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MEMBER rSMMmndlhe rural of North York The Newmarket Era The Express NEWSPAPERS Old timers in will be interested Newmarket in news of Mr Bruce lAoyd Fort Frances former Newmarket man who worked at the Hunter store over years ago The son of the late Mr- and Mrs Lloyd he went to Fort Frances in and started a career as a merchant For years he has supplied lumbermen settlers and trappers at a store which he bought out in Now he has restricted his activities to a tourist outfitting and boat service Mr Lloyd and his son Hill are looking forward to ser ving many vacationists who are anticipating a leisurely trip through the Fort Frances area They operate the largest fleet of private commercial boats Rainy she and seven and pupils six bays and girls in went taxi to last that after we west tft arOj Mr- tiiAiJx to who us on tour of the the peace tower she ie1 trie said Published every Thursday at Main St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription for two years for one copies are each Member of Cass A of Canada Canadian Weekly Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department m f JOHN Managing Editor CAROLINE JON Womens Editor GEORGE Sport Editor jt we having talk to who Many people just over it naid no attertior to the different plaques covering the walls he said After lunch were intro duced to an other member and at three oclock were on hand to see the Mace carried in a procession to the meeting of parliament A big thrill lor the children was in seeing Hon Howe Hon Lester Pearson and the prime minister Mr White the Con servative member for Hastings was also interested in their visit and he showed them around at the national museum House and the public archives They returned to Lake St Peter late that night RACINE lob Printing and Production THE PAGE TWO THURSDAY THE TWENTYSIXTH DAY OF NOVEMBER HUNDRED AND FIFTYTHREE Mr and Mrs Francis Morton Keswick received a letter from their daughter Mary a teacher at the school at Lake St Peter north of Ban croft After getting in touch with the federal member for York North Mr Jack Smith Miss Morton was supplied with a guide to tour Ottawa Then From the Files of 5 and ears Ago NOVEMBER The annual At Home of the Newmarket Hockey Club will take place in the on Friday nigh Nov Euchre from to oclock followed by dancing Music by Art orchestra Seven big prizes offered Sup per as usual Everyone come end enjoy this evening with the and Whites Newmarket hunters had fair success In their chase for big game but according to all ve hear Mr Geo Knovles had the greatest luck The deer which he shipped here weighed pounds and he got a bear as well Messrs Bain Ernest Gardner Vern Arnold and a student named at Pickering J P each shipped a deer The Davis party got six a wolf bear and fox Mrs Cameron Cody left on for New to visit friends Mr Jos left this week tor Sacramento to the winter Mrs J and family were in Buffalo over the end visiting her daughter Beatrice Miss Ruby Moss was the guest of Dr and Mrs Under- i wood of Buffalo last yV weekend She was soloist a musical given at East Aurora Mrs Andrew Phillip of quest writes The wea ther today is very mild and K fire for this time of year Cars and trucks are very busy drawing grain Mr and Mrs ford Friends missionaries from Japan will be present at the meetings for worship on day Nov Mrs will also address the Sunday school at Mr If Roberts of Van couver formerly a school teacher at gave us a call on Saturday He is taking leave of absence for a year and was on his way to the southern States He was sorry that he had not time to see more of his old friends NOVEMBER Mr and Mrs Jos Millard commemorated their ved- ding anniversary by taking din ner their son Mr Millard in Toronto last Mon day Mr and Mrs J Mill ard also present Mr A Elliott of ville spent a couple of days tliis week his uncle Mr John also Mr A reeve of township That band of midnight musi cal contortionists stroll ing through the snowdrifts in the vicinity of Millards Jane on Tuesday night and as heretofore rending the frosty air with their discord ant rhapsodies That every bride coming to tovn should be ostensibly honored by such a shrieking reception and a 500 fee extorted from the groom by youthful barbaric is a disreputable injustice that will somewhat discourage our bachelors who might be matrimonially inclined Sleigh bells ringing on Monday morning for the first time this About two inches of snow Some people very slow at moving the beautiful off the walks on Monday A slip of blue paper from the hands of Chief An derson might help them to get a move on Notwithstanding all the deer that brought to tovn venison appears to be scarce A man does not laugh when the takes his hat ten rods the street but the other fellow does Mr and Mrs Calvert of To ronto spent over Sunday with her sister Mrs Hewitt Mrs Calvert is remaining for a couple of weeks Mrs and Miss Pearson of Hose Ave Toronto are spend ing a two weeks holiday at Mr John Manns Orchard Beach Capt Jas is home from South Africa again on furlough He is just getting over an attack of sickness Several Newmarket people attended the supper on Wednesday evening Colorful Ceremony Mark Opening of Parliament v INTERESTING NOMINATION NIGHT There appears to be more interest in Newmarkets municipal affairs this year At least more candidates have declared their intentions early and there are one or two important issues left in the air at the last coun cil meeting which should interest candidates and the electors One of the important issues is the refusal by town council to grant a taxi license to Ray Carman At the last council meeting a week ago Monday night it was decided to hold over a resolution reintroduced by Councillor to grant Mr Carman a license It was held over so that both the chief of police and the police committee chairman who were not present at the meeting could state reasons why the license should not Ik granted A number of weeks ago the resolution had been brought to council but was defeated Following the advice of the town solicitor the mayor had urged that the reasons be It had been understood by most councillors that a meeting would have been held last Monday night but it was postponed on the weekend Council will not meet again until after the election As a result the taxi license issue is being left to anyone who cares to use it on the nomination platform No doubt the elec tors will hear plenty of comment tomorrow night at the town hall auditorium A N who has announced himself as a candidate for council this week also has a number of questions for the nomination platform which he missed through the cancellation of the Monday meeting Mr has staled that he has a serious complaint against council because of his treatment concerning his application to purchase land from the town to build a factory He now has no intention to purchase town- owned land has resigned from the Newmarket district high school board and the hospital board to stand as a candidate for council It would appear that Mr has a grievance worth listening to and the fact that lie has set aside personal interests and other activities to offer himself as a candidate shows that he has the interests of the whole community at heart Dog control is another issue which was by no means settled in council Councillor Lome has de clared that he has answers for his critics and since he too had no chance to reply on Monday he will no doubt have something to say on the platform All in all it should lie an interesting nomination meeting of the councillors of 1953 will be seek ing office in some capacity There is a good supply of newcomers and it can le expected that there will be a great change in the personnel of the council HOPE FOR CANADIAN ATTITUDE Now is the opportunity for the Canadian govern ment to state without or doubt that we prefer to live our own Jives and run our own country in our own way It should show that there is definitely a Canadian way of thinking and that we are not to be pushed around by American politicians If the govern ment is satisfied that it has made all the information about spies available to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation then it does not have to go any further Canada must not le told that a committee from the United States is coming here to conduct its investi gations and it is hoped that the government makes this crystal clear so that neither Americans nor Canadians nor the rest of the world will get the impression that this country is merely another state of the union The low level of politics in the United Stales must be viewed by most Canadians with considerable foiste It seems that truth has been forfeited it favor of exaggerated claims by politicians to the point that no one knows what is truth and what is exaggeration The socalled Investigations going on now could be compared to this If you have a sliver in the end of your toe undoubtedly you can cure it by cutting off the leg at the knee It would seem that some Americans think this theory is worth putting into practice One of the greatest dangers to democratic countries is seen in the United States where government appears to be overtaking law enforcement and the courts government starts to do what the law law enforcement and the courts should be doing there is a throat to the individual But Canadians can do little to prevent what is happening in the United States The important thing is that we try to prevent It from happening here And most important of all the government should be urged to ignore pressure from south of the border to take a stand that will be identified easily as a Canadian attitude ON HIGHWAY CRIME In its lead editorial this week Saturday Night discusses the sentence given to a motorist involved in a fatal accident on the outskirts of Newmarket earlier this year The editorial is reprinted as follows If you ever get an irresistible urge to destroy one of your fellow human beings do not satisfy it by chop ping up your wife or shooting your neighbor society frowns on that sort of thing and will not feel safe until it has permanently separated you from your neur oses Instead get behind the wheel of a car go hurt ling along a highway and crash into some unsuspecting motorist You may be injured yourself of course but this hazard only adds to the thrill of the experience besides if you happen to be drunk at the time you may not feel any pain at all The important thing how ever is that when the time comes for you to be punished the chances are that the penalty imposed on you will bo no more severe than a few months in jail because the jury hearing your case will be so touched by your suffering that it will impress on the judge the necessity for being merciful It is possible that juries are full of loving kindness towards drivers who have committed the most serious infractions of traffic laws because they feel guilty them selves Jurors may look at the accused and think There but for a lot of luck stand I But whatever thought or emotion impels them to regard the luckless driver with such tenderness there can be no doubt that their lack of severity contributes greatly to the fatal dangers of highway travel these days Every week all across the country there are ex amples of this tenderness of juries The other day a man was sentenced in a Central Ontario court to six months in jail for dangerous driving His car had crashed into the rear of another automobile which then burst into flames the three people inside were trapped ami burned to death A doctor testified that a test taken the morning following the accident showed that the guilty driver had been drinking before the smashup only two or three bottles of beer the accused man said but the medical evidence was that the concentra tion of alcohol in his blood was the result of consum ing 12 to Hi ounces of whisky or eight to ten pints of beer The judge who sentenced him said Only the recommendation of leniency by the jury prevents mo from giving a more serious sentence Why a recommendation of leniency The man who drinks before driving is someone to be punished not pitied the man whose handling of a vehicle consti tutes a public menace is not a child to he reprimanded gently and sent on his way with little more than an admonitory pat Yet juries persist in regarding traffic offences almost as excusable slips from grace rather than crimes The only reason for their doing so seems to be their undeclared and perhaps unrecognized admis sion of shared gum If this is true then jurors are influenced in favor of an accused driver even is heard in which case they not competent to give an impartial judgment CANADAS MARK ON CIVILIZATION In the longrun the really important thing is what kind of a civilization wo Canadians evolve and what wo do with our responsibilities awl opportunities It is a challenge to the mind and to the heart says the Financial Post Hence deep and lasting importance of the Canadas Tomorrow conference attended at Quebec by some last week Canadian is celebrating its an niversary in Canada Instead of giving itself over to hoopla about its past it organized and financed most searching examination of nations next half- century yet undertaken A distinguished group of edu cationists and industrialist outlined pattern of discussions ago To deal with various themes they sought out people of outstanding calibre The speakers wore given lots of time to think and to research Tho result was two full days for eight lectures and discussion which will long bo remembered by nil in at tendance Mental and spiritual horizons wore lifted new thought patterns induced Some got now informa tion All got now ideas and fresh ways of looking at things University thinkers and business thinkers both gained from this exposure to each others minds Office V- Catnips By Ginger The Editor of the Eerie Dear Editor Since I got into trouble with those US senators boss I have appeared on television Because I yelled Play ball when the president stepped off the train they were hot on my trail They thought I was critical of the US because it was not co operating and all I meant was Play ball when they played the Star Spankkd Banner It was a rush to be at the tele vision studio in time to meet the senators on the committee A reporter from Variety wanted to interview me and I couldnt get away from him He insisted on lievin that I was a Canadian singer to crash the croon er field Wal I stood up in front of them television cameras and to my horror I saw that in my rush I had put on shoes that didnt match One was black and one was oxblood A senator rose and questioned the defendant which was me and said Why are you all different colored shoes I said I didnt know I had wore different shoes until got there Senator said I was evasive The senator pointed to my black shoe and said What color is that shoe I said Black He said What color is that ether shoe Red I said The senator shot knowin glances around to other members of the commit tee What color shoes do you all like best asked the senator I said Red The Senator said Gentlemen of this here special investigat ing committee you all sub mit that this overwhelming evi dence points out the strong and fanatical tendencies of the de fendant and we should all now know where his sympathies lie Defendant I cried Who said I was a defendant and what am supposed to be Then they dragged in a so- called witness boss a sort of washed out blonde Miss age would say She said that she once heard me make a speech to the Cuttin Corners home and school association 1933 titled The Virtues of the Little Red School and that she had definitely interpreted my speech as belli procommunist Miss Honeydimple is now a ca shier at the Paradise on street New I am going to come home by a boat trip boss so I can think things out Right now there are a lot of questions going through my mind and I dont want to think about them here because I might get arrested Yours truly Slim by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches We have read with great in terest the recent conviction of the many rubber companies for operating a combine There wasnt too much the pro ceedings reported of course After all the rubber companies have a pretty fair advertising account and besides the recent uproar from south of tho bor der did push everything off front page However the judge in hand ing out the maximum penalty did say raw things about the rubber combine and didnt mince any words describing their methods such as bunt ing records and tho minutes of meeting The maximum pen alty under a law years old is of course not very much and probably doesnt accomplish what it set out to do namely to discourage We are interested in this business for two reasons Far mers are heavy users of rub ber not only because we drive ears on very rough roads ami thus have to replace them of ten but also because so many of our implements are on rub ber We are interested because these prices have been beyond all reason Just recently two tractor tires set us back 100 Wo wore also told that a pair of tires for side delivery worth about each We are wondering how much each of us individually contributed to the welfare of rubber companies the last few years since the rubber combine has been in operation After nil let us not forget that rubber la one of essential commodi ties without which modern civilization couldnt How much have the replace ment tires cost us and how much has price of Imple ments increased duo to op eration of combine second reason why we ore interested in this business is that only recently wo had a personal taste of the high handed attitude of rubber combine We have had three tires on our new car develop troubles The Firecracker rubber company to use a fic titious name refused to make any adjustments in spite of fact that their own salesman admitted that we were entitled to such a thing Greed knows no bounds We suspect that aside from oper ating a combine rubber combine builds today tires that are not as good as they could bo made as a matter of fact not as good as they used to bo This of course will in crease sales Once com petitive angle Is removed there is no point in improving We wondering how many kinds of machines parts or other necessities do we have to purchase that made un der the same conditions as rub ber For example what about twine Is It not the same price all over And what about bearings and electrical sup plies What paper and what about fact that all farm machinery Is supposed to be sold at price plus transport ation And what about fertil izer What about gasoline and oil Finally what about our own federation doing something about publicizing con victions Wo realize that it takes a lot of money to actual ly do Investigating but it should be relatively easy to let all farmers know that a convic tion has been obtained After all lot us remember that labor is not the only fac tor that increases our cost of production and labor is in our mind only justifiable rea son for the price of a commo dity going up in price We should be looking for other In habitants of the woodpile IROQUOIS NAME ADMIRAL CHIEF it