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. an: ..,..-..,. _..,l_,;_.=_ 'y'i'Slllliirl'iitLn. thef, "C rt.ii'iiliilCi'i'iri, '),iiiiii, ati.tEiiiihit AriirIet.t.ttttrr',, pw' .... g be. . Jinnah 'iGtrii'iit'mrir. 'r' h" '.' w ', out. that that. .Whl We- . ' - unwell sides with the-Departs?- master Education. He himself Wei 8. member ot the Advisory Council, but that body had not been called to- gether once during the past year. The system lacked elasticity. which should be allbwed so that the personality of the teacher-might be wrought for the benefit of the pupil. Churches Demanded Reform. . Major Tolmie drew blood when he defended the stand taken by the min- isters of the Gospel in the last general election. The cry for the abolition of the bar had not started with the leader of the Opposition. The churches' had asked for it, and when a man came along and put it on his ballot, . could the ministers do anything less than support it? "Our ministers were not playing politics, as has been sug- gested," he declared. "The mantle of those great prophets of the Old Testa- ment would, not have rested upon ' these men to-day if they had not bold; ly taken the stand they did during the last election." ' Progress in Agriculture. Mr. R. H. McElroy (Carleton) con- tended that the _condition of agricul- ture in the Province had progressed a great deal under the present Ad- ministration. and pointed to the growth of branch banks in rural dis- tricts and the extent of farmers' des posits to show that the farmers to- day were in a fairly prosperous con- dition. . _ Mr. George S. Henry (East York) said the Liberals were frequently talk- , in: about depopulation of the Pro-, Vince. "What are the facts?" asked the speaker. "We are sending the best of our sons and daughters to the 1 west to lay the framework for ""14 zation in those Provinces. I tali. it ' when history is written it will as? shown. that the exodus from Ontario) has had a marked influence on all" those western Provinces." . Mr. Nelson Parliament (Prince Ed- ' ward) cordially approved of the pro- posal ot the Provincial Treasurer to 'impose a 'war tax, but hoped it would ( be understood by the people of On- tario that grants of food and money were not given to Britain and her al- lies as a matter of charity. but out of ansense, ot. duty cheerfully discharg- ed.. . T . . . Mr. Mr. D. McPherson (Northwest Toronto) _.discussed the. Budget from the standpoint of the progress that had been achieved in safeguarding public health. In the last ten years the. rate of fatalities from tubereulosis I in the Province had'dropped from. 148 per 100,000 tp 85 per 100,000.. :