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Pages from the itors Notebook MEMBER a and a 0ice Ccri Reports Catnips By Ginger Newspaper We did not attend the meeting of council on Monday night As reported by Mrs Ion a member of the staff we were appointed to a committee of three to edit and check the manuscript pre pared on Newmarkets history by Mrs Ethel Trewhel In a way it is probably better that we did not hear the discus sion We might have said some thing nasty about a number of comments made by members of council The only way to forgive some members for their comments is to accept a natural ignorance of the facts Not having implement ed the idea of having a written history of the town the present council is not familiar with the subject Mrs was commiss ioned by a former council under Mr Joseph Vale who was mayor at the time to write a history of Newmarket That council realiz ed that Mrs had the required ability to write the towns history She has had ex perience in this kind of work We do not quite understand the reasoning of some members of the present council The his tory is completed now and if there are changes to be made Mrs Trewhella is the only per son who is in a position to make We accept the appointment to the committee to check not edit the magazine With the ex ception of typographical errors changes can only be made by consultation with the author Any changes should be made by From the Files of the author if she cares to accept suggestions from the committee If changes in text are made without the agreement of the author it is not likely that Mrs will want her name attached to the manuscript We have been in touch with Mrs Trewhella on numerous oc casions since she started work on the history She has made countless trips to the provincial archives in Toronto and every item she has put down on paper has been checked with recorded facts We that she has de leted some reports which have been passed along by word of mouth because she could find no records to back them up The history is Mrs Trewhel- work and any ridiculous suggestion that the facts should be checked means that someone would be required to repeat the research she has done already Such a suggestion with any ser ious thought behind it is next to an insult Ve doubt that any member of council means to be insulting The history has been written by Mrs Trewhella as directed by the town council of or whatever year it was that the decision was made If there is a decision to be made by the present council in our opinion it is whether or not the history should be published The com mittee or council is in no posit ion to make changes in it As for the authenticity of the history we have complete re spect for Mrs re search Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Newmarket Era 1852 The Express Herald 5 and 50 Years Ago years ago April 1st The Chorus of Boys and Girls from the Lions club review journeyed to Toronto on Sat urday last and enjoyed a two- hour dancing lesson at the Studio Mr Mosher personally teaching a new snappy step Dr promises a real sensation on the and of April Mr and Mrs Cameron Currey of Ave Toronto were calling their Newmarket friends last Saturday Mrs J of Hamil ton is spending a few days with her brother Jackson who is entertaining Trinity church choir at his residence on Thurs day evening of this week Alice Smith of Is spending the Easter holidays in Collingwood while her mother is in Richmond Hill 25- Mrs M Green who has been visiting in will be home in Newmarket the latter part of this week 25 Mr and Mrs J Brown are spending the Easter holidays in Toronto where Mr Brown will attend the Ontario conference Mrs White and Miss Margaret Carson and Mr Malchelt of Tor onto spent Good Friday at the home of Mr and Mrs W J Hunter Mr and Mrs Charles Mont- and Mr Mis If were in town on Sun day to attend the Trinity morn ing Dedication service Mr and Mrs Mi and Mrs It Perry Mr and Mrs J Vincent attended the Masonic charity ball in the Royal York Hotel Toronto last Monday ev ening Mrs A Mulligan will visit hi r home in Tweed for a few days next week Mr P Robinson spent the Easter weekend with his wife and family in St Catharines 50 years ago April 1907 United Factories Curling Sup per On Thursday evening of last week the employees of the Un ited Factories gave factory curling team a complimentary supper at Simpsons restauran Twentyfive sat down to supper after an evening enjoyed in eu chre instrumental and vocal music Having held the Shield for three successive years and having not lost a single game in two years was something to be proud of and the Hon President Mr Cane ably complimen ted the team on their success 50 Exciting Runaway On Wed nesday morning an exciting run away occurred on Timothy St A span of horses belonging to Mr Israel Thirsk of Pine Orchard were being driven by a boy and just as they crossed the bridge they became frightened at the morning passenger train from Toronto It seems funny hut they made right for the train and the last coach caught the ton gue breaking it off and also broke the upper jaw of one of the horses The came loose and the waggon ran into an electric light pole where the boy was thrown out but es caped injury The horses were stopped at the top of the hill A vet was sent for and as he thou ght the horse might recover the span were driven home Mrs Fanny Carter returned to the city Monday after spending Easter Sunday with her parents Twentyfive were present at a family gathering at Mr J Canes on Tuesday evening A sevencourse dinner was entire ly prepared and served by their daughter Miss Cane as sisted by her College chum Miss Boyd of New York State as tau ght in the Whitby College Miss Wilkinson public school teacher spent Easter holidays at her home in Miss Margaret of Strange spent her Easter holi days with friends in town GOOD NEWS FOR FISHERMEN A new packaging method will J In bags with them on extended T Goldfish In plastic bags are now being sold In the hardware drug and pet stores In lh0 I seen examining here provides the pair of gold- microscopic food to them more than a month than they would get swimming around in a man particle of activated charcoal absorb carbon sealed in the bag kill fungus and prevent Published every Thursday at 30 Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription 600 for two years for in advance Single copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa John E Strnthcrs- Managing Editor Caroline Ion Associate Editor George Haskett Sports Editor Lawrence Racine Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE FOURTH DAY OF APRIL NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN A PLACE FOR HISTORY A display of documents pictures and other records about the districts Battalion of the First World War will be on display at the Newmarket library the week of April Many people particularly those who remember the battalions n Newmarket Ap ril and will be interested in seeing the display Being available for this purpose the library shows that it has another useful purpose in this community The possibilities of it being a valuable asset as a centre for the recorded history of the town and the surrounding districts of York County are beginning to be realized Dr Lome Pierce a well known Canadian historian and educator is quoted on the subject of the local archives back in We should have archives in every county town and if possible a museum attached Our county town librar ies are frequently pathetic The walls arec lined with fiction from the ends of the earth but few of them have a decent representative collection of Canadiana Poss ibly not more than a score of them make any attempt to gather in historical data I a i to the parishes and townships within their herders Governments and coun cils have funds for highways and drains but it requires a major operation to secure a grant for a rare book Everything should not go to Ottawa and Toronto Every county should be proud of local and national his tory and literature and should fill a treasure room Here is where you come in The archivist or librarian cannot be everywhere but he may have the hundred sleepless eyes of Argus and the untiring arms of through your cooperation A great deal yet needs to be done in the study of local history and tradition place names genealogies ami so on Parish registers commonplace books diaries scrap books correspondence family re cords and such like are the stuff out of which history and even literature is made OPEN WAR ON TRAFFIC VIOLATORS In Canada while the number of persons killed was half the list of the war the number injured ex ceeded it nine to one It is the utter of these deaths that makes them so appalling For those who re main death is always sad A war for survival has a cer tain nobility of purpose that helps to relieve the sting and death is dedicated to the preservation of life But what can be said of the useless toll of highway deaths Only that they are dedicated to carelessness stupidity or misplaced confidence in driving ability We do not have in this country many murders in the space of a year Yet when one does occur the best police and the finest of laboratories and equipment are pressed into service to track down the killer Surveys have shown that the public has little sympathy for a killer Men have been hanged for complicity in a murder when they were not even the actual agents and the law states that if a death occurs during the commission of a felony even by accident then that person is guilty of murder But public opinion has a change of heart when the killer is a normally honest citizen who wouldnt even cheat on his income tax let alone commit a felony The opinion we sense is that the police arent play ing fair unless they trap traffic violator in plainly marked police cars or give him a fighting chance at evas ion Statistics prove that when accidents occur in almost every case the driver is breaking the law Traffic laws are designed to promote the safety of everyone using the highways and when respect will not bring about their enforcement then the authorities must turn to fear the fear of the consequences and fear of being caught It is time to declare open war on traffic violators and every aid no matter how unsporting should be used from hidden traps to unmarked cruisers It is bad enough that every generation must sacrifice some of its mem bers in war without having to take the same chance at home There is something strange about the insulating properties of the human mind While horror on a large scale continues to shock people seem to have become accustomed to horror on a small or continuing scale and do a pretty good job of ignoring it If over 20000 persons were to be killed in one major disaster which also injur ed half a million more it would be a certainty that the occasion would given the prominence it deserved in our newspapers and history books It is a certainty that it would produce several best selling novels and a movie or two as well Those figures are the year toll of traffic deaths and injuries in Canada But because they occur one or two at a time and are spaced over a decade the public ignores them or worse accepts them as a natural condit ion of modem living In the first years following the last war traffic fatalities in the United States almost equaled the number killed and the number of persons in jured in traffic accidents was times the number wounded in the same war A NEW IDEA Communities in the township of King have come up with a new idea a planning board for schools To our knowledge the Regional School Planning Committee is unique We have never heard of school sections getting to gether to plan ways of meeting mutual problems which are expected to come along with increased public school enrolments A school area is being discussed in the King City- district and surrounding areas The new plann ing committee is not what you would call an official body but its existence shows that the people of those commun ities are far sighted It also shows that they have a keen sense of responsibility and are anxious to cooperate with their neighbors OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by HARVEY Should Canada Join The European Market Bruce Hutchinson writing hi has added his name to the growing list of who are concerned about the dangers of inflation He argues that still further increases in cost of living are practically certain Wholesale prices have been ris ing and the cost of living gener ally follows the trend of whole sale prices What can be done it In the public discussions of in flation by editors radio comm entators and politicians there seems to he a tacit understand ing that the obvious remedy must not be mentioned Most of the things that are going up in price in Canada can he nought more cheaply abroad The obvi ous way to check the rise in the cost of living is to reduce the tariff and let in the goods we want The tariff has not been much of an issue in Canadian politics since Mr Bracken persuaded the Conservatives to become Progressive Conservatives and drop the high tariff ideas of Mr Bennett Nevertheless in spite of high profits being made by most of our manufacturers that is to say in of the patent fact that they do not need all the protection they now have nobody seems willing to come out openly and advocate reduc ing tariffs Why should that be The principal obstacle to low ering tariff is fear of the Un ited States Close economic ties with the US would it is feared put us at the mercy of that coun try If too dependent On US markets we might suffer serious harm if those markets were suddenly closed This pol icy of refusing a benefit because you fear it may he temporary deliberately putting a stop to profitable trade because you fear that the other country may stop it later Is very popular hut har dly logical called it committing suicide for fear of death This fear of the US defeated the Reciprocity Treaty of a treaty which could not have injured Canadian manufacturers because manufactured products were excluded from its operat ion Fear of the has been kept alive by the protected in terests and would probably de feat any proposal for closer ec onomic ties with and that means any proposal for gen eral tariff reductions The point is that although protectionists talk about the danger that might result from trading with low- wage countries- It US com petition they really If a general reduction in tar iffs is politically impossible we might able to get many of the things we want at reasonable prices by joining the European Market Some of the advantages of such a move would lie 1 The European Market Plan ran he reasonably expected to be permanent thus meeting the only serious argument against too great dependence on trade Admitting more European goods would enable Europeans to earn dollars with which to buy Canadian food products would be a sane way to help our farmers 3 The products we would im port from Europe are chiefly those which are bought by con sumers in the lower income groups such things as textiles boots and shoes and lowpriced transportation Vespas Volks wagens and the cheaper English cars We would be moving In the direction advocated the ex perts on the subject Economists from the time of David Hume and Adam Smith have been pra ctically unanimous in maintain ing that there is no sound econ omic argument for protection as a longrun policy Much of the opposition to the importation of goods from lowwage countries is patently hypocritical because It Is made by the very people who are advocating more immi gration a policy which would obviously bring wages down The foregoing are some econ omic arguments for joining the European in a k e I Politically the move would draw us closer to our mother countries Britain and France as well as to Ihe Other countries from which so many of us have come But it is the moral argument which wou ld appear unanswerable We must remember that Eur ope is very much overpopulat ed We could relieve this press ure of population either re moving the barriers to immigrat ion or by removing the barriers to trade To remove immigration barriers would lower tho wages of our workers towards the lev els prevailing in the poorest country from which many immi grants might come Lowering the trade barriers would assist Europeans and help hold down the cost of living here What an swer can we make to an Italian worker who says You have a surplus of many kinds of food and I am hungry 1 ask no char ity I merely ask the chance to give you something at a lower price than you can make it in exchange for some food is the servant not the of the people the state their infringement their their international it is not the function of the eite to the direc tion of those activities which reel on individual choice little nonsense now and men Anon Slim got a new valve job done on his Pierce Arrow- last week in preparation for the forthcoming staff smeltfishing trip to Honey Harbor The Arrows been laid up all winter with gastric trouble and got the engine turned over Tuesday for the first time said Slim Well if its anything like that last trip wed better have four spare tires I said By the time we got home last time the smelt had turned bad Egad Cyclops who is a spec ialist on old large cars helped Slim get the Arrow into shape He was almost asphyxiated by exhaust fumes while he was putting a sleeve on near the muffler That was always one of main troubles with the Arrow The fumes came up thro ugh the floor boards at speeds under 30 mph and since it wont go beyond that was often Egad was trying to locate the hole near the muffler and turn ed on the engine to see where the smoke was coming out He had been under the car for a half hour before Slim noticed All he could see was his feet sticking out below the running board so he pulled on them and out came Egad all gray and un conscious We were almost short an en graver said Slim But there seems to be no aftereffects Well I vote that we dont catch any more smelt than we need Oh I aint interested in the smelt Its just the trip after cm said Slim These people who go after smelt and bring them home by the bucketfulls and then dont know what to do with them give me the gears said They then Is relished by the wisest peddle them to their friends ami the friends dont like them so they throw them out That goes for a lot fishermen They get happy fish and dont lcavi any left the next guy has become mass murder The talk about conservation and al that but they dont practise agreed Slim knew a professor once never fished with a hook on hi line That theres the kind of I like He fishes fer fish ins sake not fish Slin pointed out Yep The whole subject related to temperance The murderous fishermen want to catch the legal limit am then some are the types There is a lot of people in this here world today there is said Slim Take thing or other habits can get to be intempernt wit any one of them You should go on a speaking tour I said Well as a matter of fact Womens Civic Betterment ciation of East Thimbleberr township has booked me fer Im one of their speakers oree a year Is a social half hour at the close of every meeting Yep we always pets and tea or lik that and a v el with much food for though usually ensues during the freshmen period said Slim We Ill sure be glad to gel away from the hub and bun when we go on that smelt fish ins weekend I said too by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches Just a few more lines on the subject of long term credit for farmers and the housing credit available to most everybody Ac cording to the Globe ami Mail the average housing loan today is about 10000 and the average home owner has an equity of not quit in the house He will also pay for years an average of to pay his taxes interest and principal on that loan The question arises what will the home owner have at the end of years Your guess is as good as ours house at least years old It may be a bettor house than he has today but off hand we would doubt this He will undoubtedly have to spend some money to keep it up in the meantime It will give a roof over his head and it will be a place to live but it will not be productive unless the relaxation and comfort and security that the house means to the man will make an indirect contribution to his productivity Take the case of the farmer now Even if land is disregard ed his livestock and implements and h equipment is many times the equity that the home owner has in his house if the farmer to modernize his busi ness be allowed of his equity in loans under the same terms as a home he could remodel his whole operation in such a way as to make it efficient he could reduce the amount of labor re quired produce the things he grows id in the long run he could lower the cost of to everybody He could compete with indus try for the right quality of labor and he could buy modern ami efficient machinery in quanti ties that would make it manu facture cheaper He could u irrigation hay driers and other equipment and by most of the risk out of his he could produce wit fewer and downs He would become a consumer for all other product and thus add to the prosperity He would more specialized in his produc tion and at least in this part J the country grow less grain more hay and grass He could afford lo refores poor land and could buy all hi grain from the West would bring about a balance whereby there be areas of raw material am areas of finishing production I would eventually result able to support a larger with much cheaper food But it isnt happening air there is very little chance of even being considered We not know the reason why Ther might be the argument thai there is not enough money avail able for it But these mortgages are being paid off by bit and they are totalling i repayment a I amounts And if only pari this would be made available in other words once the house are built farmers would a chance In years in this country could be what should be Lending of money would to be done with some control and according to some sort a national policy But it lie done and should be don soon The effort involved produce food today is much to meat compared with the result obtained and the saving in man power alone would speed the development of countr immeasurably TO BEGIN FLYING TRIALS IN APRIL out of Belfast Tot begin trials April The angled deck of CamdVa Illustrated In this aerial photo Wtn