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torn the Notebook MEMBER a and Newspaper Newspapers may report coun cil matters while the council is In committee of the whole but people keep popping up with the idea that they may not Why do they persist in trying to tool people with that idea to gag the press The Sudbury Star recently took the city solicitor to task for suggesting that the press could be muzzled In an opinion given to the Sudbury council the city solicitor John Ryan ad vised council You could go committee of the whole and in this way the press would not be allowed to print anything al though it could stay in the coun cil chamber His opinion was a variance with established parliamentary procedures Major Alex C Lew- Is former clerk of the Ontario Legislature made this clear in his book on the subject Regard ed as one of Canadas outstand ing authorities in parliamentary procedure Major Lewis wrote Committee of the whole is merely a device whereby rs can be given more free dom of expression than is allow ed otherwise such as when the rules debate must be applied When a council goes into committee of the whole for dis cussion the mayor or head of the council must vacate the chair and appoint someone else to take his seat There is no rule that says the proceedings in committee cannot be reported When a municipal council goes into committee of the whole the newspaper reporters in attend ance may be asked not to re port certain matters but it is en- I From the Files of up to the reporter to ac cept the suggestion It might further be pointed out that in parliament discuss ions in committee of the whole are fully reported in Hansard and in the press This is accord ing to Major Lewis clear evi dence that there is nothing sec ret about such discussions Incorrect information led us to be unfair to the students of Newmarket high school in this column last week We were dig ging them about not producing a school year book as the Aur ora high school students have done The dig was in the reason to a report that lack of coop eration from the students was the reason for NHS not having a book this year Our report came through the business of fice of the school by way of a routine enquiry As often hap pens when information is pass ed along from one person to an other there had been misinter pretation and the version of the story as we heard it was incor rect lit often happens like this when we use a sledge hammer blow instead of a nudge to put across a point The truth is that the students did have the desire to publish a year book But because of class problems during the building of the new wing at the school fin ancial difficulties experienced with year book publication and other matters they were advis ed to skip publication this year We extend our apologies and the offer of assistance in next years effort stands Serving Newmarket and the districts of North York Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger The Newmarket Era 1852 The Express Herald 1 he I 25 and 50 Years Ago years May 1933 Kettlcby Creek One of the most beautiful and picturesque little streams in the Dominion with its outlet at the Holland River Until this year it has al ways been a source of keen en joyment for the community as well as hundreds from a dist ance When we say it is beauti ful and picturesque we must not forget it is one of Hods gifts to us as well as the stately ard magnificent trees that guards its banks Be it selfishness be it narrowness be it mercenary or be it what you will the pleasure is very much changed owing to a tew who think they tan con- all the fishing tackle in the Soon we may have to beg for air breathe and we fear it will be Hot Lets see who wins and who has most en joyment Roches Point We have four teen Cubs with their first star and fen of these have also their second star One proficiency ba dge has also been earned for the There arc only about members in the pack so it wont be long till our boys have passed the per iod and have at least one of their eyes wide open Looks Much Bettor A new 35 it cedar pole replaced the form er flag polo on top of the Post Office building on Saturday and a new flag floats in the breeze The old one was In rags Mrs spent the long weekend with her daught er Mrs C P Hall in Toronto years ago May Remarkable Cold Hut it down in your diary The ground was covered with snow on the morn ing of May 28th Mr Jos Millard remembers just such a season 74 years ago but about a week later AH the fruit trees were in bloom but the weather turned so cold that the crop was lost entirely Snow fell to the depth of ten inches Mrs C Clay and her sis ter Mrs Harry Willis with two children all of Toronto visited friends in town on flic 24th 50 Mr of Toronto agent of the Canadian Purity educational association is in town this week introducing some of the literature approved by the organization It is of a high moral order and the work in which Mr is engag ed Is worthy of liberal patron age He comes here highly re commended personally and we trust he may be able lo place a large number of his splendid books among our families 50 to 30c per week Vill do your cooking or baking if you use one of our Gasoline or Oil Stoves Free trial given Hardware Mrs of Brooklyn and Mrs John of Whit by also Mrs Hills of Tor onto spent over Sunday with their sister Mrs M Brown 50 Mr Wallace and his dau ghter Miss Maud Wallace of Lindsay were guests of Mr and Mrs Robert Manning BIGINCH PIPE NOW MADE IN CANADA first manufacturer of big Inch uud la oil only two month old but already its for the next three yean The MEnd Tubes Ltd located in WtlUnd production will be 300000 net tons but the fast- market aUU to import Here a 40foot by a man riding through Published every Thursday at Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription 00 for two years for in advance Single copies axe each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mall Post Office Department Ottawa John E Strutters Managing Editor Caroline Ion Associate Editor George Sports Editor Lawrence Racine Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE THIRTIETH DAY OF MAY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN PROGRESS REMOVES TREES We often tire of hearing the word progress At the risk of sounding reactionary old and stuffy we would like to grumble about the way progress moves in with bulldozers and without sentiment changes the landscape by removing beautiful trees and flattening rolling fields Yes we know that the necessary permiss ion is obtained to do these things that people must have houses and that trade and commerce must forge ahead but we must grumble There are four main entrances to Newmarket Eagle Street Street Davis Drive East and Davis Drive West On three of them large beautiful Maple trees have been torn out by bulldozers during the past three years We always admired the avenues with trees around Newmarket and we resent them being torn up for hydro lines shopping centres subdivisions and service stations And it seems to us that some of them could have been saved if the owners of property had done a little planning and spent a little more time and money Trees on Eagle Street were sacrificed for a power line On Davis Drive West they were removed for the shopping centre On Davis Drive East they were remov ed for service stations and a parking area All were on the street lines We fail to see why automobiles could not drive between the trees In our opinion the trees could have remained Contradicting this trend towards tree cutting a group from a new subdivision residents requested per mission to plant trees along their streets and another group called Men Of The Trees completed a planting pro ject in a bird sanctuary in North Newmarket But the big trees arc disappearing to quickly and it will be years before the new plantings will produce beautiful shade trees Progress continues by flattening fjeldavfor park ing areas and subdivisions We recall the viWirom Mil- lard Avenue looking west ten years were rolling fields of grain then Now we look at houses pow er and telephone lines and television antennae- And the only piece of wilderness which remained in Newmarket the Lewis Bush now is being turned into a subdivision Yes it will be a beautiful subdivision with expensive homos But it was more beautiful as the Lewis Bush Pro gress Wc dont like it NEED TO BE ROUSED From the Tribune III tlie federal general election of per cent of the registered voters across Canada went to the polls and recorded their votes the candidates of their choice In Ontario riding the percentage was well below the national figure That incidentally was the lowest figure recorded in federal elections for many years One cannot help hoping that the record in the election on June will be much better There was a reason of course for the low percent age of voting in the election The election date was badly chosen It was held on August right in the midst of the holiday season Thousands of people were far from home on holidays and did not feel like coming home for the day just to vote Hence the low percentage There will not be the same reason or excuse for absenteeism from the polls in the election next month In fact there will be no good reason why every elector on the lists unless prevented by illness should not go to the polls and vote Perhaps they may need some awaken ing as to their duty to exercise their franchise Since the last election many hundreds of new Can adians have become citizens of Canada We can take it for granted that these new citizens with a high appreci ation of the value of their citizenship will cast their ball ots They realize that the right to vote is a sacred privil ege Many of them have undergone persecution in the countries from which they came because they did not have the right to choose their own government The people most likely to fall down in this respect are the native Canadians who take their privileges too much for granted and treat their duties very lightly It is our hope that on June the onethird missing from the polls in will be there to do their duty in the elect ion of their government NOT ANOTHER DROP Once again Chicago is trying to grab more Great Lakes water to raw sewage down into the Miss issippi On the weekend measured last Julys water line on a rock near our cottage on Lake Huron the drop in water level this year was inches Other cottagers from this district report a big drop in Georgian Bay and lakes in the watershed leaving docks high and dry in some places Canada should protest clearly and emphatically gainst this new proposal states The Financial Post Not even temporarily should any further diversion of water from Lake Michigan be allowed Chicago should be told definitely and finally that it must provide itself with a modem sewage disposal plant like any other big city on this continent For nearly a century it has been trying to avoid this expense by diverting more and more international water into another watershed thus threatening shipping in lower lakes harbors and canals and robbing New York State and Ontario of urgently needed power at Niagara This new leakage would be serious enough now with every bit of available power needed in Ontario and New York but with the St Lawrence seaway and power pro ject it would be even more so We could expect nothing like a return on lie huge investment if Chicago is permitted to grab vitally needed water before it even close to he St Lawrence OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by W HARVEY POLITICS IS THE WORK OF PEOPLE Sidney Hook one of the out standing philosophers of our time has made a signal contri bution to politics in his recent book The Hero in History There was a time when the role of the individual was exag gerated when history was large ly the story of heroes Thomas gave classic form to that view when he wrote The hist ory of what man has accomplish ed in this world is at bottom history of the Great Men who have worked here Our age has gone to the opp osite extreme In a laudable ef fort to avoid the mistake of fail ing to see the wood for the trees we have almost come to the point of forgetting that the wood consists of trees We talk about groups parties nations even the forces of production doing things Hook reminds us of the elementary and fact that everything that is done in politics is done individuals Too many writers today arc trying to make out that politics it a science In the sense that as tronomy is a science Some polit ical scientists seem to think that there are scientific laws in poli tics that determine the events of history and that a knowledge of those laws will enable them an astronomer can predict an eclipse or the return of a comet Holding to such a view of his tory they naturally deny that there can he an epochmaking man Their position is thai there are social forces that govern the course of events- everything that happens is the result of what happened before If Lenin had not led the Bolsheviks to power someone else would have so runs their argument Professor Hook takes a mid dle ground He would not deny that circumstances set limits to what an individual can do Until the Czar was deposed Lenin was unable to do more than get himself into prison or exile Un der the Kaiser Hitler was a cor poral and would not have been heard of but for the defeat of Germany A Hitler or a Lenin who grew up In Guatemala might make himself a dictator but he could never hove rocked the world Hitler and Lenin did And neither Hitler nor Lenin nor anybody else could have made himself a dictator in Great Hi it Finally the wouldbe dictator must grasp the skirts of happy chance He must take advant age of any favoring circumstan ce A visitor the US speaking of the opportunit ies for the poor man pointed to a streetsweeper and remarked 1 suppose that man might be come President some day Ills host took a brief look and said No he will never be President He docs not sweep ivilh wind Hitler and Lenin each made skilful use of a philosophy or ideology that was already very popular in his country Hit ler adopted Hegels ideas of mil itarism nationalism and wor ship of the state Lenin adopted Marxs ideas of class warfare and promised Peace bread and the land They both knew en ough to sweep with the wind After all qualifications are made however the fact remains that Hitler and Lenin did make history Professor Hook shows that the Bolshevik Revolution was the work of Lenin in the sense that without I emu no such revolution would have taken place It is important to show that individuals can shape history especially when our countries arc so large that the Individual is all too likely to feel that noth ing he can do will make tiny dif ference The fatalistic theories to predict political events just as The state is the servant not the muster of the people the state is their 9 guarantee against infringement on their rights their agent in and national issues it is not the function of the state to assume the of those activities which rest on individual choice found out how to make people listen to election talk It was through Slim Bliggens of course I was sitting around the off ice busy Tuesday and Slim was rambling on about this and that and how the election was going in East which is part of Bast riding Folks in Corners and in the aint im pressed at all said Slim- Nest time you and me should run After all these elect ion campaigns years weve learned enough about what do and what not to do that we could make a clean sweep You could go on ore tiokeet and me on the other Then we could split the stipend whichever got elect ed Im sort of busy I said not paying much attention to the corespondent from Cuttin Cor ners What they dont seem to re- in the riding is that lacal issues is still important They on about vague ores which dont inspire the people at all continued Slim For example Im concerned about the in the creek So why shouldnt this he of con cern to the candidates Look at the wanton waste of our natur al resources here and there by the bestial habits of mankind dumpin raw sewage into our creeks the few beauty spots we have left Besides the local Bottled Sparkling Water factory would do a lot better if it got its water from a creek which was puri fied by a good sewage disposal plant It aint that outside trade could be increased But local people dont drink the stuff Finding myself listening I looked up to gathered around in a circle Engraver Egad Cyclops Urchin the printer Kletchcioffsky the advertising man Ra coon and all the others listen ing intently Slim stepped up on a shipp ing crate What we need is a what will take a real live interest in these here issues cried mouth fell open and he nodded approval Slim pointed a sharp at Abie the When did you last catch a trout in TwoMile Creek demanded Slim Five years ago said Abie There you have it Mans gleet has ruined the Thats socalled progress for you said Slim We need some thing done about it Right cried Urchin carr ied away by Slims gathering oratory Right joined in all the oth ers And if elected Id sure that was done about it We call this countryside our prized jewel full of natural re sources for the common man I say lets give it back to the com mon man in its natural state that he can catch more fish Slim said Hooray cried everybody See how easy it is Its true that you can still make people listen Slim says that all a candidate has to do is dwell on something that is close to the hearts of the people he is talking to It really is too bad that Slim isnt a can didate by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inch es which Hook refutes add to that feeling of helplessness If you leach a people that human ef fort has no effect on history you will produce a people that will make no effort Why struggle if all struggle is fruitless The result will be that social will go unremedied until some Hitler or Lenin comes along and rides to power by promising to remedy them Democracy may not need her oes in the old sense Indeed an effective democracy puts limits on what any great man can do A leader in a democracy cannot go too far ahead of his people or he will find himself without a following and will be unable do anything People like Len in or Stalin who turn their corn- tries upside down must be dic tators We do not want heroes or Great Men of that type What we do need is millions of citizens who will demonstrate a little heroism or just a small amount of greatness enough to work faithfully at bumble tasks enough to sacri fice a little time or pleasure or money to make their society a little better And since this is April let us add enough public spirit to make out an honest in come tax return The small group relatively so anyway among farmers who are breeding purebred livestock have been having quite a time these last few years After a ra ther profitable period after the war years the situation has now swung around the other way and today while the average cattle may sell better than last year or the year before the same difference is not very no ticeable in purebred registered sales of the socaned high quality Since there is a considerable amount of effort and money in vested hi these operations and since it is an important part of agricultural economics it is ra ther interesting to dwell on the reasons for this state of affairs Let us not forget that in this country and on the whole of the North American continent the breeding and improvement of livestock Is still in the hands of the private breeder who will for reasons of his own and mostly for the pleasure of it breed and improve livestock He is the one who spends his money to try and achieve the right combination of heredi tary characteristics which when spread out all over the country will benefit all owners of cattle grade or purebred The Institution of research and learning and extension depart ments will help by providing statistical services and counsell ing and some facilities But all their work or mast of it is still using the material as provided by the purebred men We can only see two reasons why the purebred business Is in the dump today One is that when a man buys much over utilitarian value in otherwords when he pays a lot of money he is doing so because he feels that some day somebody will come to his barn and pay an equally large price tor the off spring He doesnt see why this shouldnt be this way After all he himself has done this very thing The trouble with this line of thinking Is that it is the same philosophy as chain letters and we have yet to hear of one that worked In the good days of the live stock business this was the main selling point and the sooner we do away with it the better it will be It is false in almost all cases since would eventually involve the whole livestock community in a huge snowballing promotional pro gram one that would divert the whole business from its basic purpose of creating better and more profitable livestock One might argue to let the buyer but this Is a ra ther weak defense and a much more sane attitude should be a frank admission that there is no royal road to success in it that sale prices are in no way connected with value and that unless a man gets value for his money the amount paid is Im material The other reason for the pres ent day slump and we are not saying that it exists in all breeds equally nor that it has no exceptions is of course that in many cases the purebred breeder didnt deliver the goods as represented The packaging was there the wrapping the tinsel and the seals but some times the contents didnt meas ure up to expectations Eventu ally there was even some con fusion as to what was the pack age and what was the content- We firmly believe that good purebred stock is worth more today than it ever was man can buy a bull that will give him through its offspring pounds more milk a year or increase his income by per cow per year then if he keeps milking cows this bull is theoretically worth per year plus the bulls value on the market If the bull will breed for him for five years then he could be a good in vestment at several thousand dollars and if he proves through some means that he will add other characteristics there is just no limit on Us value The same is true tor a great cow that will produce eight lactations of say 10000 pounds of milk It is up to the purebred fra ternity to get the confidence of its buyers back not through more promotion ami more bal lyhoo but by more proof more performance and a more exten sive use of the tools provided by the research institutions Cooperative Effort M irror Of World Opinion To insure that scientists the world around coordinate their experiments one of the worlds greatest com plexes ever put together for the service of science has been set up at Fort The structure in which it is housed is anything but imposing but from this building beginning July and for months warnings and information will be sent out to scientists in all parts of the world It is one of the nerve centers of the interna tional geophysical year From there scientists will be alerted to look for unusual ac tivity in cosmic rajs Northern lights earth magn earth satellite and on the say- so of the man in charge scien tists will send up highpressure sounding balloons launch ins trumentpacked rockets into the ionosphere and conduct numer ous other experiments In test ing the equipment more than nations reported receipt of messages from the Fort Belvoir center When the tests and experi ments get under way July I we will be seeing of the great est explorations ever conducted by man a cooperative effort to add a few more facts to our very limited knowledge our earth and it to the uni verse Journal