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In Thursday‘s issue The Advance published picâ€" tures of the new dam on the Frederickhouse river, together with a review of this notable work. This new huge dam is a credit to the engineering skill necessary. for its construction. It is equally a credit to the enterprise and foresight of the Hydro Electric Commission and the Provincial Governâ€" ment. To that extent, it is something in which to take pride. But there is a feature of the matâ€" ter that is not so pleasing. The completion of the dam means that twenty or more families at Barâ€" ber‘s Bay will lose their homes. When the dam is in use these families will be flooded out. They have already received due notice that they must move. So far as the law is concerned they have no right in the matter. They are in the eyes of the law simply squattersâ€"interlopers, trespassers, what you will. But in a moral sense, they have some rights that should be respected. Some of them have been for fifteen to twenty years in unâ€" disturbed possession of the land upon which they have built their little homes. Some of them bought the land from others, in good faith, believâ€" ing that they were acquiring rights that would be respected. Moreover, they have been paying school taxes for years, and could scarcely be blamâ€" ed if they believed that by accepting taxes on the properties the government was admitting their rights to the property thus taxed. It may be that if the twentyor more settlers had the money to finance lawsuits to enforce their rights, the courts might take cognizance of the tacit admission that they had some colour of right to the property, or why impose taxes on them in regard to that proâ€" perty. Lack of money, however, will prevent any appeal to the law in this regard. The settlers at Barber‘s Bay are poor people who can take no efâ€" fective measures to protect the rights they feel they ought to have. For this very reason, the Ontario Government should do something about it. It would be a splendid gesture on the part of the government, if it would say something like this to the people affected at Barber‘s Bay:â€"*"We are sorry that we have to move you from your homes, but that is absolutely necessary for the cause of progress. We are not, however, going to leave you homeless. We are simply going to move your homes to anther location just as good as the one you have to leave." Speaking of progress, is it not a fact that under the cloak of progress harsh things are often done things that appear unnecessary after all. In this matter, surely, governments should set an example to private enterprise. Yet private enterâ€" prise has indicated time and again how progress mauy be carried along without harshness to the poor who may be affected. There was a recent case in the Porcupine camp where a projected public building made necessary the removal of a building on the property of a private individual. The very first offer of the mine concerned was a generous price for the land desired, the free the shed and its erection anywhere deâ€" sired. The mine did not stand on legal rights, but recognized the truth of the fact that the less hardâ€" giving his letter to The Advance, Mr. Skelly sugâ€" gested that perhaps as many as four swimming places conveniently located might be needed for Timmins. These four places would cost less than one large one to accommodate all the town, and they would meet the needs much better. It would be well to try out one this year. Councillor Roâ€" berts deserves credit for pressing his suggestion in the interests of the children and the town. The cost will not be prohibitive, or even burdensome. The town owns the Gillies Lake park and should take the necessary steps to ma'ke it of more service and value to the people. Councillor Roberts seems to be absolutely right in his idea that the town should make the most and the best possible of the park facilities at Gillies Lake before embarking on any more grandiloquent ventures. Elsewhere in this issue will be found a letter from Mr. T. A. Skelly, chairman of the public school board. Mr. Skelly gives earnest support to the proposal made by Councillor W. Roberts that the town build and operate a swimming pool at the town park at Gillies Lake. This letter of Mr. Skelly‘s is well worthy of careful consideration. Mr. Skelly rightly emphasizes the need for safe and convenient swimming and bathing facilities for the children of the town. It is easy to agree with Mr. Skelly that a swimming pool at Gillies Lake would be much better than the counter proâ€" posal to establish a larger swimming place some distance from the town. The latter project has too many serious disadvantages. To be of value the swimming and bathing facilities must be conâ€" venient, or else they will not be able to successfully compete with the nearer, but dangerous swimming pluces now available. It would appear that to meet the needs of the town toâ€"day more than one swimming place will have to be provided. When Canadaâ€"$3.00 Per Year TIMMIN®, QNTARIO Members Canadian Week.y Newspaper Association; Ontarctoâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association; Class ‘A" Week!}y Group e h P e io en e ie se P P P P CC P P P uz: up P AL L ~P C C P L C L L L P P DP P az Timmins, Ontario, Monday, May 9th, 1938 Clre Yorrupine Advancee OrFICE 26 PHONES RESIDENCE 70 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO,. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: \BOUT SWIMMING POOLS United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per Year Were it possible to view the agitators in a deâ€" tached sort of way, their antics would rouse noâ€" thing but ridicule ana scorn. Consider the case of the communists, for instance. In Canada, the communist agitation was carried on chiefly by paid aliens who would confess when pressed that they could not live themselves in Russia, but were advocating the people here to turn this country into a similar unhealthy state. Perhaps, the most glaring sample of this perverted idiocy of the agiâ€" tator was given last week in New York. A Negro â€"Oof all peopleâ€"mounted a soap box to plead for government by dictators. He wanted two Hitlers to persecute the Jews in the United States he said. And this demented Negro chose Manhattan‘s east side as the site for his soap box. This section of the city is overwhelmingly Jewish and the deluded Darky soon found himself in danger when the crowd naturally, and literally, "took him up." The crowd used no violence on himâ€"simply took him in charge, as it were. But the Negro, who anâ€" swered to the name of Yokum Washington ("Hoâ€" kum" would have been a better first name) was It appears that dictators are so busy telling others what to think that they have no time tol think themselves. Certainly if dictators took off : time these days to do a little thinking of theu| own, they would consider the case of China and | Japan and decide that might is not always right| â€"that the race is by the lame. The | news coming recently from China is taken by| other nationsâ€"Britain and her Dominions, France, | the United Statesâ€"as good news. That is another thing that the dictators might ponder. Why is there such general dellght in Canada, for instance, because the Japanese are being beaten in It is not because of any racial prejudice. For years the Japanese were allies of Great Britain, and until the commencement of the present war in China, the general feeling seemed to follow the . lines of preferring the Japanese to the Chinese. There was an idea that the Japanese was more: modern in his outlook, a more presentable fellow.( It is true that Canada has a large proportion of| Chinese in its population. It is true that thei Chinaman has won a name for himself for sterling| honesty, for quiet, peaceful good citizenship. Yet; it is the fact that this was not fully realized by most people until the present war in China wasf well under way. Canadians had so little know-‘ ledge or appreciation of its Chinese citizens (most| of whom, by the way are British citizens) that it| was a common thing to hear people say:â€""I can‘t| tell one Chinaman from another." Yet to-day’ the average man accepts news of Chinese victories | or advances with almost as great pleasure as if| they were British successes. Why? That would, be another thing for dictators to think aboutâ€"if they had time for thinking. | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of swapping boasts in Rome, the dicâ€" tators toâ€"day would be doing a lot of thinking on the probable eventualitiesâ€"were they a thinking people. They would think of the present in the light of the history of the past. Rome once had its legions that in all the bounds of logic must conquer the world and hold it. History upsets the logic. In 1914 the German war machine was invincible; in truth, it was from every scientific and material viewpoint. There was nothing to make its defeat possibleâ€"except the power of huâ€" manity that is greater than the machinery that men make. China had no earthly chance against the military might of Japan as the present war opened. Yet what has happened? After a series of defeats that seemed to prove the truth of logic, the Chinese have turned the tables. In the recent battles over Suchow, the pick of Japanese troops were surrounded and almost annihilated by illâ€" armed and poorlyâ€"equipped Chinese troops. This is said to be the first field defeat of Japanese inâ€" fantry in history.â€" To the dictators, it must seem against all sense, all logic. But it is the fact, and were dictators thinking men, they would be thinkâ€" ing hard as to the inner meaning of it all. AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER In the case of the houses that will be flooded out at Barber‘s Bay, the government would do well to‘ show a generous attitude. The legal rights in the ! case in this age of the world are chiefly ofi acaâ€" demic interest. Human rights should have preâ€" cedence. It would cost the government but a pitâ€" tance to move the Barber‘s Bay homes from the area to be flooded to another site on government land about a mile away. Some of the settlers conâ€" ! cerned have no way to do this moving themselves and they are utterly unable to pay for it. It would ' be a small chore for the engineering and moving| skill that the Ontario Government departments can muster at short notice. It would leave the! huge new dam project on the Frederickhouse river as a real allâ€"round evidence of progress, without unnecessary hardship on those who have had little | enough of ease or luck or prosperity in their lives., The Advance would like to see the member for thisl riding, Mr. C. V. Gallagher, take up this question | with the Ontario Premier and Cabinet. With the. case presented as Mr. Gallagher could present it on behalf of the people concerned, it seems cerâ€"| tain that Premier Hepburn and his Cabinet will| adjust the matter so that instead of the people of | Barber‘s Bay being robbed of their humble homes, | they will be reâ€"established elsewhere in better conâ€" ! dition and cirecumstances than they have been in | the area about to be flooded. i thip progress entails on others, the more truly is it progress. «t PA PA L AL L P L AP: BP O PP t l stt P PA eP P s U P P P P P > " GOOD NEWS FROM CHINA THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO thel Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Phillips (nee Ina 2 Reini) arrived in Pottsville last week llng; from Detroit, and are making their Yet| home with Mrs. Phillip‘s parents, Mr. iL. ) and" Mrs. N. Relni. Even without their regular equipment, Timmins firefighters are characteristiâ€" cally resourceful. Last Priday morning Captain Jim Morton and four other meimbers of the brigade were on their way to the station house on foot when they noticed a chimney on fire at 7 Birch street north. The quintette had the situation well in hand in a short time and one of the men remained at the scene until the chimney burned itâ€" self out. There were no alarms on Sunâ€" day, one call to a chimney fire at 14 Moneta avenue being made on Saturâ€" day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson, of New Liskeard, toâ€" day are celebrating the 68th anniversary of their wedding, and very rightly much is being made of the fact. To few, indeed, comes the honour of celebrating 68 years of happy married life. It suggests a remarkable length of life. But in reâ€" cognizing this fact, it should be noted that Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson have greater claims to true fame than the simple accident of longevity. The length of their years is secondary to the quality of their lives. They have pioneered two different sections of Ontario, helping in the growth and developâ€" ment of centres in which they may well take pride. It is more important that their garden at New Liskeard is a proverb in the Northâ€"that they have Mr. F. W. Schumacher, of Columbus, Ohio, was a visitor last week to the town named in his honour. Mr. Schuâ€" macher maintains a steady and generâ€" ous interest in the town of Schumacher, Ontario, and always enjoys his visits there. Mr.*‘T.. Del Villano, â€" formerly of Timmins and for some time manager of the theatre at South Porcupine, but now of New Liskeard, spent the weekâ€" ond visiting his parents and relatives and friends in town. Mrs. Roy Behie and little daughters, June and Beverley Ann, of Kirkland Lake, are spending three weeks with Mrs. Behie‘s mother, Mrs. J. L. Hopâ€" kins, Porquis Junction. Miss Mary McGregor and her brothâ€" er, Mr. Howard McGregor, and Messrs. Syd Grahme and Joe McIntyre spent the weekâ€"end visiting friends in Cochâ€" rane. Despatches state that the vistp of Hitler to Itaily will cost the people of Italy a total of twenty milâ€" lion dollars in cash. This may seem incredible, but the statisticians have wprked it all out in logical way until it appears xea.sonable enough. The cost of the aeroplane displays, the cost of the military exhibitions, the various other forms of entertainment for Hitler and the regular army of retainers that accompanied him to Italyâ€"this would all entail a cost that mxgm not be extreme at twenty million dollars. It is to be hoped that the cost of the visit will be confined to cash alone for Italy, even though it be as much as twenty millions. Tom Brown, of the Bank of Comâ€" merce staff, is spending two weeks ai his home in Oshawa. Mrs. N. Riihinen returned last week week after spending a few days visitâ€" ing her daughter, Maila, in Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kerr, of Norâ€" anda,. are the guests of Mrs. Kerr‘s sister at Timmins. MFs. R. Turcotte has returned from Toronto where she was a patiens at the Toronto General hospital. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Gendron, of Montreal, spent a few days last weok the guests of friends in Timmins and other towns in the North. Miss Grace Yuill returned on Sunâ€" day after a holiday spent visiting friends in Kirkland Lake. She was accompanied by Miss Betty Tolman, who is spending a few days in town. Mr. Arne Simola returned last week after completing a course in mechanics at Vancouver, B.C., to spend a few weeks at his home before taking a position. Fire is Discovered by . Firemen on Way to Work Mrs. Len R. Hopkins, of Porcupine, is expected home today after spending the past two weeks with her mother, Mrs., Deagle, in Island FPalls Junction. Mrs. S. Greenwood returned recently to her home at New Liskeard after visiting her son, Mr. Fred Greenwood, and her daughter, Mrs. Twamley, Timâ€" mins. Mr. Francis Trench returned Sunâ€" day from a short visit to Toronto. greatly alarmed. Passing a fire alarm box, he took the desperate expedient of turning in an alarm in the hopes that the firemen would rescue him. They did, but also they had him arrested on charges of malicious mischief and turningâ€"in a false fire alarm. It would all ‘be amusing only, were it not for the dire difficulty of dealing with these agitators who have no sense of humour, no sense of the ridiculous, no sense of decency, no sense of any kind. | PHONE 1330 17 Cedar Street North | | 4 4 4| McHUGHâ€"In loving memory of our dear father, W. G. McHugh, who passed on May 10th, 1937. Thr flowing stream of life rolls on, Piut still the vacant char Recalls the love, the voice, the smile, Of him who once sat there. His life was one long sacrifice, His heart was true and tender, He toiled so hard for those he loved, Then left us to remember. â€"Ever remembered by Som and Daughterâ€"inâ€"Law. â€" 37p McHUGHâ€"In loving memory of our dear Grandad, Wm. G. McHugh, who went to be with Jesus, on May 10th, 1937. One year has passed since that sad day When one we loved was called away; God took him homeâ€"it was His will. Within our hearts, he liveth still. â€"Lovingly remembered by his grandâ€" children, Cathie and Samiuel Steâ€" phenson. â€"37 McHUGHâ€"In ever loving memory of our dear Father, Wm. G. McHugh, who passed away in St. Mary‘s hosâ€" pital, May 10th, 1937. A wonderful father, companion and aid, One who was better, God never made; A wonderful worker, faithful and true, One in a million, that, father, was you. Just in your judgment, always right, and loyal, ever upright; Loved by your friends, all whom you FOR RENTâ€"Fiveâ€"roomed house. Apâ€" ply to C. Desaulniers, 50% Third Avenue, upstairs. Telephone No. 6. knew, A wonderful father, that father was you. â€"Always remembered and sadly missed by his Daughter and Sonâ€"inâ€" Law, Lizzie and Harrison. â€"37 Succesaful Tea in Aid of New Italian Church A‘ very successful tea in aid of the Italian Church was held at the home of Mrs. John Carnovale, 30 Sixth aveâ€" nus, on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. G. B. Hamilton presided at the table and Misses Lillian Mascioli and Theresa Vitummio served tea. The tables were arranged in a very pleasing manner, with bouquets of roses and mixed flowâ€" ors to give a Gelightful finishing A ‘"‘lucky box" containing a luncheon cloth and bureau scarf, was won by Miss Flora Spadafore with the ticket 15¢. §$25.00 down, $10.00 per month. Dwellings and â€" Furniture Insured. $7.00 per thousand. Cars and trucks insured at lowest rate. PHONE 1330 Real Estate and Insurance LIST YOURKR PROPERTY We Have Buyers LOTS FOR SALE It is unfortunate that some newspapers have been making much ado about one of the successes of Hitler on his entry into Vienna. Dictators in other countries may make use of the Hitler method to attack a problem that hitherto has apparently been too much for them. It seems that Della Carroll, a platinum blonde American beauty, had been doing the famous fan dance for the people of Vienna, and was told on the night of the Gerâ€" man entry into the city that the whole hotel where she was engaged was being reserved for Hitler and his German entourage. So far, so goodâ€"or so bad! But there was worse to come! She was told that for her dance she must wear pants, Hitler‘s personal orders, Heil Hitler. A fan dance in trousâ€" ers? Della would have preferred giving her dance before an Institute for the Blind. But there was no escape from Heil Hitler‘s orders. So poor Della made her own escape from Austria, returning to the land of the free and the home of the brave where fan dancers do not have to wear pants. Heil Hitler. Charlie McCarthy missed the chance of his young life yesterday. He wore no flower, and did not even observe the day by saying: "All I am, I owe to my mother." fostered and popularized beautyâ€"than the inciâ€" dental fact that they have lived nearly forty years in the one town. It is a greater glory that they have lived so well, so honorably, so usefully, that they have made so many friends, that they have helped so many others, that they won the esteem and affection of all who know them, than that they have passed so many yearly milestones. It is something to say that Mr. Stephenson is the oldest living newspaperman in the North. It is infinitely geater to tell the other truth that he is one of the citizens in whom the North takes greatest pride on merit. ‘Mercy Flight Saves Former Dome Couple FOR SALEâ€"Rugs, stock of late imâ€" porter, includes Wiltons, Broadlooms and Orientals, extremely low prices while stock lasts, will smp mail orâ€" ders promptly; write for "price list. Traders and Importers, 54 Wellingâ€" ton Ec. West, Toronto. 37TT64 FPOR SALEâ€"Two children‘s cribs, in | good condition. Apply 19 James | Avenue. Timmins. ~«G ! BRIDGE AND 500â€"Oddfrilows hall, Tuesday, May 10th, 8.15 pm. Ausâ€" pices of Porcupine Business Girls‘ Club. Admission 50c. â€"~27p Another instance of the valus of the aeroplane in CHILDREN FOR ADOPTIONâ€"Good homes desired fur children, boys and girls, Catholic and Protestant, ages 4 to 14 years. Any home desiring to adopt a youngster should have their clergyman write A. G. Carson Supt. Children‘s Aid, Timmins, Ont 44t) Supplies and Nurses Flown in to Red Lake Mine. liveâ€"saving the North To Whom it May Cone 10 wWnhnom it MAY Conceorn: The undersigned will not be responâ€" sible for any debts contracted in his name, and without his written authorâ€" y from and after the date hereto. Dated at Timmins, Ontaric day of May, A.D. 1938. â€"36â€"37. Robert A Try The Advance Want Advertisements was given las week when nurs$$ and supplies were flown in to save the lives of Mr. and Mrs, Nelson es, : J Ate formerly of the Dome, but now of the interior of the Red Lake area, where pneumonia, and Mrs. Spiers also Cg tracted the same discase. Dr. D. G. Revell sent out a callâ€"for medical aid and for nurses and supplies. Wings Limited answered the call, making an epic flight against rain and winds, taking supplies ana three nurses, Word later last week from Middle Bay said that Mr. and Mrs. Spiers were making good progress to recovery. ‘(urned last w buying trip to Mrs. Mill ery and W INSURANCE _ â€" _ REAL ESTAT] MORTGAGES LIST YOUR PROPERTYV REED BLOCK TELEPHONL " PINE ST..S. 2250 OPTICAL COMPANY 14 Pine Slt. N. Phone 835 ‘‘Mother W as Irritable" all "She couldn‘t seem to interest herscelf in anything. â€" Her eyes wouldn‘t let her read for lJong and her head ached when she did much knitting or faney work,. Her puttering around the house nearly drove us mad. Proper glasses prescribed by Mr. Curtis restored our happy home. Mother is perfectly Mr. Curtis restored our happy home. Mother is perfeceMtly content now. The cost was very little and we paid it in > k tic Lad Torot l SQ}.(@, v of the t, whfie mine ‘ad