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TIMMIXNS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Associtation:;: Ontactoâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association:; Class ‘*‘A" Weekly Group OFFICE 26 â€"â€"â€" PHONES RESIDENCE 10 * Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher There are six vacancies in the Senate of Canaâ€"| da at the present time. As The Globe and Mail points out, it is no dearth of applications that causes the positions to remain vacant. Indeed,l there is reason to believe that the delay in filling! the vacancies is more‘likely to be due to the very ' fact that there are so many good people who feel | they have a special call to fill the posts. The Govâ€" ernment‘s difficulty is not to pick men to fill the} places, but to find ways and means to allay the disappointmient of those who will not be selected. 5 In addition there are all sorts of traditions and: precedents that are supposed to be followed. This | makes the filling of the places the more difficult. | So many in the Senate have to be from one proâ€" ' vince, so many from another; so many have to' be of one faith, and so many of another; so many have to be of one race, and so many of another. With the appointment of a woman to the Senate, % the Bennett Government established another preâ€" | cedentâ€"another difficulty. Among all the other things that will have to be considered will be the thought that every once in a while it will have to be a woman that gets the appointment to a Senate | seat. And by the time that every province has a! woman to represent every race, every creed, every | political complexion and every part of the area, l the Government will be as greyheaded â€" as the | Senate. ‘ In regard to seeing that all the different sec-i tions of the country are represented, the Governâ€" ! ments have all been sadly remiss. Never in the: history of this part of the North has a senator been chosen from what is known sometimes as the T. N. O. country. Yet this T. N. O. counâ€" try is an important part of Ontario, of Canada. It has producedâ€"is producingâ€"immense new wealth to keep Canada on even keel in a waveâ€"tossed world. It is a funny thing (that is, it would be considered funny over the radio) that whenever a government thinks of finding someone to take care of the unemployed, the North naturally jumps to mind. "There‘s prosperity, work, wealth in the North," say the wise heads then. But when it comes to Senatorships, no one thinks of the North, except the newspapermen here who have been pointing out for years that a Senator from the North would be of value to the North, to Onâ€" tario, to Canadaâ€"even to the Senate itself. Every government in recent years has had Members from the North. Some of them have had Cabinet Ministers from the North. But there has never been a Senator from the North. How come? Why not? and so on! The North has sent Members to NW-- «lt uinss PAGE FOUR Timmins, Ont., Thurs., January 20th, 1938 Ottawa that have been outstanding. The North had a Cabinet Minister that was the P1'emier's" rightâ€"hand man. Are all premiers leftâ€"handed} when it comes to Senatorships? It would be | thought, perhaps, that when the powers-that-â€"be! at Ottawa noted the value of the Members and | Cabinet Ministers that come from the North, they ; would naturally say:â€""The North is just the place to plant one of those vacant senatorships." The North needs more apostles at Ottawaâ€"and everyâ€"| where. Jos. A. Bradette, M.P., has done a fine | piece of work in telling the truth about the North‘ at Ottawa on any and every occasion. What a splendid thing it would be for the Northâ€"for all Canadaâ€"if he had a sort of sideâ€"kick in the Ssenâ€"| ate, to do there the missionary work that Member Bradette does in the Commons. ! If Premier King would simply say that one of | those six seats just simply had to go to the Northâ€" that this large and valuable section of the country | must be represented in the Senate of Canadaâ€" | then a sikth of his present difficulties in regard to | filling Senate vacancies would be automatically | cancelled. That should be a big help to Mr. King. It isn‘t every statesman that can shave a sixth af his troubles away so easily. A Senator for the | Cho ynrrupit}g?‘bnanw ‘f It isn‘t of his troubl« North! As the old Irishman said, "the world is getting | tions. The shelling and no better fast." There was a time in this North ing terror, death, disable Country when people did not need to lock up their only to soldiers, but to ¢ nouses when they left home. Indeed, there were ‘ children helplessly caug nouses here where the doors were never locked. : war has brought misery There were locks, perhaps, but some of them Were | proportions. A fund is out of order. Scotsmen could see no reason fOf | ining to alleviate some spending good money to fix old locks, so long S| ponations, made payabl the doors would keep closed to keep the cold Out.| ese Relief Fund," may C In those good old days stores didn‘t need watchâ€" \ Committee for the Reli men. Merchants were accustomed to displaying | Jarvis Street, Toronto, everything from rakes to washing machines and | bank or Red Cross offic from clothing to newspapers in doorways and on | is sidewalks before their stores. Sometimes the g iGR AVEL AND §A storekeeper would be unavoidably gelayed at 2 | L. . . in n ce se an ce poker game and go home without remembering to| The stork was a very take in the goods. But when the assistants got} during 1937, bringing r around in the morning, as they usually did, the ) that town of 5500 peop goods were all safely on display in doorways and | words, that the stork vis on wailks. Everything was safe without lock or key. ‘ in every 100 working d No man was going to the trouble of stealing goods| had enough Fort Franc from in front of a store and hauling the goodsl|every lawful holiday, i ce lt lt PA mm lt e es esP W ATCH YOUR HOISTS Subscription Rates omm t P PAE P «n it BP P lt PA l e y L*A nited Statesâ€"$3.00 Per Yoea away. Why should he? Couldn‘t he have the goods delivered to his house, telling them to charge it up? Well, anyway, everything was safe from thieves. But how about these later years? Try leaving a door unlocked at the house these days, and likely they‘ll take door and all away. Talk about leaving goods on the sidewalk! Why, the jewelers find the goods are not safe in the windows, even behind thick plate glass. The North certainly "ain‘t what she used to be." Too much civilization, or someâ€" thing! Perhaps, the worst has happern week three men pleaded guilty a| town to stealing a couple of they weren‘t the sort of hoists Timmins shift boss told about at stood back and allowed the sive civilians of China to be sl: thousands. The feeling is muc the ordinary man would have if ] and watched without protest w ravished, children killed and old slaughtered. Much of the und China to date has been little wholesale murder of nonâ€"combat day or two the news from China pressing. It appears that the unexpected resistance and JaF being exterminated in a wholes the Chinese civilians in the earl declared war. There is indeed a 1 now that the Chinese may overw. and drive them from the count! result would prove highly pleasivr the methods by which it would would not be sOo satisfactor]} victories reported appear to h: outlawed Communist troops, wh is supposed to have thrown sor power on the side of the Chines aeroplanes and munitions are â€" freely used in China‘s behalf. L l tory proves no more than a suCcd \ism, then the last state of Cht |- nappy as the first. _ There is no doubt but that th %vast majority of the people of ( with the Chinese nation in th served affliction. sympathy, enough in such a case. Most p€ | there should be something mor the suffering, or a feeling of sh: stood idly by. Perhaps, it is 1 faet that has prompted the z2 national committee has taken u lief of war sufferers in China. mittee, headed by Sir Henry Dra | 18 sponsored by the Canadian 1 . religious bodies of Canada, inclu !Baptist. Catholic, Disciples, Fric | byterian, salvation Army, Unite ‘er denominations. The nation ‘appeals to the Canadian peopl pointed out that both Japan an dered the offer of medical and 1 | the International Red Cross. J@ l'mg that she had made the n China accepted, because she was iAs the national committee poil | and severity of the suffering of 1 is probably without parallel in |tions. The shelling and bombi | proportions. A ilUL thing to alleviate Donations, made pf ese Relief Fund," n Committee for the Jarvis Street, Toro bank or Red Cross The stork was a during 1937, bringi that town of 5500 words, that the stotr HELP FOR CHINA i very Dusy Dira ging no less tha ) people. That 1 ork visited Fort I king days of the Frances babies | t but bL are people of nation in t sympathy, ase. Most p paralieél 1 and bom! ablement to countl aught in erv and C t that the sympathy of the i eople of Canada nas been on in their present unde-! npathy, however, is snot Most people will feel that hing more than sorrow for ing of shame for those who . it is a recognition of this d the zeal with which a s taken up work for the reâ€" China. This national comâ€" enry Drayton, as chairman. nadian Red Cross and the ida, including the Anglican, ples, Friends, Jewish, Preésâ€" ny, United Church and othâ€" e national committee now an people for funds. It is Japan and China were tenâ€" ical and relief assistance by ~ross. Japan declined, statâ€" ie the necessary provision. e she was in desperate need. ittee points out, the extent ering of the people of China rallel in the history of naâ€" id bombing of cities, bringâ€" lement and destitution, not eountless women and little ight in the path of ruthless y and distress of monstrous s being raised to do someâ€" e of this terrible suffering. ble to the "Red Cross Chinâ€" be mailed to the "National Ataf af ‘"UGar Snfferers." 621 es babies Ileft to Ga ncluding Sundays to the h r Sufferer ted at an 12 any local THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTMMINS, ONTARIO It n.l In reference to a note in the last issue of The ;. | Advance, a local reader writes to ask:â€""Who is _ | this Charlie McCarthy that you have mentioned?" w The answer is:â€""Charlie McCarthy is the most is | popular dummy on the radio toâ€"aay." 1: It is a pleasure to answer questions. Thiriks People Will Miss Something Under_â€" Mail Delivery. ‘nu Philosopher Amused by Lineâ€"up at Ofilce ons To the Editor of The Advance, Timmins. Dear Sir;â€"I understand 1 to have the mail delivered . der what difference it is gol: We all know it will save us a lot of waiting but somehc a lot of people will miss their mail the same as th they ran out of funds and up their favourite club on not being able to pay their Iâ€"think I have spert an ay minutes a day in the line fo week and as we get a letter a month with an occasional in, not counting light ard I believe I have spent 1326 ] line during our stay in Ti received about 400 letters. Yet I don‘t think I wo have missed it. In seventeen years I can | I have only seen three pe line whom I knew, and in . I had a great deal of tin difficult to understand how some people can reâ€" tain a faith in the stork and still question the reality of Santa Claus. A London, England, Borough Councillor the | other day brought up the matter of ballot papers. He pointed out that the meagre description given on the present election ballots often leaves the voters in doubt as to the identity of the candidates. The same difficulty has been noticed in this counâ€". try. In one recent election in Timmins one oi the candidates for mayor gained some votes, and perhaps lost some other votes because some voters 3 thought he was a man of the same name who was a barber. There is little doubt that Councillor Wren gains votes because his name passes for that of W. Rinn. It was a general belief here that Wellington Armstrong was given many votes when he ran for public school trustee because he was thought to be another Armstrong. In the same way when this Mr. Armstrong ran for council at the recent municipal election he lost votes because the friends of the other Armstrong were told that the candidate was the wrong Armstrong, while his own friends were confused by stories that it was the other Armstrong that was running. But what should be done to right this sort of thing? The London Borough Councillor suggests the printing on all ballots of a rather detailed biography of the candidates, including their occupation, place of birth, political party affiliations, age, marital conâ€" dition and so on. Whether this would help matters Timmins, OT 18 ¢re:the unst liq1i Ve are soon ind I wornâ€" iz to make. Vaik anCt 1 believe d 1g thd l1 bus IMPERIAL BANK OF CANXNADA th ushed into the line about Nhail way Up. They had no sooner settled than omeone spoke to the first man and ic was decent enough to take his place t the end. Then the other man was poken to but he began to shout and vave his arms and say he had been is going on On one oC past ycar s acliViliCcs YOLU iess opportunities you did of ready capital. That is mes in. . We make loans to finz2zuce business through ‘Cause J as said felt many m one ocasion I was at the end of ng line when a man walked in and ied through the line: and walked again through the doors at the iry end.. He then came in the main rs again and he and another man aed into the line about half way up. hev had no sooner settled than Time for Taking Stock en there is the child and puts it While she is . I‘s antics she is elf into the line. antklcs she is graduaiiy Cdnilia f:intoâ€"the line. ever, she looks over her shoulder ny times during her walk to the that I think that most people > as I do:â€""Her nerves are under . strain for fear someone will ask > step back that that is punishâ€" enougzh." round and pC have a a great sense of humour deal of comedy in much is a question. Some people would be conâ€" fused no matter how many details might be given. Indeed, too many details might make more conâ€" fusion than already may exist. Neither would the printing of the candidate‘s picture on the ballot prove any sure help. It might, as a matter of fact, keep many from voting for a candidate who was actually a firstâ€"class man even if he didn‘t look it. In the same way a photo might bring votes for some goodâ€"looking fellow, who might look a whole lot better than he was at heart. There is one gentleman in town who is not comâ€" plaining because the delivery of mail has not been started yet in Timmins. He takes a philosophica! view of the matter, suggesting that the people who have been accustomed to standing in line waitinE for their mail will miss this daily occupation and the opportunity it gives for the study of humaln nature by watching the others in the line and those passing through the line and seeking unfair â€" ly to take somebody‘s else place in the line. Toronto is all excited and annoyed because a little snow fell in that city and held up traffic and dislocated business for a few hours. Toronto peoâ€" ple are not accustomed to being snowed under, except at election time. lady who brings on the fioor to laughing at the gradually easing According to some of the Toronto the proposal to increase the radio license fee in Canada is due to the Canadian Broadcasting Corâ€" poration spending too much noney during the past year. Remarkable as it miy appear, all the artists appearing on conlmissionfprogrammes are paid. In some cases, no matter What the amount may be, it is worth it all. In sone other cases, no one knows why. just what been movâ€" that slow march from the end of the line to the wicket and it has certainly been worth while. But not long ago I saw something which I thought was the nerve Oof comedy. The line on this day was not very long and a man near the end was standing back in order to leave a space for people to pass through, which I beâ€" lieve you will agree was a manly thing to do. One young lady, however, thought he was fcolish and practically told him so. She stepped through the gap and then turned and deliberately stepped into the gap. experience of his superior officer; force of the organization is thus whole system of Imperial B: throughout Canada. [{ you have a problem involving finan« any service within the scope of banking,~ in and see us.â€" Make our local manager business confidant. man catic pret not. NC w Liskeard Speaker:â€"A young asked if he favoured higher eduâ€" n for women, said: "No, if they are y, it‘s unnecessary, and if they are it‘s inadequate." A N Regular Dividend of the McIntyre Porcupine Mines Mcintyre Porcupine Mines, Porcuâ€" pine district, has declared the quarterly dividend of 50 cents per share, payable March 1 to shareholdâ€" ers of record Feb. 1. On the 798,000 shares outstanding, dividend calls for distribution of $399,000G. Last year the company distributed total of $1,569,000, the same amount ¢s in the three previous years. Totatl amount distributed since inception of dividends in 1917 to the end of 1937 was $17,746,517. Current declaration will bring grand total to $18,145,51"7. Golden Gate Expects to Have Mill Going in April Preparations for production at the Golden Gate Mining Company‘s proâ€" perty, Kirkland Lake, are being hurâ€" ried with a view to havirg the mill in readiness for the turnâ€"over in April. Machinery has been arriving daily and practically all has been delivered. practitally all has been delivered. S. A. Pain, consulting engineer, reâ€" ports that the highâ€"grade 303 vein has been opened for more than 185 feet on the 475â€"foot level and is still in ore with the face showing free gold, Beâ€" sides showing greater length, width is also better than on the 350â€"foot level, where it was opened for 130 feet, averâ€" also better than where it was opf $60 in gol: 14 Pine St. N. Th« to parents is to h children‘s eyes 2xamined at an early age. I speak from experience. My eldâ€" est boy was twelve when we discovered his eyes needed correction. Had we known sconer, c ha nces are his sight would be brought back to near normal by now. How sorry we are that we didn‘t have his eyes exâ€" amined sooner." T C "My advice nc CCNtr. red to th branchs Prices Are Definitely Lower at e their amined I snpeak