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February 24 omm tss en mm mm mm mmmmmmntioss> _ e * l WARNS ONTARIO Ontario Liberals # Name Kelly Whip BEWA Frank Kelly, member for Mus-- MUST koka--Ontario, was named-- Liberal Whip at a party caucus yesterday * I after adjournment of the Legis-- F P lature. He was elected to the Legis. lature in 1934 and subsequently in 1937 and 1943. The caucus discuss-- In his maiden speech in the Legl&- ed the Haldimand--Norfolk by--elec-- lature yesterday, moving adoption tion, and the members endorsed the of the Speech from the Throne, Dr. recent statemeont of Liberal Leader R. Hobbs Taylor (P.C, Huron) H. C. Nixon that the question of i warned against -- "panaceas" that putting & candidate in the field ; would be advanced during the ses-- would be left to the local Liberal sion to solve Ontario's problems, Association in the riding. It was f particularly health and security. the majority feeling, however, that "In the vanguard of many of a party candidate should be named. r' these," he declared, "will be the suggestion that, by the twist of a political pen, a new vi<ta of Utopia will be immediately opened for us with an abundance of social secutr-- ities." But, he advised, "any coun-- try that predicates a way of life mainly on social securities is al. ready half dead." He expressed approval of the Gov-- ernment's program for agriculture as "concrete and constructive," and lauded the Highways Department's plan for employing many thousands # | of men on highway work to prevent unemployment as "clear, definite and workable." The legislative pro-- \gram offered gave answer to the ultimate aims of Ontario citizens and found special approval, he said, in rural areas, part of whose popu-- {lation he represented. iJoIllffe Speaks Today. C.C.F. Opposition Leader E. B. Jolliffe moved adjournment of the brief 80--minute session. He will open today the debate on the mo-- tion for the Throne Speech's adop-- tion, in an address expected to oc-- cupy the greater part of the after-- \ noon. An era of scarcity in distribution was the chief evil of the economic system, J. L, McDonaid (P.C., Stor-- mont) declared in seconding the Throne Speech. It was not a ques-- tion of production but one of proper-- ly distributing the goods on an equitable basis, he said. Mr. Mc-- Donald said the "so--called" econ-- omic experts had lagged behind in this respect, Mr. McDonald asserted that he did a not subscribe to the belief that the: State owed every one a living. The State should protect the aged and \the blind and the sick and the| 'feeble, and it owed to every able. | bodied person the opportunity of ob-- \taining the things necessary for a ;full and complete life, he declared, |\ Won't Hurt Democracy. |\' '"That can be accomplished and, we still can retain democracy," he| said amid applause. | |__Mr. McDonald dealt at length with ¢ farm problems and voiced criticism |of "armchair farmers" who, on |paper, could operate a farm at a | profit. They were better at giving § ;Iectures than providing practical ldemonstrations, he said. The speak-- % \er declared that soil conservation and reforestation were of vital im-- l portance to agriculture and called (for careful study. In recent years it |1,000,000 acres of land had gone out f of production simply because every-- 'thing had been taken from the soil and nothing was put back into it. $