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a word of criticism is really advocating the ereed of Hitler and Mussolini, no matter with what plausible words they may cloak their chicanery. Not only should the critical newspapers continue their helpful patriotic work, but it is about time they took upon them another taskâ€"the exposure of the real Fifth Columnistsâ€"the subservient, the As The Advance has suggested before, the real Fifth Columnists among the newspapers are the ones that for purely selfish reasons have refused to inform the public or to criticize the government. It was the subservient press of every conquered land in Europe that paved the way for the worst work of Hitler and his gangsters Had there been the right sort of criticism of the Jugoslovaâ€" kian government, Germany would not have had the walkover that resuited in that land. The same hol true of the other subjugated peoples. There is a popular belief that the people of most of these formerly‘ neutral lands were all rightâ€"are all right. At the moment there are many who are narticularly emphasizing this idea in regard to the French. The French people, they say, are all right at heart, and they do not know what is being done until it is too late. It is probable that if the people really knew and were able to influence the government matters might be vastly different to what they are in regard to France. In any event, it is well to remember that the dictators in neuâ€" tral, as well as in belligerent countries had first to control the press before they could subjugate the people. Even the government of this country admits that the present war is being fought for democracy. This has been made plain in rounded periods. But it will take more than polished‘ phrases to win the war. It is an essential of demoâ€" cracy that the people should have freedom of exâ€" pression, and that the will of the people should prevail To support disregard of the opinion of the people is the essence of Fifth Columnism. The: ecritical newspapers have based most of their criâ€" ticism on the government‘s disregard for the comâ€" mon will. For example, the people have shown in every possible way that they desire a more enthuâ€" siastic prosecution of the war effort in Canada. They have criticized the government for lack of thrift. They have pointed out the impossibility of making the people take the war in dead seriousness when the government so palpably considers it only an incident in party history. They have shown the absurdity of suggesting that the people give up everything for the war when the government won‘t give up even a pidrty name, and when all the perquisites of political office appear to be the main consideration. The newspapers that see millions squandered on an unnecessary political railway depot, other millions frittered away on a census that could be deferred and still further millions recklessly spent on space rentals in government elevators paid for out of the people‘s purseâ€"the newspapers that see things like this and say no word are traitor to the people as well as to their pofession. The newspapers that know the general Oanadian desire for full entry to the war, and do not voice that wish in the face of halfâ€"hearted effort are surely the real Fifth Column newspaâ€" pers. To suggest that the government (and esâ€" pecially a party government) should be allowed to do anything or leave undone anything without as their own effusion iand others crediting it to its source. In any event, the article has received wide publicity, and is in itself, whether consciousâ€" ly so or not, the most effective Fifth Column matâ€" ter that Hitler could wish. In effect it is suggestâ€" ing that newspapers like The Globe and Majil, The Toronto Telegram, The Financial Post and a host of others are Fifth Columnists. This, of course, is criminally absurd. As a matter of fact, had it not been for these critical newspapers. Canada would have taken a much less effective part in the war effort than it has done, and as it is, no intelligent Canadian is doing much boasting in regard to Canada‘s accomplishments. Placed alongside of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Newfoundâ€" land, and other parts of the Empire, Canada does not appear to have much cause for selfâ€"glorificaâ€" tion in regard to war effort. There is no reasonâ€" able Canadian who feels that Canada has done as much as it should have doneâ€"as much as the majority of Canadians would desire it to do. The whole effort of the critical newspapers has been to spur the authorites to greater effort and to se.t the people an example in thrift, in earnestness, in patriotism, in selfâ€"sacrifice. A newspaper in the far west of Canada recently published an editorial that suggested thatâ€"newsâ€" papers that dared to criticize the part of a party government of Canada were doing the work of the Fifth Columnistâ€" giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The western newspaper had the grace to say that some of the critical newspapers might be doing Fifth Column work unconsciously, but the western journal pretended to believe that, whether conscious or unconscious, the work was Fifth Column stuff. This editorial has been copied by other newspapersâ€"some passing off the article Timmins, Ont.; Thursday, May 22nd, 1941 I o lt â€"AG P AP tb n P P AP PAAA i TIMMINS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoctation; Ontartoâ€" Quebec Newspaper Association: Class "A" Weekly Group TWO PHONESâ€"26 and 2020 Published Every Monday and Thursday by GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publisher SBubscription Rates: anadaâ€"$3.00 Per Year. United Statesâ€"$3.50 Per Year PAGE Founr Ts Horrupine Abuanee FIFTH COLUMN NEWSPAPERS «h P P PA D AL LA L APâ€" i The Advance has always felt that the support of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind was patrioitic work. Anything that builds better citizenship, that makes life easier and happier for any group of worthy people, that helps the deservâ€" ing, that raises the standard of efficiency and comfort, that overcomes hardships, and turns numbers from depression and unemployment to useful iand joyful life and work, is the height of patriotic endeavour. So, The Advance classes the Canadjan National Institute for the Blind, the fight against tuberculosis, the general battle for health, and many other worthy causes, as the true part of patriotism and among the very essential enterprises for which Britain fights toâ€"day. It is unfortunate, perhaps, that the Children‘s Aid Soâ€" ciety and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind should this year be making their annual appeal at practically the same time. This fact, however, is merely accidental, and there is no clashing, no rivalry in the two appeals. There are many patriotic calls these days, but these two are among the very vital ones. The answer to each should be the usual donationâ€"or a little better‘i if possible. They are both patriotic efforts that will have additional calls upon their resources beâ€" cause of the war. The managingâ€"director of the Institute, Col. Baker, lost his sight in service to his country during the last war. So did the director of publicity for the Institute, Mr. Turner. So did many others prominent in the work. They will be ready and eager to help rehabilitate the vicitims of the present war as well as assisting all others who may suffer the handicap of blindness. Even more earnestly are they striving to prevent unâ€" necessary blindness, which is more prevalent than generally understood an issue of The Saturday Evening Post at its very best with an ordinary issue toâ€"day of Maclean‘s Magazine iand if you are not convinced that you are getting bigger and better value in Maclean‘s in every way then from The Saturday Evening Post, then you deserve nothing better than any â€" thing you receive. k Instead of giving free advertising to The Saturâ€" day Evening Post, for example, The Advance would give free advertising to a Canadian journal that is sold. at a popular priceâ€"a bigger nickel‘s worth than The Saturday Evening Post at its best. This Canadian journal Carries fiction equal or superior to the United States publication; it has articles on world topics of supreme importance, and these articles are better than any in The Saturday Evening Post, because they are careful, laccurate, reliable; it has colour, humour, the moâ€" dern touch, brilliant illustrations, creditable typoâ€" graphy ;excellent presswork. Its articles by Beverly Baxter alone are worth many times the price of the issue. Its review of the Canadian Parliament is another distinctive feature. While it is strongly Canadian, firmly British, it has a broad outlook and not a touch of the provincial. Coolly compare It might be a good idea for newspapers in Canâ€" ada to do less free advertising of what they conâ€" sider unfair and subversive publications, and inâ€" stead hand a free advertisement once in a while for a bright, clean, modern journal in love with Canada and Britain and serving in most capable way the people of this land. There is another argument used in the last war in regard to The Saturday Evening Post that might be adapted to the present case. It was pointed out by some in the years gone by that criticism of subversive newspaper was really free advertising It tempted the disloyal and the disaffected to seek out the offending jourflal while curiosity had a tendency to induce even patriotic people to read the condemned sheets. Free Advertising is poor business for newspapers, but the principle of The Advance is that if there must be any free adverâ€" tisjing, it should be free advertising of worthy causes and worthy objects, not of the evil and the subversive. Let the newspapers apply this prinâ€" ciple to the case of objectionable journals, and let the people in general make use of the remedy that lies to hand, and proâ€"Nazi sheets are automaticâ€" ally killed so far as their evil influence in Canada is concerned. At the present time there are a host of newsâ€" papers in Canada who iare~bitterly denouncing The Saturday Evening Post for its allaged antiâ€" British attitude. Some of the newspapers might dig up editorials on the same topic written during the last war, and with a word or two of change the a@articles would still apply. In the last war The Saturday Evening Post received such pointed cenâ€" sure from many Canadian newspapers that one would be tempted to imagine that one of two things would apply now:â€"either that The Saturâ€" day Evening Post would have learned that it is not well to offend without reason or justice or sense;: or that the newspapers would consider criticism futile. There is one point however, that was emâ€" phasized in the last war, that has not been given as much prominence and emphasis in this, and that is that the real remedy rests with the people. If the patriotic people of Canada would simply refuse to read an unfair journal covertly supportâ€" ing gangsters, then, of course, its evil writing would automatically cease to annoy. unduly complaisant and the meanly selfish who with soft words and false assurance woul low the growth in Canada of the very attitude of mind that has caused the present hell on earth. There are two things that stand out about the REMEMBER THE BLIND FREE ADVERTISING THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINE, ONTARIO North Bay Nugget: To those fellows who claim they don‘t care that Deanna Durbin has married Vaughn Paul all we can say is; Ah, go Vaughn with America already is supplying planes, and is now going to provide the trainâ€" ing fields for pilots to fly This friendly gesture of our good neighbour is appreciated. It will permit more rapid expansion of the British Comâ€" monwealth Air Training Plan, the estiâ€" mated cost of which is now $825,000,â€" 000. . Evidence accumulates that the air forces manned and maintained by the Englishâ€"speaking nations and their allies is rapidly attaining parity with that of the enemy. The big bombers which are flying"the Atlantic from the arsenal of democracy and the cargoes of munitions which America is deliverâ€" ing at Egyptian ports are going to play an effective part not only in the Eastâ€" ern Mediterranean but also in the Battle of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic. The assistance they are extending to the Royal: Air Force involves nd sacriâ€" fice of fundamental rights.> Rather does it help to safeguard those rights. Washington is thinking in terms of speed. The flame of freedom must be shielded against the blackout of barâ€" barism. Providing the air training fields for British pilots who are hanâ€" dicapped by war conditions at home and weather conditions in Canada is one way of ensuring the fuel to keep the flame of democracy alight. The arrangements made for the training of British pilots in the United sStates, as confirmed by Hon, C. G. Power, represent a logical development of the policy of our good neighbour. If the Canadian winter slows up the training of the eager young men who have enlisted to fight the barbarians in the air, the favourable climate and flying conditions of Texas and=other Southern States will make it pogsible for democracy‘s defenders to I‘m t,hpm- selves for the supreme test whenmthev meet the Luftwaffe. The people of America are. wxitinfl' new history today. They mallze that the light of democracy must 11,1 kept burning. They know that the ume ele â€" ment is of supreme impor tance.â€" And when they are sending to Britain,@very plane, every ship, and every. other weapon of war which they can spare, they are not going to refuse training facilities for British pilots to man the planes. To Train British Airmen in the Southern States ‘"What is the moral of the latest war news? asks a reader. Here is the answer direct from His Majesty the King:â€" "Put into your task whatever it may be, all the courage iand purpose of which you are capable. Keep your hearts proud and your resolve unshakâ€" en. Let us go forward to that task as one man, a The Brampton Conservator and other comâ€" muni'y newspapers have recently ‘publisheli a series of editorial articles on editors and editorials. Eqditors enjoyed reading these editorials because they suggested that editors were not quite so bad as they are sometimes printed. But in its last issue the magazine, "Canadian Business," tells of a couple of advertising salesmen talking about editorials. "Heck," said the one advertising man, "editorials are only useful for keeping the adverâ€" tisements from rattling around the paper." the Blind. The one is their broad and happy outâ€" look on life. "Blindness," they say. "is not a hanâ€" dicap, but an incentive." The loss of sight should prompt to the devélopment of other faculties and powers. They have courage. The other outstandâ€" Ing feature is that they are eager to help themâ€" selvesâ€"and others, Nearly all the workers in the movement are themselves blind. They have even blind stenographers whose letters would put in shade the work of the average office hand. They help the blind, teach them trades, set them up in business, look to their health and comfort, provide with reading matter, encourase them to be selfâ€"suuportingâ€"and above all, they inspire them with courage and hope and faith. It is a noble work, welk done, carefully done, economically done, honestly done, earnestly done. It deserves the support of every loyal man and woman. Laval, Lindbergh, louseâ€"all start with "L". And the cockney says, "Maybe they‘ll all end up there too." workers in the Canadian National Institute for j smile on our lips and our seads held high, and GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER (From Globe and Mail) "‘No, no, General. The troops are over tm l â€"AP P P AP PC PAAA PAAA AL LAAA Exchnange: One mark of a man‘s greatness is his respect for the feelings of others, MODERN, EXPERIENCED BANKING here!" â€"London TIllustrated BANK OF MONTREA L CA NA DIAN WOMEN ARE ‘‘"*A BANK WHERE SMALL ACCOUNTS ARE WELCOME‘"! On Tuesday the Duke of Aosta and his staff made unconditional surrender to the British in Ethopia. The prisoners taken by the British inâ€" cluded 7,000 Italians and 25,000 or more native troops. In effect this is the final collapse of Modâ€" est Mussolini‘s stolen Empire. Just how representative the present Dominion government is of the people of Canada may be estimated from the fact that both Japan and Vichy still have accredited representatives in this country. This certainly gives Italy and Germany a |genuine grievance against this country. It looks as if France was selling out for the seâ€" cond time to the Nazis. It will be difficult to perâ€" suade the average Britisher that once was not too much. There is an old English saying:â€""If you cheat me once that‘s your fault; if you cheat me a second time, that‘s my fault." In all sections of the town in general and at certain spots in particular, the dust blew around this week, not only choking people and injuring lawns and homes, but also making itself a loud sighing noise that sounded like 28,353 people cryâ€" ing for a little oil on the streets. A writer in The Vancouver Sun says:â€"*"The Government can‘t carry a torch. It can hardly light a match. It has no more sex appeal than Donald Duck." Donald Duck should sue The Vanâ€" couver Sun for slander. From Ottawa comes the announcement that all members of parliament will pay the National Deâ€" fence Tax on their indemnities of $4,000.00 per session, just like ordinary human beings. Why shouldn‘t they? And why should theyâ€"travel free on all the railways of Canada at all times when the country is so poor and mean that soldiers on leave have to beg or steal rides to get home? with God‘s help we shall not fail." Timmins Branch: Exchange: The only sweeping the modern girl ever does is in trying to sweep a boy off his feet. Wifeâ€"Oh, that‘s a new umbrella, I bought, dear. I left my old one on a bus.â€"Globe and Mail. Husband (looking over household acâ€" couts)â€"What is this item of $5 for overhead expenses? "Yes, indeed, but no thanks to you, you old wretch," said the tenant.â€" Sudbury Star. "So you were able to raise the rent?" he smiled when the woman opened the adoor. $ A wealthy man had a tenant owing $10, which she was too poor to pay at the time. Being a kindly man, he sought her minister to whom he gave the $10, asking him to pass it on, so that when he called she would be able to pay. The next day he called around on the woman. SERVICE . . . the Outcome of 123 Years‘ Successful Operation assney mt NO THANKS 10D, Manager Mrs. Jones: "I‘m not surprised. They‘d pinch anything in this neighâ€" borhood!"â€"North Bay Nugget, Baghdad gave birth to the fabled magic carpet and now, in modern times, ~that rebel premier finds the British â€" have called him up on it!â€" North Bay Nugget. ‘ Mr. Jones: "Quick dear, the sirens have gone." When his friends were having a good time, you could find him mopâ€" ing around, It seemed as if he never would get out of his rut. He was always on the "outside". Finâ€" ally he had his eyes examined by Mr. Curtis, Tests showed Harry needed glasses, Now, thanks to Mr. Curtis he enjoys sports and social activities. He‘s a new man!‘ Don‘t you be handicapped by poor vision, have your eyes examined toâ€"day? Harry Leads Them All CONVENIENT TERMS MAY BE ARRANGED AT Carla Lehmann, Canadian film and stage actress from Winnipeg, is now Mrs. George Elliot. Although marâ€" ried several weeks ago, the actress gave out the news in London only recentiy, saying, "We didn‘t want a fuss made over our wedding." Elliott London Theatrical publicity agent, is a Jlieutenant in the Royal Army ‘*Service Corps. 14 Pine St. N. OPTICAL COMPAN Y Canadian Actress Weds THURSDAY, MAY 1941 BAGHDAD SIRENS Phone 835