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People have been under the impression that when calamity overtook the people of any section of the country. there was responsibility (at least in moral way) to rally to the relief of those in dis- tress. What greater misfortune could overtake independent and industrious people than to lose the chance to "look after their own future?” That is exactly what unemployment has doneâ€"- left tens of thousands of people utterly unable to find honest ways and means to maintain them- selves, Is not their plight worthy of relief? Can the government of Canada evade the responsibil- ity of giving the necessary relief? So far as unemployment goes, the question seems to be: “How may the best relief be given in the quickest. the surest and the most helpful way?" The answer to that appears to be: “Simply by providing work.” There isn‘t any question but that direct relief has failed miserably. Direct Hon. Mr. Crcrar was in sound position, however. when he gave warning that “if the government policy was to assume the duty of maintaining; those who were careless and shiftless about their own well-being, it would mean to a large extent curtailment of the freedom and energies of the individual.” Of course, this is not a complete statement of the case. A large number of those out of employment are neither careless or shift- less. The worst that may be said about them is that they are unfortunate. They have been caught in the calamity of the depression, and if it is not the duty of governments to relieve disâ€" tress and help citizens overtaken by calamity. then most people Will be inclined to go one better than the publisher of The Globe and Mailâ€"advo- cate the elimination of the Dominion Govern- ment rather than the doing away with the pro- vincial legislatures. 3 In an address at Sudbury last week Hon. T. A. Crerar, Minister of Mines and Resources in the Federal Government, ventured the Opinion that it was a mistake to believe that the government of Canada had the reSponsibility of seeing that every man had work to maintain himself. The first business of the individual, he said, was to look after his own future. To carry his argu- ment to its logical conclusion, he might have add- ed that the government of Canada has no parti- cular responsibility to prevent people from starvâ€" ing to death in this country. There is probably as much legal grounds for making the one stateâ€" ment as the other. To say that a government has the right to stand back and see people starve to death would sound harsh and cruel in this day and generation. Yet is it any more to be de- nounced than the thought of failing to assure people of the opportunity for work that will pro- vide them with the chance to earn their own maintenance? If the new tax suggested is'imposed, it will, of course, be. wrong in principle. It is generally reâ€" cognized that it is the duty of a town to keep its streets in decent condition without specially tax- ing any section of the ratepayers. If the streets were in proper condition the oil treatment would not be necessary. In most towns it would be clon- sidered unusual to propose a special assessment for repairing the roads, no matter where the may- or resided. However, if the streets in town this year are as well oiled as that one block on Spruce Street has been for several years, house owners along the way will not make undue objection to a few dollars of extra taxation. Surely, it is not surprising that those whose minds run to taxing signs, fire escapes and coal chutes, should turn to thoughts of taxing the oil on the streets. At the town council meeting this week Mayor Bartleman suggested that those whose property abutted on streets that were oiled should be assessed for the cost of the work. Mayor Bartleman can bring himself to such a proposi- tion this year as his own residence now abuts on a paved street. There would have been surprise last year if he had suggested such a new tax when his residence was on a street that won local ‘famn for the thoroughness and the frequency with which it was oiled. If all the streets in town are oiled as well as that block on Spruce Street was in re- cent years when it was honoured with the may- or’s residence, property owners will receive pretty fair value for the extra taxation to be placed upon them. There is much of logic and justice in what the mayor said at Monday’s council meeting in regard to the oiling of the streets. The unfor- tunate part is that he did not think of the scheme several years sooner. Monday night he was able to realize that the people of outlying districts of the town do not receive the benefit of the oiling of the streets, because their streets are not oiled like the others. There were some streets almost in the central part of the town that had the same complaint last year and the previous year or two. Quadsâ€"33.00 Per Year TWINS, ONTARIO when Canadian Weekly Newspaper mutton; Onutlo- Quebec Newspaper Association; Clue “A” Weekly Group OFFICE 26 PHONES --â€"- RESIDENCE 70 Timmins, Ont, Thursday, March 9th, 1939 51112 Enrrupim» Ahnanrp PAGE FOUR Published Every Manda}? and Thursday by: GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: NEXT IT’S AN OIL TAX RESPONSIBILITY United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per Yea There is so much spoken and written these days about the evil deeds of science that it is well to iconsider the other part of the picture. It is not an uncommon thing these days to hear people re- mark on all the evil inventions and perversions of discoveries made by science. Thinking along this line some are inclined to doubt whether or not man‘s progress in science has been of value to the world. Much of this feeling may be traced to the horrors and sordidness of present-day wars. Criminals in all the nations and all the criminal nations seem to have taken advantage of every step forward by science and every new invention, tu1ning the knowledge gained by the wo1ld to the most deplorable purposes. Even in the line of commercial and industrial activities science seems on occasion to have been used for evil ends. It is said that many of the wonde1s of the modem worldâ€"~i11cluding p1inting, the steam engine, high explosives, telegraphy-â€"we1e known to the Chin-i ese people five thousand years ago or so, but were i discarded because of the evils that seemed to fol-i low in their train. One Chinaman has been quot- ed as explaining that all the knowledge, the in- ventions, the science, did not tend to longer life for men, or make them happier while they did live, _ so why foster these things when they were so often turned to ill usages. Perhaps, the1e me some in this modern world who are tempted to believe that the Chinaman's philosophy in this matter had some basis in logic. It is only necessary to give a little consideration to the matter to be, assured that despite all the perversions given the work of the scientists, the good they have ac- complished far outweighs the evil. Men today do live longer. thanks to science. The horrors of scientific war can not beeloud the noble achieve- ments of science in surgery, medicine, nursing, hospitalization. If men are not happier, it is not! i l the fault of science. but of mankind itself. Com- forts, conveniences, luxuries, are available on a scale beyond the imagination of the most optim- istic of a few years ago. So much has been said' about the evil that may be traced to science, that it might be well to emphasize some of the notable I Unless democracy is to pass a halt must be called to the idea that either side can get some- thing for nothing. Governments have other re- sponsibilities than simply gathering taxes. The peOple have other responsibilities than merely to look to the government for everything. That is why The Advance has advocated from the very outset that workâ€"~iiecessa1'y workâ€"~15 the only reâ€" medy for the unemployment evil. Under such a plan both sides would be giving as well as receiv- ing. There would be work in exchange for main- tenance. It might be said that the people were paying themselves to work for themselves under such a plan. At least, there would be something to show for their labour. Discipline and restric- tions would be necessary, and these should be acâ€" cepted cheerfully as a matter of course. As soon as both people and governments recognize that there are responsibilities on both sides, and that neither party can get something for, nothing in justiceâ€"then the problem of the day will be well on the way to solution. reliei has prevented actual death by starvation or exposure, but that is about all. As a practical method of relief, it has been as effective as send- ing nothing but rubber boots and soda biscuits to the victims of a flood, or smoke masks and toâ€" .matoes to a fire-stricken area. Canada has spent [millions upon millions for direct relief and has nothing to show for it but discontent and lessened morale. In Canada there are hundreds of public works simply crying out to be done. If the money ear- marked to be spent in direct relief were turned to these needed public works, there is reason to be- lieve that effort and courage and enterprise and independence would be revived in this country. In any event there would be immediate relief for the unemployment and the country would have something for its money when it was all over. After all, the long years of relief and relief prob- lems seem to prove that there is no other practical remedy for unemployment except honest work. The opening of work on a large scale at needed enterprises, such as roads, bridges, public build- ings, forest conservation and other necessary aids to progress and development, would give the honest and independent :1 chance at least. One of the big troubles with big problems like that of unemployment is that there is altogether too much evading of responsibility and too much forgetting that the responsibility is not all on one side. Hon. Mr. Crerar’s reference to the fact that the assuming of responsibility by the government means a curtailment of the privileges of those benefitted should not be overlooked. The people in general are too prone to forget this fact. There are glaring examples of its truth ready to hand. Take the case of municipal authority, for example. In recent years there has been a tendency on the part of municipalities to turn all their troubles over to the province. Today, the municipalities of Ontario are not in enviable position. Imagine a solvent municipality having to ask permission from the province to build a sidewalk, or a sewer. or a strip of road, with its own money? Isn’t that the situation? Provincial governments have steadily been encroaching on the prerogatives of municipalities until at present self-supporting towns and cities are not allowed much more than a shadow of self government. SCIENCE HELPS WORM) 35m; 90mm: ADVANCE, TWINS. ommxo i works for good of those who devote their efforts i and their lives to the true work of scienceâ€"the . I work of making life happier, healthier, safer, long- ' l er. A recent case in point worthy of special notice " is the battle waged by a small group of scientists in effort to find a preventative for silicosis. While ! the battle was financed chiefly by industry, that [does not detract from the devotion given enquiry {and experiment by the men who sought to help. [The patience, the persistence, the skill, the time, ‘the effort, the study given to finding means and measures to offset an occupational disease show the sacrifices gladly undertaken by science in the I interests of humanity. It is believed that Dr. Rob- ‘ §s0n, of Schumachcr, Mr. J. J. Denny, of the Me- QIntyre and Dr. Dudley A. Irwin, of Toronto, after 3a long and arduous course of experiment and in- Ivestigation have discovered a preventative of sili- .' cosis. This much is sure that they will persist until ithey have perfected their plan to curb silicosis. What these men have done right here in Porcu- pine is being done in hundreds of places all over ,the world. It may be that science is sometimes jtwisted to evil uses, but in the main its work is icarried on with the wholeâ€"hearted hope of help- , ing humanity. Years ago welfare workers and others used to express a sad astonishment when they encoun- tered people in the isolated areas of Hallburton, Hastings, Peterborough, Muskoka and other A local citizen last week, understanding that. there was to be a meeting of the Leadership League on Wednesday night, hurried to the town hall to take part in the affair. He found it was a League meeting all right. but the Citizens’ League, not The Globe and Mail's Leadership League. GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER; The three Malartics. he said, were producing 2,500 tons of ore every day. Within two and a half years a com-- munity of 4,000 had come into being, but there was no protestant church. Describing his visit there he said: “I wondered what it would be like to stay in a hotel in a mining camp on payday. All night long I listened to Bing Crosby. Back From North The minister had just returned from a tour of Northern Ontario and North- western Quebec, where he made a sur- vey of the needs and possibilities of the ministration of the United Church East Malartic. where only last August the crudest kind of a shaft had been sunk. was a veritable “spot of gold." Rev. Stanley Greenslade told his con- gregation in Centennial United Church at Toronto on Sunday night. A plant costing more than $1,000,000 had been erected, and the one day he was there 1.150 tons of ore had been mined, he said. Toronto Clergyman Reviews the North Did Not Like Sunday Quebec Very Much. A. E. Phipps, H. T. Joflroy, General Manager IMPERIAL BANK'S USEFULNESS 'l‘() CANADIAN BUSINESS President 11 l But. the minister said. he had had to readjust his whole attitude on on- tering Quebec. “It was like goingr into a different country. In Quebec the minister or the priest is a government official and is responsible for regis- tration of vital statistics. Movies Open Sunday is just like any other day. In “,uogmfl -o.1.8uoo sun 10 01doad npK SB KIOJOOUIS su qsng‘ 131mg) Bugddmsaom 3.13m Ram qnq ‘smud pix pm: sugsmooux u; mum umuom am pm: .aomms usmuo 13 plan om 9.10m somum} uomqa pouun 9:, puno; 1 'u; mom on 39131 am. sum qomqo unnano 9m ‘mnsn SB ‘pue ‘u; paAoux puq uop Sumuup am pm: [mu aounp am pun uxoouood mu” Consider the problems of the lumbcrman who has camps, mill and equipment. His men cut logs all winter. In the spring the river drivers or the logging railway and the steam tug-boat bring them to the mill. During the summer the logs are sawn into "green" lumber. It must be dried and seasoned. An entire year goes by before the lumber is finally sold. How is that yea; financed? By Bank credit. The woods operator IMPERIAL BANK OF CANADA Reports in Toronto newspapers suggest that Hon. Gordon Conant may very shortly succeed Hon. Mr. Hepburn as premier of Ontario. This is denied officially, but in any case there is sure to be some way in which effort will be made to assure the falsity of the prophecy recently made in the North that Col. George A. Drew will be the next premier of Ontario. There has been so much interest created in The Globe and Mail’s Leadership League that the inâ€" telligent linotype operator has to be restrained by force from setting it up as “The Globe and Mail’s Readership League.” counties who had never travelled on a train. These good pe0ple need not be surprised today if they encounter people in the modern city areas who have never been passengers on a train. A Timmins young lady who had visited- most of the towns of the North and also been in Toronto and [New York and other distant centres, admitted the other day that she did not remember ever travel- ling on a railroad train, except, perhaps, to Iro- quois Falls for a hockey match or two some years 5 ago. Her distant travelling had been done by the {modern method of the motor car. Indeed, there is a probability that there are people today who have travelled more frequently in aeroplanes than by steam railways. This is one of the reasons that make the railway problem a specially difficult one. Figures recently published show that in‘ 1923 Canadian railways carried 38,000,000 passen- gers, while in 1937 the number was only 18,000,000. Only part of the astonishing decrease is due to the depression or other temporary causes. The fact is that methods of travel have changed great- ly in recent years, and one of the truths that will need to be frankly faced in the matter of railway! finance is the fact that the railways have 3. rev stricted field compared to the years gone by. l Head Office: Toronto In Schumacher. he said. 60 per cent. of the enrolment in the high school was non-Anglo-Saxon. a teacher had told him. In Timmins, where there had been only one shack in .1914, there were 35,000 people today. “There is gold in the North Coun- try. The mining industry has been a great stabilizing influence in Ontario during the depression years. Over 13 million dollars of gold was mined in Northwestern Quebec last year. I won- der how many of those who are mak- ing handsome dividends out of that country are putting anything bac ," he commented. Windsor Szur: Dr. Edouard Benes. former President of Czechoslovakia. and now lecturing at, the University of Chicago. predicts the end of slavery and resurgence of democracy in Europe. But, alas, when 85de to name a date PRESENT SITUATION IN THE “'ORLI) MAY LAST MANY YEARS 'paumm 3L1 “‘anuoq 12 39111‘ s; muqqus am 0.1mm umop 3003 aum [13.10111 am :Eumuun sno 1.133 autos op pmoqs OJSII smut q'mqqus am Sugfiumm jO Mmqusmpn am 10 Sumugm am cum nos 10 030m, 'uado 0.11: sas'noq amow 9m .10; ‘uooumue am 111 [001109 A‘upuns awn nouueo am” :pws .xaqsumu queqsowd om cpumoN Imperial Bank of Canada maintains many branch ot‘fices at frontier points to serve the lumberman and the pulp woods operator. And their employees have a welcome opportunity to open savings accounts where they know their money will be absolutely safe, or will be safely remitted to their homes for them. obtains Bank credit on the security of his logs and lumber. The Bank furnishes the money to meet the pay-rolls and the accounts for supplies. he remarked that some cycles in the past have lasted a hundred years. It’s going to be tough going- for the world, and espccmily for EurOpe. if the pres- ent cycle of itil‘thOi'iLJl'ihhism lasts a century. Few of us will be on hand at this rate when the wheel changes. How- ever, we’re a bit more optimistic. We’re quite convinced that Hitlerism and Mussolinism will come a crapper long before a century rolls ’round. One doesn't have to be highly imaginative to picture the situation in either coun- try were an assassin’s bullet. pneumonia or something else to carry either dic- tator off. The scrcnnble for succession honors would be almost bound to upset the national apple cart. " My Secretary 14 Pine St. N. OPTICAL COMPANY Lawrence Pacey ache. It got to he so I'vâ€" gular that l smut her to Mr. Curtis for an eye 9x- aminution. an she wear-s glasses a n «I can get through fur muro wurk without any strain at all." Glasses cost less-and terms may be arranged at Apt. 2, 62} Wilson Aw. 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