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"l'fl‘fin Tuesday, Def}. 23rd, 1930 Motorists Travel from Kapuskasing to Hearst The Northern Tribune. of Kapus- lasing last. week says:â€" THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Slmcoe Reformerzâ€"If every house- wife would make a point of using only Ontario-grown produce for the Christ- mas and New Years dinners, what a boost it would be for native agricultural products! Several times in recent months local organizations have en- joyed delicious dinners of all~Norfolk produce. The general application 0! this idea throughout the province dur- ing the holiday season might give im- petus to a. movement that would great- ly benefit the farming industry in the period of stress through which it is 80 general has been the impression given in the United States in the press. magazines, motion pictures and other- wise, that Canada is a land of ice and snow and the frontier towns are des- perately wild and woolly, that even people who ought to know better are deceived. It would be thought, for in- stance, that Russell Owen, who has travelled very widely, and specializes as feature writer for The New York Times in articles dealing with geo- graphy, geology, geometry and other gee-gaws. would know something about the real facts regarding Canada. Rus- sell Owen is more or less famous as the chronicler of Rearâ€"Admiral Richard Byrd’s polar flights and of the Arctic expeditions of the unfortunate Capt. Roald Amundsen. Yet Mr. Owen at Ottawa last week admitted that he was surprised at the orderliness and law- abiding characteristics of the frontier towns of Canada. He has just con- cluded an interesting trip over the Hudson Bay railway from The Pas, Manitoba, to Churchill, his Northern itinerary a'lso embracing visits to Moose Factory, on the Moose river, south of James Bay, which is to be eventually the end of steel of the T. N. O. Rail- way. Admits Now That he Expected to Find the Canadian Frontier Towns Wide Open and Wild and Wooily. Some of his Impressions. ll. S‘.WRIIER SURPRISE!) AI URBERLY [le IN NDRIH servance‘ of law~ and order as a matter of common sense. The wind and wool- ly stufi is of no advantage, except to the cheap grafters, the tin-horns and the degenerate. This is too cold a country for most of these gentry, and other peOple have gotten along well. here. There has been lots of sport and fun and friendliness among the pee. ples of the new towns of the North. but the wild and woolly stuff for the benefit of a few individuals has usual- ly been sat. upon heavily. A big com- pany selling a product in very general use. once used a. rtum-page advertise- ment in a number of daily newspapers to tell about the popularity of its pro- duct “even in Timmins.” The adver- izement suggested that most. of the people here were foreigners who spoke broken English. The attention of the company was called to the fact that conditions in Timmins were by no means primitive and that only a small percentage of the citizens were unable to speak good English. The company once they learned the true facts made handsome amends, publishing a full- page advertisement telling of the mo- dern type of town the people of Tim- mins had established. It was amus- 111g. however, to think that people liv- ing in New York and supposed to be intelligent and well-informed should have so absurd an idea of the kind of place that Timmins was. The same idea is true about The Pas. Manitoba. That mining camp does not live under primitive conditions and the peeple are much-bettered informed about the rest cf the world than the rest of the world is about them. The people of Moose Factory will also be likely to object to any suggestion that they are living un- der primitive conditions. Civilization. so-called, has spread all over the North. Moose Factory will have a palatial summer hotel in a year or two and the railway will be built there by next sum- mer. Mr. Owen may be considered as being correct enough when he suggests that there are no “typical frontier towns" in Canada any more. At least there are no frontier towns where everybody carries 'two guns and shoots on first sight. There were no such towns in Canada at any recent date. Canadians have enough sense to know that to allow such places would be only to play the fool. There is no advan- tage in lawlessness to the ordinary man. and for the lawless this country hasn‘t much consideration. Mr. Owen is seeking information at first hand for a\ series of articles on Northern Canada. What impressed him most was the orderly and busi- nesslike manner characterizing life in the Northern outposts of civilization. There was no comparison between The Pas, Manitoba, in the old “wide open" days and Churchill where badminton was played and one lone member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police preserved law and order. As a result of his visit, Mr. Owen was inclined in fact to consider that frontier life was a thing of the past, according to quota- tions in an interview with him at Ot- tawa.last week. The impression is left that Mr. Owen expected to find The Pas, Manitoba, and Moose Factory. what is scientifically known as wild and woolly and roaring and rip-snort- ing. He would likely have looked upon Timmins as too quiet and sedate, had he visited here. It would be hard to admit that this was a. mining town in the far North after the sort of publicity given mining camps in the press to the south in general. None of the towns of the North are Sunday School affairs, except that occasionally they are as happy and jolly as a Sunday School picnic can be. The towns of this North have always kept the idea of ob- Confidence of Railways In the Mining Industry An editorial in The Toronto Mail and Empire last week says:â€" “Crashes in the stock markets have had a depressing eflect upon the min- ing in Canada. although they had little. relation to the real situation. The mineral resources are still in the earth and all that is required to stimulate the industry is a little more confidence in the future. Major Ommanney, direc- tor of the development department of the Canadian Pacific Railway. declarec in a recent address in Montreal that not in many‘ years have conditions been so propitious for intensive pro- specting and development of gold min- ing properties as they are at. present. Labour is plentiful. supplies cheap. favcurable credits are available and promising geological conditions are spread over a wide area. The mining industry, as a whole, is in a strong position. and forward-looking men are investing in it. cverdose of persuasive canversation from people from Sudbury and 2159‘- “The railways of Canada have grown accustomed, of necessity, to act as pioneers in many directions of nation- al development; but Major Ommanney pointed out that it is only within the last decade that they have initated and built up organizations whose duty it is not only to keep in touch with such activities, but to endeavour to foresee and stimulate them. It is no reflection on the work of Government depart- ments to suggest that it is necessary, in many cases, for the railways to get their own first-hand information on the resources tributary to their lines. Bear- ing in mind the substantial interest which railways have in the accuracy of such imformation, one can appreciate the importance of Major Ommanney‘s expression of confidence in the mining industry of Canada." All that The Northern Tribune, The Speaker and The Advance have done in the question of the Trans«Canada highway is to earnestly advocate what they believe to be the logical route .for the highway through this North. 7A.fter the matter had been before the people of the North Land for years and studied by boards of trade from every angle. the question came before the Northern Ontario Associated Boards of Trade at the regular meeting last Octo- her. The question was very fully dis~ cussed. the arguments of the “compro- mise" artists from west of North Bay were patiently heard and considered. and then the meeting, representative of the whole North, decided by resolution, without a dissenting vote. that the As- sociated Boards should endorse the idea of the Trans-Canada highway being routed along the Fergusun highway to Cochrane and thence west to Hearst and the Nipigon country. The North- land Post was represented at the urea:- ing and editorially endorsed the resolu~ ’tion. The president cf the Northern Assoaated Boards cl” Trade who was reported to have been subjected to an; Sllll' flf SAME UPINIUN IN REGARD ID HIGHWAY A couple of weeks ago The Cochrane Northland Post had a column of edi- torial matter ostensibly on the Trans- Canada highway, but in reality given over to impertinent and uncalled-for slurs on three newspapers of the North Land. Neither of these three newspa- pers are likely to be much afiected in reputation or person by any cf the im- pudence of the Cochrane newspaper, but it is perhaps as well in the real in- terests of that journal itself to set it in its place. The Post. for instance suggests that The Kapuskaslng Tri- bune. The New Liskeard Speaker and The Porcupine Advance assume that “all the wisdom of Northern Ontario is at present centered in the three towns where they are published.” Of course, neither The Northern Tribune The Speaker nor The Advance have ,yoiced or suggested or implied or con- sidered any such idea. But. if they had, it would surely be much more reasonable than to do as The Post evi- dently does in this instance, and that is imply that all the brains of the North Land are monopolized by The Cochrane Northland Post and the pre- sident of the Northern Ontario Asso- ciated Boards of Trade. The people of the North Land are not likely to accept the implication of the Northland Post that the three newspapers mentioned should wait for the voice of wisdom from The Northland Post before dar- ing to express an Opinion on matters of public interest. If such a course had been followed in the past the North Land would have sun‘ered. Wider separated by miles, and unconnected in any other way, the three newspapers referred to have one bond that holds themâ€"the honest desire to be of service to the North,â€"and.in this service The Advance is not content to wait for “Post” or anything else. The idea of doing what The Cochrane Post desires in any case is not practical. The Post does not know its own mind without “compromise" meetings and whatnot. The Advance certainly does not believe the sneer of The Post that “wisdom will die with us,” but it is equally ap- parent that wisdom is not. living with The Post at this minute. The trouble seems to be that the editor of The Post is too old to have preserved his na- tural instincts of modesty and goodwill, and too young to have acquired a fair amount of wisdom. Kapuskasing, New Likeard and Tim- mins Newspapers Need No “Com- promise" Meeting to Induce Them to Stand for the Ad- vantage of the North and Canada in General where, earnestly denied the charge that hehadweakened,andsotarasthe meeting could judge he was in favour of the resolution To the meeting the most practical and econOmical g route. and the route that promised the grea‘- est advantage to the North Land and to Canada was the one featured in the} resolution. It was admitted at the. meeting that politicial influences might be arrayed against such a route. but that in the interests of the North Land and the general interests of Canada the meeting had no option but to play fair and endorse the route considered the best one. The president of the Asso- ciated Boards was asked to present the resolution personally to the Govern- ment. The Advance understands that he has not yet done so. He is quoted as saying he could not arrange an in- terview with the premier previous to the latter going overseas. A deputation from Sault Ste. Marie. however. arrang- ed to meet the Government and present another case opposed to what is believ- ed to be the logical route. Since then. while attending the Ontario Associated Boards of Trade meeting the president {of the Northern Ontario Associated 'Boards of Trade was evidently talked over by some of the eloquent delegates from Northwestern Ontario. and he has taken up the amazing task of talking over the boards of trade comprising the Associated Boards. President. ,Wright has sent in circular letters in the matter, rehashing all the specious arguments that were discounted at Cochrane. and re-iterating the tiresome bunk about co-0peraticn and whatnot. In the meantime his Western allies were painting highlights on the pic- ture by objectional reflections on the T. dz N. 0. Railway because it served this part of the North Land. Noc a single fact or fancy has been adduced further than what was so stressed at Cochrane in October. Wmmmuxxxxxxumxxxvnxsxsufl The Advance admits to referring to the action of President Wright as ridi- culous and absurd. The idea of the president seeking to upset the consider- ed action of the Northern Ontario As- sociated Boards of Trade, without a single new fact or reason being given for the charge. Such tactics are both foolish and harmful. If they were to succeed, it would mean the end of the usefulness of the Associated Boards of Trade. for it would mean that when ever that body took a position on any question, the interrogation would be sure to followzâ€"“Oh. yes, and have you held your compromise meeting yet?" The Northland Post says it is a not- able thing to stick to a principle if that principle is worth stiqking to. The Po:t will learn some day that it should always stick by its principles. It certainly is a breach of principle to do as The Post has doneuâ€"pretend to argue for the “compromise" route for the Trans-Canada highway, and then admit that what it is really after is a loop road system. Such loop roads should be built by the province. The question under discussion has been the Trans-Canada highway. The matte‘ of the Trans-Canada highway is more important than most people imagine. Shortsighted folks who see in it no more than a loop of roads for the North Land are not playing fair either with the North or with Canada as a whole. This part of the North will have cause in future years to regret it, if this sort of childish View is permitted to pre- vail. The Kimberley (30.) Press says:â€" We throw away ashes and buy soap. We raise dogs and buy hogs. We grow weeds and buy vegetables and brooms. We catch fish with a s4 rod. We build school houses and send our children away from home to be educated. And at last we sent our boys out with $20 cash and a $50 gun to hunt 25-cent game. High-Grade Samples From Week’s Run of the Press Sault Starâ€"The experts are losing faith in their cocksure forecasts about the depression. The' brokers are be- ginning to doubt that all will be well next month, and one of.--the Canadian banks says nobody knows anything about it. That is encouraging. The harm resulting to public confidence from forecasts that go wrong is not small. As a rule these Opinions are simply “come on" talk. pssvsma Phone 117 Stevens’ Amusement Parlours Pine Street South, Timmins TEMISKAMING AND NORTHERN ONTARIO RAILW'AY Trains Nos. 46 and 47â€"Through ser- vice daily, between Toronto and Tim- mins, also, to Rouyn and Noranda, Que.. operating Parlour Cafe Car Ser- vice between North Bay and Swastika. Through sleepers operated between Toronto and Timmins, also between Toronto, and Rouyn and Noranda. Que. These trains use Canadian National Railways Station at North Bay. The Continental Limited, Trains Nos. 1 and 2. between Montreal and Van- couver, daily, operating through sleepâ€" er between Cochrane and Toronto. These trains use Canadian National Railways Station at North Bay. Trains Nos. 17 and 18â€"Dally except Sunday Service between North Bay and Cochrane, operating through sleeper between 'I‘immlns and Montreal. These trains use Canadian Pacific Railway Station at North Bay. Local service between Cobalt. Foun- tain Falls and Silver Centre, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Connections at Swastika, daily, with The Nipissing Central Railway for Kirkland Lake, Larder Lake, Cheminis, Rouyn and Noranda, Que, and inter- mediate points. Improved service on the Porcupine Branch making close connections at Porquis Junction with trains Nos. 1. 2, 17 and 18 for points east, west, north and south. This service will be in ad- dition to trains Nos. 46 and 47 and will provide three trains each way on Sun- days. The establishment of this service will enable those desiring to conven- iently make round trip from Timmlns to Cochrane on Sundays. Mixed Serviqe daily except Sunday. between Cochrane, Island Falls, Jet. Fraserdale and Coral Rapids. North- bound, leave Cochrane 8.30 a.m., ar- rive Coral Rapids, 2.55 p.m.. South- bound leave Coral Rapids 8.30 am. ar- rive Cochrane 2.30 pm. See current timetable or apply to any '1‘. N. 0. Railway agent for full particulars. General Freight and Passenger Agent North Bay, Ont. Connections at Earlton Jct., for Elk Lake, daily except Sunday. Connections at Englehart for Charl- ton, daily except Sunday. Connections at Porquis Junction daily for Iroquois Falls. Burke’s Drug Store E Pine St. N. Phone 7 § billiards FREE A Gentleman’s Game and. play this am. every day in nadn, _- ngy?_ Bo- on all RADIOS SOLD BY US W. J. WARREN AT Radio Service for Six Months cause Billiard; has a thrill that can't be duplicated in any other ame. You'll like bil- 'arda played with the m o d e r n anawick epuipment in our Re- creation Rooma. TRAIN SERVICE