The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

'--_--W_- & + \Nedk. Feb. 2 ~N®oming to the Ontario Temperance #i1ct, Mr. Taylor said he believed that a member sitting in the House repre-- senting a riding which voted against the act wus not representing his rid-- j ing unless he took the attitude taken by the riding in the plebiscite. Ask-- ied by Marshal Vaughan (Conserva-- tive, Welland) if by that he meant he was in favor of local option, Mr.: Tatylor replied: "No. Absolutely hnot." After reviewing temperance his-- tory in the Province, Mr. Taylor said he admitted that the Drury Govern-- ment received the anti--temperance vote to a large extent. He accused the Conservatives of starting the agi-- tation that the Drury Government had overdone the enforcing of the act. *""Then, in 1923," he asked, "did the temperance people of the Prov-- ince, when this great question con-- fronted them,and they knew full well that what has happened would 'hap-- pen--did they sustaim the Drury| Government? No." Advice to Prohibitionists. He would say to temperance peo-- ple, said Mr. Taylor, if they con-- tinued along that line, "if you don't accept the challenge made by fhel honorable member for Dufferin (Mr. McKeown), and if you don't ma.kn! lyourselves felt when your weight| | would be most benefitial to your 'cause. and counteract this move-- ment, then I have lost faith in the temperance workers of this Prov-- 'ince." i Sir Robert Falconer Gives In--, teresting Figures Regard-- | | ing Attendance | I | WORK IN AID OF CHILDREN: | 8. _ smcs | | Roegistration at the University of" Toronto : totalled 4,8%59 during the; | past collegso ycear, the annual report, | ; which was tabled yesterday in the | Legislature, states. One interesting | |paragraph in Sir Robert Falconer's | report says that students in arts who _ | drop out before graduation do not | do so entirely because of inability : |or indifference, but because they have to go to work, or did not in--. | tend in the first instance to stay longer than two years. President | Falconer considers the standard of ; entrance satisfactory in the FPaculty | of Arts. | Various reports were tabled deal-- I ing with the work of the Children's | Aid Society. Twelve hundred cases | were investigated under the Unmar---- | ried Parents Act. In respect to law-- | | making the report states that there is | little deft to strive for in the way of . | new child weifare legislation. 'There , | were 773 children made wards in | | [1924, and 6528 visited in foster | | {homes, etc. There were 92 trans-- j 1 |ferred or committed to the Soldiers' | Aid Commission. There were 549| l children legally adopted. Under the | | terms of the Children of l,'nmarried'| Parents Act there were 1,205 cases | | investigated. | f |