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Try The Advance Want Advertisements Gold Mining Has Been of Outstanding Importance By its steady progress, its aggressiveâ€" ness and its ability to continue operâ€" avtions without serious curtailment durâ€" imng a period of economic difficulties, the mining industry had during the past two years "proved its real worth to our national welfare and consolidated its position in the economic structure of ‘the country Dr. Charles Camsell, Domin:.on Deputy Minister of Mines, told a Montreal service club. Dr. Camsell stressed the role of the gold mining industry in the economic life of Canada. Ore reserves were an important consideration in the welfare of the industry, but he felt no qualms on this pcint and stated that the Porâ€" cupine and Kirkland Lake mines, in particular, " will witness mining operâ€" ations at depths far in excess of those already attained." R Searches for new sources of gold were extracrdinarily active and disâ€" tinctly promising, Dr. Camsell stated. In the field of base metals, Canada had "advanced from a pcosition of distinctly minor importance, to a position where it might be seriously suggested that no cther country is more vitally interested in the conditions surrcunding internaâ€" tional trade in base metals." 21 Pine St. N., Timmins Phone 104 +* S 4445 from serious loss in case of fire New Low Rates Sullivan Newton AND BE SAFE We have accommodation for a limited number of duck and goose hunting parties, comfortable floatâ€" ing camps, near good locaâ€" tions. Write for Full Information Alex Hunter, Ontario Licensed Guide. Here is the range you‘ve always wanted a range that give ience and econo cooking and thait weather. It‘$s )t a range that gives you the comfort, convenâ€" ience and economy of yearâ€"round electric cooking and that heats the kitchen in ccla weather. It‘s the most sensible, practical range you have ever seen. You will be sur2 to want one particularly when you see how easy we have made it for you to buy. Burns coal or wood for heating. Canada Northern Power Corporation Limited For Yearâ€"round Kitchen Comfort NORTHERN ONTARIO POWER COMPANY, NORTHERN QUEBEC POWER COMPANY, LIMITED Moosones, Ont A Combination Electric and Coal Range Controlling and operating Service 3 7â€"38 This gratifyving decrease in diphtheria cases is entirely due to the immunizaâ€" tion of children through the adminisâ€" tration of toxoid. The department has acone great work this year in persuadâ€" ing munic.palities to afiopt the toxoid idea, and many places are now supâ€" ! plying toxoid to the children wBich did not do so in previous years. In the Sudâ€" bury district, where heretofore very little toxoid had been administered, 2,â€" l000 children have been attended to this vear. The idea is also taking a firm hold at Parry Sound, and recently some 200 children were treated. Clinics will also be started at Kapuskasing in the near future. Dr. George thinks that the manner in which diphtheria conditions have improved in the past few years is very complimentary to doctors who are able to spend only part of their time as medical health officers. Diphtheria in Northern Ontario is disappear.ng at a phenomenal rate, Dr. W. E. George, District Medical Health Officer, stated recently in discussing the questicon. The number of cases in the North country has decreased 50 per cent. this year, the number being 15 to date, while in 1932 there were 48 cases. There was also a 50 per cent. drop in 1932, compared to the year previous. Vanity Fair:â€"â€"The little girl‘s prayer: "Oh. God, make all the bad people gcod, and all the good people nice." age. If the same interest is maintainâ€" ed, there will soon be practical immunâ€" ity from this disease for the people of Timmins. It is quite a time now since there was a case of diphtheria in Timâ€" mins. Other towns in the North have been equally thoughtful in this matâ€" ter and the result is very beneficial to the North. The following is going the rounds of the press these days, under the heading cf "Birth Stones":â€" For laundresses é The soapstone For architects.................The cornerstone FPor taxi drivers....................The milestong ’];he bloodstone For Irishmen ...............The blarneystone For borrowers .......... The touchstone For stock brokers............... The curbstone For pedestrians ...........The paving stone For .. . Inhe : keystonge For beauties.....................The peachstone For editors.........................The grindstone For realtors......................The hearthstone To the above might be added the folâ€" lowing : For hairdressers............The headstone For draymen Ihne loadstone Ssome other newspaper add a couple more and keep it on the "rounds." For For For Reference on many occasions has | been made in The Advance to the| proven value of toxoid as a preventative l against diphtheria. Dr. H. H. Moore,| Medical Health Officer, has been both | patient and persistent in advocating the | use of this method of safeguarding against one of the most dangerous and dreaded of epidemic diseases. Dr. Moore has been so successful in his | advocacy of the matter, and has securâ€" ' ed such hearty coâ€"operation from the other doctors, the nurses, and others| concerned that the greater majority of | children in town are now protected for | life against diphtheria. Clinics have been held here at different times for| the immunizing of school children, and | there have been other clinics of the | same kind for children of pre-school! DIPHTHERIA DECREASED IN | NORTH FIFTY PEKR CENT APPROPRIATE STONES FOR DIFFERENT OCCUPATION®S A small down payment will deliver one to your home with the balance on easy terms. The soapstone ‘The cornerstone .The milestone ..’I;he bloodstone The blarneystone .The touchstone _____ The curbstone The paving stone ... The keystone The peachstone ‘The grindstone ‘The hearthstone ) â€"â€"In industrial areas where men live | by employment it is clear that in times | of acute depression people out of work \ must be fed or they would starve unâ€" ‘less some sane system of social insurâ€" t ance was in operation. It is not equally why, in a potentially ? rich agricultural area in a normal seaâ€" son, the farmers should be fed at the pubhc expense during a depression. In Northem Ontario it is the farmers who lare mostly on relief. % The implications of this widespread system are extremely evil, and are beâ€" iing pungently criticized not merely by \ all intelligent and independent people but by some of the recip‘ents and adâ€" ministrators of relief themselves. } Owes Them a Living ' It is extremely difficult to administer la, system of direct rel‘lef without some | albuses creeping in somewhere. There jare plenty of people who would rather |\receive alms than work, especially when the "handâ€"out" comes from the ample pocket of a government, and the menâ€" tal attitude that the government owes a living to the people has become preâ€" ‘valent. The local relief officers themâ€" |selves are only human, and generally | prefer to be generous at the governâ€" \ ment‘s expense rather than to make 'bad enemies in the #e‘gzghbourhood by 'refusing relief. One is not surprised therefore, to hear on all sides that large numbers of people are being helped who are not really entitled to it. One ‘homesteader who, besides having A lvegetable garden, a cow and horse, was making a fair income from a small business in the neighbouring town, cheerfully admitted to me that he was drawing relief "because everybody is getting it and I would be foolish to n pass up a good thing while it was going | for the asking." ‘ _ _The harm of a system of this kind ‘is incalculableâ€"it is ruining a whole generation of people in a part of the country where hard work and thrift i are particularly essent.al. Men are beâ€" ‘coming loafers and young boys are lbeing educated into professional loitâ€" | erers. Last winter it was difficult to ‘~‘get men for the lumber and pulp ' camps because they naturally preferred | | to stay at home and get their living in idleness rather than work for the begâ€" igarly wages prevalent in the camps, ‘orâ€"cut pulp and sell it at practically | cost price. Says Reds Causing Trouble in the North For some time past there has been a series of articles running in The Toronâ€" to Saturday Night dGdealing with the North Land. These articles are from the pen of N:cholas Ignatieff, formerâ€" ly a citizem of Russia, but now a Canâ€" adian journalist, In a recent issue Mr. Ignatieff attempts to deal with proâ€" blems of the North in regard to settleâ€" ment here. He compares settlement plans in Ontario w.th those of Quebec, and not to the favour of Ontario. He also touches on the evil effect of groups of reds in the North. MHis article in part is as follows:â€" T‘wo Kinds of People in North There are two kinds of pecple in Northern Ontario at the present time: the people who pay taxes and the people who are on relief. One could divide all the people in most civilized countries into the same two classes. But there is a difference in Northern Ontario both with regard to the proâ€" portion of the population which is getâ€" ting direct relief and the kind of people who are getting :t. It is no exaggeriâ€" tion to say that there are townships in the Clay Belt where over 90 per cent. of the people are on relief. In several townships only two or three persons are thus subsidized. Criticierm Made of Settlemert Plans Northern Ontario. _ Mixed Settle ments Not Favoured. YViews of Toronto Writer, to our question "What do you like best about your PONTIAC" ‘“ y iT i Its so easy to operate replied owners "The great thing about my Pontiac is its smoothnessâ€"â€"it has plenty of power too, but it is smooth,." THME PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO One of the worst features of this "dole" system in Northern Ontario is that it is bonussing the worst elements of the community. The honest, thrifty and hard working settlers who have too much pride to accept "handâ€"outs" are struggling along on their cwn, while the drones are only too glad to get whatever they can grab. Especially nrominent among the latter are the Thert s.on da uation in paris ol Northern Unlarlio goes beyond this. One is surprised at the amount of crganized communism that exists among the settlersâ€"not to mention industrial workers, where agiâ€" tators have actually formed communâ€" istic cells and exercise considerable conâ€" trol over their followers. These leaders are advising the settlers to get all they can from Canada‘s "cap.talistic governâ€" ment‘"‘ and give nothing in return, to the extent of not even planting kitchen gardens and aestroying Canada‘s "capiâ€" talistic‘ fish and game by way of a pastime, much to the disgust of the settlers who are not "red." In Cochrane I met a couple of Rusâ€" s‘an Ukrainians whyu had worked on my section on railway construction in the North before the depression. In one summer they had cleared about $1,200 apiece, which was more money than the average Russian peasant made in ten years. They had squandered this money and were now on relief, and yet with all that they were as red as a post office box. Soviet Russia was the only place fit for human h#bitation. I suggested they should return to Russia, as Stalin would appreciate their enâ€" thusiastic support, being very short of it among the natives. They countered by explaining that within a year there would be a Soviet government in Canâ€" ada and they would not have to go to Russia to be well governed. The Mixed Community The "red" element is particularly consp.cuous in mixed communities for the simple reason that here internaâ€" national leadership takes the place ol national and religious organization. Among Frenchâ€"Canadian communit.es or wherever there is religious consciousâ€" ness there is no trace of communism. This leads me to wonder with regard to the controversial problem of settleâ€" ment, whether a community of one deâ€" nomination and nationality is not to be preferred to mixed settlement. Speaking only of Northern Ontario and Northern Quebec, I was surprised at the general unsatisfactory condit.on and spirit of areas where mixed settleâ€" ment predominated. Besides the preâ€" ponderance of "reds" in such areas there was extremely poor neighbocurliâ€" ness â€" a characterist‘c not lacking among a good many English settlers and strikingly conspicuous among the bulk of recent "backâ€"toâ€"theâ€"land" relief settlers. A sad instance of this I witâ€" nessed in the case of two English famâ€" ilies located on particularly isolated lots near New Liskeard. Both families were in need of a cow and a horse, but each could only afford to buy one animal. Both fam‘ilies had small children, one being scarcely a year old, and it was being fed on desiccated milk when it got any at all. The two homes were not a hundred yards apart and one cow would have been ample for both households and they could have shared the work of one horse. My suggestion to this effect was rejected in no unâ€" certain terms, with the result that both families decided to buy a horse and do without the cow. the go a "red surpris Effect of Leadership The areas in the Clay Belt where progress is most marked and a better atmosphere is evident are undoubtedly those of community settlementsâ€"a genâ€" eralization which should probably be Phone 20 eds" an "Get All That You C of the worst fTeatu: is a tendency in these depresâ€" s to call anyone who is against rnment or financial institutions and one is not in the least i to hear a considerable volume ‘al dissatisfaction, but the s.tâ€" n parts of Northern Ontario qualified by adding: where the people have the right kind of leadership or some other good influence. There are communities of Frenchâ€"Canadians who are lazy and show no progress whatsoâ€" ever, while others are strikingly proâ€" gressive. In the latter case the credit generally belongs to the Roman Cathâ€" olic Churchâ€"which I say in all fairâ€" ness although belonging myself to a church whose historic relations with Rome are not even as cordial as those which persist between average Orange Protestants anid Roman Catholics to this day. Take the community at Moonbeam and the marvellous work that is being done there by Father Cimon, a man of magnetic personality, boundless energy vivacity, humour and goodâ€"will. He is the real shepherd of his flock. All inâ€" itiative towards progress rests with hm and the community responds in great style. It was Father Cimon who orâ€" ganized a creamery in the district and now hopes to establish a cannery and even an agricultural school, and preaches to his congregation on better agricultural methods, cleanliness of homes, neat gardens, etc. Mennonites Successful No less striking is the community life and progress of the Mennonites west of Kapuskasing. Here, in the midst of the bush, the young people have formâ€" ed a sports club and have even built a tennis court and bowling alley where they spend their few hours of leisure every week. Nor is the process of building good Canadian citizens retardâ€" ed in the community. Most of them have already got their citizenship papers, and Mr. Marten, the locat school teacher, provides an example of the best tvne of leadership for the have already got their citizenship papers, and Mr. Marten, the locat school teacher, provides an example of the best type of leadership for the young. He himself is a Mennonite reâ€" cently escaped from Russia who learned English promptly on reaching Canada, completed his normal schcool course and rsaturned to teach his people. He has thoroughly grasped the best traditions and principles of Canadian citizenship, which he is eager to transmit to his pupils, while at the same time conseryvâ€" ing the valuable spirit and traditions cf thse Mennonites. One of the young boys in this community is actually takâ€" ing his high school course ‘by working at his books at night, after working in the forest and field all day. Colonization officials and tradesâ€" people, as a rule, prefer mixed settleâ€" ments because they claim assimilation of the foreign elements progresses at a much faster rate under these condiâ€" tions. It is very doubtful whether such rapid Canadianization in mixed comâ€" munities is beneficial to the nation. Only too often the new Canadians asâ€" similate all the worst features of their new environment and lose the best of their cwn. Young people turn against their parents, cultivate extravagant tastes, mistake the notion of freedom for license, break away from religion and home, and probably leave the land and move to the cities. It is a fact that the bulk of the criminal element in Canada comes from this second generâ€" aticn of New Canadians. Living Beyord Means Government agencies are wont to welcome mixed settlements because they show least aptitude for effective coâ€"operation and therefore are least exacting with regard to government services. There is also the argument Members Standard Stock Mining Exchange Doherty, Roadhouse Co. Correspondent Bank of Commerce Bidg., Timmins Phone 701 P.0O. Box 1239 Fast and Efficient Service ‘% l‘:. llt\]n] A"i T n ar uf TT n J m Call or Telephone Timmins, Ont. that newcomers interspersed among old settlers can learn to farm and acclimâ€" atize themselves to local ~â€"conditions much faster. In Northern Ontario this argument carries no weight for the simple reason that the vast majority of the settliers are not farmers, or such poor farmers that newcomers can learn nothing from them but bad habits. Shorts‘ghted tradesmen prefer mixed settlements because the people can be induced more easily to abandon their thrifty ways and become extravagant and live beyond their means, which in the long run is as bad for the tradesâ€" men as it is for the settlers. Cond:tions in the Clay Belt would lead me to believe that community settlements provided with the right kind of leadership have more chances to succeed and prosper than mixed settlements. On the other hand, there is no reason why mixed should not do as well if this same probâ€" lem of leadership is solved. The school teacher could do invaluâ€" able work in this direct.onâ€"but how many are really fitted for it! An outâ€" standing example I met in Miss Phyllis Smith, who last winter started work in a mixed community of "backâ€"toâ€"theâ€" land" relief settlers at Wahnapitae, near Sudbury. Here, amid a pioneer settlement which is struggling to salâ€" vage its soul from city wreckage, this young and beautiful girl has become the real leader, and in her little log schoolâ€"house is endeavouring to make good Canadian citizens out of her small charges. This kind of work is the most important that any Canad:an could undertake, and should receive widespread support and encouragement. Need of Medical Service One of the crying needs of the setâ€" tlers of Northern Ontario is a more adequate medical service. All along the line I heard complaints, on the one hand that no such service, outside of private practitioners and hospitals loâ€" cated in towns, existed, and on the other hand the doctors‘ charges were far in excess of what the average setâ€" tler could afford to pay; while the docâ€" complained that settlers would not or could not pay them, which mads P hnsc 2 2l - ,::_/"â€" o i en t nds Yf 1 /fé m ho n (| Fill Your Bin Gemeral Motors Productsof Canada, Limited, Customer Research Dept., Oshawa, Ontario MAE ... ns uce Cb ib Address c practition profession profession, current. It is true, however, that many doctors carry hunâ€" dreds and thousands of dollars on their books in unpaid bills. During the presâ€" ent relief perlod the government has undertaken to pay doctors‘ bills for services given to recipients of relief, but owing to the arbitrary treatment their own pos It is quite pat total income : $300 per year or $35 per vis! stori.es of the Dultl owing to t at the hands of cal men show ve work under the Northern Quebec is fortunate in not having to face problems as complicated as those of Northern Ontario because settlement is much more uniform, efâ€" fective leadership largely rests with the church, and the system of widespread direct relief has been obviated. system of state lying regions is no colon:zation unless improve; is effective. Timmins QOverâ€"stou painfully pearance, lets (that will help : F. M. Burke Ltd. THREE WEEKS TREATMENXT $1.50 Are You " Fat Conscious? " it sOLD ONLY BY position extremely difficult. patent that a settler whose 1e might run from $100 to ‘ar cannot afford to pay $25 visit for the doctor. Many the mercenary attitude of ‘s, quite unworthy of the areâ€" current. It is true, iat many doctors carry hunâ€" that includes I1f ~cotf Slend amot ; of the department mediâ€" v very little enthus.asm for these conditions. Some ite medical service in outâ€" is a vital necessity, and ion can hopje to succeed vement in this direction Druggist 11 intiaec is easy to co trol at any speed!" al scious of ir â€" Reduc ; English tain a tri *C PM x th metimes are ; of their apâ€" ducing Tabâ€" lish formula) i trim, vouthâ€" 1j 3 ad with» and mry very hunâ€" their presâ€"