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SATURDAY. NOV. 20, 1937 HJmmprii Srtlmn A SOUTHAM NEWSPAPER The Winnipeg Craning Tribune printed and pubitenee every evening exoept Sunday by Tribune Newepaper Company, Limited, a printing and publlablng company incorporated undtr the laws of the Province of Manitoba at Iti haad office, chief plaot of builneee and place ot aboda In The Tribune Building at th northeait corner 01 Smith Street and Graham Avenue, In the City of Winnipeg, In tha aald Province. r. N.

SOUTHAM. President W. McCURDT. Vice President, Managing Direct of W. L.

MacTAVI8H. Vice Praeldent Edltor lu Chlel A. W. MOBCARELLA. Adrertlelng Director GEO.

E. HASTONf Secretary Treasurer Tha Tribune alma to be an Independent, clean newspaper for the home, devoted to public aarvlce. TELEPHONE 34 831 Private branch exchange connecting all departmema, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1937 'Aldermen and City Business THE mora the question of Aldermen doing business with the city Is examined the more difficult it appears to deal with It in such manner that the city's Interests will not suffer. Actually the question bristles with difficulties. On the face of it it seems reasonable to say that an alderman should not be permitted to have a financial relationship with the city.

A member of parliament it precluded from such relationship with the Dominion govern ment, and a member of the legislature cannot have dealings with the provincial government. The members of the City Council, it is agreed, should be above suspicion, and any question of advancing their own financial interest through influencing city business should not appear. There Is, however, a side to the question not generally considered. Winnipeg came ace to face with it some years ago, and it was as a result of the conditions then considered that the charter was amended so as to permit the present condition. Difficulty was experienced In finding reputable and solid men willing to serve as members of the Council because such men found their ordinary business suffered In consequence of having to refuse city business.

The fact is that the city's business affairs are so great and so varied in their ramifications that almost every man of standing is brought into touch with them in some way or other. Kor example, the city pays doctors to attend' the unemployed. Doctors would therefore be ineligible as aldermen. The city pays rent for houses for unemployed. Anyone owning such a house would therefore be disqualified.

The city's Insurance business Is divided among a hundred or more firms. Anyone connected with any of these firms would therefore be Ineligible. The city buys cars, and trucks, and food for its Institutions, and supplies of all sorts running Into millions of dollars. No alderman could be connected with any of the firms supplying these. If the law were strictly enforced the city could find few good citizens to stand for the City Council.

They would simply prefer to keep out The difficulty lies In distinguishing between legitimate participation in city business and illegitimate pressure to secure city busi I ness. If someone can devise a law that would serve to prevent the operation of a "toll gate" on city business, through Improper pressure exerted by members of the Council, and at the same time leave the aldermen free to participate in normal and legitimate manner in city business, he would confer a real favor on the citizens. Sin Francisco headline says the movies are here to stay, but they said that about democracy, too. An Outrage. to British Traditions AS the law stands In Quebec, there Is nothing Illegal, so far as can be judged at this distance, in the padlocking of the Montreal weekly, La ClarU.

That Is the pity of it. The padlock law was Indeed designed to do just that. ClarU, at least a radical Left wing publication if not an outright Communist sheet, might well be held to fall within the appallingly loose description of publications which are now unlawful Jn Quebec "any newspaper, periodical, pamphlet, circular, document or writing whatsoever propagating or tending to propagate Communism or Bolshevism." Note that Communism and Bolshevism are not defined. During the debate on the Premier Duplessls, who Is also attorney general of Quebec, remarked that he did Dot need to define Bolshevism or Communism since he could "smell" them. Before the padlock law, there was plenty of legislation under which the preaching of sedition or incitement to violence, whether written or oral, could be properly punished.

In order to safeguard Canada and Quebec from violent revolutionaries there was no need to Introduce this repressive legislation which, Indeed, tends to create revolutionaries. Drive radicalism underground and you automatically have the makings of a revolutionary movement. One of the main reasons why British Institutions have stood firm in these times of general unrest is that free speech, a free press, and freedom of association and assembly have been maintained, In contrast to the suppression of all four Imposed by dictatorships of the Right and Left. The Quebec padlock law Is an outrageous defiance of every tradition and practice of British law making. It empowers the attorney general, without a trial of any sort and merely upon his own fiat, to padlock any man's house or place of business.

The mere suspicion or belief by the attorney general that the building la being used for activities "tending to promote" an undefined Bolshevism is enough. When we consider how loosely Mr. Duplessls Interprets the word "Communism," the danger to freedom is seen still more clearly. Only recently, David Lewis, national secretary of the i C.C.F, felt constrained to wire an official protest to Mr. Duplessls against his reference to the C.C.F.

as a "movement of Communist As Winnipeg well knows, not only la the C.C.F. Independent of the Communists In origin and policy but it la at variance with them. In Britain, where Communists sit in the House of Commons, where the Communist Daily Worker is freely published and read, Communism Is making little headway. If Quebec thinks the methods of Fascism are an Improvement upon British ways, it must not be surprised if truly revolutionary movements grow there. Mr.

Duplessls has perhaps heard of the Catacombs. Their lesson is that If you would propagate a "heresy," persecute It. Germany decress all right angles shall have 100 degrees Instead of 90, making an even more vicious circle for the average Nazi to go around In. Legal Verbiage IN Louisiana, we read, two men were recently Indicted for murder. They escaped trial, not because the state lacked proof of their guilt, but because the official who drew up the indictment made an unimportant slip In English.

The indictment, naming the two men for murder, stated that they "did feloniously, wilfully, unlawfully and of his malice aforethought murder" the deceased gentleman. It should, of course, have said, "of their malice," as there were two of them. Because of this, the state supreme court quashed the indictment This brings to mind a Kansas case of a few years ago in which a man was accused of a grab and run theft of a "pair of boots." The. Indictment was quashed because the alleged thief in his hurry, had grabbed two boots for the left foot, which legally did not constitute a pair. Such things might not occur In Canadian courts.

But they at least suggest that the legal profession generally might profitably give a little thought to the need for stripping away the Involved verbiage of legal forms which make such situations possible. A Warrior's Reward riE Austrian government has enacted a law forbidding dancing to military music and prohibiting the jazzing up of military theme songs. This may easily be construed as a. recrudescence of militarism. It may be said that Austria is just playing Graustark again.

But in fact, the law may have its elements of generosity and good sense. Why should not military music be reserved as an obbllgato to a warrior's death? That is about all be can expect to get out of the active practice of his profession. PRESS DIGEST WHAT DOES GERMANY WANT? lima the pally Telegraph and Morning Poet, London! If this question of the German colonies Is to be raised It must be at a suitable moment, which the present international situation does not afford. The British nation is very ready to be on good terms with Germany, and is willing to discuss in a friendly way any grievances that hinder good relations. But in this matter of colonies It would not unreasonably expect two preliminary conditions to be fulfilled first a precise statement of what would satisfy the grievance; and next, an assurance that any settlement reached would result in a genuine appeasement and would not be an advance base for further claims.

Apparently, much is to be asked of this country. The least that could be required In return would be a real and assured contribution to the guarantees of the world's peace. Surely the nation and the statesman whose motto Is peace would be the first to endorse that condition. HOW JAPAN CO OPERATES (From the Hong Kong Newel Before the Japanese depredations the Chinese conducted a very useful weather bureau on Pratas Island. Since the Japanese have been in control of that weather bureau on Pratas Island only three short and comparatively uninteresting messages have been received from the representatives of that nation which is, on the surface, so anxious to co operate with other nations In the useful ways of peace.

It is significant that while Information from Pratas Island concerning the progress of the typhoon which passed Hong Kong recently would have been of the utmost value to the community at large and shipping people in particular, yet not one single message was received from that Chinese station which is being usurped by the Japanese. While other foreign shipping in China waters was denied the Information which the Pratas Island station could have disseminated, yet It Is known that the Japanese were transmitting messages in code to their own ships giving typhoon progress particulars. Democracy does not emerge condemned by the long trial waged against it It justified by proof as by reason. Leon Blum. For some reason we always identify human nature with the lowest Instincts of the animal.

It is "only human nature" to be cruel. A. A. Milne. We believe education and discipline will enable us to deserve liberty and unification.

Then we intend to get it and keep it King tbn Saud. I am opposed to machine gun rule irrespective of whether It Is carried out by a worthy workman or a gilded general. Sinclair Lewis. THE WINNIPEG EVENING TRIBUNE MGE 21 By V.V.M. HMONO other things which a young husband should learn, says an advice monger, Is the job of bathing a baby.

Equally difficult Is the task of carving a turkey In a breakfast nook. OVERHEARD ON THE AVENUE "If she were my wife I'd sock her right en the note." During the Shanghai bedlam a Chinese general wrote a book. Such a man could even work in Hollywood's conception of a newspaper office. i 1 i HAVE A CARE Say It with flowers, Say It with sweets, Say with kisses, Say it with eats, Say It 'with jewelry, 8ay It with drink, But be careful, my lad, Not to say It with Ink. Sudbury Star.

Some kinds of water, says a doctor, give those who drink It gland trouble. You've goitre careful. 1 CHAT IN CANADIAN? SE 'Lo Olga." "Why, h'lo Marge, howya doin?" "I'm fine. Wotsnew?" "Nothln much. Viet that dame Hazel wot workslnna caffterya an Is she ever dumb!" i "Ya mean that blonn?" "Thatsa one.

So we are slttinnonna street car, see?" r' Antheresafeller slttlnnacross ramus readln tha paper. So I aezta Hazel, I sezi 'Alnnlt terrible tha newsinna paper these days with all those wars an I sez." "Ya mean about Ethlopya, an' all that?" Ethlopya? Why, Olga, ya awmoasas as iggerent as Hazel! There aln no war in Ethlopya. Doan you ever read tha papers?" "I cernly do an I cernly saw somethlnn about war in Ethlopya." That was lass year, la Pete's sake. Tha war now Is In Jlppan!" "Oh, yes, thass rye. I wuz fagettln." "But, as I wuz gonna sayabout this Hazel, sheeza dumbest dame ya ever met I say sumthinnabout Robbit Tailor bein mobbed by" the wimmin over there in Lunnon an she doan even know, he la over there maklmia pitcher." "I guess she doanever read tha papers, eh?" "Thass wot 1 flggered.

Now'ya take me fa instans I awez read tha apaper on account of I hate ta have anybody think I wuz Iggerent and doan know wot goes "Well I mustadmit I doan read all tha news frum Yewrip, an stuff like that on accountov 1 cantever figgerit out. I mean I cantever flgger out who is on whose side." "Well, assamatterovfak, I doan read all that stuff neither onacountov it's alllalotta nonsense as far as I'm klncerned." "Thass tha way I figger It too. I mean this country wants this and that country wants that and summuther country wants sumpln else juss like a buncba kids fightln i'nna schoolyard." "Thass wot I say. Wots more why doan sumbuddy steppinn ah say: 'Now this is justa lotta an make 'em cut it "Thass wot should happln, allrye. You sure figgered it out, Marge." 'ej, "You'd be surprised at the nummerov things I have flggered out." "Ya cernly know a lotta tha answers, all rye." "Thass why I cantelp notlcin It when I runuppagainsta dame who is as dumb as this Hazel.

Juss wait till ya meet her!" This Day One Hundred Years Ago Tuesday, November 21, 1837. Price 5d. THE bathing women of Brighton having represented to the Queen, by means of a petition, the unprofitableness of the season. Her Majesty with her usual generosity sent them 20. Mr.

(Edward Lytton) Bulwer is doubtless a pleasing novelist, and, as such, finds much favor with the public; but In the volumes before us Its Rise and he has chosen to evacuate the domains of fiction and break ground in a region where, unless we greatly mistake, be is destined to gather anything but laurels However, we can ssy that provided it were purged of some indecencies and indelicate allusions, we could conscientiously recommend the book, instead of Goldsmith, to the use ot respectable seminaries for young ladies. The pretty dears would be enchanted with the towering cloud capped eloquence of Mr. Bulwer's romancing moods. Two pioneers In the Introduction of fingerprints for Identification purposes were Sir Francis Galton of England and Sir William Herschel of India. Herschel wanted to fingerprint members of the Huglt courts, while Galton wanted to do the same for Chinese immigrants.

iriiH 1 THE "That's all very well, but 'ov about Reproduced by The Winnipeg Tribune by Bondholders' David IULES EDOUARD FORTIN, the bondholders' little David battling the hard times Goliath, would perhaps welcome a spell at rugby these days. He woud like to run the ball Instead of himself being the ball, between bondholders on one side and irate and would be irate city councils and ratepayers on the other. Needless to say, Mr. Fortin likes rugby. More especially would Mr.

Fortin like to be running the ball representing various mayors and city councils in Western Canada. Now that It la election time In the West Mr. Fortln's vocation as a planner in connection with "shaky" bonds is somewhat Intriguing to civic officials when they talk to their listening ratepayers. Mr. Fortin fs secretary of the Dominion Mortgage and Investment Association with headquarters in Tor is composed of thelW larger life Insurance jj and trust companies 11 whose investment port lk folios contain many Vk bonds, knows that Mr.

VIaIm Alt western municipal bonds, and when these bonds appear at cer Jules Fortin tain points to be an unknown quantity Mr. Fortin hastens westward to try to find the silver lining for all concerned, i There has been trouble of this sort In Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Moose Jaw end Brandon, to say nothing about the municipalities fringing Winnipeg. Some of the trouble remains In spite of Mr. Fortln's efforts at planning for the good of the bondholders In the minds of the city council and for the city councils in the minds of the bondholders. Mr.

Fortin was born at Montreal, son of Louis Philippe and Elmlre Fortin on June 28, 1901. and the fact that he was born In the great metropolis that harbors St James st might lead many to believe that he became thoroughly conversant with financial aspects of Canadian economy while In that vicinity, The facts are that while of school age bis family moved to Yorkton. where un der the tuition of J. T. M.

Anderson, late premier of the province, Mr. Fortin overcame the graceful French tongue long enough to grasp beauties of English speech. He later attended collegiate at Saskatoon and the university there where be specialized in accountancy. This led to his Joining an accounting firm Vargas Double Cross I From the Loutarllle Courier Journal) BY the scratch of a pen President Getullo Vargas of Brazil establishes the first Fascist dictatorship in Latin America and brings to an ironic end the revolution of 1930. It was to break down the autocratic and feudalists rule of a little clique of large landowners that Vargas, defeated candidate for the presidency of the republic, challenged the March, 1930, elections, on the battlefield.

As leader of the Liberal Alliance he took up arms against the wealthy Tories headed by President Washington Lulz and Presidentelect Julio Prestes. With a program calling for electoral reforms, greater self government and a liberal constitution, which would prevent a would be dictator from perpetuating himself in office, he made quick work of routing the opponents of democracy. But in office, Vargas' dilatoriness in the matter of reform and his delay In calling a constituent assembly earned him the title of "old stlck in the mud." And when the election campaign opened a few weeks ago a new president was scheduled to be chosen on January 3 he clamped down martial law again on the pretext that the nation was menaced by Communist agitators. The only menace was to Vargas job. That job was threatened not only by the 1934 constitution which prohibited his reelection, but also by the growing Brazilian Fascist group the Integrallstas that wa organized In 1932.

To maintain himself in power Vargas abolished the constitution and decreed another to take its place, a Fascist charter on the Portuguese model, thus allowing himself to hold Indefinitely the office of president Fish porters in the Billingsgate Market, London, wear peculiar heavy leather hats which weigh between five and six pounds each. Fourteen hours' work is required to make one of these hats, which contain hundreds of nails. r3i in i fd CRITIC when we anchor?" Special Arrangement with Publlehere af Punch In Saskatoon and in 1923 when the post war period of expansion was beginning to get its stride, John Appleton, who was a power in the Investment Association, "found" Mr. Fortin and took him east Mr. Appleton was known to financial circles ot Winnipeg a couple of decades ago, but Mr.

Fortin had considerable to find out about Mr. Appleton. He plodded along until Mr. Appleton asked for a certain set of figures one day. Mr.

Fortin worked hard, so hard that after more han 24 hours' labor and with the numbed feeling of a tired brain his backbone stiffened when Mr. Appleton gruffly Informed him they were all wrong. Mr. Fortin decided the time was ripe for getting fired so very boldly he faced Mr. Appleton and tried to corner him as to specific mistakes.

Later, and without the report having been returned to Mr. Fortin for revision, Mr. Appleton congratulated him on his excellent statement Thereafter, Mr. Fortln's statements received the official O.K. because they were right Of French Canadian extraction, with jet black hair, dark sparkling humorous eyes and a rapid mode of speech, Mr.

Fortin la not so very tall, a neat dresser and carries portfolio that Is known to every bellhop from Victoria to Halifax. On Its side Is the Fortin trademark "4 10," which identifies him wherever he may be. He Is proud of that bag and bas sufficient humor to make people wonder what It represents. When younger he was keen on rugby and baseball, and it was rumored In his baseball days that he wanted to turn professional. Jerry McCeer when 'mayor of Vancouver started Mr.

Fortin on his tour of Western Canada on behalf of bondholders. Since then he has the mileage of a six day bicycle rider paled into Insignificance. His slingshot la his accurate knowledge of the Western municipal situation, and his stones for the slingshot are his crisp words. He can take any Western municipal bond, and no matter how dark its future may appear, turn it inside out and show the silver lining In all Its glory. Most Western financial and municipal men have met htm and they like him because he is a man of determination, one who bas taken hard knocks on the playing field as well as in the financial world.

He can come up grinning, with a glint In his eye that means he is far from licked. Not only do mayors and aldermen know this but his wife, the former Lillian Henke, of Yorkton, and bis young family know It. But behind this determination Is a genial soul with a discursive turn of mind. Toronto is his home. F.C.

FT A BIBLE MESSAGE From Ue Authonaed Vernon THESE words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour Is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee; as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this Is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent (John 17: 1 3.) He that hath the Son hstrllfe; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. (I John 5: 12. 13.) a Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as' his divine power bath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.

(II Pet. 1: 2, 3.1 LAUREL AND DIETRICH From ihe Portland Oregonlanl Here Is a nice little problem to be pondered In odd moments: How do Marlene Dietrich and Stan Laurel manage to arouse such divergent emotions in the breasts of motion picture fans when their facial expressions are identical? When Miss Dietrich watches a lover shoot himself or a husband stride forth with his travelling bag and a broken heart, her face assumes exactly the same Immobile vacuity with which Mr. Laurel watches Oliver Hardy fall into a cement mixer. Yet in the one case the playhouse rocks with laughter, while in the other there Is no sound except the heaving ot chests and the sound of strong men breathing through their teeth. It must be art I i National Education I i I 8.

read, daily of afresh horrora In I Zja I tb two zone of world conflict, and 1 'as the war clouds hover over Europe, lev us bear in mind that tha main issue to emerge eventually from tha general confusion "will be the struggle to preserve democracy as the ruling principle of government One of the treasured privileges of Canadian citizens, who pride themselves on their independence of spirit is Individual freedom of action and speech, and It is tha general wish that our young people should be taught in the schools to cherish this heriU age. Yet, if we examine the conditions under which the teachers are working, it take only common sense to realize that many of them are struggling with Intolerable financial handicaps. How can they, therefore, feel in spired to Imbue their pupils with the value of democracy? What of the underpaid and undernourish ed rural teachers in dried out areas of Sag. katchewan, many of whom can hardly support life cn their meagre salaries, their health endangered by privations, unable through poverty even to change their location? Thesa grim conditions can be matched in many communites of Manitoba and Alberta, wher teachers, caught between debt and uncollect able wages, and hindered by lack, of publla support, are struggling under terrible disadvantages to carry out the duties which, according to political orators, are the highest in the land. Instability of tenure owing to overcrowding of the teaching profession and the caprices of district school boards forces them often to truckle to local bullies who may threaten them with dismissal.

To thos who have the courage to examine tha facts, the situation is not pretty one, and la not worthy of the great country in which we Iiva. As far as the prairie provinces are concerned, the teaching profession is Indeed a ghastly mess, and Canadians would do well to bs gravely concerned as to the future of tha youth who pats through the schools; Is it reasonable to expect teachers, discouraged and robbed of hope for the future, to Implant in the young people feelings of optimism, of faith in their fellow men, of love) of the country to which we all belong? No Individual can contribute his best service in constant fear and insecurity, to say nothing of semi starvation. A little reflection will point out the Inevitable consequences. If thla real problem is neglected. The generation now growing up will be stamped by instability, will lose that desire to work for the common good which is the hallmark of every Britisher, will give trouble to authorities if turbulent resentment of any form of controL The migratory habits of our changing population, particularly the younger men in search of, work, makes the question one of national significance.

Police court cases even now tell their own story. If the gravity of the situation Is properly understood, surely soma solution might fc discovered by which the education of Canada's youth can be controlled by other parties than local trustees. If Canada is ever to become a nation, if narrow sectionalism is to be checked it will be necessary to effect a tremendous change in our educational setup. The only sensible course (s Jo nationalize education, to place it under the control of tha Dominion government and make tha teachers civil servants, thus providing them with a guarantee of a decent standard of living. The teacher in the small town or village would then have at least the same security as the elevator operator, whose company sees that justice is done him; the oil dealer, who Is backed by his Big Business, friends; or the station agent, whose railroad provldes'secur lty of tenure.

To establish a school system would be a worthy achievement for any poll tical party seeking to do the country a real service. a If, as may easily happen, there are diffi culties In carrying out the change, a com' promise could be managed. The authorities could still be charged with the maintenance of school buildings and with the selec tion of teachers to fill vacancies. Programs of study and choice of textbooks could re main with provincial authorities. But In common fairness to a class of people who have suffered numberless hardships through the lean years, and whose outlook is still worse, the provision of teachers' salaries should be the direct responsibility of the Do minion government.

Mass education of the wrong kind, the Inflaming of public opinion by dictators who seek to stir up world unrest, is the cause of most of the world troubles of today. The characters of our coming generation are formed largely through their personal daily contacts. Are the majority of thinking Can adlans aware of thla, and do they realize the folly of letting things drift? Better conditions in the Western schools will not come accidentally, for Providence helps those who help themselves. Local and provincial bodies, for financial reasons, cannot improve the sltua tlon to any extent Surely our Dominion government can at least consider the vital need of setting up a national education system, to train, not local minded, selfish individuals. but a generation of patriotic Canadians, with a sense of pride In their country, and a desire to contribute their best service for the good of their fellows.

H.B.B. COUNTY MANAGERS FOR FREE STATE (By Ihe Dlaiiet of the Municipal Journal, London The government of the Irish Free State have under consideration a Bill with the object of replacing all county councils by a manager and an elected advisory body. The Government are understood to beof opinion that the efficient administration ot growing public services by county councils is Impossible under the present system, and that the success of the managerial system In areas where It Is already being operated has Justified the experiment and also its application to the entire Free State. Urban councils will not be affected at present..