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Those who take an interest in young people know about Brother Urbain and the others doing such notable work at Alfred, Ontario. Industrial Schools have not been especially popular, and, perhaps, with reason. Those interested in boys have felt too often that the young fellow commitâ€" ted to the industrial school had little chance. Children‘s Aid officials had a habit of fighting to keep boys from the industrial school. Those in the Children‘s Aid and similar work, however, have learned that St. Joseph‘s Industrial School at Alfred, Ontario, is different. The boy given a term at St. Joseph‘s does not go to a place where older or more experienced boys teach him further in the ways of crime and evil. He is not punished and restrained in a way that breeds bitterness in his heart. Instead, he is met with sympathy and understanding. He has the unusual experience that those about him are actually interested in his welfare and in friendly, manly way are anxiâ€" ous that he should be a real man. There is, of course, restraint put upon him, and discipline, but it is restraint from evil. He has much of freedom. So far as possible he is given respect and thus taught to respect himself. Perhaps, the greatest teacher in the school is the example he sees on every hand; He sees around him men who are happy, men who are real men, men who win his admiration and respect, and almost unâ€" consciously he finds himself adopting a new and better outlook on life. He discovers that there is happiness and satisfaction in work and effort, he learns a trade, he sees the value and the satisâ€" faction and the superiority of playing the game fairly and with consideration for others. To the boy who has made a slipâ€"or a dozen slipsâ€"it is a wonderful inspiration and support to know that there are good people, admirable people, who have faith and belief in him, He tries to justify that confidence. The result is inevitably for betterâ€" ment. I St. Joseph‘s Industrial School has the secret of success for all such work. In passing it may be noted that the Salvation Army has the same secret. There is a remarkable organization, but it has not been allowed to become mechanical. The human side is kept supreme. Of course, in all such work there have to be rules and regulaâ€" tions and limits in regard to age and other parâ€" ticulars. St. Joseph‘s School, however, never apâ€" pears to let these considerations rule the case. The fact that Brother Urbain was still interested in a young man not in the strict legal sense the concern of the School illustrates the point. It was the young man in which St. Joseph‘s School was interested, not in formal regulations. Age and terms were not the main consideration. More important that mere formalities is the desire that the young man should grow into a useful, helpful resvonsible good citizen. Those in charge of St. Joseph‘s Industrial School are doing a truly patriotic work. Some of the graduates of the Sschool are a credit to that institution, while with a rare devotion the Brothers seek with earnestâ€" ness and notable skill to help each lad coming to their attention and to continue that help so long as the youth may be reached and benefitted. It is only a few days ago that Hon. Jzames H. Cromwell, United States Minister to Canada, was gently slapped across the wrist for making a pubâ€" lic Qeech in which there appeared to be undiploâ€" matic references to countries with which his country was not at open war. Those who attackâ€" ed Hon. Mr. Cromwell for this address showed themselves most deplorably out of touch with modern ideas and methods. It is admitted that Brother Urbain, F.S.C., Placement Officer, St. Joseph‘s Industrial School, Alfred, Ontario, was in town this week .To many that fact may be of little interest, Indeed, it is not difficult to picâ€" ture some smart young fellow saying in modern slang, "So, What?" But some other young men, just as smart, just as modern, but with more exâ€" perience in life, may say with gratitude, "I know Brother Urbain and all he represents. He helped set me on the right, the sensible rgad." Perhaps, interest in the fact that Brother Urbain was in town might be widened by telling what his chief business here seemed to be. HMHe wanted to learn all the details about a young fellow not long reâ€" turned here from St. Joseph‘s Industrial School. This young fellow had been given a term in jail for a minor offence, and the fact seemed to worry Brother Urbain. "Too bad we did not have that young fellow returned to us, instead of going to jail," said Brother Urbain. "There was a lot of good about that lad, nothing vicious, nothing mean. â€" Away from bad influences and improper surroundings he would develop into a useful and valuable citizen. We could have taught him a trade, found him a place in life, given him a little help to tide him over the tough times." TIMMINE, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Quebece Newspaper As*ociation; Ciass "A" Weekly Group TWO PHONESâ€"236 and 2020 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: Canadaâ€"â€"$3.00 Per Year. United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per Year it mt P eP P P P P DONG A GREAT WORK Timmins, Ont., Thursday. April 4th, 1940 PAGE POUR Ohe Yorrupine EDUCATION VS. PROPAGANDA A despatch from San Francisco given front page prominence in many newspapers had most of the election yarns backed off the side of the earth. It seems that a little gentleman, Richard Bell, aged five, sauntered into the kitchen of his home. "But he is outside," Richard replied. "I just pushed him out the window." And Orville was outside. He had been pushed out of the window. He had dropped fifteen feet. (Some of the newspapers made it forty feet.) His mother found Orville lying in a soft spot in the garden underneath the window. He was cryâ€" ing a little, but that was due more to illâ€"temper than injury. He was practically unhurt. He had suffered only a few scratches. None of the newspapers attempt to draw a moral. The lesson may be that fiveâ€"yearâ€"blds shouldn‘t push "threeâ€"yearâ€"olds out of windows. Or it may be that every house that has children should have soft spots under all the windows. Emphasis might be given to the fact that even if the fiveâ€"yearâ€"old was hard on his little brother, he had at least the priceless virtue of truthfulâ€" ness. Surely, it is something to be able to beâ€" lieve your child when he says that his brother is outside, when you know he is upstairs. The elecâ€" tion brought out stories perhaps as strange as children tossing each other from twoâ€"storey bedâ€" room windows, but when did an election show It would be easy to pick out sections of the adâ€" dress where the rules of outdated diplomacy have been flouted by the telling of the truth. It would be easy to point to this or that statement as a reflection on Nazism or Fascism or Communism. It would be better, however, for Canada to overâ€" look these things and rather centre on the wise words that urged this country to look to the eduâ€" cation of its children and its new citizens. _ If democracy is worth preservingâ€"and the world of free nations is ready to die for it nowâ€"it is surely worth explaining and advocating. More importâ€" ant than projects, surely, is the teaching of the ideals of liberty, selfâ€"government and the rights of human dignity. "Where‘s your brother, Orville,"‘ his mother askâ€" ed, Incidentally it may be mentioned that Orville is three years old. "Orville‘s outside," Richard replied casually. "But he can‘t be outside," his mother answered, "pecause he was playing with you in the bedroom upstairs just a minute ago, and he hasn‘t come downstairs since." A week ago The Advance suggested, that conâ€" trary to the ideas of some good people, the end of the election contest would not mean that there would be no wild news for the daily newspapers to feature. The election passed along according to schedule, but the papers are just as full as ever of a number of things. To quote just one °xâ€" ample: "As valuable, as indispensable and as substanâ€" tial as our way of life and our form of civilization appears to most of us," he said, "it is nevertheâ€" less, threatened by grave dangers which attack both from within and without. What we have learned must be translated into the educational curricula intended to prepare the youth of today to meet the conditions of a changing world." Hon. Mr. Cromwell urged a more intensive eduâ€" cation in democratic principles and ideals, so that men might learn the falsity of the claims of the dictators that problems could be solved only by force, instead of the effort of free men under free institutions. Unemployment was one problem that could be solvedâ€"must be solvedâ€"in the inâ€" terests of democracy, he said, "Without eternal vigilance, past and present experience has proved how easily governments can be subverted," Mr. Cromwell said. "We see those who would divest men of every human freedom diverting their fears and suspicion with words of false security. We see those who would destroy human dignity holding the mirage of superiority before the eyes of their people in orâ€" der to lead them toward the abyss of aggression and conquest." A "battle of ideas," he declared, was being fought in every part of the world, and deception and camouflage had been developed to an art as great in war. This clash of ideologies, he beâ€" lieved, was but the prelude to a physical onslaught that could only be averted by making democracy work. Hon. Mr. Cromwell simply expressed the opinion of seventyâ€"five to ninety per cent of his countryâ€" men, while at the same time it is a painful truth that presentâ€"day methods do not include declaraâ€" tions of war. The practice is to attack another nation without the formality of any declaration. In any event, Hon. Mr. Cromwell has not been unduly subdued by any diplomatic rebukes that may be thrown his way. He was guest speaker at the annual dinner of the Old Boys‘ Association of the University of Toronto Schools on Monday night this week, and he managed to present a number of vital truths that need to be said, deâ€" spite any oldâ€"fashioned diplomatic restrictions. One of these truths was the emphasis he gave to the need for more intensive education for and about democracy as the only means of counterâ€" acting the propaganda issued by those he termed the "enemies of freedom," who are bent on the destruction of democracy throughout the world. "Propaganda in the selfâ€"interested sense," he said, "has usurped much of the place of education." wWHEN BAD NEWS Is GOOD NEWS Speaking of Senators, when is the North to be represented in the Senate? For many years the North has been admitted to be the most importâ€" ant section of Ontario, but the North is not admitâ€" ed as yet to representation in the Senate. In London, England, there is a storm of criticâ€" ism at present over the fact that there are thouâ€" sands of aliens from enemy countries living in England without the slightest restraint or overâ€" Some of the Liberals, not content with forcing Miss Agnes Macphail from her seat in the Comâ€" mons, now want to force the good lady into the Senate. A reader remarks on the number of humorous items from The Blairmore Enterprise published in these columns. But that reader should see more of the other items in The Blairmore Enterprise that are not published in The Advance. Or rather, he should not see them. Some of them are so bad that they are good, and thus are too bad to be good for publication in a North Land family newspaper. | such stark truthfulness in the details? But:why should a moral be sought for the story of theâ€"brothers? Election yarns do not always have aimoral. t The election is over! Nowâ€"everybodyâ€"all toâ€" getherâ€"on with the war! An early Easter, and income tax forms in bloom at the usual time, and still spring is not here yet! GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER cident of the pres parently neither such work. The and their vessel ; among the grim navigation. "In the shadcow of war, though not directly associated with naval activity, Halifax outer harvbor was the scene Thursday night of another tragedy of the sea. Nine lives were lost when an intound freighter struck a pilot boat, cut it in two and sent it to the bottom. Their ship "sunk without trace," six of the crew were saved. "The sinking of this boat constitutes another mystery of the sea. Reports say the night was clear and the sea calm; clearness and calmness that may have slaskened the watchfulness assoâ€" ciated with rough weather. That is a point that may be cleared up by investiâ€" gation. "There will be profound sorrow for the men who, engaged in their usual The following is an editorial article from a recent issue of The Globe and Mall:â€" "As is well known, Halifax Harbor is the seene of considerable military and naval activity, and if the collision had been between vessels engaged in war business it could be recorded as an inâ€" Halifax Incident Adds Another to Sea Mysteries ent conflict. But apâ€" boat was engaged in loss of these seamen must be set down as incidents of ordinary One of the most important functions of the Bank‘s usefulness is the financing of farm crops. The farmer in good standing has no difficulty in borrowing from the Imperial Bank of Canada the necessary funds to put in his seed . . . to purchase feed and finish cattle . . . to cover harvesting expenses . . . to meet normal obligâ€" ations between seasons until his crops and stock are marketed. Under the Home Improvement Plan, the Bankâ€" work,. met death so suddenly at dead of night, and widespread sympathy for their relatives. Men accustomed to facing the perils of the sea are strengthened, as are their families, by the knowledge that disaster and death may strike at any moment. . Stricken relatives bear such losses with heroic fortitude; and other men similarly enâ€" gaged will go about their work as usual today and on the tomorrows that lie ahead. ‘"‘The sea breeds in those who follow it a courage that stceils them to meet its challenge; and Christian humanity‘s fervent prayer is "for thoss in peril on the deep." "In Canada the sales of new motor vehicles, both passenger car and trucks, are showing a very considerable inâ€" crease over 1939." Goodyear Sales Show an Increase for First Quarter IMPERIAL BANK OF CANA DA H. C. SCARTH, Manager, Timmins Branch Neutral nations have been among the chief sufferers in the present war. Some of them are so situated that there is a temptation to give them some sympathy. Germany has ruthlessly deâ€" stroyed neutral ships and lives on the high seasâ€" made a regular business, indeed, of that sort of thingâ€"without fair warning or excuse. On the other hand Britain and France have annoved the neutrals by apparent technical interference with national rights and seemling ‘disregard of the supposed sanctity of territorial waters. The neuâ€" trals have all made ‘more fuss about the annoyâ€" ance then they have about the loss of ships and lives, Naturally, this attitude does not tend to increase sympathy for neutral nations. Indeed, there is a growing impatience with neutrals. The question grows more insistent, "How can there be any neutrals. when it is a case of gangsters breaking loose on a rampage of murder and plumder?" "The election isn‘t really over yet," gentleman yesterday morning early aren‘t paid yet." An Irish rapscallian suggests that the British blockade of Germany is to be made very Scottish now. 4 sight. Most of these are classed as refugees from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and other dicâ€" tatorâ€"ridden lands and they have complete freeâ€" dom. The suspicion as growing, however, that enemy agents posing as refugees are taking adâ€" vantage of the wellâ€"known British tolerance and hospitality, and are using their freedom to work against the safety of the Empire and the rest of the world of free peoples. in coâ€"operation with the Dominion Governmentâ€" makes special advances for alterations, enlargeâ€" ment and repairs to farm buildings on very reasonable terms. The Bank furnishes at its nearest branch office a safe depository for both the farmer‘s money and his documents, together with ali the banking services available to big cities. Our customers number farm dwellers by the thousand, who find the Bank‘s services useful and profitable to them. â€" â€"â€" but only last year I was too tired to accept any invitations. I didn‘t realize that eyestrain was the cause of‘my ailments. Now since Mr. Curtis prescribed these new glasses, I‘m ready to go anywhere." 14 Pine Street North, Timminsâ€"Phone 835 "The faormers are the founders of civilization‘"â€"Danie! Webster. Inspecting the local shops, the new resident paused outside the butcher‘s. Then she started in amazement as voices came to her. First in a gruff ‘Urry, John, look sharp. Break the bones in Mrs. Williams‘ chops and put Mrs. Smith‘s The number of unemployed during March this year was increased by more than one hundred over last year‘s total for the same month. In March this year 1,276 men were registered at the unemployment bureau on Fourth Aveâ€" nue. Last year‘s figure was 1,168. There were 307 placements in March this year as compared to 590 for the same month in 1939. Placements were made up as follows. The second figure in each case indicates the number placed at the same type of occupation during March, 1939: Farming . slads 2 Loeging e T4 1€ More Out of Work in March This Year Than March, 1939 Number of Placements in March This=©YÂ¥ear Only Half Number in March, 1939. ib. Buildir Mining Miscell High F emaAle Town THURSDAY, APRIL 4TH, 1940 the basket." azss eply came briskly: "Right, sir! soon as I‘ve sawn off Mrs. Murâ€" ,"‘"_â€" Thae Passing Hour. WOrk work In Other Words 199 249