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‘ Canadian Pacific (From te Globe and Mail) During the short periods the Flying Newsrccm has been “grounded”. while the motors were being gone over or the fuel tanks replenished there has been time to get around among the boys and learn their Opinions of the situ- ation,.general and Provincial. Most of them are extremely emphatic, but all unanimous in opinion that. while the mooch may have'aided, the prospector has gained nothing‘from the Securities Act. It might help the administrators" of that ast and the members of the Legislature W' f ‘ it to visit Red Lake and asc'értain for themselves just. how popular they and their works are. One well-known pros- pector with a world of experience in the North country consented to be interviewed upon the subject for the benefit of Globe and Mail readers. and. although some of his picturesque lan- guage cannot. be reproduced. we have done our best to interpret what he said. as follows: “During the past few years much has been written about the Red Lake mining distr‘2t and about some of the men who helped put it on the map. Conservative mining journals have lauded its possibilities while the moronic magazines have painted a picture of a land flowing ,with milk and honey. inhabited by a race of supernien. “The R-zd Lake prospector is fully, cognizant of the economic possibili- ties of the areaa but when the ravings of some drooling lunatic are shown to him in the pages of ‘Freedom‘. or the ‘Weekly Hewl‘. he dismisses them with ' .“WV w any 'more. I'm not blaming the store- keepers nor any individual; it’s just the mentality of these noble-experi- menters that causes the goose to be sacrificed for the sake of a bad egg. Let's tell Toronto to give the country a prayer to Allah and alaconic ‘Bull!’ !bac'< to the Indians and enroll us in "The District of Patricia. in which the-Boy-Scouta‘" Red Lake is situated has been until! recently the happy hunting grounds at ' some .very able prospectors, who have given ’of their best in years and strength to the profession of their choice. Unâ€"‘ . - . , ~- cornplainingly they roamed through, IA: LOW-19D 135': W881i a 21â€"year-old trackless forest and treacherous mus-,1 young lady whose home was said *0 keg. mugged by 'bush fires, tortured'be at Iroquois Falls was sentenced to by mosquito and black fly. ever sem~£.f0.ur 31.1011th in jail With hard labour Ol‘. ing for the gold that meant madam "No ‘char'ges of ’ passing false cheque-s. from financial “tomes. a bellyfu-l 0.; Other charges at Brantiord and Ham- decent» gru‘i, a shack near their own .il‘ton are said to be also pending against Girl:Cl-ainthw,r Iroauois Falls as Home, Sentenced kmd.j,.wh§;e ,they might pass their ROUTESâ€"Tickets good some via Port. Arthur.,_Ont-. Amstromz. Ont... Chl- ago. 111.. or Sault Ste. Marie. return- ing via same route and line only. Generous optional matings. Pmspector Gives ‘ Ideas of Red Lake Somje' Expressions Edited so that Publication may be Made. MYERSâ€"within limit of “that. 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DAIRY APPROXIMATELY PHONE 935 and Our'Driyer Will Call _‘,, -0â€" iOwMIm-m wane 63m. guaranteed a wimevery e he gives 'a dollar to .a broker. you and I have to quit. prcspectjng in the country we know and‘ either start. all over again in British Columbia or go stubble-jumping for our boalrdnThat’s' a fine piece of business! There ought to be a law! months on each chin” to run con- secuuvely." “ ‘Those were the days,’ he muses now, as Ontario’s Forgotten Man sits idiy .by the lake shore watching, ever watching. for a sign. A few planes are still landing at the airport, but no en- gineer steps off looking for a min-‘ ing prospect. Just a salesman or a couple of parcels from Eaton’s. Nobody ever looking for a fellow to prospect some company's‘Claims. . “You have been van a number or chances.” aid the gistnte. “Your name of Myrtle Robinson. was from Irzquois Falls. In the evidence given at the trial it appeared that in some pieces the young lady. claimed to have her home, at _O:tawa. There was some evidence at the trial of the way the young‘ lady worked the cheque racket. -_One London merchant told how Miss Rob‘nscn convinced him she belonged to an important Cztawa family and thin one of London’s best known resi- dents visited at her fathers home. The name of the Londoner was given as reference en the hack of the cheque (or $20 which the merchant cashed. Asked if she knew the man referred to Miss Robinson replied: “I have met him in News but. he didn‘t stay at our place." appearance has evidently heiped you. I understand there are cases pending against you in other emu The seat- haywtre,’ he says; ‘ t's sure goin' to be a tough winter. on well to hâ€"â€" with “There are several prospectors in Red Lake today who feel they have been let down. They blame a lot of umbrella- waving old women for the recent leg- islation which has succeeded in scar- ing away the capital required to pros- pect and dév‘eIOp mining properties. and is equally‘responsible with an in- ternational war threat and an economic depression in creating unemployment in a land of mineral wealth. “ “There’s a buncho’ men down there in Toronto,’.'one of the boys said a few days. ago, Kwho seem to think they can save the craven souls of a few weak- }lngs by legi§lafiion.‘Just because: some It is said that the pollce had been locking for the young woman for some time. following the cashing of worth- less :cheques at different places. When arrested at London. she was in com- pany With a girl from Iroquois Falls. but the police did not think this girl had any part in the passing of the cheques. It may have been this fact. that gave age to the idea that. the 21- AL‘ “Searching. ever searching. encour- aged by a co-operating government, fi- nanced by men of courage and vision, the prospector blazed new trails into districts previously known only to the Indian, bringing in'his tracks an army of workers supported by the machin- ery-of the constructive twentieth cen- tury. dechnlng years ‘chewing the rag' over a bottle of real beer. Where some of these men laboured the lonely call of the loan has been silenced by the pun‘ of the compressor and the roar of’the‘ crusher; stores. banks and hotels have replaced the tents of the wander- “‘We'v‘e got to do something about this thing, boys, or we'll soon find ourselves cutting more holes in our belts. Why. darn it, a fellow can’t even raise a $10 grubstake in this country any 'more. I'm not blaming the store- keepers nor any individual; it’s just the mentality of these noble- experi- menters that causes the goose to be sacrificed for the sake of a bad egg. Let's tell Toronto to give the country back to the Indians and enroll us in the Boy Scouts.“ " ere. Lefsa laws! At the next election I'm going to vote for the lad who promises to get a law passed that will make it illegal to have mo e than three horses run in any race at the same time. If I back all three. I shouldlbe able to save some money. There's a fairly liberal law for ycu now, in a conserva- tive way of thinking. The parade to the cenotaph and back again 'to the Legion hall was colourful and interesting. Berets of many differ- ent colours were worn by the members of the Legion. Their numbers were led by officials and by, two scarlet coated Mounted policemen. The ladies all wore white dresses with blue. and gold sashes over their should- ers. They wore blue berets. The Por- cupine District Pipe Band and the Tim- mins Oltizens’ Band presented their usual smart appearance. «Powassan Newszâ€"There must be a' "Nosman" in every family and: in every: business; other-wise outgo will exceed income. / Montreal’ Stanâ€"A newspaper asks: “What do ‘ you do with your old clothes?” Take them off at night and put them on again in the morning. Wreaths were laid on the cenotaph by Brigadier Genera Alexander Ross. Praident of the Canadian Command of the Legion. and by Austin Neame, President of the Timmins braneh :and representative of Zone 21 of the Pro- vincial Command. Officiating clergyman was Archdeacon Scott, more familiarly known to the members of the Legion as Canon Scott. The “Last Post." was sounded, and the Klltle Band played :the lament, “The Flowers of the Forest”. A min- ute's sllence was_followed by the “Re- veille”. - ’ The ceremony was concluded when the Tlmmlns band played the hymn, “Ablde with Me”â€" and “God Save the The service began with” a parade from the Legion hall. The Porcupine Pipe Band and the Tlmmlns Ciuzens’ Band provided the music. A long col- umn of legionnaires was followed by the women of the Ladies' Au‘xfllary of the Timmina branch of the Legion. The membeu of the Canadian Legion here from all over Ontatio for the On- tario Provincial Command convention held a service at the cenotaph on Mon- day evening in memory of their com- rades who tell during the Great War. Legion Pays Tribute 'to’ . Their Dead on Monday Deicgntea to Provincial Convention Join with «Branch 88,- Tim’mins, inColoui-fui and immcssive March and Cere- mony. Here on Monday. Wreath Placed by; Brig-Gen. Bosaflgnd Austin Ncame. Archdeacon Scott,~ Officiat- ing Clergyman. Commie sars, great droves ‘of bureau heads technical directors and sub- directors of state industries have be- come the new aristocracy of Russia. Their salaries run anywhere from $8000 to $30,000 a year and they are inordin- ately jealous of their rights and privi- leges. In Moscow some of them can be seen riding in their 1937 Roils-Royces, Cadillacs and Packards, dancing. at night at the Metropole with girls who can afford-$50 for a pair of shoes, eat- ing caviar. drinking champagne and getting noisily drunk.” Colo‘uel Drew could find no sense of proportion or reality in the Russia .of to-day. Fabulous sums were being paid iron despotism, far more rigotdus than anything dreamt of under the Roman- offs. Thousands are executed each year. more thousands exiled to Siberia. According to Colonel Drew it is just the opposite of a workmen's paradise. The standard of living is lower than alrnost any other country in the world; wages are pitiful, ranging from $25 a month for ordinary laborers to $60 for' highly skilled artisans. A, decent pair of shoes costs $40. men‘s ready- made suits from “$75 to. $100, women‘s dresses of fair material $100. There is no freedom as understood in any Bri- tish country. Stalin and countless corn- “$1n1‘w~o-1 aims; h‘oid '180 hiiljli‘figffi-pefibzgfâ€"ih in _ tFrorn Ottawa Jsurnal) “The pecple in the Russian villages and smaller towns are mostly in bare feet and tattered rags. I have never before seen whole masses of people literally on the verge of starvation. I had not realized that such ghastly des-' titution still existed anywhere in the world. I have seen negroes and poor Whites' in the South. They live like kings compared with a large percentage of the Russian peasants to- -day." This is an excerpt from an article in The Toronto Globe and Mail by Colonel George A. Drew. of Toronto. who re- cently paid an extensive visit to Soviet Russia. Conditions in Russia its Seen by Colonel G. A. Drew ymnflawcmow. fIhis week at London, England, a re- ward 0f fifty pounds sterling was post- ed for the return of a -2Wyem-old skeleton stolen from a prison cell. The skeleton, chained upright to an cakenchair. was stolen from Rye Hbuse at; Hoddeson, Hertfordshire. scene .of the famous Rye House plot, against Charles II. The castle is a tourist attraction. It’s owner. T. Green, said he believed the “kidnapping” was somebc-dy’s “gris- ly kind of a joke.” The Rye House plot was a scheme by one of Cromwell’s republican offiâ€" 0.2115 to murder Charles II and the Duke of York. later- James II, in 1683. The plan was to kill them when they The purpose of the meeting is to elect officers for the association for the ensuing term. and to.choose dele- gates for the coming convention. The Liberal convention to choose a candi- date to carry the Liberal .banner in this", riding at the coming provincial election will be held at Iroquois Falls. at 2 pm. Eastern Standard Time, on Wédnes‘day, Sept. lst. Announcement is made that a general meeting of the Timmlns Liberal As- soclatlon will be held at the New Em- pire theatre‘ on Monday, Aug. 30th, at 7.30 pm. Gruesome Humour Shown . . -in London, England, Cell General Meeting of i ; Liberals, August 30 "Something ls going to happen very soon." declares Colonel Drew. "It can- not go on much longer the way it is. Some Russians had no hesitation in speaking their minds to me. It is not possible that one of the largest and greatest’nations in the world can con- tinue much longer under the heel of a man who makes the reign of Ivan the terrible seem like one of the happy per- icds of Russlan history." to domestic and American engineers and srchitects to build greet. hydro- eieetric’systems, isotories. runny: end counts. while practical: en the artisnns and workmen on these projects were paid starvation mes. Stranger still. the great Moscow-Volga canal was built entirety by prison labour and that in a proletarian state which was to banish prisons forever! In the New Empire Theatre To Elect Officers and ‘ 'Choose Delegates. The roads hate look as if the Ontario Plowmen‘s Afifiociation‘ had been hold- ing their ‘me et on‘ the roads. It the electicn had to be put ahead to the time when the loads were in good con- dition, the date w‘duld have to be some years ago In the meantime, about all that can be done about the roads and the election is to pray for rain around election time so that the dust won't be too bad. In reporting Premier Hepburn's sn- nouncement Of the date of ‘thé‘ coming provincial electidn'The Globe'and Mail says that most.o£'the Cabinet fayoured Oct. 12th. but that would have clashed with the annual meeting ofihe Ontario Plowmen's' Association. and to have de- layed the vote until the following week was “to court _the possibility of bad road, conditions in Northern Ontario." “The possibility of. bad road conditions in Northern-.Ontariol” is -a gem of Scottish irony surely! There ism; any "possibility" 'or "probability" Of Iliad road conditions i‘n 'tiie-‘North; It’s. a. double-dyed “certa‘inty’fâ€"an “ectuality”. The plotters were; arrested and the missing skeleton is supposed to be that of one of them. returned 1mm the Newmarkég races but. it was foiled when they mun-med a day ahead of schedule. - -~ -~ Mixing N ”orthern Roads ‘ and Plowmen’sr Meeting HAVE YOU; SEEN THE Special on Westinghouse Dual Automatic Refri- gerators . 'at LYNCH ELECTRICAL APPLI- ANCE COMPANY, 39 Third Avenue? . opp-am Uuldnclds "ml ”Incl .‘I‘IMMINS sums. mom om INSURANCE; IN ALL BRANCHES REAL ESTATE Mama-s sud lab I!» Huh om Tarn. W3“--- . 0-- Om”... ~ ‘0‘ O‘.~0.0---OO~OO‘-OO-" DOMINION BANK NllllJDINU he sent tickets for the showing of “Lloyds of London” at the Princess Theatre to quite a few of his clients. Mr. mun also does a bit of business with Lioyds. We would say that the next time we hear of a. picture about newspapers where the people all take out subscriptions without being solicit- ed. we’ll try and arrange for some extra tickets too. ‘ New Yorker:â€"Mae West. it seems to us. has taught Hollywood 3 much-need- ed ston. An actress’ marriage will last a nice long time if it is never used. Toronto Telegram zâ€"Itt's to be hoped that Palestine divided into three parts pro’ves more peaceful in future than does Ireland. divrded into two. Ready to Give Theatre Tickefis on Scottish Plan (From Val D’Or News) One of our local insurance men. B. J. Flynn. adopted a novel idea for gtimulat-lng his customers recently when PHONE “I WERHHON‘ “I HORIZON