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Il Pages from the Editors Notebook This is the time of he year when we like to forget about such subjects as the unbalanced assessments the criticisms of councillors about policemens salaries bad or good election turnouts the current of relations between Coun cillor Alex and the press which varies between hot and extreme cold the school problem who got the on the North grader York Countys undue burden the arena policy Sena tor McCarthy and a lot of other things and people Having now mentioned all the things we want to forget let us forget about them- are reminded of Reeve Dales who said a recent council meet ing that there were a number of facts about a certain local issue which he was not going to mention He then proceed ed to say that he was not going to mention this nor was he going to mention that After mention ing several of these unmention ables he sat down From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago and Mayor looked up at Reeve Dales and said Now are you sure that there is nothing else you want to men tion But believe us we do not wish to pry into any public Issues this week before Christmas they do not seem important and they are truly little things when we think seriously about the celebration of the birth of Christ is a time for quiet content plation Beset by the influen ces of commercialism and the mad rush of these modern times surely we can find some time for quiet medi tation We can take the advice of a young Friend who wrote re cently These outside things which seem important are tri vial and meaningless when we look at whole I know that we can have an in ner peace and I Know that we must have that peace which the world cannot give within our selves before we can hope to have peace in the world Serving Newmarket Aurora and the rural districts of North York NEWSPAPERS Newmarket Era The Express Herald Published every Thursday of 142 Main St by the Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription 4 for two years 250 for one year in advance Singh copies are 5c each Member of A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Deportment Ottawa JOHN STRUTHERS Managing editor CAROLINE ION Women Editor GEORGE Edlor LAWRENCE RACINE Jab Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE TWO WEDNESDAY THE TWENTYSECOND DAY OF DECEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYFOUR DEC young people of Aurora Trinity church made a visit to the Industrial home on Monday evening and entertained the old people with a musical program and left some Christmas goodies Both the program and treat were greatly appre ciated The snow shovellers had a heavy task yesterday morning The- first curling of the sea son will be on night Dec and we look forward to a gathering of all last years members also many new ones Mr Prest has given consider able time to get the ice in con dition and we can thank Mr for early curling Upon invitation from the High Park Curling club of To ronto four Newmarket enthu siasts Messrs A Doyle and J attended the an nual bonspiel on Tuesday and Friday afternoons of last week The first day they were among the winners but on Friday they lost by one point Mrs Clifton of Barrie was visiting her sister Mrs Ed Moffat t on Tuesday Mr Oliver Dike of Falls was calling on friends in town on Monday Mr and Mrs Jackson of Toronto spent Sunday after noon at Miss Ruth Goodman of Au rora spent the previous week end with Miss Li It is Bond Mr and Mrs Pol lock of Abbey arc spending the winter with in town- Mr of and Alberta visitor the J Anderson Mr and Mrs spent Sunday vNtJrg Mr is in the Mis fn St Toron to Mi- daughter Mi J and two child ren arrived here on Sunday owing to a fire in the apart ment in which Cleveland DEC Boyds livery is now running a union bus to the hotels meet ing all trains Passengers will be taken to all parts of the town and persons desiring the use of the bus for any train will have their wishes granted by phoning the Forsyth House un til the phone which is ordered for the livery is placed in the office Miss Charlotte Dickson will spend the Christinas holidays in Mr of Parry Sound is spending the holidays with his Sister Mrs Mr and Mrs A J and daughter have gone to Toronto Junction for the holi day Mr and Mrs Fred Saxton are spending over Christmas with Mr and Mrs J P Hunter Toronto Mr Smith who was sailing on Lake Erie all was calling on friends In town last Saturday- Mrs David Mitchell left on Wednesday for Woodstock to remain over winter with her son Mr J Mr and Mrs Hoover of Green River nee Kirtoy spent over Sunday with Messrs- and John Rosa mond Mrs Dor land and daughter Mi s Margaret who have re cently returned from a tour in intend residing in town the winter Mr Win was a guest at the Manse last night Mr is a music author and of starting a class in for instruction in sighttfinging and harmony There was a magnificent Christmas market here last Saturday and the prices paid made the farmers wear sauting faces all day Butter to eggs to dressed chickens to pr dressed facte to pork lb sausage lb lamb to lb veal to lb 16 in wood from to a cord St for mixed wood tf Happiest Moment for Family Carrying his wife over the threshold of their Que home Is SL Andrew Canadas most famoua prisoner of war Two years ago he was shot down over Korea Imprisoned by the Communists no word was received from for months But Mrs and her four never nave up hope and after months of enquiry and negotiation was released hi time to make Christmas the happiest ever in the lives family CHRISTMAS TIME We write this Christmas editorial not because we must but because we want to write it It is hot lor the editor to preach a sermon that for the minister or the priest But taking a detached view far from religious doctrines and interpretations we consider this coming event in the anniversary of the birth of Christ the most important event of the year when all other thoughts fall insignificant Surely there is more need than ever before for tis idea peace on earth goodwill toward men While we write these lines we do not think of the trappings of this season at the years end not of shop ping and tinsel of advertising of the sometimes selfish giving these pagan customs may he accepted happily or unhappily depending on the individual but they do not seem to have much connection with the birth Christ There are few human beings in this world who in some way are not affected by the fact that Christ lived Christian or Jew or American each living in a world that has so far if somewhat pre managed to maintain a civilization which has the life of Christ and his teachings as its reason for being Many humans so affected are far from con of the fact Hint Christ his followers the very basis of this civilization Yet millions of thoughts in the world at this Christmas time wit in clude Christ oven if not in a religious way at least in a teal way Today we feel the pressure of other ideologies and of tensions As a result there is more intolerance There are more prejudices injuring the minds hup- people Leader of two halves of the world are stirring hatred in the minds of the peoples of half aiiiin- the other And the effects of this filter down through the levels of society to our own small we yet the if condemn many of our own and which we guard in strange we are each in unin unities loyalty investigator who only or white nothing inbotween up mass stimulants to produce nuns for evil They make see only two evils communism fas- Others put Negroes against Whiter op Gen Hies against lews in all this the individual tends to desert introspection and the peoples are distracted from the evils of their own systems The light and the way for this civilization lies in the truth of Christs teachings May the power of Christmas have its greatest influence on each of us so that as individuals we will think mure of service to our fellow human beings and of tolerance of peace on earth goodwill toward men MAKE YOURS A SAFE CHRISTMAS From the Ontario The story of the birth of Christ is not a new story to any of us Nevertheless it is the time of year when wo renew our faith Our religious beliefs are not any thing new but the minister or priest who find a new approach a different emphasis for an old story the most successful Well like the successful we must look for new ways of saying the same old things Safety in the home and outside ia not a new sub ject Th- hew ways of stressing Safety at Christ- maslime may mean no more than twisting a word or two the new ways may can no more than catch phrases that stick in ones mind such a Accident is just a word until you have one At any rate during the holiday season due to the fact that people are hurry ing about and doing things just a bit faster than usual Safety should be uppermost in the minds of all our citizens- The Ontario Safety League cooperating with many community groups is perhaps more safety con scious at holiday times than at other times during the your One reason is the fact that the League has figures on fatal accidents and knows before they happen that accident statistic curves rise at peak holiday seasons year during the holiday season there whs actually a 65 percent increase in fatal accidents compared to other times in the year During the four Christmas holidays hi Ordario citizens were killed in truf fle accidents Safety in driving important in walking is important And safety in the home is important In the home there are hazards around the Christmas tree candles that spread their light and then consume d room with their flame There the overloading of electrical circuits in the house which also start serious is the problem of Christmas parcels and toys on the floor waiting to trip per- son There the foods the which so to flie youngerfry just wafting to scald and a old So this Christmas wherever you holiday a Safe Holiday Consider Safety when you drive and walk Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger is the servant not the master of the the state their guarantee against infringement on their rights their agent in international and national issues it Is net the function of the state to assume the direction of those activities which rest on individual choice Slim hold an nual Christmas party at his piano box down the railway tracks last night and everybody of any was Oh it was a wonderful night the air was and we all walked up the path the bit of snow under our overshoes crunched and we looked up at the long wisp of smoke straight up from Shins chim ney into the starry night Shins shack really looked cozy Slim had the usual food and those extra specials we like pickled herring in wine sauce raw ground beefsteak on rye bread with a slice of Span ish onion caviar paste plus the Christmas things We made quite a Crowd by time all of us got into little place where there was a roaring fire in his new fireplace he recently built with bricks which were left over when they took the top storey off building at Main Timothy We were there as I said before from Urchin the youngest apprentice light up lo the bo himself who over stuff- himself with SUms special Christmas pudding There was the printer Kusterd Racoon the foreman Alice Bliggens relation to Slim the English man Lord Culvert the press man the author of the hypo thetical Womens Universe Maggie the bookkeeper who has never heard of the inven tion of the expense account our diplomatic representative from Prague now in residence and Mac There were others too mini to mention including Frances oh and we forgot the proof reader a rural route mail delivery man whose name I forget and oh yes Mono Melt one of the Gorge the sports editor and we could go on and on We had a grand time singing carols eating reviewing hu morous incidents around the shop durum the year Slim told of of his lighter experiences in Corners and town ship serving as our spe cial correspondent there during the year was as the busi9 recited The Before in the complete si lence that annually necess ary when recites The Night Before Christmas At cvoryore was roasting in the ctrnnvd quar ters of at his piano box advertising man made a brilliant Let us all lake ax drive up to and a to the Abom inable Swamp man Well take him sweets and goodies and sing carol in front of his It bo real jelly Christ- mas- spirit reared Shir and we all loaded into two cat the four and the office grey phantom Woit The Haifa With the mar Tha Urchin But the all steamed up wish and or 50mcmm and we to it and compliment of y the m were a sad dox ibte to Wish man the Slim party we had yet I was full of spirit and for that were glad that we- worked in the business ai not in some ether Ginger Slim all the ether characters this column fictions or na One and all a very Merry Christmas a Year by Dairy Farmer ThTopSixImlms It is very hard to write the socalled Christmas column first because Christmas is something bigger and more than the usual run of farm news like the socalled increase it income for Ontario In Incidentally it a man iliuij a in the cellar When crawled out the hole onto floor that he was isow high up It seems to to the fact thai is dcaxUiv thai has to It is dltikuU wrtU to what has Invtt be fore tttv the on and 10 is a wnUnuv amt atvi until it hn to mint on a Christ nuts card Finally- the d it somehow mis wa easy to thunder Christ the deluxe of Midrf iistvin itt diin diliktl lii ne ami had lived ATiumitilHon wo had to start a for a to li woiiii the or rtAa We a all and to try Moor Jon ml chtt root is of w dr he to 1 dtecvory of bound A birthday a y mv to we ivlehiito a via i a I make lift for others belter And so Merry Christmas to you all ANGELS WILL BOYS j tt- Literally iv w Win out with a of sum 9 the Choir We incident dwsat solemnity in the faces youngster tuning for Aid at