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by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches ami deals with Mayor Gives First Address rose Canadian a weekly r published in the city of It Is very interesting reading because its editorial page is very and because it covers a large area and has a broader pool and the train the town There are also some dealing with the world si it large Undoubtedly dailies do not have Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Newmarket Era 1852 The Published every Thursday at Charles SL Newmarket by the Newmarket En and Limited Subscripts for one year in advance Single copies are each Member of Class A Week Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations word It is also interest see how much the pro dealt with in this paper street business but also Jng out that while some enterprises arc not doing well several large enterpri another enlarged Chambers of Com the highway through Surely a good parallel to our ef forts an behalf of an EastWest The editorial ends with the reminder These things dont happen without somebody The paper contains pages am delightful places as Dried Mea Lake Meeting Creek Hay Lake Bittern Lake tosh etc It could be that the problem the people of Canada are much alike be they from east or the west All of makes this a wonderful try where we can feel at just about anywhere From the Files of and 50 Years Ago On Tuesday night Bill Roach at the the BaileyCot showing Bill last bee snatched him in quick play with Kirklai and Miss Clara spent las Thursday with Mr and Mr Gardner in Bradford spent the weekend number of friends and relatives to dinner Que- lo Hall back Mrs Dr Watson and parents Mr and Mrs Robt en from Nebraska are visiting Miss Edna Lueaby of Allan- day to see his brother Ji Michigan after a pleasant Mr Jack Wright of Red with her brother Webb of Kansas and Mr GOV GENfRAL AT HOME AT years 350 foi Herald for farm stored grain and maybc the surplus grain busi ness has become a political foot ball for opposition parties turn and twist into political ad And so on and so forth It gives a list of building permits phone building and an endless advance Single copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of I Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Second Class Mall Post Office Department Ottawa John Struthers Managing Editor Caroline Ion Associate Editor George Haskett Sports Editor L Racine Production Advertising THURSDAY THE NINTH DAY OF JANUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYEIGHT THE EDITORIAL PAGE A GOOD YEAR AHEAD If the dignity and harmony of the inaugural meet ing of Newmarket council is an indication of the kind of local government we will have this year should be a turning point towards a better future Mayor presented a suggested list for new standing commit tees His suggested list was not accepted so changes were made by council But the changes were made with no ruffling of tempers The final arrangements satis fied everyone When it was suggested that a change be made in the electoral system members did not argue for the fol lowing hour and a half The suggestion was put in a form of a notice of motion Members were given a week to think about the idea and return prepared to discuss the question intelligently Recalling Newmarkets political history of the past ten years one may remember that other inaugural meetings set the tone for the remainder of the year Judging by this first meeting it might appear that the council will adopt sound policies with a minimum amount of political stress and personal conflict among members PAYORS WARD SYSTEM Councillor Lome proposal to introduce the ward system to Newmarket hits the support of the Era and Express Our main reason for favoring this system is that it most likely would produce more can didates for town council elections Election campaigns could be waged within each ward Electors would know the man they are nominating or electing or they would have an opportunity to know him because he would be a neighbor in their district We believe that the ward system would promote healthy competition for public Perhaps a member of council have en thusiasm for the ward he represents and would have a better understanding of his electors wishes than without the ward system having campaigned in one particular region Newmarket to the extepi that the east side knows not what the west side does If- the ward system is not introduced soon there will arise the dan ger of a large section of the municipality rep resentation and hence no one on council to understand its local problems Perhaps too many promises would be made by candidates of special favors to wards but then the same happens on the federal level at election time Advantages in the ward system are in the major ity and certainly warrant its introduction in Newmarket CIVIL SURVIVAL The Printed Word Civil defence about which there is intermittently a good deal of discussion in Canada and the United States might more appropriately be named civil sur vival Any means of defence that may be devised against attack by bombs or rockets is a military matter If the attackers elude the defenders and unload their cargoes the problem becomes civilian The question then is not how to fight but how to survive For some a further question may be whether survival is worth while after all that made life pleasant has been destroyed It may be assumed that Canada does not want a war with any other country but it must also be assumed that if Great Britain or the United States were attacked by Russia Canada would be involved almost immediately and Canadian cities would become targets whether or not there were a formal declaration of war Organiza tions for civil survival would then be needed but not necessarily in the cities under attack A bomb that wiped out a city would also wipe out most of the persons there who had been trained to deal with such an emer gency The survivors would have to improvise their own methods of continuing to survive and of protecting what property remained They would have to count on some help from outside communities Perhaps the emphasis on training should be placed on the smaller communities who would be called upon to aid the cities It may he easier to organize classes for survival in large centres of population but it might be more practical to give the training to residents of the Cariboo the Peace River District the the and interior New Brunswick As those citizens are accustomed to deal with the vagaries of as a matter of course they probably could cope with a bomb disaster more readily than persons softened by generations of city life OUR SIDE OF WE STORY by W B HARVEY STATESMANSHIP The announcement of the new pricesupport pro gram by Minister of Agriculture has not given the praise it deserves The proposal to establish price supports based on the average price of the product over a period of years is statesmanship of high order The PCs might well contend that it is the first attempt to deal with the farm problem on a basis of principle that has ever been made on this continent Details of the plan may be criticized my prefer ence is for a price based on average prices over a period 6f five years rather than three also I see no reason for exempting wheat or any other grain from the scheme but such criticisms should not be allowed to obscure the fact that here for the first time in our history is a plan that involves a principle that can be defended in the name of u s i c e Mr Gardners criticism that it would leave the farmers worse off than before is irrelevant and childish- Let us see why The fundamental error that has pervaded almost all discussions of the farm problem is the notion that the farmers are entitled to some neverstated share of the national income That idea was m i in Mr Gardners criticism there was a reference to a fair mare of the national income in Mr speech even Mr Coldwell has endorsed the same dangerous We do not have a system of hereditary castes in Canada we have free choice of occupation If Hie in come of any occupational group seems too low to some of the people in it the remedy is to seek greener pas tures No occupational group whether it be the makers of wax candles buggy tops butter or wheat has any claim in justice to be supported in the production of un wanted articles over indefinite periods of lime Fairness between occupational groups cannot be attained through government action it can be attained only by free movement of people between occupations by keeping the doors of opportunity in all fields open to all comers Fairness is a matter relating to indivi duals not groups is attained as nearly as practic able in a in which some reward seems to be required to get people to work by establishing equality of opportunity and having the income each individual set by the value of his contribution to society And the vftluc of that f in i- 1 I hi producers like farmers can best lie measured by the con- ON THE FARM FRONT of the commodity produced that is to say by the value of the product as determined by demand and supply oh a free market I am here talking about normally competent indi viduals and about longrun policy approve the wel fare state provision for the incapacitated the unem ployed and unemployable and I approve public support for victims of unpredictable disasters like floods and earthquakes But when a certain misfortune happens so often that it must he considered a normal part of life we should adopt a permanent policy to deal with it In the case of unemployment we have adopted the policy of unemployment insurance instead of resorting to makeshift measures to meet every separate unemploy ment situation that arises And we set the unemploy ment benefits as well as relief after the insurance pay ments cease at levels sufficiently below the wage rate to encourage workers lo seek employment in other oc cupations if necessary Now the statesmanship of the Plan the idea of assisting farmers who have suffered loss of income from uiidden drop in prices Is that it substitutes a logically and ethically defensible principle for programs that at best have been makeshifts and at worst devices lo get votes The prices of farm products arc subject to forces beyond a control wars and foreign tariffs bumper crops in competing countries even governmenl- dumping Hence the fanners are entitled to some measure of nice these uncontrollable drops in income But they are not entitled to permanent sub sidies on any product which as evidenced by unprofit able prices over a period of years is being produced in loo great quantities The Governments proposal assuming it involves price supports at a I e d percentages of the freemarket price prevailing over the preceding years meets both these requirements It operates as insurance against the sudden drops in prices and income Rut it gives notice to producers that the price they will got will steadily drop as long as t hey continue to produce the product to excess If prices are set at generous per centages of the preceding years average the policy should put an end the talk about a fair share of the national income for farmers Our congratulations and our hanks are due to Prime Minister and his Government Duff his golden retrlevtr no I aster of the people the slate is their heir rights their agent in international iatioiial issues it is not the function of the state to assume the direcU ion of those activities which vest individual choice Portions Mayor lujrin address meeting Newmarket council Monday evening are presented inaugural of thoughts principles well J closely knit together that lo exist at all is by working Another must phase Above all wc must plai c in the affairs outside of We are the mark of a comparatively small but of this community that we dedicate ourselves How- Up it there shall be no rcfleclio of Ontario recreation but hi- treat you according- morning five days charity must begin at home If the council and if other small com munities do the same then we shall have perfect county pro- good how can the whole be faulty spiteful and as such Occasionally ho we By Andrew Heart Throbs Humor THE ROARIS- AND THE CURLERS ALIBIS Dedicated to all skips who bumped my shin with the blame their leads All leads who blame their skips and all I must be getting old curlers who blame anybody ex Theres something wrong with cept themselves Prom coast to coast the Curling The end seems awful long Broom and and 1 sure cant get them up today There must be something InviSrttemnTand all I took the wrong turn your To come and play the ancient Though keen battle friend- The rules are hardly fait right He wasnt hardly square Each man is on his mettle My took a True curling spirit leaves shot He nearly made me sick petty things of life He rolled and wiggled in to k A man shows tip his truest self He got a lucky wick He never gains an unearned 1 did an awful thing The last end tied the score And then I look our only To play the game though win And left them lying four He plays it on square Oh What a game this Curling In every sport or walk of life Sometimes we play so well Some folk work hard but try And other times were terrible If are for turkeys With a Classic Alibi true of curlers bowlers And on beat two rinks by When thickest in the fray You lo the third by twenty They talk of things that might And all you gets the neck My foot it slipped I took it nit and that C they the game play or out lie youll tt an alibi UNCf MARKS ANNIVCRSARY near Naples to flu transport on behalf at Force In Egypt At received a Hindus volunteered to ChrUtmu day