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fifv if i fc t Editors Notebook The late Mr Prank ODonnell was an important man in the affairs of Canada While he was chief weather forecaster with the journalistic name of Mr Probs he earned him self a national reputation for the accuracy of his weather predictions His work won him the award of an In 146 he retired to a farm on Eagle St on the outskirts of Newmarket where he fulfilled his lifelong ambition of raising poultry on small scale One of his outstanding char acteristics was his sense of hu mor and he delighted in con founding questioners by attribu ting his accuracy in weather predictions to aches and pains When a reporter tried to catch him off guard with a demand for a weather prediction on the morrow he replied that According to my corn and my rheumatic joints its going to be rain or sleet But if he delighted to josh he was also deadly serious about bis work Much depended upon his accuracy farm work ship sailings outdoor events How accurate Mr was is testifed to by his average of within 35 percent on tempera ture estimates We have heard many wrong descriptions of the Sharon Tem ple but none so extreme as in a recent article which describ ed it as a Mormon Temple Such wild errors make one wonder How much dp we real ly know about our country its history and tradition We chuckle at examples of ignor ance of our neighbors to the south Someone is always test ing students and publishing the results Canadians we think must feel a certain smugness when they read about it We heard the other day however of a test on or so summer students at a Canadian university and the only one of several simple geographical and historical questions asked which they all answered correctly was the names of the Great Lakes It seems to us that it is not so much a question of informing or educating as it is inspiring an interest in our country No amount of skilled teaching will take very strong root in a pupil unless he is interested in learn ing For a good many a simple equation of learning means money is enough to keep their noses to the educational grind stone Seems to us learning should mean a good deal more than the way to make money A friend telephoned us last Thursday afternoon in some wonderment He had learned there was a holdup in Bradford and later a man picking berries in a far field told him he had been questioned by the provin cial police An airplane had been flying back and forth overhead He wondered if the provincial police were using a plane to locate the holdup car He thought the plane might have spotted him and radioed to the police car We checked with the but they say they arent using a plane One beef about the census which we have heard quite fre quently is the practice of hav ing enumerators work in their own neighborhoods Undoubt edly there is an ad vantage to such an arrangement The enumerator is known and the friendly contact could be con sidered an asset Another ad vantage is that the enumerator has some familiarity with the subjects background The beefs however concern those same advantages It is a little difficult to have to tell a neighbor with whom you have been on the outs about such personal matters as income and values These matters are just ly considered private to tell them to a stranger is one thing To reveal them to a neighbor is another v Serving Newmarket Aurora the rural district of North York The Nowmarktlirq The Express Herald Published very at Main St NaW market by the Newmarket Fro and Express Limited Subscription tor two 250 for one year in advance Single copies are 5c each Member of A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa m JOHN A Managing JOHN STRUTHEftS Mews Editor CAROLINE ION Womens Editor GEORGE Sports LAWRENCE RACINE Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE FOUR THURSDAY THE SECOND DAY OP AUGUST NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYONE From the Files of 25 and Years Ago IS JULY Good market on Saturday and a lot of people in town Butter eggs and green vegetables were the chief commodities Small quantity of strawberries at cents a box The buyers Were paying cents for eggs and cents for butter Green peas abundance at cents small basket cents large Green beans were cents a basket Miss Emma Murray a former pupil of Newmarket high school has been successful in passing the examinations held at Tor onto Normal school Dr Dales has installed an xray a quartz lamp and a high frequency generator Mr and Mrs Everett Draper Detroit ve spending two weeks vacation with his parents Mr and Mrs Draper Windy Crest Lake A special service was held on Sunday afternoon at the United church Island Grove when the colors of the troop Boy Scouts were dedicated Sixty Scouts and Cubs paraded to the church in charge of Scoutmaster Godfrey Shay and Miss K Ceilings and Miss Mitchell have been engaged as teachers at Holland Landing School -li- Eight rinks took part in the local tournament of the lawn bowlers on Friday night nets skipped by Harry Marshall and were Mr Lister land vith shots Second prize went to Fred Fred and Dr Bartholomew A social evening was spent at the home of Mr Fred jtr on Thursday when a the met to surprise Mrs Robert a shower THE OLD HOME TOWN AUGUST There not a very large market last Saturday The rul ing prices were butler to cents a lb eggs ten and cents a cherries a pail black currants cents a wild raspberries six cents a basket cultivated raspberries eight cents a basket green peas cents a peck new potatoes to cents a peck green corn cents a Misses Ruby and entertained a number of their friends at a garden party and afternoon soc ial on Wednesday A song service is being held at Cooks camp on the north shore near Morton Park every Sunday evening A rifle association under the new regulations of the minister of militia has been formed hi Aurora Officers are captain A Fetch sec Dr J J committee A Love There are about members Last Tuesday morning Mr caught a carp the creek near the railroad bridge on Timothy St a yard long and weighing lbs The heavy rain Sunday and Monday caused considerable damage about town Goods in A cellar seriously damaged when water poured lo the depth two feet The diningroom of the Jackson House could not be used and the pumps had to be started at Canes factory to keep the water out of the engine room A great deal of the grow ing in the vicinity was laid flat Mr Charles Norman has been charge of- the store and post office in for the last few months left on Wednes day lor a trip to the Old By A CUP THAT OF IT OUGHT TO GET OUR It START PLANNING IN NEWMARKET It was inevitable that lack of planning in New market should bring about the impasse described by- Mr of Whitchurch township council before the Newmarket town council last week A street in New market if opened as intended would come to a dead end at the town border because if it crossed the boundary line it would run into Whitchurch lots Mr was able to suggest an alternative but the situation could have been avoided if there had been proper planning Mayor Vale who has consistently opposed a plan ning board proposed instead a planning committee of which would include the chairman of standing committees for water property and roads and bridges We fail to see how this remedies the lack of planning in Newmarket The chairmen of these committees are already burdened with their immediate responsibilities to ask them to assume such a further continuing res ponsibility as planning is asking a good deal Objections to a planning board appear to be based on two fears a fear that such a board would possess authority which should belong only to council and fear that such a hoard if composed of persons unfamiliar with municipal administration would make grievous errors Neither of these fears is necessary In the first instance a planning board derives its authority from council In the second instance members of council can he appointed to the board Mayor Vale says We could have an advisory hoard outside council as well as the standing committee In effect a planning board is just that but it relieves the council of the additional burden of a standing com mittee STORAGE FOR DOCUMENTS There is a remote possibility that the Registry Office at Newmarket may be enlarged to accommo date a larger territory In support of that it has been suggested that while the building was being enlarged extra space be added to permit the storage of docu ments of general historical interest At the present time the only places where histori cal documents can be placed with some assurance of their safekeeping is in the provincial archives at Queens Park or with the York Pioneers and Historical Society and the latter at that is not overly blessed with facilities Because of this lack of convenient storage many irreplaceable documents are being lost to fire the ravages of time and through ignorance of their value The Registry Office as a place for safe keeping has the dual advantage of a convenient location and the fact that it is already staffed And too the deeds and conveyances which are the offices business are them selves of much historical concern Jt would be a happy blending of interest to have both under one roof WHO CAN BLAME THEM We have no figures on border crossings but casual seems to indicate that there arc less Amer ican cars on Ontario highways than last year if so it is certainly understandable Despite the efforts of the provincial department of ravel and publicity to make Canadians in the tourist trade conscious of their obligations the business continues to operate on the theory that the American is a woolly sheep ami it is a duty to shear him But there are other reasons why he Americans should be in their visits here lake the now famous traffic jam south of Barrio a few weeks ago A train shunting across the highway at the out skirts of the town held up traffic for two hours or trains arent always necessary to stall traffic as anyone using highway on the weekend should know But the worst offence to the visitors is in malleis of taste The biggest influx of visitors is in the first week of July when the Americans celebrate Inde pendence pay on July Canadians also have a on July and the day has connotations similar to the American holiday But one would never know it by the flags that are flown Invariably the American flags outnumber the Canadians The obvious ness of the act must hit the American visitor like a 111 ton of bricks Americans come here because they want to visit a foreign country They want to see the sights of a foreign country They want the change of manner and custom the experience of different foods the stimula tion of a different national culture But what they get Is a second rale copy of their own ways If that is what they wanted could have stayed home and had it for a lower price GIVING TOWN BAD NAME The daily papers have been giving the village of quite a play this last week because of the number of speeders caught in the trap within the limit of the village The number of speeders caught was more than in Newmarket but not by much In however there is a large sign some distance to the south and north of the village which warns on coming drivers that they are approaching a reduced speed area There are no such signs at the approaches of New market The speeder caught in has no excuse those caught on the approaches to if strangers can claim with some justification that they were unaware they were within the 80mile limit It is not a major undertaking to erect large signs at the approaches of Newmarket warning motorists they are approaching town that the speed limit is strictly enforced But the advantages in slowing down drivers and in goodwill are great Let us keep on tagging the speeders but at the same time lets give them plenty of advance warning INVITATION TO CRIME The Bradford holdup came on a Thursday and perhaps it was simply a coincidence that on Thurs day and Friday most of the district police are in New market for the weekly magistrates court But whether this is a factor or not it seems to us an invitation to law breaking to assemble most of the police in one spot once a week We know of no alternative The ideal situation would be to have sufficient police so that there would always someone on duly regardless of how many of the force had court cases at which to testify But that would be an expense beyond the budgets of the munic ipalities Perhaps some arrangements could be worked out so that the court calendar would not require the presence of every member of the force at one time Perhaps even district courts could be arranged with the court going lo the police instead of the police going to court ODDS ARE RUGGED Universal pensions for the aged have just about become a reality and this opinion taken from industry the organ of the Canadian Manufacturers Association is by way of a belated dissenting opinion However the points it makes are worth bearing in mind the next time the people by popular demand impose new benefits upon I he taxpayer industrys comment follows There still hasnt been much of an outcry from those who will foot the bill for the old age pension They are probably not quite thoroughly aware of the fact that their premiums will cost them anywhere from to 100 a year for life but that doesnt really matter to Ihem because in their own minds they are buying an insurance policy by the week and theyll collect themselves sooner or later And thats where our bit of economic education comes in Jet hold of insurance actuarys mortality table and figure out if you can your chances of collecting that each month at the age of Well simplify your task by telling you about the Commissioners Standard Ordinary Mortality Table The table begins with living persons at the age of ten years By the time this group reaches the age of two years after I he baby bonus ends and when the majority of them have started earning some money for themselves their number has been cut to At the age of GO there are still in the race to collect their pension At there are left At the year theyre pensionable there are only left of our original That number a tribute to our North American longevity no doubt but of them die sometime during the following months Therefore of the 983ti8 who would stall paying their old age pension premiums under the proposed method of collecting the pen ion funds only 50odd cent would ever collect anything ami six percent of that fiOodd percent would collect their pensions for not more than moid lis I Thus the lucky few who might conceivably collect during their final year in this vale of tears would have paid in the not inconsiderable sum of either or for the privilege Theres something rugged about these odds The the servant not the matter of the people the state is their guarantee against infringement on their rights their agent in international and national issues it is net the function of the state to assume the Median of those activities which rest dividual tjjif Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger lh in of fa If at znUU rt girt in fgf that Stork captain anil aaJ tut trip fchrougfr hurricane to Stern in a in delivery in area It Stem well on a flight in wefrihftt and that the delivery been wrong he Mm any way Ground x bane had botched it The shipping officer st base had bungled delivery ihs real order being for the leaser The shipping officer promptly and on further it hud been a prune type vho accepting bribe for early orders all along which he no fill Anyway Stern we trip to the Antilles made him the years most outstanding pilot pioneer flying in the dangerous air pock et infested Lesser ion has opened new horizons in flying I hit a strong offcontinent head wind near the tenth para llel told me The fierce pressure had weakened both port and starboard triceps and lost all contact with base through radio malfunction But fortunately met up with a Mongolian Crumb Mark III on African- Australia run and I followed his beam until I was clear of the storm After that it was a piece of cake Other than that brief trouble it taped and l dont know why they are mak ing such a thing it all interest in Stem- days was thai to area become iil in order so last and I went on Fart f at base in I relieved to find number Male sec form on a blue bin scheduled for We must ftrve about the ae and were overly the goods So returned home a little rnoTg relieved I looked at my and yred that would be ccnT over area D Jt v a clear bright I wn J ii interview in Stern welt hum of Ms plant off wi was no of and it didnt drop his Cars- He wide open and instead of time to one or 4j pasts It was piss work He hi the diaiorr arid we picked delivery and it in fr Sure It was Male re with attached was lbs by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches Maw that the weather is let ting us catch up with the hay- and harvesting and the fail milk market is approaching maybe it would be fining do some thinking again on this milk business The more so since the day of redemption as sex by the milk is approach ing The thing that has stuck in our crop was this proposition Cor the socalled two percent milk We hear that it is the two percent milk that will save the dairy industry The doctors ap prove of it and that it would sail cheap and it is healthy and it is going to provide extra and so on First all let us make it clear that whenever a proposal of any kind comes up be it bathing suits liquor or milk you always find a doctor who says it is healthy a lawyer who will swear that it legal and a politician who wilt claim it is for the common good and will proceed to run on it in the next election Two percent milk is a sub stitute It is neither fish nor fowl and it is just as much of a substitute as margarine it will require labor capital in vestment and organizing to put it on the market All these factors are subject to increase in cost and let us tell you that before many a moon shall pass it will go up in price Then of course the one percent milk will be a salvation Ami so on until the percentage has run out Is this tampering really nec essary or is it just one of those contrived solutions that are dic tated by political it I a The clear cut Be- cause an increase the price iS on go up Decease table to produce price are ways to ir this One is increase the other to get a higher The one is farmers job production and the other is job of the publicity man wi must convince the buying pub lic that the increase in price- unavoidable- What happens stead We have and bitterness and the board and mingling and mayors rushing in angels fear to tread What we need is clear think- ing and a bit of honesty soul searching We produce a good quality product well arid efficiently We have to have Ihe distributors face facts and alter their method delivery and processing- all have to get together tell the public that milk is good for them and that it is an in expensive food and we even find a doctor or two says so And a lawyer who will advise us that milk us it con out of the cow is legal if we are smart and act group we might even find politician or two who will be willing to say so But above all let us sent to these substitutes cause it is no solution for any body but just one of with ami it will do for a- well fix il next year lions CAUGHT IN THE SQUEEZE