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present war is being fought to assure the mumph of certain principles, not the least of / which is that justice and fairness shall prevail. 3 Whfle:flao-brave servicemen of Canada are fightâ€" ing o’yerseas for these worthy and vital objectives, the good people at home should ‘not allow inâ€" justiée fpx:ejudine to be exercised without the mosuempha.tic protest.â€" One of the meanest forms of ugfair discr*mination is the governmental proâ€" posag that 4,500 gallant young airmen should be druered out of the air service â€"and practlcally turnéd into conscripts for the Army. These younl airmen volunteered for the service of their _ choite. They have given their heart‘s deepest to j train’ing to qualify them for the work of the R.:C. A.F.One of the chief incentives in offering themâ€" selves for this admittedly, dangerous service was the earnest desire to be volunteers. 'I‘o"‘force conâ€" scription bn these willing and patriotic young volunteers is one of the rankest breaches of faith, and .directly contrary to all promises, actual and implied., It is the bounden duty of governments, no less than individuals to keep faith, If the government in this case is allowed to show such discrim:lnation and unfairness the people as well as the party in power will be shamed unless there is such a shower of protest that the authorities are forced to desist from such an objectionable course. Let no one imagine that he or she can escape the opprobium of this act, unless protests against such an action are loud and long. â€" Newsâ€" papers should lead the way in protesting against this proposal. The daily newspapers, with a few exceptions, have not attacked the plan with the‘- vigor that it demands. Community newspapers do not appear to have roused themselves to loud enough protest against this breach of faith with the flower of the young manhood of Canada. But even then, with all the newspapers in protest against the Hitlerâ€"like scheme, the people in _general also need to make effective protest. Proâ€" test to the government, protest to the Ministers, protest to the parties, protest to: me»fimmbers m _ Let the protests be clear and emâ€" phatic and so numerous that they can not be disregarded. | It is beside the point to pretend that there have been too many trained for air service. If there is a surplus of airmen how does it come that litâ€" erally thousands of fliers are still carrying on, with increasing danger, and without chance for much needed furlough. If there is anything like a surâ€" plus of fliers, relief should be given at once in the most extended way to the men who have beenl fiymg dangerously overseas, literally, for years: The proposed scheme of crushing voluteer airâ€" men into army conscripts would prove particalarâ€" ly unfair and unjust to the brave lads who have trained so hard and so well in the Air Cadets. It is well to make it plain that any individual or government that injures or destroys the Air Cadets is doing the country, the Empire and the people at large a grave injury. Apart from the training the Air Cadets has given to fit lads for air service, the Air Cadets have been proven to be a mighty mtce for good to the youth of the land. The Air 'V«Cadets const.ltut.e one of the very best guards wâ€" “juvenne delin y". There is no possible excuse for the proposed injustice. Of course, there is a reason, though not a very creditable one. It is said now that the Army must have reinforcements, though it is only a few days since the part of a part of a party was howling to high Heaven that all the necessary reinforcements were on hand. It is the fact that such reinforcements are available. There are 80,â€" 000 supposedly trained soldiers here in Canadaâ€" enpugh to supply the‘needed reinforcements for many months. But these 80 000 are “unconscient-‘ ijous objectors.‘* "I'hey object to fighting any place Called to service; they. elect to serve only where there is no possibility of. having to fight.. To save these “unconscientious objectors," it is plotted to conscript a part of the air force. In other words| the volunteers, the eagerly patriotic are to be conâ€" scripted, while the conscripts are ‘given their choice as to whether they will serve or not. There has been vicious denial that untrained men have been shipped overseas to fAll up the ranks of the armies there. Yet the government itself apparâ€" ently proposed to deliberately all the years the airmen have spent in training for that service, and send these men overseas little trained for any Army work. And all this simply to proâ€" tect 80,000 unwilling conscripts. wmmn o LAKE, Owner and Publisher Timmins, Ontario, Thursday, Oct. 12, Although this story is going the rounds, it is likely only one of those yarns. English, Scottish, Irish, French, Belgian, Polish and all the other war brides will be g,tven cordial welcome and kindâ€" ness here: twhen they come to Canada. They will be taken hearts. Many people here are already plannm and preparing to give the rlght ‘Kind of welcome to these wonderful girls. ‘‘No, my dear son," the mother cabled in reply, "If you can not lite without her, you had better keep her there until you return:" . There was prompt response to that letter from the soldier son. The girl was more wonderful than ever. He had marrien her, before his mother‘s letter had arrived, because he felt he couldn‘t live without her. Would it be all right to send the wonderful girl out to the North Land until the war was over? The mother replied promptly that no doubt the girl was wonderful. Most English girls were wonâ€" derful. So were Canadian girlé. So were United States girls. So were a lot of other girls. She thought that he was more fortunate in thinking that he could not live without her, than he would be if he imagined he could not live with her. But she did think that he shouldn‘t think of marrying that wonderful girl until after the war. _A soldier overseas wrote an enthusiastic letter to his mother. He had‘met an English girl. She was simply wonderful. â€"He did not think he could live without her. He thought he would marry her. What did his mother think about it? posts as stretcheg bearers and other dangerousl ‘work, thus proving tha.t neither selfishness, nor greed, nor fear prompted their attitude. g This is a true story.of the North Land, but not connected with Timmins in any way. Of course, no. one decries the: Army, any more than they would belittle the Navy or the Air Force The several branches have all done notable work, heroic work, â€"most creditable work. All should insist, however, that fair play and justice be given to all the services. It is as unfair to attempt to force the airmen into the army, as it would be to conscript men from the army for the Navy or com;~ pel efficient sailors to become airmen or infantâ€" trymen. If all services were either volunteer or conscript, it would be a different matter. whole trouble rests with the present attempt to conscript all but the "objectors," and to give these ‘"‘objectors" all the breaks. It may be said that there are two kinds of specially favoured "objectâ€" tors". There are the "conscientious objectors," who plead on religious grounds that they can not fight. They have been gently used in this country. Perâ€" haps, many of them deserve good usage. It was the sect known as the Quakers who won recogniâ€" tion and respect for the conscientious objectors. Years ago the Quakers claimed that their religious beliefs prevented them from taking part in actual warfare, but they gladly volunteeredâ€" for such mmmtof a part of aparty at Ottawa; ‘appears to have placed a premium on disloyalty 4 Uinder the excuse of the rigors of war, many. vol- ‘unteers for active service in many patriotic lmes have been ‘treated with a lack of consideration and a discourtesy that are discouraging, to say the least, while there have been all sorts of lenâ€" fency and favouritism for the young men who flatly refuse to fight for their country. The latest sample of this governmental attitude is the proâ€" posal to force the loyal, volunteer airmen, into the class of srmy conscripts. Briefly stated, the idea is that the unwilling men of the army of "unconâ€" scientious objectors‘"‘ are to have the choice as to whether they will even fight at all, while thousâ€" ands of the loyal volunteers of the air force are to be forced out of the service of their choice and to be left with no election as to where they will serve. â€"It is senseless to reply that men in the air force should be ready to serve in whatever branch their country needs. ‘That is exactly what the gfir force lads desire. They wish to serve in the branch for which they are fitted by long and paâ€" tient training, instead of attempting to enter a branch for which they are unfitted and unskilled. They desire to continue their present work and relieve their fiying brothers overseas who have done more than their bit and who, by nature of their calling, run greater and greater risks of inâ€" jury and death the longer they serve in such nerve_i wrecking and fortuneâ€"tempting work. | THE RETORT MATERNAL MIUM ON DISLOYALT d NB t North® Bay was represent.ed* ‘at the gathering by Lester viceâ€"president) and V. Andrews; Temaâ€" gami by Frank Goodard; Haileybury D. E. Sutherland, New Liskeard, past president A. E. Stephenson, Stewart Francis and Lorne Prentice; Englehart by retiring president Vic Woollings and Harry Murdock; Kirkland by O. L. Archer, G. A. Sutherland and Mr Wright; McIntyre, Geo. Vaughan, Harold Shantz and J. D. Sutherland; Dome, Chas. Kemsley:; Cochrane, Mr Anderson and Mr. Oke. A. E. Riddell, Kirkland, filled in for secretary Watt ‘Thompson, who was unable to attend through illness. | These regulations will be sent on to the various clubs, and the preliminâ€" aries in the Consols"Will likely get unâ€" der way early in January, with clubs having large memberships a}owed rink for eacch fifty membe likely staging their playdowns to %e the eventual two rings coming out Â¥##f their club to the zone finals. ® $s > The Association has been divided into fourâ€"zones, with North Bay, Temaâ€" gami, Haileybury and New Liskeard in one; Englehart Kirkland Lake, Mcâ€" Garry and Noranda in another; Timâ€" mins, McIntyre, South Porcupine, Dome andâ€"Pamour in a third; Cochâ€" rane, Iroquois Falls and Kapuskasing in the fourth. _ Each club will send two rinks into the zone competition, and when this is decided, each zone will be representâ€" ed at the Consols event played on the last day of the bonspiel by two rinks. ‘The method of playdowns will be deâ€" cided, as well as the regulations governing the evéent by‘ a committee composeqd of president O. Archer, secretaryâ€"treasurer ‘R. W. Thompson and Geo. Vaughan of the McIntyre Club, who presented the plan to the meeting. - At the annual meeting of the T:. N.O. Curling Association, held at Kirkland Lake, the chief itemâ€" : before the meeting was in regard to the: manâ€" ner of conducting the British ~Gonsols event, which has been the qualifying test for rinks wishing to ent.er the Dominion Curling Championship,; Which until the last couple of years, have been held since 1927. At the maeting representatives of most of the cqurling clubs in the Association were present. In request to the British Consols.event, despatches from Kirkland Lake..say that the association has always. welâ€" comed rinks made up of players . from outside the territory, with the. prqviso that these quartets could not. qualify in the Consols events. However, during the past few seasons/ bona fide. asâ€" sociation rinks have been compl,ainjng that these "composite" rinks were deâ€" feating squads who had the belief they were of championship calibre. Northern Curlers Make Changes for: Play for Consols=: Several plans to avoid this situation were advanced, and finally one put forward by the MciIntyre Club was unanimously adopted. Through this plan the Consols .event will be taken out of the ‘spiel held <each year in various centres of the association terriâ€" tory. It will : still be played at the time and place of the ‘spiel, but as a separate competition. such societies as the Allâ€"British Club and the reâ€" vival of the Cornish Society, the Lancashire Soâ€" ciety, the Caledonian Society and the Welish Soâ€" clety and simnar orgoanizations. After the last war, these societies did a r.eany remarkable work in making the newcomers feel at home and in helping them build new friendships and rapldly- fall into the ways of the new country. Because these societies were intensely British, they were equally intensely Canadian. They brought rich| gifts of music, literature, art, quaint customs and glorious traditions to thisâ€"land, and they subâ€" stracted nothing from true Canadianism, but on the other hand made for friendship and tolerance and goodwill among all classes and divisions. mm Whenthecnem'mm .court, the Crown Attorney said that he had been instructed to withdraw the charges. Later, the authorities refused to tell who had ordered the withdrawal, or to Hiscuss the matter in any way. No doubt, the authorities thought there had been too much in the press about the matter as it was. In any event the mayor and the chieéf of police at Mattawa were more fortunate than the Kiwanis Club here were for running games much milder than Crown and Anchor, bingo being about the wildest permitt.ed‘ i ; . @ MRA . Boldiers in Italy are said to have asked Hon. Mr. Railston whether the Zombies were to be deâ€" mobilized before the regular soldiers. He replied Many people were speciallyâ€"interested in the news reports some weeks ago to the effect that the mayor and the chief of pollcg_‘.o'f the town of Matâ€" tawa were charged in pol(qquurt with the offence of "conducting a common gaming house," because they sponsored the operatlb'fifi*Crown and Anchor games at a carnival designed to raise money for SPECIAL OFFER: 1 pkt as above and 5 pkts of other Choice Houseplant Seeds, al} difâ€" ferent and esasily grown in house. \mluo £1.25, all for 60e postpaid. FREE â€"BIG 1945 ‘SEED AND NURSERY L1 Aas ~ A n CA A â€" me n ns and sweetâ€"scented blossoms. 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Two of them were across the river, outside the town limits but the firemen respondéd as Garage Across the River Destroyed by Fire This Week Fracas Occurs While Fireâ€" men are Fighting Blaze YÂ¥ICTORY and the total surrender of Germany hangs on the turn of events in the next few weeks. . Now five years of sacrifice is commg to fruition. Now our investment in Victory ... in safety for our way of life . .. is coming to the "payâ€"off". The end is in sight. Can we in Canada, whose sons are in the battle line, hesitate now? There is no higher grade investment in the world BUY CANADA‘S VICTORY BONDS 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." . Boldiers in Italy are said to have asked Hon. 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