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m i FEBRUARYy 2( The present educational system, he said, was unfair to the masses of | _ _| the people. The State owed a prim-- ary education to every girl and boy in Ontario, he felt, but students T should pay their own way for ad-- 1 ! vanced education. ' "Instead of making these huge grants to give university students education below cost," Mr. Acres said, "I would establish a sinking 'fund and loan money to bright w n mm mm * . young people of all classes who| B % . % wanted a university education. Then | ack Premier in His they could pay it back during the | * next twenty years. Why should the | CQHSUI'Q, Then Endorse public pay for the cagltal' invest-l Opposite, Acres Gibes noom of our prafessional men! | hat's what a university education HI es isvva capital investment." | . G. Nixon (Lib., Temiskaming) T S DEPARTMENTS voiced a strong plea to the Govern-" hemeemaraa ns | ment to give special consideration to | Members of the Hepburn Govern-- _-- farm mortgages in arrears in North-- | ment who have taken to the hust-- !'e'l\'n Ontario. Citing the fact t!\at ° c % ere were 467 such loans in exist--| ings in support of Liberal candi-- ; ence in his district, with a total dalea: in the forthcoming Federal _ | vajue of over 3800000 incl'uding un« election were read a lecture in COM-- _ | paid interest, he expressed the hope | sistency yesterday by A. H. (Holly) _\ that some arrangements would be | Acres (Con., Carleton), who AC-- / made to prevent foreclosures. | fl,'";: 'tho'm 9' lacking the courage Settlers in Northern Ontario were 'o. their convictions, _ the real pioneers of the Province, | _ Speaking in the Legislature bud-- he maintained, and the contribu-- | get debate, the veteran Conserva-- tions they had made to Ontario's | tive back;bcnvher amused himself growth should not be ignored. | by directing a verbal barrage all He urged, also, that consideration \along the Treasury benches, criti-- be given to clauses of the Securities cizing Ministers o' half a dozen de-- Act, which, he said, worked an un-- partments for "shortcomings" in due hardship on prospectors. Gold | their administration, and climaxing prospecting in the district had been | his contribution to the debate with slowed up as a result of the act, he | his reference to the Legislature's said, and the establishment of new recent resolution censuring the war camps was being delayed by the effort of the King Government. ' severity of the measure. "You fellows haven't got the cour-- li $ 'age of your own convictions," he Protect Soldiers' Health, |gibed. "You support your Prime | As part of the Provincial war ef-- | Minister whenever he says the fort, the Department of Health has word and then, when he turns his distributed 15,000 ounces of typhoid back, you go out and endorse can-- vaccine to immunize soldiers and didates of the same party you per-- has stepped up its diagnostic serv-- sonally censured. i ices, Hon. Harold Kirby, Minister of Colonel Fraser Hunter, he said, | ifealth, told the Legislature last | had shown the attitude that every night, as debate on the budget con-- | one in Ontario should. show, by re-- _ | tinues. ilusing to accept nomination for &A | Some 3,000 specimens sent in by | Federal seat. ess. | | the militia authorities were exam-- \ "I refused the nomination because| | jmeq and the department has ar-- \I thought the work of the volun-- ranged for admission of soldier | teer committee for the Finnish War| | patjents to both sanitoria and men-- ' was more important," replied Colo--| |;a) nospitals, the Minister said. He ne! Hunter. stressed that while the department '"That's right. You ran out of the was giving every co--operation to the House when the resolution came up war effort, the health of the citi-- to a vote," retorted the Conserva-- zens was by no means being neg:-- tive member. lected. "Because I knew a lot of fools During the year there was a 50 would cause an election," the for-- per cent reduction in typhoid fever mer Bengal Lancer shot back. l cases and only three in every 100,-- The member for Carleton kept| | pop population developed the dis-- the House in high good humor @S| | pase, Mr, Kirby said. This was the | he dxrected. his barbed comments | 'lowost rate in the history of the, at each Minister, turn by turn.. and | ' Province. There was a 40 per cent . explained what he would do if he| | qoorease in undulant fever, proo" were in charge of their depart=| | that the milk pasteurization policy | ments. of the Government was bearing k He charged that the Department' %qo;imfrugl. L::ellci):sclgsg\'aier?lgdl 5 » s «+ 1 1erIia ses | of Highways had indu.l.ggd ie SP w pc? cent lower than in 1938, while | heard of extravagance," in building he death rate of 3.5 was the lowest' the four--lane highway from Toronto fose Prenorl i n Ontatio to Hamilton, "just so Cabinet Minis-- uho » rle'pox . case _ of --_SUSDECLEd ters would be able to drive home Only one chse ied 4n 0?1&&1"0 in comfort." lsmallpox was reporte i The people of Ontario, he declared, A & l were not yet in a position to carry during the year, as compared with such a burden. 708 cases in 1929," said Mr. Kirby. Similar extravagance, he «laimed, . . "But the department is not too had been shown in the Govern--| happy in the matter of vnccmatlon' ment's construction of lavish mental _ | amons children. | hospitals 'The needs of the Prov--| We will undoubtedly suffer an-- ince would have been served equallyl other epidemic of this qlsea§e un-\ well by building $500,000 additions less the younger gene.x.'atxon is pro-- to hospitals "at London and two or tected by vaccination. _ ® three other places" instead of spend-- Insulin treatment for particular ing $6,000,000 on the St. Thomas in-- forms of insanity, used at the New stitution. Toronto Ontario Hospital for sev-- _ But his strongest shalt was re-- eral years had shown encouraging served for the Department of Edu-- results, said Mr. Kirby. Insulin cation. "The universities of On-- | treatment units were planned for tario are doing more harm than iLPndon and Brockville Ontario Hos-- !good." he told Hon. L. J. Simpson, _: Pitals. At New Toronto, 119 patients Minister of Education. "If I were had been treated and 81 per cent in your place I'd cut all their grants derived benefit. Where mental il}-- 'in two--and I won't take that back ness was of less than eighteen no matter what anybody says." months' standing, 45 per cent made complete recovery.