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Our Town was not so bad, as towns go; there were always a ceorta‘n numâ€" ber of bocileggers, bawdy houses,. and other "joints"; the Hotel de Greer was sometimes, as t.he presert Hotel de Ville Ville is, packed to capacity; the police and ‘cf the council may have done a bit of "grafting" but we didn‘t mind it vr§ muagh ‘anrd letr@ fewthings get by tecause |we were Mun‘cipally Happy. Alas! . It is nct so now, and has not been so over the past four or five years; now, personalities are the order of the day; bitterness reigns at meetings of the council; fanatical religious end political organizations attend the counâ€" cil meetinzs and dictate their demands ; resolutions are passed about wage adâ€" vances at the local mines, which are no business at a.n of the Town Council; and the majqrity of the meetings are more like a public entertainment, with political . memibers: making . elecition speeches, than an orderly meetms of municipal executives. Looking around for a cause for this stote of aflg's. what do we find? To I think a greab many paople wtfi 2 with me, the members of the .mvr are NOT, most deâ€" cldbdly N e right type of men; this, is m-dfibiy rme MAIN comramtary few weeks back, gradually been himself forward towards the front of the political arena and catching the eye of the public, I also notice that the alleged Bolâ€" shevists and Fascists, have ‘been callâ€" ing each cther.Bo!shevi<ts and Fasolists, althomwh »nersoamlly â€"I don‘t seoe very ‘| very "Airmm‘ is alive with all kinds leggors, hbh-znders and the rath oromises. The electors are misled, bambozzled and so confused by the varicus candids‘tes, the questions deâ€" bated and dehunked are so numerous and C‘verse, that even King Sclomon hardly know haw to yvote. So, Mr. Editor, it seems to be getting on. This year will prcbably be ‘worse than last i such a thing is possible. Nation â€"against Nation, Religtons against Religions, and, Nations against Reliztions. One plunders the rich and murders the poor and the cthor murâ€" ders the rich and p‘unders the poor. Generally speak‘ng, whatever the theâ€" ory of the thing, they are both, in prac« tice, far {from. being ideal. However, I am wandsring. away from the municiâ€" pai electicns. â€"â€" f It seems to me, Mr. Editor, that years ago, in cur municipal affairs, we did not seem to have all the troubles, trials, tribulations, backhbiting, personâ€" alities and.bitternesses that we get in our town councils, say during the past four or five years; and, althoug"i on various occasions, perhaps the memters of the council did not see eye to eye as it were, and there were also on rare occasions little Cifferen:es of cpinion, ~Years ago, prospective _ candidates anid aspirants for municipal office, were carefully chosen from a list of mostly 1W men; m numbero;ybeqqmenwerensbedm the ballots to give the electors a choilze, e.nd\we the polls with confiâ€" the list, woutd‘mamaaoo:romndl and the elg« like the sensible peoâ€" ple they mxyeleceedaswd and fairly Wive cmmcfl business and: sotial life of the town: meywerewen-mowntomosevery body, generally wel} liked by the majorâ€" ity, and, in Tact as well as theory. of "the rigiit sort." After the election was over, the vanquished congratulated the victors; everybody went about their normal activities, and we went back to work guite confident that our municiâ€" pal affairs were in the hands of a group of men whom we could look to with respect, and, whattsmomknporunt. with confidence. although persomally â€"IL don‘t see very much differemrâ€"e between either of these two isms; they both, to me, seem to set our Town Ccouncils did their work effiâ€" ciently, quietly, without a lot of bomâ€" tast and blaring of trumpots, and genâ€" erally speaking, thints ran along fairly cause for the |existing chaotic condiâ€" tions of our Municipal «msgovernment C t @p oi css i 3 o LOK, . il‘ ## * . » The late:t monthiy gold bulletin isâ€" sued by the Ontario Department of Mines shows "hat Porcupine go‘ld camp oontinues to maintain a bz lead in the production ‘of gold in the province. For the first nine months of the year Porâ€" cuctne cemip‘s output> was. $34,341,610, whifls the Kirkland Lakeâ€"Larder‘ Lake What would you suggest?> To me, I think it wouldbe far better to go back to the old sysbem Let some of our prmnmen't citizens get together and sutimit themselves to the electors dfor office. I am of the opinion that the majority of the electors would welcome a change. Let us put in a council to whem we cculd look with respect and confidence, and I am‘ quite sure that the electors would ‘do the ‘right thing at election time when it comes to choosing the right people. It would ‘be f@ar better for all concerned, to get a council worth while. ; ‘ Yours truly, OBSERVER Sixtyâ€"three Gold Mines Producing in September area acâ€"counted for $28,056,.917. The total for Ontario was $70,239,140. Reâ€" Another New High Record in Ontario. Porcupine Far â€"â€" in the Lead:; â€" 6 8. w. 8 oun while for August 01 gold â€" duced at the rate of 8,320 gold without mining i:t, dxoukln't the miners be allowed In any case here to mim rubber instead of securing it ahom the ordinary way. ‘certain C «s bmmmm” fi m in i ie In M mMWM¢mmmwmm ‘umn, "Grab Samples," in The Northern or the is the way "the Rubber Mine" is deâ€" yea.r scribed byâ€"wW. J. Gorman in the colâ€" 25 : s i [fi m shows ._fi | x *1andWMmmesfor Copper shows an Increase of 3 C ) . I p h , | « t I «< » » mC from the point of view of value, shows an increase of 4038 omcas for the mcr‘‘1 and 78000 cunces for the ycar. Copper shows an Increase of 3,853.733 poaummds for the vine month pariod. Asestos, ‘he leading infustrial minâ€" emlof:thel’rov!meofmebm has an increase of 9,845 tons over Septemtber 19038 and an increase 38,2%8 for the nine months. All cther minera‘s listed in the bulletin show propcnticnal inâ€" solidated, Tyran‘ts, Youngâ€"Davidson. â€" i gudbury and Timaszami (2),) Oro, New Golden Rose. . A)lgoma District :(4),; Agawa (formca'- ly L. B. United), Cline Lake, Hiawatha, : Thunuder Bay Distr‘ct (IQ) Bankfield, Hard Rock, Jellicoe, Leitch, Little Long Lac, MoLeodâ€"Cockshutt, Magnet,. Norâ€" thern Empire, Sand River, St.m** River, St., Anthony, Tombill. Patricia Portion (10), Cenitral Pa ricla, Gold Ragle, Hasaga, Howey, JM. Consclidated,, Madsgen Red Lake, Mcâ€" Kenzie Red Lake, Pickle Crow, Sachigo, mines for 1939;â€" Kenora and . Rainy River District (4), FYora, Strww Lake Beach Wendigo. . : Monthly cutput of Onta.rio "_gold Porcnpine Belt: . . Jan.â€"June .;.......:... 2807327 July. . E€eptember *...... 9,800,2356 â€" 34,341, 679 Kirkland Lakeâ€"Larder: bgkc Beolt ; Jan.â€"June ... n 1,8385,924: 18524;6’73 July . ...A ass2l0 3173401 August ...;..... : 268,809 â€"3,209,170 September . 2%1, 411. 3,061 610 * Tobal ......t.........: 404,200 . 2877287 Northwestern Ontario.. (includes® Alâ€" goma, Thunder Bay, Patricia Kcn- ora Rainy River Districts) : Matachewap-Sudhury-Timnml- Jan.â€"June ..;;;........ â€"~~323,002 â€" 1566294 August ... n September ....._.... 685321 Total ... i ts 1,480,215 Total for Ontario: . . Jan.â€"June ... 5168,239 Kirkland Lake ........... L@ItOH vâ€"â€"â€" awan | â€"Toâ€"day‘s Stocks | « Tons. Milled: Dollars 2139504 28,0058,917 1,480,215 428,880 50,916 57,38% 22,660.B42 52,038,423 8.910,502 0 109,820 14401,31"7 3 BX 288 3,811,464 4,042,020 9,286,614 1,651,664 1,755 025 1,067 Al4 .:0% : little good as the ropes prevented the 2. 07 -, round bottoms from working up and .. 283 downâ€"as theâ€"houses tried to get away 110 after a blast. They numbered the .. housesâ€" andâ€"let it go. at that, although 10% [ several days were lost each month .. 87 . rounding up the domiciles into streets 7.40° again., This was a good idea, however, .. 65 as a man cculd change his neighbours 236 ; by moving into his proper place in a 1865 new street. The natives complained 1.72 : ; because they could not grow vegetablés 29.00 which,flew out of the ground as it unâ€" 1475’ dulated. It was,.though, a good notion . 85 . for digging potatoes. trove w " .‘"The vilage buildings, he recalled, all 40 .had round foundations like saucers so ' thatâ€"no matter what way the mine ; .roplv'd they _were not upset. But the | housesâ€"did a lot of. travelling around l after a â€" andâ€" when the natives + <l.came backâ€"froam the hills they had to * | mint around for their homes. They 50 : tried tying : them down but this did of like character, descriptive of unâ€" ‘usual conditions in various mines all lTover the world. | . "The old miner, seated on the sunny side :cf the bunkhouse, listening to these stories, agreed that there sure . were some strange rocks and mines and ~ he went on from there to say that the [ most peculiar place he ever worked was in a rubber mine down in South Amerâ€" d4ca.. â€"Talk about stzel bouncing off jasâ€" ~ per rcek and spitting fire; that, he said, | was nofhing. When you set up a macâ€" ~hine on azrubber vein you had to anâ€" | / "When you _ got a hole drilled, said ‘the oldtimer, you had to drive a woodâ€" en pu; into it right away and more «Ooften ~thanâ€"not, ‘he related, when you came to load the round you had a terâ€" !rible- time gatting the powder in before | the holes snapped together and left you . flat with a: shift over and nothing to .shcw <for ‘it.. There were no footage in that mine, th2 old man recalled. . _ "The blasting, thsugh, was the worst ‘of it. They only blew the drifts once month and then the whole village ‘was givernâ€"cholidays. The natives, inâ€" all the miners except the. blasâ€" ters, retired to the hills driving their flocks: ##H@ herds ahead of them. Th | intreptut"bMiéting crew wasâ€" drawn from -mflves‘ohvlnagesdocated on »the sides â€"of volcanoes and who were accustomed to ‘earthquakes. Then the explosion took whole mine rocked for days.â€" ‘ThHé shaft house fell down, the ‘timbers "collapsed, the drifts develop»>d friction ‘blisters. The smell of burnâ€" }ing rubber, said the oldtimer, was terâ€" rrtfié. â€" Chunks of rubber ricochetted arountd~underground and it . was a long time before it was safe to resume develâ€" opment.â€" When the drifting crews finâ€" ally wizent below they had to work their | way . through waterâ€"proofed debris for Mar mines and one of the yarns had to do with the hard rock they worked cut in. Manitoba. â€"It was so hard, the wriâ€" ter said, that the drillers, having used up all lils starters on beginning the first â€"hole, sent the steel monkey to surâ€" fave for another set while he held his finger on the spot so that he would not lose it.. There were several other tales A1}11C â€"OUIL ~@â€"> LUDDCL_ VEClllL ~YOU 1 cover -.ri.t.::ihd brace it fore, and below. The driller had to be lashâ€" ed :to th2 drill and he often got seasick riding the thing. The helper‘s princiâ€" pal job was picking up his mate from the farâ€" end ofâ€"the drift where he had been bounced. : "Bombody wrote a piece about pecuâ€" it ud in l s iA _ mm 3 m .«mu of any account to the coast and ‘ you would have thought, he remarked, : that transportation of the output !would have been a problem but no, it . wasn‘t . Early in the game the <cwn*rs learned that you could make and inâ€" fiate rubber balls into enormsus balâ€" : loons. They used to anchor these unâ€" | til a favorable wind came along. Then the rubber herder, who had the bigâ€" gest balloon of all, installed his outâ€" ‘ board motor and herded the othcr balloons down to the scaport. If no favorable wind blew from the west they just blew the ballcons up a little bigger and sent them on An east wind high over the Andes to the west coast. The company had aeroâ€" dromes on both coasts, he said. "The job of balloon herder, the oldâ€" timer remarked, was much sought after, because it gave a man a chanke to get to town once in awhile. Of course there was trouble sometimes about getting back. You know how it is, he suggested. A favoring wind is not always around when a man wants to get back from town to his job, no matter how anxious he may be and cutboard motors are notoriously unâ€" reliable under certain circumstances. Sometimes they had to send another herder out to bring the first one back and on one occasion all the herders were congregated on theâ€" coast, windâ€" bound, like prospectors paying each other a visit in good drinking weather. "There was a certain routine in shipping rubber by air the old miner observed. First the balls were accuâ€" mulated until a large number were on hand. Then the mine manager calleéd the chief inflator who in turn summoned the common blowerâ€"upâ€" pers and they went to work. The inâ€" flated ballons were assembled with all their tails tied together and the ground crew held on to the mass unâ€" til the herder got aloft in his big powered craft and gave the signal. As the herd arose the balloon punâ€" cher bunted them around until he got them started in the right direcâ€" tion and kept circling them, s\r’xging gaucho songs. like ‘Get Along, Little MacIntosh," etc. _ Some of. the balâ€" loons were stubborn and hard to hanâ€" dle. There were always a few that got Ionesome for the home range and wanted to go back but the herder knew his business and kept them headed down wind until the coast was reached. Then the exciting point in the whole trip arrived. The herder pulled out his gun and shot the balloons one by one until the mass down himself was quite another trick but long experience had solved this difficulty. The drover‘s balloon not only had an outboard motor but also ground and sky hooks. The purpose of the former was obvious but the sky hook was a little device borrowed from the tall timber cutters. It was used to retard the speed of the horâ€" der‘s balloon when necessary| and to ‘When the coast destination WAS reached the herder disposed of his charges as detailed above. Then he threw out his ground hook which was seized by the crew below and anchorâ€" ed.. Next he affixed the sky hook by a method known only to the balloon herders‘"guild, slid down the ground hook cable to the earth where _he checked over his charges and then strolled up town to buy himself a bounced every day." ship that has given it birth. package of safety razor blades, mayâ€" be, said the old rubber miner. "It was suggested to the man from South America that rubber mining was pretty soft work on the average and wonder was expressed that he did not stick to it. "You can‘t" he rejoinâ€" Daily Herald (London): In cynical 18th century fashicn, Hitler and Stalin Civide the spoils. Nearly twoâ€"thirds of Polan:lmareagcestoaussiaandme rest to Hitier dces betver in terms of population. ‘He gets 200C0,â€" 000 human beings, of whom 19,000,00) Hitler‘s Cynical Idea - of Self Determination free herd if night overtook Fcundation for the rumor was seen in the report from Mattice that a Torâ€" onto firm, actim: as agent Tor an Amerâ€" ican coporation, is buying up ea‘l available lots in the townsite. district however does nct include Metâ€" tice, cay they had heard no W plans for the construction of a new :. h;'.fl:G; pulp and paper plant. Likewise, A. RJ Cavanegh, general manager of the T. ’ ""A kal\“ N. 0. Rauwa;y.sauldhehadhewd‘m“ nothing). n on > Informed circles at Cochrane declare there are vast tracts ofooodmwwocdi. in the area surrcundiis Mattice, o.nd, the timber could be foated in cm» the: Missanaibi River to the pm%’o-‘ed pultp and paper plant. Cochrane People Believe. There is Foundation for the Story. In purchasing all available lots in the Mattice townsite, the Toronto agency is reported to be lifting a block of proâ€" Take Timber Options . .. . : The Missanaibi River flows t«hrous'h Mattice, and it is understood that pulp- wceod siands along its banks were once cpticned to the A‘goma ‘Central R.au- way. It is considered possible that an: American on;anization has taken the timber cptions. _ With the excepiion of rthese stands, the great par, of p‘ll?DWOOd timber is under *he control of the Abitibi and Epruce Falls eccmpanies whose holdings stretch almost solidly from the Oma.rlo- qQuebec buundamy at Nakina ce j Abitibl and Spruze Falls Pulp and Papesr Company plant as Kapuskasing, Ssmooth Reck Falls and. Ircquais Falls have been running at capacity ,produc- ticn since the beginning of the war., P In recent years vo until t.his Septem ker, papsr plants in this section .of Nc:hern Ontario have Seen. Cup.mt.lvn}. far be‘ow peak capacity, but now with. the S:andinavian supply of. pulp cout off by the war from the big U.S. pub< lishing hcusss, mills in the Nonbhland' are sharing the extra business with the: Andustry alorg ‘he lower S .Lawretn_sga, and on the Pacific Ccast.. The rumcor in Cochrans is that one of the American chain paper organizaxticns is tehind <the move at Mattice.. In recen; years it has beccnme comâ€" mon ‘praviice for "the ichains and the b‘g metropotitan pu;tications. to operâ€" ate their cwn plants or contract for the entire culput of a mill, is % The New York Times draws. all its newsprint supply from Imill tm t:h.!s se:tion of ‘the North, the Scrippsâ€" Howard organization is supplied ‘BXâ€" clusively by a paper comporation with plants on the lower St. Lawrence, The Chicago Tribume has its own mil} and cperates a fieet of newsprint n'elghters on ‘the Great Lakes. 7e ty options worth $9,000 and held by t t 9 mc onb ic Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway Co. General Freight and Passenger Department The Nipissing Central Railway Company â€"of the conou't parties that provvded a ywe)ocmebfcuinmemmotony of rouâ€" â€" tine warfare, These parties became of value of the British army that * they received official recognition and were among the favceured sons ofâ€" the f-i\twoor!thm-l{ourpeflod a canvas tent ot in a makeshift hall w h Legion Has Unit for Entertai less one was "there early he had to view the entertainment from over the heads markable effect they had cn the It took twoâ€"thirds of the war period to. convince the higher comâ€" mand that a few amen set aside for the purpose of keeping ‘the troops in a hapâ€" py state of mind were worth tjeir {famous ~trouvpe cof the third division.. The Marprle Leafs, a second divigion party, also achieved sucsess. In British ammy there wore numâ€" erous concert parties and each division or"carps expressed the opinion Uhem concert party was the best. If the Canadian Legion can aohleve what was dcne along this line during the Great War they will be heartily -oangra:mlatcd by men in the army toâ€" day. of those occoupying standing froom |at weight in gold. + ‘Canadians ma‘nly widl n:member hc Auckland News: In addition to ~anizing two divis‘ans as an exn tionery force . if required, Canada) is prepufing to vender all possible assistâ€" the decision to raizse the two divigions, In the very earliest days of the war a .ccemme.maotca' hnurriedly â€" surveying the strepgth ofâ€"the Empire, said that Canâ€" adae and Australia were two well aeâ€" vvelope:d manufacturing countries and as such weuld be able to lend poweflull ald to: the cmwbmeu war effont. ‘That is true, it is no disparagement| of Australia‘s possibllflties in this field to say .*hat of Canada ane of greater nea,mess to Brilain, with a consequent lightening of ‘transport time and |efâ€" fort, gives Canada the advantage in Canada Can Render Grea% Assistance to the Emp ancs to Great Britain on the ecC a front. ‘This ‘was made clear by dhe Minister .of Defenve when annsun comparison. Added to that, the semior Dominion is a rich storehouse of raw materials, and has large resources of plant and trained personnel for indusâ€" trial efl'ort.. ‘The iron and steel indusâ€" tries are not lanze, compared with those of ‘other countries, but, no doubt, ere cap@ble of rapid development In the production of nonâ€"ferrous metals, the Dominton is a very significant factor. ‘A.man in Pittsfield, Mass., has mads a. vollin cat bt 3,457 toc: hpcks ~Aanyway, heâ€"cuzht to be able to it is at its best. may beâ€"dressed tip N. ‘0O. eVery Gunday n‘ght and over na’dtan?adflclines to Toronto and mtbmtrofit ’me Missanaibt River which would 4damfllsetupafbMa'buoem Aan immense watershed south of the transâ€" continental line; ‘Tributaries of \the Fite River. on the Canadian Nati line ito |Capreol,. " A Good> Start yy k .‘ PA the