Hospitals and homes for women and children, maternity homes and hospitals, Sunset and Evenâ€" timte homes, children‘s hames, hostels and homes for men, prison and police court work, the finding of missing relatives and friendsâ€"these are a few of the special social welfare activities carried on by the Salvation Army on the Home Front. The care of soldiers‘ wives and families is a particular effort at the present time. Needless to say this Home Front work needs money as well as the great spirit of helpfulness of the Salvation Army. The Govâ€" ernment is financing the overseas services of the Salvation Army this year. The Home Front work, including the many patriotic efforts connected diâ€" rectly with the war, has to be financed otherwise. In peace years the Salvation Army found it neâ€" cessary to hold two special campaigns each twelve months to find the funds to carry on. This year, with the approval of the government the Salvaâ€" tion Army is seeking to finance its home front work and the war work not covered by the govâ€" ernment support by one public appeal. The camâ€" paign is on this month. Everybody should find somethingâ€"no matter how small, nor how largeâ€" to keep up the Home Front of the Salvation Army To maintiain the great work overseas the Home Front must be kept at full strength. The Salvaâ€" tion Army is the friend of everybody. Everybody should be the friend of the Salvation Armiy. The Salvation Army is the friend of everybody. Everybody should be the friend of the Salvation Army. Overseas, the Salvation Army is on the job as in the last war, and the soldier in his time of need or stress finds the Salvation Army nearby and ready with "a cup of coffee and a smile." In the last war a little girl asked her father what "comâ€" forts for the soldier‘"‘ meant. "The Salvation Army!" was his humourous but accurate reply. So valuable is the Salvation Army to the soldier overseas that it might well be said that the Do+ minion has two active §rmies overseasâ€"the Canaâ€" dian Army and another Canadian Armyâ€"the Salâ€" vation Army. The raw recruit might well be parâ€" doned if he believed that "bringing up the supâ€" ports‘‘ meant allowing the Salvation Army to come forward. If the Salvation Army thus serves overseas, what is the Salvation Army doing on the Home Front? "Making munitions‘" would not be an altogether inept reply. On the home front the Salvation Army is doing an intmense amount of war work in addition to its regular peacetime services that add so much to the peacetime strength of the country and thus contributed greatly to Canada‘s fighting power. TIMMINX®, QONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association TWO PHONESâ€"26 and 2020 Published Every Thursday by GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher * SBubscription Rates: Canadaâ€"§2.00 Per Year. United EStatesâ€"$3.00 Per Year. The newspapers and the public are so engrossed in the war that there is a very serious danger that bureaucracy may be so fastened upon this country that it is difficult to believe that the hundreds of thousands holding places in the innumerable buâ€" reaus can be dislodged by peaceful means after the war is over. The earnestness of the people in genâ€" eral in their desire for victory over the dictator nations makes them easy to persuade that "anâ€" other little bureau will not do us any harm."‘ Most of the progress of bureaucratic control has been achieved on the plea of war needs. The truth is that much of the bureaucracy is unnecessary, and so is really an injury to the war effort. It should be remembered that the present war is a struggle between free peoples and slaves. The people gov-/ erned by bureaucracy are sold into slavery. If the growth 6ï¬ bureaucracy is permitted to pass unâ€" checked, not only will the people of this country lose their immediate freedom, but the easy acâ€" quiescence to bureaucracy will develop the spirit of slaves. The chief strength of the Allied Nations lies in their devotion to freedom. Because of that spirit they are ready to oppose to the uttermost all the attacks of the slave nations. It is no ansâ€" wer to say that the people of Britain have given up their freedom for the duration of the war. The people of Britain haveinot allowed their freedom to be cunningly filched from them by any multiâ€" plicity of bureaus. It would be nearer the mark to say that the people of Britain have loaned their freedom for a time at interest. After the war they are assured of the return of thait freedom with a profit on the investment. The people of Great Briâ€" tain still have their parliament, and parliament has ruled from the beginning of the war. Not only is the government fully responsive to the parliaâ€" ment, but the parliament in turn is most sensitive to the feelings and beliefs of the people. In Canâ€" ada government is by orderâ€"inâ€"council. Parliament at this critical time is actually on holiday. The saddest part of this fact is that the people seein to be right in the belief that the sitting of pariliaâ€" ment has become littie more than a matter of form â€"and expense. | E sSUPPLIES FOR "THE ARMY" PAAA A LAAA L L â€"AL LAAA LA â€"ALALâ€"AL L PAAA LA AL L L L LCA CC C Lo: 1 t#A PAAA A P â€"A L L PA P P L L PPA AL L AL LAAA L LA LAAA AL L ~AP PA Timmins, Ont., Thursday, Sept. 17th, 1942 Cbhe Yorrupine Advance Premier Hepburn recently made the suggestion that the provincial legislation was of little real account because the Federal administration had so curbed the provincial powers and authority. under the excuse of war need, that the province had litâ€" tle left of its former functions. To accept Premier Hepburn‘s idea at its face value, it might well be claimed that all selfâ€"government was lost to Canâ€" ada except in the municipal sphere. Unfortunâ€" ately, however, even municipal selfâ€"government is in grave danger at the moment. For this the proâ€" vincial government can not be held blameless. The provincial government has from time to time shown the same tendency to the development of bureaucracy as has been so painfully evidenced at Ottawa. The latest example is the proposal that Northern municipalities hand over supervision of civic administration to the Ontario government. The excuse for the proposal, no doubt, is that some municipalities find themselves in some little diffiâ€" culty because of war conditions. There are some cases where at least partly through the lack oi good judgment on the part of the etected represenâ€" ta@ives‘ municipalities find themselves specially handicapped by circumstances. Both the town of Timmins and the township of Tisdale are in finanâ€" cial condition, as well as equipped otherwise, to handle any difficulties that may arise. Short sighted or foolishly selfish people may imagine that it would be a clever thing to foist onto the shoulders of the provincial government any diffiâ€" culties that may arise. Instead it would be the deliberate selling out of selfâ€"governmenrt to unâ€" necessary bureaucracyâ€"a poor bargain, indeed. Surely, toâ€"day the attitude should be to hold on to any shreds of selfâ€"government that may be left, so that when the war is over there may be at least one slight base from which to strive to overcome the bureaucracy that threatens to engulf all Canada. The Advance understands that the proposal for the turning over of muncipal government to buâ€" reaucratic control was made some weeks ago, but that it was agreed that the matter should be dealt with privately before any public announcement was made. The question came up at a recent meetâ€" ing of the Association of Northern Mining Municiâ€" palities and again it was understood that the disâ€" cussion was not for publication. Someone, howâ€" ever, apparently wished to learn the public reacâ€" tion because a number of the daily newspapers carâ€" ried references to the matter. The Association of Mining Municipalities turned down the suggestion of further bureaucratic control. The general pubâ€" lic should carefully study the question and refuse to be misled by specious arguments. The public should rouse themselves to the growing danger of bureaucracy. To the lazy, it may seem an easy way out of responsibilities, but in actuality it is no more than selling out selfâ€"government for a song and dance. Timmins has never seemed to be particularly forturjate in its outside publicity. For years this town was prosperous and progressive, but outside newspapers never appeared to realize that fact. In those days the outside newspaper stories feaâ€" tured forest fires, blind pig cases, mosquitoes, snow storms and the odd bear. There never appeared to be room for the fact that the schools in this area were remarkable for their size and quality, that the musical organizations of the district were really remarkable for outstanding talent, that the Horticultural exhibition here was one of the very finest in all Ontario. There were no bahner lines for the truth that the town of Timmins ranked in third place in all Canada for home improveâ€" ment. Then along came the depression and then Timmins was pictured in the outside press as the most prosperous town in Canada, with the result that the town was overâ€"run with transients seekâ€" ing work and businesses locking for locations. Every line in Timmins was soon overcrowded and there was a small army of workless people here to care for. Recent publicity for Timmins has been equally profitless. Toâ€"day the story is that Timmins is losing all its population, that the mines are going to close down, that there are hundreds moving away, with scores of vacant stores and hundreds of empty houses. The stories told now might have helped Timmins had they been circulated in deâ€" pression days, and the glowing accounts of this young city featured in depression would be nearer the helpful truth than some of the stories pubâ€" lished now. It is true that Timmins has been bearing more, perhaps, than its share of the war burden. Literâ€" ally thousands have enlisted from here for active service or for other patriotic work. Naturally, the result is a number of vacant stores and many idle houses. Some of the mines have been forced ‘by the scarcity of labour to close down, but the big mines still carry on, though the man power proâ€" blem means a little curtailment of operations. It does appear that the town and district are in for some difficult days. On the other hand there is the comfort that it is no lack in the mines themâ€" selves that the mining industry is not going at full blast. The other important industry of the areaâ€" the lumber industryâ€"would see its banner days were it not for the shortage of manpower. r PA DPA â€"L L L L ~AL DA â€"Lâ€"Lâ€"AL LCA LCAAA â€"APâ€"ALPâ€"ALPâ€"APâ€"P PP ALP WPP PP â€"ALP L s THE SITUATION OF TIMMINS THE POUuRCUPINE ADVANCE, TTMMIN3, ONTARIO ations be on a decreased scale, the mines will be penses to the point of sacrifice, while at the same all ready to resume on a larger scale than ever | time, the same Cabinet Ministers are each collectâ€" when victory is achieved. In addition there is theg ing $2,000.00 a year for automobile service, the probability of the development in the near future |amount actually being tax free. In both cases of the Kamiskotia area, which will give new impeâ€"| there is actually a "bonus" amounting to as much tus to Timmins and district. One local business! or more than the full living costs alloted to people man was probably close to the facts of the case outside the bureaucratic rings. It is all very conâ€" when he said that Timmins toâ€"day was in very fusing, to say the least. Or is it? * little different position from scores of other Onâ€"| * * Â¥ tario towns that do not happen to have war indusâ€"| "Still stands the motto of the King: tries. It is recognized that if Timmins could secure| "Put into your task whatever it may be, all the some suitable war industries the town would very|sourage and purpose of which you are capable. shortly resutme its progress. For necessary war Keep your hearts proud and your resolve unshakâ€" industries this district has two essentials sadly en. Let us go forward to that task as one man, lacking in most centres in the South. Here there is;a smile on our lips and our heads held high, ang a surplus of electric power and of housing accomâ€"|with God‘s help we shall not fail." modation. Effort is being made at present to disâ€" f * * * cover whether or not there is some practical way| One day last week a store in the main business to help along the war effort, and incidentally beneâ€"| part of the town was closed in the middle of the fit the town iand district. There is firm faith in afternoon. On the door was a note that had a the town of Timmins and in the whole Porcupine| freshness and frankness reminiscent of the good area. There is courage here to meet the situation old days of the camp. The note readâ€""Gone to as it may.arise. The burden of war conditions|the Ball Gameâ€"Joe." will be borne with faith in the future as well as * * fortitude for the present. The attitude of the peoâ€" There is cause for sincere regret at the resigâ€" ple of Timmincâ€" the people whose faith and couâ€" | nation of Mr. G. H. Lash from the Dorninion Office rage and enterprise made the townâ€"is well sumâ€"| of Public Information. Taking up this useful work marized in the words used by Mr. John Knox in his| without the advantage of any organization already address over the nadio on Sunday:â€""Naturally, all| formed, Mr. Lash had to break new ground, organâ€" of us have in our minds that the great objective is ize his forces, and launch the work amid all the how to win the war. Consequently, our probléem|stress of wartime conditions. It is easy to see all must be attacked with that point first in mind,| the handicaps under which he laboured. As The and backed by the assurance of the government| Advance has pointed out on more than one occaâ€" that the burden will be lightened as much as posâ€"|sion he didâ€" a remarkably effective piece of work sible." So long as the dice are not loaded, so long| No doubt he would have done still better had there as there is no unfair discrimination shown, so long|been no handicaps of political chicanery and jeaâ€" as there is no failure to use the resources and the|lousies in high places to hamper the effort. Hi: reserves of this country in essential work for the| whole heart was in the work, and his sincerity and war effort, there will be no complaint here about outsfanding talent would have made succeess asâ€" the luck of Timmins and the district. I sured. He did a fine piece of work and the newsâ€" Â¥ A correspondent of The Globe and Mail points out that the members of the staff, of the Pensions Board recently demanded and received a bonus of $18.20 per months each on salary. At the same time the Pensions Board takes the stand that a soldier can live on : $20.00. It may be noted in conâ€" nection with this paradox, the fact that Ministers of the Dominion:â€"Cabinet have lectured the people about saving rubberâ€" and tires and reducing exâ€" Timmins National War Finance Com. Holds Meeting (Continued From Page One) the several canvassing committees. H. R. Rowe (Ted), chairman of the speakers‘ committee gave the report of the publicâ€"relations committee, in the absence of Mr. Harold Burt, who was unable:to be present. Mr. Rowe, after reviewing briefly the good work already done by Mr. Burt and his committee, said that in his opinion, the speeches for the National War Finance campaign did not need to be orators. What he thought was needed was not appeals to sentiment but to hard sound sense. In a nutshell he described the situation as being either a case of voluntary buying war stamps and bonds, or letting Hitler come along and take everything. He thought the need for the money, the fact that it had to be raised, and the good investment involved were the points that should be stressed. Mr. P. J. Dunlon made reference to some of the arguments that would be used when canvassing was being done. His answer to all these arguments was that the money had to be raised. "It‘s a case of either you put up all the monâ€" ey you can to help finance the war, or else old man Hitler comes along and takâ€" es all your monevy from you along with vyour liberty," he said. "If vou don‘t come across," commentâ€" ed Mr. Rowe, "Mr. Isley won‘t wait for Mr. Hitler to get it." Mr. Stan Saxton, chairman of the payrolls committee, claimed he had an easy part of the work. Miners in the district had been doing well in the purâ€" chase of stamps and bonds. Under the new income tax some feared that many would drop their purchase of bonds, but this had not been the fact in the case of the miners. They had. acquired the saving vlan and were continuing it volâ€" untarily and with increasing interest. Many of them took special pride and pleasure in the fact that they were up a savings account for after the war while at the same time doing a patriotic service now. They had not been the expected drop in the payroll line of war savings. Instead the men appeared to feel they were simply doing their part like everyone should do in the war effort. Mr. Saxton commented on the remarkable fine jb Mr. Jchn Knox had done as. chairman of the war savings committee for the district. The Timmins Camp had taken first place in Canada on war savings as a consequence. "It makes my work comâ€" paratively easy," said Mr. Saxton. Before the meeting closed Mr. Tod outlined in detail the organization and the various committees for the campâ€" aign. ‘The work was for the full duraâ€" tion of the war he explained. The camâ€" paign for war savings stamps and cerâ€" tificates must be carried along all the time, he said, while a specially intenâ€" sive effort would be needed for the sale of bonds when the next Victory Loan was offered,. It would not be long now, he thought before this was announced. During the evening the chairman comâ€" mented on the attendance of the group of ladies and the value of their work in the past. He also mentioned the reâ€" markable contribution to the work by the schools, pupils and staffs alike givâ€" ing very loyal and enthusiastic support. The New Liskeard Speaker last week says:â€"‘"John Ough and his sister, Mrs. R. A. Helmer, were among the guests at a family party held last week in Newâ€" market to honor their mother, â€" Mrs. Annie Ough, on attaining her 85th birthday. Another brother and sister also attended, but the fifth member of the group was unable toâ€"be present on the occasion. Mrs. Ough, who was born at Holland Landing and whose husband, ‘the late Albert QOugh, died in 1918, has lt-'hree grandsons on active service, Pilot Officer G. Ough and Arthur Ough of Newmarket, and Roy Ough of Kirkland a son of Mr. and Mrs. John QOugh. Mrs. Ough Celebrates Her Eightyâ€"fifth Birthday One day last week a store in the main business part of the town was closed in the middle of the afternoon. On the door was a note that had a freshness and frankness reminiscent of the good old days of the camp. The note readâ€""Gone to the Ball Gameâ€"Joe." There is cause for sincere regret at the resigâ€" nation of Mr. G. H. Lash from the Dorainion Office of Public Information. Taking up this useful work without the advantage of any organization already formed, Mr. Lash had to break new ground, organâ€" ize his forces, and launch the work amid all the stress of wartime conditions. It is easy to see all the handicaps under which he laboured. As The Advance has pointed out on more than one occaâ€" sion he did â€"a remarkably effective piece of work No doubt he would have done still better had there been no handicaps of political chicanery and jeaâ€" lousies in high places to hamper the effort. His whole heart was in the work, and his sincerity and outstanding talent would have made success asâ€" sured. He did a fine piece of work and the newsâ€" papers that benefitted directly and the public that profitted indirectly should at least say a very sinâ€" cere ‘"Thiank you!‘"‘ to G .H. Lash. There is a story that a former Queen of France when informed that the people had no bread to eat, made the response, "Well, why don‘t they eat cake?" Last week government authorities at Otâ€" tawa were quoted as solving the beef shortage by saying that the people could eat chicken or turâ€" key. It might be well to carry the comparison no further. § Toronto Telegramâ€"Marriage ties are strong or what else id it to keep a man from divorcing her fat wife after seeâ€" ing her walking around in slacks? North Bay Nuggetâ€"It was a Navy barber that responded to a gob‘s "My hair is getting thin" with "Who wants fat hair" There are eight grandchildren mentionâ€" ed in the report from Newmarket, their number including Mrs. Thelma Biggâ€" ings of New Liskeard, Mrs. Grace Wherâ€" ry in Rouyn, and Mrs. Dale Johnson in south Porcupine, with still others in Bill Helmer here, Mrs. Howard Hawley in Kirkland Lake and Bert Ough. There are twelve greatgrandchildren. TIMMINS CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE Austin Neame, Chairmsan Headquarters: 8. C. Platus Law Office MEA Block Thousands Depend on the Army of Mercy in Time of Need A war for democracy places unusual burdens on all of us. But we cannot overlook the needy at home. That would be treason to democracy. There are many with whom life has,. dealt harshly. Human weakness, failure of relatives, unfortunate circumstancesâ€"one or all ofthese may have put them in dire need. '. Long experience in dealing'f;'a'ith human weakness and want qualifies The Salvation Army to be YOUR agent in this work of brotherhood. That is the reason for this Home Front Appeal. Money is needed. The work MUST go on. With YOUKR ‘help, it WILL! must go on Kirkland Lake Man to FaceNew Trial on Murder Charge Second T‘rigl of James Thomas ï¬il be in Octoâ€" vee. â€" ol _ Demetres Papastamitiou, also known as James Thomas, former]y of Kirkland Lake, will stand trail a second time in connection with the death of Mrs. Amâ€" elia Trottier on February 5th, 1942, at Kirkland Lake.: The new trail will take place at the tHevbury assizes in Ocâ€" tober before"Mr. Justice Roach. The accused was found guillty last spring at Haijeybury and was sentenced by Mr, Justice Plaxtaon to be hanged. An appeal was entered, and the anpeal was grantâ€" ed, a new trial being offered. The charge arose from e death of Mrs. Amelia Trottier whose body was found in the washroom of an apartment â€" building, Evidence wq! brought forward that death was due to the taking of a drug commeonly reférred to as "knockâ€"out" drops. One wittness told of seeing a botâ€" tle with this â€"drug in the rooms of the accused and that Thomas had said that he kept it "to.put girls to sleep." The drug, chloral hydrate, was found in the body of the dead woman, and there was evidence to prove that the dead woman had been in company with Thomas dur«= ing the evening, one woman companion saying tha she had been present when the accused served a drink to Mrs. Trotâ€" tier. «4 Detroit Freg Pressâ€"Another cut for vanity is to return home after a months absence and meet a neighbour who obâ€" serves your baggage and says: "Going somewhere?‘ "But the strain on my eyes used to give me the most painful headaches and completely. ruin my evening. Mr. Curtis prescribed glasses thai completely cleared up my trouble. I wear them wl}en I read and find I don‘t tire ‘so quickly. It‘s wonâ€" derful what ‘proper glasses can do. The cost was surprisingly small too, and spread over a few months it was easy to pay. U 14 Pine St. N. I like shows. . .. OPTICAL â€"COMPANY LIBERAL TERMS MAY BE ARRANGED AT Phone 835 1942, at will take s in Oc« ch. The