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M Wv;g‘a-inst idieness. In Timmins, instance, a number of grafiing h good has been accomplished foree of the Canadian Orderâ€"inâ€" + | ~ Berliner Gramâ€"oâ€"phoneUo. L. STADELMAN CO............... Timmins, Ont. JAS. BR: TODDO .. Schumacher, Ont. w.â€"D. PBARCB,.;...0.......... South Porcuping, F. C. RICHARDSON, .... Porquis Juncticn, Ont. NL $# :.: Ets se . Cochrane, Ount. Hear them at any "H‘s MaSer‘s Voice" dealer se Heary Burr [ 215034 God Send You Eack to Me Henary RPurr N Everything Arthur Collias | s Cleopatra Arthur Coillins | 216035 Calicoco Fox Trot â€" Miro‘s Dance Orchestra ) 3;e934 Cleopatra Oneâ€"Step Miro‘s cance Orchestra ) ~ u2 Will add to the pleasure of your out door Jife this summer. 90 cents for 10â€"inch, doubleâ€"sided Hello Central! Cive Me NoMan‘s Land _ . 12â€"inch, Purple Seal Record From the North, South, East and West VWrite far free copy of our 620â€"page Musical Encyclo.â€" pedia listing over 9000 "His Master‘s Voice" Records. n LIM nlyA® Lenoir Street "His Master‘s Voice" Records w« ns "Look for the trade mark doz cn t same price as before the war It will prove more convenient and satisfactory for you all round The price will not be any more, and it often will be something less, than charged by outside firms for a less convenient service, Commercnal job work of every description, mining forms, etc., rushed out on short notice Prmtmg As You want it : Delivery When You want it e EC Ne C *A 4o M ols s gamblers and other idlers, many of them aliens and some of them alien enemies, were driven to better ways or other places. About a dozen conâ€" victions here convinced the idlers and the shirkers that in these days of stres there was little room for those who Harry Lauder _ 70129 efi Lo in Sn tfi ue o oi uie i had no useful occupation. ‘The Orderâ€" inâ€"Council ~has accomplished much good, but it would do still more if its provisions were a littleâ€"broader. For example, there are many men in ocâ€" cupations that may not be objectionâ€" able in times of peace but are unnecess ary or worse in these trying days of war. Amusement places may be cited as one sample. In one alien eremy place in town two or three ableâ€"bodied men seem to be hanging around apparâ€" ently doing no more legitimate work than could be accomplished by one balfâ€"smart girll. The law might be made hbroad enough to release such men for pmduotne or useful work and leave the nonâ€"essential occupations for, those physically unfit or handicapped in some other way. ‘There is some doubt as to whether the Orderâ€"inâ€" Council against idleness would reach the young, strong fellows who are mak iny money from conducting amuseâ€" ment places of questionable value to the community. In the United States however, such a point is cleared up beyond any question. The Canadian law does not definitely separate use-l ful and nonâ€"useful oceupations. That: is left te the discretion of the police and the Magistrates and these authorâ€" ities have only too much cause to know how likely their judgment will be to reversal if they err on the side of paâ€"| triotism and common sense. The highâ€" er court judges seem to have a perâ€" verted passion for lax views and leniâ€" ent opinions, especially in the case of aliens. Our judges too often are busy| splitting hairs, while thke Germans mc? splitting heads, outraging women and drowning children. The United States, on the other hand, has placed its rc l gulations against idleaess beyond tuec reach of juegling judgzes. The Proâ€" ! vostâ€"Marshall has defired P( duetive and lla):!-pj'«)(]l‘.(‘l;.\’“ oceupa tio: 36 ll(" all men tetween the ages of 18 and 50| bave now to be engaged in some proâ€" guciive employment or get into the army at ones. Nonâ€"productive ocerâ€" pations, as deffined in the United States, definitely include persors, inâ€" cluding ushers and other atterda: ergzaged ard occunicd in c )::m\’:lol wicth games., sports and amusements, l except actual performers in legitimatle j comeorts, operas and theatrieal perâ€"| formances. What a seattering in alion ! circles such a reyulastion would in Timmins, for example. Evon the| alien enemies would have to give up their soft erafts and turn in to honest | work. There would. be, moreover. plenty of amusement places left for warâ€"time, and citizens ie esX for experimenting on the peat bogs at Holland‘s Landing and. Cochrane, work has been indefinitely postponed. This means, in coldâ€"blooded language, â€"{how coldâ€"blooded,. the winter may yet prove),â€"that Government peat will not hbe available as an aid to aâ€" trerting a fuel famine in the province this year. lt also means that the Govâ€" ernment has again lost tlhe opperturâ€" ty"~of attem tnfl' to develop the ;" of resourres of fl)c Provincee at this tirac when the prevaling prices of {'ue? wou‘ld make such development more probahle of sussess and advaniage all round. Tire Governmont has rot covered itself with any glory in this matter,. If there is some inscurmountâ€" sule difficulty about the development of pealt l\um,, as some pen}»le seent to suewest, then the Governmont sbould announce that fact frankly. The latest anrouncement is a laime one, to put 1t mildly. The suggestion that the work has been ‘‘indefififtfely p:wfp'mv""' C aiso far from plessing. 1IF the di .-v sule diffiiculty abou i7 peat bogs, as so suegwest, then the C announce that facet i A year ago The Advanee urged atâ€" tention to the peat hogs of the proâ€" vince as a possible means of assisting in the solution of the fuel problem. Again, last winter the matter was reâ€" ferred to, and emphasis placed on the neeessity for prompt action in the matter, After a thnae the announceâ€" ment was made that the Ontario Govâ€" ernment was about to take up the question with a view to helping the fuel situation this coming winter. It was carefully explained that nothing scould be done to relieve the coal short age of last winter, but the people did expect that enough energy ard speed would be shown to assure soms assistâ€" ance for 1918 and 1919 demands. Now, however, official announcement is made that owing to the shortage of material required for the manufacture of two imachines ordered by the Deâ€" partment of Lands, Forests Mines GOVERNMENT PEAT PLANS USELESS TOR TEHEIS YEAR. would have an opportunity to make a hvmg. Also, the alien enemies wou!ld have the amusement that must assurâ€" edly be theirs at the absurdity of the Butish baxity that even for a time permitted them to coin money in dabiâ€" ous way and live in the best style with the least work while this country was supposed to be at war to the last man and the last dollar. There are some mighty grim jokes about this war, and they must furnish the aglion eneâ€" my with all possible cause for amuseâ€" ment. Just call up Phone 26 and have these facts proved to your enâ€" tire satisfaction. * A full line of samples may be seen at The Advance Office. ernment=is so slow that it has missed the chancee of this year, it should at least keep right at the work in the hope that â€"next year or the year after or the following year something more than the spending of money on reports might be accomplshed in the matter. If the Government does not intend to do something to help the fuel situaâ€" tion, and incidentally to open a new industry in the North Land, the Govâ€" ernment should be honest enough to say so. If the Government is sincere in the matter of attempting to develop North Land peat as a fuel work should not be ‘postponed, but go on now so that SOME TIML _results> might arrive. As it â€"appears now the Govâ€" ernment ig following the ideas of the man who had the leaky roof :â€"when it was raining hard he could not fix it, afd when‘if. was fine it did not need ixing. When the winter comes it will bae too late to develop peit as a fuel. Just at the present minute no one has immediate need of peat for the fire. It is a funny world all right. ?{?‘:."x’.\ 4 1}