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i Editors Notebook Its a lovely December day and it is the voice of dyspepsia which observes that there are days until Christmas comfc again thank heavens but the tone of the remark will be un- by all who fed un- wisely and have dragged them selves to work with their heads still echoing the clap of Christ mas crackers the shouts of children and their stomachs still protesting the annual load of turkey and trimmings But for all of that it was a good day for ourselves the best ever And we would wish si our friends the same pleas- lire It was a quiet Christmas with only the immediate fam- ily at the table Friends drop- in late in the evening and saw the day out with quiet talk- They like ourselves were disturbed by the hoarseness of the Kings voice on his Christ mas broadcast Canadians are not flagproud and are inclined to play down the Empire con nection sir and the old time imperialism that the phrase sometimes echoes but when the King speaks on Christmas Day it is difficult to disguise the warmth and affection we all feel And to it this Christ mas a fresh concern for a man who has become so much more than a man in our considera tions The music was happiest this Christmas We heard excellent recordings of choral works as well as live broadcasts didnt hear the Twelfth Day of Christmas the old ballad revived last year as frequently as we would have liked but we did hear more of the carols of other lands particularly the French carol 11 est Enfant Two others heard more fre quently were Wassail Song and Holly and Ivy These older carols have a life to them a and goodwill about them which we find particular ly appealing We missed Lionel in the Christmas Carol We are not sure thatperennial favorite was even broadcast this year There was Alice in Wonderland over Lux Radio Theatre on Monday night but Alice has no appeal for us were afraid not in its dramatic form anyway Radio is at its best in matters of universal appeal and never better than at Christmas The kids obligingly slept until on Christmas Day before waking their parents for the unwrapping of presents for that we were extremely grateful Among the presents were toboggans and late in the morning they tumbled out into the snow We went with them to do the duty hauling the to boggans back up the hills for them because the snow was too deep It was our only exercise of the day but adequate to ready a Christmas appetite Stella was sure she had heard the prancing and pawing of each tiny hoof during the night We had thought the sounds overhead were the chip munks but she may have been right The kids found some rabbit tracks nearby in the fresh snow and were convinced that they were the tracks of cer Dancer could only agree after all the evi dence was piled high about the Christmas tree In recent years at Christmas time an attempt has been made at a widespread safety cam paign to discourage drinking and driving The campaign has become increasingly effective and when supplemented this year with threats of crack downs on office parties it seems to have done an excel lent job in the city If the same accidentfree holiday can be duplicated this weekend then police and safe ty officials will have good rea son to congratulate themselves It is too bad that the truth of the warnings at this time isnt recognized during the rest of the year But then the chances taken with cocktails and cars are taken by fools in the first place and the results in the traffic courts are less the end results of of liquor than they are of the irresponsibility of the offenders Access to liquor merely enlarges their scope for stupidity However theyll always be with us and if they can be held in check if only for a week it is still a mighty accomplish ment From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago December Over people wended their way to the Newmarket high school grounds on Thursday night to inspect the wonderful improvements that have taken place during the past summer and participate in the official opening of the new front addi tion to the old high school There was a tremendous Christmas market last Wednes day Chickens were the size of turkeys and though the latter were rather scarce the chickens made up for them The stores will keep open to night Christmas eve till Ten below zero last Saturday morning The fowl thieves are around again visiting the poultry houses A number of people last Thursday night lost hens and geese Its train time now pack up get ready for Florida the neighbors will look after the cat The Sunday school program on Monday evening will include a pageant called The Light of the World Be tween and are to take part in it besides the choir The Christmas tree with branches full of mystery will fill a large place in many a happy home Christmas morn ing In this issue of the paper ap peared an instalment of Kid napped by Semple Keswick Different truck- loads of evergreens for Christ mas trees passed through the village the last few days THE OLD HOME TOWN dad HOT jj 4 I I t- Serving r f Aurora and His rural of North York Tno Era 1852 ft Express Herald Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Published Thursday of 142 Mam St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and express limited Subscription tor two for one year advance Single copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly New Association and me Audi Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Past Of lice Department Ottawa JOHN A MEYER Managing Editor JOHN I ST THUS CAROLINE Womens Editor Sports IAWRENCE RACINE Job Panting and THE TORI A PA SEVEN FRIDAY THE TWENTYEIGHTH OF DECEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYONE December A of young people from Newmarket attended the concert in Miss school in East Gwillimbury last Fri day night Good congregations last Sun day Christmas sermons and special Christmas music by the choir The opening hockey game of the season will be played here on New Years afternoon when the home team will meet the champion St Georges of To ronto The Newmarket colors will be light blue and white The Cane and Sons Mfg Co presented all their em ployees with a box of the fin est chocolates for Christmas There was a runaway in town on Christmas morning but the only damage done was to the harness Dr Clark has placed in his office this week a New Colum bia dental chair It is a beau ty Our public school closed on Friday last and teachers and pupils will enjoy holiday until school reopens on Monday Jan Kettleby timber sale was postponed owing to too much water in the swamp Even coaisting Is not without its dangers The little daughter of Robert Stew art line while riding down hill near her home had the misfortune to break her leg The Presbyterian Sunday school will hold an enter tainment in the town hall on New Years night An attrac tive program of songs drills etc will be given ma SO a Lord of Byne- shaven is but a bum declared Slim recent ly Hes but a shift less irresponsible scrounging nogood Lord Blaekshag of is the titled name of Bliggens watchdog Hes call ed Whats the trouble with him I asked u cried Slim He hasnt no troubles Thats the trouble Too many friends around town too and too much to eat Hes the hail-fellow- wellmet type and a pleas ant sort of nogood character that anybody feeds him and no door is closed to him not even up at that big estate of that rich dairy farmer Sick- cinches Slim eyed his dog which snored fat and apparently lazy in front of the fire Hes got no sense of home responsi bility and when he gets bored with it around here he goes a couple of weeks As fer a watchdog might bet ter put up a sign on my place free rum here He welcomes nil the tramps and snarls at delivery boys and re spected lookin people For a papered he should possess those inbred qualities the more decent dogs of nobility inherit I said By the way what do his papers show They shows whats right and proper SHm said unfolding an envelope from his desk drawer Theres his papers It says Received from for one dog name of Lord Blaekshag of Byncshaven five bucks and a pair of used Big Joe work boots Signed Bar ney Hes hired man who lives out on the fifth line of East Whats that prove I said It proves this here that hes boughten and paid Slim emphasized indignantly Yet Id take back the five bucks even without the boots if I could make an abouttrade he added Id say those papers lack authenticity I said You know I often wonder if they were even any good said Slim We both looked at Lord of You know said Slim Maybe hes not so dumb as we think After all hes got a friend a meal and a place to stay everywhere he goes All hes gotta do is wag his tail and grin and hes in Every body gets to know Blackie I heartily agree I said Hes got all the security he needs for free Now take a French poodle or a Where would a poodle dog be if he had to look out for his own living away his master or mistress and a fine home and hed he lost SHm said Hed be too indignant to bum grub off of ordinary folks Would lack the enterprise which this here Blackie has Blackie isnt class conscious nor has he any prejudices I said Nope sir not Blackie said Slim Blackie there is sort of one world Wendell I see exactly what you mean I said It must be nice to have no ties like that Roam around when you like meet all kinds of people Hes got good qualities loyally to friend ship for instance Hes still your dog because he always comes back always glad to see you Like a long lost friend he is when he comes back from a weeks said Slim Hes got what It takes to en joy life and to contribute to the happiness of others at the same time I said Thats exactly what hes got Slim confirmed Thats what 1 like about likeable pleasant bums I said Blackies no bum Slim an gered Why that there dog is a smart critter I wouldnt sell him all the money in the world And hes got guts to be the way he pleases Hes a hu manist only dog sort of belongs to the world iHed make a good politi cian I said Hes even too good for that Slim said by Dairy Farmer DRIVE SAFELY DRIVE SOBERLY The TopSix Inches CHANGE NEEDED HERE The results of the recent vote on a milk marketing agency offer substantial grounds for questioning the manner in which it is conducted Twothirds of the votes of all producers are required before a marketing agency can be established Ballots are mailed to all producers The producer marks his choice of yes or no signs the ballot and returns it by mail If a ballot is not returned it is counted as a vote against the agency The milk marketing agency failed to cany because only 648 percent of the producers voted for it Sixty- six point si percent was required But only 682 percent of the producers voted and only percent less than one in voted against the proposal That small percentage plus the percentage of voters who didnt send in their ballots and so were registered as opposing it was just enough to defeat the proposal The milk producers have asked for another vote they are certain that among those who failed to return their ballots there are enough who favor the proposal to carry it with a whopping majority Their request for another vote will be granted but in the meantime new contracts have been signed and the producers have lost for another year the advantages they might have had had the proposal for the agency carried on the first vote With more than in every 20 producers who registered their opinion favoring the milk marketing agency a second vote is something of a farce The principle that those who dont send in their ballot are counted as against the proposal is we believe unjusti fied We agree that a form of compulsory mar keting is imposed every effort should be made to protect the rights of a minority but we cannot see how registering unreturned ballots as no votes accomplishes this The onus of registering an opinion rests as strongly upon those opposed as those in favor As the agency vote is taken now the indifferent or forgetful have an opinion imposed upon them at the cost of those who have troubled to vote We dont think this ft right The count should be taken of only those who vote THOSE CITY HUNTERS We wish there were a few more outspoken out door folk who would apeak up as tellingly as Mr Pete McGjHen who conducts a sportsmens column in the Toronto Telegram With their help and more strin gent laws far happier use could be made of Ontarios hunting and fishing As it is because of the ignorant illmannered attitude of city hunters fine sport is lost to others The deer population has become so heavy that the animals have become a nuisance to farmers The department of lands and forests declared an season in some parts of southern Ontario including some townships in York in the expectation that the nuisance would be ended But shortly after the announcement was made it was rescinded Township councils had protested the open season because the rural population feared more the damage done by hunters than the nuisance of too much deer Mr looked into this situation He con cluded that hunters are percent in the wrong in their relations with farmers Farm land in Southern Ontario is privateproperty and a hunter or angler has no more right to trespass than he has to tramp ovor your front lawn or garden That evidently is not generally understood This last comment is a mastor- piece of understatement as the rest of his remarks bear out He writes of a farmer who was surprised at dinner by a bullet through his window of another whose steer came home loaded with buckshot Anothers dog was shot the fourth lost two tame ducks to hunters who shot thorn and ran for their car Still another instance was of hunters who ignored the farmers insistence that they get off his land sent a bullet through his front window and holed five bee hives To these stories can bo added the experiences of local farmers with hunters in season or out It seems that when the city hunter picks up his gun hes so bound and determined that hes going to fire it that the target doesnt much matter whether its legitimate game or a farmers window A favorite target of course is the No Hunting signs which are generally riddled within days of their being posted This sort of nonsense this boorish arrogant dis regard for the rights of property owners is going to kill hunting and fishing in Southern Ontario says Mr McGilien I wonder how many city Joes would tolorato this behavior he asks You who like to get away for a fow hours in the fields or the woods or on a stream had hotter mako up your minds right now whether you are going to stand idly by while unprincipled hoodlums who call thomselves sportsmon ruin your sport To which every farmer will breathe a Amen with the postscript that more game wardens tougher as well as good manners bo considered To the Editor We greatly fear that we will incur your dis pleasure by Announcing the ab sence of our effort again this week We ore hastening to assure you that this is due en tirely to the fact that we are very busy recovering from what is known as turkey poisoning and further engaged in the serious task of making New Years Resolutions We hope to pacify you even further by mentioning that we put as resolution number one the writing of the column in week ahead We hope to have a set of New Years resolutions which will be an improvement on last years We promise furthermore to turn out the cows at least once every 45 days this winter even if it is cold or wet and windy This Is a hard resolu tion to make but we are con vinced that it will work We had just a few too many cows wo didnt catch in heat last winter Also a few cows that stood very crooked by spring time Wo have been practising it so far this winter and it doesnt bother the production Wo will promise to clip the cows toes twice this coming winter and at least three times a year We are convinced that it will give us better looking cows and bettor feeling cows as well We think that with our cement and stanchion stabling this Is more important than exercise Tho next item on the never to grow corn in any or form whatsoever Our grass silage Is practically odorless and the cows are accomplishing some real efforts on it Since we opened the silo early in November we bred to the bull cows and heifers We had only two returns and we are sure one of them is in calf now The cows look good and feel good and milk well We so far have had one case of aceto nemia and no udder trouble It would seem unreasonable to attribute all this to good grass silage But it seems to us that it must have helped some Our next resolution concerns seeding in the spring We must get that spring seeding in by about the of May and as early as can be done We also promise ourselves to get In as much loose hay as we can Had we done this the quality of our hay would have been bettor this year We want to try and send in registration and transfer papers on time and answer all corres pondence from tho different de partments of the government right away We hop this will not encourage them to the avalanche of piper Already coming pur We should put tractors sprayer in better time than year and In gen eral should be a better and mora careful farmer Now voir Mr Editor- why we couldnt just write bur col umn We hope thai the quality of our you that this an art ful way of dodging truly Dairy farmer i not of I against on right thotr agomt In national not tho function at to tho of thoo which on choice i