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If the public is agreeable to have an absolute ban placed on the mail of all who have at any time been caught receiving mail matter forbidden by postal regulations, then nothing further need be said, providing every individual has his British rights of free and open trial in the courts in the matter. The trouble, however, appears to be that there have been no such trials. The post office authorities in their great wisdom have simply found letters containing lottery tickets or other banned goods and then without benefit of trial, the recipient of the offending mail has been autoâ€" cratically denied the use of the mails. It may be that in the city of Toronto ninetyâ€"nine out of a hundred men whose mail privileges have been thus cancelled have deserved some penalty. But British law requires the protection of the one inâ€" nocent man, even at the expense of the escape of a few of the guilty. The latest reports of those banned the use of the mails suggests that the list of blacklisted men is not confined to Toronto. Sudbury is reported to have quite a number of‘f people, who, because they have received booklets of sweepstakes tickets through the mails, are now on the Dominionâ€"wide blacklist which prohibits any mail whatever from reaching them. There is ‘understood to be a similar ban on certain peo-| ple in Timmins, and they have consequently been' compellied to receive their supplies through the Toronto newspapers first called attention to the: matter by referring toâ€"the fact that a comâ€" paratively large number of men in the city of Toronto were denied the use of the mails. The reason for this was the charge that at some time or another these men had received letters in their mail containing lottery tickets or other matter which cannot be legally sent through the post ofiees of Canada. It is not clear that the parties concerned had been duly prosecuted for the ofâ€" fence of receiving lottery tickets or other illegal matter through the mail. In case all these peoâ€" ple were duly prosecuted, it appears odd that the affair should have escaped general attention as the number of people concerned is large enough in itself to attract attention. Granted, however, that all those concerned were duly tried in proper open court and found guilty of illegally receiving forbidden matter through the mails, does the law require that all their mail matter hereafter is to be considered as illegal? As matter of fact it has developed in the Toronto cases that one of the letters which the post ofice department reâ€" fused to deliver was a note from a medical man in regard to very necessary treatment for the patient concerned. The claim is made that the nonâ€"delivery of this particular letter might have had very serious results. If the law requires that anyone guilty of using the mails illegally will ! be debarred from receiving communications even from his doctor, or his lawyer, the public should know this. Some newspapers are greatly excited over lists that have been published recently where the right to the use «of the postal imails has been taken away from a number of people in Canada. The newspapers are fully justified in any excitement that may be shown in this regard, as the matter at issue is a vital principle of British right, even if some of the newspapers appear more concerned with minor questions rather than the vital fact of the affair showing how basic rights are being filched from people by bureaucratic tendencies in government toâ€"day. In recent issues both The Haileyburian and The New Liskeard Speaker have had thoughtful and logical editorial articles in referenge to the parâ€" ticular need of the North in the matter of roads. Recent announcement to the effect that Cobalt, Haileybury and New Liskeard would be sidetrackâ€" ed by a new highway route naturally has roused the people of the districts concerned. There is reason to fear that the Ontario Highways Departâ€" ment is missing the whole idea in the matter of highways for this country. It will be a matter for the deepest regret and loss for the province if interested parties of any kind are able to force the department to a wrong policy in regard to highways and their routes in the North. What is needed is not speedwaysâ€"not uninteresting and routine lines of straight roadways from one point in the South to a given point in the North. The need is for a highway that will afford transportaâ€" tion facilities to the established towns of the Northâ€"a highway that will connect these towns â€"â€"a highway that will tend to open up new areas adjacent to those already established. The real needs of the North should be served, even though the highway is not exactly the shortest distance between two given points. Timmins, Ont., Monday, August 14th, 1939 Subscription Rates 00 Per Year. United 8 TIMMINS®, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" Quebec Newspaper AsSociation; Class "A" Weekly Group OFPPICE 26 â€"â€"â€" PHONES â€"â€"â€"â€" RESIDENCE 70 Published ®very Monday and Thursday by: Che Yornutpine Advancee -’ooooo"'00'0'004oooooooooooo" PAE PoOUR GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per Year The fact that in his recent address at the banâ€" quet in his honour Prime Minister Mackenzie King gave no hint as to the date of the coming Dominâ€" ion election nas by no means stopped questioning as to the likely time for this event. Oe of the signs suggesting an early date is the way the decks are being cleared in the office of The Globe and Mail for support of Liberal candidates. The Ottawa Journal appears to believe that the big banquet tendered Prime Minister Mackenize King last week was "solemn as a funeral" from start to finish. If that is the fact, it would have been more appropriate to have held *the event in the mausoleum erected some years ago by a cerâ€" tain or uncertain Toronto newspaper. Word from North Bay suggests that in a few short months the North will have its new lignite industry under way. Fine! And what about the china clay and gypsum industries of the area north of Cochrane? But travelling with his family on the train from Winnipeg to Montreal to take passage for Gerâ€" many, John Orasch met with misfortune.. His litâ€" tle girl, Mary, had been hurt in a fall while at play a few days before the train trip was undertaken, but no doctor was called, as the injuries sustainâ€" ed by the child were. not considered as serious. On the train, however;, it was soon apparent that the youngster was seriously ill. Word was teleâ€" graphed ahead for aâ€"~doctor to meet the train at Foleyet, so that the child might have medical atâ€" tention. This was done at the expense of the railway, which in this case happens to be at the expense of the country. Before the train reachâ€" ed Foleyet, however, the little girl had died. Then more kindness and consideration were given the family. More wires were sent ahead and a corâ€" When John Orasch, of Winnipeg, announced that he was going to move himself and his family back to Germany frontr whence â€"he came, because he believed the Nazi form of government more acceptable than the Canadian, most people in this country said in effect, "Good speed, good ridâ€" dance and good luck" to him and his. The idea was that if he esteemed Germany more than Canada, then the sooner he was in Germany the better for all concerned. Human nature in Canâ€" ada is like that. In a phrase, the thought may be fully summed up in Old Bill‘s famous words, "If you know of a better ‘ole, ‘op to it!" It seems unthinkable that the people of Canada Iwill allow postal authorities to be spies, enforceâ€" ment oficers, judges, juries and everything else in such a matter. It is idle to say that people ,should not take any part in the illegal use of the mails. In recent years a number of organizaâ€" ,tlons have been making a regular practice of sending out lottery tickets to lists of addresses secured in various ways. The people addressed thave had no knowledge or desire in the matter |until they have received the tickets to"sell. Inâ€" deed, most people would be glad to know of a way to stop the receipt of this form of letter. Cerâ€" |tainly, every person receiving lottery tickets through the mail is not blameable either morally or legally. Great Br.tain muddles alongâ€"and aheadâ€" In this matter the newspapers should centre on the principle involvedâ€"that every man is entitled to fair trial and is innocent until proven guiltyâ€" even in regard to postal affairs. The decision in the matter should not rest with any number of postal authorities. Every man is entitled to fair trial even in such apparently heinous offences as receiving lottery tickets by mail. While on the question, it would also be well to note that it is a far too frequent tendency of the day for ofâ€" ficials to assume the role of judges and juries and executioners. It is a form of bureaucratic governâ€" ment that should be sternly discouraged. use of fictitious addresses, or, perhaps, by expres. ‘That the blacklist is ineffective gives little comâ€" fort. The whole principle of the thing is wrong. One court case, with the due punishment of any guilty of breach of the law would do more to discourage illegality than scores of bans. ooooooomwmoo*o «P PP [HE PORCUFINE ADVANCE, ONTARtO Picton, Ontario, has a real live ghost. â€" The spirit taken up its abode in a Queen street house in that town. It pounds on the empty attic dour, with a knock, rattle and smash. â€" The people in the house could not understand the performance and so called in the police. The Picton policeman found the ghostly conditions just as reported, but could not explain the matter. His doctors have ordered Premier Mussolini to wear Perhaps, now Il Duce will be able to see that Italy would do better to hold to its traditional friendship to Britain, rather than to place itself under the heel of Hitler. matter whit may happen. At present everything seems to he running along as usual in the Old Land, though both Lord Beaverbrook and Mr. Beverley Baxter are away on a visit to Canada. Mr,. and Mrs. Merritt, of Chatham, Ontario, returned last week after spending a week visiting their son and daughterâ€"inâ€"law Mr. and Mrs. Merritt, of Timmins. Mrs. Langford and daughter, Mrs. Purvis, and grandson, Billy, of Maniâ€" toulin Island, are visiting friends in Timmins. Miss Bernice Whall returned> last week after spending a week‘s holiday visiting friends in North Bay. Mr. and Mrs. James Price and son; Garfhield, returned last week from a visâ€" it to Kirkland Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Denis Cotnam left on Sunday to visit friends at Toronto and Vinton. Misses May and Loretta Fitzpatrick left: on Sunday to spend a vacation visiting at their home at Alumette Isle; Mr. Roy holiday at Messrs Joso and Jim Kelly are holiâ€" daying at Kinc:ston and points south. Mr. Ernost Arthurs has returned after visiting his mother at Battersea. Miss Cora Cotnam left on A_Su.nday to visit at her home at Alumette Isle. Mr. and Mrs. Carling and family left cn Sunday to holiday at Kingston. 14 Pine St., N "I like shows but the strain on my eyes used to give me the most painful headaches and completely ruin my evening. Curtis preâ€" sceribed glasses that comâ€" pleteily cleared up my trouble. _I wear them when I read and find I don‘t tire so quickly.. IU‘s wonderful what proper glasses can do." Liberal Terms May Be Arranged Cotnam left on Sunday to Chapleau. Phone 835 C 2 3 Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Moore. returned recently from . an extended holiday toaur during which they visited California, British Columbia and other plazes, On the trip they met several former resiâ€" dents cf Timmins and district. Amonz these were Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Keddic, now of Vancouver, BJC. Mr. Keddie was for some years the manager of the Hollinger Stores at Timmins and was prominent and helpful in the Kiwanis and other circles hore Mr. and Mrs Keddie wished to be remembered to all old friends her>. herâ€"sister and brother, Miss Ethel Slade ; and Rev. Russel Slade, and Miss A | Hunter, of Picton, Nova Scotia, who has been visiting in Noranda and Timmins ; left on Monday night for their respecâ€" tive homes. They were accompan‘ed as far as North Bay by Mr. Slade." | c Mr and Mrs. Henry Heino and Mrs. Lahtl all of Sault, Ste, Marie, Michâ€" igan, ~were visitors last week at the home of Mr.. Heino‘s brother, Mr. A. {Ie_ino and Mrs, Heino of Elm street north. Among the local and personal notes in ‘last Thursday‘s Rouynâ€"Noranda Press was the following item of local interest:â€"*"Miss: Etta â€" Slade,;; whoâ€" has been holidayinz in Timmins and spent the ‘weekâ€"end in Noranda the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Courville and brother Alex, and Jimmy, left on a motor trip to Haileybury, North Bay, Sturgeon Falls, and Callendar to see the Quints ~Mr.. T. H. Richards and Mr. Fred Hocking returned on Sunday night afâ€" ter. attending the Moose Convention at Hamilto and Niagara Falls, and also visitinz the New York World‘s Fair. Mr. Frank Boisvert was a visitor last week to Kirkland Lake spending the holiday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Boisvert. Miss Joy Millar, of Kapuskasing, has been visiting. her brother and sister. Mr.. Carson‘ Millar and. Miss Jessic Millar. Mr. and Mrs. R. Walker and their two sons returned last week from a visit to Gravenhurst and other points south. Mr. J. E. Sloan returned on Friday from Toronto and his home at Tottenâ€" ham. Joe tcok the plane from N:)rth Bay to Toronto. : Mrs, L. Bailey and daughter, Norma returned last weekâ€"from a visit to Mrs Baliry‘s mother at Giroux Lake. Miss Laurette. Guimond, of Rouyn, has been visiting at. Timmins and Kirkâ€" land Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Trumble and children, of Smoky Falls, have been visiting in Timmins and North Bay. , Misses Adebe and Lottie Assaf, of Kirkland Lake, have been visiting their aunt, Mrs. N. Ellies. Miss Jeanette Legault is visiting at Kapuskasing. Mrs. F. Carboni. of Noranda, is spending a holiday in Timmins. Mrs. Frank DoLisle, Kirkland Lake was a recent visitor to Timmins. POR RENT Apartment for rent, Apâ€" ply No. 12, Third Avenue. RUSSELL HOTEL 2 WILSON Ave. Rooms steam heated, with or without board. By day or week. Phone 275â€"W â€"61â€"62 t POR RENTâ€"5 room House. Apply 166 Pine Street, North. e Timmins School of Hair Dressing _Government Licensed Will open a class for trainâ€" ing September 4th, 1939. Particulars on request. Phone 134 56 Mountjoy st. S Timmins, Ontario Reports from the Sudeten area of Czechoslovaâ€" kia suggest that the Sudetens are very disconâ€" tented with the severity of the Nazi regulations. There will be little sympathy given them on this account, however, by the world at large. In the words of the small boy, "they asked for it." A lady in Montreal last week was fined 50 cents for an infraction of the regulations in regard to collective labour agreements governing beauty parlours. This is said to be a record in small fines for a Montreal court, the nominal figure being one dollar. The lady, however, did not escape as lightly as might be thought as she had to pay the court costs, and these amounted to $8. In this alleged ghost business in Picton, as in many more material aflairs, the story is told in the words, "the police are working on the case." 60â€"61â€"62â€"63p [ CLERK | 4909424444444 4 Messrs Bill Robinson and Alec Lamb left on Saturday to return to Toronto, after spending several months in Timâ€" mins. They will attend survey camp before taking up their studies at Varsity. Mr. Sol Shankman left on Friday to join his family at Muskoka where he will spend a few weeks‘ holiday. Miss Adeline Jackson returned on Sunday after a holiday spent at Wasâ€" ega Beach, Toronto, and Buffalo. _ Mr. Gordon Reid returned.on Sunâ€" day after spending a few weeks‘" holiâ€" day at Wasega Beach, Toronto, and Buffalo. Messrs, George Skelly and Bill Jackâ€" son left yesterday for a holiday visit to Toronto, Nilagara Falls, Detroit and other points of interest,. Mr. and Mrs. Murray Martin left on Sunday to spend a few weeks‘ holiâ€" day at Quebec City and points east. Mr. and Mrs. James Harris left on Sunday to holiday at â€" Liskeard Brach. Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Jackson and famâ€" ily, left on Sunday to holiday at Lisâ€" keard Beach. PROPERTIES FOR SALE FPOR SALEâ€"Dining roon walnut circulating heat Cambrai Ave., Timmins 201 Railway Street 63â€"65â€"67 Dated August, Notice is hereby given that Byâ€"law No. 626 was passed by the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Timmins on the 24th day of Huly 1939, proâ€" viding for the debentures to the amount of $41,850.00 for the purpose of constructing lateral watermains, force mains, and the installation of a meter chamber, and that such Byâ€"law was registered in the Land Titles Office for the District of Cochrane on the 12th day of August 1939, as No. 659 Cochrane Reâ€" gistry. Any motion to quash or set aside the same or any part thereof must be made within three months of the first publication of this notice and cannot be made thereafter. W 4â€"ROOMED HOUSES for Sale or Rent. Apply to Mrs. Edith Isasson, Porcupine. 63â€"A ~â€"65â€"66p Any motion to quash or set aside the same or any part thereof must be made within three months of the first publication of this notice and cannot be made thereafter. Dated at Timmins, Ontario, this 12th day. of August, 1939,. Notice is hereby given that Byâ€"law No. 623 was passed by the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Timmins on the 24thâ€"day of July 1939, proâ€" viding for the issue cf debentures to the amount of $18,315.00 for the purpose of constructing certain trunk sewers and the installation of a sewage disâ€" posal hymg bed, and that such Byâ€"law was regisâ€" tered in the Land Titles Office for the District of Cochrane on the 12th day of August, 1939, as No. 658 Cochrane Registry. Sullivan Transfer USED AUTO PARTS NEW sSPRINGS AND GLASS at Timmins, Ontario, this 12th day of 1939 room suite and heater. Apply 49 63â€"64â€"65â€"66p Timmins _ Edmeonton Journal:â€"Kicking i jer than pulling, but it does not the load. The Rov. A. 1. Heineoenen returned on the afternoon train Sunday from his summer home at Rauhala Island4, Lonz Island, Rheault, near Sudbut‘y, Ontario, wher> he had spent a month‘s holiday. Mr,. Helnonen conducted â€"the service of worship at the Timmins Finnish United Church on Sunday @vening, being warmly welcomed by his congrezation. This summer was the twentyâ€"sixth year whin Mr. Heinonen and his family spent the summer at their â€" summer home at Rauhala Island, meaning that the family have vacationed at this spot for more than a quarter of a cemury The island is a beauty spot, and onr that has found many admirers among the visitors to the district. Holidayed at Same Island for the Twentyâ€"Sixth Year Dated at Timmins, Ontario, this 2nd day of August, 1939, WILLIAM O, LANGDON Solicitor for the said Logan Eagle. , 61â€"62â€"63 And take notice that after the 21st day of August, 1939, the said Logan Eagle will proceed to distribute the assets of the‘ estate amongst the perâ€" sons entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which he shall have then had notice, and that the said Logan Eagle will not be liable for the said assets or part thereof to any persons whose claim he shall not then have received notice. Try The Advance Want Advertisements Notice is hereby given that all perâ€" sons having any claim or demands against the late George Everett Gray who died on or about the Third of June, 1939, at Timmins, Ontario, testâ€" ate, are required to send post prepaid or to deliver to the undersigned, soliciâ€" tor for Logan Eagle, administrator of the estate of the said George Everett Gray, their names, addresses and full particulars in writing of their claims and statements of their account and the nature of the securities held by them if any. In the Matter of the EState of George Everett Gray, late of the Town of Timmins in the District of Cochrane, Lumberman, deceased. WANTED, by the Childrens Aid Soâ€" ciety, families willing to give homes on a boarding basis to Prostetant children 10 to 14 years of age. If interested, phone 855, or call at Room 4, Municipal Building, ‘Timmins. MEN! There are good opportunities waiting if your have practical trainâ€" ing. 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