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By Andrew Murdison Heart Throbs Humor and From The Files Of 25 And 50 Years Ago OF THIS i Serving Newmarket and the The Newmarket Era 1852 Published every Thursday al Charles St district of North York l the for the other fellow With right hnd lui rrTon the acehigh This also quit Toronto Stefaniuk as Second Class Mai Post Office Depart Ian Baxter Publish Advertising The Express Herald 1895 Limited Subscription Class A Weeklies of Canada George Haskett Sports Editor THE Racine Production EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE FOURTH DAY OF FEBRUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY eating of run Why oh why car writers be fair suggested the what brine nothing Our Readers Write will be red this week FREEDOM OF THE PRESS On a number of recent occasions council hits put we the Press in difficult situations In our re porting of its meetings it sometimes asks us to refrain from writing about certain issues which are before members for consideration The discussions which council members do not wish to be publicized usually refer to the purchase of land and we understand well enough their dilemma However they must also un derstand ours In the past a request of this nature has usually been honored In purchasing property or plan ning to buy land for the development and welfare of the town we know that it is not always expedient to allow prospective vendors to learn that their property is the object of so much interest For this reason we have complied with councils requests though often very reluctantly Frankly we are not sure what the solution to this practise should be but we do have a suggestion While we certainly dont want to harm the interests of the town we must insist on performing the necessary duly of keeping the taxpayer informed We would ask coun cillors therefore that prior to coming before a full meeting of council with their secret negotiations and we know they have a number they first finalize in the comparative confidence of their committees all real estate agreements They should also notify all the parties concerned We can then print what we hear and perhaps we would be spared the embarrassment of being asked to overlook certain discussions We do try believe it or not to conscientiously re port for the townsfolk just what is going on and we do not feel that council is being fair in putting the onus on the Press to turn a blind eye to news Sadly the public seats at council meetings are invariably empty and this is probably the reason why this comic opera situation has arisen We can hardly visualize a coun cillor turning round to a packed audience of some people and telling them not to repeat what they had just heard Councillors should remember th meetings we are not the Press And we are some eight thousand thought their the Public JOBS FOR THE ELDERLY In these days of slogans and the need to find jobs for the younger unemployed the problem of finding and keeping a place in society for the older worker is often overlooked Fven the seeker sometimes comes face to face with this situation when a personnel officer tells him that a position calls for one who is It is a nasty shock to learn that only halfway through his life he is already considered re dundant This state of affairs may be blamed on todays economic structure of our industries With the trend to more complex jobs and increasing specialization it is allegedly thought that the older man will cost more to train and that his years of usefulness will be limited This fallacy seems to have implanted itself firmly in the minds of industrialists and it is taking a great deal of talking and writing to prove to them that the older man is often a bargain The major obstacle in the way of hiring elderly men firms argue is the difficulty of establishing them in a pension plan However many corporations arc now taking a second look at their preconceived notions on workers over and coming up with some startling facts They are hiring men strictly on the basis of their technical skills education and past experience with little reference to their age They arc discovering that the older men offer more stability more craftsmanship and less turnover Being more mature older men often have a more conscientious attitude towards their job than their younger colleagues They are also finding that many of the difficulties with pension plans are more imagined than real It would be as well if this reluctance on the part of employers to accept men in the to 50 age group was studied closely by the authorities life expectancy continuing to increase this problem will not solve itself Indeed with all the work and develop ment which needs to be done in this country of ours to have a large part of the working force lying idle through a social attitude would be criminal Employ ers are forbidden by law to discriminate in the hiring of workers due to race color or creed and it would per haps not be untimely to suggest that a clause on old age be added If a man is capable then his age should not hold him to a disadvantage in the race for a liveli hood Eighteen months ago New York State passed legislation to this effect and already prejudices are be ing reduced and although the results as yet are not spectacular it is at least a step in the right direction Men over are now getting a chance to take where before their letters of application were ignored Threequarters of the larger firms questioned who are taking an active pa that they have no regrets about their Here then is a lead for others wastage of experience ami talent mav be halted If men get Holland Landing market ought to working there provincial Mr Baker said t Mr I get to do Mr meeting New- port that and without complaint re- traditions of the early this of the II would be the part I High School Mr J of the situation and the shore with the going to northern relief week but arranged their The audi Ins I ill in creditable standing OUA between i by Mathews town meeting on has the largest by Clerk Mathews is be lieved to be 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