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â€"the theft of things about which sentiment and affection and hope have grown. The local poet refers to the thief of flowers as a "human cutâ€" worm." It is an apt term. Perhaps, human proâ€" gress will some day find a way to rid the world of such pests. If all the thinking world placed these "worms" in their proper category, it might do something to reduce the number of this low form of human insect life. It was an unesteemed contemptiblary that naively admitted some months ago that one of its editorial articles was "written specially for the gullible," to quote its own exact words. At the time there was question as to whether it were modesty or lack of it that made that contemptâ€" iblary confine the suggestion to the one editorial. In any event the same organ played the same kind of tune two weeks ago, when it howled to high heaven because it was not given the Entrance and High School, Lower School Examinations in advance of other 'newspapers. Again this week there is another exhibition of the opinion of the paper‘s belief in the gullibility of its readers. The latest editorial written specially for the gullible asks all to imagine that the wails of the gullible newspaper prompted the school authorities to publish the Middle School examinations earlier than would otherwise have been the case. The truth is that all examination results have been published this year as early as could be expected by any reasonable person, and exactly the same plan was followed in regard to the Middle School results as was the case in reference to the Enâ€" trance and High School examinations. In recent years the authorities have shown a very commendable promptness in publishâ€" ing these school examination results. The authorities deserve praise, not muted threats or noisy whining. The latest editorial to the gulliâ€" ble proves the point made by The Advance as to the dangers from cultivating delusions of granâ€" deur along with the hysterical assumption of a: persecution complex. 1 Editorials written specially for the gullible are liable to end with the writers themselves beinz the only gullible folks in sight. The newspaper that glories in gullibility last week gave an amusâ€" ing exhibition of its own gullibility. It solemnly accepted the old superstition about St. Swithin At this time of year there are always pathetic complaints from gardeners who find their love‘s labour lost through the work of the contemptible sneak thief who robs gardens. Elsewhere in this issue will be found a poem by one of the local victims of this form of sneak thievery. The injury is not so much in the robbery as in the damage done. There is a particular type of meanness in the theft of what can not be replaced on which they had inoffensively set their heartsâ€" should be set down in public opinion for the conâ€" temptible cheats that they are. It is possible to have some understanding of the attitude of the bold fellow who robs a bank, but there should be only scorn for the miserable, mean and heartless animal that wantonly destroys a garden. Canada $2.00 Per Year. There are degrees and differences even to the same forms of criminality., The public, with conâ€" siderable support of logic, have some admiration and sympathy for the Robin Hood type of robber. The robbers of this type undoubtedly have courâ€" age and resource and breadth of sympathy and human kindness. They are doing wrong, but they are without pettiness or lack of human kindâ€" ness, On the other hand there is little sympathy with the man who "steals candy from a baby," or robs the blind. Very rightly they are esteemed low as well as lawless, It is not the amount oi the theft that makes it glamorous or the smallâ€" ness of the robbery that makes it mean. The degree of evil might well be said to centre in the injury suffered by others. Among the lowest forms of criminal life is the thief who steals or destroys flowers and gardens. The theft may profit little or nothing to the robber, but the vicâ€" tim suffers severely in many ways. The chief inâ€" jury lies in the fact that there can be no replaceâ€" ment of the loss. The care, the work, the attenâ€" tion and the heart interest given to flowers and gardens can not be counted in dollars and cents. Stealing or destroying flowers is a robbery that implies not only the loss of hard labour and efâ€" fort, but it means the useless frustration of hopes‘ and ambitions. There is widespread disapproval and disgust for Hitler and Mussolini and their fellow criminals who have wantonly destroyed so much beauty in the world. Is it not time that the little Hitlers and minute Mussolinis who wanâ€" tonly rob peopleâ€"not only of their money and their labourâ€"but of the beauty and the charm PHONE TIMMINS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association Published Every Thursday by GEO,. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: Timmins, Ontario, Thursday, July 27, 1944 PP lA AP LA AL LAAA P Oe Yorrupine Advanee PAGE POUR A SPECIALLY MEAN CRIMINAL ARE YOU GULLIBLE, AGAIN? United States: $3.00 Per Yeatr 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€" A famous United States business man once said that the right time to advertise was when busiâ€" ness was bad to make it better, and when business was good, to keep it so. The same principle apâ€" plieés to the successful conduct of the war. The right time to fight with all the might possible is when the prospects are depressingâ€"to make them betterâ€"and again, when all looks rosyâ€"to keep them so. There should be no slack@ning of effort, no complacency, no letting down of enthusiasm for real victory. It is true that conditions in Gerâ€" many suggest special trouble for the Nazis. â€"It seems to be a fact that there was some rebellion against Hitler and his satellites. Apparently scores of Germans, many of them in high places, have been purged in the putting down of the reâ€" volt. It seems on the other hand, that Hitler and the Gestapo are still in active control of affairs, and that the Nazi spirit still prevails in Germany. It would be a mistake to expect any immediate surrender of the German forces. There does not appear to be much doubt but that victory can only be assured through the actual invasion of Gerâ€" many itself. The chances are that the Nazis still have much fight left in them, and nothing less than a complete submission of the German people as a whole is probable to lead to any victory for the Allied cause. It may well be that Germany will suddenly collapse as it did in the last war. No sen#ble person desires any such ending of the present war. It would be folly to agree to an armistice now to allow Germany to prepare for another war in the next fifteen or twenty years. There can be no real victory until Germany is completely crushed and the German people made to understand that they are on the wrong road and that they must change their philosophy of life or perish. â€" Prime Minister Churchill spoke not long ago to the efféect that the war might last three or four more years. He may have had this in mind when he suggested that the war may be over "sooner than expectéa." in any even ti would be well to continue on the idea that the Allies are ready to continue to fight indefinitely to win the boon of world peace. ‘ A recent remark by Prime Minister Winston Churchill that the war may end sooner than exâ€" pected has given rise to many suggestions of the very early approach of peace. Since the Allies have been meeting such pronounced success on all fronts there is a decided tendency to overâ€" optimism. It is too bad that those who are so jubilant now over what they think is the early termination of the war had not had some of this optimism in the dark days of this world conflict. It is not so long ago that the people who now are prophesying the immediate arrival of victory were gloomy and pessimistic in their fears that the war would last a long, long time, and even then might not end in the right way. There is the one answer to those who are too optimistic in days of victory and to those who are too gloomy when disasters crowd each other. That answer is conâ€" tained in the noble words of King George VI, words that have been repeated in these columns week after week and year after year since His Majesty pronounced them. His Majesty‘s appeal to each and all was to do the work at hand with all possible diligence and enthusiasm, to go forâ€" ward to the appointed task with heads held high and a‘smile on the lips, and "with God‘s help," he concluded, "we shall not fail." W’MWWW Day as being miraculously fulfilled. There was a long outdated tradition that if it rained on St. Swithin‘s Day, it would rain on each and every day for forty days thereafter. The story was to the effect that the Saint objected to an attempt some hundreds of years ago to move his bones and when the workmen arrived to rob the grave, Saint Swithin negotiated so heavy a downpour of rain that all efforts to move the body had to be postâ€" poned. For forty days attempt was made #o move the Saint, but in modern phrase he impressâ€" ed on the workmen that they were "all wet." After forty days the men who planned to move the body gave it up for good. But as a memorial to Saint Swithin it was alleged to be decreed that when it rained on St. Swithin‘s Day, it would rain more or less for forty days. That was years before rain checks or umbrellas. Syd Wheeler says he has had no instruction in the matter. He foretells the weather, irrespective of Saint Swithinâ€"and someâ€" times, perhaps, irrespective of the weather. It takes a high degree of gullibility to swallow that Saint Swithin story forty days on end. It has been disproven times without number. . Someâ€" times, it looks as if it always rains on St. Swithin‘s Day, but never after for forty days on end.. A gullible fellow suggests that the only time it ever rained for forty days there was no rain at all on St. Swithin‘s Day. But gullible newspapers can swallow St. Swithin superstitions as easily as Queâ€" bec liquor. A few days ago the gullible newspaper had only a few days to come to prove the legend effective this year. The only trouble was that it set St. Swithin‘s Day on June 15th, instead of July 15th, But what‘s a month between friends, if any. Gullible folks need thirty days handicap, or thirty days some way or another. GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO "But how do you know that the inâ€" cendiaries will fall just here?"â€"Exâ€" change. "Kindest regards to all the Fern Cottage ‘Dining Club‘." Workmen were building a concrete tank to hold water for emergency use during air raids, and an old lady stopâ€" ped to watch them. "I am kept quite busy dispensing medicines to the people and I am also preparing to build a larger house next year. The church was built by John Horden, first Bishop of Moosonee, about 1671. . .. Presently she turned to one of the mien and asked, innocently: ‘"Tonight I read part of the service in Cree for the first time. I have an interpreter for my sermons and a layâ€" reader on Sunday evenings. Sunday morning they have an English service and many of them can join in it and sing very well. "There is a possibility that there will be regular plane service in here this winter "which will be a great blessing to us, though we are too busy to get lonely. . . The Roman Catholics are bulldmg a large house here, though they haven‘t one Indian, and no whites now since Jimmy Watt died. He was the Hudson Bay Co. manager and his wife was a French Romanâ€"Catholic. The new manager is expected to arâ€" rive here anytime. His name is Michelle, but they say he and his wife are both English. I hope she is good company for my wife, as there is no other white women here. "My wife has taken charge of the Day school and she is quite happy in her work. She also plays the organ at the church services, ‘"Bishop Renison arrived there by plane from Fort Albany accompanied by his wife, on Sunday, July 2, and I was ordained by him at St. Thomas‘ Church, Moose Factory, on Tuesday, July 4th at 7 a.m. The preacher was Canon L. A. Dixon, General Secretary of the Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada, who was also staying at the school en route to Fort George, with the Bishop of the Arctic, Dr. Flemming. I was presented for ordination by the Archdeacon, and the Litany was said by Rev. Gilbert Thompson, Principal of the school and Rural Dean of Moose. "In the afternoon of the same day my wife and I climaxed our honeyâ€" moon with a plane ride to Rupert‘s House. I wish you would have seen the Indians on the shore when we arrived â€"hundreds of them! and what a fine bunch of people they are! the best on the Bay! ~ "The next day the Bishop and the Archdeacon arrived, and it was a very touching sight to see the Archdeacon meeting some of his old friends for the first time in thirty years, and to hear him speak to them at the service. The Bishop speaks very fluently in the Cree and confirmed fortyâ€"seven people while he was here. The letter by Rev. David Mitchell follows, in part: . . We received the copies of The Advance while we were staying at‘ the Bishop Horden Memorial School. Moose Factory.:... . One of the first cases to come to the attention of Capt. Mitchell was that of an Indian baby that had died. Capt. Mitchell found a bottle of quinine beâ€" side the baby and made close enquiry as to how this drug had been obtained. When he learned the source of the quinine he gave strict warning as to such carelessness or worse. Capt. Mitchell made arrangements for the burial of the baby and conducted the necessary services. Rey, David Mitchell, (who recently went with his wife to Rupert‘s House, Hudson Bay area, as missionaries to the Indians there) has written a most interesting letter in regard to his work in the North. He thinks the Indians are a particularly fine people, and he is so busy that he has not time to be lonely. Rev. Mr. Mitchell, who was ordained some weeks ago at Moose Factory Church, was stationed at Timâ€" mins and Schumacher for a couple of years as in charge of the Church Army work here. For a month or two previous to leaving here to be married at Ottawa, Capt. Mitchell was in charge of the Church services of St. Matthew‘s Church, Timmins. Capt. Mitchell made a host of friends in town and district by his rare combinâ€" ation of geniality and earnestness. There was general regret at his leaving here, but all believe that he will prove unusually valuable and useful as a missionary in the far north. en. Let us go forward to that task as orie man a smile on our lips and our heads held high and with God‘s help we shall not fail." Rev. David Mitchell Writes of Life at Ruperts House Archdeacon Woodall Given Touching Reception . by Indian Friends. Some years ago employees often prefaced their signatures on letters with the words, "Your Humble Servant." Now, it is the employers who are hiuitmble. For many years it has been the boast of the North Land that there are no potato bugs in this country. Last week word from New Liskeard was to the effect that potato bugs are exceptionally numerous in the Central Temiskaming area. One PERHAPS INTUITION Well, there is only one answer to that letter. Anything that the the Salvaâ€" tion Army undertakes is sure to be worthy and to be well done. The Adâ€" vance is ready to do nearly anything the Salvation Army might ask, So here is that editorial from that worthy paper, The Globe and Mail:â€" An Opportunity for Women The Salvation Army Red Shield Woâ€" men‘s Auxiliary, which has done a magnificent job since the outbreak of the war in bringing warmth and comâ€" fort to our fighting forces and to thouâ€" sands of "bombedâ€"outers‘" in England, is now planning an expansion of its activities. No organization connected with the Salvation Army ever does anythng by halves, and it is to be hoped that Canadians will respond wholeheartedly to the national appeal which will be made by the Red Shield Women‘s Auxiliary for clothing to be used after the war for the relief of destitute Europeans. The plan is far reaching. Preparaâ€" tions will be intensified and accelerated now that the liberation of millions of war victims is in sight. The immediate objective is to form 1,000 new sewing and knitting groups. In every district in Canada women are needed to asâ€" sume the leadership of a Red Shield | group. There are 1,400 groups already ‘ This week The Advance received a letter from the Salvation Army headâ€" quarters at Toronto, saying that the Salvation Army Red Shield Women of Canada are planning to collect one and a half million garments which are to be shipped to England to help clothe Europeans after the war when thess unfortunate people will be in great need. Enclosed with the letter is a copy of an editorial from The Toronto Globe and Mail. "If you can possibly print all or part of this editorial, you would be helping us considerably to realize our objective," says the S. A. letter. Garments for O‘seas Red Shield Plans to Collect 1,500,000 To Help Clothe People of Europe in Postâ€"War Perâ€" io0d When is a Dollar Not a Dollar? wo / on d VEA ERLO OA ELCAE 0 100 4 70 09 7 00 a d o 9 W L Lo o ol t o o NE C Ee V e Ee e e e e t t y m Ywmrg p Py J N set him bock‘% then, as compared to the he could buy it for toâ€"day: You get a lot more for your money NOW @ .. . because price c;ilings and "otherantiâ€"inflationary measures have kept the value of your dollar HIGH ! Thats why it will pay you to see that selfish spending % never undermines price contvol in Conada. Remember, you protect your dollor‘s worth when you use your money wiéeh @.‘3‘/ needless luxuries... give black markets a wide berth .. and don‘t hoard goods. 4Wh\0li it won‘t buy a dollar‘s worth of goods! For instance, compared to presentâ€"day standards, your dollar of the last war was worth; not a do”o\?‘%'.t’. but sometimes fess tfiin..Housew}ves, who went morketing in 1917, had to part with for o fourâ€"pound jar of jam which you buy toâ€"day for (wiesy. . : Dad‘s winter underweor set him lvock“ then,as compared to the he could buy it for toâ€"day. to help reveal the dangers that inflation represents for all the people of the Nation, Casey township farmer says that he finds the potato bugs exceptionally pestiferous. Those are not his exact words. This is a family newspaper. However, there is this comfort, that there is a tradition that seems to be well founded that potaâ€" to bugs are unable to survive the usual North Land winter. All the potato bugs, and most of the other bugs of all kinds in this North come from the South.‘" There have been potato bugs numerous enough in this North, brought in with potatoes shipped from the South. It would look in the autuntn as if . the potato bug had at last established itself here. Then along would come the winter, and in the spring there would not be a potato bug left to tell the tale. Published by THE BREWING INDUSTRY (ONTARIO) Could anything be more important that this humanitarian work? That it will be done successfully is assured by the leadership of Mrs. George W. Peaâ€" cock, national president of the Salvaâ€" tion Army Red Shield Auxiliary. Mrs. Peacock points the way: let each comâ€" munity do its part, If three or four women will meet in some one‘s home, in a church parlor or elsewhere, a group can be started. The idea will spread like wildfire. The policy of the Red Shield Auxiâ€" liary is never to send overseas anything the members would not wear themâ€" selves. Care is taken to make the clothing attractive as well as serviceâ€" able, and ingenuity is shown in "makâ€" ing over" or "making do." Red Shield groups are glad to receive contributions of heavier outer garments which can be made over into children‘s coats, ski suits, and other wearing apparel. Women, anxious to do somethingf toâ€" ward the relief of the millions in Eurâ€" The reason for such a membership is obvious: The Red Shield Women‘s Auxiliary needs more than a million and a half articles of clothing by the end of this year. It is conservatively esâ€" timated that 1,366,000 articles of clothâ€" ing and comforts are required for deâ€" stitute victims of Nazi terror. The Salâ€" vation Army, in its work of mercy, has given its pledge that necessities will be forthcoming. These include clothing for men, women and children, bedding and hospital supplies. in existence,. This number must be increased to 2,000 or more, with a total membership of 100,000. INSURANCE IN ALL BRANCHES â€" REAL ESTATE Call and see us regarding New Low Rates on all Automobile Insurance 20 PINE STREET NORTH 78 BRUCE AVENUE McInnis Block Phone 30 BEFORE P e WV Phone 112 I promise to give my support to keeping the cost of living down. I will buy only what I need. I will observe the ceiling whether buying or sellâ€" ing goods or services. I will pay off old debts, save for the future, invest in Victory Bonds and War Savings Certificates. And I will support taxes which help lower the cost of living. Fire Threatens, Let Us Help You Check Your Fire Insurance. Simmsâ€"Hooker Pickering when you pay off debts Timmins Windsor Daily Star:â€"Because he has been named to undertake a special mission, Flight Lieutenant John Harlâ€" ton has declined to be the Progressive Conservative candidate in a Saskatcheâ€" wan riding. Does he have the strange idea that winning the war is more imâ€" portant that winning an election? ope‘ have a splendid opportunity under the auspices of the Salvation Army Red Shield Auxiliary, They can spread goodâ€"will by helping the unforunate people of warâ€"torn lands toj get a fresh start. Women‘s Auxiliary 2 sleeveless sweaters 7 pairs gloves 17 pairs sockees 26 toques This makes: a total of 195 sewn articles and 245 knitted articles totallâ€" ing 440. The workroom of the Schumacher Red Cross will be closed for the month of August. Anyone wishing to get supâ€" plies or wool may do so on Fridays, when the workroom will be open, or telephone Mrs. Robson 2155. This is the shipment from the Schuâ€" macher Branch of the Red Cross for the past two months: British Civilian Sewing 80 prs. women‘s knickers 40 women‘s nightgowns 20 babies‘ nightgowns 20 men‘s shirts, 16 neck 5 patchwork quilts Schumacher Red Cross Report for Recent Shipment MHospital Supplies 30 prs. men‘s pyjamas Knittingâ€"Navy 50 prs. leather faced mitts 4 Turtle neck sweaters 5 prs. 18" ribbed socks 5 prs, 26" ribbed stockings 8 prs. mitts Army Air Force 6 Turtle neck sweaters 80 prs. socks 18 prs. gloves 3 ribbed helmets 4 turtle neck tuckâ€"ins 2 toques 1 steel helmet cap .. . refuse to buy South Porcupine THURESDAY, JULY 27, 1944 Ont. #4