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Porcupine Advance, 8 May 1941, 1, p. 6

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WW.\\"\WM%%W% A GIFT FOR MOTKER! '.". Recently Mr. Hsley gave parliament a summary of his problem. He wants $666,574,000 for the army this year. $169,640,000 for the navy, $386,619,00 for the air force and $180,458,000 for muniâ€" tions. There are other war costs disâ€" tributed among the the government departments which will bring the total to about $1,500,000,000â€"not counting direct financial aid to Britain. Canâ€" ada this year will ship about $1,500,â€" 000,000 worth of goods to Britain for Canada will receive $350,000,000. ‘This means that in addition to meetâ€" "Ing our own costs, we will have to find ething more than another $1,000,â€" Cuts $114.82 to Equip a Solâ€" dier. for a Spitâ€" * «: fre, $50,000 for a Hurri. Hselore he goes on parade the inâ€" fantry soldier‘s equipment has cost the taxpayers $114,82 which includes such items at $41.50 for his riflie and bayoâ€" net, $7.32 for his gas mask, $12.85 for his battle dress, $44,800 for his boots, $2.30 for his underwear. Multiply that by 170.000 soldiers on active service. As long is he remains in Canada he This is also a war of power. Two divisions in the last war would control 8,C00 hors»â€" power of mechanical energy. Our two divisions now in ‘Britain with their allied seyrvices have about ©600,000 horsepower, or a twelfth as much power as is produced by all the generators in Canada, including those at Niagara. _ _On the sea money goses fast, too. One corvette costs $550,000 and a mineâ€" sweeper $575,000. A destroyer, a relaâ€" tively small craft, costs $400,000 a year to maintain and this money must be obtained from the citizens on shore. When they get into action mechanâ€" ized units really begin to burn money. One 500â€"pound bomb costs from $80 to $200, depending on the type used. Antiâ€" aircraft guns cost about $12,500 and will hurl shells, costing about $6 each, at the rate of 120 per minute. In one hour‘s firing such a gun would spend more than $40,000. For every pop of a 3.7 antiâ€"aircraft gun which ean search bomber five miles in the sky, $20 or four $5 War Savings certificates are required. This armament can conâ€" sume a fortune in one night‘s operaâ€" The ordinary infantry division has changed out of all recognition since the last war. It travels on wheels. Thirtyâ€" seven different types of vehicles are required; 3,525 vehicles altogether. Gun carriers cost $5,000 apiece. Machine guns mounted on these carriers cost $450. The ordinary army truck costs $1,500. A tank tbrigade will be added to Canada‘s present Army Corps in Britain. This will cost $60,000,000â€" threeâ€"quarters of the amount that we shall use this year to subsidize our prostrate wheat industry. _ Eight thousand dollars paid for a fighting plane in the last war. It now costs $25,000 to build a Spitfire, double that for a Hurricane and $150,000 for a Eclingbroke bombkbér. If you saved your maximum of War Savings certificates, at the rate of $480 per year, you would be just over three centuries paying for the loss of one such bomber. Canada intends to create an armourâ€" ed division. To equip this single diviâ€" sion taxpayers must provide at least closer to $200,â€" 000,000. As it travels it will represent an investment equal to the cost of ten Ottawa parliament buildings. To raise Money to equip this division, about 350,000 Canadians must save $40 per month. ° * It is the weapons, not the man, that have made this the most expensive of all wars, This war makes any preâ€" vious war look like a wave of economy. may be supported at present for $5.46 per dayâ€"which more than uses up one War Savings certificate. Overseas mainbenance costs are sat present recâ€" koned at $7.11 per day. This compares to $6.58 required to maintain a soldier in France for one day when he was using up ammunition during the last war. When a Canadian soldier gets into action, no one can be sure what his upkeep costs will be. e w 0 00â€" C STwevisu _ ECCE nor use in any way.> That is what Mr. Zisley told a hushed house of commons the other day. He told them how your 44 cents would be spent. That answer may bt given in many forms, most of costume jewelery ,blauses, handkerchicfs, ete. If you want amcm!orbuâ€"‘!‘hnmmms,hmoau suils, ceats, oter. We‘d like to help you select your gift. If you are at wits end trying to select an appropriate gift to give or send her for Sunday, Mother‘s Day, just rememâ€" ber the little store THAT carries so many small acecessories to feminine attire, snch as hats, purses, artilicial flowers, "The British can take it," we know. But surely the answer to that outâ€" worn cliche should now be "Why In this war, and especially at this stage of the war, the real military obâ€" Jective is that intangible element known as morale, and here, at all events, the enemy‘s reserves are not at all formidable. He himself is atâ€" tacking our morale by atiempting to destroy our ports, but being no less satisfied if he can destroy the homes and break the will of those who love in these ports. In this German straâ€" tegy is probably sound. It is German psychology that is faulty. In the last war, to the spring of 1918 we had spent only $877,271,000, not s much more than half the cost of a t ‘ single year in this war of machinery. s We maintained the army, much larger : | than the active service list of the preâ€" lsent war, at a fraction of the present . cost. /‘ To help pay for this we shall have _ to devote something around 4,000,000,â€" . | 000 working hours in the present year _ to the war in Canada. This is another / way of saying that the war will occupy of our time. When you go to bed at night you can reckon if you l are an average Canadian that you have labored about 3 hours and 31! _ minutes for the war. Anâ€"average Briâ€" _ tisher spends 4 hours and 45 minutes ! in warwork. The average German spends more. | The Government will find means of taking your labor whether you know it or not. It will tax youâ€"visibly and invisablyâ€"and ask you to loan your money to those who stand in the, frontâ€"line, on the deck or at the lathe.‘ All of us are working in the war and the way that Mr. Ilsley keeps raising _his figures of cost, it indicates that your 3 hours and 31 minutes will cerâ€" tainly be increased. s | C : % The Germans, in other words, ars now just accumulating vast reserves of material, some substantial part of which they could afford to see wreck>2»d without dismay, and even with some satisfaction if thereby they are deludâ€" ing us to leave their really vulnerable spots untouched. Everything that helps to hamper or disrupt the enemy‘s war machin»s is certainly helpful.. But are the diviâ€" dends we are getting from our efforts now really adéquate? May we not be overlooking that, with the war remainâ€" ing in a static condition, the German machine is no longer feverishly turnâ€" ing to meet the urgent dayâ€"toâ€"day needs of its armies, but that it is now producing well in excess of any imâ€" mediate requirements? But your own air correspondent, has, I think, rightly sensed the growinz impatience and even resentment about the "piecemeal" character of our preâ€" sent onslaughts, as well as about the scrupulous orthodoxy which seeks to limit our attacks to "military objecâ€" tives." (A Letter to the Editor of the London Daily Telegraph) Sir‘ So long as men like Churchill, Sinclair and Portal are in charge, the public will ‘be satisfied that, given at last a sufficiency of material, the very spirit of the offensive will inspire our bombing policy. Urges that Nazidom Be Hit at Its Heart 000,000 to aid Britain. We shall spend 6 cents out of every dollar we earn this year on the state. on one of his Rushville, Ind., farms where he is vacationing for 10 days before returning to New York to enter private.law practice, Wendell Willkie looks over a prize Yorkshire sow. The animal was sent to Provincial Police Bring Madman from Bush on Wednesday Man is Committed to An Institution by Magistrate Atkinson on Wednesday Morning. Pilots and observers are required to have their junior matriculation or the equivalent in mathematics and physics. The qualifications of an air gunner are that he must have completed two successful years of high school. The men wanted at the recruiting station here are pllots, observers, wireless operators, air gunners and fabric workers. One qualification that is important in all of the branches is good eyssight. The education qualifications stopped a lot of recruils. Some people think that if the air force needed men they would lower the education standards but it was pointed out that this canâ€" not be done. The job of flying a plane is a highly scientific one and is done mostly by instrumsnt. A pilot must have a good education to properly read the instrument panel. Interviews at the â€" R.C.A.F. Mobile Unit A large number of the men interâ€" viewed were examined the last time the unit was here and had returned to complete their examination. Most of the applicants that were turned down here were turned down because of poor eyesight, an ailmént that he thought might posibly be caused by working underground in the mines. Quite a number of men have dropped into the recruiting offices and have taken their examinations and are now waiting for their call. The number of men applying here compares favourâ€" ably with other centres, he said. Flyinzg Officer R. W. Barton, in charge of the RCAIF. Mobile Unit that is stationed in Timmins this week told The Advance yesterday that he was satisfied with the results that are being cbtained from the,trip to Timâ€" mins. Number of Applicants Turnâ€" ed Down Because of Deâ€" fective Eyesight. Large Number of The news that Borlin had been really badly mauled would do more than anything to relight the beacon of hope throughout oppressed Rurope. Many of us hold that a ruthless and sustained attack on Berlin should now take priority of all these routine visiâ€" tations to refinsries and invasion ports and similar "military cbjectives." Such a view springs from cold calculation and in no sense from revenge. Naziâ€" dom nseds to be hit hard and often at its heart. Only in this way can its prestigeâ€"and it is the unmasked presâ€" tize of the ruthless brute that has been the cause of most of its successes to date, and the very keyâ€"pin of its surâ€" vival â€" be brought crashing. And brought crashing early. shouldâ€"they?" In any case, they would like: to hear that the German people were sayingâ€"though in truth they never willâ€"‘"we Germans can take it, too." Guildford. EDGAR WILBERFEOTE. him by Majorâ€"Gen. J. A. Gunn,‘ president of the Canadian Legion War Services, for whose great openâ€" ing mass meeting Mr., .Willkle came to Toronto reâ€" cently. Reliable British sources report that German sub losses have recently been heavy. The announcement is unusual as the Admiralty has been following a policy of keeping the losses secret in an attempt to undermine the morale of the crews of other submarines. Try the Advance Madame Gabriel Bonneau, wife of the former French charge d‘afâ€" faires in Afghanistan, is in Canada with her two sons, Raphael, five, shown here, and Michael, four. Her husband enlisted with the British Middle East forces after the colâ€" lapse of France, and is now serving somewhere in s | â€"_Mr.â€"D. B. Lawley, supervisor of Field Services for Ontario for the Canadian Institute for the Blind, is in town this week in connection with the annual ' campaign for â€" the Institute. Mr. Lawley is accompanied by Dr. S. A. Saunders, ‘Ph. D., winner of the $1,000 prize for _his essay on the "Economy Welfare of the Maritime Provinces‘" in 1931. He was also the first holder of the Maur- ice Cody Memorial â€"Fellowship and served as an expert on the staff cof the Sirois Commission. He is now atâ€" tached to the staff of the ,Institute,l having lost his sight after a brilliant career which he is continuing despite the hardship. Dr. Saunders will give a number of addresses here to service clubs and other: organizations during his visit here. Mr. Lawley‘s hosts of friends here welcome him back to Timâ€" mins and district. Mr. A. B. Howe, of North BRay, is also in town this week doing case work for the Institute. This work was formerly done by Mr. Lawley, but the fact that he has given it over to Mr. Hows does not mean that Mr. Lawley‘s welcome visits here will cease, as he Wlll continue coming hére for the campaigns and for other purposes, and so the change means that hereafter the blind and the genâ€" eral public will have two special friends cocming here instead of one. Planning Annual Campaign for the Institute for Blind At the conclusion of the court yesâ€" terday morning Magistrate Atkinson examined the man and then comâ€" mitted him to an institution. Pending his transfer to the asylum it was arâ€" ranged that he stay in St. Mary‘s Hospital. It was claimed by police that the man was suffering from.advanced stages of a vengreal disease and that possibly it was that condition. that drove him insane. to get any slsep as they had, to hold onto the,. man and keep him from out of the window again. _ the morning thn man wa.., handâ€" cuffed and a repe was tied about his waist and the long trip back to .the_ car started. After reaching the car the officers proce°ded back .to Timâ€" mins and lodged their prisoner in the Timmins jail, . ; GERMAN SUBMARINE LOSSES HEAVY . B. Lawley Accompanied by Dr. S. A. Saunders, Ph.D. To Live Here Want Advertisements Sonny â€" Aw, Grandpa‘s trying to show Pop how to do my homework.â€" CHlobe and Mail. Toronto Telegramâ€"A political writer has to weigh his words. He can‘t claim that he was misquoted after his article appears in print. Motherâ€"What in the world is all this talking and arguing about in the livingâ€"room? Coroner A. S. McCaig estimated the remains were from three to six months old. He would not estimate the age of the victim. The arm and leg had been doubled into the box, which measâ€" ured 29 inches by six inches. The box was identified by the service eclub members as one they had collectâ€" ed, but they didn‘t r.e‘:all where it came from. policeâ€"said. The remains are being sent to Dr. E. R. Frankish, of the Onâ€" tario Attorneyâ€"General‘s Department for examination. The body was scrap yard yesterc police did not rev toâ€"day. One leg, 01 the head had been at firstâ€"class mystery with the discovâ€" ery of part of the body of an unidenâ€" tified woman jammed into a metal box which was picked up by members Oof a local service club which has been colâ€" lecting scrap in the city and turning proceeds over to the Red Cross. The body was discovered in the Find Part of Woman‘s Body Among Salvaged Scrap the barrier between occupied and unâ€" occupied France it was announced last night. The price that France is exâ€" pected to pay is reâ€"organization of the French cabinet along German lines. This would probably mean the return of Pierre: Laval to the cabinet. BARRIER IN FRANCE IS REMOVED British forces in Ethiopia announced the capture of a large number of Itaâ€" lian prisoners including an Italian General. The name of the General was not given The capture is reported to have been made on the Addis Ababâ€" baâ€"Asmara rogd. ' (Special)â€"Sault police were faced w‘th that have been seized and equipped with devices that would offer protecâ€" tion against magnetie mines. The United States Navy expects to have 58 new auxiliary vessels by Augâ€" ust l1st. The cost of the vessels is exâ€" pected to be about $350,000,000. Most of them wiil be foreign merchantmen Even if the company goss to camp earlier than expected they will be fully equipped before they leave. It is unâ€" derstood that the summer uniforms have arrived and will be issued shortly. The men will go to Toronto and from there they will be transferred to any unit that they wish to join. There was no definite word recelved at the armouriee yet regarding the date for the local company to go to camp.. A dispatch appeared in a Souâ€" thern Ontarie paper this week to the effect that the local company would be going to camp with the first bunch of recruits this summer. If that is true it would see the local company going to camp on June 22nd instead of the midâ€" dle of August as has been planned. _ Eight Timmins men left on Tuesday for Military ‘District No. 2 headquartâ€" ers at Toronto to join the Canadian Army. ~‘This is the first bunch of men to leave this week. The following Are the men: L. O. Joncas, T. E. Kennedy, A. V. Nelson, F. Savage, A. B. A. VanRassel, all of Timmins; F. M. Miner, G. H. Martin, of South Porcupine; K .D. Cavanagh, of Schumacher. STATES WANTS 58 AUXILIARIES The @ermans have agreed to open IFALIAN GENERAL CAPTURED Five From. Timmins, Eight More Men Left on Tuesday For Canadian Army er. From South â€" Porcupine and Oneé From Schumachâ€" reveal ay afternoon, | ‘al the fact ur e arm and part placed in the b Henry Hollandsâ€"Hurst, widely known among the mining men of the North, Aand esteemed by all who knew him, died suddenly at his home at Haileyâ€" bury on Friday last. He had been in apparent good health during the morning and had planned a trip to Kirkland Lake in the afternoon, but collapsed at noon just as he was preâ€" paring for lunch. He was born at Rochester, England, in 1890, and went first to Nigaria, following the profesâ€" sion of mining. He came to Canada in 1908, being with several mines in that camp, and later being connected. with mines at South Lorrains, Kirkland Lake, and Ramore. Being a reservist in the Imperal Arlillery he went to England in 1914 to‘ join the Imperial forces. He was severely wounded the _ _The Advance suggests therefore that | P"C‘CSS!0n in. t _all who have received a medical boara | _ The funeral ruling and have not been granted a | Tésidence at ‘pension, interview W. A. Devine, pen.â€" | Pleasant ceme sion officer, at the Legion â€"hall, on ; Rev Friday and Saturday evenings, crithe service. The late Mr: Phone 962â€"w. H. Hollandsâ€"Hurst, Veteran of Last War, D1es Sudâ€" denly at Halleybury Another Pioneer of the North Passes On _has asked The Advance to assist these _men by asking all in receipt. of a board ruling to note the "90 days‘" clause for a reâ€"hearing of their case if they so desire. Recently some of the men have interviewed W. A. Devine in the matter of an appeal of the oriâ€" ‘ginal board ruling, after the 90â€"day period has elapsedâ€"in some instances to the extent of double that length of time. The government ruling defiâ€" nitely states that failing an appeal for second hearing, within 90 days of receipt of this finding, no further acâ€" tion can be taken to secure a hearing. The Canadian Legion Service Bureau have been able, however, in some outâ€" standing definite cases where the disâ€" ability has become more severe to seâ€" cure a reâ€"hearing for the man after the elapsed time. _ At the present time there are several ‘men in the district who for some reaâ€" son or another have received their discharge from the Active Forces of the present war. Before the discharge is given the soldier is given a medical examination, and the ruling of the examining board is forwarded to the man after due consideration. The memorandum states clearly the disâ€" ability and if of preâ€"enlistment origin., W. A. Devine pension officer for the local branch of the Canadian Legion, Only 90 Days to â€" Appeal Findings in Discharge Cases Soldiers Should Make Parâ€" ticular Note of This Clause. _ Then came the great night. The actors were ready, the stage was ready, the tickets were all sold; everything was perfectâ€"except that the publlc did not appear. German kulturâ€"was booked for perâ€" formances in Trondheim, the propaâ€" ganda department made great efforts to ensure a tremendous success. Adâ€" vance publicity of every kind was carâ€" ried on for weeks with German thorâ€" oughness, and with results intensély gratifying to both the box office and the propaganda ministry. Every seat in the Trondelag Theatre was sold out days before the performance! It seems that when this companyâ€" touring Norway as part of the Nazi campaign to win ‘over Norweglans to ns Ha ' ve Laugh > at Expense of Actors given to a visiting troupe of German (News of Norway) The whole city of Trondheim ia still laughing over the recoaption recently The late Mr. Hollandsâ€"Hurst is surâ€" vived by his wife (formerly Miss Joan Powell of Barrie) and one son, Philip, and a daughter, Sally, at home. His mother still lives at Walton England, and a brother, William, and a sister, Mrs. Harry Ridge, also reside in Engâ€" The funeral on Sunday from his late residence at Haileybury to Mount iPleasant cemetery was very largely it stt d STEAMSHIP OFFICE 20 Pine St. N., Timmins, Phone 1135 and 40 Main St., South Porcupinc, Phone 285 same year in action in France. some years past he has been acting in consulting capacity in the mining profession in the North. London people, the other victims of the Hun‘s savagery have never been overlooked. This is an added reason for giving to the Bombed Victims‘ Pund. There can not be too ‘ much money as the calls are so many and so widespread. REAL ESTATE _ INSURANCER ~â€"Belfast and Glasgow were two ‘of the British cities to suffer very‘ severely from Hun air raids this week. It will interest local people to know that there was very speedy help for the people who were victims of the Hun raids. At cnce the Bomb Victims‘ Fund forâ€" warded money to Belfast and Glasgow. Although often referred to as The Tord Mayor of London‘s Air Raid Fund, the Bombed Victims Fund is for use in any emergency due to air raids anywhere in the British Isles and has been so used from the beginning. Tt is true that London has been a very seriâ€" ous â€"sufferer from the air raids, bet while all possible has been done for Belfast, Glasgow and Other Cities Share in the Fund Sale of Flowers by Welsh Society Nets Over $160.00 sociation who took up a collection at their Easter supper for the Fund, subâ€" scribing $75.00. St. David‘s Welsh Society, $160.32. Canadian Ukrainian Prosvita Assoâ€" clation, $75.00. Behw is the latest. list of donations the Tinmins Bomb Victims‘ Funda Itwmbenotedthatthereisavery generous subscription from the 5t. David‘s Welish â€"Society. This amount is the returns from the sale of flowers made by the ladies of the Society who worked patiently and very skilfully on the making of these flowers, which were the delight of all who saw the display of these beautful and artistic creations. Another special contribution was for the Canadian Ukrainian Prosvita Asâ€" macher, and South Porcupine, for commercial â€" buil apartment houses, new homes, and improvements. Paid back by monthly payments over a nuniber of years. Available in Timmins, Schuâ€" Mrs. J. Ormston, Mrs. Shaw, $30 Mr. W. H. Pritchard, $25.00. Italian Canadian Society,"} $16.50. H. Rowland, $5.00. Mrs. J. Duff, $2.00. Pearl Lake Hotel, $2.00. J. Ormston, $2.00. On. First Mortgages . Fr. Lasalle conducted

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