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j i Editors Notebook Newmarkets centennial sou venir booklets toon to be on sale will feature rare pictures of the past including photos of Main St when Sir John A MacDonald visited the village in the laying of the Method ist United church cornerstone and community leaders of past and present There arc numerous article and pictures about the town which will make interesting reading Jack Luck in charge of pub lication has announced that the price for the 130page book will be 125 per copy not SI as an nounced earlier The per cent sales tax on cost of publishing was overlooked in earlier sales plans and additional material has been used in the book For these reasons the price change has been made Those who al ready have ordered books and paid in advance will not be ask ed for the additional money The Newmarket swimming From the Files of pool in f few benches far swimmers and spec tators the poo re port Anyone who wishes to contribute a bench Is call Mr Stun Smith or Mr Keith Davis The donors name will be in scribed on the back the bench A member of the com mitter makes the subtle hint that the donation would be worth the advertising tor any business man Around Newmarket people have been collecting antique items for displays during the centennial celebrations August to IS Town Clerk Wesley Brooks has an ancient bow and arrow Dr Lowell Hewitt has some old items including a pipe of peace Mr Carl Gable has some old fashioned shoes These items and others pro vided by local people will be shown at the antique museum at the Newmarket library build ing and 50 Years Ago Years Ago July 22 Miss Anna Lewis daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Lewis received information from the University of Toronto Council that she has been awarded a bursary of for the year Miss Lewis first class honor in the first year of the Household Ec onomics course She is to be congratulated in having won this distinction Mr and Mrs and Postmaster Cane spent a couple of days this week in Muskoka near Bala and visited the huckleberry grounds Mr Boyer of Buffalo also Mr and Mrs S and children of Toronto last Sunday night with the letters aunt Mrs Mr and Mrs Carl of Toronto are leaving tomorrow for Lakes to visit Mr sisters Mrs Lash and Mrs at their summer homes on Lake Joseph Mr and Mrs K of Muskegeon Mich visited at the latter parents Mr and Mrs Miner of over the weekend Mr and Mrs Norman Good win visited at the McMillan cot tage Island Grove on Wednes day Mr A Hanson hap re turned from New Brunswick where she has been spending several weeks visiting her mother and sisters Mr and Mrs Robert Howled also Mr and Mrs A of Toronto spent Sunday at Tor rance Miss Lula of Lake spent a few days with her aunt Mrs Thomas Cronin Mr and Mrs Traviss and Jim of Ottawa returned home last Saturday after spend ing their holidays with their parents Mr and Mrs George Mussel I have returned after spending a few holidays with Mr and Mr J Ward of Oshawa at their cottage on Lake Miss Clara Kirby Stark is In spending the holi days with her aunt Mrs Sher man Mr and Mrs from Richmond Hill spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Charles Messrs Alex and Frank Hodge arc enjoying a few holi days on Georgian Bay Mrs Jas Douglas and son left last week for the Old Country to visit her home in Ireland Years Ago July Stores Close Thursday After noon On account of the lacrosse match here on Thursday after noon of next week the stores have all agreed to keep open on Wednesday and close on Thursday afternoon so that the employees can see the match This change is for the one week only The Davis Leather Co are putting through the tannery over hides a day and find such a difficulty in keeping a supply on hand that an order was given last week for hides to be shipped from the old country One wonders where all the leather goes to and yet the output is all consumed in Ontario and Quebec The strawberry festival held in the new rink under the auspices of the ho ckey club was the most enjoy able feature of this years en tertainments An ideal night a splendid location and a good concert largely contributed to the evenings enjoyment The Canning ton brass band gave several lively selections The night illumination of the might torrent at Niagara Falls Is now assured and the propos ed plan for lighting the mist and water is unquestionably a great feet in electrical illumination The falls bathed in electric light will have new grandeur employs a dog catcher now for all curs not tagged Since adopting this system the amount of dog faxes has In creased from to Bet ter try it in Newmarket Miss is home from Minneapolis on her annual vacation The Misses were the guests of Mrs Watson at their cottage near Morton Park over Sunday Mrs George Smith and her sister Mrs Shaw of daughters of the late James Burns of Newmarket were here for Decoration Day and visited Mrs A Starr Mr Will Wright took a par ty of gentlemen out for a spin on Lake in his gasoline yacht on Wednesday Miss Gertie and her sisterinlaw Mrs of To ronto are visiting their cousins Misses Mr W K Jackson who has been all over the North West Provinces during the past two months making magnetic ob servations for the Toronto ob servatory got home on Wednes day MIDLAND TO HOST SUMMER SKI JUMP Just the spot for this Siberian husky King Is Midland Ont Canadaa first summer ski competition will King and bathing Helen machine dumps a of snow the Midland hills in weather the meet opens Ho tons of snow will cover the ski jump one of the largest the world Crack Olympic US and Canadian Jumpers will in the meet I a and press and rural districts of North York Office Cat Reports Catnips By Gingei A little nonsense now and then relhhtd the The Newmarket Era The Express Herald every Tnvraday at Chart St by Use Era and Express Limited Subscription for two years for one year in advance Single copies are If each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly N Association and the A adit Bureau of Circulations Authorised as Second Class Mall Pout Office Dep Ottawa John Struthera Managing Editor Caroline Ion Womens Editor George Haakett Sport Editor Lawrence Raeine Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE TWENTYFIFTH DAY OF JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN IS COUNCIL ABOVE THE LAW As a functioning body the Newmarket town coun cil has reached a new low on the Eagle St question In spite of the recent efforts of Councillors Knapton and to encourage the use of logic the council has decided that it is above its own laws It was decided to permit a liquor store to be built on St in an area covered by a restriction bylaw Bylaw 616 states that no commercial building is to be erected in the area Members tried to rationalize They said that councils of other years had contravened the same bylaw by per mitting the Bell Telephone Company and others to con struct commercial buildings in the area The only accept able argument was presented by Messrs Knapion and Choppin the fact that a law is broken once twice or often is no excuse for breaking it again It is encouraging to know that a group of resident have risen to protest councils action There are members of council who seem to think nothing of turning their backs on the interests of property owners who elect them A number of people built homes in the Eagle St area having faith in the towns laws They find now that council chooses to act above the law and is not interested in enforcing legal protection which they had a right to expect It is incredible that our town council seems to be getting away with it We join the and District Ratepayers association in expressing our dismay Mayor is quoted as saying The people voted that they wanted a liquor store in town nd council feels that that is the best site What a ridiculous state ment What connection has the liquor vote with the issue of contravening a restrictive bylaw Does the mayor mean that the council can do no wrong Is he implying that the people brought it on themselves because they voted for the liquor store Or is he suggesting that council feels doing something which could mean breaking its own laws that the people of the community would cower in their little homes and say nothing What ever the mayor meant no sense can be located in the statement he made Monday MAYBE WE NEED A NEW REEVE When Town Clerk Wesley Brooks said Monday night that the reeve of Newmarket needs glasses perhaps he could have used stronger terms Perhaps he could have said that Newmarket needs a new reeve But as Mr Brooks is an employee of the town of Newmarket of course it is not his place to make such a statement If Reeve continues to perform the way he did Monday night this newspaper will he prepared to re- commend a new reeve for the town and by December of probably it will make the recommendation anyway If there were a genuine purpose in Reeve Wright- man continuing to imply that there have been wrong do ings in the clerks office this newspaper mould have been reporting a big story long before this Mr Wright- mans McCarthylike campaign in local politics is merely creating suspicion among members of council the em ployees of the town and the electors In addition it is do ing no good for the Office Specialty firm Mr Brooks has been clerk of the town for many years This writer has known him for years and is pre pared to stand behind him during this ridiculous attack which the reeve has made against him A member of the staff of this newspaper inspected the assessment books this week and found that the Office Specialty had been assessed at not reduced to as the reeve suggested Not only that the firm had paid its taxes on the on June 15 People take little in the reeves accusations because there are no grounds for them It is understand able that no one should become excited about his charges But it will be hardly understandable if the electors of Newmarket do not become concerned about this man whom they have allowed to become the number two repre sentative of the town of Newmarket We cannot see what his motive is the reeve has not answered the challenge to put up or shut up We strongly doubt that he has the evidence to put up or the decency to shut up This leaves us no choice but to question his motives Having observed the reeves entrance into town poli tics and his performance in the past few years we would certainly be inclined to uphold the case fdr the town clerk This issue has no connection with a recent court case concerning the assessor That case was settled and the charge against the assessor was dismissed We do not understand why other members of council Mayor Glad- man in particular have failed to protect Mr Brooks from the reeves abuse We feel that now is the time for all con cerned totakc a stand where the principle of justice and decency is at stake WHITTLED DOWN Inflation has dropped purchasing power of the Can adian dollar about in the last nine years estimates The Financial Post Compare this with drop for US currency for West Germany for the UK 55 for Japan over the same period OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by HARVEY THE WORLD IS NOT RULED BY ECONOMICS When Marx and wrote the Communist Manifesto in thought that they had discovered the key that was to unlock the secrets of history En- gel later that Marxs Econ omic Interpretation was destined to do for history what Darwins theories had done for biology It was going to make history scientific According to thai theory the laws morals politics and relig ion of every society are deter mined by the mode of product ion distribution of wealth And every important change in history is the result of a change in the economic base The communists hold to the Economic Interpretation partly because they also hold an opti mistic view of the world and of human nature They hold that human nature is essentially good but has been corrupted by in stitutions that all the sin and suffering of the world today is due to capitalism and will cease once the world has become com munist That is why communists so long and so stoutly denied that evils existed in the Soviet Union Now that the truth has been admitted by Khruschev the communists are forced back on the argument that it takes time for the new institutions of com munism to their efforts on character Stalin and hi hench men had their characters form ed and warped by the evil institutions of days After another generation of commun ism everything will be differ ent Communists believe that the economic system determines all aspects of society They be lieve that communism is the per fect economic system They are therefore quite logical in believ ing that the only sensible goal to work for is the establishment of communism Believing also that morality grows naturally out of the economic system the communists stop at nothing in their efforts to achieve and maintain communism They con- elude that it cannot make any difference how much perfidy cruelly or slaughter is involved in the process Unfortunately for communist theory not one of their assumpt ions is true The idea thai man is nat urally good and bean by institutions is a piece of romantic nonsense out of place in the mechanistic athe istic view of the universe which communist hold- In their phil osophy there Is no more reason to expect man to be good than to expect goodness from mon keys or As Prank Knight says Man Is a soc ial animal a product of history All thai is good in him is a re flection of social discipline And it is simply not true to say that the economic system determines all aspects of life There have always been other factors moral and religious that have had their influence In primitive societies probably economic and military factors were the most poweiful Since Marx wrote economic factors have progressively lost influence and ideological forces have steadily gained The history of our lime can be understood only in terms of conflicts of ideas Three ideas imperialistic nationalism revol utionary communism and dem ocratic have made the history of the last cen tury These ideas have been very largely the work of three men Hegel Marx and John Stuart Mill Hegel created the idea which If realised in Nasi Germany Marx created the idea realized in Russia Mill created the democratic realized in Britain progress ive statesmen from Lloyd Geo rge to il i- in and nationalism essentially philosophies of con flict railing for conquest or even annihilation of the nation al or class enemy And the pra ctice of slaughtering opponents quite naturally carries over in to domestic politics The purges slave camp and torture chamb ers of the dictatorships are the natural fruit of theories that re gard slaughter as the normal road to improvement shows its force in the growth of legislat ion favoring the underprivileg ed In domestic politics it has produced the Welfare State In international relations it has led to the progressive emancipation of colonial peoples and massive schemes of relief and rehabili tation for the benefit of our de feated enemies contrast between our to our enemies ami the comm unist exploitation of both their enemies and their nominal friends in the satellites is not to be explained by assuming that we are morally superior to the Russians It is the natural of the difference in pol itical systems Dictators are always in dread of being overthrown They are therefore constantly concerned about increasing their power and weakening or destroying enemies Democracy by contrast is as says The political expression of The conclusion is clear Our world is ruled by ideas not by economies The state the servaont not the mauler of the people the state is their infringement on their riahtt their agent in international it it not the funetion of the state to assume the ion of those whieh rest on individual men Anon Our friend at and Davis Drive who calls him self Thimbleberry has writ ten us a letter Apparently he has been aroused by our expec tations that they will rename Lane and Bolton Ave to Longford Lane and Walter Avenue Our friend thought he lived in Newmarket All the time he has been living in East township The follow ing is our friends letter Deer Ginger Ann Haint you got no respect for hisstorikal sights and monuments Youre running grate risk when you suggest to them who makes bylaws like that in the Chamber of Commerce made and they mite hash up things by using the names you for Lane and Bolton Avenue Them ones I mean might not much about Canadian history you point out to them they dont do no altering Tell them Lane is a his torical sight where them Yam were chased bolting down the next street only when they named the street Bolton they spelt it wrong not being as educated as you and wrote Bolton of Bolting Avenue Do your darnedest to save ancient monuments and histori- sights There w a s an erroneous re port made around town recently that Newmarket was founded years ago by moonshiners Our editorial advisor Slim gens said he heard that was the reason thev built railway up here from York Undoubtedly von now know full well that Newmarket was founded by those hard up standing tillers of members of well bred -n- stock who formed foun dation of this fine pear of a community we live in today I said to this week Well that there air entire ly right said Slim Isnt entirely right asked Well as them hardy tillers of the that came in along the west bonk of the Holland River them moon shiners came in on Hie east bank And its just to av was the most important as far as the economy of day was concerned Slim said Id certainly like to check these facts first with historical records I said It took hardy pioneers to grow the grain for them moon shiners products and still har dier pioneers to consume the products And this happy com bination made a self community of that day Slim maintained Well I think we all know our Canadian history better than you do and we most cer tainly are well assured that things didnt happen like that I countered I read that some of them old time politicians always kept a bucket of that stuff bo- side the election platform with a dipper in it It maybe was made near Newmarket said Slim Preposterous I said Thats pure propaganda probably star ted by Aurora or maybe Holland Landing dont believe it and neither will anybody else by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches Yes chuckwagon races are great fun to watch and while it is a strange sight for a paleface Easterner it has the abandon of an honest dont give darn about it and we can assure you that either providence has a special dispensation for rider or driver or else they can afford some insurance rates that would curl your hair The stampede has everything lake swimming that the CNE has and then some It hafl lady wrestlers a midway and sideshow that takes a couple of railroad trains to move a copy of an old fort Indian teepees with the horses tied right out side of them and rhinos in a trailer which you can see for cents It also has the best operated and meticulously clean cafeter ia for the men who look after the cattle and showers which with all due respect to the are better disigncd and built than the dormitory at the Last but not least it has people and people to come and see the cattle The Sunday before the stam pede opens the doors arc thrown open and everybody gets in free a smart and very profitable idea On that day we have seen more people through the cattle barn than on a big day at the ONE or winter fair Of course the people having a taste for it will come back After all a weeks fair will draw twice the population of the city which with all the visitors must mean people going more than once This would mean in Toronto in two weeks an attendance of close to six million After we left the Stampede we headed up to Edmonton by and with all due respect to its Toronto offices which are very efficient these are just a shade better when you get out West We actually were advised by them thai the plane would be la minutes late leaving some thing not done often down here Edmonton and Its environs made a different story There were Stetson and no fancy clothes but it is a sober and clean town at this time of the year There is just a light streak on the Northern horizon all night long The air is clear and there are huge office and apartment buildings going up although there is an odd vegetable patch and potato field in what appear ed lo us to be still in town There are new bypasses am expressways around town and we saw some hornet on a hillside on the highway north we werent suppos ed to be there but lost our way I that we later found out to bo to homes We headed out way that evening and this name is now symbol and even a shrine of what happened to the West in the last 10 to 12 years Thro ugh we went to a farming area where we had some friend and acquaintances and some cows we have bred It is Park land country there some of it flat and a bit marshy interrupt ed by scrub willow and poplar bush an odd lake and fields of grain and summer fallow It is cold country where peo ple have to put pipes nine feet underground to get under the frost line and where it can get below zero for consecutive days when the winter really op ens up Everything was green when we were there There had been one of those showers a couple of days before and it quite that we saw country at its very best The crops looked very promis ing the cattle looked Very well and people were relaxed and contented looking They were going to start haying the week after that To be continued SHOOTS PLAYFUL BRUIN of BrunetvOl ntax downed this bear when It was within a foot of an elderly bear had come out of the bush and joined a group of children at play When they realised bruin among than leaving the bear to paw through a gttbagt When the charged a police Inspector with the forest son Guy right was Inches el toe bear a