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ASKS °FAIR DEAL' FOR STUDENTS WITH PROMISE "If the Premier is going to con-- tinue his habits of high taxation, it is time he gave education a fair ndeal," asserted the speaker, who, as A "niggardly" policy on education and extravagance in the administra-- tion of the Niagara Parks Commis-- sion last night in the Legislature was charged to the Ontario Gov-- ernment by Hon. George S. Henry in a Budget debate address that raked the Treasury benches and left few Ministers unscathed. The gai-- leries were partially filled for the first night sitting. Mr, Henty ciaimed that the Prov-- ince's contribution to education was but 14 per cent of its income, and urged the Government to raise that figure to 20 per cent, the amount, he said. his Administration paid. Premier, held the education port-- folio as well. "Take the suggestion of the mem-- ber for Brantford,tH, L. Hagey) and set up a system of scholarships and help the boys and girls along their way and develop one of the greatest assets a country may have," he urged. Mr. Henry's sharp criticisms stir-- red the most intensive cross{fire of the session, but little bitterness was aroused. Premier Mepburn and Hon. T. B. MceQuesten, who bore the brunt of Mr. Henry's charges, were among the first to cross the floor, at the 11:30 p.m. adjournment, to congratulate the former Premier. After the 19M election it was claimed by the Government that the £2,000,000 debt of the Niagara Parks Commission was "scandalous." Now it is $3,060,000, he said. He declared the commission's re-- port showed an $8N00 item for a poultry house. "A $100 coal scuttle proved devastating to an Adminis-- tration (the Drury Government). What would they say about an $800 hen house?" "My friend is talking nonsense," interjected Mr. McQuesten, chair-- man of the commission. Another $3,500 was spent in a park apening. "That must have been a great jamboree for the commission's friends," said Mr. Henry. "Oh, no I'm not, and T'll show him it in black and white," replied Mr. Henry. Henry Raps Hepburn for 'Niggardly Policy' on Education Grants SEVERAL CLASHES AFRIL 3 "The trouble with the Minister." he said, "is that he is obsessed with the idea of keeping up with the Joneses. He must have a highway system that is as good, if not better, than that of the United States despite the fact that we have only three and a half million people com-- pared to the hundred million over there. 'The Queen Elizabeth Way, seventy--four miles from Toronto to Niagara Falls, cost $180,000 a mile. That is why the other highways in the Province taken over during the last six years, have not been paved ----they have no money to spend on them." The member for York East charg-- ed Hon. T. B. McQuesten with ex-- travagance and said that the reason that only 15 per cent of the roads in the Province which had been taken over by the present Govern-- ment had been paved, was because the Department of Highways had concentrated on four--lane high-- wave. 4 "No, you're misleading. I charge the Prime Minister with being nig-- gardly to the universities. He is not giving any more than we gave in 1933, when we had only half the revenue he has." He then compared the amounts paid by the present Government to-- ward education, the largest being in '193{? when 15 cents in each dollar was paid and the smallest being in 1940 when the percentage was 12.2. Hon. Mr. Nixon interrupted to say that this was not correct, as on one occasion $46,000,000 was trans-- ferred by cross--entry. "Your state-- ment is misleading," he said, where-- upon Mr, Henry replied: Mr. Henry criticized the Premier for his statement in the -- Budget speech that $13.588,000, the largest amount in history, had been set aside for the Department of Educa-- tion. "The Prime Minister is given to half statements." Mr. Menry said. "It was the largest amount ever given, but small in comparison with the amount we set aside when we had a much smalier revenue. For many years when the Conservative Party was in power at least two cents on every dollar collected, in-- fluding the amounts pald on debts, was given to education, In 1934, our darkest year, we paid 22.3 per cent toward education. Premier Hepburn, regarding the Parks Commission debt, retorted: "He knows he left an unpaid railway bill of $1,300,000. You left it on our doorstep," he added. The bill had to be paid after an unfavorable Privy Council decision, he pointed ou!1, Mr. -- Henry charged _ that the Province's case had been presented inadequatcly. '"The Province," said Mr. Hepburn, "was represented by Arthur G, Slaght, an able counsel, as you, Mr. Speaker, as a lawyer, will agreo. "I have known Jesser counsel make an abler presentation," replied Mr. Henrv.