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There seems to be a danger of the idea of "straightline, streamlined" highways being carried too far. It would be better to have passable roads now to speed the development of the North than to wait too long for paved highways. There is no doubt but that tourist trade would be attracted here by good roads. But good roads do not neâ€" cessarily mean paved highways or other expensive road building. It would be a mistake to do withâ€" out many needed roadways just to have a few speedways. The fact should be faced that while the tourist trade is well worth considering, it is not the only thing to be thought of in connection with the North. The opening up of the country and the development of the resources here should have first and chief consideration. It is this thought that has prompted the agitation for the proposed completion of the roadway between Timmins and Sudbury. There are existing roads in use that need to be connected up. If the road from South Porcupine were continued to Mataâ€" chewan, and the road to West Shiningtree were connected up with Milnet, north of Sudbury, there would be a highway between Timmins and Sudbury. Such a highway would serve the Porâ€" cupine camp, the Matachewan camp, Elk Lake, Gowganda, the Shiningtree and Sudbury. Better still it would allow the opening up of other proâ€" pective gold camps along the route. Further, it would make accessible a scenic paradise and a sportsmen‘s eden on the way. The very fact that, it would embrace so many mining camps and other centres of interest on its route would give it a particular appeal to tourists. There are paved Sudbury appears to accept the idea of a straightâ€" line road, Timmins to Toronto, via Sudbury, as something to cheer about. It will not rouse the same enthusiasm among thoughtful people in this part of the North. What Sudbury really desires is a direct highway to Toronto, instead of having to take the longer route by way of North Bay as at present. With this desire the people of Timmins and district should have every sympathy. It would seem that the importance of Sudbury entitles it to this convenience and advantage. Sudbury‘s inâ€" dustries have been of much value to the province and to the Dominion and the business and emâ€" ployment created by them merit special considerâ€" ation. When thought is given to the value of Sudâ€" bury business, the contribution by Sudbury to the welfare of the province, the amount the motorists of Sudbury and district pay into the government treasury, and the way highways have been dupliâ€" cated in the South for the convenience and beneâ€" fit of the people there, it does seem that a highâ€" way between Sudbury and Toronto is fully warâ€" ranted as a fair deal to the people of Sudbury. If there were road connection between Timmins and Sudbury, the proposed highway between Sudâ€" bury and Toronto would be of great service and value to the people of this part of the North. But at the present what Timmins is especially interâ€" ested in is the connecting road between Sudbury and the Porcupine. | iR Mess se B csmm mm m on 220 What the people of this part of the country wanted was that both enterprises should be carâ€" ried on. It was felt that the Government should implement its promises to make the Ferguson highway a first class road for travel. At the same time it was believed that as a means of creating employment and for the development of the North, it would be good business to undertake the completion of the roads between Timmins and Sudbury, Apparently, the Government does not agree with this viewâ€"takes the view that only the one work can be financed at this time. There does not seem to be any serious question as to which enterprise should be rushed to completion. The suggestion emanating from Sudbury, to the effect that the Ontario Government is considering the building of a "straightâ€"line, streamlined high â€" way" between Timmins and Toronto by way of Sudbury, will be taken to mean that the connectâ€" ing of the Sudbury and Porcupine camps has been postponed indefinitely. At the present time there is a highway between, Timmins and Toronâ€" to, and it is not easy to believe that the Governâ€" ment will build a competing highway at the preâ€" sent time. At a matter of fact it is only a month or two ago that Hon. Mr. McQuesten made it plain that if much money was to be spent on the Perguâ€" son highway, then the North could not expect many other highways. Indeed, the Ontario Minâ€" ister of Highways told the mayor of Timmins that the road to Sudbury would have to await the comâ€" pletion of the Ferguson highway or work on the Ferguson highway would have to await the completion of the road to Sudbury. Most people feel that the Ferguson highway still needs conâ€" siderable work upon it, and that if the one work or the cther is to be deferred the road to Sudbury, though important to the development of the counâ€" try, will have to wait. Bubscription Rates Canadaâ€"$3.00 Per Year. United 8 Timmins, Ont., Thursday, July 20th 1939 Cbke Yorrugpine Advance THE ROAD TO SUDBURY United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per Year It is a commonplace to refer to people trying to lift themselves by their bootstraps, but to imply that a nation may become rich and prosperous by taxing itself is a new one on the house. There is something wrong with the theory, however, or everybody would be comfortable these days, beâ€" cause the governments certainly have been doing their best to assure prosperity by the "Sequitur‘" route. A strange story comes in the despatches from Toronto. Mike Norway, of that city, changed his shirt, and the wife sent the shirt to the laundry. Then Mike remembered that he had his life‘s savâ€" ings, $116.00 in bills, pinned to the discarded shirt, Of course, the idea of news isn‘t confined to men and dogs and bites. For example, if a man stands up and steps forward and suggests that taxes come as a boon and a blesing to men, that would be news all right, whether it was from the North, the East, the West or the South. Yet that very thing has happened. The writer of a letter to The Globe and Mail says that instead of taxes impoverishing a nation, they benefit and bless. The lady (for surely he is no gentleman in this age of the world) signs the name "Sequitur‘"‘ and ! gives Montreal as an address. The theory is founded on the idea of a community without any taxes at all and consequently without any services, ‘The municipality is ravaged by disease and the} obvious remedy is better sanitation. To apply‘ the remedy it is necessary to construct waterâ€"| works and sewers. For this a million dollars is required and this money is raised by taxing the people: But, says the writer, the money is paid out at once for labour and materials and so goes back again to the people to be spent for food, clothing and other articles, thus adding to the} prosperity of the community, while the people| have in addition the benefit of sanitation. "The net economic result," says the writer, ‘"is that the taxpayers are no poorer, and the entire communâ€" ity is really richer to the extent of the better heaith which it now enjoys and the social beneâ€" fits resulting from the employment created." | There is always "news" in the newspapersâ€"or; at least, occasionally. What is news! One ingeâ€" nious explanation of the meaning of the word is that it is derived from the letters N.E.W.S., signiâ€" fying North, East, West, South, these letters apâ€" pearing on early newspapers to signifyvy that the information was gathered from all these points on the compass. As the Rev. Dr. E. Cobham Brewer points out, however, this clever conceit is upset by the fact that the oldâ€"fashioned way of spelling the word was "Newes.‘"‘ Probably the old professional definition covers the situation the bestâ€"‘"if a dog bites a man that isn‘t news, but if a man bites a dog that‘s news." There is general gratification in the North at the promptness with which Col. Mac Lang, chairman of the T. N. O. Railway Commission, made it plain that in the matter of the lignite deposits north of Cochrane the North is to be developed and not exploited once again. Rumours and reâ€" ports that organized plans were under way to send unemployed from Southern towns and cities to the North to work in the proposed lignite industry roused the fear that the development of the ligâ€" nite fields was to be made excuse for another and further foisting of the unemployed from the Souâ€" thern. section of the province on the already burâ€" dened back of the North. Already the South hasi literally thousands of its unemployed here withâ€" out prospect of profitable work for them. To use the development of the lignite fields as an excuse for more of this sort of imposition would be a little too much. ,‘"The lignite field is a Northern On-: tario project," said Col. Mac Lang, "and the rail-' way will drawits labour from the North." employment needs of the North will come before | those of any other section when work gets underi way at Onakawana," added Col, Lang. So that‘s. | that! | | roads and speedways ready at home for the touâ€" rists, but no placeâ€"else could they duplicate the f] attractions of a trip through the Montreal river area that woulld be traversed by the proposed J completed roamdiway from Timmins to Sudbury. The most important factor in the attraction of ( tourist trade is the fact that the proposed comâ€" pleted roadway between the great gold camp and the world‘s greatest nickel camp is that there 63 would be an alternate route between North and South. Few people like to travel five hundred mileés and turn around and go back by the same route. With the road to Sudbury completed, howâ€"| t ever, the North would have a .truly remarkable | N# attraction for touristsâ€"to visit the world‘s greatest her nickel camp, developing camps like Shiningtree,| Uni Gowganda, Elk Lake, Matachewan and others to g‘“ spring up, and then the great gold camp of Porâ€" bzn cupine, with side trips to big paper industries like| T those at Kapuskasing and Iroquois Falls, to travel :‘g:‘ through the wonderful clay belts, to see the Kirkâ€"=| /S\ land Lake gold camp, the famous silver camp at| Cobalt, the beauties of the Temagami Reserve| * added to the charm of the Montreal River. Such 2? ) a double route in slang phrase "would have everyâ€" | the thing." read NORTHERN LABOUR TO BE USED IN PRAISE OF TAXATION and he became unnecessarily excited. He chased after the laundryman, and then he notified the police. He was afraid he had lost the money. But |his alarm was without cause. The laundryman \returned him the money without question, but | told him he couldn‘t have the shirt for a couple of days. The strangeness of the story is in the idea of a Toronto man changing his shirt after wearing it long enough to accumulate $116.00. Everything that goes to a laundry will be returned safelyâ€"except the odd button and the cccasional shirt tail. An American humorist explained that there was compensation for everything in life, by telling about the shirt he sent to the laundry. It came back minus the tailâ€"butâ€"blessed compenâ€" sationâ€"the tail was in the package nicely launâ€" dered and cliarged for as a pocket handkerchiet. She says: "There has been a sad reckâ€" oning this morning in aestruction of life and property. We mcourn the death of Harold Hsu, one of our Press staff and a very promising young man. He was outside the city near the river bank The local man who prophesied earlier this year that there would be a Dominion election "before the summer is over" may be right yet. Indeed, Next part of the letter was writâ€" ten on the morning of June 12â€"the morning after: the bombing. Mrs. Jolliffe says that a haze over the city that morning leads to the belief that the planes would not get in. ‘"‘The morning will bring the facts but also many more raids if there is good visibility for they will take advanâ€" tage of this break in the weather; Night ibefore last when Uncle Gerald was in Chungkingâ€"in fact he was with others just coming from habving tea with Madam Kiang when the warning rang and they all had to get to safety. Chungking has got so used to it that everyone knows what to do and does it quickly. It is remarkable how any sitâ€" uation can ‘be coped with once folks have had sufficient experience. Daddy has just. come toâ€" say that .the homeless people may not cross, to this part of the city. The police keep order at a time like this and folk may not come and go as they like." fHE PORCUPINE® ADYVANCE ‘"The peocple left the city in hundreds as soon as the danger signal went and as w have been going about we see them. stream back again with their bundles and bedding and little childâ€" ren. We hear that there was a house bombed and took fire near the home where we were to have had our dinâ€" use.. If the fine weather continues we may look to our daily visitation of demons. ‘As night settled down the ‘All Clear‘ sounded and now the doctors and nurses and relief squads are all busy. "I confess I did not.stay lonz enough to count them, The dugâ€"out looked a better count to me. However we were all safely in the dugâ€"out when the thud, thud of distant bombs was heard. Our place got less of the concussion and the noise than the other houses." "As I write, continues Mrs. Jolliffe, "the men are cutting down our veranda sun screen to lay on the churech floor. Every last one shall come down in the morning for they will be a menace in the event that this end of the town takes fire. They can be put to good. ‘]| The letter was just reseived by the sons who are in Timmins. Naturaliy they are fesrful for the saftely of their mother and father. Excerpts from the |letter are as follows: "Have just come in from the church and there seems to be nothing I can do |at presentâ€"the bombing is over and the fires are razingâ€"the hospital is alâ€" ready full of wounded and the church is being prepared to receive the overâ€" flow and also as a home to receive the homeless. It is astonishing that so great havoc can be done in the space of a minute. As soon as the planes were so near that we could count them, we dived into the dugout and when we [ came out, not‘ three minutes later it |seemed as if all of the south to north end of the city was in a blaze. "But T‘ll go back: and tell you all abcut it, T have been telling: you in all these letters how thankful:we have been |for cloudy days and much haze. Well, ; today was a lovely Sabbath. Daddy and : ,I wereâ€"due to have dinner with the iRoys at the Campus, and just whenâ€" about to leave, 6.15, the woman â€"came iand told us that the ‘prepare for the warning‘ flags were out. That meant stay near the dugâ€"out. For an hour we sauntered about and then sounded the raid gong ‘gi gin bao‘ which meant that danger was getting more realâ€"that 1s, that the planes wene still headed our way. Half an hour later went the ‘gin gi gin bao‘ that is the urgent signal. The church bell also began to ring as soon as the first warning came.â€" the police ring the Hell. That with the long drawn siren of the warning continued for some time and then came a lull and the antiâ€"aircraft shooting was heard and then hove into sight twentyâ€"six Japanese planes. In a letter from Chengtu, China, to her two sons in Timmins, Charles and William, Mrs. R. C. Jolliffe. who with her husband, Dr. Joliffe, is a Canadian United Church Mission worker stationâ€" ed in Chengtu, tells of the horrors faced by residents of that city when it was bembed on the night of June 11. Tells the Horrors of the Jap Bombing of Chinese City of Chengtu to Sons Twentyâ€"Six Planes Over City Reckon Huge Damage to Prope}t\vand 'l“.h(-)u‘s'z'm‘('i. Pgol;le Killed and Wounded. Tells of Refugee and Hospital Work to Take Care of Wounded. Fifty Streets Burn. Miss MacDonald sings, but through an accident it is not her husband‘s song. She gets a job with the shnow and she reâ€" mains behind. When she rises to starâ€" dom her name is coupled with that of the wealthy "angel" of the production. Ayres misunderstands and there is a divorce. All ends, however, on a harmâ€" onious note when Morgan purchases one of Ayres‘ musical shows in which to star Miss MacDonald. The picture was produced by Robert 2. Leonard. The story is woven about the lives of Ayres and Miss MacDonald, as husband and wife who combine to form a piano and song team performing at cheap night clubs. Ayres" temper costs them their job. On returning home he disâ€" covers he has won a scholarship to study in Italy, but the funds are inâ€" sufficient to provide passage for his wife. Determining to sell his prize song, the two visit the office of producer Cornelius Collier, played by Frank Morgan. Frank Morgan once again lends his unique comedy to the role of a Broadâ€" way producer. Ian Hunter forms the necessary third point of the film‘s love triangle, and Al Shean, famous old vaudevillian, gives an Ateresting charâ€" acterization as Herman, elderly conâ€" cert cellist who befriends both Miss MacDonald and Ayres. Appearing opposite the singing star is Lew Ayres, whose ace performances in recent film hits won for him the male lead in this picture. Ayres, a musâ€" iclan and.composer in real life, plays a parallel role as Jimmy Seymour, Miss MacDonald‘s husband. In the notable. picture, "Breadway Serenade," at the Palace Theatre Sunâ€" day midnight, Monday and Tuesday, July 23rd, 24th and 25th, Jeanette Macâ€" Donald. plays her first solo starring role. The new musical show takes full adâ€" vantage of the versality of the star. ‘‘Broadway Serenade," which traces the:â€"struggles of a young singer and her husband in their fight for stardom, ofâ€" fers music lovers the full scoge of Miss MacDonald‘s voice. The melodies inâ€" clude everything from grand opera to semiâ€"classical and popular selections. Jeanette MacDonald in New Picture at the Palace Theatre Lew Ayres, Frank Morgan and Others on Supporting Cast of "Broadway Serenâ€" ade,." her belongings and remain here but I persuaded her to go." "Just now, while writing, Cheng Ta Niang‘s daughterâ€"inâ€"law came weepâ€" ing, begging her mother to flee the city.. Ta Nang said no, she would send Far and Throat Hospital. Dr. Cunâ€" ningham said they had men on the roof all night to pull it down. There was not only the confusion all night of the burning buildings but also of the tearâ€" ing down of nearby buildings to make a fire guard. ‘"There was a great loss of life at the new South Gate through bomb explosâ€" ions. The fire raged from about three blocks in from the gate as far as Ma U Longâ€"I heard it was burned down. The fire very much threatened the Eye, y For Only a Few Minutes. "The wounded are coming in to the hospital but the staff is able to cope with the situationâ€"there are many hospitals in the city. ‘"The Canadian school has a great many panes of glass broken and the (Paptist Dormitory was badly damaged. The Liljestrand home was badly wreckâ€" ed in part, A student Chinese girl was killed on the premises. It seems that the Campus did not hear the dis tinct warning that we heard. The loss of life need not have been so great had people taken to cover. It is Chenâ€" tu‘s first real raid and we learned a lot. and a bomb exploded nearby killing many. You will be glad to know that our reclaimed opium wreck of a man was right on the job last night, and in his new found strength, ran hither and thither carrying quite heavy loads to the church. An Edmonton man who shouted "Heil Hitler when the King and Queen were visiting that Wesâ€" tern city was sentenced to jail for thirty daysâ€" no doubt for inciting to riot. The Blairmore En terprise says that if the fellow had acted in simiâ€" lar fashion in Germany he would have been shot The chances are that he was halfâ€"shot as it was And jail is a fine place in which to sober up. he might be just as right if he had said "before summer starts this year." The Montreal letter writer who has figured it out that it profits people to pay taxes should do a little theorizing on the value of taxes on coal chutes and signs. Premier Aberhart of Alberta has endorsed Herâ€" ridge‘s new party. Few expected that it would be as silly as that. "It is impossible to achieve as high, clear notes while wearing them as it is High French heels, worn while singâ€" ing , are definitely detrimental to the voice. This is the opinion expressed by Jeanette MacDonald who‘s latest starâ€" ring picture, "Broadway Serenade," is showing at the Palace theatre Sunday midnight, Monday and Tuesday. "Hirh French heels throw off the normal posâ€" ture of the body," the singer explained. The business section of the city that was bombed was described by the writâ€" er as "an utter waste of brick and mortar and _ charred wood". ~FPifty streets were more or less burned and casualities, killed and wounded, were reckoned at a thousand. e z. P r" be the dupes and targets for money making corporations. So far are we from being as a people Christians, that we are not even sane, but that is too vast to go into now. But let us reâ€" member that if some lives are lost from the lands that supply the amâ€" munition we have a complaint beyond that of the people who immediately discharge that ammunition. We know for we saw it loaded and unâ€"| loaded at Japan. ©Until these facts are faced in all their implications and the facts come home to our own lands this thing can go on. What utter fools we are to call ourselves democracies and! Two days later Mrs, Jolliffe comâ€" pletes her letter,. At the time of writâ€" ing, she said, it was raining so there would be no raids that day. Purther relating the havoc caused by the bombâ€" ing, Mrs. Jolliffe tells of buildings that were burned down through fires bezun by incendiary bombs or riddled by the effects of domolition bombsâ€"buildings familiar to members of her family who lived for years in China. Speaking of the raiding she says: ‘‘These bombs are doubly unkind when hurled at Americans and Canadians for it is good American and Canadian matâ€" erial which makes them so efficient! GENERAL CONTRAC eanette MacDonald Says lannot Sing on High Heels 86 PINE STREET S BENEFIT BY OUR 30â€" YEARSâ€" OF EXPERIENCE IN ALL CLASSESâ€" OF REMODELLING WORK HILLâ€"CLARK â€"FRANCIS TORS It Was Summer in Timmins on November 11th, 1926 W. S, Macpherson and Dt ter. Dr. A. S. Porter showed The Advance this week a snapshot marked to prove that it was summer weathtr in Timâ€" mins on November l1th, 1926 The weather that year continued. so sumâ€" mer like that Golf was carried on sevâ€" eral weeks after the usual time for dropping it. On A;mist.ice Day there were a number enjoyving golf at the Timmins course and a snapshot was taken of one group, the picture when developed being marked with the date and other particul@rs. Those in the group of golf playersâ€"all dressed in light summer clothingâ€"were Mr. Charles Butler, Mr,: Geo. N. Ross, Mr. Toronto Telegram: â€" The modern bathing suit certamly runs true to form. Try The Advance Want Advertisements when wearing flatâ€"heeled shoes." " star says further that high heels aff the back, which in turn affects diaphragm and results in lack of p per breath control. FREE â€"CONSULTING _ SERVICE PLANNING AND . I.~P.â€" LOANS â€" ARRANGED 14 Pine St., N. "*My Secretary was losing a lot of time from the office. _ Just at my â€" busiest times she would be home complainâ€" ing of a "splitting" headâ€" ache. It got to be so reâ€" gular that I sent her to Mrz. Curtis for an eye exâ€" amination. . 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