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Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 18 Mar 1932, p. 4

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+. Hutchinson HS@TTH & public utter-- j .nce before the Legislature, eulogized ( the Soviet Five--Year Plan.. "Mr. Speaker," protested the Ken-- * 'ora. member, "I have never mention-- 'ed any such thing here." |__General Hogarth stated that at the [1931 session he had coupled Mr. | Hutchinson's name with the Winni-- _ peg uprising in a somewhat similar statement, and that it had then pass-- ed unchallenged. "However, I am," . said he, "bound to accept the honor-- able member's word under the rules of this House, and as my duty as a member of this House I do so." LABORITES DEFEND FARL HUTCHINSON Protest Hogarth's 'Coward-- ly Attitude' to Pre-- mier Henry The charge of identification with the Communist uprising in Winnipeg in 1919, made in the Legislature on Wednesday by General Don Hogarth of Port Arthur, against Earl Hutchin-- nlg (hD th t tb db 30 d .ts m Aihnagt. -- cntesteameisetiigtnion in te ind i d son, Labor M.P.P. for Kenora, brought the Toronto District Trades and Labor Council to Mr. Hutchinson's dofonse with a resolution adopted at its meet-- ing last night protesting to Premicr Henry "the cowardly attitude of Gen-- eral Hogarth, who from a privileged place in the Legislature, slandsred the only Labgr representative sitting in the Ontario Legislature." "I know Mr. Hutchinson well; he is one of my best friends," declared George Watson, President of the To-- wonto Labor Party, in moving the gesolution, "and I know that at the time of the uprising Mr. Hutchinson was attending a union meeting in the United States. Furthermore, Mr. Hutchinson is, and has always been, one of the most conservative of labor The Council protested a proposed placing of one--man street cars on Sherbourne Street, and appointed a delegate from the Council to the next meeting of the Ontario Railway Board. the wide powers vested in th> uni-- versity President. No Principal (he said) of University College, or dean of any faculty or member of teach-- ing staff of university, or of any faculty therecof of University College can be appointed unless he has been nominated by the President. No dsan of a facuity or member cof the teach-- ing staff of the university, or of any faculty thereof, or of University Col-- lege, may be promoted except upon the recommendation of the President. Further, no Principal of University College or dean of a faculty or mem-- ber of such teaching staff may be re-- moved from office except upon the recommendation of the President. "This Legislature has given thes: powers," stressed Mr. Sinclair. "Power _ _Mr. Sinclair declared that his re-- marks regarding Canon Cody wore not to be construsd as "personal." "I make them," he added, "as an alum-- nus of the University of Toronto, not as Leader of any Legislature group, and I do not bind any member of my group to what I am saying. Just let me repeat that if Dr. Cody retains his partisanship it will not be long be-- fore results will show, and it will be an ill day for the university if that ever comes about." The Libsral Leader quoted from various Provincial statutes to show What had Queen's University done, he asked, when it wanted a Principal? "It had," he said, "appointed a com-- mitte2 of fourtecn to cho--se one. They searched Canada and Great Britain before they found one. They sent a | small committee to the universities of Great Britain. They chos> aftor months of sscking a distinguished scholar of Oxford, a man whose whole life has been in the atmosphere of schoo's and univers.tiss--W. H. Fyfe. If Quzsen's so highly regards the mat-- tor of selecting a Principal, sh--uld ncet Toronto, a much larger university, express similar care?" Not Personal Criticism. an educaticnist. From talk around the university at the prosent time and among the undergraduates one cannot help thinking that Cann Cody's ap-- pointment came to him by way of a reward for the services he had rendor-- ed his party." GODY APPOINTMENT AS U.OF T. PRESIDENT DRAWS CRITICISN Conservative Party, participating cpenly in every Provincial election since the war in the interests of that party, William E. N. Sinclair, Op-- position Leader in the Legislature, ex-- pressed the fear yesterday that "a grave injusiice" may have boen done the University cf Toronto and the young pseople there attending in the appointment ¢of Canon Cody to the Presidency of that educational insti-- tution. Claiming that Canon H. J. Cody had always been recognized as a partisan, out--and--out supporter of the was, he said, an Anglicon clergyman of high standing, a gifted orator, a ready after--dinner speaker, but he was "the exact cpprsite of an «education-- ist," being nsithsr a teacher nor pro-- fessor, and having little active con-- tact with education. Morsover, his age was against him. "No P.lace for Politician." "The university Presidency is n: place for a politician," submitted the Liberal Leader. '"It is a position for Sinclair Fears "Grave In-- justice" May Have Been Done Coliege TO HAVE WIDE POWERS Premier, in Reply, Says Dr. Cody Is Distinguished Graduate There was no denying Canon Cody's attainments, said Mr. Sinclair He * Mar ;9. 1J cation, and has frequently been called upon to make recommendations and reports. It was ill befitting, he said, for Mr. Sinclair to suggest that he (Dr. Cody) had been given the posi--= tion because of any political leanings toward any political party. Even when he (Dr. Cody) had sat in the House as a member of the Government, he had held the reputation of holding himself above mere political bias. The Prime Minister reviewed at length the activities of President Cody, from his early days as "freshic"' and lecturer at the university to his ap-- pointment as member of the Board of Governors, to the chairmanship of that body, and, lastly, to the Presidency. '"For he. may be 63 years of age," said Mr. Henry, "but he is in the prime of life." in the hands of some may be per-- fectly safe. In the hands of others it may be dangerous." Premier Replies. At the night sitting of the House! Premier George 3. Henry deliveredt himself of a spirited reply in defense of President Cody. He was surprised, he said, that the Board of Governors' appointment of Canon Cody to the: post he now holds had been question--. ed--surprised, in fact, that the matter ever had been broached. Every one would agree, he felt, that were a slate of the most prominent graduates of the university for the past 100 years| been compiled, Canon Cody's name' would be in the foremost rank of it. It was very fitting, he said, that when | the university looked about for a suc-- cessor to Sir Robert Falconer they had Dr. Cody within reach to take over the onerous duties of the institution.' For the past forty--five years, he said, he has been closely associated with the institution, knows its hiwory from beginning to end, is an enthusi-- astic champion and supporter of edu--

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