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Hon. Mr. Finlayson, Minister of Lands anrd Fo quoted as urging the people of the North to get toget decide upon a route for the Transâ€"Canada hishwa inference seems to be suggested that the delay in the construction of the last link of the highway is the fact that the people of the North Land can m upon the route that should be used. In this matt Mr. Finlayson is using the same sort of logic that he some months ago when he told men whose pay was £ $3.00 a day to $2.40 that there was no reduction in vu that the Dominion Government had insisted on de the number of hours that might be worked by the relief work. It is up to the provincial and Domini ernments to decide upon the route for the Transâ€" highway. Their responsibility in this matter can evaded, and the paople of this part of the North will | ish indeed if they pretend to endorse a route they believe the best, simply to make the wayâ€"of the . ments easy. Last year this part of the North La warned that political influence would be used witho to force the choice of a route that the people of t] trict believe to be unreasonable, expensive and less than other routes. On two occasions the Northern â€" Associated Boards of Trade, representing the are North Bay to Cochrane and west to Hearst, witho senting vote endorsed the use of the Perguson high part of the proposed route, with the highway goin Cochrane to Hearst and thence southâ€"westerly to This was considered the shortest route. the cheaps the easiest to build. It would help a large area of country and open up naow country rich in resources of field, stream and mine. It would be a seenic route aas a practical one. Even advocates of other routes 3« it was the proper routs for the immediate present. C vocate of a "compromise " rmnmnta EranlklD ++ A Chinaman, who was told that a said that newspapers often get th "Allee same as pleachers, eh?" A young robber entered a bank in New Toronto last week with the purpose of stealing money from the institution. He had a loaded revolver and was prepared to stage a regular holdâ€"up, but the manager of the bank persuaded the young fellow to forego his criminal designs. The bank manager is receiving considerable credit for his cleverness in thus savâ€" ing the bank from being robbed, but as a matter of fact this bank manager was simply running true to the form of bank managers in general,. Robbers who aliow themselves to discuss with bank managers the questian of taking money from bank have not a ghost of a Cchance. Bubscription Rates: mnadh ....... $2.00 per year United States . $3.00 per year Timmins, Ont., Thursday, June Thursday, June 18th, 1931 Cle Advance OFFICE 28â€"â€"â€"â€"PHONESâ€"â€"â€"RESIDENCE of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association TVIMMINA, ONTARIO GEOQ LAKE, Owner and Publisher . Ontario Associated Boards 0 political influence that wou! an expensive and impractica > Northern Ontario Associated Published Every Thursday by: ssociated Boards of Trade ude was be igh _ Dt | COLINnIrV Cail f the} come to ligh thed, | shire village t the} Obviously, it down| theat any cor 000ts,| needs no cCc L13 AlQ M aAPCli son, editor James Cur Maric, the held) at H Cw P among the : siza is taken has made it The freedot respondents to write of views must some cases A friend of The Advance last week handed in the followâ€" i clipping Trom The Kirkintilloch Herald, published in a comuntry called Scotland:â€""A Scots sixpence, dated 1685, has come to light among the silver in the till of a West Stirlingâ€" shire village bank. The coin was in perfect condition. Oboviously, it had never been "banged." The friend suggests ts‘ any comment might be made on the item, but the item needs ro comment. Something might be said about the friemd who handed it in, however. He was a Scotchman himsel{. He just left the fiveâ€"line clipping, carefully taking the rest of the paper away with him. There was a for sale advertisement on the back of the Elipping. He insisted that ts clipping should appear in Th Advance, so it is hard to see that he loses anything. Also, he begged a couple of matches to light his pipe before he left. is now being made to stage a debate between Ed Stephenâ€" son, editor of The Northern Tribune, of Kapuskasing, and James Curran, publisher of The Daily Star, of Sault Ste. Maric, the debate to be held (so far as such a debate could be held> at Hearst, and the subject or object to be the proper route for the Transâ€"Canada highway. That debate should make a good radio feature. Perhaps', it is this that Hén. Mr. Fin‘ayson had in mind when he urged the North Land to agree on the route for the Transâ€"Canada highway through Northern Ontario. If the two newspapermen can reach a decision and agree one with the other, the rest will be easy. The Advance is not hopeful, however, that they will be able to wholly agree even with themselves. is no more than this:â€"that the idea is that this part of the North Land is asked to drop what it believes to be the pracâ€" tical and logical route and endorse some other route not so good, just as a matter of politics. The Advance believes that action along that line would be wrong indeed. If the govâ€" ernments wish to force through a wrong choice of route, let the governments take the full responsibility of doing so. It would be folly on the part of this part of the North to enâ€" dorse what it does not believe. The announcement that the Ontario Government plans an iimmediate survey of three of the proposed routes of the Transâ€"Canada highway through the North is far more reasonable and fair than talk of the various parts of the North agreeing on a particular route. The Sault Ste. Marie section is banking on its political power and influence; this part of the North Land trusts in the strength of its case; Sudbury and Chkapleau and other secâ€" tions are hoping that while the cther sections are in disâ€" agreeiment their "compromise" roadway may become an actuality. The responsibility in any case will be on the governments, so they might as well chcoose the right course, regardless of political influence. there has been no new facts brought out and no change in! the situation. This part of the North Land is ready enough| to confer with any other part, but that is not what is wantâ€"‘ ed. Under all the talk about "compromise" and “confer-! ence" and "friendliness" and "coâ€"operation" and so on, there? n an editorial last week replying to an article in a preâ€" 13 issue of The Advance, The Northland Post, of Ccochâ€" e, says:â€"*"The Post has never at any time condoned forâ€" 1 agitators, communists or communist doctrine." The iance has had nothing to say about foreigners except in ard to the agitators and communists and communist docâ€" ie, therefore it follows logically that The Post has said illâ€"word to The Advance, and everything is as it was ore. ~Now,. vou tell one! of Amos and Andy, it may be noted that effort THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO highway built pliast their portais. It involves little trouble or expense for the highway ‘bocsters of Sudbury, t Soo, Port Arthur, Port William, t> atâ€" tend in numbers: while a smaller Norâ€" thern municimaility may find itse‘f utâ€" that ‘the call was rescinded. But the North Bay Board of Trade has sudâ€" denly issued ancother call for a conferâ€" ence representative of all Northern municipalities from as far North as Hearst, to meet there on June 24th and decide the highway issue. That is only twelve days away, and allows only one issue for our Northern wseekly contemâ€" poraries to discuss the question. "The conference will be overwheimâ€" ingly controlled from start to finish by the cities and towns which are bending "Therefore we note with skepticism anothfer sudden "compromise" move calculated to bring about a snap deâ€" cision. Last fall an effort was made to hold such a meeting at North Bay; buw: it met with such spirited opposition that ‘the call was rescinded. But the "These comments are rendered necesâ€" sary by developments since last July. The Northern Tribune insists that it is still nonâ€"partisan in this matlter, and desires only that the best interests of Canada as a whole, present and futus*s, shall be subserved by consideration of the entire project from a broad nationâ€" al standpoint. elected members! Objects to Plan for Conference on Road "For the first time, Canada lhas a nonâ€"elective Minister of Labour who has no yvoice or vote in the elective House of Commons; yet this Senator anncunces that "as one member of the government, I am in favour of settling the route west from North Bay." ~He will participate in the decision of the cabinet, which will be recommended to Parliament and must be carried there unless the unbelievable happens; obut I: will not be on the fioor of the elective tribunal to justify his action to our the highway out of the hands of paroâ€" chialists and have it deal with by Parliament? He remains obduratively silent wnenever a question is askea abcout it. ‘The fact is that the southern route advocates are feeling jumpy over the ttiblicity the Northern route has reâ€" ceived recently, and the many evidences that it is gaining in favour among those of Ontario.â€" They are afraid to leave a national matter in the hands of our national parliament for solution, alâ€" thoughâ€"it might as well be said openâ€" lyâ€"the great majcrity of them were and are supporters of the federal preâ€" mier now in office who pledged during the election campaign that he would uilld a national highway. Has Mr. Ennett made the slightest move to take yvincial channelsâ€"in sp}.te of exâ€"Premier Ferguson‘s statement last summer that the transâ€"Canada highway was a federâ€" al matterâ€"the more hope there is for the proponents of the two southern routes, whose "pull" at Queen‘s Park far overshadows that of the Northern district. Hon. Mr. Finlayson himself chose North Bay on Wednesday this week, following a spsech by his preâ€" decessor Hon. James Lyors of Sault Ste. Maric, ‘tourge that all Northern municipalities get together and make a selection of route. Senator Robertson, federal Minister of Labour, follows this up at Sudbury by saying that he fayâ€" ours ‘"settling the route west from North Bay, and will seek its immediate constructicn." "Reporting the visit of Hon. W. F. Finlayson to Kapuskasing on Wednesâ€" day last week, we quoted the Minister of Lands and Forests as saying that three survey parties woulid go over the ground of the routes for the national highway, "by agreement with the federal governmenci." "Mr. Jos. Bradette, M.P. for North Temiskaming, asked Premier Bennett if he would corroborate this statement. The deputy speaker ruled the question out of order at the time, but his ruling was challenged and a division of the house demanded. The vote upheld the chairman, 64 to 37. Suggests that North Bay Scheme Open to Danger of Packed Meeting. Other Thoughts on Transâ€"Canâ€" ada Highway. y of them were the federal preâ€" o pledged during NOW is the time for action, not when it is too late. Now is the time for statesmenshin, ncot politics. The Nornth is looking anxiously to the seats of Government for action.© More, 4t is deâ€" manding it, and it has the right to exâ€" pect it. ‘The unempicyment situation in the North has now reached a stage where immediate action on the part of either or both, Provincial and Federal Govâ€" ernments is absolutely imprrative. During the past seyeral months Northâ€" ern Ontario has been the mecca of litâ€" erally thousands of unemployed, drawn here by the overdone publicity given the construction work in progress. North Bay, Kirkland, Timmins, Cochrane, Kapuskasing, all have the same story; of hundreds, even thousands, of men from all parts of Canada, arriving seekâ€" ing work, where no work was to be had. These men are now stranded in these various centres with no chance of obâ€" taining work, with little, if any money: the condition of many bordering on the desperate. These men have no claim, legal or moral, upon the municipalities in which they are stranded. The municipalities, in tum, absolutely CANNOT extend to these men relief of any kind whatsoever. "The situation at present is the most serious that has ever confronted the North. Though there is a large amount of unemployment throughout the counâ€" try, that does not help to solve the problem in the North, which, by virtue of the unique conditions existing here, is much more acute than in the older and more Gdensely populated sections. In referring to this allâ€"important quesâ€" tion, wisdom and expediency preclude reference to certain contingencies which will almost surely arise, unless action is taken in the very near future. There is a very real potential menace in the situation, recognized by many of the citizens, which cannot safely be ignored. odds can easily be more than twenty to one, Should the whole highway stake be laid on such an altar? ‘"There remains, then this consideraâ€" tion for some other towns who could possibly be represented in such an atâ€" mosphereâ€"Cochrane, Timmins, Haileyâ€" bury, New Liskeard, Kirkland Lake, Kapuskasing, Hearst,; are they willing to lend the semblance of regularity to the certain outcome of the conference by sending delegates? They may as wel say goodâ€"bye to their highway asâ€" pirations if the do; that is our feeling. Stay out of it, and leave the onus for the highway route where it belongsâ€"cn The following is an editorial article from The Cochrane Northland Post last Wweek : â€" Governments Called to Act in Unemployment 22 highnway arliament.‘ Ask the Frigidaire salesâ€" man to prove this. Watrch him rub half a lemon over the white interior surface. 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