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Pages from the Editors Notebook Weve had another old photo graph of Fairy Lake which de monstrates the value it had to the residents of Newmarket around the turn of the century- photograph shows three boys on a makeshift raft their faces split with as they pose for the photographer In the background is twice the ex of water lake now has We dont think would take too much Jake people are showing in the articles and have printed Take Out of that interest expect some effort will be organize a campaign up the pond Theres no short age of suggestions for doing it Just about everyone has his pet remedy Laurie Cane the former post master recalls that the dam used to be higher about a foot he calculates If the dam were raised to its original height the increased water surface would cover a lot of the unsightly mud and weeds along the bank Squires has what he thinks is a surefire remedy for the algae which covered the sur face It is simple and inexpen sive The family of mallards which made their home in the south end of the lake and who hit the headlines when they went over the darn and had to be rescued seems to be thriving Weve had reports of much ac tivity around their home nest We picked up an elderly gen tleman who was thumbing a ride along St at Thorn- hill the other day and drove him into the city He discov ered were from Newmarket and thereupon embarked upon fascinating recollection of Newmarket as it was when he arrived there in the early part of the century lie had come over from Eng land encouraged by a cousin who was already here and liked it fine He was a carpenter by trade and worked on the Davis From thMles of Leather factory when it was being built Yes sir he told us did a lot of the trim work around the offices Newmarket was going through a period of prosperity he recalled and there were a good many homes to be built He did a lot of the stairwork enquired after a few of the dicier resident the and West families fa had sprightly mind for decided opinions about politics hone of the parties give the leader this country needs morals slipping bad- ly labor the practices of dictatorship never joined a union and never will social security can- look after self farming dont use enough organic fertilizer these am AngloSaxon a Church of England man and a free worker he told us Our regret was thai he talked right up to the time he left the car and we didnt have a chance get his name He did say he would pay us a visit later on so perhaps we can remedy that We doubt if there has ever been a vote called for in New- market in such circumstances as that of this coming Monday Two votes are being taken the first for the office of deputy- reeve and the second on the rebuilding of Main St Two of the candidates in the first vote accompanied their platform addresses with an in sistence that the vote was un necessary That seems hardly calculated to encourage support But if the candidates feel that the first vote is unnecessary the public feels the same about the second vote The voters ore being called upon to pass judg ment on an issue which the council should have settled itself Most if not all mem bers of council are in favor of rebuilding Main St but the public may vote it down by way of protesting the councils re fusal to accept responsibility for their own connections ah SEPTEMBER Mr removed an old landmark On Wednesday the tree at the corner hi Main and Ontario streets The crossing is to be to give more room on account of the trolley track With a little co-opera- lion the sidewalk could bo set back a foot or more oil each side of the the top of the hill to Queen St Mr George Thompson ship ped an engine and thrashing machine to Port- Arthur last week Vly Mr brought a sample of peaches grown in his garden are the Crawford variety and ho had a small basket full of good size and nice flavor Considerable interest has been aroused on the possibility of beautifying the old mill pond by the removal of all stumps and logs from the upper portion of it At a meeting held on Tuesday Mr If Lloyd was voted to the chair and Mr K A appointed treas urer A subscription list was started with the town council It is estimated that it will require to complete the job a united effort by our citizens the appearance of the entrance to the by the Metropolitan route can le greatly improved SCOn S SCRAP BOOK SEPTEMBER 192 A September heat wave has struck Chicago and the middle west causing many deaths and heat prostrations Tempera- in the nineties were re- corded and no relief is in sight until weekend or later The board of management of the King George hotel are now having a new hot- water f urn- ace installed Recently a new kitchen range was also install- Last Monday some of the ap paratus by the Warren Paying Co Sharon rood was being moved to Richmond flat cars and when crossing Park Ave the smoke stack struck a live wire two cars became electrified and the wood work started to burn Workmen wearing rubber gloves and standing on rubber sheets cut the connections and put out the I re The cars remained charged for some time and blocked I The changing of the of the York has proceeded with amazing rapidity Al ready they have reached New market If the work con tinues at the same rate the line be completed to Sutton by the end of the week By it J SCOTT and Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Serving Aurora and the rural districts of North York Era Express Harold every Thursday at Main St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era end Express limited Subscription for two years f m for on year in advance Single copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association end the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa JOHN A MEYER Managing JOHN Now ION Womans Editor GEORGE Sports LAWRENCE RACINE Job Printing and Production Ik I O RIAL PA G PAGE FOUR THURSDAY THE EIGHTEENTH PAY OF SEPTEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYTWO LinLE INTEREST SHOWN still differences of opinion on the need last Friday said the election was iftinbefessary lasted it Again one of the pointed out that another municipality in York with a similar vacancy in office did get away without an election Electors attended the meeting did not seem impressed these a week before election day The election had been called hut the can didates running for office still arguing from the platform about the need for the election The candidates stirred little further interest among the electors who were by no means overly excited the outcome anyway candidates themselves were at a loss to say anything which could have great sig nificance to Newmarket between now and the December elections- The mayor should have announced the election early in July according to the Municipal Act requirements lie didnt and now it is of September before a new deputyreeve is to be elected The successful candidate will be in office only a dozen weeks before the next election He may do some important work the county council sessions but as for proving himself to electors he will have little opportunity to do in town meetings Neither will there he much danger of him offending any of his supporters in a short time The electors will only be repeating their balloting In December for the deputyreeve The Municipal Act may require an election but the general opinion among electors now is that it is All in all we can expect a low vote on Friday DEPARTMENTS FAULT A man died shortly after an accident on the high way involving a gravel truck Since then township police have been industriously checking weights and speed of grave trucks and our information is that several truckers have as a result withdrawn from the business of hauling gravel for highway building This circumstance prompts the questions why werent weights and speeds cheeked of ore Why did there have to be a fatal ifcy first The answers to these questions must inevitably rest with the department of high ways This is the second year that district roads Jin carried a heavy traffic of grave trucks engaged in highway Last the trucks were rushing gravel- to the new Bairie highway This year it is for work on Yonge Both jobs were started late the season Much had to be hence a which i red speed and resulting excessive weights and numerous accidents It might be thai the government had no responsibility for this situation that the responsibil ity was that of the individual thicker or the contractor is ho weight In such an argument Surely when the government I a contract it has a continuing responsibility for the manner in which that contract is carried out Work the moved so slowly that it had become a scandal Then With an election in Um offing gravel trucks thunder across the country roads in an effort com plete in a limited time a Job which should have been spread out over the summer And now this it Is happening again were told last spring by the highways department work was being planned along YongeSt in this area We protested this refusal the government to remedy the of the pay is tig Then in the middle of the season preparations were begun to widen the corner indeed to repair the surface well south of Aurora i- Hero again is of belated planning or no planning at all There is absolutely no excuse for the government to embark oh such extensive works as finishing Barrio highway or widening and resur facing St so late in the season The consequence has been such a tight schedule that overloading and overspeeding have been inevitable And last year when in StouffviHe the provincial police were ordered to check on weights it was charged that summonses were later withdrawn The governments fault not end there Ontarios licencing of drivers is at the best a casual affair Many of the operators of gravel trucks should never be behind a wheel to begin with not if the manner in which they drive is criterion Theres riot a resident in this area has not had or heard of a narrow escape with a gravel truck The long imposed by the conditions of the job are partly to blame Casual licensing and lack of super vision are also to blame It is ironical that the depart ment which maintains a yearround traffic safety pro gram should so lax in the Ordering of its own affairs ironical and tragic because if the department had shown a greater sense of responsibility there would not have been so many hazards on our roads for the last two years AREA IS FILLING UP The census has shown that the number of children in Canada years and under has increased by a million from to These conclusions may come slowly to the government statisticians Mem- of local school boards could have told them of the increase months ago Its a rare school hi this district which has not shown a substantial increase in school enrolment There are few boards who are not faced with need to build extra rooms or who have pro vided extra accommodation only to find it used lip in a year or so and that they must build again Residents of Holland Landing have been called to a ratepayers meeting to discuss the need for extra ac commodation yet the school was enlarged only a couple of years ago Newmarket faces the heed for more accommodation in a year or two and so on The district is filling up and the provision of more school accommodation is a continuing consequence is foolish to ignore the need for mora school accommodation or substitute makeshift arrangements in the hopes that the demand is temporary The popu lation of this area will continue to grow for many years yet as Torontos residents overflow into this area the character of ait essentially rural area its slow change into a semiurban area There is no turn- back this development Not only school boards and ratepayers but mom- hers of district municipal councils must accept these facts of development They can no longer administer their municipalities on a daytoday basis They must plan ahead in preparation for the steadily increasing populations or else become hopelessly bogged in debt The councils can now exercise a certain amount of control over real estate developments but they can- not prevent the steady influx of people into the district It is accomplished fact The acceptance of that fact would save a lot of haggling unci dispute It is encouraging to see that the old butt ing ground on St is being cleaned up and its stones preserved Except for the of Main St and possibly no other condition in market lias received so much adverse over the yeara And wo hasten admit that it is easy to comment but it is a to embark oh such a project- But the ground was an eyesore in its former condition clean up the Sharon cemetery too Wo do notknoy what is intended there although the procedure at the St cemetery seems the most practical to put the surviving stones in a cairn and make the grounds into an attractive lawn Web hope the example in these two instances will be followed tit other abandoned cemeteries in this district My friend Duncan nephew of our editorial advisor Slim is a reporter on one of the large daily papers the Toronto Hes just a young chap Dun can but already he has been made Gang Editor of the Toronto In an Issue of the Telyer this Week my friend Dune Bliggens wrote a sensa tional report of an invading teen gang battling police in a milling melee or words to that effect Roaming gangs of teenage hoodlums have been making attacks in the city suburbs in the past months The culmin ation of all this was when they the roaming restless hoodlums pitched a battle with police and lads After the battle was pitched nine were taken to jail it was after this Incident that the decided to put its foot down and darn well appoint Duncan their gang editor To he a good gang editor youve got to play the part Duncan tells me He now has a a boogie haircut cut on top and long and pointed at lite hack b cultivated an impudent sneer and a change of clothes especially cut and edited to suit the stride fashion of typical gang hood lums In case he has no time to change into hoodlum costume he has a pair of bicycle clips to put on his legs to give them the stride effect The gang has been local and suburban youths since a battle a month ago in which one of their number was injured says Duncan Theyre out to avenge the six one of their punks needed In his face said a local businessman in one of the sub- Whenever one of these gang fights is due to take place the gang editor slips into his hoodlum suit and sneaking he slips stealthily in among their numbers If you ever happen to get mixed up in one of these sub urban gang fights keep your eye out for a young man in the midst Of the melee working at a typewriter and wearing a green eye shade of the type old editors wore He likes to get all his infor mation on the spot He must be In the middle of a given gang fight to get the proper at He throws caution to the winds with no respect to danger he reports the truth and nothing but the truth Ills through Duncan that a new word has been introduced to the language the word hoods pronounced the same way as an owl hoots and meaning or course young ruf flans of the hoodlum vhiv Gang Editor is also considering a new word rab bling An example of this would Young hoods were rabbling in the streets of this suburban community today He might go a step further and say that they were rabbl- and rousing The Top Six by Dairy Farmer Through the long hot days ant nights of the fall shows the men sit around and talk when they arent working With the cattle The older ones re member the days when the younger men listen to the stories of men cows and bulls and judges now long depart ed They sometimes kid the older men but there no meanness or disrespect to the kidding It is a fascinating ex perience One night inevitably the conversation turned to bulls and then to artificial Below you will find the gist of this discussion It is an opinion and doesnt pretend to be any more Neither is it popular today This is the so- called other side of the story The man who started the has been a breeder of purebred dairy cattle for moire than 35 years and his father was a breeder before him Up until the widespread of artificial insemination he sold quite a few bulls around the country He wasnt a with flair for publicity and his barn was that of a dairy farmer with ho fuss and frills But he tested his cows on from the beginning and his cow families had sev eral generations of tested depth to them This man made a conscien tious effort to improve the breed He bought as good a bull as he could find The bulls he sold increased his income but no more than paid for the added effort and the testing He always was a constructive breeder ami he still is Only today there Is no market for his bulls Artificial insemina tion has taken their placid He doesnt complain because AX is not only a method get ting cows in calf but kind of a fetish with some suggest that it is immoral to creases the complainants in tome Now so far this is only an individual case But let us look a bit further to the days argue with a system that 10 bulls were sold for each one sold today The chances were ten times hotter then to find a bull that will help the breed as- a whole Breeders or groups of breeders developed strains in their com munities Some of the bulls they bought or sold were no THE OLD HOME TOWN good and some didnt go into herds their offspring was tested But some were bought back on the basts of their performance and were a real asset to the breed The proving of bulls brought up the next most important point Do the units exercise enough care in picking them Do they know enough really to say your bull is no good or to go to another man and say your hull calf is good enough to pay money in five figures for It Inevitably the question arose Where are the bulls- for the units going to come front The- wont be able to bulb around If he is not encour aged by increased returns breed cattle he will be ill the next years This Wil leave the large breeder tin whole field of supplying bull Will this be a benefit to for the breeds The Jnext point Io everybody almost objected was the semen business There is srinu thing pretty discouraging the thought that whether goes or to one will meet the of springs of the same half bulls And supposing lliel bulls bought and by golly wont as expected The result be The breed will set back years There is no doubt that or insemination do more for efficient milk than any other actor last 60 years The gra breeder if he started when started first and we some that did have herd that improved beyond fondest There is in production and more type r he is better off with the he has than if he had so purebreds with fancy but only fair in In I respect it helped to explode myth that a cow has hay paper to milk or look g But AI cannot succeed out the small purebred who is now being and neither can the maintain their progress Al realizes this and uses of the accumulated reserve encourage breed progress I By STANLE I now WORKERS AT WE HANDLE WORKS BOOsrpRices EVERY HOUR ON OF HE SUPPLIES AMIlDEfAANtIT WANT WOULD net of Htm people the guarantee Infringement on their right their agent In International and national Issues it not thm of the state to assume the direction of those activities which rest on Individual choice ii i fi