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To quote words once worn bare by Mayor Bartleâ€" man, "it is time for a change in the municipal administration of Timmins." Mayor Bartleman1 has been given a fair chance and he has failec!‘ miserably. He definitely promised to reduce taxes, to secure efficiency and progress. The tax rate has risen from 59.60 mills for public school supâ€" porters and 75.98 for separate school supporters in 1935 to 63.95 mills for public school supporters and 7747 mills for separate school supporters in 19338 ; It is true that the town has grown in the meanâ€"| time, but so has the assessment. {\nd on top of the straight taxes discriminatory rates have been imposed in the way of taxes on coal chutes, signs and fire escapes. Despite interference and irritaâ€" tion, town departments have maintained some efficiency, but it has been a decided struggle andl has been achieved despite and not because of the| mayor. It is not too much to say that the glib‘ promises of the mayor have failed to _mat.erizilizel in progress or efficiency. ~Credit for the few adâ€" vantages to the town goes elsewhere than to the mayor. The people by formal vote declared in favour of a new municipal building four years beâ€" fore the mayor could be prodded into action. There is still nothing but excuses for the lack of 3.‘ cemetery board, though there was a time wheni the present mayor had no patience at all with thei suggestion that there could possibly be any exâ€" cuse for permitting the cemetery to continue in the state it has been for so marny years. It is illuminating to note that while the mayor was' manded both an increased share of the mines profit tax and an increase on mining property. It is difâ€" ficult to believe in his good faith when he refused to work for the one that seemed practical and possible, when others were willing to do so. "Both or nothing!" was his cry,â€"forgetting apparently that to centre attack on the one was to clear the decks for action on the other. "Both or nothing!" Well, it is nothing that has been secured. Unforâ€" tunately, it seems to be a typical attitude, and emphasizes the fact that it seems time for. a change. What is needed is a mayor who will work for the benefit of Timmins, seeking and sesuring the coâ€"operation of others by goodwill and good faith, instead of making every issue nothing more than a political football for personal popularity. In an address on Tuesday evening Mayor Barâ€" tleman is reported to have defied any of his opâ€" ponents to meet him in public debate on the quesâ€" tion of the assessment of mine properties. If would have been just as sensible if he had made the subject of the debate the war in Spain, Sall_vl Rand‘s fan dances or two weeks‘ holiday with pay for everybody but employees of the mayor. The assessment of mine properties is covered by ltgisâ€" lative statutes. The legislation was framed to' foster and encourage the mining industry. It appliecs to small mines as well as to the larger ones. It concerns more than gold mines. To secure any change in the statutes it would be necessary to secure the agreement not only of the other mining areas but also of the rest of the proâ€" vince. It is a matter of record that the views of Mayor Bartleman on this question are not shared even by all the mining municipalities of the North. There are those who took upon the assessment of mining properties as in the form of a bonus to the industry, and still consider that the municipalities have the best of the deal. It would be difficult to convince the average municipality in the South that it was not a very profitable form of bonus for the town concerned. Indeed, at the moment the average town would be glad to give complete exâ€" emption from all taxes to secure an industry like one of the producing mines. These people also remember that the share of the mines profit tax given to the municipality is in compensation for any reduction of revenue there may be from the present form of assessment of mining property. .They have a shrewd opinion that if the basis ofl‘ assessment of mining properties were increased this would be followed by a reduction or ehmmqâ€". tion of the share of mines profit tax.. With one or two possible exemptions, there are no municipaliâ€" ties in Ontario taking the same shortsighted atâ€" titude towards industries included in their midst | as that advocated purely for voteâ€"catching pur. ‘ poses by Mayor Bartleman. It was this attitude that resulted in the failure of the mining municiâ€" palities to coâ€"operate this year and last in the effort for more revenue for mining municipalities. Other municipalities weregood humoredly patient | enough to view the misplaced agitation for a proâ€" $ vincial change in the basis of assessment as a side Â¥ 8 issue, but when attempt was made to force it into the place of the main issue and sidetrack comâ€"| ° pletely the practical plan of meeting the case by' seeking to secure a larger share of the mines profit tax patience was naturally exhausted. _ Mayor Bartleman has persistently pretended that he de-l omm } V e t v t x P }s‘ Timmins, Ont., Thurs., December Canadaâ€"$3.00 Per Year TIMMIN®, ONTARIO | Menibers Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontartoâ€" | Qurbee Newspaper Association; Class ‘A" Weekly Group OFFICE 236 â€"â€"â€"â€" PHONES RKESIDENCE 70 Cbe Yorrupine Advance TIME FOR A CHANGE Published Every Monday and Thursday by GFEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher ubscription Rates United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per Yea:t The present letter from the "Oldâ€"Timer," how. ever, deals with another questionâ€"the need for a new railway station at South Porcupine. With the recent growth of South Porcupine and the opening of new mines in the vicinity, it is easy to believe that the Oldâ€"Timer is advocating today what others will be urging tomorrow or the next Elsewhere in this issue will be found a letter from an Oldâ€"Timer of the camp, who often favours The Advance with suggestions and ideas looking to a greater and a better Porcupine. This Oldâ€"Timer has for years advocated the completion of the highway between Timmins and Sudbury. There were times when The Advance was criticized for publishing the letters about this much desired connecting highway. Today, however, there is renewed hope that work will start at an early date on this roadway that promises benefit to the whole North, the whole province. If the town desires action, coâ€"operation, goodwill and progress the vote will be for Dr. Honey who will work in harmony with the councillors elected by the people. With the issue thus plainly eviâ€" dent, it is not difficult to guess what the good peoâ€" ple of Timmins will do. It would be well to face the facts. It would be well to remember that the council is elected just the same as the mayorâ€"just as much the choice ~f the people. It would be well to remember that what is really needed is a little more policy and a little less politics, a little more action and a little less agitation. To ease the burden of taxaâ€" tion and to provide for expansion, more revenue is needed. This may easily come from the securing of a larger share of the mines profit tax. No one man can do this. No one town can do it. It will take the work of the mayor and the coâ€"operation of the councillors and all other interests, working in conjunction with other Northern municipalities. It is no hopeless task either. Past experience proves that. It was done before; it can be done again. It will, however, need all the qualities that Mayor Bartleman lacks. | The issue of this election seems to be the mayor versus all others. It seems to be the fact that no. group of councillors can be elected who are able to work with the present mayor. Then why not‘ a change? Why not elect a man who has proven‘ in the past that he can work amicably with others? Why not try Dr. Honey, and prove that there are some good men also available for the council? To , do otherwise is to invite dictatorship. That might| suit the present mayor, but would it suit the people? The Advance cannot believe that therefi is only one good man in the whole of Timmins and * that man J. P. Bartleman. The record makes’ such a suggestion absurd. | Instead of childishly complaining that ecveryâ€" thing and everybody is against him, it might be ‘well for the mayor to ask himself the childish question, "Why?" â€"There was illuminating answer to that question at the meeting of council on Monâ€" day, so far as the present council is concerned. Several times members of council directly accused the mayor of playing politics, and the truth of the accusation was so distinct as to need no comment. While the councillors would wish to carry on the business of the town, the mayor seemed to seek to sidetrack important matters to play to the gallery with questions with which the council had nothing to do. Surely, there is excuse for councillors losâ€" ing patience with a man holding up business to' boast of his love for the working man when they: were well aware of the fact that his first effort after election was to cut the wages of every townl employee. Councillors could scarcely be expected! to believe in the good faith of an advocate of two] weeks‘ holiday with pay, when the previous reducâ€"‘ tions in salary had amounted to working two! months without pay in comparison to the previous ‘ prevailing rate. | were replaced by less dangerous pathways in cerâ€" tain parts of the town. As soon as Councillor Gousins was out of the way, however, this benefit was sidetracked. The record seems to suggest that had the mayor coâ€"operated with the various departments in the last few years there would have been reasonable progress and efficiency. doing much talking with political favour in regard to mail delivery for Timmins, one of the councilâ€" lors, Len Cousins, was taking the matter up so effectively with Ottawa that the service was estabâ€" lished in town. Without ballyhoo and, indeed, despite the opposition of the mavyor, wooden walks GROWTH OF THE CAMP THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE,. TIMMINS ONTARPTO “! day. The growth of Timmins has been so phenoâ€" I menal that the average citizen here has overlooked the remarkable development of the neighbouring ‘!_towns of Schumacher and South Porcupine. The growth of these thriving towns may well set | thoughts to new railway stations to meet the |steadily increasing needs. In this connection it is well also to take thought of the first community of the camp, known generally as Porcupine or ° | Golden City, though some do not forget the old | townsite of Pottsville and others take pride in the '! name of Lakeview for a new part of the present ~| community. New mines springing up near Porâ€" cupine and old mines reâ€"opening promise to make 4 i Porcupine again a thriving centre in the. Porecuâ€" ’ pine camp. The growth of the community of. Porcupine may not be fully realized, but it is easy ~ | to visualize what is going on today if it is recalled °| that not so many years ago the revenue of the ‘|township of Whitney amounted to only a few "| thousands a year, while this year‘s financial stateâ€" ‘ | ment recently issued shows d balance on the right ‘| side of the leager after expenditures of over $60,â€" 1 000. It will not be long before new stations and \ new accommodations for the service of the public s'will be needed for all the prosperous towns in this ‘| part of the Porcupine camp. | + wra'rf:"’u:zs Just when the world had sadly reached the conâ€" clusion that former Chancellor Kurt von Schusâ€" chnigg of Austria might have been quietly eliminâ€" ated by the Nazis, word comes from Vienna that he is still alive as despatches say that he and his wife, together with his son by a former marriage of ed Libsral political sh GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER recal It wi polit] bow! political of the day as Hot W. S. 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R. B. Bennett as the ‘Bov Orator‘ Reminiscenses of the North Oxford Election. villa (From the Regina Leaderâ€"Post L WIrIC Mt.=. we b nsg into nservati others, shooting meeting in t in North Ox{ campaign. N ] 11 aâ€" senssvion h ral North North Oxiford DMSCUSS TRADE TREATY SIGNXING ‘ve, MJ1 ; Onta member Assem} hn candidate, E. Maclean lim young ider" Mr. Bot e town lmll 0 rd in the hea one in thos 11 And wha D 1ppo ersonall: iinpaign /‘s iInitla ‘em ter man C Westâ€" it omm Mrs. _Ociove Oliver Robit O‘Brien mine real, and Mi reali, an ton, P.Q@Q M 1 prC last Saturday of the la Robitaille, a pionesr rs Cobalt arsa who was : many miners through he tion with the La Rose : camp. Mrs. Robitaille, years of age. and who ha ng _ Thut rigre wWas 1 vagiue to mat but a nam> s( of strenzth, statesman. Funeral of Mrs. Denis« Robitaille at Cobalt old citize others. T flocdâ€"tide Oxford in And in paign â€"re words, "M Hoeore was One thrust and s1 can s wJne can ste him yet in rapierâ€"like thrust. One can sse him yet lunging and smacking open hand with fist. One can see and hear him yet in cascade and crescendo of sentence and phrase. He was as a tumbling water, pouring out rhevoric as a mountain stream bounding on its way to the sea. "The like I never heard before," said old citizens. "What a man." said munikt duced Prairi sustai (Qria P i( mo vhen peed. Jonnet Cobal 11 1li1mnmIins, er Robit 1¢ nett â€"gushed ; words a mi verbiage had iined in wha was. an ity until h freworks! 5 mad€ Robitai aay thre il It, Dec. 1. â€"Membsr: northern Porcupine n the QU2DC imil y n before. 1( They 16 BennCi{ 1905. thast sa pectfully . Haulta 2a leader «~UACG L ind the OT DT l1 Cadlllacâ€" Mrs. A. Barre, in Montâ€" _A. Quelette, of Capleâ€" Robitaille died 35 yvears Beland ncl C C unk 111 11 maAn ho n pyveied OW of Despatches from Tokyo this week say that the Japanese believe that an early war with Russia is inevitable. But that won‘t put Premier Chamberâ€" jain up in the air again. 1C mnose w itory f At the council meeting on Monday a sort of exâ€" planation was made of the reason why the finanâ€" cial statement was not published this year as usual. Ratepayers in general can think of several other more logical reasons. mt DVeiectIOn camâ€" spoken wers the n," even by Liberals. in the west, a little The mayor‘s real "love for the workingman" is more evidenced by the fact that he used to make town employees work during their dinner hour until The Advance protested, than by his profesâ€" sions of adoration for the idea of the employees of others getting holidays with pay. descript followed 1{ d a daught rrived there 20 It is a comman thing for people to be stung in taking honey. Timmins is faced with the situaâ€" tion that it will be stung if it doesn‘t take Honey, stric tenda Mayor Bartleman bids fair to go down in the municipal history of Timmins as the mayor who licensed firetraps and put a tax on fire escapes,. had been offered permission to leave Austria. The former chancellor has been held in Vienna for trial on a charge of treason to Germany, though in the hopes of saving Austrian lives he allowed the German army to enter the country without a batâ€" tle. Public sympathy and admiration will go out to the former chancellor because he refused amnesty for himself and family unless similar privilege were granted to his former associates in the government of Austria. o thi invasi 10 n Robitaille who liv{ KXKville n in Quzbec Cobalt in 1908. led the ite M vnships, disâ€" ng members d Robitaille, ucCn i it "th o ~man quanti °C DCilQrQ," Ssalil man," said _ day of the m of North amilly includin on was wC he funeral Urs. Deonis nt of the ~known to ive here, Cadillacâ€" The Adâ€" ly living n pat a pil when 300 or torreont om intro BU1L and Then ht 11 She: "But, darling, we cannct live on love alone." He: "Why not? Proâ€" Imperial Bank of Canada th The output of power reached its high point in 1937 and the decline in nine months‘ comparison is limited to about 6%. During the last decade the capacity ()l' Hydro Electric installaâ€" gions in Canada has more than doubled. Manulacturing opcrations have cently shown recovery after remaining at a moderate level during the greater part of the year. The official index of manufacturing production indicating the trend in the principal industries recorded a decline of 14% during the first nine months of 1938 from the same period of the preceding year. Working forces in manufacturing plants recorded a considerable gain at the beginning of September and the standing was nearly â€" maintained. on October I1st. “ll‘l’lll ‘»lLIlllls due to th {\'v\wprim prod tons in the dirst against 2,728,0( period of 1937. East and threa militated â€" again in lumber. ~The volume work this year 1 the drop in new first nineâ€" mont falling off comin and . October. . struction is resic¢ has beenâ€" large National Housit Improvement â€"A 1938 the total proved under Actâ€"and the D was $24.7 imill 6,272, while the Loans aggregat« number no less These Acts hav benelit to the cou to be so. The output « high point in 1 output d partly du gald in part: CO~DITIONS IN CANADA ‘anadian mining has made more dway in the recovery movement n _any other phase of primary _ volume of _ new construction this year has been disappointing ‘op in new business placed in the iine months being 19.6%, the olf coming largely in September )ctober. _ The backlog of conâ€" ion is residential building, which een â€" largely assisted by. the ral Housing Act and the Home vement Act, Up to October the total volume of loans apâ€" l under the National Housing nd theâ€"Dominion Housing Act A under the National Housing d â€"theâ€"Dominion Housing Act 24.7 million and in number while the Home Improvement aggregated $22.3 million and no less than 55,820 items. Acts have been of substantial to the country and will continue 1937. threats catech ol lurs showed some did fishing apart from imbia, where it was better. try group of industries was lected by the curtailment of our â€" principal _ external ewsprint had been heavily publishers in the United the reduction in Canada‘s ng the present year was o these special conditions. President and General Manager Review Business Conditions President luction was 1 t nine months 64th Annual Meeting The \W P °C1 ns ipal _ external | postts ot the 174 _been heavily | Governments, $ 1 the United | by the Public n i in Canada‘s | $3,995,919. in ¢ ent vear was | bearing interest al conditions. | interest to not!i vas 1,914,000 | 31st Oct. last | inths of 1938 | point of all tim in the same Bank, air in the Far CURREN ar in Europe DISCOUN export â€" trade nnr'n YA myrs 1t‘s 11Ve l W million that C 31 STAFF The Staff of the Bank now total 1432 compared with 1412 a year ago and I wish to take this opportunity of recording my, appreciation of the manner in which every member has done his or her part towards furthering the interests olptho Bank and of the unstinted support that the management has been accorded at all times. Deposits by the Public Dominion Canada an Governments total $141,5 pared with $132,198,088, an increase of $9,365,18 crease is divided â€"§1,54] posits of the Dominion at The Shareholders of the Bank now number 2685 compared with 2596 a year ago. The shares held by residents of United States total 6,887 divided among 320 shareholders as compared with 7,080 divided among 313 shareâ€" holders a vear ago. at North Battlef been closed. The Branches of the Bank now number 194, an increase of four during the year, new branches having been opened at Delhi and Langton in the heart of the tobacco district and at Hudson, Virginiatown and Matachâ€" ewan in the mining area, all in the Province of Ontario, and one branch CURRENT LOANS AND DISCOUNTS IN CANADA Once more we are glad to report that our Current Loans at $58,274,754. show an increase of $3,106,277. comparing as the ‘y do with $55,168,477. a year ago. This is largely accounted for by the financing of a somewhat _ better crop harvested in Western: Canada, the slackening of general business during a considerable part of the year not having made for Iarg(r commercial or manuâ€" facturing bor m\\mgs The percentage increase is 5.6% compared with an increase of 9.4% in the year ending October 30th, 1937 vided your father loves you sufficien 1y." NMeserves gencies and $1 1 making the to Account $649,3 $638,032.72 a ; will consider t T‘ry The Advance Want Advertisemen, ha loliowed â€" almost â€" im degree of _ disappoir Western Crop situati unsettled conditions in result that it has nc banking year. Under stances the Managem be. able to report tc $961,342.79, onlv $6, has been Oct. than camet development half ot 1938 millinn. com in the same trade than f Canad exportt said in part THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1871 WA 14 Pine St. N. The Bank Prices are considerably lower and terms may be arranged at "Yeés, it‘s Oour busiest season at the office but still I‘m not a bit tired. You see, I wear glasses all day and I find they completely â€" relieve the strain in my eyes, Beâ€" fore Mr. Curtis fitted me with glasses though, I was ready for bed by seven o‘slock. Now, I feel fine all the time, day or night." "Of course I‘m going toâ€"night! liv l)mrm\mg< is 5.00 com| of ‘).4% in t 30th, 1937 icdend * ME General Manager s by the Public and by the Canada and Provincial nts total $141,563,276. comâ€" BRANCHES ches of the 0st _ im me« disappointn dep ‘, 198 U088, a year ag $9,365,1T88. which i d â€"§1,547,857. in d minion and Provinci Osits In p hat dllf Ostq ind one branch Sask., â€" having 11 in the first I at $209.7 it e th DNI Phone 83§ s as on the high vÂ¥ of the * ~IML 3 rovin( depos Public than the S1t Un