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+ o . Februu' 28 s | Ch ceaper HYdI'O P OWE _ Needed for Villag J Survi lai ; To Survive, Is Claim AH-IA"!G'!"WI!'NW trial ranks one flax mill, one foundry, for the smaill towns and vil-- two carriage factories and two grist lages, to save them from what he :lmh:rf:?' because '°f them ?hgo,l: W as the threat of complete omuwlnmmtm. extinction, was uttered in the Leg-- &Po':eroosttsz per horsepower to-- islature yesterday by J. W. Free-- y in Middlesex villages, he said, and born (Lib.. Middlesex North) dur-- only $25 in the Niagara district. As ing debate on the Speech from the & result, village industries in Middle-- Throne. :: could exist only bydme;;m drgf us-- Diesel engines, an was The industries and the population| tnus losing a large potential market. of these centres, he said, were rapid--| . n "It wouldn't cost Hydro any more to ly drifting toward the cities, and un-- deliver in Lucan 150 horsepower than less some remedial action was taken it does to deliver the present con-- the countryside would some day be sumption of 75 horsepower," he dotted with deserted villages. argued. * Topulations Shrink. "A system," he concluded, "that dis-- _ He cited the cases of Lucan, which criminates against the weak in favor in thirty years had shrunk from a|of the strong should not be tolerated | population of 1,100 to 612, and of | ary longer than it takes to correct it." Parkhill, which in the same period| Mr. Freeborn also advocated the had dropped from 2,000 to 995. And establishment of a farm mortgage in the same period the Village of board, to be appointed for a period of Allsa Craig had lost from her indus--| three years. # No member of the Cabinet and no officer of the Treasury Department called any bank or insurance company and asked them to subscribe to the % $20.000,000 Ontario loan during the bond crisis of last June, Premier Hep-- burn said yesterday. The Premier demanded that Colonel W. H. Price withdraw a charge to that effect in the Legislature. k The Colonel accepted the Premier's R ®" ,st.atement, "but I maintain that there j a 2 was very great pressure on banks and ; 4. s Insurance companies to subscribe." t i+ "There was no pressure brought to bear on banks and insurance com-- 4 panies," the Premier countered, and | he challenged Colonel Price to name any such instance. "There is no doubt," the former * Attorney--General insisted, "that de-l positaries of money came forward to subscribe to this loan because theyi didn't want to see it fail." | s & +@ 4 90,000 LEAVE INCOME TAX BILL | RELIEF ROLLS CARRIED BY 64--17 9 % ' vone o mgermrrerninys CLAIMS CRO' l The one--man C.C.F. and U.F.O. Parties in the Legislature joined up | l es e i ies o with the Government yesterday to put ' The number of persons on relief in * the income tax through third reading. 1 \ Ontario has dropped by 90,000 since The division on the reading was f the beginning of the present year, the forced by Premier Hepburn, and it was Legislature learned yesterday from carried by a Government majority of | Hon. David Croll, Minister of Welfare 64--17. The vote put the Legislature's The information was offered as a final approval on the income--tax law, reply to W. A. Baird (Cons., Toronto-- -- t 'Whlch now goes to the Lieutenant-- | High Park), who had charged that the | Governor for his signature. Hepburn Administration had done |__Conservatives were willing to let the nothing whatever to alleviate the dis-- | bill pass yesterday without debate and tress among the unemployéed. s without a division, but Premier Hep-- "Would it interest the honorable burn said the Government desired & member to know," interjected Mr. : 'record vote. Five members must rise Croll, amid Government desk--thump-- ' from their seats to force a vote. The ~ing, "that since the first of the year whole Liberal majority got up like a 4 the relief rolls of the Province have Greek phalanx. Sam Lawrence, Ham-- fallen by more than 90,000?" ilton, C.C.F. member, and Farquhar. Oliver, U.F.O. member from South Grey, voted with the Liberals on the c * divillo:g.~ Aal