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e t mmwmnmm:m : Quebec Newnpaper Association The present English language, rich in its desâ€" mmimwmmmago 1: 'fjmecentumatmmamtobe ut aAway roots of the English Innguage, it fluh ong before British ingenuity will be befiding wp more In behalf of basic English it is argued that foreigners would be able to learn this simplified language with very littla effort and in remarkably short time. Thus, in practically yo time at all, the: whole world would soon know basic English and the tower of Rabel would have no more place in the thought than it would have in basie English. That may be the fact. The troutile would be that it would be impossible to describe in basic English the difficulty that English people would have in translating their thoughts into basic English. For example, the famous words Of Prime Minister Churchill would be translated into bastc ‘English: â€"â€""I have notmng to offer you but blood, work, .tace water and eye wash." | < This basic English idea has been given a lot of. free publicity in the past few weeks. There are several reasons for this, apart from any merits. § Premier Churchill was supposed to say a wortd in its favour, and that setâ€"offâ€"arlot of folks. ‘These same people would likely go compleualy wild over the idea, if someone suggested it would mean a second front in Europe. It is a wonder (or is it?): that no one has risen up to cry out loudly that basi'q':' English should be adopted at once, because the English-speakmg world has fought so bravmely ’a,gainst Hitler and all his works. lish. :‘ A local Irishman assures The Advance that it was called Pigeon English because it was the native tongue of the English Spearrow. But that seems like a basic Irish insult, or something. No doufit the Charlady of Judith ‘Roebinsen‘s News would call "basic English" soemething like "bersek English." And sometimes the Chatlady hits it off very nicely, thank you. ' Instead of.being new, basic Mslg has been in use literally for centuries allâ€"/pver the world. Literally thousands of people in ‘all parts of the globe have made themselves more or less underâ€" stood through its use. They didn‘t call it basic English. It was known generally as Pigeon Engâ€" is "No!" and politicians who”knefi"'enly tvm S Yes!" There have been reporters who have known fkr less than 800 words, and those net the right ones. If the plan is td help out these lads, there would also have to ‘be sometmng done about basic 3penm8' o=: .""f Of course, what has upset so msany people in favour of basic English is that. old idea that it is new. From sad knowledge and bitter experience The Advance can state [positively that there is nothing new about this soâ€"called bastc En'g'lish proâ€" position. Already, there are altagether too â€"many people who can only speak basic English, and not too filuently at that. There have been bankers.who appeared to be restricted :to anly one wond â€"apdâ€"that. Basic English is being hailed as a. plan whereby the aforesaid basic English may ‘become a sort of world language. It is claimed that English, is one of the casiest languages in the world to learn, though the claimants do not prove anything of the sort in their own right. Starting with the idea that English is basically much easier to learn than. French . or Russian or Chinese or Kindustani, the claimants proceed to prove to tzmmseives that all that is is to simplify: the langna.ge and then anybody could learn it all any Wednesday halfâ€" holiday. Instead of having 38,00D0‘ words, like a dictionary, the ordinary man would be: expected to. get along with some 800, just as he was expected to. get along with a single ipair of pants until this week when the law was changed. In the language of the day, the idea is to ration words, without coupons. There would be just so many nouns and »o more, after the plan of the meat ration. â€" In the same way that a fellow toâ€"day can have only so: many cups of tea in a month, so under basic Engâ€" lish he would have only about so many verbs with. which to water his thoughts. Adjectives, like suâ€" gar, would be measured out with miserly hand, and| adverbs would be as scarce as gaspline. Deponent sayeth not whether it would bera crime or not for neighbours to swap a word or two for which they had no use for a couple of others to sweeten conâ€"| versation. . A lot of people these days al:e wmg abeut "basic English," and whenever you find: a lot of Deople talking about anything you ave sure to find some newspapers writing about it, what%ver it may be. Donald Gordon of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board hasn‘t rationed talk or writing yet, thoug'h some departments of the Government have gone quite a way along that line. In the meanâ€" time, however, talking or about basic Engâ€" lish is just as lawitul as having cuffs on your trouâ€" sers or two pairs of pants to your suit. Timmins, Ont., Thursday, Sept.29th, 1948 Mkhideathatmmago If| W uries of growth are to be cut away phe| big 'tmmmmm.itfluua Brlfi’sh ~ingenuity will ‘be bafidin o l TWO PHONMBSBâ€"3» and 2020 ., week was one sign. The suggestion that $8.00 a ,| month ‘be paid for every child in the Dominion was possible sign. Returning a pair of pants â€" toalototmenintheDommionandrepewngthe i law ‘that miade it a crime to bhave cuffs on pants 1 : W be considered as other signs. Possibly, the Ei sany whether there will be an election this year or ':‘Mnmtaamdemtelymtberernethe- mmmmnbtbeanethisyear Of course, there should not be a election this year. tion to the board‘s ruling that friends or neighâ€" | bours could not share each other‘s rations. This | ruling is, one of the apparently unnecessary and Arritating bureaucratic restrictions that have added to the difficulties of the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. / If all the heads of all the ration boards in «Canada send in their true opinions of this sort of regulation, the mails will be carrying a lot of inâ€" flammable material to Ottawa this week. And j | next week is Fire Prevention Week all over the continent. The public reaction to the bureaucraâ€" . | tic type of rulings is definitely unfavourable. Peoâ€" ‘ple are ready to sacrifice if it will} help the war : ‘effort, but they have a congenital disincelination to â€"wearing hair shirts simply to please some abâ€" | The public naturally resents the implication that i ! the bureau is not only telling them what they may | have and how much but also who is to consume it. The public feels that the individual is entitled to |:the tea or coffee or meat or honey on his or her ration card, and that all this has been arranged so that none go without. If one member of a family | goes withoutâ€"some article simply that another may have the item, that appears to be a personal proâ€" blem only. It would be most deplorable if the ‘Wartime Prices and Trade Board worked against sacrifice and sharing with each other. Of course everyone recognizes the danger of black markets developing from any laxity in the use of c?upons. For the proper enforcement of the rationing laws the sympathy of the public is essential and well worth gseeking. ~At the outset the Wartime Prices |{and Trade Board had this sympathy and coâ€"operâ€" ation, and they can have it again. But for this ‘desired end, it is essential that the people feel that | the observance of regulations is helpful and not merely restrictions to satisfy some bureaucrat. Mir. Donald Gordon started with the very apparent ‘intention of preventing inflation. It is doubtful if _he received much support from the government. ~But he did have the people behind him at first, â€"and it looks as if they will again line up in honest | support of his department. Two of the irksome regulation4 in regard to men‘s clothing have been :rescinded this week. No longer is it a crime to have two pairs of pants or cuffs on the trousers. These restrictions caused more dissatisfaction and iÂ¥r ation than was desgirable, because ‘the people | irelt them unnecassary and useless. It was beâ€" Tieved that the only advantage was to some manuâ€" ‘facturers and that there was no saving of cloth ‘or anything else, but rather the reverse. ‘A someâ€" what similar view is held in reference to the swapâ€" ping of rationed goods in families or between| neighbours. It is honestly believed that no injusâ€" | tice or 1nequality results. It appears that Mr. Gorâ€" _done is anxious to know the mind and; will of the people and to govern himseif accordingly. His * > uC recent attitude seems to prove that he is only anxâ€" ; lous to accomplish what he set out to do, and thiat _he does not wish in any way to burden the public ‘or establish any dictatorial bureacracy. Because of this, there should be very general and generous support of Mr. Gordon and the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. In the main, the bureauhas been doing a really remarkable work. Let all rally beâ€"| hind Mr. Donald Gordon. That will be to the real benefit of all. sentâ€"minded individual with an easy chair in a | bureau. The public idea is that the purpose of: i| rationing is to provide for the equitable division of | rationed goods, but that:it is not the business of | the bureau to tell the individual how he or she ;| shall dispose of their lawful share of sugar, honey, | gasoline or pork chops. People will cheerfully go | without their accustomed â€"tea,; for instance, but i will resent the suggestion that to give part of their | sugar ration to their own baby or the neighbour‘s | baby or even the neighbour is any form of crime. ! a part of a party. There have been many signs that an election may be in the early offing. The conferenee of Liberal party workers in Ottawa last Is there to be an election this year for the Doâ€" minion House? One man‘s guess is as good as anâ€" other. Even Premier King does not know. He is guessing too. He is trying to guess whether there is any possible scheme by which he can spring an election with hope of any advantage to his part of it will mean new worda worse than "hospitalize‘" ;wmmcwpmrmaatummewm ue Advance u not necessarily against basic it tried out in government directives and bulletins from the bureaus before it is too hastily adopted. ‘It would be interesting for example, to see a cir- â€"cular to the rationing boards in basic English, on basic paper and in a basic envelope. J Newspapers have strange requests at times. There was one this week. A lady enquired for asâ€" bestos paper stout enough to withhold scorching, but thin enough to use for a sixâ€"page letter. The letter was to be a reply to a request from the Warâ€" time Prices and Trade Board for the public reacâ€" WILL THERE BE AN ELECTION? . THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMM:NS, ONTARIO _ "He had allowed Desroches‘ stateâ€" ment to be admitted as evidence, His ‘Lordship explained; the question as to whether or not the statement was volâ€" untary was one of law, and he had deâ€" cided that it should be placed before ‘the jury, But that was not conclusive. IWhfiethejurycoulantrejeetmem- ‘fession as incompetent, they were the sole judges of its truth. Bupposing the jury were to regard the statement as not containing the truth in whole or ‘part, they would in any case have to he formed the intent to shoot? the crime might be reduced from a greater to a lesser one. If the jury found that the mind of an accused perâ€" son was so obscured by drink that his reason was dethroned, and he was inâ€" capablé of forming intent, then the charge might be reduced to manâ€" slaughter. Drink might stir a man up to violent passion without dethroning his reason, and in that case he was not excused, or if a state of intoxication were wilfully produced to fortify the intent to shoot, he was not excused, as theâ€"intent was there. The quesion was When the gun was obtained, when the insane, but was drunkâ€"too drunk to form an intentâ€"if he committed the crime, it would be manslaughter, not murder. A person is not not excused from crime by reason of drunkenness, but if in isuch a state the category of "Our law does not recognize the deâ€" fence of irresistible impulse, His Lordâ€" ship stated. However, if the jury should find that the accused was. not ‘"The defence need not prove concluâ€" sively that the accused was insane, in the same manner that the Crown was required to prove its case, the judge exâ€" plained, but need only establish to the jury‘s satisfaction that the accused was insane or drunk, and that this condition existed at the time the action was comâ€" mitted, not necessarily now. "Explaining the Criminal Code definâ€" itions of murder, His Lordship emphaâ€" sized that in murder their must be inâ€" tent, and "As I saw it, the defence. does rot deny that the accused shot the deâ€" ceased, but without admitting it, claims that, if he did it, he was insane, or was so much under the influence of liquor his reason was dethroned and he was rendered incapable of :forming the inâ€" tent to kill." _ MLast week The Advance published the _excellent detailed report of The Cochâ€" rane Northland Post in reviewing the trial of Wilfred Desroches for the murâ€" der of Mrs. Alfreda April at Driftwood on July list. In view of the interest taken locally in this particularly bruâ€" tai crime, the detailed report appeared to be Last week The Cochâ€" rane Northland Post pointed out that the concluding sessions of the court tryâ€" ing Desroches were not reported in its previous issue, beyond the announceâ€" ment of the verdict and the sentence. The Cochrane Northland Post in its last week‘s issue deals with the judge‘s sumâ€" ming up and other features of this conâ€" cluding session of the court, and this report is jgiven herewith in The Adâ€" vance to complete the record: Masterly Address by Judge "In a masterly: twoâ€"hour address in which he held the scales with inflexible impartiality, speaking neither for nor against the prisoner. Mr. Justice Chevâ€" rier charged the jury on Friday mornâ€" ing as\the Desroches trial neared its end. "Both his ‘opening and closing reâ€" marks were designed to impress upon the jury the solemn obligations towards society and towards the accused inâ€" volved in their task. The power to de»â€" cide the guilt or innocence of the acâ€". cused rested solely in their hands, it was pointed out, while the power to interpret the law and to apply it rested with the judge alone. Ib would be just as much a great miscarriage of justice willingly to let a guilty person go free as ‘to wrong an innocent person. ' Concluding Part of Trial of Wilfred Desroches. * Judge‘s Summin Up at CflChrane in Recent Murder Case The "Orderly Sergeant," writing in The Legionâ€" ary, suggests that the original name of Hitler was "Shekelgrabber." ts | Still stands the motto of the King: "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 fail." Why should there always be this tmickery about elections? It is the people‘s business, and it is a complete denial of democracy when the time and conditions of an election are jockeyed about as at present. Premier King is an expert in this snap election game, but Barnum‘s saving about fooling all the people all the time‘\ still hold good. There: was a great lesson for all concerned in the recent provincial elections in Ontario in that regard, Indeed, those responsible for suggesting that there may be one should be charged with working against the coming war loan campaign. It is an odd fact that just before the last war loan or two there has always been some political skulduggery that made it harder for the campaign workers to do their part. Possibly the Premler intends to threaten ‘an election if the war loan is not overâ€" subscribed. GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER | P t e n e e e e t Everybody up in this neck of the woods knows “?;‘vg to? "After short arguments had been preâ€" sentedâ€"on both sides and the judge was on the point of recalling the jury, both counsel withdrew their objections. Guilty "The jury returned at 3,07 p.m. and "Mr. C. L. Snyder, for the Crown, contended that His Lordship had made this point plain, but then; outlined five points which he thought the charge should have covered: 1, that the docâ€" trine of reasonable doubt (to which the accused was entitled) applied not only to the charge of murder, but to a reâ€" duced charge; 2, that the psychiatrist‘s evidence showed that Desroches, had thought of turning back, knowing he was in a stolen car, but had finally deâ€" cided he didn‘t care; 3, that April had testified he had known the accused for years, and the latter appeared normal in the morning; 4, that in connection with the suggestion of drunkenness the Crown considered the detailed nature of the statement made by the accused of capital importagce; and 5, the verdict must be based on the evidence alone, and the defence had produced no eviâ€" dence of insanity. Objections, Raised, Withdrawn . "The jury retired at 11.37 a.m. Mr. Dean Kester for the defence then arâ€" gued that the judge should have inâ€" structed the jury more emphatically that it was not necessary for the deâ€" fence to produce expert evidence. Canadian workers in scores of facâ€" tories are toiling day and night to produce these weapons. Great quanâ€" tities are coming off the assembly linesâ€"Leeâ€"Enfield rifles, Bren guns, Without firearms, the victory cannot be won. Our men must face with equal or superior weapons the modernly armed foe. And our men must have #// they need. So the battle for guoasâ€"great and small aucromatic gunsâ€"grows i intensity, as the battle of and by guns rages hotter and fiercer. y THE BATTLE OFP, BY AND Judge Allan Fraser of the Juvenile Court at Otâ€" tawa paid indirect complment to schools and teaâ€" [ chers the other day. He commentfed on the comâ€" ’ paratively small number of cases in his court, and said:â€""With school open again, the boys tend to ' keep out of trouble." The influence of the schools _and the example of the teachers are valuable inâ€" deed in building better citizenship. They help good homes and replace to some extent the homes "that are not so good. how Porquis Junction got its name through evoluâ€" tion. Porquis is the junction of te@ornpme and Iroquois Falls branches of the T. K. 0. Railway. The first part of Porcupine was taiten and the "quis" of Iroquois was addedâ€"and there you were â€"Heaven help you, if you were! There were simâ€" ple folks who thought, until the last week or two‘ that Toronto was named in something the same way. First, there would be "Tory Ontario." Only a step from that to "Tory Ont‘" and naturally on to "Toryonto." Of course, a lot of folks up here wondered why people from Toronto itself always called it "Taranto.". In the last few weeks, everyâ€" thing is plain. All the Taranto newspapers have bee'n; full of how the Canadians captured ‘Taranto, in Southern Italy. â€" The chances are that Taranto, Ontario, was named in honour of Taranto, Italy, which the Canadians have captured. How they came to call it Taranto so many years before the event is for Taranto, Canada, to explain, and Taâ€" ranto can explain everything. Having taken Taâ€" ranto, Italy, the Canadians might try and see if they can recapture Taranto, Ontario. "A BANK WHERE SMALL ACCOUNTS ABRE WELCOME" , EXPERIENCED BANKING SERVICE s e + s the Outcome of 125 Years‘" Successful Operation Timmins Branch: T. W. TOD, Manager HOLD HIGH THE TORCH OF HREEDOM "Desroches showed reluctance to reâ€" enter the gaol, but‘otherwle according to reports throughout the trip and in the death cell since then he has reâ€" tained his former attitude compounded of indifference and selfâ€"possession." Billâ€"Did any one of your family ever make a brilliant marriage? Arthurâ€"Only my wifeâ€"Exchange "‘The prisoner was taken by car on Saturday to Hailleybury, where the exeâ€" cution will take place barring some unâ€" foreseen developments. It would be the sixth execution at Haileybury since the district gaol was. opened there in 1925. % "After a short recess the judge reâ€". turned, and asked the.counsel and priâ€" soner ‘in turn if they had anything to say. They had not, Desroches‘ ratherâ€" indistinct "no" ‘being the first word he. had uttered in nearly four days in court. Sentence of hanging on Novemâ€" ber 30th was then, passed. l the foreman announced the verdict of guilty. At the request of the jury was polled, each juror rising when called and stating that he found the accused guilty as charged. â€" The jury was then discharged, and at the suggestion of the Crown, in view of the heavy task they had performed, His Lordship informed them that they need not return on Monday for further duty uness they wished to do so. â€" ~ Bofors antiâ€"aircraft guns, Vickers machine guns, heavy antiâ€"tank guns, trench mortars, light artillery, heavyâ€"field pieces, coastal defence cannon. What aminspiring battle for guns our men and women workers are THURSDAY, SEPTEUBER 29TH, 1943 Six thousand men and women of the Bank of Montreal at hundreds of bragaches are coâ€"operating closely in rendering to warâ€"workers, war indusâ€" tries and our Gbvernment the special banking needs of warâ€"time. Mascioli Con. Coy. H. J. O‘Neill ... Christmas shipment will be on its way ‘soon. ThesCommunity Fag Fund cordâ€" dally invites you to share in this comâ€" ‘munity enterprise by making your conâ€" tribution now. Mr. Jack Brady recently conducted an original broadcast from the Legion ‘ball on behalf of the Fag Fund. The following donations are a direct result ‘of this broadcast:â€" Stanley S. Saxton 5.00 John Reddington ........................ ... 5.00 Community Fag Fund:â€" T. W. Tod, chairman H. M. Moore, secretaryâ€"treasâ€" urer, Box 250, Timmins; Committee members â€" J. D. Brady, R. Hardy, R. Russell, W. Tierise. _ ‘The Timmins Legion Community Fag Fund sends out an 8.0.5. for more doâ€" ations. "Send over smokes!" is the call from the boys overseas. The Rfn. C. Tippett, Capt. T. D. Wallace, LAC. D. M. Roy, Spr. W. Stephens, Tpr. C. H. Dyer, Sgt. R. W. Smith, Pte. N. Woolcocks, Gntr. G. Keeney, Gnr. H. R. Foster, Gnr. R. P. Shaw, Cpl. V. W. Thompson. Lâ€"Cpl. E. Belfitt, Pte. V. Lepine, Tpr. L. Chenier, Spr. B. Mcâ€" Chesney, Pte. N. J. Groulx, Sgt. |G. Gillgrass, L.A.C. L. A. Robinson, Sgt. P. F. Murray, Pte. C. Stevens, Capt. T. Donations may be sent to any of the following officers or members of the Recent Broadcast Hzlped but More Donations Needed and Welcome. Total In this week‘s mailbag the Communâ€" ity Fag Fund received lettors from the following:â€" Fags for Overseas Third Ave. at Cedar Street FIMMINS JEWELLER â€" OPTOMETRIST imunity Fag Fund ds S;Ot.g. for More 20.00 (G