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8 PBorcupine . > in. e t â€"A* so ie 4 uie h. tm 40. K x C P is Ar P 0 * P AL * + +o TIMMINS, ONTARIO .'. Canadian Weekly Newspaper Asseciation; Ontarioâ€"Quebec .‘ ; T. .o Newspaper Asseciation _:#* Published every Thursday by Merton W. Lake e 4 «s Subscription Rates: Canadians have to be cautious in their criticism of ‘the comâ€" mon policy of the free nations in Asia. Canadian Forum publishes a front page cartoon showing Mr. Acheson using the White Paper as a flag of surrender to advancing communists. . Canadian Leftists did everything possible, with considerable 5 «o â€".A.---‘ ‘A kfl n" success, to persuade the Canadian Government to refuse to back British attempts to maintain peace in Europe, while bitterly critiâ€" cizing Britain for the inadequacy of her efforts. Now, Canadian Leftists think well of Britain, turn their guns on the United States while doing everything possible to deter Ottawa from an adequate contribution to the maintenance of peace in Europe or Asia. s P W 21x 2s me e m # ‘kl\ ALZ NA B _ No ic ceAE .. , .t ctt old in uts Canada is a nation. Canada is a very necessary part of the military system which is required to stop communism in Europe and Asia. Canada will always fight courageously on the right side in a war, but that is no reason for leaving young Canadian fightâ€" ing men to oktain their training and equipment under fire, rather than before the battle starts. L ol 1e e h th ce | 6 on h: ts t Recruiting ad;élâ€"'tising in Canada at present appeals to young men to enter the Forces to obtain special social security. It conâ€" tains not one solitary note to the effect that they are being called to preserve civilization. 3. 4 c i L K â€". se ue A en e rea® UVR hh V LA . B No C Ne ts C P h. _ flce V Te ENP EVCT _ _ Mr. Claxton has some press agents at Ottawa who could be spared. They are now issuing handouts to the effect that General Crerar is wrong; that this country cannot possibly consider comâ€" pulsory military service. Reasons given are: (1) that conscripâ€" tion would produce only 75,000 a year, which is too few; (2) that these recruits would be too many, because the forces cannot poSsâ€" sibly train that number, _ _ NUA L 4 MJ e a yeâ€" kmy The British evidence also indicated that the slave labourers in Russia total something like ten million, or about ten per.cent. ofi‘ the total adult working force. If only half of these slaves were genuine criminals, Russia certainly has the highest criminal rate in history! ‘ Moscow knew, in the face of Britain‘s revelation, that there was little use denying the evidence, so Stalin‘s mouthpieces, in â€" stead of mumbling "not guilty‘" to the charge, attempted to defend the system a few days later as a humane method of reforming criminals by educational labour. h "A. L c i t ces l EW Obvious“ly,v vfifié“c"riief idea is an economic one, although punâ€" ishment and indoctrination are essential parts of the Soviet slave labour code. While red agents blandly continue to stir up labour trouble all overâ€" the world, the Politburo can undertake immense engiâ€" neering works and huge mining projects and the cost of the labour is practically nil. Some of us were surprised when the government announced that the state of the arts in Canada was to be the subject of a Royal Commission investigation. It seemed. strange that the problems of painters and poets should rate the kind of hearing usually reserved for politicol scandals, economic inequities and other‘issues of national importance. $ _ /‘ Apparently the government doesn‘t think so. And the Masâ€" sey ‘Commission seems: to be listening attentively to the wide variety of proposals brought forward by organizations which have labored long at the unrewarding task. of developing Canada‘s artistic talents. There may be some who neither know nor care if Canada has a national are gallery or a national theatre. Many haven‘t read a Canadian poem or novel since leaving high school. But most Canadians listen to the radio and run across the occasional Canâ€" adiax-made short subject at the movies. If the people who run these"movies and radio programs are interested in mproving their output, we certainly aren‘t opposed to giving them a hearing. ‘Come to think of it, that hardâ€"working bunch of youngsters put on a good show in the summer theatre performance last month. Too bad they didn‘t get a little more support. And then there was the music festival last spring. There was the little girl who came third in the 10â€"yearâ€"old piano competiâ€" ion. Perhaps the commission could figure out a way for her to get lessons from a good teacher. . ."Price of Pythons Zocoms"â€"headline. Just another case of putâ€" the squeeze on the customer? We‘ve all heard of youngsters who headed their high school drawing classes or sang solos in the church choir and wound up driving a truck. Maybe they‘re better off that way, but it would be a good idea if they had a chance to find out whether they could make a suecessful career painting pictures or singing songs. That‘s why the Royal Commission is listening to all those authcrs and musicians and radio executives. And the chances are that most of us and our children will benefit from the report they hand in to Parliament. Well, of course it takes money. Surely if the government can afford ‘to pay all those civil serfants in Ottawa, they can spare a little cash for things like that. f 'itdoun't take a rernarkably clever man to point out where his neighbor is apihs are reported usetul in heliping to how ey ed. . We thought they were donated. A Timmins, Ontario, Thursdéy, September 15th1 1949 w e Il:-ushlipned men are those who remember when governments didn‘t have $2.00 Per Year Recruiting Advertising Modern Day Slavery Arts Get A Hearing United States: $3.00 Per Year valry. or whatâ€"haveâ€"you? between Timmins and Cobalt ‘n the days w.aen the Porcupine was young. "Old Porâ€" cupine‘s a muskeg!" was cne of the libels in the famous Cobalt song. Th Porcupine answer usually was: "What Lkas Cobalt that Timmins hasn‘t more and better, from blindpigs to beautiâ€" ful women, and from highâ€"graders to churches?" On one occasion, The Porcupine Advance jlbed that in the previous week Timmins had a murâ€" der, two marriages, three highâ€"grad?o cases.a highway robbery, a church anriversary, and several charges unâ€" der the Ontario Temperance Act, while ‘all poor old Cobalt could boast was an attempted suicide. In those days, Cobalt made a verâ€" itable howl about its famous Cobalt had actually named that dog "Cobalt,." though the Advance proâ€" tested, "We wouldn‘t give that name to a dog!" : But the town, Cobalt, spread the name of that dog as far as a dog‘s fame could go. It is adâ€" mitted that the dog, "Cobalt," was clever; he spent little of his time in Uanbalt Indeed. his chief claim to Cobalt. Indeed, his chief claim to fame was his penchant for travelling. All the trainmen on the T. N. O. Railway knew "Old Cobalt" well. That dog was always sure of the best seat on the T. N. C. train, which was the best the trainmen could do for him. One day he would travel by train to Haileybury, the next to New Liskeard, sometimes going as far as Cochrane or North Bay. Old ‘Coâ€" balt would arrive at the station aâ€" round train time, board the train of nis choice, and travel to the station which it seemed he had settled upon before he started on th trip. It is said that there was not a staâ€" tion on the T. N. O. Railway that O1ld Cobalt did not visit at least oncse After he had visited friends in the place selected, the dog would reâ€" turn to the station and wait for the train to Cobalt. Of course, the dog, ‘"Cobalt," paid one of his visits to Timmins, and tradition has it that for the only time on record a citizen of Cobalt had to come here was to take the dog back to Cobalt. It wasn‘t because the dog could not travel alone, for he did little else for years. The trouble was that the dog "Cobalt" was clever. This is the best town I‘ve seen yet, and I‘ve certainly travelled a lot," Old Cobalt is expected to have said to hkimsel:. Being a dog with brains, he felt he ought to stay here. no opposition here to the return of Cobalt to Cobalt. Timmins had a famous dog of its own. Inâ€" deed, there were several justly famâ€" ous dogs in Timmins. For example, Bill Martin‘s dog team was certainly not to be sneezed at when it came to dog racing, and when it came to matched beauties, the white team ‘(of Mr. Meyers was something to write home about. There were other dogs also worthy cft mention. . Ernie Bridâ€" ger‘s Great Dane, "Good Old Mike," for service as a sleigh dog, and for iriendliness especially to chaildren, deserves to be remembred. The particular town dog of the early There has just now come to this department a copy of an article entitled: "You Don‘t Need To Get Seasick." Oh yeah! It is apparent, from the title, that the author of this article is labouring under the delusion that seasickness is just an act of loyalty to a physical urge. Nothing cou‘d be farther from the truth. We know, especially you and I, that if society is to remain ‘intact, and if our gregarious instincts are to remain free from moth holes, it is necessary that each and every one of us possess the ability to accept seasickness like good sports. Let‘s have no quibblers. Indeed, it is an established fact that any traveller foolish enough to cross an ocean in an upright position does so at the risk of losing his friends, his family and his lodge button provided he is naive enough to boast about his immunity to the ‘eeward heaveâ€"ho. Bup! He may, at first, think he has pulled off something exceptionally specâ€" tacular. However the time will come when he will no longer be invited out to parties, his wife and children will subject him to the cold snobbery usually reserved for crossâ€"eyed cattle, and his coâ€"workers will discuss his peculiarity in the manner usually reserved for that effete twerp who has still to discover ‘the wonders of Lifebuoy Soap. I think that I can safely say, from first hand observations, that there is nothing more pathetic than the_sight of some poor wretch who has to sit on the edge of a conversation about seasickness simply because he ha:‘ never been to sea and had the expurience of it. thil While the rest of the party alternately groan and roar and talk of crashing seas and pitching, ships he must sit sedately by and enjoy his smoke and drink to the full extent. . And too; he inever ‘has the satisfaction of rumpling his best blue su‘* by crawling acroks the floor to better explain those horribly questionabi moments of making for the ship‘s side. Neither does he have to bump his head on tke door jam in order to géet his eyes uncrossed after the demonâ€" stration is over. He doesn‘t have much fun. However, I suppose there will always be those reckless ITew wWho willing to take their chances against being ostracized from society by writing about the new cures for.the ills that have taken the human race S$0 lort?y to perfect and, having had the experience of them, so wondrously long to Â¥et, even the breach of good manners that the author of the artic‘~ in question has made might be haughtily overlooked were it not for th» fact that the cure he writes about is named Betaâ€"dimethylaminoethy! banâ€" zohydry! ether 8â€"chiorothophyllinate. Indeed, it is difficult for me to conjure up a vision of anyone in the throes of seasickness asking for anything tha‘ sounds ever‘remotely the new cutre: The seasick personcs I have known were hard to understand at the best of times. Anyway, the more I look zt the article, sitting smugly before me, the less do I think of agreeing with even one word of it. f The subâ€"title rendfi: "Newly Discovired Drug Will Prevent N*asickness 96 Times Out of 108."" And from where I sit that "96 Times Out of 100" sounds like sheer discrimination. "You Don‘t Need To Get Seasick." _ . #x) _ Oh Yeah! §3 forget. dr. § "Thank you . . . ‘The Thursday Whim‘ #99 By J. L. W. Perhaps, Toby looked more like a daschund than ‘like any qthpr, breed, db cficaded but this may have been because his body was long, his legs short, and he fed himself so well that hig> chassis was low slung. Black, . with red markings, he was about the size of a fox terrier, but weighed as much, perâ€" haps, as a bull dog. wlerih i ESmE sn i dnc ts No one seemed to know where Toâ€" by came from, or why. He appeared casually shortly a‘ter the town,. was established, and soon became one of the best known canines in the town. With his long, round, sleek body, his short legs, and his long tail that perâ€" petually waved in greeting to the world in general, he was the embodâ€" iment of cheerfulness, with a dash of impudence. His breed was ‘as COsâ€" mopolitan as the town itself, and his manners were as democratic. So far as human beings were concerned, he was a very friendly ‘dog, especially at meal times but he was inclined to be auarrelsome and snobbish with cther less well bred animals He refused to be coaxed into Fat‘s Cafée, after he found that the Chinamen there favâ€" cured Old Mike, the lovable Great Dane. ~d. ts d Toby scorned parlour tricks. * He felt himgelf to impbrtant and inâ€" dependent for that sort of nonsense. But he would pray on request. On rceasion, he would sit up on his hind legs, with his paws in prayful attitude near his face. If he were not reâ€" warded for this, however, he would be insulted and, resentful. Everybody liked Toby, and Toby was fond of his food. He made regâ€" ular and thoughtful rounds~ of the pating places in town. He made a particular paint of getting one meal 2 day at the Goldfields hotel. _ After that he spread his patronage. In turn, he would test out the ‘Canadian Club, Fat‘s Cafe, the Boston. the Paris and any other place where food was served. â€" When the Queen‘s hotel opâ€" ened here in 1918, Toby was one of the first customers. Any stranger in iown would have always beeh safe in following Toby,; for Toby was always on his way to some good eating place. Cecil Lloyd maintained that Toby exâ€" plained his whole philcsophy of life to him when he said: "I only want a whole lot, but I want that wheole lot the. very best. h * Toby never grew up, but he grew down and around. For years he had the run of theâ€"town and the eating places. Then came danger for Toby. A new chief of police decided :to round up all stray dogs and destroy them. By "stray dogs" this inconâ€" siderate chief of police meant dogs an article entitled: As Toby grew older, he lost some oi his good nature. He had the habit of lying under the table at the Club Cafe, and if a diner accidentally hit the sleeping dog with his foot, and foot would feel the pressure of a savage set of teeth. _ Although, no more harm resulted than a marked shoc, the surprise and shcck .of the unexpected snap did not "*add to Toby‘s popularity. Also, as Toby grew in years, it became increasingly difficult for him to investigate all the new â€" eating places opening here. Eventually, Toby disappeareq as Ccasâ€" ually and as mysteriously as he had â€"2ppeared. was a call for someone to buy a tag for Toby, and so avert disaster. Litâ€" trally scores rushed forward to buy a tag for Toby. The men thus offerâ€" ing to buy a tag for Toby thought they had a special right to him, but Toby wouldn‘t even go home with the gentleman who actually bceught the tag. â€"Instead, Toby followed his former custom of occasionally pickâ€" ing out some lateâ€"hour acquaintance and giving that favoured individual the honour cf taking Toby in for the night. Toby would leave early in the morning and likely would never again accord the distincti‘on of the same man. Ancther Timmins dog that deserves some fame is not remembered by name or even by his master‘s name. The man was arrested for being drunk on the street. When :the police locked up the man, they did rot pay any attention to his little dog. Soon, however, they heard whining and crying that demanded investigation, and the faithful little dog was found to have slipped into the cell with his master. The dog was taken out of the cell, but refused to go away. â€" Instead, he deliberately set out to. make friends with the chief and Officer Salley. The dog would sit up on a chair beside either of the policemen and gain attention. . Then he would run to the door behin which his master was imprisoned, urging with his bright, soft eyes and his wagging tail the release of his magter. When he found that all his pleadings in vain, the little dog sas down and whined and ~cried, real tears being in his faithful eyes. _ Evâ€" entually, the dog had to be. taken outside the station. Driven away from the door, he kept within sight cf the police station hour after hour until his master had roused from his drunken stupor and was able to arâ€" range .bail for himself. When the man left the station the joy of the animal: as it ran to meet him was heartâ€"touching. A preacher whose congregation regâ€" warly spurns seats in the front of the church was surprised to see onec maln a stranger, in the very first row. After the sermo.n, the pastor a:ked the man why he sat down in front.â€" The man replied that, being a bus driver, he wanted to find out how the preacher got people to move to the rear. "I would be a lot better if half as good a man as my dog man told Officer Salley. "Do you want my> husband in his ckpacity as a veterinary surgeon or as chief constable?" she a:ked. "Both, Madam came the prompt reply. "We can‘t get our bulldog‘s mouth open, and there‘s a burglar in it." The chief constable of a small town was also an expert veterinary surgeon. One night the telephone rang and the constable‘s wife answered. "Can Mr, Jenkins come over to my house at once?" asked an agitated voice. ' Bcund for a tr‘p across the Chanâ€" nel, Jock MacGregor sought out the captain of the boat, and said "My guid mon, canna ye no tell me wharat 1 can gdo to prevent seasickne s?" "Got a quarter?" the captain in quired. "Good!" exclaimed the captain. "Now pul it between your your teeth, and hold it there until we get across." gpa The Scot produced the necessary con from his purse, Some of Canada‘s finest weather is on display in September and there are few better times to enjoy hiking or walking tr.ps. Walking is one of the best forms of moderate exercise we have. Take advantage of t:e fine September weekends and the clear, cool evening: for this healthâ€"building exercise. Your family doctor can advise you as to the form of exercise best suited to your individual needs and abilities, The Bright Side Tle Front And Rear Seat A Veterinary Constable HIKING WEATHER Sure Cure 1 woere is," the And on Tuesday night. jammed into a hct seventh floor auditotium., they clearly and painstakingly drew the Communist line inside labor and indusâ€" try. Murray‘s name was booed and hissed, derided and laughed at, sneered and jeered at, linked with the Ku Klux Klan, cross burnings, sellouts, "white supremacy" and "desertion of the Negro people." P 7 £ mA Not since the wild revoluti®nary 1919â€"1935 days of the Communist Party have I heard an internationally prominent labor leader so reviled. And most certainly not a CIO chief. So let‘s get the record straight: The big man with the black eyeâ€"patch and Red politics was Maurire Travis, secretaryâ€"treasurer of the CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, who charged bluntly that Phil Murray‘s southern people had approved of the kidnapping and beating of a proâ€"Commie organizer; had burnrd crosses in front of Negro members homes and encouraged parades of the hoods in the Ku Klux Klan. BPut more fascinating than the smear of Murray was another Travis blast at him, whooped up and roaringly approved by the crowd... Travis had just "accused" Murray of cooperating with industry to get production. Then the huge mine and smelter man growled into the mike: Among those who cheered right on the speakers platform were leaders of the Farm Equipment workers, the Office and Professional crowd, the Fur workers, the Communications union, the public workers, Food and Tobacco workers, electrical workers (U. E) and the Marine Cooks and stewards. just to mention a few. “"‘We' (the Autonomy Committee) say that any worker who sits down with employers to speed production is merely working himself out of a job. And since when do we care about the employers?" It was he who was most loudly applauded when he labeled Phil Murray and National CIO secretary Jim Carey as "chairwarmers." It was he who pounded the table and screamed, let‘s fight for the Communists. It was he who said Murray had tied his kite to the industrialists." It was he who argued that Murray had deserted the Negro people and that ‘"the Negr» people have repudiated the white Supremacy policies of Phil Murray." And the crowd loved it. â€" ”'Iv‘hen others arose to _potshot Phil Murray. The big gun was semiâ€"hysâ€" terical Ewart Guinier, leader of the Public Workers. $® And why not?â€"the only avowed nonâ€"Communist in the audience who got up to object was booed down, howled at as he hopped from«microphone to microphone m an effort to speak freely at this ‘"Conference for Autonomy and I tried to get to him for an interview on the floor, theâ€"mob yowled and I wasâ€"told to sit down or get out. Being polite, I sat downâ€"besides, that crowd was seriously ugly. f s Again I say, why shouldn‘t the crowd love it all? The new lime is to goad the responsxble national ‘CIO leadership into expelling the munist unions. From as authoritative a source as Bella. DoY@@M@UBtil very recently a member of the Communist Party‘s National: Com®i :\.’1 learn that the Party line is to split CIO and discredit it. s "The Communist Party is@‘t interested in uniting the la Mrs. Dodd told me. "It is splitting labor and wants to weak tain the Communist opposition in CIO at all costs." Communist Party field organizers are under orders to launch a strong crossâ€"country veterans‘ cutfit to attract exâ€"soldiers and sailors to the Party‘s own tough core of former servicemen, for use in demonstrations, Washingâ€" tuor lobbying and other "progressive activity" . . . A close. watclL of the national average wage increase granted in August reveals it to ‘Be>$1.88 a week, 0> 4.7 cents an hour . . . Two out of every five union contracts signed had nc pay jumps mcluded Small experimental auto plants will be built shortly in Portland, Ore., and in some Southern California communities by the Kaiserâ€"Frazer Co., to turn out 10 to 20 cars a day. Point is to get a better quality product by having no more than 200 men in a plant, paying inpivxdual atttention to each detail. Each mechanic will be carefully selected and taught "to develop a special pride‘"‘ in his work. Kaiser uses this technique successâ€" fully in his Rotterdam (Holland) plant, which rolls out 10 autos aâ€"day of superior quality models. If the experimental plants work, the Kaiserâ€" Frazer Co. will throw up others in small communities, not highly indusâ€" trialized, in an effort to have those areas push car sales out of local pride. . . Next strike threat will hit the refrigerator and washing machine ‘front, not to mention one or two atomic gadgets, when the truculent leaders of CIO‘s Elecrical Workers (UE)"meet in New York, within the next 40 days. to declare war on General Electric . . . There isstalk in Washington that President Truman is considering fighting for establishment of a permanent board which will turn in recommendations for settlement of all nationwide wage battles. 4 Almost unnoticeably, the really turbulent strike front battle for a showâ€" down between labor and management in the fourth round has developed at the Bell Aircraft plant in Buffalo. The crisis there is later angd_.more imâ€" portant than you think. . . . ‘ C C 3 5z N ce eWE‘ e SCn SmE And here‘s a tip on the political labor frdéntâ€"on Sept. 13 watch the special election in Pennsylvania‘s 26th Congressional District. That‘s the one young Bob Coffey, Jr., represented until he was killed when his Jet Flight Shootâ€" ing Star crashed. After a dispute between his widow and mcther, his mother took the Democratic nomination to succeed him. The Republicans have named the war hero who handed over the famous flag raised, o_ Iwo J‘ima. _ _ Here‘s the importance of the election: 3: Quietly the CIOâ€"PAC has moved in its political strategists ‘@ pubh- city people. They are using every labor technique developedsin: the past few vears. It‘s a clear cut test of strength between the Trumanâ€"!@Bor coaliâ€" tion and the Republicans and is a preview of the 1950 eleéflb“’because the district has no angles nor candidates of special appeal such @$ Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., some months back. So far the campaign has been "unnotlced There‘ll be more Communist leaders. concentrated in Clevelant Sept. 17 and Sept. 24 than in any other city except Moscow. Bt They‘ll be working secretly on the Progressive Party "job" caf the United Electrical Workers (UE) convention. . . . The chief wntness against Harry Bridges when his deportation trial comes up will be an exâ€"CIO official in California whom the Lefties smeared when he became so popular that he threatened to obscure Bridges. So they passed word around that he had been gambling with CIO funds, running with wild women and drinking heavily. He discovered who the rumorâ€"mongers were, told the national CIO chiefs that he was going to the FBI with information on the mlmg ‘Arryâ€"â€" and that‘s how deportations are born. The brewery workers union, bitter opponent of the high tax on liquor, reports testily that the resulting high price of drinks has made bootleg moonshme so profitable that it‘s increased 30 per cent in the past year. . . . Leaders of the Assn. cf Catholic Trade Unionists met over the Labor Day weekâ€"end in New York. and planned to ‘expand their chapters into cities not yet covered. . . . Walter Reuther‘s poljioâ€"stricken candidate for Mayor of Detroit, George Edwards, is cutting radio discus from his bed sn he can continue his campaign. He just had to wait until the contagion period was over so the studio crews wouldn‘t be affected, when they went to his home with their recording equipment. . . . The odds are he‘l}l win and give Reuther terrific politi¢éal influence over the city and state. . . . At 102 a Virginia man has never had a doctor. Wouldn"t you think he‘d get sick of eating apples? Wonder what the winter‘s first snow will do to peepingâ€"loe shoes, halo hats and net gloves. Most convcx'saticnss fail to "i"ollovvvaӎtâ€"r:irght line frcn point to point. And it‘s on the detours that the verbiage piles up. An Ontario magistrate rebuked a man the cther day for wanting five minutes in which to drink a glass of beer. Yet we read of a Cincinnati man who went out for a beer 32 years ago and has not returned homec yet Who says that the pace of life is more leisurely in Canada? I{®you think miners d;’g down deep, just wait till you get"your ‘winter‘s coal bill. U 12 12 A A hog in Alberta survives 18 weeks‘ imprisonment in an abandoned well. Its bacon should be lean enough‘ for those who dislike fat. % ; Profits, some people seek to think, are terribly wicked things, but they meet the world‘s payrolls a lot better than deficits. c One objection to a child being born with a silver spoon in his mouth is that it‘s often hard getting it to gtir for itself later on. A fourâ€"yearâ€"old lobster, we read, has changed its shell 23 times. Must have a wardrobe like a movie star‘s, Horse racing under arc lights proposedâ€"new item. But who wants to bet on a nigntmare? Whoso side is Tito onâ€"or is he just in the middle? A westerner has designed a boat made of fibreglass. Down to the in Chips? A Bit O‘ This and That by Victor Riesel ment," mainâ€"