The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 28 Feb 1941, p. 2

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lz pnren t Et 000 0 C1 * FEBRUVARY 29 i istcitintaicee enc ces tvidtereanemearleallieeeIOGNUOeiomnm f ACRES URGES ' WANTS PROFITS -- | BAR REPLACE _ KEPTFROMFORD Federal action to bar one cent of profit earned by the Ford Motor Company of Canada from going O lb e eb reaiinieigea es Honry Ford, whom he termed "this black--hearted American Quis--" 3 'Throw Out Tdb'QS Gfld ling," yesterday was demanded in & & # the Ontario Legislature by Flying . C h a m s, COHSQI'VO'WG Officer Allan Lamnort, Liberal mem-- '1 » ASkS in L e g i 5 | a t ure l)r-v" for 'I'm'nnl.n-SY..D:l\ul. J The RCAF. officer declared he ;_' i e t o had boeen disgusted and shocked by 4 R('plarmnrn' of the beverage recent statements made b»s Hoenry P room system with the bar was ad-- Ford -- and -- Colonel Chu'xlm Ll'l'\d- A berzh, which showed "their utter ' vocated yesterday in the Legisia-- lack of sympathy with our war ef-- p ture by A. MHolly Acres, Carleton fort and aims." He stressed Mr & County -- Conservative, when he Ford's action in the United States pressed the Government to "throw was no concern of Canadians, ex-- P out the tables and chairs." cept in so far as he might have in-- ; "If 1 were the Prime Minister," terests in Canada. i said Mr. Acres, "I would throw out| | 'The Canadian Ford Company, he ' every table and chair out of the said, was engaged in vital war work ; beverage rooms. If you want tables and was doing efficient work. The ' and chairs with your wives and president, Wallac» R. Campbe'l, daughters sitting around ----aqr the "and his wife are among our best workman, who has a right to his and most patriotic citizens and ar»s beer--slopping the stuilf into them, both rendering invaluable service all right. But I am against it." at the present time. I want it most & _hl his reformation of the system, eclsarly understood that my remarks said the member, "I would give at this point do not in any way re-- licenses to standard hotels so that {flect either on them or on the com-- a person could get a drink of liquor pany itself. if he wanted it. I would give the \ _ "But I feel that the people of this municipalities the right to vote on ountry . . . are entitled to a defi-- * whether or not they wanted tables nite -- assurance by the: Federal and chairs. I would make it that if authorities that this black--hearted a hotel man gave a drunken man American Quisling has not one single a drink he would lose his license for cent interest in the Canadian com-- § three months. I would clamp down pany bearing his name and that on them hard and for the second not one penny of money or profit offence 1 would make it six years." earnod in Canada is reaching his The recommendation came after coffers, where it might be used for Elying Officer Allan A. Lamport, such purposes as to finance the Liberal member for Toronto--St. broadcasts of his anti--British prop-- David, defended the Government's agandist, Cameron." administration of the beer selling laws and an even warmer defense of # the right of members of the armed D fh f I f d Sf I, forces to use beverage rooms. Both ea 0 mpor e a Ion speakers declared they wore against e prohibition. f b A The Toronto member said the Prompfs Ques Ions y Cres prohibition forces were working h_al'd--had already this session peti-- A Holly Acres, Conservative |members of the Government in dis-- tllonec(li H;e members--and he d member for Carleton and self. | Cussing his passing, had failed in clared: "I am convinced that such s P iFian ts k life to realize the purpose for which a move to prohibition would be a appointed critic of Senator Dun-- he was pux'rhr;xoid. that is retrograde one." can Marshall's purchases of stock |strengthen the blood lines of breed-- Suggestions that members of the for the O.AC. farm while he was ing stock here. armed forces should be barred from Minister of Agriculture, opened at-- Only two years before Millhills beverage rooms, and that wet can-- tack again yesterday when, in a | Ransome, a Shorthorn hbull import-- :teens should be abolished was, he question on the order paper, he ed under the sponsorship of Mr. ; said. "a slur upon a fine body of men asked for information about the | Marshall, died during the Legisla-- IWho are olfering their all to defend death and progeny, if any, of ture session and within two weeks | even the freedom of their traducers Craigie Realization, the Clydesdale iof the time Mr. Acres had posed | to criticize them." stallion. with the bull for a picture during Craigie died at the O.A.C. early an inspection of the O.AC. by last summer, and, according to |farmer members of the House. P § # ® Acres' Hired Hands Desert Him, . \S * 1 omething Wrong and | Can Prove It Bitter foe of the direct relief sys--C~ = B tem and an advocate of aid to the farmer, A. Holly Acres, Carleton County Conservative, claimed yes-- terday there "is something wrong and I can prove it." He then related: Last winter, he had two hired men to whom he paid $25 a month and all found "and . the work wasn't too stiff either." | One night they went into Ottawa | and began to talk to a Chinese cafe | keeper, with the result that next ; day at noon they left the farm and | went into Ottawa to wash dishes in the cafe for more money than he was paying. i s "And that day," saird the mem-- ber, waving a large and toil--worn index finger at the House, "the , papers in Ottawa reported lherel ; were 273 employable married men in that city on relief. I tell you, there is something wrong and I can o prove it." ' * U mm ftetersiGinGtnia im n n cceA tm ie

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