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i Pages from the A if Notebook This seems to be The Press Councillor week During council meeting Monday evening we winced at a com ment made by the councillor We would describe it as being partly in jest partly in sarcasm that he casually made the re mark Is the local press to be trusted We do not know what the councillor meant by the casual remark after the mayor had said he had read a certain re port in the local press But it does not matter how we feel about Councillor re mark The point is that he made it and people will interpret it in any number of ways Later we heard one member of municipal council say that he wished councillors would watch what they are saying and add ed that they dont think about what it look like in print We are beginning to feel that we have been too lenient with councillors offhand remarks Every word that is said in coun cil is for the publics ears Too often we have heard This is off the record or If the press will bear with me and not re port this It is our opinion that councillors should only make statements which are worth stating If they do not wish to be reported in the press they should say nothing Councillor may not have meant his remark to be offending- Yet when we recall comments of his made in the past we wonder if his remark Contributed Some unknown reader has been paying attention to our editorials He has sent in two clippings one of which states that coexistence is possible between certain husbands and wives of his acquaintance it should be a cinch between East and West The other is a verse entitled The Song of the Diplomats which says If we cant get co existence la la There is always coresistance tra la la by Dairy Farmer the Top Six Inches This is the season when things do not make sense It must he the heat or the dry weather or if it isnt the heat it is the humidity How else can you explain strikers tying up workers and pull ing the switches on a refrigera tion plant and threatening to spoil tons of material while the real sufferers the farmers will have their crops spoil What other explanation but summer madness is there for firms going on holidays while we are unable to obtain cer tain parts for machinery In the working season Other mani festations is the unusual crop of panic stories concerning the army worm and the drought The daily papers to whom the army worm is properly nothing more than a worm who enlist ed publish imaginary inter views and their colleagues on the radio stations pick their reports up and be fore we know what goes on the story all over the place However one does have mire these newshawks soap peddlers for their inde pendence of spirit They are never influenced by the truth or iaAs sujijst thai is necessary in the radio trade or else how could they to sell all soap and garint is type of mad it is the variety that will us commit acts of wisdom or the that i by lion allowed to contain sieds The and the explana- tea son Me It ex- ate the raj growers and did have some significance We recall that Mr once objected because the Era and Express had not made a report on some minor municipal activity that was of particular interest to him His attitude conveyed the suggestion of sin ister significance in the fact that the report was omitted We recall that the report had been omitted because of lack of space and was published the follow ing week On another occasion Council lor criticized us for not making reports of high school board meetings There was a day when the press was not wel comed at school board meet ings Again Mr Belugin con sidered that there might have been political influence on our policy of reporting Considering these facts we are still wondering what Coun cillor actually did mean by his remark Serving Aurora and the districts of North York Ihe Newmarket Era Trie Express Herald Published aver Thursday at Main St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express limited Subscription for two years for one year in advance Singh copies are each Member of Co A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa JOHN Managing Idfor CAROUNE ION Womens Sport From the Files of 25 and Years Ago RACINE Sab Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE TWO THURSDAY THE TWENTYNINTH DAY OF JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYFOUR kinds of association allows seed per ounce or something like plants per acre other words when you honest farmer but not a go and buy seed from your reliable and dependable supplier he sells you seed that is not what you want yet he is covered by the law Or regula tions If Would be interesting to see what would happen If we mixed a little water in our using the same argument The result was a field where we had some trouble harvesting a long letter from the vyho is technically innocent mor ally guilty arid dishonest a fid- about that will all our per suasion to convince the cows to eat Finally there Is Ihe crop harvested Jit Oils part dl country grown usuaUy on poor with effort thatsod Why some coUneU or agricul tural pride In its or profession hasnt done anything about this type of gold mining Is- marc than heat can explain he tftat of land should- he at least as well regulated as harvesting timber fish with seasons arid the erttpto be taken regulated and regulations It Isnt much the fault of the mm sod ited the money and in eapnot else sometimes Tin blame counfihi the agriculture mfnes to preach Xtt V and money Oft top soil and It with MtNNONITtS RETURN YEARS Some of the members of the families who trailed Canada from Mexico view their new homeland from the bark of truck which transported them the US to Port Rowan They are part of a colony of who migrated from and Saskatchewan to Mexico in 1022 to escape the pro- laws which would force them to send their children to peaking schools Though thousands still remain in Mexico have returned say that drought and poor soil have cause and that most would like to return to Canada NO PASSIVE A charge mate aSpuW of Newmarket council by Councillor that softfe of the Newmarket Library Board are too spend- interpreted in a number of ways BeluKilrnauaitirlu we consider to be an asset to towit council healthy s bold and will call agree with his ideas we give him the least timid about expressing his opinions But the councillor sometimes becomes reckless with words and charges this w eek he dtt Wrct unwisely made this negative reference to members of the library board Since he did not name the spend thrifts any member may be included by public opinion in Mr Belugins vague group We happen to be a member of the library board We strongly suggest either he explain his broad statement to the last detail or make a retraction We have no reason to believe that he includes ourselves one of councils appointees in his criticism but others may believe that he does Hence without an explana tion by Councillor a resignation is forthcom ing So much for ourselves but other members of the library board They were appointed by the council and by the school the interests of more than one body of community servants elected by the voters of Newmarket boats appointments were made thought surely must have been given to choose reijial0jfo- C1SQI3 apparently feels that council or the other elected bodies did not make wise choices Xter4nottUthat he made any objection were made Councillor remarks at cannot bring to sit hear remarks Wo bre sure that each member of the fe of to the opinions orpine members dilftr lfli we feel his remarks fta A his charge moat certainly warrants exitMtf ttoikfot60 If he has more information to ho should make public mm The town council of year passed resolution to authorise the of for a new proposed expenditure has been by the Ontario Municipal board all but third reading debenture been council Thta week the architect engaged to up plans fe advertisiiie for tenders for its con struction says that some members of the are spendthrift For to council has the final authority when it comes te speriditig public funds himself ws of a committee by to consider bufldtojg ipjuosftli the ibrairy board All their opinions each which we are a of responsibility to vtiriwl Hut it was BGhigrn jQija members of the if mended spending fte tlKesumi of la too high he should list them Now it the councils special and sit in on board meift the new mayor is a of the board 0OlU representative is too is of the opinion should funds and members have a fe going on but Councillors leave that they have no fQMft the members of board all of whom we are citi zens nor in Mayor a citizen who is their representative on the The maximum to be spent is decided A tender will no doubt be accepted soon If Messrs and Van- int wish to be on hand throughout the entire construe- building there is nothing to prevent them from doing so If they must be observers until the last the last nail is driven nothing can stop S afraid that some members of the board will runoff with a few boards and nails suggestion seems lb be bordering on the insulting SURVIVAL IN The idea of peaceful coexistence between the East and the West which we discussed last week may seem a little remote with this weeks developments in the east But we may yet see the world situations cool down sufficiently to permit a period of peaces Many in Britain realize that the communist powers are confident that they will consolidate their gains and emerge stronger from such period while ho western nations will be weakened and divided But number of people in the world have faitlv in the free emerging strong that cannot survive peace Will our system or of lifei In a pos sible period of peace its fate will be determined by all free men in men make capitalism an ugly system while fairness can make it ideal But there will always be self and there will always be fairness Yes the answer to the survival of our way of life is so simple it is fairness the answer may simple it is elusive All that is involved is as complicated as human nature itself Faith in our survival can only be as strong as our faith in human nature If fairness outweighs selfishness in our system our way of life is sure to survive Human ity is at the crossroads it would seem that a reexamina tion on the part of individual of his set of values will helix determine the future The Canadian Statesman Che human race depends for existence on the few inches of top soil covering only a small portion of the earths surface That top soil is exposed to destructive forces Fire destroys it floods wash it down to sea winds scatter It over thousands of miles of ocean bad farming practice turns it into drifting deserts and short sighted legislators always ready to authorize its expropriation for almost any purpose other than the prime purpose for It It took nature millions of years to create I hat soil At the present rate of destruction there will be little of it left in another hundred years It can be saved only by a g body of public opinion a clear understanding of the importance of the problem and a resolute purpose put a stop to the destruction The right to expropriate agricultural land for other than agricultural purposes should be Selling of farmlands at high cash prices lor industrial is a short policy and should be and good should be one of the conditions on which land can bo Since the end of the war US investment Canada percent fcast year gain was total estimate t much the at Canadian rtwncdi ih are toteisajyfaTtlte festiH lSt Been pouring to foitvelM fc our but the proportion teMlmei in industry own only a little flSft Stton of course beftalil to Canadians own it of vestment now only about quarter would fte to our general advantage making progress In both directions and still poftant fliereasing our own stake as well Mr Fred Martin and his wife motored here from Detroit and gave the Era a call last Friday He was looking for Mr Walter Wiley who sold the Express- Herald to Mrs J Harvey Mr Martin and Mr Wiley were schoolboys together and it is years since they saw each other Mr Frank Wilson is here from Dakota on a visit of five or six weeks with his sister Mrs Manning and other relatives It is since he and his wife left here for the States and this is the time he has been here since Richmond Hill ladies win ners of the ladies bowling group composed of Hill- Aurora Schomberg and Newmarket were last night at Aurora presented with club chairs of their win Mrs John McCaffrey Newmarket secretary of league doing the honors A friendly game of bowls was en joyed which was followed by dainty lunch the Newmarket Minstrels received a request to put on the program at a garden party near On account of the distance the minstrels decided that they had better not go so far afield The fact was appreciated however that their show had been thiS with a can Mr and Mrs Rosa mond and family returned on Monday from an enjoyable twoweeks trip to Marie returning through Mi chigan crossing flte border again at Detroit and visiting friends in Chatham and Dres den Mr Andy and son Devon Connecticut arrived in town last Monday for a weeks visit with old friends He has been away from here lor four years Mr and Mrs Eric Howell and children Joan and Shirley of Hamilton Mrs Comber and Mrs Gordon Thompson of To ronto spent Wednesday with Mrs J Thompson Responsibility JULY Mr Philip Morgan left yes terday for Newfoundland Mrs Morgan and the boys went with him to Toronto to see htm off and spend a week in the city before returning home Mr and Mrs Foster of are in town for a few day3 While they are absent from home Mrs A Pere grine of Indiana is over on ft six weeks visit with her mo ther The baseball match on Thurs day night of last week between the Office Specialty and the town teams resulted in favor of the town by a score of The pitching of Mr Linden was what did the trick to the sur prise of everybody Mrs Speight and children from Georgetown are spending the holidays with her mother Mrs Mrs J of De troit Mich la spending a few days at Roche Point with Mrs J on her way to Old Orchard Maine- Several people attended Mr Richard Crake barnraising on the last Monday It an im mense barn Mr Crake former ly lived at Sharon Mrs E Cane has gone to Orchard Beach till September Other members of the family are taking turns keeping house here Mr of Toronto gave the Era call last Friday on his way to the city Mr was manager of the Herald Sutton for some time and had there visit ing old friends Mr George Allan of uncle of Mr Hughes ar rived in town sort Saturday on a short visit When getting on the boat at the Soo in a crowd of Allans hip pocket was picked of a of bills amounting to Mr and MrsR H of Toronto were visiting in town on Monday and spent the balance of the week with his father Mr Peter in lite average public official no lins notion press Is obligated la report activities at public and no doubt thftre when resents ifte But we i ho activities all public bodies Intact the press what it wishes a let way pulling be to say that it wbat news it will want to any public TOe alitor chouses icon a variety ho wilt to Its loyalty readers- the pnss accepts a public respon sibility is a public service through Its own choice To report all activities of all public bodies So Ui representatives would feave or room for any it also would Kusslbie to carry out such a task double lime bodies ami eUvted rep Uicy etestcd have a responsibility to publjci not through choke lite through a We wonder it tor- get it Is that of their too often they leave their responsibility to the press Interests and should help pro lforiftUliotV for copies of easily be sent to the office or could easily Inform the of activities of boards or councils a2 note ft the not of Hie state their guarantor infringmmont on rfiolr right in and notional if not function of to of thoso which an majestic Uthor Niagara It on l die hydro be he to take of numWW siu- A of the greatest of ffW completed it of th