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W'w__--'fi_'----*f'f' > esc .o o) 0 o Marsch 1 North York M.L.A. Favors WITH HEPBURN Excluding Women From Beverage Rooms renomnmcmmnsame _--__----__-- Hydro, Interest, Roads Costs LAND MOVE ADVOCATED Less, D. M. Campbell --____---- Claims Exclusion of women from bever-- en age rooms was advocated before the age rooms was advocated before the _ LAUDS PASTEURIZATION Baker (Lib., North York). Constru-- m ing such action as "a step in the Defense of the Hepburn Govern-- right direction"--one which, in his ment's agricultural policy was of-- belief, would aid immeasurably in fered by D. M. Campbell (Lib., curbing the present drink traffic-- Kent East) in the debate on the Mr. Baker argued that if it should _ Address in reply to the Speech from be found to interfere with tourist the Throne yesterday afternoon. traffic business, then it might be Replying to criticism directed at limited to those hotels that weren't the Government's farm policy by observing regulations as well as A. H. Acres (Cons., Carleton), Mr. they might. Campbell pointed to the reduction "Rights of both wets and drys in Hydro rates, lowering of interest | must be maintained in this Prov-- rates on farm loans, and acceptance | ince if we are to have a democratic of financial responsibility for Pm-l form of government." declared Mr. vincial roads as examples of the Baker, "but I frankly would like to sincerity of the Government's in-' see something done to check the terest in the agricultural welfare present drinking among the pub-- of the Province. lie." "'The honorable member says we The North York member claimed are doing nothing for the farmer," that a properly conceived and op-- he said. "His Government loaned erated back--to--the--land movement them fully 100 per cent of the value was the sole solution to the cur-- of their farms, and it was no kind-- rent unemployment problem. The ness to them. We have lowered in-- Government, he felt, should select terest rates and reamortized their good farms throughout Ontario and mortgages to make it possible for place thereon unemployed men, who them to carry the burdens of debt were not afraid to work, and supply they incurred as a result." them with agricultural training He did not believe the agricul-- from specially appointed tutors of tural areas needed bonuses any practical experience. "Such a move," longer. The industry was getting| he said, "will pay dividends in the on its feet, ine declared, and was| future that cannot be reckoned in able to stand alone. | dollars and cents now." "Our problem is not the growing| Mr. Baker also urged registration of crops," Mr. Campbell declared,| of all married women as one means "but in finding markets for our of ending a situation wherein hun-- produce at prices that give a rea-- dreds of young girls were "walk-- sonable profit over and above the | \ ing the streets in poverty, without cost of production." | \ employment." He said that it was The bill for compulsory pasteur-: quite unfair that women should Ization of milk, he declared, would | hold jobs while their husbands were be a boon to agriculturists every--| likewise employed, all for the pur-- s pose of "living in luxury and hav-- where in Ontario, and he was con-- ing a good time." vinced it had the full support of The alleged sectional appeals of farming -- communities throughout the Conservative Party in recent the Province. elections also came in for his criti-- His only regret concerning the cism. While he would not attempt, bill, he said, was that the rural he said, to fix responsibility for _ sections of the Province were not these appeals, there were "far to0 _ being directly benefited by it. The many bigots among the Tories" _ pijt would apply only to municipali-- ready to sow the seeds of prejudice ties and districts where it was prac-- and distrust--something, he added tical to enforce it, and yet statistics which had no part in the British showed that rural centres showed a Empire. higher percentage of bovine tuber-- culosis than urban municipalities. '"Time was when we thought the country was a far healthier place to raise children," he said, "but pasteurization in cities and large centres has practically freed urban centres of bovine tuberculosis in children." * Mr. Campbell expressed full agreement with the opinion ex-- pressed by Dr. A. S. Duncan (Lib., London), who said he believed there were a far greater number of . cases of undulent fever in Ontario than were Indicated by the figures compiled. Because of that condi-- % tion, he said, the establishment of restricted areas for cattle was an important step forward. The member from East Kent took issue with Hon. Leopold Macaulay concerning the abolition of the serve ice charge for Hydro power, but he s urged the Hydro Commission te seriously consider the possibility of increasing Hydro service in rural areas. oi _ en 0n