The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Pages from the Editors Note ok It with deep regret that we learned of the sudden pass ing of young Doug Hutching We had met him first when he came to the shop during the summer months to see If there was an odd job or two that he could do He worked off on for us during the summer months and In the fall develop ed his own paper route- He was a fine boy and he earned the respect and liking of the staff at the Era and Ex press with his willingness and attention We all felt we had lost a friend when we learned of his sudden passing last Thursday One last job Doug did tortus a voluntary job He brought in a copy of the Scout Journal of which he was editor It Was hand printed and brought up to date the activities of the Boy Scoots in town We wish we had been in when he brought in the copy to congratulate him on a fine job Referring back to our recent comments about the way farmers invade the country with loaded shotguns at port triggers cocked and suffering from color blindness and general inability to distinguish between a heifer and a jack rabbit- We had a talk with a Whit church farmer the other day He was telling us of a reporter down at a Federation meeting who was quite upset when he heard the farmers turn their thumbs down on city hunters Unfair he cries Well says cur friend talked to him and educated him somewhat and ho decided there were two sides to every story But we were on the subject of the vagaries of the city folk and we stayed on it because of the endless list of stories about city folk in the country He told us about a city man who had married into his family and who was a great one for the outdoors Nothing like the wide open spaces hed say and hop a rail fence and lay out a picnic in some farmers apple or chard No one would object to that but he always left his j i if garbage around and sooner or later the farm dog would be bringing home ancient fish head or getting sick on the rich food left by city folks was still admiring the wide open spaces and clutter ing up said spaces with bis gar bage says our friend when he married into the family So for a wedding says we told him he could pitch a or a shack down in the bush beside the creek and fie could have all the wide open spaces he wanted Mind you say our friend we were just loaning him the land because he liked those wide open spaces Well sir hed no sooner set tled in when he began acting like the squire He used to get mad as hops when some far mer ordered him out of his or chard but now that he was on land which he called his if it did belong to us our friend he did the same thing only worse If he saw anyone within a half mile hed come charging out and order them off the property as if he owned the en tire concession himself Which goes to show we agreed that city folks are mostly suppress ed land owners Some years ago we have the recollectjon of a glowing art icle in a magazine which fore cast the on the day that some way was found to extract chlorophyll the stuff that makes the in plants It as contended in this article that once chloro phyll was isolated the secret of life would bo open for all to examine- We have carried this thought around for sometime and pat iently waited for the announce ment that chlorophyll had in deed been isolated and that the secret of life was laid bare It was somewhat disappointing then to hear over the radio that thanks to chlorophyll there were now deodorizers on the market that ended all per sonal odors That did not it seemed to us appear to be lifes secret From the Files of 25 and 50 YecmM JANUARY Hon Vincent in his address before the Canadian Club in Toronto on Monday seems to think there is an im portant work for him to do at Washington and the creation of the office has the approval of the British government Mr Lyman Hose attended the furniture fair in Kitchener last week The sixth annual birthday banquet of the Intermediate Christian Endeavor Society was held in Sunday school rooms of the Christian church on Wed- evening Jan and was belter than ever Seventy- two were present The room and tables were decorated in green and white During the whole school year of there were 29 pupils at tending the public schools in Newmarket who were neither late nor absent at any session Over 2C0 new books were to the Newmarket Public Library last year The library is free to our citizens but there is not as much use made of It as there should be especially during the long winter even ings Hope of snow these days which has put most of the cars off the road Those that are running leave a very snakelike trail a good bit of the way and they get balky sometimes JANUARY From an article by Mr Jackson Half a century ago this week under the editorial management of Mr S Por ter as printer and publisher the first number of the Newmarket then called the New Era made its appearance Four hats were exchanged at the meetings on Sunday last Several persons had bad falls on the slippery sidewalks this week Mount Albert Preparations for the old folks concert are going on energetically Horticultural Society It was decided to hold the next Flower Show on July 22 and in the Newmarket skating rink Aurora A grand Scotch con cert will be held in the Mech anics Hall Aurora Baldwin We read in daily pa pers of Montana and Colorado cyclones Dakota and Manitoba blizzards the terrific cold waves on the steppes of Russia and the avalanches of Switzer land but for a real good old- fashioned snow storm the land of the maple takes premier position yet The ice on the Bay is in good condition and its surface as usual dolled with fishhouses Herrings are being caught in considerable quantities Zephyr the ore be ginning to team into the mill yards and for Aurora and rural districts York Era Tha Express Herald IMS Thursday at Maui St by and Express limited Subscription tor two yon Sfogto topi arm toe Member of Cfess A of Canada Weekly and the Audit of Authorized as Class Mail Post Office Ottawa JOHN A MEYBI JOHN Newt I ON Sports IAWHNCS Job Wmfag and PAGE FOUR THURSDAY THE THIRTYFIRST DAY OF JANUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYTWO TOWARDS BETTER RELATIONS The country folk have a large stake in Newmarket and Newmarket has a large stake in the country folk Neither town nor country could exist without the other But while the parties of first and second part generally recognize their dependence upon each other it is not always a happy partnership As in most families there is a certain amount of friction unlike most families the means to smooth those frictions are not generally employed and they continue to irritate what might otherwise be a smooth working team In most families the petty annoyances which are bound to crop up are talked over and with a little com promise here and adjustment there are ironed out But despite the fact that town and country do business with each other clay in and day out there doesnt seem to much exchange between them The Lions club and other town organizations have annual farmers nights to which members bring a farm guest but such occasions do not encourage the kind of plain talk neces sary to settle points of view The fanner as a guest can hardly criticize his host the host can hardly criticize his guest What is needed is for farm groups to invite town officials to gatherings with the avowed purpose of talk ing over some of the definite issues which lie between town and country and for town organizations to invite farm representatives for the same purpose Hospitality then would be no bar to plain speaking In the country there are ready means for such discussions in the forums and the federations In the town the council manufacturers and businessmens organizations would serve We believe that if both parties were to speak bluntly about such matters as parking meters store hours and the host of other petty irritations that disturb good relations those irritations could be removed and a greater understanding of respective viewpoints reached Alii KEEPING UP YORK York County Hospital has asked the county council to grant it payable over two years for improved kitchen facilities but the council committee is not too enthusiastic As reported last week the committee is recommending only half that amount The committees chairman Reeve Stewart of Forest Hill told the council that since the county had contributed in capital grants to the 12 hospitals in the county and city Reeve Thomas Carter of fcong Branch said the committee was not against hospitalization but concerned with the budget We can appreciate the concern of any law maker with the budget these days but any law maker who tries to hold down the budget at the expense of essen tial services is performing a doubtful duty to the tax payer The cost of municipal operation just like any other service or commodity has risen On top of that taxpayers are demanding more extensive municipal services Its up to the municipality to provide them even if the budget takes a beating in the process The few dollars saved now in the name of holding the bar rier against tax increases will have to be spent many times over in the future The county council has given large sums of money to the hospitals in the city And that is only fair because the major hospitals in Toronto serve not just but also York County But the total of these contributions in the past should not be permitted to the council to the fact that they were and are still needed nor should the demands of the city hospit als including the Toronto General Hospital building be permitted to obscure the needs of the hospitals the city Quito apart from the services they daily perform outside hospitals have major role to perforin in the organization of civil defence a point well made by Arthur Evans of Newmarket Comthenting the same issue of the paper on the progress of civil defence organization ho said possible destruction of the down town area of Toronto by would also include hospitals located in the centre of the city a fact which in a sound argument for smaller hospitals the city ami we should imagine continued support for the expansion of existing hospitals NEW INDUSTRIES In Newmarket and Aurora layoffs in leather and appliance industries have sparked afresh lalk of the need for new industries Without a doubt new plants opening in this area would take up the slack of unem ployment but new industries are not as easily come by as many think and at times represent an investment over the years An industry planning to relocate in a small town is actually on a buyers market Not just Newmarket and Aurora want new industries every municipality is in the hunt And the competition is keen An awareness of the advantages of this competition shown recently when both towns and we wager a good many other municipalities received a letter from a large manufacturing firm saying that it was seeking a new location detailing its requirements and asking what tax and other concessions would the municipalities grant That last request was the tail of the scorpion The firms list of physical requirements such as floor space water consumption etc was fair enough but the request about concessions set hopeful municipalities to bidding against each other and the firm got the benefit Without a doubt an industry is sufficiently valuable to a municipality to warrant some consideration but there is a limit to which a municipality can afford to subsidize industry The difficulty is that many of those so enthusiastically seeking new industry do not know where to draw the line There are other considerations to be met as well Locating an industry is a custom job All manner of requirements must be satisfied from the kind of water and its availability to a sure source of labor No industry is going to invest the cost of its plant unless it is absolutely certain that the ideal location has been found In point of fact Newmarket is running short of ideal locations At the present time our industrial sites are limited Here again there is the danger that in for a prospective industry the town may sacrifice advantages better kept v We think that both Newmarket and Aurora are likely prospects for industrial expansion if not now then in the not too distant future Layoffs have accel erated the demand for new industry Newmarket has appointed a good man to chair the industrial committee in the person of Charles Boyd but the danger remains that public pressure for industry may force concessions which might later be regretted WORD FROM THE CONSUMER Mrs W Walton Jr president of the Canadian Association of Consumers recently gave the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association the benefit of the consumers viewpoint towards methods of grading produce She said Only a group of intelligent men could have thought up such a complicated system of grading as far as names or terms are concerned for most agricultural products For instance for meat we have Bed and Blue Commercial and Cutter Grades for butter we have First Second and Third for eggs we have A anil for canned fruit and vegetables have Fancy Choice Standard ami then the fruit and veg etable growers outdo them all Mrs Walton continued The meaning of names giVeli indicate grades is something definitely not understood by the average consumer Fancy grade that is easy It should he the extra the very top quality What then is No I and No Most people dont know whether it applies to size or quality What does mean combination any thing to do with winter underwear What is select fancy and The trade knows The grower knows But the most important group purchaser is for most part completely in the dark Hasnt time when a little research and uniform for grading should be undertaken Mil aid of confused consumer for a share of whose dollar everyone is competing Wo think that most producers will agree with Mrs Walton that grading system needs a thorough over haul But such agreement is a long way from action particularly when the attitude of some growers repre sents such a large obstacle to its accomplishment These growers seem to believe that any practice is a fail practice as long as it moves product and If confusion of grading works to thoir advantage theyll he loathe to change it Its up to tho growers themselves police their membership if tho consumer is to have confidence in what he buys i not If en Mr In and It km of f of tho ft Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Our London correspondent reports this week on an inter view with Sir Raleigh Sumpin new high commissioner who will replace the late Viscount Duncan in the wild Malayan jungles London circles our corres pondent writes are highly pleased with the new appoint ment since Sir Raleigh an ex- army brass hat elephant hun ter sportsman and famed en tomologist is an expert on jungle lore as well as the Asia tic rope trick and he gets along well with folks One of the world trouble spots where the guerillas are secretly believed to be com munists Malaya has been one of the flagging pearls of Em pire Viscount Duncan was a good chap and all that but after he was unfor tunately felled by a native blow London circles breathed easily writes our cor respondent Braggart because the situation sp pre sented itself to facilitate the pointment of a The following is our corres pondents account of the inter view Are you a student of the far east Sir Raleigh asked our correspondent I learned the rope trick from my roomate a Hin du at Oxford I have been an omnivorous reader of far east ern writers particularly Milton Caniff I keep up to date with Terry and Pirates to get the American viewpoint as well I suppose you were brought up in the far east Father like ly a government man eh No I have never been to the east but I once hypnotized a python and went on a 12day fast You learn a lot about the east that way Actually I was brought up in Birmingham Steel people you know As Malayan high commis sioner do you expect much oh you know what I mean Oh do you mean Yes Well one must always be on guard for that sort of thing you know you never know that is I know exactly Pity Yes pity They will get somehow and make things you know Ye and its the method so entirely well we all know Yes we know only too weU Cant all the ramifica tions in such things facing the future of civilization We ore upon an era of great destiny the turning point of it all turning point of it all How very right you are that s putting the finger on It Yes thats the finger right on it certainly is That pretty well sums up your attitude doesnt it Sir Raleigh Thats it in a nutshell a nutshell like nuts awfully too Its a pleasure to have this interview Sir Raleigh Its not many government sources that can cooperate and put his cards on the table like you You are a real gogetter Sir By way is it the Times No Era Express Over there you know Oh of course Our London correspondent adds that the position of Mal aya is now looked upon in an entirely different light For eign office officials are report ed to have breathed deeply and a relaxed calm has settled over the office unconfirmed of course London expects forthright methods in Malaya from now on to bring order out of chaos in the Malayan jungles a much sought after order Colonial Secretary Oliver Under expressed confidence in the appointment this week sav ing that he sincerelv believed that a firm appointment had been made There has also been a new outlook in tin by Dairy Farme This is the season for The Meetings an annual afflic tion like spring fever or winter colds Come to tfiink of it winter colds and meetings have a lot in common Havent at tended one yet that wasnt too warm for the number of peo ple attending it or one that hasnt had more cigar smoke than air in the room However before we keep on telling you what is wrong with meetings let us tell you that we think they are contributing a great deal to the success of farming and raising of live stock We think that they are the most important factor lit disseminating Information and spreading Ideas They arc also the place we know of for meeting people we havent seen in years ami people who live many miles away find out how many children they have and also what news they have heard of people who are mutual acquaintances Hut as far as meetings go they are lacking a great deal We think that people who are In charge of these meetings havent learned nearly as fast as the of people attend ing them increased Take one of our own local meetings The largest crowd ever to attend meeting in this locality was present The men in charge of it had It organized well peo ple moved from one place to the other easily Everything went very well except that when It came to the business session the president in charge didnt know procedure and there sat men all good and true and watched as some thing quite unreasonable waa perpetrated on them They also sat through a panel discussion which was badly prepared and left a false impression of the subject for those who didnt know about it beforehand And then they listened to two more speakers THE OLD HOME TOWN one of whom was too technical on a subject that is minor at the best and the other who used the ministerial approach of persuasion and got lost lit general platitudes Now we are saying all this because we feci that while the problem years ago was to bring people out today it is to hold their interest once they do out Secondly because we feel that problem is general The annual breed meetings will have the same problems and same pitfalls Lets face the fact that in public life there are few peo ple who can get up and give an interesting talk brief to the point and informative There are fewer brilliant speakers and you could count on one hand the number who could address the meeting of the type referred to and have something to say and say it interestingly Again we repeat that not the fault of those who organ ize the meetings They cannot find speakers when there arent nay In closing may we suggest largest crowd eve Ho attend a Improved Let the department establish a slate of speakers who address meetings Let them be men who are not only familiar with their sub- jeer but also fluent and good speakers Furthermore give these people time to prepare Let the department or some association on a provincial and local level organize meetings where the executives of the different county groups will learn methods of conducting meetings And finally lot us admit that wo have as good a meeting when it comes to business ses sions an wo deserve In the end it will depend on all of us and the interest wo take in the affairs of our own group how successful an organization is t By STANLEY