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Directs Pointed Questions in Regard to Present Election "7, Why, during war, with a strain on the national economy, the governâ€" ment hasn‘t economized in ordinary expenditure? And why, during warâ€" time, patronage in the government deâ€" partments hasn‘t been dispensed with? "Thus the dogâ€"fight. The trouble with it, as said already, is that the public can‘t judge whether the quesâ€" tions are fair, or whether, if fair, the answers are accurate. The public has to take what the Prime Minister or some minor figure replies over the radio, or from the hustings, or what is said in some newspaper, Oor in some electionecring pamphlet. Elections beâ€" ing what they areâ€"the mother of exâ€" aggerations, of special pleading and sophistriesâ€"the evidence is hardly satâ€" isfactory,. â€" Not dependable." Lauds Telegram‘s Fight There is a real lack of public inâ€" formation on the election issues, the article states, then inquires into the part played by the newspapers of Canâ€" A vivid picture of Mackenzie King, sitting on the locked government fAles, having scuttled Parliament rather than open them to Opposition questions, is painted in the current issue of Macâ€" lean‘s Magazine. The issue, March 1, 1940, carries a story titled "Backstage at Ottawa." written by "A Politician With a Noteâ€" book." The story tells why the Canaâ€" dian people face a confused issue, since the facts have been locked away, and indicates that many newspapers show gimilar confusion. Politician With a Notebook Asks for Information. Note is, however, made of The Teleâ€" gram‘s outspoken stand: "Only The Telegram," the writer records, "among all Conservative newspapers really thunders for Manion." some Pointed Questions Noting the lack of real facts on the war effort, the story lists the following questions which are being asked: "1. Why, after revelations of misâ€" management and bad business in the Defense Department, Mr. King kept Mr. Mackenztie on as Minister of Deâ€" fense, and then dropped him â€" why he kept him on so long if he thought him no good, or why he finally dropped him if he thought him good? "" What happened to all the money Parliament voted for preparedness and defense during the years 1937, 1938 and 19392 Why, after appropriations Oof THURELDAY. MARCH 14TH, 1940 "3. What bappened to Mr. Mackenâ€" zie‘s planâ€"given to Parliament nearly three years ago and for which money was votedâ€"to mechanize the army? "4. What happened to the money voted for antiâ€"aircraft guns, tanks, other motorized equipment? ".5; Why contracts let by Mr. Macâ€" kenzie had to be held up, or revisedâ€" or were found impossible of fulfillment? Attacks Economy Lack "6. Why Mr. King, at last getting rid of Mr. Mackeonzie, replaced him in the Deferse Department with Mr. Rogers, a good economist and univerâ€" sity professor, but without administraâ€" tive or business experience? REAL ESTATE INSURANCE sSTEAMSHIP OFFICE 20 Pine St, N., Timmins, Phone 1135 and 40 Main St., South Porcupine, Phone 285 Avallable in Timmins, Schuâ€" macher, and South Porcupine, for commercial buildings, apartment houses, new homes, and improvements. Paid back by monthly payments over a number of years. Tickets to 18. Destinations sold subject to passengers meeting Immiâ€" gration Reauirements of U.S.A. and Canada, GOING RETURNING Bargain Excursion tickets NOT GOOD on Pool Trains Nos. 6 and 15, between Toronto and points East thereof. Bargain excursion tickets to Peterboro good only on C. N. R. exclusive trains between Toronto and Peterboro. Bargain excursion tickets NOT GOOD on "The Northland"â€" Trains 49 and 58. Leave destination up to and including Monday, March 18th, EXCEPT as fo‘lows: From Windsor up to 1230 am. Tuesday, March 19th, from Jellicoe, Geraldton, Beardmore, Nakina, Tashota and Longlac up to Wednesday, March 20, 1940. Children 5 years of age, and under 12, when accompanied by guardian, HALE FARE Tickets Good in Coaches ONLY On First Mortgages T. N. 0. and N. C. R. Regular Stations Via North Bay and Canadian National Railways To Buffalo, Cornwall, Detroit, Hamilton, London, Peterboro (via Toronto), Windsor and Intermediate Points Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway The Nipissing Central Railway Company Fop Fares, Departure Times and FPurther Infermation Apply to Local Agent. FRIDAY, MARCH 15TH, 1940 RETURNING From Millions of Dollars to Canada From Refugees Ottawa, March 13â€"European refugeos have brought "millions of dollars" into Canada in estabiishing industries in the Dominion, FP. C. Blair, director of immigraticn. said resently. Between 5.000 and 6,000 refugees from various European countries have been admitted to Canada during the past year. "‘The outbreak of war has largely shut off the movement of refugees," said Mr. Blair. "Naturally it cannot continue now on the preâ€"war scale but there will still be some movement." The immigraâ€" tion branch is preparing a complete list of industries that are being cstabâ€" lished by refugees. In the establishment of refugee inâ€" dustries in Canada, the immigration branch has sought to distinguish beâ€" tween new industries and those that are highly competitive. It is the new inâ€" dustries we are trying to get said Mr. Blair. A refugee planning to establish an industry in the Dominion is encouraged to Jocate where it will be most advanâ€" tageous with respect to power, labor, transportation and markets These industries mostly start in a small way and most of them are new to Canada. Mr. Blair told of one industry now in production, which was started by an Austrian refugee who had a formula for removing paint, described as "revolutionary." This Austrian got out of his country just after its annexation by Germany. He had little money but "First there is a group that does not wish to do anything (in Canada‘s war effort): then another group that wishes to do everything; and a third, a sort of inâ€"between group. I hope I belong to the inâ€"between group." Perhaps it was intended merely as a jocular aside, a sort of "marginal epigram" to his speech proper. But the people of Canada, realizing the sober gravity of the situation, and that Canada in common with the Empire is engaged in a grim lifeâ€"andâ€"death struggle for Freedom and Democracy, have most decidedly no sympathy for any ‘"inâ€"between‘ war effort. The demand from coast to coast 1s for the most vigorous mjesecutlon of the national war effortâ€"a resoluts, determined, wholeâ€"hearted and united effort in which, obviou«sly, there can be no room for halfâ€"way policies or "inâ€"between": measures. a. wealthy brother in Switzerland finâ€" anced him. Most of the refugees came from Czechoâ€"Slovakia, Germany, Austria and Hungary. ada, deciding "Adding to confusionâ€"certainly doâ€" ing little to dispel itâ€"is the attitude of the press. Conservative newspapets, in particular, appear nopelessly deâ€" moralized. Mr. J. W. McConnell‘s Monâ€" treal Star is busy exclusively with Europe. Mr. Jolhn Bassett‘s Montreal Gazette is as clearcut as a black cat on a moonless night in a coalbin. Mr. P D. Ross‘ Ottawa Journal (at this writing) magisterially admonishes both sides. The London Free Press, Onct militantly Tory, is an anaemic neutral. Mr. George McCullagh‘s Globe and Mail is the Globe one day and the Mail th next. Only the Toronto Tclogram. among all Conservative newspapers, really thunders for Manion. (From Halifax Herald) Perhaps it was in a facetious mood that a Minister of the Crown, addressâ€" inz a meeting of voters the cther day, said as reported by The Canadian Press: "More outspoken (or should it be more partisan?) is the Liberal press. The Winnipeg Free Press, at first mildâ€" ly shocked over the torpedoing of Patrâ€" liament (what a roar J. W. Dafoe would have sent up had it been done by the Tories!) is now out in full ery for the Government. so is the Vancouver Sun; so the Toronto Star; so the Haliâ€" fax Chronicleâ€"so practically every Quebec French newspaper from Monâ€" treal to Gaspe. "From such a pressâ€"struck dumb on one side partisanly articulate on the otherâ€"can come little light or leading." resent is No Time for "Inâ€"Between" War Effort No Baggage Checked Canada Northern Power Reports Satisfactory Year Another year of satisfactory growth in volume of business is recorded by Canada Northern Power Corporation, Limited, in the annual financial stateâ€" ment covering operations for the fiscal vear ended December 31st last. Gross earnings, power output and number of customers served all showed ircreases, but substantial rate reducâ€" tions resulted in a slight decline in net earnings. A further reduction in power rates went into effect January 1st, 1940, but these reductions, it is pointed out, have been of great benefit to the minâ€" ing industry and the development of the area served by the Company. Gross earnings for 1939 amounted to $5.265,054, as compared with $5,146,008 for 1938, an increase of $119,048, Operâ€" ating expenses which include taxes, maintenance, purchased power and operations, were â€" $204,647 higher at $2.509,.669, leaving net earnings of $2,â€" 755,385, as compared with $2,840,984 for the previous year. After deducting bond interest, bad debts, subsidiary preâ€" ferred dividends, and making an allowâ€" ance of $725,000 for depreciation, ecarnâ€" ings on the Company‘s preferred stock were equal to $20.92 as against $22.81 for the previous year. After payment of preferred dividends at the rate of 7%, there remained the equivalent of $1.94, as compared with $2.17 and as against dividend payment on the Common Stock of $1.20 per share per annum. The balance sheet shows that a strong working capital position has been maintained, total current assets being $3,948.553, as against total current liabilities of $1,132.191, indicating net working capital of $2,816,362 against $2,619,622 a year ago, an increase of $196,740. Included in current assets are cash and call loans of $1,569,593 as against $1,308,507 and marketable seâ€" curities of $1,131,357 (market value $1,â€" 199.969). During the year funded debt was reduced by $461,000, making total retirement of bonds to date $2,168,000. Power demand in 1939 totalled 749,â€" 904,042 k.w.h., an increase of 49,055 431 kw.h. cver 1938, while the number of customers increased during the year by Gross Earnings, Output, Number of Customers at New High Level. Subâ€" stantial Rate Reductions. 2641 to a total of 25,209 In his report to the shareholders, Mr. A. J. Nesbitt, the president, discusses taxation and states that "the burden of taxation continues to rauk as the most difficult problem demanding the attention of your Directors, as the proâ€" portion of earnings necessary to meet the requirements of the various govâ€" ernmental departments becomes greatâ€" er each year and increases the discriâ€" mination endured by both the shareâ€" holders and customers of privately ownâ€" ed companies. It is pointed out that not only does this unfair method of taxation increase the difficulties of securing business, but it also pehnalizes the returns from earnings by compellâ€" ing a contribution towards the aiminâ€" istration of the country‘s affairs from which publicly owned institutions are free." ent. This is further borne out comparison of the total kilowatt output of the Company with the These reductions have been of great benefit to the mining industry and the development of the area served by the company, and furnish a clear illustraâ€" tion of the fact that when the item of taxation is taken into consideration the cost of power supplied by the Company is as low as the cost of the users of power furnished by any organizatiOon supplyving similar service on the continâ€" "For the first 10,000 h.p. per month. "For each of the nex $1.25 per h.p. per month. Shown in this dramatit | instances in which German successful against a ship . ship is the minesweeper Sph after it was bombed by Naz which German aerial attacks have been gainst a ship carrying armaments. The iinesweeper Sphinx, being towed into port bombed by Nazi planes in the North Sea. this dramatic picture i: one o_f the few 10,000 l11.p.â€"$3.00 per BOMBED BY NAZIS, t 10,000 h.p.â€" THE PORCUPINE ADVAMCE, 1 ONTARIGOG by a nour electric revenue, from which it will be seen that we receive sixtyâ€"nine oneâ€" hundredths of a cent per kilowatt hour before considering taxes, and after these taxes amounting to $543,891 are deducted only sixâ€"two oneâ€"hundredths of a cent per kilowatt hour." Reviewing the construction activities of the Company during 1939 the report states:â€" | "The past year has been a comparaâ€" tively uneventful year insofar as conâ€" struction is concerned, no major proâ€" jects having been undertaken. Work in this department has been confined to the building of comparatively short distribution lines in order to serve new mining customers and the extension facilities in sevéeral of the towns served by the Company. The longest of the mine feeders to be built was that to the property of Malartic Gold Fields, which is five miles in length. At the tewn of Timmins, Ontario, the incréeasâ€" ed growth of the domestic and comâ€" mercial load necessitated an addition of 3000 k.v.a. to the substation transâ€" former capacity, which was effected by the substitution of 3â€"1,500 k.v.a. transâ€" formers for 3 of 500 k.v.a. capacity each. A similar situation was remedied at the town of South Porcupine by the installation of 3â€"500 k.v.a. transformers for 6â€"100 k.vy.a. transformers, which had sufficed hitherto. At Kirkland Lake, owing to the development of new subâ€" givisions and expansion of business premises, it was necessary to provide two new feeders from the substation to the business section and install furâ€" ther transformer capacity at the subâ€" station.. Early in the year the most easterly distribution system of. the Company. was inaugurated at Pascalis, Quebec, a new town desigsed to serve the Perron and Cournor mine ~area. This point is ninetyâ€"Six miles cast of the Ontarioâ€"Quebéc boundary. "Contracts for. the supply of power were entered into with the following mines in Quebec: Senore Gold Mines, located . in <the Pascalis area, West Malartic Gold Mines in Cadillac Townâ€" ship; Siscoe Gold Mines, situate in Dubuisson. Township; Senatorâ€"Rouyn Mines in Rouyn Township, and Micâ€" Mac Mines, Limited: whose property is in Bousquet, Township. "During. the year *£wo municipal franchises expired, which were each reâ€" newed for a tenâ€"year period, ‘They were for the towns of Elk Lake and Tarlton, Ontario." Consolidated statemcm of â€" Income and Expenditure compaxeo as follows: Year Ended Desember 3ist 1939 1938 Blec:. $5,166,160 $5,052,287 MISC »TEY es aast. 98,894 93,719 Gross carn. . Purch. powet Operation Maintenance Net earn. Pad debts Interest .. Balance Depres. Balance Common divs Net profit Pid. divs. T‘otal;.....; o iss Prem. Bond expense # Earmn. ofi v(icinmon es §1.91 $2.17 Working capital position compares as follows: Totals Call Loans .. Market secs. .. Other sess,. ... tes rec. .. Accts. rec. . Inventory .. Prepaid, etc. . S.F. Bonds . Bond red. aceot Surplus *Prev. Surplus Curr. Assets ... Curr. Liabilities Work. Capital ... $2,619,622 *Adjusted for prior year charges. Balamse sheet figures compart AS December 31â€" ASSETS Plant, etc Market value $1,199,069. Market value $1,324.115. L. Balance . $2,643, 270 $2,405,360 MINESWHUEPER SNKS 1939 + 1938 $35,535.,666 $35,254 666 1,089.593 _ 828,507 480,000 _ 480,000 1,131,358 * 1.140,609 397480 _ 418,103 €1.503 83 .500 $39.508,987 $39,087,325 The commander, four officers and 49 ratings were feared lost. A few minutes after the picture was taken the ship, inuch of its forward part torn away by bombs, capetzed and sank. 1939 1938 £3.948,553 $3,746,562 11321901 1,126,040 5,265,054 1,119,379 717,607 128,792 543,891 2,155,385 5,164 802,231 1,9147,990 725,000 215 A10 2.379,501 2,634,9071 11,701 397 480 61,500 534537 234,083 62,570 32,000 20,198 1,222 90 457126 765 264 490,394 5,146,006 912,580 722 452 123,383 546,607 2. 840,984 5.055 780,895 2,054,034 728,000 376,7 714 2,028,586 1,326,834 457126 869,808 493,034 545,925 290,918 38,097 28,000 LILABILITTIES Funded Debt. ... $14,832,00 $15,293,000 Aonts.":pay. ... 232,909 244338 Tax prfov. ...__..2. | 321,604 Subs: IvyS8, 20,612 21,257 lfda. ? 96,250 96,250 Comnion div. [ _ 120,000 120,000 Aver. int. .."::: :.: 123418 127208 Custom. dep. ....... 211,214 196,193 Pid. stock subs. ... 1,202,100 1,202;/100 Com.‘stock subs. 197,998 197998 Minof#fty Int. ... 2130 4,438 Pfd. stock ........ _ 5,500,00 ©5,500,000 Com. stock (400,000 | ' shs. _NPV) . Depreb‘ res. . 73. Musc.‘ res. .>.......: Special reserve Totals Willteâ€"Daddy, are flies fliés because they fly? Patherâ€"I suppose 5o. Willieâ€"Are fieas fleas because they fee? Fatherâ€"Sure. What of it? Willieâ€"I told teacher ‘bees are bees because they be.â€"Globe and Mail. Seems Reasonable "I Had â€" "It was a big shock to me, for Dad and I had aliwcays been real pals,. He often told me that he wanted me to have a university education to give me a better start in life, It looked then as though I would never go to college. was only a youngster when Dad died quite suddenly, "Imagine my surprise when 1 learned that Dad had taken out life insurance which guarantees the money needed for my education. This pays me $500 each year while I am at university. "Pll never forget what a great Dad I had. He made sure that 1 would receive a university education, and he taught me the value of life insurâ€" ance in providing for the future." 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