Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 2, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights printed and published Dally except sunday the Vin Nipes free press company limited. 300 Cartton Street. Win Defi. Manitoba. Authorized As second class matter by us Post Ohice department Ottawa. 1 of Kent editor Grant Dexter associate editor b. S. Victor s1kton vice president president i publisher we. General lord asleep at the wheel this is the first Peak of the Holiday season and it is therefore an occasion say a Good word about cigarettes. They May eventually cause a Man die of. Lung cancer but in the meantime they May save his life As he speeds along the Highway. A psychologist at the Harvard school of Public health or. Alfred l. Moseley has been conducting a series of tests designed demonstrate the relationship Between fatigue and automobile accidents. The tests indicated that every Driver who is Over tired is risking his own and other people s lives when he takes the they also indicated that when the comfortable Monotony of the Long smooth Miles of the droning summer Highway Lull the Driver into that false euphoria of he can Jerk himself Alert with a few Quick drags on his favorite cigarette. But the effects though Good Are temporary. or. Moseley and his fellow investigators have drawn up a whole set of for those who Hope return from a Long motor trip. For example Don t Start your journey directly after work. Set out refreshed and vigorous in the morning pull off the Road every Hundred Miles or and have a Good hot cup of Coffee. not drive at night unless you really have . If in spite of All precautions drowsiness still presses in upon you pull off the Road and take a Nap. Many motorists will feel sure that they themselves could have drawn up such a list without any help from or. Moseley. Certainly the seem obvious enough. But they Are broken All the time and often the penalty is extreme. It is therefore not impossible that someone setting out upon a Carefree Happy Holiday will con them Over just be fore he leaves and because he does come safely Home again. Winnipeg saturday july 2, 1955 let s understand or. Gardiner the Federal department of agriculture has presumably steeled itself against a churlish consumer reaction the butter for Czechoslovakia Deal. Or. Gardiner who is sup porting butter at 58 cents a Pound on the Domestic Market has arranged unload pounds of the Saskatchewan product in Czechoslovakia at or near the current world Price of about 40 cents. It has been explained in parliament that this is not a plan for subsidizing the czechoslovak communists. Canadian tax payers Are merely paying out Money stabilize the butter Industry. It is a Happy by product of this policy that the needy czechs Are getting their butter for about 18 cents less than canadians pay for it. The merits of the transaction May not be immediately apparent those who assume that butter policy is a matter of butter or of economics or of satisfying Canadian Consumers. But appraisal should be temperate. This requires in the first place an understanding that or. Gardiner a state within a state and secondly that like Many elder statesmen in these times he is moved by considerations which far transcend salted or unsalted table spreads. It is secret that at least one of the minister s Collea gues looks with Abhorrence upon subsidized foreign sales. Only a few weeks ago or. J. J. Mccann the minister of National Revenue held the House and especially the conserva Tives spell bound with a Eulogy of Bill 29. This is the Legi Slation which protects us from Low priced merchandise by setting arbitrary values upon imports. Or. Mccann Hopes remove a few More temptations consumer spending. His countervailing duty Bill is a modest Little measure which will empower the government impose special duties upon goods subsidized by foreign countries. The minister has reason suspect that new zealand plans with cheese what or. Gardiner is doing with butter. One can imagine his reaction if the product was say Glass and the country of origin communist. But it is one thing Deal with a Distant state whether Friendly or unfriendly and another Deal with or. Gardiner. such comparisons Are unprofitable. In these International dealings or. Gardiner appears in a very different Light that of the mature and mellowing minister brooding Over a Way Ward world. Almost forgotten today Are the old struggles with raw Young socialists who thought that capitalism unregulated by state controls could produce Only poverty in the midst of plenty. For years or. Gardiner has been manipulating controls and he now sits surrounded by 899 surplus pounds of it. Perhaps the Only North american in a Stabler position is or. Ezra Taft Benson the . Secre tary of agriculture. Controls have yielded him enough wheat and Cotton provide every american family with loaves of bread and 120 shirts if Only they could match the prices that the government has paid for the stuff. What is be done with All this plenty if it was set free sell on the Market Canadian Consumers would certainly follow their own baser instincts and eat it themselves. Such a spectacle As or. Gardiner perceives would arouse the envy foreign nations. The nobler course is resign ourselves proud poverty and Mazarine while exporting the plenty. Or. Gardiner s role is butter up the people with whom or. Pearson negotiates. If the policies of or. Were less austere there might conceivably be a Way out at the Treasury. If we could import freely from european countries without having worry about arbitrary valuations and special dump ing duties there might be a stronger foreign demand for Canadian butter and a higher world Price. But this implies a Choice Between or. Mccann and or. Gardiner. Why should we thus limit ourselves when for a Small the moment about 18 cents a can have both or. Mccann and or. Gardiner plus who knows what measure of inter National Amity let us think of butter not As table fare but As an ointment for world tensions As a Means of greasing the skids for accommodations inside the Cabinet and at conference tables abroad. With this measure of popular restraint there is reason Why the debate at Ottawa should not be kept on a plane of moderation and dignity. Cauffm e a we. Find this cheaper than a Telephone. I admit a feeling of envy when someone Speaks or writes about the second hand Book shops of cities More venerable than Winnipeg. I not mean the tidy shops where used books Are care fully classified and neatly shelved where one May buy at something like its real value the Best seller before last or pick up a current text j in Good condition. What haunts me is the Pic Ture of a Dusty Little room in a Side Street where one pounces upon a ragged volume that will verify a reference or if it is one s Lucky Day finds a treasure in the six Penny bar Tow. However it was Here in Winnipeg on a Kitchen table in the Corner of an auction room that i found half hours with the Best letter writers and com piled by that Charles Knight who was one of Thackeray s Early publishers and printed in London in 1867. It might be objected that the title. Jacks sales Appeal Prairie problems at Ottawa sorting out Box cars Ottawa for some years the wheat pools particularly the Saskatchewan and Alberta pools have been Agi Tating vigorously against the prevailing method of distributing Box cars the More than shipping Points in the three Prairie provinces. The pools have contended that Farmers Are being denied the right deliver Grain the elevator of their Choice and they have sought amendment of the Canada Grain act fear i order Book Section right 1 this alleged wrong. Back of this demand has been a struggle among the elevator companies handle As much Grain As possible. The importance of this Issue May be illustrated by Fig ures Given the House of commons agricultural com Mittee by j. H. Wesson pres ident of the Saskatchewan Pool. In the six years from 1945 50 inclusive or. Wesson s com Pany handled As much As 53 per cent of the Saskatchewan crop. Last year the figure was 44.3 per cent. If the Saskatchewan Pool could have got the 1945-50 average last year it would have handled 26 Mil lion bushels More Grain than it did. Its income would have been up and its Cost per Bushel Down and it would have paid its members an additional 3c per Bushel. True these 26 millions went other elevators and doubt the Farmers got patronage dividends. But the Saskatchewan Pool feels entitled the business because the growers concerned Are believed be Pool members eager use Pool elevators and prevented from doing by the existing method of distributing Box cars. By Grant Dexter the problem at a glance Why has there been much difficulty in handling Prairie Grain in the past four years or. D. G. Mckenzie chairman of the Board of Grain com missioners in his. Evidence the agricultural committee of the House of commons gave figures showing the increase in the quantities of Grain meaning wheat Barley Oats Rye and flax due the bumper crops of 1951, 1952 and 1953. Or. Mckenzie s figures supplemented from the Dominion Bureau of statistics Are As crop years 1950-51 1951-52 1952-53 1953-54 1954-55 f millions of bushels carryover 18s.3 342.4 415.6 654.4 ss3.5 production 1.4s3.2 1.321.7 s13.6 Supply 1.697.1 remembered words from the mowing by Charles g. D. Roberts this is the voice of. The High Midsummer s heat. The rasping vibrant Cla Mour soars and thrills or All the Meadows Range of shameless Hills As if a Host of giant Cicada beat the cymbals of their wings with tireless feet. Or Brazen Grasshoppers with triumphing note from the Long Swath pro claimed the Fate that smote the Clover and Timothy tops and meadowsweet. Today s scriptures inasmuch Asye have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren be have done it unto while they a Rufue about an atomic merchant ship it would t Hurt build an atomic this controversy Over Box car distribution therefore masked a keen struggle among the elevator companies with millions of dollars at stake. This year s committee on agriculture heard representations from the Farmers unions the pools the North West line elevator s association the United Grain growers ltd., the wheat Board the Board of Grain commissioners and r. W. Milner the transport con troller. Many aspects of the Grain Trade were dealt with. The annual reports 01 the wheat Board and the Board of Grain commissioners were reviewed in detail. But the distribution of Box cars was the major Issue. It will interest Grain grow ers across the Prairies know that a solution of this vexatious problem was found. The outstanding member of the committee was or. Walter Tucker Liberal member for Rosthern. The witnesses who contributed most the Solu Tion were j. E. Brownlee pres ident of the u.g.g., and w. J. Parker president of the Manitoba Pool elevators. The problem is this the i right of a Farmer deliver i his Grain the elevator of his own Choice is regarded by everyone As fundamental. Nor Mally this right is guaranteed by the car order Book which under the Canada Grain act must on request be set up at every delivery Point. Farmers or elevator companies put Down their names in ibis Book and the railways must allot Box cars . This system dating Back the old Manitoba Grain act of 1902, works perfectly in nor Mal times but twice under the pressure of surplus stocks it has broken Down. The first break Down was in 1940 under a Large accumulation of Grain. This carryover reached its Peak in 1942 and was cleared away by 1944. The car order Book was suspended in 1940 and restored in 1944. In the interval various methods of distributing Box cars were tried. None was successful and in the Finai months of 1943-44 the wheat Board took on the Job. The present great accumulation of Grain dates from 1951, a Peak in 1953 and is now declining. The peaks of 1953 and 1942 vary by Only 5 million bushels. The car order Book was suspended in 1951 and remains suspended. It is expected that failing More bumper crops the surplus will be sufficiently reduced within a year or two enable the car order Book be restored. The reasons Why the car or Der Book cannot stand now Are obvious. At a time of Over Supply the movement of Grain out of the country elevators in terminal elevators must be governed by the sales. The body responsible for Selling the Grain the wheat Boa re must have Power order ship ments Forward suit the customers. The wheat Board it follows must control move ments of Grain into and out of country elevators since these movements depend on Box cars the wheat Board must control the allotment of Box cars. Under prevailing conditions country elevators must take in the kinds of Grain required by the wheat Board under pen Alty of being plugged and immobilized. also with far mers. They can Only be permitted Load into Box cars the kinds of Grain the Board requires. Otherwise the Termi Nal elevators would become plugged with unsaleable Grain. Obviously the car order Book which guarantees cars far mers by seniority of application regardless of kind or Quality cannot operate. There Are As Well other reasons the quota system the need of priority for Damp or Dut of condition Grain and on we released this communique the comic of m has subversive intention in non communist coun tries the evidence Given the com Mittee showed that since 1951 the wheat Board has become More but not completely dominant in the allocation of Box cars and that most of the Dis satisfaction of the Farmers and the pools with present Box car distribution is due wheat Board control but has never been clearly recognized As such. The present wheat Board method is this when the Board Sells Grain it distributes the Bushel age among the ele Vator companies. Here it uses a system that George Milvor the chairman refused divulge the agricultural com Mittee and which it. Hon. C. D Howe the responsible min ister confessed he knew Noth ing about. None of the Eleva Tor companies knows what it is although most of them appear have idea. The elevator companies having received the wheat Board s orders Are free draw this Grain from any country Point they choose. But having made their selection of these local Points they must submit them the wheat Board for approval. This received the railways Are asked distribute Box cars accordingly. There is shortage of Box cars. One needless and serious trouble has been that the rail ways have been distributing cars evenly at each Point among elevator companies in Possession of wheat Board or Ders. Only when the require ments of those with the least volume of orders were met did the other company get All its cars. Are four elevator companies at a Given Point. They receive from wheat Board respectively or Ders for enough Grain fill and 10 Box cars. Instead of distributing the 25 Box cars in this ratio the railways have been giving one car each elevator until All have 5 cars and then the one company has i been Given its additional 5 cars. This system of course has compelled some Farmers if they were very keen on get Ting their Grain into an Eleva Tor and receiving the initial payment patronize an ele Vator not of their Choice. Or. Tucker spotted this weak Point. He proposed that the wheat Board com Pel the railways distribute cars in proportion the total orders received by the companies on any Given Day. This it was agreed would As far As parliament could safely in removing present grievances Over the car order Book. Earlier the Saskatchewan Pool proposed that the car or Der Book be supplanted by a vote of the producers be taken at each shipping Point Early in each year. Box cars would then be distributed the elevators at these Points in accordance with the preferences shown. This proposal was rejected by the House of commons i when advanced As a private Bill by the Kcf. Its defeat was inevitable the moment it i became Clear that such a Law would paralyse the Power of the wheat Board direct the Sale of Grain in accordance with the demand of the mar Ket. By Elisabeth Henderson but the Book showed signs of much Reading and i can never resist other people s letters in spite of a firm conviction that they Are none of my business. And it would harm look at the. Index the Index did it. Here mention Only a few of the company were Well not William Deans but James who wrote in the time of Jamie 1st and 6th, Lucy Hutchinson Gray and Walpole mrs. Jelaney Dick Steele and his Prue. Coming Home on the Street car i turned first Lucy Hutchinson remembering How Stevenson in one of his More irreverent moods wished that she and her husband had not been quite perfect that she had slipped occasionally in her grammar or left a sen tence unfinished that he had even once got drunk and beaten her. In a laudable Effort reach the truth about the civil War . Had been Reading in succession Claren Don and the memoirs of the life of colonel Hutchinson written by his adoring wife but we fear that Stevenson the colonel was still the regi cide. The scotch Are like that. Even their inherited theology makes provision for hating the sin and Loving the sinner an attitude naturally calculated confuse the historic sense when it is applied the Stu arts. However the colonel was handsome and extravagant and what Carlyle would Call some fraction of a Cousin Byron it is hard see him As the Complete Puritan. Her own Cost by lady Apsley partly Comfort and divert the poor prisoners and partly gain the knowledge of their experiments and the medi Cines help such poor people As were not Able seek even the precocious. Lucy does not seem have heard about the history of the world that also provided occupation for Raleigh in his Lorig imprisonment nor about his poems and having been born top late see him for herself she. Can not Tell us whether As tradition has it tall and hand some or. As we once read a Little Man with a Strong Devon accent Devon Devon in wind and one is glad at any rate know that he had a Friend in the lieutenant this Man who set himself Down write in the blood stained and agony haunted Tower re fusing be cramped in spirit by the Walls that were steadily closing in on him. Heaven was As close by sea As by land his half brother sir Humphrey Gilbert had said As close too on Tower Green As in Devon. What a Mother those lads must have had but come Back Lucy. Her father sir Allen Apsley lieutenant of the Tower of London and there she was born in 1620. For ten years the Tower was her Home and we have her own word for it that at the age of seven she was already the precocious pedant learning latin and other languages and despising play among other child Ren the extent of plucking their babies dolls in the Tower and visiting children come play. Her father she tells us was a father All his prisoners j sweetening with such compassionate kindness their res traint that the afflictions of a prison were not Felt in his perhaps. Among the prisoners were two addicted sir Walter Raleigh and a or. Ruthin whom we have not met before. Materials for their experiments were supplied at in critics not agree As whether Raleigh really wrote How should i your True love with its formalized dialogue on love the careless child breaking Sud Denly at the end into simple words that Bess would Hava loved Bess Throgmorton not Elizabeth the Queen but True love is a durable fire in the mind Ever burning never., sick never old never dead from itself never turning. There seems however be doubt As the genuineness of the lines written the night before his execution and found afterwards in his Bible even such is time which takes in Trust our Yout i our Joys our All we have and pays us but with age and dust who in the dark and silent grave when we have wandered All our ways shuts up the Story of our Days courtier Soldier imperialist before the word scientist or alchemist As you please a Toueh of the economist. But Raleigh was not a great we heard lord Tweedsmuir say once in a broadcast and quietly and politely turned the dial. We seem have come a Long Way from Lucy a Long Way for Twenty five cents Canadian. The things they say at Ottawa birthdays Gilbert m. Hatching por Tage la Prairie. Man. Born Newborough ont july 2 1868. Hon. William Morton m.l.a., Gladstone Man. Born Gladstone Man., july 3, 1884. W. J. Robinson Winnipeg Pilot Mound Man., july g. H. Castleden Kcf what was the cause of the red River flooding i not know. It just seemed be that water seemed be com ing Down into the red River Valley. A. J. Brooks i know a Farmer who has been swimming his cows Back and Forth across a River All sum Mer. Fisheries minister Sinclair it is most difficult for a male lobster meet a female lobster in British Columbia Waters and because of that we cannot get an increase of population out there. E. cons. Kam one reason some jaw a selection from the remarkable records of Hansard yers with conservative affiliations Are being appointed is that the Liberal Field is be coming pretty Well harvested. E. G. Hansell Mac i was talking a rather prominent individual in Edmonton not Long ago and i told him that the social credit party did not appear have very Many lawyers. He was a pretty Wise gentleman older than i. He said or. Hansell just wait until you form the government in Ottawa and they will swarm around you like w. B. Thatcher ind. Moose sex members of parliament seem have a tolerance and an understand ing of human nature which is a valuable Factor in judging people i know that if i were obliged ?.o before a judge i would rather appear before an sex member of parliament than anyone else. Justice minister Garson most lawyers have some brains. F. A j. Hahn new i noted recently on a newsstand a certain Magazine the name of which i shall give the minister in private i have desire see the Public find that Magazine which i considered was of an nature. Agriculture minister Gar diner i am speaking Only about what happened last summer As a result of the Tornado which blew off 85 per cent of the apples. The a Tiv Ern ment had nothing with the Tornado. W. Bryce Kcf i run into this same difficulty almost every time i talk the minister. He takes me around and the i know i am in a Back Alley. Or. Milvor lib. Fort at supper time i heard somebody say Hurrah for the i not think the Senate has Ever been bet Ter than it at the present time. Senator Reid this is All foolish talk about honourable senators doing nothing at week ends. We hot All sit around Idle during ;