It is a coincidence that the play, "The Life of Emile Zola," is being shown in moving picture theatres in Canada at the time that the newsâ€" papers are full of despatches from Moscow referâ€" ring to one more trial of a group of Russians charged with treason. The chief episode in the "Life of Emile Zola" is his fight for justice for Capt. Dreyfus. The picture shows plainly that Dreyfus was unjustly accused of treason and conâ€" viected through the use of false evidence and forged documents. The courtmartial of Dreyfus and the trial of Zola for his defence of Dreyfus and his condemnation of the real criminals and traitors are given with singular fidelity in the motion picâ€" ture. To British minds, however, there is such an air of falsity and unfairness about these pictured trials that they seem unrealâ€"impossible. There is the same atmosphere of unrealityâ€"absurdity, even â€"about the treason trials at Moscow. ~One of the defendants maintained his innocence for a time, only in the end to succumb like the others to the most craven confession of all the crimes imputed. It is one of the remarkable features of all the pubâ€" lic trials in Soviet Russia that the accused perâ€" sons seem to glory in confessing and implicating others. The fact that practically all these fervent Communists have an exhibitionist complexâ€"a . mania for being in the limelightâ€"the centre the stageâ€"is not sufficient, perhaps, to explain the attitude assumed. at the treason trials in Moscow, though it no doubt is a factor of some imâ€" portance. The attitude af the stray communists in Canada shows how dearly these folks love to be in the public eyeâ€"on a soap box, in a parade, as the professed friend of the downtrodden. They would pose as heroes but, if that fails, then they seek the role of martyrsâ€"within certain salaried limitations, of course. In Russia, however, they seem to understand that there are no limitations. The accusation is equivalent to a conviction. They realize, by experience, that they cannot convince their judges, but they may in some measure plaâ€" cate them. There are degrees even in death. It is unthinkable on the face of it that men! should be so ruthless, so reckless, so brutal in their plotâ€" tings of death and destruction as outlined in the charges against the men being tried for treason in Russia, yet at the same time the same men prove so utterly craven, so pitiful in their anxiety to adâ€" mit everything that is charged against them. In no other state on earth has there ever been in hisâ€" tory a similar disposition shown on all occasions by all prisoners as seems to invariably mark the attitude of all accused of treason these days at Moscow. The explanation cannot lie in any orâ€" dinary form of third degree. There have been other countries where forms of third degree have been used with more or less success in convicting the guilty and in forcing the innocent to admit false guilt. But nowhere has any but the Russian soviet method shown universal success. Part of the secret may lie in the type of people under trial. Only in Russiaâ€"irrespective of guilt or inâ€" nocenceâ€"may men be found with the accommoâ€" dating disposition to plead guilty to charges that mm en mss instms tm mmmem en tm c tm msccsn www mean death or worse than death. One explanaâ€"; tion of the fact that the accused Russians so often plead guilty, while the evidence appears to be all in favour of their innocence, is that the gentle Soviet does not hesitate to use any loved ones withâ€" in the reach of Russia to force the accused persons to the will of the soâ€"called court. Men who knew they had to die in any case might well admit to anything in the slight hope that this would save some one dear to them. Some day a Zola will arise to bring the facts before the world and men conâ€" } demned in Moscow as traitors to the Soviet will be | ; proven to have had some redeeming traits. [ 1 Ool. Geo. A. Drew. who has visited both Russia However, the Liberalâ€"Conservative party has the vital essence of life. It takes a lot of killing. And survives. It has lived through worse times. For a time it will, perhaps. travel through the "valley of humiliation," or what have you, but before long it will have its new leader, its national platform, and even, perhaps, its full name again, by poll deed, as it were. Just at the moment the onceâ€"proud Liberalâ€" Conservative Party of Canadaâ€"and once with full reason for prideâ€"is in rather an unfortunate poâ€" sition. A group of men at Ottawa last week lopped half its name away, and on top of that the talented leader of the party, Hon. R. B. Bennett, has given notice of his impending resignation. Still furâ€" ther, the suggestion is made that the party needs a new platformâ€"that at present it hasn‘t any real platform. Pity the poor old Liberalâ€"Conservative party! Surely a party without a platform, without a leader, and with only half a name is in a bad way indeed. To make the matter worseâ€"if worse could beâ€"and it couldâ€"there will be more trouble in the offing with the party faced with the onerous task of getting the right man for leader and keeping all the wrong ones from getting the job. Timmins, Ont., Thursd: TIMMIX®, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association: Ontartoâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association: Class ‘A" Weekly Group OPFICE 26 â€"â€"â€"â€" PHONES â€"â€"â€"â€" RESTIDENCE 170 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO, LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: EObe Vorrupine Aduvancs «l it PP PAAA LCAAA LCAAA LAAA w uoAAA AL A OAAA L AC L L AL :A L PARTY IN DIFFICULT WAY United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per Year March 10th, 1938 Despatches from Britainâ€"these days leave the impression that Anthony Eden‘s opinion on foreign policy is the popular one in the Old Land. There are reasons for doubting this, one of these being that Anthony Eden for the moment has the supâ€" port of all the communists and the pinks in Engâ€" _ Canadians generally have resented the ruthless assault on inoffensive civilians in China by the Japanese. There has been talk here of a boycott of all Sapanese goods. There was the spectacle in Timmins of aliens parading before some local stores with placards expressing the supposed obâ€" jection of Canadians ta Japanese goods. It is a piece of irony that at the very time this roundâ€" about method of boycotting Japan was in progress, the Japanese in British Columbia should have been holding a virtual monopoly of the fishing industry on the Fraser river and using their own Japanese methods of boycotting Canadians who attempted to share in Canada‘s fisheries. Thos. Reid, M.P., told the Canadian House.of Commons the full story of the Japanese boycott of Canadians in reâ€" gard to Canada‘s fishing industry. The governâ€" ment promised prompt investigation and remedy for the situation. The matter should not be forâ€" gotten. The public should remember the question and see that something more is heard in the matter. In the interesting and informative letter from Mr. Jos. A. Bradette, M.P., published elsewhere in this issue, it is noted that the government does not deem it advisable to publish the names of all those in Canada who receive old age pensions. In view of the fact that there are 175,000 persons in Canaâ€" da receiving old age pensions, it is difficult to understand why anyone should expect publicatidn of the names. Aside from other considerations, the cost of such publication in any public form would be prohibitive. It would take at least fully 52 fullâ€"sized newspaper pages to print such a list with addresses. If the list were published only in Hansard, it would take a larger volume than that required for an ordinary fourâ€"hour address by Hon. Mr. King. y There was a time when there seemed to be a little sympathy for the practical joker. That day has passed. The world is too busyâ€"too complicatâ€" edâ€"too nervousâ€"for practical jokes. Toâ€"day pracâ€" tical jokes are not at all practical., There never was much real joke about them. A barber in Hornepayne was in police court last week as a result of what he thought a very amusing piece of humour. No one else could see much. fun in the matter until the magistrate added his few witty words to the case. The story is to the effect that a Hornepayne lady left on a trip for Toronto last November. When the train reached Burwash there was a telegram delivered to the lady saying: "Return next train. Trouble." As the telegram ostensibly bore the name of her husband, the lady was naturally alarmed and anxious and left the ; train at Parry Sound prepared to return home. In her anxiety, however, she telephoned her husband, only to discover that he had sent her no telegram, and that there was no cause or reason for her to return home. Accordingly, the lady proceeded to Toronto, but it is needless to remark that much of the pleasure of the holiday was lost. Naturally the husband was annoyed at the matter and sought to learn the origin of the false telegram. The teleâ€" graph operator refused to divulge the name of the actual person responsible for the sending of the wire until a court order was securecf.' The court order was applied for and granted, and the barber was disclosed as the author of the telegram. The joking barber found then that his supposed joke was actually a crime,. When the case came to court, the couple who had suffered from the misâ€" conceived joke, generously agreed that a suspendâ€" ed sentence would be punishment enough for the unfortunate joker. But the magistrate and crown attorney took a more serious view. They pointed l out that the form of crime‘ represented by this': mistaken sense of humour might easily have very ‘ serious consequences, and that it must not be enâ€". couraged by any special leniency. Accordingly, the i barber was placed on suspended sentence for a | year and in addition was required to pay a total of $79â€"$15 of this going to the lady for expenses inâ€" curred through the foolish type of joke. ! * m o hm ~@ P W P W eW P P L P L PA SAL P L PP OOA P L PA PA â€"AP OAAA * GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLALLRz and Germany and studied both countries and both peoples, is authority for the statement that there are more prisoners in one concentration camp near Moscow than there are in all the German and Italâ€" lian concentration camps since Fascism took conâ€" trol in these countries. There have been more executions in Russia in a month for alleged treaâ€" son than in the soâ€"called autocratic countries in a year. This is not to defend either the Fascists or the Nazis. Canadians should show no tolerance for either of these dictatorial forms of government. But the man must be wilfully blind who does not admit that Russian communism is more evil than either Fascism or Hitlerism. A tree is known by its fruits. ‘The sickening succession of political murders in the Soviet is its own condemnation. If, as the world believes, most of these trials are fake affairs, with manufactured evidence and forced confessions, then the case is bad, indeed. The alâ€" ternative is little better. If Russia is in such conâ€" dition that traitorism is so frequent and so persisâ€" tent as the trials suggest, then the country and its system is about beyond all hope. AN EXPENSIVE JOK THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS,. ONTARIO _ Thirty feet of snow did not fall in one snow } storm this winter in this country. Neither will the fish caught here in a few months be as long as ‘some of them will be over the radio. l Quints State Patients Joseph Needham (SC., the Battle lfords) declared the Dionne quintuplet "T‘wo Provinces, Alberta and British Columbia, now have very complete schemes for State medicine, although their legislation has not been proâ€" claimed. * | Foresees Liquidation "I doubt very much if the people of Canada would stand for state medicine as it is practised in Russia." ssid Mr. Power. "And I don‘t thing the Minister cf Health in Canada has the authority, under the British North America Act., | to execute doctors. I don‘t think we could put the scheme into effect withâ€" J out liquidating a great number of the "medical profession." Under a State 'system, he said, if a doctor made good he would get an increase in salary, but ‘if he didn‘t make good, the least that could possibly happen to him would bea decrease. Canadians, he said, would not accept the methods that were used in Russia. There were 1000 guests at a Conservative party dance in Toronto last week. Possibly it was one of those parties where members were allowed to bring a friend. land. It is likely, however, that William S. Morriâ€" son, Scottish member of the British Government, comes much closer to wellâ€"considered popular British ideas when he says:â€""If conciliation fails, our people, by then reâ€"armed, will be in a position to make it difficult and dangerous for any dictator to attack us." "In my humble opinion, the people of Canada would not be satisfied with medicinal care which was directed, conâ€" trolled and paid for by the State," said the Minister. "And I doubt very much if we could get the assent of the Proâ€" vinces that the problem should be turnâ€" ed over entirely to the Federal Governâ€" ment. The Health Minister was lukewarm in his description of the state health scheme adopted in Russia. It had its benefits, he said. and it had accomplishâ€" ed some good in the U.S.R. There was. however, a strong suspicion. with some support for its truth, that only an avowed Communist could obtain mediâ€" cine. R. Fleming (Lib,. Hu opposition. In betwee most of them favorabl There was no doubt, of the need for greater the people of Canada to be believed." he said Doctors Divided The medical profession in the Houss split in its opinions when the annual debate was prompted ‘by a clergyman, Rev. Daniel Mclvor (Lib.) Fort William. Dr. J. P. Howden (Lib) St. Boniface. led the forces favorable to socialization of medical and dental services Df. H. Commons Defeats State Medicine Plan Discussion Makes Some Fine Points Against State Medâ€" icine as it is in Russia. 14 Pine St. N. but the strain on my eyes used to give me the most painful headaches and completely ruin my evening. Mr. Curtis preâ€" seribed glasses that comâ€" pletely cleared up my trouble. 1 wear them when I read too and find I don‘t tire so quickly. It‘s wonderful what proâ€" per glasses can do." " 1 like shows Liberal Terms May Be Arranged at (Lib. Humboldt) led the In between were lay voices Phone 835 *4 ¢ # We are more interested in the orâ€" dinary man who pays his taxes, hopes for the bestâ€"and usually gets hooked some way or another. As an example of "fees" that hurt we take a furniture company that went into bankruptcy. We have a letter from a local lawver Just martyr a few brave men for their loyalty to the church and you will have men all over the world beating their golf clubs into swords. After all, Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany. Some lad like Hitler could easily start something that all the armaments in the world could not stop. It might ‘be economic, it might be political, or it might be religious. In any event there have been enough individuals playing around the foam at the top of the glass since the Great War to start something from the botâ€" tem ‘that might sweep them all aside. Fee Simple? We don‘t exactly know the definition Cf "fee simple" but we do know that it doesn‘t apply deszriptively to remunâ€" eraiion for a lot of professional serâ€" vices toâ€"day. Many professicnal men lucky enough to acquire "a name" sink the old fee harpoon right up to the hiltâ€"and it is usually a big harpoon. We notice that the United States counrts are starting to look into ‘the question of fees for services in corporate recapitalization. They are startin downward. Just offhand we would guess that Rev. Mr. Mueller must be rather plentiâ€" fully supplied with the material from which MEN and fiddle strings are made. There may ‘be a lot in all this for the Protestant church. Inevitably in an age where everybody accepts the Christian Church (the maâ€" jJority accepting it in the abstract or by proxy) the church has become sort ¢f a milk and water proposition. Nice ladies hold bazaars and gossip about the minister‘s wife. A few men engage in a lot of Kiâ€" wanisâ€"like manifestation of brotherly love and gcod fellowship. and vast numbers look on the church as a fairly desirable institution but not particularly important in their everyday life. | Now if somebody chucks a few of the: church‘s teachers to the lions it might raise a blaze of religious fervour that woeuld sweep the common man out of his indifference to the church. Nazis to Jesus in the hands of the Jews. the Toronto Maple Leafs winning the mug that we have seen yet. Having the experts pick some other teaim to win should help the Leafs alâ€" most as much as the deal that brought the Paris boy down to Toronto to play hockey for Canny Smythe. (It isn‘t a mistake. We meant canny). Starting Something Yesterday in a Berlin church Rev. Priedrich Mueller compared Rev. Marâ€" tin Niemoeller in the hands of the a demonstration of what could be done by aggressive public health activity and the intervention of the State in mediâ€" cine With a concentration of effort on the part of all interests conserned it might be possible in the next few years to reduce tuberculosis to an insignifiâ€" cant place in the mortality tables. (By Thomas Richard Heury in The Toronto Telegram). The other half pick Rangers to beat Boston for the Stanley cup. That is the most favourabple sign for gard of ordinary rules of preventive medicine., Dr. J. K. Blair (Lib, Wellington N.) said he was in favor of "State medicine to some extent," but did not believe it was the duty of the Federal Governâ€" ment to institute it It should be left to the Provinces, as the Provincial authoriâ€" ties knew local conditions better., War on Tuberculosis All persons should be required to obâ€" tain a certificate of health before being married, said Dr. Blair, who said he knew of cases of persons suffering from tuberculosis and veneral diseases gettâ€" ng married. If this were prevented, there would be fewer people in asylums for the insane and fewer divorces. Also Wants Some Legal Fees Reduced. And So On. Half the sporting experts are picking Boston to beat New York Rangers for the Stanley cup. were an example of State medicine. The Province of Ontario directed their mediâ€" cal care so they cauld be commercialzed. He would favor commercializing all children if that would result in a verile race. McITvor (Lib. FortWilliam) arâ€" gued that State medicine would lead to wider use of preventive medicine. Hunâ€" dreds of lives were lost and thousands of cases allowed to develop by the disreâ€" D. . Ross (Lib., Middlesex East) said great grogress had been made in checkâ€" ing the ravages of tuberculosis,. It was ays a Few Martyrs Would Aid Churches letter from a local lawyer Jarvis Street Baptist Churchâ€"one of Toronto‘s historic churchesâ€"was destroyed by fire last week. For years past, Dr. T. T. Shields, pastor of the Jarvis Street Church, has been making strenuâ€" ous objection to the fact that beer parlours have been allowed on the same street and in close proxâ€" imity to his church. Yet these beer parlours were unharmed by the fire. Even when the high steeple of the church collapsed it struck none of the nearâ€" by beer parlours, but rather smashed two fire trucks. No wonder Toronto is losing its former pious name when things like this happen in that city of the good. In Sudbury there appears to be a movement against girls wearing slacks. Tightening up on the slacks, as it were. to revise ‘them Apparently that saying about preferâ€" ring blondes is all wrong, at least as far as the Town of Timmins and the ‘The Amplifier A young man, not more than five years of age, was briskly marching up and down in front of the post office toâ€"day, mournfully stating to the world at large that "Somebody Stole My Gal." And he looked sorrowfui enough to know what it was all abouy. He should have said that $15 was as important to the maid as $20 to us or a million dellars to him. The Great Armada Sink a Spanish battleship now and it means about oneâ€"quarter of the agâ€" gregate navy of the Spaniards has gons to gloryâ€"or somewhere. This is the nation that ongce boasted ‘he "Great Armada." We are with Oour legalâ€"financial friend 100 per cent. with one qualifying sentence. "The Trustee and Receiver in Bankâ€" ruptcy evidently realized $1,600 and disâ€" tributed $425 to the preferred crediâ€" tors. The difference is made up in exâ€" penses. They may be perfectly legitiâ€" ma‘te expenses, but there must be someâ€" thing wrong with cur legal prozesses if such a thing as this is permitted." Again we say that it is high time tThat somebody looked mto a lot of high feesg. # "One of our former maids, now marâ€" ried, paid in fifty cents a week to this company until she had $15 paid in, which was about as important to her as a million dollars would be to you or me, and, of course, she got nothing in return. Regarding the trustees‘s report on the company, this legal â€"minded financier writes: who is a financier of some standing.! commenting on this, and we think he knows his way around, both in finance and in law. Brewers Warehouse Co., Ltd. On account of the fire in the Timmins Warehouse, orâ€" ders presented at the Schumacher Warchouse for deâ€" livery in Timmins will be accepted until the necessary repairs are made to the Timmins Warchouse. HEAD OFEFICE â€" TORONTO 1 RR BCRA CNCHELES.. CEPH RO VUG:HMâ€" GUâ€"T _ CA NA D A MPERIAL BANK OF CANADA in Canadian or United States Dollars and Sterling Orders Accepted and Delivered From Schumacher Brewers Warehouse (Just Staff Stuff) nsP C Schumacherâ€"Phone 1450 o wot® cS y» e \".‘( «* »* .‘.v ‘“‘ »* \ \:'“‘ h |F“ ’ Kirkland Lake News:â€"App: opriabe.l) enough, Indians operating in Alberta are Blackfecet! iCCai unaertaker at that game, and if yeu hadn‘t blinked your eyes twice he Undertaker Watching Kirkland Hockey Boys Big Sister was preparing for her first "Dig dance" and hsd promised her litâ€" tle fourâ€"yearâ€"old brother, that he might see her when she was all ready.. When the beaming young lady, attired in a sheer, lowâ€"cut chiffon gown, appeared in the livingâ€"room, her young brother turned to his mother, and said, "Ah, gee whiz, Jean told me she was getting ready to go out, and now she‘s going to bed!" A lady was entering the arena a few nights ago, loudly proclaiming to her esecort, "Why there is nothing I enjoy more than a good game of hockey," and rambling on about hnow many games she usually attended. When she was seated and gazed down at the ice, she turned to her compan:on and enâ€" quired, "Why do they keep those cageâ€" like things at each end? Someone might get hurt!" camp is concerned. At the recent Purim Ball, three young ladies were chosen from the many lovely ladies who atâ€" tended the dance to be the beauties of the district. These three, Queen Esther and her two ladiesâ€"inâ€"waiting, were all brunettes., Perhaps, many of the blondes will appear at the next ball as brunettes! 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