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There are newspapers that pretend to believe that the present war is the fault of Hitler and his little gangâ€"the German people being blameless. The German people are pictured as quiet, peaceâ€" loving, industrious and kindly folk, who should be remembered for the array of artists, scientists, musicians, philosophers and literary men they gave to the world. The same sort of talk was heard during the last war, and after. The Kaiser and his military clique were condemned for every-i thing. The Germans were absolved of all comâ€" plicity. There may have been some excuse years ago for the sentimental outlook of some other nations in regard to the mythical German race. But toâ€"day it is difficult to show much patience to stubborn refusal to look the facts in the face. The German people followed the Kaiser and his clique with a devotion that would have been ad â€"| mirable in a more worthy cause. Germans, right| in Canada, yes, in Timmins, far removed from the power of the military machine that was supposed to dominate the sweetâ€"souled Germans at home, showed plainly that they were one with the Kaiser and his ambitions. They even approved the sinkâ€" ing of the Lusitania â€" had parties to celebrate that event, until the authorities interfered saw to the internment of these inoffensive folk. Rid of the Kaiser and his military machine, did| the German people show their true disposition?!| They did. But not in the way their apologists| would pretend. Instead they turned to leaders| even worse than any Kaiser and plans more brutal| « and selfiish. There are few returned soldiers who‘! i do not believe in their hearts that the m‘:stake in | : the ending of the last war was not in the condiâ€"| i tions of the peace, but in the fact that the war| e was stopped too soonâ€"stopped before the people! t of Germany, who had been united in favour of| e T P m the war so long as it was one of conquest and aggression for them, were made to feel what Belgium and France had suffered. Lacking this intimate acquaintance with war ir their own land.fh Friends of the Hepburn Government would be delighted if after the coming municipal elections announcement were made that in suggesting a ban on municipal elections during the war the government only intended to rouse more patriotic interest in this year‘s election and so assure greater thought and care in the choice of candidates. It is a fact that the fear that they may be robbed of their franchise for the duration of the war has stirred voters to a more careful consideratisn of municipal affairs and municipal candidates. The suggestion has been of value to this extent. Also there is reason to believe that it has had the ten. dency to bring forward a better class of candi: dates and to stir the candidates to advance better platforms. In the local field many have been im pressed by the comprehensive and thoughtful statement made by Mr. Emile Brunette, candidate for the mayoralty. His slogan, "Loyalty, Unity, Progress.”‘ expresses the common belief in regard to the essentials necessary for the most success?ul municipal administration in this time of war. | Another candidate, Mr. Karl Eyre, who gave a | year‘s specially effective service on the town counâ€" cil, and who is ready to go back and extend the | j work so well begun, in an address on Tuesday 7 night gave a very effective presentation of the| ; needs of the time. He referred to the vita! im | , portance of the war and the prominent part that c would be played in assuring victory by the gold j ; camps. "Golden bullets," he pointed out, would t speed the victory, and the most progressive form of municipal administration would greatly add to 6 the facility with which the gold camps would help| o to win. He made it plain that the right sort of p council, working with the people, with the governâ€" y ment, with all the various interests, and striving f harmoniously for the general good, would be an 01 important factor in the success of the common | q cause. Other prospective candidates for the n coming election have expressed similar views. li There seems to be general agreement that the‘! s approaching election is of special importance, and w that all should give it special thought and stud’y.g G The special interest shown here and elsewhere YyC in this year‘s election should not be taken as an in endorsation of the government‘s proposal to disâ€" s0 enfranchise the people of the municipalities for 1 the duration of the war. Instead, it should be sh viewed by the government as a reéeason why the| ; undemocratic proposal should be dropped. If the ey council elected this year proves satisfactory and GC progressive, there will be no need of a ban against e elections. During the last war, acclamations were we the rule here, as they were in many other centres.! ... However, should a municipal council lose the conâ€" ; fidence of the people, the ratepayers surely should| $ _ nave the privilege of correcting the matter. It is| j the people‘s business and the people‘s rights shouldi de: not be filched fram tham uinad4ar _ t P t P P AP P PP in TiMmi~s, ONTARIG " | Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association; Class "A" Weekly Group TWO PHONESâ€"26 and 2020 Published Every Monday and Thursday by : GEO. LAKE, Owner and Pubiisher Subscription Rates: rmy mssn Timmins, Ont., Thursd: anadaâ€"$3.00 Per Year JDpi¢ s business and the people‘s rights should filched from them under any excuse. PAGE rounr Cke Yorruptne Abugaurr NOT VERY NICE PEOPLE dild 1IL@TATY men they world. The same sort of talk was the last war, and after. The Kaiser iry clique were condemned for everyâ€" Germans were absolved of all comâ€" may have been some excuse years JINICIPAL ELECTIONS «t lA P P i «it P PPA â€"ap + ""O“‘M United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per ay, Nov. 23rd, 1939 1Sl d # # % 3 4 # budud i I jl From London, England, there comes a story that deserves wide publicity and attention, showing as it does the keen business foresight that may acâ€" company the deepest patriotism. It is a happy empire indeed, where loyal devotion may have as its companion vision into the future when the war has been won. In Britain tb-day business and inâ€" dustry are by no means "as usual." All national resources, all private resources, all business, alil industry, seem to be ready to answer the call to whatever service may be asked. Clothing factories are turning out military uniforms, leaving the regular customers of the concerns to secure their needs elsewhere. Factories formerly making household equipment are now engaged altogether in the production of munitions, knowing that after the war a clientele will need to be rebuilt. Supply houses of one kind and another are leaving§ their customers to secure their wants elsewhere |while they devote all attention to making war supplies. So it goes! At first glance it might seem i as if Britain would lose all its trade to win the | war. That, however, is not the British way. Briâ€" l well may do, the Rolis Royce people might be exâ€" l l tain will win the war â€" and regain its trade in what may seem almost miraculous manner. There is the case of the famous Rolls Royce car for exâ€" ample. The factories of this company have not any time to make motor vehicles, now devoting all its time and skill and plants to making airâ€" plane engines. If the war lasts a few years, as it pected to attempt to return to their regular line of making cars of luxury, only to find that the public had forgoten them. But this will not be the case. In a recent letter to The London Times, the managingâ€"director of Rolls Royce Ltd. states that, though the company will make no cars during the war, the firm will continue to adverâ€" tise "to keep the public informed of the company‘s activities and thus preserve goodwill for the future." To many the plan will seem impractical, even absurd. It is difficult to imagine the adver. tising of an article long after the supply is exhausted. The Rolls Royce people, however, visâ€" ualize what is probable to happen. When no more Rolls Royce cars are available, they will still reâ€"| member the name and the fame of the noted luxury car. Perhaps, the fact that it is unobtainâ€" Year It is a pity that the newspapers that still har bour the hallucination that there is a kindly inâ€" loffensive German people do not read the newsâ€" papers today. Women and children made the victims unnecessarily and purposelessly (except for frightfulness‘ sake) of Hun mines scattered on the sea to peril neutrals more than belligerents, artillery turned on Czech colleges, Czech students murdered en masse by machine guns, students lined up against college walls and shot by the score, with their bodies propped up to serve as a warning to others of the temper of the kindly. German folks. A severe people might have sent! youth to the concentration camps â€" might have imprisoned the ringleaders. It remained for the soâ€"called kindly folksâ€"far from their Hitlerâ€"to gloat in unnecessary wholesale murder, and to show the same sadist satisfaction in murdering Czech students and women and children as they evidenced in their carnivals against the Jews in Germany. If this is kindness and German culture â€"and the record shows it is â€" then it would be well to have it perish from the earth. One of those newspapers that prate about the lovable German people quoted Edmund Burke, the Irish orator and statesman, as saying, "You canâ€" not indict a whole nation." Burke did not say that. What he said was: â€" "I do not know the ;method of drawing up an indictment of a whole nation." The world has learned that process by dire necessity. Germany, as a nation, as a people, has been indicted by world opinion, for its wanton ravaging of Poland, Czechoslovakia. Germanyl itself indicted, condemned, and attempted to ex. ecute whole peoples. The world cannot believe, does not believe that this was the work of a few under compulsion. The work was done too sponâ€" taneously, too willingly for that. t the docile German people turned to plots and plans for another day. Their supposed kindliness of heart was shown by the wanton plunder ard wholesale murder of a people within their own borders. The artists, the scientists, the literary men, the musicians that some simpleâ€"minded people had admired as the true flower of German culture had to flee for their lives or stay to be M excuse for holding that the German people stopâ€" ped in their attack on other lands, turned to wholesale murder and pillage within their own borders. Then, when they felt themselves strong enough to extend their famous culture, there came the rape of Czechoslovakia and Poland. It seems impossible to separate thuggery, rapine and mur l I robbed and tortured and slain. There seems to be | der from the German people themselves. Hitler | and the other madmen leading the Nazis to desâ€" truction are the figureheads, just as the Kaiser and the military caste were in the last war. But if the German people persist in choosing such heads, they can scarcely escape the consequences. Hitlerism can be crushedâ€"will be crushed. But the fact must be faced that unless the German people themselves turn their ambitions and deâ€" sires to higher channels, the Kaiser spirit, the Hitler spirit, will simply be revived under soms other name. Unless the flower of the youth of the world is to be sacrificed generation after genera. tion, the German people must be taught that the VC B ahik W C world will not succumb to the evil, the selfish, the | q impossible doctrine of brute force. TY FARâ€"SIGHTED POLICY German people stopâ€", Financial statement of THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTIMMINS, ONTARIO They are having several Thanksgiving Days this year in the United States. Probably they feel they are entitled to more than one Thanksgiving Day on account of not being in the war. Perhaps, it was desire to have Thanksgiving Day while there was this reason for thanksgiving that prompted President Roosevelt to name an early date â€" toâ€"day â€" for the festival, in place of the usual "last Thursday in November‘â€"Nov. 30th. The lovers of tradition in the United States, howâ€" ever, insist on the older dateâ€"Nov. 30th. Accordâ€"| ingly, in some states Nov. 23rd is being observed, | while in others the day is Nov. 30th. A few states , are compromising by observing both dates. If the trouble were in Canada, it would be complicated by many favouring the nearest Monday, so as to| able will add to the desire for it. When it returnspgive a ‘"long weekâ€"end." If the threeâ€"day to the market, it will be held in memory in more|observance of Thanksgiving is to prevail in the ways than one. The Rolls Royce Company are not| U. S. A. The Advance would respectfully suggest ltaking a blind alley. They know where their preâ€"| holding the threeâ€"day celebration in consecutive sent road leads. In the days of war between 1914] way, after the manner of the Christmas Day celeâ€" and 1918, the Rolls Royce factories were devoted|bration proposed some years ago for Timminsâ€" almost exclusively to the making of motors for| Three Days,â€"a day to prepare, a day to celebrate, war purposes. The advertising of the Rolls Royce|and a day to sober up. however, was continued throughout all the years. * * * When the war was over and the Rolls Royce was| Dear little boys and girls, who were born dear again on the market, it was indeed a familiar‘little Tory youngsters, are shivering in their boots friend to all, and the sales of this car in the postâ€"| for fear that Premier Hepburn will ban the holdâ€" war years struck new records. Business based on | ing of Christmas for the duration of the war. patriotism and vision is business hard to kill. % : *# GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER Total cap. liab. $ 15,841,960 $ 15,825,987 paid up ..d...$ 7,000,000 $ 7,000,000 Reserve funds 8,000,000 8,000,000 Divid. unpaid ... 176,326 176,612 L. bal. ..;..... 649375 Capital stock Letters of credit, etc Due other Danks ........... $ 1,023,200 $ 1,392,206 Due banks outside ‘Can. 2,864,566 1,984,677 Dom. Gov. . Deposits, etc., Prov. Gov. .. Public deposits nonâ€"interest Public deposits bearing int. .. Total to public Reflecting general business condiâ€" tions, current loans at the close of the bank‘s fiscal year were $64,080,746, compared with $58,274,755 at the end of the previous period. Bank premises are now carried at $5,850,776, against $5,946,045 formerly. With other items of minor importance, the total assets thus are $187,059,829, compared with $167,307,5"8 at the end of the previous period. Following are compartive figures: Important Liabilities Compared 1939 1938 Notes in circul. $ 5,307,3M15 $ 5,6573,813 Deposits, etc., Call loans, all in Canada, are down slightly to $5,200,024, compred with $5,454,382. Loans to provinces are reâ€" duced to $587,928, compared with $6,â€" 354,077 and loans to municipalities, etc., are $7.393,784, compared with $7,857,619. ratio of quick assets to total public liabilities of approximately 67 per cent. Total investments in quickly negotiable securities are $76,209,100, compared with $54,627,101 aâ€" year ago. These, with the cash and other items, result in a Most important changes in the asâ€" sets are the substantial increases in investments of Dominion and provinâ€" cial bonds, although current loans also are materially higher. Bonds due in less than two years total $26,128,055, up from $16,048,031, while bonds due in more than two years total $43,8b8,583, up from $33,458,273. Municipal securiâ€" ties are up more than $1,000,000 to $6,â€" 196,599 Cash, including deposits with or notes of the Bank of Canada and notes of other banks, totals $15,081,493, comparâ€" ed with $15,414,471 a year ago. al $12,006,062, up from $1,835,563. Proâ€" vincial deposits total $10,327,156, comâ€" pared with $8,439,.505. Deposits not bearing interest are also higher, $39,783,.818, compared with $36,â€" 084,302. Balance due from and deâ€" posits of the Dominion government totâ€" Aiter â€" qaeductions for _ dividends, amount written off bank premises, and reserve for continzgencies, the balance remaining is $16,259, compared with $11,343 for the previous year.. The surâ€" plus forward is $665,634, compared with $649,375. Dividends of $700,000, $100,000 written off bank premises and $150,000 reserve for contingencies are the same as for the previous year. Interestâ€"bearing deposits now stand at $99,453,736, compared with $95,203,â€" 907, at the end of the previous vear. financial statement of the Imperial | Foreign notes Bank of Canada for the year ended October 31, 1939, shows profits after Deposit for sec. taxes and contributions to staff penâ€" of notes .. sion and guarantee funds, of $966,259. Cheques on On the same basis, the profits were Danrks ............ $961,343 in the previous year. With | Due by other deposits up $20,000,000, to the highest hanks........... point in the bank‘s history, investâ€" Due from banks ments in securities as well a current elsewhere loans also are substantially higher. The annual meeting of shareholders will be . held on November 22nd. Dom. Prov. After â€" deductions forâ€" dividends e Li e c 23. _: Imperial Bank Had Record Total of Deposits for Year ‘nancial Statement for the Year Ending Oct. 3ist a Very Satisfactory One. $‘ 1,351,836 $ 967,468 3,887,1766 $ 3,376,973 $161,570,1752 $141,563,277 39,783,818 y 12,006,062 95,203,007 39,505 1,835,563 Current Loans in Canada ... $ 64,080,746 $ 58.274.755 Bank premises 5,850,776 5,046,045 ,Letters of credit 1,351,836 967 ,468 Globe and Mail:â€"Destroyer, Dark and Grim, Hovers With Guns in Trim â€"Headline. The war is going from bad to verse. Total assets ....$187,959,820 $167,307.518 Call loans, Can. $ 5,200,024 $ Loans to Prov. 587,928 Loans to Mun. .. 7,393,.784 over 2 years .. 43,848,.583 Municipal sec. .. 6,196,599 Other ~sec. ........ 35,863 2â€"year bonds $ 26,128.055 $ 16,048,031 Dom. Prov. 'Go!d held in ; Canada .. .. $ Subsidiary coln in Canada .. Noteés of Bank of Canada Deposits with Bank of Canada Notes of other Danrks ..._;.. FPoreign notes Important Assets Compared 1939 1938 TorRoNTO, 14th Noven We report that we have examined the above condensed Balance Sheet as at 31st October, 1939, and have compared it with the books at the Head Office and with the certified returns from the branches. We have obtained all the information and explanations that we have required and in our opinion the transactions of the Bank which have come under our notice have been within the powers of the Bank. In our opinion the above Balance Sheet discloses the true condition of the Bank, and is as shown by the books of the Bank. The General Manager, Letters of Credit Outstanding......... Dividends due Shareholders...;. ;. Capital, Reserve and Undivided Profits Notes in Circulation Total Deposits. ... . (‘ommercna‘ Loans and Dlscounts es e on Lnabxhtnes of Customers under Letters of Credit Government and Municipal Securities and Loans Other Bonds and Stocks ts s Call Loans (Secured) it ie t en e e en ids John H. Roberts in a sketch of Sandy McIntyre refers to that popular oldâ€"timer as the "Biggest Producer of Gold in Canada." The title is based on the idea that Sandy McIintyre discovered the McIntyre, Teckâ€"Hughes, Toburn and Upper Canada mines. The production of the Toburn is only a few millions, and Upper Canada has not ibeen milling long enough to be a factor in the case. Accordingly, the writer stresses the fact that the McIntyre and the Teckâ€"Hughes to date have produced gold to the value of $175,468,763, so‘ Sandy McIntyre is Canada‘s Biggest Producer of Gold. No one would take the slightest credit away from Sandy McIntyre whose day‘s work for the Dominion is worthy of note. But credit should be given to others along this line. Up to date the Hollinger Mine, the discovery of Benny Hollinger and Alex Gillies, has had a total production of approximately $280,.000.u00. Deposits with and Notes of Bank of Canada Notes of and Cheques on Other ... .. Other Cash, and Deposits ooooooooooooooooo $ 13,181,736 $ 19,666.078 $ 76,209,100 $ 54.627.101 observance of Thanksgiving is to prevail in the U. S. A. The Advance would respectfully suggest holding the threeâ€"day celebration in consecutive way, after the manner of the Christmas Day cele. bration proposed some years ago for Timminsâ€" Three Days,â€"a day to prepare, a day to celebrate, and a day to scber up. 317,400 431,195 55,288 71,008 $ 15,081,493 $ 1541447 OF CANAD A CONDENSED BALANCE SHEET, 31st OCTOBER, 1939 ASSETS 7,265,790 7,1765,289 Imperial Bank of Canada TOCORONTO. 3,234,075 2.800,.896 5,267,915 5,160.278 5.843 316,570 353 .205 746 $ 33,458,273 5,071,148 49,649 6,354,077 7,857,619 ts h 4 itA B 4 of $90,000. . The contract was awarded to J. L. Guay and Brother, Limited, of Montreal. _ The plans were made by Auguste Martineau of Rouyn, Hillâ€" Clarkâ€"Francis were awarded some of the subâ€"contracts. Ville Marie, November 22.â€"The proâ€" vincial school of agriculture is now completed and classes will begin on November 29. There will be an off1. cial opening on December 6. Classes will be conducted by the Rev. Oblate FPathers. The building was begun early this sprmg and cost in the neighbourhood New Agricultural School Completed at Ville Marie were both defeated Liberals Returned to Power in New Brunswick Election onservatives Gain Sixteen Seats in Close Race. LIABILITIES 3 SIXTPEON Sseuts ‘nment party. At the the NB. legisliasture ) seats and Conservaâ€" y‘s election gave the ts and the Congervaâ€" Cabinet ministers were _ were 98 candidates in A. B. SuEPHERD, F.C.A., of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell Co D. McK. McCLELLAXND, F.C.A,. of Price, Waterhouse Co. North Bay Nugget:â€"Mr. Capone will hardly resume from where he left COff . was, on the whole, a just treaty despite many imperfections. It justly deprivâ€" ed Germany of regions inhabited by i nonâ€"Germans. â€" It Justly exacted reâ€" ,parations for damage done in a war of German aggressionâ€"it is true that the sums dfirst demanded were unreasonâ€" able, but they were progressively reâ€" duced and Germany borrowed the money to pay themâ€"she paid about as long as the borrowed money lasted. . . The limitation of German armaments (Germany was never disarmed) and the occupation of the Rhineland were alâ€" together just because they were the only guarantees of~ a lasting peace., They were just to the German people, in so far as they wouldâ€"had they been upheldâ€"have saved them from being lherded into another war by ambitious rulers. They were less than just to the liberated nations who had no defence against a rearmed Germany. The "inâ€" justice" of Versailles is a legend, creatâ€" ed by German Nationalists and Naâ€" tional Socialist propaganda, a legend which did not find general acceptance even among Germans until most of the clauses in the treaty which had been denounced as unjust had become inâ€" operative and the hatred and bitterâ€" ness engendered by the war were dying a natural death. The Nineteenth Century and After (London): It is untrue that the allegâ€" ed "injustice" of Versailles drove the German people to revolt. Versailles wWwas, on the whole, a ijust treatv Aesnita "Injustice" of Versailles Only "More Propaganda" Iry The Advance Want Advertisements $187,959,829.50 $170,766,033.05 1,351,836.05 176,326.36 15,665,634.04 14 Pine St, N 5,307,515.00 165,458,518.05 $187,959,829.50 $115,876,698.08 64,330,989.07 5,850,776.60 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3RP, 1939 $ 26,485,861.50 84,154,948.49 35,863.59 5,200,024.50 $ 14,391,540.89 7,583,189.76 4,511,130.85 OPTICAL CcomPaAny ~. . . opened before my eyes when I first wore my new glasses. My eyes had always been defecâ€" tive but I didn‘t realize {t. Not until Mr. Curtis <xamined my eyes and prescribed these glasses, did I really know how beautiful things could be. They gave me an entirely new outlook on life." 1,351,836.05 CURTIS Liberal Terms May Arranged at new world .. Phone 835 be