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i V7 7 shorn tors Notebook iLf Theres little else in the newspapers except the Royal Tour since the couple landed at airport and during this last weekend when they travelled through Ontario the Toronto papers some sort of record for saturation In point of fact the number of reporters photographers radio announcers and tcchni- clans television cameramen etc number three or four times more than for the tour of the King and Queen in There arc newsmen radiomen photographers accredited to the press party At the peak of the tour in Ot- and Toronto some news and radio men were on the job It all adds up to the biggest story in Canadian news history And editors in their efforts to beat the competition arc com ing up with all sorts of schemes One such was the attempt by the Star to arrange a cameramen and reporter to he landed by helicopter on the ship the Royal party was originally scheduled to take Permission was refused un derstandably and in any event the arrival by plane washed out that possibility We were home for the better part of the weekend and heard most of the Royal Tour pro ceeding by radio It was a grand job by the The announcers were well inform- spoke with vividness and clarity and by a uniformity of understatement managed to convey all of the excitement of the event We have a couple of beefs though minor ones Why were the announcers anonymous And why was the exception the representative We spent a lot of time won dering who speaking The voices were familiar enough Perhaps the decision to refer From the Files of to them simply as observers was part of that understate ment It would become mon otonous if they had tossed the ball back and forth like they do in the United States with a threeminute introduction for the announcer in every five minutes of description But the observers were so good it is unfortunate they couldnt be named for a welt deserved credit We noticed too a tendency of some reporters mostly those on the Star to dramatize the event through mishaps to themselves Lloyd who cubbed with us on the Montreal Gazette slipped on the top of a water tower while taking pictures and made a story of his narrow escape from a bad fall Jimmy Nicol of the Telegram he was a former Star editor gave over a couple of columns of his dif ficulties with formal clothes prior to the reception in Ot tawa Knowing something of how photographers work and with some idea of the number of pic tures that must have been taken many times more than those actually printed we wonder at the endurance of the visitors We cant imagine a more exasperating accompani ment than the continuous flashing of photo bulbs Ted Leonard of Keswick a reporterphotographer for the Star told us that there were very strict rules for the press to follow For example photo graphers could go no nearer the Royal couple than feet had to wear suits a real hard ship for the working press They cannot ask the couple to pose or do anything to attract their attention and can speak to the visitors only when spoken to Ted who became a father a few days ago has a pass for the entire tour 25 and 50 Years Ago OCTOBER An airplane flying over town on Tuesday afternoon had to make a landing in a field at the corner of the town line and the 3rd of Whitchurch on the farm formerly owned by Or Wesley which attracted a num ber of interested spectators Fall trade is picking up the cool weather causing a demand for heavier clothing Ketlleby The Toronto Hunt Club made a brilliant picture in their red coats on Saturday last when they congregated here for their crosscountry run Do you realize that it is only ten weeks till Christmas Virginia The hydro has reached all the homes that are wired in Virginia and the far mors feel almost as if they are in town Exhibits from apple pies pickles and live stock picturesque oil paint ings attracted rf people to what has proved one of the successful thus in the history of the event being held yesterday Mi J relief fireman at the pumping station has fallen because he a whan the itlitUA ws by in the April te of ih intent out nliUjths far saving her id a fee a nu of to be Two tut kiddies the a attending J Mi day fo pay the OCTOBER The Lyceum Vaudeville Company which will be here tonight is the strongest vaude ville troupe now in Canada This is the company which broke the attendance record at Sheas recently This company has the honor of being the last show attended by President McKinley Albert The organ in the Presbyterian Church refused to work on Sunday and the purchase of a new one has been decided on It is estimated that the Boer War is costing England at the rate of about daily Numbered boxes are now in use in our making it a great convenience for postmistress and the public lie Albert The telephone line has been completed through Mount Albert from Sharon and is being continued to most of the poles being set and the wire up The office fixtures have not been placed in position so cant yet Sutton Several of our young men left on Monday fully equipped with boats and guns hunt fallow deer In the of Mr Howard Mor ton is improving his by potting up an addition Miss taut also commenced her Wow dresses and hats appear hov and of Cornwall and York they to from their of Canada Will take tip residence in Happy the that has a fey apple trees in this year il OF PEACE tS I If 4 Aurora and rural districts of North York The Ntwmarkot Era Thn Expross Htrald ovtry at Wain St by Express limited Subscription for two or advonco copies aro of Cfars A Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers and me Bureau of Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa JOHN A MEYER Managing Edfor JOHN News CAROIINE ION Womens Editor GEORGE Sports direr LAWRENCE RACINE Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAG TEN THURSDAY THE EIGHTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND CANADIAN FLAG Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh were greeted with waving standards wherever they How unfortunate it was that in all that array of bunting there was no Canadian flag A few weeks ago the Era and Express published a description of a proposed design for a Canadian flag The design was of immediate local interest because it had been endorsed by the Lions clubs several of which exist in this district The design is strikingly appropriate It consists of field of ten bars five of them white five blue denoting the ten provinces The Union Jack is set in the upper left corner and a red Maple leaf in the field with a white de lis superimposed upon it The design is distinctively Canadian giving as it does the history of the country its roots and its affiliations in its choice of symbols But whether this design or another is chosen the fact remains that there is no reason why Canada should not fly its own flag We claim our independ ence and assert our maturity Why shouldnt these statements be validated by the unfurling of a Canadian flag EMPHASIS UPON SOUTH END Liberal and Progressive Conservative party leaders will open the campaigns of their respective candidates in North York next weekend The CCF has not announced its plans at this writing but the chances are that this party too will claim its leader to give the riding contest its sendoff It is significant that both of the old parlies plan to hold their nomination meetings in Armour Heights public school on Wilson Ave in North York township It is indicative of Hie extent the south end of the rid ing with its heavy concentration of Herniation rules the ridings choice of candidate There was a time not long distant when New market Aurora and Richmond Hill were the choices for the nomination meetings and campaign headquar ters And there are a good many still in the north end of the riding who cherish the belief that it is the rural vote which counts Tradition dies hard But more than percent of the voting population lives in the areas built up since the war iti the south end and it is that vole the parties are after In its early development that same south end was generally held to be a stronghold but in the last few years there has been a steady influx of white collar workers into the area ami in the last federal election it was heavily Liberal TAX APPEALS Several veterans living in the Veterans Land Act subdivision in northeast Newmarket plan to appeal their current assessments Next year as a group I hey intend to ask council for some form of blanket tax con cession for the subdivision The veterans have a persuasive argument for the latter They claim that when the town council was negotiating for the establishment of a VLA subdivision some form of tax concession was assured So far they say that concession has not been forthcoming I Jut the veteran situation does lint rest upon this assurance They are in a peculiar position of being taxed on property many of them do not want but are prevented from getting rid of by VLA regulation The veterans are settled upon half acre lots the mini mum under the VLA ill the Newmarket subdivision They cannot sell the land they tin not want although they can sell their complete holding The purpose of the originally was assist veterans to establish themselves ami their families in their own homes on enough hind to provide them with a fair living This purpose was modified when the Newmarket subdivision was opened The mini mum amount of laud was reduced to a half acre and the homes were built within an urban municipality something of an innovation But in keeping with the original purpose of the act each lot was a half acre at least This purpose sound as it may he does not take into consideration that the taxes on such property within an urban area are likely to be more than the benefits received from the land as is apparently the case with some of those appealing their assessments And too the homes in Newmarket subdivision are essentially Urban homes and their residents sufficiently secure in their jobs to ignore the possibilities of half acre gardens But the fact remains that they are required to keep land for which they have no use but cannot sell and so must pay taxes for It is in this extreme that they have appealed their assessments and plan to seek some form of tax concession from council Blanket tax concessions as such have little to recommend them A group or industry or whoever the recipients of these concessions may be benefit by these concessions and if it were simply a matter of giving benefits it would be less an issue But along side these benefits is a corresponding penalty against the other taxpayers who must make up the difference in the municipal income In the case of the veterans there are one or two additional considerations The first is the councils earlier assurance of a tax concession We do not doubt that if such a concession were promised it was part of the councils postwar policy to provide homes for vet erans in every way it could It is a fact that housing program the VLA subdivision the camp area and heights was generally accepted as a solid acknowledgement to the veterans for a job done in wartime and whatever cost was involved presumably including tax concessions was included Secondly the province while voicing a general disapproval lo tax concessions has provided for excep tions in the case of veterans and such concessions could be granted by council if it wished Finally Newmar ket has a valuable subdivision on the VLA property and it would be a shame to spoil it by permitting it to be built over as would happen were the holdings sold It seems to us that here is an occasion where council could with credit work out some form of con cession to veterans on the subdivision It would be in keeping with its policy and it would remove the vet erans on the subdivision It would be in keeping with its policy and it would remove the veterans from the awkward position they are in through no fault of their own BUSINESS MEN MEET The need of a businessmens organization on Main St has been voiced too frequently in these columns to need any further elaboration Attempts at Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce have boon dismal failures and a reluctance now to invest time and effort in such lost causes is understandable But some form of association is necessary And a varied group Main St retailers met Monday to talk over the possi bilities It was a casual meeting but it admirably served its purpose Out of it came a decision to attempt a Newmarket Businessmens Association with another planned for the first Monday in November The association I hey visualize is most informal with no affiliations with national organizations no dues a limited executive and serving but one purpose to provide businessmen with a means for discussion among themselves of problems common to them alt and as a means to act as one lor the improvement of Newmar ket as a business centre The original group numbers only nine but they like see every businessman interested in ait organization join them at their next meeting They have at present no major objectives nor do they antici pate any Bight now Iheir concern is to provide a forum for discussion of Alain St problems Later if action is indicated they hope that their video will carry the sentiments of Newmarket businessmen to whatever quarter should be necessary EDITORIAL NOTES We noticed again last week the frequency with which members of the Womens Institute branches in this district visit each other last weeks Institute News there were several notices of pending visits by one branch to another Quite apart from the social pleasure of such visits the opportunities to exchange ideas and to foster projects in common to all branches must be very stimulating not of Art In international and national issues ft 3 of yv direction of those activities rest iv Li Office Cat Reports fa Catnips By Ginger My friend Slim Bliggons dropped over for an evening on the weekend We had some blue cheese and half a gallon of Uncle Toms cider and then read for a while It was a nice cool night one of those nights you sit in front of the hearth and we warmed ourselves in front of open hotair reg ister Slim was reading the news papers about royal tour and the other news On sec ond thought it was just about the royal tour He thrust the paper down and turned to me Say listen to me whats this here proto col theys a 1 ays talkin about Well says I its what youre suposed to do right at the right time or something I guess Or is it now let me see is it some kind of British motor oil And yet again it could be the mating song of the Dodo Im not sure it here that this here reporter exploded a flash bulb in the princess face and that he forgot protocol and spoke first Said he was sorry Maybe youd better look it up in the dictionary I advised Slim swallowed a heel of Uncle Toms and walked over to the bookcase It says here said Slim a draught of terms agreed upon signed by the parties for use as a basis of a formal treaty Well I dont think a man would have to go through all that to converse with royalty Here farther down it says that with an upper case it means the department of the French Foreign Office Unlikely I said Lets see how it sounds in the said Slim The reporter forgot the department of the French For eign Office and spoke first by Dairy Farmer m m The Top Six Inches Hardly I said Most likely this here proto col just means Them Frenchmen seems to know their and thats most natural where they found the word Etiquette No protocol They got their from Emily Post Units common know ledge Anybody knows her But thats what it was after What was it after After the department of of the French Foreign Office Oh for Petes sake this is getting too jangled Lets get back to the reporter and the princess said Well this newspaper im plies that protocol he shouldnt have spoken first and I disagree Slim said Take your average reporter like this guy He shoots his flashbulb and it pops in her royal highness face and she and looks at him square in the eye Well if he remem bers about this foreign office he dont say a word see Course in this case he didnt and he did Well which I mean he didnt remember and he did speak see If he hadnt ha said and stood gaping back at her royal self and she was at him now wouldnt look both silly Of course I said her royal highness would have spoken first had he given her a chance that Sitm because probably by this TO wouldnt It had simply far Oh shut tip and Eat- other glass of TcTi keep your I shewed- ft Now that the World Series is over Princess has left to visit the west fishing season is over and the hunting hasnt started yet we are looking for the usual rumblings and headlines and speeches connected with a pro vincial election However be fore we go any further we confess that we are not inter ested in politics and elections and we have never attended political rally and we doubt if we will this time We are jus wondering if we should We would like to ask the candi dates a few questions pertain ing to this milk issue which continues to boil simmer and which wilt have to be set tled one of these days What we want to know from the candidate in this riding whether he has any knowledge of the problem We live in a riding that is partly rural and partly urban The man elected will represent a tot of people producing milk and a lot of people drinking it That puts him in a kind of special posi tion A city candidate can af ford to holler about holding the price of milk and a strictly rural aspirant a thunder away at the big dairies But our man will have to face issues and do some thinking and come up with the answer which will suit both sides Our guess is that this can bo done two ways He can either sit on the fence and try to be nice to both groups If that is his attitude we will not vote for him We think that the time has come for somebody to get up and tell the truth That will hurt a lot of people but if the man this kind of courage we will vote for him and help him We expect an honest and straightforward candidate first of all to tell the buying public that the slogan hold the price of milk is a fallacy How in tarnation can they hold the price of milk when no effort is made to hold the price of all other things that go into its making Wages machinery feed everything is up in price Yet milk isnt We will not argue pros and eons of price controls and subsidies and so on hut unless everything is all that i jiiiia idiotic it 4i Is any changes in of delivers wrefcg too He will cut increased fii the tern of and fcution eventually Particular Gloated might seme men will have it ilnd another job it is better to do this Labor wrong in 5day deliveries This will increase store sales and cut into their jobs And we want the man who wants our vote to get up and say so want that man to have the courage and say this to organized And finally he will have to tell big dairies to increase their efficiency tell them that they aire entitled to a fair pro fit and return on their invest ment but that they are to prove their methods of distri bution and merchandising They are to provide automatic scales and a better method of testing but mostly a better method of selling our product Of course he will have to something to say to the producers too Well let him tell us that our organization isnt without fault that it isnt democratic and there are too many tittle big men who talk too much but who are petty and shortsighted at the head of it He should tell the far mers to do some and tell them to produce more efficiently and use more of the services available through the government This man wont get elected you wilt say We think he would We think so became the sheer surprise caused by such honesty would sweep people off their feet And be cause even if you dont think a man who would talk like this would impress all of us as being the man who could rep- resent what we stand for fi HOME TOWN ft By fiSB shBI