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New Year Starts Out!© With Improvement in Strike Sititation |_ AxÂ¥, Yisl â€" WVI BCA , January â€" Shows 4Im]n'0ve-§ 261.619 manâ€"days ment _ Over Compared to tt *Labour‘ Minister Savs before, time loss Time lost due to strikes and lockout in‘ Canada during January this yvea was only 8 per cent of the loss durin the previous month â€"â€" December. 194; it was announced today by Hon. Hum parey Mitchell Minster of Labour. The sharp decrease in time January is accounted for in la: by the fact that the strike o nlant workers at Windsor Oy What a pity it was that the Police Commisâ€" sion could not of its own initiative have taken this action without first having dismissed perâ€" sons who may, or may not â€" it is not yet proved, one way or another â€" been guilty of misconduct of their office. The matter, handled more coolly, might well have been dealt with by suspending the persons directly involved, until investigations were completed. < Be; that as it may, most of those in ‘the Instead, they brought the matter to the attention of the Police Commission, and brought upon themselves 1mmed1ate dismissal. What price honesty? It is true that anyone can send a request to the attorney general‘s department. But it is equally true that to obtain action, such a request must come from persons of some repute and preferably from persons who have no direct interest in the matter, except that displayed as publicâ€"minded citizens. concernâ€" ed in the general welfare. _ What a pity it was that the Police Commisâ€" Since the above was written, three repreâ€" sentatives of the Porcupine Bar Association have called upon the Police Commission. What they had to say we do not know. But the immediate result was a resolution by the Police Commission to call in the attorney general‘s department to have an investigation made. So it is, that, continuing to harp upon the obvious, we point out that it was the problem of the tampered liquor that started this rumâ€" pus . . . it is the solution of this problem that will stop it. We cannot agree with Magisâ€" trate Atkinson that the matter of the stolen liquor is a "dead issue". The question is very much alive in the minds of the public and in the conscience of the police department and will be until the answer is found. the last to suggest such a course. We.repéeat: if the exâ€"deputyâ€"chief and the exâ€"sergeanit had anything to do with the tampered »liquor, all they had to do was to keep their mouths shut â€" and they would have kept their jobs. In any event, we believe that the request of Sgt. Thompson, placed in writing before the Police Commuission, as follows. "I respectfully request that an independent investigation take place respecting the theft of liquor from the police vault," should be complied with, and as quickly as is possible. And by "independent‘" we mean independent of the police department and of the police commission, which, as Magistrate Atkinson has stated "cannot investigate this liquor theft â€"we are not policemen." The fact that Messrs. Downey and Gariepy made the same request reflécts creditably on their integrity in the matter, and makes their dismissal all the more difficult to understand. For if they had anything to lose by an indeâ€" pendant investigation, they would have been the last to suggest such a course. â€" The most amateur detective, for example, would not place the investigation in the hands Ofâ€"one of the suspected persons. Yet this is exactly what the Police Commission did when it asked former police chief to do the investiâ€" gating, for he was one of the persons who had access to the vaults. Another step which would be taken, by even the greenest of Police officers, would be to take sworn statements from all persons who might have knowledge of the matter. This has not been done. Magistrate S. Atkinson, as a member of the Police Commission, has stated that it is not possible to find out who tampered with the liquor, as it happened too long ago. It is our contention that no one can say whether the "tamperer‘"‘ can be detected or not, until it is tried out. This, we submit, has not been done. | Not until the sworn statements are taken by someone outside the police department itâ€" self, can the Police Commission rightfully say that even the fundamental requirements of an investigation into the root of the trouble in the department have been fulfilled. We contend that the most elemental proâ€" cedure, used by the police in the solution of almost any crime, has yet to be put into effect in detecting who tampered with the liquor in the police vaults. Any suggestion of nonâ€"coâ€"operation had its origin in this fact. Obviously, when one man in the department tries to clear up the matter and another does little or nothing about it, then we have nonâ€"coâ€"operation. The solution to that condition of nonâ€"coâ€" operation was, and still is, the discovery of the person or persons who tampered with the liquor. Until this is done there will continue to be suspicion attached to every member of the police department who had access to the liquor, whether they are presently on the staff or not. At the risk of becoming even more tedious than usual, we would point out that the root of the trouble in the Timmins Police Departâ€" ment remains the fact that liquor held in the police station vault was tampered with Ebe 3$Qorcupine Adbancs Established 1912 TIMMINS, OQONTARIO Published Every Thursday by Merton W. Lake, Publisner inuary this yea: f the loss during â€" December. 1945 oss In 2 part. motor Compared to the same month a year before, time loss in January showed a droup from 32,.142 manâ€"days. "While the statistics for strikes for February will not be available for some days," the Labour Minister said. "Canada continued during last month to show the favourable record with which 1946 started off in January. "In issuing figures that show such ; favourable situation in regard to in dustrial relations in Canada,. I think i is appropriate to express genuine ap f the ; not _ the It:>18 MUembers Canadian Week)y 1 Abi Dining at one of the hotels on Timmins Third Avenue the other night, we were interâ€" ested, though not amused, to see a man chase a youngster down the stairs. He caught him, there was a squawk, and man and boy ascendâ€" ed together to the hotel lobby. We followed. The man had called the police. The police had arrived with commendable promptness. The boy and another lad were bundled into the police car and were taken to receive whatever treatment the law provided. We understand no charge was laid, but the boys received. a warning. Apparently they had been making off with a few articles, such as silverware, "which are found about hotel dining rooms and lobbies. The two lads, who would average about twelve years of age, constitute a probiem. Inasmuch as the general public are unable to solve the problem of the two lads by Answer No. 1 â€"â€" a good, sound, oldâ€"fashioned pantsâ€"paddling; or by Answer No. 2 â€" a purâ€" poseful interview with the youngster‘s parents; we suggest interested parties phone up Art Muter at 1250 and enquire about membership in the "Y‘s Men‘s Club" â€" described elsewhere in these columns. We hope the dining room, outside of which the above scene took place, will provide t‘he answer. For it was a dining room in which was being held an organization meeting of the newly formed "*Y‘s Men‘s Club", a club which will find its activity in the realm Oof boys‘ work. da $2.90 Per Year When private builders and property owners face the fact that the government is not proâ€" viding gratuity cheques solely for the property owners‘ benefit, maybe they will be able to send out publicity that will be more favourably received here. And when they provide such homes on a rental basis, if desired and when desired, then we feel that the Government will gladly withdraw Wartime Housing Limited from the field â€" its work will have been done. Until that time the association above named can save itself a lot of money in publicity. We have just received in the mail one of the most poorly conceived pieces of publicity to reach this desk in a long time. Described as the official publication of Ontario Property Owners Association and Property Owners Association of Toronto, it compared the type of building erected by private builders with that provided by Wartime Housing Limited. The executive believes, however, that there is still room for another club, that there are fields of activity still open, and that there are plenty of men with sufficient interest in the public welfare to ensure a wide membership. The new club is just in its organizational stage, but so far as can be learned now. it will have as its ultimate objective the roundingâ€"up of coâ€"operative efforts to bring the Y.M.C.A. to the town of Timmins, with its consequent benefits for the youth of the town. The Club evidently has its eye on the example of a similar organization in Sudbury which has achieved considerable success along these lines. It shows a snug little brick house as an example of private building, and a clapâ€"board house as a sample of Wartime Housing‘s proâ€" auct. ‘The prices; it says, are the same. What the publicity man overâ€"looked was the fact that the number Oof snug littfle brick houses being built in the north country is approximately nil, and in no case are such houses being built for rental. They are for sale. Further, they are for sale on land at prices of which would completely wipe out the average servicemen‘s gratuity cheque on one wallop. Any and all organizations of this type will find a warm welcome and a goodly measure of support from the townsfolk â€" and certainâ€" ly there would appear to be much to be done in providing healthful recreéeation for the young people here. Police Department, will view the Commission‘s new decision with pleasure, as will the majorâ€" ity of the citizens of Timmins. Accordingly the thanks of the general public may well be directed to the representatives of the Porcuâ€" pine Bar Association who have helped the commission to arrive at its present action. Ontario STREET SCENE, TIMMINS the preâ€" involved loss of PREMATURE PUI » Y adian Weekly Newspaper Associatio â€" Newspaper Association SUBSCRIPTIONX RATES: ha ew The â€"othe ‘â€"~other day a woman burst into in court and told the magistrate she had been jilted four times e last two years. The experience nainurally â€" her. RÂ¥X MUCH 8O D he ment officials 2C ¢ in wh}ch ive been carryâ€" es of fficlals aAs> reâ€" nake exciting at in aimos. tiations have @ satisfactory 2 J this counâ€" ‘peaceful ment and THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO |â€" "Adam had to choose, whether he |would do as he had been instructed to !do. or as he was beguiled to do," the |minister stated. "He chose and iniâ€" ‘ tlated the chief? concern of mankind | through all time â€"â€" "shall I do this | which I know to be right or that which |\ they tell me â€"will be profitable?" | "Examples of this through history !would be superfluous and so suffice it to say that wrong choices and attempts |to compromise with right and wrong have thrown mankind into a thousand different camps," he said. ‘"‘The consequences > of . this," he pointed out, "is that there has been ino common basis upon which mankind ‘as a whole can be approached. We ?live in our Qwn worlds, so to speak, some work â€" some have others to work i for them., some command, others obey." purse and "He can nCl given man fre will, man has of God so th man to make den Grod could superâ€"aDdu sweat to 1 which mi the load | history," he said, "God some further wonder of J to some individual, hopi grasped stituted yet furt ing cha taught, some others to fight by his own cho torn asunder t fellowship." "Some are held in awe, some are desvised, some teach and others are |usmg school rocims Torâ€" recrealional | purposes I don‘t think the schools Ican replace the need for a community though. There are no goodâ€" auditoriums here and we do need one. If a recital is held, we are not able to provide a large auditorium or one with good acoustics. We need a 'community building, both for the. use o‘ the yvoung people and for the use of adult groups." on n o andad crea has been ‘"*The story tells us created in the image potentiality for nerf« the polfentiality for though this story ar may have no histcric ~~ArCIm mankind story of though i kind was mankind," â€"he» said. story of Adam and I though it may be, w kind was given free placed in a position make a choice of ca the fruit of the tre zood and evil." A comparison of the choice given Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and that offered. mankind today in choosing what use will be made of atomic energy, was made by Rev. A. R. Chidwick at the evening service at St. Matthew‘s Anglican Church on Sunâ€" day rGoms is a great centre is really of this size; no people but also for older people.‘ Passerâ€"by;~ "If prC I think it would be a though I would like to centre built here in t] both voung and old : make use of its facilit ome further wonder of His Creatiom® o some individual, hoping, perhaps hat it may be a means of cementing he broken relations between man and man, and man and Ged." "‘Time ~and time again, man has If proper supervision could be proâ€" vided, would vou approve of the use ¢f the school buildings at night for young peoepl‘es activities in recreation, hobbyâ€"craft, etec? Mrs, M, H. Ford, 306 Tamarack; "I think the use of schoolrooms would be a very goodâ€" thing. The young pecple should have somewhere to meet and enjoy themselves." "If supervision 1s, _ council or school is prepared to organi it, then as far as the perty is concerned, I tion to‘ it." Mr. J,. Gagnon, 167 "*Yes, I thifrik the us Mrs. D. Coombes, 17 "I think the communi made more aware of the using school rocims for purposes 1. don‘t thin N a Mrs., 0. Alton, 108 Cherry Street "es, I think the use of school build Time and tim benf Use of Atomic Energy May Effect Whole Future of Mankind, Minister Declares i1 {AIn it nigh uU @ibund suppiy THE QUESTION 1et YOUK OPINION 31 118 aIn lC "If properly supervised, ould be a grand thing, alâ€" ild like to see a community here in the future so that and old would be able to its facilities." egIi nIiv t Bibical knowledge of said, ‘"weâ€" nd Eve. And fabulous e, we learn ‘that manâ€" free will. Adam was tion where he had to f eating cr not eating, tree of knowledge of idea bu ace parit choose, whether he d been instructed to beguiled to do," the "He chose and iniâ€" ‘oncern of mankind â€"~»*‘shall ILâ€"do. this venc., for He has and with that free ostitnuted the Gift‘s is possible for omm rtune manuâ€" again, throughout God has revealed and some have hem, and so man, and free will has fabric of human 1AC Balsam istreet: of the schoolâ€" t, a community sity in a town for the young creation centre Patricia Blyvd: ty should be opportunity of recreational x y ade n iman, God, is the| y and alas,l Al man nas and proâ€" vices and ay yvawnâ€" vid 10 need Operation "Muskox" continues "O ire not; have the worst sort of luck with the um â€"0r ) weather, with high winds and blizzards need @|raising hob with its planned schedule. he. use | Or ThA wihWaakt wrill! ha 19A a l CH it She took my hand, turned it over and said, ‘"Uh." Without anvy hesitation she beganr telling my fcortune in the same chopped banner of speaking as the first lady had done and in almest the same acâ€" cent. except that she had difficulty with the soft "Gs". "Don‘t do what somebedy else says â€"â€" make up you own mind ~â€" be bes! for you," she began. You have easy life all time â€"â€" you not happy though. You tco trustink â€"â€" vour enemies know teIim. She led me into the curtained por tion of the room and instructed me t sit on the other side cf a battered oakâ€"coloured table. The two chail of the same colour had also seen bette days. The clairvoyant was dressed i a blue, zippered jacket and neatl pressed, blue skirt No headdress, n earrings. Her hair was combed to . pressed, DIUe SKITL â€" J earrings,.. Her hair } glisten but her eves all their darkness. I took my place at table and asked if the (Continued from Page One) away without bothering to look up. The inside of the place was clean, and save for the chair the girl was seated on, there was no furniture. To the side of the door was the fortuneâ€" telling chamber, partitioned off with clean, floweredâ€"patterned curtains. A pudgy little woman with wrinkled Timmins Fortuneâ€" Tellers "The earth, the tamed and tonsured earth with all its gardens and substanâ€" ces, its places, breeds and. patterns, its letters and its airs, will plummet out of grace and fail its orbit; And soon enough will be a blistered ash, its moon trailing lonely and ungoverned, like a dog after his mastâ€" er‘s corpse." M [ ACe and his fellow man into eternity and still remain in safety, miles from the scene of carnage." "Has God grown weary of man's{ inhumanity to man and of the cou-i stant prostitutions of His revelations," he said. "Has the genius of man, aL! last, gone too far? Has God placed| in the hands of man a new revelation | which cannot be exploited in safcty, by the few? Will man at last be| forced to make one final choice beâ€"| tween fellowship or annihilation? Has| He revealed to man that which will| affect all mankind equally, w1thout| fear or favour?" i Britain, France and United States have asked the Spaniards to do away with the government of Geheral Franco by peaceful means and set up a provincial government until a vote can be Franco, like Peron in It was revealed in Ottawa this week that the Russian spy ring in Canada got its orders direct from Moscow, to the effect that information was to be obtained on a list of items varying from troop movements to atomic reâ€" search. Among Soviet agents were members of the National Research Council and the National Defense Reâ€" search Dept. A two million ton aircraft "carrier‘} 1 to be built out of ice, is one of the| stories to come from Ottawa‘s secreti files It was a British project, and a | d one thousand ton model was tested in | N 1942 in a lake in the Rockies. Td Although Britain hopes for a general decrease in world armements, she will keep more than a million men under arms for the next year, Prime Minisâ€" ter Atlee told the House of Commons on Monday. A drop, both in number of those | ploved, and in salaries and wages reported by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. The world wheat supply will be 186 million bushels beneath requirements by next June, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics discloses. Lack of skilled workers in Canada‘s textile mills is cited as the reason for the present shortage of suits and overâ€" coats. by the WPTB. been cr tions le eron appears to be well on the ‘ ~to election in Argentina. Like nco of Spain, his government has n criticized for its antiâ€"United Naâ€" is leanings. came to my side took my arm. Ay YÂ¥A ton much worry World News in Review de from nowhe: Apparently a cu seemed dull the side n she began same chopped he first lady t‘re same acâ€" had difficulty AT tonsured substanâ€" patterns, plummet vont like en =â€" hcC 2t of ' " I answered. ! ThlS is not / first time you ifox tune told." i; "‘"No: it isn‘t;"? T. said, .and stt [back to her reading. i Her account of the love life w ‘same as the other fortune teller !been and strangely enough, so w ! reading of my past. ! "You have many friends â€"â€" th !moqt of tlhem good. You al« .huxt-~- you not always happy { be bitter man scon â€"â€" you be in she said, and I noticed her look my service ring. She spoke of generalities, of acter, feelings, financial statu | health, concluding the reading, | : I } good time â€" ]Ycu have be you much t tbut vou not cha the slight girl w dow, busyvin nant through room th first ent talns large structed. I thou The¢ She stopped work with paper I didn‘t undei said TiA To the Editor, The Porcupine Ac On behalf of t of the Canadian hR wish to express ou appreciation, for ; ance and coâ€"oper; war years, in givit and publicity in paper. listeners | Russia, L Churchill confident had been Rus from asking The strike in the American Teleâ€" phone Co., is already becoming effecâ€" tive in Baltimore, Hagerstown and Cumberland in Marvland, U.S. rieC h the board Nova Seot n the wWwar w Wednesday. and â€" Mussoli Mediterranea according to U.S. hands.. j ind A 1 5h M a MV ritional cepntiol Montreal n trimmed T} You ask que de ead To The Editor An whe 11 Lered,. noticed ou on newspapet ‘ I answered. Alnst hockey iJ m Churchill‘s speech on Tuesâ€" which he advocated an interâ€" air force, received a varied i, depending on whether his favoured a firm stand against Anc 11 16 in 1nl exp ted States in sending ed. turned and walked curtains at the rear of the had not noticed when I As she parted the cutrâ€" ed a small child cutting a )f paper with scissors. The as still seated by the winâ€" Detroi Chic: goocd. â€" YOUl afret ca. otâ€" always happy â€"â€" yC scon â€"â€" you be in wat I noticed her loocking : 16 ed exp 16 Spain aided the Axis issued by Madrid radio anco prevented Hitler from dominating the theatre, it said. But intured documents in generalities, of charâ€" financial status, and @ nerec. ind looked up, "you the Timmins Branch Red Cross Society, we ur sincere thanks and your splendid assistâ€" ration all during the ing us so much spage the pages of your 1€ ed i spend money fast. mk way in world â€"â€" You got nice home nmnomen New Y 36 and, and then she d final pe rded palmi * instead. mptS cAt â€"A } ant met wit + cannot be ~ On society,. M. Channen sSecretary ha 11 n vith needlework this second forâ€" r than the first, say much of my by explaining, tell â€"â€" you put i protest to RUsâ€" ntinued presence withdraw troops ulted in Britain uts 1 â€" appeasement. mself as not so peace now as he rst world war. 11 116 16 now ishered sDOoK chairman of [ the Bank of ht in Viectoria, ived six weeks hn i answered, unfolding cards takâ€" ach portion ind lowed Britâ€" est to Rusâ€" peelk No nothâ€" he went thevy are she inâ€" 3: Bosâ€" Toronto in lase h worked ; ather 1sS Th easy vou Red 1 ind 16 | bells and or disbeliever canary tried as I went th | _ Mark Twain, another fine chap, used say that the only people entitled to use "we" when they might ordinarly use "I",. were royalty, editors, and | people with tapeworms: i We, obviously, don‘t come under any | of the three categories mentioned iabove, but we use ‘"we" for quite | | » I t I } | another reason: we have a split perâ€" sonality. We are actually twice as | many people as we seem to add up to. If you don‘t believe it, come around to !thc Advance Office and we will show | you a photograph . . .taken when we | were two. JEWw People keeping asking us where we |get that "we" stuff. Why, they ask, | must we talk in the first person plural? |bomet1mes they ask why must we talk, lpvnod | â€"We‘ve explained it before, when we Ixan this column for another paper. : We don‘t mind explaining it again,. We |like talking about ourselves, and beâ€" ! sides, we‘ve been given a little extra space to fill this week. 16 one, ii you‘re going to be inquisitive. On account of we‘ve got our name in print. This is the one thing which, next to date pie with whipped cream, we love most in this world. Right there in print, where any one can see it, Anyone, that is, who happens to have in their possession a copy of the Statement of Activities Covering Year '1945. issued by Victorian Order of lNurses for Canada, Timmins Branch. All you have to do is open up the statement and look at the bottom of the rightâ€"hand page. There it says: Press and Radio Publicity Bonated by: | Timmins Daily Press (you can skip :that. natcherly) andâ€" mentions the | names of Ed Copps and Bert Pike (newcomers to Timmins, we expect â€"â€" never heard of them). Then â€"â€" wait for it! â€"â€" turn the page (or maybe we ;should have told you that in the first Iplace) and what do you see? "Station C.K.G.B. â€"â€" Mr. H. Freeman â€"â€" a prinâ€" | ter‘s error, obviously: but now we come | to the real stuff: Porcupine Advance: Management and Staff, Mr. G. Macâ€" | donald, MR. J. WITHROW! We asked the linotype wallah to print it big in case you didn‘t realize who it was. So at last we‘ve made it. Right there in print. A couple of other fellows made it too: Dye, Longâ€" more, Brunette and a number of other l characters. pieces, as usual. The only thing he‘s happy about is that he‘s got his torials done â€"â€" if you can call them editorials, or call them done. so some chaps from the Bar Assoâ€" ciation waltz up to the Police Comâ€" mission, speak a few words, and comes the jackâ€"pot â€"â€" a resolution to call in the attorneyâ€"general‘s _ department, Inasmuch as this is chiefly what his editorial was howling for, it leaves him with nothing but a whisper left out of those two wide columns, And so he has to do it over again. Hope he falls flat on his typewriter when he‘s doing it. After all â€"â€" who reads what he writes? You don‘t have to teli us, we know! Ew , A madder man than the guy who clouds un the other edge of this page, you wouldn‘t wish to see, It‘s like this: it‘s Wednesday, and everything conâ€" nected with the paper is going to at least Oone CcODV OIf and read our name on â€"â€" it‘s on the back pa that of Mr. G. Macdon Advance payroll. But it is our name‘that interests us. We know you‘ll be interested too, so here‘s the tipâ€"off: hoof it down to the Municipal Building, this evening, Thursday, March 7th, and attend the annual meeting of the Victorian Order of Nurses. Who knows, maybe they‘ll read our name out loud. If that isn‘t thrill enough, then perhaps you‘ll get some satisfaction out of turning up to support such a splendid organization as the Victorian Order of Nurses. And you should be able to sneak out at least one cony of their statement and read our name on it Remember â€"â€" it‘s on the back page, right under that of Mr. G. Macdonald, also on the We stand this day be with our chest out, ct prideful glitter in our â€" one, if vou‘re going to } O Bu Whi OuUunde THURSDAY, MARCH T7TH, i1986 mornt time 10 mnth hing ey to him," I thought. )t to be dismaved, this forâ€" came un with the words, uld be careful of two dark ) are always near to you." ntinued through the fortune, the way, sounded much more g than had previous If nothing clse. the sections t ‘through â€" were very good friend hrough unt ol weve got our name This is the one thing which, te pie with whipped cream, U had warned me against, d of mine on this occaâ€" en though I was a ine â€" telling. The ovely, thrilling note he door. T1 thought T1iAl To You : along in great the canary was he painted was y colouring and _ suddenly she narriage in the before the world chin‘ up, and a * the left be inquisitive. 6.‘ _A couple. :of too: Dye, Longâ€" number of other ied sqGme money â€"â€" 12 said. "Someâ€" you very happy y in perhaps d ‘for zx few en concluded., uighly fifteen if any repetiâ€" I asked in ty cents, marriage I was a