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ness trip to Montreal and r: home where he was . : but was considered l0 3> makin burglary. Why not say so? It is true that he did steal forty cents, but he was not sentenced for that, but for the crime of burglary. Would the heading writers suggest that if his burglary had proven entirely profitless, a fair heading would be:â€""Didn‘t Steal Anything, Got Two Years.""‘ Not only are the headings referred to misleading. '*ut they give false support to a theory too often suggestedâ€"that the severâ€" ity of sentences is in inverse ratio to the amount of money involved. ter A despatch from Renfrew on Tuesâ€" day says that one of the leading figures in the industrial and lumbering worlds of the O:tawa Valley died suddenly at his home in Renfrew at 7.30 o‘clock on Monday morning of this week in the person of Hon. Thos. A. Low, formerly Minister of Trade and Commerce in the King Government, and one of the most prominent of the Liberal A Canadian Press despatch last week telling about a serious fire at Gogama kindly volunteers the information that "Gogama is 362 miles northeast of Toronto." Many thanks! It may be 2added that Toronto is 482 miles southâ€" east of Timmins. More thanks! HON. THOS. A. LOW PAsSES AT RENFREW INX HIS 60TH YEAR Hon. Peter Heenan, who has wasted a lot of time and tears weeping over the slavery, as he terms it, of men emâ€" ployed on Northern Development Department road work in this North, because some of the men have actually had to sleep in tents, last week showed some return to common sense when he added to his tentmaking talk special referâ€" ence to the fact that the Northern Development Department has been paying some of its employees the unfair rate of $2.40 per day. Hon. Mr. Heenan still left the issue open to confusion by mentioning the rate per hour. It is true that the men are paid on an hourly rate, but they have to live by the day and support their families by the week. Proper living is ncet possible at such a rate of pay. It must be reâ€" membered that $2.40 is the most some of the men employed on relief road work can earn, and hours or days have to be lost threugh bad weather and other causes. The situation of men with teams being paid at the rate of $5.20 per day is even more objectionable. It is a pity that Hon. Mr. zzeenan had not confined himself to these things. The Advance beâ€" lieves that the carping criticism of the use of tents only | beclouded the issue. ‘The men concerned repert the tents as quite comfortable, and they add that without the use of the tents they would not have been able to have the work on the road construction. The low wages paid, however. gave other work without living pay and so was deserving of the word "slavery" repeated so often by the former Minister of | Labour. Because of the men concerned, because of the j country, and because of the true and final interests of the Government, it is to be regretted that public, press and politicians do not centre on this matter of inadequate wages | until the change to better pay is forced by pilblic opinion.' A heac Steals P 11 1930 there oOontario, a mnada Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association ONTARIO GRAVEL AND SA NDâ€"AND PL ACER Timmins, Ont., Thursd C k Ebhe Yorrupine iC Thursday, Feb. 12th, 1931 latter‘s interest and success in having a number of roads for OFFICE 26â€"â€"â€"â€"PHONESâ€"â€"RESIDENCE settlers constructed this winter in this district. The Adâ€" Published Every Thursday by: vance was ready to condemn the member and the Governâ€" GEO LAKE, Owner and Publisher ment for lack of attention to the needs of the settlers. Surely, it is only fair to give due credit when the interest Subscription Rates: ........... $2.00 per year United States..$3.00 per year | and effort of both the local member and the Government are so evident and so helpful to the settler and to the counâ€" »mines Ont Thursdav Foh 12th 1921 try.. The letter in the daily newsnamner temnts The Ad. ng in The Ottawa Journal last week says:â€" rty Cents, Given Two Years." It would have begn r and fully as sensible to have made the heading ) After 9 p.m., Sentenced to Jail." Or the headâ€" have heen that the culprit was a Liberal, or that tics published recently in regard to the incorporation panies in the province show that during the year ere were only 37 mining companies incorporated in , as against 97 in the previous year, 211 in 1928, and 027. The decline in the number of mining companies rated is not due to any lack of work by prospectors or fault in the mining claims that were investigated the past year. The condition of the stock market material effect on the organization of new mining tes. The stock market situation was unjustly couâ€" h t} 1C UF be ey had as much to do v ents. The mam was s y so? It is true that s not sentenced for that muld the heading writers attitude will likely be changed through past few years. Investing in mining ght on the properties rather than on the e of great value to the development of f the North Land and in the end will to those who invest their money wisely. nmno conne mag |J. O‘Brien. He had a notable busin bed ‘career. In the political field h> a ayâ€" won some success. He was clec sent year there will be more in Ontario than last year, development of properties. ssion and hard times there the country. Indeed, this factors to the present diffiâ€" Any C acinabld Droke, going as a boy to work for the wellâ€"known Martin Russell, a character days of the district.. Subsf Low, district superintendent of postal service, Ottawa, and one sister, Mrs. Basil Thompson, wife of Rev. Basil Thompm:on, of London, Ont., and forâ€" merly of Oitawa. He was born in City but spent the early part of his life in Peinâ€" aind indi D with it as the s sentenced for min t 16 "OL hese the owners of dogs. And the owners of dogsâ€"owners who coolly let their anima‘ls be a curse and a nuisanceâ€"will affect astonishment at the restrictions that otherwise reaâ€" sonable and agreeable people wish to fasten upon dogdom. If the owners of dogs would use a little more consideration for others there would be less objection to dogs in town. Most people like dogs, but naturally they prefer to retain the right to sleep, or to sit quietly at home, or to travel the streets unmolested, or to have gardens and garbage pails safe from canine trespassers. There would not be so much growling about the dogs, if their owners saw to it that goodâ€" natured pecple were not unnecessarily disturbed. ‘away. Not a single dog was quieted by any owner. The dog owners seemed to take the attitude that there was nothâ€" , ing to do about the case, and that the dogs would eventually ’tire themseives out. Which same they did! But by that time people were tired as well as dogs, and those who were disturbed by the dogs feel that the owners of the dogs had no consideration for other pecople and that consequently other people need have little thought for the welfare of dogs or their owners. And so as part of the result of the dog chorus there will come another chorus of cursing the dogs. People will recall the garkage pails upset and the contents scattered by dogs. They will remember sleepless nights through dog choruses. They will not forget the trampled gardens and the injured lawns blamed upon the dogs. The tctal result is that even lovers of dozs become sickened by the harm'acccmplished by dogs in a town of city size. It is not the fault of the dogs. It is the fault of the owners of dogs. And the owners of dogsâ€"owners who | _ _At an early hour on Monday morning those who were asleep in one of the residential districts were awakened by the barking, howling, snarling and whining of. a _group of dogs. Those who were listening to the radio were disturbed by the noise. Those who were ill were irritated and injured by the horrible discords. The chorus seemed to have memâ€" _bers over a wide area. Some of the dogs were outside on the streets, others were in houses, and still others were in yards. But all seemed to be imbued with the ambition to make the otherwise quiet hours hideous and uncomfortable. There was a canine Caruso shattering the air from the middle of the road. There was an Al Jolson singing cof his mammy from a back verandah, with no one to care. A Pekinese Rudy Vallee crooned from beneatlr the kitchen sink of one otherwise decent home. The dog chorus kept perfect time, because they kept the noise up all the time. But ctherwise, as a musical number, the canine chorus had nothing to recommend it. Literally hundreds of people must have been disturbed by the racket, yet not an owner of any of the dogs seemed to care. Not a single dog was called 1 y to Renfrew to atong fo iown lumberman, ernorâ€"ge ‘acter in the early ‘are the Subsequently, the‘ me a partner of ;' coming identified | without ployment better paid. The truth is that many members | of the civil service are shamefully underpaid. This was brought forcibly to attention when the mail delivery carriers were.on strike in the Dominion some years ago. In other , departments there are employees equally poorly paid. There I is no excuse or decency for reducing the wages of these emâ€" 'ployees. On the other hand, there are employees of the Government who are senselessly overpaid. The head of tpe Canadian National Railways is a glaring example of this type. It is an insult to the decent feeling of the people of Canada to suggest that the country should make a reduction in the saiary ocf a man receiving, say $1,000 a year, or $2.000 a year, or $5,000.00 a year, while a salary of approximately $80,000.00 goes to one figurehead. If the Dominion of Canâ€" ada finds it necessary to reduce the civil service payroll, it should be made a hard and fast principle that all salary cuts should be made only in salaries over, say $2,500.00 or $3,000. If the country must economize it woulid be well to start on the high salaries and centre upon them. The Cabinet Ministers and members of parliament, the heads of departâ€" ments, then men on commissions and in easy places, should bear the brunt of any reductions. If the public made it plain that economy in the matter of salaries should com-l mence with the men in high places, the talk of reductions would soon fade away. B f and A man who for years has been complaining to The Adâ€" vance that the Government has not been building enough roads for settlers in the North recently has a lot of cheap sneers in a letter in a daily newspaper because The Advance said a good word for A. F. Kenning,, M.P.P., because of the cult ind AmC Mit simply striving by hook or crook to ;:lur and sneer tical opponents. Fortunately, however, the majority settlers are not of any such objectionable disposition, is only fair to add that in the apportionment of roads lers and work for settlers political lines are not drawn ere is honest effort to do the best and the most for tlers and the country at large. pl 1€ 80 2 t i2ringly evident that t ly striving by hook or c ie Accompiisnment of Canada‘s new government, but there appears to be much to do yet before ths industrial situation is cleared up. “’ Sudbury Star:â€"The country can get along for a short time without a govâ€" te nd @rnorâ€"general, but the question is how aire the deputy ministers going to fare writing th d so helpful to the settler and to in the daily newspaper tempts hat A. F. Kenning, M.P.P., dese ention given to the needs of the for settlers. If all the settlers w 1€ town of Amos, Quebec, was not named h Bay Nug for 200,000 iment branche ome, will De I at hundreds « present timeé less than a 1| ich limousines 18 AIld TCO DC pi of all in the To make a ie needs of the riding ir 1 the settlers were of ths in question, it would be their plig THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO e notr i who nning a re civil servict 8. (If6 iluab othe 10n i1 the counâ€" The Adâ€" ves much riding in ictior seoking nd sneetr majority ht 1C Elsewhere in this issue will be found an article in reference to the country now being opened up by railway faciliâ€" ties north of Cochrane. For Vterally years past there have been articles of the same trend in The Advance from time to time. There would have been more of these articles were it not for the fact that in considering the possiâ€" bilities of the part of the North beyond Cochrane it should ncot be forgotten that there is a still greater future proâ€" bable for the part of the North nearer Timmins. A wellâ€"known mining man was recently quoted as making a very cuggestive remark when he said:â€""I believe the place to find gold is around the places where the gold minecs are." This is . an improvement on the old saying that "gold is where you find it." | From time to time the opening of new Imines near the oldâ€"established ones 'shows that gold is "near the gold ;mines." as the mining man quoted here suggested. The present developments !at Matachewan give proof of the fact. that there is a wide area of country . ~surrounding the established camns nf on e en n es e mss ces t ces sn c ago, but in the early days it was found impossible to finance so expensive an undertaking inasmuch as the mineral wealith of the north was then unknown. and later, when the mineral and agiiâ€" cultural wealth were known, and the Speaker last week said:â€" "The importance to Ontario in havâ€" ing railway connection between Lake Ontario and James‘ Bay has never been lost sight of since the Nipissing and James‘ Bay railway charter was asized for and granted upwards of thirty years this Nor time the taged 1b lines. iilurai wealth were known, and the emiskaming and Northern Ontario Resion oEES GREAT FUTURE FOR LAND NORTH OF COCHRANE ny years to come the minit the North will holid the chi the development and prosp s North Land., while at t ion is the ~Home of Big Game Duckâ€"Hunting and Fishing Courtry, "Constant Stream of sportsmen and Tourists" Coming. 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This region is the home of the big came Sudbury Star:â€"We came away from a morbid 15â€"minute conversation with the dentist the other day fully convineâ€" ed that there‘s nothing to the worldâ€" wide depression but a few infected ovuLCallls, TIver and laxkes, not overâ€" looking the seaâ€"fishing:; and the field it will cpen up for the prospector. ‘"The day will come when there â€"will be constant stream of sportsmen and tourists passing over the Ferguson highway to this great northern region, of which much has been said." i1101 UNIS TORG Tlhan we snalil c from the Coast to Coast road of 1 so much is being said. And the t ing of this motor road will not like long delayed after the railroad been built. "Often has the region between 1 Bay and Cobalt, west and east fori miles beyond the Quebec boun "But the time has now arrived when the Government and the Railway Comâ€" mission can see their way clear to go on to the Bay, and be the first railway to get there. The discovery of lignite and minerals and pulpwood north of Cochrane, it has been agreed, makes the extension of the railway a business necessity. "Tor a year or more naest miuch has Railway had penetrated the country as far as Cochrane, it was agreed that the business interests of the Temiskaming sountry rendered it necessary to build branch lines rather than extend the line farther north until later. hich is a species of grouse. "Then think of the many reams, the river and lakes, t oking the seaâ€"fishing> and h ween North s 107 many boundary r road, if ige to the e particuâ€" yhich the 11 the YM.C.A swept â€" throu An eéarly morning fire on Mo: this week out most cf frame block on Silver street in In addition the fiames leaped 2a narow lane and did some dar BLAZE IN FRAME BLOCK IN COBALT BUSINESS sSECTION Governorsâ€"General of Canada since Confederation : GOVERNORSâ€"GENERAL OF CANARBA sINCE JULY, 1867 Earl of Dufferin, June 25, 18 Marquess of Lorne, Nov. 25. Marquess cof Lansdowne, Oct. Lord Stanley, June 11. 1888. Earl of Aberdeen, Sept. 18. | Earl of Minto, Nov. 12, 1898. Earl Grey, Dec. 10, 1904 Duke of Connaught, Oct. 13, Duke of Devonshire, Nov. 11. Viscount Byng of Vimy, Aug. Visccunt Willingdicn, Oct. 2. Viscount Monck, assume 1867. Lord Lisgar, Feb 2. 1869 ons onn mm mm e ut o To ocm | Skating Cli gho wet South Porcupine Skating Rink t€ froquois Falls vs. Porcupine THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12th h CHILDREN‘S CARNIVAL onck, assumed office July um be SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 114th USIC oming on or about March i4th armval for Adults Only Night except Adverti Dates IC COOD 1CBE CON e flimsy w rapidity, and y owned by on destroyed ‘, saved most 8.30 p.m. Admnswn 50c¢., tax included h Nov. 11 imy, Aug n, ‘Oct, : h. anbosir i@apEed 2c ne damag, The fla: mssy wso T°C 1 to 4 p.m. CosSTUMES Admission Allâ€"25¢ 26. inted Fehb H Full Information Frorv Your Local block at the time, other apuartments being vacant. The total loss has not yet been determined but may exceed $5,000. The cause of the fire is unâ€" known. H. WHITE, NMISTRICT PASSENGEER AGENT, CP.3®., NORTH BAY 3.1 To â€"Glasgowâ€"Belf FROM SAINT JOHN. N.B COME AND sEE ! Aszent or writ y 2e n e e g i n sn y ) un ty n mry tised Hockey Du Duch Duches ich RACES of Liverpool *Mont: of ontcalm *Melita ontclare {Tontrose chmond i Atholl Bedford chmond