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The Clinton News Record, 1928-04-05, Page 5',THE L GISLAT ,.E WEEK BY WEEK • HU.RSLA:Y, 'M•ARCH:';12ND-- 9tto n,y:General Price announced, that Ontario ,will =adopt silicosis_ as.a coiii•pensatible disease under - the Workmen's Compensation Act. Any silicotic (a :diseased condition due to working in the mines) suffering,. -from one 'of the three stages of the disease ---ante-primary, primary, or second- ary-wi11 be entitled to 'payment, pro- vided that his' _total service . in the mines of the .province Is not less than five years, . Ontario is the first province or state en the North American Continent to Place silicosis among tho cot pensat- }ble diseases. ,Six bills were given third' reading, and ten passed Committee of the House. Aurelien Belanger's (Liberal Russell) bill to amend the Theatres and Cinematography Act was `one et four given second reading.• Hon, Geo. S. henry, Acting Leader' of the Gov=, crntnent in the ,absence of Premier Ferguson, had no opposition to state. While the measure might require some "dressing - ma" a" le committee, the Government, he said,- approved of its principle. ' FRIDAY, MARCH `28RD The Legislature aiithorized,the' Gels -crime/it to negotiate' a, e50,000,000loan with which •to meet' its' iinaneiah obli- gations for ,this fiscal year ending Ott. 31, 1927. It will be applied, to depart- mental administration and to metur- bonds, and represent ' an increase of $10,000,600 over the loan author- lzed last session. There will be no special committee ef the Legislature appointed at the present session to travel throughout the . province during the . recess to make a survey cif the fish and game situation. • 14IONDA.Y, MARCH 26THee Main estimates for the fiscal year ending Oct. 81, 1929, lend amounting• to $a8,639,318, were tabled. This amount is approximately $6,000,000 Iess than the estimate for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1928, as tabled during last year's session of the House.' BY DEPARTMENTS. .By departments the "1929" esti- mates are as follows: Lieutenant -Governor's Office, $6,- tsry'y Dept.,'Ic ei,829,040 for 1929; as' comnared with $7,008391 for 1928,, The lgricult,ire Dept. vote is placed. at--1;2,620;430-practically the figure as brought down a,yee'r ago, ,A new sub -section td,.; the " Liquor_ Control Act,•proides stiff peii:tltics;for those Who; consume or obtain Tor ;bev- ei'ago .purpose patent medicines or essences of alcohelie-content ;Ind an- other• ° item in the tightening -up pro- cess is to the `effect that,:an. offence cotninittod by any occupant of a house shall disqualify+the residence'for one year as °a placo'itthere''liquor. may legally lie 'kept. Section 80, providing that Minor trust be kept in the bottle in which it was purchased is amended -to provide, that the Government label must re- main on the receptacle until the lirhror.l is consumed, Hon, William Finlayson obtained first reading for the annual heilgsna- 'tion of amendments to the -Municipal Act, and Premier Ferguson introduc- ed the School Law Amendment Act, 1928, E. Proulx (Prescott) Introduced his bill providing for exemption from vaccination of conscientious objectors,. and removing the compulsory feature -in relation' to - vaccination;, upon • en- trance to schools and 'colleges; • Premier Ferguson' obtained first reading for a bill "To Make Provision Eta' the University of Western On-. tette, As vigorous as ever in their criti- cism of Premier Ferguson's Township. School Boards Bill, Opposition mem- bers bombarded the Government with protests when the revised measure came up in the House for' -second. reading. For two hours the debate, swung back and forward. Pinellythe''' Prime Minister, who had started the argument, adjourned it to continue it. The new east block 'was formally opened with due ceremony at night. TUESDAY, MARCH 27TH- -The 7TI -The. Government and Legislature are hopeful that there will be no pri- mate .hills next year arising out of church union controversies. The day was taken up considering and adopt- ing the report of the Private Bills. Committee on the five bills remaining, settling the troubles arising out of Endurance Winners 620-MlL8 HORSE RACE T111e, Galatry, Hindu equestrienne, rode her Parse • Cannes to Pails. It took 19 dive. - to victory in race from 050; Prime Minister's Department, $8,335,600; Legislation, $884,575; Ate torney-General's Department, $2,061,- 415; Tnsurance Department, $49,62S; Education Department, $7,900,189; Lands and Forests Department, '$2, - church union. Several private and local bills` received attention and were passed. • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28TH- A request that the Ontario Govern - 847, 450; Northern Development De- went proclaim an Act passed by the pertinent, $499,725; Mines Depart-, Drury Government in 1922 making meat, $860,600; Game and Fisheries provision for co-operative banking in the Province of Ontario, was -made during the consideration of the esti- mates for the year by A. Belanger (Lib., Russell). What were known as,co'o`perative banks were doing busi- ness today in the province, and were materially aiding the teenier by giv- ing him loans which he would not have been able . to get otherwise. There 'Were dome seven or eight, lie believed, at present in existence in the province, -while in Quebec theywere numerous, e "They are operating without, char- ter," the Attorney -General suggested. "Yes," Mr. Belanger replied; "they, areoperating in a='very-unsatisfac- tory manner under the name of tress tees."• The matter Will be inquired„ :. Estir rates passed': for the Insurance Dept' totalled $49,625; for the Dept: of Mines; $360600; for the Dept. of Game and. Fisheries, $527,823-a fe- tal o-tal for theday of $8,778,580. THURSDAY, MARCH 29TH • Department, $527,82.5; Public Works Department, $1,262,165; Highways Department, $562,839; Health Des partment, $686,456; Labor: Depart- ment, $2,675,705; Provincial Trensur. er's. Department, $619,950; Provincial Auditor's Office, ;$98,725;. Provincial Secretary's Department, 8,829,540; Agriculture 'Department, $2,603,390; Miscellaneous, $023,000. Chief ,reason for the :falling: off le this session's vote can be found in the Hydro estimates. These, as voted a year ago, were mere than $15,000,000. The total vote for 1929 is but $31252,- 000. 31252;000. Of this last amount the Niagara system is represented bh* '$5,75'0000; $1,000,000 of:'vhich goes to 'the Nag- usa Falls- St. Thomas line, m1(14750,- 000 for rural extension. For the Gear- gian Bay system the estimate'` of $685,000;' Ottawa -St: 'Lawrence sys- tem, $375,009; Thunder 'Bay, $325;- 000; Central Ontario, • $620,000;'Nip-- issing; 8437,000; Algoma, $10,000. I+3D'U CATION ESTIMATES. • - Education Department estimates contain a vote of $2,100,000 for grants: to rural, public, and separate schools; $100,000, for consolidated schools; $55,000 for summer schools. One hundred and thirty thousand six hundred dollars is voted for Eng lisle -French' training schools, as cons - Pared with $143,600 of a year ago. The University of Toronto grant is set at $166,900,... and Western :Uni- versity,'$300;000. Estimates for the Dept, of High - ,ways. show igh--ways,"show a slight increase. For 1929 they are, $575,614, whereas for 1928 they were set at :1562,3$9, L113 S FOR 'HEALTII, With the traditional form and cere- mony concluding, the .passages of the annual Finance bill, the Legisuature at night approved the expenditure of $38,6'30,318,` ;ori the affairs • of the province for the fiscal year of 1920. Films displayed' in Ontariopicture theatres are to be stamped in a way that will indicate Whether or not they are considered suitable for children. The plan will bo worked out under regulations of. the Provincial Treas- urer's Dept., and not by statute. Premier Ferguson gave this in- formation in asking withdrawal of a bili sponsored by A. Belanger, Rus- sell, which would have prohibited at- ' Dept of Health shows a falling off t'endahce of juveniles, whether in cons- in requirement, the sunt for 1920 be- pany of theirparents or not, at the- ing $686,-1'50, as against $573,600 for titres displaying films not Massed 1by last year. Dept. of Labor shows a the Board as fit for children. The hill engirt with it increase ' a tv vote of$2,675,- had another clause which would - have 705being asked, Provincial age t al Treasur- raised the - a ., lnnit for uuaccom'. an- er's Dept is down below its1928 ted children from 15 to 16, and. J. A. mark. Six linidredand nineteen Pinard, in Belai er' s absence, thousand nine hundred and fifty dol- urged that this be enacted, but the lays will be voted this session, where Prinio Mtnlster thought that it was 5863,450 teas vtlted a" Year a�'o y not while putting if t ;' 1 g i o. legisla- :. -Total vote: of the. Provincial Score- ion _ Old Soldiers Will Ask Wiay.the Salute?, We Can'tSay„ CERIMONIAL ;WHEN KING 5 EET. S `KING The visitingrulerof Af *Irani t ,; , • s s a a accompauled;flls 14faaesty I�ing'G.eorge.in'tho inspection ef the smart guard of honor' a' Victoria oria P . o a Station; Lo radon. ' The �asteiu Potentate appear "s to be saluting the. camera. :India 'to , . 'Push Foreign -Trade � Commissioners May Be Sent Out to Develop Markets in All Countries Bombe ,- The appointment trade co14missioners or commercial attaches in colonies of the British Empire and iii the •countries of Eur- ope and America in order to develop Indian ttade and commerce with these countries was favorably relented upon in the Council of State, in its session at Delhi. ' Sir Phiroze Sethna declared that even in the field•3f curios Japan had beaten India because India slid' not send out anything new. Considering the class of people who, produced those articles it was the duty of Gov- ernment to point out to thein the de- fects and expI•ain to thein what was wanted' by the importing, countries, If they, had trade commissioners to guide their dealers -there would no doubt be a large and growing trade, even in their, curios and handicrafts. The speaker said Canada establish- ed its commercial. intelligence Jservice in 1006. Since then there had been an increase of 540 per cent, in Can- 'hda's exports end of 860 per cent. in imports- - Sir Phiroze Sethna requested the Government to send out men to such countries as' Canada, South Africa, Australia, the United States, and Germany and by degrees to other countries and to throw open the new posts in, the fust instance to Indians. Sir Geoffrey Corbett, Secretary of the Dept. ef Commerce, expressed= the acceptance of the resolution en behalf of the Government. He expatiated on the need of participating in exhibi- tions under the auspices of the Em- pire Marketing Board and expressed gratification that the, proposal to make the Indian Trade Commissioner - ship permanent had been approved by the Finance Committee ef the Legis- lative Assembly. French Finance Glasgow Herald (Cons.): There can be little question that, from the paint of view both of Prance and of her ueighbo'no, the aubsti•tution of an- other flnancial policy for that which 1M. Poineare has carried so far would constitute it grave disaster. in parti- euler, theadvent to power of a Minis- try in which Soeiallet opinion was denitiiast would be more dangerous since the Lett, in France as In other countries. The putting . of their. theories• into praotice might well pre- cipitate a monetary crisis• winch would shake the foundation of the Republic itself, and have disastrous reverses - elms all oven, Europe. TRY TO BLOW UP- SHIP' -. THREE' TIMES•.IN VAIN London. -=The third attempt by a moving picture company to •blow up the . schooner Airy in the English Channel to complete its film story of Britain's famous "Q Ships," which= laid traps for the German submarines, failed recently because, according to seafaring men, she is either haunted or has a charmed life. The seamen said that it was un- luckyto remove her old figurehead of a ivonian clasping se .bunch of flowers, now on view in a Weymouth hotel. "No vessel ever sunk without her figurehead," said an old salt. The Amy was towed to midchannei accompanied by naval vessels. The officers placed a charge in the spot where it was convenient to sink her, but 'trouble began when the electric leads between the Amy and the_ tug parted twice. The schooner's decks and sails .w- r -e then soaked with kerosene, flares'We-re, laid and the crew abandoned lief; shut still she refused to burn, . A submar- ine afterwards cruised around.the. schooner to make sure that the fires were out. The demolition crew was ordered to return but refused and the movie company had to tow her back to Portland. She 'is still there, lying defiantly at anchor. Lakes to Sea Service May 1 Ocean Freighters'' to Run Between Chicago and West Indies - Milwaukee, Wis.-Ocean freighters, plying between the West Indies and Great Lakes ports, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Buffalo, and Michigan cities, are to be placed in operation beginning May I by the American Shipping Co. of New York, according to announcement here. The freighters will be of type suit- able to travel -through the Great Lakes canals and the St. Lawrence River. They will be. able to carry approxi- mately 2,000 tons of freight to the inland portsand nearly double this tonnage on the return trip after clear- ing the fresh waterways. Refriger- ator service will be provided, The proposed sailing schedule calls for boats in and out of the various Great Lakes ports at least once a week, it is explained. When business so warrants the service will be ex- tended to South American ports. "Plugging in" a few years ago ushal- ly referred to =working hard, but now- :aciays it usually carries the thought of ,sites to the resumption of negotia- EMPIRE SHOPPING WEE Plans All Laid and all Classes ;Beh Ind Drive to, Boot:" E Connlainee Busitiess-. BUY BRITISH The vastness and.unity of the pett- ish. Empire are two; thing„ ,difficult fare, the -average Person to realize, In Wit ilcing of the,.Empire, most people think first' 13f Great; ritain, -:Canada, Australia,' India, South` Africa and New Zealand,UnfaniiIiar places with curious navies, "seen'only once' or twice perhaps over a' period; of years escape. geberai'•natice: Yet" those also -form : stout links in the great eliain;of Eta- They m-They aro -all sharing in Empire' Shopping. Week in Canada, April .21st to, 286, for `the Executive Committee cif Empire: Shopping Week. have seen to it -that every Part •ef the -British Empire is -invited 'to participate in the great effort, OTHER AIMS AND PURPOSES. ' Briefly stated, one main purpose of ' Empire Shopping Week in Canada is 'to stimulate the purchase and gale of Empire produce and n anufactuees in Canada. An ample press coverage on inspirational and economic" lines is .being arranged and windew streamers., )aideshowcai'ds' for retailers• are being developed, • Produced in Canada is Produced in the Empire, -18 is a recognized principle -.in Empire Shop ping Week. .that the products of • the country in. which the Week • is held pirC retail and advertising lirIs p "iter Can -with . he , generaleducational and publicity Campaign of the Em- pire Shopping -Week its Canada. The Executive ,Committee and local com- inittees welcome ideas anti -suggestions hy which the Committee can co-oper- ate with individual adrvertisers, " 'In other- places ' where `" "Weeks" have been held, local committees Nava successfully carried on window dis- play contek.ts, pa=rades of 'decorated floats, fancy ri; ess balls, and sinany, other- special feattiis'es. Empire Shoppings Weelcs are not a novelty. Theis Have been, tried with. great suclze:s in other parts. of the Empire, notably in. Australia, British West Trines, slid. in Great 'Britain. Imports from foreign countries into Canada -rose since 1914 from $298.e 1000,000 to $800,000,000 in 1927.-62 per cent. increase in -the last five years -thus constituting an excellent im- mediate reason for considering the present: movement opportune. The Advisory 'Oouncil ttf Empire Shopping Week in - Canada 'Bolds strongly to the view --that the type" -of civilization and its promise of 'de- velopment ' its- shown. .in; countries of the-1riti$h Empire -is one that ;Can- adans desire to 'encourage for the sake should be favored first -then the pro of the present and; -the Tutu;e genera•.' tions. All this, it coneeived, is in- timately bound up with the economic • and business side of, attars -that play so •great •a part in the daily lives of so many Canadian- citizens. Get behind the movement -buy British goods. Long Fliithts I ducts of other parts of the Empire. It Louden Daily .Telegraph (Cons.) : With the coming of spring anal better weather conditions there will inevita- bly be a recrudescence of attempts by courageous men and women to make very long fghtsy and it cannot be too strongly emphasized that, ire the beet interests of air travel, those who are inclined to risk their lives needlessly for the sake of notoriety should be forcibly restrained from -attempting journeys which there islittle or no chance of .bringing to a euocessful Is- sue. An incalculable emiouut of dam- age to ,the cause of aviation was done last "season by a few men and women wise insisted,'in the Face et alt expert advice, on throwing their rives away to satisfy . an explicable personal caprice. 'rests, therefore, with individual Can- adian producers ` and manufacturers and producers and manufacturers in other,parte of the Empire to create for themselves -with the willing help of many local organizations, the best News for,, Hunters Here's when and where you may go in Ontario for your deer this fall: 1'. In the district south of the French and . Mattawa Rivers -Nov. 5 Ur Nov. 20,both days inclusive. 2. In the district' north of the French River and south of the Can- adian Pacific Railpy, front North B t H re B q n Lake Su erior Nov.'1 to Nov 25.'- 3. From the Mattawa River north of the Canadian Pacific Railway from North Bay to' Heron Bay and south of the north line of the Canadian Nse- tioiral;Raiiways, with theexception of ;that section from - Heron Bay to the French River- Ocls. 20 to Nov. 25. 4. North et the north line" of the Canadian National Raihvays-Sept. 15 to Nov. 25. 5. St. Joseph's Island -Nov. 10 to Nov. 25. " Using Canadian For Testing Grounds • BYRD POLAR PLANE PASSES SNOW TESTS The Bellanca monoplane, equip ped with skits, which Commander Richard Byrd's expedition to the south pole in the fall will nee, passed the to et to which it was subjected' en four feet of snow at Cariboo Lake, near Grand Mere, Quebec. Hei'e a youthf ul musher is shown drawing the plane to the taking -off point, r Premier Denies Press Report Ottawa. -The Canadian Premier, W. L. Mackenzie Bing, denied in the House of Commons the accuracy of reports that Canada had threatened to discontinue negotiations with the United States' "on the St. Lawrence waterways project unless, several de- mands are n=et. The reports, printed in the Toronto Glebe, purported tb be a summary of the Iast Canadian note. The newspaper account said that Canada had demanded discussion of the desirability of lowering the tariff on certain Canadian products, includ- ing wheat and livestock, the waiving by the United States of all claim to the exportation of power obtained from the St. LaWrerae project, and settlement of the Chicago water di- version controversy, as prior requi- relief front Mitch teed worts, tions' 600,$Wans Killed in "Ride" Over Niagara Falls, HUNDREDS OF, OTHERS INJURE 'D,AND RESCUED .Accordin to the Isiert estimate at least 600 wild .swans were IleI and hundreds of others in3idl when they were swept over the Horseshoe falls recently. The birds had alighted above the falls and all efforts to frighten them: were in vain: Several hundred were rescued by William "Red" Bill , and other rivermen, , game wardens and officers of the Victoria Park Commission. The injured arebeing cared for bythe commission , i 7u ed birds g a until they can be• sent to Sack Mineisls eanetorhzni at Eingsvilie. A carload of bodies was taken Froin the r'ivel•. Hundreds of spectators Iinee the Canadian boulevard to watch tlio rescue efforts. While thorn they witn=essed another tragedy when a largo frock of these strange birds became bewildered and flew into .the cataract, ,The drawingr sl ows' the wild swans ]tattling the-tori'onis on the brink of the fills: Those who failar3 in their-sCi•ne• gle for life were swept over the: falls backwards. Flood Cost On Los Angeles City Assumes Big Task of Re- habilitating Santa Clara Valley Las .4ngelbs-Having acknowledged through Mayor George Cryer its "mor- al responsibility" for the fatalities and lose of property in the St. Francis dom collapse, the city of Los Angeles has assumed the task of nnalsing re- e•titution to the valley. The Mayor, who epoko In behalf of the ,municipality at a conference of city councilmen and other officials, did not say to what length the -city would go in res•torifig the valley, but the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce an- nounced unouncecl it would liiropese to the coun- e l a rehabilltation program, based on•an estimate of $1,000,000 property da•magc. Thta is at least $4,000,000 below the lowest estim=ate of the dams age. The number of persons left without homes, food or clothing stood at 768; with relief organizations' taking care of that welshes.. Official figures from Ventura County showed 273 homes in the Santa Mara ,River Wiley itlone bad been wiped -out, in addition to ntiniberless'small ]Homes in gthe'gt"oVes Imnnediately' balewthe dam, I3•un- dreds o1 acres ,of orange and lemon groves were burled etudes, the ail:t, The plan of. the Chamber of Com- rade() for rehabilitation calls for 51,- 000,006 1;000,006 being *nada ininnediately available. isa the -Gity Council: for re- oonstructios.; a commission of Los Angeles business amen to direct the project, and division of the work into three . classes-re•.itoratiou of orchard and farm regions, •rebuilding of best - nese, inthis'trial and'. residence prop- erty and nielief of flood sufferers,, The worts or repairing the highway and railroad through:'out the valley ie ureter way, income Tax Lorelei Evening Staniaad (Ind', Cons.): R'ir, Churchill said not only.' Cult lie lrat%',uot-tho honey ztn in- come-tax re'lliictlon, "knit also/that, lie would not.uso it for that pui'iioso,it he had. 'here doesseem-to be•tan- plied in this opinion that income-tax now scan"dsat a normal 1eve1; and is no longer 00 excessive burden which i't sliould be a first care of the Gov- ernment to 'relieve. That 1s rea)Iy a sinister intimation; For it cannot' be :too often repeated: that he effects of, opp •ossVe direct taxation aro not:con fined a the rcilatiyelye03al•1 claws from which the m-oney is actually r•aise•lt The permeate the whole of c=ur ria: iaonai economy, and ,adversely affect the rational' wei1-being at rVery turn. , 100,000 Acres Put to Robb r In ,West Africa Firestone Development i Liberia Begins as First Units Are Planted .... ' New York. -The Firestone Plaista tions Company has laid out two 50, 000 -acre plantations"as the first unit el the crude -rubber development i Liberia, according to word which ha just been received here from Harve' • S. Firestone, Jr., vies -president of th= company. 11Mr. Firestone is at present in Li beria, where he is inspecting the prop erties of the company, whirl, is a sub sidiary of the Firestone Tire & Rub ber Company. The company has leas ed 1,000,000 acres from the Liberia: Government and contemplates an ex• pendituro of $100,000;000 in its d velopment. IMPORTANT MOVE' . Tho activities of the Firestone Co .and of Henry Ford are regarded' a' , important movements hi filo new of forts being made by American menu facturers to develop their own crud rubber supply. The Firestene 'development in LI beria was under'takeri late in 1925. Last year 15,000 acres had beet planted, and, according to Mr. Fire stone, the. firsttrees will bear withi five years from the titre of planting The potential production' of. th completed Firestone project is esti :rated at between' 150,000 and 200,001 long tons annually. This is approxi mately half ofthe crude rubber coli:, sunned by the United States last year; HUGE FORD PROJECT. The Ford project 10 even less ad( i'anced than the Firestone 'operations The Ford concessions, recently obtain ed from, the Brazilian 'Government covers approximately 3,700,000 acres.; 'It lies 615 guiles inland from Para and issaid to contain' seine of "the mnstd, •adaptable landfenrubber production in South America. Under the contract ivith the Bra riliari. 'Government; - at least 8,00 acres will be plat=ted within the nex 'four years. Peg Leg Cracl4ed, City Sued• Seattle:-'_ .11eging than a stree sprinkleroperated by the city sprayc -his water all, aver him and caused'1 re ! leg to oracle, D. Raskin has filed $165• claim for damages with the Cit Council- r down as the year o I his may. go c o3 the g'rer^.t war -between low -price At> e, .: