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~ OPPICE 26â€"â€"â€" PHONES â€"â€"â€"â€"RESIDENCE 70 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher _ At the present time in this part of the North many seem to have forgotten the real purpose of a provincial election. There has been much of the cheaper form of politics but little of the construcâ€" tive. Meetings have been packed and ambitious fellows are busy pulling wires, keelâ€"hauling and buckâ€"sawing to serve their own personal ambitions and their business ends. It would be a pity if the general public should be wheedled or cajoled or threatened or blackmailed into assisting the cheap schemes of the individuals who are forever looking for something material for themselves. If as some of the apologists suggest, everything goes in poliâ€" tics, it should not be forgotten that the people pay the price for any such lack of ethics or of common decency. Figures quoted by The Ottawa Journal suggest that the ‘motorists in Ontario have been paying an undue share of taxes. In Ontario last year acâ€" cording to. phe figures given by The Journal there were 690,22%6 motor vehicles registered. Most of these were owned by people not particularly able to pay extra taxes, The Journalâ€" thinks. However, the govemment took $16, 049,857 from these peoâ€" ple in gasoline tax»and $10,874,171 for registration, fees. The â€"motorists paid 41 per cent. of the total taxes collected by the province in Ontario, though representing a much smaller proportion of the poâ€" pulation or the wealth of the province. Taxes on motorists in Ontario were ‘higher than in any othâ€" er province of Canada, but if the roads in this province were better than in any other province of the Dominion people here had to travel away from the North to even suspectâ€"such a condition. Accordingly, the reduction of taxes on Ontario motorists should be hailed by all with approvalâ€" by the motorists because of the savings they will enjoy, and by the rest of the people because it looks like an approach to equity and fair play. This announcement, together with the condition of the roads in the North, apparently lost Mr. Hepâ€" burn a lot of the votes of the people who had alâ€" ways called him unpleasant names. In the same way he will likely win a lot of votes from people who will mark their ballots against his candidates for the announcement the premier made this week «in regard to motor licenses. Mr. Hepburn‘s latest announcement is to the effect that this fall there is to be a material reduction in the cost of licenses for motor vehicles. The reduction should be welâ€" comed, but if excuses are found for lack of gratiâ€" tude in the matter, it should be remembered that motorists may have learned this excuse business from the governments. For example, in the past the high license fees and the burdensome gasoline tax have been excused on the plea that highways cost much money and as they chiefly served moâ€" torists, the drivers and owners of motor vehicles could reasonably be expected to pay a mlajor share of the cost of roads. No less a gentleman than Hon. Mr. Hepburn has been credited with saying that every cent of the gasoline tax should go to the highwayâ€"building fund. This would seem like a fair proposition, yet last year in Ontario there was a total of $16,049,857 gathered from gasoline tax, while the amount spent on highways was «conâ€" siderably below that figure. In the North, where the amount of gasoline tax collected was higher than the average for the province, there was pracâ€" tically nothing spent for highways. Last year the government got the gasoline tax and the people of the North had to be content with the dust. This year there is more gasoline tax, and more dust, but fortunately there is some roadâ€"building and road improving, though even this year‘s work does‘ not fly along like the dust. Oanadaâ€"â€"$2.00 Per Year United Statesâ€"$3.00 Per Year ‘ Bome months ago false hopes of a squarer deal were stirred up in the hearts of some of the moâ€" torists of the North when the suggestion came from Toronto that a new form of motor license would be issued to permit the people of the North, most of whom only used their cars for three or four months, to escape without having to pay a full year‘s license fee. Hopes were dashed, howâ€" ever, when Premier Hepburn announced that the issue of partâ€"year licenses was not contemplated. Timmins, Ont., Thursday, Aug. 26th, ng the cheap | rever looking s. If as some goes in poliâ€" 1e people pay r of common The Canadian National Railways Magazine sugâ€" gests that the progress has followed the building of adequate railway service. Mr. Langdon claims that the change has been due to the consistent following up of a definite policy of development. Mr. Langdon may be said to be wholly right, while the C.N.R. Magazine is partly right. No doubt Northwestern Quebec could not have made such ‘phenomenal progress without superior railway service. But the railway service was just a part of a definite policyâ€"a policy that featured roads, encouragement to industries, bonuses for landâ€" clearing and other assistance to the development of the coumtry on wellâ€"studied plans. Recently Quebec has appeared to prejudice some of the deâ€" velopment that has been won on broad lines by the isted on the | adoption of one or two narrow measures, but the m enâ€" | chances are that this is but a passing phase and done someâ€" | that Northwestern Quebec will thrive still further well as mep | in the future, thanks to a:carefully planned and thur Meighâ€" ‘_eonsistently developed policy founded: on broad ention a tew\ Ontario can find no more protitable line of pou- 1 _ the North rth must acâ€" tle more care 1 have made progress. The n West gives e was a time gh calibre of ed that both These are but outlines of what a policy for the North should contain. The big need is for a deâ€" finite policyâ€"a permanent policyâ€"a policy that will do away with the hit and miss methods of the past. If any proof were needed of the greatness of the North, it is to be found in the fact that deâ€" spite the policies or lack of policies of the past, the North has lived through it all and achieved a certain measure of prosperity and progress. . W. 0. Langdon, president of the Northern Onâ€" tario Associated Boards of Trade, Handed The Adâ€" vance a striking illustrétion of the value of a deâ€" finite and detailed policy for development as conâ€" trasted with the old rule of thumb methods. This illustration is based on a chart published in The Canadian National Railways Magazine. The chart shows the situation in Northwestern Quebec in the years 1922 and 1937 respectively. In 1922 the population was 15,000; there were 600 settlers living precariously and with little real hope for the future. The total wealth produced in the area was $4,000,000. What a difference is shown by the picture for 1937! This year the population has grown to 50,000. There are 30,000 settlers, most of them on the way to independence and success. The land settled totals 1,500,000 acres. There is an inâ€" vestment of approximately $300,000,000 in mines. The wealth produced has grown from $4,000,000 to $35,000,000. "By 1922," says the C.N.R. Magaâ€" zine, "some development had taken place, but toâ€" day the district is a hive of industry, particularly in the mining industry." In a special policy for the North, there would need to be special provision for the care of the general health, the education and the social welâ€" fare of the people, with special attention to any WM“Mfimm "cireumstances that may obtain in this country. The rights and privileges of the workers, so far as different situations may prevail in this country, should also have particular attention in any programme outlined. It may be true that roads are the great need of the people of the North for the immediate present. Roads should be built and maintained for the serâ€" vice of the people of the North and to give transâ€" portation to the industries of the North. This should be the main purpose of roadâ€"building, with roads for tourists and speeders a secondary conâ€" sideration. In this connection it should not be forâ€" gotten that roads‘for settlers are a necessity for the proper development of the North. In recent years no one appears to have been thinking much about roads for settlers. Had there been more atâ€" tention given to roads for settlers there might have been less need for relief for settlers. At the present moment what the North needs is not political trickery, but the enunciation of a policy for the North. This policy should look to the development of the country, not only for the sake of the North, but equally for the advantage of all Ontarioâ€"all Canada. To the average man the first plank in such a policy should be the matter of roads. Such a plank should be prominent in any platform for the North, but there are other issues of vital importance. Indeed, what should overâ€" shadow all other features in outlining a policy for the North is the idea of a considered and definite programmeâ€"a programme that should have perâ€" manence and continuityâ€"a programme that would continue indefinitely and not be a matter simply for election time. It should be such a proâ€" gramme as would be carried out no matter the party in power. The hit and miss plan that has prevailed so far has retarded the progress of the North. Next there should be a very definite and detailed policy to assist the settlers to establish themâ€" selves. This seems to imply a form of bonus for landâ€"clearing as well as the establishment of govâ€" ernment farms and schools to suit the particular needs of the North. No policy for the North would be complete withâ€" out special attention given to the mining and lumbering industries. These industries should be encouraged by fair treatmentâ€"they should not be crushed by undue taxation nor restricted in political way to the detriment of the country‘s progress. at randomâ€"were the high type of men who carâ€" Tied the banner for the West. The interests of the West were kept to the front in such a way that it is safe to say that had a similar plan been folâ€" lowed by both parties in the North, the progress of this country and its development would have been assured, irrespective of what party might be in power. : . A visitor to town this week was telling The Adâ€" vance of the straightening of the Ferguson highâ€" way in the New district The change of route leaves Thornloe am @rlmn sidetracked from the highway. Even from the standpoint of â€""Hope springs eternal in the human breast." There are optimists who are already enjoying in anticipation the comfort and convenience of the new Timmins town hall. Those who have occasion to use the town hall are tempted to believeâ€"now that the old town hall was better than no town hall at all. Tuberculcsis spreads not in fafifilies only; it spreads in schools, in industrial In the search for new and original forms of taxâ€" ation in townâ€"such as taxing coal chutes, signs and fire escapesâ€"why didn‘t some one suggest a tax on dust, with the mayor to pay the tax in jusâ€" tice, being about the only man in town living in a dustâ€"free block. A\ Tuberculosis is a "catching‘" GiSease. It spreads from person to person in the household. "Every death, every case, unccntrolled," says Dr. McKinnon} "indicates a possible focus of infection to yield in one, two, five or twenty years‘ time new cases and more deaths and these in turn to yield others." . tics and the people of the North no more valuable department of selfâ€"government than the inaugurâ€" ation and continuance of a detailed, definite and permanent policy for the development of the North. : 4 or 5 deaths of women in the age group of 20 to 29. This is in spite.of the fact that the gensral mortality rate is toâ€"day only oneâ€"third of what it Was 30 years ago. But the mortality of: tu- berculosis is not our only public '-lth problem in relation to this malady:} prevalence has to be conside"ed"’" 7 3233 beds in sanitoria in On always filled and there is constan' long waiting list. Dr. McKinnon: inéist,s that there are at the moment from: 5000 to 10,000 cases of tuberculosis ‘fh the province. jOf the 1303 deaths, 60 per cent. were contributed by the age group 15 to 49, the majority of these by the age groups 20 to 35. In the years of life from fifâ€" teen to 49, made up of adolescence, young adult life and early manhood and womanhoogd, life‘s. most..active years, tuberculosis was responsible for more deaths than any other disease and was second only to the group of external causesâ€"accidents, suicides, homicides, etc.â€"as chief cause of death. _ This being so, it means that the rising generation, including medical students, nurses in training, young adults: and even school children are more aptâ€"to die from tuberculosis, kefore they reach 50, than from any other disease..Tuâ€" berculosis is, therefore, the greatest menace among all diseases that face adclescence and young adult life. This is especially true of young women. Tuâ€" berculosxs still accounts for 1 in â€"every Tuberculosis Still Problem in Ontario According to Dr. Neil McKinnon of the School of Hygiene, Toronto, tuberâ€" culosis is still a problem in the Proâ€" vince of Ontario. While the mortality rate for 1935, namely 36 in every 100,â€" 000 of population, was the lowest ever recorded in Ontario, there were 1303 deaths from tuberculosis as compared with 4214 from cancer and 7053 from heart disease, and in the first 50 years of life tuberculosis killed more persons than did either heart disease or canâ€" cev. There Were 1303 Deaths From ‘the Disease in 1935 (John W. S. McCullough, M.D., D.P.H.) GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER OPTICAL COMPANY 14 Pine St. N. _ Phone 835 "I loathe school" "I don‘t think you would, Jean, if you found your studies a little easier. The way you missed that last shot I‘m sure your eyes are all to blame â€" and those wrinkles over your eyes aren‘t a bit necessary. You‘d better have Mr. Curâ€" tis examine your eyes beâ€" fore school starts." IEImproved sight costs less at the Pene. s e among mpn nurses: its tnctdanee im gacls and mental hospitals is notorious. At causes more deaths than diphtheria, scarlet fever or measles, and nearly as many as whooping cough. ‘__The one bright spot in connection wit.h tuberculosis is the history of its ‘ control in the last 30 or 35 years. The 'morwlty has been more than cut in ‘three Pr.‘ Brink, tuberculosis chief in Queen‘s Park, Toronto, has shown that the amount of infection ‘in the populaâ€" tionâ€"too, has decreased. There is plenty of evidence that the affection can be con_trolled. One thinks that the best method of control is the discovery of the infection in its earliest stages; in the children tefore adult tuberculosis is reached. If all school and preâ€"school children were "sifted" by the tuberculin test and then taken proper care of, the problem would be in the way of solution. It will cost a good deal of money to do this "sifting," but it will cost far more money, to say the least of it, to take care of future cases of tubercuâ€" losis if early control of the disease is delayed. Wedding Last Week at Heaslip Church Englehart, â€" Aug. 23.â€"St. â€" James Church, Heaslip, was the scene of pretty wedding Wednesday, Aug. 18, when Eileen, only child of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Smith, was united in marriage to Anthony Campbell, Timmins. . The bride, who with her mother,, has been very active in the Heaslip Music Club, will be greatly missed in the comâ€" munity and the many beautiful gifts Miss Eileen Smith and Mr. Anthony Campbell Marâ€" ried. Toronto Exhibition Branch IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA OPEN AUGUST 27th TO SEPTEMBER 11th All China, as Friend Julias Caesar would say, is divided into two partsâ€"cooks and laundrymen. At the moment it looks as if the Chinese were going to cook the goose of the Japanese and make A clean job of it. If cleanliness be next to godliness, then Timmins is no heaven of a place at present, what with the dust, old papers, garbage and whatnot blowing around. the tourist it does not seem a good idea. The route is the less interesting because of the sidetracking of the interesting little towns. From the standâ€" point of the service of the people of the North, the new route is completely objectionable. The main purpose of a highway in this country is to serve the existing communities. If it fails to do that the highway misses its chief objective. It is sincerely to be hoped that the election â€".campaign will cenâ€" tre governmental attention on this matter of havâ€" ing the highway serve the communitiés of the North as well as providing transportation faciliâ€" ties for trucks from the South. Dangerous curves on the highway should be eliminated wherever possible but surely the purpose of road building in the North is to bind together the communities of the country as well as to allow highway departâ€" ment engineers to practise drawing straight lines. This branch is operated during the Exhibition for the convenience of the Canadian National Exhibition Association and the public, and is one of 191 branches operated across Canada. IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA Banking service on the grounes in the Administration Building, near the fountain HEAD OFFICE i TORONTO Capital and Surplus $15,000,000 testified to the esteem in which the two young people are held in the neighbourâ€" hood where both spent their childhood and early years. The church was beauâ€" tifully decorated with flowers by young friends of the bride. Rev. Robert Trowâ€" bridge officiated. j The bride, who was given in marriage by her father. wore a simple dress of white sheer with veil and orange blosâ€" soms. She carried a bouquet of white roses. Miss Hilda Soutar, in pink flat crepe with bouquet of pink roses, was bridesmaid, while two little girls, Phyllis Bates in green pongee and Joyce Hamâ€" merton in peach pongee, each carrying Exhibition‘Branch W. E. Lewis, Manager ALBERT COLLEGE Illustrated Prospectus and information regarding Bursaries and Scholarships sent on request. REV. BERT, HOWARD, Principal ALBERT COLLEGE "Sifamo‘ (Eightieth Year) A RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND YOUNG MEX Separate Residential Accommodation for a Limited Number of Young Ladies, Albert Coliege offers the finest mcillfles to obtait the best in Academic: Achievement, ‘Spiritual Enrichment, Cultural Improveâ€" ment and Physical Development at an exceedingly moderate cost.. Pubviic, Lower and Middle School, Honour Matriculation Preparatory School 8â€"14. U"u Scho.l for Boys from 14â€"18. For Boarders and Da Boys prepared for Business, Universities lnd oyal Military College. 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Upper School For Boarders and Day Business, Universities and im gives the benefit of cor to graduation, with special THURSDAY, AUGUST asTH, 1987 §g4 VVIIIAI.ILIQLIA, The bridesmaids wore rings a.ndwen- dants with birthday stones, gifts. trom the groom, and the groom‘segift ?fiq the groomsman was a silver clgarefite ‘case. After the:ceremony a reoeptton was held in the community hall at Heaslip, which was beautifully decor@ted with flowers, the colour scheme belng pmk and white. + After a short honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. Campbell will reside in Timmins. quaint posies of pastel colours, comâ€" pleted the picture. Mrs. L. M. Bates officiated at the organ. Ed. Allan was Simcoe Reformer:â€"‘"The Greenwich police court magistrate told a woman the other day that it was not right for her to hit her husband on the head with a saucepan.‘" â€" Manchester Guardian. What, then, should she have hit him on the head with? Baker has been unconszsious‘since his admittance to the hospital, and it is feared his skull is fractured, as well as one arm. No charges have as yet been laid. A Jemmett and a companion, Bert Bailley, <beth ~swore they didn‘t see either youth until they heard the thud, while Cragg said he didn‘thear or see the approaching car until the accident by Bruce Jemmett, New Liskeard. Baker and Leonard Cragg were proâ€" ceeding ncrth, walking, allegedly, on the wrong side of the highway, when the Jemmett car overtook them and struck Baker, who was on the pave- ment. H. A. Baker, Lake Shore road fesident, is in the Red Cross hospital here in a critical condition after having been struck on the highway one mile south of here Sunday night by a car driven by Bruce Jemmett, New Liskeard. Struck by Auto and Said to be in Critical Condition New â€" Liskeard, Ont.,.. Aug. > 25th.â€" Walter Baker, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs.