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TO DRUNKEN DRIVER A Drogpect for Toronto PREMER is URCED! ;. :. + . in in en BAN CASOLINE SALE Bathing in James Bay Henry Sees Difficulty in De-- ciding Question of Intoxication HITCH--HIKING _ ALLOWED That gas siztions should be prohib-- ited by law from selling sgasclinge to intoxicatsd drivers, was the suggss-- tion mado by Frederick Skinner (Conservative, Loeeds) at thr second reading of Premicr Henry's bill to amend the Highway Traffic Act in the Legislature yesterday. As a means to reduce the hazara of traffic. Mr. Skinnor said that a clause should be inserted in the act to prevent the sale of gasoline to intoxicated drivers. "That would raise the rather large question of what is meant by intoxi-- cation," said Premier Heonry. "To put the respomnsibility of Gdeciding whether & driver is intoxicated on the boy selling gas, would bs rathor a laige créer. ° Of 3,000 suspensions «i ii-- conses last year, only aboui 25 per cent. were for intoxuication. The menatce of intsxicated drivors is not so great as some pcople imagine, when, out o! millions of drivers, only about 700 have boom suspended ior this cause. But any suggcstion that will nelp relieve the highways of these drivers will be woelcome." | _ . Premicr Honry again took pains ta assure th> House that amendments to the act did not restrain people soliciting 'or drivers offering a froe ride, The act provided that no p°r-- sons should "while on the traveled portion of the highway" solicit ridiss. "We want to Gisccurage the profcs-- sional hitch--hikers who stand uut on the hishway and almost force traf-- fic to stop in order to get a ride," said the Premisr. "Some sections cf the press read into the amondmont rather morse than was intended. 1I hbad a rather pathcetic letter from a Ludent after it was reported that ths aew law would prevent hitch--hik-- ing. 'The lettsr asked in effect, 'Were you ever at college? And had a girl at homo? and were short of a girl at homso? and were shory O cash? " A momber--What did you answ? h'im? & "I wrote him." contin icr, 'that we dion't in fcre with him at ali." given a serond reading. 7210 tds cce i snA aiegian in t Although (Hon. Harry C. Nixon | protested -- against . the provision' 0o: three months' imprisonment ijor parents failing to loc!: after their children, contained in the act, to make botter provision for the main-- tenance of minor children, Attornsy-- Gzneral Prics explained that that nenalty was far less severe than pro-- vided in ths Criminal Code for the same ofense. The effect of the act would be to give the courts a chance to try coffendc:s under milder terms of the act. than under the severer sec-- tion of the code, if circumstances made such a course Gesirable. An extra clause was added to the act providing that it should not re-- quire parents to provids spscial kinds of medical trsatment for children, against their judgmont. The act was given third reading. Secona reading was given the bill ~f Austin Smith (Conservative, South E--sex) providing that -- threshers should have a lien on grain threshed for their wages. Another provision of Mr. Smith's bill that all threshers be ~equired to have &A certificate from the Government, brought objections from Mr. Nixon, who felt that farm-- ers would never be° satisfied with such a provision. continued the Prom-- n't inisrd to inter-- t all." The bill was In his annual report, tabled yes-- 'trday in the Ontario Legislature, Major--Gen. YVictor Williams, Pro-- vincial Police Commissioner. contends 'Frat in only a very few cas>ss of the | :00 deaths attributed to the use of 'mutomobiles on the highway during he past fiscal year, was intoxicating liquor "a contributory cause." The 200 deaths represont a decrease of 48 from the year 19828--1929. | "Every one of these fatalities," reports 'tho Ccocmmissioner, "was thoroughaly \investigated, and wherever necessary prosecutions against the driver for criminal negligence or manslaughter were instituted. It is very difficult Apparently it won't be long now be-- fore the tired Toronto business man can go home to his family of a FriGcay night ard quite casually remark: "Get the hamper packed, mother! We'l run up to Moose Pactory for the week-- end,. I can do with a salt--water dip." Highway Link and New Bridge O ver Moose River Will Take Vaca-- tionists There--So Fin-- layson Tells Legislature For some time now the eventual linking up of old Ontario with James Bay via the Ferguson Highway has been mooted. More than a year ago, Hon. William Finlayson, Minister of Lands and Forests, speaking to a roaas banquet, propounded the idea, and amaz~d his listeners with it. Yester-- day in the Legislature he brought his so--called fancy a lot closer to actual realization. "In a few years," he prophesied as to the eventual hookup, and pictured the great cross--section of the Prov-- ince--fertile farms of York, the island and water paradise of the Muskokas, the great timber stands of Temagami, the mineral areas, the clay belt, and ultimately the ocean itself--which the hockup would present any road traveller for his enjoyment. --Right now they are rushing the great T. & N. O. bridge over the Moose near Mike Island toward com-- MOTOR--CAR DEATHS DECREASE IN YEAR seneral Wiiliams _ Finds Liquor Involved in Few Cases L)'QI'\ 24 T TT _ m . y o% ; Strong Man Wanted :\\C!\uo\ul\-u\u'\u.\.'v\--\c-\c'\cfl pletion. And in that great span pro-- vision is being made for accommodat-- ing any future motor traffic that ex-- tension of the present Ferguson High-- way may bring in its direction.. Apparently Mr. Finlayson knows what he is talking about. to definec specifically the cause of these fatalities. The majority, no doubt, are due to recklessness on the part of the driver, and could be avoided. On the cther hand, there are some which are pure accidents and unavoidablis. I am pleased to say, however, that our investigations show that in very few casos was intoxicating liquor a contributory cause, and it is very gratifying to note the decreass in the number of fatalities from the preced-- ing year. '"There is, however, still much room for improvement." Attorney--General William H. Price gave notice yesterday of the bill by which the Security Frauds Prevention Act will be amended this session so as to provide for Commission -- administration -- of that law in future. This amend-- ing bill was forecast by The Globe at the commencement of the session, and the forecast was immediately confirmed by Colonel Price. While the Government declines at present to state what form of Commission it has in mind, it is generally understood at Queen's Park that the three--member board idea has been abandoned and the handling of the very vexatious question is to be en-- trusted to a single individual. That the Government is still on the hunt for the man for the job is also stated at the Parliament Buildings. For Frauds Board !