HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1939-03-23, Page 7Parliamentary
Doings
With Ontario's Legislators,
Spring, than
nrx r,r.tiv
With a Premier fresh back from
Australia and a brand new Con-
servative leader all rarin' to go,
proceedings in Ontario's Legisla-
ture at Queen's Park got off to a
lively start March 8, and aro likely
to continue at alightly less than
boiling point throughout the 1939
session. , .
First off, when Mitchell Fred-
erick Hepburn twitted George AIex-,
ander Drew about the frequency
with which the Ontario Conserva-
tive Party has changed leaders of
late, the latter bristled, made no
reply; he was saving his fire for
the more dramatic occasion during
the Throne Address debate when
he hurled tradition overboard . . .
by limiting all Tory contribution to
the debate to his own speech. . .
no more... It was an urfprecedent-
ed move made (he said) to ex-
pedite the business of the Legisla-
ture and save the taxpayer money
Highlights of the Speech from
the Throne: The Government will
introduce legislation to enable On-
tario to enter into an unemploy-
ment insurance agreement with
Ottawa; a new method of equaliz-
ing municipal assessments; all
elected municipal officials to take
the oath of allegiance; relief costs
' to be higher than 1938's $22,000,-
000 forecast, "unless there is mark-
ed industrial improvement"; the
Dominion to be asked to repeal the
Canada Temperance Act as it ap-
plies to Ontario; steps to be taken
toward "uniformity and co-ordina-
tion in municipal policing"; finan-
cial relief to be provided for north-
ern mining municipalities.. .
Looks like a new deal for On-
tario's unemployed... maybe. .
if Premier Hepburn carries out his
announced intention to co-operate
with the Federal Government in in-
troducing unemployment insurance
. (We should have said Ontario's
future unemployed. . . those at
present out -of -work would not be
aided by the scheme). .
A host of government bills was
introduced the second day of the
session eovering.a number of minor
questions, such as amendments to
the Cemetery Act, the Pharmacy
Act, the Public Hospitals Act. ':' .
but the Mistimes of dealing with
these measures cannot begin to
compare in interest with the de-
bate on the state of affairs so fre-
quently seen in the House.. .
The Budget is likely to be
brought down within a weed:
administrative expenses may be
pared. , . car licenses may go up
... and a two -cent jump in the
present six -cent gasoline tax is
sure to be announced (Ontario'
towns want to share in the rev-
enue)... Questions: what will this
mean to the tourist trade?. .
what will it mean to the average
motorist driving 10,000 miles a
year who has already contributed
an extra $15 annually since the tax
went up from three to six coppers?
However, we may be getting
ahead of ourself.. .
The Const. :atives want "more
light" on .what the Government
proposes to do with the Abitibi
Power and Paper Company, a
$125,000,000 property now in pro-
cess of reorganization... a fierce
fight is raging around that... Mr.
Hepburn thi-'cs Col. Drew is un-
duly
nduly suspicious... and quibblrs too
niiieh. . .
They've appointed a bachelor as
Speaker bf the house for the lir.
time in Ontario's history. Girls,
we give you Major Clark!
The Dionne Quintuplets have ac-
cepted an invitation to conte -see
the King and Queen on May 22.
Oh, *hat a day for Toronto that
will be! , • .
Thieves have. attempted to break
into a vault ie the Treasury "De-
partment, ..au inquiry by the audit
department reveals shortages of
money, defalcations of funds in
several branches of the Govern-
ment's business. . , there's been
dirty work at the crossroads. . .
Don't Look .Man
:Straight In Eye
Girls, said M. Deno Edmond in
an interview at New York last
week, have an unfortunate habit
of looking men straight in the eye.
"I;t is not alierin;," said Ed-
mond, former court beauty' advis-
er to the late Queen Marie of Ru-
mania. "It makes a man ;feel in-
ferior, He feels you're trying to
probe his mind."
Far better it is to look at hien
fleetingly, and then look away,
contin,tzed Edmond.
"Yes, I believe women should be
Somewhat eoy," he said, "blit I
doli't mean baby talk. That's ter -
Able! It annoys a man's nerves.
"'pVomen should learn how to
blush. It can be done by exhaling
an little longer than they are ac-
etif totno(."
Lakes Much Be/ow
Their Usual Level
Water Is Low hi The St. Law-
rence, Too, According To
Dominion Hydrographic Sera
vice.
Level of the St. Lawrence River
in Montreal harbor during Febru-
ary was 20 3/4 inches lower than
January,. 7 112 inches lower than
February, 1938, and 50 3/4 inches
lower than the average level of
February for the last 79 years, the
Hydrographie Service of Canada
reports.
Lake Superior at fort Arthur
was two inches lower than Janu-
ary, one inch higher than Febru-
ary, 1938; and 5 1/4 inches higber
than, the average level of Febru-
ary for the last 79 years.
Below Average For 79 Years
Lake Huron at Goderieh was
the same as January, 9 1/4 ins.
higher than February, 1938; and
18 inches lower than the average
level of February for the last 79
years.
Lake Erie at Port Colborne was
3/4 of an inch higher than Janu-
ary, three inches higher than Feb-
ruary, 1938, and 9 1/4 inches low-
er than the average level of Feb-
ruary for the last 79 years.
Lake Ontario at Kingston was a
half inch higher than January, five
inches lower than February, 1938;
and 13 1/4 inches lower than the
average level of February for the
last 79 years.
Says Emotions
Cause Fatigue
Marie Beynon Ray, whose flight
from a job rut has led her through
careers as teacher, editor, wife,
mother and author, says she has
never been tired in her life and
that she can tell other women how
to become "inhuman dynamos" of
energy and interest,
"It is not the work we do but
the emotional factors operating
while we work that causes fa-
tigue," she said in an interview at
New York last week.
"Women tire of housework not
because their chores are too hard
for them "but because they con-
sider housework an inferior occu-
pation," according to Mrs. Ray.
"Find interesting Vocation"
"If they cannot escape house-
work, the thing for them to do is
to find some other intensely inter-
esting avocation — perhaps the
beautifying of their homes, polities,
sport, voice culture—anything to
substitute a healthful, vitalizing
emotion for boredom and depres-
soin."
VOICE ICE OF
THE . PRESS
SOMEBODY'S KEIT EUSY
It is estimated that there are
1,218,000 milch .caws in Ontario.
Think of what they mean in terms
of human Iabo'r at milking-time.—
Brockville Recorder and Times.
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OIC/ION
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OI /ION ORCHARD
A Baltimore magistrate has rul-
ed that an onion may be classed
as a fruit. What a fine time Mitch
Hepburn will have next sunun.er in
his onion orchard.
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"UNITY" A LA CANADA
This new trans -Canada air line
may do something for Canadian
unity. After all, it only takes
about twenty hours now to get a
complaint from the Pacific coast to
Ottawa.—Hamilton Spectator.
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WE'RE KICKING PLENTY, TOO.
It is said that 37 per cent: of
the Nazi forces are flatfooted from
too much walking and parading.
We're getting that way in. this
country from keeping the foot on
the gas.—Peterborough Examiner.
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JOBS, TRAINING FOR YOUTH
Governments make substantial
grants of which prizes are paid for
the improvement of cows, horses,
pigs, sheep, chickens and all kinds
of livestock. Perhaps it would
not be bad policy to spend more
money providing a training for
youth and opportunities for em-
ployment.—Farmer's Advocate.
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NOT A PUPPET
In short, the Member of
Parliament is not intended to be
the tool, puppet or rubber stamp
of his constituents and still less of
any group among then. But it is
his function before everything else
to represent thein and to promote
their legitimate interests by all
means in his power.—Quebec
Chronicle -Telegraph.
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HOCKEY IN THE OLD DAYS
Hockey players in some centres
are not what they used to be. It
is not so many years ago that puck
chasers were sixty -minute men and
played every game without relief.
Recent snow storms have made
motor travel impossible for visit-
ing hockey teams and rather than
drive by horse and sleigh as their
predecessors did many a time,
games have been cancelled,—Pe-
trolia Advertiser -Topic.
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Officials in Italy have reported
that the careful selection of seed
and use of chemical fertilizers are
greatly increasing grain crcps.
LI'E'S LIKE THAT
By Fred Neher
MRS. .PIP'S DIARY.
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ca.rrte sia4 rns. x,aerl X it&N6,4
"I couldn't find the button, dear, so I sewed up the buttonhole."
WONDERLAND OF OZ
Yule Tree Cutting
In Ontario Probed.
Hon. Peter lice/Ian, provincial
minister of lands and forests, said
last week that promiscuous cut' ing
of Christmas trees during the
'Yuletide season and theft of trees
from private property was under
investigation by his department
and might lead to legislative ac-
tion.
:Either the federal government
would be asked to amend the Crim-
inal Code to deal with the situa-
tion, or the province would bring
down a bill of its own, he said. A
decision will be made in the near
future,
PACKAGE
oho %r 2Sq Tens
1/2 LE. TIN 55c
Gregory Clark
looks at ITALY
ABLES which Gregory Clark is
sending to The Toronto Daily Star
from Rome make interesting reading. "Greg," as he is best
known to hundreds of thousands d readers of The Star
;Weekly, hopped a boat for Italy to see
the coronation. o Pope Pius XII. The
papal coronation ;over, "Greg" is brows -
/OR ing around the country—sampli ; ig its
‘- '- delights, ancient and modern. In more
than 20 years of newspaper writing,
"Greg" has been in many exciting and
interesting places, but no experience of
his career has furnished such -wealth of
material for his fluent pen. He will
wander through marble palazzos, in-
spect basilicas and campaniles; appraise
famous works of art and architecture,
and take a squint at Italian industry. He
Will tour cities, country; and villages;Biil'� ' r
mingle with- princes and peasants,blackshirts and officials; ride in Vene-
tian gondolas, sniff the air of sunny
Sicily and sample foods that have made
Italian chefs famed the world over. He
will be more Roman than Mussolini.
"Greg's" Italian rambles are already
shaping into the most fascinating trave-
logue ever printed in a Canadian news-
paper. It breathes that magic of humor
and humanism w rich "Greg"
infuses
into every subject he touches. Writers
are many, but there is only one "Greg"
Clark, and in his stories from Italy he is
at his best. Read
and revel in his
articles which ap-
pear every day in
THE TORO!! T
DAILY S
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By L. Frank Baum
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esprrtilue my, licks d tab OB.
After.• tho clatter, an intense silence
reigned in the town and the visitors, all
knowing that caution was no longer ne-
cessary, hurried forward to gee what had
happened, They entered the lamest house
they (mine to and found the door strewn
With places of what looked much Bice
fragments of wood neatly pa.lnted, all et
cdiftcrent and fantastic shapes. "WAY,"
cried Dorothy, picking, up one of the
nieces," they're Jig.SliW puzisles,"
The piece which Dorothy held wn,s an
eye, which looked at her pleasantly. but
with en interested expression :is if It
wondered what she war going to do with
it. Quite near by she discovered a nose,
and by tnatehing the two ;pieces together,
found that they were part ata face. "ft
L nouid find the mouth," She said, "this
Puddle might be able to ta..114 and tell us
what to do next." "Then let us Mid it,"
said the -wizard, and so all Eat (h)Wit on
their hands and knees,
"I've found tet" cried Cnoio Henry, and
he ran to Dorothy with a queer shaped
piece with amouth on It, but when they
tried to fit it to the eye and nose, they
found hat the parts would not match.
:Chis mouth belongs to some other per.
?on," Said Dorothy. 'You see we need a
curve here and a point there to make It
fit the face. Well it must be some place,y
declared the Wizard, "so If we search tor
It long enough we shall certainly find it."
Oros
1)nrothY fitt,•d au ear on uc•,t WW1
ear had a little patch of red hair :thud it,
to while the others w ere set]r,•itina;'
the mouth, she hunted for pieces with
hair, and found several of them, wh1o1',
when matehed to the other pieces, forine1
the top- of a mans head. She had also
found the other eye and oar and hy ?tee
time Aunt lelei. in :i corner, disco%ored ii•,,
mouth. When the tnt-e slay thus cninpk,•-
ed all the parts jolr t1 ton'cther with
ni oaty that was astonishing.
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