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TIMMINS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association TWO PHONESâ€"26 and 2020 Published Every Thursday by GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: Canadaâ€"$2.00 Per Year. United Statesâ€"$3.00 Per Year. Timmins, Ont., Thursday, Aug. 28th, 1941 WNOWM’W““M' Mr. W. M. Whyte, affectionately known in reâ€" cent years as ‘"Dad" to a constantly growing list of friends and admirers, passed to a higher land last week. He was within close reach of his nineâ€" tieth year when death called him. But it was not the length of his years that was truly remarkâ€" able, but the usefulness, the goodness of his long life. If he had any enemies, he outlived them all, but he leaves a wide circle of friends to mourn his passing for he was making friends until the very day of his death. That was the type of man he was. And that, perhaps, would be the epitaph he would himself prize mostâ€"and merit most. His long life had much of interest, even of adventure, but he had developed so calm and quiet a philoâ€" sophy of life that it is not easy to picture him in RAGE PoOUR the hurlyâ€"burly of life. Yet he was one of the pioâ€" neers of the North, facing all the difficulties and hnardships and dangers as just an ordinary part of life. In his later years he enjoyed a wellâ€"earned retirement, but he had given his full share of activity and energy to two of the generations of his long day. He served faithfully and well in business and in public service.. The active section of his life would be a credit and an honour for any man, and the way he employed the more leisured days of his later life was equally laudable. He kept his heart young, and his mind kept the heart company in its enthusiasm and freshness. In his mental power and discernment the end came with the strength of youth still reigning. The years could only take toll of the body. A man of educaâ€" tion and culture, unusually well read, and with high ideals, he developed a philosophy of life and a faith that proved of benefit and blessing to a wide circle. He was a recognized authority on the Scottish poet, Robert Burns, and his addresses on the life and work of the Bard of Scotland, were eagerly acclaimed by Scottish societies, service clubs and others in the North. He was very proud of his Scottish descent, and Scots in turn were proud of him for he exemplified the virtues of honâ€" our, independence, industry and high ideals that have distinguished the worthy sons of the Heaâ€" thery Isle. In Oddfeliowship the late Mr. Whyte found a rule of life that made particular appeal to him. The three links, "Friendship, Love and Truth." were his ideals, and his own life was an exempliâ€" fication of how nobly they can be put into practice. In Scottish circles and in Oddfellowship, he will be greatly missed, but he will be missed in an even wider sphere, for the influence of such a man through such a long life so well lived can not fail to leave its certain mark, and his passing, howâ€" ever much to be expected, is still the departure of a good friend. After being nagged for months by a group of newspapers and public men to go to England to confer with Premier Churchill on war matters, and after persistently refusing to do so on the plea that Candgda would fall into a thousand pieces if he left it for a moment (though it got along all right in the last war), Hon. Wm. Lyon Mackenzie King, Premier of Canada, last weekj got up on his hind legs and flew to England. And what happened. Well, when he started to address those soldiers from Canada on duty in England, they greeted him with "Boo!" and "Booâ€"Hoo!" The representative of a certain or uncertain Toâ€" ronto newspaper who no doubt slept on the footâ€" stool of the premier on the trip across the briny, stoutly maintains that the soldiers didn‘t really "Boo‘"‘ the premierâ€"not nasty, mean, rough "Booes!" like what would be given in a gathering of healthy men who had reason to show their disâ€" pleasure, but rather sort of baby "Booes"â€"very small baby at thatâ€"and given just in pure fun. The Globe and Mail however is sure they were loud and lusty "Booes!" given from full hearts and nauseated stomachs. To read between the lines of The Toronto Telegram there were chorus after chorus of three "booes" and a long "hoo," three dots and a dash as it were, signifying Victory for Britain, no matter what difficulties may stand in the way. # Now there is a threeâ€"concerned argument as to why the soldiers of Canada booed the premier of the Dominion. The certain or uncertain Toronto newspaper suggests that Canadian soldiers are a rough, uncouth, disorderly bunch, anyway. It says that a public man has to be "tough" and "courageous‘" to attempt to address any gathering of Canadian soldiers. This is the meanest form of malicious slander. Any sincere man with an honâ€" est record need never fear a gathering of soldiers. Any loyal man who has had the pleasure of adâ€" dressing them can verify that fact. But it is a very unwise man who attempts to "kid the troops." Canadian soldiers overseas are simpiy the pick of the manhood of Canada, and, though neither rough or uncouth, it is a difficult thing to put anything over them. They know how to face bull as well as bullets, and whatever the weapons used against Cbke Advanee PASSING OF A NOBLE MAN POOHâ€"POOHING BOOâ€"HOO! them, they will give back a little better than they receive. It was presumption on the part of the premier to imagine that his part of a party govâ€" ernment could have them hitchâ€"hiking home on leaves and going around without proper boots or coats, and landing overseas without the right equipment, and that after all this they wouldn‘t say "Boo" to him the first chance they had. The Globe and Mail in an editorial on the trip of the premier overseas, indicates, perhaps unconâ€" sciously, a sufficient reason for three dotty "booes" and one dashed "boo." The Globe and Mail says that the premier excluded from the air trip to England tihÂ¥e representatives of every newspaper in Canada except that of the bond slave of the perâ€" sonal little part of a part of a party in the pocket of Mr. King. This flagrant piece of political pettiâ€" ness jars the good old Globe, but it is the full meaâ€" sure of the premier‘s whole attitude to the war. He has insisted on his little part of a part of a party taking full control and if there are not enough of them active enough the war ijust had to wait. That attitude surely explains why the soldiers "booâ€"ed". The sdldiers overseas know betterâ€"they know this is a war of all, for allâ€" they know it is a matter of life and death not silly, selfish party rot. There has been a tendency at home to do a little "booâ€"ing‘"‘ on the same score. The most of the stayâ€"atâ€"homes, however, have lacked the courags to do the proper amount of "booâ€"ing."‘ In too many cases they have been silenced by the senseless cry that the governmnt should not be criticizedaâ€"that it is close to disloyalty to find fault with a part of a part of a party in a time of war. Of course, even the blind partisans of a part of a part of a party realize it would be senseless to call the soldiers overseas disloyal, when they have offered their lives as pledge of their fealty. So, instead, they are termed a rowdy lot of fellows with a perverted sense of humour. The answer to that one should be a resounding "Boo! Boo! Boo!" and a long, long Hoo here at home. As might be expected in this particular conflict of the nations more than a couple of weeks should not pass without a new war starting. This time it is Iran, the rich oil country, that has invited hostiliâ€" wes. It is difficult to understand the attitude of these soâ€"called neutral countries. There has been example after example for them to see that they have not even a hope of life from the Nazis, yet they all appear to think that Britain and her Alâ€" lies will stand anything from them while they can hold off the Nazis at least for a time. Turkey seems now to be following this senseless proâ€" gramme, despite the doom of every other nation attempting it. The only hope for Iran‘s welfare is that the British and Russians will overâ€"run it in a few days and save it from its own folly in giving the Germans a foothold. Had all the smaller naâ€" tions combined at the outset of the war, few, if any of them, could have been conquered. Instead they assisted in every possible way in the workâ€" ing of Hitler‘s plan of "one by one."‘ The British and Russians are apparently going to rescue Iran from the fate of the others who were foolish enough to place any trust in Germany. The Department of Mines of British Columbia reports that a moustache on the face of a worker in an industry where silicosis is an occupational disease reduces the hazard of contracting this form of lung trouble. The suggestion is seriously made that the hairy ornament acts as a filtering device as it were, and thus is a preventative in a measure of silicosis. The larger the moustache the more it acts as a filter. If the theory is correct it opens up a wide field for speculation. In the future, is it possible that the Workmen‘s Compenâ€" sation Board will have a hirsute specialist to examâ€" ine men for incipient moustaches as well as mediâ€" cal men to sound them for possible lung trouble? Again, it may be asked if the fact that so few nowâ€" adays sport moustaches has any connection with the truth that there is more heard toâ€"day about silicosis than in the years gone by? Was there more than vanity or old land custom in the flowing ntroustaches that some Austrians working in the mines used to wear in the early days? Had they a knowledge, conscious or traditional that mouâ€" staches were good for mine workers? Many will remember "Big John," an Austrian working here some years ago in local mines. His moustache had a sweep that threatened a wide area. It would be an irony if he succumbed to silicosis, as some of his fellow countrymen did. Of course, there is little real matter for humour in regard to silicosis. If growing moustaches would reduce the risk there should be a general revival of that form of face ornament in this country. Still stands the motto of the King:â€" "Put into your task whatever it may be all the courage and purpose of which you are capable. Keep your hearts proud and your resolve unshakâ€" en. Let us go forward to that task as one man, a smile on our lips and our heads held high, and with God‘s help we shall not ftail." The New Liskeard Speaker has the honour of winning the trophy awarded by the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association for the best apâ€" pearing front page of any Canadian weekly in its range of circulation. In congratuilating The Speaker, it may not be amiss to state that it is doubtful if any other section of Canada can boast six community newspapers published in adjacent territories that maintain as high a general stanâ€" dard of excellence and service as the six that serve this North Land. THE PORCUPINXE ADVANCE, TTMMINS, ONTARIO Radio announcers and others are having a little difficulty with the pronunciation of the name of the general of the British forces in the Eastâ€"Genâ€" eral Auchinleck. A man appearing in a Toronto police court years ago when asked his name, reâ€" plied "Thiman Thaw‘". A constable interrupted with the explanation, "His name, your worship, is Simon Shaw."‘ "Surely a man ought to know how to pronounce his own name," replied the magisâ€" trate. If General Auchinleck were asked to proâ€" nounce his name he would likely make it sound like "Affleck," Auchinleck has been the family estate of the Boswell family for hundreds of years. Whenever James Boswell, the great biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnston, had occasion to mention the name in his writings, he usually added in bracâ€" kets "(pronounced Affleck)". Another example of Scottish prodigality with letters and frugality with syllables is Kirkcudbright (pronounced Kircawdy) There are a number of similar oddiâ€" ties in English names. For example "Cholmonâ€" deley" is pronounced ‘Chumley.‘ All who visited the Timmins Horticultural Soâ€" ciety exhibition in the McIntyre arena this week were astonished at the remarkable display of flowâ€" ers and vegetables grown in this North. It is true that the handsome building added much to the effectiveness of the display, and that those designâ€" ing and arranging the exhibits in their artistry increased the attractiveness of the exhibition, but the fact remains that the beauty and perfection of the flowers and the size and quality of the vegeâ€" tables was such as would find few equals anyâ€" where else in Canada. Mayor Brunette voiced a common opinion when he expressed regret that all in the South could not be present to see what plied "Thiman Thaw‘". A constable interrupted with the explanation, "His name, your worship, is Simon Shaw."‘ "Surely a man ought to know how to pronounce his own name," replied the magisâ€" trate. If General Auchinleck were asked to proâ€" nounce his name he would likely make it sound like "Affleck," Auchinleck has been the family estate of the Boswell family for hundreds of years. Whenever James Boswell, the great biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnston, had occasion to mention the name in his writings, he usually added in bracâ€" kets "(pronounced Affleck)". Another example of Scottish prodigality with letters and frugality with syllables is Kirkcudbright (pronounced Kircawdy) There are a number of similar oddiâ€"| the North had done. While the South can not be ties in English names. For example "Cholmonâ€"| brought here to see such exhibits, it might be deley" is pronounced ‘Chumley.‘ worth while another year to take the exhibits * * * south as an advertisement for this North. Plans The Northern Tribune suggests that Canadiani might be started now to have a representative soldiers in training, with all equipment of tanks, North Land exhibit of flowers and vegetables at trucks and whatâ€"notâ€" be given the manoeuvre of a the National Exhibition at Toronto. n en s on ce mm n un n on omm mm mss um c c ue copmemmmnn o . ce on Why Do People Enjoy Holidays in the Country? Columnist Answers That Question and Raises Many Others. "Why are people so keen on vacaâ€" tions?" is ‘the question asked by Thomas Richard Henry in his column in The Toronto Telegram. It will be noted, however, that he asks the quesâ€" tion after returning from his vacation and not before... That suggests another question, "Why do vacationists worry about the folly of vacations after the holiday, and not when something coulq ‘be done about it?" But le} Thomas Richard Henry tell his own story in his own wayâ€"this way :â€" c Melancholy Day That melancholy day has come again â€"the day we come back to what we whimsically refer to as work, after our summer vacation. It usually comes just at the close of the mosquito season, and at the start of the sneeze season, and it is at that time, and not a New Year‘s, that we make our resolutions to perform great deeds: in;the winter that is fast apâ€" proaching. It is always a day of somewha sombre setting. Fortuna:ely however we always feel it necessary to.take a few days to rest up after our holidays, and before we get fully rested up we have forgotten about our resolutions. Holidays We oftéen wonder why we are ._o keen on vacations. In our early youth we had to use coal oil lamps because there was no electricity. We had to carry water from pump. We had to get up in the cool of morning and hunt wood to light fire before breakfast. There were no small neat little buildâ€" ings nestling behind the house in which to keep a car. The litile buildâ€" ings were there but they were not to house cars. All these things we put up with in our youth because we had no choice. Now we leave all the comforts and conveniences of city life and pay good money so that we can put up with these inconveniences again. It seems a litâ€" tle foolish, but we â€"do bring back a ferw memories which help to fill that first difficult column after a layoff. Revenge Up on a Haliburton Lake we almost were a hero. in our beauty sleep when we were sudâ€"! Observe the Canadian public makâ€" denly wide awake. ing sacrifices to save gasoline. A long drawn out cry for help, echoâ€" To a man and to a woman they reâ€" ing across the lake, had awakened us. fuse to take their cars out of their The first night we had just got deep in our beauty sleep when we were sudâ€" denly wide awake. From Director At the crucial moment of this manoeuvre . .. he the the We jumped out of bed, fell over a bench, stepped into a grocery basket containing eggs, and battled with the screen doorâ€"but finally fought clear of all obstacles and were outside ready to give effective help to whoever might be in trouble. But we had our revenge. A few nights later we joined with others around a camp fire and sent "Sweet Adeline" and ‘"The Portland County Jail" right back at the loons. We think they got the worst of it. It Was Always Thus And then there was Junior. We tempted him with black bass, fresh as an American in the Air Porce and fried to a lovely brownâ€"â€"but he didn‘t want any fish. It was then that the loon sent again his weird call wavering across the waterâ€"and we felt our way back to bed. It was this way all but the first day of our vacation. Junior didn‘t want any fish. So Sunday we drove back to Toronto and as the hour was late and there was no food in the house, we went to a restaurant for dinner. Junior studied the menu â€"for some time andâ€"yes, you gussed itâ€" He ordered lake trout. Mistaken Identity Then ‘there was the lady whose young son was subject to colds and whose husband was one of that kind of fishermen who sat out in a boat morning, noon and night, rain or shine, and just patiently fished. After one rainy day the lady wakened by the young son sneezing She got up, fumbled around in the dark until she found another blanket and put it over him. Later in the"~night she heard him sneeze again. This time there was no extra blanket so she gently borrowed. one from her husbhand and put it over the boy. In the morning she discovered that it was her husband who had been doâ€" ing the sneezing. And if you don‘t think that you could use more than one blanket up in that country this August, you are crazy. Au Revoir And so we regretfully leave the rough Haliburton shore line, the lake and the road that looks as if it just followâ€" ed the trail left by some inebriated Inâ€" dian chasing a grasshopper, for ans other year. They called the place we were stayâ€" ing "Sunâ€"Rise" but we don‘t know whethier it was appropriate or not. The two mornings it wasn‘t raining we didn‘t get up soon enough to see the sun rise. Sacrifice The Lord may love a cheerful giver, but we are not sure how He regards a sacrifice who laughs up his sleeve. of Public Information says ‘Pass the sugar‘!‘‘ route march across the unfinished piece of road between Hearst and Geraldton. Such a project would be a test of the ingenuity of the officers and men and also a stern trial for the war vehicles. It would not be necessary to go as far North as Hearst to find roads "just about finished" in this province of Ontario. the lady was garage except in exceptional cases as iâ€"To escape walking a couple of blocks. 2â€"To acqu distant relatt 3â€"To play 4â€"To avoid bâ€"To enjoy 6â€"To whilt appointments Except for these, and a couple of hundred othsr exceptions, the Canaâ€" dian people suffer and sacrifice themâ€" selves for freedom‘s cause by leaving their car in the garage. Even when it comes to getting up Sunday morning and driving to church, or giving their wife‘s cousin‘s family a ride home Sunday afternoon, they reâ€" solutely refuse to use gasoline that is needed for tanks and planes. â€"And for us, we would not think of driving a car to anything of less importance than a bowling game. Russia â€" Fights On In this life we must frequently reâ€" vise our values. We find Russia rocking under the heaviest ‘blows that Germany can strike, but reeling back into the fight after every blow. They are staying in there and fightâ€" ing back in a way that must make French leaders blush, for France, long before she had taken anything like the amount of punishment the Rusâ€" sians have taken, was scuttling before the Germans with ears down and tail between the legs. This army that we thought would be lumbering and ineffeclive is staining Russian rivers red with blood, and. a lot of it is Germzn blood. Then the French howled about sayâ€" ing their honour and pleaded with the Germans to save their skins, We don‘t know how much of Russia Canada‘s Navy, Army and Air Force will give you a "ringâ€"side seat" for today‘s war of swift, smashing movement. Canadianâ€"built fighting machines gothrough gruelling tests on a specially constructed "battleâ€" feld". Guns and shells and pther tools of war will be finished and shipped to Empire armies. Humbled Messerschmitts from the Battle (*~% of Britain will be on display. @ In spite of submarines and Nazi "statistics"â€"in defiance of bombs and bombastâ€"you‘ll see eyeâ€"openâ€" ing exhibits from all around the world! Canada‘s greatest Exhibiâ€" tion brings you a dramatic picture of life today in a warâ€"torn world. SEE Canada‘s Fighting Men in Action‘! acquire a free meal with a ‘elative, play golf. avoid riding on a street car. enjoy the evening air, or, while away an hour between . . « BRITAIN . . . FREE FRANCE . .. and the four corners of the world! Incidentally we thought one of th, recent announcements from Unoceuple France was quite characterisiic, will be unoccupied when the snotw come falling down, but whatever pa: is unoccupled will be Russia and wi not in any way resemble "Unoccupie France." It said that Pe‘ain was gOIng 1 an oath of allegiance from his po opponentsâ€"angd had arrested mc them as a preliminary step. "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" How France has swung from Our young daughter gave us a wor of advice recently. We were wearing a pair of thao white flannels that bowlers wear whe they want to feel ritzy. While not as gauzy as a lady‘s dresg white flannels are not as impervious tq light or not as concealing as red flan, nel underwear, for example. "Why don‘t you wear a slip?" our young daughter solemnly asked us. In Conclusion And so we have struggled through our first column after our vacation,. It is quite a new world that we haw: come back to discuss. Saturday, Hon. Mr. King, Premier of Canada, who is on a visit to England. met with a mixed reception of cheers and boos when he visited the Canadian troops in Britain. Even the fact that CGeneral McNaughton introduced the premier and stayed by him did not stop the booing by the soldiers who were giving evidence of their dissatisâ€" faction with the government war ef. fort. We see that Elsie the Moo ha placed Winnie the Poo in the affe« of many childrenâ€"and even Kin: gone to London. Troops Greet Premier With Boos and Cheers Official Explanation for Stopping "Slicing" The Order which ended the sale of sliced bread in Canada on August 11 applied to ‘bread in any form including bread rolls and any other rolls made from unsweetened dough, according to a statement issued by the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Cessation of the sale of sliced bread was ordered as a means of conserving labour and electric power and of avoidâ€" ing the additional cost of double wrapâ€" ping of sliced loaves. The purchase of slicing machinery is not only a factor in defterming the retail price of bread but, as a considerable portion of this slicing equipment is manufactured in the United ‘States, replacement would mean the expenditure of foreign exâ€" change now needed for the purchase of munitions ~Oof â€"war. In daring war with Great Brits and the United States while still bogg down in China, Japan has ignored c of the first essentials of a succe fighter. To wit: Never hit a man vyou‘re down!â€"North Bay Nugget. Try The Advance Want Advertisem Music Everywhere! On the conâ€" tinent‘s largest dance floor in the C.N.E. Dance Pavilion, you‘ll swing and sway to the rhythms of Tommy Dorsey, Guy Lombardo, Tony Pastor, Vaughan Monroe, Ina Ray Hutton, and The Modernaires. The U.S, Navy Band and hundreds o other outstanding musical organi zations will fill the Exhibition ain with grand, martial music! Indian Native Dances and Oldâ€"Time Fiddlers‘ Contests are part of the colour and charm of this Z2â€"week Wonderland. SEE Agriculture on a warâ€"timse basis; a Woman‘s World of Toâ€" morrow; sports classics every hour, every day, the brilliant C. N.E Horse Show. See it all and see it oftenâ€"the most dramatic, impor tant and inspiring hxhxlntlon G all time, THURsbaAY, aAUGUST 8TH, 19 H STRATEGY Advice ‘oing to qeig his politica ed most of t ms