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A local gentleman this week in discussing the probabilities of war in Europe, exclaimed with considerable heat: "I wish they would start the war, and get it over with. Then we would know where we are at. We might just as well have a war as what has been going on in the world for the past few years." There will be much general symâ€" pathy with this viewpoint. The uncertainty, the fear, the constant alarm are proving as wearing on the world‘s nerves as any war could be. It will, of course, be argued that war would be much worse than what has occurred to date. The horâ€" rors of war have been given publicity enough for all to have some idea of their terror. There are men living today, who from personal experience know all there is to know about the horrors of war. Yet these men will agree that nothing in the way of brutality, of viciousness, of misery, exâ€" ceeded in its bitterness the fate of tens of thouâ€" sands of Jews, of Czcehoslovakians, yes, of Ausâ€" trians, who suffered and are suffering in the name of peace. Indeed, it seems no longer a quesâ€" tion of peace or war, but a question whether the war shall be open and declared or whether it shall be carried out in all its horrors on innocent and unarmed people, ravaged and murdered whether they resist or not. It all seems to have come to the point that it must be admitted that all the horrors of war are now present in the world to an extent unparalleled in history. The â€" question seems to be whether or not the supposedly civilâ€" ized peoples of the world are going to suffer the war without any resistance. For years now the world has oeen marking time â€"marking timeâ€"spending cnergy. as it were, in marching, and yet not thinking of going anyâ€" where. In business, in industry, in economic life and in social welfare, there were in many counâ€" tries the ideas and ideals for betterment and the will for progress. Yet it seems a time of very stagnation. Without security, there can be no true progress, no concentration of aim. And cerâ€" tainly security is the great lack of the times. As long as uncertainty and insecurity prevail, there will be unhappiness and lack of advance. It seems doubtful, indeed, if there can be any betterment without an actual war. Recent talk of agreements and guarantees with the aggressor It develops now, however, that a permanent ban is no inore permanent than a permanent wave. This week the permanent ban was lifted from the United States magazine referred to. That magazine must feel something like Hitler after the ravaging of Czechoslovakia. Like Hitler, the magazine has been warned that further criminal aggression will be severely punished. Like Htler, the magazine is expected to behave decently hereâ€" after. Time will tell. Anyway, Canada seemed to be getting along fairly well when this partiâ€" cular â€" or not very particular â€" magazine was permanently banned. Some folks have wondered at some prison sentâ€" ences that read, "two years and one day in peniâ€" tentiary." The addition of the day seemed purile, or something. But there is a thought in such sentences Tor the National Revenue Department. If that magazine. offends again, why not make the ban permanent and for one day more. That at least would mean a ban of six weeks and one day, and with so short a sentence even one extra day is not to be sneezed at. Better still, instead of making the ban permanent, make it read "forâ€" ever and a day." That would be truly poetic jusâ€" tice, and also sound sense. When the permanent ban was placed on the offending and offensive United States magazins, there were people who enquired how long a perâ€" manent ban would hold force. In answer to these good people, it was explained that "permanent" meant forever. It was more difficult to answer the question, "How long is forever?" A United States magazine that published a rude, crude, insulting and halfâ€"idiotic attack on His Majesty King George VI was permanently banned from entry into Canada. The magazine in question had offended good taste and decency on previous occasions and had been warned more than once against the indecency and offensiveâ€" ness of some of its contents. Because of this, it was felt by the National Revenue Department that the magazine should be "permanently" banâ€" ned. The National Revenue Department seemed to take the same attitude in the matter as the learned judge who sentenced a particularly vicâ€" ious criminal to be hanged. "You have followed a life of crime all your adult days," said the judg», "and now you have been found guilty of murder. You have ignored all warnings. I now sentence you to be hanged until you are dead. And I hope this will beâ€" a lesson to you all the days of your life." tuow PERMANENT is PERMANENT? Canadaâ€"$3.00 Poer Year Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Qurbec Newspaper Association; Class ‘A" Weekly Group OFFICE 26 PHONES RESIDENCE 70 Published Every Monday and Thursuay by: GEO,. LAKE, Owncer and Publisher Subscription Rates: Timmins, Ont., Thursday, May 4th, 1939 PAGE FOUR Che Yorrupine Adbvance TVMMINXS®, ONTARIO United Statesâ€"$3.50 Por Year It is a very glaring mistake to imagine . that newspapers need wars or war scares for news. Proof of this fact is surely shown by some of the news items especially featured in the past few Confidentially, it may be noted that among all the very varied styles of material to fill the columns, the newspaper does have one preference. and perhaps, one only. That‘s paid advertising. With that as a basis the average newspaperman will welcome all types of newsâ€"the more kinds the merrier he‘ll be. In filling the columns, the newspapers prefer funny thing to phoney ones, good deeds to bad ones, happy notes to sad ones, good comedy to gruesome tragedy, so long as they are news. It is a popular mistake to think that newspapers have any narticular preference for any spCCial kind of news to fill their columns. Indeed, the average newspaperman delights in a whole lot of different kinds of news of about equal importance. The day when there is a plentitude of varied types of newsâ€"particularly happy news, pleasant news, good newsâ€"that is the day that is enjoyed in the newspaper office. The only reason that a newsâ€" paper features gruesome news, for instance, is because newspapermen have been taught that horrors help circulation. It is on the record that newspapers think more of five births at a time than a series of simultancous murders. The newspapers are often blamed for all ners of things. A local man even placed the onus for the new style in ladies‘ hats on the shoulders of the newspapers. Even on a newspaper a modâ€" ern lady‘s hat, or a lady‘s â€"modern hat, looks as odd as elsewhere. If the newspapers didn‘t pubâ€" lish pictures about the new millinery, if they didn‘t make zo many jokes about the ladies‘ headâ€" gear, the fashions wouldn‘t be so extreme, it is argued. By somewhat ‘similar reasoning, the newspapers are held responsible for juvenile deâ€" linquency and the increasing consumption of liâ€" quor and tobacco. If the newspapers published a different table of contents, the chief ambition of the average boy would be along the line of beâ€" coming a Sunday School superntendent or a merâ€" chant prince, and adults would be so wedded to the churches that all the beverage rooms would callapse. The state of politics, the losses of the railways, the failings of the economic systems are all blamed one time or another on the newspapers. If the newspapers maintained the proper high tone, the gentle public would sing only the sweetâ€" est songs. So it is said. Directly and indirectly the newspapers are blamed for a lot. It is not surprising therefore that there are those who accuse the newspapers of being guilty of provokâ€" ing war, fostering war, causing war. The basis for the charge is that the newspapers keecp on talking about all the wars, declared and undeâ€" clared, open and hidden, and open and shut. There is a possibility that the old idea that if nations had no defence against wars there would be no wars may be replaced by the suggestion that if there were no newspapers there would be no naâ€" tional conflicts. To the direct charge of being responsible for war, there is added the indirect suggestion that newspapers have to have the wars and rumours of wars to fill their columns. The dictators must answer for wholesale theft and murder and worse. But there is an even greater ill they have done the world. They have sct the nerves of civilized people on edge; they have made anxiety, uncertainty, the menu for every day. It has put the world in a bad way. It nas done more than any single factor in the world‘s history to halt progress and defer happiâ€" ness. No wonder men reach the stage when they feel that open war would be a relief. The common man is in this position: He has his heart wrung, his feelings lacerated, his decency affronted, his pride of manhood torn, day after day, and there is no hope for the future for anyâ€" thing better. Is it any wonder that the civilized world has had to coin the deplorable word, "jitâ€" ters" to express its feelings and daily situation. Civilization can not remain sane in a perpetual state of jitters. It is hopeless to expect progress or contentment anywhere under the present situaâ€" tion. After all, this is a brave old world. History proves it. When men know the worst, face the worst, they prove that in the end right is unconâ€" querable. it is the uncertainty, the doubts, the fears, the insecurity that kill. It should never be forgotten that deplorable as this spirit of uncerâ€" tainty, this attitude of defeatism may be, it has been fed on facts that are inescapable. In his book, "Mein Kampf" Hitler outlined in detail what he intended to do. Step by Step he has done many things â€" unbelievable â€" impossibleâ€" as once they appeared. And there are further crimes in the book. What has been the attitude against these vicious things. It might be summed up in these words: There will be disapproval, cenâ€" sure for each move, but the move being made, there is nothing but censure, and the awaiting of the next move. nations are little more than irritating and an increase of world tension. With the memory of deliberately broken pledges, oaths, bonds, guarâ€" antees, what can be done in the way of security except by counter forceâ€"force that will not only stop further aggression, but that will also take away the fruits of past thefts and remedy as far as possible the evils that have been done by the mad dictators? W THE NEWSPAPERS â€" aP s P DP PCAAA BP DC um » eP sgze . t < ‘HE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMM.,NS, ONTARIO There was a letter in The Montreal Star last Saturday suggesting that if there is to be another world war the best plan would be to send the women to the front. The letter adopts a mean and unwarranted attitude,. insinuating that womâ€" en are the cause of war, of,unemployment and of all economic ills. It would be discouraging to inâ€" days by the American Press Association. Here are some of them: A Canadian Scot sent the govâ€" crnment ten cents because he had been filling his fountain pen in post office inkwells for twenty years. A man armed with six lollipops tried to holdup J. P. Morgan and Company‘s office in New York and rob the firm of a million dollars. A nephew of Jesse James was appointed a statce marshall at Liberty, Missouri. An Oregon golfer hit a 20â€"inch trout with a ball that went out of bounds, and he went home to enjoy the trout for supper. A Missouri jury was locked up for the night, while the defendant in the case being tried was allowed to go home to spend the night. The world is full of news. It isn‘t necessary to have wars or other murders or other crimes to have news. To emphasize this point, it may be noted that in a recent tragedy in Timmins, murder and attempted suicide alike seemed overshadowed as news by the fact that the knife with which the double crime was perpetrated was an award preâ€" sented to the accused as a prize for carefulness and attention to safety {irst principles. If any still believe that if there were no newsâ€" papers there would be no wars or rumors of wars, they have only to let the dictators keep on going, and there won‘t be any newspapersâ€"at least not anything like the newspapers of this country and this day. United States experiments _ have shown that tslevision impulses will not travel dependably from transmitter to receiver more than an approximate distance of fifty miles, under the most favourable circumstances. For that reason. tclecasting would be feasible oinly in densely populated metropolitan communities, On the other hand. possibilitiecs of network tclecasting appear to be in even worse state. Television images, which are really waves made up of minute particles of light and shade. cannot be stnt from point to point for retclecasting through the air, as radio is now sent and recbroadcast. Comncections between points of origin (From Globe and Mail) Prospects of television becoming a home entertainment feature throughâ€" out the length and breadth of the country are but little brighter than they were a decade ago. While it is true that television _ transmission through the ether has been in operaâ€" tion in the Old Counry for more than a year and is now pecping out of the experimental cradle in New York and other large centres in United States, it is still little better than on par with radio reception in the days of the cryâ€" stal receiver. Thinks Television Not Making Material Progress TOURILST TRA FFTIC The motor tovrist traffic into Canada irom the United States is unique. Its volume exceeds that entering France or Great Britain or any other country in the world. Last year, according to official estimates, tovrists spent at least $275,000,000 in this country. Home Improvement Plan Applied to Tourist Accommodation Imperial Bank of Canada stands ready io facilitate the development of this busiâ€" ness as a major Canadian industry. Those Such results as have been forthcomâ€" ing during the experiments in United States give reason to believe that new and many times more powerful meâ€" thods . of. impressing images on magâ€" netic waves must be found, and still more powerful methods of amplificaâ€" tion at the receiving end must be deâ€" vised before television can emerge as practical for popular use in the homes of the country. However, new experiments are under way in laboratories all over the world in an endeavour to overcome these veory difficultices. One laboratory claimed recently to have found the anâ€" swer to all these riddles. If it has, somebody has an immense fortune in his lap; but, following the many false alarms of the past decade or more about tclevision being "just around the corner,‘"‘ proof must be forthcoming that Old Man Static has been bumped out of his seat of obstruction before the world will believe the "air flickers‘ are here for keeps. Toronto Telegram: Hush, little goldâ€" fish, don‘t you cry, some college boy will swallow you by and by. and those from which it is desired to do the recasting must be accomplished with a special type of cable, at a cost, according to experts of $10,000 a mile. And even at this extravagant price perfect reception cannot be guaranâ€" teed. IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA A N C HoE § T H R O U G H O U T C A N A D A A man named Krock is responsible for the story that President Roosevelt invited Hitler and Musâ€" solini to meet the President on shipboard in some remote ocean to plan for peace. Hitler deniecs the story, and nuturally this gives some colour of truth ito the Krock yarn. Mussolini denies it, and that .stnll leaves it in doubt. President Roosevelt, howâ€" ‘ever repudiates it completely, which means that despite the denials of the other two, the story isn‘t true after all. It isn‘t the first false yarn iby any means that has come out of a Crock. ! | | One of the pioneer prospectors of the Porcuâ€" pine (now in another land of gold, high above the abode of Securities Commissions and suchâ€"like) used to settle many an argument and upset many a wild statement by the exclamation: "Herc! What do you think this is? A lying competition? ‘ The matter is recalled by the recent speeches of Herr Hitler, the former paperhanger. Any reckless motorist can give Hitler the right answer. ‘"Don‘t run against the Poles unless you want to smash your machine." telligent people to think that any man in â€"Canada could write so contemptible a letter, but the sigâ€" nature seems to explain the matter, the letter beâ€" ing signed oy a very distinctly German name. There are imore folks than Hitler whose logic is lopâ€"sided and whose sense seems nonâ€"existent. A local man applied to a Timmins firm for a position of some responsibility on the staff. He seemed to nave all the technical qualifications for the job. Then the questions turned to. more personal matters. "Do you drink?" he was asked. He hesitated for a moment. Then he answered, ‘"Well, never to success." 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When an airâ€"raid blockout was arianged for Yorkshire and Liincolnâ€" chire receniitly it was found ‘that the thcusands of cil lamps broughit out s the trag_mark, "Made in Gerâ€" L. 3 4 Conference of Northern Dominion Life Co. Agents wno wish to cater to the tourist trade this season are reminded that under the provisions of the Home Improvement Plan, and in coâ€"operation with the Dominion Government, this Bank will advance funds for repairing, enlarging or improving priâ€" vate homes and premises to meet demands for tourist accommodation. onsult any of our branch managers. Board of Foreign Missions of the Episcopal Church for his own relie treme deafness and head noises has timproved his hearing that he can ; ordinary conversation, go to chur theatre and hear without difficulty. sive and has proven its worth to ple; Write for booklet to A. O Inc.; Suite 108,; Canada Cement Dominion duitery to am poss‘oly, con casecmont in Minister‘s Son Invents Invisible Ear Drum Mr. Pete Lacroix, who has ceen conâ€" nected with the busingss life of Timâ€" mins for many years, conducting the Lady Laurier hotel until a short time ago when he sold to a company, toâ€"day is opening a cigar and tobacco store atb 10% Cedar street. â€" The, new store, wljich is attractively dezsorated and ecquipped will also deal in newspapers, magazines, sundies, patent, medicines, etec.. a well as having a modern soda fountain and serving light lunches., North Bay appcar to lean 'Lhc g.anl ns ordit azainse Incom Jx,m.ct.lc.n ¢r _ plant Pete Lacroix Opens New Tobacco and V ariecty Store ‘The Invisible Ear Drum Leonard, a son of the lat« nard, D.D.; for many year Board of Foreign Missions Montreal 14 Pine st. N "L4 . the= ALLf:â€"ore nce glasses madse in my husâ€" band‘s â€" disposition. _ He had been working hard at the office and the strain on his cyes affectâ€" ed his nerves and made him tired and irritable. "Me‘s ‘his old self‘ again now that he wears the glasses at the offce that Mr. Curtis prescribed for hhm." THURSDAY, MAY 4TH. i1939 Prices are definitel;} lower at was surprised : to a in uncmp.oym n 150 m plant expan cvernment will anmn appretiab‘le L of 1TG Lne v.CW i 10 cont ax cmn new conâ€" pansicn by the vill stimuwlate inâ€" ble extEtnt and ) a nolewcriony Phone K355 J oA F¢ Inc ary of the Methodist ({ from exâ€" so greatly oin in any h und the Inexpenâ€" many peoâ€" Leonard, Building, rial