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r Pages from the dors will welcome a full ex planation of all the facts Some reports of this weeks Newmarket council meeting had to be omitted from todays issue of the paper for two rea sons Firs we were short of newspaper space at the last minute before press time and secondly we were required to check additional facts before completing two of the stories concerning the municipality They will be published next week Assuming that the extension of time for assessment appeals Is legal can expect to hear much more about assessments in the next few weeks in New market Mr Armstrong has stated that he will challenge the assessment of Office Spe cialty Mfg Co property in town The significance of the exten sion of time for appeals should be pointed out in all fairness to all property owners in New market The action by the court throws open again the whole matter of assessments The Office Specialty itself can question other assessments in Newmarket Mr Armstrong is to be con gratulated for taking careful in in Newmarket assess ments While part of his in terest naturally is motivated by the that he is a property owner we think that he has a separate interest in right being done The size of an error does not matter when it con cerns the publics interest Apparently there has been an error made the court of revi sion has taken this viewpoint There is much more to be heard and we hope thai all con- From the Files of and 50 Years A Upmarket and Express Servmf NtwwArt rani of North York MBS Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Hie Newmarket En 1852 every at Si two yean ft aoe year ft Weekly Caroline Ion W Joint E Strather Managing Editor Editor George Lawrence Radne Job and The Expreta for A Week t as Ottawa SporU Editor Reeve suggested in council this week that the reeve and deputyreeve should receive more money because of their additional duties in the municipal field We do not in tend to detract from his argu ment when we recall that he was opposed to an increase in pay when it was suggested last year We recall that the reeve once said that the honor of serving was sufficient compensation for the work on council Evi dently he has changed his mind and agrees with the opinion we held a year ago that members of council shouldnt work for nothing THE EDITORIAL PAGE Slim our editorial ad visor plate maker Egad Cyclops and your favorite correspondent myself may not bo here next week It may be our last effort to bring the truth out in our journalistic careers The boss always says the truth hurts Now we are trying it on him to see what will hap pen What will happen When the boss sees this picture we have inserted in this weeks column we will know whether or not he breathes hot THURSDAY THE TWENTY FOURTH DAY OP JANUARY HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN January 1932 Mr and Mrs J Baker and Miss Baker of Oshawa were in town this week 25 Miss Vasscy spent last week end in town the guest of Mrs Walter Eves Mrs Eves en tertained for her Saturday ev ening 23 Miss Hazel came home Tuesday to rest up after an operation for appendicitis she had a couple of weeks ago 25 Mr and Mrs Scott Frost of were in town last week 25 A group of young people from town visited the Royal York on Tuesday night Mr and Mrs Meek had a pleasant surprise when their soninlaw Mr W McMul- of Port Arthur dropped in for over night After lunch he and Mr Meek motored to Lon don where Mr Meek spent the weekend with his brother and family Mr Norman Meek Several Newmarket ladies attended the meeting St United church Toronto Mr J A of Montreal visited in town recently 25 Mrs C Daley of Belleville was in town last week Her mother from Vancouver Is visit ing Mrs C N Widdrington The Follies of George and Blossom said the Veterans president Councillor Evans at a social halfhour at Hays af ter the show on Friday night was so much better than last years entertainment sponsored by the warriors that it made all the difference to the out look of the association in that open field When these Follies next came they would over crowd the town hall 25 Last Easter time while sell ing the War Cry Captain Broom came upon a Russian lady in Newmarket who asked the help of the Army in locat ing her sister lost to her years ago during the Russian revolution The captain took all particulars and put a notice in both the French and German War Cry Last week the lady who wishes her name not to bo mentioned received a letter from her sister who was living in Germany Once again the Salvation Army had triumphed over seemingly im possible barriers January Mrs Wm and sister of Toronto were visiting with Mrs Ab Wilson Sharon last Friday During the day the lat ter conveyed them to Qucens- ville for a short visit with their brotherinlaw Aylward 50 Mr J A Phillips has sold his saw mill cider mill and other industries located on St between Newmarket and Aurora to Mr John Crea- and has removed to To ronto The purchaser intends to do some fitting up and con tinue operations Metropolitan extension The new iron bridge across the creek is completed and rails laid It is expected that work on the new iron bridge over the GTR track will be com menced in a few days 50 Complimentary banquet The committee who have the matter in hand of the proposed ban quet to be tendered exMayors Cane and Robertson as an ex pression of recognition for their years continuous service on the Council Board of the town has selected Tuesday Feb 12 as the date Subscribers have already reached such a large number that the town hall has been secured by favor of the council as the place for hold ing the function Mrs J C Brodie and Mrs Fred Saxton spent over Sun day in the city 50 Mr E Maddock is giving up business in to en gage in real estate in Western Canada Mr George Hughes and wife of Toronto were home over Sunday Mrs Hughes remained for a few days Mr of Toronto Junc tion was the guest of Mr John over Sunday Mr Adam Borngasscr of Vancouver writes Very cold here for nearly a week now and snow Best wishes to old North York friends Mrs A M Cane of Port Per ry is visiting with Mrs David Lloyd Miss Annie entertain ed a number of young ladies on Monday afternoon Mr Ramsay and bride of Toronto spent over Sunday in town with his mo ther WAY OF PRESERVING MEAT J are pressed on Board The have then- but when an tasty and tender Dr Carl Portage Prairie and Dr Smithies Toronto are at work or the technique which shorten the processing tine for preservation of r QUESTION OF RIGHT TO VOTE A proposal has been made that the town council instigate a vote by electors to decide whether or not to have liquor and beer stores in Newmarket The question at the moment is not whether there should or should not be stores it is whether or not council should instigate the vote There are two ways in which a liquor vote may be caused under existing legislation by the province of Ontario by the councils instigation or by a petition of percent of the electors A year or so ago a petition was started in Newmarket but it was not completed It is assumed that the purpose of the petition is to determine whether there is sufficient demand among the citizens to call a vote Initially we disagreed with the proposal Monday night that council instigate the vote The petition method would seem to be a logical demo cratic function if a sufficient number of citizens had strong desires for liquor stores they would provide a petition for a vote If the citizens who desire the vote have not the courage to put their names on a petition then it would seem that we should forget about the vote But if the demand for a vote does exist it is not reasonable to deny a segment of the electorate the oppor tunity of keeping their opinions secret no matter how hypocritical we might think them to be One who con siders signing the petition might be in favor of a vote but not in favor of liquor stores yet he might hesitate to sign for fear of being called one of the wets Coun cil members are equipped to judge whether or not a de mand for liquor stores does exist On this page last week we concluded that expressions by citizens and a rate payers organization indicated that there is an increas ing demand for zoning legislation Similarly a rough assessment could be made by each member of council on public opinion in the matter of the liquor question Each member of council is elected to carry out what he thinks are the wishes of the people Each elected representative should have his finger on the electorates pulse if he is doing a good job Let each honestly assess the elector ates desires and vote on the question whether or not to instigate a vote for or against stores The antiliquor factions will argue that this is it too easy to bring liquor and beer stores to town We arc not taking this argument into consideration be cause should first have the right to vote on the question If council instigates the vote then the people do have the right to a secret ballot If council goes against popular demand if such demand exists then the above is not quite true People could vote but with the added provision that percent of them sign their names to a public document In no other referendum are the electors required to reveal attitudes beforehand DRAMA CLUB SURVIVES A final effort by four former members of the New market Dramatic club has been made to revive club in terest Success in their effort was shown when 17 per sons attended a meeting in the town hall basement on Jan The play East Lynn was chosen for presentat ion on April tentative date with the possibility of Trinity Church choir sponsoring it A meeting and election of officers will be held on Wednesday Jan in the town hall basement All per sons Interested in promoting the drama group in town are urged to attend We wish them well in their efforts to provide good plays in Newmarket and to give local talent new opportunities SYMPHONY CAMPAIGN The Toronto Symphony Orchestra plays an import ant part in the life of Ontario through the broadcasts of the Tuesday and Sunday concerts In addition the fact that it exists makes possible many other events which add to the pleasure and interest of living in Ontario The TSO association is asking for support in its campaign for Friends of the Symphony Each person who sends a contribution to Friends of the Symphony becomes a Friend Every donation is acknowledged and is a de ductible for income tax purposes A concert performance by the orchestra is said to cost at least twice as much as the possible boxoffice re ceipts It would appear that there are many residents who enjoy the music by radio although only occasionally priv ileged to hear a live performance in Hall If these listeners become friends they will have the satisfaction of being active participants in the growth and develop ment of the orchestra During the coming season which will introduce the orchestras new conductor Walter estimated expenditures will be and earnings leaving donation requirements at This is a formidable amount but a good deal less than most major orchestras annual requirements i WRONG EMPHASIS Within ten years Canada will be short of cattle a- to W Watson manager of Public Stockyards Markets of St Boniface Man There is little doubt about that says The Financial Post in regard to cattle and a lot of other food products too By 1975 it has been estimat ed wheat will be about the only Canadian farm product which we will be producing much in excess of our own requirements Actually there is no good reason why Canadian farmers should not be able to meet most future demands for cattle and other farm products that will be needed But this wont happen as long as it is much easier and more profitable to grow wheat and sell it to a govern ment board to be piled into storage even if we cant find an export outlet for it But that is exactly what our offic ial wheat policy is doing Its about time we used some common sense and put the emphasis on those farm lines for which there is an assured demand OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by HARVEY THE MYTH OF COLONIAL EXPLOITATION One of the most dangerous ideas in the world today is the notion that the Western indust rialized powers are consistently exploiting the nonindustrialized peoples of Asia Africa and Lat in America That notion is one of the most powerful weapons in the armory of communist pro paganda It is a continuing sou rce of friction between East and West It is therefore a serious obstacle to peace and yet it is rooted in errors Let us look at some of these Probably the most influential of all th6se errors is the idea of universal conflict the idea that the world is essentially a battlefield in which a nation must conquer to survive That Idea gains many adherents be cause it appears to be an appli cation of the Darwinian Theory of the Struggle for Existence In that view the nations of the wor ld are engaged in a struggle in which one can prosper only at the expense of others Now the fact is that the In terests of nations on the whole are harmonious rather than con flicting but the belief in the conflict theory makes people oppose policies In international relations which they accept as a matter of course within their own country Consider the question of trade The argument for trade is sim ple It pays to specialize We never question the benefits of specialization within a country but our argument seems to stop short at national frontiers We do not suggest a tariff bar rier between Eastern and West ern Canada because we are not interested in finding out which of the two sections would be benefitted and which injured by the tariff It is enough that the country as a whole would be in jured As between countries we do not seem to be concerned at the prospect of our tariff in juring the world as a whole Other countries regularly complain that they are being In- jured by our tariffs The conflict view of tjic world makes us think that because it Injures them it must be good for us The presumption ought to be just the reverse A policy that injur es other countries most likely injures us also The world is not so devilishly devised that we continually have to choose be tween injuring others and injur ourselves What is true of trade is equal ly true of the investment of cap ital a loan of capital wisely invested regularly benefits both borrower and lender The hot- 1 rower presumably would not borrow the money unless he ex pected it to earn more for him than he would have to pay in interest The return on capital invested in underdeveloped countries is usually high because of the shortage of capital in these ar eas Unfortunately the underde veloped country seeing the high rate of return the foreign capit alist is earning calls it exploit ation and proceeds to confiscate or nationalize the foreigners in vestments The result is that foreign investors take fright the flow of capital stops and the de velopment of the country is de layed More regrettable still is the colonial fallacy proper the idea that the colony is a sort of plantation owned by the colon izing power and operated by en slaved colonial people Here we are reaping the animosity grow ing out of the sins our countries committed before the coming of democracy Nondemocratic gov ernments regularly exploit their colonies India until 1857 was at the mercy of a profitmaking company In the Belgian Congo as long as it was operated by the King of Belgium the atrocities excited horror and indignation throughout the world Today the Russian dictatorship is exploit ing a whole belt of colonics from Esthonia to Bulgaria With the growth of liberal de mocratic ideals exploitation of colonies was gradually reduced The first step was the establish ment of the principle that colon ies should not be taxed for the benefit of the colonizing power The next step was the expendit ure of large sums of money by the colonizing powers for the benefit of the colonial people a policy followed by the United States from the beginning of its acquisition of colonies and by Britain since World War About the only survivals of what might reasonably be call ed exploitation are the Western holdings of oil or mineral rights or rights to operate public util ities privileges obtained in past times by force or fraud But even in these cases there is mutuality of interest Mossadegh discovered that trying to ruin the AngloIranian Oil Company brought his country to the verge of bankruptcy Nasser is finding that blocking the Canal is cost ing him cash And of course the mutuality of Interest in the cultural scientific and medical fields is even clear er than in the economic The idea of Western exploitation is a myth largely an illogical deduction from a bigger myth the idea of universal conflict air when he cries Let the truth be told It happened one morning last week He came in and gave a lecture about making every minute count about Increasing production and not watting the companys time Apparently there had been a late council meeting the night before he stole out behind some of the machinery and went to sleep in a chair Cyclops that genius of photography snapped this picture and here you have the evidence A by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches The Financial Post one of the truly good newspapers of our section of the country publish ed in full the preliminary re port of the Gordon Commis sion We have tried to read and digest the few paragraphs devoted to agriculture There is a chapter on agriculture and there is a separate one on wheat The one on agriculture states that the greatest change will be the adjustment between man and machine Well this is a noble sentence it sounds im portant but for a commission which has been appointed a long and careful look at the future it is just an ambig uous sentence into which any body can read what he wishes It is meaningless because no attempt is made to explain it because adjustment is a word that has as many implications as there are trades or occupa tions Adjustment is in in surance following an accident or fire Is this the meaning here If so who is the adjust er the man or the machine Adjustment is putting some thing right that has been wrong to adjust a hat or a coat It also might mean the bad of two factors in volved in a process It be this that the board made reference to It is however just a way of saying something wise though meaningless The commission suggests a Sort of mixed farming in the Maritimes between cultivating and farming It is of the opinion that unless farms can be enlarged income wont increase in that region It suggests some sort of financial assistance in the relocation of people and reestablishment in other Are they to be moved to other provinces or other occu pations in the same province or the same occupation in the same province but somewhere else there The Commission doesnt say Yet while admit ting that the fanning industry in the is suffering from lack of land it opposes irrigation projects admitting that at some time in the future extensive irrigation schemes settlement plans and programs to expand production may be desirable And so it goes on and on It is a very disappointing docu ment full of great rolling phrases promising something to everybody and not taking a stand on any problem It sug gests that compulsory market ing schemes based on the will of the majority seem to be highly probable but doesnt suggest legislation to enable them It opposes support prices but is in favor of a type of stability which is equivalent to Unemployment Insurance but would rather see a board set support prices than formu las It suggests that members of such a board should be reliev ed of other duties Such a board should be able to develop and assemble information re quired for sound decision It should become skilled in emergency conditions and in determining the effects of particular prices on produc tion and income Quite an order for a country run on a two or three party political system dont you think The size of farms is only to grow percent in the next 23 years something we do not be lieve the number of farms will decrease by percent also unlikely labor on the farms will decrease percent yet it will produce over twice as much in livestock Its a pretty dry diet all in all especially in this coming generation Or is it the politician who will tell us this at the next election We wonder IN INDIA MARTIN DOES AS INDIANS DO i servant not the master Of A is their against infringetnnt on their rights their agent in international national it not ik funetlo of the to assume the Kr- i 4 of and y lift chJUliii sad bis visit to Inula of Us antra in villages usually closed great interest be farmers and villagers sUke I I V i i