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J ages from the i A iters Notebook i ii- f One of the big difficulties of publishing a weekly newspaper is the length of time between Issues Weekly editors learn to allow for this timelag but oc casionally when warmed up over a public issue they lean back and fire with both barrels without regard for the conse quences That is what we did last week the subject of dusty roads We had been out the Friday before delivering pap ers and then again on Sunday Some of the roads we travelled over then were so dusty that you couldnt see a car length in front We were properly irritated and the result was the editorial we wrote on the weekend about the condition of the roads We werent out again until last Thursday and then we found that of the roads we complained about some at least had been treated and the dust laid before the paper was pub lished Well were sorry if some of the road superinten dents feel they have been un justly treated But when we wrote the editorial those roads were hazardous to the driver and a nuisance to those living beside them and they should have been given preferential treatment We have heard from one of Newmarkets innocents abroad but his postcard leaves some doubt about his activities Either he has his high school French or else he Is hav ing a high old time Bill Such the Files of in the VLA office in Newmar ket writes from Paris on a post card properly postmarked and with a picture of the Eiffel Tower on it The message reads Bon jour Tres Wee We go along with Bill for the first two sentences roughly translating them as Good day Alls well We would even accept that last phrase that Ootala as a burst of Gallic spirits which one naturally ex pects of visitors to Paris in May But we hesitate about this Wee What does it mean Has Bill forgotten his French Did he intend to say pronounced the same and meaning free translation I am enjoying myself Or did he simply mean wee as written the English equivalent of I am REALLY enjoying myself Both translations are accept able from a visitor to Paris in May the choice resting only with the mood and spirit of the visitor We must ask Bill about it when he returns home Atkinson at Atkinsons Drug Store had an interesting visitor on Monday afternoon around pm in the middle of the coffee and tea hour Conver sation was stilled as a sparrow flew in the front door coursed the length of the store and came to rest behind the coun ter Probably came in to endorse birdseed A Serving Aurora and rural of North York Th Era The Express Herald Published every at 142 Main St Newmarket fay the era and Express Subscription for two year for one year in advance Single copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office JOHN A MEYER Managing Editor JOHN News CAROLINE ION Womens GEORGE HASKETT Editor LAWRENCE RACINE Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE TWO THURSDAY THE SEVENTH DAY OF JUNE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYONE T and 50 Years Ago j JUNE Miss Marion Clark has arriv ed in Los Angeles where she will be a guest of Mrs Clark Terry Doane and Miss Georg- Pearson have been asked to sing over the Stay Radio on Thursday Mr Chas Fairbarn who ran a successful business at Bald win for some years has bought out the shoe store of Mr Lee opposite Parsons Fair A splendid market last Sat urday morning The buyers were paying 3d cents for butter and 30 cents for eggs Dressed chickens sold at 35 cents a lb Potatoes were still a bag but the demand is decreasing Asparagus two bunches for 3j cents Miss Ruth Haines Sharon has been successful in her final year of the honor course at Vic- College Toronto Rev P Graham who is leaving town in couple of weeks donated a mounted boa constrictor five and a half feet long to the high school museum Dr Geo Richardson Ottawa who attended the dental con vention in Toronto last week spent Friday with his brother W Richardson and family at Graduates of Newmarket high school who have passed recent exams at Toronto medical school are final year in medi cal school are final year in medicine Roland fifth year Kenneth Hun ter honors Harry Marritt fourth year George second year Miss Margaret Patterson first year Jack Stiics The Newmarket lawn bowl- ing club opened the season on Monday night with a local tour nament Thirtytwo members were present First prize was won by John McCaffreys rink of Dr Bartholomew John Stev enson Tim Eaton points Second prize went to Gordon Manning Fergus Lyman Rose and Mr Large with points Mrs Sutton West is visiting her son Dr Stephen Leacock at JUNE l Hiram A Wilson formerly of Newmarket has been appointed corporal in the National Guard Seattle Wash Because of the dangerous condition of the old roller skat ing rink on Ave Aur ora the owner has decided to it torn down Rev has accepted the call to He will be ordained and inducted on June 21 Rev Turnbull Toronto will preside Mr Pidgeon will preach Mr Toron to will address the minister and Mr New market will address the people During the thunderstorm last Friday morning the large trans former on St Aurora belonging to the electric light plant was burned out The el ectric fire alarm at the water works was also damaged as well as several telephones in town The Ontario government in conjunction with the Grand Trunk Railway has formulated a scheme for restocking many of the waters in the highlands of Ontario Among the lakes to be stocked with bass are and Leslie and Wesley Spring gave a birthday party to children on Tuesday Miss Edna McArthur is giving a next Tuesday even ing assisted by Dr W E Toronto No school yesterday and to- day because of the teachers convention in Newmarket A lawn tennis club has been successfully organized in Mount Albert is Marshall Pickering and Arn old Dunn Zephyr each raised large barns on Saturday after noon Mr Ira Young Muskoka sur prised his relatives at Baldwin by visiting last week He had walked from Beaver ton Mr Young is SO years old Starting June 1 the employ ees of the Office Specialty Co work from to pm on Satur days THE PRAYER RUG sfTr v- ai J- c I s ii K ir 1l V YONGE ST A DISGRACE There was an accident on Yonge St on Sunday night and traffic was held up for four miles The accident occurred just south of the townline There was another accident on Saturday night on the and St There was a second minor accident at the same time when an oncoming car skidded into another car which was held up by the accident These are the kind of accidents to be expected on a narrow stretch of highway into which on a Sunday night is funnelled a large part of the homeward bound weekend traffic Although it must be one of the most heavily used highways in Ontario Yonge St north of Eagle St is only a twolane highway a situation which is nothing short of a disgrace There is talk that this section of the highway is going to be widened the surveyors were at work a few weeks ago But the it is said will not be done for two years or so It will be another year before the TorontoBarrie route is fully usable In the meantime there will be traffic tieups and accidents on St in ever increasing numbers It was no doubt intended for the highway to relieve the congestion on Yonge St But that highway has been a long time building Shortages of one sort or another have delayed completion Under the circumstances there was no excuse for delaying work on Yonge St It is expected that Yonge St will still be a heavily used highway even when the new highway is open Perhaps the widening plans are intended for this eventuality If so how shortsighted A widened St is needed now while the highway is being built not in the future It is a vicious practice one that is dangerous to our form of government Another example is the teachers They have been illpaid for years They are only now beginning to be paid according to their importance in society and this is coming about because they have organized them selves and with the current teacher shortage are suf ficiently strong to make their weight felt on school boards But in the process the teachers have lost a good deal of prestige They and the milk producers and indeed members of any organization which can exert a political or economic pressure have no way of knowing if their organization will always use that influence to the good There is quite adequate precedents to suggest that such authority will be abused We are not against any particular organization we are opposed to all whose objective is to bring about certain advantages for its members by the application of pressure in any form Such organizations to be successful require a submission of its members to the discipline of the organization Such organizations to be successful frequently wrest their advantages at the expense of the public welfare There is the root of the issue There was a time when government was concerned with public welfare only not with the classes of the public When the rail men went on strike last year it was the public which suffered When the dairy workers went on strike it was the public which suffered In varying degrees it is the public which always pays the shot in one form or another when this organization or that is applying pressure It is not in the public welfare when there is govern- me lit by pressure or concessions by individuals to pressure We know as well as the next man the arguments on behalf of organizations The workers organized against the bosses because the bosses were organized against the workers Or vice versa The farmers or ganized against the buyers because the buyers have organized against the farmers Or vice versa The list is as long as your arm One interest organizing for the promotion of matters dear to its heart promotes a host of opposing organizations All of these organizations eventually make the seats of government their cockpits Instead of govern ment on behalf of the public welfare we have govern ment on behalf of the special interest Some of that government is good some of it is bad The danger is that such government could very easily become all bad No man is immune from corruption of power unless he is a saint and there is a scarcity of saints in the world this day No matter how well intentioned organi zations may be they are all subject to the same tenden cies They are all one day likely to confuse their purposes with divine commandment and bust the coun try wide open in the pursuit of those purposes Take the practice of licensing which is common to most organizations There is nothing which is so suc cessful in maintaining the authority of an organization than licensing It is written in the unions closed shop agreement in government sponsored marketing schemes for farmers in accrediting processes of the professional groups Authority to license implies authority to refuse a license What then It becomes the choice of bowing to the organization or going out of business In the old days it was enough to obey the laws of the land nowadays its the laws of the land plus the impositions of special interests Its bad business And the only alternative we have to offer is this instead of organizing to battle it out with another organization how about fighting to end organizations Instead of being governed by special interest lets get back to government for all the people If politicians support special interests throw them out If an organization acts contrary to public interest disband it The only difficulty is that to carry out such a pro gram the public would have to organize too Well we already organized Were all voters and our executive is the government That should be the only organization were concerned with We have the means lots bring an end to this tying our political and economical life in knots for the benefit of this or that special interest not matter of I inhinBment on and national it REPORT SIDELIGHT The Commission reporting on the state of culture in Canada recommended that the licensing of private stations be removed from the authority of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation a recommendation which should find general agreement with all Canadians We commented here some weeks ago about the prac tice of giving commissions or other government ap pointed bodies the authority of judges on questions of their administration It is a highhanded practice to have the license stations with which it is nominally competing But while this recommendation touched upon a ser ious issue in the practice of government another rec ommendation while of comparative importance has evoked a highly curious reaction from private broad casters The commission recommended that the devel opment of television remain a CBC undertaking A statement from the private radio stations protested this Why the private broadcasters asked should the taxpayer be charged the cost of this expensive devel opment when the private broadcasting industry is pre pared to do it for free If there were no other considerations involved such a statement would still evoke nothing but surprise and disbelief It is so frequently the other way around Generally it is a request for the government to spend the taxpayers dollars But here private industry vol unteers to assume the cost Indeed times would ap pear to bo changing But wail What is the price of such a saving Private TV nets like those in the United States No thank you When TV comes to Canada it will be worth a few cents to the taxpayer for something more than lady wrestlers and Milton TOO MUCH ORGANIZATION The milk producers in this district are talking of establishing a milk marketing agency because it is the only way they know by which to achieve their objectives of a fair return for their milk against the heretofore unbeatable combination of political interest and strong city organizations If they should adopt such a course the producers will have to submit to certain compulsory requirements which aretradition ally obnoxious to the independent farmer But say they there is no choice It is the lesser of two evils choice the lesser of two evils is being made everywhere in Canada today The only way to the influence of one organization is so it is argued to organize a stronger group The government en courages the practice or at least goes along with it by providing enabling legislation in one form or an- A I Of f ice Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger There is a musician in Toron to who is conducting some re search on Chinese music I see He writes that the Chinese have a good chance of becoming leaders in the world of music in the next century The musician is trying to find out something about the old Chinese scale what this correspondent understands the old Chinese scale was forgotten In fact it was on the way out around 150 BC According to those who know there were a lot more notes in the ancient scale so that their music was much more subtle than ours You never allowed to play some of those ancient in struments in China after you had been drinking or after you had worked up a sweat for any reason Thats because they were very delicate and subtle and nobody who had worked up a sweat was capable of being subtle It reminds me of a dog whis tle I once had You could blow it and never hear it yet your dog would come running to you It must have been pretty subtle if you could call a dog without making any sound But I guess it didnt compare to the Chinese musical instruments because you usually worked up a blowing it Your favorite correspondent was greatly at a certain Toronto daily newspapers atti tude toward a recent migration of little cuckoo birds last week- Comparing the cuckoo with mosquitoes hordes of invad ing caterpillars on the apple tree cutworms in the garden the report said that a Toronto zoological expert came up with a new menace cuckoos Theyre swarming in to eat the caterpillars which other birds wont eat said the ex pert Well what of it I say If fate has decreed that the will come to eat up the cat erpillars then we should accept it as a blessing Think of all the poems which would not have been written had it not been for the cuckoo For instance the poet back in the century ends his Springs Welcome with Hark how the jolly cuckoo Hark how the jolly cuckoos spring to welcome in the spring Normally we have about cuckoos in Toronto today there are and in the next few weeks theyll be swarming said the expert I dont like the intonations in this news papers report Youd think that these little cuckoo birds repre sented some kind of a plague on the citizenry If some of the dead poets were alive they would tell the news paper a thing or two They would help me out me a lone ly voice crying in the wilder ness of attitudes toward cuckoo birds Tlie newspaper would probably have so many letters to the editor from dead poets they would have to run an extra edition by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches considering the phenomena of cuckoos Another poem by James Shir ley a little later than des cribes the drowsy cuckoo and the humblebee in The Spring Slim wrote Lo the little lowly cuckoo cocks his much more than ours sun sedately settle un der the undulating clouds Bully the cuckoo And Slim isnt even dead yet So what if there are cuckoos in Toronto Maybe the migration of cuckoos will en courage a migration of poets to follow Then the artists might follow the poets and the musicians and we might even get the old Chin ese scale back Toronto might become another Greenfield Vil lage or a Left Bank all on ac count of the cuckoo bird And why not Toronto wants and has everything else in this generation so why should it not be a centre for poets and musi cians and cuckoo birds Look on the bright side of things There is always some good in caterpillars for instance Look what they can lead to When do farmers get holi days We feel rather courageous to tackle this subject because maybe the mayor of Toronto doesnt approve of holidays for farmers Maybe he thinks that if the farmer takes this further step towards living like other people do and realizes what he has been missing he wont be able to say any longer what the price of milk should he Why do people want holi days Some want them because they want a rest Some like to travel and see new sights Others want to visit friends and relatives And there are those who merely want to break away from routine be it just ever so little Everybody according to his or her make up has a different idea of what a holiday should be It is just when you are actu ally enjoying your holiday that you realize how much you real ly had to have it how import ant it is to your own welfare It is then that you realize how deadly the routine of arm chores has become What a stimulus it is to drive through new countryside see new faces talk to strangers And when the end of the holi day arrives we are usually ready to go home and buckle down with fresh determination and outlook But when is the farmer to go on holidays There is not much chance of it in the wintertime HE OLD HOME TOWN In the spring then he tells his wife theyll go on their holidays in the early summer but there is a wet spring and seeding is late and everything gets behind and there is no time for a holiday It is postponed until am no holiday at all The biggest obstacle a farm er must hurdle before he takes holidays is we suppose lining up help while he is away To leave everything for a week or ten days is hard on any farm er and more so for the dairy farmer There is no change or letup in milking We think that the solution is to organize a sort of travelling work force Let each farm er contribute so much a week towards it just like insurance Then let the group draw up a schedule of holidays and hire the men lo do the work The group could do the supervising in turn Each contributor could take his holidays and the group could supervise the work on his farm while he was gone This could be done in turn and turn about system The actual labor of course would be done by hired men the members of the group simply keeping an eye on their absent neighbors farm Then we could all have a couple of weeks to forget prices and quotas a wet spring and broken equipments and even the Milk Control Board and the mayor of Toronto By STANLEY J