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~â€"~ Cbe Rorcupine Do your children spend the long summer months playing on the streets? ~Why? We know that in Timmins there are not to many places to play, but there is somewhere they ean be other than being a menace to the motorist, and in constant danger to themselves. For their own safety, and your own peace of mind, keep your children off the streets. The school and other playgrounds are much better suited. And. now, Misterâ€"Motorist, you have seen and read a lot about the careless driver. Are you safe. Do you pass the scene of twisted wreckage.and battered bodies, and say "That can‘t hagpen to me, it only happens to the careless fellow." Do you know that ‘Accident does not care who you are, what position you hold in the:.community, or how famous you are. ‘Accident‘ has no respect for age, neither is it bluffed by your What about your boy and his bicycle? Does he know the rules of the road? Make sure he does, it is in his own interâ€" est. You continuously see in the national press glaring headâ€" lines telling of an accident between cyclists and trucks, or automobileés. Make doubly sure they know when to turn, and how to signal their izitention. Remember the boy who was drowned last year? He did not know how to counteract the drag of the river. Does your son? No! Well then teack him, or make sure that he realâ€" izes the danger and will only swim when others are present who could help, should he run into any difficulty. Let‘s consider the case of the weary, wornâ€"out Canadian housewife. What‘s worth while in her life after the last seven years? What does she most desire for herself and her children? 'I;he ho or home â€"â€" if she isn‘t sharing it â€" needs a thousand tt 1ngs done to it.â€" Can she afford them? Can she get quality clothing that will stand up to the wear and tear of play? Can â€"she take her children away from the towns amd cities for a few weeks by, a lake.â€" Yes, she can do all these things if her allowances are away above average. But it was the average Canadin we were thinking about. No one on the present average income can afford the things that make life really worth while. They find that it costs too much to live and the small savings of many of them are dwin- dling fast. When are homes for all going to ve available and the ramp in the realâ€"estate brought to an end? When will we be able to lift our voices and say ‘We live in God‘s country and we enjoy living. Schooldays are nearly over . . . . at least for a time, and holidays take their place, much to the delight of all children, who will be free to wander as they will from morning to night. That is as it should be, but we forget one thing . and that is the great danger that confronts every child on his or her wanderings who has not received the full amount of teaching on safety precautions. Every year just about this time, there are a number of accidents reported and not a few fatalities. | Who has got the goods that areiistedâ€"under ‘Shortages‘? Who is keeping them from us? We did a wonderful job â€"durâ€" ing the war, manufactured away above our needs and with nearly a million men less to do the job. ing the war, manufactured away above Our needs and WIUN nearly a million men less to do the job. Wh can‘t we. gnake them, buy them, get our hands on "W por eignersâ€"â€"whenâ€"â€"weâ€"mneed much at home? What are we working for if not for Canada, for ourselves? Can we get more of these things without foreign trade, or with it, and in any case for how much? What is stopping us? Clear the way for us. Clear the decks for action . . .. It was these last words that touched my funnyâ€"bone, for it seemed ‘to me that the idea that Sti‘hpk‘ P é’ Wfi-’fter as an afterâ€"thought, as though he had made a unique disâ€" covery. It may indeed ~be a new discovery for some members of the Labgor Government who have for econbmic steeplechase. They have all along contended that higher and % years been engaged in promoting this FAILURE TO . REPORT TH E‘ET OF STATE PROPERTY: ~Loss of freeâ€" ‘no one will be any dom for 2 "to 3 years ‘or banishment ar~all. . this. D had»ior%-bd%-years dn y w ‘-( ';‘ % It was learned from Russxan sourâ€" ces,, that . at the: last session ‘of the Supreme. Soviet, : complaints: were reâ€" ceived "that penalties © for : various crimes â€"were.not uniform throughout the country. <(It. issnow surmised that the new decree will standardize all pumshmont 4 â€"] z - s All, (VV. i T K The Canadian people do not want dictatorship nor do they want to dictate. «What they do want is someone to tell them why it is that the ever increasing wage packets they take home today does not supply the goods and services that Canâ€" adians had come to take for granted as part of the Canadian way of life. Why this country should be poor amidst plenty? When is the poverty going to end and the dollar again mean something. w Qur language today seems to have suffered just as much from inflation as our dollar bills, There are so many new shortages, so many excuses for lack of home-building so many new laws and rules and regulations that apply to one, and not to the other, that it is quite hard to know what the words mean. Their value has been reduced, like the value of the dollar, because there is so many of them in circulation. They dont buy and they don‘t standâ€"for what they did. _ But. action without thought is dangerous. The Nazis got into power on one plea, one program, one demagq ‘they said they would give the German people action. They did. Inâ€" stead of democracy the German people got dictatorship, and one that took them into action all right â€" and took the rest of You hear the questions everywhere â€" but Ho you ever hear the answers? And if you do, do they satisfy, convince. hearten, encourage you; or do they sound like the same old j , the ‘dusty answers of politicians, the special pleading of one vested interest after another. Theére is a crisis upon us as grave as any that ever faced Canada, in peace or war. But the enemy is now invisible, impersonal.~It is hard to recognise him, aim at him. The average Cancun is living beyond his means, or he is simply existing, and if it goes on much longer they will be (as Oscar Wilde once wisecracked) ~dying beyond their means. What can ordinary folk do about it? Strikes . . . . wage contracts . . . . shortages:. . . . high cost of living . . . women ‘delegates off to Ottawa . . . . taxes must be cut it municipallues are to be able to meet. their obligations and still encourage. people to buy real estate . + talk, debate, conference and still . . . more talk. What is being done . . ... what is going to be done. An iron curtain as heavy as the one in Europe has descended over Ottawa . yet the people wait. Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Oniarioâ€"Quebec # % ".~ io. >z l | Published Every Thursday by M. W. LAKE, Publisher Bubscription Rates: CHANCE TAKERS ARE ACCIDENT MAKERS Canadae $2.00 Per Year. ACTION WITHOUT THOUGHT DANGEROUS Timmins, Ontario, Thursday June 12th, 1947 SHORTAGES STILL AN EXCUSE United States: $3.00 Per Year it is a good driver who only needs t.p use onc hand . . .. bu‘t it is a safe driver that always uses bot.h â€" How many folks realise. that the toll upon our streets and __ A, ways. is not only a menace to our safety, but to our very ‘olv{lization. Why is it that we fear war, and yet: trbat ligholy the sickle that â€"euts down our children,. our neight and our friends. What do we do to train first. ourselves,: and our young ones, so that accidents will become mrities rather than a menace to be fearéed.â€" Arefwegdngtowase war on the cause, or just accept it as fate‘, ' f We, as good citizens of this vast country and dtstt!ct. must not treat this constant threat llghtly remember it is the lack ~of proper:education ‘regarding ‘the danger of the that ukesufe Weateantohumexontsezlsamnfin ‘ the little luxuries for the‘ home he will> waste. the _money,â€" as he is now doing on gambling and amusements. The chief incentive to work full time The average worker in Britain, as in most other‘countries, does not save his surplus earnings, and if he canâ€" not. spend them on the necéssaries or the little luxuries for the‘ home he Now that â€"they have got into power and have come to close grips with the practical problems of financing. production and â€"marketing, they have dscovered the â€"falacy of their. theory of big purchasing power.> They have discovered that high wages are> not purchasirg power at all unless there is an abundance of goods to purâ€" chase. theory might have workâ€" ed ‘out all right if high wages had been accompanied by higher producâ€" tion, but they put. production into reverse with strikes and the reduction of working hours. the logical result was increased proâ€" duction costs, decreased production, shortages, higher prices, and a lowâ€" ered standard of living. The White Paper understated the situation when it said that ‘"no one will be any better It may seem like a callous thing to say, but I believe, from what I saw in Britain, that the workers would be better off with lower wages. This is practically what the White Paper means when it speaks of "too much money chasng after too few goods". This point is doubly emphasized by the further statement that "to inâ€" creage the amount of money in peoâ€" ple‘s pockets does nothing to increase the amount of goods available. On the contrary,â€" it makes the situation off than they were before", for the British workers are worse off than they ever were before. After I had recovered from my sudâ€" den fit of cachination." I examined the statement more closely to disâ€" cover what it was that ‘tickled me. I found that the humor of it was. ‘so to speak, doubleâ€"barrelled. ‘In the first place, the idea of too much money chasing, after too few goods and then still more money chasing after the same amount of: goods, folâ€" lowed. by. the dhasmg of ‘ prices up the spiral was in itself a funny motion picture But the thing that caused: the expldsion was â€" the childilike â€" simplicity . of ‘theâ€" concludâ€" ing passage â€" "prices must sooner or later be forced up and no one will ‘be any better off than they were before." strhckm writer as an afterâ€"thought, as though he had made a unique disâ€" covery. It may indeed ~be a new discovery for some members of the Labor Government who have for years been engaged in promoting this econbmic steeplechase. They have all along contended that higher and higher wages will give‘ to the. workâ€" ers more and more purchasing power, which would them ~to buy more and more goods, raise their standard of living,. and provide. full employment ‘for everybody. ‘"At the. present time there.is: too much money chasing after too: few goods.~ To increase. the â€"amount of money in people‘s pockets does nothâ€" ing to increase the amount of goods available. . On. the contrary, it makes the situation. worse, since,. if there is still more money chasing the. same amount of goods, prices must soener. or later be forced up and no one will be any better off than they were be- fore." It is no laughing matter, ‘but +1 confess I had a good laugh to my:â€" self when I read the tollowing extract frim the British Labog, Government‘s white Paper "Eonomic Survey, 1947” issued in February. last. 3 The Economic Steeplechase (By Lewis Milligan) I‘m stopping again . Not later than. 10 :er.:11. : I stop every night â€" When I turn out the light, And from then: (let me make the case plainer) i# There isn‘t: man . â€"4 «. .. In the city who can Vie with me as a total abstainer." EMBEZZLEMENT â€" OF .â€"~STATE PROQPEBRTY A SECOND TIME; OR BY .OR ON A !LARGE SCALE: 10 to 25 years, confisbtkm of property * ‘THEFT FROM._ A COLLEC.TIVE FARM OR COâ€"OPERATIVE: 5 to 8 years; second ‘offerise, or when comâ€" mitted by a gang or: on a largo'scale, 8 to 10â€" years and coufiscation of pro- perty f ts * 15 Sald\m doctor: *"I‘m thmkmg You‘d: betWer. stop. ‘drinking.". Said fhe patient: "But, Doctorâ€" I do! I ver:fne toâ€"say * xt I stop ten times a‘ aayâ€" And t nigh‘ I start stoppmg anew. At nodonI begin By giving up gin ° UE stopping so carly is risky). «q4 _ p.m.. m uit Chateau Yquem, ' And by 4 I‘m abandoning Wwhisky. uC t But I StOD drmking wme: j Along about halt after seven; And as for champagne, After: cacktails Iâ€"dine, THEFT:OR EMBEZZLEMENT: OF STATE PROPERTY:*>7 to 10 3ears in a labourâ€"correction‘ camp.® : } ) it o h_4 v- - v v _ WITH VIOLENCE, OR BY A : GANG OR ON A SECOND hon of: property oo FAILURE â€" TO REPORT A ROB- BERY Loss ~of:freedom . for: 1 or: years, or banishment‘for 4‘.to.r5:yeax‘s. ~â€"The : Soviet Union. standarized by a Govwnmqm decree, punlshment for crimes of Wolence, within ‘tess than a week of Qbolishing the . capkta! pen- alty: â€" applied for mostly. to: otfend- ersa® against. State . safety â€"=~ aud 25 years‘ in a ‘labour camp was substit- uted as theâ€" maximum sentence for erimhlfll ofiense Under the latest decree, peualties established Are as follows; â€" THEFT: 5: to; 6: years int a labour- correction camp; or on : a secoqd offense â€" six tp ten years. ? ROBBERY â€" :10 .to .18 .years, and confiscation of. all property ; Crim Sentences In the meantime, other discoveries in the Porcugpine area, resultod in m;;;,“h front of â€";x-a;ru-)'g" train. new communities be!ng established. Stakings by ‘Noble. Frood, Wth T. A"° Will send further details later." Lowe of Renfrew, as grubâ€"staker, and the staking of the Dome mmfndmaed After waiting for what seemed an ‘ e, dent ved the tbe establishment of the town of South Porcupine. whxch soon becam'e the‘“md ow message: â€" "EBverything OK. . chief centre of the new camp. Established in 1909, South Poreupine was a Nobody m Engine '“ going thriving town, aud it is pleasing to note that the people of. South Porcuptne through the years have maintained their faith in the Porcupine:Camp :«â€">a@ faith that the years have fully justified. Â¥3 Pdrcuping City was started in ‘1909, and soon was a thriving centre with homes~and stores and amusement centres. Indéed, oldâ€"timers will insist 'th'a't"there'were two cities where one had been planned. Porcupine City soon develbped into "Porcupine" or "Golden City", and "Pottsville", the latter * named in honour of: "Ma and Pa" Poits, who conducted a hotel in the new settlement s P It is interesting to note: that thne first store established in a regular bunld- ir_xg .m Porcupine City was that" of Gibson Stxrling, with Dayton Ostrosser as manager. Later, Mr. Ostrosser built and established a store at Aura Lake, as t was then called. Later, Aura Lake was renamed "Schumacher," in honour of F. W. Schumacher of Columbus Ohio, . who staked . the . Schuâ€" . 'I‘ha district mpu'lnta)dent of a rail. macher claims, and diq his ‘part in the development of the great Porcuptm way company had always made a sp¢â€" clal t of t stationâ€" lold mining area. Mr. Stirhnx of the Gibson Stirling firm, and‘ m poin W that . s P â€" ~masters should send in a full report Ostrosser, have been valuable cmzens of the Town of Timmms from its mly of any accidext, however small. days _ : One morning he received the followâ€" t e SW o 00 1 ol ts * 0| oi . Ing urgenk Mmesaage:" "Man fell from Unfortunately, it may be‘ added parethetically, governments have not yet changed in this matter of shortâ€"vision. Though a great gold mining inâ€" dustry has been‘established in Canada â€" an mdustry that has kept the Dominion on an: even keelâ€"through two world wars and one world depressnon w.e~ governments still fail to. grasp the full importance and value. of gold mijpâ€" ing. > It is ‘not too much to say ‘that governments would show greater vision and foresight if they actually thought of subsidizing gold mines, rather than crippling them with restrictions and overâ€"burdensome taxation. But even governments with their doubts and duliness could not stop the oldâ€"time prospectors and pioneers. Those gallant men â€"and womenâ€"proceeded in the bulldmg of the homes and communities. fnothey In This Sefies by C. 4: Negt WECk 5o as tas cgd « the | TMas Noung Porcupine: City in 1910 Stil at it? Prominent corresponâ€" dents in the parliamentary press galâ€" lery continue to speculate on the unâ€" derlying cause~of the continued critâ€" icism of federal government expenâ€" ditures One reporter says ‘"Rarely is a specific example: given of where savings should be effected‘". His opinâ€" Jon, and it is confirmed by many obâ€" servers including this one, is that "the things© at which the veiled criticism is largely directed are family allowâ€" ances". When‘ it is desired to deride them particularly, they are called them particularly, thqy are called "baby bonuses". â€" It_is generally agreed that the 0~n!y affect of this campaign is to shake public contm in those who carry it on. possibilities are at hand â€" a project of ~bringing 2000 domestic workers is being planned, 2000 workers are wantâ€" ed in tbe clothing industry and in lumber camps. One of the most difâ€" ficult problems is to provide accomâ€" odation upon arrival â€" and until they fit bhmelves into jobs. Public supâ€" port must come if these plans are to bs successiful. The Dionne Contract Much of the heéated discussion on the immigration of one hundred gir)s from among the displaced: persons of Europe centres around the contract unrder which théy were brought â€" to Canada. The Toronto Star had a speâ€" clal correspondent interview Mr. Diâ€" <onne"at his rayon "Milt"in the province of Quebec and to see the conditions under which the girls would live. Most of (the emotionâ€"charged ~statements made in criticism ‘of the immigration seem to be extreme and incorrect. The most important point is that the"conâ€" tract‘"‘ that is criticised so much was draw:n up by the "International Comâ€" mittee on Refugees" in London primâ€" arily to bind Mr. Dionne to guarantec two yvears work ‘to the girls. Mr. Dionne that the girls wére mnot reâ€" quired to repay their passage and that they did not remain unâ€" married. The "Toronto ~Starâ€" reported excellent living and housing coxnditions for the girls. Time is running out It is recognized by those most active in ~projects concerning the welfare of human beings that time is running out in middle Europe. At the end of Jujne U.N.R.R.A...and the intergovernmenâ€" tal committee on refugees will disapâ€" pear. Only a few nations in Europe are ‘offering jobs and freedom includâ€" ing Great Britain and Belgium. France and> Sweden are still ‘studying plans. The â€"chief hope of this lost group of humans is in the America‘s, Other possibilities are at hand â€" a project Canadian officials who take part in the United Nations Organization adâ€" vise that the International Refugee Organization (an @gency of the United Nations) will take about three months yet to get started. After that a general plan on "care and maintenance" and "resettlement‘" acceptable to the U. N. will have to be worked out. Invaluable preliminary: work has been done on this plan by a preparatory commisâ€" sion but the most optomistic observer agrees that it will take a great deal of time to find a workable reâ€"setâ€" tlemexnt plan â€" and at least two or three years to complete it. The question then is "should Canâ€" ada do all she can, in the meantime, with respect to projects that are not harmful to Canada and will meet the desperate human need caused by the hardship and hopelessness of displaced persons camps?" The alternative would seem to ‘be the maintenance of a humanitarian outlook in theory while refusing every immediate â€" practical possibility of effective action for huâ€" man welfare. T Argument continues to rage in the capital regarding immigration based particularly on the admission to Canada of 100 girls from the displaced persons camps of Europe. So many Nations Business . __ _ _ PAGE SEVEN ~we might as now they must