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Ivors efcooA m mi Last weks was only eight page hut it was the difficult to get out that have had in a long time Papers double its size rolled off the press with half the of this one The slow delivery of mail was of course one handicap Were afraid however that the biggest ob stacle to a smooth performance was the general postholiday lethargy which seemed to slow us all down Perhaps it was a letdown from the Christmas rush We had all worked nights and all day Saturdays to keep the large December papers rolling on time And then when the fin al paper was put had taken a Christmas holiday The heavy holiday meats the excitement of the Christmas season took their inevitable toll A few of the staff caught the flu bug and reported a miser able Monday in bed- Oh well all over now and we start this week with volume one and another year closer to our birthday We were struck by the comments of our Farm CdJumnist on the subject of New Years Day on the farm his column last week There is nothing about it he writes to distinguish It from any other day unless you have been cel ebrating too enthusiastically the night before The real New Year Days oh the farm the days when the season t changes There is the day when ev erything is battened down and the farm is prepared for win ter or the day when you first go out on the land For us town folk New Years Day is a calendar observance For the farm folk the new years days are the end of one cycle and the beginning of another in the rhythm of the farm life TO farm New Years Day seems a far more sensible cause for celebration than the calen dar New Years What after ail is so worth celebrating in the tearing off of another month from the calendar We do that times a year any way and so should be used to it It is an artificial celebra tion far removed from any significance beyond what we endow it with whether as an excuse to kiss a pretty girl at midnight or to stay up all night and ache in the head all the following day Far more significant is the first seed sown or the last wagon load brought in We suppose that we should look back over the year in the fashion of our sports writers but we just dont feel up to it The play on the international stage was momentous pro mises to be more so It is dif ficult to look back and weigh and assess from so short a range It Is difficult to look back when the future so en gages our attention Files of 50 Years i JANUARY Mr P Hone of the science department of the Lon don technical school was a New Year visitor of his bro ther Rev A Hone Mr and Mrs James Davis of the 3rd of King celebrated their wedding anniversary on Tuesday evening A dinner was held at their home Mrs A Aurora a niece presented Mrs Davis with a purse of gold and Mr and Mrs Davis with an armchair each Addresses were given by Mr Andrews and Mr J Walton Aurora and Rev Hol mes Kettleby A family reunion was held at the home of Mr and Mrs D on Christmas day the occasion of their wedding anniversary Among the guests were Mr and Mrs Conrad and daughter of Toronto Mr and Mrs Sam and two children of Hanover Mr and Mrs Robinson Mount Albert and Dr Mr Oscar Detroit and his brother Mr Harry were home for the Christmas holi days There was a great quantity of poultry butter eggs apples and vegetables offered at the special New Years market on Tuesday morning but there was a lack of buyers and the produce was slow in leaving the hands of the farmers Ruling prices were butter cents eggs cents snow apples cents a basket geese 20 cents a lb ducks 30 cents a lb cents a lb turk eys cents a lb First class dry four foot maple sold at a cord Newmarket intermediate hockey team lost its opening home game in the ser ies last Monday night when St Marys of Toronto defeated them There was a good crowd present Mayor Placed the puck Newmarket players were goal Harmon defence Cain and wing and Murray centre subs McCaffery Mi Hugo JANUARY About 13600 lbs of milk were received at the butter fac tory last week and 582 lbs of butter were made The price averaged 24 cents a lb Hon J Davis commission er of Crown Lands presented the library with the Revised Statutes of Ontario and the succeeding statutes to date It was eight below zero yes terday morning Mr Foucar English master in the Collegiate Institute is to succeed Mr J C Rogers as principal of Brad ford high school On Christmas eve the Daville Tanning Company Aurora presented each married man in their employ with a goose and each single man with a quart of oysters as a Christmas pres ent Forty loads of gravel have been placed on the Holland River road greatly improving it Mr Newmarket has received the appointment of district agent for the Toronto Globe Mr Knope superintendent of the iron department in the Office Specialty works accom panied by Mr John Ough was visiting in Rochester last week Mrs gave an after noon tea last week in honor of her guests the Misses and Miss Marion Toronto There was a fair supply of butter and eggs at the market last Saturday and there was an upward tendency As high as cents was paid for butter and cents for fresh eggs packed eggs sold at cents Great demand for poultry dressed geese went up to eight and dressed turkeys to cents Seventy cents per pair was paid for ducks and cents for chickens Mr James will be teach er at the Baseline school for He is a graduate of Port Perry Model school Geo Mount Albert shot a fox recently in swamp not far from the village vvv SHAKEDOWN CRUISE JANUARY i every mi Iff mm I Stuff mi The it f are St LIGHT A CANDLE The beginning of a New Year is customarily an ticipated with refreshed hopes for progress and accom plishment The beginning of is not regarded so Few if any of the year end comments by statesmen editors and others who have access to a public were in a cheerful vein If they were hopeful it was with the hope that enough force could be mustered to resist aggression If they had promises for the future they were promises only of a grim application of every ounce of effort to stiffening our defences In this deepening gloom the Happy New Year of friend to friend and neighbor to neighbor had a hollow echo Is it possible to be happy when the world teeters on the brink of a precipice For all of that one can find in the back issues of newspapers forecasts by editors which make our mod ern sound like angels of light We have survived those dreadful prophesies in this we may derive some hope for continued existence More fitting we think is the quotation Mr Howard Morton used in his Christmas greeting in this paper two weeks ago It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness We can all light a candle this year a candle of resolution to accept the burdens imposed upon us with out weakening in our determination to resist aggres sion no matter how high the cost OPERATION OF ARENA The Newmarket Memorial Arena used to be con sidered as something special in the way of public prop erties It meant something to the majority of citizens it was a symbol of accomplishment of joint effort of local enterprise Its purchase was made possible by a wave of enthusiasm for a publicly owned arena which it was believed then could pay its way and still provide a maximum of cheap skating for the greatest number of citizens Circumstances didnt bear out this earlier concep tion but public enthusiasm was still sufficiently strong a few years later so that when the call went out for volunteer labor to help install artificial ice the helping hands were ready and willing The success of that effort is one of the high spots in Newmarkets history There was belated recognition that here at last was a true manifestation of a Newmarket spirit All who had anything to do with the arena were proud of what had been done and rightly so In the last year however there has been a waning of that spirit until at present one hears more of criti cism than of accomplishment Some of this disillus ionment can be attributed to the blunder of opening night when the volunteers were charged admission This might have been forgotten had it not been for a growing feeling that the operation of the arena is slip ping away from control of the people Admission prices ice charges concession rent All these have been criticized by the man on the street But that is not the real issue At the root is the ques tion which never to our knowledge has been fully answered what is the policy under which the arena is to he operated Is It to be a strict moneymaking prop osition paying its own way and building up its reserves Is the emphasis to be placed instead upon the maximum of public service with the town covering its deficits Or is it a compromise of both We are not being critical of the arena commission They are the agents of the council and the onus for their administration rests upon the council Presumably the council approves of the commission there is no suggestion to the contrary The fact is however that what had been a source of and a tremendous boost to the morale of the town is being lost in a growing sense of frustration A thorough dis cussion of arena policy in council would do much to end misunderstanding and revive public interest VALUABLE NEIGHBOR The city or hobby farmer is often object of the scorn of his practising farmer neighbors His ap parently unlimited wealth his insistence upon the com forts of city his concern with his hunting and his to his neighbors expensive outdoor hobbles make him the butt of countless jokes When he buys a run down farm he is called a fool When he is able to make that farm produce by the investment of scientific effort his accomplishments are derided There are many hobby farmers who deserve scorn of their neighbors There however far more who should be praised and valued as good neigh bors Family Herald and Weekly Star says this of thorn In their efforts to farm on a high technical level and because they have nonfarm revenue behind them they can experiment with improved farm tech niques or with expensive and perhaps unproved mach inery thus setting a good example for their neighbors if they are successful or showing what should be avoided if they are not The Family Herald quotes from a recent speech of Mr Gilbert president of the Dairy Farm ers of Canada his references to the work done in the improvement of breeds by city farmers It might also have told with equal force of the farms put back into production in King township by city farmers Apart from farming on a high technical level the city farmer with his nonfarm revenue has been able to restore abandoned land increasing the values of his neighbors holdings and ending the threat of land deterioration that all abandoned land directs at neigh boring farms NORTH ASSESSMENTS An assessment measured by the same standards on all properties is one of the moat essential require ments to a sound local administration It is an absolute requirement of all to be certain of just treat ment No administration can function with economic soundness without it And when inequalities of assess ment are brought to light the administration which acts swiftly to remove those inequalities will be repaid by a strengthening public confidence It was unfortunate that the North council did not act on Tuesday when the subject of a new assessor was raised A court of revision before the township elections in December revealed what had been long suspected that there was little rhyme or reason to many of the township assessments A second court of revision last week at which an assessment expert Mr C appeared did nothing to public uncertainty If anything Mr statement that assessments in the township were very irregular was confirmation if confirmation were required of the inequities Under the circumstances it would have behooved the council to act at once to repair these conditions Yet on Tuesday when the question of a new assessor arose it was given most indecisive consideration and finally put off to another meeting to be held this even ing This is an age when municipal councils are hard put to retain their independence Every circumstance works against their autonomy The trend is towards increasing centralization of administration and every departure from the tenets of sound local government is eagerly seized upon as grounds to further divest local councils of their authority Inequities of assessment are not only unfair to the taxpayer and should be put right immediately but they work against the local administration restricting its income discouraging public confidence and providing grounds upon which to further limit its authority UPSIDE DOWN THINKING It is a little difficult to understand the reasoning of Mr Percy president of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada when he protests Ottawas intention to increase the working hours of civil servants and reduce their number Ottawa has long been under fire for its wasteful expenditures and for the heavy civil service payroll Here are two economies which self indicated the lengthening of the work week from hours lo and the release from the federal payroll of a number of employees from the old Wartime Prices Hoard now largely wound up There seems little point in keeping unwanted civil servants on the payroll and with the nation girding for defence an increase of two and a half hours to a work week is not onerous Mr insists however that there is no need for the length ening at this time of the hours of work We in the congress will continue to press in collaboration with our affiliated organizations for a further shortening of the work week Wo would think that as far as the Ottawa move is concerned Mr as a taxpayer would welcome the saving with defence works running short of men shorter hours in other industry is hardly a pertin ent issue Pine Orchard ratepayers asked their school trust ees to look into the services that the York County Health Unit would offer for school children an swer is at least partly given in the announcement of immunization program being undertaken by the unit in next few weeks for schoolago and pre school children not 4 ffMMFMk Or 9 guarantor national www If of fffcof By Ginger After a month and a half in the caves of Prance studying an extinct species of human be ings Slim vas back home for New Years Back in his piano box man sion beside the railway tracks the philosopherartist lit up his favorite after breakfast El Pan- do cigar He patted his French poodle which the noted Paris opera star Claudette de coloratura had given him during his brief visit there His seven beagle hounds howl ed jealously In an interview with the nat ural born primitive artist your favorite correspondent heard of the discovery of what was be to be a species of pre historic human the Glenville Sideroad Man A person has got to have a flair for studying prehistoric beings said Slim Ive pretty well exhausted the French caves for scientific data and have been scouting for new fields Besides a lot of the French caves had been visited before mostly by American tourists Theres pretty well no place that they dont get at and you can always tell by the empty consumer packages they leave behind Prehistoric beings are pretty hard to locate Slim continued For instance theres been sev eral chance discoveries of bones which go back thousands of years If it hadnt been for keen anthropologists like me nobody would have discovered such fellows I have been studying old CroMagnon over in the French caves but theres also the old Java Ape Man Ne anderthal man and Peking man the bones of whom were discovered in China He is the most ever to be found Here in America there hasnt been as much prospect- -T- done but there was close to another the GlenviUe Sideroad man right here around home What said I foreseeing the story of the half century a story that would rival the dis- covery of the crater if given the same amount of a buildtip Well it was like this Young Doug RichmondEwer the gentleman farmers son of the concession was flush ing out a fox when he stumbled over an old bone After think- it over he decided it must be a bone from the hand of a Glenville sideroad resident of thousands of years vintage And was it I demanded Well I was summoned over the other day to identify we uprooted a big skeleton of a dried up old mud Turned out to be a black which probably died less than I- a century ago Bear skeletons look like human ones and its only genuine anthropologists who can tell- the difference Sort of a disappointments This area would have world renowned if it had an extinct species of human Yei I mused With a good publicity man we could have done wonders with it Just imagine scientific world- bombshell reveals most species GlenviUe man And with all these Am tourists looking for sou- venirs all summer long and I could have became rich We could sell pebbles off the sideroad at two bits a piece and tell the tourists that they are pieces of geologi cal phenomena They wouldnt know the difference Its too bad said Slimy But thats what scientific is full of failures and J disappointments by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches Our agricultural calendar notes that between Jan and March there will be ferent meetings which are im portant to farmers Fourteen of these last more than one day and this calendar only mentions meetings of Ontario or national groups If you add to these the numerous county meetings and fair board meet ings and the meetings of the boards of directors of these as sociations you cannot help but feel that there are a tremen dous number of opportunities for people in agriculture to get together We might go further and suggest that there is very little chance for anybody to stay home for the next three months anyway We like to go to those meet ings because going to a meeting involves getting away from it all It is nice to have a day all dressed up sitting in a nice warm room on nice shiny very hard chairs and listen to some body else put into words what we sometimes feel is right or wrong And then a meeting is a good opportunity to visit with some of the fellows we dont see more than a couple of times a year We really think this visiting might be the main at traction of these meetings This time of the year the ad vocates of the English system of pubs would get very little support from us We can get into a car with four or five other fellows drive to Toronto hash over the business of the year sit through a meeting drive home and talk over what happened at the meeting and feel quite contented milking late at night because of the sti mulation of good bull session in the ear We arent any different from the rest of the world and we have over period of years de veloped our likes and dislikes concerning meetings We dont like meetings where you can not hear the president In the second row front because he couldnt be heard with an air craft detector and we dont like tho president who talks as if next spring would be THE OLD HOME TOWN election time for him We dont like shivering in cold basements or roasting in warm ones and having an uncomfor table sleep on hard chairs We are disgusted when some smart aleck holds up proceed ings and we hate these meet- where there are no elec tions We listen with rapt attention while we are told over and over again that early seeding increases yield but leave with a kind of empty feeling when they fall to tell us how to sow when the spring is late and the mud is ankle deep or when it pours dogs and cats We can really get en thused about the more efficient use of and calf feeds but when we get home and look at the last months feed bill we go to bed with the shivers and hepe the ters will do well on oats and other homegrown grains We like the guys who get up and crack a joke or two but somehow when we try to tell the same story at home it always falls flat and the know lingering look of our spouse indicates that we should have stayed home to clean out the box stall today and the brooder house still hasnt been cleaned out and have we not been told that the brooder house should stay empty and clean for several weeks and empty means not last years manure less chick- ens So the next time we stay home We clean the box stall and we have a go at the brood house We say to ourselves that we heard it all before and that If we did half the things we know wo should do we would be the best farmer this side of the lower townltne And then it happens The meeting is good and the busi ness session is brief the guest speaker is interesting the sand arent dry and there is enough of them and our cousin whom we tried to see about a hog all winter long finally fin his straw shed and came i to see us at the meeting we werent there By STA r