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v i Wages front the Editors Notebook A gentleman lately retired enquires why it is necessary for town industries to blow their whistles in the morning at noon and at five Makes Newmarket sound like a whistlestop he snorted Well he may be retired from work but he certainly retired from controversy if thats kind of questions he is going around asking people That whistle question has been batted around for years with out anyone being particularly satisfied for long We seem to recall that some years ago council was petition ed to stop the whistles and then council was petitioned to resume the whistles Seems there was a whistle then and that has since been stopped but even then there were com plaints that the working man couldnt get wakened up with out its help If we remember the last dis pute about whistles was during war time when clocks were hard to get and this point won the argument for the pro- whistle faction Albert was a member of coun cil and again if memory serves strongly espoused the whistles But as our retired gentleman points out Davis Leather has been running for the last couple of weeks without the benefit of its whistle and no one seems to be objecting very much We visited the Toronto art gallery on Sunday and saw the Viennese Art Collection that fabulous treasure trove of paintings by the old masters fine tapestries armor and jew elled dishes plates and other objects The collection is with out comparable value in the world and its worth has been estimated at many millions The fact is that it is irreplace able and its value we would suppose depends upon how much the western world values such monuments to its tradition and culture The gallery was crowded and it was interesting to note how many of the visitors by their speech were only lately arriv ed from Europe About a third we would guess were New Canadians or only one genera tion removed from Europe Our interest in the collection was somewhat academic We are not knowledgeable enough about art to thoroughly appre ciate the riches which were hung on the gallery walls but we were fascinated by the thought that all this had been collected through the centuries that in its sum it represented some of the best of our western tradition Here were works art that we would never see again that it was surprising that we should even have had the chance to see if only These were the treasures of a royal family whose dynasty spanned five centuries or so an accumulation of riches without parallel Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Swing Newmarket Aurora and rural district of North York fro Harold Published every Thursday Main St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express limited Subscription for two years tor one year in advance copies arm 5c each Member of Class A WeekKes of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa JOHN A fetter JOHN News Editor ION Editor Sports Editor LAWRENCE RACINE Jab Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE TWENTYTHIRD DAY OF AUGUST NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYONE The provincial department of agriculture has published a slick paper pamphlet entitled Farm Life in Ontario which at first glance suggests that life on the farm is only one short step removed from para dise Well for the few it may be so but from what we hear and see farm life like any oth er way of living has its dis advantages and right now there are several If the province had intended the booklet as an advertise ment for farming then they have succeeded admirably Only the best is shown Farm readers will get quite a kick out of the picture of the farm er and hired man reading the newspaper on the front lawn in what looks like perfect haying weather Ontario has considerable vir tue as a farm province but these virtues can be overem phasized A reference to some of the disadvantages would add a needed touch of reality From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago AUGUST 1926 Peter Wilton Jr owned by Mr Roy Shaw Newmarket won the purse at Fair on Tuesday in a trot ting race Miss Mollenhauer is in town for a couple of weeks prior to leaving for Winnipeg she has accepted a posi tion A splendid market last Sat urday morning An abundance of fruits and vegetables but butter and eggs were none too plentiful Prices were butter to 38 cents a lb eggs to 35 cents a dressed chick ens a lb potatoes a bag green cucumbers large size cents each or smaller for cents lettuce cents a head Cherries were and cents according to size ripe tomatoes cents a lb or 3 lbs for 25 cents The public school board at The Hollows has engaged Miss Williams Newmar ket as teacher for the ensuing year Miss Ruby Moss Newmarket daughter of Mr and Mrs J Moss has been successful in obtaining a silver medal from the Toronto Conservatory of Music being a tie for the sec ond highest marks in the senior sight singing The annual doubles tourna ment of the Newmarket tennis dub vas held on the club courts on Wednesday Eight een teams were entered The winners of the mens doubles were Dr Lyon and Mr and the wom ens doubles were Miss Jean Hunter and Miss Doris The Womens Missionary So ciety of Snowball held a lawn social on August at the home of Mrs Mayor Wal ton Aurora acted as chairman the program consisted of solos banjo duets several read ings by a Toronto elocutionist and piano duets by ladies from Boston after the supper THE OLD HOME TOWN AUGUST Good crowd at the market last Saturday and lots of butter and eggs Butter advanced to cents for extra choice but eggs remained the same cents to hucksters and cents in small lots Apples were 20 to cents a pk plums cents a basket pears cents a pk Cucumbers for pickling were cents for 100 ripe tomatoes 35 cents a basket Nov pota toes sold at and 25 cents a and green corn at 10 cents a There was another strike on the new road last Monday and only five shovel lers went to work The men want their pay every two weeks instead of monthly Mr Fred Silver Sutton is on a trip to the North West to visit his brother Oliver who resides there Mrs Roche entertained at an at home on Monday evening to a few friends in honor of Miss Audrey Campbell About people attended the picnic of the Wrn Cane Sons employees at Bond Lake on Friday The Citizens Band and Weirs orchestra provided music during the day and for dancing in the evening Geo Trivet and Jack Morrow were starters for the rates and Mr judge The barn belonging to Mr Harrison Rose Centre ltd miles south of Ml Albert was struck by lightning during the storm on Thursday afternoon and burned to the ground Nearly all this seasons crop in eluding the hay fall wheat barley and rye and a mower destroyed Edgar and family in tend leaving Roachs Point soon for a two years stay in Eng land Mr Alfred Willson Toronto formerly of Sharon has promoted to the position of senior commissioner in the Canada Company I SUDS cm OUT BEEN OF HIS FAMILY 1 v m i- FRIENDLY RIVALRY We congratulate the Midland Free Press Herald on winning the David Williams Cup in the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Better Newspapers Competi tion this year The cup is offered annually to the Canadian weekly newspaper with circulation or more judged to have the best editorial page The Era and Express won the cup last year and came second this year The editorial pages of four issues picked by the judges are considered for maximum five points and opinion and material maximum 20 points The Midland paper was awarded points in the first 1781 in the second for a total of 2275 of a possible 25 The Era and Express was awarded for the first 1725 for the second for a total of 22 We derive considerable personal satisfaction from the closeness of the competition as we are sure Editor Bill Cranston does for it is in the tradition of friendly editorial rivalry which has developed over the last three years or so In 1949 for example the Midland paper won the Williams cup and The Era and Express was second In 1950 The Era and Express won the cup and the Midland paper was third And now in Midland is again first and our paper second The same close competition is evident for the Legge Memorial trophy for the best editorial page in Ontario and Quebec weeklies In The Era and Express and the Midland paper tied for second place after the Fort Erie Times Review In 1950 The Era and Ex press won the trophy but the Midland paper was not entered because its editor was one of the judges In The Era again won the Trophy with the Midland paper close on its heels But the Midland paper has another distinction In competitions for the best front page and the best allround paper it placed second to the Barrio Exam iner this year and last year won the Mason Trophy for the best allround paper We congratulate the Midland paper and its editor again and hope that next year the close rivalry will be continued THOSE HIGHWAY SIGNS A committee of the Newmarket council has decided in favor of placing large traffic warning signs at the approaches to Newmarket It is reassuring to know that the matter has been given attention but it is most unfortunate that nothing was done until the end of the summer and some weeks after the heavy harvests of speeders on Davis Dr and Eagle St Wo hold no brief for speeding drivers but we have questioned the practice of clocking them from the shadows so to speak when there havent been adequate warning signs After all there is little gained by wait ing for the offence to be committed before penalizing the offender when placing large signs warning of speed limits would reduce the offences But council action on speed signs does present us with a problem Are we to be hopeful that with the one out of the way the council will now provide the direction signs so long advocated or does the lateness of the speed signs mean another weary wail Most of the summer traffic has gone up Yonge St and as ignorant as it was before of Newmarkets location It may seem difficult to believe but Mr Cecil Taylor at the service station on the corner of Davis Dr and Main St vouches for the authenticity of the experience An American tourist drove into Mr Tay lors station and asked for gasoline While being served he consulted a road map Then he asked the service man Where is Newmarket Where is Newmarket And what is Newmarket The hometown folks know the answer but strangers dont Summer travellers could mean business for Newmarket but they will continue to pass us by ignor ant of our experience until we take some steps to tell them on the main roads where we are and who we are IN THEIR OWN INTERESTS The success of the Newmarket Trade is evi dence of what can be done when Newmarket business men work together in their common interests Is it possible that this same working together could bo car ried a step further to say the organization of a businessmens association The history of business mens organizations in Newmarket is embarrassing to recall It is a dreary recital of high hopes abandoned of general apathy Time and again Boards of a d e and Chambers of Commerce have been established only to falter in a year or so as their mem bers ignored them One reason has boon that such organizations placed their objectives beyond the ken of the Main St businessman Ho was not particularly interested in the lofty ambitions of the national bodies he simply wanted ways to improve his own business and he wasnt getting them But a local organization built upon the foundation of a successful trade fair and directed at improving Newmarket as a business centre is a project all businessmen can support and should support on their own All of the businessmen on Main St are for ex ample familiar with the illwill generated by the tag ging of speedsters passing through Newmarket All realize the law must be obeyed but we think all will agree that the law could have been enforced with a little more finesse The erection of warning signs would have helped The council now favors this under taking some weeks after the heaviest of speed har vests A businessmens organization might have done the job in the beginning The same sort of reasoning applies to the erection of signs on St telling about Newmarket That matter has been before council for some weeks without any action But because the provision of such signs are so immediately in the interest of Newmarket businessmen that had there been an organization the job could have been done at the beginning of the sum mer The plain fact is that if the businessmen continue to leave such matters to other bodies in town they will continually put up with these delays Even the trade fair which has come to mean so much to local business is sponsored by the Horticultural Society and not by the businessmen who benefit by it Everything points to the advantages of establishing a local businessmens organization to fail this is to invite loss of business SHOULD BE A MORAL HERE Lamprey eels have been a costly nuisance to com mercial and sport fishermen on the Great Lakes so much so that the provincial government has put up and other impediments to trap them during the spawning period The eel is an unpleasant creature to look at and its methods are not in best taste It fastens itself upon trout and other fish and lives by the blood it sucks from its victims The department has had fair success in trapping the eel Thousands of them have been caught in the weirs and they and their offspring removed from the living And now some enterprising food manufacturer has learned to package the eels after suitable processing and is selling them as They have a flavor somewhat resembling anchovies Last year he bought half of the catch from the government and wishes he had bought all of it so that he could export the product to the States There are strong possibilities now that the lamprey eel will be sought for its worth in dollars as well as because it is a nuisance It gives one cause for reflec tion to learn of this development The governments of the United States and Canada have spent years and thousands of dollars trying to find ways of ridding the lakes of the eel now it appears a potential money maker Seems to us there should be a moral to this somewhere MONDAY MORNING POST MORTEMS It used to be customary for the office force to review the pleasures of the summertime weekend jaunts during the odd moments of a Monday morning There was talk of miles travelled fish caught young men met by the young women young women met by the young men and all the trivia which makes a weekend jaunt in the the pleasant occasion that it used to be Nowadays they recount their narrow escapes from traffic accidents Instead of the brightness of the August moon from the resort terrace it is of the fool who passed on a hill and wrecked the oncoming carfull of vacationers that they talk about Instead of the big one that was caught it was the drunk who crashed the traffic light and ended in the ditch The consensus is that Ontario drivers are worse And the American visitor is quick to second the motion condition of our highways is not something to boast about but it hardly excuses the recklessness of so many drivers nowadays On such a simple but necessary courtesy as blinking bright lights to dim when approaching traffic is observed by one in three or four drivers Arm signals have lost their original meanings and what used to mean a lefthand turn may mean anything from catching butterflies to just cooling off Wo dont know the answer unless sheer horror of weekly traffic toll some return to But wo would suggest driver licensing and an nual and biannual drivers tests A driver can renew a license he has held for last ten years by simply applying for it although he may have since that time grown careless and lax in his driving J I i state of the people the state is their guarantee on their righH their agent in International and national issues It w L 1 xr fe function of tLiAlvv J 43 j T v T tWfmW those activities which rest Your favorite correspondent has unleashed the greatest ex pose of the year True it may mean that this writers political career is finished but the truth is more important than a politi cal career is it not Besides maybe there is more in exposes than in politics Anyway it has taken months of diligent research on the part of your columnist and his assis tant Slim to un cover a shamcfui practice on the part of the government- What I speak of is the baby bonus scandal Every month the department of health and welfare is making thousands and thousands of dollars with this little scheme which until now has gone undetected But for your favorite correspondent the public would never know these facts When the Stork de livered the little renewal Mark with the blue ticket it was the natural thing to do get busy and let Paul Martin know so that he could forward the extra five bucks a month to make a total of ten a month for Marks I and We discov ered however that contacting Paul himself was difficult and we had to work through a lot of subordinates who looked after details while he was engrossed in larger problems When the first reissue came along Mark I that is an appli cation was made and the cheque came immediately But this time with Mark II the family allowance supple mentary registration put the wrench into the machinery and the result is that the govern- meat has done us out of the five bucks for the first month This is where the expose comes in On the supplementary regis tration form a blue paper the following demand is made Please give full Family Allow ances serial number appearing on cheques presently being re ceived After a hasty scramble through files the light dawned Why last months cheque had been cashed naturally And who would ever remember to note down the serial number Nobody except maybe a civil servant or an accountant or some other redtape artist We phoned the bank Say old boy would you give us the serial number en our baby bon us cheque please Banks are generally good natured and this one took the pains to give a long that there were only five or ten thousand cashed cheques in the files somewhere and that it would be glad to look curs up only there were not enough hours in the day to be looking up old serial numbers for peo ple like that Hah hah You see We must wait until Mark cheque comes through for the following month to find out And by then we will have bcerifi too late to collect for Mark first month Cunning of the government isnt it Multiply this case by all Mark Ills etc that are born over month Not ten percent of the parents would have remember ed those serial numbers would they In that manner thousands of parents are being cheated out of the first month bonus cheque And we alt pay good taxes for them too Thats the best expose we has exposed yet said Sim who spent many hours of J tireless effort in verifying facts with me But maybe we should have told Paul about first Oh Paul wouldnt car I said Its Just one of those things that goes along with a minister Hes probably had exposes thrown at him fore Besides maybe he doesnt even know about this situation Cant blame him too much Well Im all in favor of more exposes mused Maybe some way that could make money era by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches The season of big Exhibitions and Fairs is just around the corner and for the next few months anyway people will be visiting fairs and plowing mat ches and midways Some will be large affairs and some just local exhibitions We often wonder what makes them such a success- Well first of all they provide a re laxation and recreation It is a day away from home a break in the routine and it is also a day of visiting with friends and people we associate with in our farming It gives us a chance to see the new machines we are thinking of trying out and see some breeding stock we have been hearing about us the fall fairs be they smalt or large are a very important part of the years activity To support this statement we cannot think of a better exam ple than the Newmarket Trade Fair As soon as the suitable building became available it grew up to be one of the most important events in the New market business area and it is growing in size and scope Pretty soon it will be some thing people will look forward to something one will refer to as well there is no hurry about it we can always go and see what they will have at the trade fair Or we should try to get one like the gadget they had at the trade fair There is something that a trade fair like the one last week has that the bigger ones havent got and that is some thing we will call for want of a better word or being handy Take for ex ample the CNE There are more cars there and more washing machines and more of everything Asa mat tor of fact there are so many dang things and so much of each one of them that we cannot look them over in the time to These big fairs have a monster look and feeling about thenu They overwhelm you and tire you After all when see washing machines and several hundred cars and even more hundred other thousand things to us at least they all look alike and the very size of the bition becomes a hindrance But a small fair well organiz ed is approachable It has just enough variety to be interest and to give a chance for comparison Whats more next time in town you can go and see the thing again We are wondering if the time has come to organize something similar in agriculture a fall fair that has alt the good points of a small trade fair only in agriculture We have some thing like this in the seed fair and bacon show in the spring What about going a step fur and having a more all- around affair The curse of size and specialization holds true in livestock too How about organizing fair to show the agriculture and its products the North York county We could have the best vegetable show in the pro vince We could have a pota toes section to make people sit up We could have a dressed poultry show to match the others and we would like to see something that we always felt might be quite a thing an all- breed dairy cattle show and an beef show We could have a fair that would be truly the show win dow of the county The bene fits of such a fair are obvious would mean recognition of effort and new contact and business to the farmer BED TIME STORY v I UNI srv T if A I V a y v 7 Kia f