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ages from the Notebook A cartoon feature in this newspaper sponsored by the Newmarket Chamber of Comm erce promotes consumer chasing in the home town rather than in the big city The buyathome shopper helps local business people who pay taxes to support the comm unity along with everybody else In Newmarket a businessman supports the corporation of the town of Newmarket and the county of York through his pro perty and business taxes Prob ably he supports other good causes in the community through voluntary contributions Besides the shopper usually can find bargains equal to those in distant shopping centers if he takes the time to find out when and where they are in local stor es Even if he pays a little more in the home town the differenc es probably ere less than travell ing expenses to and from the big city Then again at home ho can be sure of continued service and if he is buying an expensive commodity like a home appli ance or an automobile that ser vice will be important to him In more than one way it is worthwhile to shop Ev ery merchant will tell you the same thing Of course not every merchant will practice what he preaches Local business people them selves are not averse to buying out of town Too there are those who cannot resist their connect ions with the wholesale houses In the city Instead of helping Joe Jones who also is in busi ness down the street and who also pays taxes a fellow merch ant weakens and buys wife a new electrical gadget at the wholesale price in the city So Joe Jones loses a sale Well maybe its all right if Joe Jones is doing the same thing but if Joe buys wife a new fur coat at fellowmerchants just to be a good citizen the whole thing isnt fair Of course most of the merch ants are not like this They know themselves that they must work constantly against human nature which somehow makes people- think that distant fields are greener One of our advertisers for ex ample stays on the theme that From the Files of he wont be undersold If a customer tells him that he can purchase an article in the city at suchandsuch a price he sells the customer the same article at the same price Some people never learn they keep going to the city he says This example does not hold true for all commodities In our own experience locally we have found on at least two specific oc casions which we can recall a difference of percent in price on small articles of the same size and same brand The items were small but we could find no logical reason for the difference and none were sale prices Oh well theres good and bad everywhere Besides publishing a newspap er we are in the printing busi ness too Its the same story People trot to Toronto to get a printing job done when there are places here in town which do good work We mention plac es because we are not the only ones in the printing business Its not that we mind people trotting to Toronto it is that they dont ask for a local price first Most local printing is chea per no matter what the quality unless it is something standard like poison labels for medicine bottles which are run off in the millions in a big city plant Still they will stray away to what they think are greener fields We have a particular phobia about local organizations which ask for all kinds of pictures and free publicity in the newspaper and then turn around and buy their printed programs brochur es tickets or letterheads some where else without so much as asking for an estimate from us But then human nature works in strange ways There is little you cant buy in Newmarket Its a bit short on an exclusive fruit and veget able store since Hois Caradonna went out of business and the wife says expensive ladies shoes in certain sizes are hard to get but generally its a shopp ing town We have visited many towns and cities with the better half and she always says Well I havent seen any place that real ly is belter than Newmarket for stores Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Herald The Newmarket Era 1852 Published every Thursday at Charles Si the Bra and Limited fiabierlption MM for two for one in advance- copies are lie each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the of Circulations as Second Clam Mail Post Office Department Ottawa John E- Struthers Managing Editor Caroline Ion Associate Editor George Sports Editor Lawrence Racine Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE 25 and 50 Years Ago 25 years ago March II Miss Florence and Miss both of Toronto Genera hospital spent last week in town Mr and Mrs P Saunders of Toronto visited Mr and Mrs Lusted on Sunday Miss Bell of Toronto is visiting her aunt Mrs Kill Hancock and Newmarkets popular hockey coach Mrs Dr Edwards is leaving shortly to join her husband in England when they will have a six weeks motor tour of Eng land and Scotland Last Saturday afternoon Mrs Dr Dales entertained a large number of guests at a tea in her home on Main St Little Miss Betty Dales opened the door for the who were received by Mrs Dales her mother Mrs Wesley and Mrs Doyle Mr aid Mrs George Homes Toronto spent Saturday in town Mrs Rev Meadows Mrs Max Smith Mrs Robert Fount ain Mrs Frank Hope and Miss Mildred Denne spent Thursday in Toronto Mr and Mrs Charles Jones of Roland Manitoba are guests at the Manse this week Mrs Jones is a cousin of Dr Mclntyre years ago March J 5 J Bridal Conch Ve thought our livery men had got things pretty well uptodate with sprightly steeds and considerate Jehus to drive them but Pittsbury Pa takes the Cake when it comes to bridal carriages One has just been finished costing manufactured by a Brid geport Conn maker for a liv eryman at Pittsburg The vehi cle is upholstered silk curtained wood carved gilt trimmed and has twenty hearts on it There are heartshaped windows two hearts for the dashboard and the rear springs are heart- shaped Two Cupids surmount the lamps Visit to Aurora On Monday evening members of the league and their friends visited the League at the Aurora Methodist church leaving here by special Metropolitan car Ar riving at Aurora it was found that lecture room was filled and the visiting league was cor dially welcomed by Rev A Bradford the officers of the lea gue and others A splendid pro gram was provided by league during which Mr McCauley the president occupied the chair This includ ed a splendid chorus by the- choir vocal solos by Miss Maud Richardson Mrs Howard Cane and Mr Barker piano solo by Miss A Wilkinson and splen did addresses by Rev and Mr A Coomb Progress on New Brunswick Power Project pun The superstructure right foreground of the New Brunswick Electric Power commissions development en the Lake St John river miles north Of begins to take shape To left are the piers fcj dam Completion of the project is looked tax December this year and it will start a new economic era Brunswick THURSDAY THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF MARCH NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN BEST MAGISTRATES COURT A prominent Toronto lawyer said to us recently You know you have a magistrates court in Newmarket which is considered to be one of the best in Canada if not in North America There are times when an outsider is required to remind us of the importance of something we already know and accept In this case the outsider re minds us that we should talk about it Our lawyer friend went on to describe the fine appointments in the New market court room which help to make it a good court The holeinthewall atmosphere of courts in Torontos city hall and other centers make them shameful compared with the Newmarket court The main factor which makes it a good court is the magistrate our friend pointed out The lawyer made known his respect for the local magistrates knowledge of law which he said was greater than that of most magistrates he knew He commented on the dignity in which court sessions are held The dignity of the court is a tradition which has survived the years since its be ginning in Britain In the United States the dignity of J the court has not survived so well as it has in Canada contributing what to the community the newspaper serves the community A community Is not likely to improve without the criticism of its citizens The pending liquor vote seems to have drawn out more letters from our readers than have other local issues Opinions are extreme to say the least about them Examples appear in this weeks issue on the opposite page No matter what bearing the subject has on the public religion seems to be used with vehemence On both sides religion has been brought in during the heat of the argument we believe that it should be used when matters of individual souls are in question not in hot public argu ments Even professional writers often fail to convey their exact thoughts because they overindulge in language Too many words can kill an idea A few words can con vey a big idea You dont need an elephant gun to kill a flea It is unfortunate that sweeping statements about religion are being used in arguments on a matter which is to be settled by a vote of the people In our opinion damage is being done to the churches from both sides While one condemns the churches because a few hypo crites might be found in the congregations another damns those who might disagree with his religious ideas We do not take credit away from local municipal authorities who were responsible for many physical im provements for the court when we say that Magistrate has made the court what it is today Since the first day he presided in Newmarket he has patiently pressed for physical improvements has made novel in novations to facilitate court room procedures and most important of all has maintained an exceptionally high level of court dignity and efficiency He also is enthusi astic about the improving probation services and his co operation in this regard is in itself a worthy contribution to society We in this community which the court serves are fortunate in having Magistrate in our midst There are no doubts about the cause of justice here The following opinion was expressed by a newspaper reporter is as good a concluding comment as we can thinlc of If were guilty of a crime I would like to appear before any other magistrate than Col if I were innocent I vould prefer to appear before him ELEPHANT GUNS A lecturer in journalism once said that the readers of a newspaper should bo entitled to the same opportun ities the editor to sound off with strong opinions in the letterstotheeditor columns We always have held to this same opinion and we encourage letters from read ers no matter how volatile they may be We make one provision We do not publish a libellous letter because the newspaper itself as well as the writer is responsible for libel We have encouraged letters because believe that the more opinions are expressed by the readers the better One writer this week disagrees with an article by Dr W Hftrvey which appeared on the editorial page last week and he says that it is the thin edge of com munism We welcome his disagreement As for his com ment about communism all we can say is that it sounds like one which a man named McCarthy would make For tunately we no longer hear much about that man Mc Carthy who made it convenient to destroy citizens by pinning a communist public label on him whether it was proved that he deserved it or not But we do not want to use an elephant gun here and we merely state that Dr Harvey is a champion of democracy and that the whole purpose of his writings is to defend democracy against other ideas communism in particular SUPPORT YOUR RED CROSS The Red Cross blitz campaign for Newmarket and district including surrounding villages is on today Through your contributions you are there when a child halfway around the world receives fresh clothing supplied by the Red Cross when a veteran lying on a hospital bed finds new interest and new hope in handi crafts taught by Red Cross instructors when Red Cross supplies emergency food clothing bedding care and shelter to victims of flood fire or hurricane Your volun tary dollars help to maintain these and other services of the Red Cross Last year the Red Cross answered hundreds of calls for help from people at home and front earthquake vic tims on the other side of the world It is around the world and around the clock service It protects you your family The Red Cross is the best neighbor you ever had Keep it strong this year by volunteering your dollars You serve by giving to your local Red Cross The local objective is OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by WB HARVEY ERRORS IN THE CLASS VIEW OF HISTORY Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Slim Mir nM correspond ho with Mayor which did is Msyor Tuesday in his the first tpnftt ha pergonal Mayor in The mayor thai definitely have on of them disposal pro- thai province will pay for it mayor thai he not In it into hi anything Jus towage plant if the province la fee so hes saving the tax payer lot of money Kerr seven yean mayor has the sewage disposal plant to off h election platform yea definitely we consider a sewage dis posal plant the mayor has view of the atrocities com mitted the communists under Stalin officially admitted Khrushchev last February and in view of the conquest of Hun gary the communists under Khrushchev it is not surprising that communism losing supp ort throughout the free world ihe surprising tiling is that it ha been able to retain so many followers for to long A large part of the explanation is to he found in the peculiar way of looking at history which enables communists to condone atrocit ies Communists believe in Marxs Theory of the Class Struggle In that theory the important divis ions of mankind have ec onomic classes slaveowner and slave feudal lord and serf cap italist and wageearner Marx believed progress necessarily lakes place through victory of a subject class ov er the ruling class of its day The theory is that the subject class gradually more class conscious and develops hatred towards the ruling class but also becomes more numer ous and finally sweeps away the ruling class in a violent revolut ion Thus Marx held that the ad vance from feudalism to capit alism was achieved in the French Revolution which he re garded as the victory of the bourgeoisie or capitalists over the feudal lords Marx thought that the neat necessary step in human pro gress the victory of working over capital ists a victory that he thought would occur inevitably in advanced capitalist society He believed the workingclass re volution to he inevitable because he thought the class division would become more clearcut the rich getting richer and few er while the workers became poorer and more numerous Marx held too that the revolution would end dismal record of struggle and suppress ion because the clan has no class below it which it can exploit Marx expected victory of the workers to pro duce a society of equals Now those views had an article of faith of workers the world over And much of the strength of comm unism is due to the feet thai the communists have been able to persuade millions of pan pie thai the Bolshevik Revolut ion was a fulfilment of prophecies Actually ha In the direct from that predicted by Mara Class divisions instead of becom ing more clearcut have become so blurred that there is not much sense in talking about lasses in he Marxist sense To talk of the wageearners ad tin- working implying that capital ists professional men and farm ers are idlers is a piece of mythology There are of course great dif ferences In wealth but there are all digitcs of wealth Our soc iety could he divided into twen ty classes just as logically as in to two people seem to think there air three classes A Gallup reports that of our people think of themselves At middle class And if we think there are only two class a rich and poor is perfectly obvious that the wealthy are not ruling class If they were they would not put the income tax rales up The devolution was the opposite of Marxs predict ion it occurred not in an ad vanced capitalist country but in the most backward country in Europe It wait effected not by the hut a little group of intellectuals and they won power on a slogan Peace and Mud for the feasants that had nothing In do their pre tended working class ideas The were not workers the citizens figure that this i the year disposal plant worship of the Ike state is infringement on their rights agent in international and tag not Ma function of to assume the of those activities whisk rest on individual choice icy did not have the support of organised As late as July they had only supporters out of in the Trade Union Congress The collectivization of agricul ture was carried out in spite of bitter opposition id the pea sants in Mi the great trans formation id Russia was not the result of any victory of the masses over the ruling class but imposed masses by the new class lists com munists That new ruling class has established a society id equals Differences living standards are greater in Sov iet Union today than they arc in Ureal Britain The be learned from history of the last century is clear to anyone who will face fads Under democracy we have reduced economic and soc ial inequalities and raised living standards without revolution without mass murder or enslave ment Under dictatorships those evils have been rule and it has made little difference to victims that the government claimed to be operating in interests of the working class What matters is not the victory of some mythical working class hut victory of democratic humanitarian ideals What f 4 and people who along the river I They r within their right MayooU mg i the ceiling have been discriminated moral or igation on I clean up me forih- and pronto f the pay that ft dont 5 the I rt a s of 11 of Comers o are It seven times on the platform already overburdened burgee- which the last seven years People out in the East have v ravin mad about the which floats down river from Com awer East people a dislike raw sewage They even claim out in Junction a village f v r v away that the aroma what off the river on a hot steam- in summers night aint mar gas Once a angry mob marched onto the town hall and demand ed Mayor head four milch cows which had been near the river just out side of the Corners were Sound How gets elected every year I A i J r m by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches Financial reports and state ments by the head the of Canada not make very interesting reading of us are in the habit skip ping such dry news Yet in some way or another feet the operations farmers as as anybody else The problem seems to occupy most peoples whether or not controls es tablished to cheque inflation will be efficient enough to the job Here one pain whore farmer have to be cos since result in an increase cost of the items farmers have to buy and a decrease in the since farm have a tendency to rise slower than other prices The gap between the farmers income and ex penditures will increase and it is bad as i IS Right now competi tion fox money is expansion One to its lack and this ac tivity has down This affects a i roped I r C v i a i cjs one V id said the soks t s a a- i- vo v i o Li in the man T on- have to s the jsi years i a a A people who very we organised and very vocal their demands Since tins is election year the echo of their voices rounds very loudly indeed- The far mers voice weak and muted i- it can barely bo heard and since we are not well ivl of sin J have we are not heard and we no echo resounding This does not alter the act that the greatest obstacle lo ef ficient rami production these days is the lack of capital remodel and equip farms for Ihe most efficient vise of man power other resources Just the other day we had the opportunity of visiting a num ber of small dairy farms where a new milk route is being es tablished Fanners were given certain promises by the dailies it they could deliver milk- We found one man feverishly building a ither uiiiiets A io has a a tew uuidrvd dollars can heme and pay v in to own equity in this house is le and no ham to earn a living A farmer with land and and at ln he treated an to the workers be abb to bor row la thousand dollars to build a new barn where he could produce milk hoes efficiently at this his would much higher than the equity the homeowner has under the present program The present of ex tending Ictus farmers is the limes and against best interest of those who want inexpensive food bol ster economy APPETITE MAY BRING FILM ROLE If Hollywood Is looking for a dog with an sppetitt for foods it wont to look fsrther than llortnstelD Toronto Her loves cheese billies bagels and smoked fish came when It was found that none of the studio pooches look twice at anything but regulation fare