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, Page Four THE COLBORNE EXPRESS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1921 A statement of the deputy-treasurer of Ontario gives the debt of the Province at the present time as something over $166,000,000. Of this sum about $80,000,000 is in connection with the Hydro-Electric Commission's power, lighting and railway schemes. The direct debt, for the care of which appropriations must be made out of the ordinary reven-' ues, amounts to over $86,000,000. >; Of this over $22,000,000 is represent-: ed by ownership of the Temiskaming : and Northern Ontario Railway, the ; net earnings of which last year are ] given as $298,842, equal to about a third of fhe interest on the cost of construction. This is far from encouraging the reckless building and buying of competitive lines which is now being advocated. The balance is $64,000,000, a considerable amount of which carries interest at the rate of 5% to 6% per cent., and makes a heavy draft on the treasury receipts. The deficit for the past year will amount to about two million dollars. The statement is neither comforting nor encouraging. The adolescent school attendance act, by the proclamation of the Lieutenant-Governor, made on the 13th day of July, 1920, will come into force and take • effect as follows: Section 3 on September 1st. i921, Section 7 on September 1st, 1923, and Section 9 on September 1st. 1922. The purpose of bringing the act into force by stages is to make it possible to adjust gradually school accomodations, courses of study, and employments in industries to the conditions set up by thc requirments of the act. Secton 3 of the act, which comes into operation on September 1, 1921, provides for the attendance at school of adolescents between fourteen and sixteen years of age. The minister announces that in conformity with this section of the act, pupils are expected to remaip in full-time attendance at school -until they are sixteen years of age unless employed on the authority of a home permit or an employment certificate as provided for by the act, but that it is not his intention to instruct attendance officers to make the act retroactive by endeavoring to compel young persons between fourteen and sixteen years of age who have been engaged in regular employment to return to school. School authorities,* accordingly, will, in the beginning, be charged with providing only for the continued instruction of those who are at present at school and not for the numbers who might be forced to Teturn to school by the strictest terpretation of the act. At the same time, the minister pects that the act will be made fully effective to the extent that attendance officers be appointed according to law and their departments organized to ensure, first, that all young persons between fourteen and sixteen years of age shall be either at school or at work, and, second, that all thos who are at work either at home or ii gainful employments, shall hold the permits or certificates required Section 9, which provides for the establishment and maintenance part-time courses of instruction for young persons at work, comes into operation on September 1st, 1922 The minister expects that boards will be prepared to make this section effective on that date. Whenever it is desired, the minister, through the officers of the department of education, will be ready to lend assistance to boards in organizing attendance departments and in forming or in carrying out plans for part-time instruction. SPRACKLIN FACES TRIAL. Grand Jury Brings In True Bill In Manslaughter Case. SANDWICH, Ont., Feb. 22. -- At half-past three on Monday afternoon, after two hours deliberation, the grand jury brought in a true bill against Rev. J. O. L. Spracklin for manslaughter. This means he goes to trial, but does not imply guilt. The grand jury of the Supreme Court, after receiving instructions in their duties by Sir William Mulock, presiding judge at the spring assizes which opened Monday morning, retired at 1.45 to consider the indictment against Rev. J. Q. L, Spracklin, formally arraigned on a charge of "killing and Slaying" Beverly Trum-ble at the Chappell House on November 6. Court was declared open at 1.15 o'clock and the grand jury was immediately sworn. Sir William Mulock then addressed that body pointing out the difference between culpable and non-culpable homicide. The most significant utterance during Sir William's address came during his explanation of assault, when he declared that the "act of presenting a pistol within carrying distance of the body" constituted that offence. He pointed out that the sole duty of the grand jury lay in determining whether there was sufficient evidence adduced by the crown to warrant the return of a true bill against the aecused, and declared that, should they throw out the charge, it was legally possible for another grand jury to sit in consideration of the case. Following the reading of the formal charge by Henry Clay, clerk of the court, the grand jury retired to consider the evidence submitted by the crown. All seats in the eourt room were filled when the court was formally declared open, but interest in the case has evidently waned since the shooling occurred, and no spectators were turned away. WHY MILK COSTS SO MUCH "No wonder milk costs so much", says the January Pictorial Review. "The price may be high--but do you ever stop to think when you buy a "quart of milk that you are paying interest on the farmer's investment in his cows, pasture lands. fences, barns, feed cans, utensils, cooling equipment, and the cart or truck that carries the milk to market? You are paying the wages of the men who milk the cows, care for the herd, including the calves and bull, clean the stables, haul the feed that ii. not honie-grown, begin work be-U re daylight, and work seven days week, rain or shine? You are 1'aying for the maintenance of the rproductive part of the herd--the 1 eifers that are to replace the cows 3 st, through old age, accident and urease. The average life of a cow ii only 6.7 years, and for approxl maa.-iy three years of this, she is not producing milk. In order to protect your health, ' the state authorities' may condemn diseased cows and the dairyman is only partially recompensed for his loss. You are paying the transportation from the farm to your door. Land close to cities is far too valuable to be used for pasturage and dairy farms are often as far back as 200 miles from their metropolitan market. So the cost of dray-ing and icing must be added to thei price. You are buying protection again;! impure or sour milk. Pasteurization, sterilization of bottles and utensils, refrigeration, and laboratories where the milk is tested, i the e n against i flue BRITISH CATTLE DISEASED. Report Was Made In the Canadian House of Commons. OTTAWA, Feb. 22.--The injustice of Britain's embargo against live Canadian cattle, ostensibly to protect British cattle against a disease which has practically never existed here, is made all the more glaring in that Canada has to prevent importations from England because the disease really does exist there. In the latest report of the j) miner of Agriculture, just laid on the table of the House of Commons, fhe Health of Animals Branch report says, in part: "I regret to report that foot-and-mouth disease has again been causing very serious loss in England. Outbreaks have occurred at frequent intervals, extending from the Isle of Wight to the northern counties. It has therefore been necessary to prohibit all cattle, sheep, other ruminants and swine being imported from that country for some time. "In view of the great impqrtane© of permitting, our breeders to Import animals pi special breeding, and owing to the fact that Scotland has not at any time had the disease within its boundaries, importations are being allowed from Scotland,.providing the animals have been in that country for a period of two months previous to their importation. "There are many serious diseases on the continent of Europe to which our stock has never been liable, and the greatest care has to be taken to prevent them getting here. I appreciate the necessity of importing valuable strains of various breeds to Improve herds and flocks, and there are quarantine stations at Quebec, St. John, N.B., Halifax, Vancouver and Victoria to permit this being done With a minimum of danger." mm topics of week Important Events Which Have Occurred Dui ing the Week. The Busy World's Happenings Carefully Compiled and Put Into Handy and Attractive Shape for the Readers of Our Paper -- A Solid Hour's Enjoyment. University of Toronto beat Arge-nauts, 7 to 2. Saskatoon district was in the grip of a blizzard on Tuesday. AU-In«Ua has forwarded a challenge for the Davis Cup. A medical survey of all the schools in Oxford county has commenced. The painters' strike ia Toronto may spread to other building trades.4 Enrico Caruso, the famous tenor, had a relapse, and is dangerously ill. Gen. Sternberg, anti-Bolshevist, has captured the Mongolian city of Urga. A witness in grocers' combine case tells of pressure exerted by wholesalers. Bruno Luno, 12 years old, was almost instantly killed by a motor car in London. Over twenty million dollars were spent by the Dominion Governmet on public works during the year. Mrs. Oliver G. Steeves and five young children perished when their house near Moncton was burned. ' A quarter of a million fire occurred at 34, 36 and 36a Notre Dame street west, Montreal, on Tuesday at noon. Harry G. Barnes was discharged on a charge of manslaughter in Toronto and immediately re-arrested on froi the A consignment of Soviet gold on the way to aid British Bolshevism was captured on Monday night by the Italian police on the steamship Ancona. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Alberta has handed down judgment quashing the conviction on the Nat. Bell Liquor Co. The liquor is ordered returned to the company. Justice Beck says that the Liquor Act is invalid. THURSDAY. Essex High School was destroyed by fire; loss $60,000. | Toronto retail dealers say freight rates have stagnated trade. Hon. G. S. Henry attacked the pro-[ vincial roads administration. 1 The U. S. Senate passed the Emergency Tariff Bill by 43 to 30. The Ontario Veterinary Society will not admit non-graduate practitioners. A chain of stores in Montreal are Belling bread at 9 % cents for a 24-ounce loaf. Ten nations are expected to compete in the tennis tournament for the Davis Cup this year, i Australia beat England by eight wickets in the fourth test cricket j match in Australia.. The Provincial Governi GREECE TO LOSE LAND. Franco-British Agreement Concerning Sevres Treaty. LONDON, Feb. 22.--Revision of the treaty of Sevres, so as to give Turkey additional territory in Thrace, occupied by the Greeks, was decided upon by Mr. Lloyd George and M. Briand on Monday in consultations preceding the Near East conference here. This decision, before becoming effective, however, requires the approval of the allied colleagues of the French and British Premiers. According to this Franco-British reernent, the frontier line in Thrace will bo moved westward, extending from Enos on the ^Egean to Midia on the Black Sea. This would take from Greece one-fourth of the territory she now occupies there and add it to the Constantinople district, i . „ -V- The Turks also under this arrangement are to be allowed representation on the internal commission controlling Constantinople. The proposals thus formulated will be submitted to the conference as a whole. It is understood .that Mr. Lloyd George and M. Briand arrived at the opinion, as a result of their consultation, that the Greek question igltt be susceptible of a much speedier settlement than had been previously thought. le British and French states-'s impression was that the Greeks would be satisfied with the proposals to be made regarding the Smyrna district, but that settlement of the quesiion of Thrace would be 1 The governess of AmbassJ Meyer's children was arrested "in Paris for shoplifting. I Owen Sound bonspiel was continued on Wednesday on water-covered ice with the games reduced to six i ends each. j James Kay ("Uncle Jimmy") Dan-gerfleld, a pioneer of Carmouth township, died at Aylmer, Ont., aged 87 years. | M. E. Kelly, K.C., has been appointed Crown Attorney for Norfolk county, succeeding the late T. R. ; Slaght, K.C. I Britain's Mesopotamian mandate 1 will not be submitted to Parliament for approval before being sent to the League of Nations. The ondon University Senate has appointed a woman, Miss. Anne Louise Mcllroy, to the university chair of obstetrics at the School of Medicine for Women. FRIDAY. A further cut in newsprint prices has been declared. Eggs dropped 10 cents further to 60 cents a dozen at Montreal. The study of German is to be resumed in the schools of Washington, D. C. The bill to appoint provincial police commissioner was given its first reading. ' !•" The Ford Motor Company will establish a glass factory at Flat Rock, Michigan. An-important convention on town-planning and civic improvement is in session in Toronto. The Ontario Builders' and Supply Association protests strongly against the eight-hour day. Price declines in almost, all lines were noted in January, the most importance in grain and textiles. The Greek and Turkish delegations have arrived in London for the conference with the Allies on the Serres Treaty. Bishop Newnham, of Saskatchewan, has tendered his resignation owing to advancing age and failing health. The Guelph Independent Labor Party will not join with, the Liberals of South Wellington in the Federal James W. Waferson was killed by a tree being cut down on a farm as he was passing in a rig near Montreal. Ia the Frank" Trushinskl testimonial game in Toronto Thursday r.i*l;t the local O. H. A. senior teams beat eight years. He was Chief Whip for the Borden Government. SATURDAY. The Legislature advanced many bills. -Lord Milner urges granting independence to Egypt. Town-planners ask Government to establish municipal portfolio. John B. O'Brien, brother of Senator O'Brien, died at Renfrew. Objections are raised to the proposal to divide York township. Rabbi Brickner, of Toronto, con-lemns mixed marriages for Hebrews. Arthur Pelky, the well-known Canadian heavyweight boxer, is- dead. The Bavarians threaten to overthrow Government of Premier Kohrs. Germany will ask Allies .to allow her to make big international loan. Collingwood O. H. A. intermediates beat Newmarket on the round by 11 to 2. The Toronto Builders' Association sets out to secure honesty in contract fulfilment. The Slave River Railway Co. purposes to build a line into the sub-Arctic regions of Canada. The Quebec Government may control the asbestos mining industry as it does that of pulpwood. New charge is to be laid against Harry G. Barnes, whose car hit a motorcycle and killed a man. An extensive building program is mapped out for the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, for this year. In an international bowling game at Los Angeles the Canadian representatives beat the U. S., 157 to 138. Robert J. Sharpe, 3 5 years old, foreman on the Welland ship canal, was killed in a fall at Lock No. 1, Port Weller. W. M. O'Breine, editor of the Stratford Beacon since 1891, president of the Dominion Press Association, is dead. Judge H. W. Newlands of the Court of Appeal of SaskatcheVan has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of that province: The House of Commons on Friday voted confidence in Premier Lloyd George by a most decisive majority in the Bottomley amendment. The reindeer industry project initiated by Vilhjalmur Stefansson for Baffin's Land will be on a sound basis, it is expected, within this year. I MONDAY. The Anglican Church at Wood-bridge was totally destroyed by fire.. Over a hundred "sportsmen" were arrested in Toronto in a raid on a cocking-main. Capt. "Tom" G. Wallace, M.P. for West York, is dead. Thomas Gibbard, returned soldier, unable to find work in Toronto, cuts his throat. A new : ction against Harry G. Barnes has been ordered on a charge of manslaughter. Brantford Lutherans dedicated a new church costing $12,000. The New Westminster teachers have won their demands and are all reinstated. Liberals, Farmers and Labor may combine in South Wellington to beat Government. ttempt was made to wreck rapt in about a year. / y of four men and three women who were climbing the Doch-stein glacier have perished. The Austrian Government has yielded to the demands of the civil 'employes and promises an immediate bonus. Sir Alfred Mond, who has just returned from Palestine, says that country possesses deposits of mineral oil, phosphates and asphalt. In an English Cup third round ?;.-.me Hull defeated Burnley by 2 to 0. Yale University boxers won four out of six bouts from the Queen's University team. The McGill water polo team was defeated by the University of Toronto team by 5 to 1. St. Patrick's hockey team beat Hamilton, 5 to 4. Ottawa hockey team was beaten by Canadiens, 8 to 1. De la Salle O. H. A. junior team qualified to play in the semi-finals by beating Hamilton, 8 to 5, on the TUESDAY. The Ontario Tankard opened in Toronto on Monday. Strictly fresh eggs retailed in Till-sonburg at 36 cents a dozen. Fire in Levis County Railway car sheds did $300,000 damage. The Niagara Falls O.H.A. intermediate team defeated Kitchener by to 3. The Ontario Retail Clothiers in convention in Toronto discuss the trade outlook. The Ancient Order of Hibernians of Toronto refuse to apologize for flag incident. Removal of snow in New York left by recent storm is expected to cost over $1,000,000. The Dominion tvnior "-am won the Toronto Bank League title, beating Commerce, 7 to 1. The bylaw was passed fqr $5,000,-000 debenture issue toward the purchase of the Toronto Street Railway. Robert Root, G.T.R. section man at Palmerston, was instantly killed between two cars in the yard there. St. John's, Nfld., is in the grip of other blizzard, and all railway service in the island has been suspended. The grand jury brought'in a true bill at Sandwich Assizes elucging J. 0. L. 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Thus it became possible for individuals in prohibition provinces to import liquors for consumption in thc home; thus the "bootlegger" is. able to offer the same for sale contrary to lav/, and thus the expressed will oi the people i.i this province, is being .defeated. Importation Must Cease