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FEBRVARYy 22 DROP POLIT|CS | } ory M b teae _ PARTES AGREE [ory Member Praises H * c _ _ % 4 ortneecinds ep UrM $ IrFOIS S*andl Col. Kennedy and Flying | Officer Lamport Give In a sudden defense of Premier Plan Tangible Suppori' Hepburn, wholly contrary to the imasmunmmmemmmommmmne stand of his leader, Col. Geor ' # * rge A. 1 R Drew, A. Holly Acres, Conservative, | ALL FOR THE STATE Carleton, declared in Legislature de-- ' seameasauman bate yesterday that he would not | &#olf--pledged to set aside politics have stayed two hours at the Do--. until peace is gained, Colonel T. L. minion--Provincial _ Conference _ at Kennedv, Conservative member for Ottawa if he had been head of the Pecl and former Minister of Agri-- Ontario delegation culture, declared, yesterday in de-- "If I had been the Prime Minis-- 'lbatr on the SPCECh from the Throne. ter of Ontario." said Mr. Acres, "I | it was his intention and the inten-- wouldn't have stayed two hours, let tion of the Opposition to give all alone two days. It was not time to |possible aid to the Government in consider a report of that kind. It increasing the war effort was a peacetime report." His speech found an echo in that In revealing that he had sat 'of the Liberal member who fol-- through the conference, Mr. Acres lowed him, Flying Officer Allan A. «;?;arz'o('l that Premier Bracken of | Lamport of Toronto--St. David, who Manitoba was "expecting Ontario to alled Canadiz s s > € adians to set pay half the Federal debt and then | CC ans c'c 'theu'"alm half the Manitoba debt besides. If toward the main objective. "The anything was wrong in Manitoba it | time of war is no time for the play-- was his own maladministration and ing of politics," said the member, it is time the people of Manitoba on 3 k & 3 * & n afternoon leave from the ? = woke up and changed their leader." ing s P h e. c Me expressed hope there would be ning Depot and on probably his last a conference in the {future between appearance at the House this ses-- the Government units, a conference sion. ?:lllho "'" '"':"Cr (:;'|Cgt:11ion>, be-- "Anything we, or I, can do," said ause, he said, smaller delegations M e { 64 get further. C'olunm Kennedy, tq help the Mr. Acres revived his annual ad-- Government, day or night, to put vocacy of a flat rate for hydro forth the utmost toward our war :Ubl(')l'nei': tmdl embellished it with effort, we will do. This is no time n attack on the principle of having , litie 5 sOf s war 6 the chief engineer of hydro acting Un o cnecid As soun as war booke Prova db out I decided not to appear at any as chairman of the commission. litical A P 4 pir. Acres closed his address witl political meetings while it lasted a denunciation of \Ir.' K'll]rv"- "[vl'll an.d, with "".? exception of the D?' lre to 10 What Pl'r:~idcn' !:o:) \f"l; minion election, I have kept this h&s done--Co--Ooperate \\'ilh' hib\'c gc vresolve and intend to keep it until feated opponent and take him into i ehnt thike io be playing o ties n some war duty." '"Why can't Prime times of \:ar » ying P Minister King be a statesman and p 'i'- 3 Subsidi practice what he preaches when he raises YFarm Subsidics. talks of a united nation?" he asked. Colonel Kennedy confined his re-- "Why doesn't King place Manion on marks to the sad position in which some worthwhile war board and let agriculture is at present. He praised us join hands and be one great the bacon and cheese subsidies family in winning this war?" which have been authorized, but said that the present was not the only time that should be considered in doaling with the agricultural * ; ® *# problem. Me pointed out that OS| 'on ee S l Canada is the main source of food supply for Great Britain now, and e e that the hog trade with the Mother Country had now reached the total n o a ' g I n g o S S of $104,000,000 a year. But, he stated, steps must be taken at once to i f Cbtvg 6 Cnntead 4 preserve this market after the war. Government expenditures yester-- tacked in budget debate speeches. The hog bonus would help Cana-- dav were the target of inquiries by on the ground it was not c'._\'.wullal dian breeders produce an Al hog the Opposition, when Premier Hep-- at """ml'_' when """"';;";"'* ("{""'".' which would stand up against all ment policy was canc 'api-- 5o j ct--WUAP YEARL burn was asked in an order paper | 1a) ".Okl(} was cancellation Of CAD:~ 1 f"n'lm"llon n ""? post.war yeats. | P C or_s. The cheese bonus is another magni-- question by T. A. Murphy (Con.,.| Basis of further criticism was' | ficent thing. Toronto Beaches) for the cost of | seen in questions by W. A. Duck-- y' Loh | Queen _ Elizabeth -- Way -- lighting | worth (Con., Toronto--Dovercourt), erficlecs WA Apath).. +. xA | equipment, the installation of a com--| which asked for the employee list, Apathy to the \\"a} effort was f')l? \li-lliOIl a' Polt BUI'\\'('". in .\ll h(l'l] p(']n]a"Cn' and 'Cn]poral.\'. fnl- b','Ol'ed b\' l'l)lng 0~£1C€r Lamport. \ HMepburn's riding, and the cost of | every fiscal year since the Hepburn | Wh°" he aligned | himself behind makinz and maintaining Ipperwash | Administration took office. Premier Hepburn in declaring there Park in Lambton County. Mr. Duckworth has also asked for | . Wa> a "lack of realization as to what It is generally conceded among the salary and duties of Chester S.| the war meant to Canadians and to Opposition members that the high--| Walters, Deputy Provincial Treas-- humanity. _ § way lighting program will be at--+| urer and Controller of Revenue. | He criticized a policy of pay--as* z_ _--| |you--go in the war on the ground that expenditures of npcessity must R be beyond the limit of bearable tax-- ation. * The officer pleaded that party f & _ strife should be thrown into the dise card in "this one time of our history when none must be for the party and all for the State." In illustra-- tion, he said that Wilfred Heigh-- ington, his opponent in the 1937 election, was on full--time duty in the Atlantic command. '"Today we are both fighting for the grgat transcendental principles in which we both agree," he said. l