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Three old folk were found living in a filthy attic in New York, halfâ€"starved and halfâ€"living. They were found after one 67â€"yearâ€"old lady came downstairs to ask for a cun of cofâ€" fee the neighbors had been giving her for a good many days. When they asked about her 77â€"yearâ€"old brother she said he hadn‘t moved for several days. On investigation they found the. old man dead amongst unbelievable filth. Another sister lay pleadm;, for food in the next room.: They had lived like that for years, their only extravagance being when one old lady slipped out without her brother‘s knowledge at nights to buy an ice cream cone. They were all and rarely ventured from the room. After removing them to a home the police found â€" under the filth and rags that littered the attic â€" $167,000 in bank deposits, mcortgages and bonds! These people had certainly never learned the value of mental hygiene of money. Instead of ensuring them of all the good things of life they had deprived themselves of. every â€" thing â€" just to save money. bfwmg, while a necessary factor in our economic system if we are â€"going to have money to invest in new enterprises, businesses and homes, has also become one of the biggest problems of our modern world. Too many people have the idea that salting away money represents security. At present there is over four billion dollars in Canadian saving accounts, and, according to bank reports, the total is steadily increasing. If it keeps on and everybody is saving and nobody is buying it‘s a foregone conclusion that goods are going to start sitting on shelves and factories are going to have to cut down production. | The dollar is playing its proper part only when it is makâ€" ing its regular rounds buying foodstuffs, furniture, cars, homes, clothes and putting up new factories, opening new mines or transportation systems. When it stops moving proâ€" gress stops. In France women do all the shopping for the home and take their little girls of 9 and 10 out on shopping trips. When the girls grow up they budget from instinct and force of habit. In a questionnaire made in the United Stanes merchants approved of the idea that women should be taught. to buy the thinks they need, and believed that such training would lead to steady, intelligent and efficient it was too many woman bought beyond their means and as a result could not pay their bills, making it embarrassmg for their husbands, families and the stores. Back in the 1920‘s women were estimated to spend 385 percent of the money made in ‘the world, yet none of the schools taught the girls very much about money; how to earn, spend and save it. If they were trained it would be to the best interests of all members of the home, as well as cutting down family troubles, an alarming percentage of which arise over money troubles.. However, the custom. of one country is an example. tinanclal statement, just made a net profit of ‘s* cents a ton. The miners who mined the coal averaged $1400 a year. Natâ€" urally, such a condition isn‘t satisftactory to anyone. The commission also revealed that at present rate of production there are enough coal reserves in Canada to last for 2,700 years, and, no doubt, revealed that a lot of those reâ€" serves are in much easier and cheaper places to mine than the coal over which the present strike is waged> In Nova Scotia the miners are digging coal from out under the Atlantic Ocean while at the same time there is a coal reserve (to mention one) at Hudson Hope in northern B.C. estimated at two billion tons â€" and literally sitting on the surface! Teaching children to live W1th1n theu incomes and how to earn, spend and save would not only ensure happler family life, be insurance against future depressions, but would help eliminate the high cost of mamtammg so many penal instiâ€" tutions. When generations to comeâ€"study the history of our times they, will sureiy think we must have been a queer misguided race. Digging coal from beneath the â€"ocean under the toughâ€" est conditions possible when we can practically pick it off the surface elsewhere in our own country with a pick and shovel! Why not use the coal that‘s easy to mine? All we need to get at it is a 200â€"mile railroad. And, at the some, ttime, the railâ€" road would open up the Peace River farmtng country, the richest farming country in Canada. Naturally there is something at fault. And all indications point to our struggling but still backward economic system which hasn‘t kept pace with scientific progress. This coal strike might well be the precedent for a radical The coal strike in Nova Scotia is an excellent example of wiat will eventually happen to many important locations of natural resources when their reserves become depleted or too costly to mine at a profit. Mass migration might be the only answer. The strike is deadlocked because â€" the miners want an increase in pay, the owners can‘t operate at higher wages and make a profit, and the government has refused to continue the subsidy of roughly 8 million dollars a year. Actually there is no solution, unless the miners agree to work below what they believe is a decent standard of living wage; the mine owners will operate at a loss; or the government will use revenue collected from to subsidize minâ€" ing operators. However, the government are well informed on the situation. $ A coal commission report that took three years and cost the dominion government around: $250,000 was just comâ€" pleted recently. The report revealed that the mining comâ€" panies, after including a sizable govelnment subsidy on their financial statement, just made a net profit of ‘s cents a ton PHONE 26 TIMMINXS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontatioâ€"Qiu Newspaper Association Published Every Thursday by M. W. LARE, Publisher Ontario, Thursday, February 27th, 194 Ebe Borcupine Adbance MBE ons to comeâ€"study the history of our times ink we must have been a queer misguided [ from beneath the â€"ocean under the toughâ€" ible when we can practically pick it off the n our own country with a pick and shovel! al that‘s easy to mine? All we need to get railroad. And, at the some, time, the railâ€" up the Peace River farming country, the MASS MIGRATION ibscription Rates United States wW, L, MeFARLANE, Lditor influence for good in our community. The Timmins Community Activities Committee is set up under the ausâ€" prces of the Municipal Council under regulations as established by the Deâ€" partment of Education at Toronto. Our Activitiee Committee consists of twelve members. three of whom are members of the Town Council and the remaining nine members apâ€" npointed by the Town Council. Urâ€" ty centre or auditorium for recreatâ€" lional purposes, While the present plans of the YMCA do not include the construction of a Y buildling. I, as a citizen of the town,. hope that the people of Timmins will support the present campaign so enthusiostiâ€" cally that in the near future a YMCA building. adequate care for needs of all of us, will be made posâ€" sible. C.A.C. Chairman Approves Y Project For Porcupine The following is the text of a speech by Wendell Brewer, chairâ€" man of the Community Activities Committee over CKGB on behalf of the Y campaign for the Porcupine. "I have been asked to speak in the interests of the YMCA campaign for funds that is now in progress. Some of you may known that I have been actively interested for a year or more in promoting community recreationâ€" al activities for the benefit of the youth and adults of our town. Our work has resulted in the recent forâ€" mation of the Community Activities Committee for the Town of Timmins and I had the honour of being elected the chairman of this committee. The Y organisation has asked me to speak to you with particular reference to the work of our committee and the relationship of this work to that as proposed and carried on by the YM change in our economic outlook, a change wherein whole comâ€" munities wili be moved from the scene of depleted and unâ€" profitable mining operations of natural resources to whert fresh natural resources are waiting to be tapped. Coal is just one of our natural resources that is bound to peter out in various places; gold will undoubtedly be another, and probably the Porcupine district will eventually have to move the same as other mining districts; lumbering will probably encounter the identical problem. It would be nice to wait until science has produced colâ€" lapsible houses that we can pack in a trunk and take along with us, but until such a state arises it might be wise to conâ€" sider passing dominion legislation to cover just such eventualâ€" ities.. Canada must look after her people, and remember that in the welfare of all may well lie the future of the nation. Some cautious politician might be fearful of using up our reserves (good for 2,700 years) and even more fearful of setâ€" ting a radical precedent by moving entire towns. For the first, that politician â€"if such there be â€"â€" might read the National Research Council‘s statement that oil, electricity and atomic energy will likely have replaced coal as a fuel within the next twenty years. For the second search for an answer to the economic difficulties that are beseiging Britain today. There seems to be no answer to Britain‘s economic difficultâ€" ies unless Canada and other countries shut down their indusâ€" The question has arisen as to who will own the Y when it begins in the Porcupine. Actually the only owners will be the youth of the community and district. A Board of Direcâ€" tors will exercise an overâ€"all supervision, a Y secretary enâ€" caged by the Board will organize and supervise the groups of youngsters in the Y. But the owners will be transients, the youth of the district who will grow and develop and pass on into the world of adults to be succeeded by new generations of vouth. The present drive is to bring a trained Y secretary into the Porcupine and have Y work begin. His work will be to organize smaller groups of youth and fill in the gaps left by other youth organizations; and, most of all, to give leaderâ€" ship courses and train leaders for groups which are already organized by local youth welfare groups. The secretary, who is first certified as a Y secretary by the YMCA National Council, must have high qualifications and show that he intends to make Y work his life work. He must be a university graduate and have at least three years experâ€" ience or its equivalent in Y work. Once he becomes certified he becomes eligible for the Y‘s retirement plan after he has served the necessary years. It was pointed out that the work of the Y secretary would in no way conflict with the work of other youth organizations already established in the district. In Iact there was plenty of room in a town and district of the size® of the Porcupine for even more organizations to carry on youth welfare work. In the past few months Timmins has been spotlighted aâ€" cross Canada in national weeklies for it‘s exemplary low juyâ€" enile delinquency rate. This didn‘t just happen. It came about through the wellâ€"spent efforts of responsible citizens who provided organized recreation, sports and other activiâ€" ties: They realized that youth was bound to find an outiet for their exuberant energies and that it was wiser to provide beneficial places for the youngsters to expend it than to let them find ways themselves. It is easier to lead youth into the better paths than to wait until they‘ve hurdled the fence of lawlessness and then try to round up and break them of habits that needn‘t have ever developed. Remember that when the canvasser asks for your donaâ€" tion, and remember that the Y belongs to the youth of the district. a youth which we hope will go on forever in this disâ€" trict and the rest of Canada. of tods The establishing of a Y is a further step in an investment in the future of the youth of the district; it is a step to fill in the gaps that might have been overlooked by other organizâ€" ations:; it is an investment in the future of our nation for the day the country‘s future will lie in the hands of the youth lC V n why a YMCA in Timmins Id not become an even greater ence for good in our community. e Timmins Community Activities many ading â€" taking par ind recreati v and a you. a Y us Wh jalt. al who spent their early It. and there are many camp.recall with great influence for good of T HILY ational activities both oung man. The YMCA a great need in that the lives both young cannot imagine any YMCA in Timmins ome an even greater happiest spent i WHO WILL OowN THE Â¥? 1€ for good . vouthful dayw iest memories it in the gym,. wimming pool the Ys many der the regulations of the Departâ€" ment of Education, this Committee and therefore the municipality is enâ€" litled to financial grants for the carâ€" rying on of its recreational wor‘ among all age groups of the citizens of Timmins, under the guidanee of a full time. paid director. Our direcâ€" tor is Mr. Sturgeon and he has alâ€" ready been made responsible for the operation of all municipal rinks, slides, playgrounds. etc. His services as the community recreational direcâ€" tor are available to all persons, youn$g and old, in the town of Timmins who wish to engage in all accepted forms of recreation such as athletics, hobâ€" bies, music. drama, etc. the construction of a Y buildling. I, as a citizen of the town. hope that the people of Timmins will support the present campaign so enthusiostiâ€" satisfied that there is for both organization: the proposed work of mins will deal particul ing for leadership an and boys. With 103 y ence, there is no fin in the world than the vide such training. Our committee fee Timmins of some sort ity centre or auditori purposes. Whi plans of the Y the constructio; as a citizen of To many it may seem that the proâ€" posed programme of the YMCA may be a duplication of the work of our committee and that there might be duplication of effort. To this assumpâ€" tion I cannot agree. There is room in this town for both organizations. The YÂ¥MCA and committees similar to ours are working hand in hand in many other communities in Ontario and hundreds in the States to the greater wellâ€"being of the people of these communities. The two organizations need not conflict and from a study of the needs of this community by our committee over the past year, we are iat is bound to dly be another, tually have to lumbering will plenty the Y @ariy w r organl YMCA t 11 of exper bot! of work riderstand 1ML it T‘wo new members were i into the Bachelor‘s Club at th regular meeting.. Chester, a r rival from Toronto, and Fran claims the distinction of bein mins No. 1 Bachelor. There was considerable dis over the new member‘s clai alter a comparison of statisties acclaimed No. 1. Sam,. the on sible member who might Mert suggested that it was ends when bachelor‘s will pow at its lowest ebb; that the Saturday night was the loneliest night in the week sort of thing was one of the biggest threats to bachelordum. To offset this he proposed that members one and all take up skiâ€"ing and sc steadily over the weekâ€"end. The thrill of sliding along on the wooden runners, coupled with the sheéer ‘exâ€" haustion that came afterwards "was the best insurance against the inroads of designing girls that w vised. Phil objected. He sai as soon have a girl take : his future as ski himse Why not a bridge~ game start Saturday and go ri as soon have a girl take an option on his future as ski himself to* death. Why not a game thatâ€" would start Saturday and go right through to Monday morning. just knock off occasionally for eating. Then the No. 1 Bachelor arose. Everyone paid close attention. After all, when a man has eased through six years of single life in Timmins and still looks healthy and sane, his views and experience is worthy of consideration and respect. Frank proposed drama clubs. Even the noted psychologist, Dr. Blatz, had advocated that drama solve bachelor‘s troubles. It caused conâ€" siderable discussion but most of the members were of the opinion that the memory work involved would be too reminiscent of school days and schnool teachers and there were too many atâ€" tractive school marms around Timâ€" mins to take a chance of continually drawing bachelors attention to it. Sam,. contender for No. 1 position had just arrived, and imimediately differed. "Now that the teachers have received a raise in salary we bache‘!â€" ors don‘t have to worry so much." he said. A resolution was passed that a vote of thanks be sent to the school board for the raising of teachâ€" ers salaries. Chief Helmsman Ken had another idea.‘ "Now â€" that the. Arena <thad burned down we have an tion for a bachelor‘s apartment house; close to the golf course, tennis courts. theatres and work., what more could we want." f The difficulty of raising funds was discussed. With drives for nearly everything under the sun on it was doubtful if local folk would support the drive for a Bachelor‘s apartment house or even medium sized club. It was believed. however, that many disgruntled married men might supâ€" port the drive. Something had to be done. Unfortunately Nick. often â€" called the vulture for culture â€" was absent. Nick usually had plenty of ideas and approaches for every situation. Memâ€" bers were worried until they werd assured the vulture for cuWure had gone skiâ€"ing and would likely come home exhausted and thus safe for another week. However., it wasn‘t certain whether he had gone skiâ€"ing with other bachelors or in company of the other sex. Max promised to investigate and if the latter was the case Nick would be brougnt to task and asked to give an accounting of his intentions before he went out in future. raisins for the raisin pie baking it finished him. "U raisins give you nightmares," "and I can‘t stand nightmare Doc. honorary helmsman,. : lor of many years stanrding. w in to express his views and experience to the members. the best way to remain a bacn to start prospecting. "That that‘s too rigorous for 2any ; said. "and after you‘ve beer the bush long enough no gi have you anyway. He mentioned that in the bave to do your own coo as a man likes good mea‘s n ly becomes quite a profic thus strengthening a bache weakness, his stomach. The honorary member that he had come close to once but when he noticed prospect didn‘t bother wa tli ink‘s W att Have later attracts electricity." lave you made tests to pruv, es. Every time I‘m is the telephone rings. membe: ; claim. had not said he‘d just ke an option on mself to* death., ame thatâ€" would 0o right through just knock off the only po might _ refu Frank discussion claim but inducted their last new arâ€" 1711 1€ 11 ha he said larriag € 16 refutt C wa bach« ut C1 ul ho it paid the professionsl performer is one of the characteristics of the times. People flock in thousands to pay their homage to the technical skill which is displayed in sports and cultural evâ€" ents. and the stars are lauded like national heroes. This adulation of technique might have been expected to have an exemplary effect on the private life of the spectators, but 1 is hard to point to examples. The reason for this is deâ€" mands a high price. The speed and ‘The acceptance of the discipline of skill is not to be limited to public performers. It should be applied to every one‘s work. It is true there are many tasks in these mechanized days which are routine, and do not involve even the opportunity of creaâ€" tive skill. But even in such cases. doing the job, to produce more with less motion, or to improve the quality. There is much to deplore in the state of the world, but little of it is so utterly bad for human lives as the practical comncept for good, careful work. It is disturbing to consider how much work is done with roâ€" Tact: the ability to c woman‘s throat without Mr. Meeker had just der the bed when he he lar. He held his breat! Then after a long pause, one trying to crawl in "Is that you, Henriet "No," was the answt ‘I‘ve just had a look at burglar. Move up!" Nothing is more ma to be offered $1,100 for cost you $1,000 only six zin m work in absolute coâ€"ordination. The {aultless touch of the violinist, the miraculous timing of the trapeze artâ€" ist, are the result of the acceptance of an unwavering discipline. All other factors in their lives are subjected to the overâ€"riding demands of perfect achievement. It is a sublime motive, worthy of emulation. ‘The acceptance of the discipline of skill is not to be limited to public accuracy throw at sentment, and with utter disregard for the convenience and need of those who must accept its results, As a consequence,. shoddiness is elevated to the devel of a business practice; things are made to the single specification of a limited periodofuse. What is most alarming is the toleration of cheap and dishonest work. People complain, but they continue to buy. It would be most desirable if the motives which inspire the artist could be instilled into every worker, The ideal then would be. how well? ra:« ther than, how little? It would reâ€" quire a new motive in management, tod. The worker‘s selfâ€"respect would be regraded too highly to oblige him to work with inferior tools or materâ€" ials. The finest standards of design would be sought, and carried through not merely in surface appearance, but in every part, seen or unseen.. There would be a sense of privilege attached to work, which is generally missing in modern industry. The poor work man would be studied to find out what he could do better., or with enâ€" thusiasm. and no effort spared 1to make him a good workman. Skilful, honest.. painstaking work would do much to dissipate the social unrest which plagues the industrial nations. The tensions and restlegsâ€" ness. the heavy emphasis .on shorter hours. the growing habit of dawdlins on the job. are all reflections of the attitude to work. The extremes of conduct which many exhibit in lesâ€" ure. activities would lose their attracâ€" tion. if work provided psychological satisfactions. These, however, can only grow out of the acceptance of a personal discipline akin to that of the artist. No more valuable goal could be sought by church, schoo!, home and industry than the inculeaâ€" tion of this motive. Male , 535.000 38,000 Female 35,000 33,000 The distribution of unplaced apâ€" plicants and unfilled vacancies across the Dominion at February 6, 47, is as follows: Unplaced Applicants Labour demand hit the season lJow in all industries ecxcept logging during January, At February 6, 1947, unâ€" placed applican‘s registered with the National Employment Service in Canâ€" ada totalled 196.000; unfilled vacanâ€" cies totalled 71.009, distributed as folâ€" Male Femal Hockt T‘wo â€" policemen and a youthful would be bandit were shot to death vesterday in a prolonged pistol duel! that climaxed the frustration of a bank hold up and left two teen aged youths charged with murdering the two officers. Se Mc Uollinger Moves Into Hocâ€" key Semiâ€"Finals Against North Bav. WS Manpower Picture Feb. 6 The Discipline of Skill Hollinger Th Intyr aurda e reason for this is deâ€" ds a high price. The speed and racy _ of the baseball pitcher‘s w are the result of years of ceaseâ€" practice, until eye, mind and hand t in absolute coâ€"ordination. The Unpla« 1€ Unfilled P‘ ; .u' IP1C lb l' U vI nCOe + AYr 16 British Columbia Oout 16 M aritimes Onltario Quebed iadmiration which is mal perforimer is on iplary effect on the e spectators, but 1 to examples. this is thatcskill deâ€" ice. The speed and cupin 37,000 10,.000 A pplicants 2» 4 F OTl6 they, ancles of McIntyre‘y move into the e the players Feb. 6. 47 153,000 38,000 Unfille d Vacancies 28,000 :8.000 THURSDAY. 27th. 10947 A wealthy man had a tenant owinsg $10 which she was too poor to pay at the time. Being a kindly man, gought her minister, to whom he gave the $10, asking him to pass it on, so that when he called she would be able to pay. Tact: the ability to cut some other woman‘s throat without using a knifte Mr. Meeker had just crawled un« der the bed when he heard the burgâ€" lar. He held his breath and waited, Then after a long pause,. he felt some« one trying to crawl in beside him. "Is that you, Henrietta, dear"" "No," was the answering whisper, ‘I‘ve just had a look at her. I‘m the burglar. Move up!" "So you have found the rent marked the landlord. "Yes, indeed, but no vou old wretch," said the tena "I hear your daughter is practising the harp.. How is she getting on"" "Well her mother isn‘t quite so keen on going to Heaven as she was." "Lady." said the politeman, who had motioned her to stop, ‘thow long do you expect to be out"" "What do you mean by that quesâ€" tion?" she demanded indignantly. "Well,"‘ he replied â€" sarcastically, "there are a couple of thousand other motorists who would like to use the street after you get thrgugh with it." What would. governments for money if they couldn‘t tax our vices and our vanities? The bus was very full man and a small boy to get inside, "Pass farther down ths ed the conductress. Ap one took any notice, sh gain: "Passâ€"farther â€" c Home is a place where a <iman ds free to say anything he pleases, be cause nobody will pay the slightest attention to him. Council Will Support YÂ¥ Drive Committee "It isn‘t limidly, ‘it‘s gr: Ontario‘s farm production was esâ€" timated at over $733.000,000 for 1946, strengthening its position as the outâ€" standing â€" agricultural _ province in Canada. Ontario leads the other proâ€" vinces in 17 out of 22 farm proâ€" ducts, particularly in manufactured farm â€" products which are required for export, such as beef, pork proâ€" ducts and bacon, cheese, eggs aud poultry. Acting Mayor Bill Roberts, in 2 brief address at the Y Campaign Dinâ€" ner. said. that Timming .councH will give every possible: support to the campaign commiltee, Mayor Brunette had wriften to the Mayor of Chatham where a similar Y campaign had been undertaken a year ago, Mr. Roberts read the Chatâ€" ham mayor‘s letter to the service club members at the dinner. The Jetter in part read: "The Y campaign in Chatham began with the securing of a trained Y secâ€" retary who was located: in ‘‘a small office in the city, He began by orâ€" ganizing small groups. cAfter secâ€" ond successful campaign we feel that Chatham now ranks with citiecs of equal size in Canada. The YÂ¥ is a disâ€" tinct asset to the town There is a large army « men who have learned to 1 Dr. Chase‘s Kidneyâ€"Liver J ing on trains or trucks jarring which is hard on t] a« is also the exposure to wind and weather. On the Road This medicine goes to stimulate the action of the kidneys and relieve the backaches which so often result. For over hall a century they have been popular with railway men, truckers and farmers. ONTARIO LEADS IN PRODUCTION it‘s grandfathe more â€" maddenin Apd then. as ‘e, she shouted ~â€"â€" down, plea: the ditlle boy : ire to all kinds « six years ago full an inks *to â€"_tenant J A KR M 1ne than which old n hout aid