The Clinton News Record, 1928-03-22, Page 6THE LEGISLA"TUTRE WEEK. BY WEEK
'1'IIIIRSDAS MARCH
• Oratory on Debate drew nearer itEt
close. P. -•J. 1)4.11,11ony, Conservative
member for South Wentworth, dealt in
same dotailwith Opposition criticisms,
the matter of inunicipal payment to,
ward highway costs, and.a strong ap
peal to the-Governii:cnt on behalf of
grapegroweis in the- Niagara penin-
sula: IIe urged that )native wine be
made Cheapsr, and said that Quebec.
consuimed800,000 gallons of, Ontario
wino, as compared with 400;000 gal-
lonsused' in this, province.
Z Legault, Liberal member for, Civil Service Commission -should be
Sturgeon' Falls, .got into. a protracted! abolished, the salaries of Members of
mere Daughter and British A -c .l°'roh" ably Victims of Ambition:
(South Iluron) the ether Progres-,!
sives, nidudrng the leader, X. G. Lath -
bridge, and the one H.F.O. member
who was in his scat at the time, Far-
quhar :Oliver, South Grey; voted with
the Government,
WANTS:DFCLIRATION.
1vlr.-Sinclair declared that the Leg-
islaturo'and the 'people were waiting
for some definite pronouncement from
the, Gocei:nment this session on the St.
Lawrence Waterways.
Offering' suggestions for future 1
economics, Mr: Sinclair declared the
argument with Tion.- Win. Finlayson
as to the need of assistance for set-
tlers in the Northern districts.'
Other' speakers were Chris Gardiner
(Prog., East I{ent); Rev. A. C. Calder.
(Con., West Kent), A. A. -C'olquhoun
(Lib., South Perth) F. G. Sandy
(Prog., South iVctoria), }L Hr Ball'
(Con., Eglinton), and .Brake Miller
(Lib., East Elgin)-
SIr. Ball, who addressed the Meuse from .liquor sales. In this way; he
for the f r t time in a debate, conelnd •said, the Government proposed to make
ed with a word of commendation for. the people prosperous by ilaving them
the Securities Fraud Prevention Act spend $60,000,000 more on luxuries.
now before the House. "This is a new doctrine," he de-
FRIDAY,
eFRIDAY, MARCH 91II— dared, "It never did work"
the Liquor Control Board should be
reduced, and a purchasing agent
should be appointed for the province.
Looking forward to''the year to come
the Liberal leader' could- seen only one'.
way in which the estiniated,surphis of.
$177,60 could be reaolie This, he
said, was through increased revenue
from gasoline tax, estimated at $i., •
097,058:28, and $7,001„000 revenue
.Sanctity of the; bench, freedom of •
Magistrates from political•control an'd Orientalquestion,
the. circumstances attending the reig-
•
nation of Police Magistrate Jesse Discussed In .B
Bradford,;; of Lindsay, comprised the • "
• Legislative menu at Friday's 'session. St of
Attorney -General' W. H., Price got ,, eriousness stuation
second reading for amendments to. the Stressed by Attorney-
Generii
Juvenile 'Courts Act and to the Chil-
• dren of Ihrmarried Parents Act.
Under' thelatter ,.act. a suis reach- Victoria, 13.0 --An invitation, to all
ing $90;000 has "accumulated in ...the Parties and to all members to unite in
hands of the Public Trustee.: Provision drawing up a 'resolution that• 3couid
is . made that the officers • under the bring the seriousness of the Oriental
act "aie.to have :$5;000, on hand for question in ]3ritish Columbia home to
payments ents under the legislation, the
rest _to, be invested. The Attorney -
General also got second reading 'for`
Adoption :Act and Children's Protec
tion 'Act amendments.'
PriVate:bills ebthininesecond read-
ing included bills from Townohips of
York and North York, town .of Col
lingwood and the Church of England
Trust Fund Act. -
New legislation included 'bills re
Windsor -Essex and Lake Shore Rapid
Railway, St. Catharines V.W.0. A. and.
Y.M•C.A,
• MONDAY, MARCH, 12TH—
HON. ELSIE MACKAY ("POPPY WYNDHAM" ON THE STAGE) AND CAPT. WALTER R, HINCHCLIFFE
�: monoplane with Captain Walter R. flinchclifte in air attempt to, cress the Atlantis ,
A iieantiPul English. Irl who hopped o1Y Tuesday fu a golderwinged
g Sy _ shi ing magnet. Tho Peel s aug er, w in is a e-
the rest of the D inbarra sing without at
Iron. Dlsie. Mackay, daughter of Lord Inchcape, multi milhonairo PP
venturesome flyers are added to the list )Rimed by the ambition to cross the Atlantic.= 11)
the same eine, embarrassing either. the stage and fu motion pictures; is no doubt lost and the two"Endeavor", In'which the flight was
the'Fede'ai o • Provincial Government Miss Ylacicayin flying.toga; (2) As an actress; (8) -Capt. Hinchcliffe, who ^lost an eye. in the war; (4) The monoplane n
ih their relations with Oriental Pow- made.
d ht ' 1 lie used pilot aril leas had a career on
Magazine Remarks
'The Cotton Crisis
Nation and Athenaeum (Loudon):
,The issuo is not one w-sic11 can he
treated as 'the domestic affair of t110
cotton trade concerning ,no one Oise„.
I olonged' labor.:confilcL, such .ata
mould require to inauice the operatives
-to agree to longe'r hours, would'. fin
al,y extiinguisli 011y Chance the Cotton.
trade may • have 'et recovering lost';
ivarlcets, it would throe, bapk tate,
,whole movement towards better iii
dustlial relations, it would upset most
seriously our' balance 'of trade withr
Linde) lar-recrcbing' voactiouA 01
our a5lioto economic life,.
Fourteen bills were given 'second
reading; 17 passed Committee '01 the
Whole House, and; 1.6 others reached
that state of advancement—third,
read'idg—wher'e ioiy only Royal assent
statrdlsbetween them and:actual-.law.
AMENDMENtC ALTERED. ' .
The Government, agreeing to a sug-
gestion:. from. Liberal Lader Sinclair,
altered its aniendiirent ;to. the Pugh
Service Act,' so that a civil servant
must he 25 years -in the •service rind
• at least; 60 years of age before being.
. entitled to pension, inatcad of 55 years
of age, as stipulated in the original
(Wirt'ef,the Measure.
TUESDA phIARCB 13TH—
The central feature was furnished
by Hydro, when Hon. J. R.-Coolte.in
a two-hour address replied to theat-
tacks which have been made by- the
Opposition• members and reiterated'
- again the policy of the Government
that the'; water powers of the province
belonged to the people of the, province
• and must be developed; on their behalf.
Support of; the Minister's address
came frim the front ranks of the Lib-
er•al• cohorts when J. A. Pinard (Lib.,
Ottawa East) in his first address.in
the ,douse this year, declared that
~Anile he was a strong aadvoeate of
private' ownership and the develop -
meat of waterpower • on 'the Quebec
• plan, he was not in favor of dropping
a great enterprise when it had been
started, He congratulated Hon. Mr.
Cooke on his address, and suggested
that the Government might well have
it printed and distributed to the farm-
ers of the province. - - •
Other members who made their con-
tributions to the debate were: E.
Blake Miller. ,(Liberal, Elgin East),
T. Farquhar, (U.F.O., Manitoulin), W.
.1. Bragg (Lib,, Durham), A. D. Mac-
Lean (Prog•, Middlesex North), T. A.
Thompson (Con., Lanark North),D.
• M. Ross (Prog., 'Oxford North) , . C.
`Graves (Con.,. St. Catharines) and As
McWhirmey(Lib., Bruce North).
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 142I1—
The Ontario Government is ready
to provide additional relief to the
townships *and counties,from taxation
for Provincial and other highways in
proportion to the' increase of traffic
which is not of a local nature, but it
will not assume the 101 financial re-
sponsibility of Provincial highways,
since this would mean, in fairness to
all, taking•over the entire road system
of the province, and entering upon a
/new field in which' highways would be
constructed and maintained by means
of direct taxation. This was ineffect
the reply given, by the Minister of
Highways to the budget amendment
proposed on behalf of the Liberal
party by R. F. Miller, IIaldimand,
"that this House regrets that the Gov-
ernme it, notwithstanding the increas-
ed revenue, lege failed to afford, relief
to localmunicipalities by assuinin'g
the total cost of construction and
maintenance of the Peovi ficial high-
ways." ,
Mr. IIenry's ;address was the chief
contribution to',the Budget debate on
Wednesday. afternoon. He was follow-
ed by' William Newman (Lib., North
Victoria) and A. E. Honeywell (Con.,
North Ottawa). • The 'House, finally
soso at ,6.30 pan. . 'William 11.N. Sin-
clair, Liberal Chieftain, moved thead-
journmeiit.
ers, was extended by, Atttorney-Gen-
eral A. 1\11 Manson in the-B.C. Legis-
lature recently.
A resolution placed .before e the
IJoirse;by,C. 1F. Davie, Conservative,
Cowiclian-Newcastle, urged 'the'\ab-
rogation of the Anglo -Japanese treaty
insofar as it interferred-'with British
Columbia's right to enact anti-Orient-
al
nti-Oriental legislation.- It also 'asked for a de-
oleration of their civil rights. The re-
solution 'would also request the Do-
minion Government to grant, no fur-,
the. naturalization as' Canadians to
Orientals. •
Mr. Davie said he did not propose
to have' taken' away fioni' Oelentals
in the countrty:anyiightst in the mat-
terof their lands; but he, would stop
it for the future. lie . declared" that
the prdvinoe was bearing the burden
of Oriental immigration; "Why must
Brltitsh Columbia be left as the duniP-
ing' ground of the Oriental?"
Davie asked after going In detail into
the penetration of the Oriental .into
nearly every .phase of industrial life.
.R. W. Bruhn, Conservative, Salmon
Arm, seconded Mr.-Davie's resolu-
tion. .
AttorneyGeferai Manson .denied
that•'Premier Mackenzie Ring had
taken a stand against Oriental exclu-
sion.and c(uoted the Federal Premier's
receint statement 'in the House of
Commons to show that he was alive
Lo the danger of Oriental competition
In 'British Columbia; The greatest
danger: of a11, said Mr. Manson, . was
of races, and he declared that it was
:the probability of the inter4nixture
inevitable •from' the • present • trend: in
British' Columbia that the day would
come -when :inter -marriage would be•
come More and More frequent with..
disastrous'results. -
.'To my mind it' la a situation that
must be met as promptly as possible:
The situation that is :developing is
not compatible with 'the :development
of our own race;' said Mr. Manson.
THURSDAY, MARCH 15TH --
With 'all the Progressives but three
voting with the Government, the bud-
get was carried by a vote of 67 to 16,
The only division tools plate on the
/ amendment by R. F. Miller; chie�ib,-
eral financial critic favoring -the pay-
ment -of- 100 per cent, ,11 provincial
highway costs'by,the Government. The
main niotion was' carried on the same
1V111011,
The three Progressives who threw in
' their ' lot with the Opposition, voting
for the amendment, were Christopher
K
(Kent Last F. G. Sandy
,
)
Gardiner (
Hope Abandoned
For Ocean Fliers
Almost Certain Hinchliffe and
Miss Mackay Have-
Perished
New York, N.Y.—The monoplane
Endeavor, which left England for the
United States Tuesday, is still miss-
ing and it is `•generally feared that it
has joined" the two planes that at-
tempted the perilous western passage
last summer and were' never heard of
again. '
Hope flared fitfully, fanned by re-
current rumors, and rose high when
persons on the beach in Maine report-
ed seeing a yellow, object and two
waving figures on an island two miles
off shore. Investigation by'the coast-
guard established, however, •that no
plane had landed on the island.
- Charles Nungesser and ; Francois
Coli, Frencinnent, were the first to try
the western passage of the North At-'
lantic which never yet has been cross-
ed by- an airplane. They left France
ii4' their White Bird : and have never
been found.
Next the Princess Lowenstein -Wort -
two pilots and nothing more was ever
heard of them, •
On Tuesday morning the Honorable
Elsie Mackay, daughter of an English
Viscount, and Captain Walter Hinch-
liffe flew off on their great adventure
in the -Endeavor, and disappeared.
Rumors were so persistent that they
raised false hopes in the breast of
Mrs. Hinchliffe in London, and' twice
she, cabled John Gillespie, her hus-
band's American representative, that
she had word he had news of the En-
deavor landing•in Newfoundland.,
Both tines Gillespie had to - cable
back denials that he had any .good
news for her and reassure her as best
he could with promises that everything
possible would.; be done to run down.
every clue.'•
•
Patient: "Doctor, what are AMY
chances?„ Doctor: "Oh, pretty good,
but don't start reading ' any serial
stories."
•
Interrupter (to clor'gymau address-
ing open-air meeting): "Do you really
believe that Jonah lived three days
and three nights in, the belly of the
whale?" Clergyman': ."When I get to
heaven: I'll ask him."' Iiiterrapter:
"And suppose you don't find Jonah is
Heaven?" Clergyman: "Then, you
heim set forth in the St. Raphael with can ask him.
Tourist Traffic -
Canadian Governments' have prob--
ably never undertaken an expenditure .
which has returned 'greater interest
to the country. The development of
good roads has played a part in the
progress of Canada in the' post-war
period.it is'diiflcult to accurately es-
timate.. Not only have the large Can
dian' centres been. More efficiently
lirtked, , but the vast provincial in-
teriors have been meshed with roado
over which travel is possible at prac-
tically all- times, -serving the great ag-
ricultural industry. Travel arteries
to the international boundary hare
been improved and increased. and a
ceaseless program. of • opening the
beauties of the cohniry ' to holiday
traffic: has been. followed. •
"I went out'' to America on,'one .01.
the bigest liners in the world." "How
did you like, It?" 'Wonderful! '.If T
hadn't been hail all .the way, .over,' 1.
shouldn't have known I was on the
ocean. at all."
North London Rate Defaulter --"A1:-.
ter Lloyd George and Winston have
had. their bitty off my wages there 15
nothing lett for rates.',
Indignant , Lady' Customer"Really,
Mr. Grocer, you. got dearer and dearer
every dayl" °Mr. Grocer—"Not' so'
loud, ma'am, '.My wife's very jeal-
ous!"
Canada and Czecho-Slovakia
Sign Treaty to Boost Business
Unemployment ' Relief
Now Statesman (London): What
•is needed is first of all the direct as
snmption by the State of the entire
cost of maintaining every unemploy-
ed, worker: And: this assumption will
have a very great consequent advant-
age—it will give the State a direct.
inducement to, provided employment
rather than relief. The continued
pouring oast of unproductive doles in-
stead of the devising of productive
employment would _ , bo incredible,
were 11 not that the Caevernment has
been able, by ;choosing tine Deli -denies
alternative, to thrust a larger part of' •
the burden on other shoulders.
Commerce Between Tzvo Countries _ Now on Most Favored,
-Nation Basis
GOOD BUYERS
tOtawa.-A convention of commerce
between Canada and • Czecho-Slovakia
was signed Thursday.by Hon. James
A. Robb, Minister of Trade and Com-
merce, on behalf ,of Canada, and by
Monsieur Frantiaek Kvetl, consul of
the"Czecho-Slovak' republic, in Mon-
treal, on 'behalf of Czecho-Slovakia.
The convention provides for the mu-
tual exchange of most -favored nation
treatment.
The principal exports from Canada
to Czecho-Slovakia are food products,
the chief. item being flour.. It is esti-
mated that in the last fiscal year the
value was about 4,875;000. Canada
also sells agricultural machinery, rub-
ber goods, canned fish, etc., to Czecho
Slovakia.
Imports from Czechs -Slovakia in
the fiscal year 1927 had a total value
of $1,72.6,922, the chief items of im-
portance being tableware of glass and
china, glass and glassware.
The convention will be submitted to
Parliament et the present session. In
the meantime, the present temporary
trade' agreement is continued. This
teinporilry agreement was` put into
effect on the flret' ,Tanuary, 1927,1 and
was to remain in force for 15 inonths,
but by'an exchange. cif .notes in Feb-
ruary. of this year it, wile arranged
that it should'. continue in force until
a new convention could be put -into
force.
"Why do they always, give a shower
to a girl who is going to be married?"
"Merely a quaint old custom tb syn-
bollse the beginning of a. reign,"
The professor was. asked to glve.his
definition of woman. After clearing'
Iris throat he began In his leisurely
way: "Women Is, generally speak-
ing—". "Stop right hhete, professor,"
interrupted a lowbrow: "It you talk-
ed a thousand years you'd never get
any nearer to it than that." •
Bursting Dar Sweeps Santa Clara Valley
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III -Fated Fliers
How the monument erected to
Nungesser and Coll will look - when
it is erected on the cliffs of Eterat
on the coast of France.
Ostend) to Celebrate ,.1 id of Vindictive;
British Warship Sunk at Harbor °' rut
Brussels. --Ostend ' is preparing a march illtheprocession.'
fete .4or'-the tenth anniversary of the
Vindictive raid, and American, French
and -other allied warships and'their
crews' are bang invitedto take part.
Tho main feature of the fete will. be
a - procession through the streets of
Ostend, somewhat on true lines of last
year's Rotaly..procession,
'Tho' celebration does nott take place.
on ,9t. Georges' Day but on .luno 3, the
first Sunday after: Whitsuntide.
'American, British, 1l-sench, Belgian
and Italian warships aro conning to
Ostend for he regatta,, and are to be
invitedto flyflags by da and show
rv1 g Y
multi -colored lights at night for the
;(Vidtor•:ai Soath),- and W • G, Medd fete, Deputations from the crews will base,
The keel of the F Vindictive, lying'
now in a square at Ostend, and care-
fully painted to prevent rusting, will
be placed. on 'an immense car end
drawri' through the streets. Behind
the car will march triose 01 the sur-
vivors of trio crew who can Walk.-
erations
course of naval o
In the p
off the Belgian' coast ten years' ago
next May the British 'Navy, was able
to sink the did battio'ship. Vindictive,
loaded with concrete, at the mouth
of the harbor of Ostend, partly block -
from
ing egress that port, which. was
being used by the Cterurans de a naval
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HUNDREDS REPORTED. DROWNED BELOW ST. FRANCIS DAM
60 .Million bf gallons of mater broke. loose and swept the Santa Clara
l before 1 ann. Tuesday With a loss' of life of about
valley; above, left, shortly lief° e Y
1,000, and property loss as yet nnestimated: Los Angeles light, power and
water aro go15o• as a; result. Netvliall the town just below the St. Francis
darn, whose Bursting lute to' heavy )roods in. the Sierra mountains lea to tie
catastrophe is, shown in 'flim map above, as are Sanguis, aril other towns
in,
`tire danger area. Below is a section,of the famous Los Angeles adueduct,
r m the Sierras and conveys it to ,the great Paci is coast
which takes water .forte („
city. Pie cL Francis dam to an integral part of line' e rsten3,
•
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
-Protect the Home Market
T. B. Johnston in the National'Re
view (Landon): •` If Protection •'Were '-
adopted in this country, every Indus-,
try that' is protected should be .re-
quired. by las. to—(1) 'Disclose the •
average percentage of .profit on ,the-
turnover'of the industry as a whole.
(2) ,Disclose the average _'earnings.
per hour of •. skilled,. semi -skilled and
unskilled labor. Tlris, I suggest, is'
important, Roe there is a strong feel-
ing (quite erroneous) amongst the.
community generally that if tariffs.
were pttt on inanufaeturers would put •
the ,prices up, to an exorbitant level.,
By the. disclosure of the facts of the,
industry the consumer' would be safe-
guarded, and also satisfied If he knew
that the 'mainifacturers were getting;
only a• reasonable profit arid 'the work.•
cis reasonable wages.
Empire Defence
W. H. Gardiner in Harper's (New
York): As the British have strategl
Cally placed bases - in many parts- of
_the )wield, they can use effectively -
smaller vessels of comparatively short.
steaming radius. But as the United
States has 'few such bases, American,
ships must have longer radii because,
they have t:o,cross the oeeau in.order•
to reach areas in which they may then
have to operate far from any repair•
facilities.
-The Melting ng Pot
John 0.'Orane in the Review of Re-.
views (London): There is a complex -
mit theory widely held to the effect. ,
that we are absorbing these foreign.
elements, in our wonderful melting.
'pot. Nothing could ba less true to
the facts. A melting pot there sure-
ly is, but the question Is whether old
Anglo-Saxon 'America is not being- '
more cbaiiged,by the big crucible than
are those -immigrants, who have jump-
ed headlong into its glowing depths,
Burial in the Abbey
London Mercury: Very few people.
know who is buried in the Abbey,.
We know deflnitelY that certain per-
sons are not; it is very much mora'
difficult to remember who is, What!
is .almost everybody's, graveyard is,
nobody's graveyard: there is,that
vast tumble -0f moimnrente, reat:. '
monuments for little people, little•
tablets for great people, surprising:
inclusions, unexpected exciusioifs,
strewn higgledy-piggledy around tlre,
dark spaces of a Gothic church: it de-
feats memory and bewilders the image -
!nation.
'A Coventry prisoner, brought up
for disorderly conduct on Saturday,.
was said to have sung in the street
this ditty at 2,30-a.m.:
"Wheel the perambulator, John,
Be careful how you go,
There's many a slip twixt cup and
dip:
Be sure you' wheel it slow,” •
"Long Friendship Dais 'in•Mar-
riago,"—headline in New York paper.
pity it couldn't ,have continued. ..
Tariff's and Reparations
Dr. Erich Welter in Foreign AN•
fairs (New York): The Agent -Gen,
eras rot Reparations was perfectly,
right when he pointed" out the 1m•
pertauco of , the tariff policy of the•
roeeivi;gg countries, and declared that
the practicability of .transfer (of re-
parations to the Allied countries)
would depend upon it. To-clayevery
child knows that international debts
can be paid only in goods or services,
and that is senseless • .and unjust for
the creditor to makethe process of
paywtlnt inure diflicult for the debtor
by closing his frontiers.
Wife at Kingston—"Trio last money
I had from my husband was 2s. 60.
and it calendar for 1D28."
Art-neric.n Grain Ports
Going After Canada's Trade
Organized Effort To. Divert Grain Shipments is Initiated -
- MONOPOLY ' IS ALLEGED
Protection Through Changed Inspection Standards '
To Be,Sought
Philadelphia, Pa. -Art organized
1, so'Oement to divert shipments of V:S.
grain from Montreal to U.S. Atlantic
ports and against the Canadian rate
en grain to the seaboard has been in-
itiated here by'representatives of -the
ports of Boston, Philadelphia, pa ti-
more,Portlancl' and other' north ,;,t-
lantic ports. • They met at the ¢ita-
tion_ of Hubert J, II•organ, President
df the Commercial•EXchange of Phila-
delphia, to take what is described as
"concerted action to -break the grain
shipping MonoPoly long held by Can-
ada.. ' •
Appeal w1
i lb., made to Secxetarsa
o:f
Agriculture William M. Jardine to
change rho 113- 'Standards of Inspoc-
tionas may be, noeessai:'y to protect
the America)) .armor,,. merchant mai"-
ire and ports rvgainst Canadian and
ether 3orei5ro;. competition, , In addi-
tion, appeal will be made to the Inter-
state. Confnrerce Commission through. •
eon€'ressional representatives of the
north Atlantic ports in an effort to
have the Commission' order American.
rail carriers to meet the ,competition
of tTre nationally 'owned Canadian
railroads; "which now are assessing a
rail rate cf 3 cents' a bushel lower.
than the American rail rate to the
seaboar0. /-
Through
Through the disparity in rail rates
and the difference in the inspection
of grain between the United States
and Canada, Canadian railroads aro
annually carrying approxinttely 90,-
000000 bushels of American raised
grain to Montrealfor export, to the
f American ports, rail-
o.
disaelv:ntage _
r asociated with
vc,at,a and industries. a,-, ,
, n it ,a
'shipping and i_niijl
aortat:°..t r- )}_„
a;ua;