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flPi l I r i Note We have been in the news paper business for several years now and the effect of the printed word amazes Ms yet list Week we carried a story about the supposed industrial strip of land on St which by agreement between town council and a was to have been reserved for three years for industrial pur- We reported how it was dis covered at a town council that the land was not being reserved and that the algreeinent had no legal A few days after the story was published we were to a citizen of the town who made the comment that we had certainly dropped a bomb shell with that story or words to that effect It occurred to us that a situation which leads to turmoil and uproar in muni cipal affairs does not become a bombshell until it is in print We often have heard has sles at Monday meetings of town council which seem to die out smoothly Then when they are recorded in print the fol lowing Thursday hostilities From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago which seemed to have died out are resumed From where we sit we some times get the ridiculous impres sion that we are responsible for the story and all the facts in it You cannot underestimate the power of the printed word Most of the Sensational news in a community is well talked about before it is print ed in a newspaper which is published only once a week- It never ceases to amaze us that a well chewedover piece of local sensation be two or three days Tate being print ed but is still well read on press day When he sees it in print the average citizen ex presses the same indignation shock or satisfaction as though he had never heard of it before You certainly stirred things up by printing that story That was the reaction of some readers after our on the industrial strip The reaction would almost lead one to believe that the newspaper did something unusual but all it did was to carry out its duty Unsuccessful newspaper work ers sometimes get the exalted opinion that they are doing something more than that NOV A few weeks ago we had a local item in the Era about the construction of a large wall on the north side of the creek from the Timothy street bridge which stated that the town and owners of the adjoining pro perty were going in its instruction We have since that the property own ers Mr Wallace and the Arena Co did the work on a basis and the town had nothing to do with it We make this ex planation because some people were finding fault with the council for giving financial as sistance The contract has been let for a new fire truck for the local brigade The truck which will cost in the neighborhood of is a Sickle Colunteer with chemical tank booster pump with a capacity of imperial gallons per minute and chasis and equip ment throughout This is one of the finest trucks made and will add greatly to our fire protection Of the purchase price the brigade will pay that was raised by the garden party this past summer and two donations of each from the Davis Lea ther and Office Specialty com panies As sixty working days has to be allowed to make an order such as this Newmar kets new fire fighting appar atus will not be here until early in January Mrs George A AtteriU and daughter are spending a month or two with her parents Mr and Mrs Hall Timothy St Mrs S wife of the late Senator of Ot tawa with her soninlaw and his wife and daughter visited her old friend Mrs J Mo during the holidays Mr Cecil Bond who is on the staff of the New Speaker is spending a couple weeks vacation at his home here Mrs Bond has been here for two or three months and is returning to New with him next week There a a splendid Thanksgiving Market here last Saturday Butter to lb dressed chickens to lb ducks to pair dressed turkeys lb pota toes to bag Miss Mary and Miss Toronto spent the holiday in town and at tended the commencement ex ercises on Friday NOV Many people do not under stand that in order to keep apples well they should be stored in a place where they are just as cool as possible without freezing If headed up in barrels they can be left outdoors till late in the fall or early winter for in this condition they will stand about as cold weather as we have in November and sometimes will keep without freezing until well along towards the holi days Mrs Saxton of spent a few days last week with her friend Mrs Aubrey Davis on her way home from Winnipeg Mrs Wright of Toronto aunt of the Misses Sykes is here on a visit Mrs P Soules was laid up a few days last week the re sult of slipping on a board in the back yard Mrs Robert and daughter Mabel are spending Thanksgiving holidays with her sister Mrs Brooks at Mount Albert Mrs Frank Webb and baby of Detroit are spending the Thanksgiving holidays at Mr C Webbs Constable Savage was home over Sunday after an absence of four months on detective service for the up north Miss Esther Perkins who has been home for two or three weeks returned this week to her duties as nurse in a New York hospital Mr Clark is here from Sutton taking charge of the owing to the editors illness The new livery and boarding stables of Mr A next to Hills Bakery are now occupied The stables are fit ted up with cement floors everything is uptodate and convenient Miss Bertha of To ronto spent Thanksgiving holi days with Mrs Jackson while the editor visited his sis ter at Bronte and Hamilton Mr and Mrs Goodwin and baby also Miss Ethel Bay- ley Toronto spent the Thanks giving holiday at formers home A large number of ladies at tended Mrs Walter Scotts re ception last Friday The bride was assisted by Miss Miss Boas Miss Edith Robert son and Miss Howard of Sut ton ON TOP OF AN IRON DEPOSIT Possibility that iron deposits on his farm near Marmora may be mined by a Montreal firm holds the hope of for Allan and his wife The iron believed to be about tons was discovered years ago If St mined Allan will a ton royalty He sold mineral rights to another it m am Express Serving Aurora and the rural districts of North York Era Hrald Thursday Main St by Era and Express limited Subscription for two yearn for one year fa advance Single arm 5c each Member at Class A Weekttes Canada Weekly Association and Audit Bureau Authorized as Second Class Marl Post Ottawa e JOHN 5TIUTHUS Matwgtma CAftOilNE ION Womens HASKETT Sport LAWRENCE Job and THE ED IT OR I AL PAGE PAGE TWO THURSDAY THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYFOUR OTHER COMMUNITIES LOOK AT US We were interested in reading comments from other communities following an editorial we wrote about Newmarkets present residential growth In that edi torial we expressed the hope that this community would not become one of Torontos suburban dormitory municipalities we pointed out that our residential assessment is or soon will be greater than industrial assessment and that already we are faced with the first of resulting problems heavy school accommodation re quirements The views of outsiders who look at our problems from a safe distance are often helpful Mr John Eedy publisher of the JournalArgus in Western Ontarios town of St Marys quoted from our recent editorial and said that perhaps his town with its steady population increase of a few persons each year is one of the for tunate municipalities in Ontario despite all that has been said to the contrary He says that compared to Newmarket Stouffville and West Toronto communities the problems faced by the Stone Town in its splendid isolation are minor He quotes also from the Stouffville Tribune Next year will no doubt see Stouffvilles population shoot ahead possibly by another are experi encing a most rapid growth period are now past the two thousand mark However an unanswered ques tion is whether or not our growth is healthy Property owners may wonder when glancing at their tax bills where this growth and supposed prosperity is going to lead them Stouffvilles population is growing and its residential areas are growing but there is no industrial growth This lopsided growth if it continues may shove municipal costs to serious proportions The St Marys JournalArgus adds Our good old Stone Town has had about 10 residences per year built within its environs since World War II and the result has been a stable and balanced economy Not that this town could not absorb a few small industries but to seek an undue number of residential units occupied by persons who work elsewhere would seem to be poor business judging from the experiences down Toronto way The Fergus A also tells its renders that Newmarket may not be so happy about the possibility of becoming a dormitory town tot Toronto That newspaper points out that some Ontario towns are all excited about new subdivisions as Fergus probably would be if some spellbinder promised an increase of several thousands in population in the next few years The Fergus paper mentions Streetsville Georgetown and Acton as other communities which have had large subdivisions added the editor says We have not seen any signs of warning in the papers from any of those places though wo could easily them Then the editor goes to explain Newmarkets case Thinking it over says the NewRecord perhaps it is just as well that Fergus is or more from Toronto rather loo far to drive to work This town is getting some of the overflow population from and might get some from Kitchener in the future though the latter city seems to plenty suburbs of its own And of course Fergus hits plenty of workers who live in Salem Artimft and on the farms Nobody thinks of those villages as bedrooms of Fergus The Municipal Bonn recently granted the right to annex acres of land from the town ships around which more than triples the area of the city now acres and adds over 18000 people to the population That will give a population of more than and a highly industrialized city but it will surely need much careful planning to develop its new area without running into serious difficulties LOSING A LARGE EMPLOYER A large industry in a community such as the Office Specialty Manufacturing Company in Newmarket em ploying hundreds of people is of great importance to the local economy Should such a large industry cease to operate the effect would he great Lust week it was announced such an industry will close in Smiths Falls The Frost and Wood Company manufacturing farm implements announced that it will close down its plant It will indefinitely and completely suspend manufac turing operations early next spring Although there is a larger percentage of Newmarket workers employed in the Metropolitan Toronto area than there was 10 or more years ago the closing of the Office Specialty plant would be a blow to Newmar ket The Smiths Falls RecordNews states that the Frost and Wood Company has been an integral part of the town and community for well over a century The Smiths Falls plant is being closed by the parent company Cockshiitt Farm Equipment Limited Those municipal leaders who may be working to bring industry to Newmarket can take a lesson from the Smiths Falls case Another large industry in Newmar ket could bring prosperity to the community by employ ing hundreds more workers but should the time ever come when the plant closes hardships would be suffered in the community We are not suggesting that New market should turn down a large industrial plant but greater advantages are seen in several small industries rather than one or two large ones At least the munici pality would not be hard hit by a market slump for one particular commodity which may be produced by one large local plant A number of small industries each employing 100 or less people would be more desirable If one should close down the effect on local economy would not be too noticeable ARENA QUESTIONNAIRE We announced last week that this newspaper was sending a questionnaire on arena policy to the Newmar ket Memorial Arena Commission and that we hoped to have answers for this weeks publication Our ques tionnaire went to the commission last Friday and it was discussed by members at a meeting that night Accord ing to tho chairman about half the questions have been answered but lack of time prevented the commission from completing the questionnaire Answers are being recorded by the secretary of the commission but they were not available for publication this week As one of the members of the commission expressed it some of the questions arc loaded In that event the commission may want the town council to examine its answers on policy because the arena commission is responsible to the town council first It was not our intention to embarrass the a commission The questionnaire was designed in what we thought would be the publics interest ami in the commissions inter est our opinion of course may be different from others The questions were asked in such a way we believed that all the possible information the public could want on arena policy would be provided for pub lication Because of questions asked us about arena policy recently we feel that the public will be interested in the commissions answers The following is our questionnaire Who sets the arena policy Arena commission Arena manager What are the aims of the policy Is the aim of the policy to make the arena a community recreation center or to make it an out and out paying proposition We understand several town organizations requested use of arena for hospital fund drives but were requested to pay 50 for its use Is this correct Who are members of the arena Commission How long have the various members served Are they paid How were they appointed Whom do they represent on the Commission Did I he arena operate at a profit or loss last sea son If at a loss how much did it cost I he taxpayers to make up deficit Does senior team pay for practice time Who sponsors the senior 11 team Did the senior last year make or lose money If it operated at a deficit who made up tho loss Do the Newmarket minor hockey teams juvenile midget ban tam pay for practice and game time If so who pays for it Do the Optimists and Little Satur day morning teams pay for ice time If so what are they charged per hour Why was the ice time rate for the Saturday morning league raised when more than Newmarket boys from eight to 11 play in the league Do the public and separate schools pay for ice time used for their skating periods If they do how much per hour Who paid for it Is servant not the master of the people the state their guarantee against Infringement on their rights their agent in international and national issues it nor the function of state to assume the direction of those which rest on choice Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger A little nonsense now nd then is relished by the wisest Anon Taking an opinion poll of the temper of the electorate in Cut- tin Corners our correspondent Slim has sent us some interesting from thai centre Both Reeve and Deputyreeve Col Holland Ri vers are standing for the same offices Reeve has served only one year and both and Rivers say that only one year on county coun cil not enough so they have agreed to stay put Rivers not step up to have a go at the Rivers says know it takes a good year to get to know the boys on county council and you certainly cant get done in county council you knows the boys Reeve Olva says the same thing but I dont know much about county council Reeve is on the ticket we spend the money on a sewage disposal plant until we gets a complete report on pollution and help from the government From what I gather there Is no public opinion on the sewage disposal plant because officials have been that its im perative for years and the electorate is no longer inspired by the supposed issue There aint really too many issues here at the Corners this election season Of course ev erybody wants new industry since the pickle works closed down in 1346 The employment picture has not been very good since that happened when workers their Jobs Councillor Bust who has been chairman of the roads and bridges committee this past year says he is solely on his re cord of performance Councillor Colin deHoggs says that if elected he will do the he can The big issue up here though will be the public school board and people are sort of because the past school board didnt build an extra room on the Theres a new lady which mov ed to town last spring and shes got a lot new ideas about bavin inside conveni ences at the and usin yellow chalk instead of black She also has some ideas about kids and says that the teachers aint doint it the right way Any way she intends to run but dont think folks up here will put her in They aint just ready that stuff yet Take anoth er years or so before that stuff will sell up here Anyway theres a pretty good selection of candidates fellows who have served in the same offices years and its pretty sure that if elected they will do the best they can to serve the interests of the under pressure by Dairy Farmer Dr Petersen the very distin guished professor of the Uni versity of Minnesota gave this years lecture at Guelph and his talk on Dairy ing Tomorrow has been widely quoted in the farm press He foresaw dairying becoming a big business and told us about the many factors and that will have to be observed The larger cow fed on roughage the change in hous ing the increase in efficiency and all the rest of the prob lems have been dealt with and finally he came up with the prediction that the dairyman of the future will milk 106 and do it alone with auto- malic equipment and wilt work eight hours it Now the noted gentleman is a widely known authority in his He did gome very important work In the field milk secretion and we owe him a I6t tor what we know milking His lecture proves to be one of those few experts who has and a vislotv to spur us on But ho has the common characteristic of oil pro phets who coma from part of country They over simplify and only Ml the truth as for as they go but not tell it alt la this light there are dangers in accepting all ho says The truth and the only truth First of all wo do not live Minnesota and the midwest If their cattle love the cold and ait that It isnt out kind of cold they love wouldnt love tiro fluctuations excess humidity and the buildings you house them in there It would bo possible to design and build sheds and loafing areas and feeding areas and milking parlors to suit our conditions It would be inter esting to see what the estimates would be This brings up the second point We wonder what it would cost to equip a dairy farm for milking cows with all the machinery buildings cooling and milking parapher nalia feeding chutes etc Our guess is that it would cost in excess of per cow If you add to this a hay drier and irrigation equipment which would be necessary to keep pastures reasonably close to the barn if you count the cost of everything else we doubt if one could have that super- efficient pushbutton dairy plant for any less than about 1500 per cow which is We need not go beyond this We all know the answer But the place where Dr Petersen really doesnt tell all Is still beyond this In order to cows every day of the year one must have a herd of about at least We have been trying to milk a cow every stall We find that the necessary replacement is very high indeed Further more unless man will buy this replacement which is quite possible and done in large commercial dairies he would have to count another for heifers yearlings and calves They Id account for additional buildings land and manpower doubt very much that on could operate with any thing less than five or six men who will have to be housed Then land would be necessary grow the hay and grass if nothing loss and when the whole picture is sketched It looks like a to farm in a good district with housing for bond of six men and a total vestment of and we arc- not sure that we would like to have the job of setting it up for this much Oh yes and even in this day and age one would have to lay out the money for head of cat lie Any takers Anybody with a Canadian solution to Ihe problem of dairying PROMOTES INTEREST IN MILITIA In times of national or local web floods forest fires Canadians suddenly they have a but to MaJGen If P right that not food He came out of retirement to determine a way to a much more accepted part of the lift of Canada is not only to promote enlistment la militia bat to la professional men and to their M enlists tht aid of fi0lM9jflial ft