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Ti Pages Editors Notebook We were into the council chambers the other day and found that Clerk Wesley Brooks has just about complet ed a gallery of pictures and photographs of all of Newmar kets former mayors Only four pictures are needed to complete the collection ing are pictures of Erastus Jackson Brock Col Lloyd and M J Jackson was the New Eras second editor founder G S Porter was the first and we regret we do not have a suit able picture of him for the gal lery Brock Is a judge on Island and a frequent visitor in Keswick Quite apart from their his torical value the record they present of Newmarkets years we wonder if the pictures serve another purpose Council de liberations couldnt help but be improved with the constant re minder of the past peering over the councillors shoulders Our farmer friend and gen eral adviser on weather etc remarked as we saidgood night on Sunday evening that thered likely be rain on Monday We looked aloft The sky was clear with a halfmoon floating over head We doubted his forecast No question about it he ob served Generally get rain when the horn of the moon is down Sure enough on Monday the eaves were dripping and there was a rattle of hail on the win dow Sill- Saturday we had spent transplanting and a few other annuals to a new garden plot They were beaten to the earth We sometimes wish these forecasts werent quite so accurate We enjoyed the Legion par ade on Sunday and thought the Newmarket band did them selves right proud despite the competition from tight pants spurs and shakos of the Second Division Signals Band How do these get spurs way asked one veteran However the boys put on a good show and the best part of it was the way in which they got into their seats at the luncheon table without split ting the seams of their skin tight pants Theyre right slimming those pants said Mickey Smith enviously Mickey is doing roadwork every day in an effort to cut down his weight for the ball season George our sports authority questions the value of running a half mile every day Have to run six miles to lose a pound says George Figure it out for yourself Have lost six pounds already says Mickey They fed over in the Newmarket town hall on Sun day which encourages lis to draw attention again to the fact that if the hall had kitchen facilities upstairs it would make an ideal banquet hall for the district There is no other hall in the district which can seat so many but without kit chen facilities its too much a chore to feed a large gathering regularly The farm groups have grown so large that they frequently meet in Toronto because there is no space to accommodate them Newmarket could make a bid for that business if there was a kitchen in the hall Had a report on highway conditions down Burlington way where a lake freighter took out a span of the highway bridge A Newmarket man went down to see the blossoms on Sunday but to hear his ac count he spent most of his time in a traffic jam or at tempting to follow highway di rections on the detour around the bridge On his way home he became involved and ended up twice at Stoney Creek Blossoms were lovely how ever he reports Spotted a bird which we have been unable to identify It was a little larger than a sparrow soiid red head color turning pinkish as it blended with wings- and back similar to sparrow Breast was creamy pink turning to red towards head Thought it might be one of the finch family but we were unable to place it in any of the several bird books we consulted Seems to have been fairly common Several have told us theyve scn the bird but were unable to identify it Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Serving Aurora and the rural districts of North Era The Express Herald Published every Thursday at 142 Main St Newmarket by fro and Express Limited Subscription for two roars for one year in advance Singh copies arm each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and wo Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa JOHN I CMOL1NI Womens Sport LAWRENCE RACINE Job Printing and Production IA P AG PAGE TWO the eighth day of may nineteen hundred and fiftytwo NEWMARKET GETTING ITS SHARE When the budget was presented in Newmarket Mayor Joseph Vale was strongly critical of the Toronto and York Roads Commission We should certainly start complaining about the roads in the southern muni cipalities which we dont use but which we have to pay for he was reported to have said The same week in an editorial we observed that the criticism of county policy operation and financing was growing that there was a serious split between north and south and suggested that to settle the argu ment the wise course would be to establish a county committee to study the issue No committee has thus far been set up as far as we know but we have a report from the secretary of the commission Mr Gard- house enclosing a comparative statement of funds spent on roads north of Steeles Ave as follows i From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago MAY A meeting of the Junior Baseball Club will be held next Wednesday night in the Mc- Block at for the election of officers The Office Specially club held their annual business meeting on Saturday evening at the home of the president Miss Clara for the elec tion of officers after which the evening was spent in games and music The high school cadets made a very fine appearance as they marched along Main street on Wednesday morning to the sound of the drum They well about in num ber under the command of Gardner The gold club factory in the old furniture shop is turning out some beautiful sticks The new Imperial Oil filling station on the corner of Main and Ontario streets has a city appearance especially when illuminated in the evening There will be another show ing of coats and dresses at Mrs Eyes millinery store on Friday and Saturday of this week The regular monthly meeting of the Mount Albert Horticul tural Society was held in the on Tuesday even ing last The society is again giving prizes for the best home surroundings and vegetable garden MAY Mr Win Lyons who has been doing a splendid whole sale business in the manufac ture of confectionery here for several years has leased the store formerly occupied by Davison Bros and will open next week a full line of new groceries as well as the manu facture of candy Anybody who says that you have to go to Toronto to get handsome presents in china- ware has not seen Mr A Smiths window The display of direct imported goods is a credit to Newmarket and worth going down town on purpose to see Everybody should go to the band concert tonight and en courage the boys who have provided a most entertaining program We understand that lie will hotel properly is in the market The council should purchase a strip of about feet off the south end and throw it into the street there by making a decent entrance into the town market grounds The machinery was changed from the butter plant to the cheese plant last week arid the factory started off Monday morning making cheese for the season Mr Cane has decided to build a new residence on Queen Si on the lot Opposite- Mr vetts ON THE GRIDDLE Amount Spent Total of levy Total North of Road North of ear Spent Steeles Ave levy Steeles 784200 45 61146 1455332 644289 41464 1922528 The figures indicate that the area north of Steeles Ave is getting back far more than it is contributing in tuxes It should also be remembered that while the county levy on Newmarket this year is the county is returning to Newmarket for the rebuilding of Main St and that next year the county is paying the second instalment on the same undertaking SPLITTING THE COUNTY The figures cited above are worth the considera tion of all those who advocate the separation of the north part of York county from the south There is much to support the demand for a separate north York county There is little in common between north and south The north is essentially jural and the south essentially urban Where they meet is more often conflict than amity But the fact remains that the north half of the county is heavily dependent upon this south half finan cially The formation of a separate county no matter how appealing would require the solution of serious financial problems before it would be acceptable For example the bulk of the roads maintained by the county lie in the north half It is estimated that the northern municipalities if they undertook the maintenance of present county roads on their own would have to in crease their road expenditures by some percent There have been other considerations There is the county support for the hospital for the home for the aged for reforestation program It all adds up to at least double present county costs to maintain a county composed of the northern municipalities That was one of the major objections to amalgama tion of suburban municipalities as proposed by Toronto The annexation would deprive the county of revenues which it sadly needs This paper has always argued that if Torontos amalgamation plans were permitted the arrangement would also have to include a readjust ment of county financing to compensate the rest of the county for the loss of tax revenues to the city Despite the difficulties which now then arise be tween rural and urban understanding the fact remains that until there is provision for financing a north county unit thoughts of a separate county are better shelved FLIES AROUND THE HONEY POT Mr Donald Cordon president of the Canadian National Railways told a parliamentary railway com mittee last week that the was embarked upon a fiveyear diesel program which would mean a Substan tial saving in operating costs in the future One would think that the members of the committee would Ikivc ap plauded this effort of a governmentowned operation to save m o y Instead committee members were doubtful Chester said diesel operation in Prince Island has already thrown inch out of work diesel operation on the island had meant an operational saving of or percent Clarence feared for Nova Scotia coal sates The now buys about tons from Nova Scotia a year Francois objected to the proposal to close the steam repair shops at Riviere Loup once the diesel program gets underway None of these three men seemed interested in the fact that would save the consider able funds and that saving meant a saving for the country Despite the fact that Mr Gordon assured the committee that every effort would be made to train present CNR personnel in operation the com mittee members seemed more concerned with the preser vation of special preserves than with the improvement of a government owned railway What is distressing about this is that the sort of situation which was reported from the railway com mittee room is so common The government has be come one big honeypot and the flies are clustering about it in ever growing numbers Instead of govern ment funds being considered as a sacred trust they have become fair game to all who wish to pursue it HAZARD STILL THERE A bypass of the Holland Landing Hill on Yonge St was staked out last fall by provincial department of highways surveyors The route angled northwest off Yonge St at the top of the hill and rejoined the highway on the flats north of Holland Landing This spring there were several rumors that the land had been bought and that work would shortly start on the bypass We are told by the department however that the route was surveyed simply to see if it was practical and so far no decision has been made about it We appreciate the foresight of the department in planning ahead for such improvements but we must confess llal we did not see any particular advantage to the bypass when there were so many other improve ments more pressing The stretch between Davis Dr and Eagle St is far more hazardous than the hill We enquired if any improvements were planned there The answer was no We asked about improvements to the intersection of Yonge St and Davis Dr Again the answer was nothing planned It is difficult to understand why the department of highways which expends so much time and effort in considering alternate routes such as that at the Holland Landing Hill would ignore such an obviously hazardous stretch as that between Davis and Eagle St and the Davis intersection Does the depart ment not check for accidents If it did it would know that the rate there averaged one and a half accidents a week during the heavy traffic months Is the department going to ignore the situation another year GETTING ALL THEY CAN Unemployment insurance seemed like a thoroughly practical undertaking when it was first introduced The wage earner was assured some income between jobs or during a slack season It was in effect the application of the moral of the ant and the grasshopper The only objection was that it was compulsory but that was a somewhat academic argument at the time But perhaps because it was compulsory there is so much real objection to it now Unemployment insur ance like all such social legislation presupposes the In corruptibility of the character of the recipient It was intended as emergency measure It has become for a good many a way of life An instance is the effort of a district farmer to hire six men for a few days at cents an hour The men were contacted by the unemployment officer They were without work drawing unemployment insurance They agreed to do the job but at the appointed time none of them turned up are jobs abegging because those drawing unemployment insurance would rather get along on a minimum of what they used to make with no effort than to increase their earnings with what they could make if they took thii jobs offered them This would be no concern of ours were it not that the unemployment insurance fundi is made up of one third employees contribution one third employers and one third governments At income tax time the thought of paying that final third so that a man can loaf is a little griping But as we say above he is loafing because having been forced to pay into the fund ho is determined to got out of it all that he can plus the other two thirds his own contribution has earned When it comes down to the fine point we know of no other way in which man can increase his invest ment threefold so conveniently is the servant not the master of the people the is their guarantee infringement on their righty their agent in international and notional issues it net the of the stale to the direction of those activities which rest on individual choice For the summer season at least Slim has for saken the arts to become an entrepreneur as he says Lip reading from a text book on economics in my of fice recently Slim explained just an entrepreneur really was in case I didnt know An entrepreneur said Slim is a taker in between so to speak in a loose transla tion of the French Hes middle man which by his own enterprises makes a fast buck from the masses In other words I is in business with my self You mean you are going to give up painting to make a fast buck said 4 a pretty disgusting thought es pecially you being a respected member of the art circle here I am merely to sup ply a demand Ill be a justified function in our capitalistic economy and society When there is a big demand by the masses and a chance to make a fast buck for myself I says to myself art must go pray is this new vast financial venture you are about to embark upon I asked of the noted local capi talist Slim lit up a long El Pando cigar leaned far back in his chair and announced I is into business with my own portable potatochips fac tory mobile I will be able to supply the whole rich resort area of Lake east shore a lush district for a fast buck Like the Arabs I will fold up my mobile potatochips factory each night and move on to some virgin territory And so it came to pass that we drove up to the beaches last weekend in Slims Phalfa straight eight with the portable potatochips factory in the rumble seat The factory was about four feet long and two feet wide and somewhat resembled a babys It had a tin tub for frying the chips in a hand strainer and was powered by a small gaso lene camp stove Overheads pretty low in my factory Slim said l bought my a feller up in the Marsh for half price so costs will be negligent Its by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches easy money see So we move in on the scenic wonderlands of these here swank resort areas and clean up The first scenic wonderland we moved in upon was at the bridge which crosses the Bo vine River near Binkerworths beach The river looked like the Ganges Its banks were seething with weekend pil grims from the city People were fishing in ail directions Some hung from trees by their ankles others crowded on boat house rooftops trying to find enough space to throw in a line The bridge was jammed with humanity and happy children romped gaily between their parents and the nearest hotdog stand screaming for more ice cream and pop It was a happy holiday scene and in the centre of it all Slim beamed with enterprising satis faction as he set up his potato chips factory put on a chefs hat and prepared to start up the power unit Children clustered around the factory and began asking questions as Slim pumped up the air tank in the camp stove What is that man doing asked one little one of his mo ther Mummie is that a man asked another What is he doing Is that man Santa Oh look theres a Punch and Judy show up cried another As Slim pump ed the crowd pressed in Someone dropped a can of worms into the fryer and caus ed a scene But Slim was pa tient He got the stove going and prepared his first batch of potatoes With cigar jammed into a corner of his mouth Slim told the crowds to get em while theyre hot get em while they is crispy own tasty chips made with hands In two hours Slim ran out of potatoes and someone had knocked over the factory Un daunted Slim walked down the road and bought a sack of potatoes from a gardener and was back in business in a short time As evening shadows crept counted his take and decided he would buy a cash register next With the seeding in full swing and the weather still warm and clear we are having a good start this year We are amazed how scarce seed grain is in this dis trict We can only think of two explanations with seeding early and labor short people tend to buy more seed Then too most seed mills today will sell seed treated and ready to sow The second reason is that there isnt enough grain left in the country having been fed winter This would indi cate that there was a lot of stock carried and the price of hogs certainly indicates that there was more than the aver- aye number of hogs finished off There are lots of other hap penings these days to make sit back and think The con- outbreaks of foot and mouth disease is one- We are afraid our early optimism is vanishing in the face of these new outbreaks It is still just the West and it seems to be moving south rather than west or east but it is still there and what appeared at first as a dis ruption of limited duration now is developing into a longterm struggle We arent particularly inter ested impressed with the hearings held in Ottawa One of the easiest jobs in the world is to fry a man on the witness stand It would he easy to prove carelessness lack of foresight lack of drive and lack of every thing But any man on that committee no matter how right he is should beware of making political propaganda of it It is bound to backfire sooner or later Let us just remember that those veterinarians out west were up against more than just OLD HOME TOWN an invisible virus They were and are up against human na ture a factor much more stub born and intractable much more unreasonable and wicked than a plain virus We dont want to preach to those unfortunate ones out west who are bearing the burden of this outbreak but are we as a whole agricultural community willing to give up ail that we must to make the fight a suc cess What about the travelling that should restricted What about the reporting of the di sease hi time What about the continuous hankering for short cuts And the daily burden some task- of disinfecting and cleaning up that will have to be done before we are rid of this disease Well we dont know We should be very careful before we issue blanket condemna tion of all people responsible We had an eyeopener into the workings of human nature tho other day- And any of you who care to can see it for your self This country right our own neighborhood is full of garbage People drive along the road and drop out a box of gar- bilge They will find what they would call a secluded spot and there goes the Utter There was a fire on the edge of the Marsh the other day and when the smoke was cleared aftera Stiff short fight and the fire depart went in to check it it was found that what still held the fire were the old chairs and rubber boots and general rubbish that was strewn the shrubs and in the grass Tho amount of this is amazing since it covers a tot of ground and it must have been going on for a long time By STANLEY