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--STRESS COURSES LOOKING TO JOB, SAYS SIMPSON _ Galt, established by his predeces-- sor, which trained mechanics. Each boy on enrolling, he said, must pre-- sent a letter from an employer guaranteeing him a job after he completes the course. Hon. Norman Hipel, Minister, said there was a machine shop in William Duckworth (Cons., Dov-- ercourt) said he had been informed that boys enrolling in trade schools under Department of Labor super-- vision were led to believe that they would be given a job on completion of their courses. "It is not a political matter," said Mr. Macaulay. "It is a matter of improving education and the lot of young people in Ontario." In the demand for the courses, as indicated by the Minister's re-- port, Leopold Macaulay (Cons., South York) saw a reflection on the type of education that was be-- ing given in the high and commer-- cial schools. It suggested that the educational system was not follow-- ing through and giving students a grounding for their life work. Dr. Simpson said that schools situated in the United States alone had collected more than $3,000,000 from Canadian correspondents last year. The unfortunate part of the sgituation, he said, was not that this amount of money was going out-- side of Canada and the Province, but that so many boys had bought the courses under persuasion that they would secure good jobs for them. The parent act, recalled Dr. Simpson, was drafted as the result of recommendations by Colonel Fraser Hunter (Lib., St. Pat-- rick), who disclosed widespread abuses in this type of training, al-- thougn a number of correspondence schools, of which several were sit-- uated in Ontario, had provided an excellent service to students. The Minister of Education's re-- port was made in debate arising from second reading of the Trade School Regulation Act. Under the amendment, penalties were in-- creased from $100 to $1,000 for in-- fringement of sections which rule that correspondence schools must register their courses with the De-- partment of Education before of-- fering them for sale in the Prov-- ince. Recognizing the futility of put-- ting all boys through the same educational mould, the Ontario De-- partment of Education has been placing ever--increasing stress upon vocational training and special courses designed to fit the student for specific jobs, Hon. Dr. L. J. Simpson said yesterday in the Leg-- islature. CHECK ON ABUSES Department Policy Set Forth as Trade School Registration Tightened Opposition Leader George Drew suggested that the proper place for discussion of the amendments to the Jurors Act and Judicature Act was in the Legal Bills Committee, and asked the Attorney--General to convene the committee to comb his bills for faults. Introducing the bills, Attorney-- General Conant said that the Jurors Amendment Act was direct-- ed at abolishing grand juries and reducing the number of jurors in civil actions in county and district courts to six. He said that the amendments to the Judicature Act dealt with the requirements for finding a verdict with six--man juries, and were complementary to the former bill. He said that it was unusual for Government measures to go before private committees, but that in this case the Government might be willing to accede to the Opposition Leader's request. Premier Hepburn said Colonel Drew was out of order in making his suggestion during the first reading of the bills, but stated that the Government "are not unwilling to consider the suggestion if it is made at the proper time, during the second reading." Government measures designed to streamline the Provincial judi-- clal system through the abolition of grand juries and the reduction by half of the number of jurors in civil actions were given first reading in the Legislature yester-- dav. Drew Asks Jury Bills, _ Introduced in House, | Go Before Committee -- Hepburn Says Government May Acquiesce in Suggestion on Measures to End Grand Jury and Reduce by Half Number in Civil 'Actions FEBRVARY CONANT CITES PRECEDENTS FOR STEP "At the present time Ontario is one of the few remaining, and prob-- ably one of the largest, jurisdictions in the British Empire retaining the Grand Jury system," said the At-- torney--General. "Grand Juries have been abolished in England except for offenses against the Crown in two counties. They were abolished in South Africa in 1885, and in our own Dominion they have been abolished in Quebec, Manitoba and British Columbia." The Attorney--General said that satisfactory assurances had been received from the Dominion Gov-- ernment that the necessary amend-- ments to the Criminal Code would be made. "Although certain groups have passed resolutions condemning the abolition of Grand Juries," he con-- tinued, "I would like to point out! that the County Councils of Haldi« mand, Lennox, Addington, Welland! Halton, Wellington, Ontario ax:f Lincoln have passed resolutio favoring the step. It is the countie' who pay for Grand Juries, and no the organizations favoring their continued existence." Mr. Conant said the reduction of the number on juries in civil ac-- tions in county and district courts followed, to a limited extent, the practice established in Alberta, Sas-- katchewan and Manitoba. "Recently in England it has been enacted that it will not be necessary to have a jury of more than seven men in any trial whether civil or criminal," said the Attorney--General.