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The profit and loss surplus account 1ppear:> at $749,509.68 as compared with $1,077,276.05 at the close of 1933. This Accounts receivable, consisting largeâ€" ly of amounts owing by various muniâ€" cipalities for relief, total $220,421.50, a reduction of $95,007.27 from the previâ€" ous year. Total fixed assets show a slight reduction to $1,228,923.24 due to the sale of some property and the exâ€" propriation of other property for streei widening purposes. Improved Business at Dominion Stores The consequence is that in the souâ€" thern parts of our provinces, expert skiers do not devolop rapidly. Ideal Conditions Here In the North we are more fortunate. The usual amount of snow and a winâ€" ter of average length makes it possible President Says Company will Welcome Construcâ€" tive â€" Suggestions from Price Spread B o a r d. Views Future with Optimâ€" ism. Skiing Achieving Much _ Popularity These Days Toâ€"mâ€"rrow they may be fhan Canadiars, if we are of. the number of skiing appear in their magazin papers. Canada ave Uni‘cd State "fastest game on earth"â€"hocke toâ€"day their teams are quickly Ing a par with the home of h best. Montreal and New York have "Snow Trains" tha}t are Achieving Fame. North Land has Fun with Skiis but Also Uses Them in Practical Way. MONDAY, PEBRUARY 25TH, 1935 ImnAn\} 5 aAFS SKiâ€"ULL Montrea JA S M AR I m Spring Clothes tter to take Sam Bucovetsky Ltd. hocke 19 231 Third Avenue will be in our store on Wed. Thurs., Feb. 27 28 Famous Cambridge Clothes ve been d for a with a complete showing of the newest spring and summer styles and cloths in both suits and coats. We invite your inspection. No obligation to buy. heed that inC ho The report emphasized the important part played by Dominion Stores in the economic life of the country. It is the largest grocery chain in the Dominion with 496 retail outlets at the close of the fiscal year. It is one of the larges emplcyers of Canadian labour with a weekly payroll in excess of $40,000, Mr. Smith said, and is one of the largest buyers of Canadian food products in the world. Last year, he revealed, conâ€" siderably more than $10,000,000 worth cf Canadian farm products wire purâ€" chased by the company. "We believe that a company such as yours with a strong liquid position and with no bank loans or capital indebtâ€" edness other than is represented by its common shares, can face the immediate future with confidence," the president declared. Morley Smith, president of the sysâ€" tem, attributed the unsatisfactory earnâ€" ings largely to three conditions; lack of gencral improvement in FEaste:n Canada, competition to maintain volume and the methods of presentaâ€" tion ¢f evidence before the price spreads commission. On this latter point he said that officers and directors of DOoâ€" minion Stores would welcome any conâ€" structive recommendations which the commission might make. reduction is attributed to the payment of $320,707.55 in dividends in excess of the net profits for the year. The company ‘had previously declared that future dividends would be paid sem‘â€" annually instead of quarterly and wou‘d be paid only out of current carnâ€" inzs. the czcuntry trails. it more fun to ski? Experts in Timmins Here in Timmins there is at lGast one good trail; a fair jump and innuâ€" merable little hills for beginners. But we have one very great advantage over many other centres. There are probably more expert skiers here per capita than in most other towns of Canada. You don‘t see them Out ¢n the hillsâ€"you do see them occasionally on their way to work at one of the cutlying mines. They teach their children how to use skis practically. In their native countries skis are one of the methods of transportation and everyone learns young. There may be something hereditary about it. Mr. Chas. A. W. Cowland age wants to own a pair. At one time there were snowshoe clubs but these are being replaced with ski clubs in many parts. Is the snowshoer finding "Holly Stores" Representing the ag O kie: n Southern Onâ€" was a rare sight. er ten vears of somâ€" of the land simply because the municipal organization or people in the unorganized rural districts could not claim any <f the money under the back to the land movement; third, it was a recognized fact that there was unemployment in every section of the country and when you have unemâ€" ployment in the cities, naturally you have unemplcyment in the rural secâ€" tions. . Back to Land Failure? | "Since then they have found it posâ€"| sible to make a tripartite arrangemcnt‘ comprising the municipalities, the pro-! vince and the dominion, each party adâ€"| vancing. $200 making a total Of $600 ‘ per family to take the unemployed from j the urban centres and place them on the land. At that time I maintained that even if the scheme were not a complete failure, it would certainly nol reci@{y the unemployment situation. Now, after four years of application, I must state that it has not proved a solution of the present unemployment siuation in the urban centres, for three simple reascns; first, under the schem: the urban centres tried to unload some of the responsibility on the rural disâ€" tricts; second, there was no access to the people who were best qualificd to take acticn under the scheme to get| (Continued from Page One) in those days jfhe government was claiming that the scheme was a sucâ€" coss even if they did not spend a single dollar in placing people back on the land. J. A. Bradette Urges Big Settlement Plan Here is Wiley Post, famous roundâ€"theâ€"world flier as he prepared to take off on his phere flight from LOs Angeles to New York on Priday. A leak in the cil line forced t Dry Lake, 125 milées from Los Angeles. He is to try socn again and expected to ms time at an altitude of 35,000 feet. The cxygen helmet shown is a necessity at sucuh shows the landing gear being dropped from the Win nie May in order to lighten he1 along the ground on the fuselage to land. Timmins Post Pioncers Distance Flying In Stratosphere THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMI NS, ONT nex! cies clas our present problems. "I have no quarrel with the inc trial state. but there should be e coâ€"operation between the two parts the population. Surely we cannot pect to see prosperity back in our m and a contenteg and satisfied pop! tion unless we make it possible for sections of the populaticn to be p: perous. We have toâ€"day the habit in some parts and we have farmers Once in Town Always There "In considering the problem, we must never forget the fact that once people from the rural areas get established in the cities you cannct get them to £g0 back.. Can you‘visualize the sons of farmers who become civil servants, for example, thinking of going back t3 farming as an occupation? Can yOU visualize the sons and daughters of professional men taking to farming as an occupation? Unless farming can be made interesting for those young pCOâ€" ple who have the natural inclinaticn for it, we shall not find a solution of kaming reviewed some of the past atâ€" tempts at immigraticn and placing of netumed soldiers on the soil, particuâ€" larly in the nor th and the almost comâ€" .plete failure with which most of the ventures met. Then he went on to describe in detail his $20,000,000 schems: "Toâ€"day what picture do we see so far as the rural population is conâ€" cerned? We find that in most of the agricultural sections of Canada th: young sons of farmers cannOt get into their natural occupation, not having the means to establish themselves °n the land. This is the scheme I have in view; I want the government to spend the sum of $20,000,000 in the course of the next five or ten years in placing on the land 20,000 young Canaâ€" dians. I am basing my figures cn these studies; the natural increase in popuâ€" laticn in Canada is 12 per thousand annually. Out of a total population of 10,700,000 pesple the natural increase will be 130,000 annually. If you take the division between rural and urban as 50 per cent. that gives 65,000 born every year in the rural centres. Then if you take the division between the sexes as fiftyâ€"fifty, you have 32,502 boys born every year in the rural centres. I believe I knzsw enouzh of the rural situation to prophesy that if the govâ€" ernment found it possible to promise to place cn the landâ€"cercwn land or othetrâ€" wiseâ€"12.000 to 14,000 of these young people between the ages Of 16 and 22, who are sons of farmers and whose natural cccupation would be farming, and to give them a sum Of $1,000 in five payments of $200 a year, requiring them to fulfil provincial regulations as to clearing a minimum ‘of twelve acres ' Here the member for North Temisâ€" l in the first three years and building a house cf standard size, we should find there the solution ‘of our problems for which we have been looking sa long. Young People Move to Towns "What will the present unemployâ€" ment insuranse legislation do? It will simply accentuate the drift flom the advantage of the scheme has been left everely alone." Educational system Wrong? Under our present educational us, We maVve ame parts and rest of the cou twenty gears will ntuate the grift from the rural centres to the towns by come a p the habitant ave farmers in who within the resent tendenâ€" me a peasant innot ex our mids i popula to take off on his attempteg subâ€"stratcsâ€" the oil line forced him to land at Murdoc ind expected to make the trip in record necessity at sucuh high altitudes. Photo Jjuror vaud woulb life to live over again. of course you would live it differently. but would you live a better life or just arrange to neither expected . HHTGC GepRT LE call promptly but one of the teacher covered the source had slipped the bel Mr. Tanner told fire drill is practis month and that thi 16 probably th> housing the belt from an became loose heat of the fr This smoke through the As scon as the smoke was notliced Principal W. W. Tanner put through a fire alarm and the wellâ€"drilled stuâ€" denis, showing no excitement whatâ€" scever and no tendency to stampede left the building quietly by the six doors provided. Hi In ccncluding his address, Mr. Braâ€" dette again warned the house that "unless we fing it possible to impleâ€" ment this resolution. in part at least, we will not have prospsrity in this country." Less Than Minute to Empty High School Pupils Make Quiet and Orâ€" derly Retreat when School Fills with Smoke from an Overheated Belt. ng to give a CePLlalinl alllk_â€"ul and attention to those engag« culture who are ready to play with this country." In ccncluding his address, an and it erious he structu "Again leot me say that the Dack T0 the land movement, which was inaugu-' rated in all sincerity in an attempt to| solve this important question, has pracâ€"| ically failed to relieve the situation.| We want to be fair. In connection with this resolution I ask for the ex-l penditure of $20,000,000 over a period of five or ten years. During this sesâ€" sisn we will pass one measure, the adâ€" ministration of which will involve the} expenditure of $7,000,000 in order to| help the workingmen of this country. The farmers have no quarrel with the workingmen; they would be quite satisâ€"| fied to see the wOrkers better after under the new act, but surely the rest of the population should be willâ€" ing to give a certain amcunt °f relief| and attention to those engaged in agriâ€"| happened to our agricuiturai popuiaâ€" tion? It would be the dzom of our country. Take the history of the past; once argiculture is neglected the counâ€" try fails. That was true of Persia, Rome and Greece of o‘d; the moment those nations neglected . agriculture they reached the end of their civilizaâ€" ticn. The sams problem exists at the present time in almost every country <f the world; every country that neâ€" glected agriculture is paying the price. "Avain leot me say that the back to Nearlv PT: than igh:> ind Voc buildin mok the d Vocational School filed aulldmg on Friday in slig _a minute when smoke sp the wholso school. n as the smoke was nol â€"W. W. Tanner put throu: Ma 50 students ATC 11 101 1ginate itilatin elt off its pu d The Adva ised at leas his month‘s d st slid the nated in the room lating system. The ric motor to a fan in to slip and the caused it to smoke. immediately spread â€"school by the big feature of the evening Was UiC iICC e lunch served in the interval. offers to appear in | rould think they| On Fridayâ€"to celebrate fittingly, the it by this time. _ _| birthdays of both Lord and Lady Baâ€" denâ€"Powell who were born on the samse â€"If you had your| day of the yearâ€"the local Girl Guides, riin. of course you| Boy Scecuts and Cubs met for a social tly. but would you| evening in the parish hall. Before an r just arrange to|admiring crowd of parents ang friends fishing? the Boy Scouts presented two playsâ€" n they fAIrrv2ed id already disâ€" the smoke ant e was noticed put through a ellâ€"drilled stuâ€" itement whatâ€" the Timmins _ first tha T: Ir the once ill wou QoOIL. C plI out htly iC | Eight of our town‘s ladies spent a | very nice afterncson on Wednesday at ! Comnnaught staticn at the home of | Mrs. D. A. Frood, where they were enâ€" |tertained at bridge and a lovely lunch | served. Mrs. J. Alexander won the !highcst, honsurs and brought back the | prize South End High School Commencement Mar. 21 We were sorry to learn that the little daughter (Constance) of Mr. and Mrs. Art Tomkinson, of Timmins, had daljge'fx*ously ill with @appendix cperation in St. Mary‘s hsspital,. fShe is now at home, and we are glad to hear, progressing favourably. ;::b \l:'f[l:rc(;:“;{;:‘bat,wt;;;ms:l;;)oll“;‘c‘;! Liou. w.i.th.ths‘ .blocking of the Ma.L‘Fuâ€" gami river. The Advance had carried Lhz}L lt. is KNOw!) Ehat 1 G',F Rog-crsjl on so strong a campaign on behalf of chief mspect.or for secondary SCh‘,Olb[ the settlers and the people of the town fgr the province will honour u§ Y1 15 who used the river that the Ontario his presence on that date It is 4150) yovernment was stirred to action and hoped, but is not certain that th¢} Major Hartt was sent here to settle he Minister and Deputyâ€"Minister of EdUâ€" | qifficulty if possible. He called a pubâ€" cation may be also guests, The teachâ€"| jjo meeting, inviting settlers and others ers are planning to have an oratOricAl| interested to present their case in the contest, as last year and all are hCPID8| matter. The lumber interests were reâ€" to have an enjoyable and entertaining| presented by leading legal lights of the an evening. | town and district. The settlers also Next Friday, March ist, sees the neXxt| secured legal assistance to present their basketball game at the high school! side of the question, S. A. Caldbick exâ€" when we hope that our untarnish‘d| paining the situation from the setâ€" racord of five straight wins, may read[tlers' point of view in very effective six straight wins for South Porcupine! way. Major Hartt gave both sides a Ccochrane team are the visitors. | careful hearing, but it was evident that Eight of our town‘s ladies spent a the settlers were entitled to the full very nice afterncson on Wednesday at| and free use of the river and that the Commaught statictn at the home Of| blocking of the river of lumber was not Mrs. D. A. Frood, where they were enâ€" desirable. For a time after the meetâ€" tertained at bridge and a@ lovely lunch|ing the blocking of the river was now served. Mrs. J. Alexander won the!seri.ous and it has never been as bad highest honours and brought back the| aS it had been .previously. prize The late Major Hartt was prominent We were sorry t>o learn that the in public service for many years. «Apart little daughter (Constance) of Mr. andl from municipal and other service, he Mrs. Art Tomkinson, of Timmins, had was member for the riding of East Simâ€" ' ¢ ’ coe in the Ontario Legislature between been damjzerously ill with appendix :J;eration’in St bl,vlary's h':spi‘tzlx)ll.) She| 1908 and 1919. At the time of deatii ;S ow atf homé iwe are gliad. to he was 69 years old. Born in Riversâ€" j * | town, County Sligo, Ireland, he came + $ hear: Ii\rog;'?(?S‘l;{g fafi}:]l?bbl:"me fr'ml to Canada when he was 16 years old. Mx. 1' lt Og.f e k d B4 ~"_|1He established residence in Orillia in tm 1900, and founded the Hartt Lumber TA Wa' * The community hall at the Dome WaS| pompany, no longer operating. for the province will honour us with his presence on that date It is Aalso hâ€"ped, but is not certain that the Minister and Deputyâ€"Minister of Eduâ€" cation may be also guests. The teachâ€" ers are planning to have an oratorical contest, as last year and all are hcping ts have an enjoyable and entertaining an eveoning. stepped into a sncwdrift and fell, with| sandwiches qgnd cake for everybody. the result that his leg is fractured. We e . wish him a speedy recovery. 'MjOl’ Hal’tt PaSSQS A most enjoyable euchre party was; held on Friday night in the Rebekah: at Ori“ia LaSt week hall. Seven tables were filled and, as} usual very nice prizes given. The| y , ladies prize went to Mrs. Singleton, Well Known J hl‘OUg’hOllt tht‘ Mrs. Benticy Webb and Mrs. Hugh : North as Official of the Richmond. For gentliemen: Mrs. ADâ€"] _ (Qntanipq ‘Departmem of Lands and Forests. thony, Mrs Montrose and Alan Bennell} Mrs. W. Christie took in the excurâ€"; sion to Montreal this weekâ€"end. l Mrs Purdy entertained on Thursday| ovening by holding a small bridge the death of Major J. I. Hartt, of the party of three tables _ All the guests Lands and Forests Dept. of Ontario. enjoyed their hostess‘ hospitality. Myrs. The late Major Hartt was well know:1 Stan. Pearce gaining highest honors‘i“ Timmins and the North generally in connection with his official duties in and Mrs. J. Costain second. tRed in a io ue us m o To ) ie t k in t _T A n iA IIA w‘uc 3 Word from Orillia last week told of Mr. Purdy our hogh school prncipal us that the commencement exerâ€" cises will definitely be held on Thursâ€" day, March 2ist at the school now that it is known that Dr. G. F Rogers, chief inspector for secondary schcols ren lell n PTIG@AY IOF PilliaDn@ Adl indeterminate stay. Major McDougall is in hospital sufâ€" fering from a broken leg. In getting out of a car on Thursday evening, h« stenned into a sn@wdrift and fell, wit} South Ont., Feb Special t> The Advance. Congratulations to Mr. a Frank Williams, who, on Fric ruary 22nd became the prou sors of a baby daughtor. M Cculld doing well in the Pro h Chief Inspector, Dr. Rogoers, Expected to be Prosent. Major McDougall has Leg Fractured. Other Interestâ€" ing Items from South Porcupine and the Dome. lld d: spital Mrs. it Covey and little daughter, clle, left on Saturday for a visit riends in Cobalt. ind Mrs. Latvala and twos childâ€" t <n Friday for Finland for an Mr. and Myrs on Friday,. Febâ€" in Finnishâ€" slated . T was the frt roud poss: Mcther at Prosbyteorig United supper arke is ‘ailway 1835 new Norfolk the avers doctor 5 macher and just tw Lucy Glazi( born near © The death on Frida Milady came as a sl munity of Schumach working at the MciInt a week before when secin took and late He ha Martin Milady Dies After Brief Hiness was retired in 1934. A leader in Orange lodge activitiss, Major Hartt was a former supreme grand master for the True Blues in Canada, former grand master for Onâ€" tario West, and was a member of the Black Knights of Ireland and in Chosâ€" en Friends‘ and Oddfellows‘ societies., He was overseas with the Canadian contingent for two years. He served with the 177th Regiment, and when that was broken up in France took comâ€" mand of the 48th Company Forestry. that was broken up in France took comâ€" mand of the 48th Company Forestry. Surviving are four daughters: Mrs. E. Silverthorne, Bowsman River, Man.; Mrs. Kenneth Hill, Trenton, Ont.; Mrs. Cecil Litster, Oshawa, and Hilda, at home; one son, James C., of Orillia, alâ€" so survives. A military funeral was hbheld Tuesday. Company, no longer operatin Major Hartt was appointed of crown timber agencies al visor of timber operations fo in 1923, and he held that offic was retired in 1934. Had Been Operated bn at St. Mary‘s Hospital and Apparently on Way to Reâ€" cover. WFuneral T h is Morning. Word from last weeK TOIGd OI the death of Major J. I. Hartt, of the Lands and Forests Dept. of Ontario. The late Major Hartt was well knowil in Timmins and the North generally in connection with his official duties in the Lands and Forest Dept. He was a frequent visitor to Timmins, one of his visits some years ago being in connecâ€" with the blocking of the Mattaâ€" gami river. The Advance had carried Word from Orillia last the death of Major J. I. Lands and PForests Dep The late Major Hartt w in Timmins and the N in connection with his of Aan of ippli On race Guidd the Scout pat moniously Master, and Scout Troop by were woelecmed Cubs gave thei wETC ‘ Cubs Comu winning â€" DJU Dick Hicks, Raymond Bi the Scout AT nd the f glory andwich The Forc lause th pat T nospiltal: 10or Al to be reccverit relapse from w roda An Top Row evenit with | Oth iday dgerâ€"Despatch:â€"It is said American family pays the vyear. This will be real the ‘Wi n was appointed inspector ber agencies and superâ€" r operations for Ontario > held that office until he %I fan COIT A T lay night of Martin shcck to the comâ€" her. He had been ityre mine up until n he went to St. an operation. He ring well when he which he partially »mplications set in ht he passed away. resident of Schuâ€" _six cor seven years go he married Miss iumather. ~He was Ontario. nearly 32 l T Kavanagh h @erg _ L Ted Clark M M PAGE FIVI nselve "Sweet winning _ ~AIMAIL,"‘ c CASCO. vbod y d from 41 this AZUC dancs i orde . burs ‘colatt ed th Th6 11 Th ap h