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_ Schumacher Men‘s Club, _ Enjoys Fine Addresses M. A. Sorcoleil, Deputy Minister of Welfare, the Guest About 140 men enjeyed tae exce!â€" lent club supper given by the Merfs Ciub of the Trinity United Church, Schumacher, on Thursday evening last. ‘The ladies prepared the excellent reâ€" pust, which was served by the men, and guests for the evening were enâ€" thusiastic in their praise of both supâ€" per and service. Everything was of the choicest in quality and cooking. ‘The guest speaker for the evening was M. A. Sorsoleil, Deputy Minister Oof Public Welfare for Ontario. Other guests noted among those present were: Rev. Bruce Millar, of Timmins United Church; Rev. A. I. He‘nonen, of Timâ€" mins and South Porcupine Finnish United Churches; F. E. Bird, of the Timmins High arnd Vocational School. P. A. Boyce, president of the Men‘s Club, was in the chair for the evening, end kept affairs, friendly, jolly and lively throughout. W. K. Wylie intreduced the speaker for the evening, using a novel and inâ€" teresting method of introduction. He questioned Mr. Sorsoleil as to his deâ€" partment ard his duties, the answers being illuminating and giving excellent and authenlic introduction for the speaker. After making the speaker enumerate the long list of his official positions, Mr. Wylie raised a sympuaâ€" tretic laugh by commenrting:â€"*"‘You have practic@lly nothing to do." In his address Mr. Sorsoleil gave a very comprehensive review of the work e! the Department of Public Welfare. His address sparkled with wit and huâ€" mour and happy stories. He had the fullest attention and interest of his rudience every minute. The Dept. of Public Welfare, he said, looked after Children‘s Aid work, Mothers‘® Allowâ€" ance, the Unmarried Parents‘ Act, orâ€" yhanages, training schools, old age penâ€" sicas, and other sczial services in the province. ‘ In this address ‘he centred chiefly on what was being done fot aelinquert boys. He had not met many "bad boys," but he knew a lot of "bad homes" and improper influences â€" Speaker at Club Supper. Also Addresses Public Gatherâ€" ing in Church. Reviewifg Work of the Welfare Departâ€" ment of Ontario. REX TEA ROOM After 17 Years in Tea Room Business, We are Going to Changeâ€"â€" WATCH FOR LATER ANNOUNCEMENT STOCK FOR SALE CHOCOLATE BARS Boxea CHOCOLATES Made by Moirs, Lowâ€" 6 for 25c neysâ€"-Cut 25C up rices from . This is a Genuine Sellâ€"Out â€" Everything Must Go At Once‘! Reg. 60c lb. up 2 5 lb Of Wellâ€"Known Makes Now Selling at * u Greatly Reduced. FIXTURES FOR SALE Mahogany Settees Stock Fixtures Must Be Sold -;Soda Fountain Equipment Rubber Plant Electrlc Coffee Urn One 3â€"burner Findlay Electric Table Stove 4â€"burner Electric Hotâ€"Point Rangeâ€"Oven Complete Sets of Restaurant Dishes and Silverware. â€" Cups and Saucers of Maddock makeâ€"All new! Cushioned Seatsâ€"White Marble Tables In first class conditionâ€"Cheap! that scet beys wrong. Truaney, the corner gang, bad compdany were conâ€" tributing factors to lads getting a vrong stari in life. It was the purpose ¢f the training schools, like the one at Rowmanville, to seek correction of the virong attitudes to life that made the boys unsocial. Understandirsz of the hoys was imperative. 'Then it was sosught to inculcate the right standards 0ofi life, to teach emotional cortrol, to build healthy bodies and minds, and to give the lads the right type of occuâ€" pation. Sixty per cent. of the cases were successful in building good citiâ€" zers from material that was now so proâ€" niising at first The continued rounds of applause given the address indicated the sincere felt by the audience for the review of the work by this gifted speaker. Community singing was featured durâ€" irg the evening, Geo. Jenkin presiding at the piano. Mr. Jenkin also gave Fis able services as accompanist for tke other musical numbers on the programme. Mr. Boynton was the voâ€" calist for this part of the evening, his fine voice beirg heard to advantage in several pleasing solos. _ The Musical Trio also pleased the audience with inâ€" strumental numbers that delighted all. After the club supper ard the first address, the tables were cleared and the hall filled with chairs for a second rigcecting to whicth the general public was admitted. All at the supper reâ€" malned for this second meeting, while a number of others, including many ludies, also gathered, running the secâ€" ond audierce well over the 200 mark. Mr. Sorsoleil said that the Welfare Dept. had been organized in 1929, and that row it administered old age penâ€" sions, mothers‘ allowance, Cuildren‘s Aid work, industrial and training schcols, crphanages, hospitals and reâ€" lief. It helped no less than 120,000 people, making life easier and better Rev. Murray Tait in a brief and witty speech irtreduced the speaker. thing to provide for the old people in their declining years. He gave some humorous illustrations of attempts to cefraud the old age pensions branch, noting, however, that the department vas very watchful and careful to guard the public purse as well as to help the old. There are now over 50,000 old people in the province benefitting Iromi the old age pensions. The mothers‘ allowance act. he pointed out, was realâ€" iy another plan to help the children and to give them a normal chance in life. There were 11,500 families receivâ€" ing mothers® allowance, some 30,000 children thus being aided in their own homes.â€" Ontario has 10,000 children wards of the Children‘s Aid Societies, said Mr. Sorsoleil, and there are about 1700 new ones each year. These neglectâ€" d and dependent children are given a cliance in life, and so far as possible 2re placed in good foster homes. Mr. Sorsoleil expressed his disbelief in inâ€" stitutions for children, but said that they were necessary to some extent to prepare children for new homes. It was the policy of the department to ciimirate the Shelters so far as posâ€" sible. Mr. Sorsoleil dwelt at some length on the work of administering the Unmarried Parents‘ Act. In Onâ€" tario there is an average of 2,500 childâ€" ren a year born out of wedlock. "These ciiildren need help, deserve help," he said, adding that there are ro illegiâ€" mate childrenâ€"only illegimate parenis. He urged all never to refer to children as illegimate, giving touching illustraâ€" tion of the sorrow and harm to the unâ€" fcrtunate child from this thoughtlessâ€" ness. The Unmarried Parents‘ Act sought (and usually with success) to secure maintenance of the child from the father. Orphanages came in for aitention from the speaker, as did aiso ciher branches of the work of the deâ€" partment. Mr. Sorsoleil‘s happy humâ€" our, his fund of apt stories, and his talent in keeping the human touch, rande his address as effective as it was intensely interesting. i old age penâ€" I I A special feature of the evening was the singing of Mrs. Geo. Jenkin. After her first solo there was an insisteni demand for an encore and the recall mnumber brought renewed request for another. Mrs. Jenkin made a very aeâ€" cided hit with her selections, her fine voice, her expressive rendition of the three selections, and her pleasing musiâ€" cal talent. * GIRL GUIDES At the conclusion of the programme V. Neilly moved a vote of thanks to the guest speaker and to the guests of the evening, the vote being carried unâ€" animously. On behalf of the Men‘s Club, S. Kitchen presented Mr. Sorâ€" oleil with an original paperweight as a mark of appreciation for his excelâ€" lent addresses and as a souvenir of the occasion of his visit to the Porcupine Rangers The Rangers held their, regulat riceting on Wednesday evening at the home of Captain Morris. Lone Guide work was done and plarns {or the next issue made. The Rangers ars> working on profiziency badges for tke First Class Badge. Ancther meeting will be held next woek. Girl Guides The Sist L.O.D.E. Company held the regular meeting on ‘Friday evenivng. Atâ€" tendance was taken by Helen Landers and Captain Morris took inspection with Kathleen Wilkinson, who read out the marks. Ncrth Bay Nugget:â€"Certainly the world is "going. rough." Cocoanuts were preferred to the customary conâ€" fetti at the New Orleans Mardi Gras pargde recently. Horseshoe was formed ard the flag rrised by Elsie Clatworthy, assisted by Helen Smith and Dorsen Murphy. A prayer on the Guide Law, "A Guide is pure in thought, word and deed," was read. Some different games were played and then the Guide‘s went to their patrol corners. A circle was formed for campfire. The Guides plan to hcld a fish and chip supper in the near future. Songs were sung and the meeting closed with "Taps." Meetings next Friday will commence at 7.Q0 p.m. and every Friday thereâ€" after. The Orchid Patrol is duty paâ€" trol next week. The 106th I.0.D.E. Company held a rieeting on Tuesday evening in St. Matthew‘s Church hall. The meeting was ccnducted by Captain Tilley and Margaret Beckett. Horseshoe was formed. This company is to be enrolled at tne next meeting, The parents of the CGuides will be present at the enrollâ€" ment. The Guides played games and then went to their patrol corners. Some passed their Tenderfoot tests, while others are studying for Second Class. A circle was formed for camplfire and songs were sung. The meeting closed with "Taps." Brownies The 46th 1LO.D.E. BRrownie Pack Leld their meeting on Friday evening i St. Matthew‘s Church hall undet Rrown Owl Bailey. The meeting cpened with the Pairy Ring and then was taken. The meeting was spent in singing songs. The meeting was brought to a close with the Erownie Squeeze. thusiasm. Victor Copps, the reporter whose beat covered almost anything connected with the Boomers or war, aend John Peters, the calm editor who cheertully splashed sersational streamâ€" ers across his newspaper, had difficult parts. But both put into the play, the bard, businessâ€"like rush it needea. . Widely Different Characters â€" Valerie Morley, as Hope Tregering, £nd Geraldine Beaudin, as Lady Boomâ€" er, were characters as far apart. as the poles. Miss Morley‘s presentation of a sinceer young idealist who never lost sightâ€"of the gcal, was just as carefully Cone as was that of Miss Beaudin, who represented the thoughtlessness of ‘those who welcome wealth at any cost io others. Donald Hardy played effecâ€" tively the part of prim Mr. Pither, and Gordon Lawry did the logical Heatherâ€" field with real finesse. «Contimnued from Pase One: Cecil Linder, as ‘the veuiusug Lord Eoomer, who would have thrown over the whole business as horrid, unnecesâ€" sary acrd brutal, had it noit been for tie sensible advice of Heatherfiela, played his part wilh an admirable enâ€" "Fantastic Flight" depended for its change of scene on lighiing effects; ond in the final scene in which tue red flash of descending terror kills off the unfortunates who remain on the lighting was partitcularly well handled. Roy McChesney was stage manager, and the production was diâ€" rected by Miss Garrow ard Miss Mcâ€" Namara. Lively Puppets "The Knave of Hearts" was introâ€" duced by Manager Edwin Caswell as 1 puppet show that would destroy thne legend of the "Knave of Hearts who stole the tarts." His puppets were so well made, said he, that they could Lardly be distinguished from _ ljiving people. Opening with a chorus in which all the families of the Kingdom of Hearts, from the Aces to the Kings, took part, the plot of the play was quickly deâ€" veloped. The two chief chefs of the realm, Blue Hose and Yellow Hose, Eitler Jurrila and Edward Muzzuca, are heard discussing the final test io which Lady Violetta is to be put beâ€" iore becoming the bride cf Pompdeâ€" Lile, Eighth King of Hearts. The lady i1ust make light, fluflfy pastry before she can be permitted to reign as queen. The excitable Blue Hose was one of the best portrayed characters in the play. Stellar performance of the evening was undoubtedly that given by Frances Franklin~as the Lady Violetta. From bright, silvery laughter, to hysterical tears, she seemed at home on the stage. A well modulated voice and a genuine ability made her acting outâ€" standing. | â€" Yarmouth Herald: The secret murâ€" iders in Italy and the public murders in Russia should be sufficient warning to those misguided souls who, in the hope ; of a little cash profit (which probably would never materialize), every so often are heard to bleat that "what Canada [meeds is a dictatorship,.", Chancellor Well Played Leo Bandierc, as the King, was the central character durifis most of the play. His annoyance with the Chanâ€" cellor, Moe Shragge, for the advice be claimed he never needed, was â€"â€" ways gcood for a laugh. Cleverly made vp and costumed, Mose was the schemâ€" ing Chancellor to perfection. He slkowed special talent in the manner in which he depicted the character. The Knave, "who really wasn‘t a bad felâ€" low at all," was well done by Edward McLellan. Minor parts that added greatly to the interest were the nerâ€" alds, Leslie MoDermott and Edward Laâ€" valee; and "Ursula," Jacqueline Moriâ€" so:in. "Six Liltlle Pages" were Gwenvine App.cby, Rita Cuddihey, Genevieve Coulas, Elaine Duggan. Margaret Genâ€" tile, Luella Kendall. The kook holder was Vita Linder, and the members of the chorus were Catherine Lang, Eveâ€" ly.. Brightwell, Madeline Potvin, Kathâ€" lecn Hale, Edvidge Spada, Cora Amaâ€" Cio, Clifford Carpenter, Jean Murtagh, Vivian Fierce, Muriel Beach, Doris Shaheen, â€" Petsy Dodge, Margarel Gedge, Mary Stock and Russell Forâ€" tin. Directors werse Miss Bucovetlsky, Miss McGarry and Miss Smythn. Mr. Worthingtcn and the boys of the wocdworking department were reâ€" sponsible for the scerery for both plays; Mr. Vogel ard the boys of the elecirical department for the excellent lighting; and Miss Boon and the girls of the household science department for the carefully made, attractive cosâ€" tuiumes. Opening Dance Numbers Pupils of Miss Clarice Mann opened the programme with five dance rumâ€" bers, all of which drew applause. Rose Marie Thorpe was the youngest of the tap dancers who appeared Thursday night. Joyce Thornburn was the star of the ballet, "Goldilocks." Peggy Boyce, Nanâ€" cy Hepplewaite and Catherine Byron contributed a tap trio. The ‘Sailors Hornpipe" led by Kathleen Hale, was the most ambitious of the song and dar zce numbcrs. Members of the chorus were kthel Bateman, Gladys Scott, Eva Fartais, Evelyn Church, Dorothy BEeavan, Jean Prest, and Christine Brown. The closing tap dance was by Elsie McFadden and Stella McKenna. The school orchestra, under Mr. Fisher‘s direction, contributed the overâ€" ture and two musical interludes in a style that seems to be constantly imâ€" proviny. Gilbert and Sullivan‘s "Operâ€" atic Gems," their second number, was the most popular. The second interluge was "Melodies From Il Trovatore, Verdi. eatre Nights Congratulations! Happy birthday â€" many happy returns! This is the wish of Scouts, Cubs and Rovers all over the world today to our chief, Lord Why? Isn‘t this the 22nd of February, and that‘s his birthday. In a silent greeting to him let us all raise our right hands in the S:out sign and pledge ourselves anew, "On my honour I promise to do my best . . " Down in the States where the moveâ€" ment began 27 years ago on February the 8th, and Washington‘s birthday and the Chief‘s Scout‘s {all on the same day, they celebrate what they call Boy Scouts Week. Each year they have a detirite theme. Last year it was "Carrying on the Traditions of Scoutâ€" ing." This year it is "The Sturdy Oak of Sccuting." After all, we do have a right to liken curselves to a sturdy oakâ€"an oak starting from a small acorn planted by Fadenâ€"Powell long ago and now so strong ard great that it spans the whole world. We leaders ‘have seen with our own eyes how one trcoop has grown into one, two, threeâ€"yes, even four troopsâ€" a parent "oak" troop with several "acorn" troops. We have seen our own patrols grow up and provide patrol leaders for other patrols andâ€"evenâ€" tually Scoutmasters for other troops. The acorn and the oak. The small beginningâ€"the big result. Growth and stability! And what is true of our whole moveâ€" ment is true of numerous Troops and Patrols in it. There must be patrols like that over tke courtryâ€"old ones with great traâ€" cditions and noble histories. Perhaps not in Timmins just now but there will be. Let us buckle down and make them. Let us make ‘"oaks" of our "acorns." And now for local gossip. Before I get too far in thisâ€"if that troop scribe who weekly contributes to this column doesn‘t harness his pen a litâ€" tle more there will be more than a Fennyâ€"Allen feud. So be it. The new organization of the 7th Troop looks very promising for some good Scout work in this unit. There atre still â€"a few vacancies that can be filled from Central or the new school. Scouters Cowan and Childs will be in charge of this troop. Akela Morris will be back with his pack on Tuesday. An interesting proâ€" gramme is planned. The Ind Troop are out for more badges. Scouter Webb announced at last Thursday‘s meeting that a compeâ€" tition would be started immediatelyâ€" and hunting knives as prizes! Tenderâ€" foot tests get 5 points each, 2nd class tests 10 points, class tests 15 points <cnd proficiency badges 50 points. To qualify for the prizes the whole patrol must be 2nd Class Scouts by June 15th. It‘ll be fun to watch this competition. Next Priday evening in the basement of St. Anthony‘s Church both the 4th and 8th Troops will meet. The District Scoutmasier will be the leader for the evening and he hopes that the meeting will be instructive as well as being a loet of fun. St. Mary‘s Journal:â€"After a hard tha gcvernmeni realized that welfare truggle, the two Irishmen on the tanâ€" : £diministraticocn was split up among too dem reached the top of a sieep hill.| many departments. Rev. W. G. Martin "That was a siiff pull," said the was the first minister of the new deâ€" wiping his brow. "Sure it was," said partment. Mr. Sorsoleil, who has been the cther, "And if I hadn‘t kept the i1 the government service for,30 years, Brakes on we should have gone backâ€" Wwas chosen~n at that time as deputy minâ€" wards." ister. The 4th Trcoop have 17 new members in their ranks. There is still a limited quantity of these fine "Chatelaine" <Electric Washers left, awaiting the proinpt action of women who know real value and who are keen for a lifetime of washday ease. You have only till March 2nd to make up your mind. Don‘t hoid up another day or it may be too late. Don‘t forget, "The Chatelaine" was made especially for us by a leading Canadian manufacturer and is an upâ€"toâ€"theâ€"minute washer in every detail. or $7.50 down and 24 months to pay Canada Northern Power Corporation, Limited Controlling and Operating NORTHERN ONTARIO POWER COMPANY LIMITED NORTHERN QUEBEC POWER COMPANY LEMITED Eloquent Review of the Welfare. Dept. The Mother‘s Allowantceâ€"Act is esâ€" sentially a children‘s protection act," he said. "It is designed to give the chilâ€" dren of widows a chance to be brought up the same as other children." Quaill= f.cation for help urder the act used to be two children, but this has recently bee lowered to one. Families where the father is totally incapacitated are now included. Cases where the whereabouts of the father have been unknown for three years are eligible. He touched briefly on the, Neglected Children‘s Act, under which the 54 Children‘s Aid Sccieties in the proâ€" vince are empowered to ‘intervene where home conditions are not right. The societies dealt last year with 23,â€" E00 cases, a thousand children were made wards, and 850 others were adcopted into better: families, leaving the societies‘ shelters. All told 11,500 Ontario mothers reâ€" ceive this help. "And isn‘t it wonderiu: to thirk that 30,000 children will have that better chance to which they ate entitled?" asked Mr. Sorsoleil.> Urder the Unmarried Parents‘ Act, 2500 cases came under the care of welâ€" fare authorities last year. Of these 50 per cent. were fourd to be the children of married fathers. The idea of the act is to provide sustenance for thne child until it reaches the age of 16 years. A lump sum is often asked in sotltlement. Reâ€"Crcate Children Under the care of the departments also come Ontario‘s three industrial schools and two training schools where "the idea is not to punish but to reâ€" create, to give the child back to soâ€" ciety." In 60 per cent.‘of¢the cases this is successful, a recent survey showed.. All this work is progressing, is being improved as the years go on, Mr. Sorâ€" soleil intimated. But in two departâ€" merts particularly, ‘he feels there is room for immediate action. Those ate the improving of the refuges and tne placing of crphanage children in foster lhomes at an earlier age than at preâ€" sent. "After all," he said, "an instituâ€" ticnal child that grows up there reâ€" mnains an irstitutional child, depenâ€" cent on the system for eniertainmeni, supcrvision and everything else." In c3ening h:s address, Mr. Sorsoleil explained that the department of puoâ€" lic welfare was set up in 1929 when tia gcvernmeni realized that welfare 2aministraticn was split up among too THE FEATURE PICTURE "THE MUSIC GOES ‘ROUND" Will play One Day Only Wednesday, February 24th ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH The Goldfields Theatre wnll Show French Talking Matinee .............. First Evening Show . Second Evening Show (Continued from Page One) To Protect Childréen Pictures g-â€"Feature " LE PORTEU E DE PAIN" 4â€"REEL FRENCH COMEDY "LFE CRIME DE MONSIEUR PEGOTTE" A TWO HOUR AND HALF PROGRAMME a beautiful metal clothes hamper as an inducement to prompt action. FREE with every washer Mrs. Frank David, Michael Cherniuk and W. H. Tripp Buried This Week Five Speeches in 20 Hours In introducing the speaker, Percy Boyce, of Schumacher, said that he kad invited Mr. Sorsoleil to come to the Porcupine after hearing him at the teachers‘ convention last year at Cochrane. He had arranged five audiâ€" ences for the deputy minister in his 20â€"hour visit. Cobalt Camp Loses Three Old Citizens Cobalt, Feb. 22.â€"(Special to The Adâ€" vance)â€"The furerals of three citizens otâ€"this camp, all of them old residents and two of them neighbours for many years on the Princess mine property, Bt the south end of the town in Coleâ€" man townsiiip, took place here yesterâ€" day and toâ€"day when ‘the obsequies were held of the late Mrs. Frank Daâ€" vid, Michael Cherniuk and â€" William Henry Tripp. , W. W. Tanner, principal of the Timâ€" mins High and Vocational School, thanked the deputy minister on behalf of the club. Other visitors at the meeting were J. Worthington, Rev. Murray Tait, A. G. Carson and Dr. P. Wenger. Mrs. David, who died suddenly in hospital, ‘where she had been taken wlhen she suffered a heart attack on glighting from the bus after visiting a son in New Liskeard, was the wife of Frark David, wellâ€"known citizen and former member of the public school board. Her funeral took place yesterâ€" cay <afternoon to Halleybury cemetery, Key. E. Gilmour Smith, minister of the United ‘Church, officiating. She was bi years of age, active in Eastern Star and Rebekahs circles, and is survived by her husband and four sons and two /A neighbour of the David family, Mr. Cherniuk diedâ€"in hospital in Toronto following an operation. His body was brought here Saturday morning and the funeral was held toâ€"day to St. Patâ€" rick‘s Roman Catholic Church, with tkurial at Mileage 104 ceometery. A naâ€" tive of Poland, Mr. Cherniuk had lived i: Cobalt since before the war and for ysars was employed at the Nipissing and: Mining ‘Corporaticn properties. â€"The third funeral, that of Mr. Tripp, was held this afternoon to Haileybury cemetery. Mr. Tripp, who was in his Ith year, had lived here since 1909. Cornish by birth, he came to Canada ns a young man, removing to Cobalt from Sherbrooke, P.Q., in 1909. He was f{crmerly employed as blacksmith at the La Rose and Lawson properties. A son gnd two daughters survive. a ® 90“ MO