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The Ottawa Journal usually has one of the strongest editorial pages in Canada. and that is high compliment. Unfortunately. however. there are occasional days when the leaders show a sad lack of sincerity. There is a tendency to be smart. to pose. to be the George Bernard Shaw. The defence of the communists is one of these occasional mala- dies. No one can believe that The Journal is seriously up- holding sedition and violence and the encouragement of paid foreign agitators to disturb the peace of Canada. Yet that is'the efl'cct of its aflectation of a broadmindedness that sleps over a: the edges. It must be said that British We are heartily sick of the aflected tolerance that en- courage: the alien agitator in Hyde Park to mouth obscene that slcns over a: the edges. It must be said that British maple are heartily sick of the affected tolerance that en- courages the alien agitator in Hyde Park to mouth obscene remarks abcut the Royal Family. and howls down addresses by Lloyd Oeerge. Baldwin. Ramsay MacDonald or other leaders of British birth. By the same teken Timmins. Sud- bury. Cochrane. Kirkland Lake. Toronto. and o:her centres that have been cursed with the foreign-paid agitator surely five the right to expect a little freedom of speech and a We freedcm to live their own lives in their own way. Why. The ostrwh does not hide its head in the sand. It is not so foolish as that. There are human birds that do. how- ever. Their feathers wave in the air and they call on the world to note how brosdxninded they are. The freedom of the mess gives that privilege. No one would have it other- wise. But. The Journal no doubt will sayzâ€"“If crimes were thus committed against the law. why not bring the law to bear on the culprits?“ The law was brought to bear. and The Journal insinuated that a brave police oflicer who risked his life in his duty was no better than a common spy. The Journal would have the world believe the whole trial no better than a farce. The Journal tampers with the free- dom cf the press to say that the cOurt was in serious doubt as to what finding to came to! The truth was far otherwise. Evidence in the case. according even to The Journal‘s own news columns. showed that the communist party in Canada was financed and directed from Moscow, that it planned a revolution by violence. The jury was unanimous in its ver- dict and took little time to present its verdict. No recom- mendation was made for clemency for the accused. The judge Said the crime struck at the roots of organized so- ciety. was a species of treason. a most detestable offence. Salutary sentences were imposed. When ball was asked for the prisoners pending appeal the Chief Justice suggested that the prisoners had counselled murder. The prisoners were not poor and deserted fellows in sore need of a friend in the generous press. if the $160,000.00 bail may be taken as a. sign. Authorities all. police. attorney-general, crown prosecutor, judge. jury, even the Chief Justice 01’ Ontario, are no more than a pack of short-sighted and intolerant fanatics and alarmists, according to the gentle ‘Joumal with the bioadmind. Yet the Journal has the hardihood to talk assii the freedom of the press were at issue. The ostrich does not hide its head in the sand. It is not 03h? lflnrrupinv Ahuanpv mumâ€"82 .00 Per Year “We are certainly opposed to any interference with. peace- ful communism except by argument." says The Journal. So far as Timmins is concerned there never was any interfer- ence with that sort of communism. if there ever were any such animal. The conununists met here in their halls, they ranted on the street corners. they grated in the parks. and no one more than shrugged. They debauched their own children. who would otherwise have been good Canadians. by their evil teachings of disloyalty and contempt for the country that was giving them a life and liberty they never Knew before. They attacked other men of alien origin who were loyal to this country. They broke up gatherings of loyal peOple. They disturbed church services, deliberately and maliciously. They made the lives of their compatriots miserable by persecution and abuse for no other reason than the loyalty of these other people to Canada. Yet even this liberty was not enough for them. Eventually they came out openly with “demands" upon the town: they proceeded to Openly attempt to defy law and order; they deliberately and persistently. after all sorts of warning and advice, in- cited to riot. their banners in their illegal parades and the mouthings of their paid orators. paid by foreign coin. being inpudent challenge and insult. On one occasion here. the stcnes they had been specially taught to fling, were thrown from behind a screen of their own children and women. Their mmphlets and posters openly counselled all to- “join the revolution." “to get out on the streets, and fight for the workers revolution." to “support the Soviet" and so on. "Civil war" was hinted. If words mean anything then re- bellion was advocated. If as one prisoner at the trial in Toronto maintained, “revolution" simply meant an attitude towards history. then all their circulars and placards were a brazen fraud upon all who read them without the craven key suggested in the fear of deserved punishment. narrow in view, The Ottawz to take The Advance to task speech. or course. The Ad fullest possible freedom of 51 ca.) liberty of the press, for t with British struggl m their cost. Inde which The Advance of the press that 0 one hand, the com privileges, and on 1 The Ottawa Journal appears mildly irritated because The Advance accused it of lazy thoughtlessness with considerable evil possibilities. in regard to its expressed attitude towards the communists. Surely, if the leader writer of The Journal could think as well as he can write it would be apparent to him that no freedom of speech or liberty of the press can tolerate wanton insult. defamation. blasphemy and open sedition. Yet these were the weapons used by the com- munists in Tlmmins and elsewhere. known by experience. and proven by the records of the courts. To allow the use of these things would not only demolish all possibility of any freedom of speech or liberty of the press. but life would be unbearable and state and people would alike go down to dwtruction. Not only the law, but common sense. self- preservation. every instinct. forbids the accepted use of slander. incitement to riot and brazen sedition by men in foreign pay. In an editor-13 Thursday, Dec. 17th:) 9.0.1 'immins, Ont, Thursday, Dec. 17th, 1931 OFFICE 26â€"-â€"-PHONE8â€"â€"â€"â€"RESIDENCE 70 of 'mo FREE SPEECH VS. FOL LY ”~" 'WW die Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association TIMMINS. ONTARIO Published Every Thursday by: GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: to disturb the peace of Canada. its aflectation of a broadmindedness rdges. It must be said that British of the aflected tolerance that. en- tor in Hyde Park to mouth obscene United Statesâ€"$3.00 Per Year Journa for alle *ed ODD opposed broadest h glorie: and we? . measure, but 91: attempted tsltion to free >11! h Geo. W. Lee, chairman of the T. 6: N. 0. Railway. is once. more credited with saying that everything is fine in all the towns of Northern Ontario. If Mr. Lee thinks that it is fine for a town to have hundreds of unemployed. like Tim- mins has, and Kirkland Lake. and Cochrane and other centres in this North. then he is justified in saying all is well. Chairman Lee's cheerful optimism is proverbial. but at the present time it appears to be giving people in the South a wrong impression. Conditions may not be as bad here as they are in some towns in the South but they are by no means good. The influx of unemployed from all over the country has seriously burdened the North Land. Every kind word said about this country at the present time seems to induce another flock of transients to hurry here. Timmins and I'M-dam: ' ““e are beginning to see a special signifi- cance in the text:â€" ‘ Woe unto you when all men speak well or you.’ The original “Mars ’ who .had the ‘little lamb” in the{ popular 0ch rhyme, is now reponed to have died the other; day in England. This will give some or these historical relâ€"l lows a. chance in a year or two to deny that thére was any. “Mary” or any “little lamb" or even any nursery rhyme. ! A man employed steadily a: one of the local mines for some years past met an old triend‘ who began to tall: on the question of the popular depression. “Depression!" said the miner. “oh. yes. I think I read about it in the paper!" “Kirkland Lake is the World‘s Second Gold Camp." says a heading in The Northern News last week. That makes the Porcupine the world's first. gold camp, which should make South Africa talk back. T. N. O. are in the North and its very life is the service of I ee the North. It would be foolish for the province to parti‘w the with such an asset. and it would be ruinous for the North Six The whole trouble with the p. esent railway service in the ed Nc1th is the fact that the Canadian National Railway; has I cut apparently no interest in the local traffic. To turn all theI ass: railways systems of the North to such tender care would bei golt unthinkable from the standpoint of the interests of the five North. From the vieWpoint of the North more hope for the remedy of the troubles of many of the towns of the North; Fm in regard to train service would have chance to achievement. I if the T. a; N. o. owned all the railways serving the North; The purchase by the T. N. O. of the deserted lines of theI I! C. N. R.â€"deserted because of lack of interestâ€"would seem ed“ to be a more promising plan for giving the North proper f5“ train service. The T. N. O. has done the work in its ownI territory. There is reason to believe it would do the work in the larger field as well. hm During the past week no one has reported finding roses in bloom in their gardens in Timmins. In seeking for a remedy for the inadequate and unprofit- able train service imposed on the section of the North Land west of Cochrane, The Cochrane Northland Post mentions the purchase of the T. N. O. by the Canadian National Railways. The people of the North Land should not allow the consideration of such an idea for a moment. The T. N. O. was built as a pioneering railroad for the North and it has done its share well. Moreover the T. N. 0. Railway is a paying venture. the only railroad on the continent, so far as can be learned, that showed an honest profit from operations during the past year. The whole interests of the spite all warnings had drifted in here in the past few months. Mayor Drew made it plain that with the hundreds of bona fide residents of Timmins out of work the town hadf all it could care for and more. His advice to the two classesi referred to was to go back to their home towns to seek! work or further relief. Timmins had done all and more? than could be expected for them. The words of the mayor on this occassion may aptly be considered as both firm and fair. There is sympathy. perhaps, for some of the trans-; ients who are persuaded by false promises held out by in-i terested persons elsewhere to try their luck in this gold, camp. But it should be remembered that Timmins has nol responsibility for these peOple. Other towns, not this. arei responsible for their plight. Timmins has all it can do to care for its own, or rather for those accepted as its own by virtue of a year's connection with this town. Even these in most cases should not have come here. For more thanl ! two years the town has had a susplus of labour, yet peOple have been flocking in here from all over the count '. Warnings have been common against this influx. but theyl still persist in coming. No town could hope to care for such! an inflow of Workless people. The town's first duty is to‘ its own people, and in this the tax-payers should not bei forgotten. At the same meeting that the delegation of thirty odd foreigners asked for work or relief. there were a number of requests for leniency in the collection of certainf taxes. because the maple could not pay. Mayor Drew was} I l not showing lack of consideration for the newcomers and the shirtless in the firm stand he took on Monday. He was simply dispiaying thought for the tax-payers here who have to foot the bills and the town's own unemployed who also need work or relief. forever favour the alien. the mute. the sedition manger. Minor-mm have rights. but surely majorities also have a right to liIe. In replying to the organized delegation of allegedly destitute men who once more visited the council chamber on Monday afternoon. Mayor Geo. S. Drew gave the best sort of advice and his firm words were fair alike to the petitioners for relief and to the citizens of Timmins. There were twolclasses of men who need expect no help from the town. the mayor said. The one was the group of men who had been sent to Kapuskasing where there was work await- ing them, and who had apparently refused that employ- ment and returned to town. The town had paid their taxes to Kapuskasing. and had arranged that food and shelter would be provided them and work made available. Apparently. because the work was not profitable enough the men had scorned it, although it oflered them a good living until something else turned up. As soon as they had left the work at Kapuskasing others had immediately taken their places and seemed well satisfied with the opportunity. As the mayor suggested the town had done its best to secure ml: for as many as possible under as good terms as possible. but with a thousand men out of work in Timmins this year. the location of all of them was a decidedly difficult task. He felt that the men going to Kapuskasing should have remained at the work for a time at least, and even though ths y could not do so, at least they might have notified the town of their return. The fact that they had not done so showed a lack of consideration for the town and an absence of real desire to help themselves that put the men concern- ed out of the bounds of any special sympathy from the town. The other class of men that the mayor felt need ex- pect nothing from the town were the transients, who de- GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACERS NO SALE OF THE T. N. O. FIRM AND FAIR THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Bidgood Consolidated Mines is said N to have recently completed arrange- k; ments for additional capital for mine d' development. and it is understood that y the company is now assured of finances 0| to take the property thiough to pro- nl duction Development on the 500- foot level is meetinl, with good success oflicials state. A new ore section has tlbeen located, showing good values. in T! the sump vein west of the No 2 shaft. 3 Six parallel veins have now been locat- 9} ed on the 500mfoot horizon. Where S] cut the veins are said to have returned e‘ assays of from $10 to $80 per ton in ei gold and show widths of better than five feet. 0 v f a [ In an editorial article in its Monday ‘ edition The Toronto Globe had the ' f-cliowingzâ€" i “The Porcupine Advance has shown 5‘ that it has little patience with the Ot- ‘tuwa Journal for trying to find satis- ; faction in the fact that only 4,000 Oom- gmunists voted in the recent municipal ielecitions in Winnipeg. “The moral," Bornâ€"In 'I‘immins, Ont, on Saturo day. Dec. 12th, 1931. to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Landers.â€"a daughter. l The next number was a delightful yskit “Polly Put the Kettle Un.” The “ characters were:-â€"-the Misses Norma ‘Taylor, Ethel T831101: Audrey Bourne. *Marjory Nelson and May Habi‘o. at the piano. i Violet Howard then favoured all by §a piano selection. “Melody of Love." This was followed by a breath-tak- ing skit, “Lochinvar." presented by the .boys. Bill Mackay. George White, Ver- lnier VVallingford, H. Gaillanardo. Cy- :ril Read, Clayton Richardson and For- !dyce Scott. sion fo Miss Cunningham and Miss .Bradley. 0 ’ The programme opened by the sing- ting of “O, Canada" in Latin by a ichorus of girls. This was followed by ia short play. two scenes from “Charles O’Mailey," in which the following took partâ€"Doris Macpherson. Jim Pond, lDavid Horwitz. Bill Drew. Henry Os- ‘trosser and H. Gaillanardo. The play featured the acting of Jim Pond and D. Horwitz. The former with his non- . chalent acting appeared to be right at home on the stage, while Horwitz. with his high-pitched feminine voice. gives Spromise as a ventriloquist. Betty Mao- gdcnald kept the audience in good hu- imour during the intermission with a frecitation, “Mrs. Harris at the Photo- 'graphers." The “Harmony Quartette," com- posed of Jim Pond, Ed Copps, Murray ‘Morrison and Ken Tomkinson, proved to be “the hit" of the programme. vThese boys impersonating radio stars {were good and will probably perform l again in the near future. They played “Freddie the Freshman." and in the encore. “It‘s the Girl." David Horwitz with his musical ta- lent delighted all with a violin solo, accompanied by Claire Halperin at the Ipiano. was proved at the recent trial in .To- ronto that foreign money has financed this illicit adventure and that the movement is directed from Moscow." "Without discussing the merits of the argument, it must be conceded that The Porcupine Advance has opportuniâ€" ty to know more about communism and its operations in Ontario than has the Ottawa Journal. It has been attacking communism for years, as have some other Northern Ontario papers ac- quainted with the evil effects of Red propaganda. ° It is dealing with facts, while the Ottawa Journal discussw theories and between known facts and theories it is not hard to choose." voting strength of the Communists does not indicate the number of. those mis- guided people. By far the greater part of the membership of this illegal asso- ciation is made up of foreigners, and it "By that sort of talk," replied The Advance, “well worthy of a certain or uncertain Toronto newspaper, the J our- nal may imagine it is showing a broad. calm, tolerant frame of mind, but to The Advance it seems no more than lazy thoughtlessness, with considerable evil possibilities. In the first place. the said the Journal, “and the same moral was offered a few days before by the vote in the riding of Red Deer, Alberta. is that much of the talk heard about communism in Canada is nonsense. and that the spectre of communism threat- ening our institutions is largely a myth." mcvrs MUCH BETTER 'I‘IIAN' THEORIES IN DISCUSSION The last number was the singing of Christmas Carols by the fourth form girls. The meeting adjourned with the singing of the National Anthem. The second meeting of the literary society of the Timmins High and Voca- tional School was held on Friday, Dec. 11th, in the auditorium of the school. The programme was planned by the two fourth forms. under the supervi- BIDGOOD ms SAID TO . BE ARRANGING FINANCES Literary Meeting at the Timmins H. and V. School An unusual opportunity for a young man of good personality and educa- tion, selling the world's finest line of advertising calendars and specialties now made in Canada. To a man who has selling ability and knows how to work. we ofler a permanent position. to start almost immediate- ly. Write giving full particulars about yourself to Sales Manager, SALESMAN WANTED LOUIS F. DOW. LIMITED '5 King Street East Ton Toronto ordinary piece of business, just in the day’s professional work. It offered the only way to get to Cochrane and back in the one day as required, and it was felt that asthere was not much snow and the roads were in good shape, there was little risk involved in the trip. The roads were found in first-class shape and though icy stretches made it necessary to go warlly most of the way, fair time was made on the jourâ€" ney. The incident, no doubt, will tempt others to similar performance. In fact, in the meantime others may have done stunts somewhat along the same line. though any trips as long as that to Cochrane and return in the one day have not come to notice. At the annual Christmas Tree of the Cornish Social Club in the Hoiiins‘er hall on Wednesday next. Dec. 23rd. commencing at 6 p.m., both the Schui macher Male Chorus and the Timmins Citizens“ Band will be in attendance. Members may bring their friends. It is sure to be a happy evening for all. Members are asked to please bring refreshments. To drive from Timmins to Cochrane 1nd return on Thursday last. Dec. 10th. was the r-word made by one Timmlns gentleman last week. It is the first time in the history of this part of the Norh. so far as known, that so long a trip has been made so late in the year by a motor car. The distance to Coch- rane by road is well over sixty miles and making this trip by motor twice in the one day speaks well alike for the condition of the roads and the state of the weather near the middle of Decem- ber this year. The trip. it may be condition of the roads and the state of the weather near the middle of Decemâ€" ber this year. 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