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Timmins, Several daily newspapers last week carried headings readâ€" ing:â€""Two Years and Ten Lashes for Stealing $1.75" Of course, the heading was misleading. Men in Canada are not sentenced to two year terms for thefts of small amount. The lash is never given for theft of any kind. The truth was that the twoâ€"year term and the lashes were given for the holdingâ€"up of a taxi driver, a gun being used to intimidate the victim of the highwaymen. The fact that the amount secured in the robbery only amounted to $1.75 had no bearâ€" ing on the sentence. It is unfortunate that newspapers should use this sort of misleading heading. The fact that it is patently untrue does not prevent people thoughtlessly adopting the idea suggested by the heading which tells so different a story to the despatch over which it was placed. ‘The Baumes law in New York state has suffered seriously in public estimation from the same type of unfair and unâ€" true headings. This law provides that people who persisâ€". tently break the criminal code shall be permanently confined where they can do no further injury to society. Under the Baumes law a person convicted for a fourth criminal offence is automatically sentenced to life imprisonment. In cases where the fourth offence happened to bring the persistent criminal a small amount of money, newspapers have used flare headings, such as "Given Life Term for Stealing 38 C€ents" Even in the United States the theft of small amounts does not bring any such harsh sentences as terms for life. The penalty in such cases is imposed not for the amount of money that chances to be realized from the crime, but for the fact that the prisoner is a persistent offender. ‘The Baumes law has kept New York from being as overâ€" run with criminals as Chicago, for instance. There may be areument against the law, but it is helping no one but the criminal to suggest that heavy penalties imposed for serious crime#against society are given for petty pilfering. Thursday, October 2nd, 1930 some time ago The Advance referred to the apparently small pay being given to men employed on some of the conâ€" struction work north of Cochrane. It is pleasing to note this week that there has been a voluntary raise made in the rate of pay to all the men working at Abitibi Canyon. Under this nmnew rate the lowest pay gives the worker at least $35.00 clear per month. While this may not seem a large amount it is considerably above the rate obtaining for similar work in the south, where the prevailing rate under similar conditions leaves the worker with only $22.00 clear per month. Men employed in the construction work at Abitibi Canyon are inclined to feel that there is a connection between the recent raise in pay and the recent appointment of H. Black: to the position of assistant to the president of the Abitibi Power and Paper Co. They argue that Mr. Black always showed strong desire to be fair and generous with labour and ready to recognize the needs of a case. In any event the increase in pay and the good conditions now obtaining on the work are reported as satisfactory to the employees and so most likely to be profitable to the progress of the work. GRAV EL "There is a persistent rumour in town during the past few d@ays that work on a comparatively large scale has been started on roadâ€"building in the vicinity of Sault Ste. Marie and that this particular stretch of road will form the necesâ€" sary link to make the proposed Transâ€"Canada highway. A gentleman who visited Sault Ste. Marie last week stated that he hbad seen the men at work on the road and that the workers were present in force, there being about 150 men to the mile, and several miles under construction. It may be ‘#*aken for granted that any roadâ€"building in the vicinity of the Sault at the present time has no connection with the immediate route for the Transâ€"Canada highway. Building the Transâ€"Canada highway by way of Sault Ste. Marie would it would serve little useful purpose when completed. On acâ€" coumt of the fact that it would run through a section of bare rocks it would prove of no assistance to settlers already on the land nor would it open up any new country for agriâ€" cultural development. Even in the line that is so stressed in its favourâ€"the supposed scenic attractions of the routeâ€" 4t would be far behind other roadways built through less forâ€" ‘bidding territory where there is practically no habitation ‘and little chance of any. H. A. Preston, an oldâ€"timer of the North, who has recently been busy advocating the Ferguson highway and the road west from Cochrane as part of the Transâ€"Canada highway, has recently been in communication in the matter with officials in both the Dominion and the provincial governments. The replies received by him indiâ€" cate that neither government has as yet decided definitely upon any particular route. These letters indicate that both governments are still open to suggestions and are ready to consider any arguments advanced. From this it is fair to d@educe that roadwork near Sault Ste. Marie is of local or provincial nature and so has no connection with the work «1 the Transâ€"Canada highway. People in this district will be pleased to see a feeder built from the Sault to the logical present Transâ€"Canada highway, but in view of the many insinuations made as to the political influence of the people «of Sault Ste. Marie and district it may not be amiss to note that any government that would choose the costly and illogâ€" wwcal north shore route in preference to the route by way of the FPerguson highway and west from Cochrane and Hearst, through a country rich in agricultural, mining and timber possibilities, with a great wealth of scenic charm, and dotted with the most interesting communities, would very probably .lBenate the regard of all this great section of the North. mean the use of a route along the north shore of Lake Suâ€" perior. The government or governments endorsing such a route would scarcely live to see it completed. It would be the slowest and most costly method of completing the proâ€" posed highway and it would serve less effectively than other routes proposed. The route suggested along the north shore «of Lake Superior would not only be a costly one to build, but "In the daily press recently there have been many referâ€" ences to the practice of some lawyers in attempting to intiâ€" midate or improperly discredit witnesses. This is a practice that is much more rare than it was some years ago. The fraternity itself has aided in the discontinuance of ‘the practice, while magistrates and judges have also done their part to protect honest men in the witness stand, even though they be timid. Occasionally, however, a case comes up where a lawyer oversteps the bounds of good taste in dealâ€" ing with a witness There was such a case at police court at Simcoce recently, and this was the case that gave rise to OFFICE er of the Canadian Week!ly Newspapers Published Every Thursday by: GEO LAKE, Owner and Publisher e Yorrupine Advanee TIMMINS, ONTARIO 26 â€"â€"â€"PHONESâ€"â€"RESIDENCE 70 1t newspaper discussion of the matter. A barrister m We w Subscription Rates: $2.00 per year United States.. $3.00 per year Ont., Thursday, October 2nd, 1930 AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER ‘n the case in question persistently referred to the fact that the witness was on his oath and any departure from the truth savoured of perjury. Eventually the magistrate reâ€" buked the lawyer for his tactics, suggesting that his attitude Hon. W. A. Gordon, the new minister of immigration and colonization is justifying the confidence held by the people of the North in his wisdom and patriotism. One of his first actions after taking office was to put the bars up against further foreign immigration. Last week it was announced from Hon. Mr. Gordon‘s office at Ottawa that in cases where destitute immigrants had become public charges the Dept. of Immigration would at once take measures to return them to their home countries. This will be helpful in assisting to relieve some of the burden on the country in these days when unemployment has followed a regular orgy of undeâ€" sirable immigration. Unfortunately, however, it does not fully cover the case. The trouble is that large numbers of alien immigrants are in employment while British people who might otherwise have their places are looking for work. The foreigners seem to have ways for securing work while Canadians and other British â€"people have to suffer unemâ€" ployment. It is understood that Hon. Mr. Gordon has the question under consideration in all its many ramifications, and there may yet be evolved a plan whereby all sorts of foreigners who have abused the hospitality of this country may be returned to the places from whence they came. Such action, if possible, would do much to relieve unemployment, and give Canadians and other British people a fair chance in their own country. As will be noted by an article elsewhere in this issue the Ontario Government has given some assistance to the lumâ€" bermen of the province who find conditions very difficult at the present time. This assistance has taken the form of a moratorium or suspension of payment of the timber fees due the Government. There will be general approval of any measure to assist the lumber industry, but it is to be hoped that any favours are only granted upon conditions. One condition should be that no lumber mill should be allowed to pay its men at the rate of one doliar a day. Such a rate was paid by one mill in this district, according to the word of the men and the figures on the cheques they showed. In this age of the world $1.00 a day, and for ten hours at that, is an impossible wage. No man could live on such pay. An industry that can not afford to pay a fair wage should not be encouraged to continue. No industry that can rise no higher than the dollar a day stage for employees should be allowed to continue in this day and generation. The Advance hears that men from outside places are being brought into this district to work on the power transmission line work for the Hydro Electric Commission of Ontario. This seems to be an unfair and undesirable plan. There are men in this district out of work and anxious for employâ€" ment. There is scarcely a line of work done where emâ€" ployees can not be secured from among residents of the disâ€" trict who need work. This district has shouldered enough of the burden of unemployment in the past few years. If there had been no influx of the unemployed from all over into this district there would have been no unemployed here and no surplus of labour. Timmins and district have done their best to meet the unemployment here .as it has develâ€" oped. Now that there is work in the district, it seems very unfair that men should be brought from outside to fill places that local men could fill in better way. A cook is said to have been imported here where there are cooks that cannot be excelled. A foreman is another official understood to have been brought in from outside. With the men in the employing places coming in from outside the tendency is for other friends and acquaintances from outside to secure positions. This would be a regrettable state of affairs so far as Timmins is concerned. It should be set down as a hard and fast rule that no outside help should be brought into this camp in any case where the places can be filled with greater 2y the use of local men. To bring men here to do the little extra work there may be in this disâ€" trict would be most objectionable, and it is to be hoped that any tendency along this line is nipped in the bud. The latest story from Germany is that the Germans have invented a new kind of indestructible paper for use in makâ€" ing bank notes. The new German notes, it is said, can not be burned, torn or crumpled. It is not so long ago that the Germans had currency that could not even be passed outside of their own country. This week a friend of The Advance called attention to the new buildings just erected or in course of erection in Timâ€" mins. Starting with the new post office, he referred to the new theatre to replace the New Empire structure, the $15,â€" 000,006 building in course of erection for the Finnish baths on Fourth Av;nue, and other new buildings in town. These taken with the improvements made in many of the business buildings in town show that Timmins is continuing its march forward. red THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO A Wonderful Revue and Not a Woman in the Cast Ons of the most remarkable talking pictures of the day will be at the Goldâ€" fields theatre on Monday and Tuesâ€" day of next week, Oct. 6th and This is "Splinters." It is an allâ€"Briâ€" tish talkie, and that alone is proof of its excellence. Can any doubt that who saw and heard such offerings as "Disraeli" and "Grumpy." There is no u> disguising the fact that the British picture that reaches here is an extra special. _ "Splinters" is remarkable also for being a talkie film without a woâ€" man, but with "aciresses" that will take your eye. There is rapid fun, exâ€" cellent music, a devastating "beauty" chorus, witty dialogue, snappy action, in fact everything that the public likes and looks for in a great revue. One review speaks of "Splinters" as folâ€" lows:â€" "Splinters" is not only a revue. It is also a romance, a realâ€"life romance. After eleven years as a revue, it has become a talkie that reveals this roâ€" mance, that reveals how it began in the front line of the Great War. How it grew in the restâ€"camps just behind the line. How it developed within sound of the guns and spread laughler across the devastation of Flanders. How it started as a crude singâ€"song and beâ€" came the First Army Concert Party, known to every soldier in Northern France, with Lord Horne, the PFirst Army Commander, as its virtual foundâ€" er and most enthusiastic supporter. For Lord Horne knew that victory necded laughter among other exploâ€" sives. And he provided it by discoverâ€" ing Private Hal Jones in the trenches. That was the beginning of the roâ€" mance. "Imagine a Tommy in the front line receiving sudden order to report at Army Headquarters at once. Then see him commanding a motley mob of asâ€" sistants. He transforms a derelict hu: into a concert hall. But famine of famines, what of artists? "Then the humours of his search for talent! His auwditions of perspiring aspirants, comic, pathetic, grotesque. Yet not all, for he made discoveries. He found his nucleus. Above all, he found Reg Stone. At.last the first auâ€" dience was seated for the first concert. "The hutful of khaki so enjoyed bawling the overture of popular songs, that nobody minded a bit the late rise of the curtain. The was hisâ€" toric, and the laughter, hysteric, espeâ€" cially where none was intended. The concert ended merrily, though critics were not wanting. But Lord Horne, and Geoneral Parker, saw through the crudities to the possibilities. "It is the beginnings that the talkie first depicts, and then their developâ€" ments. It shows how the critics set Hal Jones‘s teeth: how he strove and expanded the party,; how they were called "Les Rouges et Noires"; how Lord Horne built them "The Bra Sat" Theatre, and how this experienced and equipped First Army Concert Party layed "Splinters‘" in that theatre with a full beauty chorus, every lady a genâ€" tleman. "These men, like Reg Stone, took to female impersonation as men did in Shakespeare‘s day. So the front line supplied the Tiller line. And was ever a Tiller troupe more feminine in apâ€" pearance than this troupe of Tommies from the trenches! Ask any of their postwar audiences. But the postwar "Splinters‘"‘ is another story, though this also was sponsored by Lord Horne, now, alas, the late, who presented them, on demobilisation, with £1,000 as starting capital, and lived to see them, after many ups and downs, made by Lew Lake the most obstinate success touring. "It is this production that reveals "Splinters" not only as a revue, but as a romance, a realâ€"life romance." the narrow suffy berths. A passenger can loll or roll without fear of dropping into the aisle. From all accounts it seems certain that "Splinters" on Monday and Tuesâ€" day of next week, Oct. 6th and 7th, is one picture that no one who loves good entertainment should think of missâ€" ing. Brandon Sun:â€"Next year, we are sending the wife to her old home town for her vacation so she can have a look at those men she might have married Pembroke Standardâ€"Observer:â€"The new British sleeping cars are said to be the last word in comfort. They are equipped with standard beds instead of Alexander Case Coming _ , Up for the Fourth Time For the fourth time since the acciâ€" dent happened more than five years ago, S. Alexander, former Kapuskasâ€" ing merchant, and now of Rouyn, is to take his action for damages against the Canadian National Railâ€" ways before a Suprzeme Court judge and jury for decision. The case, it is stated in despatches from Haileybury, is to be on the docket"for disposal at the forthâ€" coming assizes in Cochrane early this month, and all the papers in the matâ€" ter have been forwarded, on instrucâ€" tions from Toronto, to Cochrane in preâ€" paration for the hearing. Alexander lost a leg under the wheels of the westbound ContinentAi Limited at Kapuskasing one evening in May, 1925. Subsequently, he enterâ€" ed action against the CN.R. for $20,â€" 000 damages, and his case has met with a variety of fates during its exisâ€" tence before the cour1. The three previous actions have been tried at Haileybury, but A. G. Slaght, K.C., solicitor for the plaintiff, has succeedec in getting a change of venue to Cochâ€" rane, although a previous application of this nature had been denied the deâ€" fendant railway. If the case comes before the court this month, the presiding judge will be Mr. Justice Jeffrey, who was on the bench at one of the trials in Haileyâ€" bury. At the first hearing, before Mr. Justice Rose and a jury, plaintiff was awarded $4,221 and costs, but this verâ€" dict was upset on appeal. The second hearing, before Justice Jeffrey, ended in a disagresement among the jury panel, and the third time with Mr. Justice Raney presiding, a verdict of $10,000 and costs was returned. This, also, was turned down by the Appellate Court, which ordered a new trial. Most of the witnesses, who reach a considerable number, live in the Kapusâ€" kasing area, and a trial at Cochrane will be more convenient from their point of view. In the previous acticns, has alleged that he was thrown ‘thrcugh an open vestibule door when the train approached the station at Kapuskasing, while the defence has contended that Alexander was engaged in bootlegging at the time he was hurt and slipped off the train under the wheels. One witness in the case, Ray Ferguson, a brakeman, was killed in the Drocourt wreck. High River (Alberta) Times:â€"For girls to try to look mysterious again by wearing long skirts, says Bill Johnson, is like buying a lock after the spare tire has been stolen. Blairmore (Alberta) Enterprise â€"â€" Women ap;kar to have three ways of meeting Gdomestic crisis, remarks a yceung Blairmore husband: sueing for divorce, having a good cry, and reâ€" arranging the living room furniture. NORTH BAY WATER SERVICE PARTLY OUT OF COMMISSION Hundreds of North Bay householders breathed a sigh of relief about 11 o‘clock Saturday morning when the water service, out of commission since early Friday night, was restored to norâ€" mal. Fortunately, the situation during the period amounted only to inconvenâ€" ience. One small blaze broke out Satâ€" urday morning but it was quickly exâ€". tinguished by the fire fighters using chemicals. A leak occurred in the 24â€" inchvater main, just outside the pumj house, the only channel through which water could be pumped to the city. The pipe was laid by the city workâ€" men, under the direction of George Smith, resident engineer for James Proctor and Redfern, of Toronto, who supervised the construction of the imâ€" |provements to the system. When laid down originally the pipe had not been reinforced. However, this fault will now be rectified. Concrete will be usâ€" ed to strengthen the pipe and relieve the pressure on the bend. THINKS THE TEMISXKAMING QUE., TEAM UNFAIRLY USED The sport writer, "Observer," writâ€" ing in the "Sportology" column of The North Bay Nugget last week says:â€" "The championship emblem of the EFastern Ontario Baseball Association, which reposed in Schumacher in the keeping of the McIntyre Mine Athletic since last season, was reâ€" trieved for Ottawa, its prface of origin, when the Temiskaming, Que., team fell before the Ottawa Davidsons in : this season‘s finals this week. It was only after the teams had engaged in a gruelling threeâ€"game series, and by the toughest of luck in the last frame of the deciding tilt, that the Northernâ€" ers were made to relinquish the trophy. The Davidsons may be the title holdâ€" ers, but it is impossible to convince the Temiskaming team‘s followers that their nine is a minus quantity comâ€" pared with their conquerors. A strange feature of the series was that seven innings constituted a regular game. In most sections nine inning games aAre insisted upon in championship series. It is also singular that the games were _delayed until the evening when both teams were available for earlier starts. It is possible that the result would have been the same had the tilts been exâ€" tended to nine innings, but it‘s hardly lfair to either side in a title series to ‘ abbreviate the games. As it happened in this year‘s finals the losers held the advantage until the s~venth session and i probably lost the title by the fact that l the deciding tilt was shortened." Fort Francis Timesâ€"By the time the average college boy of today succeeds in accumulating the horsehide, the pigâ€" skin, the coonskin, and finally the sheepskin, poor father hasn‘t much hide left either. Preferred Stock Likely to be Subscribed Soon Early reports received by Canada Northern Power Corporation indicate that the offering of its 70f, preferred stock will be subscribed for in record time. Applications for nearly 3,000 shares were received by the first day of the sale, and Mr. B. V. Harrison, Viceâ€"Preâ€" sident and General Manager, states that the sale will positively close imâ€" mediately the allotment of 5,000 shares are subscribed for. The special advantageous terms unâ€" der which people may buy undoubtedâ€" ly makes this offering particularly atâ€" tractive, and these terms apply to peoâ€" ple purchasing during the present camâ€" The offering ypwice of the stock is $107 a share, the same as in 1929. This will give old and new partners a safe and sound security with a yield of over 64%, and every possibility of their in« VJ / % (Ask A NA DVUAJ x El L m NP J No ob vestment appreciating in value From the standpoint of growth in earnings, Canada Northnern Power Corâ€" poration has set up an outstanding record of consistent growth and exâ€" pansion among the leading public utiliâ€" ty companies in Canada. Figures just recently published show earnings to be at a record figure in the history of the company. In 1925 the gross earnâ€" ings were $1,035,851. By 1927 they hac increased to $2,812,514, while at the present time they are running at a rate in excess of $3.150,000 yearly. These earnings are suflicient to pay all preferred stock dividend requirements three times cver. Employees of the company are auâ€" thorized to take orders for these shares and they are now engaged in extending this profitâ€"sharing partnership opporâ€" tunity to as many of the company‘s customers as possible. HAILEYBURY MAY INCREASE PRICE FOR BURIAL LOTS Despatches from Haileybury say thas an increase in the charges to be made for plots in Mount Pleasant cemetery at Haileybury is under consideration by the cemetery board, with an added posâ€" sibility that rates to nonâ€"residents will be higher than those for families reâ€" siding in the municipality. The reaâ€" son advanced is, that adoption of the proposals now being considered, will enable the cemetery to be maintained in good condition in perpetuity, avoidâ€" ing a condition which has developed at the former burying ground, which has fallen into a rather neglected state. Huntingdon Gleaner:â€"A letter to Dr. Thomas Parron, Jr., state health comâ€" missioner, at Albany read as follows: "Have you decided when you will start your class in destruotion? I would like to be one of the class." The commisâ€" sioner has since decided that the lady must have meant "instruction."