8 TIMMINS, ONTARIO * Members Canadhn Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontario« Quebet Newspaper Association; Class "A" Weekly Group OFFICE 26â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"PHONESâ€"â€"â€"â€"RESIDENCE 70 Some months ago The Advance called attention to the number of deaths occurring each year in fires that destroyed the homes of settlers in the North, and reference was also made to a proposal} by Coroner E. R. Tucker, of ‘Cochrane, who sugâ€" gested that from his own knowledge and experâ€" ience he had reason to believe that most of the fires at settlers‘ homes could be prevented if a few inexpensive precautions were taken. Coronei Tucker, while presiding at an inquest held in conâ€" nection with the death of three.children who lost their lives one night in a fire that destroyed a settler‘s home near Kapuskasing, pointed out that this sort of fire usually was found to occur from improper chimneys, defective stovepipes, stoves set too closely to flimsy partitions, or stovepipes passâ€" ing through partitions without proper protection for the heated pipes. The coroner‘s suggestion was that the duties of the fire rangers be extended to include inspection of settlers‘ dwellings. At the present time the fire rangers inspect the lands of the settler and take the necessary steps to have any fire risks removed. Their authority, however, stops at the door of the settler‘s home, where his most precious possession, and the most precious possession of the country, may be living in danger. In most cases a few simple changes would reduce the fire risk to the minimum. In most cases the danger would be removed as soon as the settler was made aware of the unnecessary danger there was for his family in the condition of his stove or stovepipes, or the unguarded proximity to inflamâ€" mable partitions. These fires in settlers‘ homes usually take place in the cold winter weather. Ofâ€" ten they occur in the early morning hours. The At the present time it would be well for the peoâ€" ple of Timmins to consider the value of coâ€"operaâ€" tion and goodwill as factors in public welfare. There is considerable disappointment in town at the small progress made municipally this year. It is felt that despite the fact that a good council was elected, little has been accomplished during the year. This has been largely due to the fact] that too much of the council‘s time has been taken up in attempting to offset the disposition of the mayor. The mayor has been unable to work with this year‘s council any more than he could work with previous councils. Municipal officials have all been so busy avoiding the mayor‘s illwill that| they have not been able to give the undivided deâ€" votion to duty that would otherwise have been given. The same spirit of illwill, of distrust, of unâ€" certainty has been created that caused so much trouble overseas. With as good a council as that of this year, nearly any other mayor in the history of Timmins would have been able to accomplish much. With the proper measure of coâ€"operation . and goodwill this town should be in the best pos-l sible position this year and everything should be moving smoothly and efficiently. | The voters of Timmins will soon have an opporâ€" tunity to select new municipal heads for the comâ€" ing year, and it would be well to give a thought to the idea of the value of coâ€"operation and goodâ€" will. They are genuine assets. The present mayor, after a fair and generous trial, has shown that he is utterly without talent in securing coâ€"operation and goodwill. He seems to be‘ congenitally unable to work with anybody or anything. From his batâ€" tles the town has received nothing but expense, bitterness, grief. Witness his fights against the power company, the mines, the school board, the police! Nothing constructive, nmothing helpful, from it all! It is time the ratepayers of the town were turning their attention to the selection of a mayor for 1937 who will be able to work in harâ€" mony with othersâ€"with some others, at leastâ€" so that the town may have the benefits that arise from coâ€"operation and goodwill, rather than the injury inseparable from bitterness, illwill and diâ€" vision. The line of thought indicated will be found to have much to support it. One striking proof of the truth of the idea will be found in the nations first making progress to recovery. Probably Great Britâ€" ain was the first to show signs of recovery from the worldâ€"wide depression and to make the largest measure of progress to renewed prosperity. There is reason to believe that this was due to the Britâ€" ish faculty for compromise, for seeing the other fellow‘s standpoint, for working together despite difference of opinion. Published Every Monday aad Thursday by: GEO LAKE, Owner and Publisher Bubscription Rates: Canadaâ€"$2.00 Per Year Uniteg Statesâ€"$3.00 Per Yeat A reader of The Advance who usually has an original, or at least unusual way of looking at things, remarked the other day that he believed the chief source of the world depression was the lack of goodwill and coâ€"operation among nations and individuals. "Every once in a While the people get into an ugly frame of mind," he said, "and they suffer as a consequence. All the nations were jealâ€" ous and envious of each other. The poor man cursed the rich and the rich man found his own cause to curse the poor. Without coâ€"operation and goodwill all suffer." PAE PoUR Timmins, Ont., Thurs., October 22nd, 1936 Cbe Yorrupine Advance Premier Hepburn of Ontario and Premier Duâ€" plessis of Quebec had a conference during the weekâ€"end and are understood to have arrived at an agreement for Ontario and Quebec to coâ€"operâ€" ate to the fullest extent in the development of the resources and industry of the two provinces. This is excellent news, but it is likely, to judge from other incidents, that there will be a whole lot of announcements about the matter before anything at all is done. settler or his wife wakes to find the house growing cold, and so a big fire is built and the father or mother goes back to the warmth of bed. The wrongly placed pipes become overheated and traâ€" gedy is the result. Triplets were born this week to Mr. and Mrs John Wild at Blenheim, Ontario. And were they wild‘ The Toronto Telegram is authority for the stateâ€" ment that blotting paper was discovered by acciâ€" dent. This will be a surprise to most people who ever gave away blotters. These people would natâ€" urally believe that blotting paper was invented to meet the demand:â€""Got any blotters?" L‘Original jail 18 years ago. After the police had the man at Hull they came to the conclusion that a mistake had been made. Mrs. Hanley, whose husâ€" Ernest Lindsay, of Callendar, was arrested last week and taken to Hull, Quebec, on the suspicion that he was Leon Hanley, who escaped from the Another season is approaching when these fires are likely to be prevalent again. There are no means for fighting these fires once they start. The settler can do nothing but stand back and see his home burn down, if he is fortunate enough to be able to escape the flames. On more than one ocâ€" casion the settler or his wife, or both, have lost their lives in efforts to rescue their children. Is nothing to be done about it? The Ontario Governâ€" ment showed a keen interest in the recent observâ€" ance of "Fire Prevention Week." Here is an opporâ€" tunity for the government to show whether that interest was sincere and honest, or not. Adding the inspection of settlers‘ homes for fire risks to the other duties of the fire rangers would give a large measure of protection to the settlers and their families. Coroner Tucker knows what he speaks about, and his suggestion will have the supâ€" port of every person acquainted with the conâ€" ditions around the average settler‘s home. It can not even be argued that the proposed plan would prevent the balancing of the budget. Its cost would be infinitesimal to either the government or the settler. It is certainly worthy of a trial when so many lives are at stake. The soâ€"called trick of "debunking" (though it goes back to preâ€"historic days) has crept into no less a roost than the United States Biological Survey. That Survey claims that the owl‘s reputation for wisdom is all nonsense. "The owl is a fool," says one member of the Survey. "The owl is simply like a lot of peopleâ€"he doesn‘t say much, because he aoesn‘t know anything to say." The theory of the owl‘s special wisdom goes back to the days when people believed in the goddess Pallas Athene, so the owl must be a fairly wise old bird at that if it has taken the scientists 2413 years to discover its lack of brains. It all goes to show that the less that is said the longer it takes to find a bird‘s weak points. The moral seems to be to say nothing anc give a hoot at every man that comes along thinkâ€" ing he‘s a wise guy. The taxpayers of Timmins voted last year for a new town hall. Instead they were offered a real estate deal in public school property. The rateâ€" payers ought to know how to vote this year. Elsewhere in this issue will be found an article on this matter from The Northern Tribune of Kapuskasing. Coroner Tucker telis The Northern Tribune that in the past 15 years he has held inâ€" quests into some hundred deaths in his district where precious lives have been lost through fires in settlers‘ homes, and in practically all the cases the deaths could have been avoided and the fires themselves prevented if a few inexpensive precauâ€" tions had been taken. The few simple changes would have been made had there been competent inspection of the homes and proper advice given the settlers in the matter. The fire rangers are in position to make the necessary inspection with practically no cost to the country, while the fire rangers in general have the confidence of the settlers and would find little difficulty in having the necessary changes made to assure a reasonable measure of safety. While figures are not available at the moment in regard to the number of deaths through fires in the homes of settlers in this and other districts of the North there is reason to beâ€" lieve that they will equal the number in the area for which Mr. Tucker acts as coroner. If the total figure for all the districts of the North were given it would show that scores of lives are lost each year in fires that destroy â€"the homes of settlers in the North. It is equally true that the most of these lives might be saved with a little care, a little thought and a little attention. The way to save these lives is by guarding against the fires. The majority of the homes of settlers are lightly built and prove easy prey to the flames. Usually adults have diffiâ€" culty in escaping from such dwellings once fire has a grip on them, and too often it proves utterly imâ€" possible to resm.Je children or older people who happen to be ill or infirm. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE. TTMMINS, ONTARIO band deserted her when he fled from L‘Original, was sure that Lindsay was not her husband. She added that she was glad of this, as she and her children were getting along all right without the missing husband and father. Police officers who knew Hanley were equally sure that Lindsay was a different man. The police eventually gave Lindsay enough to pay his fare back to Callendar and set him free. The incident seems like a decided hardâ€" ship on the Callendar man. The arrest lost him time,‘money, comfort and reputation, When the matter was called to the attention of Attorneyâ€" General Roebuck, that gentleman is quoted as saying that he was sorry for Lindsay but that he did not see that anything could be done in the matter. It looks as if life in Callendar is an uncerâ€" tain thing, when a man is not sure but that he may lose hi children or his libertyâ€"and "nothing can be done about it." Elections nearly always cause the discovery of some startling facts. The other day it was anâ€" nounced that it only cost $100,000 to elect Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States, while it took $1,520,658 to elect Franklin D. Roosevelt to the same office four years ago. How time flies! Repairs between Matheson and workâ€" ings in Garrison Township are to cost $1,000, the list shows, and $5,500 is set aside to "construct a branch from the Timminsâ€"South Porcupine secondary road to Delnite Mine, a distance of 1.6 miles." A local youngster was being examined the othâ€" er day and as the doctor, with stethoscope adjustâ€" ed, tested the lungs of the young patient, the boy exclaimed:â€""Knock! Knock!" "Who‘s there?" "Chest!" "Chest who?" "Chest testing my lungs!" W. G. Nixon‘s riding of Temiskaming immediately south of the electoral disâ€" Kirkland Lake shares in but $500 of the small totar of $15,000 allocated to south Cochrane in the $500,000 road programme announced on Saturday by Hon. Paul Leduc, Ontario Minister of Mines, as an undertakirg to "aid the mining areas" with province: and doâ€" minion sharing the cost. Two of road to the Bidgood Mines from the lWoranda highway, listed at $50 in the summary of exâ€" penditures to be made, is the only proâ€" ject in the immediate district on the list announced by the mines minister. The north end of the riding get the lion‘s share of the morey with $8,000 listed for the completion of a road from Ramore to the Ross Mines near Hyslop Townsite, which is operated by local interests and two other projects. Waltsr Little, M.P. for Temiskaming south, said he knew more than $500 would be spent in conditioning the Bidâ€" good road and confessed that he was without notification of this latest proâ€" gramme. ‘"Maybe this is a new programme," he said, when the $500 item was menâ€" ticned for Bidgood. "The only work of which I have any notice is the deâ€" cision to spend $25,000 between here and the Quebsc boundary. "It could be expected" they said, after money was wasted on the unâ€" completed Goodfish Road at the start of the Hepburn regime. "‘They frittered away $35,000 there and have nothing to show for it," was one claim. The Conservatives charge of "ridicuâ€" lous" came when an inspection of the list revealed only five hundred dollars to se spent in this dictrict on the Bidâ€" good road. (From Northern News) Conservatives termed it "ridiculous" amending that with ‘"it‘s what could be expected," while Liberals saw many items of similarity to an earliere proâ€" gramme announced from Ottawa late last week by Hon. Paul Leduc, Minisâ€" ter of Mines for Ontario, in which 27 projects were listed as road work to mining areas for which $500,000 was to be spsnt on a share basis by Ontario and the Dominion. 5 Kirkland Not Pleased at Mine Roads Programme 14 Pine St. N. T eachers Know the importance of good sight. Often a pupil who is considered backward in his studiecs is merely handicapped by defective evyes. A careful examinaâ€" tion and correctlyâ€"fitted glasses will give him back his most priceless poss>sâ€" sion â€" the ability to see and learn. Be sure your children are not held back by poor _ vision. _ Sight examination â€" costs very little at Sherbrooke Telegram:â€" Some men seem to have been poured into their clothes by someone who forgot to say "When!" Last week Harry Lauzon, recently of Kirkland Lake, made his escape from Rouyn jail where he was being held on chargss of theft. He was free for about six hours and then was captured by Ontario provircial police in a shack at Larder Lake. Chief Desgrossilliers of Rceuyn, went to Kirkland Lake to take Lauzon back to Rouyn after his capâ€" ture. While in Kirkland Lake Chief Desgrossiellers arrested Mrs. Harry Lauzon, who was taken back to Rouyn to stand trial on a charge of supplying liquor to a prisoner. Joe Chevalier, of Rcecuyn, a taxi driver, was also held by Rouyn police as an accessory to the escsape of Lauzon. It is said tkat Cheâ€" escape valier Larder jJail at Sylvanite Develonment Corporation‘s property n the Gowganda area will be more accessi)le by the extension of the Elk Lak®â€"Gowganda road for 9.5 miles from a point four miles west of Gowganda, for which $32,500 is proâ€" vided. Repair of five miles of road between Elk Lake and Ashley Mine is to take $15,000 ~according to the listed proâ€" gramms®, and will exhaust the monsy to be spent in the riding represented by the New Liskeard man. Several Arrests Follow Break From Rouvyn Jail trict in which Kirkland Lake is placed, fared with a total of $47.500 for repairs and road extension in the Elk Lake and Gowganda sections. of Lauzon. It is said that Cheâ€" drove Lauzon from Rouyn to Lake after Lauzon had 3r0keon Rouyn. It‘s fun to watch him build with St. Charles cwm â€" St. Charles Milk Statistics issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics are always interesting, and sometimes illuminating. Some figures issued this week may be taken as another indication of the continued réâ€" turn of prosperity. These figures relate to the amount of money spent by the people of Ontario during the year 1935. The spending capacity of Ontario folk in 1935 was 4.1 per cent. greater than in the previous year. Ontario‘s total retail sales in 1935 are given as $848,994,000. Some of the items going to make this total are worthy of note, Here are a few in order of size:â€"Food store sales, $131,â€" 415,000; automobiles, $102,571,000; men‘s and boys‘ clothing, $24,291,000; women‘s apparel, $22,103,000; liquor, $18,088,000; furniture and household goods, $13,174,000; radio and music store sales, $8,393,000. The South Cochrane Settlers Association reâ€" cently wrote to Hon. Duncan Marshall, Minister of Agriculture in Ontario, suggesting ways and means whereby the settlers might be assisted in the difâ€" ficult task of establishing themselves as farmâ€" ers. Hon. Mr. Marshall so far has failed to give the settlers the courtesy of a reply. Those who know the genial Minister of Agriculture expected that at least he would have sent the settlers a little bull. Hon. Mr. Hepburn did. With the abandoning of the proposal to merge T.N.O. and C.N.R. services at Cochrane, how about some action in the development of the lignite deâ€" posits north of Cochrane? FEuER since his baby days, when the doctor first prescribed Str. Cnaru®s for his bottles, he has thrived steadily and surely. He has built a sound foundation of abunâ€" dant health for play and school. And he is still building sturdy growth, because his mother always uses plenty of this rich, pure milk in the family meals. You, too, want your baby to grow up with a straight back and wellâ€"shaped body. You will be richly repaid if you use ST. CHARLES â€"the better irradiated evapoâ€" rated milk â€"for feeding your baby. Vloose of North and South ' Meet at Kirkland Lake The Order, proposed by Dictator B. Bridgman, Rouyn, responded to by Past Supreme Dictator Norman C. Heyd, who also presented a Past .Dicâ€" tator Jewel to Bro. B. Devine, Kirkland Lake, and the Great North Moose Jewel to Fellow Dave Fowlie, Noranda. Toast to Kirkland Lake y Past Dicâ€" tator E. H. Devine, responded to by (From Northern News) Well over 100 members of the Order of the Moose from Northern and Souâ€" thern Ontario held a twoâ€"day convenâ€" tion at Kirkland Lake on Saturday and sunday. FPellowship â€" associations me‘mbers from Southern Ontario conferred the Pellowship Degree on nine members from Northern lodges on Sunday and 100 members witnessed the Ramsay Cup ritualistic competitions in which three teams took part and awards were as follows: Pirst, Timmins; | second, Cochrane; third, Kirkland Lake. The Judges were Bro. George Wintworth, Toronto; Past Grand Dictator Dr. Tayâ€" lor, London: Past Dictator, Alex Rouse, A banquet was held in the Masonic Temple on Sunday, with Dictator Wilâ€" liam Paget. presiding. Toasts were as follows: Saturday evening several candidates were initiated by a degree team comâ€" posed of Past Dictators. A church parade was held to the Church of the Assumption and Trinity United Church, over 100 members and ladies of the Moose attending, {(the parade being led by the Kirkland Lake Pipe Band. ail The Kin DL A TE shiad %f Waterloo Chronicle:â€" A dispatch from Bombay states Mahatma Gandhi is suffering from Khandi, in the face of scientific kn@@edge, says no person has the right t@ kill mosâ€" quitoes and other insects. _ ut The next meeting is expected to be held in Timmins on Labour Day, 1937, it was announced. The Ladies of the Moose of Kirkland Lake served the very complete banquet on Sunday at which visiting ladies were: Mrs. Wintworth, Toronto; Mrs. Maxwell, Toronto; Mrs. Richardson, Norandaâ€"Rouyn; Mrs. Walters, Ansonâ€" ville: Mrs. Smith, Ansonville. Ladies, proposed by Bro. Jack Hogg responded to by Senior Regent Mrs John Hamilton. Councillor Les Hornick, Kirkland Lake Dr. Taylor presented the Kirkland Lake 1935â€"36 degree team with certain certificates of merit as a break in the toast list and Bro. Wintworth named the winners of the degree competition with Grand Viceâ€"Dictator Bro. William Ramsay presenting the cup to Karl Eyre, of Timmins, captain of="the winâ€" ning team. Visitors, proposed by Past Dictator George B. Cadman, responded to by delegates from the following lodges: Galt, Hamilton, Sudbury, Timmins, Ssouth Porcupine, Ansonville, Norandaâ€" Rouyn, North Bay, London, Toronto, Windsor and Cochrane. was well soaked with the gasoline, one of the lads had the idiotic notion of throwing a lighted match on the gasoâ€" lineâ€"soaked clothing. The result is easy to imagine. The lad‘s clothing was soon in flames,. In his pain and terror he ran, and the two other foolish lads also ranâ€"the other way. The 30y had most of the clothing burned off him, and he sustained a number of quite serious burns. Indsed, there is reason to believe that hbhad not the citizen in question happened along and given the poor lad prompt and able help, the youngâ€" ster would have paid with his life for the folly of the other boys. It is unâ€" derstood that the at Rouyn are checking up on the story and if possible the boys guilty of _ idiotic trick will be dealt with and source of the gasolire will also be traced, with the idea of preventing any similar ocâ€" currences. ND, 1836 Boy‘s Life Endangered By Crazy Trick at Rouyn C|A M