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Probably at no time in the history of Canada has the freedom of the ordinary man been in such peril as it is at the present time. All along the line there are encroachments on the freedom of the subject, and the sad part of the matter is that too often t.héy are welcomed under the mistaken idea that the citizen is gaining an advantage, instead of losing a vital portion of freedom. Most of the enâ€" croachment on the freedom that the pioneers of this country sacrificed liberty and life itself to win come from the most devoted democrats, so far as their professions go. The work of these actual autocrats is made comparatively easy by the indoâ€" lence and the indifference of too many of the peoâ€" ple. A great part of the trouble arises from the human tendency to seek short cuts. There are no rearshort cuts to efficiency. Suceess is won by the hnard road of thought and effort and earnestness. The hope that a dictator will do away with the evils that crowd a democracy has been surely disâ€" proven in the last few years. In the anxiety to escape the responsibility of selfâ€"government, howâ€" ever, there still remains the tendency to turn things over to commissions, departments, execuâ€" tives, without any active court of the people to Probably has the free peril as it is there are e subject, anc often théy $ that the citi losing a vits croachment this country Poor men, rich men, beggarmen, thieves, lawâ€" yers, doctors, newspapermen, merchants, princes, prelates, everybody, here meet on common ground â€"Merry Christmas! There is no use arguing about it or theorizing about it. People know by feeling that it is just all right. Christmasâ€"Merry Christmas. No two opinions about it! Christmas is Christmas, and that‘s all there is to it. Children don‘t think so much about Christmas, but Santa Claus has a great appeal for them, which is the same thing. Merry Christmas, anyâ€" wa y maAn time With Christmas less than a week away, it may not be amiss to review some of the soâ€"called difâ€" ferent opinions on Christmas. The Tightâ€"wad says Christmas is no more than a commercial proposition, a sales trick. He shows sales resistance all right, but eventually succumbs. All he needs to make him perfect for Christmas is a little more shopping early. The staffs of stores sometimes find Christmas no more than a time of extra work and worry. Here again a little shopping early on the part of others would help a lot. But in any event when Christmas does come all is forgotten in "Merry Christmas." The Cynic sneers about sentimentality and so on. Then he sneaks around to do his Christmas shopping after all, and by very virtue of his asâ€" sumed hardness during most of the year, the Christmas days give him a special thrill. Mothers and fathers feel the strain on nerves, strength, pocketbooks, but there is the compensaâ€" tion that the children are good and even the "old man" isn‘t such a bad scout around Christmas lt l tb P P PP BPA AP L M”m"o’mm' wWithout even the excuse of nhnaving a GOCtOr will drop off. A soldier who came through Paaschenâ€" dale and Arras unscathed, died years later from injuries received when he slipped on a banana peel and fell on the sidewalk of a big city. After all taxes are just as uncertain as death. One year Timmins did not pay any taxes at all. Of course, the taxes had to be paid eventually, but like death, the whole thing was most uncertain. Most people would revise the old proverb to the effect that the one thing certain in this uncertain world is Christmas. No matter what happens, Christmas is sure to come, and it comes at Christâ€" mas time at that. If there is any unanimity about anything in this weary, bright, old, young world it is in saying "Merry Christmas!" ‘"Merry Christâ€" mas" is more certain than death, and much more to be desired, and even taxes are forgotten in the same good old "Merry Christmas." There are some people who pretend not to be-i lieve in Christmas, Santa Claus, and "all that stuff," as they call it. This is just a pose, however. In their heart of hearts they have to admit that there is nothing so real, so certain, so vital, as "Merry Christmas!" "Merry Christmas" is the great leveller! Critics of Christmas are no more than shallow poseurs, their hearts and their intelligence denyâ€" ing the words on their lips. Opinions on Christâ€" mas simmer down to the one thing:â€""Merry Christmas!" People, for the love of appearing different, may pretend to hold opinions contrary ; to the general one, but they realize they are a mile off their base. Merry Christmas! mas time at th: anything in th it is in saving " date. For instance, there is the old saying about nothing being sure but death and taxes. Anyone that would consider death sure these days would have to forget automobile accidents, high living, fast driving, slow thinking, the marvels of surâ€" gery and the miracles of medicine. One man withâ€" out a chance for life will recover and another, without even the excuse of having a doctor will drop off. A soldier who came through Paaschenâ€" dale and Arras unscathed, died years later from TIMMIN®, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoctation:; Ontarinâ€" Quebes Newspaper Association; Class "A" Weekly Group OFFICE 26â€"â€"â€"â€"PHONES RESIDENCE 70 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: PAGE PoUR Timmins, Ont.. Thursday, Dece. 19th, 19; Che YVorrupine Aduanee * t EEDOM IN DANGER This is just a pose, however irts they have to admit that real, so certain, so vital, as "Merry Christmas‘"‘ is the rything else, become out of there is the old saying about "A fortuitous combination of unfortunate cirâ€" cumstances" is the way The Toronto Mail and Emâ€" pire describes the result of the last provincial elecâ€" tion in Ontario. That ought to do until something better is turned up. A newspaper that once believed that women did not have ability enough to warrant them being allowed to vote, now thinks there should be a law against hanging women. When asked about his plans on his return to Canada, Hon. G. Howard Ferguson this week told newspapermen that he was simply ‘"one of the unâ€" employed." Many people believe that there would not have been so many unemployed in Ontario during the past three or four years if Hon. G. Howâ€" ard Ferguson had been employed in that time at his old job for the province. "We need a resurgence of spiritual life. Like swine we grub for money, and grunt whether we find it or not. We shall never sing like nightingales until we find the secret of song in our own souls." "The Problem Child." That‘s the one that won‘t be good even just before Christmas! Many people make a careful practice of reading the "letters to the editor" in the daily newspapers, believing that if they wade through much that is vain and useless, they will find the occasional gem. As one man phrased it:â€""I turn over a lot of tripe to find a piece of real liver.‘" Probably the week‘s prize for a paragraph in one of these "letters to the editor" should go to the gentleman from Coeur d‘Alene, Idaho, who wrote to the editor of The Toâ€" ronto Mail and Empire and concluded as follows: Communists interviewing Hon. W. C. Nixon reâ€" cently in regard to some men both on relief and on strikeâ€"a combination that must make the gods laughâ€"called both the acting premier and Hon. David Croll "liars." Indeed, it was again made evident that the communists were not so much concerned with speaking on behalf of the strike or the strikers as they were with abusing those in authority. The tactics of the communists may be all right from a party standpoint when confined to wicked Tory leaders, but Hon. Mr. Nixon, Hon. Mr. Croll and even Hon. Mr. Roebuck will begin to think these Reds are not such nice fellows if they extend their abuse even to Liberals in office. One local man gave an original reason for not believing in Santa Claus. "I heard the story over the radio," he said, "so you know it‘s likely to be twisted." That gentleman should read all about Santa Claus in the newspapers these days and learn the truth. cers. Recent changes in the law have infringed on the freedom of the people, and there should be emphatic protest to stop further aggression along this line. It would be interesting to know the opinion of the great oldâ€"time Liberals of Ontario in regard to the plan to institute a "Cheka‘" in Ontario. Already many of them must surely have turned in their graves at some of the things that have happened in this province under bureauâ€" cracy:â€"the brutal repudiation of contracts made; the denial of appeal to the courts of the land; the separation of parents from their children by act of the Legislature instead of by due process of law. Of course, the people of the province can blame no one but themselves for the acts of their elected representatives, but it does seem timely to say that all good citizens should be aroused to protest against the continued and growing disposition to infringe on the established common rights of all. 'wm-‘owm-'m _ ~nal scP P mt PP P > should be fought by every citizen who does not wish to see his government develop into a bureauâ€" cracy. Despite all the flimsy arguments that may be advanced in regard to unity of action in an emergency, the scheme is neither more nor less than a Russian Soviet type of bureaucratic conâ€" trol. For years municipal police have worked in harmony and efficiency with the other municipal police of the province and with the provincial offiâ€" ; o At a recent meeting of the Toronto management on the part of the people is not branch of the Canadian Institute of nearly so effective as care in the choice of thoseiu}nmg ang Metallurgy there were inâ€" elected to conduct affairs. , teresting addresses by three speakers At the present time, unless the public is stirred Department of Mines. to thought and action, freedom of the municipaliâ€" ties is threatened by the tendencies of the day. Municipal government is the nearest the average man may get to democratic government. With freedom in his own town or city, he can endure a certain amount of loss of apparent freedom in provincial or Dominion affairs which do not touch his so closely. At the moment the whole structure of municipal government appears to be threaâ€" tened The autocratic interference of the provinâ€" cial government with municipal affairs in Ontario should startle the man who would like to retain some measure of real selfâ€"government. For inâ€" stance, there is the suggestion made for the second time that the province exercise an overlordship over all municipal police. No matter what plausâ€" ible excuses may be made for such a proposal, it should be fought by every citizen who does not| wish to see his government develop into a bureauâ€" cracy. Despite all the flimsy arguments that may be advanced in regard to unity of action in an emergencyv the scheme is neither mare nor less | Dr. Hurst in hi§ address featured a reâ€" port on the Pamour area in Porcupin®. Dr. Brucé, who was here last week as the guest speaker at the Queen‘s Alumâ€" ni dinner, reviewed the Sturgeon River gqld field. Dr. Rickaby reviewed the work in general in the province, touchâ€" ing also on some special fields in which work had been gone. "Here in Ontario we have a big mine complex," said W. E. Segsworth, proâ€" minent Toronto mining engineer, in pointing out that in the West in years ‘gone by many propertics had mined veins of this size and narrower with a good deal of profit and had paid diviâ€" dends. Development of small mines will contribute to the sum total of profits and should be encouraged, thought the speak®r. Chairman E. V. Neelands, drawing from a wide experience in mining camps in all parts of the world. also thought that small mines had not received sufficient attention in this part of the country, but remarked that organization must not be on a big mine basis. Small mines must be run on a small mine basis and the capiâ€" talization must be kept gown. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTMMINS, ONTARIO t| Pamour Geology Dr. Hurst, who spent the season in the Porcupine camp, remarkeq on the revival of int*rest in that camp during t was pointed out that exclusive of ;be a series of lenticular bodies, wall: Porcupinge, Kirkland Lake and Sudbury, bounded by assay values angq rangin: in 1934 the rest of Ontario produc:d in width from a "few feet to 40 t« 5.1 ner cent. of the province‘s total, and :50 feet in width. Dr. Hurst likened in 1935 this had increased to 10 per |type and condition of the ore to bi cent. Nevertheless it was desirable to |somewhat similar to that of the Dom{ see the outside areas coming ahead |ssdimentary ore, but the conditions o more rapidly. With this in view the deâ€" |cccurrence were somewhat different. partment has been working to free a | Dr. Rickaby, provincial geologist, reâ€" number of "frozen claims" which for i'viewed the work of the departmen! varicus reasons are not being develâ€" during the past year. Geclogical work opsd. ]was dons by six parties sent out by There will be special interest locally | the provincial government and 10 parâ€" in the references to the Pamour area, ties were at work under the enlargec and a condensed report of Dr. Hurst‘s 'ge:;logical programme carried out by address, as reported in The Northern | the Dominion government this year. Miner last week, is given herewith:â€" Iinder Drâ€" _ Bik _ narke" u:4A . Referring to comments that Ontario‘s gold production was not increasing as rapidly in proportion to other sections. it was pointed out that exclusive of Porcupine, Kirkland Lake and Sudbury, in 1934 the rest of Ontario produc>d 5.1 ner cent. of the province‘s total, and in 1935 this had increased to 10 per cent. Nevertheless it was desirable to see the outside areas coming ahead more rapidly. With this in view the deâ€" partment has been working to free a number of "frozen claims" which for varicus reasons are not being develâ€" opsed. Dr. Hurst Tells Mining Inâ€" stitute at Toronto About his Summer‘s Work for the Dept. of Mines. reologist Speaks of Pamour District Convenient for home use Yes, even to the gay Christmas carton, Canada Dry is in tuns with this merry season ... ready to add its sparkling chec to your family gatherings and entertainments. Be sure to ob tain an amplc supply of this fine old Canadian bevera haudy Christmas Carton that best fits your needs, T 3 Christmas Cartons to choose from: 6G s GAY CGCHRIST M AS G A RTONS O F now being featured at your dealer‘s uchâ€" | W which | m UÂ¥ o s The (hampagne of Ginger «Ales Under Dr. E. engaged in the magami fields. areas are the Hislop and the d1 sponsible thecry. w movesmen bedded ments wiAail Dome Mint at no increase over the regular prices imout lling has indi mineralization Pam( eaker C 1t 1nge mis} the sedimen been locate which m notable ; occurred, t 60 to 10 Undererd Mi se in the price of gold. C s have been reopened ble exploratory work ha: a# EBR/RINXEL AL L. OA PA 4 e mm en mm + mm n en in es n iA A 4 Pamour ore dips at an angle o ) degrees, slightly ltss than tha (%..._ 11 y assay VvaiuUues and rangint from feet to 40 tC width. Dr. Hurst likened ths condition of the ore to be similar to that of the Domeg y ore, but the conditions of were somewhat different. the idvan on the d S, Moors, one party was Ramore-Hislop and Teâ€" Principal mines in these Hollingetr ‘cperation at New Golden Rose mine ind dica ial geologist, reâ€" the department Geclogical work ies sent out by ent and 10 parâ€" er the enlarged m ind k6 2 aApD bodies rusIves nmedia doun Hur: nents > .. differen 1¢ dGilam 11 Ther ng 300 ty 1€ with the assaulter. "That sort of thing key players resorting or fighting should be penalized hsavily, and hockey, they are pen: since the very unfortt in Boston two years as been chzcked pretty ste anot juric kind place at the Ottav urday night. Th nessed of one p from behind and in Hecliganism Should Not be Permitted in Hockey 11 h xXpC am 10u1Gd on th th« TD rat, to put it baldly, is what tc« at the Ottawa Auditorium on Sa y night. The spectacle was wi d of one being assault: behind and felled to the ics I rer, with consequent serious i1 , and this without a step of ar being taken by the officials or r ible directors of hockey to ds the assaulter. rder permit to id ruffian 11n very unfortunat two years ago, 1 ed pretty sternl in ho ) take has playe : P Bu lasse irton irt Or irtomn 0o di is lunacy. Hocâ€" to rough tactics e penalized, and d, in professional nalized. Indeed, tunate occurrance 1go, rowdvism has ternly. son The Oitawa question of psace matches. That is . The Journal in A] hocke ible â€" g (as illustrated above) lunacy. ) rough t penalized in profes ‘ WwWas wiltâ€" assaulted the ics by erious inâ€" tep of any bey al:s i k atched i y. isn‘t uthoritie by haoli twelveâ€"ounce familyvâ€"size and ok il gTH. 1935 Pembroke Standard â€" Observeor: â€" There is one thing in Canada which ras not changed one iota during the last 50 yearsâ€"and that is the public want to attend the court when there is any case in which they are interested. It not only indicates curiosity, but a further fact that a whole lot of peonle can risult in one thing only. Some night there will be a fatalityâ€"someâ€" body will be killed, or maimed permanâ€" ently; whereupon we shall have a great hullabaloo and great lamentation. But it will be too lats:. The time to act is new., If the principals in Saturday night‘s rawdyism can‘t be dealt with, then at least a warning should go forth, and sternly that is the end, that any or all attmpting repetition of such scenes will be banished from and pérâ€" manently. "A decent game that is made for sportsmen, and which all sportsmen love, can‘t be degraded to the code and th> practices of gangsters." desperate conduct. "That sort of thin Ottawa. The vilest sort of conductj with â€" rufianism _ that wouldn‘t 0o shouldn‘t be tolerated in any civilized community or in any civilized game, is permitted to go unpunished. Not a single penalty was handed out to any of the principals in Saturday night‘s eur hockeyâ€" eur hockey we _not only indicates curiosity, but a rther fact that a whole lot of people ive not got very much to do. An attractive sift bottles bott} s different apparently in amaâ€" ockeyâ€"or in the sort of amaâ€"+ ckey we are presently getting i The vilest sort of conduc:} rufianism _ that wouldn‘t 0o 1‘t be tolerated in any civilized nity or in any civilized game, friends unless stopped