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~The results are to be seen in a = =I ET) McGillivray, R. 299 Jan. I nk HAILEYBURIAN Vol. 27; No. 6. HAILEYBURY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 14TH, 1931 Subscription Rate: $2.00 per year Taking of Dominion Census Is Highly Complicated Task Six Schedules Are Used and Minute and Definite Records Will be the Result; Is an Old Custom, but Canada Was First to Follow it in Modern Times = On June Ist, 1931, the taking! of the Dominion census, which has been called the "largest single act of administration of the} government," will commence and| it is hard to realize the enormity | of the task. Its success depends | largely upon the co-operation of | the people and their general ap-| preciation of the ends in view,| and with this in mind the Domin- | ion Bureau of Statistics, with the | authority of the Minister of| Trade and Commerce, has pre-| pared a sketch describing the} methods used and the objects | aimed at in the huge task. | It is pointed out that census- | taking dates from the dawn of | civilization. Moses numbered | the Children of Israel in the fif-| teenth century B.C., but statisti-| cal investigations were known | many centuries earlier, in Baby-| lonia (4,000 B.C.) in China} (3,000 B.C.) in Egypt (2,500 B.C.) A census taken by King David in 1017 B.C. achieved evil notoriety in history from the Divine wrath which it provoked and which was cited for many generations a- gainst the spirit of enquiry. It may not be generally known that the credit of taking the first census of modern times belongs to Canada. The year was 1666; the census was one of the Colony of New France. There had been earlier records of settlement at Port Royal (1605) and Quebec, (1608), but the census of 1666 was a systematic "nominal" enu- meration of the people, (ie, a record of each individual 'by name) taken for a fixed date, showing the age, sex, place of residence, occupation and conju- gal condition of each person. document of 154 pages in the Ar- chives of Paris, of which a trans- cript is in Ottawa. Altogether this census recorded 3,215 souls. At Confederation the British North America Act specifically mentioned "the Census and Sta- tistics" as falling within Domin- ion as distinct from Provincial jurisdiction. The first Dominion Census Act was passed in 1870, and the first census was taken in Lower Cut Prices! 10 DAY'S SPECIAL .50 Pepsodent Tooth Paste 3lc 1.00 Eno's Fruit Salts 1.00 Listerine, large size ___ 73¢ -50 Listerine, Medium size_ 43c -25 Listerine, Small size___ 19¢ -60 Chase's Nerve Food ___ 43c¢ -35 Chase's K. & L. Pills __ 29c p25 bayer's ASpinin 22 17c LEO SN) OLY eS ee 87c (OORDanderine ea. 22 Alc AO EIKO text eae Stee Sa 37c Koombaby (Pants sas so 19c .79 Coty's Face Powder .50 Size Perfume Free, both 57c 75 Houbigant's Face Pow- der a5 ee eee es 47c .60 Hind's Cream_- - 39c .25 Cuticura Soap --- -- 18c -107Alpine Soap =------ 3 for 29c Heather Hand Brush Free .60 Forhan's Tooth Paste__ 39c .25 Colgate's Tooth Paste__ 19c -35 Palmolive Shaving Cream 50 Ipana Tooth Paste -___ 3lc .25 Listerine Tooth Paste__ 19c .50 Dr. West Tooth Brush_ 39c LEGION SECRETARY Major J. R. Bowler of Ottawa, General Secretary of the Canad- ian Legion of the British Empire Service League, who is busy making arrangements for the British Empire Service Confer- ence which is to be held in Tor- onto next September. 1871. Similar comprehensive censuses have followed every tenth year, namely, 1881, 189i, 1901, 1911 and 1921. The census of June 1, 1931, is therefore the seventh compre- hensive decennial census to be taken since Confederation. The administration of the census was originally vested in the Minister of Agriculture; in 1912, however, is a reorganization and centraliz- ation of the statistical work of the Government it was transfer- red to the Minister of Trade and Commerce who will accordingly promulgate the schedules and regulations of the present census. The schedules used in the cen- sus are six in number dealing re- spectively with (1) Population; (2) Agriculture; (3) Live Stock; Fruit Growing, etc. in towns; (4) Merchandising and Service Es- tablishments; (5) Blindness and Deaf-Mutism, and (6) Institu- tions (penal, mental and neurol- ogical, child-caring, homes for adults, hospitals, sanatoria, dis- pensaries, clinics, day nurseries). Merely to state the questions asked on these would be impos- sible here. The population sche- dule carries some forty columns, recording for each person, the name, family, kind of dwelling, age, sex, conjugal condition, birthplace, citizenship or nation- ality, racial origin, language, re- ligion, education, occupation, un- employment, etc., etc., in all necessary detail. To meet the pressing demand for facts re- garding the number of unemploy- ed and the reasons therefor, a (Continued on Page 5) ali atin atte adie afte atten atte atten ataee ate odtae a? + The Week's Weather ! a a Sa ee a a Week ending Wed., May 13: Max. Min. Thursday 50 Bridanyei =e aes 51 Saturday 40 Dimday, = 9 sins Aone 47 Monday. aeaicen a 42 Tuesday __ 62 43 Wednesday - 68 41 Total. precipitation___ .84 in. Northern Ontario--Fair and moderately warm today and Fri- day. bat all alle ale alle ain ile ee te CADDIES ! 16 oz. Mineral Oil ___ 59c 32 oz. Mineral Oil, KNECHTEL'S DRUG STORE Phone 58 Ferguson Avenue Boys Wishing to Caddy at the Haileybury Golf Club during the coming Season must register immediately with the Club Professional, at the Golf Course. Architects Sue Town in Claim on Arena Building Writ Issued in Toronto Claims $1,000 Which Council Has Declined to Pay A writ issued in Toronto by McDonald & Boland; acting for A. W. Connor & Company, archi- tects who made the plans for the arena building here, claims $1,000 from the town of Hailey- bury as a balance due on their bill in connection with the erec- tion of the building several years ago. On several occasions the firm has demanded payment of the account, but successive town councils have declined to con- sider it, holding that the amount already paid covered all that was due, owing to the fact that the plans originally made for the building were not carried out. As recently as March of this year, the matter was again dis- cussed by the present council, when a demand for payment was made and, on the advice of the town solicitor, at that time Hon. W. A. Gordon, K.C., the town de- nied any further responsibility in the matter. It is held that the amount paid during the con- struction of the first part of the building, some one thousand dol- lars, was all that was due to the firm of architects. In connection with the issuing of the writ, it is announced that Monday, May 18th, has been set for the examination of ex-Mayor Jos. A. Legris, a member of the original committee in charge of the building, in the matter. The town will contest the action. eg BOYS ARE KEEPING UP GOOD REPUTATION OF HAILEYBURY SCHOOLS Haileybury boys, as they go to higher educational institutions are keeping up the good reputa- tion of the local schools. Many have made good in the Universi- ties and gone out into the world well equipped from an educa- tional standpoint, with the good training they receive in both the public, separate and high schools of their home town. This week we have the pleasure of reporting that Jim Poppleton has graduated with honors in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, while Grant Gibson has completed his second year in mechanical en- gineering and successfully passed his examinations. Last week D. M. Giachino, of Cobalt, a gradu- ate of the Haileybury Mining School, was awarded a scholar- ship at Queen's University. All this goes to show that the stu- dents get a thorough grounding in their chosen vocations at the local schools, Mr. Poppleton has already se- cured a position which will en- sure him practical experience in his chosen profession. aS es A mass meeting of loyal Fin- nish people in Timmins recently passed a resolution of censure on the "work of paid Russian agents here" according to The Porcupine Advance. A settlers' conference, billed for last Friday at Kapuskasing, was something of a disappoint- ment, according to The Northern Tribune. It had been anticipated that one or two cabinet ministers and other visitors would be pre- sent, but A. V. Waters, M.L.A., of Cochrane was the only outside speaker. | 'Thinks Workers Are Better off in Soviet Russia Finds Conditions Not So Bad in Tractor Plant; Was One of Big Party Natives of the country with whom he had had an opportunity of coming in contact had seemed on the whole, to be satisfied to make the experiment now under way in Russia, according to Ed- ward Atwell, who is in Cobalt on a visit to his parents after spend- ing ten months in a tractor plant in Stalingrad. Mr. Atwell said that, while he had had no first- hand knowledge of conditions in Russia under the old regime, he believed, from his observations. that the working class, at least, were better off under the new order of things. Mr. Atwell was one of a party of 56 who went last May to Stal- ingrad to assist in getting the tractor factory under way. He may return to Russia, he said, as another plant of similar type is being prepared in the Ukraine, and he may have the chance to go there later in the summer. He declared he had been well treated by the Soviet authorities, and that he had had an ample supply of food, although lacking the var- iety to which he had been accus- tomed. The supply was rationed monthly, but if the quota was ex- ceeded in some respects, the line was not drawn too closely for him. Beef was available in quantity, but there was a scarcity of pork, and although fresh vegetables were to be procured in season, there was no provision for the other months in this respect, due probably to the lack of cold-stor- age facilities. Tobacco and cig- arettes of the Russian brands, and of the "export" quality, were to be had in sufficient quantity to satisfy his requirements. Stalin- grad, a city of 100,000 people, had an opera house and a number of 'moving picture shows, Mr. At- well said, the latter devoted larg- ely to the production of propa- ganda films, which appeared to be acceptable to the patrons. Mr. Atwell said he had been told by Russians with whom he worked that many of them are recefving 100 roubles more per month this year than they did in 1930, and that some of the better paid workers are paid from 300 to 400 roubles monthly. A rouble was calculated, for his wage pur- poses, at 50 cents, he said. The working people are now accom- odated in large apartment houses these being -steam heated and provided with running water. For the benefit of the 300 Amer- icans who worked in the tractor plant, special apartments were provided, together with a restau- rant, although it was possible also for little groups to arrange for their own cooking service. The plant employed close on 17,000 workers, Mr. Atwell said, many of them women, who had the same rights and received the same pay as the men. It had a capacity, when in complete run- ning order, of 11 tractors per hour, and when he left Russia, about 4,000 of these machines had been turned out, all for home trade needs. The plant operates on two shifts of eight hours each, runs 365 days a year, and the em- ployees work four days and rest one. Every week the various trades and shifts engaged in the factory held meetings, at which suggestions could be advanced by (Continued on Page 5) MAROONED IN NORTH F one of the latest pictures of Aug- ustine Courtland, young British explorer, who has been marooned on the Greenland ice cap. Sey- eral expeditions. by dog team, boat and air braved the dangers of the frozen north to rescue the missing scientist explorer, Kirkland Lake Man Dies Alone in Hotel at Cobalt George Goodfellow, aged be- tween 30 and 35, of Kirkland Lake, was found dead in his bed- room in the Cobalt Hotel yester- day, when the door was broken in after he had not showed up around the hotel for some 24 hours. The door was bolted on the inside and when it was be- lieved that something had hap- pened, another boarder climbed up and saw through the transom that he was apparently dead. Doctors who examined the body believed that death was due to natural causes and it is un- likely that there will be an in- quest. Take No Action On Communist Deportations Cobalt Town Council last night took no action on a resolution from the Sudbury Council urging the deportation of all undesir- ables and Communists. Members of the local body took the view the matter was one of policy for the federal government. Council had been asked to endorse the resolution. gies TARE The town of New Liskeard will have some of its principal streets, including the main highway, pav- ed this year and the work is to be undertaken as early as pos- sible. Township of Bucke Shows Improved Financial Position Reflected in Striking of Tax Rates For Current Year Which are Lower in Almost All Cases Than 1930; Spent Big Sum on School Improvements in Six-Year Bonds The improved financial position of Bucke Township was reflected i es A Jin the striking of the tax rates Lee: ' . 'for the current year, which busi- 'ness occupied the attention of their regular monthly meeting, held on Co- In practically all cases, re- the Township fathers in Tuesday evening in North balt. ductions in the levy are noted. Although the substantial repair program undertaken at the public school in the village of North Cobalt called for an expenditure on the part of the section alone of $5.500, there is a drop of two mills in the rate there, even after provision is made for the required. The total expenditure in connection with this work was approximate- ly $12,000, the provincial authori- ties providing $7,000 of this a- mount, and guaranteeing the township's bonds for the balance. The bonds are spread over six years, and call for an outlay of $1,118.50 to meet them annually. This sum represents ten mills to the public school supporters of the section, but even with this addition, the rate there is down. Separate school supporters for the same section are called upon to pay five mills less than in 1930 and those public school support- ers who reside at Mileage 104 and are part of the union school section with Cobalt and part of Cobalt find their levy down from 40 to 30 mills. , A slight increase is noted at Moore's Cove, where the rate:is up two mills. Separate school supporters residing im the West Road district of Bucke and who, at their own request, are sending their children to the Separate school in Haileybury, are assess- ed 32 mills for the privilege, there being no corresponding fig- ures for last year. The individual rates for 1931 follow, with the rates for last year in parenthesis: General, 22 mills (23); General public school, 3 mills (3); North Cobalt Separ- ate school, 44 mills (49); North Cobalt. Public school, including 10 mills for debentures, 38 mills (40) Clover Valley Public school, 12 mills (12); Moore's Cove Public school, 16 mills (14); Union school section, Mileage 104, 30 mills (40); Haileybury Separate school, 32 mills; Moore's Cove debentures, 3 mills (3); Hailey- bury High school, 4 mills (3). A rate for Separate school support- ers at Mileage 104, whose child- ren attend school in Cobalt, will be struck later. meeting debentures Tea and Produce Table S tindind Under the auspices of St. Paul's Church Guild $ Saturday, May 16th. 3 to 6 p.m. ~ at the home Mrs. H. F. Strong, Ethel Street Tenders will be received bury Cemeteries. Streets Committee. TENDERS WANTED by the undersigned, up to May 15th, 1931, for the grading of the Cemetery Road, from the Ferguson Highway to the Hailey- Particulars may be secured from Councillor A. P. Knechtel, Chairman of the H. CLIFFORD, Town Clerk, Sale of Ladies' Coats -- $30" for Entire Stock of Coats to Clear this Week-End MAY 14th, 15th and 16th COATS and all others in like proportion. we are putting on an interesting Sale of Silk Dresses, DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY ROBINSONS--NEW LISKEARD At the same time