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A Londun, England, newspaper occasionaliy runs a column of items to show how odd are the interests and the reactions of the British people. Some of the itéems used in the column are very amusing, and some are decidedly illuminating in regard to British character. Yet it was not this column, but a stray item in another British newsâ€" paper that appears to give the most striking sideâ€" light on one phase of British character and disâ€" as they would have an allâ€"year position, instead of a partâ€"time job. During the few months when there was no danger of forest fires their services would be well worth while for the province in the way of further familiarizing themselves with the territory with which they were concerned, with inâ€" spection of the bush, and planning the next seaâ€" son‘s work so as to assure the maximum of safety. When the plan of a practically full staff of fire rangers, allâ€"yearâ€"round, was pressed upon the Henry government, Hon. Mr. Finlayson‘s objection to the idea was the matter of cost. The fire in the FPort Francis area makes the argument of cost look puerile. The Ontario Red Cross estimates that it will cost at least $100,000 and maybe more to reâ€" habilitate the settlers suffering from the Forfl Frances area fire. This is only the money loss. The loss of lives can not be computed in dollars and cents, but there are few who would not think it worth while to spend several more hundreds of thousands to save twenty or more lives. The loss in timber is given little consideration at the presâ€" ent moment. Compared to the loss of lives and the suffering entailed upon thousands it is cerâ€" iainly only a secondary consideration. But it is well to remember in speaking of the cost of forest fire prevention that the loss in timber in a burned area usually runs into the millions and proves that the cost of forest fire prevention is small indeed, compared to the cost of lack of forest fire prevention. Every year when the forest fire rangâ€" ers are dishanded or reduced to a skeleton, the country is taking desperate chances. Sometimes there is luck in the matter. In the case of the Port Frances district fire, good fortune did not hold. The practice of reducing the forest rangers every autumn has a tendency to disrupt the service and to tempt illâ€"luck. It is recognized that it has been customary to reduce the forest fire prevenâ€" tion staffs too early in the year. Some of the most disastrous forest fires have occurred in October. In such cases valuable time is lost in gathering staffs together again. There is no doubt that it would be a decided advantage to keep the forest fire ranging force intact at least until the end of October.â€" It would be a still better plan to build a permanent fire prevention and fireâ€"fighting force for Ontario‘s forestâ€"a foree that would be in permanent allâ€"yearâ€"round employment. It seems as illogical to disband or reduce the forest fire department as it would be to curtail municipal fire fighting forces during certain seasons of the year when fires do not seem to be as frequent as at other times. The forest fire disaster in the Fort Frances area has roused much criticism of Ontario‘s forest fire protection system. Some of this criticism is not quite fair. The fact is that the Ontario forest fire protection system, more generally known as the Forest Rangers, has given excellent service in recent years. The trouble is not with the forest protection system, but with the lack of it. It has been the custom year after year to disband the forest fire protection system (the forest fire rangâ€". ers) as soon as fall approaches. For years past The Advance has been advocating the employment of the forest fire rangers the year round pracâ€" tically at full force. This would not mean of course, keeping large staffs of men on salary to fight fires in the bush all the year round. Under the present system it has been the plan to hire gangs of men for fighting fires that have attained large proportions. These are not experienced forest fireâ€"fighters. They do not need to be. They are simply workers who have enough knowâ€" ledge of the bush to do the necessary work under the skilled direction of the rangers. They are employed in numbers when needed and as they may be needed. There is reason to believe that their wages form a material part of the cost of forest fire protection. Under a forest fire proâ€" trection system that would be employed all the year round, the services of these casual laborers would not be a factor. It is the regular staff of fire rangers that is meant by the plan advocated by The Advance and by many others in the North. In some years it has been the plan to keep a sort of skeleton staff of fire rangers the year round. What is really needed is an extension of this method to have on duty all the year round a reâ€" gular force of skilled forest rangers. This would mean assurance of the best type of forest rangers, «0 ns ds Published Every Monday and Thursday by : GEO,. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: Canadaâ€"$3.00 Per Year. United Statesâ€"83 50 Per Year Oe Fnrmniol}f éhnan’rr Meribers Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association: Ontarioâ€" Timmins, Ont., Monday, October 24, 1938 FOREST FIRE PROTECTION THOSE BRITISH RESIDENCE 70 Group It is an odd fact that there was difficulty in securing the interest of Sudbury in this matter. Some years ago Sudbury board of trade did lend in completing the Porcupineâ€"Sudbury road was frankly confined to the matter of cost, and the suggestion that the government didn‘t have the money. So, year after year, the building of this desirable roadway has been postponed. Previous to Mr. Preston‘s advocacy of a highâ€" way, The Advance had on more than one occasion advocated the building of a railway line to conâ€" nect Sudbury and Timmins. Such a railroad would assuredly have speeded up the development of the country. Had such a railway been built years ago it would have fully justified its existence. But times change. Once railways were essential to the opening up of a new country. Now the deâ€" velopment of trucks and motor vehicles generally has made the highway the modern method for deâ€" velopment of new areas. Accordingly The Adâ€" vance in recent years has advocated the highway plan rather than the railway. Not only the Timâ€" mins board of trade but the Northern Ontario Associated Boards of Trade advocated the compleâ€" tion of the highway connecting the Porcupine and Sudbury, camps. The Timmins board of trade years ago went into the question very carefully and; gathered much valuable information in the matter.‘ Maps were prepared showing the suggested route for the highway. It was found that it did not mean the building of a long stretch of highway, but rather the connectingâ€"up of roads already in existence and in use. With the building of several short stretches of road, and the improvement of the existing roads, there would be a good highway between Porcupine and Sudbury. The Timmins board of trade was able to secure the interest and coâ€"operation of the Northern Ontario Associated Boards of Trade and there were times when it seemed probable that the work might be underâ€" taken. However, sometimes it seems that governâ€" ments are more anxious to find reasons for not doing things than to start desirable operations. ance the government in effect told a delegation from the Northern Ontario Associated Boards of Trade that the proposed highway would scarcely increase tourist trade to a degree warranting its construction. The next time Hon. Mr. Finlyson‘s answer, when emphasis was placed on the adâ€"| vantages of the proposed road as an attraction to tourists, was to the effect that the government had no intention of building speedways for the tourist trade, but that new roads were to be conâ€" fined to those needed to open up the country‘s, resources. In other years the excuse for delay It is many years ago that Mr. H. A. Preston, oldâ€" timer of the North, wrote The Advance urging the completion of a highway between Timmins and Budbury. He emphasized the value ofâ€" such a road. It would connect the world‘s largest nickel camp with one of the greatest gold camps in the world. It would open up other new and rich silver and gold camps Mr. Preston said. The route he proposed for it, using many roads already in exâ€" istence, would pass through Matachewan, Elk Lake, Gowganda, Shiningtree, West Shiningtree. Had the road been completed at that time, the growth of Matachewan would have been more phenomenal and other mining camps along the route would have been of much importance years ago. In advocating the proposed Poreupineâ€"Sudâ€" bury nighway, Mr. Preston did not overlook itS‘f possibilities from a tourist standpoint. Such a highway would make the North truly a tourists‘ paradise. The beauty of the Montreal River! scenery, the fish and game in the area that would! be opened up by such a highway would attract‘ tourists by the thousands. One thing that Mr.} Preston delighted to repeat was that tourists to the North would be able to see the world‘s greatest nickel camp, the world‘s greatest silver area, some of the world‘s richest gold mines, two of the Dominion‘s largest paper industries, as well as! famous bush lands and agricultural areas, and alli this without travelling, as they have been forced to do, five hundreds miles or so by the selfâ€"same route that had to be used for the return journey. With the Porcupineâ€"Sudbury highway completed, tourists would travel North by one route and return by another equally interesting and pleasing. position. This fugitive item says that London had a traffic jam recently when a duck decided to fcroas the street with her family to the pond in St. :James Park, just in front Buckingnam Palace. All trafic in the mighty city was stopped when a duck and a feéew ducklings crossed the road in safety. Could such a thing happen on this side of the ocean? 1t is certain that German efficiency would not permit any duck to impede the progress of traffic. No one will believe that Italian organâ€" ization would allow any number of ducks or duckâ€" lings to thus halt business. The duck and duckâ€" lings that would interfere with Russian city traffhic would promptly find themselves in a spectacular court trial charged with unpatriotic sabotage. Japan would know how to deal with such duckâ€" :lmgs. In modern Spain, there would be revolution over such an interference with transport. What other great Empire in the world would stop all traffic for the safety and convenience of a humble duck and her ducklings? It is difficult to think of any other country where such an incident would! be permitted. Yet it is easy to believe it of Briâ€"| tain. It seems in keeping with British humour, British kindliness, and British understanding of the relative importance of heart and industry. _ ; PORCUPINEâ€"SUDBURY ROAD _In receut months the completion of the Sudâ€" buryâ€"~â€"Porcupine highway has not been emphasized but it has not been forgotten. The agitation for this needed roadway will revive with the report last week from Budbury that the board of trade there is uow anxious to have something done about it. Probably in years past there were other roads thaft seemed more necessary to Sudbury. That idea also holds true for Timmins. But for the.whole North, it is doubtful if any other roadâ€" work would prove as valuable as the completion of the highway between Sudbury and Porcupine, and the cunnectingâ€"up of so many mining areas, together with the added attraction for tourists and others in the fact that the North might be visited by one route and the return trip made by a differâ€" ent highway. itself to advocacy of a highway to link Timmins and Sudbury, but this advocacy was used as an excuse ftor not doing anything about the matter, as the Sudbury plan then was for a straightâ€"line road that woulid do no more‘ than connect the two camps. Such a plan meant the building of some 140 miles of new roadway that would do no more than connect Timmins and Sudbury. The Timâ€" mins idea has always been to connect a regular string of mining areas and Aassure the opening up and development of rich territoryâ€"rich in seenery, game, fish, forest wealth, mineral resources, and agricultural possibilities. It seems to be more logical to look to the development of the country and to provide proper transportation facilities for existing and prospective industries and communiâ€" ties: than simply to build speedways on the straightâ€"line principle. A few months after the publication of his work, Diesel received a letter from the celebrated German manufacâ€" turer, Krupp, who offered to place at his dispasal, for the perfecting of his invention, a laboratory, material and workmen. Naturally the young enginâ€" eer hastened to accept the flattering offer. Afser a few months of trial and nâ€" search, the first Diesel model emerged from the Krupp factory all ready to function, It‘s demonstration was enâ€" tirely satisfactory to the experts and When his studies were concluded. Diesel returned to Paris. His first deâ€" cisive discovery in the domain of oil motors dates from 1893. In the course of the same year he published a book which aroused considerable interest in technical circles. In that book Diesel expounded the main principles of his invention. The problem of how to make use of heavy oil as a fuel was solved . | The son of a working bookbinder | of Augsburg, who had come to France to perfect himself in his trade, Rudolf iDlesel was born in Paris and spoke {F‘rench before he knew a word of his father‘s language. When the Francoâ€" German War broke out in 1870 the bookbinder and his family installed them«>lves in London, not to return to Paris until the end of the war. It was then that Diesel pere sent his son to his parents who were still living in Augsburg, in order that he might learn German and also a trade. On.the latâ€" ter point Jhe boy had already made up his mind; he wanted to be an engineer. As his parents were too poor to b=ar the cost of his training, the young1 student had to earn his living during his years of study by giving l°ssons in French. 1 AUuUgsDdurg, in German and ter point the his mind; he Twentyâ€"five years ago, on the eve of the Great War, D‘issel disappeared mysteriously. The secret of his death has never been revealed. (By Robert Francois in Paris Soir) The only inventor‘s name that figurâ€" ed in the Treaty of Versailles was that of Diesel, in a claus> which prohibited the manufacture and use of Diesel enâ€" gines by Germany for ten years. Story of Famous Inventor of the Diesel Engine. Disappearance of Mr. Rudolph Diesel That same Gay he wrote London. The English naturally hastened to accept his offer. A group of financiers was forme»d with a view to buying the rights for the exploitation of his patent. Fourteen days after his last lunlucky interview at the German Admiralty, free to sell his invention abroad. The Ministry then passed a little order io Dieselâ€"a contract for a hunâ€" dred submarine engines. Diesel was enraged and declared that he was not prepared to renounce the possibilitios of the world market for such an order. He came out of the Palace of the Adâ€" miral‘y, slamming the door. He was free. Finally Diesel‘s patience was exâ€" hausted. He went personally to the Minister of War and told him that if the contract was not signed in a very short time he would consider himself free to sell his invention abroad. But the arrangements dragged. Diesel than discovered that behind the slowâ€" ness of the Admiralty was the allâ€" powerful influence of his old enemy, Krupp, who feared dangerous competiâ€" tion. In other words, the CGerman Minister of War wan‘ied to buy the new model for the manufacture of submarines. "Mr. Diesol," said he, "in the face of the danger which threatens the German Fatherland, this invention of which you have every right to be proud cannot belong to you exclusively. It will place in the hands of our country a weapon that will render us invincâ€" ible." Diesel waited. Work made him forâ€" get his worries, success consoled him. In 1911 the ten years had expired. Diesel, in the pressnce of a company of exper‘s sent by the Ministry of Marine, demonstrated his new model. The new Diesel motor could be used in locomotives and even on large steamâ€" ers. Krupp was "sunk!" The success of the demonstration was complete. The chief of the exâ€" perts summoned Diesel to aâ€"private inâ€" terview. former model. His plan of vengeance was going to be successful. But the new motor could not be patented until the patent of the formâ€" er one had expired. Ten years .. Having assured himself that the new oil motors were designated "Dissel Motors" and not "Krupp Motors" Disse! happy over his supposed victory, signâ€" ed contract. He>» failed to observe that another clause assured almost the whole of the material benefit to Ktupp. The vast factories of the G>»rman "Iron King" began to produce the new motors on a large scals. It brought countless wealth to Krupp. The inâ€" ventor got nothing but the glory. Oild Krupp had great difficulty in calming him and finally promised that tlve motor should be patented under the name of Diesel. the allâ€"powerful Krupp promised Diesel that he would secure the patent for him. "My motor represents the work of my life! T will not give up to anyone!" he show‘>d. that all who owed the success of their inventions to the generosity of Friedâ€" rich Krupp considered it quite natural that the fruit of their researches should be patented under the name of their benefactor, contenting themselves with a corltain perceentage of the profits. White with rage and trembling in every limb Diesel burst into Friedrich Krupp‘s office. _ _ The obtaining of an industrial patent is perhaps more complicated in Gerâ€" many than anywhere else, but when montliis had passed and the matter still remained in suspense, Diesel beâ€" came impatient. Making inquiries, he disccwered that the person who was causing most of the delay was no other than a member of the allâ€"powerful Krupp trust. When he demanded an explaration he was discrectly informed The town council is still considering the new building byâ€"law. After everybody finishes buildâ€" ing and improvements, the byâ€"law may be eventually completed. Premier Chamberlain promises to be as popular as President Wilson who also for a time had the reputation of keeping a nation out of war. Some people are already counting the days until Christmas. _ These people include the business men who are concerned with the number of Shopâ€" ping days and the youngsters who are also parâ€" ticularly interested in the same. Colonel Lindberg apparently cannot keep out of the headlines. Recently he was given mention in large black type because the Russians abused him on the charge that he had told the British that the Russian air force was a punk outfit, could not be depended upon, and things like that. Inâ€" deed, the Russians, between curses, suggested that Lindberg‘s story to the British had the effect of stopping Britain from attempting war with Gerâ€" many over Czechoslovakia, the German air force being pictured by Lindberg as all powerful. Then there came more headlines for Lindberg to the effect that he had never said anything like what the Russians charged. The latest headlines about Lindberg tell of Germany giving him the German Service Cross for his service to fiying. The Gerâ€" mans showed their usual lack of tact in the time chosen for honouring Col. Lindberg. GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER Ton months later, in August, 1914, 290 submarines left German ports. They were equipped with Dissel enâ€" gines of the new model, of which the German Admiralty alone possessed the secret. Award Made by Dr. MceClinton. Prizes for Essays on Scottish Poet The British police did all in their power to solve the mystery and "British Diesel" used all their influence :o find the engineer who had not yet signed Cefinite contract without which "British Diesel" could not start their activities. All these effor‘s were fruitâ€" less, On October 11 some Dutch sailors found the body of Diesel floating in the sea near the mouth of the Escaut. The mystery of his death was never cleared Mp. on the 27th of September. On the 28th at 6 o‘clock in the evening, he emâ€" barked on board the Dresden for Harâ€" lwh where a delegation from the Briâ€" tish Diesol Company awaited him. But Dissel never arrived in Eng‘and. His baggage was found in his cabin. but the engineer himself had disappearâ€" ed without leaving a trace. There was no motive for suicide as his prospects Aat this moment were bright. He was Jjust about to receive a large sum of money from the British company for the rights of his patent and was going to set up a factory in England for the manufacture of his motors. Diese! arrived at Antwerp. That was on the ?7th of Sentember On the "8th Blairmore Enterprise: A chip on the shoulder indicates wood higher up. _The committee selected by Dr. J. B. McClinton to decide on the winner of the award are: Messrs. Mr. B. Scott, James Cowan and G. A. MacDonald. . The winner of the award for this contest will be announced at the Burns banquet next Jamnuary. In making this preliminary announceâ€" ment of the new form taken by the Dr. J. B. McClinton award, it is well to note that more detailed announcement will be made later. This announceâ€" ment is designed to rouse the necesâ€" sary interest and to induce pupils to enter the contest. Further details will be given in The Advance in future isâ€" sues. warded to the pupil of any school in the Porcupine camp submitting the best essay on the Scottish poet, Robâ€" ert Burns. The rules governing the contest are to be few and easy of Oobâ€" servance. 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