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MARCH 10 He charged that the previous ad-- ministration, in response to a de-- mand for social legislation, passed enabling -- legislation and _ then, inthnsntncud ho \"shuffled a large proportion of the cost upon the already burdened shoulders of real estate." Munici-- _ t palities, he said, were encouraged to spend themselve; out of unem-- ; ployment, and citing his own riding, RESTS UPON All said from 1931 to 1934, $762,236 was OF SECESS'ON |added. to the capital debt of Brant-- In sharp reminder to members of |fprd in copncction with direct re-- the Ontario Legislature that the re-- |h°.f and rellef work. "L . i* F sponsibility of democracy rested |,, (!" "CSPect to the great buik of No Deep--Rooted Agitation | squarely on the shoulders of each , the tax burden on . real property, « S IBndi\'idual. H. Louis Hagey (Lib., |;lt1)?op:::'(2:m\:'.as utnfalr":.nd u'r:equitzl in Northern Area. Says § rantford) yesterday, in his maide * ing to nothing short of | inti e speech befoge the l{zuse. lamll":'dl th: a penalty on the small--home owner, | J. M. C.ooper. P.m.nhng to 3 publisher of 'The Globe and Mail |WhO endeavored by thrift and sav-t |mpr°v|ng Conditions 4 on his efforts to "awaken citizens |'"®: to pm\_'lde himself with a home. | oi grre atilint ind wieegrrnnes of this country Social services and the relief of the C out of their |Unemployed are a common respon--| LAUDS GAME CONTROL |, ' lethargy a n d sibility--there is no logic by which on ce snginigee es raimmmmmnely | Po j indifference in it can be argued Iht.l. one section of l § ~<%€ respect to gov-- | our tax--paying public, the owners Scoring secession talk in Northern 'fi €. s ernment." of rea'l proper':y. should be called| Ontario, J. M. Cooper (Lib., Sud-- [ "W e a re upon W' bury) yesterday in seconding the } g{ocl:Sru:iobr::if Address in reply to the Speech from |_ ~ $ racy and the the Throne, assured members of the s infallibility of Ontario Legislature there was no the Anglo-- deep--rooted movement in the North | Saxon -- race," | £.a i d M 1. toward autonomy. ' H a g e y, 31-- Just as emphatically the member | year--old mem-- declared that the solution of the' H. Louls Hagey. l;vfr. a.\l,c;untg:\s: unemplo,\ment, problem in Ontario| elected representatives in the As-- lay in the development of more'i 3 ' sembly. "It is well nigh time that industries in the North and saw in' all of us as citizens realized that proof of that claim the fact that'i f democracy is not only a privilege mining industriee alone employed | but a responsibility, a responsibility 8115 and that complementary estab-l that rests none too lightly at the f aa o 5 present time on the shoulders of Extension of the terms of l'he lishments, such as ]umbenng' each individual." Mortgagors and Purchasers' Relief brought the total number of men Mr. Hagey, who emphasized that, Act until June 30, 1940, as indicated in Northern Ontario dependent on | :;n:egr?::gwi?l:':'h:';)r:;';lbcr::t:{atl!:z in the Speech from the Throne, is mining for their living to 30,000. youth of this country, cited unem-- provided in a bill introduced yester»= While he noted there was a ployment as the greatest problem day before the Legislature by Hon. decline of between 3 and 4 per cent facing Canada today. Gordon Conant, Attorney--General. in the value of mineral production Means Limited. The new bill provides also that in 1938, Mr. Cooper said gold min-- "As a local legislature, our means all applications under the act must ing, which accounted for approxi-- and methods of alleviating this CON+ pna prought before the county or mately 45 per cent of the total dition are limited, to say the least" g;isirjet judge in which the land is output, showed a gain of 11 per cent, he added. "Criticism has been . c;{1,ateq "which practically counteracts the directed at the Premier for his " pna jegislative program saw the decline in the value of base metals." efforts in endeavoring to bring con-- immdumidn of bills which askodl In 1939, Mr. Cooper forecast, some certed action on this vexing prob-- thority to curb the sale of drugs fourteen new gold mills will be|¥| | lem from the Federal Parliament. e dei d Bérbaturic acid brought into production, adding || Recently,' however, we have wit-- such :ih .(-o. :'-".\c.anund(.,. the Phar-- 2,285 tons to the daily rate of ore| § nessed a movement organized by and" 2"," ngs.m extend the pen-- mined. He emphasized that the the publisher of a national news-- mRCY c;ian the I:duqtrial Stan-- hvdro--electric properties owned by paper, calling for leadership in Can-- al'u'es' xn (.';' \.101'00,{ of regula-- the government and operated by the || | 'ad: to deallwi;h unemployment and ?i'::x?: Ct 10r provincial commission in the north-- $ other vita ssues. May I say o R Irhu inis« ern districts, had sufficient revenue ||, proudly to the members of thi't Hon. Harold J. Kdlrlt'\a Mmtl,'i;;'r :,; last year for the first time to cover House that there has been no lack Health, also "l:l'ir? l"i"c 'l:IG Act by all expenses, after making adequate of leadership in Ontario since the AMON3 the Public HOSP! on' mas provision for reserves. He attributed election of 1934." limiting the time an': a(.t (;n i; this condition solely to the increase At the outset, the member ex. DC brought against a hospla'. ::{;S in the mining load. At the same pressd his gratitude to the Govern-- 2" Other employee !o dS'x_, mM [ time he urged the government to ment for having given to him the . from the date of the 7 MF. Ki OL| expand its services to the rural \honor of moving the address in re-- -- 3 PAtS"! A third bill ':'\ s o:;sv' sections. |pty to the Speech from the Throne. !% designed 10 Prev6Nt fOmeiths Mr. Cooper claimed the adminis--|$" He paid tribute to the memory of . Companies from holding 4an s tration of the Department of Game |, Hon. M. M. McBride, whose death . free indefinitely. ______ and Fisheries was not--only preserv-- | || last summer led to his election. inz game, but protecting the tourist "' l'l'hon with a brevity and an adher-- industry, which he added, "shows a Q 'ence to essential points in his ad-- total investment by the 600 licensed 2 | dress, which members later forecast tourist outfitters of more than $ i might well serve as a model for the £15,000,000. It gives employment for § entire session, he embarked direct-- approximately five months of the a il_v on an attack upon current prob-- | year to 2800 guides and in the & lems. I neighborhood of 1,800 domestics i' | Of the management of great ln-] and other help, with a lotal dustrial concerns, he asked: "Are annual wages expenditure of about | they too much concerned in increas. $1,500,000." ing present dividends for, their _ Mr. Cooper strongly commended stockholders to overlook the fact the government for its Northern that, unless consideration is given Ontario road construction program. to the problem of unemployed 'youth. not only will they be with-- | iout trained help in the future, but t |it is conceivable to believe that L \youth, in desperation, will seize upon \a form of government not in keeping with the present system of divi-- dends." He urged on them co--operation in \the Provincial Youth Training Pro-- , gram, and then, turning to the problem of real estate taxation, ~ charged that real property "has been taxed to the point of confisca.-- tion."