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Certainly Mr. Finlayson is an intelligent man but his department is not on par with the development of the North. To urge and favour the colonization of the North would be a diminution of his revenues, so I understand very well that he is contrary to the betterâ€" ment of existing settlers and to the coming of new settlers His preferâ€" ence would be ts see the North all planted in spruce and pine, rather than all settled and rich in agriculture. In his speech he says that he finds condiâ€" tions in this part of the North no worse than in some other places. It is all right, but has Hon. Mr. Finlayson made an enquiry to see how many people get three meals every day, how many childâ€" ren have to go barefoot and illâ€"clad because the father has no money to buy clothes and shosrs? The habitant of the Cochrane district is proud and will not spread to the winds the news of his misery. McIntosh Springs, July 2, 1931 Editor The Advance, Timmins, Ont. 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Two 45 power tubes. Price complete with tubes . . . $99.50 7â€"Tube Baby Grand The most popular model ever maieâ€" now a Superheterodyne with Pentode Power Tube â€" New Electro â€"Dynamic Speakerâ€"Tone Control and IHurpinated Station Recording dial. Price complete with tubes OoTTAWA, ON # T. 9â€"Tube Baby Grand When I hear some official of the Government speak of the expinditures, I have to laugh. They can tell that in Old Ontario about the roads in the North. But here it is a mockery. The only road the Government has built is the Ferguson highway, for the conâ€" venience of the rich people, and for the sale of autecmobiles and gasoline, For the seitlers, where are the roads the Government has built? Here at Mcâ€" Intosh Springs for the past seventeen years we have asked for one road. The inspector is in favour; the district enâ€" gineer has promised that road for this year. But at the last moment we were told that there was no money this year for seitlers‘ roads. But where is the money spent that was voted last session for the roads? If I understood rightly in regard to the gasoline tax law the revenue from that tax was for ‘the building and repair of the highways. Now that the Ferguson highway is comâ€" there is talk to continue this road to the Hudson Bay. For whom? There are no settlers there and it will take a long time before there will be any. The older parts of the district of Cochâ€" the Government, but where they have cut the timber in the years of prosperiâ€" ty, they have never tried to help the settlers bu: they have taken care of their own pocketbook. The conditisns in the West and in Old Ontario are not the same as ours. These have been settled for a long time with good economy they can suppor. the depression, but we here are yet inâ€" fants and before we reach the age to get a living we must have help. $79.50 7 Tube Baby Grand Finlayson is categoric. Mr. A. F. Kenâ€" ning, M.P.P., seems to be of the same opin‘tn. Theore will be no bonus: that seems to be tlire opinion. To help) the seitlers clear their lands and make a living, the Government thinks thet would cost too much money to the proâ€" vince and create some rancour for the farmer of Old Ontario. Has he forâ€" that in 1927, just for 23 families from Victoria and Haliburton the Dept. of Colonization had transferred to New Ontario $8,488.97 was spent. I think thse money that would be paid for that bonus would be repaid many times in a few years. We would ges new settlers and the Dept. of Education would be relieved of a big burden. rane will receive the same answer for settlers=‘ roads:â€""There is no money." Hon. Mr. Finlayson said the settlers are not in positicn to ask the Governâ€" ment to drain their private farms. But it is not what we have asked. The CGovernment has been called to do what very owner has to do. I have not the right to drain my property on to my|the help of the Government. Quebec neighbour‘s. I have to make ditches| has understood the necessity and works and follow the water until it doesn‘t| hand in hand with the officials of the make damage. The Government built Dept. of Colonization and with effort roads and ditches and sen‘; the wator on | for colonization. the settlers‘ farms, where it spread out.| No! the Government does not want This is not the same as to drain private the seitler in Northern Ontario. That farms. Here in this district we have l they die hungry is just a little accident not the same blame to give in this matâ€" | in the life of the Government; but that ter, for Mr. Lough, the district engineer 3 the lumbering industry owes the proâ€" has looked out for this correctly, but it | vince over $3,500,000 in arrears for timâ€" is not the same elsewhere in this disâ€" ] ber dues and has had to have its credit trict. | extendsod, or else matters would be made For the bonusing system fAon. Mr,!warse. it is a different matter. For the colonization the Governmen ystem fon. M Mtr. A. F. Koer St. Thomas Timesâ€"Journal: â€"Rev. A. J. Irwin says Canada is becoming a nation of drinkers as result of govâ€" ernment sale of liquor. No statement was ever made that is farther from the truth. The fact is that bottle drinkâ€" ing, flask carrying by young people and bootlegging attained its greatest growth under the allegedly prohibitive Ontario Temperance Act. trouble that has to be contended with is suggested by the above letter. Mr. Leury implies that all the money is spen; on the Ferguson highway and none on roads for settlers The Adâ€" vance would like to sse more money for settlers‘ roads, but not a cent less for the highway. It is not strictly within the facts to say that the highway was built solely for rich men. Indeed, all classes in the North find the highway of the greatess service. Further, it might be well to emphasize the fact that the highway itself is road for settlers as well as for others and has meant progress and prosprrity to large groups of settlers all along the route. The point made by Mr. Leury in reâ€" gard to there being no money for the settlers while in effect the Government is financing the lumber industry to some extent is worthy of note. After careful consideration the Government came to the conclusion that no good and very serious harm to the country in general would result from attemptâ€" ing to force the payment of all arrears of timber dues. Those who are unconâ€" necied with the lumber industry, but who have studied the situation in all its ramifications are inclined to agree with the present Governmen;, view on this matter. This, however, does not in the slightest alter the opinion of The Adâ€" vance that assistance should be given t> the set:lers and that a bonus sysâ€" tem for homesteaders would be a good piece of business. As Mr. Leury points out the cost would not be prohibitive and the relurns in comfort and proâ€" gress to the settlers and in advantage to the development of the North Land would be very. great indeed. â€"Editor Th Advance). A. LEURY. (Editor‘s Note:â€"Mr. Leury is the secretary of the Northern Ontario Setâ€" tlers®‘ Association, local of McIntosh Eprings. In publifhing the above letter The Advance did not add this title to Mr. Leury‘s name as this paper was not satisfied that the Settlers‘ Association had considered and approved all of Mr. iLcury's letter or diciated its import either directly or indirecily. It may be ithat, the letter expresses the sentiments of the settlers at McIntosh Springs, and Eif so ‘that will be one thing. If it reâ€" presents only the opinion of the writer himself, that is another question. The !Adv:mce doss not believe that official i <standing should be given to letters that of themselves are no more than perâ€" scenal orynion. Taking up the various points in Mr. Leury‘s letter, it may be said in the first place that Mr. Leury is completely wrong in suggesting that there have been no settlers‘ roads built in tkis aroa recently. The fact is that @a number of roads for settlers were built last winter. There were not encugh of ‘‘them to entirely please The Advance, but something has beon acâ€" complished in providing some cof the settlers with rsoads and some credit is surely due the Government for this. As to reads asked for repeatedly durâ€" ng the past seventsen years, The Adâ€" vance has kept pestering the Governâ€" ment in print in regard to needed roads but it must be admitted that the Govâ€" ernment has its difficulties in the maâ€" ter. In one case where special repreâ€" sentations were made to the Governâ€" ment in regard to a certain road last year, the Government acceded to the requests only to find later that the whole matter was used in highly imâ€" proeper and unsportsmanlike way to try and discredit the Governmen:, and that at least som»e of those howling for this particular plece of settlers‘ roadway were more anxious to score the Governâ€" ment and vent personal animosities than to see ‘the road constructed. The Advance has on more than one occasion criticized the Minister in charge of Northern Development, but it does not seem fair to say that Hon. Mr. Fin‘layâ€" son is "contrary to ‘the betterment of the settlers." The opposite seems to be the fact. It should be admitted that Hon. Mr. Finlayson has done more than any of his predecessors in office for the Norch. In saying that, it is not necesâ€" sary to lessen the idga that "things have been left undone that ought to be done." The settler has not received a fair deal, but this has been due almost altogether to other things than want of sympathy or kindly feeling. The Adâ€" vance believes that the North Land should have m special department of its own, that no Minister, no matter how able or conscientious, can carry on all the onerous duties now devolving upon Hon. Mr. Finlayson in so many lines, many of which are diametrically opposed to each other. Another big lies,â€"old farmers,â€"that would be glad to come back on the land. I have reâ€" ceived more than a hundred requests for land, but I can do nothing without the help of the Government. Quebec has understood the necessity and works hand in hand with the officials of the Dept. of Colonization and with effort for colonization. No! the Government does not want to send here miners out of work tha: cannot recognize a cabbage from a r_adish. There are many people in ciâ€" apparently wants to do nothing, except Yours truly ‘"There is a story about a man and that small animal, the ass, who tried to please everybody, and ended by pleasâ€" ing ncbody, and losing the animal in th> bargain. It is a we‘llâ€"known fable, and it â€"ssgems to rather fit North Bay‘s situation in this highway conference rather well, in that so far, at least, the city‘s efforts seem to please nobxly. At the meeting of the Northern Ontario Associated Bcards of Trade, the city was criticized sharply fcor calling the conference : withosut consulting ‘the North. Then alorg comes the Sault Star with a red hot shot for the city on the same subject, and because it called |t-he conference and "presumed" to lay down the rules as :o who should vote, and so on. The Star says: "The nerve of North Bay in picking ou% the bodies which will be ‘allowed‘ to vote is resentâ€" ed. The feeling in the Svo and at the head of the lakes is that unless the conference is open to anybody who may wish to attend, unless it is free to make its own rules, and unless an obvious effort is made to have the gathering arrive at a mutually friendly decision regardless of votes, it is bound to end in a fizzle. The weakness of North Bay and the T. N. O. area is that their voiting s:rength is only a fraction of that of the Sooâ€"Lake Shore constituâ€" encies. Under Mayor Rowe‘s rules the cities of Port Arthur, Fort William, Sudoury and the Soo would have no more influence in deciding the issue than four T. N. O. hamlets The thing is so absurd that Mr. Rowe must have had his tongue in his cheek when |he wroie his letter to the Board of Trade." All of which is the pay usually recsived by the peacemaker. North Bay‘s situation is the ideal spot for ccnference if one is to be held, since this ci‘y is at the junction of the sugâ€" gested roads and has no axe to grind in !t.he matter. The idea of the conferâ€" ence came from the government, and while we personally fail to see how two utterly oriposing ideas can be brought together a; any conference if one is to be held, this is the spot at which to hold it, and the only unbiased place to x 'the rules, rules t>o prevent merely "packing the‘convention" in favour of ‘one route." Chesley Enterprise:â€"We notice by Hansard that in the United States, with a population of 120 millions, 380 thousand individuals pay about 97 per cem.. of the income tax and in Canada with a pppulation of approximately 10 millions, 6,000 people pay 964 per cent. of the income tax of 71 millions, The Haileyburian last week says:â€" "Two prominent workers in the Norâ€" thern Ontario Associated Boards of Trade, W. O. Langdon, of Timmins and F. E. Wood, of Iroquois Falls, were presented with a rolling pin each at the meeting of the Association on Monday at Iroquois Falls It was the tenth anniversary of each of theirg weddings, a fact that had beern ascerâ€" tained in same way by other Board of Trade men, and it was felt that they should be honoured. Just why rolling pins were chosen, instead of some less harmful im;rfement, was not divulged. Mayor Cameron, of Iroquois Falls, made the presentations, after he had ex‘tended a welcome on behalf of the municipality to the visiting delegates." a gosd laugh to Sudbury and the Sault at the of the people of this part cf ‘he North. In an editorial arâ€" itcle last woeek The Nugget touches on the situation in which North Bay placâ€" ed itself by calling the conference this week. The Nugget says:â€" Criticized for Action in Calling the Conâ€" ference at North Bay This Week to Consider Route of Transâ€"Canâ€" ada Highway. ROLLING PINS TO NOTE THE WOODEN ANNIVERSARIES From the very beginning. The Adâ€" vance has taken the s:and that the sugâ€" gestion of a compromise or agreement between the various parts of the North in regard to the proposed route for the Transâ€"Canada highway should not be favoured by this section for the very good reason that the Sudbury and Sault Ste, Marie sections had no intention of conceding a single inch in regard to were jure the th> csun Nugzet 1 North Bay Abused by All the Parties suni{ry as a wh et has ssemed ocf the siuat nai plans and aim a and hop id purpo 1 hopsos, Their was to ey were a unit ia} c;rinion was of the North. ly stepped into r and callod a ay on the quesâ€"