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Despite all this, however, the question, "What can I do" still continues, and it is pleasing, indeed. to note that the Government intends to give early and practical answer to this query. Word from Ottawa this week is to the effect that during the first quarter of this year Canada will is;ue its first war loan. This will provide a great proporâ€" That the frequent query, "What can I do?" is an honest one is proven by the steady stream of enlistments, and by the public response to every patriotic appeal. It is worthy of note that in the Red Cross campaign Canada not only reached the high objective set, but exceeded that mark by almost fifty per cent. There is reason to beâ€" lieve that the demand for labour and industrial leadership will be met in equally generous way. As usual, the women are setting the pace in the way of war work, the supply of active workers in the Red Cross and other activities and the amount of work produced exceeding all reasonable exâ€" pectations. During the past four months it is doubtful if there has been one question more frequently asked than the earnest query:â€""What can I do to help in the winning of the war?" The one chief criticism of the Dominion government in the matter of the war has been that it hasn‘t shown the people clearly enough just what each one may do. That criticism has been more freâ€" quent and more pointed even than the suggestion that the government itself is not doing enough and not doing it with sufficient speed. This latâ€" ter criticism loses some of its point with the safe arrival in Britain of the second Canadian conâ€" tingent, thus landing a full division of Canadian troops overseas. The people are ready to believe that the Government has been working strenuâ€" ously, if silently, to do what the vast majority of Canadians desire to have done. Happy family, the McIntyre family! But, it is only fair to say that this same human and kindly | and progressive thought is the concern of all the industries of this part of the North, despite the subtle campaigns of certain subversive elements.f While the Hollinger has not followed along cx-i actly the same lines as the McIntyre there is Hollinger family that has constant thought andj consideration. While the Hollinger has provided| an excellent sports field for the advantage of em-; ployees and the community, recent efforts have been centred on other lines of activity for the family. Elsewhere in this issue will be found a | review of the Hollinger Employees‘ Medical Serâ€" ‘ vices plan, that provides medical care and hosâ€" f pitalization for all employees and their families, at merely nominal figure. This plan has attractâ€" ed worldâ€"wide interest and attention. Then is the Hollinger insurance, the Hollinger savingsf plan, with their outstinding advantages to the; members of the family. It is worth that the members of the Hollinger family enjoy scales of rentals that are the envy of other ordinâ€"i’ ary families. There is a wellâ€"known Dome family' also, with advantages and benefits that prove, the family interest in the welfare of its memâ€" bers. Newer mines also display this same idea ofi the family spirit without paternalism: The Bufâ€"| faloâ€"Ankerite and other of the newer properties| will come to mind at once in this connection" The family idea is fortunately the popular one in this North, and a good one it is. It means kindly thought, interest, concern for the welfare of its members. It may be true that in the long run| it is a profitable procedure. Contented and happy| people are the most capable and efficient workers. The happier the men, the families, the communi-! ty may be, the happier will be the industries. Butg it is a form of selfâ€"seeking that is to be encouragâ€". ed and fostered, as for the welfare and advanceâ€"| ment of all. | At the formal opening cf the addition to the McIntyre Community building at Schumacher last Saturday, the president of the McIntyre Mine,f Mr. J. P. Bickell, more than once used the ex-i pression, "the McIntyre family" It is an exâ€": pression he has used on several occasions before.} each of these occasions being times when the event itself proved the sincerity of the words. On Saturday the McIntyre family had opened them a community building that for extent practical beauty has few equals anywhere and | that houses more facilities for amusement, enâ€"| tertainment and enjoyment than any other, similar structure in Canada. On Saturday Mr. Bickell made it plain that he had a broad pretation of the family idea. "The McIntyr{ family," he said, enbraced all the employees the McInytre from the highest executive to the humblest worker, the families and friends of | these, and the whole community. The health . the welfare, the comfort, the convenience and the happiness of this big family was the deopg and earnest consideration of the McIntyre. | Timmins, Ont., Thursday, January 4th, 1940 ‘snardjaâ€"£%3 0) Per Year td P PA AP AA P C CA PAAA C AP LA L TIMMIXS, ONTARIO > istia Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontarioâ€" luele. Newspaper Association; Class "A" Weekly Group TWO PHONESâ€"26 and 2020 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GFA. LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: rcuptine Aduvancr The Post pretends not c© care a rap that hens and roosters have played a big part in religion and literature. How many farmers would trade an egg from a sick hen for the item in the Post about holidays that fall on Mondays, or the other one about a little booklet by a Toronto university graduate. The Post is chilled by the information that there are such phrases as birds of a feathers, showing the white feather, feathering the nest, fine feathers make fine birds, a feather in your cap, chickenâ€"hearted, killing the goose that lays the golden egg, and so on. But the farmer would _ _In a letter from Ottawa in regard to the comâ€" ing war loan the following words are illuminaâ€" tive:â€""The backbone of Canada‘s participation in this war will be financial, because of the vast jamount of foodstuffs, materials and military supâ€" | plies that will be required from this country. True. much of these materials will be paid for by the | Allies, but some of the British purchases in this ;country will have to be financed by Canada, and |Canada‘s own programme will be extensive. It |seems probable that at least forty per cent of the national income will be required in the next year to meet the cost of war and the other expendiâ€" tures of all governments in Canada, and to finâ€" ‘ance British purchases here." ‘ To meet the situation the best answer is the first war loan. The response to this should be generalâ€"from those with much and from those | with little. From every standpoint, it will be a | secure investment, yet those who subscribe will !be doing genuine patriotic work. Their money will be helping win the war in special way. There ! are to be no tax free bonds this time to help add gto the incomes of the few. It is to be an issue | that will appeal to the patriotic, whether rich or } poor. It is to be a patriotic loan, not a profiteerâ€" |ing one. At the same time there is the fullest assurance given that every dollar will be helpful to the cause, every precaution having been taken | to guard against any of the abnormal profits |from war materials and supplies as witnessed The Financial Post has been putting life into literature about the Department of National Deâ€" fence. If the Department of National Defence is too busy in defence of Canada to set The Post firmly in its place, that is the hard luck of the Department of National Defence. But the attack upon the other fowl department is another matâ€" ter. The Department of Agriculture is debarred by ethics and custom from reply to such an ediâ€" torial as the "Goosey, Goosey, Gander‘" one. If the Department of Agriculture, however, could make reply, it easily might prove itself a regular Department of Defence, and bring the Post off the perch. That article, "Poultry in Literature and Daily Life" is interesting, informative, amusâ€" ing. Saying that, it hardly needs any further defence. The thought that appears to be in the mind of The Post is that the Department of Agriculture might well forget literature and daily life for the duration of the war and devote its talent and its typewriters to the service of the Department of National Defence. By the same token the Deâ€" partment of Agriculture may think that The Finâ€" ancial Post would be better occupied in devoting all its undoubted skill to finance, insurance, minâ€" ing and whatnot, for the duration of the war, and leaving the literature and life of the Department of National Defence free from caustic criticism. Sauce for the goose! Sause for the gander. The Financial Post waxes sarcastic, or someâ€" thing, because the Dominion Department of Agriculture has issued a brochure on "Poultry in Literature and Daily Life." In its criticism of the Department of Agriculture, under the heading, ‘"‘Goosey, Goosey, Gander!‘" The Financial Post appears to forget that every issue of its own exâ€" cellent newspaper is an interesting and lively exposition of finance, insurance and mining and allied topics "in literature and daily life." Sureâ€" ly, what is sauce for goosey, goosey, is sauce for the old gander. The hope is that the bonds will be taken up to the extent of the capacity of each loyal citizen. There is every reason to believe that this will be done and that Canada will "go over the top‘"‘ beâ€" yond all question, not only taking the first necesâ€" sary step in safe financing but also showing the enemy the strength of Canada‘s loyalty and the good business judgment of its people. during the last war tion of loyal Canadians with an opportunity to make their first direct contribution to Canada‘s war effort. It is planned to have denominations as low as $50 in the bonds of the proposed war loan. This will allow large numbers of Canaâ€" dians to share in the financing. It is the intenâ€" tion to finance the present war, so far as Canâ€" ada is concerned, on a "pay as you go basis‘" so far as this is humanly possible. Payment of th« war debt is to be financed on the general ability of all to assist and the general willingness of al to help. To attempt to meet the entire cost b imimediate and direct taxation would have th effect of crippling industry and hampering proâ€" gress. Tax revenues have to be supplemented by other methods of finance. In other words the hope is to meet the situation by calling into play what may be termed the "idle money‘" of this rich Dominionâ€"the money not immediately needed for industrial expansion and the financing of auxiliary businesses and services need=ed to mainâ€" tain Canada‘s place as a supply house for the Empire and the Allies. THE PORCUPINE ADBVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO find more of interest in such phrases, than he is Leap Year and So Dangerous Year for Bacheâ€" would in some of the items in The Post where lors." Especially for unmarried lads like Hitler. somebody‘s financial goose is cooked, some poor , x x bird is plucked, or the tail feathers are twisted in _ At the formal opening of the new McIntyre some former Minister of National Defence. Community Curling rink it fell to the lot of Preâ€" The Post should not cackle at every circular sident J. P. Bickell to start the season by throwâ€" rceeived from the Department of Agriculture. ing the first stone. The only introductory speech Instead, if it doesn‘t like the produce, why not he made for this part of the ceremony were the lay it in the wastepaper basket. Above all The words:â€""Let him who is without sin among you Post should not brood. It gives the other birds cast the first stone." | # *% # the pip. | omm m m a e am . 3 The best wiseâ€"crack of the holiday season was "p o t m l P P P : P AP P P P l P L kicking And he hasn‘t pulled the blinds down yet. These men alternated their time beâ€" tween singing songs with grownâ€"ups and going on their hands and knees . and playing with children and their| toys, and they found that the feller who | said Christmas is dead has never seen a live one, and the feller who said the old war songs are dead was not alive in the last war, and the only war songs he knows are "Tipperary" and "Pack up your Troubles," and one or two others of which he has heard. Because thevy have cne or twa new ones doesn‘t AAiill1l. "Th2> comnany is fortunate to have such an excellent man as Mr. Kilzout assume the office formerly held by many outstanding men," said Mr. Rolph in announcing the election. "He is well qualified to carry on the splendid traâ€" ditions laid down by the company‘s founders, among whom were Hon. Alexâ€" ander MacKenzie, Sir Oliver Mowat, ‘Hon. George Brown, Sir William Mereâ€" dich and Edward Blake." The Company‘s first President, Hon. ‘ A. MacKenzie said, "Our endeavour has ‘been to make this a thoroughly solid and safe company. I know that many in the last war, and the only war songs he knows are "Tipperary" and "Pack up your Troubles," and one or two others of which he has heard. Because they have one or two new ones doesn‘t Then, maybe owing to the Christâ€" mas sprit, some one got mixed a fttle and sang:â€" We used to sing "Britannia Rules The Waves" And we sing the same today. We have a navy, a fighting navy; Our neighbours know that‘s true. For Old John Bull is still alive and and they roar, I don‘t want to go to the war any more Take me over the sea _ Where the Alimand can‘t get at me Oh my! I don‘t want to die I want to zo home. The nobby little lads in navy blue." That one is at least forty years old. Then:â€" ’ Far, far from Ypres I want to be Where German snipers can‘t get at me. Dark is my dugout down which I creep, Waiting for some one to sing me to sleep. Again :â€" I want to go home; I want to go home; The maxims and pompoms they rave Then before they went on their way there would be a bit of singing started by anyone, and joined in by every one. Anyone with any kind of a voice would begin, and if they had no voice they would mention a song and the rest of the crowd would sing; and when I say "crowd" I mean whoever was there. Some houses had a crowd while others just had a man and woman and the children. The old Christmas spirit prevailed everywhere they went. However among the songs which were sung were: "We have a navy; a fighting navy; Everywhere they went people would smile, then they would laugh, then they would roar. Then a chorus of "Merry Christmas." it was soon proved to them that both Christmas and the old war songs are as much alive today as they ever were; in fact, the champagne of Rheims was flowing in streams to these camouflaged women. Two men set off at Christmas with the intention of giving the people a laugh. They said: ‘"We haven‘t a lot of money which we can give away, but we can make a bit of fun and if we can make people laugh we will be making them happy, and if we make people happy, then we are spreading the Christmas spirit. These men are not as young as they were so they took a little of the Christâ€" mas spirit before they started. They wore paper hats and earâ€"rings, and when some one asked them what they were supposed to represent, they reâ€" plied: "There is a war on, so we are camouflaged as women." To the Editor The Advance, Timmins. Dear Sir:â€"It came over the air other night that the old war songs dead, and do I believe it? They Jjust as dead as Christmas! GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER Gives Proof That the Old War Songs Are Not Dead Yet Also That Christmas is Still Very Much Alive. Our neighbours know that‘s true. For it keeps them in their place When they know they have to face A heading in The Globe and Mail says: "1940 forty." The Allied blockade is m#iking Germany feel the pinch as her exports, as well as goods destined for her use, ire being seized and otherwise prevented from arriving @t their destinations: Members of Britain‘s contraâ€" band ccntrol committee, the key civilian body in the British blockade shown during a recent session. Seated at the far end of the table is Rt. Hon. Vincent Finilay, Timmins, Jan. 3rd, 1940 the are are But he is also widely known in other spheres. Among farmers and breeders of livestock Mr. Kilgour is known for his contributions to scientific farming, an activity which developed from an earlier interest in horticulture when his name appeared often among the exhiâ€" bitors and prizeâ€"winners at many shows. In recent years he has devoted his attention to his farm at Georgeâ€" town where he specializes in the raising of purebred stock. During his student days he was a proficient fencer and cricketer, and later was a golfer of note, but he forsook these pastimes to give his entire spareâ€"time attention to his farm. | mean that the old ones will ever be | forgotten. i â€"â€"I remain way for the present Head Office Buildâ€" ing on King Street which was comâ€" pleted in 1932. In 1907 Mr. Kilgour was elected actuary, and in 1928 he assumed the office of manager which he conâ€" tinues to fill. He is widely known among insurance executives, as a writer on insurance and financial subjects and as a member of the executives of such crganizations as the Actuaries Club, Actuarial Society of America and Canâ€" adian Life Officers‘ Association. The new presiaent first joined the company in 1900, after a brilliant career at the University of Toronto where he was a scholarship man of his year in mathematics. At that time the Company‘s insurance in force totalled cnly $25,000,000 of business and its clerical staff about 25 people. It had recently ~moved from the Nanning Chambers to the old United Empire Loyalist Building on King Street. This building was torn down in 1931 to make Election of Mr. Kilgour to the presiâ€" dency of the company retains at its head a man who first entered business with it. Mr. Bradshaw, who started as office boy when the company â€" was founded, became the president under whom North American became mutualâ€" ized in 1931, the first Canadian comâ€" pany to undertake the action which placed its ownership in the hands of its policyâ€"holders. Announcement of Mr. Kilgour‘s apâ€" pointment to fill the vacancy created by the death of the late,Thomas Bradâ€" shaw was made by Frank A. Rolph, chairman of the board of North Amâ€" erican, whose election to that office was voted at the same meeting of the dirâ€" ectors. Mr. Rolph, who is chairman of the board of the Imperial Bank of Canada and president of Rolph Clark Stone of Toronto, has been viceâ€"presiâ€" dent of North American since 1933. Toronto, Jan. 3.â€"David E. Kilgour, | MA., ALA, FPAS., widely known | Canadian insurance executive, was elected president last week of the North ‘ American Life Assurance Company, the | firm with which he began his business career 39 years ago as a junior clerk. _ | New President of the North American Life Assurance Co. David E. Kilgour Began His Business Cargeer With the Firm as a Junior Clerk. Yours most sincerely chairman of the committee is Mr. Justics Morton, th members are the admiralty, the fcreign the ministry of econcmic shipping and his majesty‘s The best wiseâ€"crack of the holiday season was by The Toronto Telegram. ‘"Thirtyâ€"nine is endâ€" ed," said that newspaper, "but life begins at A. J. Doling ‘ous flow of pilots for the Royal Air Force will be provided from training centres in Canada and the other Doâ€" minions. The military representative of a European Power onte remarked to me that the weakness of the British Empire was its widely dispersed geoâ€" graphical character. How could all the parts be defended at once? The deâ€" velopment of military aviation has, however, completely reversed that situâ€" ation. Now the worldâ€"wide tharacter of the Empire has been proved a source of strategic strength. We can build our aircraft and train our pilots beyond the reach of the enemy, but the enemy must still prepare his lethal weapons on our doorstep. The immediate willingâ€" ness of the Dominions to coâ€"operate in this scheme does finally bear out my contention in the first part of this arâ€" ticle. War in a just cause brings men | In addition C. L. Burton, Fresident of ; The Robert Simpson Company Limited ! was elected a viceâ€"president along with A. J. Mitchell, President of A. J. Mitâ€" 'chell and Company Limited. To share the duties which Mr. Kilâ€" gour will continue to bear as general | manager, Mr. Rolph announced the ;election ofâ€" W. M. Anderson, PAS., LA to the office of assistant general manager. Mr. Anderson, who is | well known as a writer on insurance | matters and has addressed many imâ€" groups in Canada and the {United States, joined the company in 1926 as a junior clerk and was elected Isupervisor of field service in 1928. North Bay Nugget: â€" No doubt, Hitler, the Heel, learned of the arrival of the first contingent of Canadians in England, en route to the Western Front, and will, accordingly, modify his estiâ€" mate of Germany‘s chances of winning the war. together at least; and the early conferâ€" ence of Ministers frim the Dominions in Lordon with the British Governâ€" ment has been another outward and visible sign of the new collaboration. A deâ€"centralized Empire of independent States, the first in history, has taken an early opportuhnity to demonstrate its solidarity in the face of a threat to the very principles upon which its own constitution is based. There is hope for mankind in such a spontaneous uprising. Donald Cowie in The Nineteenth Cenâ€" tury and After (London): Already the overseas Empire has demonstrated its new strength by coâ€"operating in the remarkable scheme whereby a continuâ€" of my personal friends are among its early policyâ€"holders and I rejoice to be able to say to them today that the solidity of this Company is not exâ€" ceeded by any other on this continent." The Company‘s seventh President will no doubt continue the policiee which have made North American Life solid Mr. Kilgour, who resides in Toronto is a son of John W. Kilgour of Guelph He is married. Widespread Empire is Now Proving Its Great Strength as the Continent throughout its 58 vears. ALSO TO Barric, Beardmore, Branti{ord, Brockvilie, Buffalo, Chatham, Cornwall, Geraldton, Hamilton. Jellicne, Kingston, LOndon, Longlac, Niagzgara Falls, Catlharines, Sarnia, Westree. warfare, the ministry of procuratorâ€"general. office, the board of trade ares, Transiy Limi of the new McIntyre t fell to the lot of Preâ€" t the season by throwâ€" nly introductory speech the ceremony were the without sin among you *Â¥ the holiday season was that had lost beth arms and its hair, went to visit a tenâ€"monthsâ€"old cousin she had never seen before. After eyeâ€" ing the baby for several minutes, she asked: "How long have you had her, Aunt Emily?" "Just ten months, dear," her aunt replied. Jenny transferred her critical gaze to her battered doll, and observed:â€" "Well, I must say you certainly have taken. good care of her!" FROM T. N. 0. ANUM N, C. K. STATIONS Vira NORTH BAY AND C. N. RKAILWAYS FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1940 Limits. Tickets and Information 1 N. O.â€"Rly., N. C. K. K. and C. 1 ASK FOR HANDBILL THURSDA Â¥, JANUARY 4TH, 1 040 Kincardine News: â€".We believe less than half we hear these days and we‘re doing very little listening. Charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm were laid against four Moneta youths after they were alleged to have beaten up Joseph Walentynowlie over the Christmas weekâ€"end. Police disclosed recently that Walentynowic was very badly beaten ty the youths and that the quartet would be haled before Magistrate Atkinson to face charges. 7 Four Youths Face Charges of Assault Man Badly Beaten Police telegraphed to Trenton police and got a return message to the effect that the car was stolen from Napanee and that a warrant was held for the arrest of one John Windover in conâ€" nection with the theft. The constable went back but the car was gone. Police here telephoned froâ€" quois Falls and Kirkland Lake police to be on the lookâ€"out,. In the latter town the auto was stopped and the three occupants held. The case was then placed in the hands of a Provincial Police Officer from Napanee. Emile. Tremblay was accused of the theft of an otter skin worth $60 after police are reported to have found the hide in his residence during a search. The skin was stolen from the garage of G. B. Leblanc, on Wilson Avenue. â€" Three vagrants were arrested over the weekâ€"end. Mrs. Marie Bergeron, or Mrs. Marie Clouthier, was arrested by police on the charge of being drunk while an interâ€" dicted person. Mrs. Bergeron was alâ€" leged to have telephoned police two or three times for no particular reason. When two constables investigated they found the woman under the influence of liquor. As she was forbidden the use of liquor by the Liquor Control Board in February, 1989, for an â€" indefinite period, charges were laid. On Friday last Constable Angelo Guolla, while patrolling, saw a car parked on Balsam Street, south. The auto had no rear marker.and for reaâ€" sons of his own, the Constable became suspicious. He came back to the police station and looked up the registration of the auto. It was found to be regisâ€" tered from Trenton, Ontario. Man Accused Theft Otter Skin. Police Work Results in Apprehension Stolen Car in Kirkland. Toronto Telegram; â€" So many men have trouble in keeping their train of thought on the right track, 14 Pinec St., N " I‘m having my son‘s eyves examâ€" ined ; ; . . ". . . before he goes back to school I want to make sure he sees perfectly. Poor vision would hold him back in his studies. I‘m not taking any chances with my son. I want him to have every opportunity to do well, both in school and out." Liberal Terms May be Arranged at (From an Exchang?) huzzing her favourite doll lost beth arms and its hair, visit a tenâ€"monthsâ€"old cousin never seen before. After eyeâ€" baby for several minutes, she How long have you had her, WELL CARED FOR cnt Phone 835 of