the blame for everything. So, the Government was naturally.asked about the: matter.. Here is the report of the question and answer as recorded in Hanâ€" sard,â€"the offcial report of the praceedâ€" definite or nconâ€"committal. A lt of people in the North Ldnd thought it would be such a benefit to the North thatâ€"they hoped. so hard that it might be true that they almost convinced their optimistic souls that there must be semething in the rumour. Some other people thought it was too good to be true and ‘hence in their pessiâ€" mi@tic hearts they felt the rumour must be false. How to find out, the, the truth or falsity of the rumour? Wel, surely the Government | should know, because whether true or false tpe Government must stand Bome weeks ago there was a rum>ur in the North Land to the effect that the Canadian National Railways conâ€" templated routing one of its transâ€" continental trains by way of Cochrane and the T. N. O. Railway.. The truth ¢r error of the story could. not be ascertained. The T. N. O. Ry. seemed . to take the attitude that it might beâ€"a gosod idea if it wereâ€"true, without committing themselves to any definite statement as to how much truth there might be in it.~ The Canaâ€" dilan National Railways was equally inâ€" templated routing one of its transâ€" continental trains by way of Cochrane and the T. N. O. Railway.. The truth ¢r error of the story could. not be ascertained. The T. N. 0. Ry. seemed to take the attitude that it s ToR ings of the House of Commons at Otâ€" Go'er:n;:nt ?Oï¬NOt ices tawa, as published, under date of Feb KM L M e Se' U‘ i ‘ â€"» «t "al harm‘s reach. You can do this, for ' about one centa day, in a Safety Deposit Box in an Imperial Bank of Canada Vault. IMPERITL BaNnK OF canaba SQOUTH â€"PORCUPINE â€" ~~ . s _F. E. COQPER. Mmgex CONNAUGHT STATION, â€"Sub. to Timmins (Friday) _EDwWaARrosBUrs CrROWn BRAND HERD OPFICE PROTECT THE THINGS YOU. CAN‘T INSURE y M es in danger unless you put th‘eni beyafxâ€" Private papers, securities, and other vainsurable valuables are constantly St. Thomas Timesâ€"Journal:â€"The sponsors of the proposed deal with Rusâ€" sla are fond of saying that nobody ever lost a dollar dealing with the Soviet. Didn‘t the Soviet entirely reâ€" pudiate several hundred million dollars owing Great Britain after the war? Well, anyway, after hearing from the Government, everybody knows as much about it as they knew ‘before. That is something! On the orders of the day: Mr. Joseph A. Bradette (North Temâ€" iskaming): I should like to ask the Minister of Railways (Mr. Manion,) a question concerning a persistent ruâ€" mour which is circulating in northern Ontario that the passenger train serâ€" vice will be provided in that section by trains Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 via Montreal, North Bay, Cochrane and Winnipeg. I should like: to know if there is any truth in this rumour. (Mr. Guthrie.) Hon. R. J. Manion (Minister of Raitâ€" ways and Canals): Such matters as running trains are not discussed in any shape or form with the government. This is entirely a question of railway management. We are not asked our opinion any more than my hon friend is asked his. WHAT 30,000 MOQTORISTS TOLD US This "Automobile Buyer‘s Guide" tells about our recent survey among Canadian motorists and proâ€" vides information which you will find valuable in choosing your next car. Send coupon for free capy: Custemer Research Dopt., General Motors Preducts of Canads, Limited, As you sit in the new McLaughlinâ€"Buick and relax in its great physical comfort .:. , think of the mental comfort afforded by its Safety Glass equipment, All the new McLaughlinâ€"Buicks are fitted with Safety Glass Windshields, many have Safety Glass throughout. In our recent questionnaire survey of Canadian motorists, 89% asked for Safetyâ€"Glass in their next car. 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Good old cars, like old soldiers, never die. M. A. Cook, 01' Cook‘s Garage, Sault Ste. Marie, Onâ€" tar.o, comes to bat with a story and photographic evidence of one of the first Eightâ€"cylinder Ca€dillacs ever built that shows 230,000 miles to date. It‘s a service truck now, and to quote Mr. Cook, runs, "as quietly as lots of cars only two years old. It can outpull any] 1i ton truck and can‘t be beaten in snow or mud.": And about repairs? The average for the past five years has been $6.80. PLANS TO CARRY CENTRAL PATRICIA MILL EQUIPMENT SAULT STE, MARIE OLD CAR HAS GONE 230,000 MILES threshold of a year he believed his claim to new discoveries would equal, if not surpass, in importance, his first rich find in the Klondyke." titude that is so common to men of the pioneering breed. He was far from being welt,; however, and there ‘98 to the m first big goid area. Althoigh 7 years old, he was again in the Yukon as recently as last mnmm the friends advised him against making the tripâ€"it was late in the season, and he wasn‘t as young as he used to be But the old timer was intent upon going. "I‘m still a young man," he told them, with that traditional forâ€" Henderson, has passed away at Vanâ€" couver, brought back memories of the Klondyke gold field to several Kirkland Lake mining men, including Alan Jeckel!, a shift boss at the Wrightâ€"Harâ€" greaves mine. The latter knew "Kionâ€" dyke Bob‘* years ago, up in The old timer was credited with senâ€" sational discoverles at QGoid Creekâ€" j The "Roving Keporter" calumn in The Northern News last week has the following paragraph that will be of particular interest to many readers of The Advance:â€" _ "Word that Robert ("Klondyke Bob") that the trip weakened PRODUYCED IN THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO According to reports from Englehart, a number of T. N. 0. employees livâ€" ing in that town, some with 10 to 15 years‘ service, have been pIgb6# en the "spare" list, owing to the quigt times on the railway these days. broadening. Our southern neighbours are willing to assist in exploration. What our governments can do is to fully appreciate our opportunity and facilitate the filow of United States maney to Canada, to be spent on Canaâ€" dian labour and supplies. Incidentally it could become a most potent force in assisting the equalizsing of the Canaâ€" dian and United Btates dollars. Our governments can reâ€"survey hysterically enacted Blue Sky legislation and see with this outside eapmx" c "But how does the government fit in? Does The Northern Miner suggest a bonus? No. First, it is being done elsewhere, ‘ notably Australia where mines are actually assisted in their financing by the government and then paid bonus n9#w amounting to about twelve per cent. above the standard world price for. gold, or the price Canaâ€" dian gold mines get for their product, but we don‘t need a bonus in this counâ€" try, Our mining chanees are outstandâ€" ing, United States purchases have in the past few weeks caused a rapid rise in the shares of our best known mines ‘"‘This is not dream. It is history about to repeat itself. Like other deâ€" pressions, this one is seeing a rapid growth in gold mining, urged by the higher purchasing power of the metal, the only commodity to be so situated. And following history further, we shall see gold mining continuing to broaden until other commodities return to norâ€" "Unemployment will be absorbed, reâ€" lieving the taxpayers of their burden, millions upon millions of supplies will be bought, and there will not be the worry that accompanies some "nternaâ€" tional trade these days, fluctuating currencies, and doubt about payment. "Canadian papers have, in the past few weeks, discussed at considerable length a suggestion that Canada might maks a deal with Russia for the sale of some seven million dollars of Canaâ€" dian farm products, taking in return oil or ccoal. Outside the matter of relaâ€" tionship ‘between the two countries there is no questioning the fact that a trade of that kind and size would be welcomed by our farmers. In all the discussion of the soâ€"called barter proposition, there has been a tendency to repeat on the one hand that it is not a real barter at all, but simply a proposition that no nation these days would sensibly consider, and on the other hand to try to drown out discussicn ‘of the real proposition by talking loud about the need for trade and the beauties of barter. It is reâ€" freshing to see the question touched upon from an original standpoint. This is done by The Northern Miner last week. The Miner says:â€" the ?reduced to bare facts the proposition is no more t.hantm.tCanadabuyou and coal from Russia, paying cash for same, and then Russia will buy some cattle from Cananda on long time creâ€" dit, the Canadian Government being expected to guarantee the deal It would be far better for Canada to buy the cattlé outright and distribute them to the poor, paying for them rather than waiting until Russia defaults on its payments as it has done bafore. Not only the debts of the Czar governâ€" ment but thcse of the Bolshevik government have been defaulted by Russia. All Russia needs to do is to change the name of the party in powâ€" er to feel able to refuse to pay usi debts. Et would be worth Russia‘s while to change the name of the party in power to escape the paying for any cattle Canada might be foolish enough to send. Canadian Mines and the Russian Scheme Suggested that More Attention ‘be Paid Make More Enmpleyment and is gradually daughter of Edmonton, Alberta, were the guests of friends in Timmins last week. ‘"My dear young lady" said the clergyâ€" man in grieved tones, as he listened to the extremely modern young woman tear off some of the very latest jazz on the piano, "have you ever heard of the Ten Commandments?" Modern Young Ladyâ€""Whistle a few bars and I think I can follow you." â€"â€"Exchange "Our increasing gold production has proved a notable factor in assisting to stabilize the country‘s credit, and the indications are that it will operate still more effectively in this direction. From a national standpo:.nt there is ’the further consideration that a multiâ€" plication of gold mining will provide existing Canadian industries with a number of important customers. â€" No industry consumes a greater amount of food, clothing, machinery,; tools and ether manufactured articles in proporâ€" tion to its size than the mining indusâ€" try, It is, therefore, clear that if the industry continues to expand as it is expanding toâ€"day it will make importâ€" ant demands upon the agricultural and other industries, thus affording work for no inconsiderable number of those now unemployed." "The present rise in quotations is acâ€" companied by the rumour that there will be an effort at the coming World Econcomic Conference to double the arâ€" bitrary valuation of gold, which since 1816 has been $20.67. As a matter of fact, as high as $30 an ounce has lately been paid in Europe, and if the price were raised to $40 by international agreement our mines would become that much more valuable and a furâ€" ther powerful stimulus would be given to the Canadian industry. j "No one can say how far the present boam in Canadian gold mining stocks will carry prices. That is a matter for market experts. But it does seem sgife to say that the development of a great gold mining industry in this country is only in its initial stages. "The scramble for gold participated in by most countries in the western world is illustrated by the action of the Canadian Government in preâ€"empting the production of the Canad.an mines at a price which is highly profitable to the mines, but which is economical from the Government standpoint beâ€" cAause it would have to pay even more in the open foreign market. ‘"Precluded by the depression from making profits in other industries, capiâ€" tal is turning to gold mining in a deâ€" gree not witnessed for many years past. This movement is world wide, and so far as North America is concerned it is concentrating on the gold mines and gold min‘:‘ng prospects of Ontario, Queâ€" bec and BRritish Columbia. "The gold production in Ontario and other parts of Canada from wellâ€"manâ€" aged and wellâ€"established mines has been speeded up. The profits realized from these properties have,,stimulated the development of prospects and the discovery of new gold mining areas is furnishing the country with promising new prospects. R "The gold mining industry thus emerged as the most profitable in the worldâ€"the only one that goes ahead by leaps and bounds, and which offers those interested in it increased profits. Fortunately for Canada, it became the second largest goldâ€"producing country in the world at the psychological moâ€" ment. It has been frequently predicted in these columns, and it is, perhaps, a wonder that it did not ‘occurâ€" earlier The groundwork was laidâ€"and the stage set when the present worldâ€"wide deâ€" pression developed and grew in acuteâ€" ness. Gold became ‘almost the only soughtâ€"after commodity in existence. While other commodities fell to record low prices the yellow metal went to a premium. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Donelly and _An editorial in The Toronto Mail and Empire on Monday of this week says:â€" "The present movement in Canaâ€" dian gold mini.ng stocks was inevitable. Canada‘s Increasing Gold Production a Notable Factor in Stabilizing the Ccountry‘s Finances in Recent Times. Gold Mine Industry Now in Limelight ‘l'hen; have been numerous comments about the deportation of Peter Verigan, Doukhobour leader, who has recehtly been serving aâ€"~sentence in the peniâ€" tentiary for breach of the criminal code of Canada. ‘The following paraâ€" graph or two from Hansard, the offâ€" clal report of the proceedings of the House of Commons of Canada, Feb. "th, 1933, place the question briefly and Clearly :â€" _ on the orders of the day: __Mr. J. 8. Woodsworth (Winnipeg ,Norm Centre:) May I ask the Minisâ€" ter of Immigration whether there is any reason for the very great haste and secrecy in connection with the deporâ€" tation Of Peter Verigin? Hon.: W. A. Gordon (Minister of Imâ€" migration:) ‘The hon. member, usually well informed, is entirely ignorant of the facts so far as the deportation of this man is concerned. There is no secrecy, no haste about it. Verigin knew months ago that he would be deâ€" ported. His salicitor was so advised. Months ago this same solicitor, who isi one of Verigin‘s folloswers, came before me and argued his appeal. This soli-‘ ¢itor and counsel admitted that he should be deported and wanted only time to fix up his affairs. Months were given him to fix up hisaffairs and ‘ if I have anything to do wth the matâ€" ter, he, as an undesirable alien, astï¬e record clearly discloses, certainly sha.ll be returned to his country of origin asl the law contemplates. | ABOUT THE DEPORTATION OF PETER FYERIGAN, DOUKHOBOUR ‘"Harvey Webb, of Timmins was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Thornham, of Cobalt, last week en route for Toronto where he intends to to spend a few weeks." North Bay Nugget:â€"Public libraries throughout the country report an inâ€" creased demand for books, indicating that they are playing a useful part in tiding people through the period of deâ€" pression. : | â€"Mr. Cantley: "With all due deferâ€" ence to my hon. friend from Yorkâ€"Sudâ€" bury, I have probably had as much experience in the attempt to shoot ducks brant and geese in the Province of Nova Scotia as he has, and my exâ€" perience is that the first flight in the Spring, when probably only three or four days elapse between the birds leayâ€" ing their southern Winter sojourn and their arrivel in â€"Nova Scotia, finds the birds in as good condition as they are when they come down from the North." Further discussion failed to settle the important question whether these these birds are skinny or fat on their northward migration in the Spring. Mr. Hanson (York Sudbury) : "With all due respect to my hon. friend from Pictou there are two views with respect to this matter. Anyone who has shot geesg in the Fall of the year and also in the Spring will know what I mean. In the Fall of the year the birds are in good fiesh and are good to eat. In the Spring they are not, but are skinny and tough and lean. â€" I say let the birds have a chance to get up north and breed. It will be better for them notâ€" withstanding what a few game hogs may think." (From Toronto Mal and Empire) A remarkable difference of opinion between : duckâ€"shooting members: of Parliament developed during the disâ€" cussion on some minor amendments to the Migratory Birds Convention Act. Mr. Cautley, member for (Pictou, claimd that the regulation which preâ€" vented Spring shooting is unfair to the people of the Maritime Provinces.â€" The great bulk of the migration northward in the Spring follows: the coasts of Nova Scotia and New ‘ Brunswick,. but. the people there are not allowed to: shoot the birds. 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