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AQZ you FAVPX 04 'I A8l6 our OF AN? PAr soMMirwurz OF KAUM 11 PAGE 6 THE WINNIPEG TRIBUNE THURSDAY, MARCH 19. 1942 1 A SOUTHAM NEWSPAPER The Winnipeg Tribune is published at 257 Smith Street, Winnipeg. Manitoba, dally except Sunday by The Southam Company Limited and Mr. Wesley McCurdy, respectively a printing and publishing Company and a newspaper publisher, each having their respective places of abode at Winnipeg. In the Province of Manitoba, and is also printed at the said address In the City of Winnipeg, Province of Manitoba, by the said The Southam Company Limited.

F. N. SOUTHAM WESLEY McCURDY President Vice President and Publisher Member of The Canadian Press: The Canadian Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication ol all news dispatches credited to it or to the Associated Press in this paper and also the local newt published therein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Labor And War Industry In Manitoba THERE is a national labor shortage in Canada.

At the same time, there is large scale unemployment in Winnipeg. How does the Dominion government square these two facts? There is a widespread feeling that Manitoba simply has not been allocated anything like its just share of war industry. This is no mere parish pump appeal, no mere squeal to get in on the trough. Let Ottawa consider the facts set forth in the news columns of yesterday's Tnbuve, taken from W. II.

Darracott, Manager of the regional office of the Unemployment Insurance Commission. Mr. Darracott gave the following breakdown of figures: The jobless men were classified by trades as follows: Construction laborers, finishing carpenters, 236; rough carpenters, 60 (making a total of 94S construction workers) farm laborers, 101; truck, bus and taxi drivers, 100; motor mechanics, 57; clerks salesmen and stores keepers, 109 others 73S. The women fall in these classifications: Factory hands I (most of them without previous experience) day workers, 71; hotel workers, 134; store clerks, Wheat Board Enquiry AS a result of criticism voiced by Hon. R.

B. Hanson, opposition leader, there is to be an enquiry into the operations of the Wheat Board. Trade Minister MacKinnon has promised that members of the board and also of the Board of Grain Commissioners would be called as witnesses before the House committee on Agriculture. This is a large committee, and there have been suggestions that the enquiry might be more effectively conducted by a special committee of a dozen members or even by a Royal Commission. So many enquiries into the wheat business by Royal Commission have been held in the past twenty years that the very thought of still another Royal Commission is objectionable in wartime on the ground of expense.

No matter how the enquiry is conducted, however, it should not be a mere fishing expedition trying to substantiate or disprove vague accusations. Mr. Haason, In the course of his extensive remarks on the method by which wheat marketing Is now carried on, said that the Wheat Board is "permitted to operate illegally." This Is a grave charge, at least in its implications. But Its weakness is precisely that the gravity is in the implications. If Mr.

Hanson believed an enquiry was called for, hp should have made specific charges, and the enquiry should be an examination of those charges. The opposition leader appears to believe that there is something irregular in the use by the Wheat Board of the clearing house facilities of the Grain Exchange. As a matter of policy, the facilities of the grain trade have been and are being used not only by the Wheat Board' but also by the governmental Cereal Import Committee in Great Britain. It should have been possible for him to criticize that policy without throwing out vague suggestions of illegality and malfeasance on the part of the men who are carrying out that policy. Mr.

Hanson should submit specific charges, or withdraw his Implications. A Military Road THE choice of the Prairie route for the highway to Alaska is being subjected to some criticism in Ottawa and Washington. It has been suggested that the proposed route passes through muskeg country and that great difficulty will be experienced in finding a solid foundation for the road. Undoubtedly the engineers who selected this route knew the general nature of the country and the difficulties to be overcome. They picked the route because, to them, it offered the greatest returns in strategic benefits.

This is a military road and considerations which would govern the location of a peacetime road cannot be expected to operate in wartime. Bang's Disease and Milk Control IN his survey of public health in Manitoba, Dr. Carl E. Buck says this in connection with milk supply in the province as a whole: "Although the milk regulations require a license for pasteurizing plans, they do not require tuberculin testing of dairy herds except those producing certified milk, and no mention Is made of Bang's disease testing. There are minimum requirements for butterfat and total 61; clerks and stenographers, 118; others, 12.

I irge numbers of unemployed are not, of course, registered at the Unemployment Insurance Commission, We in Manitoba sympathize with the difficulties of the government in selecting sites for war industry plants. The authorities have to take into account availability of raw materials, transportation, distance from othpr plants whose products are necessary to the finished article, and so forth and so on. Expense and efficiency are prime considerations. But labor is also a consideration. Did the Dominion government study the census figures of the pnairie provinces puhlished not long ago? Population is being drained away from the prairie west.

It is being drained out of Winnipeg right now because we have unemployment in this city while severe labor shortages are evident to the east of us. It is an unsound national situation when some sections cry out for labor while men, able and anxious to work, walk the streets looking for employment in Winnipeg. Surely the labor factor deserves more and more weight in the choice of sites for War Industry in present circumstances. solids, but no regulations concerning bacterial counts. "The existing milk regulations for the province as a whole do not assure a safe, protected milk supply.

Apparently, adequate control is dependent largely upon the willingness of local communities to pass milk bylaws. This again points to the need for full time local health departments." In view of the fact that serious outbreaks of Bang's disease have occurred, as The Tribune has previously shown, steps ought to be taken immediately both to control the disease and to guard more closely against its possible spread to human beings, in whom it takes the form of undulant fever. We Need A Passport Office WESTERN Canadian business men who must make hurried trips to the United States on matters of war production are badly handicapped because there Is in Winnipeg no Canadian government passport issuing office. The office which was set up here in 1910 was discontinued about a year ago. The result is that a number of business men who have been called to United States cities for hurried important conferences have been unable to keep their appointments.

The time required to obtain a passport from Ottawa has been too long. Some service men have experienced difficulty crossing the border, too. The American government announced recently that men in uniform would be admitted to the United States on presentation of official identification cards and without passports. Many Canadian soldiers and airmen have not yet received identification cards that fulfil United States requirements although these are being issued. The American authorities are doing everything they can to speed border crossings, but they can do nothing for those who are unable to get Canadian passports in short order.

Canada now maintains passport offices at Vancouver, Windsor, Ottawa and in the Maritimes. This leaves the West as the only part of the country especially handicapped in obtaining passports. We need a passport office in Winnipeg. Passing Shots Another of the many current analyses of the nature of the foe says the Jap is high strung. Some think not high enough.

To the consternation of Vichy, defendants at the Riom war guilt trials continue to testify ad lib, Instead of hunting for their places in the script. Due to a lack of suitable sustenance, the bulls in the arenas of Spain are now comparatively tame. In our Wall Street, conditions are very similar. Election: The Mohawk and other tribes have forwarded Stalin a feathered war bonnet and his credentials as the first Indian chief with a walrus moustache. Maybe rationing will be unnecessary.

A local restaurant steak was sent, back yesterday to be smothered with a mushroom. Despite the shape in which the world has now been for some years, the globe i manufacturers are keeping up a pretty pretense, meyre still making it round. I i i it KP 0F A MOUTHFUL, BUT j'M FOX IT 4SO how: I I Jl. 1 1 fir yw France That Will Live On The Record WE who love France would like to avert our eyes from the Riom trials, where one set of "in" Frenchmen have been accusing another set of "out" Frenchmen of responsibility for a national disaster. What can be said about Daladier, Gamelin, and Plum except that they were not great enough for their task? And their accusers were thev a enough.

I Yet in this tragic farce not one, not even the collaborationist accusers, is prepared to put upon France the guilt for this war. Some last vestige of national pride on the part of Vichy prevents her Dorothy Thompson from rendering a verdict against France on behalf of Germany. And that Is proof that France is still a nation. The problem of defeat, whether for a person or a nation is the problem of how defeat is digested. In a defeated nation the spirit that says "rise again" is never universal.

The re creation of a defeated nation can, and usually does, start with a very small group. One man can be a nation one man out of fifty million if he alone represents what the nation remembers of its past greatness and burn ingly wishes to become. There was a time when the whole French nation was one woman: Joan of Arc. In the days of Napoleon III the French nation was one man: Victor Hugo. To them the spirit of France repaired.

What is France? Is it the beauty of Paris, that most gracious of cities, so clear, so triumphant, and so homelike homelike to all the world? Or is it the valley of the Rhone that continual garden in which men seem to have kissed the soil into blooming? Or is it the valley of the Loire a visible history ol chivalry? Or is it the literature of France? The mordant wit of Voltaire, the humane passion of Hugo, the biting The War Of John Strachey, now a Flying Officer in the R.A.F., is the author of The Coming Struggle for Power. Below an excerpt from an article by Strachey in The Yorker. MY squadron is equipped with Hurricanes which carry no machine guns at all but four cannon instead, which fire streams of explosive shells. The.e four cannon earrying fighter aircraft are fantastic weapons, themselves projectiles, powered with twelve hundred horsepower and capable of between three hundred and four hundred M.P.I which in turn shoot out a stream of other projectiles. Already my friends are sinking small ships with them, blowing up gun positions, and so on.

When new, larger, faster, better armored fighter aircraft are turned out and they are on the way will anything in the world, on sea or land, be able to stand up to them? I very much doubt it. Warfare may well resolve itself into a struggle between tighter aircraft, and the side whose fighters survive will be able to destroy every other weapon and resource bombers, ships, tanks, industries, artillery possessed Oy the other. Well, what about the fellows who alone can operate these fighter aircraft, which are the highest, deadliest concentrations of power that have ever fallen into the shaky hands of men? There they are, a few thousand young Englishmen, a few thousand young Germans, roughly the same number of young Russians an 1 young Americans. The hands which touch those controls and firing buttons have at their command more sheer power, more capacity for enforcing their wills on others, than any other hands have ever held before. What are the owners of those hands like? What, if anything, will they do with their The young Nazi pilots and the young Russian pilots we pretty well know about, I think.

They are firmly gripped and held by the ideologies of their respective The By DOROTHY THOMPSON Exclusivt to The Tribune satire of Moliere, the civilized intellectual erotic of Stendhal? Or is it the painting of France? Is it that blooming tenderness that only French painting seems ever wholly to have captured the civilized gaiety touched with melancholy of Renoir or Manet, Monet or Cezanne? It is not these. These are emanations of the French spirit, emanations of the specifically French civilization. And the characteristics of this civilization are: Humanism the humanizing of everything, including the very land; clarity, lucidity the glory of the French language; light the light of the French sky and the enlightenment of the French mind; wit the wit that despises cant and sham, and always cuts sharp through it, whenever it speaks; gaiety the love of love and the love of life; chivalry, which adores the noble and often has broken a lance for a lost cause. And in everything the sense for form, the sense of proportion nothing too much; everything enough. So, If we think, who will save France? If we ask, out of what sort of minds will come a French renaissance, we can only answer: he who is French, those wno are chivalrous, clear, humane, loving, gallant, and honest, with the peculiar French intellectual honesty.

I discern this honesty in the speeches of Leon Blum at his trial. It makes him French. French is the behavior of countless anonymous Frenchmen who maintain a witty scorn for their conquerors, not admitting that defeat includes the necessity of admiring the top dogs. The quiet pride of those who refuse to hold their hats before their mouths like serfs, or sing the praises of what they loathe. And the testof who is a friend of France is in the answer to the question: What sort of France do you want to see? Is the medieval mysticism that Petain is trying to wrap France in is that French? Certainly not.

Or does the Anglo Saxon world wish to see a servile The Fighters states. That accounts for them. They are fixed quantities, as it were, and until and unless the ultimate breaking point is reached will not behave unexpectedly. But what about the British and American pilots? What do they believe in? What are the mainsprings and sources of their actions? What makes them fight? What are they willing to die for? I can, of course, offer an opinion only in respect to the British pilots. It is this: To judge by what they say, and even more by what they don't say, you would suppose that our democratic ideology, such as it is our "ism" had not the slightest meaning for them.

The fact is they never mention it. But if you judge by what they do, then you can only suppose that they are ready to die for It. The explanation must be that our Western, democratic, half formed world outlook is so deeply a part of them that they need neither reflection nor articulate words in order to know that when It is threatened with destruction it has to be defended with all we have. For this is what these pilots do. They will not fail us and our world so long as we do not fail them by giving them impossible tasks or by so debasing the efficiency, social unity, and general probity ol our world that it becomes indefensible.

Agin the Government From Critic, In tfle New stateiman, London THE Irish are a surprising people. 'An American friend of mine recently fell into conversation on the mail boat with a young Irishman who said, on being asked, that he "hated the English." My American friend suggested that they were at least preferable to Germans. The Irishman agreed. "Well, then," said the American, "you probably prefer a British victory?" "Yes," said the Irishman. that case it would be logical, would not to do something to help the British to win? Yes, I suppose so," came tne reluctant answer.

"Perhaps I should explain that I am myself a fighter pilot in the R.A.F. going home on leave." France, or an Anglo Saxonized France? God forbid. Where would we go? We want France to be herself her best self not a copy of us. A nation is its consciousness and its conscience. The true guardians of France are the guardians of its consciousness and its conscience.

A lover of France does not spit upon leaders who were only weak. He seeks to find the cause of the weakness, and through clarity to discover the sources of revival. Three writers living in America who have published books in the last year two of them very recent seem to me more French than anything at present manifesting itself in France. I refer to Antoine de St. Exupery, whose Flight to Arras is a love song to France in defeat; Jacques Maritain, whose France Through th Disaster is written with malice toward none; Raoul de Roussy de Sales, whose The Making of Tomorrow looks out upon the future with that fearless lucidity which we recognize as French.

In these books is guarded the consciousness and conscience of France; a France worth fighting for; a France worthy of honor and love. When de Gaulle carried his little legions abroad to fight for France he put upon the banner of a renewed France the Cross of Lorraine symbol of St. Joan. The cross is also the symbol of defeat and resurrection. No doubt do Gaulle remembered that the greatest story in the world did not end upon the Cross but in the Resurrection.

Copyright, 1942 All Rljhu Reserved Kildonan It Is By N. B. ZIMMERMAN IT was good to see how men and women of all nationalities rallied to save North Kildonan from becoming Glendale. It means that Manitobans at last are developing an historical sense. It is about time.

We live in a land that is no longer just "new." Our history goes back to Henry Kelsey, to the LaVerendryes, to the Selkirk Settlers. bo the men who wanted to make North Kildonan another nondescript "Glendale" know how part of Scotland became part of the New World? The first Selkirk Settlers from Scotland and Ireland faced death and starvation back in 1812. They had to move south from the Red and the Assiniboine to Pembina, because there was no food or shelter for them. But Lord Selkirk was determined that the Red River Colony would succeed. Back in Scotland he himself interviewed possible new colonists among the dispossessed crofters of Sutherlandshire.

Ninety seven men, women and children were recruited and equipped, the larger part of these emigrants coming from the parish of Kildonan. On the Prince of Wales that bore them past the Orkneys, through Hudson Bay and to Churchill were Gunns, Malhesons, MacBeths, Suther lands and Bannermans honored family names. At Churchill there was little to eat in the winter of 1813 1814. In April of 1814, 41 members of the party half of them women walked over the snow and through the wilderness to York Factory. What preserved them on that long march to the Factory, where York boats would take them up the Nelson and through Lake Winnipeg to the Red River Colony? A piper led the way, playing Bonnie Dundee.

In 1817 Lord Selkirk himself came to the Colony by way of Montreal and the chain of rivers and lakes to the east. In June of that year standing on historic and abundant acres, he said: "The parish shall be Kildonan." Since then the old parish of Kildonan has been split four ways. There is now West Kildonan, East Kildonan, North Kildonan and Old Kildonan. There will be no Glendale, heaven. But so hallowed is the name, there should in all decency be a South Kildonan.

Why not the new River Park subdivision? The militarists of Berlin anil Tokyo started this war, but the massed, angered forces of common humanity will finish it. Franklin Roosevelt. Tribune Trumps By V.V.M. SONNY HAS SOME QUESTIONS WHAT are you lying down for, Daddy? Aren't you feeling good? Have you got a pain? Is that why you're lying down, daddy? Is it?" "Yes, I've a bit of a pain in my tummy. So run along and don't bother me, eh, sonny?" "No, I won't bother you, daddy.

But why den't you go upstairs and go to bed, if you're feeling sick? Why don't you?" "Because I'm not sick enough to go to bed. AU I want is a little peace and quiet. So supposing you trot off and leave me." "Gee, dad, you're sweating! What are you sweating for? Have you been running, or something?" "No, I haven't been running!" Voice from kitchen: "Just running perspiration, that's all." "Mummy says you're running perspiration, daddy what's perspiration?" "It's the polite word for sweat Now, for Pete's sake, will you please "Last time I ran with sweat the doctor came around and told me I had the measles. Dp you think you've got the measles, daddy?" "No. All I've got is a tummy ache.

And all I is" "How did you get the tummy ache? Was it something you eat?" Voice from kitchen: "It's always something your father has eaten that gives him pains. You should know that by now, sonny. It's never anything that he took to drink." "It's the same way with me too, daddy. I never get pains from drinking too much milk, or water. It's always when I eat too much cake and candy and ice cream.

I don't think people ever get pains from drinking too much, do you. daddy?" "Not if you stick to milk and water. But let's not start a long discussion right now, eh? I want to get a little rest?" "Your face is all shiny again, daddy. Shall I get you a hanky to wipe it off with?" Voice from kitchen: "Here, sonny, you'd better take him a toweL" "I don't need a towel." Voice from kitchen: "That's what you think! You look as if you'd just come out of a shower and got dressed without dry ing yourself." "Here's the towel, dad." "Thanks, son. Now, if you wouldn't mind pushing off, and leaving me alone, I'd" "I got a good Idea, daddy.

Why don't you take some of that medicine which mum gives me when I have a tummy ache? It tastes awful but it always makes the tummy ache go away after a little while, so why don't you take some?" i "Because I don't like the look, nor the taste, nor the smell of it, that's why!" "But when I told you that I thought it was awful nasty stuff, last time I had to make it, you told me I was a sissy." "Did Well, let's not go into that! all over again. All I want is" "You told me that when I became a I pilot, they'll expect me to take medicine twice as nasty as that and smile after I swallowed it." "Did I say that?" "Sure, don't you remember? You said it was the best medicine in the world and you would take some yourself, next time you had a tummyache, just to show me how to take it with a smile." "No, surely I didn't say that!" Voice from kitchen: "Yes, you cer tair.ly did. You were showing me how to get sonny to take his medicine and like it. You promised to take some yourself, with a smile, next time you had a tummyache." "Yes, daddy, it was a prowi.se re member? And you told me you never for get a promise. You told me that nobody should ever forget a promise." "Well, I hadn't actually forgotten It It had just sort of slipped my mind." "So now you're going to take a big spoonful of my nasty medicine with a great big smile, eh, daddy?" "Well now er look here.

Can't we postpone the medicine until some time when I feel a little stronger?" Voice from the kitchen: "Certainly not. I'll bring it right out there. What sort of example do you want to set for sonny, anyway?" "Don't forget the great big smile, daddy. OVERHEARD ON THE AVENUE "That's all the thanks you get, when you tell a person something for their own good." "These goods do not need any selling. All you do is display them, and your customers will start ordering." Ii It as sample as that? POSSIBLE EXPLANATION "I don't care what men think dress to suit myself!" Such words are often said by girls, Who end up on the shelf.

BLAH BLAH One of Vie things That makes me wild, Is a woman who talks Like a little child. Bible Message T70R the Lord giveth wisdom: out his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. He layeth up sound wis dom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. He kceo eth the paths of judgment, and preserv eth the ways of the saints. Proverb.

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