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\ f â-  »*^ 1 Parliamcn(aiy Doinss Witk tiatnrU.'A l.rKlnIatura, SpriiiK. 1U39 With a Premier fresh back from Australia and a brnnd new Con- servative leader aM raria'.to go, proceedings In Ontario's Legisla- turo at Queen's Park got off to a lively start M:ircli S. and aro likely to continue at slightly less fh:in bollins point thror shout the 1:K!9 session. . . First off. when Jlitfiiell Fred- erick Hepburn twitied George Alex- . anJer Drew a'oout the frequency with which the Ontario Conserva- tive Party has changed leaders of late, the latter bristled, made no reply; he was saving his fire for the more dramatic occasion during the Throne Address debate whoa he hurled tradition overboard . . . by limiting all Tory contribution to the debato to his own speech. . . no more. . . It w.s an unprecedent- ed move mado th-? said) to ex- pedite the business of the Legisla- ture and save the taxpayer money Highughts of the Speech from the Throne: The Government will Introduce legislation to rna'jle On- tario to enter info an unemploy- ment insurance agreement with Ottawa; a new method of equaliz- ing municipal assessments; all elected municipal orflcials to take the oath of allegiance; relief costs to be higher than l'J3&s $22,000,- 000 forecast, "unless there is mark- ed Industrial Improvement"; the Dominion to be asked to repeal the Canada Temperance Act as it ap- plies to Ontario; steps to bs taken toward "uniformity and co-ordina- tion in municipal policins"; linan- cial relief to bo provided tor north- ern mining municipalities. . . Looks like a new deal for On- tario's unemployed. . . muybo. . . . if Premier Hepburn carries out his announced intention to co-operate with the Federal Government in in- troducing unemployment insurance . . . (We should have said Ontario's future unemployed. . . those at present out-of-work would not be aided by the scheme). . . A host of sovernmont bill.-; was Introduced the second day of the session covering a number of minor questions, such as amendments to the Cemetery Act. the Pharm.acy Act, the Publii; Hospitals Act. . . but the business of dwlins with these measures cannot bt\i;iu to compare in interest with the de- bate on the state of affairs so fre- (luently seen in the House. . . The Budget is likely lo be brought dowU within a week. . . . administrative expenses may be pared. . . car licenses may go up . . . and a two-cent jump in the present six-cent gasoline tax is sure to be announced (Ontario towns want to share in the rev- enue). . . Questions: what will this mean to the tourist trade'/. . . what will it mean to the average motorist driving 10.000 miles a year who has already contributed an extra $15 annually since the tax went up from three to six coppers? . .". However, we may be getting ahead of ourself. . . The ConsL .-atives want "more light" on what tho Government proposes to do with the Abltibl Power and Paper Company, a $125,000,000 property now in pro- cess of reorganization. . . a fierce fight is raging around that. . . Mr. Hepburn thi- 'js Col. Drew ia un- duly suspicious. . . a:id quibb'r- too mach. . . They've appointed a bachelor as Speaker of the House lor the fir : time in Ontario's history. Girls, we give you Major Clark'. The Dionne Quintuplets have ac- cepted an invitation to comc-see the King and Queen on May 22. Oh, what a diy tor Toronto that will be! . . . Thieves have attempted to break Into a vault in the Treasury De- partment. . .aa inciuiry by the audit department reveals shortages of money, detaioatlon'i of funds in several branches of the .(loveru- ment's business. . . thoro's been dirty work at the crossroads. . . Don't Look Man Straight In Eye Girls, said M. Oono Kdnioml in an interview at New York last week, ha\e an unfortunate habit of looking men straight in the eye. "It is not allurin.tr," said Ed- mond, former court beauty advis- er to the late Queen Marie of Ru- mania. "It makes a man feel in- ferior. He feels you're trying to probe his mind." Far better it is to look at liim fleetingly, and then look av.-ay, continued Kdmond. "Yes, I believe women should be acmewbat coy," he said, "but I don't mean baby talk. That's ter- rible! It annoys a man's ncr\-es. "Women should learn how to blush. It can be done by exhaling « littl* longer than they are ac- cu.stomed." Lakes Much Below Their Usual Level Water Is Low In The St. Law- rence, Too, According To Dominion Kytircgraphic Ser- vice. Level of the St. Lawrence River In .Montreal harbor during Febru- ary was ^0 3/4 inches lower than January, 7 1/2 inches lower than February, 133S, and 50 3/4 inches lower than the average level of February for the last T9 years, tho HyJrographic Service of Canada reports. Luke Superior at Port Arthur was two inches lower than Janu- ary, one Iflch higher than Febru- ary, 1!»;!8; and 5 1/4 inches higher than (he average level of Febru- ary for tho last 70 years. Below Average For 79 Years Lake Huron at Goderich was the samo as January, 9 1/4 ins. higher than Fe'Muary, 193b: and IS inches lower than the averairo level of February Cur the last 79 yoar.-i. Lako Erie at Port Colborno was 3/4 of an inch higher than Janu- ary, three inches higher than Feb- ruary, 193S, and 9 1/4 inches low- er than the average level of Feb- ruary for the last 79 years. Lake Ontario at Kingston was a half iuch higher than January, five Inches lower than February, 193S; and 13 1/4 inches lower than the average level of February for the last 79 years. Says Emotions Cause Fatigue Mario Beynon Kay, whose flight from a job rut has led her through careers as teacher, editor, wile, mother and author, says she has never been tired in her lite and that sho can rell oih-^r women how- to become "inhuman dynamos" of energy and interest. "It is not the work we do but the emotional factors operating while we work that causes fa- tigue." sho said iu an interview at Xew Vork last week. â- â€¢Women tire of housework not because their chores are too hard for them "'out because they con- sider liousowork an inferior occi:- pation," according lo .Mrs. IJay. '•Find Interesting Vocation" "It ihey cannot escape house- work, tho thing for them lo do is to find some oiher intensely inter- esting avocation â€" perhaps the beautifying of their homes. p:)Iitics, sport, voice culture â€" anything to substitute a hoaltliful. vitalizing emoti.in far 'jor.'dom and depres- soiii/' VOICE OF THE PRESS SOMEBODY'S KEPT BUSY. It is estimated that there are 1, '218,000 milch cowi in Ontario. Think of what thoy mean in terms of human labor at milking-time. â€" Brockville Kecorder and Times. ONION ORCHARD A Baltimore magistrate has rul- ed that an onion may be classed as a fruit. What a fine time Mitch Hepburn will have next summer in bis onion erchard. "UNITY" A LA CANADA This new trans-Canada air line may do something for Canadian unity. After all, ic only takes about twenty hours now to get a complaint from the Pacific coast to Ottawa. â€" Hamilton Spectator. â€" o â€" • WE'RE KICKING PLENTY, TOO. It is said that 37 per cent, of the Nazi forces are ilatfooted from too much walking and parading. We're getting that way in this country from keeping the foot on the gas. â€" Peterborough Examiner. â€" â€" JOBS. TRAINING FOR YOUTH Governments make substantial g^rants of which prizes are paid for the improvement of cows, horses, pigs, sheep, chickens and all kinds of livestock. Perhaps it would not be bad policy to spend more money providing a training for youth and opportunities for em- ployment.â€" Farmer's Advocate. â€" â€" NOT A PUPPET . . . In short, the Member of Parliament is not intended to be the tool, puppet or rubber stamp of his constituents 'and still less of any group among them. But it is his function before everything else to represent them and to promote their legitimate interests by all means in his power. â€" Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. â€" â€" HOCKEY IN THE OLD DAYS Hockey players in some centres are not what they used to be. It is not so many years ago that puck chasers were sixty-minute men and played every game without relief. Recent snow storms have made motor travel impossible for visit- ing hockey teams and rather than drive by horse and sleigh as their predece.-sors did many a time, games have been cancelled,- â€" Pe- troHa Advertiser-Topic. OflTicials in Italy have reported that the careful selection of seed and use of chemical fertilizers are greatly increasing grain crcps. LIFE'S LIKE THAT By Fred Neher NRS. PIPS DIACY itnfV. Mia » fwn ««>») f^4^c> Ajkf^e/C' couldn't find the button, dear, «o I lewed up the buttonhole," Yule Tree Cutting In Ontario Probed Hon. Peter Heenan, provincial minister of lands and forests, laid last week that promiscuous eu^ ng of Christmas trees durinif the Yuletide season and theft of trees from piivate property was under investigation by his department and might lead to legislative ac- tion. Either '.he federal government would be asked to amend the Crim- inal Code to deal with the situa- tion, or the province would bring down a bill of its own, he said. A decision will be made in the near future. MORE CIGARinES FOR YOUR MONEY ^ EXTRA MILD / PACKAGE idio In 35* IfiM Vj LB. TIN 55c Gregory Clark looks af ITALY /^ABLES which Gregory Clark is ^^ sending to The Toronto Daily Star from Rome make interesting reading. "Greg," as he is best known to hundreds of thousands of readers of The Star Weekly, hopped a boat for Italy to see the coronation of Pope Pius XII. The papal coronation over, "Greg" is brows- ing around the country â€" sampling its delights, ancient and modern. In more than 20 years of newspaper writing, "Greg * has been in many exciting and interesting places, but no experience of his career has furnished such wealth of material for his fluent pen. He will wander through marble palazzos, in- spect basilicas and campaniles; appraise famous works of art and architecture, and take a squint at Italian industry. He will tour cities, country and villages; mingle with princes and peasants, blackshirts and officials; ride in Vene- tian gondolas, sniff the air of sunny Sicily and sample foods that have made Italian chefs famed the world over. He "^ will be more Roiiran than Mussolini. "Greg's" Italian rambles are already shaping into the most fascinating trave- logue ever printed in a Canadian news- paper. It breathes that magic of humor and humanism which "Greor" infuses into e\ery subject he touches. Writers are many, but there is only one "Greg" Clark, and in his stories from Italv he is at his best. Read and revel in his articles which ap- pear e\erv dav in THE TORONTO DAILY STAR WONDERLAND OF OZ By L. Frank Baum ,,, ,,, : : i i: -\ftor tho clnttcf. ,^n iDteitse (ilem'e leignr.l in ihe town ana~-41j« visitors, flit knowing that caut!on was nVvJoiiser iie- r-esnary. hiirii«J forward to tee *«ltft had happetiod. Th«.v entered tha lar(«i they cHina to and fiaind the dour ;rr<" with pixel's of what lookcil mui-h like ri.ignifnts of «ood neatly p.alnted. all of different and faiitHStlf; shape*. "Whv." uried Horolhy, pickinB up on« of tl!« pieces," tlio> i« JigrJsaw punier." The fierce which Poro'hr he?J wag an eye, « lii.h looked at her pleasantly, but with nil interested cxpreaaloa aa If it wondered what she wm (olnir to do with It. Wuitc near by she discovered a nose, and by matching the two pieces toffether, .^ound tliHt they were part of a face. "If i{iiKl find the mouth," ahe said, "this l-'udiW»jaijch t be able to talk and telt us what toiTS\ncxt." "Then let us find It." •aid tho W^nnrd. and lo aU fot do«B en thrlr h; iuh» and kncts. "I've found \'.'." rriO'J T'nolo Ilorry. and he ran to Dorothy with a <niver shaped pieoe with a mouth on It, but when they tried to fit It to the eye and nose, they round hat the parta would nor match. "This mouth belongs to some other per- fon." said Dorothy. "You sec we need a ,-urve here and a point there to make It fit the face." Well It mnst be some place." dS'-larcd the WIrard, "»« If we se.irrh for !t long enough we sha'.l oertsinly find It." l^i>ro!hy fitted an • â-  "n ii. â-  I 111..1 • e e.ir lind a little patch 'if r, <i h{ir i<»ioM- ii. .0 nhile tho oth»rs wotv sean'htnir for the mouth, she hunttd for pif.-es \vi:h re,] hair and found several .>f them, whi.h. when matched to the .>th«r pieoe.. fornie'l thf top of a mnna head. .She had n's.i found the other eye and f».ir jind by the (Ime Aunt Elm. In a cornt:. il*siovcred »hi> mouth. Wh»n the face wa-i thus .•omolei- •d all the p.nrts Joined toecther ^ith . nl'-ety that w:>h nistonishlnR. i i:: it ♦ iH:: 1