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s iXV As a rule we enjoy the writ hing of this column Its a pleas- way to pass the time of day our readers have a little a little social intercourse And it gives us a chance to get out from behind the anonymity of the editorial page But this week it is a chore The year has been too long holidays are overdue There is absent the sense of freshness with which we can normally approach the week And too there is a sense of sameness which we fear must be as ob vious to the reader as it is to the writer These are awkward times There axe the difficulties which are attendant the shifting of staff as they take their holi days It would be so much simpler to close down for tvo Weeks Many papers do but we have always felt that a sub- makes contract for the i weeks of the year not for plus the two weeks when no paper comes out r We have some consolation in that this feeling of sameness is foreign to other editors wrote that the straw was getting soggy from too much threshing and forthwith closed and went off for a rest We wont be closing but were going to try and get ahead of ourselves long enough to take a week or tvo off and of all things paint the house Well they say a change is as good as a rest J We suppose that it is because of his fatigue that some of the normal operational hazards of publishing are the more irritat ing Last week for example we had planned to use several pictures on the front page One set in which there was a keen interest was taken at the farewell party for Rev Henry Cotton and Mrs Cotton The pictures were sent to the engraver in Toronto in good time but somehow connections were missed and despite assur ances of their arrival on time for Thursday publication they didnt reach us until too late for use They are in this week but in the meantime had to try and explain to those who looking forward to their appearance what the trouble was have an editorial pre pared on milk prices may yet put it in But as strongly as feel about the manner in which the producers in this dis trict are being treated we still have that feeling of sameness about it so the chances are that it wont appear The fact is that there is so much of the same old runaround and it makes you wonder if even dy namite strategically placed will change the old order And then matters are rather quiet along the amalgamation front and that leaves us without the match to light the fuses of editorial indignation The truth is that we have grown rather fond of the amalgama tion issue as an editorial sub ject It has everything an honest cause political targets and a bitter resentment at the manner in which the nabobs in the city have undertaken to parcel out the county without so much as by your leave We felt rather lonely a year or so ago when we took issue with the government the Globe and Mail they called us ven erable they did and assorted citizens of Toronto and so it is pleasant to see that the evi dence points to the more com mon sense approach and the Premiers ultimatum of amal gamate or else is a threat of the past But ve confess that are still in the dark about Newmar kets intentions on Grace St There was a fairly hard bed left on the road after last years oiling but in a burst of civic zeal this turned under by a grading operation which sub stituted dust instead With a bit of oil this would be all to the good but the oil has been a long time coming and the dust is getting thicker Oh well at least they oiled the lane that runs into Grace St even if they hadnt gotten around to the street itself by the weekend One more word before the 30 to end this column and that about the sign board for Newmarket on St The proposal finally reached coun cil only to be relegated to com mittee What will happen is anyones guess Youd never know how difficult it is to put up a simple sign on a street corner Of course the provin cial government is having such troubles too Despite the ap palling number of accidents on At at the they still havent gotten around to erecting a warning sign Probably it is in committee too From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago JULY Miss Elizabeth Levis and Miss Slider of the Sick Childrens hospital Toronto left Sunday evening on a vacation trip to Angeles and the Canadian west The weather is warming up in the shade on Tuesday Good market last Saturday morning The prevailing price for butler was cents and cents a dozen for eggs Five hundred people attended the ceremony of laying the cor nerstone of the new ad dition to the high school on Mon day evening Sir William Mu- an exstudent of Newmar ket high school laid the corner stone and among the speakers Mayor Pear son Mr Keith MPP Mr Mr J Hoi lings Mr J Patterson and Sir William Mulock Last Tuesday evening a num ber of friends from Christ church Holland Landing pres Mrs J Chapman who moving to Toronto with a travelling bag An evening of games and music was enjoyed Ruth Bates a graduate nurse of of York County hospital has accepted posi tion as assistant night super vlaor In Newark City hospi talNewark J Miss Rates is the oldest daughter of the late Mr Ernest Dates Aurora A successful handkerchief shower for the coming Presby terian church bazaar was held at home of Mrs J Cane last Thursday Over 100 beau tiful handkerchiefs were donat ed by the ladles JULY The high bridge on Queen St is expected to be open today for traffic It is feet long and feel vide Quite a heat wave lately On Thursday the thermometer in town registered from to in the shade and at oclock at night it was still and at eight oclock Friday morning Miss Webster has been ap pointed teacher at the Aurora public school in place of Miss who has resigned Mr James the keeper of the Industrial Home was given a surprise parly by his sons daughters and grand children on his birthday He presented with a gold headed ebony cane Morgan has been appointed to Mount Albert cir cuit Last Friday evening the Cit izens Band gave a band concert at the corner of Queen and Prospect Messrs J Cane and treated the band to ice cream cake and strawberries More improvement are about to be made at the rear of Royal hotel which will greatly increase the accommodation Rev McCulloch and fam ily left on Wednesday to spend their holidays at Port Perry and Lindsay Last Friday at noon fire broke out at Baldwins flour mill The fire had gained little head way by the time the brigade arrived and vas extinguished by a few pails of water OLD HOME TOWN tr By STANLEY t THE I WAS A I WAV 1 Vi i frWW i I afev TM fcw A J Serving Aurora and rural of North Tho Era Horatdl895 Published Thursday at Main St Newmarket by ffto Newmarket Era and Express United Subscription for two for one year in advance Single copies are 5c each Member of Class A of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa JOHN A JOHN Women Sport L Mm RACINE Job Printing Production TH EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE FOUR THURSDAY THE FIFTH DAY OF JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SHOPPING BAG RAMPANT A broadcaster in search of a symbol for Dominion Day settled on a shopping bag crammed to bursting with holiday needs as the most appropriate July 1st weekend is the time for going to the cottage In this great exodus from the cities what is more common than the shopping bag No doubt a few lions and unicorns a sprinkling of roses and flour de lis and it all done up with a taste ful arrangement of beavers and maple leaves would be more to the patriotic taste but the shopping bag in its own way manages to say a great many things about our country For one it speaks of a people which is able to spend much of its leisure time on beaches ami in the north woods There is a suggestion too of an emphasis upon the utilitarian and the practical to the disadvantage of the finer things which is common to Canada And the fact that the bag can be crammed and that it be only one of several pieces of luggage crowded into the back scat of a car or nesting between ones knees on a rail way car seat is evidence of the bounty Canadians en joy We grant you that a worn and ragged shopping bag with sand shovels sticking out from on top next weeks roast would not look loo well engraved in the stones of the Parliament Building but there is much to be said for it as a symbol of Canada on the occasion of her 81th birthday ACCIDENT TOLL The Dominion Day weekend exacted a heavy toll of Canadians Eighty died in accidents or by violence of died in Ontario This figure exceeds even the pessimistic estimate of the Ontario Safety League which on the basis of last year forecast an accident toll of of which 19 would die on the high- ways and eight on the water Last year in Ontario lost their lives seven on highways and eight on the water The League suggests that July be renamed The Dominion Sacrifice It is a grim suggestion but the rising toll bears it out Some of those lives were lost by carelessness others were lost by the carelessness of Die first It is not encouraging to learn each Domin ion Day that our ability to take lives and the lives of others is improving This accident toll is not necessary It has been shown before that a concerted effort to cut down accidents Can bring about that happy result We have been able to reduce accidents on New Years by a combin ation of advance warning stern policing and safety education Cannot such campaigns be directed at weekend traveller There are agencies now for public education The Safety League is one The lied Cross another Can not these agencies be encouraged by gov ernment assistance to further spread the gospel of acci dent prevention Is the accumulated misery of Domin ion Day accidents to be the nations birthday present forever GANG INSTINCT Most adults at one time or another have felt the pressure of social conformity Most of us at one limo or another have compromised our wishes with thorn of a group So it should not be difficult to understand the tendency of teenagers to form gangs to follow so slavishly the dictates of the gang in dress and behavior To see a group of teenagers at the beach is like watch ing a group of penguins all dressed alike all acting alike There is no harm in this it is a stage which all of us grow through What passes understanding is tho strength of the need to be one of the gang It is liter ally so important that it has cost the lives of countless youths didnt want to bo called a sissy by the gang a boy tells his parents from his death bed He was to die of narcotic poisoning in New York Our society places a premium of uniformity Our entertainment our social habits our schools our labor all aimed at masses We are like so many herds of cattle in our insistence of similarity AH that keeps our society from descending to absolute level of robot- ism is the overlapping of our interests We simul taneously members of several gangs and variety maintains soma aspect of individualism but not much The gangs among teenagers and the extreme im portant to bo acceptable to gang are reflections of adult society Naturally percentage of teenagers who go to the extremes of rape and assault of exagger ated dress and loud behavior is very small But all seem to share the same desire to be one of the gang at the expense of their own individuality Our society was founded on the sanctity of the in dividual but we seem to bo doing our best to destroy individuality and replace it with similarity What is the reason Historians can only speculate But there is no denying this trend to the common denominator in every aspect of life And it is a dangerous trend contrary to all our tradition THEY ADMIT THEY WERE WRONG Financial Post In its marketing policy the International Federation of Agricultural Producers the parent body of the Cana dian Federation of Agriculture and similar organiz ations in oilier countries has just completed tho circle At its recent annual conference in Mexico City it en dorsed the International Wheat Agreement then added this In doing so desires to call attention to what it considers one of the principal weaknesses in that agreement namely the prescription of fixed price ranges instead of flexible ones through provisions to adjust prices to meet changing conditions In the present International Wheat Agreement as in the late and disastrous British Wheat Agreement the fixed price is the major feature Take away that and nothing is left Moreover until actual and bitter ex perience taught them otherwise the Canadian Federa tion of Agriculture and the Wheat Pools which dominate it boasted that fixed prices would bring the western wheat farmer prosperity and stability As for flexible prices to meet changing conditions that said the Pools and the was gambling At their insistence tho Winnipeg Grain Exchange and its flexible price were put out of the picture Now these people are beginning to admit that they were wrong They want flexible prices back At a cost of several hundred millions to western wheat farmers they have learned the simple lesson that no man or group of men can hope to guess what wheat will be worth next month let alone for the next three or four years INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY Free Press While the official task of loading the temperance- minded people of this nation may lie with elected executives of the provincial and national federations and with their administrative and field workers theirs is in fact only a small part of the undertaking And it is a part which of itself can never materially influence either the course of legislation or public think ing The major challenge must be accepted by individual Canadian citizens When we solve the alcoholic beverage problem we will solve it largely through individual solutions in individ ual lives Religious leaders know that Conversions aro not brought about in the mass through resolutions passed by church boards conven tions presbyteries synods or councils You cannot go to Heaven on a law Nor can you bring about a proper attitude toward alcoholic beverages by legislation True legislation has its part to play just as the paid employees of the temperance federation have a vital job to do And need consideration and support far more than they are now receiving But the big need today in all our Canadian life is for reawakening by the citizens at largo to the vital importance of individual conviction and action Ono man or woman or better still one family who set a living example to the people round about them can accomplish far more than a dozen delegations to Toronto or Ottawa or a hundred editorials such as this As wo have grown up as a nation materially we have grown down spiritually With tho growing emphasis on collective wo have forgotten vital importance of individual sta ture In church the club business life in home the factory and office tho individual decisions taken and individual opinions expressed will finally deter mine whether or not high purposes of tho temper- cause will fail or succeed l itaf Is not of guarantee on agent in International and national it knot function to of activities Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger r WWA- v- A reader said to me the other day Why dont write a editorial in the paper about those awful starlings uj in that tree there Its a disgrace and right over the sidewalk So I gets to thinking that there have been a lot of little things which have been over looked as far as editorial writ ing is concerned So I tells Hie boss that if we are going to stay a prize winner in the editorial field that he needs some help from me in editorial writing There are a lot of holes along Main St for instance Now there is something about which I shall editorialize about It was just the day that one of Slims hounds was nosing down an alley when he came to Main St Sniffing along he pushed the cover off one of the holes for the new lamp posts and fell in It took an hour to go through a lot of red tape before they called the humane society up from Toronto with a special truck and shoe horn to get him out the Merchant was talk ing to me at nine oclock in the morning the time they were digging one of the holes beside the Bank of Montreal building I told those fellas that the bank opens 10 oclock but they cant wait that long he said One of Shins friends came out of the pool room and cast a long look into the hole Theys not to get in this bank What do you say theyre doing I asked building another bank underneath this one to run competition to it with es calators in and out of it he said Another man looking on said that it was not that at all that the men were just digging it to see how much cement it would hold It is little things like this that our editorial writers of today are forgetting to write about thou there And then there is talk of tearing up Main St by next year If they are going to tear up Main St the merchants at one end of the street are going to be shut off from traffic long er than the ones at the other end which isnt fair However if they tear down Main St it will be visa versa They cant start at the centre and work out very well either Its just one of the many prob lems we are joing to be faced with in the future and not to mention a sewage disposal plant Sewage disposal is the some thing we are going to be faced thing thats been talk ed about We have been going to be faced with it for the last two years The department of health has been saying this year or else and waving a sewer pipe over our heads for a fearfully long time But if we build a sewage dis posal plant in town we will take out debentures which will cost a lot of money to the tax payers which will lower the vote standard I think that we should solve the problem by doing away with debentures All they ever talk about is de bentures debentures My uncle was a self made man and he never even used them once He used a printing plate As the boss says you can ap proach the whole question from various angles Well I have approached the hole question from various angles as well as street and sewers Now there is a little matter of oil on troubled streets I was talking to one of those complaining types of citizens He says he hasnt had a drop of oil on his street this year that the grader has torn it up and its inches deep in dust Now some of these citizens do nothing but bellow and hol er before looking into the mat ter and finding the facts Hell get his oil if he would just be patient for a while Doesnt he know that they have been dig ging three oil wells in the next block over and that one of those three is for road oil in the town At least thats what they toll me by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches We are wondering what ever happened to the new Improved Milk Control Board which to use the standard expression so beloved by the writers of soap commercials is not only new and improved but also contains the Mayor of Toronto It was a long long time ago that this board set out to do something about the price of milk They were given the job of swimming against the current of keeping their finger in the hole in the dyke In other words they were to hold the price of the milk down la our experience to hold the price of milk down the equivalent of holding the processors prof it up the milk drivers wages up and the farmers return down So the Board set out ami ask ed for balance sheets and state ments from the Some gave it Some dairies did it reluctantly and some re fused to do it And the board waited and waited We have a sneaking suspicion that we know or at least have a crack ing good guess which dairies have refused It is too bad that the board didnt publish their names saying that it was due to their lack of coopera tion that there is no decision yet However we are sure that the decision is soon to come he- cause the whole issue is making the proud parents of the board look foolish And that is not too good politically Secondly because this is the slack milk consumption season and any uproar will have less effect and by fall everybody will have for gotten it And finally because the farmers in spite of all the prophecies to the contrary are having a whale of lot of trouble having is good a year as the minister said they would and have no time to worry about milk There are those who whistvr they have exclusive information regarding this decision say that milk picked up would be 19 cents and delivered it will be If the board got away with this it would be marvellous for a lot of people The dairies would have had the cents they wanted from the start and the public would have had 19 cents which is less than previously The only trouble is that nobody tells us what the dairy farmer is going to got The board cant very well ig nore us indefinitely and when they recognize the fact that the producer has to have a fair re turn the price of milk picked up will be about cents and delivered it wilt be no more Of course thats why the Milk Board was remodelled so the price wont go up And to many people it will be a fail ure on the part of the Board To us it would be only the truthful admission that the price of milk cannot be held regardless usually means no raise to the farmers We wish the board did this It is an immense step in the right direction to have an offic ial body admit that the price of milk should be set on a picked up basis It is something we always felt and advocated to be correct We wish that the board would let it go at that and set only the price of pick ed up milk We really think that theres where its author ity ends anyway lel the dairies add to this the real cost of delivering We think it would he or cents Then let the housewife decide And let the consumer remember who really Paid for delivery in the past iSE I mm 3 fc