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This year Rouyn is taxing chain stores, profesâ€" sional men (including editors), and wholesalers more than in past years, while small grocers, gasoâ€" line stations and small milk distributors will pay less than in former times. Chain stores (and this is interpreted to include banks) will be taxed $360 watch the mails they will see that there are always scores of editors round a newspaper office. There is the plain editor, and then there may be a manâ€" aging editor, a night editor or an assistant editor. There is sure to be a sports editor, a news editor, a women‘s editor, a radio editor, a motion picture editor, a household editor, a financial editor, a mining editor, a local editor, a music editor, a libâ€" rary editor, and ten or five other editors. If Rouyn would get after all the editors around all the Rouyn newspapers, at $30 per editor, enough might be collected to pay the salary of the mayor. It has always been a mystery to The Advance why Rouyn places a special tax on its editors. There would be more logic and justice if thej Rouyn editors were paid a subsidy. But not only does Rouyn impose a special $30 tax on editors, but it has another special impost of $35 each for all doctors, lawyers and other professional men. It would be interesting to learn whether these taxes are scaled in the idea of the money the unâ€" fortunate victims are supposed to make, or the harm it is feared they cause the community. â€"would have something to write about if they lived in Rouyn for added to the enumerated imposts Rouyn has a number of other special taxes to add joy to life. Confidentially, it may be noted that they even have a special tax for editors in Rouyn. This year each of the editors in Rouyn will be required to pay a special sort of surtax of $30 simply for being an editor. The Rouynâ€"Noâ€" randa Press suggests that there are only two ediâ€" tors in Rouyn but if the authorities will simply The reports of council meetings in Rouyn, dealâ€" ing with the taxation of business and professional classes in that town call again to attention the oddities of taxation in the Quebec mining town. Editors in Ontario who have waxed sarcastic about all the many taxes that burden themâ€"taxes for property and income, taxes for births, marâ€" riages, deaths, sales taxes, hunting licenses, beer permits, liquor licenses, fishing licenses, radio licenses, motor licenses, and the long list of others The Northern Tribune is equally in error in holding that there is any virtue in neglecting any defence of Canada to save money for other war purposes. Australia, for example, has proven beâ€" yound question the fact that a Dominion can help the Empire in outstanding way by looking to its own defence. As a matter of fact no one proposes that millions of dollars and thousands of mer should be diverted from other war purposes to defend the Hudson Bay area. All that is suggestâ€" ed is that a few men and a few airplanes be set to guard the area. The cost would be thousands, rather than millions. At the moment there are literally thousands of trained men in Canada who are becoming dissatisfied because they are kept Irom actual service. A few of these could be used with advantage to the war‘s progress. As for the small cost, there is always that unnecessary rail-‘ way depot at Montreal to fall back upon for funds. So long as millions are wasted on that work there is no scrap of sincerity in suggesting that, with money to waste unnecessarily, there is not money available for legitimate defence. @ t P P PP P PP P PP CA â€"alp > In a very lengthy and involved editorial, The Kapuskasing Northern Tribune takes the remarkâ€" ableâ€"and rather ridiculousâ€"attitude that there is something unsportsmanlike, or even disloyal, in Canada looking to its own defence these days. The Northern Tribune pretends to think that while London and other British cities are being merciâ€" lessly bombed, Canada should welcome the chance of suffering a little bombing on its own account. Even The Northern Tribune is utterly unable to suggest the slightest way in which the people of Britain would benefit by bombs dropped on Canâ€" ada. As a matter of fact a few bombs dropped in the North would have very serious repercusâ€" sions in Britain. If The Northern Tribune will stop to think (there being no law against mental processes for the moment) the newspaper will be able to visualize the damage to Britain and Briâ€" tain‘s cause through the destruction of the mines, mills, water power developments of the North, all of which are menaced by the fact that Germany possesses the most complete maps and data for attack upon these strategic points. Men who know the far North and who have made an earnest study of the conditions and cireumstances, are convinced that there is actual danger of attack from the Hudson Bay area. These men know more about it than do the ordinary authorities of Canadaâ€" know more, perhaps, than anyone else but the Germans who have the most detailed data, maps, pho.tos. and air surveys of the whole Hudson Bay area. TIMMINS, ONTARIO 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, Owncr and Publisher Subscription Rates: Oanadaâ€"$3.00 Per Year. United Statesâ€"§3.50 Per Year 'MOOO «w s BP â€"IP APAC CAAA CAAA â€"ALC PA â€"AL CAAA â€"ACACâ€"ACâ€"ACACAC 4 ‘wcooooo «t P P P P P â€"AP P PA â€" P L «it eP â€"APâ€" P P AP P P : CCC â€"AL P Timmins, Ont., Monday, April 21st, 1941 Che Yorrupine Abvancee ODD TAXATION IN ROUYN There were people who considered National Registration as a useless expense. Although many have been disappointed in the results from Naâ€" tional Registration it has not been without its uses. In police work it has proved of great value. Previously, when unlicensed beverage rooms or disorderly houses were raided and those found in were questioned, it was discovered that "John Jones,‘ ‘Bill Brown,‘ ‘Tom Smith,‘ ‘Henry Green,‘ had an unfortunate habit of being among those present. Now, the police simply ask for registraâ€" Thomas Richard Henry in his column in The Toronto Telegram mentions the idea that if the correct pronunciation of "BEire" is "Err", then it would be proper to refer to Irishmen as "Errors." This naturally leads to naming the head of the "Errors" as "Devil Error." This sort of wit may not:appeal to the Irish of Eire, but it was a witty Irishman of this North, Reeve Carter, of Kirkâ€" land Lake, who some years ago referred to the state of Ireland as the "Devil Era," and to DeValera as the "Spanish onion in the Irish stew." To paraphrase the words of John Bunyan, a Canadian reading about the glorious record of the Australians and New Zealanders in this war, might well say:â€""There, but for the disgrace of partyâ€" ism, goes Jack Canuck!" Those who take a sad joy in worrying over the war news from the Eastern fronts should set beâ€" fore them the words of the Greek and British comâ€" muniques:â€"‘"The line still holds." They should keep these words before them at all times:â€""The line still holds." These should be the words of their motto for the home front:â€""The line still holds!" The home front should hold the line in cheerfulness in hope, in grim determination,â€" good news or illâ€"and be so busy holding the line that there is no time to take off periods for mournâ€" ing over reverses that are no more real than other reports from the enemy camps. PA SAAA APâ€"APâ€"ALâ€"ALPâ€" eA P P P lt ain have faced a dangerous line of duty in the finest possible way. When the story of the war is told it will be found that the Canadian soldier played a gallant part in the defense of Britain. Indeed it is not too much to say that history will show that soldiers, sailors, airmen and people, of all the Empire, played their full part in winning the victory, so far as they were permitted so to do by the politicians. an account of themselves as was given by the Canadians in the last war. It is not the fault nor the wish of the Canadian soldiers or the Canadian people that they are farther from the active batâ€" tle than the Australians. At the same time it is only fair to say that the Canadian soldiers in Briâ€" From Greece during the weekâ€"end came the enâ€" couraging news that " the line still holds firm," despite the frantic efforts of the Nazis to break through, and despite the reckless sacrifice of men made by the enemy. The Greeks and British have a long line to hold, and along this line the Nazis are sacrificing men with a reckless abandon even greater than they showed in France. On the Greâ€" cilan battle front, however, their tactics are meetâ€" ing with little success. "The line still holds" is the official announcement from both Greek and British headquarters. In this contest, as in Afrira the Australians are covering themselves with glory. It is true that following British precedent, the oldâ€" line regiments of the British Army come in for less mention, perhaps than they deserve, while no opportunity is lost to give the men from Ausâ€" tralia and New Zealand their due of credit and praise. Admitting this, however, does not alter the fact that the Australians and New Zealanders are earning in the most magnificent way the praise that is coming their way these days.. The repeated references to the glorious work of troops from New Zealand and Australia has a tenâ€" dency to irritate may loyal Canadians. They glory in the valour of their brothers from the sister Doâ€" minion, but it is hard to keep back the query, "Why are the Canadians kept out of the active work?" The answer to this may be made in several ways. It might be stated that the troops in Canada have only one worryâ€"that they are not already overâ€" seas,. And the Canadians overseas are equally anxâ€" ious to be in theâ€"real fighting line and give as noble About the only comfort The Advance can see in the whole special discriminatory taxation in Rouyn is the fact that this year the radio station must pay a special overâ€"all tax‘of $100, rather than esâ€" cape with the $25 tax of last year. If editors should be taxed $30 per year, radio stations should pay at least $5,000 per year. It might be an idea for Rouyn to charge the radio station for every soup and soap programme carried. In any event, there is some surcease from the anxieties of the war in studying taxation in Rouyn. each in Rouyn this year. Wholesalers will pay $100, instead of the $50 asked last year, but small milk distributors will escape with $15 instead of the $25 tax last year. Houseâ€"toâ€"house corset agents are in a class by themselves and must pay a special $10 tax. Last year the tax for the corset salesâ€" ladies was $25. Gasoline stations in Rouyn this year, will have a straight special tax of $25, in place of last year‘s plan of $25 for the first three pumps and $15 for each additional pump. Grocers and butchers are to be taxed one per cent. of the value of the average stock carried. Dry goods stores will be charged oneâ€"half of one per cent. of the value of the average stock carried. b”'“‘ «tm ltA P PA PPA LiA GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER "THE LINE STILL HOLDS" mt P lt â€"P P DP THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO In an announcement in The Rouynâ€" Noranda Press, Mr. z. T. Pomunier, ieweller, of Noranda and Rouyn, forâ€" merly of Timmins, announces that he has found it necessary to close his Noranda store for the duration of the war. Two of his most capable watch repair men joined the Air Force and he found it impcessible to replace thom with equally competent men so deâ€" cided to close the one store rather than risk inferior service. Mr. Pommier is continuing his Rouyn store and if conâ€" ditions are favourable will reâ€"open the Noramda store after the war. Among the local and personal items in The Pembroke Standardâ€"Obs>rver las,; week was the following of local interest:â€""Miss Gertrude Risto has returned after visiting for Easter holiâ€" day weekâ€"end in Timmins the guest of her sister, Mrs. ‘A. Ellis, and Mr. Ellis, and with her brcther, Mr. Randoliph Risto, and Mrs. Risto." His many friends will be glad to hear that Mr. Percy Bennett of 27 Middleâ€" ton avenue is progressing favourably a{ter a spinal opseration which he unâ€" derwent last Thursday in the Torono Hospital at Weston, where he has been confined for the past few months. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Wheeler, of Holtyre, spent the weekâ€"end visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. Wheelâ€" er of 9 Hemlock street, and attended the Porcupine Skating Carnival on Saturday evening. A young son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Sutton living near New Liskeard reâ€" ported the first dandelion of the seaâ€" son as found in flower on Easter Sunâ€" day. Miss Mary Gordon, Mrs. J. A. Wilâ€" kins and Mr. Wallace Young attended the annual convention of the Ontario Music Teachers‘ Association in the King Edward Hotel, Toronto, on April 15th and 16th. Miss Kathleen Chnristopher returned on Saturday to Maitachewan after spending the Easter holidays at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Christopher, Gold Centre. Mrs. Eino Maki left last week to spend a few weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martikainen, of Sault Ste. Marie. Miss Edi Bulmer, of FPForester‘s Falls, Renfrew County, was the guest lass week of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Bulmer. Mr. and Mrs. Gregor Sutherland, of Hamilton, spent a days last week in Tiimmins and other parts of the North. Misses Audrey Dobson and Carmel McKenzie returned last week to itheir homes in New Liskeard, after a visit with relatives angq friends in Timmins. tion cards and it is surprising how few of the old names are found in these raids. In a raid just after National Registration was completed one man told police his name was Jones but when he had to produce his registration card, he seemed to have a name of foreign extraction. Pressed for an explanation he thought rapidly. "Oh I often use Jones as a name," he said. "You see that was my mother‘s name before she was married." In St. Thomas still another use is being made of the National Registration. St. Thomas beverage rooms all that girls produce their registraâ€" tion cards to prove their age before beer is served them. So far as learned however, banks as yet are not ready to accept registration cards for idenâ€" tification purposes. To avoid false hopes along that line, it may be noted that reports were curâ€" rent some months ago that registration cards were obtainable in Montreal without the formalâ€" ity of regular registration. In any event the authorities were said to be in pursuit of the enterâ€" prising printer or printers. Miss Benrtha LaSalle has been visitâ€" ing her sister anq brotherâ€"inâ€"law, Mr. and Mrs. Jean Roberge in Rouyn. Prospectors and mining men and other interâ€" ested would do well to study Mr. J. W. Young‘s plan for reviving prospecting. In brief, the plan is to abolish the Ontario Securities Commission and to utilize the money saved the public treasury by this procedure for the encouragement of prosâ€" pecting. QOnce started. the plan could be mainâ€" Miss Madge Webb left last week to receive medical attention at London, Ontanrio. Mrs. R. D. Wathen of New Liskeard, was guest last week of her son, Mr. Harry Wathen, Timmins. Miss Gloria Cotnam was a visitor last week to her home at Demers Cenâ€" tre, Ottawa Valley. Miss Mary Ramsay visited her broâ€" ther and sisterâ€"inâ€"law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ramsay, Cobalt, last weck. Mr. Eric Patzer, of South Porcupin left on FPriday for Toronto, Hamilton and «other points south. Mrs. G. Ward angq daughters, Doris and Elsie, of Englehart, were Timmins visitors last week. Mr. Lymnn Ward leit on Friday to take up residence in Toronto. Toromo Telegramâ€"The man of the hour is the one who can get through his business with you in a few minutes. Globe and Mailâ€"Those white flags in Eritrea ought to show up well against the black shirts of Ithe Fascists. Perâ€" haps they showed remarkable preéâ€" colour "You don‘t say so. And here I‘ve been dodging old Robinson for three weeks, thinking it was his."â€"Sudbury Star. "I found it was my own, so I kept it," replied Smith. "I say, Smith," exclaimed Jones, "where‘s that silk umbrella I lent you?" The hunt is mentioned in the anâ€" nual report of (President E. L. (Len) Hughes, of the Northern Ontario Tourâ€" ist Trads Association. Mr. Hughes beâ€" lieves that thousandsjof bear hunters will aross the border from the Uni‘ed States in May, iwhen the big hunt will be organized. As a moneyâ€"maker for the camp operators, Mr. Hughes preâ€" dicts it Wwill outstrip the moose ‘and deer hunting in the fall, espezially in regions where bear are plentiful. North Bay, April 19â€"Something new in tourist attractionsâ€"a spring bear huntâ€"is expected to launch the tourist season much earlier in Northern Onâ€" tario this seaon. The bear hunt, it is predicted, will develop into an annual affair that will in time rival the moose and deer hunting seasons. Proposes Bear Hunt to Help the Tourist Trade in the North Among the local and personal items in The Northern Tribune, of Kapusâ€" kasing, last week was the following of local interest:â€""Miss Marjorie Roâ€" berts, who has recently been employed in Timmins, has now accepted a stenoâ€" graphic position in the main office of the Spruce Falls Co. here." Mrs. Louis Strauss of Detroit, arrivâ€" ed here last week to spend a few weeks the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Strauss and of Mr. and Mrs. A. Pillatt proprietors of the Fern Cottage Res- taurant. . Pte. E. Scevens, of the Algonquin Reâ€" giment, Port Arthur, came to Timmins on leave on Friday, and expects to reâ€" turn to his regiment toâ€"morrow. Mrs. J. Grady, of Toronto, is spendâ€" ing a few weseks at the home of her parehnts, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Scott, of Hemlock street. Corporal Joe French, a veteran of the last iwar, and in this one again with the Algonquin Regiment, stationâ€" ed at Port Arthur, was in Tiimmins on weekâ€"end leave. Mr. and Mrs. R. R. White and little daughter, of Hamilton, were visitors last week to Timmins and other cenâ€" tres of the North. Pte. C. A. ‘Cote, of the Algonquin Regiment, iPort Arthur, spent a short leave in Timmins, arriving last Friday and leaving toâ€"day. Miss Ardell Thomson and Miss Sirrka Oksanen, of Kirkland Lake, spent the weekâ€"enq in Timmins. : Provost Officer Ralph Paul, former chief of police at Timmins, was home here on leave last week from Camp Borden. Mr. Bug Loblanc left on Sunday to spend a few weeks in Oshawa. Pte. J. W. Snyder, of the Algonquin Regiment, Port Arthur, was in Timâ€" mins on leave last week. P/c. E. A. Yantha, of D. ‘Coy. Alâ€" gonmnguin Regiment, Port Arthur, spent a shont leave in Timmins last weck. Jolhn Landel, of the RCAFP., staâ€" tioned at Fingal Camp, spent the weekâ€" end on leave in town. in choosing their favourt‘e THE WRONG MAN Despatches from Athens indijcate the tough assignment taken by the Germans on the Eastern front. A German battalion was able to trap an Australian regiment They had the Australians surrounded and no doubt were debating whether they would take them prisoners or shoot them down. In the meantime, however, the Australians fought their way out of the trap and actually captured a number of prisoners. tained by prospectors giving a percentage of the amounts received from the sale of properties to this fund, which Mr. Young calls the "Leaseâ€"Lend" fund for prospecting. Bornâ€"on April 3rd, 1941, to Mr. and Mrs. Leo. Culhane, of 156 Spruce street sou‘h, at St. Mary‘s Hospitalâ€"a son. Bornâ€"on April 1st, 1941, to Mr. and Mrs. Hormisdas Riopelle, of 210 Elm street north, at St. Mary‘s Hospitalâ€" a son. Bornâ€"on April 3rd, 1941, to Mr. anq Mrs. Vernon Francis Daughney (nee Jean Johnstone Scott) of Tyr(.mt.,, Ontario, at St. Mary‘s Hospital â€" daughter. Bornâ€"on March 31st, 1941, to Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lynn (nee Phyllis Johnston) of 32A Second avenue, at St. Mary‘s Hospitalâ€"a daughter. Bornâ€"on March 3l1st, 10841, to Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Keon (nee Pearl Conâ€" way) of 104 Cedar stregt south â€"a daughter. In the Estate of Edgar Alfred BRrown All persons having claims against the Estate of Edgar Alfred Brown, late of the Town of Timmins, in the Proâ€" vince of Ontario, Deceased, who died on or about the 24th day of February, A.D. 1941, are hereby notified to send in to the undersigned personal representaâ€" tive of the said Deceased, or her Solicitors, on or before the 1s; qay of May, A.D. 1941, full particulars of their claims. Immediately after the said date the said personal representative will distribute the assets of the said Deceased, having regard only to claims of which she shall then have notice to the exclusion of all others, anda she will not be liable to any person of whose claim she shall not then have notice for the assets so distributed or any part thereof. Seven Births Registered During the Past Week Thers werse seven births registered at the Timmins town hall last week, as against six for the previous period, a gain of one, but ithe registrations have ito gain a lot to caiich up with last year‘s figures, the average weekly registraition for 1940 hbeing over 29 births per week. The following are the births registered last week:â€" Bornâ€"on April 3rd, 1941, to Mr. and Mrs. Hector Belec, of 77 Bannerman avenueâ€"a son. DATED a; Timmins, Ontario, this 10th day of April, A.D. 1941. MRS. MABLE BROWN k 61 Kirby Avenue (Rear), Timmins, Ontario. Bornâ€"on April 3rd, 1941, to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Walsh (nee, Meda Benâ€" netlt) of 32 Lincoln avenue, at St. Mary‘s Hospitalâ€"a son. MESSRS MacBRIEN BAILEY Barristers Solicitors, 2% Third Aveâ€" nue, Timmins, Ontario, her Solicitors. A0â€"31â€"32 NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS "I feel like a new person now. It‘s surprising what glasses can do. Reading used to give me frighiful headaches. As I was never bothered at any other time I thought it must be caused by my eves. Mr. Curtis fitlted me with glasses for reading and now I have no trouble at all." ‘Fine Thanks." Globe and Mailâ€"Admiral Cunningâ€" ham says that he expects to finish off the Italian Navy before the emi of the year, If he expects i; to last him that long he must be an incurable optimist. Dated at Tornto, April LIMIVTED No Personal LAability DIVIDEND NO,. 02 Notice is hereDy given that a diviâ€" dend of fiftyâ€"five and oneâ€"half cents (55%e¢) per share in Canadian curâ€" rency will be paid on June 2, 1941, to shareholders of record at the close of business May 1, 1941 A General Meeting of the Timmins Branch of the Red Cross Society will be held Thursday, April 24th, at 8 p.m. in the Town Hall. The object of the meeting is to discuss the auditor‘s reâ€" port; and for the election of a first Viceâ€"President, and a Chairman for the Women‘s War Work Committes, which offices were left vacant by the ageparture from town of Dr. and Mrs. Harrison. All members and other perâ€" sons interested are invited toâ€"attend the meeting. WANTED, by the Childrens Aid Soâ€" 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. 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Write John â€"C. Dent, 387 Central Avenue, London, for agent‘s information or purchase direct. You‘ll appreciate the qualit the fine service we offer. Mclatyre Porcupine Mines By Orcde:r l1s A WORD PER INSERTION (minimum 25¢) 14e A WORD PER INSERTION IF CHARGED (Minimum 35¢) All Classiied Advertising must be paid before insertion to _ obtain cash rate. The Advance will not be responâ€" sible for errors occurring in teleâ€" phoned advertisements, or as a reâ€" sult of copy not carefully, legibly written.. Mistakes occurring from these sources are wholly at adverâ€" tiser‘s risk. M. G. SULLIVAN COAL Dormpins Aotano CLASSIFIED ADS J ANE B. SULLIVAN," Chairman of for Information, Timmins Red CGross. Phone 26 Phone 129 ind 30â€"31â€"32â€"33 â€"32â€"30~â€"384 Halporin. â€"32â€"33p) Timmins iety will it 8 p.mi. t of the IVGOY ind Gotrâ€" m