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TLIMMINS, ONTARIO MUembers Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontlario. Quebec Newspaper Association; Class "A" Weekly Group Published Every Thursday by: GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Bubscription Rates: Canadaâ€"$2.00 Per Year United Statesâ€"$3.00 Per Year In recent months The Ottawa Journal has been officially ranked as the "most widely quoted daily newspaper in Canâ€" ada." That is a high honour, indeed, and one that has to be won on merit, because there is much competition from | able uand enterprising daily newspapers throughout the Dominion. To hold so high a place The Journal must have qualifications beyond the This fact is capable of proof. . For instance, The Journal the other day stopped in the middle of a very interesting editorial to note: that "The Timmins Advance is a vigorous, independent, intelliâ€" gent newspaper of standing and influence." Surely, with such evidente as that of rare discernment, perfect judgâ€" ment and apt lterary expression, The Journal could scarceâ€" ly fail to be worthy cf the widest quotation and the most general approval. There need be no fear, however, that The Advance‘s head may be, tumed by such flattering reference. . Newspaper. work in a.mqu city or a large town carries its own reducer fo;r any attem:pt at swelled head. In this particular case the oditorial in The Ottawa Journal holds its own antidote for the poison of undue vanity. At the very outset of its editorial The Journal noted this quotation from The Porâ€" cupine Advance:â€""When The Ottawa Journal is feeling specially goodâ€"hearted, it can say a good word for nearly anybody or anything." So that‘s that! Still worse, (though The Joumal fails to mention this), what really tempted The Advance to mention the generousâ€"hearted kindness of The Journal was the fact that recently the Ottawa newsâ€" paper actually defended radio announcers. An intelligent newspaper knows what should be done with the most of â€"radio announcers. An independent newspaper would cerâ€" tainly like to do it. And a vigorous newspaper would do it with much vim. Seldom does a newspaper receive a gift of honey but:the sweet stuff is black with fliesâ€"blackflies and mosquitces. Such is newspaper life! If "every knock‘s a boost," then there‘s a lot of boosting, open and underhand. E!.sewhere in this issue will be found the full text of the ediftorial from The Ottawa Journal. It is worth reading, and worthy_-p. special comment or two. ® i TiE o £.. The Journal accepts as a compliment the reference in ‘The Advance to the Ottawa newspaper‘s tendency to say A good word for anybody or anything. It was meant as a compliment. Had The Advance meant otherwise, this newsâ€" paper would have been disappointed if its meaning had not been plain. As The Journal suggests, there are not enough good words said. Probably there are too many harsh critiâ€" cisms. The Advance would like to see a rule established to the effect that only those who have done things should be allowed to criticize others. The men who have given the Timmins, Ont., Thursday, April 12th 1934 greatest public service are often the ones who are the slowâ€" est to find fault with the efforts of others. The most inâ€" tolerant critic of Hon. R. B. Bennett is likely to be the fellow who wouldn‘t take the trouble to vote at the last Dominion election. A bitter opponent of the 1933 council in T‘mmins was a man who had not paid taxes here for two years. His chief complaint was against high taxation. He doesn‘t like the 1934 council any better. They haven‘t reâ€" duced taxes any, and he will evade this year‘s rates if he can. Destructive criticism is of little use to anybody, exâ€" cept, perhaps the critic‘s wife and family. They may escape illâ€"will in proportion to the abuse that public servants have to endure. As a matter of fact, everybody would be‘ the better for a little less faultâ€"finding and a little more supâ€" port in the good things attempted. 4i ofi sA s P L ol The Journal strikes the right note in saying that newsâ€" papers and individuals ought to be as free with discriminatâ€" ing praise as with disapproval and condempation. One of the troubles, however, is that even the most discriminating praise is seldom as popular as careless but clever denunciaâ€" tion. At the present time the world is in somewhat of a faultâ€"finding mood. The times are out of joint. There are many people who feel that everything and everybody should be condemned. The word of praise is likely to receive the severest censure in the temper of the moment. But times are on the mend, and the newspaper or individual that honestly and kindly deals out impartial praise for the good and blame for the ill will hold in the end the confidence of the majority. The Journal sees much good result from the sincere word of praise aptly spoken. It visions The Advance encouraged to renewed effort by its kindly commendation. That may be true enough. But it is to be hoped that its good words for radio announcers did not spur those fellows on to anyt.hing except thoughts of selfâ€"destruction. There is another aspect to the matter, That is the good effect upon the writer or peaker of the word of praise.. It leaves him with a glow th@t fires him to further good.‘ That editorial writâ€" er on Thafiournal for instance, after his kind words about j.‘ would feel the better and the nobler for his ef’forts to make truth and generosity walk hand in hand. nave done my good deed for toâ€"day," he would say, "and now if I do another while I‘m in the mood, I may be able to take theâ€"day off toâ€"morrow!" Praise, like mercy, is twice blessed. "It blesseth him that gives and him that takes." Auother litt.le good word won‘t do anybody any harm. The Advance wishes The Journal all success in any endeavour to popularize praise. Che Hormmpine Abuanee It is a popular sort of cant toâ€"day to talk about the few who own the means of production and wealth and the many who have no share in the riches of the land. The majority of the people in Canada would like to see every man given opporinnity for a full share of the best things of life and there is every reason for hoping that this country is steadily on the way to a more equitable division of wealth than obtains in same coljuntries and that has obtained in some neasuro in this land. Too great haste in this direction will assuredly defsat itseli. The grvat majority of the people of Canada. are neither very rich inor very poor. There are few other countries in which this ract is so apparent. Beâ€" fore the revolution the majority of the people of Russia, for instance, came under the classes of the very rich or the very poor.. Radical action has turned them all into the very poor. The result can scarcely be considered pleasing, except to those who have undue faith in the old idea that misery lovesoomplny It wouki appear that the end to be most devoutly M}w in Canada is to raise the poor to the position of the mommlemtjorlty.even dropbackapecoi'two '!baccompushtmsdesiredend will take e but it will be time well spent. Haste will maks ‘"and the proverb never was more a fact than in though in PRAISE AND BLAME this the very rich should have to this case, that the greater haste the less speed to the desired To those who believe that no ill should be said of the dead, it may appear improper to drag in the C.C.F. However, the C.C.F. appear to have been chief among those who have been confusing the few and the many. For the moment the C.C.F. has been disbanded in Ontario, but the fallacies of the new party are being perpetuated by individuals who are no longer responsible even to the late reverend Mr. Woodsworth or the clever Miss Macphail. The suggestion of the C.C.F. has been that they intended to take from the few for the benefit of the many. To preserve the illusion, and incidentally to hol€ the farmer vote, they pretended (even as the communists did in Russia) that the farmers would be left in undisturbed possession of their farms, and that small merchants and householders would not lose the resuits of their diligence and efforts. Even the C.C.F. did not assume the effrontery to suggest openly that they inâ€" .tended to make an even division of wealth by taking from the sober, the industrious, the thrifty, those who had sacriâ€" ficed in order to save for the rainy day, and giving to the dissolute, the lazy, the reckless, the pleasureâ€"loving, who had no thought in fair weather that there might be ill days to come. The C.C.F. platform was that the common people should not lose but gain by the changes that the new poliâ€" tical party would make. The C.C.F. centred on the "big corporations." These should be made to disgorge. Some of them would be purchased and some would be ruthlessly confiscated, the C.C.F. affirmed. ‘This sounded fine until varticular cases were dealt with. There were two classes _of corpnration that the C.C.F. included in its programme of confiscation. One was the power corporation and the other the mines. A little investigation, however, would show that the few do not own the stock of the power corporations, but that in such ventures thousands of the many have their life savings. The same is true of the mines, and even of the banks. There is no possible form of confiscation that would not mean the ruinat.on and the despoiling of thouâ€" sands upon thousands of the thrifty and industrious many. In this district wild and careless and untrue talk about the mines, the owners of the mines, and the people who get the profits from the mines, is all too common. For inâ€" stance, one of the big mines in the North instead of being owned by a few has nearly 9000 shareholders, over 7,000 of whom are Canadian citizens, many of whom have their life savings invested in this stock. Some interesting and illuâ€" minating figures were recently published in regard to this rin to show that it is the many and not the few that proâ€" fit from its success. This mine paid out in wages, materials and supplies, taxes, workmen‘s compensation, and dividends, nearly 87 per cent. of its total income for the year. _ It should be remembered that the dividends went to the many (9,000) and not to aa few. The payroll for a year ran OVvET $4,100,000.00. Materials «and supplies totalled over $2,278,â€" 960.00, this amount being gispersed, directly and indirectly, chiefly in wages, to the many not the few. The taxation on this particular mine for Federal, provincial and municipal purposes was practically $700,000.00. This money went to the many and not to the few. Workmen‘s compensation an:ounted to $453,249.00â€"again for the many and not the few. 24 T20 §‘. VRJ _ SA R Nz NR MB B Ne k w CC M that will result. The mining business, like any other big business of the day is intricate and only the deepest study brings out all its ramifications. The average man skilled in business and in finance looks upon large industry as difficult for himâ€"to understand. The soapbox orator and the man who has failed at his own business has no hesitation in jumping forward to adjust little things like this and settling affairs of state that puzzle better men. Whatever changes there may be needed to give all the best possible chance and equity in this country, it does seem certain that the adâ€" vantage and benefit of the many will not be achieved by the folly of any noisy few whose assurance is in inverse ratio to their good sense. «s Ne Â¥V e The truth of the matter is that industry and finance toâ€" day are coxpplicated matters in which it is folly and injury to meddle without knowledge of all the actions and reactions TD From North Bay last week fhere came the story that th:re were two moons noted in the sky early on Wednesday morning, according to reports made by ‘Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway employees. The phenomenon was first brought to attention about three o‘clock in the morning and it remained for all to see for about an hour. There was thus ample time for the oddity in the sky to be ncted and discussed. Perhaps, the first man or two to imagine that he saw two moons in the sky said nothing abou: it, especially if he had been at some of the places in North Bay the night before. It is easy to imagine one man turning away from the sight and then seeing another gazing at it. After a time the two would look at each other in questioning way, each man muttering:â€""I wonder if he sees what L see?" e No ME wC ME OR NP According sto the reports from North Bay the sight of two moons in the sky was arresting. That seems to be proper enough. "Right across the moon was yellow cross reflectâ€" ing on both sides for consiGerable distance," says the story from North Bay. "To one side and some distance away, the reflection appeared as a second moon. At the lower end of the shadows was a multiâ€"coloured ray, appearing almost as a miniature rainbow." 4 No doubt the T. N. O. employees who noted the phenoâ€" menon made all sorts of good resolutions. As more and more of them noted the peculiar sight perhaps some of them sadly wondered if North Bay were to be cursed for ever with two moons in the sky just as Sault Ste. Marie is troubled. when there are no other troubles, by one wolf at the door. As scon as the matter beeame known, Toronto, in the jovial humor of a hundred. years of age, sent comf{ort and sympathy. Officials of the Toronto meteorological bureau forwarded the information that the appearance of two moons in the sky was a common occurrence in northern latitudes. To this sympathetic word from Toronto it may be added that in the Ontario Temperance Act days there were often more moons in the sky than could be counted by one man and even with the assistance of a number of gocd frierds the totalling was difficult and often led to serious of opinion, The Teronto authorities suggest that the refection of the moon seen ‘at North Bay was probably a lunar halo, caused by reflection of light on ice particles in the upper atmosphere. This phenomenon appears reâ€" gularly around Hudson Bay and the Northwest Territories, they add. Further they say that few people notice the moon, and that accounts for the fact that few such sights are reported. Also, it may be noted that the people in general do not pay too much attention to those who pay too much attention to the moon. Despite all the scientific explanations that may be given, however, it must be admitted that for sober. men to see two moons in the sky must be startling and disturbing to the conscience. "It is a sign, an omen, portent,." or words to that effect, one man will whisperâ€"especially words to that ¢ffect. Surely, it is a sign, a prophecy. Don‘t you rememb»r the prophecy:â€"*"North Bay will have a new skaiâ€" ing rink when there are two. moons in the sky!" Or that other one about that hardshe}! paying his account when there are two moons in the Sky. ‘That was the time, also, when the road between 'mfifilns and Sudbury would be builtâ€"when the skyhadtwom Communists are to show some sense and decency, people are going to put the criinks and the fools in their place, public men are to be TWO MOONS‘IN THE SKY THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO GOOD RESULTS REPORTED :; AT O‘CONNELL GOLD MINI Brief reference was made last week to good results achieved at O‘Connell Gold Mines in Matachewan. A no from Toronto last week in regard. to the O‘Connell says:â€""O‘Connell Gold Mines, immediately adjoining Bloom Lake Consolidated in the Matachewan area is shaft sinking undor power and has attained a depth of 75 feet. The proposed shaft objective is 500 feet with stations to be established at 125 foot intervals. Previous diamond drilling indicated an orchody 25 feet wide carrying values of $18 per ton, it is stated. When the shaft has been comâ€" pleted to its objective on the northern group it is stated the plant will be moved to the south group, adjoining the Ventures‘ option." DEATH OF THOS. KNIGHT AT FERONIA RECENTLY The North Bay Nugget last week says:â€""The death occurred Wednesday March 28, of Thomas Knight, aged 82 at his home in Feronia. Mr. Knight had been ill for some time. He was born in Gratton, Ont., but had ‘been a resident of Feronia for more than 40 years. Mr. Knight is survived by his wife, three daughters, Mrs. T. Coghlan, Cochrane, Mrs. L. Robinson, Feronia, Mrs. Dodds, Sault Ste. Marie, and four sons, Alvin and James, North Bay, Thomas, Timmins, and Charles, Ferâ€" cnia. Also surviving him are two sisâ€" ters, Mrs. B. Greene, Mrs. W. Porter, Renfrew, and one brother, John Knight Feronia. The many beautiful floral tributes were testimony of the high esteem in which he was held by his friends. The funeral was held Friday, March 30, at the family residence. Rev. J. Davies officiated. The pailâ€" bearers were, L. Kennedy, T. Hawkins, J. Hutson, W. Craig, C. Parfitt, P. Kenâ€" nedy. Interment was made in Terrace Lawn cemetery. Outâ€"ofâ€"town relatives who attended the funeral were: Mrs. T. Coghlan and son, Gerald, Cochrane. Thomas Knight, Timmins, Mr. and Mrs. S. Robinson, Porquis Junction, Alvin and James Knight, Mrs. C. Maxâ€" Iwell, Mrs. T. Smith, North Bay." Scottish Magistrate Aidsâ€" Solomon to Pay His Fine One of the best true stories of the year in regard to the law courts comes from Sudbury where a Scottish magis- trate recently helped Solomon to, pay his fine . Christopher Solomon WAaS brought to court for driving a car w1th- out the necessary 1934 license plates "Guilty or not guilty?" asked Magisâ€" trate Thomas Stoddart, of the Dibtri‘t Magistrate‘s court. *y Â¥ on "Well, I‘d like to tell my story Airst," said the accused, "and then you ‘can see better whether I am guilty or not." "That‘s a new one," replied the ma;â€"~ gistrate. "You tell your story, then we decide whether or not you are guilty. Were you or were you not driying without the new license plates? ‘"Yes, you see I didn‘t . . the money ‘"to buy the plates," n*pli wol- cmon, "so I had not been running the car. It was stored in Comst;on I couldn‘t bring it back without the marâ€" kers. A man asked me to take a load of wood for him and I told him I ccouldn‘t because I had no plates. Then a woman phoned me and asked me to bring her a load of hay. The cows were sick and needed food and she had none. My boy took the truck and brought out the load of hay and he was going back to Coniston when Constable Cleland arrested him. I don‘t want to break the law orâ€" anything. Youâ€"see I had already refused a chance to make $3 carrying the wood." "We can‘t be concerned with why you were driving," answered the magisâ€" trate, "you were driving without a license. One dollar and costs." "I haven‘t got the money," Solomon roplied. "Well, then, we‘ll issue a distress warrant and seize the car." Solomon pondered a while over that and said, "Well, I can pay the dollar but not the costs." Since you have put up such a good defence I think we can waive the costs. What do you say, Constable? A. mercy flight for sick cows, commenced the bench. After hunting through his pockets Solomon announced. that he only had 85 cents. A more thorough search reâ€" vealed two coppers. Magistrate Stoddart returned the coppers, and putting his hand in his pocket, laughingly agreed to be reâ€" sponsible for the balance. He received profuse thanks from the accused who promised to leave the car alone until he got his new license. "Just as you say," answered Officer Cleland. "If they pick me up again I hope that I don‘t meet Constable Cleland," was his parting shot.. popular on merit, unethical competition will cease, and everybody will be square and kind and everything will be lcvely and the goose will hang high (poor oid goose),â€"when there are two moons in the sky. May the signs speak truly. They will at North Bayâ€"when there are two in the sky. "Profecsional Hockey is Free from Scandal."â€"This is the heading on an article in the fourth column of .the editorial page of The Mail and Empire. A ‘lot of people would be induced to read that article on account of the heading. A number of o‘d jokes and humorous stories are reprinted by The Brampton Conservator from newspapers and magaâ€" zinecs of 1884. The interesting thing about the Brainpton newspaper‘s use of these old jokes is that The Conservator puts the date on them "Ontario Capitalizes Its Relief Charges," says a current newspaper heading. Only a little while ago the headings were saving, "The CC.F. are Capitalizing Relief." Both headings mean that the people have to pay more for relief than they would if there were less capitalizing and less relief and more employment. HOW PANCAKE CREEK WAS NAMED DURING GOLD RUSH The "Roving Reporter" writing in The Northern News last week says:â€" "There is a little diminutive creek in the Larder Lake area which is known as Pancake Creek and an interesting story on how the tiny waterway got its name came to light in Kirkland Lake last week during the visit here of Ed. Archibald, of Toronto, whose boys‘ camp on Sandy Inlet, Temagami, is well known. Mr. Archibakd is an oldâ€"time prospector. He was in Larder Lake during the gold rush of 1906, and he recalls the time he paddled into the area while following the water route into Larder by way of the Windigo Lake route. He and his partner, Dutchman, had reached the upper end of Larder Lake, near where the present settlement is located, and were enâ€" camped beside the bank of a creck for the night. The creek didn‘t have a name, apparently, and in honour of the pancakes which his partner habiâ€" tually cooked for breakfast Mr. Archiâ€" bald then and there named the waterâ€" way Pancake Creek." % LIMITED Where Quality Counts TOILET PAPER SOAP CHIPS JUST SOAK THE CLOTHES IN BROOMS CORNED BEEF °â€" 2~25 GOOD QUALITY "EDUCATOR" HAMMERED WHEAT THINSIES Shoulder Roast TENS CLOTHES A Delicious Biscuit Special Value Roast Round Hon. Wm. Lyon Mackenzie King threatened parliament this week with a scandal about the administration of relie{. Perhaps, Mr. King caught that sort of stuff from Mr. Hepâ€" burn. What the country really needs at present is some relicf from scandal and some relief from relief. If the local communists had seen the crowded hall at the Vimy Ridge banquet on Monday night in Timmins; if they nad fathomed some of the spirit of loyalty so evident there; ii{ they understood something of the ideals andâ€" the temper of \he comrades gathered on that occasion; then, perhaps, they would realize the futility of all their alien agitation. So as the Legion lives there will be loyalty and sound common sense. North Bay has secen two moons in the sky. Next, someâ€" body will be seeing the proverbial blue moon. This year winter seems to be suflfering from overâ€"proâ€" duction or malâ€"distribution. It must t> hard on the nerves of some of the city newsâ€" papers to be »lways in hysterics about something or another. No matter how many moons there may be in the sky, emâ€" ployment still remains the only cure for unemployment. Pork * 17¢ | Large Variety of Fish â€"S;â€"e.:â€"cials for Thursday, Friday and Saturday According to word from Cobalt the men at Gillies Depot airport have been feasting all winter on buffalo meat. Last year the Government found it necessary to kill off a number of the tsoâ€"rap.dly increasing herd of buffas loes at Wainwright, Alberta, and the meat was shipped to some of the airâ€" Tomatoes Cooking Onions Iceberg Lettuce Lemons Potatoes IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA TIMMINS . + SOUTH PORCUPINE HEAD OPPFICE Smail Packages Fatted Delicious Refreshing 4~ 29 17‘ . B0 A dependable, economical way of sendâ€" infg money is to use an Imperial Bank of Canada money order. Youmay secure money orders payable at face value at any Bank in Canada from any branch of Imperial Bank. Firm Ripe this safe way ports. The men say the meat is much like beef but more tender. The new tcwnsite of Matachewan is said to need a doctor,. a lawyer and one or two other representative . lines to complete its general offering of service to the new camp. , Floor Wax, â€"~ Silver Cream Peanut Clusters " PERFECTION" POLISHES FISHERMEN MAKING THEIR PLANS WELL IN ADVANCE You can‘t keep a good man down and cold weather and the presence of ics and snowâ€" has not prevented enthusiâ€" astic fAishermen from making their plans well in advance. As a result, the Tourist Bureau of the Canadian Naâ€" tional Railways is busy arranging the details of fishing trips for hundreds of enthusiasts who this year plan to inâ€" vade the Canadian lakes and streams in search of finny trophies. Indicaâ€" ticns are that tourist fishermen will be more numerous this coming season than for many years past, stated C. K. Howard., who handles the «rrangements Premium Sliced for these enthusiasts and many "reâ€" peaters" have already compieted their plans for the annual invasion. the Kirkland Lake police brought in nearly $1,000.00 in fines to the township treasury from the proâ€" ceedings of one police court alone. slicious Chocolate Coated A really Delightful Candy THURSDAY, APRIL 12TH, 1934 H. C. SCARTH, Manager F. E. COOPER, Manager Iver Cream*" 19¢ Lemon Oil â€" 21¢ In a spring drive against fllexal Hâ€" C Rolls Ibs. for 10 1bs. 2 io 15G doz. 25¢ â€" 235¢