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Although the province has its own staff of architects for public buildings, a number of outâ€" side architects were called in to design and superâ€" vise that new mental hospital. The cost for this little incident was an extra $130.000. Of course, there is method in that sort of madness, but it is too oneâ€"sided to appeal to normal people, if any. To balance the extra $130,000 for outside archiâ€" tects, it seems there is a saving of $140,000 by building the structure all of stone, instead of brick and stone, which could have cost $140,000 less, because the stone trimming for a brick building is very expensive and so brick and stone costs more The inquiry in the Legislature into the cost of the new mental hospital at St. Thomas seems to prove at least that Ontario has sad need for an institution of this kind. Indeed, one trouble seems to be that no matter how large it is, it will evidâ€" ently be too small for the very apparent needs. Casual reading of the reports of the inquiry would appear to indicate that there is a lot of crazy stulf in this province. Judging from their actions and attitude a lot of people are fit subâ€" jects for the new institution, and a lot of others concerned seem to think that everybody else is crazy. If the plan is to use the excuse of taxes owing to the government to allow a subsidiary of the Algoma Steel Corporation to acquire the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway at a bargain rate, the people in general will not be any too well pleased about the matter. The better plan would seem to be that the government should take over the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railâ€" way, whose official title seems longer than its railway line. This railway runs from Sault Ste. Marie to Hearst and travels through a country that has not lived up to expectations in the past. Like the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railâ€" way, the Algoma Central Railway is essentially a pioneering railway. Mineral discoveries may at same future time make it a paying proposition, as happened in the case of the T. N. O. In the meantime, however, it is not a profitable venture by any means. Under management like that of the T. N. O., however, it might be made selfâ€" supporting. In any case, the line seems necessary in fairness to the country which it was built to serve, It would scarcely be a popular move to sell it out to the Algoma Steel Corporation, directâ€" ly or indirectly. The better alternative would be provincial ownership. Were the province to taks it:â€"over, and also take over from the C.N.R. the ownership of the line of railway from Cochrane to Hearst, the general chances for profitable operâ€" ation would be enhanced under the efficient manâ€" agement of the T. N. O. In any event, the North would have effective railway serviceâ€"someâ€" thing sadly lacking for years past in the sections served between Cochrane and Hearst and Hearst and Sault ste. Marie. Coincident with legislation to grant a charter to the Southern Algoma Railway, a subsidiary of the Algoma sSteel Corporation, announcement was made in the Ontario House last week by Premier Hepburn that he intends to take legal means to collect $1,389,000 which he asserts is unpaid corpâ€" oration tax owing to the province by the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway. The average man will be tempted to suggest that Canada has enough railways now without chartering any more,. Some of the members of the Legislature took that attitude and opposed the proposed new railway on the grounds that this country cannot afford another railway line, the present railway situationâ€"being about all any civilized people can support. The suggestion was thrown out in the Legislature that if the new Southern Algoma Railway were to prove a success, it would mean that the Algoma Central would be wrecked. There was no direct contradiction of the idea. Instead, Premier Hepburn threw out the suggestion that the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway was already in financial difficulties, and that it did not appear probable that the $1,390,000 claimed by the Government could be paid without the railâ€" way being forced into receivership or other unâ€" pleasant condition. People in general may be pardoned for asking a number of questions in the matter. Why add to the present array of railways, when there is already enough of this sort of trouble? Why force an existing railway company into bankruptcy or receivership? Why has default in the corporation tax been allowed to grow to the proportions of $1,390,000 before action was taken? Is the government anxious to injure the old railway, or unduly help the new? Or, a little of both? Or is the idea eventually to add the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway to the list of enterprises owned by the province?1 Timmins, Ont., Thursday, April 27th, 1939 TIMMINS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Associlation; Ontarloâ€" Qurbec Newspaper Association; Class ‘A" Weekly Group OFFICE 26 â€" PHONES â€",â€"â€"â€" RESIDENCE 10 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO, LAKE, Owncr and Publisher Bubscription Rates: Canadaâ€"$3.00 Poer Year. United Statesâ€"$3.50 Poer Year uie . c ds dn Bz ns n ANOTHER RAILWAY IOR NORTH" 2 9 t o o t o o o e Che Advanes PACGE FCUR province has its own staff of iblic buildings, a number of outâ€" ere called in to design and superâ€" Other of the collected items may seem like odd and original news items until examined and conâ€" sidered. There may seem something funny about the paragraph that a union picketed the New York State Labour Relations Board, but the origâ€" inality drops away when it has been recalled that there have been in Canada and the United States scores of strikes by men on relief. The burglar at Grant‘s Pass, Oregon, who stole the sheriff‘s gun, was only a poor incompetent copyâ€"cat when Still less does the twoâ€"Lheaded calf born at Pine Plains, New York, deserve a place in feature news. There have been literally thousands of circuses and sideshows with twoâ€"headed calves, with colâ€" umns of space given them in the newspapers. There was an interesting variation of the theme, however, last week, when a calf was born in Dyâ€" mond township near NewLiskeard, with a normal body and one head, but two mouths, two sets of teeth, a pair of tongues, a couple of noses and four nostrils. Still another of the featured news items says that the only way they could get the Mountain Lake, New Jersey, fire department together for its annual picture was to ring the fire alarm. That may be news in New York or Mountain Lake, but in this country it would be news if the brigade didn‘t respond to the alarm, picture or no picture. Another of the selected nubs of news is that a turtle from the University of Tennessee ate up ten frogs from the University of Detroit. No sugâ€" gestion is given as to how Tennessee and Detroit commingled to make the frogâ€"eating possible, but it is not important in any case, for other items in the current news of recent days throw such a simple incident far in the shade. The newspaperss recently have been fuli of references to the fact that students from all colleges have been swallowâ€" ing goldfish. When college nuts cat campus goldâ€" fish, surely that is news. There is a local gentleman who has won anonyâ€" mous fameâ€"after the manner of the unknown soldierâ€"by his statement that he confines his newspaper reading to editorials, his claim being that the news is just the same old thing over and over again with the names and ‘dates changâ€" es, . In the collection from New York of odd items this theory has much support. For instance, there is the story of the merchant at Raleigh, South Carolina, who put dollar bills in the window of his store with price tags offering them for 25 cents each. Only three people applied for this particular bargain. Perhaps, some will explain the oddity by saying that the window was not in good location, and that the fault was not in the bargain, or the people, but rather in the fact that he did not advertise. Some cynics might even go so far as to say that the Raleigh merchant would have sold out his complete stock had he offered 20 cent pieces at $1 eachâ€"and properly advertâ€" ised the matter in his local newspaper. In any case there was nothing new in the fact that the public does not always respond to the offer of something for nothing. There is the historic case of the practical joker, Theodore Hook, standing on London bridge a century ago, vainly offering golden sovereigns for a shilling each and finding no takers. / Press despatches this week from New York carry an array of a baker‘s dozen of what are considered unusually odd items in the current news of the day. Because the collection of odd items is dateâ€" lined from New York some people will be inclined to hail them with interest and amusement. As the items had to pay special telegraph charges there should be some return in entertainment and humor. As a matter of fact, however, any issue of The Huntingdon Gleaner carries in its column, "Chronicled News Bits" more items of equal oddity and interest. These days everything is about enough to drive everything crazy. What with the war scares, and the dictators at home and abroad, the college professors, the politicians, the taxes, and everyâ€" thing, what seems to be needed is bigger and better mental hospitals. The critics appear to be speaking out of turn. Why not wait until the patients are all in the institution and then ask them all about it? That was the way it was done in regard to Canada‘s penitentiaries. Then the millions that the hospital apparently has cost, is costing, will cost, are also open to question. The critics quite evidently forget that if everything were all right in this province, there wouldn‘t be so much pressing need for institutions f the kind referred to. The Advance has been waiting patiently for some member of the Legislature to bring up the point that the odor of onions from a farm in Elâ€" gin county blowing across the hospital grounds when the wind is from the rightâ€"or wrongâ€" diâ€" rection, will have a deleterious effect on the paâ€" tients. Or visa versa. Or as the case may be. Conservative members of the Legislature seem to think there‘s something queer about the apâ€" pointment of a man to take charge of the new mental hospital They imagine that the head man in a mental hospital should be appointed when he is appointed, and that he should not draw salary before he is hired. To this, the govâ€" ernment repiy seems to be "You‘re crazy!" than stone alone, or words to that effect. All of which is very confusing to the people still at large, but, perhaps, will be clear to the persons who will occupy the building. QUEER THINGS IN THE NEWS fHE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TTMM.N8, ONTARIO tacle below. The theory was that when the hen| 'stood up to i00k at the egg she had just laid, thcI |cgg would have dmappeared through the Lrap' iThmkmg that she had been mistaken, the hcn; | would immediately proceed to lay another egg, and | Itms procedure would be repeated all day. Thcf 1plan was a great moneyâ€"maker for the farmer, until he became too greedy, overâ€" reaching hnm-; self and exhausting his hens by installing clcc-; tric lights to make the hens believe that the cgg-; laying day had no end, and there is no night. Everything should have a moral, and the moralg' q@urstions of of all this seems to be that there is nothing new | there be war in under the sunâ€"or the moon, for that matter. Pal elections be Even that thought is centuries old. Those who so solemnly affirm that this is a new world, are simâ€" ' The editor of ‘ ply going back for the very saying to the years of man. He is writ long ago. apples. t Each item in the list of oddities may be disâ€". counted in the same way if anyone will take the | time and trouble. Even the story of the Rhodcg Island lady who got her second divorce in two| months from the same husband may be beaten by some other case. | it is remembered how often shecriff‘s guns have been stolen while the sheriffs were still wearing them and the sheriff‘s car was taken along for good measure. The story about the New Mexico hen that laid a dozen eggs a day may seem more difficult to scorn. It does look like a lot of eggs for one hen in a single day. However, the item is put far in the shade in comparison to the hen story going the rounds of the press some years ago. In that story the number of eggs laid by any hen was not confined to a mere dozen. A farmer (nationality unknown) conceived the idea of a hen‘s nest with a trap bottom. The weight of an egg would trip the bottom of the nest and the egg would roll down into a wellâ€"strawed recepâ€" "Everlasting Punishment will s the sulbject of the lesson sermon for Chrisâ€" tian Scienoe Scciety 1.0.0.F. Hall, Spruce $t. N., on Sunday, April 30th. ng is reliable information and I will give you it, if wanted, for the asking. If you want any recommendations for my integrity, I will put them on‘ a separate sheet of paper for your use but not for publication. The Golden Text is: "Sunai not the Judge of all the carth Go cright?" (Gentcsis 18:25). I can speak of that ccuntry as once who knows all about it. I came into within 60 miles of Moosonce with the Hudson Bay Company supply ship in 1907 direct from London, England, was shipwreckesd there in a threeâ€"masted Darque in the month of October, 1906. and spent the rest of my time from 1908 to 1936 in the country, have it in a stecambogat. sailboat, and cance have made winter and summer inspocâ€" and survey trips for business in connecticon iwith the firm I was workâ€" ing for. I have never been a profesâ€" sional guide, but it has been my busiâ€" neoss at different times and in differâ€" ent parts of that country to find out all about it so we could get an idea of the approximate cost before wo put men on the job. I have ‘been manager of depots and all trading posts around James Bay at some time or other and know all transportation proplems from Moosâ€" onee tc any place, including points wheore it costs $500 at ton to cance merâ€" chandice. stick to measure the possibilities of the rest of the country. Admittedly, Mcosonse is the only Jumping off place for any excursion in. to that arca, lout to have tourists speond i couple of days in the summer at a place which is neither scenic nor pleasâ€" ant and have to accept practically an ultimatum to pay $5 to $6 a day at the late hotel or pitch a tent is not conâ€" ducive to good business, especially as a large percentaze of tourists that go, or would return are of limited means. vocating the ecstablishment of Tourists Camps to take care of the tourists that 30 into that country. May I suggest that now that the famous structure that has bseen the cause of much bitter controversy is no more, and plans ar: afosot to esta‘dlish furth>r azccommocaâ€" afoot to esta‘lish furth>r accommoca tion for the tourists, that the noext ost ablishments if any be Ilcceated in th right places. Re your editorial in this wch's Post commenting on the destruction of the James Bay Inn at Moosonee and adâ€" The greatest dravwlack the James Bay arsa has sver had is by the faci that Moosonce has been used as a yardâ€" Says James Bay May Be Made Playground The following interesting letlor touching on Moosonee and James Bay appeared in last week‘s issue of Thc Cochrane Northland Post: Editor, Northland Post: Writer was Shipwrecked in James Bay in 1908, and Has Known Country Over 30 years. "EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT* Williams values woerse $8,894,877; $8,829.381 and $8,897,086. Th number of active mincs aas not changed during the past two months. The Algoma Summit proâ€" perty was closed in Fcbruary and the Proeston ~East Dome < made its first monthly report. Tlme toial cumulative production for the first quarter was $25,331,477 from 2,528,720 tons milled as comparted with $22,823,466 from 2.â€" 188,507 tous in the corresponding periâ€" od of 1938. With the cexecpticn of Matachewanâ€" Sudburyâ€"Temagami imprcevement was moted in every area as may be chservâ€" Hasaga, Howey, JM.â€" Consolidated, Madsen,. McKenzic Red Lake, Pickls LCrow, Sachigo. Kenora and Rainy River Districts (2) â€"Etraw Beach, Wenmdigo. The value of gold buillion produced by 58 gold mines, of Ontario in March as rcported to the Ontario Department of Mincs was $8,711,972 as $8,â€" 077,214 for the short month of Februâ€" iry. (Ting â€"output for March has tbeen oxcesded heretofore tby only thrce other periecds namely, July, August and Decomizer of 1938 whecen the respective Thunder Bay Discrict (10)â€"Bank Giceld, Hard Rock, Loitch, Little Lon: Lazs,. MacLecdâ€"Cockshutt, Norther: Empire, Sand River, Sturggon River St. Anthony, Tcmbill. Patricia Portion (10)â€"Central Pa tricia, Cochenour, Willans, Gold Eagi: Hasaga, Howey, JM. Consolidated Porcupine (16) â€" Buffaloâ€"Ankerite, Coniaurum, Delnite, Dome, Hallnor, Hollinger, Hollinger (Ross), Mace, Mcâ€" Intyre, Moncta, Naybob, Pamour, Payâ€" master, Porcupine Lake, Preston East Dome. Kirkland Lake (10)â€"Bidgocd, Gold:>n Gate, Kirkland Lake Golid, Lake Shore, Macassa, Sylvanite, Teckâ€"Huzhes, Tcâ€" ourn, Upper Canada, Wrightâ€"Harâ€" greaves, Larder Laks: (3) â€" Korrâ€"Addison Omega, Raven River. Malachecwan (2)â€"Matachewan Conâ€" solidated, Youngâ€"Davidson. Sudbury and Temagami Ors, Now Golden Rose, Ronca, Ticnaga Algonmr District (2)â€"Cling Lake Minto. The following is the March gold bulâ€" letin issued by the Ontario Dopartment of Mines:â€" Gold Output of Ontario for March Ontario producing gold mines b fields for the month of March follow Porcupine Maintains Its Lead the Ontario Camps. Manager Timmins Branch H C. SCART The editor of The Windsor Star must be a young man. He is writing praise of the oldâ€"style of evapâ€" orated apples. In connection with a campaign for funds to carry on their work for underprivileged children the Riverside Kiwanis Club gave away a $11,500 model home at Leaside. Now the Attorneyâ€"Genâ€" eral is conducting an investigation into the matâ€" ter, on the apparent suspicion that there was a lottery in connection with the affair. The Kiwanis insist that there was no lottery conducted, and that the awarding of the model home to a widow woman was conducted on proper lines within ‘the law. For the present the Kiwanis refuse to divâ€" ulge the method used. The purpose of the law in regard to lotteries is to protect the public from fraud and imposition. For affairs such as those conducted for worthy causes by service clubs there is no need to evoke the lottery laws to protect the public. > The service clubs as a rule are carecful to guard the incerests of the people. This is so well recognized that what may be lotteries in technical and strictly legal fashion have been permitted for years without question. In fairness to all conâ€" cerned, this particular Toronto case should not be selected as an exception to the accepted rule. T the Riverside Kiwanis Club has a legal procedure to avoid the penalties of the lottery laws, the method should be made public. Otherwise, the law should be amended to permit of harmless procedure for worthy causes., ‘ the day: Is thi Europe? When held in Timmins North Bay Nugget: Tentative plans anncunced by Hon. Norman Hipel, Onâ€" tario labor minister, for the establishâ€" ment in Northern Ontario of a homs cervice training centre for girls indizcates that the labor department is ncot well acquainted with the geography of this section of the province. Places menâ€" tioned as "possible" locations for the training depot are Kirkland Lake, Port Arthur, Fort William and Kznora, deâ€" spite the fact that none are central enough to service the entire north. e»mall proqauction irom South lion Gold Mines included in (Claken from Mint Statement) Tolal $618,328 $814,991 Neorthwestern Ontarion (includes Algoâ€" ma, Thunder Bay, Patricia and Kenora and Rainy River Distriots) January 1.008.443 1.561.0058 March Porcupine Belt January Poebruary March Total $8,015,500 $8, Matachewanâ€"Ssudabury â€"Temagami January 214,645 February 193484 March 210,.199 ed from the table below. Monthly QOutput of Ontario Gold Mines 1938â€" 1939 Total for Ontario January Total $10,379,474 Kirkland Lakeâ€"Larder Lake January _... 2,9007,670 Pebruary 2,087,826 March 3,020,063 $Urci Sma rand Total ...$22,823,466 $25,331,477 Intermittent milling operationsâ€"no ros availaijle. oa Pine Street North Timmins on have been permitted n. In fairness to all conâ€" oronto case should not be to the accepted rule. T lub has a legal procedure of the lottery laws, the AND REAL ESTATE IN ALL BRANCHES INSU RANCE Is this spring? Will When will the municiâ€" sIMMS, HOOKER DREW $8,5315,508 $8,985.058 from South Vermilâ€" included in figures. Value $3,007,6 3,2G69 3,602.€ 7,171,597 8,013,494 1,121,049 1,.180,613 HOUSES AND LOTS FOR SALE CONVENIENT TERMS 617 238 619 $10,997 402 Belt 333 426 $3.670,369 3,001,173 3.775.860 8,077 8,711 1,561,058 1 463,673 1,508,690 3,035,5075 2,189,750 3,160,333 1T5,2839 12,613 67.089 rangement it is divid d into partments each with a scpar this means the milk is divi sourc?e £o that cnt part g‘ landlord, one to â€"the mort pany, one to the governmeon to the fermer.," 1+ linpoi tazcle is cal Guelph Mereury: A recent birthda in Doorn prompts the thought that th day may come when Hitler wili be on] KXOn® United an annivsrsary compctitio; closinz dat All entrics xd P11 Rangers Cardinals Gamjles Wandzerer Impori United Nixons In the Lo the fcilowin day‘s gamsos Wanderers, 2: *Unted; 0 Extend Closing Date For Russel Cup Competition iG _ fG " Games for Friday, April 28th Impzorials vs, Rangers. | Canadians‘yvs. Cardinals. Nixon TERMS MAY BE ARRANGED k ‘\'l‘ 14 Pinc St, N Y ou can‘t be OPTICAL CoOmMPANY "that your eyes are normal unless you have them examâ€" ined. Your eyes may be deâ€" fective from birth and as you‘ve noever experienced betâ€" tor _ vition you don‘t realize how well normal eyes can see, There is one way to be sure you â€" can see_ perfectlyâ€"have them examined by a compeâ€" tent optometrist." THUR®DAY. APRIL 271M 1939 llan A] wing were | imes: Legion Pa V ~1; D lmaguv Standin (3 tussel! Cuyp C Lo 1 Phonecâ€"Office Resiaence P W a MA H 1 2 Phone 835 V In ind n p» ; thit ind Of ntered J 209th t3 Mrt , date C1 only Th iT 1 LUHC