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a Perns front Editors Notebook bruised and a torn pair of pants where the saw slipped we have conceived a great af fection for fir Wed not particularly trusted this wood before A ays splintered where you least ex pected it and certainly didnt want it and it has a dangerous tendency to ram splinters into your palms But even it has a lovely grain so we tried it for doors on a couple of kit chen cabinets We found its character as we had remembered it but since the stuff was more or less cut to the sizes we wanted there wasnt too much aggrava tion Wed always called for pine when we wanted to knock up a shelf Its easy to work with but after the fir we found it unsatisfactory Too easy we guess No character Fir is a likeable curmudgeon pine is milk and toast The first will work up the Old Adam in you every so often but at least it never boring And when weve polished it up a bit and brought out the grain we expect a masterpiece Now if only we had set those screws in a straight line We like the bit reported from the annua meeting of the Fed eration of Women Teachers Association in Ontario Mr Walter Fisher past president of the Lions International said and girls are confused these days- Were all confused in our thinking We dont know where the world is going Before our children have the faith needed to pull the world together again you and I must have faith first Its appropriate not just to teachers but to every parent Let our children hear us in the every day it a rook con versation that passes between us and you can hardly blame them if they take the same viewpoint without the com pensating wider horizon Think back The last time you talked over the state of the world it was hardly with faith in the fu ture was it But thats the key A belief in the Tightness of our convictions Without it our battles lost It is the evening of Labor Day and the thought of tomor row when we get back to the desk after a week of case is like the sword of Damocles Holidays arc over for another year had at least the an- of another week to sustain us through the heat of midJuly and August Now its a race down the stretch to the year end But apart from a parlous lack of editorial opinion at the mo ment the prospect is not en tirely displeasing Labor Day has become for us the end of a season No matter what heat waves may descend in the nest month in our books fall is very definitely here and thats fine by us It is the most delight ful season of the year The col or of the trees the soft hills in the September mist none of this can be duplicated in any other season for inspiration to the imagination But even without the parade of the trades unionists at the Exhibition and the rising toll of holiday deaths broadcast ov er the radio weve seen or ra ther heard the sign of the new season Montreal opened against Hamilton last week and were soundly licked and on Sa turday Ottawa got the boots from the Argos Then today Hamilton laid it on the to complete the circle We heard the first two over the radio but missed the third Too bad Weve our money on the Tigers after hearing the way their line poured Montreal and smothered Chart Holmes erstwhile Bell man here and sports booster is on the Tigers executive and al though weve not met the gen tleman Hulse tells us that he expects the title this year Well its early to say but when the runnerup of last year trounces the champion this year twice too because they did it in an exhibition tilt a couple of weeks ago it looks like theres reason for great expec tations Filled in the holiday hours those not spent on our back with a bit of household carpen try and along with a couple of F rom the F ties of 25 and 50 Years Ago SEPTEMBER 3 Mr Harry son of Mr and Mrs Collingwood Newmarket has been awarded the D E Thompson genera proficiency scholarship from University and the Gibson mathematics pro ficiency scholarship from the University of Toronto He took firstclass honors in twelve sub jects in the upper school ex aminations Mrs Van Norman and daugh ter Keswick have gone to Alberta Miss Van Nor man is to teach in the continua tion school Mr Arnold Molyneaux left on Monday for Cat to enter college for a course mining engineering There were entries in the flower show held in the mar ket hall on Saturday The sil ver cup donated by Mr J Davis Jr for the best display of gladioli was won by ft Mc- Ed won sec ond and Hugo third Miss Newton was the largest win ner having carried off firsts and two seconds The gladioli sweepstake was won by Mr A Brainmer with the Giant Nymph variety Miss has re turned to her home at Mount Albert after visiting friends in Windsor and Detroit The public schools opened on Wednesday with a record at tendance There were begin ners Mr and Mrs Charles Wal ker Lowell Mass are visiting Mr Walkers parents Mr and Mrs J A Walker On Monday night the store of Mr J Hamilton at the foot of Main St vas broken into and a showcase containing worth of tobacco and was taken The next morning the case was found on Mrs lawn THE OLD HOME TOWN SEPTEMBER Mrs Nelson East brought a stalk of corn into the office which measured ft inches Rev P Cameron pastor of the Baptist church at hns received a call to the Baptist church at Paris and will take over the end of September The Model school opened on Tuesday morning with scholars in attendance Last week Mr Thamat Mil lard received an lb salmon packed in ice sent from British Columbia by his sons It arriv ed in good condition and was greatly enjoyed Apples are very scarce in the Mount Albert district this year and the price promises to reach the peak Messrs Underbill and have started the re moval of their plant to Aurora Four carloads have already gone forward The Aurora high met on Wednesday and engaged A McKay a specialist in science at a salary of per annum The red cedar shingles at Canes factory are having a big sale Two cars have been sold already and another car arriv ed direct from British Columbia on Tuesday There a sugar famine in the groceries of Newmarket the early part of this week Stokes Stewart and Roy Vernon Newmarket were guests of the Proctor boys at for a few days last week The fall term of Newmarket high school opened last Tues day with between and scholars attending chairman of the board presided during the opening hour Trustees J J Pearson and Jackson also deliver ed addresses I By STANLEY THE Blossom I WAS AS iw- yy Serving NwmanY Aurora and the rural dlsfticft of North York the Express Harold I A r every of Worn St Newmarket by Newmarket Era and Express limited Subscription for 250 for one year in advance Single copies are 5c each Member of Clots A Weekties of Conodo Canadian Weekly Newspaper and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mall Post Deportment Ottawa JOHN A Managing JOHN News ION Women or Sport LAWRENCE RACINE THE EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE FOUR THURSDAY THE SIXTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AMD FIFTYONE LINES ARE DRAWN The leaders of Canadas two largest labor organiza tions President Percy Bengough of the Trades and Labor Congress and President A of the Cana dian Congress of Labor lashed at Ottawa in their Labor Day messages for not imposing price controls In reply the minister of labor Hon Milton Gregg called upon labor to increase its productivity and for labor management and consumer to generally exercise some discretion in wages buying and selling The rise in the costofliving will be the hottest topic on the agenda when parliament reassembles and these statements represent something of the battlelines which will be manned Despite the increased demand for price controls demands backed by the authority of substantial increases in the costofliving index the government has shown no intention yet of backing away from its original claim that the time is simply not ripe for price controls The governments contention must be accepted for more than simply a stubborn insistence upon a policy which could be wrong The same administration was responsible for what was generally regarded as the most efficient price control system of the war years and with that experience the government can speak with considerable authority But if Ottawa is standing firm against the demands of labor and consumer organizations there is a possib ility that it may have to relax at least some of its credit restrictions because of more potent requirements The government has so far refused to consider the possibility as its firmness towards Windsor indicates but the Financial Post last week revealed that house building showed a painful drop as a result of tightened credit And that may breach credit control where Windsor layoffs failed AGENTS OF DEFORESTATION The Globe and Mail tees off against the hydro com mission and the department of highways as agents of deforestation in a recent editorial Says that paper The Ontario Hydro Commission and the Department of Highways are between them responsible for cutting down an immense number of trees every year These agencies of deforestation are seldom given due recogni tion by conservationists who are inclined to blame farmers and greedy sawmill operators for the loss of forest cover in Southern Ontario There are farmers in Whitchurch township wholl say a fervent amen to that Theyll remember the swamp a prime source of water which was drained by the hydro with no apparent concern for what their actions would do to the water table of the area And then in King township last year or the year before there were those bush fires which were blamed on the hydro crews And it is not only the provincial department of high ways which has succeeded in rooting up so many trees in the name of good roads Most district road crews are also guilty When grading hillsides or cuts routs are Jeft bare and the trees doomed Another practice which seems to he taking a toll of trees is roadside spraying All too frequently trees are sprayed high in their foliage and it cant be doing them much good The department of highways maintains two nurseries and in planted trees so that at least some effort is being made to repair the damage of graders and But none of the townships nor the county have nurseries and nothing is done to replace the trees destroyed in road building operations The Globe and Mail says that private individuals should be encouraged to plant roadside trees but as long as the process of widening and regrading dis trict roads and highways continues there is not much likelihood of such efforts in this vicinity All too often those plantings are doomed LATEST IN MILK ISSUE The milk producers in the district could be pardon ed if they would up their participation in the Milk Control Board in disgust From their point of view they have received nothing but the dirty end of the stick in recent years And this summer the stick has been dirtier than over And now to climax the whole sorry mess the produc ers were told last week that they would not be paid the ordered increase of cents by the dairies and lite dairies served notice that they were appealing boards award of the increase in Ontario courts The dairies contend that they cannot be expected to pay an increase- to the producers when they have been left in ignorance as to the retail price of milk They say they cant operate at the loss such a payment will entail on the present retail price The producers of course have the same argument The increases they asked for was less than half of what they contended was necessary But with a philosophy of half a loaf developed during years of unsatisfactory price negotiations they signed the award The dairies didnt and the appeal follows Now Premier Frost has warned the dairies that if they cant provide more efficient retailing methods for the benefit of the consumers then someone else would He declined to say who the someone else was but the way the milk business is nowadays the producer him self is as good a bet as any to fill the job But the premiers statement is also interesting be cause it is the first time in our recollection that some one in authority has put his finger on the real cause of all the difficulties of setting price So far it has been the producer who has been paying the cost of in efficient distribution And finally the appeal from a decision of a govern ment board which has no provision for appeals is going to have interesting repercussions Presumably the pro ducers will have as much right to appeal as the dairies if such an appeal is granted and that will leave the Milk Control Board as nothing more than an arbitration board or a conciliation board acting only as a referee The producers with a long history of dissatisfaction would be quick to appeal future unfavorable awards Another byproduct if such an appeal is granted would be the end of political interference in the milk board Theres not a producer who isnt convinced that the board was packed by the appointment of Mayor and the mayors subsequent pronouncements did nothing to change the belief that he was on the board only to keep the price of milk down not help set a fair price to all parties LESSONS OF NATURE A farmer friend of ours says that the yield from his fields was not as high as last year He blames it on the excess moisture in the ground in the early part of the year Winter wheat wasnt its best either The constant freezing and thawing in the spring and one wild rain when the frost was not out of the ground washed out a lot of the grain So while he doesnt expect to starve he does think that the forecasts earlier in the year of best crop years and record yields sound a little foolish in the light of August harvests The moral is obvious In its own way it is a repeat of the federal governments attempt to forecast the wheat crop with subsequent losses to western fanners for which the payment of million only partially compensated them With all our success at ordering our environment to suit our convenience we still havent found a way to demand of nature an orderly cycle of rain and sun or be assured thai all insect pests are under control There was very little Hessian fly in the county last year This year it had infested as much as percent of some fields And thus it goes Man proposes but nature disposes and there is nothing we can do about it And the same lesson is offered with respect to those zealots who with the best of intentions would organ ize and plan our lives for us There are circumstances which even the most of our planners cannot anticipate Hut they persist regardless of human nature in the realm of public welfare regardless of the laws of supply and demand in the realm of economics regard- less of individual aspiration in the realm of education Surely we must progress to exist but let us progress not by attempting an uniformity of personality and pur pose but by the encouragement of the individual spirit Lot us be done with masses and statistics Let us think in terms of the individual and respect the infinite variety of human nature as a Godgiven right not as a nuisance to be exorcised by coercion EDITORIAL NOTE We wonder if present construction plans in New market include paving of the lanes between Main and Cedar Sis Both lanes are heavily used now that the arena is becoming an allyear centre of entertain ment and neither offers in its present state safe walking It would end a hazard if the lanes were paved It servant not master of people the state is their guarantee infringement on their their in international and national issues it tm direction of these activities rest choice ice Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger William Rudolph Cursed the tycoon publisher of the Corners ClarionBlast died last veek In the words at my friend Slim lie was of the roller variety one of those what made money out of newspapers He was the big gest typhoon that ever in the Corners newspaper world Note the Cor ners newspaper world consisted of the ClarionWast and the Advertiser in the early days worked as a sweeper in the Clarion- Blast press room when he was and probably knew Cursed longer than any one For this reason it is with pleasure that we devote most of this column to Mr impressions and portrayal of the life of William Rudolph Cursed Cursed made his fortune in the early twenties after he broke his competitor the Cor ners Advertiser says Slim Cursed sunk a cool dollars in a campaign against the works because it used the seed of the provincial flower in the pro cesses Cursed conducted the biggest campaign and that fin ished the Advertiser which lost its distillery backing through its failure to the Blast He was the first to introduce journalism into the Cut- tin Corners newspaper world during his battle against the Advertiser journalism of course was got from them New York papers which ran comics on paper Cursed tried to copy them Since most folks in Cuttin Comers couldnt read so good them three letter words in big black letters four inches high was easier for em to read and they loved the ClarionBlasts sensashunalism Cursed sensashunalized the suicide of the waterworks fore man over the frog incident ia the reservoir and people lapped it up Every time a dog got pois oned the ClarionBlast would rouse peoples motions up by put tin in a headline like Dog Murdered in- Cold Blood by Hideous Poisoner Seek Fiend He supported the weight of Mrs Etta Cuddles for on a prevention of cruelty ticket At one time Cursed wanted to a MP so he ran He issued free bottles of on election and was beat and he lost his bond- After- he hated politicians and in his paper conducted against every candidate that stood thereafter In one election he ran a story with a- headline Cold Virus- Carried To Many Babies Blame Then he upon fortune by invest real estate He Astoria and door convenience which the Corners bought all the prttiarlUtrii spent large on stations At one nwrtod V three quarters of Hid lawyer that by i he bad amassed a fortune the biggest in ihn rwVI Yep was a typhoon all made says that hft used to workers Others says paid em and worked them Jay two years although dont member anyone on tin ClarionBlast It was Comers ever nephews wai The remains W2seiV in a cast iron casket rivets and they put it into one of them marble which he had built tea years ago Above the was the inscription in latin Cursus Yep as I always never be another typhoon like William Rudolph Cursed He was so ha couldnt help hut make by Dairy Farmer Th Six Inch We have been to some of the fall shows and watched the cat tle and the men who worked with them It always seemed to us an awful lot of effort and we always suspected that the men who did it very seldom got the credit they deserve- Of course you may say that well they didnt have to do it Maybe a man who docs some thing he doesnt have to do de serves more credit than the man who has to But the thing that impressed us mostly was the way the older veterans went about their jobs In their case it was a family effort Fa ther and sons and the daughters all pitched in We have seen them set up a regular house hold at some of the longer fairs And there is a pretty good reason for it In this business we put everything ahead of the men or in other words that machine or beast and our whole way of life is more im portant than the human beings who work with and whose pursuit of happiness we should be concerned with Now do not misunderstand us Any livestock man worth his salt will feed his animals be fore he eats himself and that is as it should be He will put his machine away before he to the house and so on But is this any reason why he should freeze on his tractor day in and day out in the fall and winter and put up with the scorching heat in the summer And when he eocs to the shows does he have to put his cattle in a barn while he sleeps if he can in a dirty hole with hardly any facilities to clean up None of the places we visited had a cafeteria or a decent place lo eat They are all of the Greasy variety The big shots at the head of the fairs the ones that wear the ribbons and hand out the cigars never seem to be concerned whether the rreri- hard work and sac free and love of the well animal and good cattle other words the backbone the fairs get a decent meal- y- and a good of coffee and tea- Well of course you will see most of them back at it year It is just a proof of our statement that these men like do it that no matter what the fairs will do to discourage them they will be back for- in another year to lead around that animal they have seen grow up from a wet little bundle to a sleek young prom ise to lead him around the ring and to get that ribbon it that is the way it is to be to toad htm in a truck and travel many a mile and start over again You know we farmers dont like unions as a rule Some times we think they are too ruthless and too grabbing and- too often their demands or ra- titer their material success put us in a bad position But letS us not forget that they did in improving their at standards And they did get conditions improved in tho plants and factories which were very similar to what the aver age farmer or showman is MP against today And they did learn to stick together to do it We wonder if there is a moral somewhere in this At all they say whats sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander At the present it is just gravy for the Fair Board OVERTURE TO WILLIAM TELL ft