Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 15, 1957, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights leg free press printed and published Dally except sunday by the Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Cartton Street Winnipeg. Manitoba. Authorized As second class matter by the Post office department Ottawa. Tom Kent r. S. Malone editor Victor Vlee president . President publisher Grant Dexter we. Lord associate editor general manager Winnipeg Friday november 1957 the meaning of thursday thursday s two by elections in Manitoba have not Chan Gec the standings of the parties in the legislature. The conservatives retained Manitou Morden the liberals held on to Emerson. But the results must be of greater Comfort to or. Roblin than they Are to Premier Campbell. Although there has been no change in party strengths in tha House there has been a very impressive change in the voting in both Ridings. The conservative bid overwhelming in Manitou Morden threatening in Emerson has Given the government much to think about before the next provincial election. The conservatives were not expected to have much trouble in Manitou Morden Long a tory seat even though their candidate May not have been As Well and As widely err two throughout the constituency As was the late member. Nevertheless he More than doubled the majority his party held in 1953 and caused his Liberal opponent to forfeit his Deposit. In Emerson which had not seen a conservative candidate for a Quarter of a Century the conserva Tive came within a couple of Hundred votes of toppling the liberals. All this is not to say however that thursday s results Are indicative of what will happen when the province goes to the polls in a general election next year. Local issues and personalities played an important part in both Emerson and Manitou Morden. Neither party fought on the platforms which they will present to the voters in the provincial election. Both contests were straight two Way fights uncomplicated by the entry of Kcf or social credit candidates As Many of the seats in the general election will be. In Short it would be dangerous to try to read too much into thursday s results. But it would on the other hand be Folly for or. Camp Bell to ignore what happened in the two Ridings on thursday and to argue that because the government did not lose a seat All is Well. The strength of the conservative showing has made Clear what or. Campbell has to do in the few months that remain before he goes to the polls. In the past two years the policies of his government have changed remarkably the change is still going on. But it is Plain from thursday s results that he has not As yet succeeded in convincing enough people of the sincerity of the government s change of heart or that its new policies Are those that will Best serve the needs of the province As a whole. That is the Job to which or. Campbell will have to give serious attention Between now and the election. Colleagues too Low for words at a meeting last week of the Ontario progressive conservative association prime minister Diefenbaker claimed that party is spreading fear of mass unemployment in the minds of the Canadian people. He went on to say Vve do Canada no Good the free world no. Good in conveying a false impression which might have the effect of panicking the Canadian people into a depression. There Are no words to express what i think of those who for political purposes Endeavor to talk the Canadian people into a Complex that might bring about thei realization of those the prime minister return d to this theme later in the week in a nation wide radio address. He said criticism is the essence of our system but the sowing of fear of amass unemployment is a dangerous course to Lead to a depression Complex whether it is intended in Case or. Diefenbaker has there have in recent years been other people who in order to Embarrass the government of the. Day have talked As if mass unemployment in this country were imminent. In order that the prime minister May add to his list of those whom. He can find no words to describe Here Are some quotations from speeches made in the House of commons in 1955. Or. W. Earl Howe the dark realities and the dangerous trends that Are stalking before the people of this Dominion Are All carefully ignored and recklessly disregarded in the speech from the throne there was no mention in the speech from the throne of the increasing unemployment problem. Mrs. Ellen Fairclough unemployment increasing every year for the last four or five years we shall have serious unemployment again this year. Or. Wilfrid Dufresne what we need is an extensive Public works program to put an end to the increasing wave of unemployment which is the cause of so much grief and sorrow in Canadian Homes. Or. J. W. Murphy the speech from the throne could hardly be expected to suppress the fact that there is mounting unemployment at the present time in Canada. This is an ugly fact that stares us All in the face. Or. Donald Fleming we read this sentence the speech from the some unemployment of a regional and seasonal nature is being what a monstrous understatement or. Speaker or. Robert Perron if this be not a serious depression it is something rather similar. Such quotations could be multiplied Many times. The speakers were conservatives. Some of them Are today Cabinet ministers. It would be interesting to know whether they Are Able to look the prime minister in when they next meet. Him. For they Are no doubt painfully aware that if or. Diefenbaker meant what he said at the conservative association then he must regard some colleagues and supporters with the same inexpressible contempt that he claims to have for some liberals. The paths of glory in the whole history of the world no mortal creature Ever leaped More suddenly to uni Versal Fame or probably enjoyed it less than did the Little dog. Called Laika. Now Laika we Are told is dead and it would be strange if those of us who cling per Force so closely to the sur face of that world round which remembered words from Cload by Percy Bysshe Shelley i bind the Sun s throne with a burning zone Aad the Moon s with a Girdle of Pearl the volcanoes Are dim and the stars reel and swim when the whirlwinds my Banner unfurl. From Cape to Cape with a Bridge like. Shape Over p. Torrent sea Sunbeam proof i hang like a the mountains its columns be. She soared could be quite in different to the news. It is not that she deserves a Eulogy. It would be mean ingless to say that she met a More heroic death than have millions of her innocent uncomprehending predecessors. But Laika was caught up in history. She was a necessary part from a human1 Point of View in one of the most dazzling flights of Man s restless and aspiring mind. She represented life in outer space and by virtue of her presence in it the tiny Satel Lite in which she Rode became for Man the most fascinating moving object 4n the skies. The event in which she played her part was a human Triumph. But Man would be in danger of becoming something less than human if he were not sensitively conscious of the Means he feels compelled to use to make such triumphs possible Chickadee notes no. 148. By Harold Mossop identification of Richardson Coom or. Khrushchev pid soldiers never die they Only co on leave the fall of marshal the ghost of Bonaparte will probably continue to haunt Moscow. Zhukov has after All not been liquidate he has emerged Triumph Antly from one disgrace he May yet re emerge from an other. His popularity is still far greater than Khrushchev s. Millions of soldiers and thou Sands of officers who fought under him still look up to him As to the National hero. The mass of the peasantry is strongly susceptible to the magic of a military failure though the Urban workers May be less impressed by it. Only the other Day i watched How that magic worked even in quite. Unexpected quarters when a former High official of the communist International who had spent in soviet concentration Camps and prisons 22 years from 1934 to sought to Persu Ade me of the advantages of military. Dictatorship to pre sent Day i Poison in the autocrat s shirt by Isaac Deutscher de to govern themselves this trend will remain in being under the surface of monolithic party politics and it is a mat Ter of Only secondary import Ance whether Zhukov or any other general acts As its exponent. It is not Only from the Mili tary however that Khrushchev must be prepared to meet another Challenge. Thi Circle of his opponents is wid ening continuously. Marshal Zhukov s position May be similar to that of Gen eral de Gaulle s in France. In the late 1940s general de Aulle was a claimant to Power. He then had to withdraw nto the wilderness. Still at moments of acute political in stability Many of the French turned their eyes on him and a violent social convulsion May bring him to Power. Sim Early Many russians will still urn their. Eyes on Zhukov and political turmoil or a War Ike emergency May yet bring him Back to the fore. The trend towards military leadership has been inherent in More than one society Unble to govern itself in a democratic manner. As Long As Oviet Peoples have not learn he has deprived Molotov and Kaganovich of office but he has not liquidated them either. They the Lead ers of the stalinist die hards who discredited and downcast represent nevertheless some influence. From his Power station in turkestan Malen Kov who also has his follow ing still watches the contest for Power in Moscow waiting for his Opportunity. Now the Zhukov group which comprises Many important generals is being removed to the Side line. As Long As the sailing is Plain for Khrushchev. They May All be helpless against him. But. Should he run into rough Waters and suffer any grave economic or political re verse then they May All move from the Side lines and Start converging on him. A similar situation once led Stalin to extract from his Defeated opponents humiliating recantation to stage purge trials and Fin ally to exterminate them All. Khrushchev is driven by the circumstances of his struggle to follow in Stalin s footsteps and thereby to rehabilitate stalinism implicitly. Yet he himself has made it very Dif Farmers for Trade or. James Patterson Presl sent of the inter provincial farm Union recently that the Iwuc will i oppose any increase on British Woollen goods at the Tariff learn rigs soon to be held in of Awa. He made it Clear that this vill not be simply a routine objection. He that Armerjr As a whole Are Dis appointed in the decision of or. Fleming the minister of Nance to reopen the ques Ion of increasing tariffs against British goods. Or. Patterson s views Are hared by the United Grain at. Its recent annual a strongly worded re solution suggesting that Tariff restrictions should be reduced Vas passed without a dissent no argument was made and rightly that coun Ries which buy. From Canada particularly those which by farm produce cannot by unless they sell Here and Arn Canadian dollars. This disposes of any idea hat Farmers Are --growing1 softer in their attitude towards tariffs. It. Is True that As Long s Canadian manufacturers Russ for More and _ More pro Section there is a standing in today s scripture be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the spirit speaking to yourself in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making Melody in your heart to the lord. Ephesians Vita Tori for Farmers particularly those who produce pro ducts that exported adopt the standpoint As same narrow the protected industries. This is a defensive res Ponse to a situation which the farming Community at Large feels to be unfair. The predominant attitude of Farmers on Trade is still that of the con Sumer. It is an attitude in favor of Trade not of Protection. Of cult and almost impossible for him to follow in these foot Steps. He must pander to the popu Lar revulsion against autocracy which he himself has done so much to arouse. He is compelled to justify every blow he inflicts on his enemies As part of an endeavour to do away with the legacy of a sin ister dictatorship and to re store Leninist he seeks to discredit All his opponents on the ground that they Are painted with stalinist vices. All the More awk Ward and dangerous becomes his own position when in some measure he himself exhibits the same vices he has tied at least one of his hands when he May need it for further struggle he dares not boost up his own personality. He must obey or pretend to obey the Tricky niceties of the party statutes in which get entangled. Every few. Weeks he must place his Fate anew in the hands of the Central commit tee watching anxiously the re sult and fight for his margin of despite All his successes he is not yet acclaimed As the Leader As Stalin was less than three years after Lenin s death when it had already be come the accepted formula that the Central committee is United round Comrade Sta Lin and that it marches with Comrade Stalin at its nearly five years after Stai in s death the present Central committee even though Khrushchev. Claims to have its unanimous backing does not describe itself As United round Comrade Khrushchev marching with Comrade k Hrush Clive at its he must still move with Leninist modesty As one of a team exercising collective Lead he knows that if he came of Ravard undisguised by As a single Leader he might be swept away by. Popular indignation revolt. He still shrinks from donning the Auto crat s blood stained garment because he fears that this like the mythological shirt in which Heracles perished contains the Poison that May kill him. It should be emphasized All that note and it was Jint a Lirrie cub once again that if Russia s spectacular Industrial Advance exemplified by the sputnik continues and if it is accompanied by marked improve ment in the economic conditions of the masses and by Vider social Progress then present strains arid stresses Are Likely to diminish and the political conflicts to grow Mil Der until the precedents of the Stalin Era those of autocracy and recurrent purges cease to be relevant to the new Situa Tion. Then the rivalries of the soviet rulers May come to be seen As merely belated reflexes of people bred and conditioned by stalinism but belong ing to a. Closed epoch and then a new Era would follow in which the Peoples of the us or confident in the vitality of their social institutions and needing no Czar or tyrant would re assert their dignity and rights and become Mas ters of their own destiny ;