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Germany Breaks From League In prepared through parley- Sir Thorn a general said I yet vive Germans departure doubt the League would organization of Germans regarded in a riding Following is a market were announced on Honda was strengthened with from the League ons is but one of Hitlers found her delegate lot of unfriend faces suited a girl got 30 laches By Andrew Mardison Heart Throbs Humor BACK FROM THE WILDS in and northern during tie summer ard peelers ltd to fall the rock formation n of v h claim thai prospectors the the friendly and The Newmarket Era Published every at Pages from the Editors Notebook Newmarket and the rural districts of North York Newmarket Era and Express John E truth era Managing Editor Caroline Ion Associate Editor George Hasltett Sports Editor Racine Production E Advertising THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE THIRTIETH DAY OF OCTOBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND PUT RESPONSIBILITIES ON VOTERS The town council is throwing plenty of responsi bility on the shoulders of the electors this year On the ballot paper the first of December will be four questions in addition to names of candidates for public office Electors must decide the following questions Will council members be elected for two years instead of one Will all British subjects over with one year in resi dence vote in municipal elections Will council be per mitted to expropriate or buy land for industrial pur poses spending up to Will a 10year bus fran chise be granted We do not recall a year when so many decision have been left to the electors Most if not all of the above questions are requited by law to be answered directly by the people We have heard it suggested that the council is going to posh too many questions under the noses of ballot markers this year Perhaps some people who have not been following municipal events every week will consider they are not in a position to answer yes or no to questions posed But each question is significant to every taxpayer and he will have a greater opportunity in than in any other year of determining how his taxes will be spent Whether or not the law requites these questions to put on the ballot newspaper is in favor them being directed to the voters The complexity of gov ernment has reduced the number of occasions when people to make direct decisions concerning their affairs With these questions on the ballot papers December 1 Newmarket electors will have an oppor tunity to take an active part in the democratic system as it functions FOUNDING FATHERS EXPECTED MORE In many parts of the world Canadians are still regarded as a nation of broadshouldered cleareyed heavyfooted frontiersmen wrestling incredible riches from rock and soil to feed the mills and factories of their more technically advanced other says The Financial these Hays are long past In the last 20 years our manufacturing establish ments have increased by more than half and the num ber of people employed in manufacturing has more than doubled This trend was foreseen even by the Fathers of Confederation Indeed at that time it was predicted that by Canada would have a population of million We fell far short of that because for a time our toakd immigration NOT BELITTLING The Era and Express issue of Oct carried an edi torial commenting on the possibilities of preventing a service station from being located in the subdivi sion Eagle St Newmarket We stated that we sympa thized with the wishes of the subdivision ratepayers who were trying to persuade council to turn down an appli cation for a building permit At the same time the Era said If an oil company wishes to build a service station in the area council cannot stop it without legal grounds to do so An executive member of the ratepayers asso ciation has stated that the editorial did not mention that there is a town bylaw requiring all applications for service station building permits to go before the town council It is the claim of the executive member that the omission of this fact in the editorial put the associ ation in a bad light Had there been no byJaw the association would not have been fighting the service station proposal he pointed out The Era is unable to retract its opinion that council could not stop the service station from being built According to bylaw the application must go before council But council must have legal grounds in order to refuse the application Council was not furnished with those legal grounds There was no intention to belittle the rate payers If the editorial created an impression that the association lacked sound reasons to fight the application the Era Above all this newspaper respecLs any individual or group which takes an active interest in local politics when the motive is genuine While the Era may disagree with the opinions of such an indivi dual or group it will not belittle it with intention ALL BUDDYBUDDY Dont we have fun A couple of weeks ago the arena commission the junior hockey executive mem bers of council and others were gnashing teeth and pull ing their hair Considerable animositv grew out of the crisis Today in Newmarket nil is quiet on the hockey front The arena commission anil the hockey executive are paitners in the presentation of this win ters junior in town On the surface were all pals once again This newspaper repeals its opinion expressed dur ing the first week of the controversy earlier this month that the arena commission should not engage in activi ties which are speculative We shall leave this state ment of opinion as it is going into the details which were expressed on Thursday Oct OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by W HARVEY make big sounds The Express Herald 1895 about It We the businessman the ft unlike Several said they lilies publicly Business is iid they didnt The local newspaper is a in local get be uote A businessman Is not who do Yet big iely local law pawed by Ihe muni- all th do not slop buying politics He fears he and he said so publicly He was customer or two Apparently space every week whole democratic capitalistic a Main St On opposed Mayor Report On The Towns Business authorization for ipteen bylaws compensated necessary to it So much so that in spite jive speculation and your Mayors prodigious with potential ts the meeting had to go into tries Regarding the the biggest bone of do with sound truck house bid of council accepted law as interpreted by our sale of wares and merchandise It seemed that the copy of the bylaw given to the chief of police for his guidance stated was to be HO Brought I ably Is now it iai and DISCUSSION ESSENTIAL TO DEMOCRACY