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Notebook v The fact that the price the Era and Express to readers Is being increased on February CVntay or may not be surprising the people of the district If there Is any surprise possibly it will because of the fact that the price of single copies has not been raised since the year It was on May that the price went from three cents to five cents Until now it has remained at five cents One year arid two year subscript of courseware being in creased as well but under the new rates there will be a greater saving on mail sub- Announcement is being made this week that renewals or new subscriptions may be taken out now at the old rates until Feb Weekly newspapers in era have fought hard to keep down the price to readers and most of them like the Era and Express have made business sacrifices to delay Increases Other papers in Ontario and in other parts of Canada having smaller circulations some time ago introduced these same in creases which we are making Feb 9 In the past dozen years week- From the Files of newspapers have experienc ed a doubling of practically all their costs Newsprint as most people have read has more than doubled In cost in the past years Labor has taken similar increases Different from mass circula tion publications of course weekly community papers have higher unit costs It takes more to produce copy of a weekly than it does to produce one of a circulation publication The two products are not the same Looking back a few years we note that readers paid for an eightpage newspaper in New market and now The Era is av eraging close to 16 pages throughout the yean In read ing matter we are providing a product which is almost double the product of no more than years past So we do not need to labor the subject of costs No matter which way one looks at the matter the newspaper business is being more than fair to its readers In this growing district we look forward to providing our readers with greater news cov ering and will continue our ef forts to improve the quality of the product wc produce We can say no more than this j I if ice Cat Reports J HE Swing Aurora and ihm rural districts of North York By Ginger Th Era Express Published mvmry at 142 Main St Newmarket by Era and Limited Subscription far two far It advance Sing arm mack of CIomm A of Canada Canadian and Audit of Ckcvtationt Mail Post Ottawa JOHN Managing V r CAROilNI ION Job and it riaMpag A LITTLE NOW AND THEN V MKN THURSDAY THE TWENTYSIXTH DAY OF JANUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSIX and 50 Years Ago January Hospital Bridge Some 30 obtained in aid of the York County hospital fund at a bridge staged last Friday night in the high school audi torium here Following the games a luncheon was served A fine musical program was provided by local talent About attended The Town of Ruins and Roses When in Sweden miss not the steamer trip to Visby on the Island of The mighty town wall of built on natural rock with an unobstructed view over the wide expanse of the Baltic dominates the surrounding country and encloses the town It is about GOOO feet in length on one side and over feet on the other with towers nearly GO feet high still stand ing Within the city ore the ruins of of the churches of times and a number of houses of ancient merchant princes of the old days of the League is called the town of ruins and roses for the flowers tumble over the walls and about the gardens on scores of its little streets It is one of the interesting places in the nor Inland Mr George has returned home to Toronto after spending two weeks with Mr Bolton Airs and Master Allan of Toronto spent the weekend with her mother Mrs Dr Guy of Newmarket is spending a month in Boston Mass and has an assistant in his office during his absence Between Nice and Cannes the place to enjoy in Winter the Coast of Blue It has an old historic town a British colony for it is a of the Prince of Wales a re veals a little before sunrise that isle of Corsica on the distant horizon and a proximity to Cannes and Nice which makes it handy for the more frolic some events of the season France use to love the old town and lingered about it many a year while from all over the world artists come to paint its quaint and lovely scenes From the Lighthouse plateau can be seen one of the finest landscapes of this fa mous winter coast with the in the back ground and lovely of Italy included in the picture January The water main in front of the Royal Hotel sprung a leek on Wednesday night and it had to be dug out yesterday morn ing with the thermometer eight above zero Costly Fun On Thursday evening of last week two small boys were scuffling in front of Starrs window when one of them slipped and fell against the other one and both fell through a pane of glass will take their earnings for a few days to make things right with Mr Starr While Mr C was out delivering parcels last Fri day his sleigh upset and he sprained his foot so badly that he was confined to the house for a day or two Astonishing Weather Last Sunday was like a delightful spring day The thermometer indicated that the temperature went up to and it was quite pleasant sitting on open ver andahs Again at noon on Mon day the temperature registered Frost is apparently out of the ground as one of the ear- tors driving into a yard Inn Monday with a load of coal had one wheel of his wagon sunk to the hub The grass is turn ing green and bulbs are sprout ing in outdoor flower beds Sunday was the mildest day in January for years and the record reaches back for years to find a similar temper ature Mrs David Harding of New- accompanied by her friend Mrs Wood and grand son were guests at Mapleton one day last week Mr Morton formerly of arrived on Sat urday from Indian Head on a six weeks visit with friends Master Syrian Morgan has returned home after spending a month in the city Mrs George of Lindsay was visiting friends in town over Sunday Mrs Cassidy gave a five tea last Saturday after noon to a number of ladies Miss Cochcnour entertained a large company at the Sove reign Bank hall on ev ening Mr A J Taylor of Winnipeg spent three or four days in town with his sisterinlaw Mrs Morton Miss Lang of Toronto was the of her friend Mrs Maw over Sunday r Owtntf ft cadia tt for the line The men stationed there Si innumerable lakes to view a Sfi there taw tad ice as they can tiM a complete aerial mapping QBft ahore of to the other Total coat of SEWAGE DISPOSAL NEEDS A COURT RULING last week which closed the Richmond Hill sewage disposal plant should not discour age Newmarkets plans for a disposal plant In fact the Richmond Hill case shows what a precarious posi tion this town is in and has been in for many years with the Holland River flowing out of town like an open sewer At Richmond Hill legal action was taken by a property owner in a neighboring township against Richmond Hill It was based on the contention that the effluent from the plant changed the characteristics of the stream which flowed through the owners property The contention was upheld and the sewage plant was ordered closed Richmond Hill officials took the same steps to acquire a disposal plant as have other municipalities A package type plant was built and later approval was granted for an addition to meet the needs of the grow ing community Aurora is now in the process of ex panding its plant Richmond Hilt officials considered that they had complied with all necessary regulations to build their plant When the Ontario Court of Appeal ordered the plant closed the Ontario department of health was criticized for giving its approval The legal ruling on Richmond Hill introduces nothing new Mu nicipalities with sewage effluent flowing through streams into a neighboring municipality so it seems are subject to possible legal action depending on conditions Having no sewage disposal plant Newmarket dumps raw sewage into the Holland River Its position is many limes worse than that of Richmond Hill For years the department of health has been putting the pressure on Newmarket to build a plant While the court ruling against Richmond Hill could delay pro ceedings on the provincial level and subsequent approval for a plant in Newmarket there is no apparent reason for delay on the part of the local administration NEW SUBDIVISION THE MEDICAL officer of health has given two reasons why another subdivision should not be approved by the town of Newmarket While an application has not yet been considered by town council a subdivision has been proposed It is known as Beech wood Park and is planned for the west end of Park Avenue in what is known as the Lewis Bush Last year council passed a resolution to turn down applications for subdivisions unless they were accomp anied by industrial development on a parallel assess ment basis This year of course has a new council and a its policy has not been clarified On two counts the M indicates that the subdivision propos al should not be approved because it might give rise to concern about future assurance of adequate water sup plies in town and because Newmarket has inadequate sewage treatment facilities already On the second rea son the says that public health approval could not be given On the water question clarification also is needed There have been assurances from time to time that there is no need to worry about the present supply Yet the letter from the indicates that there is some thing to worry about We are sure that the citizens of Newmarket would be interested to know all the facts about water supply In view of the health officers com ments it would seem that chances of bringing in a new industry which also could consume a large volume of water are about as slim as developing a subdivision S BOOK READING WHILE FEW Canadians read many books and many read none it is encouraging to learn that our read- are the most catholic in the Englishspeaking world writes Bruce Hutchison in The Financial Post The British and Americans confine themselves mostly to their own native books Canadians demand books from everywhere Whether this is a sign of national strength or weak ness I dont know but it suggests that some Canadians at least are trying to pry below the misleading surface of life at large Anyway the Canadians who read books are important to the nation quite out of proportion to their numbers In an age of mass thought terrifying uniformity and minds drugged with what they are pleas- to call entertainment the few minds that think for them selves and seek contact with other thoughtful minds are more important than ever THE LETTERS With all this talk about wa ter for municipal use decided to do an aerial survey with his divining rod lost week He and Doug took off from airport in Gawk Mark three Friday morning from the little airport down south of here The Sabro Gawk Is an older type of air plane with double wings and a top past in the middle with wires strung out to hold them up Its fine engine in this craft declared Stawlanprang It is a horsepower Swiss make It was produced in by a firm of watchmakers when the watch market crashed I went down to the airport to sec them off I didnt like the look of the weather and I told them so There seemed to be low lying clouds coming in from the west and I was genu inely nervous about the flight Aw theres to worry about here Me and have flew together on many occasions Were season ed aviators Slim was in the rear cockpit and he had his forked stick rod on an old swivel Lewis gun mounting The di vining rod stuck out over the edge of the fuselage like a chine gun He gave a few turns oiled up the mounting swivel and gave it a few more tarns Okay were out to con found the engineers and find water fer Newmarket he shouted Chalks away cried Slim and the sturdy little Sabre Gawk charged down the run away arid staggered into the air I didnt like the straining sound of the engine Urchin drove me home in Dairy Farmer ANON Pierce Arrow and on the way up we took our time en joying the countryside we up through Vandorf we noticed that the ceiling cloud in flight language seemed to be closing In Urchin started rubbing the windshield Then he That aint the There seems to be a fog Wc rounded the bend at Bo- and Urchin leaned out the window There scorns to be an air craft circling above us Urch in said I can hear a funny spluttering sound It must be in trouble No its not in trouble Thats the Gawk The boy are circl ing around here We stopped the Arrow and got out to have a look Right up pond and Stawlan were circling In tighter and tighter turns We could hardly see them through the fog It was just a ghostly form of an airplane but once thought I could see Slim stand ing up in the rear cockpit Theyve found somethin down there J cried Urchin Theyve struck water Yeah pond right over there I said We waited for two hour down at the town engineers of fice for the two explorers to return Breathless they came running in to announce the news Weve hit pay dirt cried Siim We were just on the out skirts of Newmarket a little to the when my rod there just bent right over an pointed at the ground I tell you theres lots of water down there an you can drill without Page Col The Top Six Inches THE OPPOSITE page carries a number of letters to the editor is an encouraging sign which possibly indicates that there is a greater interest in public affairs Tins newspaper expresses its opinion on local affairs and when letters come in for or against bur edi torial opinion or on any subject of interest to the public we have a better guide for our own thinking The Era and Express urges its readers to write letters for publication on local matters Particularly in the realm of local government we would like to see more comments OUR SIDE OF THE STORY FRENCH LESSONS FOR DEMOCRATS The French other election the election a have held an- Faure called few months ear lier than necessary because ho felt that the very serious prob lems demanding solution re quired a stronger government than the old Assembly could produce The result has been a disappointment The com munist representation has in creased by 50 percent and seats have been won by a brand new party with nothing lo of fer except rowdyism and ob structionism measure in Canada than they arc in France Why then has democracy made such a poor showing in Franco French governments have had to be coalition governments which are naturally and no toriously weak What are the causes of the weakness of French govern ments Axe the difficulties rooted in the nature of the country or are they due to mis takes and mismanagement If wo compare France with Can ada we can see that the troubles of France are due en tirely to the human factor The basic trouble with the French is that their divisions are too numerous and too deep Now it must be emphasized that by nature that is In its geography language and his tory Usance is the most unified and centralized country in Europe The divisions are en tirely manmade Canada by contrast is a work against nature Geogra phically our country is divid ed into four distinct regions We are divided also in langu age religion national origin and even in our legal system The conditions that predis pose a country to political par alysis are found in far greater Earl Balfour gave us a large part of the answer when he said that people might be un able lo operate cabinet govern ment successfully if they have not that distrust of ex treme conclusions which is sometimes as want of logic The pro found divisions which paralyze France are largely the result of pursuing logic to extreme conclusion Democracy and monarchy are two distinct forms of gov ernment The French are logi cally correct in holding that a country cannot be a democracy and a monarchy at the same time But they are guilty of one of Mr Balfours extreme conclusions when they say that to have a democracy you must get rid of the monarch The history of all successful democracies with the excep tion of Switzerland showthat the presence of a monarch is quite compatible with democ racy Indeed the loss of their mon arch was the prime cause of one of those profound divi sions which have made genu ine party government impos sible in France Until quite re cently there were powerful monarchist parties in France These parties were disloyal to the Republic The remaining parties had to form alliances to secure a majority Therefore The major division in France today is between communists and democrats And that divi sion is the result of a century of Marxist propaganda Com munists are mistaken when they the strength of communism in France to econ omic factors and class divisions France abolished all legal class distinctions over 1C0 years ago She also broke up the large landed estates on which the old class divisions were based The country became a land of small fanners and small business men It was Britain that develop ed the economic conditions that are supposed to create com munism Britain became ur banized and industrialized And yet communism in Britain has remained negligible Bri tish workers felt that they were exploited by capitalists But they refused to follow the communist logic which claimed that the only remedy was the liquidation of the capitalist class That solution seemed to them an extreme conclusion Instead of class war they preached what to the com munist seemed patent non sense Revolution by Consent Hence British labor was able to take power not only with out violence but without de stroying that sense of which is so essential to democracy by Harvey The lessons for democrats in the political Fran caise are largely negative but they arc none the less import ant First Do not divide your country by making an issue out of a matter of mere logic The Canadian scene presents an array of anomalies that would furnish the logical French with grounds for forming half a dozen parties The monarchy the choice of a flag the me thod of amending our consti tution each could become a matter of bitter conflict The second lesson is Do not elect obstructionists merely to register a protest There are pressing problem of which France has her full share which require some action by he government If the roof blows off your house you have to get some kind of roof on it again Your father may want to put on wood shingles your mother may want asphalt your brother may prefer tiles The decision is left to you If you have any sense you will settle on some material but if you take the attitude of the pro test elector you will veto the building of any roof at The fellow we have been talking to was a union man one of the old school one that has worked in one of the great in dustries of this continent when unions were being organized Then he retired to farm and now looking back from the vantage point of many years a happy and contented man he was going to tell us what was wrong with farming His main contention was that the great prosperity and boom in industry is the result of the higher wages and better con ditions achieved by labor He thinks that the more the work ing man gets and the higher his salary is the more industry is going to boom He remembers the organizing days of his plant when they had soup kitchens and good squads and plant police Ho remembers as shop fore man being told to take three men whose combined services amounted to more than years in the plant to the em ployment office because they were being fired They were getting too old and too expen sive lie thinks that we should have a union He thinks that farm labor should have unions because the improved working conditions and higher buying power of this group would cause the same thing to hap pen to farming that happened to industry It all sounded very good un til we asked him what group the acre farm belongs to where there is no hired man And what about the former who if he has a hired man has less income really than the man he pays Of course there were no answers to these ques tions not because our man wasnt sincere but because there answers to them His next contention was reasonable He claim that or ganized labor and organized formers are really on the same side of the fence and should work together This of course is true but we couldnt help but feel some bitterness It the farmers who are in this respect It was organized- labor that was responsible for it was la- that yelled for the regula tions that keep fluid milk where it is and it is the same organized labor that objects every time food goes up be- cause of the mistaken idea that- the fanner is a profiteer We said so and called a spade a spade and he just smiled and said This is all a matter of education We should under- stand each other better will take time and a long time With this we had to agree except that we havent quite figured out how it is done He did have a suggestion oversimplified and naive as it was He thinks that every man in industry should spend a few weeks on the farms and every farmer should go and work in a plant And there is some- thing to this idea We would understand better the problems and mentality of the man if we were in his shoes Wo are wondering if is something that the Federation could do about this both about the detail of exchanging labor and about this business of cdu- cation Not deals in smoke- filled rooms about if you vote for us we will vote for you but real education would con- vince the industrial worker the last segment of the popula- whose increased earnings increase buying power and insure prosperity is up of farmers WARNING STATIONS DPT NORTH The final lesson is merely an extension of the foregoing you wish to solve any of your problems you will not vote communist The communists solution is even more absurd than that of the He would simply blow up the rest of the house liquidate the owner and hope for a miracle to provide a residence v The state is servant not the master of the people the state is their guarantee on their rights their agent fa international and issues it is not function of the state to assume Hon of those activities which test spots picked as stations In the early Should war these stations would be the counter Pn- hope of air attack fabricated shack it houses down stations built on to types of sites chosen the station and the wa