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â€" ! If you have an odd itcb around the house or business rlace, In an recent editorial The Advance urged the attention of | from stoking the furnace to shovelling away the surplus the authorities to the cases of Joseph Hussin, of Drinkwater | snow, just pass it on to some man outâ€"ofâ€"work. Call the Pit, and Sergt. Whatling, of Verdun, Quebec, two returned’ Government Employment office, phone 218, and a man will soldiers suffering and in need, one with a pension refused , be sent to you for any odd job you may have. It is surprisâ€" and the other with a pension of a few dollars per month, | ing the amount of help you can give in this way. The little though he is totally disabled. jcb that oné man may have, of course, does not amount to Jos, A. Bradette, M.P. for this riding, took the two cdases| much, but whent.herearemeralhundredtryingthisphn, ;;ptnhel(omotoornmonsmdhefoundalymm it is an important factor in helping out a lot of u: Tab nds Another convict goe tentlary might be m should take his pen i: the place for that ma the cost of â€"upkeep, b parent thatith*® count the prisons but from t Another severity of Ooffences. * you know, bread and going to li got it back fellow who Of courst newspapers do man said:â€"â€""I pacificists." Convict ,88888:â€""We demand cigarettes, liquor permits, radios, two hours a day, eight days per week, every night in the month, Frenchâ€"fried potatcoes, Scotch whisky, Spanish onions, support for the Soviet, hands off China, $10.00 per week whether working or not, nonâ€"contributory burglary inâ€" surance and no church pew rents." This fellow chuckled and added:â€"*"You know I should be a mile or so from here." A holdâ€"up artist apologizes for not using a number.. "One of the guards here has my number," he explains. This man pbints out that the way things have been going at the peniâ€" tentiary he would have been just about as well off if he had continued at college like his father wished him to do. "There were just about as many atheists and communists among the professors at the college as they are here," he concluded. No. 5432;5:;â€"“Un1ess we are given our cigarettes regularly how can fire be expected to save the coupons for the preâ€" miums." No. 99999:â€""What‘s the matter with the penitentiary? I don‘t know. But I know what‘s the matter with me! I don‘t like it here! I never even wanted to come." Convict 276154:â€""The chief trouble here is the lack of daily newspapers. Had we been allowed to read a certain or uncertain Toronto newspaper we would have known just what we intended to riot about." No. 33333 Repeater:â€"*"The service here isn‘t much better than a secondâ€"class hotel." Then another sad case is 22222. He was making an easy living from a bunch of silly foreigners until the militarists and the capitalists and the bourgeois and the fascists and the Canadian Legion railroaded him to prison. "Even Rusâ€" sia could n0t be much worse than this," he raves, "they make a man work here, too, and there isn‘t a soap box allowed in a cell." All his demands have been ignored. The guards wouldn‘t even call him comrade. Once he demanded a sirloin steak and was served with sausage. "It‘s another capitalistic cutrage," he cried. "No!" answered the guard, ‘"*bologna to you." "Give me liberty or give me death!" quoted 22222 "Of course, I don‘t exactly mean death," he added, "nor yet exactly liberty!" f Convict No. 777 come 11 feels his position keenly. "The cards were stacked against me!" he moans. He was sitting in a game of poker and doing well until a hotâ€"headed and unreasonable hick jumped up and cried that the cards were marked. "I had a knife in my hand wondering where I could slip it, when that fool hick in his rage and excitement bumped his breast against it," says this convict. "When he got out of the hospital, I came here for three years." "It is the feeling of injustice that makes even prisoners revolt," he concludes. One of the favourite tricks of some of the dailies recently has been to quote convicts and exâ€"convicts to show what conditions really cbhtain in the penitentiaries of Canada. One newspd4per has practically refrained from quoting offâ€" clals of the prisons, because of the fear that the officials might be prejudiced. Of course, the prisoners are not likeâ€" ly to be biased, being the sort of men they are! On this basis, The Advance is taking the liberty of quoting a few exâ€"conâ€" viects and convicts who haven‘t exâ€"ed yet, with the conâ€" structive purpose of showing just what is wrong with the penitentiaries of Canada. These quotations are guaranteed to be as true and as reasonable as any published by any daily.: But not more so! For instance, there is Convict No. 12121212. It would not do to give his name for obvious reasons, though he would delight in the publicity,. Before he went to the penitentiary he was a notorcus petty thief, a confirmed liar, a persistent wifeâ€"beater. He went to prison for his shameless treatment of his two small daughters Why should the word of a mere warden, or even a guard, be taken against that of a man like 12121212? All guards are brutal!l Ask any cheap scoundrel in or cut of jail!l Convict 12121212 writes:â€""It is awful here. No wonder there is trouble. The guards are so unfriendly. They act as if they felt they were superior to me. There is not one here that I can talk to like an equal." f However, the day has gone by when certain or uncertain daily newspapers can monopolize anything. The weekly newspapers can even be as ridiculous as some of the dailies, provided the weeklies really try. Recently there have been a number of newspapers in the Dominion that have been paying a great deal of attention to the recent riots in some of the penitentiaries of Canada. Up to the present moment The Advance confesses it may have given little space to this question, being too busy tryâ€" ing to see that decent, loyal people have a chance in life, attempting to secure more speed in the awarding of pensians to worthy returned soldiers, seeking to induce governments to provide work for the unemployed, pleading for a fair chance for the new and the old settlers in the North Land, working for needed roads in the North, begging that loyalty and honesty and industry be given first consideration,â€"and a few chores like that. TIMMINS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association; Class "A" Weekly Group OFFICE 26â€"â€"â€"â€"PHONESâ€"â€"â€"â€"RESIDENCE 70 Published Every Thursday by: THE TROUBLE IN THE PRISONS it P P P P PPA C C AP DPA AC P BP PA > DP â€"AP A A P DAAA P DP â€"A LAAA â€"AL â€"A*â€" PAAA LAAA LAAA LAAA Timmins, Ont., Thursday, Nov. 24th, 1932 She Yorrumpine Aduvanee HELPING THE SOLDIERS GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher SBubscription Rates > for prisoners. "The warden " he says. The penitentiary is : trouble with the prisons isn‘t danger of outbreak. It is apâ€" t suffering an overcrowding in y being left on the outside. to suggest how the peniâ€" Suggestion has been made that the reason for the recent riots in some of the penitentiaries of Canada was the poor quality and small quantity of the food provided for prisoners. As an effective reply to this, Col,. Piuze, warden of St. Vinâ€" cent de Paul penitentiary near Montreal has given out a sample menu for an ordinary week. Tens of thousands of decent and lawâ€"abiding citizens of Canada would be grateâ€" ful, indeed, if they were sure these days of meals as good as those outlined on this menu. It might be a good idea, now that the matter has been brought forward, to consider the advisability of reducing the meals at the penitentiaries, with the idea of seeing that honest recople outside the prison walls are fully fed these days. It still remains a fact that only employment will cure unemployment. . Direct relief may keep some people from actual starvation for the moment, but it simply adds to the spread of the depression and creates everâ€"widening circles of more unemployment. E, W. Beatty, president and general manager of the Canâ€" adian Pacific Railway, has made very earnest protest against the proposal that the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Caradian National Railways be conducted under a joint commission having authority to control the affairs of the two railways. According to the recommendations made by the commission recently investigating Canada‘s railway problems, the joint commission referred to would have a majority of its members renpresenting the Governmentâ€"ownâ€" ed railways. Consider what this really means. It means that the Canadian Pacific Railway is asked to trust its desâ€" tinies to the tender mercies of a commission of Government appointees, while there are millions of reasons, every reason dollar of debt, to impress the lesson that Government commissions sometimes make a sad mass of running a railway. The Canadian Pacific‘® Railway has successfully weathered many storms, financial, political and otherwise. The railway is confident it will survive even the present deâ€" pression. But very rightly Mr. Beatty fears what the proâ€" posed joint commission may do to the valuable railway proâ€" perty that has been built up. Surely no fairminded man will blame Mr. Beatty for his alarm in the matter, or for feeling that justice to the Canadian Pacific Railway deâ€" mands either a direct purchase of that road by the Governâ€" ment or a commission representative enough to assure the CP.R. and its shareholders of a fair deal. ally in the Minister of Perisions, Hon. Murray MacLaren. The Minister of Pensions promised his personal attention to both cases. ‘The results have been very gratifying to all who are anxious that every soldier should have a fair deal. Hussin received transportation last week to Toronto to take treatment at the Christie St hospital. He has been sufâ€" fering from aâ€" rorm. ‘of par since the early days of the war. ‘The medical men at the milffary hogpital in Toronto * describe his condition as hysterical paralysis. Whatever its technical name may be it is a very real handicap and burden to the unfortunate soldier. An attempt was made some months ago to cure him rather than award a pension. The attempt was a sad failure, leaving the man in much worse condition than he had been. He has received no pension and it was to secure this justice that the matter was called to the personal abtentlon of the Minister of Pensions. : Hon. Murray MacLaren is evidently® earnest in his desire to see that every soldier has a fair ‘déal and his interest in the matter seems to assure either a pension or a cure for the man who has gallantly suffered for years from the effects of his desire to serve this country. The case of Whatling was given equal effective attention. Information coming to The Advance is to the effect that in addition to his penâ€" | sion of $20.00 per month, Whatling is now receiving a furâ€" ther sum of $40.00 per month under the War Veterans‘ Allowance Act. Whatling is totally disabled, and the Minâ€" ister of Pensions promises that the appeal the soldier has entered against a recent refusal to increase his pension will be expedited. If this apipeal is won and the amount now given as an allowance is added to the present pension ‘ there will be a feeling that this soldier has been fairly used. In the meantime the attitude of both the member for this riding, Jos. A. Bradette, and the Minister of Pensions, Hon. Murray MacLaren is deserving of commendation. Mr. | Bradette showed the right spirit in taking up these cases, and Hon. Mr. MacLaren will win general aypiproval by the broad spirit of sympathy and friendliness to soldiers without influence ‘or power, but who have their records and their need to commend them to those in authority. A striking example of what appears to be rank profiteering appears in Toronto newspaper some days ago. The adâ€" vertisement read something like this:â€""Young man to anâ€" swer telephone; 11 am. to 5 pm.; $3.00 per week." * Six hours per day, six days a week, (or is it seven), 36 hours f0 $3.00, or less than nine cents per hour. There is not even the comfort that the address was in Russia. It may be true that many young men will eagerly grasp that miserly pay because they feel it better than nothing, but the number of applicants will be no justification for ‘the advertiser in question if the latter be a mean profiteer, taking advantage of the hardship and illâ€"lutk lendured by his fellows in these days of stress. The Advance would like to believe that there is some other reason than meanness and greed back of that advertisement and that for causes that do not appear on the surface the advertiser is not simply profiteering at the moment at the expense of human health and strength and safety. â€" GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER? One of the common forms of profiteering at the present is through interference with wages. There are firms that are doing as well as ever and yet have reduced their salary lists, using the depression .as an excuse, Against tMat sort of profiteer it is pleasing to set off the industries and business men of Timmins and district where staffs and rates of pay have been maintained so far as it has been humanly posâ€" sible to do. There are men who are profiteering at the expense of the present depression, regardless of what suffering or sorrow they may cause. It is depressing that men should be so careless of their fellows, so engrossed with greed and selfishâ€" ness. The only encouraging sign is that the profiteers are comparatively few. Humanity as a whole is progressirlg. Men generally are coming to realize more and more that they can not profit in the end at the expense of the safety and lives of their fellows. It is only because there are s0o few profiteers that the mean evil is able to live at all and that all are not overwhelmed in a common crash. There were profiteers during the warâ€"men wh» took money at the expense of the soldiers and the country, even though the fate of empires and of civilization itself hung in the balance. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINB,. â€"~ONTARIO / All Kinds of Grouse -;“, Protected by Law 1: "On September the 19th, an orderâ€" inâ€" Council was passed, pursuant to the above section, allowing people in this district to shoot a specified mnumber of all the species of birds mentioned in subâ€"section D, excepting Hungarian Partridge, Pheasants, Quail or Wild Turkey, from Oct. 10 to 26, both days inclusive. This gave us 10 days to "It is also an injustice to the ,intelâ€" ligence of our magistrate to have these stories circulating around, for if you turn to pages 20 and 21 of the Ontario Game and Fisheries Laws, you will find section 7, Subâ€"section D. reads'p,gffol- lows: "It shall be unlawful for any perâ€" son to hunt, kill or destroy, any. gufied Grouse (commonly known as ‘birch partridge) Canada Grouse (commonly known as Spruce Partridge), European Grey Partridge (commonly known as Hungarian Partridge), Pheasant, Sharp Tail Grouse (commonly known â€"as Prairie Chicken) Prairie HénYcomâ€" monly known as Pinnated Grouse), Ptarmigan, Quail or Wild Turkey, exâ€" cept during such periods and on such terms and conditions as may be preâ€" scribed by the Lieutenant "These stories are absolutely untrue and without foundation as no pbrson in this section has, as yet been brought before the magistrate but many resiâ€" dents of Timmins, Cochrane, Iroqums Falls and surrounding territory, have been convicted for killing these birds and the birds so killed and the .guns of the offenders were all confiscated. "Many residents, probably to quiet their own conscience, are spreading stories to the effect that several people, more particularly â€" Elk Lake residents, have been brought before the magisâ€" trate and were let go because the magistrate said these birds were not protected by the game regulations and these same people are calling them any name to suit themselves, fromâ€"various kinds of pigeons, which they do‘ not resemble, to ptarmigan, which is an absclutely white species of partridge. "These birds are recognized by the Department of Game and Fisheries as the sharpâ€"tailed Grouse (commonly known as Prairie Chicken) and are proâ€" tected in exactly the same manner as our own ruffed grouse (commonly known as birch partridge) and any perâ€" son who has taken or killed any of these birds since the 26th day of Octoâ€" ber is liable to a fine of from $10 to $100 and costs for each bird. "Apparently there is a great misunâ€" derstanding among many of our resiâ€" dents in regard to what appears to them to be a strange bird, but which in reality are not strangers to this district, as the same species of bird migrated here in the fall of 1894 and many of them stayed around for seven or eight years and have been quite plentiful for a number of years between Cochrane and James Bay. "However, pinâ€"tailed grouse, prairis chickens, partridge, or whatever you call them, are protected, as will be seen by the very clear statement handed us by Mr. W. G. Armstrong, Game and Fishery Cverscer, which we reproduce below : "Needless to say, and regardless of the provisions of the law, which regards grouse and the common partridge as the same so far as game protection is concerned, hundreds of these birds are said to have been shot by residents of the vicinity in which they had ‘congreâ€" gated, and these people can ~not ~be blamed for taking advantage of the food supply so bountifully brought to their doors. Pinâ€"Tail Grouse Protected "For some weeks past the Temiskaâ€" ming and Cochrane Districts Have been flooded with game birds, very much like partridge. It was first stated that they were prairie chickens, but authorities on wild fowl have announced that they are pinâ€"tail grouse, and that instead of coming from the West, as was at first stated, they are really believedâ€"to have made their way down from the. vast region along the James andâ€" Hudson Bays, where local hunters say they are in tremendous flocks. Word from the distant mining camps of the Rouyn and Noranda belt tells us that they are there in hundreds. Motorists on the Rouyn highway say they have had to stop their cars rather than run.tprough flocks of these birds on the road. Through the Kirkland Lake section they are also numerous while out at Elk Lake the inhabitants had to keep their doors cloesed to prevent the birds from taking possession of the preâ€" mises. Hundreds of these gÂ¥rouge are said to have perched on houses, ‘poles and other high spots in Elk Lake town. The odd bird has found ‘its way into New Liskeard, and one spent some time on a perch over the new iron bridge. P There are a great many birds of the grouse type and it would seem th@t the North has some of all of them this year. The most common type of this species is known as partridge, but it appears that several other birds ol the same family, such as prairie chicâ€" ken, prairie hen, ptarmigan, have visitâ€" ed here this year. There is some conâ€" fusion in the matter, some s@ying, for instance that there have been no praiâ€" rie chickens coming through here, but only prairie hens, while others claims the exact opposite. Out of the confuâ€" sion has also apparently grown a still more material outlookâ€"the idea that any of these birds may be hunted or killed at present. Last week a local citizen told The Advance that ptarmiâ€" gan were being slaughtered in the North, almost by wholesale. This is most undesirable. Everybody seems in favour of the conservation of game, but it should be recognized that there can be no conservation of game if shooting these birds is carried out. An article in The New Liskeard Speaker last week deals with the whole question in detail, including reference to reports as to the legality of shooting some of these birds. The following is the article m The Speaker:â€" All Should Note that it is Unlawful to Shoot Prairie Chicken, ,'nlrle Hen or Any Other Speqhs d Grouse. A despatch from Markstay in the Sudbury area says:â€""While Manitouâ€" lin Island reports city hunters shootâ€" ing cows in mistake for deer, J. Dupre, Markstay farmer, goes one better. He shot his own horse, the only one he had, by error. The mistake occurred after Mr. Dupre had killed a big buck and proceeded to bring it home with his horse. Search as he would, he couldn‘t find where he had left his deer, and had given up hope when he saw a movement in the bush, anda roan hide showing through the trees. It was another deer, he thought, and so he fired. Poor Dobbin!" "There is also a covering clause in the Game Regulations which covers doubtful cases. It is section 8, subâ€"secâ€" tion 1, page 23, and reads as follows: "It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot, destroy, wound, molest, take or have in possession, or attempt to shoot, destroy, wound, molest or take any bird protected by this Act, and the Regulations, during an unlawful period, and any other wild, native bird at any time, other than hawks, owls, crows, cowâ€"birds, blackbirds (grackles) and house sparrows." "Taking into consideration the secâ€" tions of the Game Regulations as quotâ€" ed above, I am of the opinion that unâ€" less the peopke who claim these birds are not prairie chickens can make the magistrate believe they are house sparâ€" rows, blackbirds, crows or something of that kind, they would have a hard time to escape a conviction." MARKSTAY MAN KILLS HIS OWN HORSE IN MISTAKE FOR DEER "There are people who say, ,"Huh! They are not prairie chickens, T know prairie chickens, I saw hundreds of them right out on the prairies myself." But I am of tthe opinion it was prairie hens they saw, which is quite a difâ€" ferent bird. shoot these specified birds before the deer season opened and 7 days during the deer hunting season, but this Orâ€" der in Council only allowed the people in the more southern part of the proâ€" vince 11 days to hunt partridge ,etc. Bo another Orderâ€"inâ€"Council was passâ€" ed on October li1ith, alilowing them .or 6 days more when their deer hunting season came in which was in the first part of November; but this last Orderâ€" in Council was not effective in this porâ€" tion of the Province, so that, as I have said before, any person who has taken or killed any of the species of birds mentioned in subâ€"sectiom D since the 26th of October, is liable to be proseâ€" cuted. Te y *x8 Great Advances New Improved Dynamic Speaker. New Cabinet. Quickâ€"sight Tuning Dial "B" Amplification. Tone Compensators. Tone Equalizers. 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