Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 9, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights free press run Ltd and published daily except sunday by int rom. Company limited 3oo Caxton Street. Winnipeg. Manitoba. Authorized m second Etui mutter by he Post office department Tom Kent editor Grant Dexter Aano Lintt editor Victor Sifton arts Dent it publisher s. S. Maloni vice president Wra. Jurl Winnipeg saturday april 9, 1955 rebirth and rejoicing the Hook of easter is written anew each Spring across the lace of the Earth. A Man May read it wherever he turns his Eye. As he has since his forbears worshipped the Dawn goddess Sostre at the Vernal Equinox festivals. T is there for All to see in the Pale Green of the new grass in the burgeoning of the Bud studded Trees in the Richness of the moist Brown Earth so lately released from its Winter covering in the Small White Clouds piled High against a brainwashed sky in a flight of geese etched Black against the Sunset in the fullness of the Paschal Moon As it turns the Spring night to Gold. The song of Kaster has Many melodies and who is to say that one is less tuneful than another one May listen and hear it in the singing of ice freed Stream As it tumbles past the last Snowbank in the lonely cry of the Killdeer As they my Over the River Flats in the Cheerie note of the Robins in the chattering of the Sun awakened squirrels and in the shrill shouts of children at play whom like the Earth Spring has released from Winter bondage. At this Lime of the year we worship two great and wonderful mysteries that of the Earth s returning life and that other which look place in a Tomb in a Garden nearly Twenty ago. And it does not Lessen the spirit of reverence in which we acknowledge him of whom the Angels said he is not Here but is that we still make use of those ancient symbols used by our ancestors thousands years before Christ was Horn the egg. From earliest times the recognized Symbol of the universe the Raster Rabbit whose religious antecedent the Hare was associated with the springtime and with Daybreak and which stood for rebirth and fecundity. Eastertide Ushers in the glad season of new life and with it there Springs in our hearts new Hope and renewed Assurance for the future. For to All men believers and agnostics alike this is the time of rebirth rejoicing and resurrection. A study course uncompleted or. Argue Kcf member of parliament for Assiniboia. Has rebuked the american government for policies which he suggests Are wrecking what was a Good parity Price for . Farmers. It is or. Argue s View that Canada should adopt the scheme which thru present administration in Washington inherited from its predecessor. These conclusions the outcome of a three Day study in the United states by a group of Kcf members invite one of two comments. Either or. Argue should have prolonged his study or else he should have extended his period of re Flection summoning a press conference. What is the basis of the accusation of wrecking which if thus levelled at the . Government in a plebiscite to he held this summer or. Argue explains that american Farmers will be offered a Choice Between supports 75 per cent of parity coupled with a 30 per cent reduction in wheat acreage or supports at. 50 per cent with no acreage restriction. He regards this As a nefarious attempt to defeat the o of providing a reasonable income to american Farmers. The philosophy behind the Price support scheme was essentially that of planned production from the outset and very naturally Price guarantees and acreage controls have been linked in the farm program controls Are the dries the Farmer pays for Price supports 5 plebiscite affords him an Opportunity to say in effect How much he i prepared to pay in governmental restrictions for a desired level of guarantees. To a the Farmer it should be noted has never been guaranteed full parity whether old new or transitional for there Are several parity for years the Market paid him much More than parity though he was assured by the government Only 90 per cent of that supposedly magic figure. But As Early As i94s the danger of great surpluses was apparent and Congress in the following year passed an act providing for a flexible system of Price supports. As supplies increased with High prices pulling More and More marginal land into production supports would decline from 90 to per cent of parity. However the korean War brought a stronger demand for wheat and the Fatm bloc succeeded year by year in postponing the coming into effect of the new act. Nevertheless the Day came when vast surpluses did pile up in government granaries with american taxpayer in re Volt and the Price program threatened. As the Farmers reluctantly accepted More and More restrictions and acreage reductions the farm Bureau and the Grange became extremely critical of. High rigid supports. The administration which or. Argue abuses did no More than what had Al along been the logic of the program. If Congress paid the Piper it was bound to Call the tune in lower supports and acreage reductions. The Best Way to wreck the program would have been to pay out subsidies at a level of 100 per cent of parity As farm radicals demanded and to leave production unchecked. Meanwhile it is curious that. Or. Argue should re commend for this much poorer country the very policy which has landed american Farmers in such a mess. Bad Luck or management by Bruce Hutchison easter in Manitoba no Man is free t Etu a up pos that a Man just lit. His pipe and i silting Back contemplates the burning match. He is in the midst of an argument about free will and determinism and he wants to demonstrate to his Friend thai the theory of de leninism is nonsense that lie is. In fac perfectly free to dissociate himself from the mechanistic Cimin of cause and effect and act spontaneously. From the determinist s Point of View what he docs with that match will be a direct result of previous Everts and. Theoretically could be foretold if those events were Well enough understood and if anyone by c. S. R. Us Ira in should he unpopular for uni. Only is it a perfectly logical position it provides or so it seems to us the Only explanation of human conduct thai the mind of Man is Cap Able of harbouring. Surely it is obvious that the j pipe smoker deluded himself. True enough he feels free to drop or to abstain from drop Ping the Burnt match end into his Coffee Ashr happens to wish. Bui Why did he wish to drop it if he examines the matter he will in forced in admit that he is quite inca Awe of accepting the notion that his wish can into being out of nothing. There Are crr wish in other words was determined by the whole causal Chain of events that preceded it and it becomes in its turn an integral link in that Chain leading off into the future. I of the Lime he gels up in the morning until he Falls asleep at night except when i he is trying to convince his Friend that determinism is absurd i our hypothetical pipe smoker must car on the As sumption that. There is no such thing As free will must act like a Del Erminis. As Bert Rand thought it Worth the bother. Could you have foretold hem. I would he asks the Man with pipe i accept the idea of lain things that the mind can i Russel Points out the whole not conceive and this is one of apparatus of criminal Law and the whole basis upon which Praise and blame punishments As easy to a sky Sera As he blows out the match and j . Being built our of nothing. And if his wish was not self created if it did not Spring Breaks in two. Was i his in the cards since the beginning of and he drops the hot end of the match into hip j 1tmlsl from Nis Dregs of his Coffee and the j previous t Hough s and feelings into his jacket from his personality and from and rewards Are meted out can have meaning Only if the idea is accepted that there is a other end full blown from the void then causal connection bal Wen Impact. And response. There is for example very Little Point in hanging .1 murderer except on the theory Iha the thought of the multitudinous actions and i reactions which brought him j his grisly Peri May stay the and his Friend together Al that particular moment to discuss the problem of Frap will. His Bertrand Russell if we have taken his meaning correctly in his new Book human society in ethics and politics would say yes the pipe smoker s con duct could theoretically have Beer foretold. His action was a Teri Hal hand of another Man with Mur Der in his . The argument will and determinism has of course been going on for some time and it is not Likely that our Small contribution convincing though it May seem to us will persuade Many free will ers to change their minds. No doubt they Are determined to believe what they believe. We have ventured upon this Disser tation simply in the Hope that it May remind some readers As Bertrand Russell s refreshing Book reminded us. Of those plea Sant Youthful Days in College dormitories or Hunting ramps or attic rooms when Young minds coming fresh and Vig Orous upon the ancient and tremendous mysteries of human action clashed in Wordy com Bat and solved to their own satisfaction the eternal problems of existence. Those Youthful minds Are older now. The problems that seemed so vital exciting o them then Are Apt to have been shunted onto Rusty sidings now to make Way for More urgent if less far ranging trains of thought. Bui they seem exciting still to Ftp strand Russell and there will he those who though they disagree with him. Will be glad to fight again the mental Battles of their boyhood Davs. Gatt in new clothes 4 permanence at a Price Toret Oid. His action was by All the events t Tawa led up to it. Free will is 1 United 5 while the states waiver by Grant Dexter almost certainly an illusion i overshadows ail else that was and for All the practical Pur Rion Al the con i if so the founding of oct poses of every Day life it is be j Ference the importance of the the organization for Trade co Pessary to accept determinism j new permanent Trade or As a fact. Should not be tin i Rier Ralpd. In taking tip this position j or strand Russell is defending t is Lnla Lal Len " River an unpopular pause it has is had. Ways seemed rather is Imp thai frequent resort to j operation i always assuming that it is ratified will have been by far the most important achievement of the Iho leu Geneva Ron Prence. Ill Heron everything Ghoul today s scripture and the a and said unto the to m p non thursday another Craf Jet training aircraft crashed in Manitoba when it was brushed by a companion t-33 in a for mation flight. Two lives were Jost. Such an Accident is one that in Normal circumstances be put Down As a rare find unfortunate mischance. In fact it is disturbing because it adds to a serious and lengthy list of fatalities among air Force personnel in Manitoba. In the past in months 90 pet rent of All Craf Jet crashes have occurred in this province. Operational training Here seems to he touched either by extremely bad Luck or by faulty training methods. Several Days ago the War time pilots and observers association in Winnipeg expressed concern Over the grow ing number of crashes. It deplored the apparent Compla cent attitude of the defence department and sought Assur Ance that vigorous action would taken. This utterance is since. It comes from men who understand the diff equities and hazards of training operations and who normally would be More Likely than most people to accept the inevitability of accidents. The concern shown by these men who trained under the stress and urgency of War conditions emphatically under scores the growing belief that in Manitoba at least something is wrong with air Force operations. Far not be for i know. That Yespak Jesus which crucified. Lie is not Here for he is risen As he said. Come see the place where the lord Lay. And quickly and Tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead and. Beho a he Jjo eth before you inn Ilee there shall be see Blini to i have Tori you. And i fickle from the Suptil corp with far and and did run to his Lisp Isles Vord. This by the has Hen temporary. Slates to protect farm support there has Hern no permanent prices will tend to destroy Central executive. The Mem Oatt. It. Is Irue that it on j Bers formed what was called Gress accepts the protectionist j an and hoc executive com j amendments to the Bill to re i Lee hut chiefly for Pur i new the Trade agreements poses of drawing up the act. Now before if the useful i Ness and therefore he life of Gatt will be imperilled. But it is True that the re publican administration in Power at Washington for years has not nearly As much harm to International Trade As was expected. Pc Agenda for the next con Ference and disposing of mat lers too Pond. Urgent to be Post the Gatt Tariff schedules sent alarms May not become j were periodically bound and realities. Gatt May survive always for a fixed period of the waiver and i to protectionists at Washington substantially unharmed. Remembered words from by Mary Hicham along the slum Brous air a whisper runs it fills the solemn silence like a tune it softly Calls awake dear blossoms All and Ope your eyes to Greet the Golden noon. Awake the resurrection Day has come the lord himself hath led the Way from prison put. On your whitest Robes o Lily Bells and chime in them Christ lord u risen ill right there of tilt fun fatty wat time. Thereafter if a general conference was not held and did not renew them for a further period the schedules would cease to be bound and would become Ordinary items in the tariffs of the individual countries. Everything about gait was impermanent. Unless renewed it would vanish by the i re Efflux on of time. Now All this will be changed. The tariffs will now be bound until december 31, 1957, and thereafter will be open for re binding without the necessity of a prior general conference. The permanent organization will consist of a full time secretariat and an executive com Millee of the members. The executive will meet Fri Quenley. The Day of Gatt As a kind of town meeting of. Its 34 members is Over. International Trade will now be under constant study. The0 oct will be a Clearing House for in formation and ideas. The rest of the Story of the Geneva conference can be briefly told. Three other waivers in addition to the . Waiver were granted. The United kingdom obtained one waiver enabling colonial products to be treated As Domestic products. This chiefly infect a the British West and such commodities As Citrus fruits and bananas sugar is dealt with by another International agreement. The United King Dom also received a waiver to j Deal in a special Way with preferential Tariff. Neither of these waivers is of material j consequence. Continental Kurop pan Cotin tries like Cermane were granted a waiver to enable them to Deal in an orderly Way i with what were termed hard Core problems of Protection. I these countries for Many i years have maintained Protection on certain products in violation of the rules of Gatt. Confronted with this fact they asked for time to bring them selves within the rules. It is Odd but every one of these hard Core problems has to do with agricultural products. This waiver was granted it i will he noted not to Worsen i hut to allow further Lime to improve Gatt. The waiver lapses in .13fi2, when the hard Core problems Are expected to be solved. It was not to be expected in this enlightened age that the old vice of Reading would be denied forever the improve ments of modern science. Hav ing improved everything else to the Point of perfection science now turns its attention to the written word and finds it in a shocking backward and antiquated condition. Or rather if the printed word itself still manages to live in face of the movies radio and television the people who use it Are hopelessly out of Date. Science therefore has be gun to emancipate the Reader to turn a bungling Amateur into a skilled professional. If the Reader who has read thus far in perhaps half a min Ute would Only listen to the teachings of. Science he could cover the same ground in a Quarter of a minute at most Jfe would save fifteen valuable seconds. With a Little study of the latest methods he might save Twenty seconds. Our children who Are being properly taught to grasp a full line of Lype at a glance or even a paragraph will save so much time indeed that they can easily master All literature in a few years and have the rest of their lives free for some thing useful. Mass production is applied to Reading As to other problems through a machine in this Case the human Eye for which a better substitute be in vented any time now Given a Little training the Eye Primi Tive As it can accomplish prodigies. Now the old fashioned Reader May imagine that the. Mind also has something to do with Reading May wonder How much Type spread wholesale on the Retina is finally conveyed to the brain for storage. The new school of instructors assures us that a Man Reading at five or six Hundred words a minute stores just As much away As he unskilled Reader who can Limp at Only half that Cail. This race is won not by the Tortoise but the Hare. Off off a proof of this readers re Volution we have the Rase of a gentleman in Colorado when if t remember the figures Correct in went through Ham let in Twenty minutes though we Are not told How much of Hamlet went through him. That alas is always the immeasurable question. Science cannot Tell us How much Izier nature Slicks to the inside of any Man. A simple test would show How much the Colorado expert remembered of Ham let and lie might remember it All. But that is an entirely different thing from under standing and even if it is understood that is an entirely different thing from being digested absorbed and Marie a part of the Reader s permanent contents and inner baggage. We know on the other hand that some of the most richly furnished readers freighted1 with the most precious Golden cargo read Only a few books in a lifetime. Shakespeare could hardly have read in his fifty two years As much As a trained Reader could read or at least see in a fortnight or. Amid the higher altitudes of Colorado in an evening. J the Speed of Reading there fore tells us very Little about the Reader and the volume of Type engorged during a life time or an. Evening tells us no More. The question surely is not How much Lype is seen with the Eye not even How Many ideas Are temporarily conveyed to the mind but How much the mind thereby is Al i tired. J muss production applied to j automobiles and such things no double is a useful invention. It i does not necessarily improve i the efficiency of Reading. It merely improves the Speed. To customer would buy an Auto Mobile produced efficiently at i a Low Price if it would t run when set on the Road. And to find Oil All sides Many j mostly expertly engine Ritari and efficiently mass proud red in our schools that never run at ail. We need not suppose just the same that the read ing method Wilt fail to catch i on. It is sure to he acre Giorl and applied to the Young. Still an expert in this technique informs me with re Gret that our existing liners i turn really i not written to fit mass production la is highly 1 inefficient is written for bumbling antique readers when actually look at every word and Ponder every sentence. J a rambling passage in John son or Macaulay for example with All its outcroppings and Long diversions of qualifying clauses its elaborate design of i leisurely digressions and be i cond thoughts can hardly be grasped at once by the Best trained Reader. I it thus becomes necessary j for the modern writer to pre i sent a simpler faster a resp like an automobile with All i the useless chromium stripped i off. The Soliloquy from Ham it has been widely praised hut it is an extremely inefficient product an engineering botch that no inspector would i pass. The whole thing could he said in half a simple sentences instantly grasped by a first primer student. As a modern Engineer might i streamline it Hamlet need j Only ask himself is life i Worth living obviously not. I but what about dying that might be worse. So we can t make up our minds to live or die. Too j that precisely is the in pros i Sion which the rapid Eye must gather from the Type when Hamlet is read in Twenty minutes. It is efficient. It is perfectly Good English and i i Hope grammatical. Vet some i How the old fashioned Reader will be excused if he thinks it loses a trifle of the original i Quality. This May be a heresy now a Days but a Reader of j that sort May even be forgiven if weak inefficient Man he sets out deliberately to enjoy himself. The things they say at Ottawa a selection from the remarkable records of Hansard Hawnn Kcf there goes the minister 1 of National health and welfare again. I sen. W. Euler j i have nothing against the Ada. Namely the minister of i Farmer but l think he has he son. .1. To in Lar i come from a City and a de cent City it is. Carl Nickle cons. Calgary Only one Man in can the final waiver w a s granted to under developed countries to enable them to ignore the rules of Gatt and extend Protection to their in j Fant industries. In some de Gree this waiver is a by pro duct of the . Waiver. These under developed countries mostly Export farm products. They argued that the . Waiver would prevent them Selling in the United states Market. At. The same time Gatt prevent them in creasing their own tariffs and thereby encouraging own Industrial growth. This they would be compelled of endure the worst of both worlds. This waiver weakens Gatt but not seriously. This is the outline of the new Gatt. Because of the peril involved in the United states waiver it May be of in Terest to review Canadian policy on Price supports and the devices to. Maintain them. This will done in the concluding article. Trade and Commerce or. Howe has. Been in the position country of Power to wrap the shackles around As. Comp he "iato1.ile boy in this c. W. A oils son cons. Vic Toria 1 have the floor and i would like to Bear from some of. You rubber Stamps. George Hees cons. Tor onto the govern ment does not know How important this unemployment problem is. They never get out of their offices. They never gel closer to the people than being guest speakers at a Canadian club luncheon that is their idea of really getting Down and mixing with the masses they Are Happy in their Oak panelled offices and their Pri vate cars. They do not give a Hoot. Harold Winch Kcf Van Couver and what does the government do the Mem Bers sit Back smug in the knowledge that they will continue 1o receive their and a year and let the unemployed go to blazes. J Sybil Bennett cons. Hal if i were a Young Man sitting in the galleries this hearing what i have heard in this debate on War veterans allowances i would consider for a Long time before 1 would offer my services to this country should another emergency arise. J. H. Ferguson cons. Coe you or. Harris Are too big for your shoes. G. To. lib. Cold he Scotland is famed As the land of Brave men and virtuous women. Birthdays William Grant Winnipeg born Grantown on spey. Scot land. April 9, 1s61. George James Winnipeg born nor wich Oxford county ont., april 10, 1s66. D. G. Gai Laugher. Winnipeg born Londonderry. Ireland. April in 1s7s. Alexander Dalrymple. Winnipeg born Stranraer Scotland april 10. 1353 ;