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J Pages from the iters Aof e A note recently from Mr Harold A Miller who now live in Toronto He is the con of late A Miller who worked at Canes factory while he studied and then went I ito the Method ministry This wine years ago The Mr Miller eventu ally went to where Harold was born Mr Miller retired to where he died three years ago Mr Harold Miller write that my father al ways had a high regard for the Quaker families in the New market district My middle was chosen in honor of a Newmarket family my Wakefields I have been to Newmarket In MM and Each time i find a great deal of new construction and thriving ac tivity Hie and the novel hove done much to the As pictured hi most he is a highly Improbable horn time lo time this exag geration gels under the skin of he working press When it does they are likely to take pen in hand and debunk them selves Ve run arrow stub an stone in a recent copy of Time magazine The was Holier a vell known newspaperman in the United stales lie wrote Never in all my torn days did I romp into a where the work and scream the presses were going town wide I never turned tip a hat hi front nor wore a press card in the hand of said hat In years I never heard a newspaper man use the wont scoop One might say beat in a fourminute on a hot story but is a bad word A word is game to refer to our business as in flow do you like the newspaper game If his is a game it is a very From the Files of and 50 Years A strenuous sport indeed and I would not play it for free Newspapermen do not al ways meet such interesting people I have met more bores than the average bank president civic worker or the professional salesman of brushes have also met more crackpots If some poor de luded soul has just seen a vi sion I am the guy they choose to tell all about it It is not true that all news papermen dress shabbily and drink up all their pay I have met a flock of teetotalers and some very fancy fashion plates who carry canes and occasion ally spats Our child ren catch colds and wear out shoes just like yours do not generally catch crim inals preferring to allow the to earn their own pay We are not always in the confidence of the mayor the President the Senate or the military To the question Do you want lo be a reporter all your life as if it were a vice answer yes and strike off another acquaintance We are not freaks any more than you ere have received another bundle of copies of the English country magazine Field for which say thanks Regret fully veii have to postpone their reading for a few weeks until after Christmas when well have some leisure Pro viding always that do not have a recurrence of the wea ther in the first of and as a result must get out Into the garden Incidentally the almanac of our neighbor forecast the warm spell and the cold weather which preceded it with re markable accuracy And confess have enjoyed the weather even though it has played hob with the usual sense of Christmas expectancy current these days and the back roads look about what they were in the spring last year it me The report is going that Mr and Mrs rl J had quite a narrow escape from a serious auto accident near Keswick when putting on the brakes to miss clashing a bunch of hogs The hogs escaped barm but not the car ismtlon The Prince of Wales fell again today white hunting His favorite hunter fell at a formidable hedge pitching the prince over his head There was a good turnout to the Pin Orchard Literary Club at John Holds home last night Jlie paper edited by was par ticularly breezy Aurora On Wednesday morning lire was discovered the basement of William residence from an overheated furnace The Hie was extin guished without much damage being done bad colds opJd weather mad- a small audience at on Sunday button West The have in our community wete much on evening in not to hear of ejection on Of much whielt to have JyaJ til in fUrfg bote To on fey A ftew The first permanent settler in Richmond a dead Indian His bones He buried under the easterly boundary line of the village cemetery The Daily Mail and Empire is publishing a special Christ mas supplement with the story of Christmas printed in eight languages spoken in Canada Cache Danish Nor wegian Italian Indian and Polish Mr If Eves had a pro voking experience at the depot one dy last week While load ing a ear of hogs the upper deck down kilting one hog injuring others and caus ing much inconvenience caps down over their these cool mornings Five oclock corner early Mr Stair is adding more in residence two little of should proud He can go away with safety and return at night and find ail up appUpie hihcv of SlioW Oft Our arid are very busy days on of a forcgoru elusion town including will bodily li arid Vi a oi vdy for off ihi hidt ii d wIMav Sarving Aurora end of North York Nowmorkof Era 1852 Tho Exprais Harold Thursday of Worn St by the tro end limited Subscription for two for one year in copies or ooch Member of Cfoss A of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association and the Audit Bureau of Crrcufoflonf Socond Class Mail Post Office Department JOHN A- I STtUTHIW ffdlfor ION Womens Sport fflfw LAWRENCE RACINE oh Printing and THE EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE TWELVE THURSDAY THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND MAYOR VALE ABUSE Some months ago Mayor Vale protested publicly the practice of the county of taking the old age pension cheques of indigent patients and applying it to the cost of hospitalization Now he has again brought the issue forward This time the circumstance involves a Newmarket woman who was in hospital for 11 days last June and nine days last August In November pension cheque was only on each payment Mayor Vale had the balance refunded as a result of some strenuous correspondence but as he pointed out to council while he got the cheque back in this one instance it is not stopping the practice of confiscating pension cheques Somewhere along the line there must be some form of legal justification for the practice of applying pension cheques against hospital fees There is not however any moral justification and the practice should be stopped Indeed it is difficult to understand by what process of legal reasoning such practice was ever arrived at in the first place If a hospital patient is unable to pay his hospital bill for lack of funds it is certainly most obvious that the patient requires all of his pension to live upon There is no question here of legal right in the instance brought to light by Mayor Vale the issue was akin to life and death Without the cheque the pen sioner could liave starved to death because it represented her vhole income The fact that the cheque was returned when the mayor laid the facts before the authorities indicates that at least they had no intention of starving the woman But the fact that the cheque taken at all and without full investigation of the circumstances illus trates the tendency to consider pensioners and other public charges as just another bookkeeping entry and that crime is surely no less shameful HELPING EACH OTHER Members of the East Federation of Agriculture went to a good deal of trouble to a float for the Santa parade last Saturday It was an undertaking of goodwill We felt that if Newmarket businessmen were prepared lo go to the trouble they did for the children the least we could do was help the best way could explained Mr president Mr Richardson had more to say on this theme of country cooperation with town We feel there should be more in these events by the country people he said The old idea of leading pa rale lives is old fashioned In ve heartily agree although we fear the town people are less able to reciprocate in kind Al though the might be witling ve doubt the average townsman is in a position go and hay when a neighbor sick or the help situation more desperate than Townsfolk can return a good turn however by making an effort to understand some of the problems the farmer must contend with The price of farm pro duce fay example something of a political football and the resultant charge and left many be inn belief I ho farmer is makiog a good Hupp out of Nothing could be further from Hie as I ho exodys farm to testifier lei mm at what he earns from labor he gives and Urn mini he the fanner in hut bin Jot to cirlajniy of of workers to Ami Inttt that lot him but by a fw i which millc have A in that urn forgot hi I ml of prosperity ho support iff I ho I adit for nod bo could Iho of the eiiiiiitry a Oh Irftila he la nun from for is the jipuudii the Hindu in town BUSINESS HOURS At II ltd meeting the dismissed hours at somo length but without reaching definite lit tills they were no different from the numerous other groups which in tho past years have discussed closing hours Wo dont believe there is a definite answer al though the Businessmens Association is preparing to hold a fuller enquiry into the subject We are not sure such an agreement would even bo desirable fault of established hours is that it prevents the ambi tious businessman from keeping long horns if he wishes A good many of the present Newmarket businessmen laid a solid foundation for future success by working long hours we do not feel that those starting out now should be deprived of that opportunity if they wish to take it But quite apart from this contention there is the elementary fact that few businessmen will close their doors if there am customers waiting without Nor will they feel particularly obliged to open at a given hour if there is no business to justify it Business horns vary a good deal with the kind of business there too it is difficult to strike an acceptable opening and closing time There is one other consideration Newmarket busi nessmen must at least compromise with their customers in this matter of hours or else theyll lose business to other centres Newmarket cannot maintain its position of a leading shopping centre unless it is prepared to go at least half way to meet the customer If wishing to shorten hours they lose customers to other centres they can scarcely complain as a good many of them do about business falling off RETAIL PRICE If the bill to be presented to parliament this week is passed it will mean that manufacturers of merchan dise will no longer have the authority to tell retailers at what price their merchandise can be sold The bill has come about from the belief that by ending retail price maintenance cost of merchandise will be lowered We understand from merchants that there is every possibility that prices on some merchandise may fall if the bill becomes law but they believe only for a short time And then there is every possibility that prices will rise above their present levels Local merchants believe too that without retail price maintenance the small Independent store will be forced out of business and the larger stores with no competition from the stores will be able to set prices at will We dont doubt that retail price maintenance has abused we dont suggest that the practice is ideal But if its abolishment means that independent merchant faces a new threat to hi existence then those abuses are relatively unimportant It seems to us that the small independent merchant has impor tant a part in our economy to risk losing him MUST PRODUCE MORE There are parts of the address of Dominion Bank president Mr which as wide a publication as possible In the ago of wel fare stale ii in refreshing to bo reminded of menials ho often by the politicians promising bigger and bettor with lower by union promising bigger pay cheques and shorter hours with lower in short by any one of the several who promise the ultimate in laments at minimum of expense Mr Una in pari Not the least of them Co Monde is the prevalent slate of Mont nowadays ludleve in the Musi Pull Hut you that more and mere of the Income bo to persona however deserv ing who neither produce nor sieve yen cannot keep on new Jobs continuously without running head- lung I bo danger which nil of more linn foot in nil of us nnvnrmnenl and and lax alike our coats according In our clnlh the of Inflation will near certainty There is truth it to A inns for is neither mum iniv Iron Hum what can tie cannot enlarge it by printing paper dollars If wo wont inure we produce more KURT MEYER There now to be some doubt that Nazi general Meyer Is indeed guilty of responsibility for the murder of Canadian war prisoners Trial pro cedure is questioned It Is said that had he boon tried in civil court the would have been dismissed At tho same time that those revolutions are made has been talk of his value as an officer in Atlantic Pact forces in There legal issue and a political loots riot confuse them Tho legal issue should have prece dence If there is doubt about his trial lot the Supreme Court review case If hia sentence is sustained let him serve it 9w staffs fftMUAB MS A Or WWi ii m f fc iitjpm Catnips By We should be proud of our natural heritage Good Cana dians preserve Lynx find Ik a or Coon and Otter Brewery advertising taught us to do oil tills and prevent forest fires Brewers and distillers were forbidden to advertise their wares in Ontario under the law They found a way how ever in which they could ad vertise hi a suitable manner within law and at the same time get rid of a lot of taxable profits to boot They started advertising and Canadians were moulded into thinking subcon sciously that nature was theirs to protect theirs to enjoy and that they should preserve the This new concept engraved upon the Canadian mind and signed by several brew and spirits manufactur ers Your correspondent no ticed lately that nature adver tising has matured and the copy writers are implementing techniques which are even more subtle They say some thing like this in bold heavy letters Relax and Enjoy At the bottom the bold brand name In between is tome ad jargon about nature and pre serving the lynx in small let ters See how its done reader sees only the Relax and Enjoy and the brand name Carried to an extreme such an ad might go something like After you have tramped miles on a hot August day oer dusty rugged terrain stop sit down and reach Into your haversack and enjoy and at the the brand name Of course following the heading in tiny print would be this a Canadian bird book or beautiful panorama this na tural beauty of the outdoors yours to enjoy to AS 4 rf -f- in tect and preserve the Lynx It was on our Wednesday night that Slim and entered into discussion on this vary topic Wednesday night is our special forum night Forum Two urn or Agalrwkrn Is we call our little Wednesday group limited two of Tuesday are reading nights Are the harm or wr north wan the pypte of forum last night an nd In good for urn Aft id here A ft A job of stervatioft I talft CrnservatioT interlected your Yeah replied fyiking at this would that these insidious manufacturers are the of of the an nual loss in forest wealth These city fellow go hunting or fishing every year What do they know about the wood They romp in the and then they refresh selves with some of brands get stupid and drop cigar and cigarette all over Northern Ontario thats what Slim to feet object and I maintain that this here honorable member who constitutes the other half of the forum prejudiced and Dogmatic I corrected and besides are lacking in pro per parliamentary procedure I aims to parliamentary proceed anyway said Slim But he got out of hand and there was a question about a point of order The point of order was taken to a vote and since there was a tie and no chairman to cast a deciding vote the discussion ended by Dairy Farmer One of the nicest things we have ever seen was the float of the East Gwillimbury Fed eration of Agriculture in the Newmarket Christmas parade last week Here was a good idea execu ted with a lot of imagination and color and it had that per sonal touch about it and it stuck out of that parade by a It had the earmarks of a common ity effort What a Christmas parade we could haw if all townships entered a float and if some of other organisa tions county did the same thing Wo quite that there aw a lot of doing a lot of wry important and work in county they all stop at business cud of their job dont pay enough attention to 4hor equally jobs which be as a family and ac tion wry tow or- tun by and lavnuns that wilt include family as well mo too womenfolk nor to their luinMings Wo think this is a mistake and that most Of these would ho bettor and active if the ladies to at tow wo could Mill move floats would an oftovt reason for tho of youth to leavo home lack of community activity luvvo to a to It tho very of men very wisely tod lv those who the for Junior Farmer ttVouiM Hut what happens when they iow out of it What will its Nothing that wo know of It Is it to say thut It is of which alone for to cities Wo think that roups could THE OLD HOME TOWN go a long way to assure rec reation and thus make it inter esting and worthwhile to stay home How great the need is for this type of activity is well il lustrated by the success in this district of two event One was a name band playing for old time dancing we had in the arena last People came from alt over the country side It had to those who like their reels and square dances There were old people and young people- and some came the other side ot It was a success be cause it filled tho need of thos who go to these it they were held their The other event we have in mind is the Farmers Ball in hold each winter to friend of the Hunt and those whose latnt is while hunting Year after ywr the rows At this lHle to visit and to They to dance and to play cards and Wo maintain that almost any smaller a towivhi of Agriculture or Association wold the same success And the smaller and more loc alised the is the more it would people li v hut together the it would become center of true community spirit We thought of all while wo that team of horses draw the bury Float We also thought that the could do than put up prize for best float trout surroun ding countryside They could further and put up a for Junior Farmer Float and best school and best rural school display And when thus were added up we wouldnt Ih bit surprised if they werent still money In the pocket a better more truly Christmas parade to show for it at that By STANLEY o a OUT ftopBHiM But v NOW l USB 1 in ErfU i