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mmmmm Ontariteâ€" Quebec Newspaper Asociation; Class "A" Weekly CGroup A. % named Gordon Binclair or Sinclair Gorâ€" don, 4;,. rdon and Slnclair or something, has written a letter to The Northern News, terming the people of Kirkland Lake "the cheapest tinâ€" horns in Canada." "They cannot take it. They whine and whimper," says the letter. Further the letter suggests that Kirkland Lake is a "low slipâ€"shod dump," and that the people in the Lake sShore town are . "cringing mambyâ€"pamby homeâ€" towners." Gordon Sinclair, or Sinclair Gordon or as the case may be suggests that a "committee of hooligans" is waiting his next appearance at Kirkâ€" land Lake with the idea of "beating him up," and he claims that this would not be creditable to ‘the people of Kirkland Lake as he only weighs 124 pounds. While: most people will be surprised that he thinks he weighs so much even as that, there will be general agreement that it would be no credit to the people of Kirkland Lake to use physical violence on him. Indeed, that is probably the only part of the letter that will méét general agreeâ€" ment, And one point in such a letter is a high averâ€" age. aAiiky . of d L EL se es > {n.variable response to any charitable appeal is the anwer to that "tinâ€"horn" charge. The hospital maintained by Kirkland Lake, the schools buiit: and carried on, the sports fields, the churches, the: public buildings, the very town itself, proves beâ€" yond question that Kirkland Lake may be anyâ€" thing else but it certainly is no "piker." Ask the Institute for the Blind, the Children‘s Aid, the serâ€" vice clubsâ€"ask any good causeâ€"and there will be a thundering answer nothing tinâ€"horn about Kirkâ€" land Lake. At the very time that foolish letter was being written, three Kirkland Lake men were being awarded medals for conspicuous bravery. They had deliberately risked their lives to help fellow workmen in danger, Call that "tinâ€"horn?" "mambyâ€"namby?" And those three "eringing?" "mambyâ€"pamby?" And those thnree men were not the unusual, the different, but simply types of the men of the North, playing their part like menâ€"like the other men of this country,â€"aA country that may have faults, but its vices are not of the "tinâ€"horn" or the "mambyâ€"pamby." Timâ€" mins has played football, baseball, hockey, ‘ golf, curling, with Kirkland Lake,â€"had the usual tiffs and troublecâ€"but sports in Timmins would rise as a’mgnmgivethe'netothecmmat;hepeople of Kirkland Lake were not the best of good sports. The record proves itâ€"that few towns of similar e h sjzemahowasclemmwrasnwsm i4 J MV class good sportsmanship. * ~ Itmywmaw‘vemueh t.umnrspace Gord to answering the smartâ€"alex hysterics of any 124â€"| pound bundle of semiâ€"sex appeal, but it might be that silence might tend to leave other Southerâ€" ners with the idea that the North harbours any town of "tinâ€"horns," "hicks" or "cringing mambyâ€" pamby‘‘ people. The people of Kirkland Lake have built a wonderful city from a corner of scrub bush. In doing this they have endured rough work, poor living, hardship, disaster. They have, literally, braved forest fire, flood, pestilence, to say nothing of black files and mosquitoes, some of the latter running close to 124 pounds. And they have come. through it, happy, smiling, cheerful, hospitable. As for "hicks,‘" like potato bugs they cannot live in the North. This is a truly cosmopolitan land.. Men gathered here from all over the face of the '}earth. There are more nationalities in Kirkland Lake than ever slipped out of the League of Naâ€" tions. A roll call in Kirkland Lake would sound like a lesson in geography. The people have been places and seen things. And they are building here. "Tinâ€"horns" and the "mambyâ€"pamby" do not thrive in such an air. There are good and bad, of course, but the good far outnumber the bad. The record of the land proves it. In sportsmanâ€" ship, in cuiture, travel, education, industry, ideals, vision, the people of Kirkland Lake, of the North, need take back seat for hone. . It is on the record It should be known to all. But some people do not know anything until they are told. And even then they are not sure unless they hear it in stout language. Hence this thusness! some time ago The Advance called attention to the possibility of a strike on the railways and the necessity for everything to be done to avoid such a calamity. It is a case where the public will be the chief loser, though that is not an unusual thing in regard to strikes. In this case, however, the public will be injured so directly and so seriâ€" ously that nothing should be left undone to avert the dangeor. The Advance believes that an aroused public opinion would prove the best safeguard in this case. The chief danger for the moment seems to lie in the fact that public opinion is not aroused, or at least that it has not given any very decided expression of its viewpoint. It is true that negoâ€" tiations are still in progress between the parties to the dispute, but actual decision on the matter seems little closer than a month ago. The railâ€" waymen do not appear to have attempted any | extended campaign of publicity to place their case ' before the public. The railways have contented themselves with emphasizing the fact that the inâ€". dustry has been carried on at a loss. It is an CASY matter for the average man to remember that the Dominion Government railroads are losing money each year. From this it is but a step to the concluâ€" sion that they cannot afford any incréase in wages. Against this reasoning, however, two facts should be plainly set. One is the fact that the railway emâ€" ployees are not asking any increase in wages, but simply a return to former rates in accordance with promises made when the wages were reduced. The second fact is that even if the Government railâ€" ways are losing money, the fault does not lie with the employees. It must be remembered that railâ€" waymen in company with all other citizens have to bear their share of the burden of the cost to the country of the Dominion‘s entry into the railway business. It is not fair, surely, to expect them to be content to pay a second shareâ€"an extra share â€"in accepting a continued reéduction in WaAges. In the case of the émployees of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, the employers have not the excuse of the railway being conducted at h 2s t d a serious loss. Railway business in this part of the country is better than ever before. It is diffiâ€" cult to find excuse here for failure to return to former wages. The railway workers have evidenced a very fine spirit of reasonableness and lack of noigy propaâ€" ganda. Et seems no more, than fair play that the public in general should show its appreciation and good will to these public servants by making it clearly known that public opinion will insist upon a sauare deal for the workers in the railway inâ€" a square deal for dustry. . can not secure a goodâ€"looking and wealthy wife for the said Toronto man. Toronto Board of Trade once protested stoutly against Toronto men going outside of the city for their printing. Will | cauh enc A Toronto man has written to Portland, Maing, asking the mayor of that city to see if his worship the Toronto board now seek a council regulation putting a transient traders‘ license on wives imâ€" ported to the city? Is it possible that the Ethiopians are carrying on the war against Italy in Spain? T..P.â€"A. A. A. In view of the good being accomâ€" piished by the T. P. A. A. A., it would appear to be ‘real economy to finance to any reasonable limit [-the activities of the T. P. A. A. A. Since the active operation of the Timmins Police Amateur Athletic Association, statistics show that juvenile delinquency is just about one tenth what it was before the T. P. A. A. A. started its good work of interesting the boys in wholesome and healthy occupations and winning the confidence and esâ€" teem of the lads. This fact should be remembered at this time. With the approach of summer sports, and with the changes in plans and equipment that the new season will aemand, it is probable that gdditional finances will be necessary for the hy c ofi s ioi n t 1t in o gm@r :d GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER s O O SHOULD BE NO STRIKE Believe it or Not! _ He‘s Quite a Rip! Story of a Man who Makes Money Proving the Imâ€" probable to be True. ~(By Dale Carnegie) I know a man who always gets at least a million letters a year. That means more than eight thousand letters a day or twentyâ€"eight letters while you, are reading this sentence. Many of his corresponderts call him ten kinds of a hanketyâ€"blank liar. He has been: branded as a lar more often by more. people than has anyone else who ever lived. And he loves it. He has received letters without any rame at all on the envelopes; they were merely addressed to "the Biggest Liar in the World," and, believe it or rot, the Post Oiffice delivered them to Rcobert L. Ripley! Ripley makes a living by making peoâ€" ple gasp. He made me gasp once when Le showed me a letter written on a piece of human skin; and he made me gasp when.â€"he showed me a message that a man had written him on a single human hair. I cculdn‘t believe it until I put the hair under a microscope and ther I read the message just as plainly as if it has been written on a piece of paper. It said, "The finest welcome in the world to Robert L. Ripley." One man from Ardara, Pennsylvania, wrocte Ripley a message on a grain Oof rice. Thirk of it! Seven hundred and fifteen words, or two thousand, eight hundred and sixty letters on one grain of rice. Of course, you can‘t read these letters with the naked eye; but I read them very easily under a microscope. The story of Ripley‘s own life is alâ€" most as incredible as his cartoons. His father was a carpenter ard he warned *Ripley that, if he kiscame an artist, he would starve to death. The old man wanted his little boey to be a plumber or a ‘bricklayer. papers that "fired" him. Ripley never «studied drawmg ;<yet he is the most widely lmitated cartoomst in the world. He made me gasp when he said that if he killed me at midnight and every person who was told about it, told two other people within twelve minutes, everybody on earth would know it beâ€" fore morning. One cold, December day in 1918â€" exactly one. week before Christmasâ€"he sat ih his office t:rying‘ to think of an idea for a cartoon. ‘An hour or two slipped by. He couldn‘t think of a thing. The deadline was approaching. He hnad to draw something; so, in desâ€" peration, he plcked up a few astonishâ€" ing facts about athletics and made a cartoonâ€" which he called "Chumps and Champs." He didn‘t like the title, so he substituted "Believe It or Not." Ripley was "firéd" from the first three newspapers on whith he worked; yet he is making more money‘ toâ€"day than are.the. men who own the newsâ€" The claim is made that Hon. Geo. Henry did an injustice to Premier Hepburn in bringing forward what amounted to a charge that the premier had improperly interfered in reference to the granting of a beer license. The Globe and Mail thinks Hon. Mr. Henry should apologize to the premier for the unwarranted reflection. : Probably he should. Mayâ€" be he will, after the premier apologizes to Hon. Arthur Meighen for ur;p;ied charges made against that gentleman and afterwards upset by decision .Of a judge sitting as a commissioneér. "Fine thanks} A United States hockey team that resented the ‘referee‘s decisions staged a sitâ€"down strike on the d4ce. The:players, however: soon found they were all wet; and so the strike was lost. That was the turning point of his life. One little idea on a dull, dreary afternoon, and presto!â€"he was on his way to a sensation, worldâ€"wide success. A friend of The Advance takes issue with the statement of Lord Riverdale at Timmins this week EP C 14â€" â€"Pine St. N. Phone 835 I feel like a new person now. It‘s surprising what glasses can do. Reading used to give me frightâ€" ful headaches. _As I was never bothered at any other time I thought it must be my. eyes. Mr. Curtis prescribedâ€" glasses and now I have no more trouble." CURTIS OPTICAL comPAny so this is Spring? Why suffer eyestrain when optical service costs so little. 00 6 But it didn‘t come immediately. Me drew a "Believe It or Not" carâ€" toon once a week for ten years; and,. believe it or not, it attracted comparaâ€" tively little attention. For ten years, kis feature tottered on the verge of failure. As Rip once said to me, "You work ard slave for ten years, then beâ€" come in ten minutes." That is about what happened to him. For cne day. in September, 1938, he drew a cartoon that startled a million readers. He created a nationâ€"wide furor when he said that Lindbergh was the sixtyâ€" severth man to make a non«â€"stop mghtl anercss the Atlantic Ocean. People rose un in indignation and demanded that he retract his impudent and insulting lie. But Ripley pointed out that Brown and Alcock had flown across the Atâ€" igntic years before Lind:ergh was ever heard ofâ€"and so did the English dirâ€" igible Râ€"34 with thirtyâ€"one men aboard ; and so did the German dirigible ZRâ€"3 with thirtyâ€"three men. So Lindbergh was realiy the sixtyâ€"seventh. William Randoiph Hearst saw that cartcon, and was entranced. So he inâ€" sisted that Ripley draw a "Believe It or Niot‘ cartoon for every one of his papetr‘s every day, and Ripley started skyrockâ€" eting to fame. Electric Devices Not to Displace the Prospector The oldâ€"time gold ‘prospectors will go on. Electrical instrumerts may help in Ilccating ore bedies for swifter deâ€" velopment but they won‘t replace the professional goldâ€"hunter who leads the way into new mining courtry. . Hans Lundberg, Toronto geologist and a proponent of the electrical sys« tem of uncovering ore bodies in Canaâ€" dian properties, said at Toronto this week, according to despatches, that high cost would prevent very extensive exploration by men equipped with the apparatus. "After new discoveries have ‘been made by prospectors, geologists trained to make ‘tzompetert deductions from the use of electrical and other scientific inâ€" struments can advise companies where they may most profitably drill for ore, but the finding of new areas must be left to the oldâ€"time prospectors because it is so much cheaper, he said. Lund‘erg said the electrical method consists of finding the conductivity of the ground. The Ontario Government last week passed an orderâ€"inâ€"council permitting the use of electrical methods by a company in locating underground deposits in Northern Ontario. "Quartz has the least conductivity and where it is found in the right forâ€" mation there is a presumption of gold, he said. "Sometimes gold is found in sulphides with other minerals and these give the greatest conductivity. Findings are always checked by the electroâ€" magnet and other methods before deâ€" finite conclusions are reached." The electrical method is useful in locating other minerals than gold, deâ€" clared Lundberg, who said a party now in Newfcundland tracing a lead and zinc formation, ancther in Northwesâ€" tern Ortario checking a chromium. These are in addition to seven parties using the method to check on gold deâ€" posits in Quebec and Northern Ontario. The town of South River, some forty miles south of North Bay, has a real attraction for tourists now. The atâ€" traction is an unusually large living Moose Lassoed and to be Kept as Attraction moose. Further the attraction is heightâ€" ened by the story behind the attraction --the story of the way it was captured. The story is to the effect that the moose was caught by the use of a lasso, As the animal is credited with weighing fully eight hundred pounds, the capâ€" ture of the animal is a rather remarkâ€" able procedure. Displaying real cowboy skill, Harry Hammell, Powassan, lassoed the 800â€" pound moose in the Algonquin Park last week.‘ The animal had been seen several times near a camp at which Mr. Hamâ€" mell was employed. The Powassan man a native of the west, ventured forth last week and in real cowboy style roped> the moose. It was taken to ‘South River where it is now lodged in a It is stated that Mr. Hammell reâ€" ceivyed permission from the government to "catch‘"‘ the moose as an attraction for tourists. Huntingdon Gleaner: A New York doctor has hit on a pleasant way of takâ€" ing medicine. He prescribes it ‘in smoke.‘ First, he invented a special gum; this he impregnates with a dose of whatever remedy is necessary. The tiny gum pellets are pushed into a cigâ€" arette holder. The curative medicine thus is absorbed slowly through the mouth and respiratory organs. that he had never seen the people of Britain so well clothed, so well fed and so happy. "I could take Lord Riverdale or anyone else to places where are rags, hunger, suffering and misery in plenty," says this friend. Undoubtedly he is right in this. Indeed, he would not have to travel to Britain to find poverty and misery. Unfortunately, there are. cases quite close. Efen when taking the hopeful view that times are on the mend, that Cbnditions are improving, it is well to note the want that is forever showing its depressing head, and dcing what may be done to right it. It is hardly possible to think that Lord Riverdale wished to say that even Britain toâ€"day had completely banished need iand suffering. The Advance rather believes that he sought to give the hopeful message that betâ€" ter days were showing themselves again and that Britain is making notable progress in her quiet, slow, but sure and effective way in speeding the day when want and misery and wrong conditions may be reduced to the minimum. was well known and highly esteemed throughout the North, and there will be much regret at the news of his recent death. He served for some years aSs town councillor at Hearst and for years he was mayor at Hearst. The followâ€" ing reference to the déath is made by the Hearst correspondent of The Northern Tribune, Kapuskasing:â€" P. H. Houle, pioneer of the North, and for several terms mayor of I_-Iearst. Death P. H. Houle, Pioneer, and Former Mayor of Hearst "The community was saddened. on March 14th by the death of Phileas Henri Houle, for many years proâ€" minent and respected resident of the district and town. Death came after an illness of about three months. The late Mr. Houle was a son of the late Pileas Houle and Catherine Nadeau and was borne in St. Bonaventure, Queâ€" bec, fiftyâ€"one years ago. "He came to thisâ€"district some 18 years ago, first engaging in farming, later in mercantile pursuits, and for the last ten years he followed the vocaâ€" tion of notary public and conveyancer. CDuring his residence in this town he always identified himself with civic and educational affairs, taking prominent part in these activities He was five times mayor of Hearst, having previâ€" ously served as councillor for several terms, being one of, the councillors at the time of incorporation. For a couple of years he was town clerk and was for many years associatedâ€" with the separâ€" ate school board as trustee and as secretaryâ€"treasurer. "His widow and five sons and four daughters survive him. The sons are Gerald of Geraldton, Dollard and Arâ€" thur of Tashota, John and Rosaire of Hearst; the daughters are Mrs. Joseph Jeaurond of Alexandria, Ont., Mrs. Lucien Achin of Montreal, Gertrude of Goudreau, and Jeanne of Hearst, "The funeral was held from the Roman Catholic Church on March 16, a great many attending. The pallâ€" bearers were Messrs Lafond, Rondeau, Coulombe, Blais, Tremblay, Laflamme and Brushey." Sherbrooke Telegram: Only the hen can lay down on the job and get away with it. 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SCAR" HOMB Owners who wish to take advantage uf the Dominion Home Improvement Plan may obtain full detailed particulars from any branch of this Bank. s Briefly, the Act authorizes the Bank to: make loans up to $2,000. on any single dwelling to owners in good credit standing. No security is required. Farm owners may secure loans for the re or improvement of any buildings on the farm «t m h §\ ..A t smcs h2h ts lt e 2s Ande en Ed EeS e : _ a S i. se We . . . for the construction of a second dwelling for hired help . .. to replace fences . .. City owners may borrow to convert a property into a duplex dwelling . . . for extensions . . . for modernization . . . to build a garage . and for repairs of any description. Loans are to be repaid on the instalment basis and may be arranged over periods of from six months to three years; provided also that requirements in excess of $1,000. may be arranged over a term of five years. The rate of 314%, discount per annum on monthly instalment loans is equal to 6.32¢% simple interest, which is the basis of all charges. : Apply to the branch in your district. Paper Suits Foreseen as Rivals to Linen Ones Recent despatches from Boston should prove of special interest to peoâ€" ple in the North Country, suggesting as they do the ocpening up of a new sideline for the paper industry. A new type of yarn made from wood fibre ‘been tested in Boston and many professors and industrial heads are said to be enthusiastic about it. The new material would take the place of linen in large measure it is suggested, and promises to open up new industries in this country. Faper clothes, woven of yarn spun under water from wood fibre, soon may compete with textile fibres, it is beâ€" lieved. H. C. SCARTH, Manager The new yarn proved in tests to be stronger wet than dry, and neither stretched nor shrank with laundering cr dry cleaning, according to a bulletin of Arthur D. Little, Inc., . andustrial chemists. In appearance it most closely apâ€" proximates linen, and this prOperty has iseen a principal factor in ~presenb uses in shoe coverings, handbags and the newer sports suits. Continued improveâ€" ment,may make this paper product a significart addition to the present range of textile fibres, it is believed. â€"The fibres are less than threeâ€"hunâ€" drédths of an inch long, as compared with individual cotton fibreés, which may be an inch long, ard wgc.fl linen and silk, which may be imuch longer. Thus, to make the short fibres of the paper product into strong yarn requires special methods and miachinery and it is actually spun under water. "Now, what ?" "Why didn‘t Noah swat both the fiiles when he had such a good chante?" Acton Free Press:~â€"â€"Wages of 120 :.emâ€" ployees of the steel industry were raised by ten cents aii hour and the company anncunced increased prites of its proâ€" ducts of from $3 to $8 per ton. The music goes round and round and comes out where? Card Party, March 31st, by C.W.L. Junior League "So long as there is a conflict between good and evil in the world, those who wish to see the good triumph must take every possible means to prevent evil IF THE GOOD WON‘T PREPARE THE WICKED SURELY WILL A carda party is to be held on Wedâ€" :esday, March 3ist, at 8 p.m., in the basement of the Church of the Nativity, under the auspices of the Catholic Woâ€" men‘s Junior League. The hope chest will be given away curing the evening to the holder of the lucky ticket. from gaining control,‘ were the wise words recently uttered by the Premier many times, but he isn‘t a complete loss until he begins to blame somebody Powassan News:â€"A man can fail (Fro mSudbury Star) MISSED A CHANCE