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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. —0— OIC/ION 0— 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. —0— "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. -� 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. —0— 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. —0— 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. —0— 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. • 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. 1-I 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 A By L. Frank Baum vwAmA :; 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. 1