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Timmins, Ontario, Thur Very wide circles will deepiy regrel lli€ Hon. Geo. P. Graham. At the time of death Senaâ€" tor Graham was nearly 84 years of age, so it is not too much to say that he served two generations o! Canadians. and served them faithfully and well.| It is one of the odd quirks of fate that he is chiefly remembered as a humorist and a man of the most, genial character, rather than for the public ser-'- vice that he gave. Perhaps,, his own keen mind would have it so. It may be that history will give him his due place in the story of Canada, for he gave outstanding service to the country and the people. He was first an outstanding newspaperâ€" | man. He served in municipal councils, in the proâ€" vincial legislature, as leader of the Opposition in Ontario, and as Minister of Railways and Canals in the Laurier Government. As chairman of the Adâ€" visory Tariff Board in 1926 his services were of decided value. In more recent years he had been a very useful member of the Senate. In each and every office he held he filled the post with credit to himself and benefit to those he served. But it does seem that his public service was always overshadowed by his delightful humor and his unâ€" failing geniality. Sir Wilfred Laurier appeared to recognize the undoubted talent he possessed, and the report was current that Sir Wilfrid Laurier favoured Hon. Geo. P. Graham as his successor to the leadership of the party. When that honour went to Mackenzie King, few expected that Hon. Geo. P. Graham would long continue in the active government.. A man of the keen humour of Geo. P. Graham would have been a wonderful counterâ€" balance in a Mackenzie King administration. With Geo. P. in the inner council of the Cabinet, smugâ€" ness and inefficiency and petty intolerance and prejudice would have been laughed away. Canadaâ€"â€"$2.00 Per Y Cl BPAAA DAAA A A A LAAA L AC MAE ME wA OA LAAA LA â€"AC C AC: P L C e Members Canadian Woekly Newspaper Association; Quebece Newspaper Association Published Every Thursday by GEO. LAKE, Owner and Publishner SBubscription Rates: For many of the conventional type, Hon. Geo. P. Graham did not appear to be serious enough. The truth, however, is that there is not a single case on record where he allowed humour to interfere with business. Whatever his position, he never failed to carry the work through with talent and effectiveness. He made humour his servant, and used his rare gift of wit to make work less of A@rudgery and the daily round more cheerful. He won friends among all parties, all classes, all creeds. No matter how inadequate the credit that may be given Hon. Geo. P. Graham for his more than half a century of genuine public serâ€" vice, there can,be no question of one great gift he tendered to Canada and public life in this Dominâ€" ionâ€"he proved beyond a doubt that politics can be conducted without personal bitterness or illâ€" will and that men may differ in opinion and yet retain geniality and goodwill. Many a political opponent will sincerely mourn the passing of this kindly, cheerful and gallant public man. People a generation ago may recall the bitter byâ€"election in South Renfrew. Hon. Geo. P. Graâ€" ham was assailed with a personal malice seldom | equalled even in the oldâ€"time election battles. He! won affection and esteem by his gallant attitude in that contest. He disarmed the enemy by his humour and his brave wit. To the persistent cry that he was an outsider thrust upon the riding, his reply was the reâ€"iteration of the fact that he was actually born in the riding. His adaptation of his early days in the riding when his father was a Methodist minister serving in scores of parishes in the Renfrew area was a classic worthy of Mark Twain. At a score of school houses he would pick out some prominent citizen in the audience. "Jim Stewart," or "Tom Lett," he would say, "don‘t you remember when Iâ€"sat next to you in this very old school? Remember one day I borrowed your pocket knife, promising to return it? Well, I lost it, and toâ€"night is the first opportunity I‘ve had to return it. Here it is!" And he would give the flattered old friend a pocket knife that would be therished through all the years. Counter jokes about the idea that Geo. P. must have attended every school‘in Renfrew county, and been a regâ€" ular fiend for borrowing jackâ€"knives could not stem the gracious memories that his humour stirred. Geo. P. Graham won the election despite the most bitter of opposition. And he won with geniality and humour. It should be remenibered, also, that the humour and wit were but byâ€"play to seâ€" cure interest and goodwill. There was always sound sense and constructive thought in every address of Hon. Geo. P. Graham. Ee Yorcugirtre Advancer It is true that he had an irrepressible sense of humour. One other story may be reported. When he was Minister of Railways and Canals, he had occasion to travel with a promfinent railway offiâ€" cial on the Kingston and Pembroke Railway. Years ago there used to be criticism of the T. N.O. for its rough roadbed. In its worst days the T. NO. was smooth as silk compared to the K. P. at its best. The railway official kept conâ€" tinually growling about the roughness of the ride, but Hon. Geo. P. made ne complaint in this regard, but ratherâ€"sought to humour the official dnto a more agreeable frame of mind. Eventually the railway official appeared to become less critâ€" P P P P PAAA C L oooomoom‘m‘oooo HE WILL BE REMEMBERED | | rill deeply regret the death 6| { 1 H 1t NT . At the time of death Senaâ€" rly 84 years of age, so it is not Years ago The he served two generations of every Yuletide m ed them faithfully and well.| of advocating a «tss «h PP P AP P L t t P AP P sdayv,. $3.00 Per Year be chiefly remembered and his happy flashe: remembrance. But the Geo. P. Graham than kindly helpful public given high place by t pective of party label: the petty partisans. sober up. The years have practicaily WOnN US boon for the people. In recent years there have been two days of legal holiday for Christmas timeâ€"the Day itself and the holiday on Boxing Day. The Christmas just passed has paved the way for the general adoption of the threeâ€"day Christmas. The very recent festive season actualâ€" ly had three successive holidaysâ€"Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and the next day, Sunday. Perhaps with this sample as a model, the world may yet universally adopt that threeâ€"day Christmas holiâ€" day time. to prepare, one da There is another suggestion by The Advance, made many and many a year about this timeé, and it might be well for the country at large to add this suggestion to the idea of a threeâ€"day Christâ€" mas. The suggestion referred to is the plan of The, Advance to have the unfortunate people of other parts of the Dominion move to this gracious northland to escape the inconvenience, the handiâ€" cap and the severity of winter elsewhere. During the past week the people of Toronto, Ottawa and other cities have suffered very seriously from the weather, while in this North everything is going along smoothly. In the South street cars, teleâ€" graph and telephone service, railroad â€" service have been completely blocked through a few inches of snow falling, a little wind blowing, and a few fcicles forming. The travellers and newsâ€" papers tell such stories of the haraships endured in the cities of the south that the hearts of all in the North are torn with sympathy, pity, compasâ€" sion, and whatâ€"haveâ€"you. Business has been at a standstill in the cities. Everything has been in a jamâ€"and the jam, has been rationed. In Ottawa even civil servants have had to walk to woOrk, whether or not there was any work done after the walk or not.. It is true that trains have been late in this North, but not like they have been in the south, and the only cause for the lateness of the trains in the North is because they have had to wait for the previous day‘s trains from the south. Here railway lines are free, roads are Oopen, streets are free from ice, and all other unpleasantness. Power and light and telephone have not had even a minute‘s interruption. Buses run to neéighâ€" boring towns and to mines at some distance, withâ€" out missing a single item on the schedule. It is ten years since there has been even a minor tieâ€" l up on the railways. It is years and years since there has been interruption of telephone or teleâ€". graph service. It is doubtful if there hnas ever been a delay of any noteworthy extent in the schedule of the buses. There is occasionally a fall of a few feet of snow in the Timmins district, but there are ploughs and men to remedy that beâ€" fore it is even noticed. A few inches of snow, however. ties up everything for days in Toronto, or Ottawa, or Hamilton. The Selective Service doesn‘t appear to make any difference. The temperature here may drop 25 degrees in a few hours, but that doesn‘t hurt anybody or anything. The air here, you know, is so dry, and all ithat, even though there is the new restriction of only one case of beer to a man a day, or a gallon of lhard liquor a month. A lot of sympathy has been wasted on Ottawa, Toronto, and other places, over the recent visitaâ€" tion of snow, ice and wind. These people, however, are not entitled to any sympathy. Why don‘t they take the oftâ€"repeated advice of The Advance, and move to this gracious North, where real men and women and hardy youngsters have conquered little things like cold weather and storms? There may be "nothing new under the sun, but at least occasionally newspapers are able to give a twist to something to make it appear as a new idea. Last week in addition to the customâ€" ary review of the"year in Huntingdon, Que., and district, The Huntingdon Gleaner summarized all the births, deaths and marriages recorded in its columns during 1942. As a matter of record and ready reference and for general interest, these reviews were very valuable featuresâ€"so valuable, indeed, that larger centres would promptly copy them, if that were possible. Were the plan pracâ€" tical there are some daily newspapers that would eive columns of space to advertising the idea as give columns of space to advertising Uhe 1G6a ao an originial one and then more columms to carry it out. There is a certain or uncertain Toronto paper, for example, that is just full of such tricks. The plan, however, is not possible for larger centres. For example, take the matter of births. The Huntingdon Gleaner recorded 211 births for the year and that occupied over four columns of space. Timmins averages njore than a thousand births a vear, and if those in South Porcupine and red r a few years it Hon. Geo. P. Gra ince at the approach oi regular business each yeat eâ€"day Christmasâ€"one day celebrate, and a day to have practically won this In recent years there have 1 holiday for Christmas be running along smoothâ€" Heavren‘s sake," replied in apparent excitement, st have run off the track." few years it will be the . Geo. P. Graham that will Most of his genial stories of wit are well worthy of e was much more to Hon. this. He was a genial, i1an of talent who will be ose who knew him, irresâ€" or the snap judgments of «h t P PA C AL BP C P â€"AL CCC JLD BE A LA W! i ice at the approach of regular business each yeat â€"fiay elsewhere were added, as appears to be the case in the Huntingdon review, the list would total over 2,000 and so run over 40 columns of space. The case in Toronto would be still worse. A similar situation would obtain in regard to marriages and deaths. The Gleaner listed 121 marriages, the reâ€" view taking up three columns, while 244 deaths were noted, over three columnms of space being used for this record. ¢ Incidentally, there are some interesting sugâ€" gestions made by the lists of births, marriages and deaths, as published by The Gleaner. For exâ€" ample it would appear that October is the month with the largest number of births,. June is the popular month for marriages among Huntingdon people, though September has the second largest list. There are more deaths in January than in any other month of the year. It would,be interâ€" esting to know how these figures compare with larger centres. Most of his genial stories f wit are well worthy of was much more to Hon. jis O â€"was a genial. as an original scheme showing the enterprise of the daily newspaper. The space necessary forbids the idea. It may be, however, that the dailies will find a scheme whereby the plan can be sold as an advertising stunt, with those having births, marâ€" riages and deaths paying for the plan and a selectâ€" ed list of advertisers providing the "gravy" for the game. It might happen. Certainly, dodges as unusual have occurred many a time. In any event, this publication of| births, marâ€" riages and deaths for the year is not! an idea likely to be purloined by the big dailies and passed off The Great Benefits of the Slow Reducing Diet Not much is heard today of the 18â€" day reducing diet which swept the country a few yvears ago. Permanent disability and death were not uncomâ€" mon results from following this diet. What many overweights did not realâ€" ize was that this diet was arranged for a special movie actress who in order to fulfill her contract of being at a cerâ€" tain weight at a certain.date, appealed to a physician who, by this most rigid diet, was able to get her weight down to the necessary amount within the 18 days. This young woman was healthy and circumstances permitted her to live on this diet for the 18 days beâ€" cause she rested the whole time. There is no question but that others of similar age and health and also able to rest followed this diet about this time with apparently no bad results. They were fortunate. What happened, however, was that many overweight housewives, forgetting their physical and mental responsibilitiesâ€"housework or other dutiesâ€"â€"which require energy, became weak, some completely exhaustâ€" ed, and others died. Despite the dire results of the 18â€"day diet, the idea behind it is correct. This idea is (a) the giving of some meat every day to prevent loss of active tisâ€" sue and create heat in the body, i(b) some starch food to help burn up fat and give energy for everyday duties, (c) plenty of green vegetables which give a feeling of fullness, and not rich in calories, contain vitamins and minerâ€" als, and roughage to prevent constipaâ€" tion. The only thing wrong is that it should be spread over 18 months; in some cases and over 18 weeks in othâ€" ers. Instead of aiming at the loss of two pounds a week which is often done and done safely under supervision, the aim should be from oneâ€"half to one pound a week. An overweight trving to reduce at the rate of 2 or more pounds a week, in most cases feels weak, discouraged, and sometimes so afraid that she gives up the idea of reducing altogether. Those who do psrsevere deserve credit for their perserverance but â€"not for their wisdom: they are not only taking chances with their health but weight taken off rapidly will return rapidly. Instead of using the 800 or 600 calâ€" orie diet, overweight should follow a 1,000 or a 1200 calorie diet, which, if the individual does no hard physical work,. is usually enough to maintain health and strength. The 1200 calorie diet with food carefully chosen is safe. Those who follow the 1200 calorie or ‘maintenance‘ diet do not feel weak but actually strong, because the meat gives a satisfied feeling and prevents any weak or ‘letâ€"down‘ feeling. Further, beâ€" cause they are losing weight â€" slowly there is no shock, no sudden aropping of the abdominal organs AS when fat is lost too rapidly. LA 4 _A A. t 4 .A w4 The greatest advantage, however, of the slow reducing diet is that when the individual does get down to normal weight, he can slowly begin to increas? the amount of food so that there is no sudden or great change in food eaten sudden or grea or in the weigh Overweight And Underweight ‘This handy booklet by Dr. Barton By James W . Barton, M .D of Pours EThat _ Boup â€" contains many helpful suggestions for those who are too thin and those who are fat, including diet suggestions, exâ€" ercise, various types; of overweight and underweight. To obtain it just send your name and adress and Ten Cents to cover cost of handling and mailing to the Bell Library, Post Office Box 75, Station O, N. Y. and ask for booklet No. 105â€"Overweight and Underweight, mentioning the‘name of this paper. (Registered in accordance with the Copyright Act.) Unusual Transaction at Tax Sale in Coleman Tp. There was one rather unusual transâ€" action in connection with the. recent tax sale in Coléeman township in the Cobalt area. Leo J. Fagan, of Meriâ€" dan, Connecticut, US.A., wrote to the township council ~enclosing a cheque for $135.00 in United States funds, and asking the council to buy in for him some mining properties un for sale for taxes. The council did as asked, and the result is that, subject to the usual conditions in regard to taxe sales, Mr. WARâ€"TIME DUTIE Modern, Experienced Banking Service T t e m on on cam o ce o0 o0 on e cce e e e e ce e in sn s s i 4 ‘ [ GRAVEL AND sANDâ€"AND pracer|| Matta; "Still stands the motto of the King: "Put into your task whatever it may be, all the sourage and purpose of which you are capable. Keep your hearts proud and your resolve unshakâ€" on. Let us go forward to that task as one man a smile on our lips and our heads held high, and with God‘s help we shall not fail." During the recent festival season everybody appeared to be "Dreaming of a White Christmas." Yet, after all, didn‘t it turn out to be more or less of a "Red" Christmas? Young 1943 appears to be living up to the best resolutions in the matter of encouraging war news. The lad who had something Much has been heard of the horrors of war for Jewish, Polish, French and other people. What about the people of Ontario? Here an innocent man has to exist on no more than a case of beer a day, or a gallon of whiskey every four weeks War is what Sherman said it was, or something. The new year opens with the war looking better for the Allied Nations on all frontsâ€"except the home front. BANK WHERE SMALL ACCOUNTS ARE WELCOME" referred to "Eel Douche" being ill Fagan is now the owner of the old Badgor Mine (sold for $385.00), and the balance of the cheque being spent on the Prince Davis property, the Montâ€" auck Mines Corporation hoidings, 20 acres held in the name of Marjorie P. Millward, and two acres assessed to L. Rofrana, of New York. Altogether Mr. Fagan becomes the tentative owner of 82 acres of land in the eastern part of the Cobalt camp. It is not an unusual thing for outsiders to buy in property up for tax sale or even to depute friends or acquaintances or agents to buy in such property, especially in mining areas, but it is distinctly out of the orâ€" dinary for a citizen of another country to have a municipality buy in tax sale to nave a municipai property in this way The chap with the bad eyesight was examined by the draft medicoâ€"and placed in 1â€"A. "But my eyes are téerâ€" rible,‘" he pointed out, "I can hardly see anything." "Look," said the doctor, "we don‘t examine eyes any moreâ€"we just count them."â€"War Stories. Timmins Branch: T. WY. TOD, Manager 1HE TERCH the Outcome of 125 Years‘ Successful Opion The Bank of Montreal ‘ers you the service of a Specisavâ€" ings Account, in which yaan deposit every payâ€"day, or other itme date, the right proportionate amo!t to cover your war obligations wheme. O ; mMalltagamt Lad Hold First Meet of New Year Mrs. P. Trevenna, Hostess to « Birth(fiv Greetings to Mrs. D. Ellis Members of the Mattagami Ladies‘ Club met on Monday evening at the bome of Mrd, P. Trevenna 11 Main avenue, to hold their first meeting of the new vear. The evening was spent knitting. Pirthday greetings were in order for Mrs, D. Ellis, whose birthday took place this week. She was the recipient d1 lovely sandwich tray and cake plate. The weekly draw was conducted. Miss Gloria, Trevenna making the draw. Mrs. A. Guindon was the lucky winner, and won three cut glass bonâ€"bon dishes. Lainch brought the evening to Mrs. P. Trevenna served to her delicious Cornish pasties, assi Mrs. M. 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