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I Pages from the tors Notebook Herbert M Gladman visited our office last week in dicating that he objected to an editorial statement we made last week as follows We do not understand why other mem bers of council Mayor Gladman in particular have failed to pro tect Mr Brooks from the reeves abuse If you have been following the reports on Reeve Edward ventures into space during recent council meetings you will know what we meant The mayor wanted us to know that during the recent assess ment case he and the town so licitor did everything within their power to protect clerk We agree with Mayor Gladman that the clerk was Riven legal protection although we are inclined to believe that he need ed it Our editorial point concerned political protection in a sense that is protection from the un necessary political attacks by a member of council namely Reeve Mayor Gladman told ui that he cannot stop the reeve talking That is true Thf reeve From the Files of has the right to talk during the council meetings But as editor of this paper we repeat that we will stand behind the clerk against the reeves attacks Our references to Mayor were impersonal of course as all our editorial statements must be We like the mayor as a person and believe that he will put justice and principles first in his municipal endeavors Ne vertheless personal matters do not prevent us from crUicIting anyones policies on public mat ters Our strong comments about Reeve too were about the reeve not about the Mr outside the realm of public affairs In a small town editorials munici pal crises and news stories con cern people the editor sees ev ery day possibly his neighbor Let it be known that the pos sibility of having a neighbor wont to him or the possibility of losing a friend does not influence what this editor writes The newspaper what it stands for must come first Thats our job Upmarket and Stress Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York MEMBER NEWSPAPER The Newmarket Era The Express Herald 25 and 50 Years Ago Tears Ago July Mr Frank of Mrs M Goslett is visiting here this week having just returned from a two years course in the University of Edinburgh Scot land where he obtained his de gree of PhD being one of the only two successful candidates in a large class Mrs Gordons Lamb of God and daughter Mis teaches Spanish in the Toronto University motor ed to sec Mrs John Jackson grandmother of the latter on their way home from Montreal where they have been on a weeks vacation Mrs Madge Duff and daugh ter of Winnipeg who have been summering at Orchard Beach have been calling on relatives and friends in Newmarket Mrs has returned to her home on the corner of Mill ard Ave and Niagara after a months visit with rolatives in Tottenham and Bolton Mrs Ken Robertson is sum mering at the cottage Island Grove Lake Mr and Mrs Dennis have returned home after spending two weeks at Beaver ton Miss A Greenwood of Hall spent Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs T Sanderson Mrs Turner and niece who have just arrived from England are visiting the formers sister Mrs Lovelock for two months when she will return to Eng land Mr Gray of Concord and brother Mr Cray of Kenton Man are vis iting their sister Mrs A and old friends for a couple of weeks Miss Marion Main of Keswick is visiting with Miss of Newmarket for a few weeks Mr and Mrs of Toronto spent Sunday with the formers parents Mr and Mrs Fred A Lundy Mrs M Nelson of town and Miss Nelson Toronto spent last week Cottage Big Cedar Point Mr Fred Cross scoutmaster of Scouts also Mr George Williams assistant left on Tuesday morning for a two weeks camp taking hoys The boys wish to thank those who so kindly donated supplies SO Years Ago Aug The tennis tour nament between beton and was won by They won both the mixed doubles and mens doubles New Fall and Winter Fabrics The August number of the Wo mans Home Compion has some advance information on fall and winter styles Of the fabrics to be used Grace Margaret Gould the fashion editor says For the mannish tailormade suits hardfinished vorsteds will be used The new wor steds are medium in weight Their wearing qualities are above reproach and they come in the most fascinating array of stripes small broken and un broken checks plaids and plain colors In these materials stripes are the most in favor Serge will be much used as well as cheviot Cloth plaids promise to be less a rumored fashion and more a fact this fall and winter than for many a past season The dark blue serge tailormade costume will he extremely fashionable for fall wear with just a touch of plaid or orange cloth in the pipings on the folds of the skirt and the lapels and cuffs of the coat Mr Jack Scully who has been visiting in Newmarket during the past two weeks af ter an absence of six years left for his home in Kansas yester day He intends to spend a week at Chicago on his way Jack is an old Newmarket and appears to be doing well in Uncle Sams territory He re marked that there were great changes in Newmarket during his absence but he enjoyed his visit immensely Mrs A J McCaffrey and her sister Mrs Kennedy have re turned after spending a week with their mother in Markham Mrs Ballard and daughter-in- Mrs George Ballard all of are visiting at Mr Allan Howards Miss Clarice Is visit ing in Sudbury for a week the guest of her uncles Messrs W J and A Montgomery Mr Norman Smith son of Mr John Smith of left for Saskatchewan on Tues day with a threshing outfit BIG EQUIPMENT FOR BIG JOB Published every Thursday at 30 Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription for wo rears for one 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 Struthers Managing Editor Caroline Ion Womens Editor George Haskett Sports Editor Lawrence Racine Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE FIRST DAY OF AUGUST NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN IS COUNCILLOR KENT RETIRING According to Councillor Bert Kents performance at recent Newmarket council meetings it would seem that he is giving unofficial notice that he will not be seeking reelection next December Is Mr Kent purposely flinging derogatory comments in the direction of the and District ratepayers association This was his priceless statement to the association last week Id like to give those people five years free taxes It is the only way to satisfy them to keep their mouths shut Again this week he suggested that council build a monument for the members of the association In this newspapers opinion the association has rais ed logical questions about councils proposals to allow the construction of a liquor store in the Eagle St area The location contravenes an existing bylaw As for the area farther wrist on Eagle St there is a legal question whether or not it is restricted but the home owners there have good reasons for wanting restrictions They have made substantial investments in residential property and want to protect them An east side resident made the comment to the Era and Express this week that council should pay a little more attention to east side problems He that council was catering too much to subdivisions on the west side of town We side form a wideawake simil ar to the and District association mun icipal affairs shown by that be commend ed it should be added that its intnfeSQin activit ies are not confined to the disjunct alone If councillor Kent does intend to seek office again in he already has placed a good sized obstacle in his path It is obvious that the ratepayers will be against him In the first place his remarks were un reasonable Secondly they were insulting and in the third place they formed a sound basis for enforced itical retirement CANADIAN AIRCRAFT ACCLAIMED The public unveiling of fabulous new Iroquois jet engine was a very proud occasion for all Canadians says The Financial Post This- engine is everywhere re cognized as one of the greatest achievements in the whole world of aeronautics and it is an achievement by a Can adian company To A Roe Canada its management and its engineers our whole country will gladly extend its congratulations Actually the Canadian aircraft industry is quietly achieving an international importance that is not gener ally appreciated Currently aircraft and engines are one of Canadas chief exports of manufactured products This business adds up to a fabulous success story for the Can adian industry for the various managements who have had courage to press forward and for the technical men who have performed so many scientific and manu facturing wonders WHAT ABOUT AN ACCIDENT DOCTOR Residents of Newmarket have raised the question of emergency medical treatment for traffic accident vic tims The question is not a new one and probably has been discussed many times by local doctors Public con cern was aroused by an accident last week The driver of a car which struck a boy on Eagle St said he waited for minutes at the scene before police could obtain a doc tor The town council received a letter from ratepayers asking about an official plan covering medical and ambul ance service First we point out that the problem is a 1 matter No responsibility for emergency medical treat ment rests on the shoulders of medical people in private practice although doctors no doubt are among the most icioner has a great responsibility to his own patients works inner has a great responsibility to his own patients works long hours often to the detriment of his own health and has little time for leisure Doctors have received unfair criticism occasionally by the press and the public when there is news of an accident victim lying on the road for an hour without medical attention When a doctor cannot be obtained he is doing one of a number of things seeing patients at his office oper ating at the hospital making house calls or snatching a rare bit of time off When a doctor goes to the scene of an accident he might find that two other doctors al ready have been called by overly excited witnesses If he attends to an accident victim he might discover later that the victim has recovered and returned to his home in Medicine Hat without paying his bill Medical service for the public on the public high ways is a public responsibility That means that the pub lic should pay for the service if there were interns at York County hospital in Newmarket emergency medical service might be obtained easily But there are no train ing facilities for interns or for nurses at this hospital It seems to us that the only way emergency medical ser vice can Im provided is through taxes from Newmarket people or from a group of municipalities in the area According to the accident statistics we soon will reach I he point where the service is a public necessity Perhaps we have reached thai point now NOT THE FIRST REGATTA The Newmarket Legion is planning a regatta on liny Fairy Lake during the centennial celebrations August to Last week a news report described it as the first regatta to be held in Newmarket Local historian Mrs Ethel Trewhella notes that a regatta was held on the town pond in 1863 The main features were model ships perfect in every detail which were sailed in races Newmarket in the old days was a lively community with many sporting events and fairs being held OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by W HARVEY OVER POPULATION THE BASIC EVIL Ever since called to tin- of over population there have many people who have assumed thai the poverty of the masses was part of the natural order now there are many point to high birthrates in Asia and say that nothing will relieve poverty there that all our technical assistance pour ing money down the drain mer ely increasing the numbers of without raising them a hove the poverty level And of course they are right as long nothing is done to the birthrate But the birthrate can he educed According to Kan field Osborn author of Our Plundered Plan et the population density of Java is per square mile thai of tin Nile Delta figures tell US why the people are living in poverty In spite of the natural richness of the area The WN Demographic Year reports that present rates of giowth would double the pre sent world population by the year No foreseeable lease in production could sup port such a population above the level Industrial nations like support a dense population exporting manufacture in exchange for food but that sol ution obviously cannot be ap plied to the whole world Most inventions and improvements in methods of production are labor- saving that is they permit a given number of people to culti vate amounts of land which raises Jiving standards as long as there is an abundance of land What is needed is landsaving devices devices that will incre ase output per acre No de vices which will do much in that direction are in sight certain ly none that would rescue Java or Egypt fiom poverty The vaunted Aswan Dam would take care of the increase of Egypts population for five at the present miserable lev el There are of course many ar eas like Ihe jungles of which might be made to pro- dure food likewise there are gains to be made by improved farming methods but Out total effect of such gains is negligible compared with the need The national income now high enough to eliminate poverty in thai country Now what is necessary to enable the whole world to reach that goal Some indication is given the fact that the Us with of worlds population half of the worlds raw materials If anyone thinks the Id Is not suffering from over population let him tell us ex actly how he proposes to in crease the worlds output of raw materials eight fold And after he has told us that let him tell us what he suggests for the fut ure Even at present of consumption many materials will he critically scarce by end of this century Plastics made from plants may replace metals in many uses but every acre used to giow the raw mat erials foi plastics reduces the rapacity to produce food Limit ation of population is only available remedy for The one really serious charge hat the colonial people can tightly make again the West is thai we have done nothing to heck population growth It has been a sin of omission but a sin Overpopulat ion and the icsultini poveity are just as had in countries tuch as Indonesia and India us they are in countries that have not had benefits of rule Eur opeans In French Africa pov erty has increased during period of European rule not because Ihe French have exploit ed the people but because popu lation growth has not been checked Indeed it has been French medical skill that has re duce deathrale ami there by caused the population grow th Colonial peoples prnhahly ev en without communist agitation are to believe that their pov is due to exploitation by West That belief is now largely mistaken but il Still hostility towards the West ami wins recruits for commun ism That hostility is increased by our immigration restrictions which although necessary to protect our living standards al ways look like racial discrimin ation That Christians should control something of a paradox The central teaching of Christ was chanty helping the poor How then can any Christians oppose the only effective methods of al leviating the sufferings of hu manity The grounds on which that opposition is based are not convincing It is said that birth is unnatural Well wear clothes is unnatural reading books is unnatural in short civilisation is unnatural Any way Christians do not worship nature worship God Let us tackle problems of poverty and racial hostility ser iously by attacking the princi pal cause overpopulation pipeline the St- Lawrence seaway project on schedule with some of the worlds biggest construction busing end of bucket dredge St Francis channel t ugh to scoop up a fair sized bungalow content a The state in nut the matter of people state is their infringement on their right their agent in international ami fuituinal nunc it not the function of the to the direct ion of those activities which rest on individual choice Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger nonscnsr now relished the men Anon Whenever the boss gets to philosophizing about ways of the world the iniquities of men and councils or the best meth od for running a shop it is us ually about coffee time Every one in the shop is there and he cant resist an audience This particular day he was preaching the virtues of consist ency Half the grief in this world Is caused by people who set a course but dont follow it to its logical conclusion he announc ed These side trips back tracks and turn arounds are all time wasting characteristic of the man He was evidently giving this topic more consideration than most for his spoon was describ ing slow deliberate circles in his coffee cup not the little jerks and hops he uses when he isnt listening to what he is saying The boss doesnt care for cof fee but the action of stirring has a soothing effect on his thought processes He for nine min utes and then drinks it in a gulp and makes a face He could throw it out but he hates waste loo much The spoon is really necessary He can no more expound with out cofffce to stir than a rather functional kitchen implement becomes a thing of grace and expression Just to show you what I mean he said waving the spoon which meant he was dead serious Im going to tackle that pile of work on my desk and Im not going to be interrupted for anything I dont want any com ments questions or interruptions until noon no matter what the subject is Cyclops started to comment as usual taking his text from Plato hut the boss cut him off with the remark that if butted in hed find that hed have plenty of time on his hands to investi gate any other philosophers that he happened to miss the first time He charged back to his desk fortified with his resolution and tore into the stack of work He kept the pace up for about half an hour and two cigarettes and was sitting there staring at the wall and drumming his fingers on the typewriter while he mar shalled his thoughts The smoke from the cigarette began to drift into his eye so he tossed it impatiently into ash tray which because of its over loaded condition rejected the new offering The butt rolled off the desk and dropped onto the pile of exchange papers on the floor Cyclops opened his mouth to inform him of the fate of the wayward butt The boss glanced up and growled in the back of his throat the way of a dog dots when hes chewing a bone and a strange dog wanders into view Cyclops shrugged and settled back to watch A large red coal began to glow beside the bosss chair The papers were still tightly wrapped so they didnt blaze up just simmered along He began to sweat and muttered something about the crazy wea therman missing the boat again and promising cooler weather but he didnt look up from his typewriter A tendril of smoke worked its way up and his nostrils began to twitch Then he got it It was hard ot say who or what was hotter the boss or the fire Cyclops tried to stem the flow with some comments on the vir tues of consistency but he was shouted down Thats trouble with you characters roared the boss as he examined the scorch marks on his pants Youre all literal minded After this you do what I mean instead of what I say by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches Farming of course very different out West gel a few more extra miles out of the subject Farming is a very loose term and covers anything from sitting on the verandah and watching oranges ripen which the Coop will pick and crate and send a cheque for to carry ing manure up the hillside on a mans back to spread on the hilly pastures of Switzerland But even in our own Canad ian sense things are different out West We are of course re ferring to the parkland area we have visited and which will someday be a mixed farming economy under the prodding of the wheat surplus and in crease in the population of the provinces of oil and one thing buildings are nonexistent in Ontario sen se of the word We have seen cows we knew and milked pre viously in a shack that was a- feel wide It consisted of twobyfour studding cover- with half inch lumber The insulation in the winter time is the frost and cows of course no the well to drink in this case the socalled better buildings would only classify as frame barns here and yet with all the discomfort it has to be ami all the hardship that man and beast bus to put Up with these cows are healthy produc ing and probably dome really a hade better than ours do here We have seen HOP record sheets showing an even to WOO lbs production mouth for Guer nseys which with the heavier fust two months production will make a lbs record for months Remember this is done on oats bought locally for W cents a bushel No wheat bought cents and even if the calves should have some arti ficial heal to get away from the dampness coming off the frost laden walls Coal can be bought at the minehead for yes you read it right per ton It is indeed a very different world and the backbone of it in the parkland area is the soil black and crumbly a lot of just broken ami no as yet min ed out where the hay and the grain have or must have some thing that our soils are inn lired to produce We keep mentioning these cows we have sold out there hut they constitute a measurinR stick we can use They all can ted calves when they went out there by bulls that sired calves here as well While it is very tricky compare animals for size when they arent side by side we will stick our necks out and say that they were just a shade huskier and belter boned than our own here This was even more noticeable for animals that went out as op en heifers and put in One gel acclimatized before calved They are milking well and they learned to sleep in the snow or in tin- bush and the hardiness of our chosen breed was a factor noted by all fanners we met We do not want to go on and mi with this enthusiasm alt bas ed on the experiences of a very short trip Hut we do feel that a trip West has a way of putting things in their right proportions and right places It lust could he barely could he that in that pan of the country there is a sound relation between pric es costs of production coal of necessary building and rewards of all of it than here Ontario Ami all iiid primitive roughing if either The man with whom we stayed and who has no buildings to speak of Hit jus I finished a really good house for 5000 no electricity or tele phone also had the high AH hi for the province of Alberta two years ago We are wondering if all this would be as much a next generation of young farmers OS il was to then lath ers FOR SAFE DRIVING SKILL Trip London for Canadas second as obviously a profitable one this ml trio Winner of the stiff of Woodstock flanked by David Wright runnerup from Victoria and John Seaton left of Gait Ont A team of safety experts teenagers through a rigid test of driving road written examinations attitude tests and personal IntervUws