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NE The mental picture of helpless peoâ€" ple struggllng in the cold: water when the Athenia weént down, brought the reality home‘ to us to a certain extent but the idéa that we are actually at war still seems like a nightmare to us â€"â€" nightmare from which we can‘t awaken. Writing in his interesting column in The Toronto ‘Telegram, Thomas Ricâ€" hard Henry has he following pithy paragraphs : Without the enemy knocking on our door it probahly will take everybody some time in this country, before enerâ€" gies are directed efficiently to gettmg on with the War,. â€"~â€"‘The People The British «aviators are dropping leaflets over Germany in the hope of showing t people that they are misâ€" guided. aybe they would save lives in the long_run if they carried bombs instead of pamphlets. War This plunge into world war has left us with a sort of a numb feeling at the back of our thoughts that has largely destroyed our satisfaction in the little things in life. It is still hard for us to realize that the world is agaln in for all the miserâ€" ies of the last war. In the last war we cherished the idea that we were fighting a military clique and not the kindly people of Germany. Opposed to this was the creed put' forward by one bayonet instructor who was in favour of killing all Germans rather than taking them prisoner. He said all Germans who live will raise ten sons for you to fight in the Leaflets Should be Bombs. * Pay for M.P.‘s. Somewhere in between these two points of view must lie the â€"German people. Hitler cannot rule the roost without the support and sympathy of a large percentage of the populationâ€"and it cannot be just by accident that one people has been guilty of© shattering the peace of the world twice in 25 years. Comments on War, People, Government , Soldiers, Cigarettes We feel that all cities are going to be bombed before this war is many months oldâ€"and we hope the British and French get right in there and do their bombing early, because we think bombs will influence the German peoâ€" ple more than reason. We still think that it will be easier tocrack(}ermanyatmecorethant.o crack the Siegfried line. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF Powenr (ORPORATION or GANABA Canada Northern Power , Corporation, Limited _ _ August 22nd,.1939. "In the old days â€"â€" "Everything was much harder. When we built our house we had to run around here, there and everywhere ordering lumber and materials, hiring carpenters masons, plasâ€" terers and 11. Then for months it took most of our time checking up, looking after the job and paying bills ght and left. IT‘d never go through it again. Nowadays, all you have to do is call Hillâ€"Clarkâ€"Francis, the general contractors. They plan your house and hanâ€" dle evegflgg‘? from start to finish. No bother for at all. You get a far better house for less money, too, when they build it" 7% Cumulative Preferred Stock No. 59, quarterly, $1.75 per share, payable er 16th, 1939. No Par Yalue Common Stock No. flaum‘m 1939 F.C.1.S., Nobody could tell him anything about At. He still doesn‘t know. I If anybody knows . what you have to do to join the air force, and ‘will let us know, we will forward the inforâ€" mation to this young man who had a job and »can‘t afford to sit around â€"many half days without being sure he is going to be accepted. t Experts _ ~ One little comment by the President . of the United States in his recent radio .address seems to have been _largely ‘overlooked. f We make no pretense of quoting him exactly but he said in effect, "With the whole picture before me I would not dare make the attempt to generalize on the situation in the manner of many commentators." This promises to be a murderous busmess, but war is that. $1.10 a Day We feel that we far from ethausted the subject of remuneration of politiâ€" clans for special sessions of Parliaâ€" ment in our comments yesterday. Koroseal, we‘nctice in a definition "is chemically one of the most inert substances." And we insist koroseal is the seal for Canadian military documents. The job of experting is complicated by a lack of knowledge of the plant: and by the fact that each government announces only about what it wants to After all, the country is at war, and. befcre it is all over there will be many thousands of young men asked to acâ€" cept $1.10 (or is it $1.30 this time?) a day for their complete services until they are shot. While we admit that it would be a terrible: hardship to listen to all the speeches made in _ Parliamentâ€"the members only need turn up at diviâ€" sicns and as they do their bit for their country under more comfortable cirâ€" cumstances than the boys at the front we think the M.P.‘s should serve for $1.10 a day too. = . When their country is at war, and the M.P.‘s like everybody else, are supâ€" posed to make their contribution in sacrifices, it seems a little strange for them to accept a lot more from their Government than many of them could earn in their everyday pursuits. Since they get $4,000 a year anyway, maybe they will just throw all the exâ€" tra they make out of this extra session into the hat for the Red Cross. After all, most if them just go down to Ottawa to say yes to what their leaders propose. Korosceal We suggest that the Canadian miliâ€" tary authorities seal all their docuâ€" ments with koroseal. Just as an example, a friend of our tried to join the Canadian Air ‘Force yesterday. . He spent four around miliâ€" tary headquarters trying to <find out how to join the war birds. Nobody can play down and play up stories like these military authorities. The Legion Cigarette A few days ago we pointed out that the Canadian Corps Association and Imperial Tobacco had gone into partâ€" nership on a ‘"Canadian Corps" cigarâ€" This seems like a wellâ€"deserved dig at a lot of the political and military experts, especially the military experts, on the air. It would be fairly difficult for the commentators to do their experting on this side of the waterâ€"even if they are as expert as they think themselves. der to secure lange production, mines should crowd through their mills all 't,he developed ore and use up their highest grade material, regardless of the future. Such a program would have temporary advantages to the country rbut the cost in disorganization and future. productivity would be far out of reason. The death of mines and mining communities would be prema- turely hastened, to the great det.riment of the country and the coming: genera.â€" tion. On the other hand, any proposiâ€" tion that new mines:should be: pushed to their â€"greatest possible «productivity could scarcely be arguedâ€" agfilnst There themselves to show. But it is interâ€" esting to know that there is a feeling that the producing of gold would be a valuable national contribution, and that no obstacles will be placed in the way of as large a production as would be economical and that all the encourageâ€" ment possible will be offered. Gold would te hard cash of the most useful sort in time of war, especially at this time, when credit is hard to get. A steady flow of this cash, here on this continent, and reéquring no hazardous transfer across oceans, might well prove one of the winninz assets, Canadian gold production at $185 millions a year would buy, hay, a lot of planes in the United States. The friendly attitude of the American administration and people toward Canada, and toward the other democracies in this time of crisis, would srem to assure. no steps being taken that would render Canadian gold production less valuable or make it nonâ€"acceptable in any way. To reduce the value of gold would be \striking a serious blow at the democracies, something unthinkable at this time. In the case of metal mining there is no doubt that the producing of iron and nonâ€"ferrous metais would be conâ€": sidered of tremendous ‘importance. Every measure that would assist the mines, encourage them to greater efâ€". fort if greatly enlarged . output â€" was found necessary, would be inst.ituted Of course the mines would ‘be requested to give information on their selling channels, this would be a routine meaâ€" sure, for there is ground for every conâ€". fidence that no mining company would permit a pound of its metal to reach dubious quartPrs, let alone enemy, hands. At presstime no ban had been placed, as in Great Britain, on metal or other exports. The government polâ€" icy is not to disturb or regulate businss | until necessary. { m Ee ue tss That there would be a tendency, after the first few months of shock and., disâ€" turbance, for mining costs to rise is a matter generally agreed upon‘ by th who have debated the position of the mining industry should war come:. That was the tendency in the Great War and there seems no reason to expect any change the next timeâ€"provided the experience is parallel. It may be that the same labor shortage will not de.â€" velop. That again hinges upoh how far the sovernment would go in enâ€" couraging the volunteering for service of men abroad, and upon :cohnscription. (At present all Canadian political parâ€" ties stand in opposition to conscripâ€" tion.) In turn, the course of abroad would have much to do with aetermining whether large masses> of meh could be safely and wisely sent across the ocean. ‘ > . ' Should Not Wreck Mines® > In mining ‘circles The Northern Miner finds the general belief that it would be disastrous if gold production was pushed in wartime beyond a point normal to the average grade and deâ€" velopment progress of individual mines; that is, provedâ€"up mines. It has been suggested by some persons that, in orâ€" push. their exploration,. development and construction at â€"a high ‘Tate of speed in order that ten years‘ expanâ€" sion could be consummated in a year or two. Such a program would be ‘helpful and rot wasteful and would leave the oountryatthecoseofhostuitleswim enlarged saurces of support.â€" ho hh mncth n ies are many young mlnés which seem bound to grow over ‘the next ten years. The idea is that inâ€"the event of war such mines should be encouraged to While no unanimity of opinion is found, it is conceded .to be quite posgible that the: government . wouid . set .. a measure of control upon prices and wages in key industries. ; It is rather difficult to expect price rigidity in some srctions of national life and not in others,. even though ordinary cirecumâ€" stances have little rank in . time., of peril. Itlsplain.thoo.h thatiteop.. per, for instance, it to be fixed in price position of: being ultable to produce body of Tmiin‘m exist at ?:im”s the best. ‘cource ‘fmn. indust gard he had â€"NDA0Q 10L sUll} victim. 6he used a name common amongst miners in the North and none of those approached could say with assurance that he had never hired the man. A sweet litti racket is rapidly negaring. its end. s : " 3 m e mm mm Orangevilie Banner :â€"There is a dash in Kitchener a swinming meet nlarged saurces of sSuppOort.. Might Control. Wages The la.sb war left a residue of public hostmt.y toward war profiteering and this is sométhing that all those in political power will have to take into mckoning. Taxation measiires | could assure the return of undue gains. Or. dinary taxation would be bound to rise in wartime but, the mines would not object to extra burdens of this nature if they were imposed upon all business and industry equally. prices. There is certainly no sign that nationalizing of the mining industry will be resorted to, and there is a definâ€" ite feeling that the largest and best performance will be gained by letting the mines handle their own affairs. Another point reco:nized is that takingz over any mine or any other industry would redudt the tax resources of the country. «/ [ adian mini organizati_on was seated in his Toron office one day not long ago when his secretary brought in word that‘ a young lady would like to see him for a few minutes. She was, she had told,. the "secretary, the daughter of an old friend of his who had known him up north years before. The name submitted did not meéan thing to the mining man but after some consideraâ€" tion he asked to have her sent in. There entered a young and attractive lady, very, conservatively dressed," shy in manner and seeming‘y in a little ‘distress. She said that she was the daughter of ‘Jim Smith (shall we say?) A prospeptor ‘and miner who had for years worked in Timmins underâ€" this »partlcula.r mining executive. Her father had, she averred died two years before and had 1eft certain stock. He had told her, she remarked that any time she wanted any advice to come to him and that he would help her out. y CC C OE + . whame *fi‘!’ ‘Steel being the prime war necessity. it is expected that the government would look to the iron miners to enâ€" large current production and hasten new Canadian developments as much as they possibly can. Timmins Young Lady Accused of Operating Sympathy Racket The following story is told in last week‘s ‘"Grab Samples" in The \North- ern. Miner woâ€" f â€"~One of the executives of a large Canâ€" Posed as the Daughter of Pionger Prospector. For a few minutes there went on talk of the father and his high regard for the executive who presently began to wonder what all this was leading up to. It gradually emerged that this shy and attractive young lady wanted him to evaluate her mining stocks. She submitâ€" ted a list which contained the names of defunct, and worthless companies. When told. that the shares were of no value she was really distressed. She was hard up, it appsfred; she â€" needed money for clothes so that she could find jJob in the city. She needed help and advice. By this time the executive was aware of what was up. He put her off by saying, that he would: look into the matter of some of her sharts and that she would hear from him later. 21 s _i 3 e did investigate the young lady and this is what he found out. She had carâ€" ried practically the same tale to a dozen other wealthy mining men who hn# us s# They were all supposed to know old Jim, her father. Everybody knew old Jim Smith, she confidently had stated. She worked on their sympathies one way or another and in about fifty per cent of the known cases she had sucâ€" cceded in drawing down anywhere from $25 to $100 and in one case she repeated the performance successfully. How many other men she took in is not had at one time or another worked in Timmins or elsewhere in the North. y _ t _% CA i. > We 000 00 00000 SR ues known, as once the story got going around her victims shut up like clams. Appa.rentLv, from accounts of eyeâ€" witnesses, her performance was artistic. She was well grounded on the past hisâ€" tory of her victims, knew what comâ€" panies they had worked for and when. Into the: discussion she <inserted little remarks that suggested she was quite familiar with the north and â€" with mining operations. Her constant theme was her father and what a hizhreâ€" w@ard he had had for this particular Gen. Nobuyuki Ab* has come out of retlrement to form new cabinet which will be faced with the task of guiding Nipponess policy followâ€" ing Germany s abandonment ~of Japan. «> ‘The soâ€"called "Polish Corridor" exâ€" isted as an integral part of Poland, with a Free City of Danzig closely. to it, for 300 years before Frederick the Great annexed it at the first Partition of Poland in 1772. The effect of his action on Poland may be summed up in his own words: "Who rules over the mouth of the Vistula and the City of Danziz will be more master of Poland than the king who reigns there." To the Danzigers themselves, German though most of them were, the new master was anything but welcome. A contemporary account by Schopenhauâ€" er‘s mother, who was born in Danzig, bears witness to their dismay. In the fifteenth century their ancesâ€" tors had played a leading part in getâ€" ting rid of the Teutonic Knights and establishing the union with Poland. Poland had respected Danzig‘s ancient privileges, In 1793, at the Second Partition, Frederick suppressed them. But at the same time he restored to the city what it most ‘needsâ€"its Polish hinterland. We hnave the. evidence of Dr. Her. mann Rauschning, formerly Nazi presiâ€" dent of the Danzig senate that it is the Nazis, with their hordes of imâ€" ported storm troopers who are â€"supâ€" pressing the real wishes of the Danzig Germans. He published recently an appeal by "members of old patrician families, who have resided for centuries in the city and the surrounding country," which everyone interested in the quesâ€" tion of Danzig should read. "By a siâ€" lent acceptance," they said, "of an antiâ€" constitutional dictatorship of a minâ€" ority, the voice of Danzig as it really is has been stifled." On the other hand Colonel Beck, in a recent speech, emphasizazsd the fact that the Poles "had purposely not en deavored to exert any influence on the free national, ideological and cultural development of the German.minority" in the city. In so doing, he was merely following the tradition of a lonz past. For in the 20 years when it had been cut off, Danziz‘s trade had languished; the Third Partition in 1795 brought both Danzig and Warsaw under Prusâ€" sian sovereignty. No one who has seen, as I have, the German and Polish tombstones, side by side on the floor of Danzig‘s great Marienkirche; the Polish eagles that recur as a decorative motif on half the ancient buildings; the portraits of, and the presents from, the Polish kings that the city still preservesâ€"no one who has seen these things could doubt that this German city has borne and should bear a special relationship to Poland, or that the relationship is a natural one for both parties. As Hitler‘s own: 10â€"year pact with Poland showed, there is nothing intolâ€" erable for Germany in the present situation. Rouyn, Noranda, Val d‘Or Men Anxious to Enlist Last_week The Rouynâ€"Noranda Press had many items referring to men in that «lccality anxious to enlist in the war against Hitler.. One item tells of the desire of a number of Czechoâ€" slovakians in Northwestern Quebec to join in the fight against the Nazis. An co‘her item reads as follows:â€" - The new menu service system introduced in all â€"Crawley McCrackenâ€"managed camps, whereby each man‘s individual choice is served direct from the kitchen, eliminates rush, confusion and complaints. GRABBING IS OUT... C O M P A N Y, _ _LIMITED M O NTRE A L _ _ "As literally hundreds of Rouynâ€"Norâ€" anda men of all nationalities (a good proportion of them Frenchâ€"speaking) filed in and out of the three local polâ€" ice offices this week seeking some way of joining the army, 58 young Val 1‘Or men descended on the town to make the need for a recruiting office further apâ€" parent. ‘They had quit work in Val d‘Or and were heading for Quebes City, coming here first in the hope that the military authorities had made arrangeâ€" ments for transportation of volunteets." Durham Chronicle:â€"About all we can see about the tariff is that it makes, something to talk about at :election time. When the Tories get in, we have a tariff; when the Grits get in, we have the same old tariff, jugzled around, perhaps, so we can‘t recognize.it, «but the same old tarifr _just the same. We ‘doubt very much if there would be any material chance in the tariff under Herridge, Aberhart, Woodsworth or Tim Buck. And so, we say, the Tariff must be a good and proper thing. ,