Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 1, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published Dally except sunday by the Winnipeg free press company limited. 300 car too Street. Winnipeg Manitoba. Authorized As second class Nutter by the Post office department Ottawa. Tom Kent editor Grant Dexter associate editor r. S. Malone Victor Sifton vice president president publisher we. Lord general manager Winnipeg Friday july 1, 1955 Canada s place when one thinks of Canada As it is natural to do on do minion Day one is Apt to think of mountains that just to look a take the breath away of Prairies fanning out beneath the curving sky to world s rim of sea Weed and the smell of Salt Waves foaming on a Rocky Shore of a Patch work quilt of lakes and Trees and Stone and Rivers that pivots far be Neath one s Wheeling plane. And one can say that All these splendid things Are Canada. But Canada is. Not a thing. Or one May think of Kitimat and Rivers forced through mountains of Oil pumps like Black rocking horses nodding the wealth of half a billion years ago up through Alberta s Fields of hard Spring wheat shimmering in the Crisp autumn air and Flung by combines on its complicated Way across the world of Diamond drills thrust through the Tough pre cambrian shield of saw Mills that Chew and grind whole forests into pulp and lumber and factories and Homes for men to live in. One can think of these tremendous things and say that these Are these Are things that Canada is doing and Canada is bigger than the things it does. Or one May think Back through the years to when Jacques Cartier first sighted the Rocky disappointing coast of what he thought must surely be the land that god gave Cain and called it Canada to Radisson and Groseil Liers and the company of adventurers of England trading into. Hud son s Bay to governor Frontenac and his courtly Cavaliers from France Tell sir William ships that the answer of the governor of Canada will come from the Mouths of his can non in the Citadel of to the Bush ranging Conreur de Bois and the voyageurs who followed the fur lined trails West beyond the red and who. Long before confederation knew they were canadians to the mysterious and stubborn members of the family compact about whom one read per Force in school and poor old sir Francis Bond head who made history by mistake and fierce red headed William Lyon Mackenzie who paved lord Durham s Way and helped to be t the stage on which the fathers of confederation stood. One can look Back through the years and see these men who found a continent and fertilized it with their Hopes and fears and jealousies and Breeds their Pride and love their Cour age Rel their blood and one can say that this is Canada. But these were the men who sowed the seed from which the can Ada we know has grown. The seed they planted has outlived them. A child can draw a of Canada etch in the squiggly coastlines and approximate the major lakes and Rivers. But Canada is neither the nor the things it represents. A child can catalogue its natural products its raw material and manufactured goods its exports and imports. But one will not find Canada itself in any list of capital and consumer goods. It is in the Man himself that one must look for Canada. There Are As Many Canadas As there have been and Are and will be canadians. For Canada is at once a heritage a Way of life a dream. Shaped by geography but distinct from it folded by the things that men have done but not those things themselves Canada is too big to inventory to be itemized and toted up in any neat financial statement. But. It is not too big to fit quite nicely in an Ordinary human heart. Which is convenient on Dominion Day. For when men and women turn their thoughts to Canada they have not very far to look they carry Canada about with them. Prairies reproduced the Long Day peace River town some years before Selkirk s first settlers reached the red River. Alexander Mackenzie was camped for the Winter close to this town of peace River and from Here he struck next Spring to the Paci fic. But the red was settled almost a Hundred years before the peace and if the pioneers of Manitoba could visit this country today they would find it quite familiar. By Bruce Hutchison Arctic combines with Northern Daylight to Ripen wheat in 110 Days. This combination affects Man As notably As it affects vegetables. The peace River Man has become a race apart having Little economic and no spiritual connection with the Southern half of Alberta. He j does not Call his land Dis the first explorers quickly discovered the natural Isola Tion and special Virtues of the peace River country. This was the end of the Long Canoe route from Montreal the the King of the wild Frontier who discovered America who invented the steam in sine name the president of the United states and the prime minister of Canada. Leaders among the older and More erudite students of the Crockett Saga who Are con Vinced that such things matter. And did Davy really Patch forgotten people 5------------------ Australia s sad aborigines Here the whole adventure of strict he puts it in capital let the Prairies is being repro ters and Calls it the peace diced with Little change sex River country politically cent modern machinery. As part of Alberta geographically Selkirk s scots broke the soil something like an Island and North of Winnipeg men Are spiritually a kingdom of its breaking it in the peace River country now. Thousands acres will Bear their first crop this summer. More thousands Are being cleared of Poplar Trees tall plumes of smoke announcing Man s latest con quest. There Are Many thriving towns with Laden Grain Eleva tors excellent stores and paved streets in this Region but the struggle with the wilderness is never far away. You will find countless men and women living Here hardly better than the old time Prairie Farmers of the great wheat Boom the Breed is the same and so is the hunger for new land. Only the tools have changed the tractor replacing the horse. Nowhere in America per haps nowhere in the world does Grain grow so far North As in peace River. In few places does it grow so Well. I talked just now to a Farmer whose first , last year averaged sixty bushels of a heat and Well Over a famous artist whose paintings have been seen around the world and whose name is known in Many coun tries recently stood in a court of Law and faced a charge of having drunk Evi Dence was Given that this Man had taken a few sips of wine As 3. Friendly first time liquor had passed his lips. This same Man docs not have the right to live in the town of his Choice but is forced to live in tile Mountain ranges in which he was born. But what sort of country in such a questionnaire directed up the crack in the Liberty such restrictions ils at a fair Cross Section the i the solemn custodians five year old population of of Independence Hall have Winnipeg could quite conceive taken another careful look at ably draw a Blank. But ask these same Young men who was born on a Mountain top in and Spon Laneous answer will ring out in unison like a highly informal Angels chorus Davy Davy Crockett the King of the wild Davy Crockett has probably captured More Small hearts in Moose Groin sask., alone than Ever he captured indians on the whole vast horizon of the Frontier. In the United states the parents of his devotees constitute a Multi Mii lion Dollar Market for Coon skin Caps fringed Buckskin shirts synthetic injun scalps b a and Davy Crockett their famous relic and issued a Flat denial. It was probably the least that they could do for in their adult scale of values facts Are facts and truth and fancy Inco Mensur Ables. In Canada the Crockett legend has found cold Comfort in the professorial imaginations of text Book writers and Emi nent historians. They Depre Cate the adulation being lavished on the questionable Davy and Advance the claims to hero worship of their own authentic nation builders. They might save themselves the trouble. For it is not to David Crockett frontiersman and politician that the Little bed spreads. Boys in Coonskin hats have but the parents Are not the i up their hearts it is to Only ones who Are a bit be j an infectious song and a Brave by Davy Crockett s fairy tale infiltration into Youthful hearts let the sober scholars Lay and reluctant pocketbooks the historians and archivists Are closing ranks on Davy. There is some doubt in their Learned minds for example that the greenest state in the land of the free has any Legal right to claim him As her own. The Mountain top still stands just As it did in 1786 when it cradled Davy Crockett and it stands in Tennessee. But was it Tennessee or the abortive state of Franklin or a Greener part of what is now North Carolina at the time of Davy s birth each of these states has its advocates and special aside their cautious history books for half an hour. Let them Pluck a dream of child Hood from the foolish realms of fancy and embed it in a lilting Melody and they will hear upon the lisping tongues of children All across the continent the name of whatever National hero they have built their song around. But it will take More than All their scholarship to do it it will take a touch of Genius. And if they cannot snatch that burning Ember directly from Parnassus they might do worse than search for it in tin pan Alley. People soviet Russia fran co Spain South Korea South Africa none of these. The Law court was in Australia and the artist was Albert Nami Jira an australian aborigine. The magistrate found the Case against Nami Jira proved but discharged him without a conviction. But Good May yet come from this sorry episode. As a result of the fuss kicked Over Nami Jira s appear Ance in court the australian government plans to give full citizenship rights to certain last year these by Boyce Richardson Contention that aborigines Are not intelligent enough to be bothered with. Their Way of life is extraordinarily Primi Tive but they have shown some remarkable talents when Iven the Opportunity. Namit Jira is Only one of several out standing painters whose work has been widely acclaimed. An aborigine Singer Harold Blair has made Good As a concert artist. Recently a 17-year-old half caste girl Garla Kunold Star red in a film about the australian Outback. She wants to do More film work but she has had to go Back to Alice Springs to be a nursemaid at a Church Hostel with no Prospect of going further afield. Origines than any other White person recorded in her Book the passing of the written before her death four years ago that the race could not escape extinction. It is a far cry from those Days in which the Early tas Manian settlers went out for a sunday afternoon of Abo shooting just As modern Hunt ers go shooting rabbits Natur ally the tasmanian aborigines Are Long since but the state of Many of the aborigines today pushed by the White Man from the Fertile coastlands into the Barren deserts is Little better than a living death. You see them when the trans Continental train stops to refuel on the desert of the Nul Arbor Plain. Thin diseased Fly Ridden they stand beside the train and offer for Sale crudely carved ornaments and toys. They live somewhere in and sliding Down to the West Ern sea. The River remains the primary physical fact the Scenic glory and the Engineer s Nightmare of this booming territory. Its winding Gully cuts the land in half bridged in a few places but generally crossed on Flimsy ferries. It presents probably its mightiest spectacle at its Junction with the Smoky where Mackenzie camped. It is Here that twelve foot Davis the chief Folk figure of the coun try was buried at his own re quest eight Hundred feet above the River with a simple Gravestone recalling that he never locked his Cabin few sights in Canada not even Niagara itself can sur pass this gaping Gorge with its swarm of Green islands its rim of Blue Hills and the Lin Gering Sunset which turns both sky and water into living flame. The natives Here say it is All very pretty but their minds Breeding ground of the world s Are on the land and the crops. Finest furs the Athabaska of the nor westers of Pond Mac Kenzie Fraser and the rest who having traded Here be came the accepted elite of the fur Trade. They had reached the rim of the Rockies and one of them Mackenzie breached that Wall by toiling up the furious Canyon of the peace Oil and Gas Are valuable to be sure but the future hangs on agriculture and will belong to the men who with a time lag of half a Century Are re enact ing the drama of Manitoba and Saskatchewan with the heavy economic disadvantage of remoteness but with the asset of the Long summer Daylight. Chickadee notes f by Harold Mossop no. 24. Runt eggs information is asked re Green on potato plants. These Garding those extra Small sized eggs occasionally found. A Hun i one to a with a clutch of Normal eggs. Do they produce _ i jiul Ajlill Ogga. A jct dred bushels of Oats to the j midgets or in any Way abnormal acre. He said he had come Young these runt eggs Al from Saskatchewan where he Lucky to get fifteen bus hels on his inferior farm and he is not going Back. At the premiere of the film the half caste Garla was treated As a Star and sat with the White officials. But full blooded Robert Tarawali who co starred with her was for gotten when the invitations were issued. He found a seat like everyone else he Calls this the Best land on the planet. Maybe it is and maybe some Day when the monotonous Poplar Forest has been replaced with Man s planting it will be a Beautiful land to look at too. Anyway from june to september it makes crops grow almost Twenty four hours a Day in the Long North Ern Daylight. Yesterday at fort Vermi most Northern penetration of agriculture on the continent there was no visible night. The s in Slid Down a few Yards West of North and soon bobbed up again a few Yards to the East. Meanwhile you could read a headline quite on the main games. Commonwealth club one of the undoubted successes of recent months has been the Commonwealth stud club founded in London omy last october to promote understanding and Friendship Between students from All parts of the Commonwealth. The membership which includes Many canadians Al ready has grown from 96 to 230 and the expansion Conti Nues. The Imperial Institute pro Vides accommodation and facilities but the club is governed by its own members. The activities include debating music drama and games organized by sub committees each with its own Leader. Emphasizing the significance of the club the director of the Institute observed in the annual report that the students come to Lon Don in search of education. The club makes it possible for some of them to find part of what they Are looking for in a common Centre where rights were Given to half caste j downstairs among the other and three Quarter caste abort aborigines. It is where we Blacks Are expected to he said. Fifty two year old Nami Jira himself had never been out of the Northern territory until he was invited to Canberra to meet the Queen. In the one Field that has been freely open to them though quite rare Are Well known to Bird students. The in the nests of a dozen or More Spe cies. We have never seen or heard of one of these under sized eggs successfully hatched. They usually contain a Small Yolk and incomplete albumen or no Yolk at All. Sometimes they Are caused by a bit of for eign material passing Down the oviduct during Normal egg Lay ing time which gathers the usual albumen and Shell in lesser a quantities. The other extreme is found in those extra Large eggs usually double yoked caused by two Yolks passing through the Ovi duct together thereby becom ing encased in the one Shell. Extremely rare Are three Yolk de eggs. One poultry keeper re ported three of. These from three thousand Birds in a six year per Iod. In each Case it was a Pul let s first egg. An egg within an egg is another strange Rar Ity. It is said to be caused by an egg returning up the oviduct for some unknown re Ason Ami during its second passage Down another egg is formed around it. These oversized freaks Are apparently almost unknown among wild Birds. Insecticide poisoning some concern is expressed of Bird lovers Over the poisoning of song and insectivorous Birds by the use of certain insecticide sprays on Flowers and food or. J. F. Palamarchuk Silver Man., writes of the a Gros beaks due to the use of Paris a visitor to Australia who wants to learn something about the aborigines has a hard time finding a White australian who knows any thing about them. He will hear soon enough that the aborigines Are the most primitive the most unintelligent the most useless of All the native in the world. He will find that the total aborigine population is compared with 150 years ago. He will search Hansard almost in vain for references to them in parliament. He May discover an Odd lonely soul calling for the government to do some thing about a medical report made in the 1930s which said that unless medical action were taken the aborigines were doomed. No action was taken of course. The visitor must not surprised at this. He will soon find that the Ordinary australian ignores the exis tence of the aborigine. In some ways this is an even More terrible attitude than the South african Type of prejudice based on fear which at least has the Merit of being friendships Are not bred Arti a defined. The people who care facially but As the natural out in South Africa know what come of shared they have to fight. In aus during 1954 works of com Trail the average citizen Mon wealth artists were does t even realize that there brought to Public attention i is an aborigine problem and and other cultural and social interests were catered for by the club. That it. Is his responsibility. There is or course nothing to prove the White australian boxing aborigines have been outstanding and have at me time or another held nearly every australian professional title. I was in Melbourne Early in 1951 when Australia was draw ing up plans for Centennial celebrations later that year. Every element in the National life was included except the aborigines who were Over but a half caste aborigine pastor in Melbourne organized a counter demonstration. On the Day of the big Parade he announced the aborigines would themselves hold a procession. The first half of it would show the aborigine s achieve ments his Art his culture be fore the White men came. This would be followed by a Long line of aborigines joined to Gether by a Chain to Symbol ize the life of the aborigine since the coming of the White Man. Within a few hours the authorities remembered the aborigines again and gave them a spot in the official procession yet probably this last minute Rush of governmental concern for the Abos comes too late. The remarkable English woman Daisy Bates who lived in a tent on the Nul Arbor Plain for 50 years and prob perhaps every six months or. Average australian hears that the aborigines Are dying out. But if they Haven to the Street of the Dusty Village at stamina and initiative to save themselves what can he do it is easy to see How the it is a comfortable but in northward to the Edge of the human View. Go slow Ergo Well known and Beautiful songs ters Are inveterate potato Beetle destroyers and for this reason should be encouraged. The writer on More than one occasion has found Grosbeak fatalities due to this same cause. The Killdeer also helping the Gard ener with his potatoes has Paiit with its life because of its appetite for these insect pests which received a lethal dose of poisoning. Although Sel Dom publicized this form of Bird poisoning is apparently More prevalent than normally supposed and the use of insecticides that Are non toxic to Bird life is recommended. Or. Palamarchuk uses Derris Root powder which in the prescribed proportions is not harmful to either Birds or mammals. From time to time we Are asked regarding methods of destroying so called Bird pests the objections being dirt and noise and House spar rows mourning doves and Martins being most frequently mentioned in this connection. House sparrows we admit Are dirty and their vocal efforts Are certainly not particularly musical. Studied carefully however the Case against them is not entirely Black they do perform a service in the destruction of Large quantities of insects and Weed seeds. They May be trapped although we strongly object to cruelty. In this connection. Baited Box traps Are to be preferred. Per Mission would have to be obtained from local authorities before shooting could be resorted to. The objection to the last two mentioned Birds is their Early morning swig s that Are apparently not relished by some Light sleepers. This column be ing primarily concerned with Bird Protection and conserva Tion does not condone the destruction of these particular Birds which would of course be illegal. We Are in our love for Birds inclined to Overlook minor objections and see rather the great benefits we enjoy As a result of their Beauty of song and color and their Valu Able service to Mankind in the destruction of noxious weeds ant insect life. Testing Goshawk the presence of the nest of a Goshawk in the Matlock area is reported by or. C. I. Willenius Parkside drive. Or. V. B. Lat to lust pm ave., also reports and confirms this identity. Sel Dom is this Large predator seen nesting so close to civilization. In 1927 and again in 1930, or. V. Harper found it nesting at Mccreary Man. The Goshawk because of its size and Speed is capable of taking the largest of poultry and if it were a Bird of settled areas it would present a serious threat to poultry farm ers. However frequenting As it does the More Northern for ests across Canada where it feeds on grouse and hares it has Little economic effect on i of Crl la a Fadlo Anil _ i pc i f ably knew More about the a very interesting and now about that Down to Tarth problem j today s scripture even As the son of Man came not to be ministered but to minister and to give his life a Ransom for Many. Matthew birthdays c. E. Winnipeg born Lefroy ont., july 1, 1869. Rev. Walter Anderson Van Couver. . Born London England july 1, 1886. W. G. Weir m.p., Carman Man. Born port Perry ont., july 1, 1896. John r. Pitt Pierson Man. Born Carluke ont., july 1, 1885. R. S. Fer Ris St. James Man. Born Holland Man., july 1, 1885. Wilfred f. G. Hughes trans Cona Man. Born Carleton ont., july 1, 1891 ;