course quite Over yet. But the mighty Piston that impelled Britain into the Indus trial Era has reached almost the end of its stroke. The steam engine has been out stripped by its own creation. Photograph by Bitt Rose free new industries one of Oil refineries ;