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-A â-  Wednesday, February 14, 1940 THE FtEAHERTON ADVANCE THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE Published on CoUingwood Stnt^ Flesherton, Wedneiday of cMh week. CircuUtion over 1,000. Price in CanadA $2.00 p«r year, when paid in advance $1.60; in U. S. A. 12.60 per year, when paid in advance $2.00. F. J. THUKSTON, Editor. : man : FEVERSHAM TRAMPLF^ PRICEVILLE UNDER 9â€"5 Feversham added another scalp to their already heavy belt on Fob.7, when thty defeated Priceville 9 â€" 6. Throughout the first frame Fever cham were pressed hard, Priceville continued to hem them in their own territory. B. Mullin ea.sed the strain when he banged one in from Elmer Mullin. Priceville came back with a quick counter by McLean. B. Spring- gay put Feversham one up on a pass from Mullin. Turnbull rallied for Priceville, scoring on a shot. The period ended a tie. In the second Frock counted on a long shot giving Priceville the advan- tage. Bus Springgay made the nicest play of the evening when he carried the puck through to the goal and scored. Lepard again counted on a pass from Springgay. The last chapter .saw Feversham out-play Priceville, and bang in five groals to their opponents' one to cinch the agme. Mullin, Lepard 2, E. Mullin and A. Springgay. Bell and Prook counted for Priceville. PiUCEVILLE.. WINS FROM.. ROCK MILLS Priceville defeated Rock Mills 4â€"3 in a fast clean game, on Tuesday, Feb. 13. Priceville played with the know- ledge that if they lost they were out for the remainder of the seacon. Ceylon ami Priceville will meet in a sudden death game, the winner to meet Flesherton in the semi-finals. ROCK MILLS SAWYERS BREAK I LESHERTON'S WINNING WAY On Tuesday evening, Feb. 5, the Kock Mills Sawyers broke Flesher- ton'a record of no games lost, and cawe out on the long end of a 6-4 victory. Perhaps the team is fading after so many wins, proving the old saying "A good start, a poor ending." If Flesherton has any hopes of beat- ing Feversham, they will certainly have to show more team play, FINAL STANDING SEMI-PRO. LEAGUE Won Lost Tie Pte. Feversham 7 1 14 Flesherton 5 3 10 Rock Mills 3 6 6 Ceylon 2 5 1 B Priceville 2 5 16 FINAL STANDING CENTRE GREY LEAGUE FLESHERTON LOSES TWO GAMES The Flesherton Bombers lost two games in a row, to put thorn in second position. On Friday evening Feb.,9, they lost 11 â€" 4 to Feversham. Throughout the game the home squad could not get their plays to work. On the other hand Feversham was a smooth work- ing machine.. Fever.sham was a com- bination of fast skating and tricky plays who got them places. Flesh- erton, was entiloy lost, it seemed. Their second flounder came on Mon- day evening when Ceylon won 11 â€" 2. The boys appeared to have lost con- fidence in each other, seemingly play- ing alone. The spark from a once fast team was gone, leaving an unor- ganized RTOup of players. Ceylon hal a lot of the play, and made this fact count. The home team was apparently in a slump, which is bad at this stage of the season, wthen a cup is at stake. Won Lost Pts. Shelbume 7 1 14 Dundalk 6 2 12 Grand Valley 6 3 10 Flesherton 2 6 4 Markdale 8 CEYLON GRAND VALLEY TRIM FLESUERTON CENTRE-GREYS The home team lost *^o Grand Valley Monday evening 8 â€" 5. Flesherton held their own even thongh they were handicapped for players. The game was fast and clean. Grand Valley ek- ing out the decision. Dundalk and Flesherton will meet in the semi- finals. I Miss Agnes Macphail M. P., Miss Lottie Whittaker, Mrs. Wm. Beaton and Mr. Peter Muir attended the cronvention in Hanover when Miss Macphail was again chosen to contest the Grey-Bruce riding in the interest of the U.F.O. party. Miss Emma Oliver was home from Heathcote the latter part of the week. Mr. Roy Piper accompanied nesh- erton curlers to Owen Sound, where they took part in the bonspiel last week. The Women's Institute will meet at the home of Mrs. A. C. Muir on Thursday February 15, when the pro- gram will be a social evening. The roll call was answered by "Sing Say or Pray." Lunch com: Mrs. Jay- nes and Mrs. McMillan. Mr. John Niihol has completed compiling the voter's list. Miss Agnes Macphail opened her election campaign, speaking at Dob- bington on Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. Beatty of Orange Valley is visitingj at the home of I. B. 'Whit- taker. Some T.B testing has been done on the West Back Line. Mrs. Wm. Mathewson was called to Paris, owing to her mother's ill- ness. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Wyville of Toronto, were visitors the latter part of the week with Mr and Mrs. Mc- Mullen. FEBRUARY Home Furnishing Sale J!.- Steel Bed Outfit Mattress made of new cotton filling, cotton art ticking, tuff- ed and finished with deep roll edge. Spring â€" High riser 7 strand cable, tubular sides with strong helicals and braced comers. Bed â€" 2 inch continuous tub- ing, strongly reinforced brack- ets, walnut finish. 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He then took consider- able time to show that what he had promised last September was "that there would be no election between the last special session and the 'call- ing' of the present session. In referring to 'his statement of last session he said "I was careful, therefore, to say that It would be desirable when parliament next assembled to have a careful re- view In tbe Interval of all circum- stances which would bear on the question of whether It would be ad- visable to procfeed in a period of war with a pre-election session, or to have on the hustings such discussion as must necessarily take place â€" In other words, to avoid two political battles, one In parliameot and one on the hustings as well. The deciding factor with the Prime Minister was the resolution passed by the Ontario Legislature which Mr. King said was moved by Mr. Hepburn and seconded by the Leader of the Opposition. In this he was In error, McQuesten second- ed the resolution and carried by a majority of the Legislature. The resolution In question "re- Krotted that the Federal Govern- ment at Ottawa has made so little effort to prosecute Canada's duty In the war in the vigorous manner the people of Canada desire to see". Mr. King stated that the criticism was l)eing made in the name of the people of Canada and that It was passed to start a political campaign while the Federal Parliament was In .session and to take advantage of Mr. King's double responsibility of carrying on war effort and meeting parliament from day to day, "and trying to conduct debates here with due regard tor what Is taking place in Europe and the care to be exer- cised with respect to whatever Is said and whatever Is done" (the British House exercises no 9uch con- straint). The Prime Minister then stated that since the beginning of the war he and his cabinet had given every "once of our strength and every hour of our time In the most devoted manner possible endeavoring to fur- ther Canada's war effort In the In- terest of the nation" and, pointed out that the press were in chorus In ex- pressing the hope that the adminis- tration would continue to carry on (without an election). "This Parliament was returned In lOS."; and this is 1940", said Mr. King. (If you subtract the result Is five years but actually the parlia- ment return could have carried on without extention until November of this year). But the Prime Minister wants a mandate from the people before the war "begins In earnest" And while the Second Division of the Caadlan Expeditionary Force la still In Canada to vote. Mr. Cahan Interrupted to ask it the Prime Minister intended to In- troduce legislation giving votes to soldiers at home and abroad and re- ceived the reply that the Prime Min- ister Intends to make provision for the military vote beng taken over- seas under the War Measures Act. That Is by Orders In Council rather than by Parliamentary Legislation which brought from Mr. Manlon "that is the way Hitler would do It" and from Lapolnte, "Hitler does not take any vote." At this point Mr. King shifted to post war legislation, mentioning es- pecially unemployment Insurance as necessary, and then closed with a long quotation from Lincoln which he told the House was being read from a volume given him by Lady l^urler (thongh at that moment the 'House was little concerned with sentiment). Mr. King concluded with: "It there la any group of men more capable of carrying on Can- ada's war effort and likely to do so more eftflctlvely then the people should have the right to entrust them with that great obligation. We propose to leave It to the people of Oianada to say whom they wish to rarry on the government of Canada in this period of world war." "I move, Mr. Speaker, that the House do now adjourn." At this point Dr. Manlon i se and had Just said the two words "Mr. .Speaker" when he was Interrupted tiy Mr. King pointing out that the aution was not before the House. Do I understand that no one Is to JO allowed to say anything in reply 10 the Prime Minister's prepared speeoh? Is It the Intention to gag this house In addition to everything Hlse? Is the Prime Minister to come before this House aj^ make a pre- pared speech, of which no hint was given to anyone and then attempt to close the mouths of the rest of usT I ask him If he dares do that." After some further exchanges Dr. Manlon was permitted to speak, which he distinctly stated Involved no particu- lar courtesy, anymore than there was courtesy In permitting the Prime .Minister to speak on a motion which is not debatable. It Is the usual practice to send copies of the speech from the Throne to the leaders of Opposition parlies and to tbe press before It is read by the Governor General so that all leaders have a knowledge of the government program. This had not been done Mr. Manion said so that he had no hint of what was coming and no opportuoity of preparing a reply to the political speech Just de- livered by the Prime Minister. It was a discourteous act and this he regretted since he had often said that the Prime Minister was always I worth continued, courteous. "What he has done, bringing members from all over Canada only to be dismissed Is unscrupulous pol- itics intended to gag discussion In the House and get a snap decision of the people of Canada on a great question", said Dr. Manion. "Why call approximately 245 members from all parts of Canada at great expense in many Instances?" And here Mr. King Interrupted to say that he had given a promise that the election would not be held until the House had been called. And that, but for that, he would have asked for dissolution the night the Ontario resolution was put through. "Is the Rt. Hon. Gentleman tell- ing me that he meant to put over a trick of this kind, that makes It much worse. The understanding was that the House of Commons would be called In regular session and that we would discuss the activities of the government, the effort of the Koverament in the conduct of the war and so on, had we gone on for a few weeks the Prime Minister might then have decided an election might be called but to put over a political trick of this kind Is disgraceful. And he went on to twit Mr. King and Mr. Lapolnte on their verbal defence but actual disregard of democracy. This brought Mr. King to his feet to say that democracy was not responsibil- ity to the leaders In the House ol Commons but to the people of Can- ada. Dr. Manion retorted "through the House of Commons". Since Parliament met last Sep- tember thfe Government had used the various press liaison groups to release propoganda which was called news. There was not only one but several press release groups he said. Nor can you turn on the radio with- out hearing some minister of the government tallring of what they have done. "Having called this House of Com- mons togdLber as the Prime Minister did why does he not make a report to It as he should? And why, too", he asked, "should any action of the provincial legislature of Ontario dic- tate to the Federal Government of Canada". "This la the forum before which the Hon. gentleman has to answer. "Mr. King had always talked about tbe supremacy of Par- liament," Dr. Manlon said, "And yet, with It in session he resorted to Or- ders-ln-CouncU In arranging for the Military vote showing that his talk about the supremacy of Parliament was humhug. It the Prime Minister couldn't solve pre-war problems he (Dr. Manlon) didn't see how he was going to solve post-war problems. Continuing he lashed the Minister ot National Defence on his handling of the department, lack of clothing and equipment tor the First Cana- dian Division and failure to provide allowances for wives and mothers of soldiers, and condemned the Govern- ment as a whole on what he charged as a lack of co-operation with the British government regarding the setting up of Air Training Schools here. With a final tiff between the leaders on the place for free speech the country or Parliament, Dr. Map- Ion concluded with "But the place to have questions answered Is here In Parliament." The last of the three speeches was by Mr. J. S. Woodsworlh. He began by saying that for the first time In his political life he found himself very nearly In complete agreement with the Leader of the Opposition. I dare say that like me he stuck on "So far as T am concerned. I think Mitch Is right, has been right all a- long", which Manlon used toward the end of his speech. "It Is not a question," Mr. Woods- worth said, "whether we are to have an election nr not, but th^ manner In which It shall be done and the time." nomlc conscription of men i« operat- ing "men who have been on relief for years have been urged to enlist and told that unless they enlist their relief will be cot off â€" thousands of our youth have been forced to enlist by the desperate alternative of starv- ing to death if they do not. Ha, told of a veteran In the city of Wlqalpeg saying to him Just a few weeks pre- vious "Yes, these young fellows that are going In now are very nattily dressed. They get good meals, they are provided for, they are heroes; but a whole lot of the fellows that went to the last war are eating in .soup kitchens." In conclusion he said that free speech was being strangled in Parli- ament and indeed in the ooantry since under the War Measures Act Regulations one cannot with safety express what he thinks. His son, Jost returned from Great Britain, had expressed his feeling on landing here that in some way th^ poAple ot Canada had ^^1^ frightened and were afraid tpi^^eak ou^what they thoug'ht, whkjli.. coj^sted sharply with the sp^bfM^/^ attitude in Great Britain. "(l^Prime Mijjister did not look like ^fdletator or speak like one, he was acting Ifke one, Mr. Speaking ot unemployment insur- ance he said that tor years his group had orked for It but had been unable to get the government to move. They, the government, had raised iill sorts o* cn!i8tItutlonal objections. Post war problems should be dis- cussed now, In this parliament he said. Instead of giving a blank cheque to a government that has not shown Itself particularly In favour of the common people. Mr. Woodsworth suggested that the government should give a com- plete account ot Its stewardship dur- ing the last six months. Tbe British parliament sits almost continually and Is subject to a barrage of crit- icism from the opposition that has been generally considered to be a very good thing. But this govern- ment strives to avoid criticism. We are coming to the point where we are governed by Orders-ln-Counell, some of which take away the funda- mental right ot British people â€" the right to free speech, free assembly and the exercise of unionism under war conditions. And now we are to be denied the rights ot Parliament "The people ot Canada are anxious to know how some ot the war con- tracts have been let." Mr. Woods- And they have a Woodsworth said, right to know. They are curious, Hansard of Jan, I5thV can be ae- too, about the dollar a year men â€" cured by writing the King's Printer, how they have been selected, whatQttawa and enclosing 6 cents plus' their quallflcatlona are and what ad-postage. vantages accrue to them. The people Agnes C. 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