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fee Cat Reports By Ginger These are lazy days The only lime one encouraged in to haste is when heading home after work or taking the road to the cottage We wonder though after watching the weekend trek up Yonge St that so many drivers survive to reach their destination You cant really blame them for their haste The heat in Tor onto must be a powerful motive for putting as many miles be tween them and the city as pos sible But it doesnt excuse the bad driving manners which now seem to be the rule of the road A friend of ours returning from a long motor trip through the northern United States tells us that the American driv ers seem wonderfully disciplin ed They drive swiftly he said but they are very care ful to keep to the right give plenty of warning when they make turns and they dont try to pass on hills We were sur prised thought it would be the other way that if Canadian drivers are bad the American drivers would be worse Not on your life he told us When we crossed the bor der in to Canada on our way home the driving became in creasingly worse the farther we got into Canada Well theres one for the commission- We were at the Guild Inn in Scarborough on Friday night when the Class A Weeklies of Canada were hosts to a group of visiting American editors There were or of the lat ter each representing a state They were on a weeklong tour of Ontario as guests of the government These tours were begun eight or ten years ago as a means to encourage the tourist traffic in the province The editors are shown over the province go home arid write about their trip and their readers are thus encouraged to go and do like wise in everincreasing num bers Cecil Bond who started his on the Era and then moved into the north where he is now publisher of the Speaker is president of the Class A Week lies and made an excellent the guests something of weekly newspaper associations in Canada The manager of the Guild Inn learning we were from Newmarket recalled several associations with the town The Inn had employed the late Bill Pipher and Ivan Atkins during a summer before they enlisted in the air force They were fine boys we were all sorry to learn of their deaths on active service he told us Editors find it difficult to keep quiet for any length of time even on their holidays so it was natural that as part of their program they put out a daily newssheet with guest columnists notes on their sche dule announcements about their baggage and so on We took the liberty of clipping the following by Cap Marvin a Missouri weekly publisher as a fine bit of writing and the ex pression of one mans view Coming as I do from the State of Missouri and living but seven miles from Independence a city of which you may have heard in connection with poli tics the question most asked of me is Do you know that man The answer is do What about him what do they think of him back there About him is an atmosphere of the common man some times too much so Back there people think of him as a home town boy who was made but good He came up partly the hard way and partly by know ing when and how to say in the affirmative His friends like him as a man They believe he is honest and sincere shake their heads Re publicans shake their fists and say he is lucky Well who isnt lucky There is a difference be tween the man and the office which he holds Let us not confuse the issue Your guest columnist is like speaker at the dinner He told the judge who is related to the man accused and so disqualifies himself and grants a change of venue Even if he was good as a man I wouldnt like the situation The position merits one who is not the butt of be littling jokes The Newmarket Era 1852 rural York The Exprii Published every Thursday of Main St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express United Subscription 4 tar two years J for one year in Singh copies arm 5c each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa I CAECUM ION Womens Editor Editor ffAClNf Job Printing and Production EDITORIAL PAGE FOUR THURSDAY THE TWENTYFIRST DAY OF JUNE NINETEEN HUNDRED From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago JUNE At the annual alumnae of St Hildas College Toronto last week the retiring president Miss Eileen daugh ter of Canon McGonigle New market was congratulated on the successful manner in which she hod filled the office At the luncheon given in honor of the graduating candidates Miss proposed the toast to the king Last Thursday evening members of the Worth While Bible class of Trinity United church motored to Kennedy Point for a picnic Mrs Mann their former teacher and Rev A J Mann joined them there After supper a game of ball was played At a cost of 7000 the indus trial home at Newmarket has recently installed a new water system An adequate supply of water for domestic purposes and in the emergency of fire Is provided by a water tank Willi gallon capacity Frank Bowser is getting the material ready for the erection of a residence on St The annual meeting of the Alexander Muir home and school club was held on Tues day evening Those taking part in the program were Dor othy Jean and May Melrose and Miss Penrose Officers elected were pres Mrs Fred Penrose vice pros Mrs Howard Cane treas Miss sec Mrs W Eves Editor Harvey of the Express Herald is attending the annual meeting of the Canadian Week ly Press at Quebec this week including an to to visit the largest pulp and paper mill In the world THE OLD HOME TOWN JUNK Rev George McCulloch min ister of the Newmarket Meth odist church was elected chair man of the Bradford district at the conference in Toronto last week Mr Pine Orchard brought a fine sample of rhubarb into the office The stalk measured long and inches in circumference and the leaf was broad Miss Amos Aurora has been successful in her 3rd year mod ern language examinations at the University of Toronto standing first in English Ger man and Italian and fourth in French She has won a schol arship for a silver medal donated by Lord gover norgeneral of Canada and looks written in Italian Mrs Thomas Moore and daughter and Miss Clay ton left yesterday morning to attend the Friends Half Yearly Meeting at Pickering Miss Ada daughter of Rev J Cold- water is visiting her grand mother Mrs Debbie Sutton for a few weeks of boats are out fishing on Lake now Mr Cole Keswick caught a lunge that weighed lbs J arrived at his home in last Fri day after an absence of nearly four years During his absence he served as a navy oil board one of the US battleships and obtained experience at the bat tle of Santiago the Islands and also during the recent outbreak of the war in China He is home on furlough and expects to return in a few months it By STANLEY sij7 a ABOUT THAT A v J CM Y vi HSU I TOO MUCH Butcher shops are being picketed on the west coast in protest at the price of beef What a completely foolish gesture It has as much sense as if the butchers were to picket the packing houses the packing houses picket the American buyers and the fanners picket the whole kit and The price of beef is a reflection of the foolish times in which we live For sure there is a complication price control in the United States has caused the Amer ican farmer to hold back his beef and so the buyers are coming to Canada and outbidding the domestic market But this is just a wrinkle on the same old chestnut that you cant do what we have been doing since the war without paying the shot sooner or later A few years ago the farmers were taking awful whacks from industry as labor demanded more and more money for less and less work The consumer paid the bill and the biggest consumer for many of the goods so affected was the farmer Now the farmer is making money on his beef at the expense of those same groups who so blithely charged off their own efforts at Utopia to the farmers Even so the farmers have a long way to go before they begin to match dollar for dollar the returns on their productivity and the returns on the productivity of the city industry and service It is a remarkable fact that a milk man selling on a city route can boast to his country cousin who produces the milk that he makes double the hitters income Isnt it about time that the economy under which we now function was recognized for what it is If we are operating on the principle that we can do less and less to earn our dollars we can hardly ex pect those same dollars to buy us what they used to Lets get back to some sort of equity between what we produce and what we are paid TIMES PAST FOR ROAD WORK A news report on Monday said that traffic jams on the main highways on Sunday wore of record severity This is no news to the residents of Newmarket and district who live near Yonge St or tried to travel on it From Eagle St north the cars moved at a snails pace bumper to bumper At times when the lines were halted the stalled cars stretched as far as the Holland Landing flats The news report also said that Ontario highway officials and provincial police officers were meeting in an effort to find the solution to the problem It was pointed out that so far the traffic lias been main ly from Ontario what will happen when to this volume of traffic is added an expected record number of Amer ican visitors We doubt very much that the highway officials and provincial police can do much about traffic at this date The time to have acted is years past Ontario has done a lot of highway building since the war but the weekend traffic jams are adequate evidence that it simply wasnt enough Possibly shortage of mater ials was the cause for a limited program but if so it seems very shortsighted to have spent so much tin the BarrioToronto highway over such a lengthy period and at this date the highway is still not in use It would have been more practical to have used what was available widening and improving existing roads EDITORIAL NOTES One way that temporary relief from Sunday traffic tieups on St might bo achieved is In divert some of the traffic onto I ho concession mads running south from the Sharon sideroad Plenty of travellers already use these roads now but it would require some assistance from the Toronto and York commission to keep them in shape The Lake Simcoe businessmen are making a com bined effort to improve business throughout the resort area Newmarket businessmen could profit by their example The Lake operators decided that the first thing to do was to put up Welcome signs Premier Frosts housing proposals were received coolly It was argued that the municipalitys share was raised from properly taxation with houses were being taxed to provide homes for others FROM SEA TO SEA Midland Free Press Herald Almost every day announcement is made of the estab lishment of new industrial plants in the area between Hamilton and along the shores of Lake Ont ario There is a real possibility that the metropolitan area of Toronto will soon contain one third of Ontarios total population and over half its industrial strength Swollen with the importance of this ballooning pop ulation the Queen Citys politicians are now sounding off with predictions that Toronto will become one of the biggest cities in the world Unfortunately unless something is done in the im mediate future to halt the present trend that may be true Canadians despite the examples to the south of us and in Europe and the United Kingdom have yet to realize that bigness is not synonymous with greatness in the days of atomic warfare indeed in times when bigness breeds and economic problems as frightening as military dangers the day of the big city is done To permit a topheavy concentration of our nations industry and its population along one end of Lake Ont ario is to foredoom us to eventual decline If Canada is to become a great nation its many thousands of square miles must not become vassals to two or three and Mont reals Rather our industrial and social strength must stretch as our founders proclaimed from sea to sea ENCOURAGE EXTRAVAGANCE From The Canadian Statesman Some of the strings on provincial grants to munici palities may be cut or modified Premier Frost of Ont ario has promised There will be wide support for that move not only in Ontario but throughout the country- Many of these strings have proved extremely costly for the taxpayer Money is offered to the municipal ity for a specific purpose and sometimes is only granted if the municipality itself spends a similar amount Under the circumstances there is pressure to spend regardless entirely of local need Extravagances that would never have been authoriz ed by prudent local councils are approved quickly when it is explained that IPs all part of the provincial grant If we dont spend it this way we wont get it at all In these complex days some pooling of government collecting and revenue is inevitable and grants from one to another level seem the best solution But if we are to have any economy in public spending then these grants must be scrutinized regularly and with the great est care NO CAUSE FOR DELAY Why has the Milk Control Hoard not yet given its decision on the application for increases to the produ cers There is no reasonable excuse for delay The application was placed with the board some weeks ago further evidence was asked it was provided So why all the delay Is the present board following the precedent of other arbitrations when milk price awards were delayed months Nothing supports the silence of the board Hut by remaining silent the board is giving further grounds for the already wide suspicion that milk prices are no longer issues to be settled by simple economic facts but have become subject to political expediency The Milk Control Board has done nothing to merit the confidence of the dairies or the producers The emphasis of the beards occasional utterances is placed upon the protection of the consumer from high prices We fail to see how the board is serving the longrange interests of the consumer should it arbitrarily set prices which lead to shortages as has happened in the past The milk producers have a strong case They pre sented it according to law They are entitled to an early reply There is no oilier industry in which producers are required to maintain their production while un certain as to their return Why should the milk pro ducers bo made the exception The appointment of Torontos mayor to the Milk Con trol Hoard and subsequent assertions before by his own admission all evidence was before him that he didnt think the price would go up the ineptitude of the government in its handling of the milk strike the delay of the board in dealing with both dairy and producer applications AH these have discredited the board oven an early announcement and a fair judgment will return its prestige the servant not not of Hi the their guarantee agent M International and national inuetj it the direction of those From and from and Osteichthyes there descended a species of called trout Another species of life came upon the earth called homo sapiens Man and at a junc ture in the developments of these two latter species the fishing rod was invented Slim is a student of fish life has many theories about their habits and through the winter months he reads and studies diligently on all fish lore Pisces said SHm Latin name for of course is where you find Slim has a theory about fish ing by the phases of the moon just like the farmers have with their planting What possible connection has the moon got with trout I asked of Slim last week- Slim was shocked and at me as if I had asked him if he bayed at the moon often One doesnt question such things Thats just the way it is he said At certain times of the moon them fish is stupid At other times they go away down to the bottom and sulk But when that sign gets in their little heads at the right time it jest makes em stand right up at attention on their hind tails and say l Sir It was nearly the of moon on the weekend when thp local Optometers had a lake- trout fishing derby Slim is really a speckted trout man but he decided he would go slumming for lake trout Slim is not an Optome ter himself but he went as a jest Slim came into the office with a writeup about the der by Here is a report a news item he said Instead of doing a rewrite we decid ed to put it in untouched by the editor Well I went with a bunch of this week end It was all very nice ex cept that I dont do my that way It takes a three hour battle through bog and tag alders to get into the right spirit of fishin and of course speckled trout Them fellers all sits in boats with big motors as if they was New York gentlemen in Paekards There was one lit tle feller who claimed ho was the judge but I couldnt see what right he had to cast his opinion on my since I was probably when he was in diapers Another feller these boys called Joe the Shmoe was a fairly good fisherman but he had one of with the judge too much He had a boat full of law book and he attempted to argue his case before the derby judge Interviewing a full moon with witnesses and prime of evidence Another feller name of Howard had his faith- Indian guide along with him who is supposed to be a of He sat In the back seat of the boat smok ing a cigar and directed guide who did his for him Here a news item worth mentioning June UP A workman repairing the church clock of this village peered a little too closely into the clocks workings and a sweep of the minute hand pod off the tip of his nose by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches To the Editor Newmarket Bra and Express Dear Sir We are sorry to let you down but we didnt write our regular weekly column this week- Something came up last Sunday and made it impossible for us to keep our regular schedule It is in the quiet hours of Sun day that we usually try to write these columns We do not al ways succeed having such min or details as cows calving or breaking down fences But the tact is that last Sun day we went fishing Now there isnt anything very usual in this except that maybe if the dairies knew about it they would cut our quota We arent a fisherman and we have never fished before It took some persuasion but fin ally we went It was a beauti ful day out on the water and we really enjoyed the scenery and the rest and quiet We could nt see a cow from where we sat in the boat and we couldnt see any pastures to remind us of the need for clipping them and there were no to darken the mood of the day by reminding us of the haying and the only can in view was ft gas oline can and the company was good We relaxed and the other boys did the fishing white we did the steering It was very pleasant indeed and we were enjoying it thor oughly just the way we could enjoy a day of relaxation with the added feature of not being surrounded by anything that reminded us of the farm if you know what we mean Ami then somebody we take a turn at fishing Well we didnt object or care particularly either for that matter To us it only meant sitting somewhere else in the boat and holding a rod in our hand As far as we are con- nobody ever any fish except people hear about And then it happened Some thing gave the line a sudden tug and the next second we were hollering and yelling not Sunday language either and reeling like fury The tugging and pulling became more violent and we got more excit ed We try to reel even faster but our fingers were turning numb and our left arm wanted to come right out at the shoul der Suddenly it was on the top of the water plunging and splashing a terrifying monster of silver and white Our companions were shout ing instructions and finally somebody got it in the boat It was a lake trout of respectable size one that had all the ear marks of growing in size- and weight long after it was eaten Well one minute we were a fellow on a days rest and the next minute we had a new kind of a thrill running up and down our nerves We did more bit ing than the fish and at the same time we were bitten by the bug We doubt Mister Editor if this will disturb any future Sundays and we are very un likely to devote any more time to fishing in the next ten years than we have for the last ton but when we sit under the cows or mow the hay we will feel richer for the experience and we always remember the feeling which we cannot des cribe of having hud a y Hoping that the lack of our column will not inconvenience yon unduly and promising much more in the future we remain Dairy Farmer RE DECORATION DAY w i- vrs ii