Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-09-19
TOURING WESTERN CANAD A
With American National Editorial Association Party.
Cool Summer Weather AT Winnipeg Relief From South's
Searching Sun. Concluding Entertainment There

round over II by street car and au-
tos. The writer remom bered the
name Winnipeg from his school-boy
study days when il was set down as
small town proximitious to the
lake called Winnipeg, to which orr
attention was called in Geography
from the fact that it was described
as a body of water in Canada of
something near the size of the great
lakes but was not placed in their
class because of It's shaIlowncss, a
condition which still prevails with it,
though il is being opened up to nav
igatlon in new ways of late. This
city is about the biggest thing in
Western Canada; in fact the Metrop-
oils OF it until the Pacific slope coun-
try IS reached where Vancouver and
Victoria are regnant IT. is the po-
iitical capital of the province Of Man
itoba and owns all its own public
utilities.
Before gong to the Agricultural
College grounds the morning of July
% we were taken to the
GRAIN EXCHANGE
where we got 10 see the mad scram-
BILE of the wheat and other gamblers
III futures golGg on down in the pit.
Such excited shouts and carvings
on much Of which was unintelligible
to us. The brokers took the bids IN
a way from the criers after the chalk
marks were penciled on the boards
at one end OF the wall from telegraph
reports signalled by the corps of
wire operators in their booths on
one side in gallery OF their own,
as the news of the run of The markets
flowed IN from other grain centers
of Canada and the States. The wri-
ter was pleased when we read few
days afterwards that the Canadian
government had taken over the
wheat crop, having fixed the price
and shut off the gambling as To its
futures, thereby maSing for more
stable condition as between producer
and consumer to the confusion Of the
parisitical capitalist ia that aud our
own home country.
That afternoon we were again load
ed 10 autos by these hospitable Win.
nipeg citizens. and taken out some
three miles to their Park Pavilion,
VIII ch is owned by the city and there
assembled for our first group picture
after which a delightful luncheon OF
several tempting courses was served,
which included fruits and desserts
and some good speeches ny the Pre-
mier aud Lieut.. Governor (they call.
ed him in true English pronuncia-
ton Leftenant') of the province
their Mayor and some other ceebri
ties and number of orators of our
party in response. There was some
singing and toast drinking with
pure water, Canada is Still under
war time prohibition and we heard
but little kicking about ito the
King and President of the United
States after which we returned tC
the city, our driver being a hospita
BILE young Jew whose accent YET
smacked OF his European extraction
and who pointed out to us the ar
mory building in which the Com
mittee Of One Thousand" of which
he was memb Der held their meeting,
and devised their plans and told OF
! their forces to break the great strike
which held Winnipeg IN It's grip JUS
few weeks before We were there
and during which period of time thu
Police were under the domination 0
the Strikers as brought out in testi
mony taken in Investigation proceed
ings in course while we were there
Our next article will deal with thu
t parting banquet at the Fort Carr,
t hotel, some noteworthy speeches
! made, there and then onto our spe
) cial train and through the great ant
; famed wheat-feds