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Another place that the government seems to overlook its opportunities is in regard to the air training plans. At Porquis Junction, for example, there is one of the largest and best of airport felds. Yet it is only used as an emergency landing place. It is said to have cost some $200,000, and that appears to be a large amount to invest for an emergency landing place. An article in The Advance last week called attention to the fact that Kapuskasing is the only port of regular call on the Transâ€"Canada Air Lines between Winniâ€" peg and Montrealâ€"a distance of 935 miles. To many it would appear that it would be good busiâ€" ness to have Porquis Junction as another regular port of call, with the rich and important area of the Porcupine so close to the line. If that appears impractical at the moment, at least further use ‘It is a source of continued puzzlement to many thoughtful people why the Government seems to fail to use opportunities that appear to beg for employment. â€" Sometimes, it seems as if governâ€" ments were determined to use <the very longest way round to get places. For instance, there is the case of armouries in such centres as Timmins and Kirkland Lake, to use a local illustration. It is admitted now that the war will not soon be over and that large numbers of men may be needed before long. The selection and training of these men is surely a matter for consideration now. Despite. the regrettable neglect of the militia of Canada in recent years, it was the volunteer force that formed the basis for the armies that have alâ€" ready gone overseas. Not only did the men come in large numbers from the members of the local regiments, but dependence had to be placed on the officers and orgarization that had been built up through the years. Had there been no such organization, it would have been much more difâ€" cult for Canada to have gathered any material body of men for service overseas. It is not too much to say that greater speed and efficiency would have been possible had more attention been given the established regiments in past years, and had they been provided with the necessary equipâ€" ment and the proper quarters to carry on their good work. The very fact that Canada‘s defence force has been neglected in the past should be reason for seeing that it is built up now by the proper support and coâ€"operation of the governâ€" ment. One of the chief ways in which this coâ€" operation and support may be given is in the providing of adequate quarters for training the men, and housing the equipment and supplies. Armouries should be erected at once at all straâ€" tegic pcints. There should be an adequate armâ€" oury building erected at Tiimmins at once. Last week, however, the stock market struck a new high in temperamentality when it admitted it was going to go down because von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, the world‘s prize liar, was threatening to make disclosures to show that Britain and France invaded Norway before the Germans did. A couple of days afterwards when von Ribbentrop‘s disclosures were proven to be the silly falsehoods that everybody expected, the stock market rallied. Temperamental is a mild wordâ€"for anything that acts like that. So far as being temperamental is concerned, the stock market has musicians, authors, actors and actresses and all others accused of being erratic and unreasonable backed completely off the map. There is always some reason in the oddities of temperament and action of the literary and Thesâ€" pian stars. For those who dig beneath the surface some logical basis will be found for the idiosynâ€" cracies of Hollywood. But the temperamental outbursts of the stock market eclipse all the stars in any kind of firmament. Some years ago the stock of one mining company soared high without apparent rhyme or reason, only to slide back to near normal with the same cause. Months afterâ€" wards the company declared a dividend and the day the dividend was declared there was a flurry downward in the stock. The only explanation was that the dividend had been discounted in the public opinion months before when it was exâ€" pected to be paid. The very same day another stock that was a long way from chance of paying dividends started a little upward climb. During the last war the conflict was always doing someâ€" thing to the stock market, and it never seemed to make sense. When there was danger of war some years ago the stock market trembled in sympathy. When war was averted, the stock market slumped again. The only logical conclusion was that war would knock the bottom out of stocks, while peace would apparently carry the bottom away. When war actually came the stock market naturally had hysterics, but when peace comes it will likely take convulsions. Everything â€" and nothing â€" affects the stock market. ; Subscriptiuon Rates: Canadaâ€"$3.00 Per Year. United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per Year TIMMINS, QONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association; Cliass "A" Weekly Group TWO PHONESâ€"26 and 2020 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO, LAKE, Owner and Publisher Timmins, Ont., Monday, April 29th, 1940 Oe Yorrupine Aduanre POUR TEMPERAMENTAL Ssome months ago there was a report in circuâ€" lation to the effect that von Ribbentrop was once a champagne salesman in Canada, and that he paid a number of visits to Cobalt, Timmins, Sudâ€" Ne Te NP NP NP P SVP P OS 'GR AVEL AND SANDâ€"-AND PLACER S d o t o e e o e e o c e o s hn o s e on e o n o o e ce ue { As a matter of fact, the war toâ€"day is at its most encouraging stage so far as the Allies are conâ€" cerned. In a word, the enemy by their Scandinâ€" avian adventure have opened the way to get at themâ€"and the Allies ask for little more, except time and pnatience. Either the outcome is ineviâ€" table â€"â€" or nothing matters. Speaking to the students at South Porcupine High School, Dr. Maresch, a refugee fram Austria, urged the young people to devotion to the great Empire that has been for centuries the refuge for the oppressed and the home for liberty. "You have everything." he said, "trust in each other, and greater things. You have a winning cause, the cause of Freedom and of Christianity." Toâ€"day there are men, money, resources, cammand of the seas, and freedom of the air, to back that cause. There have been no real reverses, no serious losses. Keep 1 faith and cheer! Be braced for losses and re-! verses! Yet should they come, count them as but prelmiinaries to the final battle that will be won by the growing might of the Allies to win the last engagement and the final victory. | Thete is no sense in pretending that everything is going well, whether it is or not, that every reâ€" verse is a victory. That is the plan adopted by Germany, and while it appears to work well enough in that'country in the way of keeping up the national morale, the people of the British Emâ€" pire and their French, Polish, Turkish and Norâ€" wegian allies are of much higher intelligence, and are able to face the truth. It is just as foolish, however to hail every difficulty, every slight reâ€" verse, every loss, as dire calamity and the end of all things. Last week a high French official in referring to the progress of the war pointed out that all was really going well. "Patience and courage," he said. "are what are needed at the moment." British newspapers had a slightly different way of enâ€" couraging their people. The burden of their story was: "Keep your balance. It‘s going to be tough!" The British idea was cgmpressed into a few words in the memorable phrase of the late King George V to a group of Navy imen: "Keep your shirts on!" That homely phrase struck home to the men of the Navy far more than hours of exâ€" hortation never to be unduly excited and never unduly depressed. At times it would appear that more of the Briâ€" tish spirit is needed in Canada. There is a tenâ€" dency to gloom at every reported reverse â€" a tendency even to see reverses when there are none and to magnify losses out of all proportion to their significance. During the past week, when word from unreliable sources appeared to suggest that affairs were not going too well in Scandinâ€" avia for the Allies, and there were no official reâ€" ports to the contrary from British sources there were people on this continent who were shrouded in gloom. The British idea is that such a time is the very one to cheer up, to be gay, to rouse to‘ greater effort, to be determined that this is one of the minor preliminaries that do not count, and to prepare for that "last battle" that wins thel i A French poet and chronicler of the fourteenth century has been credited with saying that the British people take their pleasures sadly. There is something in the suggestion. In any event, when all goes well, the people of the Old Land are not as gayâ€"at least not as demonstrativeâ€"as the folk of some other lands overseas. To tell the whole truth, however, the Frenchman should have addâ€" ed the thought that the British take their ‘troubles very happily. They are never so gay and witty as when everything appears to be going wrong. There is a connection between this disâ€" position and the saying of the French soldier, Napoleon â€" a saying very popular in Britain s that Britain loses every battle but the last one,w the decisive one. | It may be that officials in charge of affairs at Ottawa are not acquainted with the facilities at Porquis Junction, or it may be that they have a wrong conception of the whole North Country. In such a case it appears to be incumbent upon the local representatives to give them the full facts. Already Mr. Jos. A. Bradette, M.P., has done much good missionary work in this respect. In continuâ€" ing this effort he should have the full support and coâ€"operation of boards of trade, municipal counâ€" cils, patriotic organizations and others throughâ€" out the North. j should be made of the costly air field services at Porquis Junction. Why not use the facilities there in the air training plan? There was talk some time ago of such a method being adopted, but reâ€" cently it seems that the idea has been dropped. Why should it be dropped? Why should time and expense be wasted to provide landing fields for use in the Empire air training scheme, when Porâ€" quis Junction has the facilities all ready for use? All that is needed is the erection of the necessary quarters to house the students and instructors. To build these should not take much time or money. The Porquis Junction field would still be available for any emergency uses in the present Transâ€"Canada Air Lines service. KEEP FAITH AND CHEER! THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Britisy Columbia‘s Provincial Fuel Board reâ€" cently ordered the oil campanies in that province to reduce the wholesale price of gasoline three cents. The answer of the oil companies has been to stop delivery of gasoline to British Columbia service stations, and the motorists of the province as a consequence are faced with a gasoline famâ€" ine. In other words, the oil companies, on the plea that the wholesale price ordered does not allow them a profit are staging a sort of sitâ€"down strike. There is food for deep thought in the addresses given here by Dr. Maresch, Austrian refugee. One sentence of his, given in his address to the High School students at South Porcupine, is worthy of particular thought at this time. "You will never know what Freedom is," he said, "until you have iost it." South Porcupine Kiwanis Club deserves high praise for arranging the visit of Dr. Maresch, Austrian refugee, to the Porcupine camp, and giving the people here the opportunity to hear ithis gifted speaker tell the facts in regard to Hitler and his gangsters. It was a patriotic service to the community. There seems to be a need toâ€"day for a revival of the teaching of patriotism, in the homes, the schools, the churches, the colleges; the clubs. Rey. A. I. Heinonen, who underwent a serious operation on Sunday, April Tth, at St. Mary‘s hospital, was taken home from the hpspxtal Thursday eveâ€" ning, April 25th. He is gathering strength quite rapidly and expects to conduct the regular services at the Finâ€" nish United next Sunday, May 5th. Among the local anl personal items in The Haileyburian last week was the following of local interest:â€""Mr. P. Sexton, who was taken suddenly ill in Tlmmms a month ago, has so far reâ€" covered as to be able to leave the hosâ€" pital. He is convalescing at the home of his son, Stanley Saxton, in Timmins." That tiresome phrase, "Confucius Say," is now replaced in common talk by "Stockholm says." ‘ Mr. Abbie {Ellies left on Thursday for Pembroke, where he will join Mrs. Ellies, who has been visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Myrs. Risto. bury, Sauit Ste. Marie. Now, the rumour is that he was the fellow that was kicked out of the Liar‘s Club at Savlt Ste. Marieâ€"for lying. Mrs. Joe Fabbro, returned on Saturday to Sudbury, after spending a week‘s holiday at the home of her parâ€" ents, Mr. and Mrs. Pezzola, here. Mrs, E. Luoma and daughter, Leah, left on Thursday to spend a month‘s visit at the home of her parents in Montreal. George Androchuk returned on Satâ€" urday from Queen‘s University, and will spend the summer at his home here, Miss Elsa Niemi returned on Sunday after an extended holiday spent visitâ€" ing her brother and sisterâ€"inâ€"law, at Val d‘Or, and with friends in Montreal. Miss Rose Fasano of Cochrane, was a weekâ€"end visitor here, spending a few days with her sisters, Misses Eva and Carmel Fasano. George Percival and Eric Arnott have returned from Queen‘s University, Kingston, and will spend the summer at their homes here. Sam Habib returned this (Monday) morning from Kingston, where he has been attending Queen‘s University, and will â€" spend the summer at his home here. Miss Ruby Turcotte, of Kirkland Lake, spent the weekâ€"end at her home here, Miss Gertrude Morin has returned after spending three months visiting friends and relatives in Montreal. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell Donaldson, of Winnipeg, Man., were visitors to Timmins last week. Mr. Ken Hallnen ¢of Kirkland Lake, and Mr. Ernie Jarrett of Swastika, were weekâ€"end visitors in town. been visiting relatives and friends in Timmins. Mtr. Allan Craig was a visitor at North Bay last week on his way home from a visit in the South. Miss Lorna Monck has returned from Queen‘s University, Kingston, and will epend the summer at her home here. John McKenna has returned from Queen‘s University to spend the sumâ€" mer at his home here. Mrs. Walter Ramsay of Cobalt is visiting friends in town. Tomuny Stcnehouse has returned from Queen‘s University to spend the sumimer with his parents in town. Mr. and Mrs. R. Paul, of Toronto, are visiting in Timmins. Mr. Lorne Marshall, of Swastika, has The Canadian Girl Guides are ‘enâ€" deavouring to send two ambulances to Britain to be used by the Royal Air FPorce. The Guides retired to Patrol Corners where they discussed the bisâ€" cuit sale whien is postponed until May 11. They were then examined for their Cook‘s Badge. Country dancing was enjoyed and a singâ€"song was conducted around the campfire, ‘"‘Taps" closed the meeting. A test on Further Knowledge of the Guide Laws was held after the meeting., The regular meeting of the 1st South Porcupine Girlâ€" Guides was held on Wednesday at the Anglican Parish hall. The Honesty Patrol won the games. Roll call followed and horseshoe was formed. For all of this, the Directors of Canâ€" adian Legion War Services, Incorporâ€" ated, are very much indebted to you and on their behalf we have much pleasure in conveying our warmest thanks for your invaluable assistance during the period of the National Drive for funds for war purposes. With every good wish, we are Yours very sincerely, J. A. Gunn, President J. R. Bowler, Hon. Secretary Canadian Legion War Services, Inc. Regular Meeting of South Porcupine Girl Guides The gréat success which the Camâ€" paign achieved can be attributed in nc small measure to the generous publiâ€" city which was accorded by the press generally throughout Canada and it would ‘be difficult to exaggerate the tremendous help which the newspapers have ‘been in publicizing the purposes of the Campaign in its news columns. Nor must we forget the favourable editorial comments whicn were such an important factor in making the obâ€" jectives of the appeal known to the general public. | Dear Sir:â€"On behalf of the Directors of the Canadian Legion War Services we desire to take this opportunity to express our deep gratitude for the asâ€" sistance rendered by your newspaper during the recent Legion War Services Campaign. To The Editor, The Porcupine Advance, Timmins, Ont. Thanks for Help in Recent War Services Campaign Mr. Bill Zalba returned on Sunday after a month‘s holiday spent at his home in Windsor. Mrs. Roy Hofstetter returned on Thursday after a visit at the home of her parents in Kitchener, After that date the said Executor will procéeed to distribute the Estate, having regard only to the claims of which he shall then have had notice. DATEI® at Timmins, this 20th day of April, 1940. , A, D. .1940, are required to file proo{ of the same with John Monaâ€" ghan, Executor, Box 265, Schumacher, Ontario, or the undersigned solicitor, on or before the 25th day of May, 1940 All persons having any claims against the Estate of the above mentioned, who died at the City of Toronto, in the County of York, on the 25th day of In the Estate of HELEN RUTLEDGE of Schumacher, Ont., Married Woman â€"Company Leader The official figures published elsewhere in this issue showing that there is greater unemployment in Timmins at present than in the same period a year ago is but another proof of the way in which the unemployed have been foisted upon Timmins and other towns in the North. In the past few years Timmins has absorbed 5,000 or more from outside places into employment here. There would be no unemployment here were it not for the continued influx of transients here. For years The Advance has been protesting against this influx, as unfair and burdensome. Without this influx of transients, Timmins would not be burdened with the huge relief bill that it has had for years past. Any relief bill justly charged to Timmins could be easily handled by the town itself. The preseni; cost of relief, directâ€" ly and indirectly is due to the thousands who have flocked here to become burdens on the municipalâ€" ity, or to take the work that woulid have kept others already here from being forced on relief. It would not be unreasonable to ask the province and the Dominion to shoulder all the relief bill of Timmins as it now stands. Instead, the proâ€" vince proposes to force Timmins to beaur a greater proportion of the cost of keeping unemployed fairly chargeable elsewhere, | During the war sitâ€"down strikesâ€"or any other kind of strikes, except gold strikesâ€"will receive little popular favour. In any case, oil companies do not enjoy much popularity at the best of times, while orders for reduction in wholesale prices of any commodity always seem to strike a popular note in the people‘s fancy. Accordingly, there will be a general demand for governmental action against the British Columbia sitâ€"down strikers. T. A. MacDONALD Timmins, Ontario Bornâ€"on March 3lst, 1940, to Mr and Mrs. Syd Charles Kean (nee Rosanna Marguerite Sova), of 121 Sixth avenue â€"2 daugchter. Bornâ€"on April 2nd, 1940, to Mr. and Mrs, Allen Kelly (nee Verna Sweeney), Bornâ€"on April 8th, 1940, to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde James Lawlor, of 117 Cedar street southâ€"a son. Bornâ€"on April 8th, 1940, to Mr. and Mrs. Jean Louis Charron (nee Alice Lemay), of 32 Middleton avenueâ€"a son. Bornâ€"on April 10th, 1940, to Mr. arrd Mrs. Jchn Boyd (nee Dorothy Kells), of 08 Toke street,at St. Mary‘s hospitalâ€" a son. Bornâ€"on April 16th, 1940, to Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Manley Pritchard (nee Ruth Herma Stevens) of 222% Spruce street northâ€"a son. Bormnâ€"on April 10th, 1940, to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace West, of 154 Hemlock street at St. Mary‘s hospitalâ€"a son. Bornâ€"on April 8th, 1940, to Mr. and Mrs. John Murray Martin of 152 Charles street at St. Mary‘s hospitalâ€"a son. Bornâ€"on April 3rd, 1940, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Miller, of Sand Claims Road, at St. Mary‘s hospitalâ€"a son. A regular divided of 1% has been deâ€" clared by the Directors on the Capital Stock cof the Company, payable on the 20th day of â€"May, 1940, to shareholders of record at the close of business on the 6th day of May, 1940. * Dated the 27th dayof April, 1940. I. McIVOR, â€"34 Eleven Births Registered Since Thursday Last Week WANTED TO RENTâ€"Sixâ€"room house or apartment wanted by July 1. Will lease. Apply H. J. Quinn, Timmins Garage, »â€"31tf. Hollinger Consolidated Gold WANTED TO RENTâ€"Large threeâ€" room apartment with bath, or fiveâ€" room house with bath by May 25. Write Box 903, South Porcupine. 34p CURTIS OPTICAL CGoO. . ... yet up to a year ago I never had my eyes exâ€" amined. I wasn‘t getting along very well in either business or family life. It was a lucky day when I decided to have an eye examination by Mr. Curâ€" tis. I am really doing fine now, and periodic examinations will keep me going." Mines Limited DIVIDEND NUMBER 331 14 Pine Street North, Timminsâ€"Phone 835 Asistantâ€"Treasurer The shocked manager, almost speechâ€" less, dashed over to yank them out. Before he could speak one of the evacuees looked up. "Oo are you?" he asked. "I‘m the manager." "Well, we was just going to send for you," said the boy. "Why ain‘t the band playin‘?" â€"Simcoe Reformer., Toronto Star:â€"If a man really wants to know how some neutral European nations feel, he should go and stand between two oapposing hockey teams while they are battling in overtime, Cameron to Fozg: sidewalk, south side of First avenue, Maple to Elm; sideâ€" walk, north side of Kent Avenue, Ray Street and Cameron Street; sidewalk, both sides of Cherry Street, Murdock to Empire; sidewalk, south side of Mountâ€" joy, Commercial to Bannerman; sewer, Pine Street, north, from Eighth to Eleventh Avenue: sewer on Willow Aveâ€" Pine Etreet, north, from Eighth t« Eleventh Avenue: sewer on Willow Ave nue from Avenue Rsad to Street Three little evacuees marched into a smart restaurant, ordered one cup of tea betweemnm them, and proceeded to eat sandwiches taken from their pockets. The following ‘petitions sidered by the Municipal it sits here on May 1: side side «Wende Avenue, Pre. Bornâ€"on April 19th, 1940, to Mr. and Myrs. Jerry Ponikvar, of 231% Hemlock street at St. Mary‘s hospitalâ€"a son. In order to get more space for the Protestant Cemetery Board the Council at it regular meeting on Friday afterâ€" noon, offéered the Noronta Lands Comâ€" pany a dicker. The Town would exâ€" change the mining rights on forty acres of land west of the cemetery, owned by the land company. The couneil, when it obtained the surâ€" face rights to the six acres of land west and adjoining the cemetery, would be able to turn it over to the cemetery board. 4 of 115 Pine street north hospitalâ€"a son. Bornâ€"on April 17th, 1940, to Mr. and Mrs. John Nigrini (nee Gilza Molnar), of 17 Middleton avenueâ€"a son. Council Would Dicker For More Cemetery Space WANTED, by the Childrens Aid So«â€" ciety, families willing to give homes on a boarding basis to Protestant children 10 to 14 years of age. If interested, phone 855, or call at Room 4, Municipal Building, Timmins. ldewalk 26 WENDE AVE. Learn Beauty Culture the Most Modern Way J. Van Rassel COAL WOODb any Petitions to be Conâ€" s idered ‘by «Municipal Board on May 1. Government Licensed School TEMMINS SCHOOL OF HAIRDRESsSIXG and 16"â€"$2.75 and $3.50 per cord also 8 ft, lengths MISCELLANEOUS GOOnD qQUALITY COAL $12.25 per ton Dry Jack Pine 56 Mountjoy Street Any Complaints? MONDAY, APRIL, 20th, 10940 at 5 Phone 583 St. Mary‘s