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and Here And There Continued from Page One It must be Spring School boys have been playing marbles and alleys along the streets this week NEWSPAPER Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Newmarket Era every Thursday at 30 Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and two yean tor one year in advance Single copies are lie each Member of gum A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorised as Second Class Mall Post Office Department Ottawa John E Struthers Managing Editor Caroline Ion Associate Editor George Haskett Sport Editor Lawrence Racine Job Printing and Production THURSDAY THE SEVENTH DAY OF MARCH EN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN From the Files of and 50 Years Ago years ago March Toronto District Oratorical contest Newmarket high school will be the centre of an event of considerable interest next Mon day evening when the semifin als of the annual HS Oratori cal contest is to determine the girl and boy of the Toronto sub urban district who ranks as the best High school public speaker Representatives from the high schools on street will the winners of this st competing at Vaughan Collegiate Institute on nesday March Miss Meeda Williams who held the honour in of winn ing for the cup which was awarded to the school whose orator held first place will a- be representative girl spea ker and Emerson Sanderson will represent the boys Each speaker will deliver two addresses one on a prepared subject the other an impromptu address Principal returned on Saturday from Washington where he attended an Education al Conference during most of the week The Directors of the York County Live Stock Improvement Association which was formed in Richmond Hill last Saturday hold their first meeting in New market Friday On Friday night a family gath ering at the home of Mr Eu gene Cane celebrated his birth day Mrs Cane was presented with a bouquet of roses and the choir of the United church gave Mr Cane a beautifully bound hymn book -25- Mr and Mrs and family of Toronto visited his cousin Mr S in town last Sunday 25 Mrs J Rogers Toronto and friends on her bro ther Mrs 25 Mr Leslie Boyd was home from London and Miss Eileen Boyd and three college chums with her I Bailey of Ml Pleasant is visiting at the home of her son Rev- S Bailey on Church St 50 years ago March 8 Another Electric Extension Engineer McDougall and his staff under the employ of the York Radial will shortly commence the survey of a route to extend the Metropolitan to Barrie by way of Bradford A trial line has already been run and a route seems feasible with a 1 percent grade Newmarket Junction is destined to become a place of importance yet The first trial line has been run from Mu locks corner on St diagonally across the Western section of St Wm beautiful lawn and triangle a- cross the farm towards the sec ond concession of King and thence West and A some what similar trial line was run by the old Northern Ry Co some fifty years ago but they took the river course 50 Mr Boyd the liveryman got in tons of baled straw this week Townspeople can be ac commodated with small quantit ies 50 Extra Fine Horses Mr Wallace of London Ont was in town a few days and succeeded in buying the finest car of heavy horses that were ever shipped from Newmarket the average price paid being over a span The horses were bought from the following persons a span each from Messrs J- Proctor Uriah Marsh Fred Wes ley and Knight and one horse each from Messrs Bert Starr and David They were shipped for Montreal Mrs J H Millard Mrs P Pearson and Miss Millard are in the city this week Mr Kitchen and wife of Toronto were guests of Mr and Mrs Robert Manning over Sun day Mr B Schiler of Toronto spent Friday with Miss Florence Lcpard and Miss Clara Brown 50 Miss Wilkinson one of the Model school staff of teachers spent over Sunday with friends in the city Frank Foster of the Cent- Business College Staff Tor onto was home over Sunday Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Spring is practicaUy upon us The reason why it is is because Observer reported kids playing alleys on the way to school Kids werent the only ones Two printers were out at the side of our office here the other day playing alleys too There is a little patch of mat ted twitch grass right near the side door which has a touch of green in it and it was taken for a sign of spring real rea son it was green was that Cyc lops the engraver dumped out one of his acid tanks there So It wasnt really spring at all It was a sort of green slime Nevertheless it was pleasantly interpreted as being spring So and Abie came back early at noon hour having dug out their alley bags from attic trunks You might think it a simple thing that two grownups should be playing alleys but if you understood printers like some of us do you wouldn give it a second thought Some people think printers are complex but they are really simple souls at heart Take tor example and Abie playing alleys you get that green demanded Kusterd sure I had that in my alley bag and you stole it Dont be simple said Abie I won that off of Kletchcloffsky last year that time wc finished a game in a March snow storm did not said Kui fc did too didnt did- Yet you will hear printers dis cussing the merits of the- Colom bo Plan or arguing about philo sophy over a cup of coffee are particularly I people too I have seen a printer asleep while running off of thousand letterheads a tress Another figured out TAX LOGIC Councillor George Knapton recently suggested that residents in new subdivisions should be given tax rebates His reasoning was that the roads had not yet been taken over by the town Under agreements with subdividers the town does not take over the maintenance responsi bilities for subdivision roads until they are in good shape and until an agreed length of time has expired usually two years Some of the new residents he said use only the roads in the subdivisions having jobs in Toronto they drive from their homes onto Yonge St in the morn- ing and return at night using only the subdivision roads The councillor was given adequate answers by other councillors one was that the subdivision residents taxes pay for the upkeep of other streets in town which he might use It was pointed out too that by Councillor Knaptons reasoning property owners who have no children in school should not be required to pay school taxes Another aspect to the argument is this had the town assumed responsibility as soon as the roads were put in extra money for maintenance would have been provided in the roads budget and it would follow that extra levies would have been put on the taxpayers Had this been the case it is possible that the subdivision resi dents taxes might have been a little higher But the effectiveness of answers to Councillor tons argument for tax rebates was almost lost when the next item on the council was introduced It was a bylaw to exempt farmlands within the town from a portion of municipal taxation There are no fields of grain nor are there herds of cattle in Newmarket but there are pro perties classed as farm land In one or two cases it would seem that property owners are escaping taxes by a technicality We know of a field on an important thoroughfare which is owned by a nonfarming Property values on the thor oughfare have at least tripled in recent years It seems a bit ridiculous that an owner should be receiving farm tax rebates this year when next year possibly a super market or an apartment house worth thousands of dollars will be standing on the same property his income tax and had the form filled out and in an envelope- while never missing a beat on a perforating machine Printers make an interesting study But when you mix them in with an advertising salesman and a reporterengraver chaos ensues It ensued Tuesday noon when Cyclops and Kletchcloffsky tried to get in on the alley game trade you my used cigarette lighter for three of your smokies gos Egad and I can get in on the game said Kletch Kus would have none of it but Abie agreed to the deal turn ed out that and Cyclops won all the alleys off the two distraught and unhappy print ers That was that until Abie discovered that the were missing in the cigarette lighter and a terrific fight took place on the patch of green outside the side door It was something like a tag match at Maple Leaf Gardens The boss finally drove up in the Blue Stoneboat and broke it up sending them back to work with a lecture about school children not being allowed to come back from lunch early to play in the school yard The first hint that there were further ramifications was when Abies braces broke They were in shreds where they cross at the back Then Kletch noticed a big hole in the knee of his trousers By five oclock the four of them were in rags What happened was that they had been wrestling on the green patch right where Cyclops had dumped out the used acid from his etching tank They also are suffering from minor skin burns but are too ashamed to mention it Printers advertising salesmen and reporterengravers are a simple lot From discussion heard at the town council meeting on Mon day night it would appear that Th Express Herald Newmarket already has a swim ming pool But from the many comments made it seem that it was far from being considered an asset to the town The swimming pool or hole In the ground as one member of council termed it is located on private property in the neigh borhood of the fair grounds Mr Haskett and I visited the site last year explained the reeve because we considered it a danger The hole is about seven feet deep and is filled from seepage in the ground from the septic tanks in the area We were told by the Health Unit that since it was on private pro perty there was nothing council could do about it he added It may be all right to keep a hole on private property re plied Councillor but cer tainly not if it is filled with un sanitary material We should refer it to our solicitor I agree said Reeve Wright- man The hole is dangerous A child could be drowned there j i So thats where the are feeding Appeal Against Continued from Page One your lawful duties herein as I have indicated Appeal TAKE NOTICE that being an assessed person intend to ap peal to the county judge the de cision of the court of revision notice of which is dated Feb whereby the Court of Revi sion on Feb decided to take no action on an appeal duly filed by the appellant on Janu ary 28 thereby omitting neglecting or refusing to decide the said appeal Armstrong appellant Office Specialty Mfg Co Ltd respond ent I I SERVANTS NOT MASTERS Golden Mile Singers Give Successful Concert The Golden Mile Singers und er the direction of Marie Draper Lyons performed before a large audience in Trinity United church on Wednesday Feb 27 Their ap pearance was sponsored by the Evangeline auxiliary of the Wo mens Missionary society It had been several years since Newmarket audience had had pleasure of hearing Mrs Ly nns sing She had supporting her a choir of talented singers who were heard in choruses and group numbers Younger members of the group sang several harmonic trios The solo work of Peter Kaiser and Thomas Powers was enjoyed by the audience as was the inter lude by the instrumental trio Mrs Lyons joined the Golden Mile Singers for several select ions David Rhodes To Visit Ottawa As Rotary Guest David Rhodes will be one of boys from across Canada to visit Ottawa in May as the guests of their Rotary clubs David was sel ected to represent Newmarket af ter he and three other Newmark et High school students address ed the March luncheon meeting of the Newmarket Rotary club David is a grade 12 student He is the son of Rev Canon and Mrs J T Rhodes Between May 20 and 24 David with the other hoys will be tak en on a tour of Ottawa He will Visit parliament while it is in ses sion listen to lectures on politic al science and be presented with his citizenship papers Upon his return to Newmarket David will report to the Newmar ket Rotary club and speak to the students of his high school He will be available for other groups in the community as a speaker explained Donald Jackson secre tary of the Rotary club The High school staff was ask ed by the Rotary Club to select four boys to give fourminute talks on Why I would like to visit Ottawa Selection was bas ed on academic standing person ality and general ability President intro duced them to the members at the luncheon meeting They were Da vid Rhodes Ed Hopkins George Robinson and Peter Brown Rev Fred vice president sup ervised the project Judge Gives Report On The Juvenile Cour The first full years report on the Juvenile and Family court Aurora was presented to York County council by Judge Douglas Webster recently The court was opened at Aurora in November This is the first opportunity I have had said Judge Webster thank the county property committee and the Aurora coun cil for the splendid cooperation provided our court Our offices arc satisfactory and the Aurora council has continued to give us many courtesies A minimum staff was employ ed when the court was opened in Aurora Judge Webster explained It included one probation officer William his secret ary and a clerk The salary for Judge Webster for the one day that he presides The public interest was extremely well served by the decision of acting Chief Justice of the Ont ario Court of Appeal in the case of two Toronto men who sought damages for false arrest and imprisonment declares The Financial Post The judge said in giving his ruling that the police have no right to force a citizen to identify himself and have not unlimited freedom to lock up members of the public on suspicion This judgment according to counsel for the police will make police work more difficult No doubt it may do so but the community is not being managed and operated for the benefit of the police They are the servants of the public not the masters If the day ever comes in Canada when anybody at all may be put in jail because a police man doesnt like the look of his face or his running shoes in the case here referred to it was a pair of running shoes that attracted police suspicion then Canada will be a police state and that means a condition of servility compliance and oppression that Canadians will certainly not accept NEWMARKET Social News Miss Marie daughter of Mr and Mrs P Sutton West is pro gressing favorably at her home Marie was in a bus accident re cently Mr and Mrs James Morgan Chatham were recent guests of Mr and Mrs Fred Leach Miss Margaret Morning Miss Audrey Mrs Edna Kirby- and Miss Ayers at tended the International Night Dinner of the and Club on Monday Feb 25 Miss conducted the can dlelight service assisted by Miss Jean Wilson Brampton Will ReRoute Buses To Metropolitan Within a short lime it is ex pected that the Gray Coach Lines will be rerouting buses from the Lakeshore Road to the Metro politan Road within North Gwil- township Plans arc now underway to have this done and relieve traffic on the road Safely and decreasing the wear and tear from the road are the reasons given The Metropolitan Road has a SO speed limit with a direct route from Kes wick to Sutton which eliminates curves Road Superintendent vin Rye and Gray Coach Dis patcher John arc making the arrangements in court at Aurora and the of the court clerk are paid by county The pays the other two Judge Webster recommen that a second probation officer appointed The work of the probation has increased he said The fact that when probation officer is out of the there is no one there of ority to deal with the people it is dissatisfying to the people them to come to the office find no one there to take care them added Judge Webster He advised county council it probably will be necessary him to spend two days at court in Aurora It cost the cot ty 6744 for its share of the and Family court in An amount of 8000 included in the budget Most Active Yea For The Public Librar CHRISTIAN BAPTIST LADIES AID TO The afternoon group of tin- Ladies Aid of the Christian Bap tist church will be held at the home of Mrs Robert Queen St W at 230 pm on Thursday March 14 SNOW COSTS MONEY A heavy fall of snow while de lightful for children and aestheti cally pleasing can be expensive for a town At last meeting of the Aurora Council Reeve Clarence Davis remarked that the lust storm had cost the town OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by HARVEY A REQUISITE OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION The purpose of this column is to defend democracy is concerned with the train ing of future citizens When re ligion is being taught in the pu blic schools the that are being become a mat ter of concern to everyone Vhen palpable falsehoods arc being propagated in the name of religion and when religious education foils to expose those falsehoods everyone interested in ruth will feel an urge to speak Vhen those falsehoods threaten to cause needless loss of life the urge to speak be comes a duty A few months ago an eleven- yearold boy lay at the point of death in a Canadian hospital A Mood transfusion was need ed to save his life His father refused to permit the transfus ion Fortunately the authorities saved the boys life by putting him under the custody of an official guardian who authoriz ed a transfusion Other cases have had less happy endings Such cases are traceable to two erroneous doctrines held by members of certain religious sects The first is the barbarous notion that a father should have the power of life and death over his children If a person prefers to die rather than take a transfusion that Is his funer al but why give him power to cause death to another The general grounds for giv ing parents wide powers over their children powers to make decisions for them is that the parent ha had more experience and is therefore likely to have better judgment than the child Rut in these medical cases the ignorance of the parent is al lowed to overrule the know ledge of the and to bring death to the child The error is the essent ial error of fundamentalist Pro testantism the idea that the Bible is literal word of God and that its meaning is so clear that anyone can understand it In these cases the father does not dispute the opinion of the physicians that the child Is in danger of losing his life or that a transfusion might save that life He thinks the Bible for bids blood transfusions and he believes that the Bible is the literally inspired word of God 4 Biblical scholars have realiz ed for well over half a century now that the early books of the Bible are of composite origin Indeed the basic work on the subject was by by 1878 Wellhausen pointed out that Genesis is not one story but three of which can be easily distinguished because in one the Deity is called God and In the other the Lord God Anyone who doubts theory can judge for him self by simply going through the opening chapters of Genes is and separating the passages containing the phrase the Lord God from those in which the Deity is called There will he found two distinct ac counts of such events as the creation and the flood One ac count of the flood is in Genesis VI verses and to the other is in Chapter VI verses to ft and Chapter VII verses I to These stories if interpret ed literally not only contradict ordinary common sense hut in various point they contradict each other Whoever compiled the book of Genesis was using the meth od known in the writing craft as scissors and paste He sim ply cut the ancient writings in to pieces and put them together to make them look like a sin gle story without taking the trouble to cut out the repetit ions and contradictions That is a method an earthly writer is tempted to use when he is in a hurry It is not what we should expect of Deity But the most convincing or the human authorship is found In the cruelty that the author of attributes to God God simply could not bo of such things as the plagues He is said to have sent on the Egyptians If He had wanted to affect decisions He might conceivably hove afflict ed but He would not have inflicted lice and boils on unfortunate subjects He surely would not have sub jected the animals to torture Neither would He have harden ed heart after oah had decided to let the chil dren of Israel go i- Those facts about the Bible were generally known a gener ation ago When it was asked then why they were not ex plained in churches the answer was Our congregations are composed of people who were taught that the Bible is the lit eral word of God Any attempt to change their opinions now would probably not succeed hut if it did succeed it would cer tainly do more harm than good That would be putting new wine in old bottles We must go slowly and begin with the young by simply not teaching them that the Bible is the liter al word of God A generation will have to pass before the modern view general Well the generation has pass ed and children are dying be cause the modern view has not become general How much longer will it take What are our teachers of religion doing about it Specifically is the modern view of the Bible being taught in the schools Or Is the time of the schools being tak en to propagate deathdealing doctrines that were recognized to be false fifty years ago While 1950 was the most stren uously active year in the history of the Newmarket Library the hopes of the members of the board were finally realized when Ihe library was housed in its new building reported Chairman M at the recent annu al meeting of the board The most notable feature of the past year his report stated was the growing use of and interest in the library from all parts of the community The librarians re port showed a total membership of with A circulation of 277 books The figures do not include the use of the library for reference magazines and papers read there nor the number of people in a home who read books taken home by another member of the family Mr reported that arrangements were being made to assist in Newmarkets centennial year and that historical documen ts and other exhibits were being prepared In Tuesday evening was added to the open hours making the service available for hours per week Librarian Irene report ed that the extra expenditures en tailed in the new building made it impossible for the board to buy the new books a library needs to bring its stock up to date and re place worn out and obsolete books However the Director of Public Library Service loaned childrens books when he saw the empty shelves and the Santa Book Fund raised for new books They also received used books suitable for the book stock The librarian also set up files on various topics gathering the material mostly from government free publications and newspaper and magazine clippings They cov er topics from aeronaut and astronomy to weather They are helpful in covering topics of cur rent interest where no new books were available she added Dr chair man of the film committee said that the projector hud been loan- Police To Help Catch Loose Dogs In Aurora The Aurora police department will be asked to help the town control number of dogs runn ing at large since the town has no regular dog catcher The discussion was sparked by Councillor Bill Bailey who told Councillor William Davidson that he had gained a disciple Coun cillor Bailey said that there were packs of dogs running loose on St We have bylaw it only needs enforcing said Mayor James Murray I thought it was business of the police to enforce the towns bylaws commented Councillor Davidson Through their own courtesy police did it last year but the police are not dog catchers said DeputyReeve Victor Jones 1 think the police will help this year the way they did last year but they need assistance he add ed Council decided to secure a ve hicle and a man to aid the police In the job times and films had be loaned times He felt that t service provided by the film change is doing much to build good will in community a that it will expand in the Mr McMorrow expressed appreciation of the board for sislance given by and staff and the and substantial assistance by the Rotary Club the Ho rile Society the new organiz ion the lends of the Libra and to the donors to the bo fund THE GUN CLUB WINS HONORS AT SHOOT ON SATURDAY The Sun Club with racralu from this district took honors Winter Wonderlan winter sports weekend Members of The Gun Club lered a bus and took their on the trip Saturday There gunners and their ladies In shoot Char Watson was second with out and Jimmy Wilson was thi with The local gunners we lopped by one Dr Fitzgerald Burlington who was first wl out of In the team shoot local any five gunners defeated to 2 International Night Held By B and P Club The annual International Nig program of the Business and lr Womens club was he at the King forge hotel on Ft IH Miss Morning sided and Miss Verna Smyth in charge of the program New Canadians attended guests of the club wearing national costumes The flags all the nations of the world the head table which bore miniature flags representing countries where there are an clubs A ceremony conducted by Mrs Charles Boy and Mrs Ernest Rank Twenty five candles were lit as of the International and era ion each representing a tonal federation or an member The International message of the International Fed President Miss Margarv was given by Morning Mrs Grace Sinclair a humorous reading and Mrs Ros Kudelka spoke on Why I a Canadian A talk on Career Women given by Miss Advisor She referred such outstanding women as Eli Fry Elizabeth Cody Stan on Florence Nightingale Barrett Browning Madam Marie Curie and Helen Mrs Homer Blair in duced Miss The international played by Mrs who provided the music for International Songs game Mis Lillian Thomas moved the voteoj thanks to Miss Smyh for her ex cellent program