Rm ALLEN TO-DAY "The Child Thou Gavest Me" YEAR 890; No. 78, ATTACK BY EX-PREMIER HALTS THE SUPPLY VOTE Sir Henry Drayton "Set Back" By Finance Minister Field- ing When He Charged the Government With "Boasting Economy"---No Closure. Ottawa, March 28.-- There was more cross-fire in the Commons yes- terday afternoon than during all the two weeks of the debate on the ad- dress. he government moved the House into supply on the estimates, the civil government lists being un- der survey. For three hours there "gwas haggling over the few salary {tems in the Department of Soldiers' Civil Re-establishment. The Oppo- sition speakers alluded to alleged promises of individual Liberals about & bonus to soldiers. As Hon. T. A. Crerar expressed it, they were "inquesting." So much time was taken up that Mr. Crerar protested that the whole discussion was out of order. Then Hon. Dr. Beland got his civil government estimates through: Hold Up Railway Estimates. Hop. W. C. Kennedy, Minister of Railways, was not so fortunate. The opposition members would not vote anything until they heard the gov- ernment's railway policy. ' Mr. Ken- nedy said he was unable to make his railway statement until he had all the facts. He was anxious, he said, to make- fit at the earliest pos- sible moment. Ex-Premier Meighen went so far as to express doubt if the govern- ment had a railway policy. The Opposition was in a fighting mood. No item, no matter how small, if it provide an argument, was overlooked. ¢ The Progressives did not take much part, except fo' express sur- prise at some salary increases when everything else was "coming (down." These increases, the min- isters explained, were made by the Civil Service Commission, and from the government benches the opin- fon was expressed that some re- forms were needed in the working of the Civil Bervice Act. To-day the Conservatives had the floor for the most part, but the Progressives were keenly observant and may be expected to press for economy in the future whenever they see an opportunity. The first clash came over an interim supply bill for $76,000,000, and the bill was held over. Votes passed during -the day were: Salaries, Soldiers' Civil Re- establishment, $40,820; Privy Coun- cil office, $44,810; Department Ex- ternal Affairs, $74,030; High Com- missioner's office, $103,330. In re- gard to the last named, the Prime Minister announced that it was in- tended in future to appoint Cana- dians to the high commissioner's of- fice. - =~ Meighen Leads Attack. Right Hon. Arthur Meighen, leader of the opposition, and his chief financial ¢ritic, Sir Henry Dray- ton, set out to discredit the claims of economy on behalf of the govern- ment which have been made since the tabling of the main estimates Friday. "Both leader and his chief lieutenant made a set attack on the government; charging it with boast- ing of economy and taking credit where credit was not deserved, un- til Hon. Mr. Fielding took the wind out of their sails by pointing out that the government had made no claims at all. It had simply brought down the estimates without com- ment. The boast of economy on the part of the government, he declared, was, therefore, simply an invention. Turned from attacking the gov- ernment as boasters, the opposition then based its guns on the friends of the government who had claimed a great slashing in estimates, after ad- mitting that Mr. Flelding's remarks concerning the government were true. The financial review came up when Mr. Fielding moved the House into Committee of Supply for the voting of one-quarter of the esti- mates. The opposition attacked the measure, and Mr, Fielding did not press it, remarking that there would be no "'closure" in passing it. NICKLE SCORES DRURY'S AIDES Attitude on Bills a Pitiable Spectacle. " "Toronto, March 28.--A needed "Jesson jn parliamentary practice and governmental responsibility was read | to the Drury government yesterday, | F.| with Hon. G. H. Ferguson, W. Nickle, K.C., and Wellington Hay as ¥ teachers. It was the first time the Kingston member has extended him- ~. self since he entered the House, and the manner in which he raked the attorney-general and the government ~ craft fore and aft, was an eye-open- er to the back-benchers, The rum- pus was started by a bill which prob- ably had few friends in the House to begin with, a proposal that two members of the local boards of po- lice commissioners be elected an- nually. T. Tooms, Labor member for Peterborough, standing as spon- sor for the measure. As a starter, Mr. Ferguson asked Mr. Raney for his view of the bill, and the attorney-general, after ex- plaining its effect, gave it as his per- sonal opinion; that the law should not be changed, A discussion en- sued, and then the Conservative leader-vose to express his surprise that the attormey-general was not able to give the House any intima- tion of the government's attitude to- wards the bill. Mr. Raney retorted that the government had considered the bill, and that the members of the government could hardly be ex- ted to read every one of the hun- dred or more bills brought before the House. . An argument started as to whe- ther the government should toke n position on every bill or should permit some. measures to go io HUSBAND AND WIFE. Whenever I start to argue with my ; Dusbang he starts the Vietrola.~--J. committee without acceptance of the principle, and it was the latter suggestion that brought Mr. Nickle to his feet. He declared himself squarely against the principle that the government was not bound to take any position regarding private members' bills. The government and its law offices should come to the House prepared to give the private members full information as to the object and tendency of the | bill, and should go further and say | whether or not they approve of the principle, A Pitiable Exhibition. "It is another exhibition of the same {irresponsibility that we saw in the House this afternoon," he said. "Can there have been in this House a more pitiable exhi- bition than this exhibition = of the government in relation to the legis- lation regarding free text books? The minister of education got up and almost threatened to cut away the school grants it they made text books free. Then the leader of the government rose and, with mushy sentimentalism, tried/to de- stroy the bill, while a moment or 80 the minister of labor fought 'as vigorously in support of the legis- lation as the leader of the govern- ment did against it, and a minute later the minister of mines was de- nouncing the minister of education. That is not government, that is {r- responsible leadership?" "What are we here for?" asked a U.F.0. member, and Mr. Nickle turned upon him promptly. The members of the house were not bound to take dictation from the government, but the government which- 'was merely the executive of the House, should give the House the bemefit of its opinion on all legislation, and the members could then vote as they saw fit. Wellington Hay supported Mr. Nickle, He did not know whether the old system was a better one than the one followed mow, but he did realize the necessity for speed- ing up thé business of the House and some intelligent direction from the government upon the bills would be a great advantage. There was no reply from Mr. Raney, and when the Speaker called for a vote on the bill there was an odd '"'aye'" here and there, though the attorney-general was silent. May Make Balfour Earl; The Lords Need Him London, March 28.--According to the Evening News, Sir Arthur Bal- four is to be created an earl. News- Papers say Sir Arthur finds 1ifd in the House of Commons very dull without any official duties to perform, and remarke that he would be a godsend to the house of peers where his abil- ity as a dialectician would-be inval- ® uable. ¥ _| Prot, «not hold their own with the capital- | TEN MILLION DEATHS | i. FROM TYPHUS FEVER | 'In Russia _in the Past Two Years er Diseases | Spreading. i | | } | London, March 28.--To6 'rescue {the world from famine and pesti- | lence" should be the siogan of the | Genoa conferemce, in the opinion of Pannwitz Hohenlychen, hon- orary secretary-general of the Inter- national Tuberculosis Society, who has just returned from Moscow. "If all the nations of the world do not immediately take united ac- tion, tuberculosis and other epidemic diseases will soon spread to the camps of those who to-day feel them- selves secure," said Prof. Hohenly- { chen, "The Russian medical force is do- ing wonders, but is handicapped by lack of food and proper housing, as well as lack of money." He makes a strong plea for an in- ternational tuberculosis conference of all lands and independent politi- cal groupings at Moscow in the sum- mer of 1922. He assures the world of the close co-operation of the So- viet government. { President Rakowsky of the Uk- | rainian Soviet government, inter- | viewed in Berlin said: "There have been ten million deaths from typhus alone in Russia | in the past two years. It is probably | true that there has been at least an equal number of unregistered deaths." 1 PEPPER R REPS RRRON INSANE WOMAN PERCHED IN TREE 18 HOURS Washington, March 28.--- After remaining perched in the top of a sixty foot' tree for more than eighteen eigh- teen hours, clothed only in a night gown, Mrs. Anna Lym- borosk, inmate of St. Eliza- beth's Hospital, was finally taken down by guards yester- 'day. + | | J + + + + * > v GEE PREP rrr e Prd PEPE PEITRRRRIIRY No Total Prohibition, Says Premier King Ottawa, March 28.--~Premier King told the Dominion Allis ance delegation today that there was no possibility of the gov- ernment introducing a measure of total prohibition into parlia- ment this session. "I am not fh favor of prohi- bition in anything, but I do fa- vor temperance in everything," said the Premier. The delegation asked that the government enact a dominion law prohibiting the manufac ture, importation, exportation and inter-provincial transporta- tion of intowicating liquors for beverage purposes, The prime minister assured the delegates that the government was pre- pared to take any necessary steps to assist the provinces in enforcing the law as it is at present, BEATTY IS PLEASED WITH LOWER RATES On the Canadian Railways-- Reports C.P.R. Financial Situation Good. Montreal, March 28 --Satisfaction at the decrease in passenger and freight rates on the dominion rail- roads is expressed by President E. W. Beatty in his review of the year's operations of the Canadian Pacific Railway, being sent out to the share- holders in the company's annual re- port to-day. The President announec- ed his satisfaction with the financial situation of the company. MIST CEASE: THEORIZING IND WORK, SAYS LENIN Else Russian Communists Cannot Hold Their Own With Capitalists. Moscow, March 28.--Discounting reports of his illness, Premier Lenine appeared yesterday before a secret meeting of the All-Russian commun- ist congress, and appealed to thu members to cease dreaming and theorizing and go to work. "You must be paragons of indus- try," he said. "Otherwise they could ists for comtrol. Edmonton Store Assigns. Calgary, Alta, March 28.--Shel- dons, Limited, of Edmonton, a de- partmental store with a turnover of more than half a million d has assigned for the benefit A. eredi-| of Bolton, Ont., has been appointad governor of the Peel county jail at | of their beds, Loftus O'Neill, a returned soldier, | KINGSTON, ONTARIO, TUESAY, MARCH 28, 1922. THE CURLING RINK BURNED 'The Harty Arena Saved Only By the Northeast Wind. The Kingston curling rink was to-| tally destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. A telephone call was re- ceived at the fire station at 2.18 a.m,, and When the motor truck reached the spot the south end containing flames. In fifteen minutes more the whole roof of the building was land the rooms used | every afternoon and evening. It was the rooms of the curlers was all in | occup day. The plage was heated by steam | from the main heating plant and no LAST KUDITION. major part of the fire~was seen ta Je under control, and it was nearly half past three when the ddnger-was jen- tirely past. The rink contained an enormous amount of dry timber ana {the furnace shape of it carried the fire from thé bottom to the top. The building and entire contents, consist- ing of furnishings of the Kingston Curling Club, were destroyed. The value is not known, but the building could not be replaced at less-than $35,000. When questioned Tuesday morn- ing, James Armstrong, chief of the fire departmtent could not state what the origin of the fire was. He did aot know that the club rooms were oc- cupied since the close of curling. The club rooms have been opem daily by members jed until after midnight mon- ablaze, and the dry lumber €ompos- | fires were used. A gas heater was ing the structure made a veritable |in use to warm the water for flood- bonfire. The sky was lighted up for a great distance, and it was as bright tions. Hundreds of people were soon on the spot to watch the firemen at {ing the rink, but otherwise no fre {was in use. The club entertainments \as day for many blocks fn 2ll direc- |were held at the Queen's cafeteria. | principal of ! Dr. R. Bruce Taylor, | Queen's, was promptly on hand, and [their work, for when it was seen was right with the firemen all the | that the fire was in the direction of | time. The throngs attracted to the POOL ROOM CLOSING HOUR { | | i | | | | The city council Monday night EXTENDED TILL 11.30 P.M. The City Council Decides to Give Additional Half Hour-. Vote Was 12 to 6 Despite the Protest of the Police Commissioners. Jin not been as hard hit as those in other voted in favor of extending the hours i lines of business. of operation of pool and billiard {rooms from 11 to 11.30 p.m. After {hearing objections from the police {commissioners and the Kingston {Ministerial Association, the council} i misinformed. |by a vote of 12 to 6 decided in favor jot the half-hour increase, which was {recommended by the city property committee. Alds, Angrove and La- turney moved for the adoption of the { recommendation. > Ald Chown opened" the discussion | by asking if the cofincil intended to {walk over the heads of the police |commission, which had in a resolu- tion placed itself on record as being Queen's University buildings, it was spot remained until after 3 a.m, | y opposed to an increase in the hours > w | ¢ v or to oth-| impossible to ascertain what one of | only leaving when all danger to h {of operati ¢ 1 filiard yeu This drew many people out as well as aldermen and members of the fire and ght committee of the city council. volved. Wind Saved Harty Arena. The Jock Harty Arena was only saved by the wind from the north east, which blew the flames away from it. This arena was but four feet from the burning curling rink { walls and part of the scaffolding still [4 | caught fire In several The firemen worked hero- standing places. |ically, and with the arrival of the | steamér within fifteen minutes arcer | the hose was laid, a sufficent pres- sure was obtained to do effectucl work. The first line from the motor truck was from Divisign street inside the rink from the west end . The fireman here saw that. the whole carried in and kept there throughout the fire under Captain Cockade, ana until it was under control. The: sec- ond hose from the old Arts building was carried to the south west corn- er, the third was lald by No. 1 fire station from the hydrant near tne medical building to the gymnasium and the rink. The fourth from Arch and Deacon streets to a position burning' rink. Ale work of the firemen, with the aid of the wind, saved the big Harty arenu, and it was not damaged. The gymna- slum was injured some, windows broken and damage being done irom water. The Carruthers building was on fire several times, but the students and other saved the situa- tion with pails of water, Under Control. It was three o'clock before the gouth end was on fire. This hose was | near the Arena, bet pen it a d the | | the beautiful structures might be in- | er buildings was past. (Continued on Page 1b.) [02042 +2443 23299 | |# BELFAST ORANGEMEN | DEMAND AN APOLOGY | -- 28.--The London, Belfast, March Daily> Chronicle, having , published a state- ment that Belfast Orange- men murdered the McMahon family, that paper has been notified to immediately with- draw the statement and apologize or a libel action will be entered by Lestrapge and Brett, solicitors, on be- half of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, [4 [4 [# i *» | + HAMITZTON DISGRUNTLED, Money in City. Hamilton, March 28.--Hamilton feels that it is being unjustly treated by the Dominion government, and Mayor Coppley announced that he would arrange to hawe a strong de- putation go to Ottawa to lay the city's tlaims to some of the money out to be expended on government "Just Shan. think, not a smell ernment work. twenty-five cities and towns, tern Ontario. A proposed tour of English foot- ball men to Scandinavia is cancelled. * + | dition *| increased. 4 [of the council to co-operate with the + - * PEE HEIIRERPEIERY Dominion Is Not Spending Enough any- thing for Hamilton," said Mayor Cop- pley, as he examined the list of gov- During April Lord Byng will visit the great majority of them in southwes- Gateway of the City"-- Trunk Just before the city council ad- journed Monday night, Ald, Cohen arose on a question of privilege. He referred to a discussion whith oc- curred at the last council meeting, which concerned himself. This dis- cussion had been reported im the Whig as it occurred and in a jocu- lar way, but there were many peo- ple who perhaps did not quite under- stand the circumstances under which the discussion took place and took too literal a meaning out of it Some thought he hwd actually "stol- en' two city streets by laying a rail- way spur across them. He thought that Alds. Angrove and Graham should make a retraction of their re- marks. Ald. Angrove secured quite a laugh at the speaker's expense, and the remarks of Ald. Graham were also taken seriously by some people. Ald. Cohen stated that what he had been trying to impress upon the council was the wisdom of doing something for the northeastern part of the city and so benefit the whole city at large, Every effort should be made to get the city to grow out towards the railways and not have all the growth in the west end. For Benefit of All, As to the crossing of two streets by his little railway, he feared that if the present policy of the council was continued, the rails would be all rusted before the city would ever re- quire the streets. He had expended a large sum of money. in tha east section of the city, and contemplated building a factory out on Montreal street. All this was for the benefit of the city at large, as well as him- self, and he considered ' that the council would only be following up and doipg its share in the expansion of that part of the city by vndertak- ing public works, such as sewer tuliding, which was very essential BUILDING UP WEST END OF THE CITY AT THE EXPENSE OF THE EASTERN SIDE / Ald. Cohen Wants the City Council to Give Attention to "the Rev. John D. Boyd Asks Sewer. ting it back. It is 2a good this Cohen's Radial out there." his benefit. "Is that Cohen?" he asked, not so, fit." ham, thing wrong: about. Ald Eppen. admits it: himself." ! Ald. Angrove--"Oh take it hack." Ald. Graham--'"'Oh, all right, I'll withdraw it all." Need of Trunk Sewer, A request made of the council by Rev. J. D. Boyd, who addressed that body earlier in the evening had a bearing upon what Ald, Cohen has been trying to urge upon the mayor and aldermen. Mr. Boyd asked that the Board of Works take into consideration a drainage system for the region around Concession, Div- {sion and Montreal streets. If pro- perty is to be worth anything out there, a trunk sewer must be built. Some of his houses are suffering from want of proper drainage as the sewage system in that locality is very inadequaty. Mr. Boyd asked the Board of Works to take up this matter, He had a petition signed. If it was impossible to undertake the work now, he asked that if there was still unemployment next winter the sewer be constructed then. The property that would benefit iz well able to pay the cost of the K sewer. Mr. Boyd also remarked that the western section of the city is being built up at the expense of the east- ern section of Kingston, and he con- sidered this unwise, Ald. Kelly also urged attention upon the Montreal street section of the city, the railway gateway. This is where industries will be located and yet it is being neglected. Ald. Graham stated that he would take up the matter with the Heard of Works. If the petition was pro- perly signed, he thought the sewer construction might be undertaken [this season. : thing, Ald. Graham remarked that Ald. Cohen asked the council to improve Montreal street, which would be for Ald. "Yes, it is," replied Ald. Cohen, "but it is also for the city's bene- "There you are," added Ald. Gra- "You see, 1 did( not say any- He {sorts, as it was their conviction and [that of the chief of police that if {these places are kept open any later |than at present it would prejudicial- $y affect the peace and.order of the * city, unduly add to the responsibili- ties of the police department and | 4 | Postpone indefinitely a contemplated | reduction in the force. Ald. Chown | was of opinion that the pool rooms {were in apparently flourishing con- or they would reduce the tables in their possession, The po- lice had to. supervise these places. 4 | According to the chief of police he 4 | Will be unable to reduce the number lon the force if the pool hours are He thought it the duty {chief and not increase the hours, Rev. W. Taylor Dale, Mayor Corbett stated that a depu- tation was presented from the Minis terfal Association and he invited Rev, W. Taylor Dale to present their views, Mr. Dale stated that the min- isters of the city were opposed to the extension of pool room hours, They sympathized with those running the rooms, who, théy believed, were a capable body of citizens endeavoring to earn an honest living. If the pool oom 'proprietors were hard hit by conditions today, the remedy was to reduce the tax, as he~fnderstood that they asked either for a tax re- duction or an increase in hours, Mr. Dale said he desired to convey to the council a body of pubic opinion against increasing the hours, He was not present to dictate the action of council, but thought the council would be helped in coming to a de- cision when it knew of the strong body of public opinion against the proposal, He looked at the ques- tion not from a business point of view, but from the stand point of the growing boys. Eleven, o'clock was late enough for a boy to be play- ing in a pool room. He would not get home before 11.30. The speaker was not one of the Puritans, but de- sired to stand up for the young men, for the future citizens of the great dominion and to present a petition of public opinion, Not So Hard Hit, Ald. Nash drew attention to the fact that the members of the police commission were very emphatic that it was better for the city not to pro- long the pool'hours, The police who have been there understand the con- ditions best. The fact that boys under eighteen are not allowed to frequent pool rooms is something to consider. The police say. it takes halt an hour after closing until the streets are cleared, More work will be created for the police if the streets cannot be cleared until mid- night or later. Ald. Nash stated that a citizen who knew told him that in one good Jay a pool room would take in enough money to pay the tax for the year, All businéss men have had losses in these times, and he claimed {that the pool room proprietors had -------- Shoes for the shoeless! Shoes for school children so they can attend school} During the winter the Rotary Club did a splendid service in pro- viding shoes and rubber for hund- reds of children but now the funas are low. . Another last call is being made and this time it comes through the schools. A The management committee of the Board heard the report of the inspec- tor. He asked for money td provide pupils with shoes so that during the dismal, wet and disagreeable thirty days to come they could go to school. The money was readily authorized. Then one member said there might be hundreds of pairs of par- tially used shoes for boys and giris in the city homes and these might be made avaflable. : It was then and there agreed ion that account. Ald. Laturney sald that the police looked after the younger element pretty well and he was not worried As to the financial thought Ald. Nash wes A pool room proprie- tor paid $556 for the first table and $35 for each additional one. dr was a pretty heavy tax, Ottawa, he ' said, has increased its pool hours 3 from eleven o'clock til midnight, and he thought Kingston could add half an hour. The police when a smaller body had controlled the pool rooms, and he would see no rea- son for any trouble if the closing hour were, made 11.30, aspect, he Ald. Graham's Views. Ald. Graham remarked that he did not play billlards or cards, neither did he smoke or drink liquor. That was why he felt like thirty-five today, But, said AM. Graham, we have pool tables in the Y.M.C.A. and anyone over twelve can go there and play, he was told. £1d. Nash--"The Y.M.C.A. closes at ten o'clock." Ald. Graham--* Well perhaps it does, but pool playing in the ¥Y. M. C. A. ig one thing that should be cut out. If the citizens would say to the Y.M.C.A. we'll give you no funds until you cut out this pool business, it would have .a good effect. I know of more than one man 'who cut off his subscription to the Y.M.C.A. be- cause of its pool playlag. The pool room proprietors have a good argu- ment so long as the Y.M.C.A. has pool on its list of recreations. I have a boy coming up and when he gets up 1 hope there will be no pool in the Y.M.C.A. The people who profess so {and so should cut loose from this | pool playing. I will support the re- commendation of the chief of police |when he comes and says to us that 'we don't want you to do so and so. That's where I stand. As to redue- 'ing the fees that is a horse of an= other color." ig Ald. Driscoll held that the men in the pool businéss are under quite & hardship just mow. If the hours were not extended, the fax should be reduced, he claimed. The tax in his opinion was too high. ---- Entitled to Relief. Ald. Angrove, chairman of city property, said the pool room pro- prietors had come to his committes and asked for some relief--either & reduced tex or longer hours. Last year the finance committee had re- = fused to cut the tax, so his commit- tee thought it would be only fair to | increase thy hours. Ald, Angrove {sald it wop d take 350 games of pool to pay the license fee for a table for {one year., He did not want to make i things harder for the police any more {than Ald. Graham. The Y.M.C.A. allowed pool playing, and the boys leave there after ten o'clock and go to the other pool rooms down tows. The Y.M.C.A. created a graduating class for the pool rooms. Ald. An grove said he did not Mke the impu- tation that the people who patronis- ed the pool rooms were such a ter- rible lot, and that the police have & dificult time clearing the streets after the pool rooms close. He would withdraw the property committee's recommendation if the finance com- mittee would consider the question of reducing the pool table fees. The vote was then taken end sulted as follows: Yeas--Mayor Corbett and Alds. Angrove, Driscoll, Godwin, Holder, Johnston, Kelly, Kent, Laturney, Milne, Richardson and Sargent--132. Nays---Alds. Bawden, .Chown, Cohen, Graham, McCartney and Nash--86. : {| URGENT CALL FOR SHOES IS MADE | lh that the inspector of the public. schools and the principal of the Cols legiate Institute should make the appeal to the pupils and say that ali footwear brought to the schools up to Friday afternoon would be gathered up on Friday and made available tor those distributing articles. Shoes that need re-soling, or shoes needing other small repairs will be very acceptable -- and if there be stockings or clothing they will also be carefully handled. : Bundle up the donations in good strong paper and the boys and girls will carry them to the schools they will be received and the do thanked. ° ; wir ! If: there are people wha would care to contribute: money for 'thls laudable work it can be sent to the Whig office and. will be passed om. This is a last call, Hkely, for this' season. A hearty respouse is earnest A ly besought. fa