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v- 1 0 1 Mors Notebook We received a letter last week from Brigadier national campaign director for the Solvation Army Red Shield campaign Ho on the food now that the Newmarket He For the second year Newmarket the town in the Northern Ontario Division to reach Its quota Indeed it Is the third In the whole of Canada should glow of pride and satisfaction to all who par ticipate In appeal Sergeant Harrison of the Vandorf detachment of the Provincial Police sent us the following report on acci dents April The first figure quoted in each of the towing for Ontario tht sec ond for District No including York County Total number of fatal denia people killed injured vehicle checked warn- issued 31720 laid Town councillors make state- toenU about representing the people and guarding the tax payers Interests During the recent discussions on town ex pansion members whose view points were in conflict both in dicated that they were work ing for what the people wanted It occurs to us that it would be impossible to determine the people want- We talked recently with a new homeowner in town who does not mind paying high taxes but is concerned about his residen tial area being cluttered up with commercial development or a factory locating near his home Previously ho lived In cities and he that resi dential areas should bo protect- by zoning The home owner who a fixed income does not want higher and opposes ex when it require more schools and higher municipal costs We have talked to morehnnla who secretly wish for any typo of expansion long there are more housed more therefore more people Other merchants have feared hat larger means shopping centre and more competition There are a number of groups with various kinds of In terests In municipal policy We find it difficult to understand how members of council know that they working In the best Interests of the people without ratepayers lion or associations Business changes are taking place in Newmarket these day Mr Arthur Evans well known citizen has sold his fuel busi ness He is taking holiday but has no definite plans for the future although he Indicated that he would be staying in Newmarket A service station operator Mr Cecil Taylor has turned over his business to Mr Bob at the corner of Main St and Davis Drive Mr Taylor has been In the service business for 31 years the past 14 at the north end lo cation For seven years he was with Milgates in and for two years he was with on Eagle St Before that he was in Toronto He is well known to many motorists in the district ENGAGEMENTS Aurora Hi districts of North The every Thursday at Main St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription two yearn for one year In advance hut copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Clas Mall Office Department Ottawa JOHN t Managing MM ION Spirit Job Muting and THE EDITORIAL PAGE SB Mr and Mrs Newmarket announce Die en gagement of their ynungent Margaret Ann to Mr Walter Ron of Mr and Mrs Walter Sharon to take place in Sharon United church on at pm Mr an Mrs fieri wish to engage- moot of their Marie to Mr Alfred son of Could Brae and the late Mr George Gould the to take place June in at hi afternoon at the Christian Church Keswick From the Files of and 50 Years Ago May Ml Day More than two hundred and fifty people most- women came to show their appreciation and Interest In York County Hospital Tuesday afternoon Many were from out of Womens arrived in a body and brought with them their days speaker Nina Moore sent at least thirty J and all the surrounding was well represented Hall and Miss Bertha of Toronto Mothers Day with Mrs It if at Maple ton Mr Garnet Armstrong of New Toronto motored his wife and her sister Mrs Lamb to Newmarket on Sunday after- noon so that the ladles could axpreis their affection for their mother Mrs John Jackson and presented her a magnificent of flowers Miss Ellen a from Toronto is spend fag a few days In Newmarket and surrounding country Major of fit Andrews near one of the oldest churches to and Rev VA If were visitors at the Manse last Monday Mrs J A attended American Womens Club held at the Royal York Hotel Monday- Mr Mrs Norman Good- and Master Donald Mr and Mrs Gerald Allen all Toronto visited on Sunday formers parents of Toronto her mother Mrs on a weeks vacation Miss Flora enter- a number of friends evening In honor of 2ND May Coming to Newmarket There is every hope that the efforts of local gentlemen interested In the removal of Pickering Col lege to Newmarket will be real ized if the purchase last week of a large and desirable piece of property being laid out into building lots from Mr George Williams by members of the Trustee Hoard is any It now remains for us to bring subscription list to the stip ulated figure of and then secure the sanction of the Friends Yearly Meeting to be held in this Town next month Mr and family leave today for their home Jack sons Point Four More Houses Work has commenced on three more new houses at the North End on the farm of Mr He has laid out a now street north of Huron St with an avenue running north and facing Mr If Canes house Messrs George Evans and Percy Vatson have bought good lots and Mr is also putting up a house on another onefour new houses going up within a stones throw Messrs Vn and of were visiting their brother Mr J II on Sunday Mr Vright Fogg of Queen- ville is staying a few weeks with her daughter Mis Millard Ave Mrs who form erly resided Cere was the guest of Mrs Jus a day or two this Mr J and Mr Hurst of sailed from Montreal on ftiusday of last week on the Virginian for on a pleasure trip through England ONTARIO rf m j- i p iv SPA A J A lip is fn sis to blood ill el ihu Mm her last forced to Tsrtnte shoreline coach el THURSDAY THE TWENTYFOURTH DAY OF MAY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NEEDED IN tho Newmarket town council fa sessions Inst week produced odd results Anyone who knew nothing of the details of the debate which took on Tuesday night would think it strange to turn a for a new commercial investment worth a million ami a half dollars A shopping centre develop ment would require no residential subdivision and hence no extra school accommodation Taxes levied on the property would give considerable relief to Newmarket with its present high school and municipal costs On the other hand council did approve a deal which would ring a new for the manufacture of cigarettes In doing so council gave a number of con cessions including an additional subdivision development of an undetermined number of houses and further pro vision of water for a proposed subdivision north of Davis Drive in East Gwillbnbury township Strange it should seem that the latter was approved and the commercial development was turned down But in a proposed reso lution to approve the shopping centre application there was a clause called a joker by Councillor A Belli- gin The clause stipulated that a bridge or culvert be completed on Millard Avenue to provide access to the Edwin Lyon subdivision in Newmarkets west end by the shopping centre developers and Mr Councillor Belugin baulked at this clause implying that there was something sinister in its significance We doubt that there was It is understood that the shop ping centre proposal will be presented again at the next meeting and that it is likely that the application will be given approval There have been hours of discussion at council meetings concerning the two proposals Since the great debate of Tuesday night citizens have talked about new cigarette factory which is to locate the south side of Davis Drive East Will this he good for Newmar ket That is the question being asked It has been said that the factory may employ up to people in a few years women and men The source of this information is not known but we doubt that in this age of automation that a factory of this type would employ that many people The fact is that no one knows whether or not the factory will be an asset to the com munity There arc three empty plants in Newmarket now and the owners of one large one are finding it dif ficult to rent or sell to a manufacturing concern Fol lowing war then new Canadian Hoffman Machinery plant was considered a great asset for New market but it is now closed The cigarette plants value to Newmarket depends on the companys future which will he determined by management and the market So no one can conclude that it will he a good thing or a bad thing for Newmarket The controversy over industrial promotion last week brought forth a great amount of confusing in formation and with it political arguments it was dif ficult to distinguish facts from the oratory It is the opinion of this newspaper that the shortest route now to the solution of Newmarkets problems of high taxes would be by a reassessment of the town We have heard several property owners declare that their own holdings have low assessments A by experts who are qualified for such specialized work would bring revenue from present low assessment and at the same time introduce a fair deal for all property owners in Newmarket Some of the time council spends on the complicated problems of expansion and on should be spared to introduce a reassessment program at once EMPIRE DAY On Friday school children In Newmarket celebrated Empire Day AH schools in OnVario marked the occasion according to a program set out by the depart ment of education We are inclined to agree with the following editorial which appeared in the Toronto Daily Star recently Why an Eiupiro Day Canada is no part of the Empire and has not been since Canada is a member of the Commonwealth and glories in it Why not a Commonwealth Day The Commonwealth is one of the most powerful political institutions this world has known it is a free association of eight liberty- loving and autonomous nations soon to be joined by several more Within this Commonwealth all nations are equal regardless of race or religion Within it are no great powers or little powers Working harmoniously together are whites and Negroes Indians and Chinese Some Commonwealth nations almost while four others reject the whole Or pagan The peaceable evolution of an Empire of such diverse subject states into a Common wealth of equal nations is one of the miracles of history In the ministers foreword is a flat distortion of fact that Canadians are members of the British Com monwealth and Empire We are not There is no such thing as Commonwealth and Empire They are two completely separate and distinct systems the Empire being a dwindling collection of colonies still subject to Britain and to Britain alone program notes would have children Empire Day is celebrated in all of the Empire ft Is in fact celebrated halfheartedly in only four nations at most while four others reject the whole con ception Empire It is not even celebrated officially in a majority of Canadian provinces OUR SIDE OF THE STORY WHY NOT THE TRANSFERABLE VOTE Jtefore VwW War the air was full of proposals for re- of the machinery of demo cratic government in that era it believed that the way to remedy the ills of demo cracy vos to make government more democratic The United States made many experiments with politi cal machinery and then in much that we can learn from their experience At one period many states revised their constitutions to provide for popular election at judges and a law number administrative officers the way down from district attor neys to dog catchers The ballot paper came to be almost us as a tfhect newspaper results of this experi ment were disappointing The voters could not know of many seekers outcome whs tin growth of the party machine with its powerful party Uobhcs the system of primary elections or official nomina tion Of party candidates was introduced us a means of curb ing of the parly machines Finding that governments wore still Imperfect the ultra- democrats next at torn pled to have the voters do law making legislation became a popular slogan Constitutions worn amended to require vote on measure body could think tip provided he a staled ago of voters to sign a petition requesting vote Again the results were pointing Direct legislation did not make for legislation its was to produce poorer legislatures Proportional Hep resent by favoring the multiplication of parlies In some places to the par of parliaments Urartu- ally there emerged one of the basic truths of politics that no constitutional device no politi cal machinery is a substitute for an alert and Interested pub lie Hence we have not been healing much lately about schemes for political reforms the appeal to abolish the Senate which used to he good for a burst of applause In any public meeting a generation ago now excites no Interest Wo have found thai when the people really want something whether It bo or he repeal of prohibition an income tax or a baby bonus the exist ing poll I machinery enable them gel what they want All of this is a very healthy development and a sign of ml maturity It that pnblle opinion and of opinion are now deal log with real and not with forms Hut we mind pot conclude that forms unimportant find brought country he brink of disaster- no doubt Unit Hie pienept Hon Is partly for Hip ft oh purity and which Americans enjoy Our political machinery Is working quite well Hut many keen students of our political scene feel that some of our governments have majorities Hint arc too comfortable that we could benefit from stronger oppositions there seems to be something wrong with a system of voting under which a parly can win mi election with a laudslido majority Its candidates did not have support of half the voters in the recent election in Ontario government candidates re ceived some IB of this votes won percent Of the seats In last federal elec tion the government with less than half the popular vote won percent of seats Our system of voting could produce would lead to some ex tremist party were In enter the field parly to which aK and ware all opposed It would ho possible our present of vol for such parly to win tun Jot of stints In House ominous with one- seventh of the vole Anything more loan of the vote In anything over one half of lira Hindi results ho prevent ed by adoption of the Trans ferable Vole which has been In effect In the rural In ami Alberta for veaia papular belief the Transferable Vole is quite by Harvey simple For the voter the only change Is that Instead of the familiar he writes the num bers etc opposite the names of the candidates tit order of his preferences any candidate gets move than halt first choice votes he of course elected not the can didates ate eliminated In the following manner man who gut fewest first choices Is counted out hut his ballots arc looked over again and counted for candidate whom the voter had indicated as Ids choice Tito result la the same us If a series of elections took place with the lew man being dropped from the Initial after each voting This system would put an end to trick of nominating a candidate merely for the pur pose of splitting the vote of an opponent The Transferable Vote would not always or necessarily ate to reduce the governments majority It would always work against a party of mists parly which all the other parties opposed In the recent election In Alberta for example government got almost the same percentage of the first choice votes did the Frost Government In Ontario but Mr Mannings majority In the legislature was not half big Mr Frosts In short the Transferable Vote should provide us with more powerful oppositions ami would prevent tho capture of government by of extremists on a minority vote The ia servant not of on their rights thtir in Msrmthmt and national it not function of to Hoi of the which on itutivUtual thole Mr and Mrs Albert Newmarket announce th en- of their daughter Elsie to Mr Victor of Mr Ma Frank of The wedding Trinity oclock on Jurt Mr Jf-w- Jm Mr and if Baptist sirKS netted by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches day a ho has to is pending on 5J J j about for a and in First of all it really what roughage and housing cost under After all one could almost these hi the spare bedroom at the rent they are paying Within na tural limitations and with the numbers involved this is really a one man herd and these ani mals deserve the maximum care and housing they can be given- Nor is there much doubt that at the rate of going this is a homebred herd it is a producer not only of milk but also of breeding stock that can be sold After all this amount and just roughly we suggest that it is somewhere around pounds per year per cow is more than twice the amount that the figures show for all the herds thus tested Secondly it brings up a interesting point concern ing the milk production busi ness as a whole In order that a producer should be able to get this income lo do it with one man and do it with the least amount of work many suggestions have been put for ward Some refer to housing some refer to handling of roughage pipeline milking or milking parlors and loose hous ing No matter which way the man intends to go it will cost him money Pole barns will cost anywhere from cents to per square toot Milking parlors are somewhere around two to four thousand dollars Equipment to handle hay cut or silage also is a considerable Investment Also the increas ed number of cattle necessary to bring the same income from a smaller production per unit costs money ami risk and breeding coats are larger The thought occurred to that maybe the solution Is not AFRAID Of MIGHTS i ill vzr4 i- iezd that mil h average it milk year in and oat if them hey they will have the to all the of dairying It also appears that under todays prices this may be the cheapest solution Instead acquiring assets that will de preciate they should acquire cows that will breed and re produce and which at the end of or years will have given income from production and reproduction and finally would have built an estate probably large enough to retire a man There is basically nothing wrong with the dairy business that the dumb animal an hon est cow cannot solve Nor is there any danger involved in overproduction After all at todays cost of labor and equip meat there is a natural limi tation to expansion Efficiency for so long a word sug gesting more production thus lower prices really does not consist of milking more cows with less labor but fewer cows for the same in come or in other words more production per unit Are these cows available and to be had at a reasonable price We do not know But we would be willing to wager that any cattle dealer worth his salt could fill an order for head of cattle the number needed roughly to milk the year around with the to potential The trick is to get it This Is where the rub is and this why basical ly the problem is one of management and hard work And to us every calf club boy or girl and every calf club calf is the in the right direction NOW CRACK PILOT Mrs Dorothy Rungcllng of admit Is tfcjpa of heights but that doesnt stop her from being one bestknown airplane She entered the Womens Air from Hamilton to Havana Cuba hop over mountains aharklhfeated water her son Barry