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lated and following that inoculation something seemed to: become..wrong with one of his arms. Those who do not acâ€" cept mil:tary medical men as infallible would perhaps jump to the conclusion that either the inoculation poisoned the arm or that some nerve or muscle was injured in such a way as to paralyze the arm. The medical men at Valcartier, howevet, knew that such a thing could not possibly occur. In any event, however, Hussin was eventually discharged as physically unfit for war service and returned to his home at Drm}water Pit. His arm troubled him considerably, but he borq;:with it patiently and without complaint. So far as known .}w made no effort to claim a pension or secure any recompense for the injury that certainly seemed to be due to something that occurred while he was in the uniform of the army. He made notable effort to carry on in civilian life. The injured arm was of little use to Hussin but he made tHe best of it and was able for years to manage to live without: seeking aid from anyone. With the coming of the depression, however, Mr. Hussin fell upon difficult days and eventu{;:lly found himself unable to earn a living for himâ€" ~self and family. Friends on learning of his difficulties perâ€" suaded him to apply for a pension, and last year effort was made th secure for the unfortunate man what it appeared that hé should have received eighteen years ago. Eventuâ€" ally he was ordered to réport at Christie street hospital, Toâ€" ~ ronto. '{:I‘here his trouble was diagnosed as "hysterical paraâ€" lysis," and pretence was made that he was cured of this ailâ€" ment. He was returned to his home at, Drinkwater Pit in much worse condition than before the treatment. Previously the arm appeared to be paralyzed; the treatment seemed to turn it into a case of palsy. The arm seemed to shake and quiver gll the time. It would wring the heart of any normal man toi’see the condition of this poor fellow after the herâ€" alded cure that was no cure at all but simply an aggravaâ€" tion of the trouble. In a word the arm was more useless than before and Hussin has further disa(bility and pain to bear. The matter seemed so serious an injustice that Jos. A. Bra_dett'e, member for North Temiskaming, brought the particulars of the case before the House of Commonsâ€"and elicited the sympathetic attention of Hon. Murray MacLaren, Minister of Pensions. The Minister of ‘Pensions swept away Oanadaâ€"$2.00 Per Year United Statesâ€"$83.00 Per Year The case of Joseph Hussin, of Drinkwater Pit, Ont., is one that dégerves continued publicity until justice is done this man. The story of this unfortunate man has been told before in the columns of The Advance, and it would appear that it will need to be told again and again until such time as public opinion is aroused and a fair deal assured for this humble and suffering exâ€"sold:er. L 3 2 4 3 ofi t on ns Joeeph Hussin, a loyal Canadlan of Beigian origin. was among the early volunteers from this part of Canada to sign up for overseas service. ; At Valcartier he was inocu- some of the red tape with the result that Hussin was again summoned to Toronto. He went in fear and trembling. He had;, endured agonies, he sa‘id, in the previous treatment. The elettric shocks he had received had knocked him down repeatedlly, he asserted, and he feareq the consequences of any further treatment along the same line. He was induced by friehds, however, to brave what he considered nothing more nf(')r less than torture, and so again he journeyed to ‘Christi¢ street hospital for treatment. One of the doctors watching the unfortunate man under the treatment reâ€" ferred to his condition as pitiful. He seemed to suffer agonies frony the treatment. He did more than seem to sufâ€" fer. He actually suffered. His story on his return to the North yvould touch the heart of anyone but a military hosâ€" pital doctor. If his case did not prove otherwise, The Adâ€" vance Would believe that even those having to do with pensions would be affected by the very evident sufferings of this poor man. It seems inconceivable that he would have failed to wring some measure of justice from the country had he been a colonel or a man Of, influence. The Board of ‘Pension Commissioners for Canada, however, appear to have given their final word in this sad case. "This man WAS cons‘défed to have hysterical paralysis," say the report. "The diagnosis has now been changed to malingering. No pension .can be paid for this condition." « It is dificyt to write without bitterness in regard to this latest decision of the pension authorities. It was bad enough to call a very evident disability by the name of "hysterical paralysis," but to suggest that the unfortunate man is maâ€" lingering, shamming, "swinging the lead," goes beyond even the patience that has to be extended to military doctors n e T T P N Oe P L L O es dn omm en omm ame mm ane se s mc ce | | seeking‘ to avold payment of pension to.a man apparently: without; friends and influence. What these doctors ask the people to believe is that for eighteen years this man without sense or purpose pretended that his arm was useless, when the pretence only brought him inconvenience. Why should man handicap himself in this way unless he were really disabled in some physical or mental Way? He asked for no pension. He did not seek to avoid work. He made pitiful éfforts to manipulate the crippled arm so that he could gfi.u'ry on and make a living for himself. The conâ€" dition af his arm has been public knowledge since his réturn to this district from Valcartier. Until he was compelled by circumstances and conditions to seek help from charity he made x effort to capitalize in any way the disability that he und@ubtedly suffered. To ask the people of this district to believe that Hussin has suffered no disability is to require that the evidence of the eyes and all the powers of normal observation be denied. All who know Hussin know that he has suffered a very serious handicap from his connection with tm army and that since alleged treatment at Christic street hpsplt.al his sufferings have been the greater. In view of what the people know; with the living evidence before them of the injury to this unfortunate man; the public canâ€" not beMeve that it is Hussin that is malingering. It is not Hussin that is "swinging the lead," in soldier parlance. ‘The Timmins, Ont., Thursday, Feb. 23rd, 1933 sham, fi:e pretence, the deceit, will not be laid at Hussin‘s door. ‘The people who have known Hussin, his evident sufâ€" ferings,‘ his inseparable handicap, cannot avoid bitterness at the ‘apparent attempt in other quarters to "swing the lead." "‘The public has been kindly and generous enough in viewing,pensions granted to cases where the mer:t, the need, were much less evident than in Hussin‘s case, even tnough the wealth and the influence were more apparent. To the ordinary layman it appears that Hussin suffered some inâ€" jury or disability from the inoculation. â€" Certainly he sufâ€" fered seriously and continuously from some cause. All the changing of diagnosis in Christie street hospital will not alter that fact. It puzsles all to understand why the doctors persist refusing to acknowledge that in one case inocu« m@dhavemm-cnm They seem to be determined H and who is now charged with eighteen years of malingering, senseless, purposeless, unthinkable. Even to convict the unâ€" fortunate man of the latest condition given as an excuse for further injustice to him would be no more than to prove his merit to pension. ‘If his condition these eighteen years past has been such that he has suffered, as he undoubtedly has done in physical as well as mental way, from a state that the léarned doctors alléege now to be even less than hysterical paralysis, then such a condit.on, terrible enough in its implications and actual enough in its reality, can be traced still to nothing but his war service, and so still worthy and deserving of recompense from the country he sought to serve. The Board of Pension Commissioners of Canada may imagine the case of Hussin is closed. Any such imaginâ€" ing, is but "swinging the lead." There can be no closing of such a case until justice is done. It cannot be covered either by the medical term of malingering, or the soldier‘s phrase of "swinging the lead." Just as there was honour for the "unknown soldier," just as there was remembrance for the "forgotten man," so let there be power and influence and friends for this poor fellow that he may have that British right and priv.legeâ€"a square deal. The real foes to progress at the present time are the il1lâ€" hearted and the illâ€"advised who would wantonly throw away all that humanity has gained in advancement and betterâ€" ment through the centuries In the House of Commons, in | the press, on the public platform, even in the odd pulpit, | there are people mouthing empty platitudes, vo‘:.cing the patâ€" ter of the parlour socialist, screaming the ravings of the communist. They pretend ‘to urge progress, yet their weight | is all towards retrogression. They seem to think they have something new, yet all they plead is the force and folly disproven in blood and suffering time and again in the history of the world. Their faveurite device is to accuse the rest of the world of fear of the new, the untried, while all their policies are hoary with proven error and impract:icaâ€" billty. They are wasting precious time. They make the way of true progress the more difficult by their vain and selfish theories. Henry Ford is credited with saying that} history is ‘bunk." It would be equally true, equally false, to say that all automobiles were "junk." History has its lessons, morals and truths that only a fool would scorn. If there is any one fact that stands out in history it is that British people have made remarkable progress in the way of democracy, freedom, advancement by abhoring the revoâ€" lutionary and following the plan of consolidating each adâ€" yance and going forward to something better. The man who denies the progress made by British people in the past cenâ€" tury, the past fifty years, even the past decade, deliberately refuses the truth. In liberty, in true progress, the world is marching on. Evolution has won its way. Only the man defective in either heart or mind can counsel any type of revolution to prejudice the gains so hardly won. Conditions toâ€"day may be discouraging, but the attitude of people and sovernments in these trying times is proof conclusive of the remarkable â€"progress made. even in recent years. Previous depressions were viewed as visitations of providence, with the prosperous feeling there was little to be done about it. Toâ€" day, the ready help to all in need, the desire not only to sympathize but to assist, the determination that none shall suffer more than can be avoided, all these things show that the country has progressed to a new and better day. Of course, no one pretends that anything like perfection has been reached. ‘There are many things yet to be done in the name of progress. But it seems evident that the country is on the right way. It would be folly to go back to the dark ages, following. the beard of:any foreignâ€"eyed fanatic. The attitude of the governments and of the people alike proclaim the fact that the right to life and happiness of every man, woman and child in the country are looked upon as an essential principle. The way seems clear to further advance. The line seems to lie in the way of the further curbing of special privileges and to the few, the guarding against undue powers in the hands of any selfâ€" selected few, whether they call thgm’selves capitalists or comâ€" munists. There are some abuses in capitalism as it is in Canada. There are more debasing abuses in state capitalism as it is in Russia. Force, selfishness, and lust for power are the enemies to be fought. The Woodsworths, the Macphails, need as much watching as the Flavelle or the Beauharnois type. They seek power to which they are not entitled by either talent or public service. The man who questions the progress of the Canadian people, the British, is worrying without true foundation. Canada and the Empire will adâ€" vance in the same steady way that has marked the last few decades. J. C. Ponsford, for nineteen years, warden at the Portsâ€" mouth penitentiary, commenting on ‘the report of the enâ€" quiry into the riots at that prison, says:â€"‘"The riot was due to one thing only, and that‘ is a continual slackening off of discipline and a showing of partiality to some inâ€" mates." The full report is not likely to cover the case more Investigations continue into relief administration in various centres in Ontario. None of them promise to be as serious as the Sturgeon Falls case, but. they are all regrettable, indeed. The chief moral to be drawn from them all is the evil of direct relief. The less ‘direct relief in this country the better in every way. Employmnt makes for industry, independence and the other virtues that are supposed to be typical of the Canadian. Because direct relief is so forgign to the spirit of the Canadian people there is little hops for believing that it will work with any reasonable amount of efficiency or satisfaction. truly and fully than 'that. . If the editor of The Kapuskasing Tribune keeps on telling his readers about his war service, after a while they may come to believe there may be something in it. GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER Employment REAL FOES TO PROGRESS is the only remedy for unemployment. In a series of articles in the Tortnto i Globe on "Ontario‘s Ocean ; Hon. Frank Oliver devotes con and in particular Moosonee and Ites rcundings. Following is the article: . The Temiskaming (teâ€"misâ€"Â¥aâ€"mifig) and Northern Ontario Railway (T. | N. O. for short), Provincially â€" butlt, owned and cperated, is essentiallyjatdeâ€" velopment, project. The objective is to permit industry and capital to exploit the resources of Ontario‘s Great North for the expansicn and enrichment of Canada as a Wwhole, but having snecial lregard to the welfare and interests of |the province, at whose cst the enterâ€" prise was undertaken, and has been carried forward to the shore of Hudson Sca, which bounds the province on the i north. Review of the Development of N. O. Railway and the of The ssutherly terminal of the railâ€" way is at North Bay. The lerigth of main line is 440 miles. From North Ray there is direct rail connection with Toronto by a branch of the C. N. sysâ€" tem, as well as with Montreal and Winnipeg by the main lines of both CP. and CN. The total rail distance from Toronto to Moosonee is 666 miles, spanning the province from south to nerth, and so giving access from the populous and wealthy frontage on the Great Lakes to the vast, sparsely popuâ€" lated and comparatively little known hinterland, and as well the 2,000â€"mile shore line of Hudson Sea. Regular train service from Toronto to Moosonee was begun in August last. Until approximately the close of naviâ€" gation three passenger trains a week were operated each way, on a schedule under 36 hours; so arranged as to give the daylight ride between North Bay and ‘which includes all branchâ€"line connections. During the current winter season there is a daily service to Cochrane, and a twice a week mixed daylight service between Cochâ€" rane and Moosonee. There will be a new through schedule before the openâ€" ing of navigation. | At Moosonee The terminal townsite of Moosoonee is situated on the northwesterly bank of the tidal estuary of Moose River, which enters James Bay, the southerly extension of Hudson Sea, @f its exâ€" treme southwesterly angle, about latiâ€" tude 51 north. Many years ago the great French firm of Revillion Freres, fur traders and manufacturers, chose this location as the site of the headâ€" quarters for their trade on James, Bay Bay and Hudson Sea. The Hudson‘s Bay Company post of Moose Factory, headquarters of that company for the southeasterly part of Hudson Sea) was located upward of 300 years ago on an adjacent island in the estuary. It was one ¢f the first trading posts establishâ€" ed by the company, and has always been one of the most important. _ Considerable progress has been made in the development of the terminal townsite. A survey has been; made which includes some 300 acres, lying between the river bank and the railway track, a distance of about half ‘mile by somewhat over a mile along the river. This area has been cleared of woods. The survey is in blocks, 600 by 264 feet, with 66â€"fcoot streets between. The blocks are each divided into 30 132 x 66 feet. The Ferguson Highway There are some exceptions to these figures. Ferguson Roagc, parallel to and second from the river bank is 80 feet wide. First and Second streets, which connect the riverfront with the station are also 80 feet wide. A break in the rectangular survey is made because of the valley of Store ‘Creek, which cuts across the southwesterly part .of the townsite and enters the river in line with First street. Henry Crescent folâ€" lows the course of the creek at a disâ€" tance of about 100 feet on the northâ€" easterly side, and Lee Crescent similarâ€" ly for part of the distance on the southâ€" westerly side. The area between the crescents is not surveyed into lots. On Block A, between Ferguson Road and ‘the river on the southwesterly bank of Store Creek, is located the hotel, erected in the summer of 1932. The building is well adapted for its purposes and is located to give an exâ€" cellent view of the estuary and its isâ€" lands. Several bungalows supplement the accommeodaticns of the hotel. The whole block is reserved for hotel purâ€" poses. A substantial bridge across Store Creek on Ferguson Road gives access from First street and the staâ€" tion to the hotel. First street is graded and gravelled and has a sidewalk for the whole distance from the station to Ferguson Road on the easterly side and on both sides for two blocks north of Ferguson Road. Revillion Rcead is the street nearâ€" est the river. It has also been graded and gravelled for somse distance easterâ€" ly from First street. The Revillion buildings are on its northwesterly side. A narrow strip of unsurveyed land inâ€" tervenes between Revillion Road and the river bank. A Forward Glance Several business buildings have been erected on the northeasterly corner of First and Ferguson. It is no doubt exâ€" pected that the retail business of the town will centre in this neighbourhood. A large mission building is being erectâ€" ed on Henry Crescent two blotks north of Ferguson Road, by the Roman Cathâ€" olic Church. A branch of the Imperial Bank occupies a part of one of the Reâ€" villion buildings. The railway yards extend northâ€" survey and thence southwesterly along the bank to a point near the Revillion warehouse, at which the Hudson‘s Bay easterly from the station. The "Y" which is between the yards and the river has been extended to the riverâ€" frontattheeast,‘m*lyendo!thewwn o9 P 2. PW C1A en es l i .06 Company and the Roman Catholic Misâ€" sion will erect warehouses, from which goods will be loaded directly into vesâ€" sels. The shipping using the Moosonce terminal as a base is as yet limited to the transportatioon needs of the several trading companies as they were before the coming of the railway. It includes the power schooners Fort Churchill and Fort Charles and the schooner Maud of the Hudson‘s Bay Company; the power schooner Dorothy of Revillion Freres; the Charles Stewart of the Inâ€" dian Department and three smaller vessels belonging to independent tradâ€" ers. In July last three more vessels were ‘being prepared for launching. There are, of course, large number of small boats and canoes, with and withâ€" cut power, used in fishing, hunting and cther local purposes. Asking Details About the Canyon Power Purchase Through new questions placed on the order paper of the: Legislature, last week, the Progressive group, under Harry C. Nixon, is seeking to bring beâ€" fore the House for discussion, as fully as possible, the complete details of the Ontario Government‘s acquisition of the Abitibi Canyon power development in the north. These questions, filed in the name 0: D. J. Taylor, North Grey, are as folâ€" lows: "On what date did the Gov'emment offer to take over the Abitibi Power Develcpment from the Ontario Power Service Corporation?: "What were the terms of the offer? "Has the offer been definitely aocept- ed and theâ€"deal completed? "What is the total obligation incurâ€" red by the province in this matter? "Whiat were the names and addresses of the bondholders and the amounts each held of the bonds of Ontario Phones 20â€"21 Marshallâ€"Ecclestone Limited HAWES‘ FLOOR GLOSS Just Wipe It Onâ€" See It Shine Porcupine Advance For Sure Results . . You should try The Insert One Next Week Now Obtained Without Labour Power Service Corporation Limited inâ€" volved in this deal?" The last question, with regard to the bondholders, has been pressed in recen: platform speeches by Arthur G. Slaght, K.C., Opposition critics‘ counsel at the Royal Commission Hydro inquiry who has been speaking on behalf of Mitchell F. Hepburn, provincial Liberal leader. Toronto Mail and Empire:â€"If the Italian â€"who attempted the life of Franklin Roosevelt was also implicated in an attempt to kill the King of Italy, for which crime he served 17 years‘ imprisonment before being released in 1928, how it is possible that he was admitted into the United States? Buflfalo Courierâ€"Express:â€"Technoâ€" cracy is like the flu. Everybody seems to be catching it in some form. Some have a very strong attack of it and talk about it deliriously as if they have wild dreams of a short working week and a long bank roll. Others have just a touch of it, confessing to feeling little mentally lame all over about it, but with hardly any fever. At the first intimation of technocracy, the best thing to do is to go to bed and try and sleep it off. Funeral at Renfrew of the Late Mrs. Herbert Peever A couple of weeks ago reference was made in The Advance to the death at Rochester, N.Y., of Mrs. Peever, f3râ€" merly of the Porcupine camp, and matron later at the Haileybury C.AS. Shelter, going from Halleybury to North Bay as matron of the Shelter there. Mrs. Peever was well known all through the North and was highly esteemed by all who knew her. In referring to the funeral of Mrs. Peever The Pemâ€" broke â€" Standardâ€"Observer last week Requires .{No RUBBING NO POLISHING "The funeral took place in Renfrew One Insertion costing you 50 cents in advance wili bring you what you require THURSDAY, FEBRUARY #RD, 1933 +# AE 2 Saturday afternoon from the residence of her brother, Claude King,, of the lste Mrs. Herbert Peever, whose, death cccurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Floyd Simpson, in. Rochester, Wednesday morning. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Dr. H. Mick, pastor <of Trinityâ€"St. Andrew‘s:. United Church. The late Mrs. Peéver was native of the Bonnechere ‘Valley. She was born in Eganville 54 years ago, daughter of Mrs. King and ‘the late James King. The family moved ‘to farm on the banks of the Bsnnechere river a few miles from Renfrew. Folâ€" lcwing her marriage, Mrs. Peéver reâ€" Sided in Cobden, Cobalt and ‘afterward at North Bay. With her husband â€"and daughter, she is survived by her‘mother, fcur brothers and two sisters. The sisâ€" ters are Mrs. Dr. I. L. Moir, of Columâ€" bia, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Homer Norton, of Flint, Mich.; the brothers are _Afthur- and Claude," cof Renfrew; Gordon. ofâ€"Colorado, and Jotin Detroit." are the new Slendor Reducing Tabâ€" lets. A purely vegetable qonfecition that helps you shed that disfiguring fat in a sane, safe wgg.‘ i THREE WEEKS‘ TREATMENT $1.50 0 0C13 3/ \' + % soLD oNLyÂ¥ BY > Timmins â€" . M. Burke Ltd. Harmless and. 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