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s Cbe Porcupine Abbance r..' THE DRUNKEN DRIVER IS THE MOST SERIOUS MENâ€" "ACE ON THE ROAD TODAY. #4: , There is no doubt that every citizen in Timmins and the surrounding district will welcome the opportunity to support _ the British Food Relief Campaign being organized under the leadership of H‘is Worship Mayor J. Emile Brunette, assisted .«by Frank Bailey as chairman, Wilf ‘Brochu,. vice chairman nd Austin Neame secretary treasurer.; It was. agxeed all orâ€" would form their owh‘committees. â€" During the past winter weâ€" have hadâ€"someâ€"severe snowâ€" storms but suffered no individual loss. ~Some â€"of the â€" residents suffered inconvenience from blocked roads but in this part of the country we expect snow therefore we were not altoâ€" gether unprepared by a particularly heavy fall. Now with the ’com*ng of Spring we are looking forward: to lovely fine weaâ€" N h l + olfi oo 0 o Te M nat | Storms and floods have poured over the land creating a flood of misery, hunger and untold havo¢. LArge industrial plants have been ail but stopped. Transportation s battling against the damage of the elements. Farmers are faced with » season of attempting to produce extra supplies from the «soggy flood swept fields and valleys. .. We here in Timmins have an abundant@z=of, food and clothing and it has been sa‘d "Where: there Tis true love, there is no sacrifice." Surely we havte learned ko love the people of Great Britain. To sen\ d food should be no sacrifice but will repay on ~the.debt of the people of the community, Therefore all should welcome ‘the opportunity that is being presented here to Help our less ~fortunate brothers and sisters overseasy. All""Citiens are urged to set aside food and clothing and be prepared for the 'canvass now being made and which will continue unt‘il Hence the suggested It doesn‘t require the police to prove that the culp«it was drunk; jet them prove, simply, that he was under the influence .of Tiquor. Then the hairâ€" brainea citizens who insist on taking the wheel after imbiping half a dozen and in some cases one: dozen hlghballs cfiuld be made to pay the penalty. Let the law once recognize the mdlsputa.ble fact that a driver under the influence of liquor is in some jnstances as dangerâ€" ous as a maniac running loose with a razor or butcher knife, and we might have some chance of whltthng this. menace to »the public to its proper size. i y 0+3 g Apparently the most dangerous man on the road is the man who gets behind the steering wheel of a car while playing Host to a bottle and a stomachful ‘of liquor. And the most difficult thing is to devise some foolâ€"proof way to take such a man from behind the steering wheel of the car and put him %ere he rightfully belongs and that is behind bars. ~~_â€" So far the smartest idea along this line comes from a commission recently appointed in the city. of New York to study the matter. This commission suggests that all that is needed is to change traffic codes so that instead of penalizing man who drives while intoxicated they penalizeâ€"the man «who drives while under the influence of liquor. That bit of change may seem rather unimportant to the average person sor persons, actually, it might be the solution of the whole Hroblém because it gets entirely around that vexing and. unâ€" Answerable question "When is a man drunk?" .. ‘As the law stands now, before a drunken driver can be "punished, the police have to prove that he was, in fact, drunk gld if you have ever been inside a court of law, you will underâ€" Sstand that this can be a remarkably diffigult thing to do. i~ . The driver who causes an accident may have been well -flnder the influence at the time but unless the police can ove that he was intoxicated, yes really intoxicated, he is inally charged with reckless driving, or.someâ€"other similar infraction, and his drunkenness ever appears on therecords at all. Obviously, such campaigns are important to business men and householder alike especially from the point of view of increased civic pride. Quite aside from that altruistic apâ€" proach, however, the plain fact remains that cleanâ€"up, paiuntâ€" up campaigns are important to the people mg;fly the busiâ€" ness men in doliars and cenisâ€"mostly dollars. For many years, a few large centres and also a considerâ€" able number of smaller communities have had local cleanâ€" up, paintâ€"up, fixâ€"up campaigns each Spring. And this‘ camâ€" paign is usually held during theâ€"month of May. First oÂ¥ all, the experience in the past has â€"definitely proven conclusively that ax wéllâ€"run beautificat‘onâ€"eampaign is a definite stimulus to business. It starts repair work, the modernizaton of property and building activity. It creates a lively demand on local dealers for new furnish‘ngs and equipment and everything needed in making.homes, streets, and buildings cleaner and much more attractive. Other beneâ€" fits are equally obvious. Such a@a campaign advertises the community undertaking it, with beneficialâ€"results to all who do business or reside in that community. Cleaning up and painting buildings, homes gna such cuts at some of the roots of disease and sickness by dest.rqying breeding places. for germs, and a healthier community in whigh to live and opâ€" erate a business. A successful beautification campaiggg;,bx;z‘ngs amelioration of slum conditions in its wake, and this in turn has been shown to have a decided effect on mmdence of crimeâ€"once again to the definite advantage of business in the"tommunâ€" ity affected. Much by the same token, the increase in civic pride which goes handâ€"inâ€"hand with cleaner, brighter surâ€" rounding is a stimulus to business and ‘ndustry generally. But in Britain the heavy snowstorms ofâ€" the past {;vinter were the worst on record and the people of ‘that country were not at all prepared for the rigors of= suc ‘conditions. First, they did not have the snow removal: equipnient:to battle such storms. Second, transportation was so ‘impeded that inâ€" dustry was drastically curtailed. Third, interruptionsâ€" in the supply of coal placed a further Burden om the cold«shivering populace. And finally, the storms created suc‘, losses of farm production that the strict rationing of. food supplies had to be further reduced to spread hunger equally. The coming of spring in Britain brought more troubles doubly compounded. BEAUTIFICATION CAMPAIGN BENEFIT ALL «P â€"P â€"<F C â€"G O O C â€"LP D â€" 4P DP P â€"G P P P PP a P DPA Pb TIMMINS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Upitarioâ€"Quebec Newspaper Association Every Thursday by M. W. LAKE, Publisher Eubscription Rates: Canada $2.00 Per Year. Timmins, Ontario, Thursday, May 1st, 1947 SUPPORT BRITISH RELIEF CAMPAIGN P P â€"Pâ€"DPâ€"â€"Câ€"O â€"A â€"<P United States;23.00 Poer Yoar B B P P C â€"<4 4 P P â€"4D D B D a 4 â€"<P P â€"4P P P P P â€"Gâ€"P dn Last week we explained how the Timmins High and Vocaitonal Schools‘ Studemit Government functioned and we also gave you a general picture of the manner in which the Minister of Entertainment manages the School "Parties". We will now summarize briefly the duties of the remaining Ministries. The Minister of Finance handles the financial end of the various activities and it is his task to see that all of the money earned during .extraâ€"curricular activities is deposited in the Student Government coffers. He ‘also handles the distribution of the Students‘ earnâ€" mgs and in this way acts as the Stuâ€" dents‘ representative with the Treasâ€" urer, who is a Member of the Teaching Staff. \ , The Minister of Arts and Letters is responsible for the Music, Dramatic and Literary sections of the School. The Music section includes the Choirs and Orchestra, of which you will hear more about later on in this same column. The Executive of each secâ€" tion are responsible to the Minister, and the Minister in turn. is responsible to the Studet Parliament. The Tech Club, the French Students‘ Club, and the Army Cadets come unâ€" der the Minister of Weifare and Recâ€" reation. Lately, a Deputy Minister was named who is a member of the Army Cadet Corps and who represents the Cadets in Parliament. The Depâ€" uty Minister is Cadet Lieut. Jack Tyrâ€" rell;, a Grade Twelve Student. The Minister of Welfarse and Recreation also handles the showing of Entertainâ€" ing â€"Films after four in the School Auditorium. These films are shown regularly at a very low admission fee, and they range from educational films, which are at the same time very inâ€" teresting, to shorts on Sports. _There you have all of the Ministers will be held on May 3( and the jobs for which they are r2â€" will be published later. sponsible. The Minister does not this is your Sea Cade carry out all of these tasks by himseif. saying â€" Cheerio. . . It is up to the Minister of Athletics to see that the Schools‘ Athletic Teams are well and. fully equipped and that they have all the necessities of travel and of overnight stops when they compete with teams outsof town. Between the Minister and the Student Team Manager, this task is accomâ€" plished. The Coach, naturally, is the vital man in Athletiecs but he does his best to let the boys handle the Teams‘ affairs by themselves. We neglected to mention last week that the Prime Minister, Ken Langdon, is also the Minister of Publicity. He supervises the School Paper, the Year Book, and Signs. The Schocl Paper, ""‘Campus Capers‘‘, has been replaced this term, by "‘Northern Hiâ€"Lights", a nagazine which serves all of the Secâ€" ondary Schools of Northern Ontario and which is published in Kirkland Lake. *4 â€"BP _ P PP DPA L* PP P 4P C 4P T L â€"GPâ€"DP â€"<DP L â€"Pâ€"Pâ€"LP â€"P DP â€"O P P O P PsP PWP The Adult Education Committee are to be complimented on their foresight in bringing Professor Kirkconnell to the Porcupine Camp. If their intentions were to send out a minâ€" now to catch a whale they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams and expectat‘ons. Instead of catching one whale they caught the whole shoal. * \5â€" â€"a#r P P P â€"P P DP L C â€"G P P P P P P C P P P P P L â€"AG â€"AGPSâ€"AG DL P P P P O L P P P P P eP P P P P efi ~AP P P PP _ P ~P P P PP PP J * *â€"sâ€"G P 4 â€"P~â€"Câ€"P â€"AOGâ€"Gâ€"C L O 4P â€"Oâ€"LP _ 4P D4 ~â€"dL ~DPâ€"L D l"““' i t P O P P â€"G _ APâ€"Câ€"P LCO DC PP 4P « P P "'“m" In their lack of respect for "Freedom of Speech", as demonstrated on Sunday night can be taken as a criter‘on of the party with a small minority we can easily form a judgeâ€" ment of what the conduct of this party would be if they ever attained a majority. The actions of the communist group in refus‘ng to allow Profeéssor Kirkconnell to speak shows more than anything else the damning nature of his evidence against the comâ€" munist organ‘zation. Fortistiea with documents to prove every statéement which he made, his lectures revealed too much of the underlying strategy of the communist party for them to permit its ae- livery to an unbiased audience. â€" For ~some time it has been a debatable question how strong the Communist Party was in the Porcugine Camp. Sunday night‘s demonstration left little doubt. Not only did they rise to the minnow, but they took the bait, hook, line and sinker. Sunday night‘s display of ignorance on the part of communist followers, instead of destroying the eflect of Proâ€" fessor Kirkconnel‘s speech, ‘served to emphasize his warnâ€" ‘ngs concerning the growing danger of communism in Canâ€" ada. Although the objective of exposing the communist party was attained, it is regrettable that a zroup under the guise of "Freedom of Speech" should prevent an audience acâ€" quainted with the evils of communism from further obta‘nâ€" ing facts from the brilliant mind of Professor Kirkconnell. pwos* *4 c‘!l.f'of{c. Iory EWS OF T.BLV. (By Edgar Roy) There are a great number of Students who act on the various Committees thus alleviating the work for one person. The annual inspection of the Corps will be held on May 30. Further news will be published later. Till next time this is your Sea Cadet corraspondent Friday evening of last week the Stuâ€" dent Progressive Party sponsored a Dance in the School Auditorium and all of the Students present enjoyed themselves, we think? Several conâ€" tests were held during the evening and prizes wree presented to Lois Eckâ€" ford and Bob Chase, winners of the Spot Dance, and to June Archer and Barry Ormston, the couple wculdr‘t sell a 1919 quarter for twelve cents. Choirs Orchestra Present Concert The Choirs and Orchestra of T.H. V. are presenting a concert of Clasâ€" sical and Modern Works on Monday evening in the McIntyre Gymnasium. The evening‘s programme will include Classical, Semiâ€"classical and Modern Composers with a Concerto.for Piano and Orchestra as one of tl‘;\e ‘fe'at‘,ured works. Apart from the Senior‘ Choir and the Orchestra, which are already well known in the Porcupine, there will also be a Barker Shop Octetts. a Double Trio, Boys‘ Chorus, Giris‘ Chorus, and the Junior Choir. The Students have been preparing for the Concert all through the teerm under the leadership of the Music Instructor Mr. Edouard Bartlett. Remember the place McIntyre Gym. and theiime â€" 8.30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased any Member of the Choir or Orchestra. The Auxiliary of the local Sea Cadet Corps held a â€"social Friday. evening following the regular parade.. Thie first part of the parade was carried out in pusser routine. The parents were conducted about the ship while the Cadets were in practice. Evening quarters was called at 8.30 and the following half hour was deâ€" voted to exhibitions and displays by the several divisions. A display of fundamental Seamanship was given under Sâ€"Lt. Nilson. This was followed by a First Aid display which was folâ€" lowed by the Band playing several numbers. The Precision rifle squad under Lt. Doucet was well received. A light lunch was served by meimbers of the auxiliary. Tuesdays parade was carried out to pusser routine. Keep your eyes on, T. H. V, and until next week it‘s CHEERS From all of us to all of you. § Bow Waves 7y49%%0%@ By R.J.SCOTU : $15,000,0080 "Exploitation, under capitalism, lakes many forms â€" all of them ugly. Por example. a recent article i3 the <Torâ€" onto Star Weekly described a successâ€" ful invention of new machine for the production of ramie fibre cheaply. The author stated that Egyptian mummies were wrapped in white cloth woven of: ramie which has lasted four thousâ€" arnd years, and then quoted a textile manufacturer who remarked with a simile: on o 2 o . C ies c 2o 29 se oi C t t * C it on April Ind, Mr. M. J. Coldwell finde this statement: "The trouble with ramie is that it‘s too good. We‘ll have to mix it with cotton so thai at least every other thread will wear out." ‘"That, of course, illustrates comâ€" pletely private enterprise‘"‘ said Mr. Coldwell, "production for profit inâ€" stead of socially co:xntrolled and planâ€" ned enterprise for use." Consider for a moment the facts in regard to ramie on which Mr. Coldâ€" well ‘speaks so fluently. It reminds me of the razor blade the technocrats were going to make, it would last a lifetime, the Pogue Carburetter that was to give us a hundred miles to the gallon of gas, the brick yard which was to be built,, some place or other, probably at Estevan,: to make bricks for the whole Dominion â€".do it with oaly a handful of men.. These things come and go like ships in the night. The Miracle Plant Te new mirage of Socialism is ramic. It‘s a fibre plant know for the last four or five thousand years.. It grows in semiâ€"tropial . countries, in Ixndoâ€" China, the Phillipines, and to some extent in South America. It has been tried in the United States with, I urderstand, indifferent results. It grows from three to eight feet high and produces about four tons of moist stems per acre. The problem is to remove the gum, which is an inherent part of the product. Today this work of stripping, removing the gum and drying is done largely by hand, the xact product represents about 2%%% of the green plant. So far no machine has been invented which does the work effectively. There are other. difficulâ€" ties, the fibres are of varying lengths, this adds to the costs of spinninge. We should never despair. Some man, some day, may do it. Mr. Coldwell may have his finger on him now. When it comes industry will grab it if, it provides a product of equal value at less cost. Industry is highly comâ€" petitive. If one manufacturer didn‘t take it, another â€"would. The only thing that might hold it up would bt the protests of the wool growers in Canada or the cotton growers in â€"the United States just as we shut out ‘""oleo" because the farmers don‘t want it and farmers have votes. Kings Used Ramic Mr. Coldwell points out that it was used as winding sheets for Egyptian Kings. There‘s a reason. I\ings who could afford to build pyxax_x_;_idb iv._ place, could afford to spend, not mon- ey, nor gold, nor goods but the lives of their slaves in making a durable cloth in which they could be put. to rest. Slaves cost little, production, of ramie involved a great deal of owrk. We have no slaves except the machines and there times whexn tasks arise too difficult for the machines to perform. Ramie fabrics will come if this is ecâ€", onomically possible but we must reâ€" member that the task of modern <inâ€" dustry is not in providing luxuries for kings, important as that may be, but to furnish products. for shop girls at pr xces withm their capacity to buy. â€"all of them ugly." I wonderâ€" whit Mr. Coldwell means by that â€"state â€" ment? Are all these modern conven â€" iences by which we are sur rounded exâ€" hibits of ugliness. Would Mr. Coldwe)\ consider modern medical organizatior and even the Red Cross, both outâ€" growths of capitalism, as only â€" more ugliness. What strange things are utâ€" tered, when men speak politically. "Exploitation, under *_ capita.lvi-Sm“ says Mr. Coldwell takes many forms There are moments when Mr. Coldâ€" well annoys me. He makes excellent speeches. He has an attractive perâ€" sonality, a good radio voice. Why does he drop from Olympus to tell us a story about ramie? I wish he would leave trifles to lesser men, stick to the larger topics, strike out and reach for the stars. a result of a recent statement by Canada‘s minister of finance, Dougâ€" las Abbott, that a reduction in the cost of living is necessary to the Canzdian economy, business estabâ€" tishments in Toronto and Sarnia, Ont.. hbhave started the policy of selling merchandise at 10 per cent. Former O.P.A. Administrator Chester Bowles is shown leaving the White House, after he had urgâ€" ed President Truman to name a business men‘s committee to work with the government in a U.S. inâ€" dustryâ€"wide lowering of prices. As less than the regular price as contribution to price stabilization at proper levels. FOR LOWER PRICES (By R. J. Deachma:x | ~TO THE EDITOR, ~1, Rascal 6. Strident 11. Hourly 12. Join 15. Harangue 14. Small drum 15. Public notice! notlices 16. Rough lava 10. Biblical 18. Behold! king 19. Chinese coin 17. Skill 20. Selected for 21. Help military 22. Charges for service services 24. Coarse 23. Woody hominy SA perennial (U. S.) 27. One of manÂ¥ I'.-"T;â€"'r As citizens of Canada the Communists enjoy cretain privileges. To any decentâ€"thinking individual, privileges bring duties, responsibilitics aad obligations. Certain laws are laid down for the protection of the whole and each of us have a responsibility to osberve those laws. If we opreak those laws we deserve to lose those privileges. Sunday night‘s episode should teach us as individuals that there are those among us who loudly demand the privileges of Canadian citizenship yet are unâ€" willing to accept any measure of responsibility for the welfare of. the whole. Yet we believe that the overwhelming mass of Canadians are conâ€" fident of their own ability to come through with flying colours. How:« can this be done, Any fool can tear down! It is easier to kuock down than build. It is much more easy to theorize on why Canada cannot succeed than to do dig in aad help to build. A wrecker does not reâ€" quire the mechanical engenuity of a construction engineer,. We repeat â€" any fool can tear down a system of society but it takes brams to fashion a truly great nation. ' To the Ecdiitor: There were many residents of Timinias who left the P; ace. tre on Sunday night thoroughly ashamed of the treatment neted s Professor Kirkconnell by the members of the local CommunB® PS It was one of the most distusting spectacles ever witnes® community and one that should be a real object lesson to w@rM dividuals. Too many of us have been guilty of underes matinig: stre.th of the Communist Party in Timmins and all too of us have failed to realize the very real threat to our security t.hsf. is faclng us in the North country. From the outset, it was apparent that the Communists were mr- mined that Professor Kirkconnell was not to be given a che In tnis they certainly acheived their aim! The record shows that Hitler‘s Stormâ€"<troopers used the exact tactics cmiiployed by the Communist element Sunday ever«xng! Our way of living is th Canadian way of living. Pehaps with weakâ€" nesses, but it is a way of life that has been fashioned by a strong, cours agcous people that wrested a great country from a wilderness. True, we have found that all the lessons learned from the War are not positive. We know that avarice and greed was displayed in the manipulation of the black market. That many people were caught atâ€" tompting to smuggle currency out of the country for holiday purposes. That we had citizens (?) who, like Judas Iscariot of old, sold us to a foreign nation for a few dirty pieces of silver. We learned that :1 nature is many sided, that there were some who unhesitatingly capitalâ€" ized on the distress cf the community. As in the past, Canada will go forward on the courage and reâ€" sourcefulness of her people. The English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Freich, Finns, Bulgarians, Russians and all the many other peoples of the world now domiciled in Canada will face the future with an un~ shakeable faith in the Canadian way of life. ; To those who left the Old World and have taken up our way of = living, we, as Canadians, salute you. We welcome you as additions to . our great faimily. r’Ffi «those~ofâ€"you»who World and arrived here with tati’“’ tered ‘clothing and a determination to foist your "isms" on the Canadâ€"â€" ian public, we sugvest to you that the transportation problem is ‘low" casing and that you withdraw, the "dirty capitalistic money" you have. > in the bank, that you sell the home bought with funds earned in this. "backward and decadent‘" country and that you return to that “frec- * dom" whose cause you so actively espouse. ‘ It is true that many Communists are frustrated individuals who,;. not havmg the necessary ability to rise above their fellowâ€"workers in industry, eagerly grasped the opportunity to become a "big toad in little puddle"." In this way they were mistaken for there is STILL room for constructive leadership in Canada. There are still many opporâ€" â€" tunities for service here in Timmins that would present a challenge to their natural talents. It is unfortunate that in their desire to "makeâ€"â€" over" our country, those commonplace opporunities for service in Tim-' minsz are passed up. P Professor Kirkconnell being aware of the tactics of communists in other parts of Canada. will understand it, when we say no apology is necessary for Sunday‘s unsportsmanlike behaviour, la yers 28. Placed 30. Antlicred Never in the history of Canada has there been a period when it was so hard to read the future. This gives our pessimists and ow Communist friends the opportunity to throw their dampeningsg influence over our efforts to advance. Timmins residents had it clearly demonstrated to "freedom of speech" to Communists means the right to say wish but that that right is theirs exclusively. But. on the whole, Canada came through the war with a proud record despite the despoiling tactics of a few. We agree with Prof. Kirkconnell that it would be unwise to ban the Communist Party. The "leftists" have a place in our society! They make us more appreciative of the privileges we do enjoy. They are an object lesson to us! There were many Timmins residents who left that meeting with a burning hatred of Communism yet with the firm conviction that the blundering : unâ€"Canadian tactxcs employed had hurt rather than helped the "cause." animal 32. Fervor 34. Observed 36. Comes into We firmly believe that if our Communistic friends were.tqf‘ggvote the same zeal in helping to BUILD a better community, as they devote to attempting to TEAR DOWN our way of life, that this community would be a better place in which to live. : ‘The loudest voices heard were those of those who demanded "freeâ€" dom of speech"!!! Was the vituperation and abuse that was heaped upon th during the entire course of his remarks a sample of the "Uto is beoing promised us by the Communist Party? view 59. Sign of the infinitive 40. Perform 41. Cry of pain 42. Obscure 43. A juicy berry 47. Beelle 49, Anxi0uUs *0,. Leveled to the ground 51. Incline 52 Garment n [3 hJ 4 DOoWN Shallows Warm Macaws Cushion . Beg . Rude dwelling 7. Sayings 8, Vein of a leaf 9. Long, fur neckplece water 20. Looseâ€" hanginkg point 31. Goes to bed 33. Sign 25. Labyrinth 26. A break. of the zodiac 85, Wandering peoples 36. Borders 37. Ethical 38. Turf 42, Stun 44. Past 45. Vitdélity 46. Before 48. Disfigure Answers On April 30, 1947 Nota Bene ‘ that