#ire fur North. Complaints occur freâ€" #spmemtly along this line, and it is difâ€" Sexdt to secure a really accurate and dependable picture of the situation the Indians, Even the missionâ€" armtkes, who may usually be depended «aom to see that the natives are fairly «xsnfortable do not always agree on whiat the actual conditions may be. Made that Indians in Patricia WkRrict are Sulfering from Curable Wiseases. Also as to Other Conditions. #e fur North. C gmently along thi: RSexdt to secure a dependable pictu: the Indian: arks, who may : Heeently there have been references the daily newspapers and elsewhere m tq comditions among the Indians in ase of the Indians to the North of Here l QPD Thursday, March 24th, 1932 YÂ¥ ou sense it instantly . .. right from the getâ€"away. Increase your speed . .. 20, 30, 40 . . . it‘s always the same unâ€" canny smoothness. And wide open you "What a car! Better writers than I have tried to describe the thrill of Floatâ€" ing Power. But when I say this car has no vibration ... 1 mean it. "‘Ten thrilling days. 3000 crossâ€"counâ€" try miles. Over the worst of the Alleâ€" ghenies. With a final 300â€"mile sprint at as high as 70 m. p. h. on a track. @ "I‘ve driven thousands of cars. Won races. Broken records. But I‘ve never had a ride like this. They told me to put the new DeSoto through its paces. Go the limit and get the truth. I did. "anaa’a ‘s _L_S'martest Iow- pn'ce(] c INTO SOUPS AND GRAVIES . BEEF STRENCGTH rly | ducl:s and geese in the North and that on |the Indians secure a supply of these be. each year for their larders. Jos. A. Some time ago one missionary in the ’far North wrote to the press claiming 'that not only were the Indians in desâ€" perate situation, lacking food and shelâ€" lter from the weather, but also that conditions could never be otherwise beâ€" cause they depended upon fish for the chief food for themselves and their dogs and so as he asserted that there was no amount of fish cf any conseâ€" quence in the North they were doomed to starvation. This claim wWas strongly | denied by those in a position to know and now there is apparently authentic information to prove that there is a good supply of fish in Hudson‘s Bay. In addition, there is also authentic inâ€" formation that there are millions of "Yes, Sir ... this new DeSoto Six has everything. Go and see it. You‘ve got a big thrill coming." "And imagine the thrill of driving without touching the clutch. It‘s autoâ€" matic . . . your left foot is free. No butâ€" tons to press. No gadgets. 1ust ‘float‘ along. I tell you . .. it‘s the easiest car I‘ve ever driven. « Dr Sorto $tx 975 :; The latest case made out on behalf of the Indian of the far North, and particularly of the Patricia district is summarized in effective way by the column "Grab Samples," in The Norâ€" thern Miner. The Advance does not suggest that this article is absolutely accurate, necessarily because it is from ‘Grab Samples," but it should be frankly admitted that "Grab Samples" does not usually talk without a great measure of information and without due ground for any statements made. Accordingly, there should be special attention given to this article. If it is correct in all its inferences, there should be a speedy change in attitude on the part of the Government departâ€" ments concerned. If it is inaccurate in the main, there should be authoritaâ€" _ Bradette, MP., for North Temiskamâ€" ing, some time ago took up with the Government at Ottawa the matter of the conditions under which the Inâ€" dians existed or died in the far North. Mr. Bradette gathered much informaâ€" tion but, as usual, there was conflictâ€" ing testimony in the matter from those who were in position to know. It is difficult for the ordinary man to know which side is correct. The Advance some years ago suggested that the Doâ€" minion Government have an impartial survey made by competent men in the Government service to decide accuâ€" rately and fully what the actual conâ€" ,dmcns may be among the Indians. When the matter was brought to the attention of the Government two or three years ago by Mr. Bradette, The Advance understood that some temâ€" porary measures were taken to relieve any distress that might have been sufâ€" fered at that time by the Indians in the James Bay area. At any rate nothing was heard for some time in regard to the conditions under which the Indians lived. Whether this may be taken to mean that conditions had been improved or whether the silence was due to discouragement or to the fact that those in contact with the Indians were keeping any wrong conâ€" ditions secret is not easy to determine. In any event it appears that at the present time the case of the Indians ‘s to be further taken up, with pubâ€" licity as a chief weapon. It woulid be well for all concerned to recognize one factâ€"that is, that the general public will not favour any method by which the Indian is not given a fair chance for life, nor will it please the public if the natives of this North are perâ€" mitted to die from curable diseases, despite treaty obligation and the call of common decency and right. l ! i SPECIAL FEATURES. Flosting Power . . a basic new development that ends driving vibraâ€" tion. 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The * newcomer has ruthlessly brushed aside CC | the native, subjugated him, scorned his 9~â€"| property and personai rights and, if * / needs be, exterminated him. It is an 8 old story and its later chapters are ‘~ being written in this day and time, ‘*" j in America and elsewhere. In this 5/ century we have the spectacle of the ‘€®| last mopping up of the scattered bands * |of American Indians, those who have *) managed thus far to preserve their ‘~| tribal integrity, their old customs, and C their language. «ommc TEST OF NEW DESOTO siX "There was until 1926 one large eastern area in Patricia district in Ontario, where the Indian roamed at peace, with a great domain to himself, where he could, with a minimum of interference carry on life in the imâ€" memocrial manner, trapping, fishing and hunting. There he lived in health, in modest prosperity, a free man. With the advent of the prospector, with the gold rush of 1926 a change came over. his life. The gold seekers who desâ€" cended on Patricia, literally in clouds found curious groups of natives, imâ€" passive in face but disturbed at hea.rt,l at points on the great water system which fringes the southern section of the district. To the prospectors they were just another crowd of Indians, looked down upon for their impractical habits and for their laeck of ambition. In reality they were the last represenâ€" tatives of once gregt native nations, Canada the conquest of the west and north has extended to the Arctic, where the Eskimos have offered a conâ€" siderable resistance to the peaceful penetration of the fur trader for â€" a long period. The Indians of the Macâ€" kenzie river basin have long since sucâ€" cumbed to schooling, to proselytization, to the white man‘s enervating contact Colonel Cornwall, veteran of the great river, describes the transition period with pathos. Captain Mack, twenty years schooner master on the Hudson‘s Bay, tells of the weakening effect of white influence on the west coast Esâ€" kimos. The southern Indian reserves tiny islets in a sea of white domination are in the main inhabitated by emascuâ€" lated and halfâ€"bred Indians, the surâ€" vivors of a system which ruthlessly killed off all except those specially imâ€" munized by admixtures of white blood. ‘ive denial of the allegations made. The article in "Grab Samples" last week as follows:â€" ............................. ................................................. Timmins to be a pretty hard boiled world but still there persists the notion that naâ€" ticnal decency calls for fair treatment of the country‘s Indian wards. deal of public indifference on these points and it is feared that this indifâ€" ference centres right in the departâ€" ments which should normally be most concéerned about them. This has come ‘‘Aiter all, it just boils down to whether Canada wishes to preserve the lives of its Indian wards, whether it wishes to increase the native popula~â€" tion or let it die out. There is a great CE lay man could not diagnose it, it was stated. An investigation into the whole business has been promised. Probably more will be spent in the investigation than would remedy the conditions comâ€" plained of, to some extent at least. in refutation. A few chosen reports were fished out and offered in defence. But it was revealed that givernment hospitals had been instructed not to take such cases of diséase, tanzgt the governmental appropriations for Indian administration had been cut down, that certain medical services had been disâ€" continued. It was revealed that adeâ€" quate facilities for hospitalization or other treatment of the Indians had not been provided. True, the Indian young were being schooled, probably to their everlasting detriment. But the Indians were too nomadic, it was said, to permit of tuberculosis treatment; trachoma was not prevalent, it was claimed. A "The administration of bureaucrats is mvariably as secret as they can make it. They are very discreet in their own interest and jealous of their informaâ€" tion and power. So that when a sym~â€" pathetic observer barges into their special field and reports what he sees there is usually considerable perturbaâ€" tion. Therefore, it is not surprising that when John Butterfield, an Ontario Land Surveyor by profession and prosâ€" pector by avocation, a man who has spent twenty years in the north, came out recently and spoke plainly and and honestly of health and living conâ€" ditions of the Patricia Indians, his statements were met with an intensive barrage from governmental and other officials. His report that Indian childâ€" ren were suffering from glandular tuâ€" berculosis ol the curable kind, and from trachoma which brings blindness interested â€" officialdom attempted â€" to smother in blanket statements offered | "With the tinaing of gold the governâ€" ment at Ottawa, which had, through some curious oversight explicable only in governmental circles, discovered that there had been a hiatus of a considerâ€" able number of years in treaty negoâ€" tiations, a condition which was rapidly remedied with the result that governâ€" ment representatives made a rendezâ€" vous with the natives, arranged a treaty and promised the usual things in return for the surrender of ‘"rights" and the payment of a certain sum per capita annually. fine physical jspecimens, splendid woodsmen, contented inhabitants of a region fitted only for their use. zaiwy. . Aillb WOUlid sound very good at Sudbury, but it would appear that "Mitch," as The Globe calls him, is troubled with overmuch talk. Renfrew Mercury (Liberal) :â€"Speakâ€" ing at Sudbury on March 9th, M. F. Hepburn, member of the House of Commons, annd in between times leadâ€" er of Ontario Liberals, said: «We as a Liberal party are no longer supporting the cause of pohibition, and never will so long as I am the leader of the party." This would sound very good As a result of development work now in progress it is estimated that in adâ€" dition to the 150,000 tons mentioned in the annual report, there is a reasonable expectancy of adding 100,.000 tons to ore reserve, making a total of 250,000 tons On the 600â€"foot level, recent work was been very encouraging with assays as high as $40 a ton. ; At the annual meeting of the Siscos Gold Mines held last week at Montreal ‘ the President J. T. Tebbutt stated the past year had been the most successful l one in the history of the company, outâ€" | put being more than doubled, values per ton increased, a record tonnage treatâ€" ed and ore reserves considerably greatâ€" er than at any other period in its hisâ€" tory. Speaking of the dividend, Mr. Tebbutt stated directors were looking to the future with every confidence of invaluable, but against the usual gran there was tne unusual financial diffG culties of the town. What to do? Wel the councillors evidently did not inten: to win any censure from ratepayers b: making the grant, and on the othe hand they did not purpose to leav the board of trade without help needed So they worked out this plan: The; proposed that the Haileybury councilâ€" lors personally should sell tickets ai $2.00 each as the membership fees being able to continue paying dividends. | at least 25 citizens not previously idenâ€" Thz feature of the Gene~al Manâ€" ager‘s report was the statement that during the months of January and February there was produced gold to ‘he amount of approximately $214,000, and reports from the mine in%icate tified with the board of trade. Counâ€" cillor A. P. Knetchell, chairman of the Haileybury fin@nce committee of counâ€" cil, undertook to carry the plan through By this scheme the Haileybury board of trade will get the money and this that thse month of March shnould alsc j without simply trespassing on its other _ be a good month. Cash on Hand Increases Touching on the balance sheet, Mr source of revenuc, regular membership fees, _ In addition there ought to be |more interest in the Haileybury board Forbes pointed out that cash on hand of trade this year if 25 absolutely new on Dec. 31 was $381,584. Today cash members are added to the list in this on hand is a approximately $615,000 | way. with practically no liabilities except the reserve of $26,265 for taxes. "From this you will see," stated Mr. Foibes. "that the payment of the dividend on March 31 will not be a strain on the ANOTHER OF THE OLD COBALT LANDMAREKS DISAPPEARING | A despatch last week from Cobalt company‘s cash pgosition. At the last| says:â€""Another Cobalt landmark is in meeting of the board of directors a sum | process of demolition. of $250,000 was specifically set aside The Empite theatre on Lang street, moving picture as a reserve for the future mine and| house of yesteryear, and scene of some mill expansion. interesting naliftical @atharinee in hin_â€" MILK FROM CANADIAN COWS, Siscoe Production $214,000 in 2 Months The Past Year the most successful in the History of the Company Acâ€" cording to Information Given at the Annual Meeting. Carnatlon success and finer results in cooking. That is why it is economical. Cuts cream costs in half. Carnation is pure, unsweetened, evaporâ€" ated milk containing all the essential food values of whole milkâ€"rich butterâ€" fat, vitamins and minerals. Use Carnation for c coffee, fruits and ce cooking, makes food tastier and finerâ€"t Approved by n authorities for baby â€"that‘s how good CARNATION Listen to the Carnation "V agabonds" on Heur" from Station CKGW 8 to 8.30 every Write for free Cook Book and Baby Rook Carnation Co. Limited, Aylmer, Ont., PACKED IN CANADA IN CANADIANâ€"MADE CANS AND CASES ccessful in any Acâ€" Given ng. the Siscos , Montreal stated the successful pany, outâ€" values per age treatâ€" bly greatâ€" in its hisâ€" jlend, Mr. ‘e looking uidence of When the Haileybury board of trade asked the Haileybury town councii for the usual grant to assist the financing of the work of the board, the coundli felt itself in peculiar position. The councillors were favourable to the board of trade and thought its work invaluable, but against the usual grant there was tne unusual financial diffhâ€" culties of the town. What to do? 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