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a .war in 111k niched by persons filling their foun- unn pens. Were the weather warm and doay in this country such a statement might be passed by with no more comment than to sayzâ€"“What? 25.000 a year lost by the banks in ink fllched for fountain pens? Why there are not that many Scotsmep in Toronto!" But the cool weather here 'l‘lwsv be? cool days in the Porcupine, but to judge by some of the notes in some of the Southern newspapers there may be drowsy summer days down below. A Toronto accountant. for example. is quoted as saying that Toronto banks lose $25,000 case the thought of flowers. lawns, gardens. beauty. comfort. and those deeper attributes that make the true homeâ€"better homes and’ better citizens. It is true that in an edition such as this, the emphasis is naturally on the material, the physi- cal aspect of homes. new and old. At the same time it does seem that most of those concerned llith‘ thought also for the higher aspects of the The best town~~the happiest townâ€"the most truly prosperous townâ€"~15 the town of homes. 'l‘iinmins has special need for homesâ€"more need for homes than most towns. To inspire more and better homes should be the ambition of all good ClUuL‘HS. and it is pleasing, indeed, to note the in- terest and sincerity with which all concerned are entering again this year on the campaign to en- courage and inspire more homes, better homes. ---~-are lost in the shadow of the hundreds of new residences of more outstanding appearance and equipment. It must be admitted that Timmins has done well in making the town a city of homes. For this due honour must be given to the people themselves, but there is also special credit due‘to the enterprise of individuals and firms and to the talent of the local builders and contractors. In their ordinary day's work they have been con- ferring benefit on the community. It is not amiss to note also that the Hollinger Mine’s activity in providing homes for its employees has had the eil‘ect of making it possible for more people to secure good homes than would otherwise have been possible. while at the same time the mine’s enterprise has materially assisted in keeping rent- als within bounds. So rapid, however, has been the growth of the town that the best homes have not been available for all. There are houses in town some owned by those occupying them, and some rented by others-â€"that need improvement. There is also a need for new homes to accommo- date a population that appears to grow faster than the supply of suitable homes. To speed up im- provement of the homes that need extension and repairs, to encourage new homes, and generally to inspire better homes for Timmins and this dis- trict is the hope and purpose of this Better Homes Edition. Last year The Advance published a somewhat similar edition under the name of “Home Improvement Plan Edition." It featured the Dominion Government plan for making it easier for house-owners to improve and extend their residences earlier than their own finances would permit. The Home Improvement Plan was of striking advantage to the people of Timmins. It. resulted in literally hundreds of homes here being improved and extended. The contractors. builders. supply houses, merchants, and the peOple generally co-operated to make the plan a success .in this district. The local committee appointed under the Act did efi'ective work in creating interâ€" est and enthusiasm and in applying the plan to the needs of the people. Timmins had the dis- tinction of outdistancing every town and city in (‘anada oi‘ less than 60,000 population in the num- ber oi loans secured under the Home Improvement Plan. In other words Timmins took more advantâ€" age ot‘ the opportunities offered by the Actâ€"and consequently reaped more advantagesâ€"than any town or city less than three or four times its population. With this issue there is a special section of thir- ty-two tabloid pages (equivalent to sixteen regular pages of The Advance) under the heading of “Bet- ter Homes Edition.” It is exactly what its title implies, and it is issued in the hope and desire to encourage and inspire better homes. The issue shows by illustrations that Timmins has a number or handsome homes. Literally scores. of other beautiful homes in Timmins and district could have been pictured. There are many notable re- sidences in townâ€"residences that would do credit to any large city. Then there are hundreds of more modest homes, but homes in the true sense or the wordmhomes in comfort, in convenience, Canada » $3.00 Per Year. TIMMINS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association: Onur‘o- Quebec Newspaper Association; Class ‘A” Weekly Group OFFICE 26 ~----- PHONES â€"â€"â€"-- REBIDENCE 70 l’ubllshcd Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO. LAKE. Owner and Plbllllhfl' Subscription Rates: and in the finer things that make true homes. Looking back through the years, The Advance can recall when two or three residences in town were looked upon as the last word in handsome homes. 'I‘o-day these placesâ€"once shown proudly to visi- tors and newcomers as examples of what Timmins could do in the way of building impressive homes 0O ’ooum Tim mins, Ont, Thursday, May 12th, 1938 61hr finmmine Ahnantr PAGE FOUR IN )T W E .\ TH E R STATISTICS F OR BETTER HOMES United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per Year 23rd, a public holiday instead of May 24Lhâ€"â€"ob- served as the "Queen‘s Birthday" for close to a hundred years. The business. interests generaly.’ .Severai bush fires were reported in the North Bay district last week. Fortunately all of them were extinguished before any serious harm re- sulted. It seems early for bush fires, but it is not a record in this respect. Whatever may be the fact about the length of the ordinary seasons in the North. the bush fire season seems to be length- ening with the years. Thinking of bush fires in April and the early part of May. recalls the fact that it was in October that the 1922 bush fire did such serious damage in Central Temiskaming, practically wiping out the town of Haileybury of that day. The length of the bush fire season also suggests the virtue of the suggestion often made that it would be a wise plan to maintain the whole forest ranging staff all the year round. In the few months when the country would be in no danger from forest fires. the fire ranging staff could be profitably employed in seeing that no collections of slash and debris are permitted to gather in the bush to be a menace to the North. and that any such fire traps should be removed. Mayor Ralph Day. of Toronto. is urging the Dominion Government to declare Monday. May tempts to more careful consideration of the ac- countant's wild figures. There are less than 300 bank branches in Toronto so that the account- ant’s figures would suggest that each branch loses an average of around $83.33 worth of ink a 'year. That would figure out to 830 bottles, which ls an immense amount of ink for each branch. For the whole city it would mean 250,000 bottles, which is still more ink. That amount of ink would fill all the fountain pens in Toronto and York and keep them filled for years. Facts must be faced. The $25,000 figure must be right or wrong. If it is wrong, it's a libel on the banks "and the banks’ customers. If it is right. than some other explanation is needed other than Toronto fountain pens. It may be that somebody has been drinking the ink from the bank wells. At times it looks as if Toronto folks could swallow anything. and, anyway, it is not so long ago since prohibition seemed to teach Toronto to drink anything that wasn’t Don water. Another explanation might be that the people from all over are thronging to Toronto to tap the bank ink wells. Perhaps. it is for this that week-end excursions are run to To- rontoâ€"to keep the fountain pens filled. “Better Homes for Timmins!" That make a good slogan. One way to assure better homes for Timmins would be to get oil on the. streets before the dust chokes everybody. ' Of course, the more likely explanation of that $25,000 a year for filched ink for fountain pens in Toronto, is that the accountant added a couple of ciphers to make the figures more impressive. Sometimes they do things like that in Toronto. In any event the large figure should not be accepted without question. There is a habit to-day of somebody making a wild statement that gets into the newspapers and everybody later accepting the story as truth. If you doubted a man’s word about it, he could show you the place in the newspaper where it occurred. For instance. during the recent discussion of the proposed legalizing of sweep- stakes in Ontario someone said that the pec-‘ple of Canada spent five million dollars a year for this type of ticket. The statement gained rather gen- eral currency without dispute. But later the Canadian Press made a careful estimate, from in- formation supplied by its member newspapers. The majority of these newspapers would give ac- curate and reliable figures. Of course, there would be some of the member newspapers that could not come near the truth, except by unforeseen accident but there would not be enough of these to materiâ€" ally affect the carefully checked total. Instead of five million dollars spent annually for sweep- stakes tickets in Canada the Canadian Press esti- mate was that 440,000 tickets were sold in the Dominion yearly. This would mean only $1,100,- 000 a year. By the same token, perhaps what the accountant meant by that $25,000 was $2,500, or $250, or even $25, and even the latter figure seems to be a lot of bank ink to put in fountain pens. It would mean at least 25,000 fountain pens out of commission every year in Toronto. In a recent issue The Ottawa Journal appears to complain at the variety anc general futility of the innumerable plans submitted to it for the re- juvenation of the world and the reclamation of the peeple of the earth. These plans talk much about economic evils and the oppression of capi- talization, and prate of things like the “new capiâ€" talization," but there is nothing informative or constructive about any.of them. Only a fine old- i‘ashioned courtesy prevents The Journal from say- ing that none of the plans have much sense. En~ joying delightful weather. The Journal asks people :not to worry it with any more of these silly plans or systems or schemes. because none of them are any good. Does The Journal imagine for one spring minute that such a plea will stop the flood? Vain hope! It will only spur others to write someâ€" thing like this:â€"â€"â€"â€"“I see that vou have never re- ceived the real. clever. sensible, talented plan to right everything. All the plans so far submitted have been lacking. because this is the first time you have been given the right plan. Here it is! You have no excuse now!" vvv'v" v-_v GRAVEL AND S \NDâ€" AND PL XCER AAAAAAAA‘AAA‘A -AA A BO UT I’LA NS THE POEC'UPINE ADVANCE. TIMMINB. ONTARIO When fire. damaged the building of the Cana- dian Brush Company in Montreal this week, a Toronto newspaper heads the news story with the words:-â€"“F'ire Sweeps Brush C0." As there is The Dominion Conservative Party appears to think it is so strong that it can take on a fight within the Conservative Party itself. Indications are that it will not. be a civil war. Hitler and Mussolini have sworn eternal friend- ship to each other. Hitler has the fullest confid- ence in Hitler and Mussolini pins his faith on Mussolini. Vâ€"_ â€" prefer a Monday holiday, because it gives a long week-end, thus making a regular holiday, With- out breaking the new week. There is a general tendency to desire to have all holidays fall on Mondays. It is true that Monday holidays seem to be particularly popular, yet to set all holidays forward or back to make them fall on Mondays would seem to defeat the idea of celebrating cer- tain dates and events. If all holidays were thus made moveable events. it is likely that someone would soon come forward to suggest a special holi- day or two or more that would fall otherwise than on Sunday or Monday and so make a break in the monotony of observing Monday instead of cele- brating some. notable event. Already there have been would-be calendar reformers who would have every January lst fall on a Monday, so as to make a long week-end. Wedding of Interest at Toronto Saturday Congratulations were showered on the bride and groom. and her par- ents. as soon as the soleniniey of the eemmony had passed. The wedding party received the guests, Mrs. Mc- Bean wearing a modish gown of foliage green laee with small black hat and Miss Evelyn McBean was her sister's maid of.honour; Mrs. Ray Manbert .' he matron of honour. and Miss Vir- ginia McBean bridesmaid. Thieir gowns were of rose blush tulle. made with very full skirts and fichu neck- lines. and their tiny turbans were of fresh pink earnations tied to their heads with hydragea blue velvet rib- bon. The same ribbon tied their bouquets which were of blush pink carnations. sweet peas and blue hy- drangeas. Miss Elizabeth McBean and Mr. David C. Leggett United in Marriage. The bride. who entered the drawing room on the arm of her father. was heralded by music played by Reginald Godden. She wore her mother's wetl- ding gown of exquisite cream Brussels lace. made with elbow length sleeves and a high neckline. fashioned on prin- cess lines. Her short. tulle veil‘was caught to her head by a Juliet, cap of rose point lace and she carried an arm bouquet. of white roses. lily-olf- th3-valley and inaidenharr tern. Rev. MacGreg‘or Grant performed the cere- mony. The following report of a wedding in Toronto on Saturday last as given by The Toronto Star will be or interest to the many friends of the groom in this town and district. Mr. Leggett was for some time in the camp follow- ing his profession as mining engineer: Home is Bower of Flowers for Bride Tall vases filled with white snap- dragons formed an aisle for the bridal procession of the Leggett-McBean wed- ding this afternoon. wnicn ended in an altar banked with hydrangea. smi- lax and other white flowers. Miss Elizabeth (Betty) McBean. who became rho bride of David C. Leggett at 4 o’clock. was married in the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick John McBean. David Leggett 15$“? son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Haight Leggett. of Plainficld. NJ. | “I was surprised [4 Pine St. N. “at the (lifierem'e glasses made. in my husband's dispu- sition. He had been working hard at the office and the strain on his eyes affected his nerves and made him tired and irritable. “llc's ‘his old sell" again now that he wears the glassvs at the office. that Mr. Curtis prescribed for him. The cost was surprisingly small and when we spread the payments over several pay days it hardly amounted to anything.“ PRICES ARE DEFINITELY LOWER AT. OPTICAL COMPANY CURTIS Phone 83:) i} The bride and groom bade adieu to their friends after the reception and will spend their honeymoon in Califor- nia. Mrs. Leggett. for travelling. chose a navy coat with matching frock and rose-trimmed chapeau. with a corsage of white carnations pinned to her coat. They will reside in Toronto up- on their return from the west coast. Mr. Leggett is a graduate of Yale university. and Miss McBean received her schooling at Branksome hall. Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. William B. Leggelt of Chicago were lntown for Mr. Leggett‘s brother‘s wedding. Mrs. William B. Leggett is a member of the Chicago Junior League. veil. and corsagc of ml. orchlds. Mrs. Wllllam B. Loggia“ also received wearing a long peacock blue gown w‘th orchids. Mrs. Thomas Leggett wore a blue crepe afternoon gown. Candle- light from tall flickering tapers cast. a friendly glow over the merry gathering. WWW” A young man in London. Ontario. who says he has just inherited $13,000 from the estate of his father, writes the mayor of Windsor in hopes of securing a wife in that city. If necessary, the young fellow says he will move to Windsor. It seems odd that the young gentleman should be ready to go to such desperate ends to get rid of a paltry $13,000. In the big league game between the Chinese and the Japanese teams. everybody seems to be rooting for China to win. Premier Aberhart has trim nod poor Alberta in rather barberous fashion. And now he looks at, Saskatchewan, while still working on Alberta. and with rising inflection says "Next?" The Toronto Telegram says that the wonderful new Globe and Mail building was made possible only because “The Globe and Mail has a gold mine in its back yard." Wrong! All Toronto's gold mines are in the North Country. After reading the present. issue of The Advance. the natural opinion will be that the people of Timmins have a good taste in houses. Unfor- tunately, they are also forced to have a good taste of streets during the summer. nothing to indicate it was a clean sweep, it would seem that there was need for a brush-up in that heading. They encourage co- ~0peiati0n and mutual unde1- standing. They p10mote activities that benefit 0m social life. To many of them, especially Veteran and Labour Clubs, this provides useful assistance in improving the accommodation in their premises and increasing the scope of their good work. Clubs form a valuable part of our social gtructure. Many of these clubs are granted authority by the Liquor Control Board to serve beer to their members. The opportunity which these clubs provide for relaxation is provided also in hotel beverage rooms to those not fortunate enough to be members of a clubâ€"but to whom relaxation is as essential. The same law . . The same law provides for both. The present law permitting Veterans’ Clubs to sell beer to their members has been'of great assistance in maintaining suitable club rooms and has enabled them to expand their efforts to assist ex-service men and overcome their economic difficulties and physical handicaps. In the past the bootlegger received a large part of this revenue, which now is used in the interests of groups of patriotic citizens bound together by their service for their King and Country. Veterans’ Clubs are a great asset to any community as they stand as veritable Gibraltars of patriotism in the midst of unsettled conditions and foreign "isms.” All manufacturers owning trade marks which am- descriptive. geogra- phical. the name of a patent expired product. or the name of a person. firm or corporation. should be considering whether their trade marks are valid or not in tiew of the recent decision of the Privy Council in the case of. The Canadian Shredded Wheat Company. Ltd. vs Kellogg. wherein the question of descriptive trade marks was dis- cussed. This decision is of real importance to all trade mark owners who desire to protect their marks. because in this case a trade mark. which had been us- ed for almost, forty years in Canada, was held to be invalid. The court points out in the decision what is necessary in order to prove that such marks have acquired distinctiveness so N eed for Amendment to Law m Regard to Trade Marks O This advertisement. is inserted by the Brewers in the interest. of a better public: um/erltanding of certain aspects of the problems of temperance and local option. ~ -'|‘HOS. HOBBS, I'rcsiclcnl, ()riginuls' Club TORONTO rlfli’l ll”””//ffl’.’/¢l8€l (I’lflin’l’/”’I’7,13”!!! as to entitle them to protection It, may be that in view of his dc- ctsion an amendment to the law is necessary for the protection of and: trade marks. Trade mark owners in favour of such amendmcnt should. at. the earliest opportunity. express their views on this point. $25.00 down. $10.00 per numth. Dwellings and Furniture lmurod. $7.00 per thousand. Cars and trucks insured at lowest rate. Real Estate and Insurance LIST YOUR PROPERTY We Have Buyers LOTS FOR SALE P.J. I)()‘YLE South Porcupine. May 9th. 19:53 To the Editor of The Advance. Timmins. Dear Sir:â€"~Thc question of gambling came up for discussion at the last meet,- lng of the Porcupine Ministerial Assoc- iation and the following resolution was» Resolved: That, we. the mcmbcrr. M the Porcupine MinichriaOI Assodation deprecabe the serious menace of gamb- ling in all its forms in our camp and would call upon all Christian people in our community. by word and action to seek to eliminate this (M! from our midst. Dep recate Serious Menace of Gambling: Ministerial Association (Talk on all Christian People Ln Help Eliminate This, Evil. BLACKHEADS them. Get two ounces of peroxine powder from any drug store and rub gently with wet. bot cloth over the. blackheads. They simply dissolve and disappear by this safe and sure me'hod. Have a Hollywood complexion. PHONE 1330 17 Cedar Street North Don't squeeze blackheads -â€" dissolve Signed; Archdeacon Woodall mccrmury: J. R. Fraser tprcsidcnu Murray Tait Canon R. S. Cashing; w. Mustard A. Heinonen Adjutant Cornthwaiw R. J. Scott, THURSDAY. MAY 12'1" H. 1936