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a city where the police foree is being assailed by those in authority. When politicians attempt to weaken the standing of those in authority they certainly encourage the forces of evil. In such cases the citizens must choose which side they will take. Is there any doubt as to which side the deâ€" cent citizen will be on? This doesn‘t mean that the police are to be free from criticism, or checkâ€" up,.. It does mean that they shall not be perseâ€" cutedâ€"that they shall not be the mark for all the silly, petty and unfounded criticism, inspired by those who hate the police because the police reâ€" present the law and order and decency. Chief Draper, of Toronto, has earned the enmity of all the gangsters and grafters, because he has broken up their rings and because he has fAirmly set his face against imported vice and the gangster crowds that would like to establish themselves in Toronto. Time after time efforts have been made to "frame" Chief Draper, but in each case the evil plans have been upset. It seems about time thatl the decent people of the cityâ€"the great majority of honest citizens who have no possible hope of anything but grief from gangs and crime perâ€" mittedâ€"should make themselves heard in no unâ€" certain way to the effect that the brazen perseâ€" There is no doubt of the truth of Mayor Mcâ€" Bride‘s words in this respect. All those who run counter to the law are delighted to see a town or have attracted criminals to Toronto from outside noints," Mayor McBride said indignantly. "It is the constant running down of the police departâ€" ment that causes incidents like this," he added. ‘"When outside criminals hear and read about the head of the department being belittled and the force supposed to be disorganized, they say to themselves: "There seems to be trouble in Toronto. Let‘s go there.‘" Whatever criticism may sometimes be made of Mayor McBride, of Toronto, thouglhtful citizens will feel that he made a very important point last week in commenting on the case of a thug visiting Toronto and attempting to shoot a police officer on the street. "Carping criticism of the police department and verbal sniping at Chief Draper The Rouynâ€"Noranda Press believes that the law should forbid the publication of alleged newsâ€" papers that are simply scandal sheets and instruâ€" ments for blackmail. No special law is necessary to achieve this end, except the laws of common sense and common decency. The Rouynâ€"Noranda Press very rightly condemns theâ€"idea of giving government support in the form of advertising to jJournals that are no more than blackmail mediums and disseminators of filth. The idea should be carried much further than the government. The people have the matter in their own hands. So long as there is support thoughtlessly given to these disgraces to journalism they will continue to have a more or less precarious existence. The unâ€" certain support given this type of vicious newsâ€" paper in Canada speaks fairly well for the general standing of the people of the country. In some European countries this form of journalism flouâ€" rishes to quite a degree. Great Britain has been more or less freed from this kind of public evil since the drastic changes were made in the laws against blackmail. Canada will before long free itself from this oldâ€"fashioned form of vice, supâ€" port of such journals depending almost altogether on ignorance and credulity. In a recent issue of The Rouynâ€"Noranda Pross the statement is made that Toronto has the doubtâ€" ful distinction of being the home address of two or three publications which are looked upon as about the most salacious on the continent, "caterâ€" ing to the sensuous appetites of the prurient and the morally degenerate." It is difficult to adaeny the soft accusation. Also it is an odd fact that Montreal, making far less claims to righteousness than does Toronto, seldom has more than one of this type of journal and even one has some diffiâ€" culty in maintaining itself in Montreal; On the other hand, Montreal, usually charged with ultraâ€" conservatism and fealty to the gods of James street has usually a flock of radical journals that are very ready to attack even imaginary abuses. Of course, Toronto is not wholly responsible for the maintenance of the type of journal of which The Rouynâ€"Noranda Press complains. Much of the circulation of this class of newspaper is in the towns and smaller cities of Ontario. These jourâ€" nals pretend to expose evils and they doâ€"they exâ€" pose so much evil that they attract a lot of the foolish and the indecentâ€"minded to feast on the exposure. These journals could not exist in Toâ€" ronto alone. They need other towns and cities for support. Toronto people are able to check up on the alleged exposures in that city and know them for what they are. Occasionally other towns and cities have opportunity for similar verification of the wild stories of these obscene sheets and find that all there is to the matter is dirt. ' Canadaâ€"$2.00 Per Year TIMMIN®S®, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoclation:; Quebos Newspaper Association; Class "A" Weekte Clroup OFFICE 26â€" PHONESâ€"â€"â€"â€"â€"RESIDENCE 70 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: Timmins, Ont., Thursday, May 7th, 1936 Che Yorcupine Abuaner sSUPPORT THE AUTHORITIES ENCOURAGING EVIL Neither war nor revolution nor anything else can stop romance among the British. This week while the Sikh soldiers stood guard at the British Legation at Addis Ababa, and frenzied natives were looting stores, burning buildings and murdering Europeans elsewhere in the Ethiopian city, G. L. Steer, correspondent for The London Times, was married to Margareta de Harreros, special corresâ€" pondent of Le Journal, Paris. The ceremony was performed in the comparative safety of the British Legation building. The young couple are not going away for their honeymoon. Toronto firemen and police recently have been It is very sincerely to be hoped that. Northern perturbed over a number of false alarms sent in Ontario roads are truly to be transferred to the Toronto police have closed down a show entitled "Saillor Beware!" because they considered it "not conducive to good morals."‘ If Toronto closed down everything in the city "not conducive to good morâ€" als," the city would be as quiet every day in the week as it is on Sundays in the winter time. a happening five minutes or five hours before it occurs, why not five days or five weeks ahead and be really upâ€"toâ€"date? Under such a plan some newspapers might be as far ahead of the news as they are now behind the real modern journalism A Toronto newspaper attempts to excuse a false heading on a story about the Moose River mine rescue by suggesting that competition is so keen in the newspaper line in Toronto that a premature announcement is not to be taken too seriously. It would be a sad day for newspapers in general if the public were to accept this explanation or excuses at its face value. If it is ethical to announce Thumbs up! A prisoner escaped some days ago from Rouyn municipal jail and the only description given of the man in the despatches describing him as wanted by the police is that he «s "about 38 years old, speaks fairly good English, and has a stiff right thumb." Watch for a man with a stiff right thumb. Thumbs down! Premier Hepburn received considerable publicity last year by adopting a boy. But it was nothing to the publicity secured by Hon. Dr. Croll through adopting five girls. ‘"What I can‘t understand these days is why the wind is always from the West, while parliaâ€" ment is still sitting at Ottawa," says a local man. The Northern News describes Kirkland Lake as a place of friendship. A Timmins man who sat in a recent poker game at Kirkland Lake says "Yes! and No!"~ Some Toronto newspapers are making as big a fuss over an attempt by a visitor to the city to shoot a policeman as if there were a close season in Toronto for that sort of thing. A Canadian Press despatch from Palmer Sasâ€" katchewan, tells about a sparrow taking up resiâ€" dence there, and that this musical bird perches on the violin of one of the players in a dance orchesâ€" tra, dancing from one leg to the other in time with the music. After all it doesn‘t seem so far from Moose River, Nova Scotia, to Palmer, Saskatcheâ€" wan. It is difficult to believe that Hon. Dr. Croll and the motion picture people intended to make a completely humorous play of "The Country Docâ€" tor," advertised as the first and only real fiveâ€"star motion picture even made, but it certainly is just thatâ€"a comedy throughout. Its information is funny! For instance, Corbeil is north of Montreal, and a Canadian doctor is pictured as practising for 35 years without a license costing twenty dollars. There are other touches equally quaint. It is doubtful if the picture is good advertising for Canada, but it all makes a good laugh, so why worry? No doubt the Italians were delayed in reaching Addis Ababa by the necessity of searching all the woodpiles en route. The Italians have defeated the Ethiopians and taken the country. But what have they in glory, or honour or even in material way for it all? â€" _ It would be well also for the people of Timmins to remember that what applies to Toronto is trus with equal force of Timmins. Here, toe, "the carping criticism of the police department" does no good to the average decent citizen. It is not fair, nor sensible, nor decent. Let each honest citizen stop and consider where his interests lie. There is neither money nor comfort, but quite the contrary, for him in the gangster and the ring having their dirty way. The safety, the comfort, the security of the average good citizen depend upon an efficient police force. All his interests lie in the plan of an able and honest police adminisâ€" tration. At the present time Timmins has proâ€" bably the best police force in its history. The attempt to blackmail the police into permitting rings and gangsters to have their way should be fought to the last ditch. For Timmins, Public Enemy No. 1 is the poor sport who would bedevil police administration to satisfy the spites of those made to observe the law of decency and the rules of the land. cution.of.the police for doing their duty fairly and well m cease. GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"â€"-AND PLACER coms * ce M e o ho e S ce ul e THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO from a certain alarm box in the city. At last they captured the criminal. It was a sixâ€"yearâ€"old boy. The district fire chief and a motorcycle officer had a private conference with the child and believe that he will ring in no more false alarms. Strange as it may seem, neither the firemen or the police believe that that youngster should be allowed to ‘"‘"express himself" as the cant phrase has it. North Bay Nugget:â€"Well, it‘s s of comforting to realize that it‘s people of the United States who h to put up with an election campa this yvear. s°ndq hundreds of millions of dollars to older Southern Ontario will be satisâ€" fied if our Southern friends will cease to cry about the money spent in the North, and we only ask what is right, and that is: "Give us Good Roads in the North," and the mines in return wiill give the South thousands of milâ€" lions of dollars in the next few years. Already the mines employ thousands, and this results in thousands being emâ€" ployed down South, but there is no big factory down south _ employing thousands that results in thousands beâ€" ing employed up North. So you see the mines do double duty. Where is there a millionaire in the North who made his roll in the South? But down South hundreds of millionaires have beem born through the opening of Northern Ontario. When the writer left Niagara Falls in 1903 there were about seveon millionaires in Canada, and in Buffalo, N.Y., there were 32 of them on one street alonce. P.S.â€"Buy Nova Scotia c howling over the money s thern Ontario. waterpails is what saved us. I myself came within an inch of getting an eye poked out near Simpson Lake ang I was all alone at the time. Just stop and think how many prospectors have been drowned or have died in the woods trying to make this North b>tâ€" ter. Lorne Howey was one. The miners down in Nova Scoiia, inâ€" cluding those who made the rescue, are now asking Ontario to buy Nova Scoâ€" tia coal. That‘s quite right, and yes, we up here in Northern Ontario who Now regarding the miners who risk their lives! It‘s the same with prospecâ€" tors! The first and second parties to Porcupine got their share of risks. Four of us came pretty close to drowning in Frederickhouse Lake. Two big new Dear Sir:â€"For the past three weeks the daily press has been pouring out news about the Moose River Mine disaster and the rescue of Dr. Robertâ€" son and Mr. Scadding. Even the Dionne Quints have been forgotten for the time. A great lot of praise is given to the miners who risked their lives, and a fund already mounting over $50,000 has been collected for the rescuers. This is fine work, for the miners are entitled to it. A miner‘s life is no cinch, let me tell the people down in Southâ€" ern Ontario. Many miners whose lives are in danger down below have to walk right into danger again as soon as their day‘s work is done. I know several gentlemen, miners, who have to slesp in fire trap houses which should not have been allowed to be built the way they were, when they could have easily been built and made safe without any extra cost. I myself have kept about the only means of escape clear of ice and snow this winter, so that in case of fire the men would have five times the chance of getting out quickly. south Porcupine, Ont To the Editor of The Advance, Timmins. Oldâ€"Timer Points Out that Prospectors have to Face Daily Risks and Perils. Prospectors Also Encounter Dangers 14 Pine St. N. T eachers Know the importance of good sight. Often a pupil who is considered backward in his studies is merely handicapped by defective eyes. A careful examinâ€" ation and correctly fitted glasses will give him back his most priceless posâ€" sessionâ€"the ability to see and learn. Be surn> your children are not held buauck hy poor vision. â€" Have their eyes examined by the Y Phone 835 April 30th 11 8 new myself an eye ‘ston quit NMorâ€" 11 The only thing thess people could Jjudge me by was that quick glance which folks give you on the street. I began to wonder just what sort of an advertisement I have hung out for the worlg to judge me by. I glanced down and realized that the tan shoes I had on were not properly polished, and I saw with chagrin that there were knees in my pants. Well, it was no time to switch pants, but just then I saw a shoe shining place and went in to repair that part of my costume. As I sat on a high seat in the shoe shine parlour, I looked at in the shoe shine parlour, I looked at myself in a mirror. I am bound to conâ€" fess that the picture I saw there of Roce FPulkerson would not have made me particularly anxious to get acquainted with him. It was a warm day and I had taken off my hat. I wore no vest and my shirt had slipped up, giving me a balloon tire effect just above my belt. I could stuff this in, of course, and did so. The slim hneir giance rested on me as they passâ€" ed, I couldn‘t tell them what a nice fellow I am. I didn‘t have time to exâ€" plain to them that I am a very., fine citizen who tries to pay his bills, and that I am really worth knowing. Even if I had climbed up on a soap box and tried to tell them, they wouldn‘t have listened. As I recalled why these signs originâ€" ated, the further thought came to me that all the people I was passing in the street were illiterate so far as I| am concerned. During the brief time their glance rested on me as they passâ€" | ed, I couldn‘t tell them what a nice fellow I am. I didn‘t have time to exâ€" plain to them that I am a very. Aine| citizen who tries to pay his bills, and | If I may digress for a minute, and I can, because no one can stop me now I might call the attention of the adâ€" vertising world to the fact that it is just as good advertising toâ€"day as it was then. The picture should tell the story so that he who runs may read, and not have to wade through a lot of stuff like I have written thus far, to find out what it is all about. I walked down town this morning. As I was not going anywhere in particular, I did considerable window shopping. As I strolled along, I saw two of the signs I have mentioned, and thought of others. Not until this instant, howâ€" ever, hag I thought of the wooden Inâ€" dian in front of the cigar store, but as I don‘t know why that was used to advertise a tobacconist, we will let it drop. I mean a hangover from the days when the percentagse of people who could read and write was small. The signs were of such a nature that they could be recognized by the illiterate, and as thess> were numerous, no sign was conâ€" sidereq good advertising which did not show the business of the shop at first glance. Another man whose sign showed his business was the watchmaker. He disâ€" played a big wooden watch, the hands of which always pointed to twenty minâ€" utes after eight. These signs were a hangover. I don‘i mean the kind of hangover you mean. The cobbler, of course, hung in front of his place a boot so large that no one but Primo Carnera could hope to wear it, but it advertised his business as far away as any man with thin shoe soles could be expected to walk. The optometrist of toâ€"day scorns the use of the pair of spectacles which unâ€" til recently hung in front of the opâ€" tician‘s shop to indicate that here peoâ€" ple over 40 coulg buy reading glasses, and myopic men could buy glasses which would enable them to see a blond two blocks awayv. The oldâ€"time apothecary did not have to major in tuna fish salad to be a good druggist. He did have to grind his own chemicals and roll his own pills, and as the mortar and pestle were the tools he used most, these became a symbol of his profession and were always in front of his shop as a sign. I am equally uninformed about the barber‘s striped pole. I recall that in the early days, bleeding was considâ€" ered a splendid remedy for everything from asthma to anemia, and that th» barber frequently was the leech who did the bleeding. Perhaps his striped pole was symbolic of the blood streamâ€" ing down, blue for the nobility, red for the commoners and white for the men who were afraid of their wives. (By Roe Pulkerson in The Kiwanis Magazine) I have never made a carbon copy of any letter I ever wrote, and I have nevâ€" er saved any letter I ever received. It is also true that I have never failed to answer any letter that ever came to me, As 1 get more than a hundred letâ€" ters a month, if I had saved all of them and all of the carbons of the replies, 1 would have filed twentyâ€"five hundred letters a year for twenty years, which woulqg make a large cabinet full. Now and then I wish I had some of those letters. Just now I was rememberâ€" ing that an erudite friend once wrote and told me why a pawn broker hangs balls in front of his shop as a sign. I don‘t remember his explanation, but I suspect it was that when a man gets to the place where he must patâ€" ronize a pawn broker, he has three s‘rikes on him and is already out. How Much Belief do Y ou Have in Signs? Advertising Signs for Stores and People With No Mention of the Newsâ€" paper! uninformed about the pole. I recall that in bleeding was considâ€" remedy for everything Premier Hepburn is in favour of roads to open up new mining areas. How about the longâ€"proposed road from South Porcupine to Sudbury. It would certainly open up promising mining territoryâ€" McArthur, Matachewan, Elk Lake, Shiningtree, West Shiningtree, not to mention helping oldâ€"esâ€" tablished mining fields like Porcupine and Sudbury Department of Highways. The Ferguson Highway is so bad at present that people refer to it as a road, not a highway. on the street. I what sort of an hung out for the . I glanced down tan shoes I had _polished, and I there were knees l . Fort Erie Timesâ€"Review:â€"Millions of people waitéd with bated breath to learn if two men imprisoned in a mine would be saved. Thousands of people arse killed on our streets and nobody Eturns a hair. Scottish Barber: "Ay hae to help them on coats." (From Pearson‘s Weekly) scottish Barber (engaging assistant) : "I pay lower wages in the summer, beâ€" cause the worrk‘s easier." Applicant: "But people get their hair cut just the same." That was the sign I had hung out for people who did not know me to Judge me by. This was the handicap I had to overcome before I could make a good impression on a stranger. This was why people say of me, Oh, he‘s a nice fellow after you get to know him!" Maybe I should change my sign! This brought me up to my face. Of course I am not responsible for the acâ€" tual formation of my face. The kindest thing anybody ever said about my face was said by a woman who once told me that it was "quaint." I have always tried to get some consolation out of it‘.hat. although the word is open to sevâ€" eral meanings. You may not have thought of it beâ€" fore, but baldâ€"headeq people like me have to have a haircut as often as huâ€" man beings do. There were little wisps of hair arsund the tops of my cars which showed me that I needed to visit the barber. My moustache looked like one of those tooth brushes which has served its regular tims in the bathâ€" room and has been turned over to the cook to put polish on the silver, or white shoe dressing on the baby‘s shoss. I was overdue at the barbsr shop. IT hate to go back to my face, alâ€" though it doesn‘t hurt me, but beginâ€" ning up where the hair used to end, there was a series of corrugations reâ€" minisectnt of one of those fluted tin garages. They ran crosswise of my face and made it frown. There were three deep vertical gullies between my eyeâ€" brows which emphasized the scowl. The corners of my mouth droppedlike the tail of a rooster that has been out in a rain. From the corners of my nose down to my chin were those eternal| parentheses. end of my necktie had slewed around angq was riding on top of the broad end. I determined to buy one of those little chain affairs which keep neckties from slewing. ImrpERrIAL BAaNK OF CANADA LESS BURKRKâ€"Râ€"DON! A A A NCH £ 5 NORTHEAN 1 Y / $ 1 O M 4 Impcrial Bank of Canada offers a completc, coâ€" ordinated banking service in the Northern Ontario and Quebec mining districts, IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA Timmins â€" Branch Kirkland Lake Br Safety Deposit Boxes are maintained by this Bank at all its principal Branches. Here for a small annual rental, wills, title deeds, mortâ€" gages, insurance policies, bonds and stock certificates, and other valuables, may be stored under the protection of the most modern devices for the prevention of burgâ€" lary or loss by fire. 444 T HE D O MINION B A N K / \ y es . . _ g w aATutsGn C o\\ # ' # O R AM D A $ .,x.u'..u. K. *~ RIAL BANK IF CANADA | A A N CH £ 5 uonmoonuu VÂ¥ 1 $ 1 0 M Shur'qu 01 rotection Branch but ye dinna 1‘ their overâ€" Head Office: Toronto ESTABLISHELD NU E91 A O# Onward:â€"It will be news to some of our readers to learn that in Kent, Eng., they are using oil heaters in their orâ€" chards to prevent the ravages of frost. One fruit grower says that where he used 50 heaters to the acre he had a bumper crop; where he used only 25 he had a poor crop, and where he used none he hag no crop at‘ all. Sault Ste. Marie Star:â€"Years the Ontario Government made a standâ€" ing offer of $25,000 for the discover; of radium minerals in paying quantiâ€" tiés, and all that Algoma prospector: have to do to win the prize is to find the vein of coracite which was noted in the 1863 report on the Geology of Canada, page 504. It is there stated that the vein, about two inches wide occurs at Mamainse Point, lLake Suâ€" perior, which is about 65 miles Irqm the Sault. The new Transâ€"Canada road has been built close to the place. Each year there have been regulaâ€" tions in regard to trucks carrying not more than half their capacity weight, the idea being to preserve the roads in the North from unnecessary danger through heavy loads while the roads are soft. This year it was first decided to have the halfâ€"load limit up to May 1st, ut so bad are most of the roads in the North at prestnt and so liable to injury from heavy loads that the halfâ€"load ilmit has been extended for six weeks. According to word from Toâ€" ronto last week the provincial police have betn nctificd that by orderâ€"inâ€" council the time limit requiring halfâ€" loads has been extended to June 15th, and that in the interests of the roads of the North the provision is to b closely observed. th in tie Half{â€"Load Time Extended for Six Weeks to June 15 MINUT ES â€" pr HOU R S ? y t it _ _~~» y s | ‘l," CSRN FLAKES Nothing takes the place of Tits break{ast your family likes hest is the casiest to serve! Kelâ€" logg‘s Corn Flakes â€" crisp and \\lm]monw are fully cooked and toasted. Ready to cat in an instant. Save hours of toil with this tempting, ec unmni« ‘al enâ€" ergy food. At all grocers. Made by Kellogg in l,undun ()nhum F. A. 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