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The Advance believes that there would be adâ€" vantage to Canada in a campaign to coax the home back to looking after the youthâ€"boys and girls. There are still thousands of homes in Canâ€" ada where there are occupations and interests and amusements for the children. It must be admitâ€" ted, however, that these homes find it more and more difficult to carry on, with the increasing tendency to have everything organized by outside agencies. The late King George said memorable words in one of his last messages to his people, when he stated that the Empire is founded on home and family life. It is something worth reâ€" One thought prompted by the letter in question is that more emphasis might well be placed on what the homes should do for the boys and girls, and less, perhaps, on what the town owes the youth. Soâ€"called modern ideas have an odd way of becoming lopâ€"sided. Take the description given in the letter of a girl‘s programme hereâ€" practice the piano, do homework, help with the dishes, attend duty meetings, enjoy the odd evenâ€" ing‘s skating. That may sound oldâ€"fashioned, yet thousands upon thousands of girls found interest and happinesé, and learned to face life with courâ€" age and common sense from such a programme. The Advance believes that such a programme breeds responsibility, helpfulness, the family hapâ€" piness. There are other joys that accompany such a programmeâ€"are part of itâ€"and make the girl‘s life neither dull nor uninteresting. The oldâ€" fashioned programme for the boy followed along somewhat similar lines. He had to cut wood and carry it in, shovel the snow or mow the lawn; he, too, had homework; and his skating, skiing, sports were also incidental. It is an odd fact, however, that under the soâ€"called modern methods, there «re so many seores of organizations to present the boys with supervised entertainment, sport and amusement. It is an equally odd fact that some years ago when there was an agitation here against homework, an unprejudiced observer would have jumped to the conclusion that it was only boys who were abused in this respect. At any rate the boys were more vocal in letting it be known that among the multiplicity of their occuâ€" pations, there was no time for homework. Judgâ€" ing from the time that has to be taken up by variâ€" ous occupations provided for boys, the lads can not have many chores, in some homes at least. Yet the oldâ€"time programme bred some worthy speciâ€" mens of citizens, and men who were happy, tooâ€" perhaps, happier than the youth of toâ€"day. There was a time when even dishwashing was not beyond the ken of some youth. One lad who gloried in the fact that he was a better dishwasher than any of his sisters toâ€"day occupies a high position in the public life of Canada, and his merry humour and nappy life have been a byâ€"word among all who know him. i The young lady writing the letter refers to the skating rinks for hockey practice, the summer camps, the clubs, societies, sportsâ€"all for boys. Of course, it should be remembered that there are active organizations for girlsâ€"the C.G.I.T., the Girl Guides, and similar movements. It is only fair to note that the churches are especially active in their sincere efforts to provide interests and entertainment for girls. Once upon a time Timâ€" mins had girl hockey teams, but at that time there was a tendency to believe that sports of this kind were liable to injure the health of girls. In past years Timmins also had active and successful girls‘ softball teams that won a fair measure of public support. The lessening of interest in this form of sport for girls was not due to any lack of symâ€" pathy of the public with the girls or the sport, but to extraneous causes. Yet with it granted that the girls have not been altogether overlooked in the matter of thought and attention, it must be admitâ€" ted that the girls have not shared fully in the effort given for the advantage of youth. It is true that much of the consideration given the boys has been due to the fact that a greater proportion of boys than girls are apparently somewhat of a problem. There is a tendency in the world today to think of the few who are a nuisance or a menâ€" ace and forget the thousands who are quiet and unobtrusive good fellowsâ€"boys or girls. This is a handicap to the average girl who does not atâ€" tract public attention by undue noise or mischief. In any event, however, The Advance has much sympathy with the idea in the letter that plans for the young folks of the town should be more on a fiftyâ€"fifty basis for boys and girls than they appear to be at present. A letter published elsewhere in this issue is worthy of some special thought. The letter sugâ€" gests that a great deal is being done for boys in this town but practically nothing to give the girls a chance at all the privileges showered upon the boys. Is there a tendency to forget the girls when making ambitious plans for the advantage of the youth of the town? It is worth more than a passâ€" Ing thought. Canacda~â€"$3.00 Per Year Timmins, Ont., Thursday, March 31st, 1938 TIMMIN®, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarcioâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association; Class ‘A" Weekly Group OFFICE 236 â€"â€"â€"â€" PHONES RESIDENCE 70 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: * GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Rates: Che Vorrupine Aduvance GIVE THE GIRLS A FAIR DEAL P . ul : P P P â€" P â€" L AP PP P AL ePA P PP P PM ! It is not surprising that gangsters should supâ€"| port the idea of the disarming of the police, but‘ it is astonishing that lawâ€"abiding people should' give any support to such a proposal, especially in' view of the fact that the present chaos in the{ world of nations is now admitted to be due to thei folly of a similar idea of disarmament. In this wicked world under the conditions that prevail,| plans of disarmament amount to nothing more' than the lawâ€"abiding peoples reducing their! protection while the illâ€"disposed seize the oppor-;i tunity to outfit themselves for evil action. When Napoleon III was urged to do away with the death penalty for murder, his apt answer was, "Let the assassins begin it." Similar answer was made this ‘ week by the Timmins police commission when| Mayor Bartleman suggested that the police force | here might take a chance without the protection of revolvers. The mayor‘s chief objection to armâ€" | ing policemen seemed to be that guns cost money.| Every gangster and every thug will support the mayor‘s suggestion, but honest and lawâ€"abiding people, who have nothing to fear though each policeman carried ten guns, will approve the attiâ€" tude of the other members of the commission and to the illegality of slot machines, some Sudbury aldermen actually desired to license the machines this year again. Surely, Sudbury had not planned any moneyâ€"making scheme similar to that imposed in Timmins. In any event Timmins may not gracefully condemn the Sudbury proposal with any particular moral force, but this town may well regret that the fairer procedure of Paris was not followed here. It is true that there was a tendency at sudbury to make that town appear in even less favourable light then Timmins in regard to the slot machine matier. After all the court pronouncements as The Paris plan appears much superior, and should be the one adopted by Timmins for any future case of similar type. A despatch last week from Paris noted that the slot machines and pin tablesâ€"being adjudged illegalâ€"were ordered to be removed from the town by the police comâ€" mission. An order was passed to have all license money refunded at once, and vendors were warned to have all machines off their premises within a few days. Paris may not have made any money out of this plan but the town certain gained good â€" will for a fair deal. It may be well for the people of Timmins to beâ€" lieve that Timmins is the best town there is. But holding such a loyal opinion, every effort should be made to make it a fact as well as a local patriâ€" otic idea. To assure this happy and desired obâ€" jective, lessons may well be taken from other towns. For instance there is the case of the town and its method of handling the slot machine question. The Paris method seems much more just and fair than the procedure in Timmins. Paris, like Timmins, licensed the pin machines before court judgments made it apparent that municipalities had no such power. The licenses in Timmins would have automatically elapsed at the end of March, and the town authorities havâ€" ing granted the licenses for the year, the situation would apparently have been met then by warning to those operating the apparently unlawful maâ€" chines, or by the simple announcement that as no licenses would be granted for the ensuing year, business places would be well advised to prepare for the removal of all these devices. Instead, it is understood that on the orders of the police comâ€" mission, "spotters" were employed to gather eviâ€" dence and the greater number of those having the slot machines on their premises were hailed to court and fined a few days before the licenses exâ€" pired. Many of the business men who were the victims of this procedure had never been in police court before and felt the undesirable prominence given them as most inequitable and unfair. One victim worded it this way:â€""They licensed us to run the machines and then fined us for doing so." Pew others will be able to see the matter in any different light. There seems to be a real danger at the present| moment that organizations may imagine they can take the place of the home, or do better than the good home. At most, they can do no more than add to the good work of the good home, or take| the place of the home that is not so good. The homte itself is the real hope of humanity. It is in supplementing the efforts of the home that orâ€" ganization can do its best. .In this supplementing, i girls should have equal consideration with the boys. The writer of the letter is very right ml that. The Advance would be delightedâ€"believés! the public of Timmins would be delightedâ€"with a | girls‘ bandâ€"with sports for girls. The Advance | believes the public would give generous support to any such ventures. Indications along this line are given by the fact that the young ladies in the' District Pipe Band win special public favour and| the Girl Guides, the C.G.LT. and other girls‘ or-' ganizations never fail to meet public approval and ! support. It would be a sign, indeed, of decadâ€"| ence, of going back to the dark centuries, if public interest were not as keen and as kindly for the| coming women of the race as for the coming men.| membering. There is nothing, no organization, no state, that can take the place of the right home, with the same benefit to the people and the same true happiness to youth. There are some people who pretend to believe that a diagram should accompany every jJoke submitted to an Englishman. Perhaps the editor of The Geraldton Times is one of the proverbial Englishmen of tradition. In any event here is the diagram:â€"Some weeks ago The Advance notâ€" ed that in an editorial The Geraldton Times made the following statement: the weekly newspapers as a whole, our own included, readers seldom have very little to complain about." The Advance commented to the effect that what The Times meant was really more complimentary than what The Times said. To this The Times retorts: "So What!" Hence the diagram. â€" What The of the chief of police in insisting that the officers of the law be equipped to meet any situations that may arise. It has been a most unusual thing here for an officer to use his revolver. iIt is a fact that the weapon is seldom needed, but when it is needâ€" ed, it is needed very badly. The very fact that the police are armed saves them the necessity for using their revolvers. As Magistrate Atkinson and Judge Caron both pointed out, the disarming of the police would be immediately followed by an influx to Timmins of other people who would not hesitate to use guns on unarmed people or police. The fact that the policemeon is supposed to carry a loaded gun, and that other people are not perâ€" mitted to carry arms is the country‘s best protecâ€" tion against thugs and gangsters. Manitoba, Alberta and Ontario are all, declared Mr. Matthews, getting beâ€" hind similar movements to protect the wholesaler, the retailer and the conâ€" sumer from the vicious practices that have discriminated against healthy business conditions. Not only, he statâ€" ed, must price cutting be stamped out but merchants must be stopped putâ€" ting new material into bankrupt stock and wholesalers must be stopped sellâ€" Section 9 of the bill stipulates a penâ€" alty not exceeding $500.00 for retailers eccnvicted of failing to comply with the new law. Ssection 4 of th‘e British Columbia bill is as follows:â€""No retailer shall sell or offer for sale in the Province any commodity which bears, or the label or container of which bears, the tradeâ€" mark, brand, or name of the producer, distributor, or wholesaler of such comâ€" modity, at a price less than the price, if any, set by the producer or wholeâ€" saler as the retail set price of the comâ€" modity at the time of the sale by him of the commodity to the retailer." The act itself, directed principally against the practice of "lossâ€"leader‘ selling and price cutting, has attracted favourable attention throughout Canâ€" ada, declared Mr. Matthews and there can be no doubt but that similar legisâ€" lation in all other provinces is only a matter of time. GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER ‘"The problem of legislating against price cutting of assuring indiviâ€" dualism shall not be taken as license for exploitation, is a problem for all Canâ€" ada and one in which all Canada must coâ€"operate for cleaner, better business," declared George R. Matthews of Vanâ€" couver, secretary of th Retail Merâ€" chants Association of Canada, in a luncheon address at the Club Canadien at Montreal last week. Known throughout Canada as the spearhead of the price maintenance measures recently made law by the legislature of British Columbia, Mr. Matthews explained how the need for the act arose and detailed the steps taken by all organizations in the comâ€" munity to assure its success. Improper Practices in Trade Injure All Example of British Columâ€" bia Quoted. Golden Rule Idea Essential for Prosâ€" perity. * Your eyes affect your health more than you‘d think "Take me for example. At the offics» P‘d tire quickly and my netves always seemed ‘on edge.‘ Yet my eyes didn‘t appear to be at fault. 1 happened to mention it to Mr. Curtis and he explained that quite often straining eyes take nervous energy away from other parts of the body without one knowing it, He examined my eyes and fitted me with glasses,. Now I wear them at my desk and my old complaints have disapâ€" peared. OPTICAL COMPANY 14 Pine St. N. Phone 835 EYES EXAMINED TERMS ARRANGED A‘T Pretty Wedding at _ the United Church a "white man" and who was loved by him. The lover returned to his home but promised that he would return to the girl he loved. She waited for him faithfully, while members of her tribe told her she was foolish to think "the white man" would return. But after months and months of waiting, the lover was able to start the journey back to his loved one. On the plains, a great storm blew up, and the traveller beâ€" came lost. As he finally sank in the snows, exhausted, he called the name of his Indian princess, and far away at her home she heard the echo of his call, and hastened out into the storm, never again to be seen. But, say the Indians, on dark and stormy nights, the Indian girl guides the wanderer on his way, so that no others may be lost as her love was. E. Pauline Johnson‘s All bookâ€"lovers would lhrave been inâ€" terested in the meeting on Monday afternoon of the Porcupine Women‘s Music and Literary Club. Its greatâ€"atâ€" tractions for them would naturally ibe the dramatic reading by Mrs. Moodie, and the book review by Mrs. Heslip. "The Pilot of the Plains," by Pauline Johnson, the Indian princess of poetry, was recited by Mrs. Moodie. This poem is quite long, and this is the reason that it cannot be quoted here. Howâ€" ever, for all lovers of Canadian poetry, and of Indian legends, "The Pilot of the Plains" is a treasure. It deals with the story of an Indian girl who loved All bookâ€"lovers v terested in the in afternoon of the â€" Music and Literary tractions for them the dramatic readi and the book revie the movement for legislation against price cutting and other trade disrupting practices has been endorsed by every element in the community â€" women‘s clubs, trade organizations, farmer and producer organizations and consumer groups. It springs, declared Mr. Matâ€" thows, from Golden Rule motives and is promised on the fact that most people would rather conform to such legislation than oppose it. Miss Alberta Gertrude Mayâ€" hew and Mr. Harold Wesâ€" ley Smith United in Marâ€" riage. In the evening the bride and groom received their friends at a reception in the Hollinger Recreation halll Over two hundred guests were present to wish them all happiness, and to shower them with many ‘beautiful and useful gifts. The bride and her family have been in Timmins for only three years, having come here from Sherbrooke, Q@Quebec, but they have made many friends during their residence in town. Mr. and Mrs. Smith will reside at 57 Raz street. gifts. been in having @Quebec friends The United Church was the scene of a pretty wedding on Tuesday eveâ€" ning at 6 o‘clock when Rev. W. M. Musâ€" tard united in marriage Alberta Gerâ€" trude, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Verâ€" non Mayhew,of 10 Windsor avenue, and Mr. Harold Wesley Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith, of Souris, Manâ€" itoba. The bride was charming in a bolero suit of navy blue crepe, a black velvet turban with noseâ€"length gold veil, and black accessories. She wore a corsage of red roses and liliesâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"valley. The bride was attended by her sisâ€" tor, Mrs. George Howard, as matron of honour. Mrs. Howard was attractively attired in an afternoon dress of green velvct, with brown accessories, and a corsage of roses and lilyâ€"ofâ€"theâ€"valley. Mr. John Grey acted as best man. After the ceremony a buffet lunch was served at the home of the bride‘s parents, to relatives and intimate friends. The bride‘s mother, Mrs. Mayâ€" hew, received the guests, wearing a streetâ€"length dress of brown crepe. A lovely threeâ€"tier wedding cake adorned the luncheon table. ng to consumers. The whole idea of Some members of Sudbury‘s city council last week wanted to license slot machines in that city. Mr. J. A. Cooper, member of the Legislature for Sudbury, last week defended beverage rooms for women and advocated hunting and shooting on Sundays. Is all the sin and iniquity of the North gravitating to Sudbury these days? The Canadian Income Tax officials are said to consider sweepstakes prizes won by Canadians as "capital gains." So do the winners. Some newspapers are making much of the fact that Canadians winning prizes in overseas sweepâ€" stakes do not have to pay income tax on their winnings. A lot of comfort that is to the rest of the Canadians who bought sweepstakes tickets and didn‘t win, and have to pay income tax on the ticket money. A rumour from Ottawa suggests that Mr. A. B. Purvis may be chosen as the new Conservative party leader. If someone should say, "Who is Mr. Purvis?" Mr. Purvis might well retort, "And where is the Conservative party?" Times said was that readers seldom have very litâ€" tle to complain about. What The Times meant was that "usually‘" or "generally" the readers have little cause for complaint. If they seldom had little cause for complaint, the inference would be that usually they had cause for complaint. Sso Boss! works may be had at the public library. Mrs. Heslip reviewed three new books "The Rains Came,‘ "Out of Africa," and "Action at Aquila," which are books that are all wellâ€"worth reading. ‘"The Rains Came," is written on somewhat the same lines as "The Good Earth" which has been so popular, not only as a book, but also in its screen version. "The Rains Came‘" deals with life in India, but is not as sad as "The Good Earth", and instead of the plague of locusts, its terror is in a flood that destroys a great town. "Out of Africa" is based on the author‘s life in Africa, and her struggles in trying to keep up a great plantation, which eventually fails It is a woman‘s book, and deals LUGGAGE 9 Pine Street North DEpoOsITORS‘ SAVINGS IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA OTHERS PRICED FROM $1.98 TO $10.00 Dress Up Y This Spring ALL SIZES AND WIDTHS R. NEILL LTD. HEAD OFFICE : â€" TORON Capital and Reserves: $15,000,000 Protection of depositors‘ savings is a first principk@ in banking. 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North Bay Nugget:â€"All Hitler need do to learn the folly of his ways is to read the "Life of Napoleon," the little guy who considered life wouldn‘t be worthwhile unless he had the entire world paying him homage. Your Feet Toâ€"morrow (Friday) is April ist (All Fools‘ Day). This day has been observed intermittently for centuries in various countries of the world. There is dispute as to its origin. In several countries in recent years it has been made the occasion for "making a fool" of the ordinary man, woman or child. some years the day receives special noâ€" tice, and in other years it appears to be dropped. Last year there was little observance of it here, while in some other years it received more than passâ€" ing attention. INVINCIBLE f STREAMUNE Toâ€"morrow is April First but Observance Failing The Advance Want Advertisements BIGGEST â€"«BEST VALU E Timmins HOSIERY