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_ The National Jewish Monthly, published by _â€". B‘nai B‘rith, contains in its February issue .__ . n llluminating editorial, quoted in part beâ€" We don‘t know what the Ontario town of St. Mary‘s has that Timmins has not. It can‘t be a matter of population, for St. Mary‘s has ~been listed somewhere around the 3,800 figure in that respect. Perhaps it is the St. Mary‘s weekly, the Journalâ€"Argus, which for all its eightyâ€"nine years seems to step as lively as "The Lions Club agreed to back the club if it needed assistance and with this assurance renovation of the theatre commenced in earnâ€" est. A new hardwood floor was installed and ‘ a lunch counter erected. The club opened its doors on December 1, 1945, more than 200 turning out for the opening dance. In the past three months membershlp has increased to 400." a ‘ If Kirkland Lake can do it, Timmins can. If Kirkland Lake‘s population can support a young people‘s club membership of 400, Timâ€" mins, with more than twice the population, and with a Young People‘s Club of 600 already in existence, should have a club with a memâ€" bership of one thousand. Once the forms are filled out, the Director, backed by his Commission, will lay out a proâ€" gram to be followed out in the months to come. The Journalâ€"Argus goes on to say that the Recreational Director is available to all clubs and organizations and will gladly assist any of them in any .way. ‘At any rate, the town of St. Mary‘s has recently set an example which many a larger, younger (and theoretically more vigorous) community might do well to follow. Here we let the Journalâ€"Argus do the talking: any: "The town of St. Mary‘s has a new Recreaâ€" ticnal Direttor recently engaged by the town council. Now the town fathers have promised their best coâ€"operation with a Community Welfare Council to lend direction to his efâ€" forts. He has started his job and is detery mined to do his best in promoting more recreational activities for the youths and adults of our town." ‘ "Numerous suggestions were tabled . the most important came from the Collegiate representatives who suggested that what was needed was a place for young people to gather and spend an evening. They pointed out j:here wasn‘t a place available except the theatres restaurants and poolrooms . . . . as a direct result, there emerged the Kirkland Lake Youth Club. Ee on t on We read further that the Recreational Direcâ€" tor will make a survey to learn the recreationâ€" al needs of the town, that he has prepared forms and wants young and old to complete the questionaire that will help him in his survey of what sort of recreation the younig and old would wish, what type of hobbies or interests are most popular. _~"On our front cover this month is a; showing the Navy bestowing on B‘na . one of the greatest honors ever me Surely, with a population seven times that of St. Mary‘s, Timmins can do as well!l No one, watching the crowd of youngsters along Timmins streets, can doubt that the need here is as great. And no one, acquainted with the activities of the Young PeOple s Club here, can doubt the willingness of Timmins youth to support wholesome recreation. "A Youth Council was formed and after many unsuccessful attempts to contact an altruistic organization who would allot its premises, the Curling Club came to the rescue. It wasn‘t long before the number of members exceeded the available space. _‘"Once again the executive opened a camâ€" paign for accomodation and this time Max Kaplan and Harry Atkins lent a sympathetic ear and granted the club indefinite use of the Capitol theatre, at that time closed for alâ€" terations. Now, let‘s switch our attention to Kirkland Lake, a little nearer home. As Kirkland Lake‘s population does not approach fifty per cent of that of Timmins, anything they do should be well within our scope here. We quote the Northern News: "Two years ago, the local branch of the Children‘s Aid Society was confronted with the problem of juvenile delinquency â€" . . a special meeting was held in the Mumcipal Building with repâ€" resentatives from all elementary schools, the Collegiate, Children‘s Aid Soc1ety, and muniâ€" cipal council. We have seen a number of empty buildâ€" ings in Timmins, several of them formerly used as theatres. No one of them would house a prospective membership of one thouâ€" sand but several of them would, and, purely on a basis of manâ€"forâ€"man superiority in popâ€" ulation, the proposition should not be too big for Timmins to tackle. Failing to follow, in one respect or another, either or both of the examples given above, we can always choose the muchâ€"tooâ€"obvious alternative â€" admit that despite our greater population and correspondingly greater ability to get things done, we aren‘t equal to doing the job as well as the 3,800 folk in St, Mary‘s or the 12,000â€"o0dd people in Kirkland Lake. Or we can admit that we are not as much conâ€" cerned with the future of our young people ler in its 103 years of vy‘s Certificate of Ac THE ALTE RNATIVE Eatablished 1912 TIMMIN®, ONTARIO Published Every Thursday by Merton W. Lake, Publisher EXAMPLE NO. 1 Members Canadian Weekly Ngw Association; SUBSCRIPTION RATES; cuuh $2.00 Per Year. U. 8. $3.00 Per Year â€"â€""That challenge remains today, even after the war is over. We still live in a time of crisis, and probably will for many years to come. It is a time of special crisis for the Jewish Commission, which will continue to the veterans and the armed forces as ‘long as necessary and whitch will be useful permanently in the stimulation of American programs. But over and above that, there is "The fact that B‘nai B‘rith is the only agency in America to be so.honored is proof that it was the only agency in America that did the job which brought the honor. And it was able to do that job because it is uniquely able to marshal the sacrificing loyalty of more than 200,000 men and women. There is something in B‘nai B‘rith‘s 103â€"yearâ€"old hisâ€" tory that challenges the support of its memâ€" bers in every crisis â€" and that something is a tradition of service, plus Jewish devotional to patriotic and humanitarian ideals. B‘nai B‘rith is the first organization it has honored in this fashion. "It will undoubtedly be used hundreds of times during the current sitting of Ontario‘s \22nd legislature but it is not likely that more significance will be placed on its uttering than can be applied its adoption Thursday by A. A. MacLeod, Labour â€" Rrogressive member «for Toronto Bellwoods. a welter of JeW1sh problems which. can be effectively attacked only by a great organizaâ€" tion of Jews who may differ in their political, soctal, and religious interpretations, but who are as one when it comes to standing for Jewish dignity and Jewish survival in America and throughout the world. Qertainly, on the grounds of:its antiâ€"semitic activities alone, the organization is worthy of sympathetic consideration and strong support. "B‘nai B‘rith is such an organization â€" inâ€" deed, the only one. It wants to increase the resources of its Antiâ€"Defamation League in combatting antiâ€"Semitism. It wants to greatly expand its youth movement through the B‘nai B‘rith Hillel Foundations and the B‘nai B‘rith youth Organization, to infuse intelligent Jewish loyalty tomorrow. And it wants to inspire even more adult American Jews today, through patriotic, religious and community service, to live as dignified American Jews, worthy of the great heritage which is theirs‘. The most prized of curling cups, the Macâ€" donald‘s Briar Tankard, has gone west this year. Thanks to the prowess of the rink skipped by Tom Ramsay of Kirkland Lake, however, the north country‘s pride of achieveâ€" ment in this fie}l ; of sport definitely has not "gone west" â€" it remains right where it was. The above is published because it serves in a small degree to make clear the organizaâ€" tion known as B‘nai B‘rith, its purpose and its reason for being. This writer pleads guilty to a profound ignorance of Jewish affairs, and suspects that this regretable situation is shared by more than a few of our readers. The enthusiasm displayed by local staneâ€" men for the roaring game can be expected to reach new heights next season. One of the best of all winter sports, it has a larrge folâ€" lowing of both sexes in this Camp.. It is hoped that, inspired by the example of our neighbours in Kirkland. Lake, a Porcupine entry will show championship form in the next competitive season. The visit of Dorise Nielsen to this town, Some weeks ago, performed one service to the community, if it did nothing else. It indicated clearly that the name. "Labourâ€"Progressive" is simply another title for the Communist Party in Canada. In fact, the North‘s curling prestige is just about at top peak right now. For it was only by the slimmest of margins that Tom Ramâ€" say, Pat Colquhoun, Stub Coughlin and Wally Spencer lost out to the topâ€"notch rink from Alberta. "SHEEPS CLOTHING IS DROPPED" ‘"Mr. MacLeod was actually challenged by Premier Drew to say ‘"hear, hear" when the premier definitely linked the Labourâ€"Progresâ€" sive Party with the Communist Party, while speaking on the floor of the legislature. The Toronto member accepted the challenge and therefore placed the "Red" stamp on his party for the first time in ‘the â€"official record. In one respect, at least, we are already champions. We refer to the amount of enâ€" joyment which the local rinks get out of each game. We‘ve never .seen anything to apâ€". proach that. Further confirmation this fact was evidenced by Premier Drew in the Ontario legâ€" islature last week.> The incident is ably dealt with by the editor of ‘the Sudbury Daxly Star in the editorial quoted below : “There is hMardly a more popular way of expressmg agreement with a spéaker than the chanting of "hear, hear." It is given especially common usage in such places as the House of Commons or other seats of government. "There has never been any doubt of the leanings of the Labourâ€"Progressive Party from the time of its inceptlon It is nheaded by the same men who were officials of the old Comâ€" munist Party and its doctrine is the same. attacking the “vile Christian doctrines" of the reply to the reply to the "However, as so appropriately put by Premâ€" ier Drew after Mr. MacLeod‘s newsâ€"making "hear, hear," we have the truth at last. _ ‘Premier Drew attacking the *‘ OTHER EDITORS SPEAK time in @ â€" antiâ€" Discussion of the problems involved in the continued presence of Russian troops in Iran gets attention from the British cabinet today, as Russian troops move on toward the capital city of Tehran. U. S. officials are perplexed as to Russian objectives, a‘ternatively susnected as being a move to force fields. Rumour from the Mutual Broadcastâ€" ing system is to the effect Winston Churchill will discuss recent reactin to his Missouri speech on Friday night. a puppet government into power; a threat to Turkey; or an effort to get Iraq oil concessions from Iraq ~ oil The dominion parilament opens toâ€" day, giving rise to considerable specuâ€" lation on the forthcoming budget. °* â€" Believed to be the flrst rubber reâ€" ceived from Malaya since the Jap occuâ€" pation, shipment arrived in Montreal this week. y A shutâ€"down of the entire British motor industry is threatened this week as workers in several firms laif down their tools. Over a hundred British labour M.P.‘s have signed : a statement this week deâ€" claring that Churchill‘s recent ‘speech endangered world. peace. _ They eviâ€" dently assume that anything said "With strikes brea‘king out over the body of the nation as measles do over the body of a child, one begins to wonder if there is ‘a doctor in the house‘." So said Maurice â€"R. Franks in addressing the United States Senâ€" ate Committee on Education and Laâ€" bour recently. Mr. Franks said that, to be sure, labour had a right to strike in order to attain its just objectives that cannot otherwise achieved. But so far as he could see some of the present day strikes were, "just foolish manipulation." Mr. Franks is the national business j agent and editor of the Railroad ! Workers Journal, and he 1epresented‘ the Railrcad Yardmasters of Nortn | America. He told the committee that| he had been "in the labour movement since the age of 19, as a worker, comâ€" mitteeman and organizer, being| equipped with this firstâ€"hand knowlâ€"| edge, he was hn more "convinced that. industrial dlsputes can always be settled â€" amicably if properly apâ€" proached." He declared" that the strategy used by some labor leaders in pulling strikes left him rather dub-â€"l ious concerning their quality of leaderâ€" ship. | LABOUR LEADER FINDS SOME FACTS NO LOSS OF FACE HERE "In the first place," continued Mr. Franks, "everything possible should have been ‘done to reconvert industry as rapidly as possible without interâ€" ruption from any direction.. The wise labor leader, it seems to me, would have bided his txme in the interests of overall strategy. He would have waitd until industry was well under way, until industry nad started to proâ€" duce, until it had committed itself to the price of commcditiés and the profit to be secured from the sale of ‘these commodities. Once found in this posiâ€" tion, no employer would be able to camoufiage the actual condition of his company, his ability to meet just deâ€" mands." R F4 G O GG4 o i 4 i is O Gâ€"4B 4 OPâ€"Dâ€"L LAAA 44 Oâ€"Pâ€"G4â€"DGLG 4 PJ4@D a of General Motors‘ financial position, and he added: ‘"It‘s high time that the union members themselves set Uup a factâ€"finding board of their own to find cut just what some of their leadâ€" ers are up to." Mtr. Franks declared" that the "deâ€" cidedly sinister fact behind these deâ€" mands of the UAWâ€"CIO, leaders inâ€" volves an attempt to force industry into government ownership and carry this nation into a socialist economy. And its final findings would be that this is the price which, even America, the world‘s wealthiest nation, has not the ability to pay." I have personally made factâ€"findâ€" ing investigation into the causes and the consequences of recent strikes, and have approached the problem from an impartial point of view, and I am glad to find that my conclusions are supported by one who has given his whole life to the promotion of the interests of the workers who depend for their livelinood upon the mainâ€" tenance of private enterprises. Referring to the factâ€"fiinding board, Mr. Franks stated, Messrs. Reuther and Thomas have a complete record _A d ot PS L d I have said that a strike,. is a unionâ€" organized depression, and that it is directly and indirectly injurious to the( workers themselves as well as to the citizens generally. | As Mr. Fran‘ks says: ‘"What is more. cosily to the American citizen than. constant labor friction, â€" strikes and their constant threat, a perpetual cloudy future resulting from unrest. When industry is at a standstill or moving ahead in a series of perks and jolts, the.overall effect of that is an economic ‘depression â€" no matter by what name it is called, and no matter what its duration may be." â€" One outstanding fact and a fact which should make labor jleaders thing seriously before resorting to the strike weabon, is presented. â€" by Mr. Franks as fcliows: "As a simple exâ€" ample of thr tremendous burden upon taxpayers for work stoppages, may I remind vou that in the first few short weeks since the recent strikes began, qpplicg%‘cns for public assistance inâ€" creased by approximately 300 per cent." ~ A strike is thus shown to be an artiâ€" | 1046. ficial depression which forces® workers j to go on unemployment relief when| Try The Advance Want Ads BY LEWIS MILLIGAN World News in Review states that applications for unemployâ€" ment insurance numbered 72,000 for iJanuary. an increase of 14,000 over the L SWV 2 -AAAM"‘A I The Dominion Bureau of Statistics After sayving goodbye to President Truman, Churchill arrived in New York on Tuesday. He will leave for Britain on Thursday of next week. about Russia may cause a war. A recent Supreme Court decision validated the expulsion of between 10,000 and 15,0C0 Japs. The governâ€" ment is expected to say in the next few days, whether or not the decision will be acted upon. Cardinal McGuigan of Toronto has le‘t Rome for London, where he was received by the King. He leaves for Canada on Sunday. . Operation Muskox is doing well in its trek across Canada‘s northland, and is over 500 miles from Fort Churchill, its starting point. The latest addition to â€"Canada‘s fieet, the aircraft carrier "Warrior‘"‘ is scheduled to reach Canada ‘next week. There has been fighiting between Chinese communists and government troops, following Russia‘s abrupt withâ€" drawal from Mukden, Manchuria. previous month. they miglhit be fully employed and reâ€" ceiving wages while their grievances are being considered in a spirit of mutual trust and coâ€"operation. Thank vou for the nice boost you gave to our Boy Scout Week by front page Scout story and by editorial in the February 1st issue of the Adâ€" vance. Our friends of the press have been very good to Scouting and we do want them to know that we appreciate it Editor, The Advance: January‘s Shipments Of Gold Up Over 6p.c. The value of bullion shipped by Onâ€" rario‘s gold mines in January, 1946 was up 6.11 perâ€"cent> over shipment of the same month last year according to a bulletin released by the Ontario Minâ€" ister of Mines. . ~During the period under review, 38 gold mines milled 589,148 tons of ore, containing 144,509 ounces of gold and 22,600 ounces of silver, valued at £5,574,375. New Mining Firms Show Activity Mines in the Pcrcupine camp proâ€" duced over half of Ontario‘s prcoau=â€" tion of gold and silver, it was statcd, the production having a value of $2,933,513 out of a total for the provâ€" ince of 5,5745,3745. . The Ontario average grade of ore in. January was $9.46 against $9.53 for December. ; Mining activity is reported to be underway with newly formed somâ€" panies in eastern Porcupine at poinis in Ramore, Porquis Junction and Matheson. Diamond drilling is neing carried out on the Landson Porcup.:at situated near Porquis Junction and geophysical survey is being condiucred at the Goldbow!l Mines between Maâ€" theson and Ramore. Geophysical survey and diamcnd drilling is planned to commence shortâ€" ly at the Vimy Gold Mines, the Che:‘ry Lake Mines, the Porcup.ne and the Bowyn Porcupine, all situated in the Ramore and Matheson area, it was learned this week. Kimasca Porcupine â€"Gold Mines Limited By Agreement, dated Februâ€" ary 2nd, 1946, H. W. Burch agreed *o purchase 100,000 shares each at Ac, 7%¢c and 10c payable February 26th, 1946, 30 days following and 60 day: folâ€" lowing respectivelyv, and received an option on a further 700,000 shares, beâ€" ing 100,000 at 12‘%c and 200,000 each at 157, 15¢ and 20c, payable within 90, 150, 180 and 210 days from 26th, 1946, respectively. Company inâ€" corporated, January, 1946, (Ont.) Auâ€" thorized capital, 3,000,000 n. p. v. Isâ€" sued,. 1,020, 008. Escrowed, 1,000,00. Accepted for filing, February 2(6th, 1946. / Kimball Porcupine Gold Mines Limâ€" ited _ By Agreement, dated February ist, 1946, H. G. Clements received an option on 600,000 shares, being 200,006 at 10c and 100000 each at 12'»;c 15¢, 17%¢ and 20c, payable at a minimum rate o‘ 25,000 shares per month, the whole option to run for 2 years. Comâ€" pany incorporated, August, 1944, (Ont.) Authorized capital, 3,000,.000â€" at $1.00 par. Issued, 1,110,005. Escrowed, 500. C0. Actepted for filing, February 25h, To The Editor Yours sincerely, "F. C. Irwin" Executive Commissioner By R. J. DEACHMAN i I am worrled about the Socialists. Once they annoyed me, now they give me half a feeling of worry and amuseâ€" ment. From time to time I am foreâ€" ibly reminded of their awareness. of sin, their consciousness of its pleasures and profits. I pick up now and then a copy of the New Republic.* It is supposed to be high brow and intelâ€" lectual, at least it thinks it is, but it is astonishing the amazing amount of stuff it picks up out of the gutter, It is so definite about its point of view â€" orchids spring spontaneously: from the chests of labour leaders. Phillip Murray and Walter Reuther can do no wrong, even John L. Lewis, who has cost the coal miner‘s far more than they will ever know, is stripped of his nalignant look when he is preâ€" sented through the pages of the New Republic but sometimes he gets on their nerves and they cast an evil glance at him and pass by on the other side â€" no one could help doing that occasionally. So far as the averâ€" age leader of industry is concerned the New Republic attaches the mark of the beast to him, he is to them a dweller in the tents of iniquity. In the last issue it discussed the exâ€". periment which the United States is going to carry out in regard <to the effectiveness of the atomic bomb on naval vessels. A group of old and some good, or at â€"least, better ships are to be gathered together then a bomb or two will be dropped on them to see what happens. At once the New Reâ€" public suggests that the Admirals are using the occasion to sink a lot of vessels ‘""not entirely obsolete old standards in order to demand money from Congress for new ones". This is a typical example, they never expect a man to do right even when he has exhausted all the possibilities of doing wrong â€" he lives thereafter suspended half way between heaven. and earthâ€" not good enough to get into one, too bad to be accepted in the otherâ€"it‘s a mean trick to play on a capitalist. Then the other day there was an announcement in the papers that the United Steel Workers (C.I.O0.) felt that the cost of living index> was > being stacked against them â€"*"Manipulated" is the word used. Now there are some things so rare in this world that they may be classed as impossible. A lawyer doesn‘t sell out the case, Oof his client, all his training and instincts are against it, it can‘t be done. A doctor doesn‘t poison the patient he is attempting to cure. A statistician will not twist figures to suit a particuâ€" lar purpose. Accuracy is his god â€" he serves with amazing devotion. So when we are told that these men, or women, are playing a game â€" well they do not know the type of men and women they are talking about. There is far more honesty ‘in the people of this world than most statesâ€" men unagme Here are a few lines written ‘by Joaquin Miller, the Poet cf the Sierras. I have forgotten the caption but ‘"Tolerance‘‘ would be a good one for it. In men whomn men denounce as ill I see so much Oof goodness still; . _In men whom men prondounce divine I see so much of sin and blot; I hesitate to draw the line Between the two: wherg God has not Our Socialist friends will be a good deal wiser, better and more useful â€" and there is room for improvement â€" if they will look at others with less splenetic vision, a little more conâ€" fidence in the goodness of mankind. *The New Repubhc is a radical weekâ€" ly published in New York, U. S. A. Theatre Nite at the Timmins High and Vocational School was a real sucâ€" cess this year. The plays produced offered variety of entertainment â€"â€" the "Purple Bedroom" was a comedy wherein a butler sclves the threeâ€" hundredâ€"year old mystery of the castle murder and disappearances of the famed necklace â€"â€" the "Drums of QOude" was a drama with an attempted Sepoy uprising frustrated, with colâ€" ourful Highland Costume, weird Oreinâ€" tal music and drumming and a satisâ€" fying love interest. Let Us Have Faith The directors and actors cannoi exâ€" press their gratitude too strongly, tul Heard In _ High School Halls Judith Robinson, whose style of writing has proved. successively too pungent for the Toronto Telégram and for the Globe and Mail, now enjoys the comparative freedom ° of her own weekly, "News" in which she has a personally written column entitled "This Space". 7 It was some time last month, we think, that she drew attention to a button, worn by a travelling salesman, which bore the letters "G.A.IC." On inquiry, she learned that the initials stood for the words, "Goodness, Am I Confused!*~ The writer of this colunm we sub« mit, is eminently qualified for such a button. This we believe to be due to the fact that we live and work entirely too near the linotype machines. They are the gadgets that set the type in this column and are amazingly intr® cate gadgets. It is common knowlege that Mergenthaler, the inventor of the infernal contraption, ended his days in a lunatic asylum. We‘re beginning to think it‘s contagious. Jiw Very little can be done about lt this week, however. The linotypers are howling for copy, the offsprout has an abscessed tooth and looks as if he had the leftâ€"handed mumps, the water bill has just come in, Aunt Theodora in St. Joseph, Missouri, has invented a combination rocking chair and sewâ€" ing machine, and Paul Morton is standing on the steps of the Municipal Building, interviewing the lads who are putting up the new numbers on Algonquin Boulevard. He‘s getting a picture, too. We haven‘t got a camera handy, but we imagine what the picture of the town hall‘s new number is going to look like. Here it is: 220 While we‘te at it, we‘ll scoop the Daily Press again and give you an ex< clusive glimpse of what the number on The Advance office looks like: . 219 What other paper can make that statement? ‘ jiw Honours continue to be heaped on our gay but greying head: Last week we were mentioned in the annual statement of the Victorian Order of Nurses, (reported elsewhere in this is« sue). This week we were shrouded in a brief fifteen minutes of glory when,, we were called upon to pinchâ€"hit as chairman at the election of officers of ie Timmins Horticultural Society This election is also dealt with in this issue â€"â€" probably dnother. exclusive story. We‘re full of them. Being chairman of such an afiair is a lot of fun, You call out names, count up the votes. get every one conâ€" fused, theh with a duick, underâ€"theâ€"" table movement, vou whip out. _the name of someone who, it seems, has not been heard of since he left for Iceâ€" land in the early thirties. The members of the Society were kind, however, and: forgave, us much. While we did leave the meeting rather hurriedly, we would like to state, here and now, that we left of our own iniâ€" tiative. We were NOT asked to leave â€"â€" it simply seemed like a good idea One remark which we bore away from the Horticultural meeting, by the way, was made by Dr. M. J. Kelly. After listening to the story of a fellowâ€" member who had his blooms stolen the ‘evening before the day ~of the flower show, Dr. Kelly stated that in his opinion there should be construcâ€" ted an especially deep Hades (Hell, that is) for people who steal flowers. at the time. The visitor ban at St. Mary‘s hosâ€" pital, due to the prevelance of colds, is still in force it is stated. As it seems such a waste of time digging that deep a hole for so few people, we would ask Dr, Kelly‘s perâ€" mission to toss in a couple of linotype machines at the same time. Then maybe we could write a column, some day, without this constant nagging for more copy. Minor damages, estimated at $20, were sustained by a truck belonging to Alexander Patent at 4.15 . p.m. on Monday when it became involved in a parking accident in front of 10 Wilâ€" son Ave. The Patent truck received damages when a truc«k veionging to the Ashdown Coal Co., driven by Roâ€" land Lemieux of 52 Bannerman Ave., backed into the front of It. No chargts were laid by Timmins police, NO HOSPITAL VISITORS Trucks Collide . jiw o You !“