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ll [MARSH Wfllllll BREAK BABEMN WITH BETHEHS ‘ “J. H. Block. Toronto who has been 7 appointed a director of Canadian Gen- 1.3111! Electric ( omspam, Limited to fill i elvacanm caused b\ the death 01 Sir " ’imam Price, is president of the . reat Lakes Paper Company, L1mited nnd vicemresident of the Excelsior Life Insurance C ompany. as well as viceâ€"president of Northern Canada r Power and Canada Northern Power Corporation. He is also a director of various other Canadian corpor- ations" He was at one time oonnec- tad With the C. P. R. as genera}! super- intendent of the Tomato and North- 'ern Ontario Railway from 1904 to 1.1911. ’ ' , The Montreal Star last week pub- gished a half-tone photo of Mr. J. H. ‘Black, of Toronto, who is interélted in many Nont‘h Land ventures. to- ,‘gether with the following paragxaph‘ under the heading “Who’s “110 in the Street ' ' :â€" the interests of the settlers. In this opposition there has been liberal A pport given ‘by several correspon- nts. Here are the views on the matter- as given by one correspondent ho looks at the question from a viewpoint that may be new to all but the settlers who would naturally think of this view in the early stages of the battle. The correspondent referred to writes as follows :â€"â€"â€" ”‘W'hen the settler went into the remote sections of Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes he went with the assurance that after he complied with the conditions the Government imposed, the lands and all they con- tained would be his for all time, to do with as he Wished. “There are fifty odd thcmsand of'these settlers and farmers, who have gone through the .privations of the early settlers life, in order that they might possess these lands. They have faithfiulily observed their part of the bargain. They have their land with the Governments assur- ance that they will be permitted to use it, and its products, as they see fit. C. C., to be held in 'St. Matthew's church rooms, Timmins, on \Yednesâ€" day and Thursday, May '20th and 2181:”, 1'25. All Women interested in Missions are imited to attend these meetings. MOOSONEB DIOGESAN BRANCH OF THE WO‘DIEN’S AUXILIARY “But fortunately, it is not to our detriment. The settler is the best protection against forest loss that we have. He has a personal interest in the forest that no one else ”has. It is patently absurd to urge that a man who has been ‘broug‘ht up among trees;. who knows that they are, \irtually, his only capital, Mill throw ,away that capital in a reckless disre- ward of the future. The body of Lucienne Gelloneau, 21 years of age, with her. ,home in Girigues, seven miles from Hailey- bury. was found floating in Lake Temiskaming at Haileybury one afternoon ilast week. The girl had been missing since before Christmas, although no request to search for her ever appears to have been made to the . police. George T. Hamilton, «postmaster, who was inspecting his mill on the lake shore, noticed the body in the water, and notified the police, who took charge of the re- mains. lChief McGirr is making investigations into the case. which presents something of a mvsterx. al- though light may be thrown “hen letters, written in French, and found in the girl’s clothing, are translated. .“"I‘he’ man in the forest knows more ~a‘bout consenving that forest than the man on the street; and it is our obligation 'to keep faith with him.’ ’ iT‘he eighteenth annual meeting the Moonsonee Diocesan Branch the ‘Vomen’s Auxiliary t0 the M. “Now we are asked to tell them that 'we will not keep our part of the bargain. Certain powerful interests are raising the cry that what we have promised these men is detrimental to our own welfare. Is it the custom to break a bargain because we find it unprofitable '? “Even - if it were to our definite disadvantage that these settlers should have the full enjoyment 3f the rights they have canned, the obli- gation would stiill be binding upon BODY OF ‘WOMAN FOUND IN LAKE TBMISKAMING H. BLACK. NEW DIRECTOR OF GENERAL ELECTRIC the Settler is Vitally Ixitei'ested in Conservation. of This Wednesday evening, May 13th, there is to 'be a noteworthy musical event in the Ukmnian Hall, Mouvntjoy street, commencing at 3 pm. It is to ’be a Grand Concert given by (Premier Artists of 'Timmi-ns. GRAND EVENING CONCERT TO BE HELD THIS EVENING ‘ I ‘HERE has been much talk of the necessity of saving our forest heritage. “Why do so many of you peeple keep harping on that word ‘our’ all the time," Bell demands, “Our forests, those that we as a body of citizens actually own (and they form 85% of the total forest area of Canada) are already under Embargo so far as export is concerned. The forests that we are talking about now, in relation to the present proposed Embargo are those owned by individual fellow citizens of ours, just as you own your house and lot or your farm. And yet you join in the cry, ‘Our forestâ€"- our landâ€"Our national heritage.’ Have you paid good money for these lots that you’re all of asudden so generously patriotic about? Have you slaved for themâ€" sufiered un- believeable hardships for them as some settler owners have? Every time the big paper com- panies mention their wood resources, they speak of ‘the interests of our share- holders,’ but when they talk about the wood of the man who owns a little plot of freehold forest land they talk of ‘our’ national resources. They aren’t ‘our’ resources at all. They are his and only his; and neither you nor I have anything to do with them." Private Enterprises “But,” the ready objecter interposes, “If the forests are cut down indiscriminately, all Canadians sufl‘er.” “Yes ” Bell retorts, ”and if your ’big. business gets it- ' self into a jam, you are going os,uFfer too. But you don’ t tell the owners that their business is a national re- source, and that as such you have a right to interfere in its management. ‘No, they are private enterprises,’ you say. Itell you, these buSinesses are no more private enter- prises, than the woodlot owner’s trees are his private enterprise.” “As for that indiscriminate cutting that you talk aboutâ€"Do you think the woodlot owner is a fool? Do you think he is going to throw away his capital? Not much! Hewas born and bred among trees. He has spent a lifetime in making them his. They are his business, and by and large he’s taking better care of them than any other class of timber owner. You have no more right to tell him what he must do with his trees or where he may sell them than\he VIM-Presidents : Wise cuttipg. not misery hoarding ~ IS sound conservation . “Miserly hoarding is not conservation. In the case of the forests it is merely wasting something that might as well have been used. “A forest is not destroyed by sound cutting: it is improved and made more productive. “The proposed Embargo is not a reasonable regulation applled to resourses in which you have a common interest. It is an arbitrary interference with Private prOperty in which you have absolutely no right.” ‘ These striking statements, made by Ralph Po Bell, the chief public champion of the anti-embar; forces, are a forceful challenge to some popular misconceptions that have grown up around 1: Embargo controversy. ’ 3. 0. A6033, Quebec. PQ. Joann Gnoout. Quebec, P.Q. C. E. D’Amnuu, Quebeo.P.Q “If the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association is sincere in its commendable desire for forest conservation, let them purchase in the Open market thewood now gorng to the United States. Let them conserve their own standing wood instead of asklng the Government to apply a regulation which would'place Canadian wood-owners and producers at the mercy of a powerful industrial ‘ . o , “ ° ' ) °_ ,2 group such as the NeWSprmt Ring . If thelr Industry needs woodâ€"why don t they buy at? Whose Resources are they? action of Pulpwood, which believe: In the right of “I mark.“ of the world. “Conservation," he says, “lies in sound cutting and utilization, not in miserly hoarding; and just as thinning and pruning and cultivating a garden, gives that garden a chance ‘to thrive, so properly regulated cutting helps a forest; giving the young trees a chance to grow. If you properly manage your forests and cut the mature growth, the young seedlings will have a chance and in thirty to fifty years your land will produce its second crop. That is true conservation.” Temporary Address: P. O. Box 1081, Halifax,Nova Scotia President: AxcLs Man-AN, Bathurst Company, Limited, Bathurst, NJ}. A. G. AUGIB, or Auger Son, Limited, Quebec, P. (2.; JAMES THOHPBON, of Thompson Heylmd Lumbe: (h, Limiteb Toronto, Ont... , RALPH P. BILL, Halifax, Nova Sootia The programme will be a vanied one and will prove pleasing throughout The artists taking part include :â€" Soprano, Mrs. Acton; Contralto, Mrs. Barrett; Tenor, Mr. Piper; Baritone, Mr. Will Richards; Bass, Mr. L. Spacey; Piano soloist, Miss B. Meredith; Cornet soloist, Master C. Johns; A-ccompanist, Mr. R. R. THE PORCUPIN E ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Canadian Pulpwood Association Why waste time on the harmless little fellow when a big danger threatens Canada’s latest wealth 'l 1.0. Alum, Quebec, P. Q. N. E. WALLIY, Sherbrooko, P..Q W. R0! Santa, Annapolis. N3. has to tell you how to run your private business. Its sheer presumption! An assump- tion that isn't supported by a shadow of right or justice.” Saved from Pulp but not from Lumber UT will the imposition of an Embargo B prevent the woodlot owner from selling his wood P” “As pulpwood, 3.03, as lumber, no. And will a tree cut for pulpwood decimate our forest heritage more than the same tree cut for lumber? 7 “The cases are not quite similar,’ some- one says, “One is a manufactured product, and provides work for Canadian workmen, the other is an unmanufactured product.” Pulpwood vs. Lumber "A popular and perhaps natural miscon- ception," Bell replies, “But erroneous never- theless? An egg that is boiled is justlas It is asserted on the excellent authority of Dr. Clifton D. Howe, Dean of Forestry at the University of Toronto, that Canada owns young forests of over 50,000,000 acres. Dr. Howe maintains that under rigid fire protection and wise ad- ministration this 50,000,000 acres will supply Canada with adequate timber to cover future needs. The poorhouse is populated with people who tried to live their lives according to the income of others. ' â€"Exchange. Johnston. Chair to be taken by G. A. Macdonald. - The event pro- mises to 'be an unusually interesting 0118. WASTE ENERGY EXECUTIVE COMMUTE! WISE CUTTING a conéiderablévproportion that might otherwise; through sheer waste, have been added to that ninety per cent loss. UBy propel: cutting we not only profit by the utilization of what we cut, but, while we are thus profiting, we age simultaneously. saving “The advocates of this Embargo," Bell con. tinues, “tell us that.n1nety per cent of our annual forest consumption 18 a total loss from fire, Winds, bugs and fungi." F. W. Pnus. Graoefleld, RQ. TI. mun, Egmvme, Om. IL Gnouuo. Smith’s Falls. Ont. Cum. 3.01017”, Fredericton, 11.). Ernnx Lmuwx, Tfing June. P.Q. FURTHER TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES FOR ROUYN Among the special transportation facilities estabiished for Rouyn is the V. K. Transportation with head- quarters and Post Office addrem at Villemontel, Province of Quebec. The Vi-llemon-tel Kinajevis to Rouyn Two neighboring woodlot owners, can each cut from their woodlot logs scalin thirty-four cords. One sells to a pulpwood dealer by whom he has been offered $8.00 rough or $10.50 peeled. He has agreed to deliver the latter, and he and his sons cut, peel and junk their wood and earn the additional $2.50 per cord over the price they would have received for their wood in the rough state. His neighbor takes his logs to the mill where they are sawed into rough lumber for which work he has to pay the mill, $5.00 per thousand feet. When his 34 cords are sawed out, he only has 17,000 ft, for it takestwo cords of logs to make a thousand feet of lumber. The cost of making those logs into rough lumber is, therefore, $2.50 a cord, which the mill earns. The cost of turning the other fel- low’s logs into sap peeled Bulpwood is also $2.50 a cord, ut in that case the owner earns it. The one is processed at home on the wood lot by hand; the other is processed in the mill by machinery. The expenditure is the same. The one is as much a manu- f actured product as the other. An Unreasonable Idea “But this isn’t all.---- It takes two railroad cars to carry the 34 cords of pulp- wood, while the 17,000 feet much ‘cooked' as one that is poached. A given iece of material may be Just as much manu actured by hand labor in the woods as by machinery in a mill, and the benefit to the community depends, after all, upon how much money is expended in the process. Suppose we just examine this idea a little bit: “So remember, that when you advocate imposing an Embargo, you are simply saying: ‘You may not, from this on, sell your logs as pulpwood; you may not so secure for your- self and your sons, employment for an idle season. But you may cut your logs into rough lumber. You may throw away fifty per cent of the cubic content of those logs. You may load only one car, where you might have loaded two. You may not sell your wood to an American Paper Mill in short round sticks to manufacture into 'paper but you may sell it to the same mill in long flat sticks to manufacture into boxes in which to pack its paper.’ Is such a proposi- tion either reasonable or sensible?" a!“ “ of rough lumber which re- ? quired the same original ,5. “Huh .1, quantity of raw material, fills ' only one car. The railroads receive twice as much freight for the pulp- wood as they do for the lumber.” Transportation will handle map- gers and freight when navigation opens. This concern operates the C. N. R. enu'ess to Rouyn, One of the partners in the firm is a brother of Mr. T. Dood, Optician, of Timmins. Late hours are bad for oneâ€"but good for two.