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TIMMINS, ONTARIO OFFICE 26â€"â€"â€"â€"PHONESâ€"â€"RESIDENCE 70 Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Last week there was an item in © Argus which concluded with a reference the salves."‘ Some people may think this error, but it may not be. Around elec always too much "freeing of the salves." Surely something can be done at once to remedy the conâ€" dition of the one or two bad strips of roadway between Timmins and Porquis Junction. There seems to be general agreement that a goodly quantity of gravel and the right sort : of ditchinz would right the difficulty. It seems to be absurd’ to wait until the weather itself remedies the conditions. In the meantime the bad spots are giving the whole road a bad | name with the result that tourists turn away from here,{ which is something not to be desired. Travellers on the road west of Cochrane have remarked on the way the roadâ€"| way there is standing up under traffic. While the going is a little heavy there are no stretches where cars have to be pulled out. The use of good gravel, and lots of it, has made | the road west of Cochrane available in good condition early | in the season and it will get better as the days go along. ‘This is a much newer stretch of road than the highway to $ I A gentleman who was presumably an official in connection with the Ukrainian school or the Ukrainian hall or the Ukrainian scciety in this town called on The Advance last week to chject to an editorial note in the last issue of this newspaper. The editorial note told about a child of seven years of age who was mauled and ma‘treated at one o‘clock in the morning by a man who took her to the lower part of the town. The child said that she had been attending the Ukrainian school and that the man had met her after she left the hall and induced her to accompany him. The Advance wanted to know if there was a school in town that keeps children until after midnight and then lets them go home unaccompanied. And to this question The Advance added these others:â€"‘"What does such a school teach?" "What necessity is there for a Ukrainian school in this town?" "And why?" The Advance would still like to have these questions answered, and still more does this paper desire that an investigation be held by the proper authorities to discover the purpose of this Ukrainian school and the work it is accomplishing. The Ukrainian gentleman who asked the retraction last week was emphatic in declaring that the children were not kept to any late hours unless acâ€" companied by their parents, and that the hall was closed each evening at ten o‘clock or thereabouts. All of this may be as it may be, but the questions still remain as to the purpose or desirability of such schocls as the Ukrainian school. _ There is a growing opinion that these foreign schoo‘ls are not occupied with teaching loyalty" to Canada. The gentleman who visited The Advance office last week suggested that music was one of the subjects taught at the â€" krainian school. That would be well, but of course there is even the danger of the wrong sort of music being feaâ€" tured. Canadilans would be pleased to have Ukrainian children taught the classics in music. They would be deâ€" lighted to have them expert at singing "God Save the King," "O, Canada," and similar songs. But for attention to be centred on "Red" soengs would not be so pleasing to Canaâ€" dians. "You would like the music of the youngsters," The Ukrainian gentleman told The Advance. "Yes," was the reply, "and we liked the music by the visiting Ukrainian prchestra a couple of years ago, but we certainly did not like the fact that this orchestra absolutely refused to sing or play "God Save the King," though earnestly requested to do so." In this country of Canada a school or orchestra or whatnot that bars the National Anthem certainly needs inâ€" vestigation. That is what The Advance would like to seeâ€" a thorough investigation of such schools as those conducted by foreigners with the idea of determining the purpose beâ€" hind their activities. The foreigners in Canada have been well used. They have received a measure of liberty that may have turned their heads. Any cruelty or injustice they may have suffered in their own land is nonâ€"existent here. There is no excuse for dislovalty or illâ€"will on their part, and the pescule of this country will be both foolish and shortâ€"sighted + Eo Sn e t en e n n n SE Porguis Junction. The latter road should be treated with much gravel and no sand. For some time past the Iroquois Falls and Ansonville Board of Trade have been seeking to have a local newsâ€" paper established for the advantage of the two towns. Some weeks ago arrangements were made with one man in the business to start such a newspaper at Ansonville, but the matter has since been dropped by one or other of the parâ€" ties concerned. More recently plans have been agreed upon with another gentleman to commence the desired newspaper. Those interested in the plans hope to have the Troquois Falls pesn.e Gi and Anscnville newspaper under way by July 1st of this year. Everyone will wish Ansonville and Iroquois Falls the best of success in any such venture because a local newsâ€" paper is a very decided asset to any community. It would be well, however, for the people of Ansonville and Iroquois Falls to face the fact that under modern: conditions the publication of a newspaper is a costly proceeding, and so the newspaper must have very general support to prosper and progress. Up to the present the Iroquois Falls and Ansonâ€" ville Beard of Trade would seem to have followed along lines that indicate the idea that the chief support of a newspaper lies in its subscription list. This, of course, is not the case. The newspaper that would succeed must have generous acâ€" vertising patronage, and also in the case of a local newsâ€" paper must Have a goodly volume of job printing work to keep the plant busy. The newspaper planned now for Iroqucis Falls and Ansonville is announced as to be strictly a l3cal newspaper. "No clippings from other newspapers will be used" is the suggestion made in one part of one of the announcements. Should such a line be strictly followed out the newspaper would be very local in its sphere and outlook. It may be noted that there are a few local newspapers that pretend to adhere to such a policy, but all it amounts to is that they do not credit the clippings to their source. On the one hand they accept responsibility for material that they can not vouch for, which is not fair to themselves, and on the other hand they do not credit other newspapers for the time, expense and effort spent in gathering news and views which is not fair to the other newspapers.. No local newspaper can support correspondents in every section of any wide territory, and the local newspaper that confines its news and other materia‘ strictly to its own staff will not do as much for its readers as it might do. Timmins, Ont., Thursday, June 12th, 1930 GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER Thursday, June 12th, 1930 he Horrupine Advanes Published Every Thursday by: GEO LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: $2.00 per year United States... $3.00 per year with a reference to the "freeing of _ Kirkland Lake is recent months has spent over $16,000.00, le may think this is typographical | in equipment for fireâ€"fighting and fire protection, as well as be. Around election time there is !great!y strengthening its fire brigade force. The Northern ig of the salves." News now wants to know why the town of Kirkland Lake is *# *# *# nct enjoying reduced fire insurance rates. The fire insurance be done at once to remedy the conâ€" |companies will have a ready answer. Indeed, they have a wo bad strips of roadway between | series of ready answers all ready. The town of Timmins has unction. There seems to be general | been through the whole procedure and so knows how it goes. ; quantity of gravel and the right sort Fifteen or sixteen years ago fire insurance rates in Timmins the difficulty. It seems to be absurd | were practically prohibitive. The fire insurance underâ€" er itself remedies the conditions. In | writers pointed to the inevitable risks in such a country as pots are giving the whole road a bad gtfhis. The fire department equipment was not as it should that tourists turn away from here, be. The class of buildings made for a high rate of risk. t to be desired. Travellers on the |Timmins spent about $25,000.00 for fireâ€"fighting and fireâ€"proâ€" have remarked on the way the roadâ€" . tecticn equipment; there was a building byâ€"law passed and p under traffic. While the going is 2 | from its workings the percentage of fireâ€"resisting structures no stretches where cars have to be iwas greatly increased; a fire brigade of unusual efficiency good gravel, and lots of it, has made |was organized and established, and other methods were l | an item in The St. Mary‘s Journalâ€" | * * * *# ‘ ane available in good condition early to reduce the fire risks. Then the town sought a vill get better as the days go along. material reduction of fire insurance rates, believing that stretch of road than the highway to 4 even according to the fire underwriters such reductions were latter road should be treated with | fairly earned. But the fire insurance companies then. nd. shifted their ground. The big risk in this country was from s the bush fire menace, they said. Again Timmins went to the Iroquois Falls and Ansonville work and there was no rest until the forest fire hazard had been seeking to have a local newsâ€" been eliminated. Apparently the fire insurance underâ€" e advantage of the two towns. Some writers then had no recourse but to bring rates down to close ts were made with one man in the |to those charged in Southern Ontario towns of similar type a newspaper at Ansonville, but the ito this. But there was another shift then. The fire insurâ€" dropped by one or other of the parâ€" | ance underwriters patiently explained that rates had to be recently plans have been agreed upon |set for the whole North Land area. The business throughout i to commence the desired newspaper. the North was really carried at a loss, and, of course, it plans hope to have the Iroquois Falls | would not do to make further reductions in rates for Timâ€" aper under way by July 1st of this mins and thus increase the general loss for the whole North. ish Ansonville and Iroquois Falls the i many pecple at first were inclined to resent with bitterness such venture because a local newsâ€" ‘ the shifting of the ground of argument on the part of the d asset to any community. It would \insurance underwriters. â€" They felt that the town had been he people of Ansonville and Iroquois|tricked into making large expenditures and giving special ; that under modern conditions the | effort for improvement, without adequate return. A little iper is a costly proceeding, and so the | thought, however, showed that Timmins has received mateâ€" very general support to prosper and | rial reducticns in fire insurance rates in the past few years, resent the Iroquois Falls and Ansonâ€"| and the money spent and the effort made for better condiâ€" uld seem to have followed along lines | tions in town from a fireâ€"safety standpoint have been well hat the chief support of a newspaper | worth while for themselves alone in the added safety to life list. This, of course, is not the case. | and property from the danger of fire. The Northern News, ould succeed must have generous adâ€" | of Kirkland Lake, is doing good work in agitating for lower 1@ also in the case of a local newsâ€" lfire insurance rates. Rates in the North are undoubtedly too odly volume of job printing work to | high from the standpoint of the people. But the town that The newspaper planned now for | gives thought and effort and money to better fire protection onville is announced as to be strictly § facilities will win some reductions in rates and also will have ) clinvines frem other newspapers will | the advantage of the increased safety following such methods «t+ #}* if they calmly permit agitation or action that may prove detrimental to this Canada of ours. A gentleman who recently returned from Russia says that class distinctions there have been done away with. There are no longer any firstâ€"class and secondâ€"class railway ccaches. All are on a level. The only difference permitted in railway coaches is that some have cushions and some have not. People pay more to travel in the cushioned cars, and the cushionedâ€"car travellers and the uncushionedâ€"car traveliers are kept to their own spheres, but there are no class distinctions in Soviet Russia. Last week The Acton Free Press had a front page article headed, "An Automobile Trip Through Northern Ontario." The article itself, however, showed that the motorists were ncot farther north than Sundridge, which is three hundred miles south of the real North and five hundred miles below the far North. A correspondent last week wrote to The Toronto Globe pcmtmg out that in a recent editorial The Globe had made an error in natural history in suggesting that porcupmes have the power to throw their quills The great Porcupine camp, in whose honour no doubt all the little porcupines were named, should be accepted as a final authority on anyâ€" thing regarding porcupines. The oldâ€"timers here who have seen many porcupines in this Forcupine are agreed that the porcupine has no power to throw its quills. It spreads out its quills when attacked or offended and these quills being very lightly attached to the porcupine easily come away from the body, and this is particularly liable to happen if anything touches the quills as the outer points are barbed as well as sharp. Often the porcupine will be erecting the quills at that moment when a dog or other animal is rushing in on the porcupine. From a little distance it may appear as if the porcupine threw the quills at the approaching animal, but this is not the case. The porcupine, in a word, can let its quills go but can not throw them away. There are scores of dogs who have interviewed a porcupine once. A dog that has had its face filled with purcupine quills is hard to persuade that the little beast does not throw its quills. After a while, however, a dog accustomed to porcupines, disâ€" covers this natural history fact and then, keeping a respectâ€" able distance away from the porcupine, will circle round the animal cursing it in dog language for the looseness of its quills in the porcupine‘s hide and the tightness with which they grip other flesh. For a number years past The Advance has been advoâ€" cating the appointment of a Senator from the North Land to represent this important section of country in the Upper Hcouse. Despite the large population and immense area of this territory and its large proportion of the natural resources of the province, this section of Ontaric has never had repreâ€" sentation in the Senate. It is more important to the North Land than to cther parts of the province that there be adequate representation in both houses. The needs of the North should be presented to the Senate as well as to the House of Commons and good Senator from this district would be of great value in making the truth about the North more widely known. For several years The Advance received little support in advocating a Senator for the North, but recently there has been a growing tendency on the part of the press and the people in general to see the advantages of a Senator from the North Land. At the Liberal party ccnvention that nominated Col. Mac Lang as the party canâ€" didate for the seat in South Temiskaming for the Dominion House in the approaching general election, a resolution was passed without dissent urging upon the Government the appointment of a Senator to represent the North. . Many will take this to mean that the Liberal party will make such an appointment if returned to office, while it may be taken as a surety that the Conservative party will appoint a North Land man to the next available seat in the Senate if the party led by Hon. R. B. Bennett is asked to take over the administration of affairs. Direct promise has been made that the mail service to Tcoronto will be resumed as scon os possible. So far howâ€" ever, there is only the promise. The business men and others in the town and along the T. N. O. are still sufâ€" fering for the lack of this mail service. There is a loss to the Southern towns and cities through the discontinuance of the Toronto mail service. The longer it continues the greater the loss. The promise should â€"be replaced by the actual service. Surely it does not take the Dominicn postal department months to arrange a simple little matter like this. 4 THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO TRANSâ€"CANADA HIGHWAY AS ADDITIONAL FIRE INSURANCE The acquisition of 40 mining claims, including the Springer and Cockshutt groups, was approved by shareholders. Mr. Waite explained the deal involved the payment of $5,326 in cash and 186,â€" 000 shares, part of the stock going to the original stakers of the properties and part to cover amounts already exâ€" pended on the yproperty. The claims were staked in the early day,s he said, ‘and were being secured to protect the ,st,ri';:e of the ore zone to the west. The Springer group contains a promising showing and has been opzsned up to some extent on the surface. and lose. Doctors, lawyers, ministers, college professors, government officials, school teachers, artisans, labourers, charwomen and all human kind take the long chances and often regret it. When one really desires a safe securiâ€" ty it is a good plan to ask a banker for information before rather than after the deal is made. The value of the Transâ€"Canad2a highway in the battle against forest fires is touched upon by The Northern Tribune in an editorial note. The Northern Tribune says:â€""A transâ€" Canada highway route through Norâ€" thern Ontario would constitute splenâ€" did fire insurance. Rapid communicaâ€" tion is the modern method of fighting forest fires. The quicker personnel and equipment can be rushed to any threatened area, the better the chance for fighting under control any fire outâ€" breaks reported, when every hour counts. As the North becomes interâ€" sected with good passable roads, there is a better chance of localizing the more serious conflagrations; and ths is what counts a whole lot." Farmer‘s Advocate:â€"Strange as it may seem a great deal of money made on the farm in gcood years and in bad, goes into investments. Some of it is wisely invested and some cof it is put into securitiese so worthless that it might as well have been used to kindle the morning fire. But farmers are not the only ones to play this little game The Shillington correspondent of The New Liskeard Speaker last week says: "The death occurred at Cochrane on Wednesday, May 28th, of Wm. Hartâ€" ford, Jr., a former resident of this place in his 30th years. The deceased was the eldest son of W. H. Hartford, the first settler in this district, and spent his boyhood days here. Later he moved with his parents to Cochrane. The reâ€" mains were brought here for burial on Friday and the body was laid to rest in Shillington Cemetery. The services were conducted at the church an grave by Rev. Mr. Macartney, of Monâ€" teith. The large crowd and the beautiâ€" ful floral tributes testified to the high esteem in which the young man was held. The pallâ€"bearers were: his broâ€" therâ€"inâ€"law, F. Chalmers, and three boyhood friends, Vernon Doey, Arthur Humphries and John Doey. The chief mourners were his devoted wife, and two small children, his sorrowing parâ€" ents, three sisters and one brother, all of whom were with him at the last." The shaft, which was down over 403 feet according to latest reports, should be completed by June 13, J. H. C. Waite, viceâ€"president, who acted as chairman in the absence of Presiden: F. M. Connell, stated. Pumps and stations should be completed by July 1, and lateral work will then be carried out on the four levels. The first inâ€" formation is expected about Aug. 1. and it is estimated about 3,000 feet of drivâ€" ing will have been comp.eted by the end of September. PATRICIA MINES ANNUAL wWAS OF ROUTINE ] DEATH OF W. HARTFORD, JR., ;@ FORMERLY OF SHILLINGTON 3 The annual meeting of shareholders of Central Patricia Mines, Ltd., held yvesterday was of routine nature, the board of directors being reâ€"elected and the reports and balance sheet approvâ€" ed without question. 1910 to 1930 From Boyhood to Manhood always devoted to one plodding task:â€" are again united â€" with newer plans â€" with broader policies â€" with greater ideals â€" to do justice to a country now on the second rung of progress and development, This advanced step will be fittingly GCGelebrated Soon ! ! the full details in the next issue of The Porcupine Advance Sky Brothers A Gripping Human Interest Story! Hundreds of thriftvy women crowd the store daily â€" Amazed at the truly phenomenal values â€" Eager to save and benefit in this rare occasion. SKY‘S â€" TIMMINS en y t TR es Cl J ¢ i 'i" ® ¢! a TIMMINS S$TO0RE of the Year is in progress at BANNER DA Y S Final windâ€"up of the sale. 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