is a glorious thing. Those who believe in that Spirit of the North have precedents and examples on which to build their faith. Even those who not so long ago reâ€" ferred to the communities of this country as sinks of iniquity and cesspools of sin, or words to that effect, werereager to admit (after being checked up) that Northern people were particularly kindly of heart and generous in disposition. There are so many examples to prove this kindness of heart that it can not be gainsaid. One of the latest examples of the Northern Spirit comes this week from Kirkland Lake. One of the pioneer ladies of the Kirkland Lake area was known to have been confined to her home by illness. and to have been able to go out on Saturâ€" day for the first time in three years. When the lady failed to return to her home by midnight sSaturday, there was anxiety that would not have troubled a hardâ€"hearted or unnceighbourly people. The fear that she might have been overcome by illness and fallen in a lane or stumbled into a ditch seemed to alarm the police and others. An allâ€" night search was commenced. The lanes, the ditches, the bushes, the vacant lots, were all thorâ€" oughly searched for signs of the missing lady. A dozen transients in the town jail were organized into a search squad. Even these transients seemâ€" ed to have the Northern Spiritâ€"were anxious to do everything they could to help the other volunâ€" teer searchers. There was no letâ€"up to the search until late Sunday afternoon when the lady was found alighting from a bus coming from Swastika. It appeared that she had gone to visit some friends at Swastika, had spent the night with them, and was surprised that her disappearance had occaâ€" sioned so much alarm. The answer of the Spirit of the North was that everything had been no trouble at all, that everything was all right, so long as the lady herself was all right. There was no growling or grumbling at wasted time or effort or anything like that. Everything was all right, beâ€" cause everything had turned out all right, and no harm done. The transientsâ€"‘"hoboes" some of them called themselvesâ€"believe in the Spirit of the North now. "Say! the meals the chief of police treated us to because we helped in the search! Wow!" said one of the transients. "I‘d be ready to do nothing else than search for missing people in the North, if that‘s the way people feel about it," he added. The North is back at the usual routine. Business is on as usual. That is the Spirit of the North. There is considerable objection about the condition of the roads. and taxation, and things like that. That, too. is the Spirit of the North, for that Spirit is a very human one. Everything will go along in the ordinary way until the next callâ€"and then the Spirit of the North will snow itself again. While the details of the plan have not yet been made public, there is every reason to believe that the Government at last is attacking the problem along right lines. Less emphasis seems to be In the House of Commons this week, Hon. Norâ€" man McLeod Rogers, Minister of Labor, made reâ€" ference to a broad coâ€"ordinated scheme of nationâ€" al development planned to solve the unemployâ€" ment problem. The solution is based largely on the recommendations of the National Employâ€" ment Commission, and it is not too much to say that even an imperfect working of the proposed plan will do much to overcome the cvils of relief, unemployment and discontent under which the country has suffered for several years. (2) To increase the national income. (3) To alleviate unemployment. (4) To provide permanent and profitable work for many classes of citizens. (5) To develop natural resources, but at the same time institute a programme of conscervation. (6) To counteract some of the disintegrating forces now at work in the Dominion, and to further national unity. The national programme will be directed and controlled solely by the Federal Administration, with the following cbjectives: (1) To increase the $300,000,000 annual tourist (1) Lbrade Oldâ€"timers of the North, and many of those not here so long, like to believe that there is a "Spirit of the North"â€"â€"a kindliness, a generosity, a human feeling that is more or less distinctive of the counâ€" try and its people. It may be that there is nothing to all thisâ€"that the folks of the North are just as mean, as niggardly, as selfish and as inconsiderâ€" ate as people anywhere else. Still there are people in this North who will hold to the belief that there is a special Northern spirit. No one should attempt to dissuade them from such a faith. Indeed, it may be that simply believing in the existence oi such a spirit will foster the spirit itself, and so there will grow up in the North a Spirit of the Northâ€"â€"that touch of humanity at its best, which w# Wmm D PAAA P AL L L A L LCA LA P PP PA â€"AQ P L P M â€"AD: «t â€"sll PPA Canacda 'mâ€" ied TIMMINX®, QONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Onlacteâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association; Class ‘A" Weekly Group OPPICE 26 â€"â€"â€" PHONES â€"â€"â€" RESIDENCE 70 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO,. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: Timmins, Ont., Thursday, April 7th, Che Vorcupine Advanere THE SPIRIT OF THE NORTH United tatesâ€"$3.50 Por Yoea: It is understood that the government plans inâ€". clude an extensive unemployment relief pro-: gramme, embracing construction of national and. tourist highways, bridges, elimination of level, railway crossings, and possibly reforestation pro-i jects. This seems to be along the right lines. Thcr only logical cure for unemployment is employment.| Years ago direct relief was used as a palliative, the | argument being that it would cost too much to| create employment by inaugurating public works.. Looking back, however, at the staggering total of | expenditures for direct relief, there is reason Lo believe that had the same huge sums been spcnt, for public works, there would have been so muchi employment created as to do away with the major , need for relief. From all the money spent for aiâ€" rect relief Canada has nothing to show, except a lowered morale and a loss of independence 'md selfâ€"reliance among the people. Under the other | plan, no matter how costly, needed public works and national services as asâ€" ! sets and advantages. As The Advance pointed ; out many times in the past few years, there axc' many public works badly needed in Canada, and | the situation is unfortunately aggravated by thc; fact that in the past the custom has been to my, to construct public works only in prosperous times, ! with labour and other costs high and searce, leavâ€"| ing the paying for these public works and services | until the most undesirable timesâ€"the days ot‘i difficulty and depression. It has been urged again | | and again that public works and public services | should be inaugurated in hard times, when em-! ployment is needed, when business requires the| stimulus, and leaving more or less the paying for! these works to the days of prosperity. There isi nothing to be gained by regretting the futility of ; former methods, but it is gratifying to note that] the present plan seems to be the one that will make | People may be so fond of quoting that couplet: "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood," that they may forget that kindliness and thoughtfulness for others, inâ€" terest in others, and all the other human virtues, are marks of the British coronet and the British lineage. At the present time it is well to give emâ€" The Sudbury Star has been publishing pictures of some of the many pairs of twins that alttend Sudburyâ€"schools. The Star appears somewhat surprised at the number of twin children there are in Sudbury. There is no cause for alarm, however, even if twins are epidemic, and the epidemics are periodic, for the pictures show the Sudbury twins as healthy and happy. clever and comely, alert and attractive, bright and bonny. The Star has gathâ€" ered a notable array of facts and figures, possibiliâ€" ties and probabilities, thoughts and theories, about the Sudbury twins. Some of the couples look enough alike to be twins; others not so much so. In some cases twins run in the family. The case o Mrs. Howard Nokes and her family is especially reâ€" markable. She has had three pairs of twins, and no other children. An aunt of Mrs. Nokes lives on the Island of Jersey, in the English Channel, and has given birth to twentyâ€"four children, all of whom were eithem twins or triplets. The case of Felix and Agnes Kennedy, tenâ€"yearâ€"old twin chilâ€" dren, is also given special note. The mother of these bright and bonny youngsters tells of the odd fact that when these twin children were born at Mayo, Quebec, there seemed to be a regular mode in twins, for there were five other sets of twins born in the same neighbourhood within a few weeks. Labour party member, for some reasom or another took this remark as an insult, and strode across the floor of the House and slapped Cemmander Bower across the face with his open hand. Itlooks from this distance as if the "Mother of Parliaâ€" ments" should place some of her boys across her knee and impress decorum upon them in the right place with the right handy instrument. So, it‘s Harry Oakes that is responsible for the housing problem in Timmins? .A few â€"more like that, and people will not wonder why Mr. Oakes prefers to live elsewhere. Parkyakarkus said the other night over the raâ€" dio that he called his dog "Corset," because "it was tied up all day, and let out at night." People in the North wouldn‘t have been surprised if he had said he called the dog "Corset" because he used it to carry gold from the North to Toronto. for the most permanent and helpful solution of the difficulties of the day. In the British House of Commons on Monday onc member, Commander Robert Bower, called across to another member, Emanuel Shinwell, that he ought to go back to Poland. Shinwell, who is a placed on direct relief and more upon employment to counteract relief. The youth training plans are | to be continued and extended with the idea of | equipping young Canadian citizens to take thelrl place in the industrial life of Canada. Not only | are the young people to be given opportunity for training, but they are to be helped afterwards to| suitable positions. Special placement officers are | to be appointed for each province to assist in the: finding of jobs. Just how this works out is illusâ€", trated by the recent successful training of a group| of young men at the School of Mines at Haileybury | and the placing of these trained youths at the. various mines of the North. w0 P P P CA >A P P lt P P ALP PP in in lA _ IAL LA AL LA C PC tm t PA PPA PP AP :PA â€"AC :A GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACE SEEING DOUBLE sls fls m P P O P L P LC â€"AL OPm o e P L BP k P t t P P P P P PA PWP P n |Col Geo. *.: ] t\ Works in In ~[~ ~Communists ‘Origin of Civil - Liberties Union | â€"The Civil Liberties Union was organâ€" | ized in New York, in March, 1920, by ! Roger N. Baldwin, who then and subseâ€" : quently acted as its national director. | On the original executive and ever since ! that are worthy of mors than passing i consideration :â€" l To the Editor of The Globe and Mail: As you have published a letter by "Veriâ€" ‘tas." claiming that my attack on the ‘ Civil Liberties Union was unfounded 'bccause it was not even yet in exisâ€" | tence in Toronto, may I be permitted i to give some rather important facts reâ€" ! lating to this organization. | | | | | ‘"Veritas" quotes from the constituâ€" tion of the Toronto branch of the Canâ€" adian Civil Liberties Union to prove that its purpose is the preservation of civil liberty and democracy. H« adopts the line of argument that this is an enâ€" tirely new organization. That is not so. ; have been a considerable number of ! the bestâ€"known â€" communists in the | United States, such as William Z. Fosâ€" | ter, oneâ€"time Communist candidate for ipresidcnt; Powers Hapgood, Norman | Hapgood, Scott Nearing, Robert W. ‘Dunn, Anna Rochester and others alâ€" most equally well known. Roger Baldwin has left no doubt absut the form «of liberty for which he has been working as director of the Civil Libertiecs Union. In an article which appeared in ‘"Soviet Rusâ€" sia Toâ€"day" in September, 1934, he had this to say: "If I aid reactionaries to get free speech now and then, if I go outside the class struggle to fight against cenâ€" sorship, it is only because those liberâ€" ties help to creats a more hospitable atmosphere for workingâ€"class liberties The class struggle is the central conâ€" flict of the world; all others are inciâ€" aenial. When that power of the workâ€" | ing class is once achieved, as it has i bsen only in the Sovict Union, I am for | . m ces ons en en s s | | | | ! | maintaining it by any means whatâ€" I cver." phasis to this fact, and this is the cxcuse of The Advance for referring to a case of true kindnessâ€" the real aristocratic touchâ€"between a titled genâ€" tleman of the Old Land and ong of the pioncers of this new country. When the Scottish curlers visitâ€" ed Timmins this year, the Earl 6f Stair, who was in the party, chatted with many of the local curlâ€" ing enthusiasts. While talking to Mr. David Macâ€" kie, the Earl casually mentioned Dalkeith, Scotâ€" land, and Mr. Mackie responded by saying that his brother once lived there but that he had not heard from him for some thirty years. "I would like to know if he is still there, and if all goes well with him," Mr. Mackie said, as the Earl showed interest. "When I get back home, I‘ll 10ok him up and tell him to write you," said the Earl. While Mr. Mackie appreciated the kindly thought of the Earl of Stair in the matter, he gave the matter little thought since then. This week, however, the conversation was brought again to his attention in notable way. Mr. Mackie has received a letter from the brother whom he could not locate. Although it is seven vears since the brother was in Dalkeith, the Earl of This week the following letter from Col. Geo. A. Drew appeared in The Glcbe and Mail. It gives some facts only to be preser form of governme! then that form of presoryved "by any A committee of Conzress â€" investig vCongress im Civil Libertic cial report o tCJ Ssuy: is tho Civil Libertic ing for in tl its various br only to be 3 The ©.C.L.U 5s UmMIOn) is â€" â€" â€" Bobby wouldn‘t be behind in school now. lIe‘d had trouble secing all along and the strain on his cyes tired him. We thought he was inclined to be lazy and kept driving him.. He just could not make the grade. When we realized what his trouble was we had Mr. Curiis fit him with glasses and now he‘s doing splenâ€" didly. If we‘d only thought to have his eyes examined sooner I‘m sure he‘d be at the top of his class now." 14 Pine Sst. N. * If I‘d only mown sooner â€"â€" OPTICAL COMPANY EYE3 EXAMINED TERMS ARRANGED A‘T tho form of civil liberty the rtiecs Union has been workâ€" i the United States througï¬ s branches. Civil liberties are e preserved until the Soviet overnment can be set up and worid}; ail oOlthers are inciâ€" n that power of the workâ€" once achieved, as it has the Sovict Union, I am for it by any means whatâ€" A. Drew Says It in Interests of the Amerizcan Civil Liberâ€" oly affiliated with the Phone 835 Communist movement in .the United States, and fully 90 per cent. of its ofâ€" | forts are on behailf of Communists who | have come into conflict with the law. i It claims to stand for free speoch, free pross, and free assembly; but it is quite . apparent that the main function of the !A.C.L.U. is to attempt to protect the \ Communists in their advocacy of force iand violence to overthrow the governâ€" i ment, replacing the American flag by Red Flag and erecting a Soviet govâ€" 'crnmcm in place of the republican | form of government guaranteed to cach States by the Federal Constitution. l It will be secen that this report reâ€" ifcrs to exactly the same words as areo included in the constitution of the Toâ€" ronto branch of the Civil Libertics Union and in the same order, nameoely: "Frcoe speech, free press and froc asâ€" About Sweepstakes, Bingo, Rackets, Ete. When the Montreal branch of the Canadian Civil Liberties Union was orâ€" ganized a short time ago, those draftâ€" ing its constitution had before them he constitution of the American Civil Liberties Union. R .L. Calder, K.C., who spoke at the organization meceting af the Toronto branch of the Canadian Civil Liberties Union last Wodnesday, is the spokesman for the Montreal branch of the same organization. It is, therefore, not believable that those who have been active in organizing the Toâ€" ronto branch are unaware of the exisâ€" tence of the Montreal branch of the same organization, or of the American Civil Liberties Union upon which the sonstitution of the first Canadian aranch was based. It is significant that, although the Zanadian Civil Libertics Union "claims o stand for free speech, free pross and ‘rece assscmbly," its only activitics, at least up to the formation of the Toronâ€" :.o branch last Wednesday, have been to protest steps which have been taken o prevent Communists publicly advoâ€" cating their subversive doctrines. My remarks were in no way premaâ€" ture. They were based on an examinaâ€" tion of thre long record of the Civil Libâ€" Not to Mention Mining Stocks and Other Matters. erties Union, which those who are proâ€" moting it in Toronto would be well adâ€" vised to examine. "What kind of ind the business CPTCR embliyv i ‘racket?" we askoed man really warmed The B‘nai Brith is a fraternal and charitable society composed of Jewish peoplie. Last week the Kirkland Lake Society elected J. Scott as its preâ€" sident. It seems impossible to keep the Scots down. When a man was leaving a Toronto cafle the othâ€" er day a waiter noticed that the fellow was wearâ€" ing two overcoats, one over the other. Reversing the usual order, the waiter gave a tip to the police. The police arrested the doubleâ€"coated gentleman. To give the final touch to the tale, the suspected robber gave his name as Booty. Stair traced him, visited him in his present home many miles away, and told him about his brother, David, and about Timmins and its people. Not only did the noble Earl of Stair remember the casual promise he had made, but evidently he went to considerable trouble to redcem his friendly promise. Such kindly incidents should not be forâ€" gotten. They should furthér bind together those in this land and in the old land overseas, in the British brothecrhood of kindly thought for others. The terms are one cent a share cash and one cent a month for ning conseryâ€" ative months. The Lucky Strik>s Mining Company is offering the public treasury stock at ten cents a share. We suggested that maybe a ma named Haskell of the Better Busines Burcau might be interested. something New We have before us a special sub scription circular which is somethin: new to us in financing. We feol that we could afford a coupl of shares in that company. up to his subject. "Somcbedy phones me and says ‘This is Bob Jones, you know my father.‘ i say ‘Sure," because I know thousands of people. ‘We are having a school enterâ€" tainment and wondered if you would advertise with us.‘ I go for a couple of bucks, but the fellow that comes around to collect the two dollars is no boy. He belongs to the shrewd business race and he has a thousand dollars‘ worth of advertising picked up in two, three srcdedsmoaou o1 4n0gqyt suUutyjatwos 0p pnous 11 ~Sutyouos 10 tWol} pmoUSs II®H 410 L ‘Sursm41oape JO t;10Mm Ssitffop puesnoy} jeyy J0 QC§$ moge $138 fooyos ay} jey} pulJ I imng ‘Sur{owuos .10 U3 1OOUOS B St 11 ‘Sutyyotwos io oOs t seEem q1 qysnoyy oum uow 4q usat3 ‘suomeuaop pusB should do somethin darn shame." L Xour: home, as J 4 well as yourself, _ * should have periodic "physical examinations." Look over your house as a buyer would look at it and note what renovations are needed. 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I‘m a trader, a trader in stocks, oh, I am a trader bold; and I Bid and Ask in shares and cash for everything bouzht and sold; Gold stocks, Oils, Aand. sold, ..my lads, for ‘everythings "I â€"BON‘"T CARE FOR MYSELF, but it is tough to see a bhunch of players like these szrappers bumped out." (Boston Herald) Whether the majority of Austrians id or did not wish to join Germany [could have been ascertained in a truthâ€" manner. If after Schuschnigg had announced his admittedly rigged plebiâ€" ‘cite, Hitler had demanded that the Austrians be given a really fair opporâ€" tunity to vote on the issue. few Ameriâ€" cans, Englishmen or Frenchmen would have objected. Indeed most of them would have applauded this nethod of setlling a vexing and dangerous matter. A method for taking such a poll !was roady and available in the machâ€" : inery used in 1935 in the Sarr, a vote | conducted by the hateful League of Nations but which resiulted in a verdict wholly favorable to Germany. Hitler could have asked the League or any ‘other neutral body such as a Seandiâ€" navian commission, to conduct a «imiâ€" navian commission, to conduct a «imiâ€" lar poll in Austria,. Under the pressurc of world opinion, Schuschnigg would have had to agree to it. But Hitler did not ask for it. Instead he invoked the weapons of the bull} and the gangster. rargh ity to vote on the s, Englishmen or ‘c objected. Ind: ild have applaud: