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The Newmarket Era ana Express Thursday Dec We Say Let Us Add MOLASSES To Your Feeds because Molasses increases digestibility of hay up to 24 Molasses increases digestibility of grains up to 14 We are pleased to announce that we can now DELIVER BULK FEEDS T DISTRICT COOP PHONES AND TV Do you know that BELLS CORNER RESTAURANT IS BACK TO OLD MANAGEMENT and We are pleased to inform you that in ADDITION TO OUR REGULAR MENU we now serve daily many new freshly prepared meals giving you a wide choice to suit your taste Our daily specials SUNDAYS by the crackling fireplace Roast Roast Chicken lilac Pickerel Breaded Shrimps Hungarian Beef Goulash Week days flaked pork chops in sauerkraut Creamed Chicken Buddie Chicken Scalloped potatoes with pork chops or sausages Irish Stew Filet of Sole Meat Pies Hungarian Beef Goulash Spaghetti with meat or Sausages Macaroni with cheese Baked beans with sausages Every day home made soap and FRESH ROAST BEEF For dessert also a choice of French pastry delicious APPLE STRUDEL Winter Closing hours pm Saturday J am Yours sincerely FRANK FRIDAY SATURDAY 2 BIG FEATURES LOVE MARTIN In kind of virile violent vengeful MONDAY TUESDAY Only the British can make this kind of film epic THE EXCITING TRUE STORY Of THE RAID OH THE ISIE Of CRETE IN MAY DIRK BOGARDE III MET BY MOONLIGHT GORING DAVID CYRIL CUSACK Police Magistrates And Their Powers Text of a talk broadcast on TransCanada by I Gotdenberg Saskatoon lawyer and parttime magistrate Magistrates play a major role n the administration of criminal in our country It has my privilege to have acted a magistrate on several occa sions This has made me acutely of some defects in the system It is about these that I want to talk The powers of magistrates have been extended until there ire very offences that they try These exceptions include such major crimes as murder manslaughter rape treason and a few others As for the remaining offences our law divides them into two groups There is a group of of- that a magistrate can try without the consent of the ac cused then there is another roup that a magistrate may try with the consent of the ac cused You will appreciate how great the powers of magistrates are when I tell you that they may sentence a person to life im prisonment and to be whipped and that the only punishment by law which they can not impose is that of the death penalty In fact the power of a magis trate in trying a case is greater that of a superior court presiding at a jury trial A judge sitting with a jury in structs the jury on the law and sentence if the jury finds the accused guilty but he has no power to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused On the other hand a magistrate try ing a case is the judge of the law and of the facts determines the guilt or innocence of the ac cused and the sentence to be imposed right of trial by jury has been curtailed and there are now a long list of offences that are triable by a magistrate only These changes have resulted in transferring the bulk of the criminal trials to magistrates In the last year for which official statistics are available namely over 94 per cent of all criminal cases tried in Canada were tried by magistrates Out of cases tried magis trates tried some and all other courts tried the other cases Now in addition to these criminal cases involving serious there were also nearly 2000000 other charges involving minor offences tried before magistrates or justices of the peace Many of these so called minor offences carry with them punishment by way of imprisonment and the of the right a car Such a sent ence often results in the loss of the means of earning a living One of the fundamental prin ciples of our law is the right of personal liberty However have we in our everyday affairs plac ed the same protection around our personal liberties as we have around our property What is more important personal lib erty or property illus trate what I mean by giving just one example A person who while intoxi cated drives a car and causes damage to another for say is subject to both criminal and civil liability For his criminal act he may be tried by a justice of the peace not even a magis trate If convicted he may be sent to jail for 30 days and de prived of the to operate a car anywhere in Canada for as long a period as three years Such a sentence may cause the convicted person a financial loss of thousands of dollars AH this can be done by a jus tice of the peace who need not have any training or qualifica tions whatsoever beyond being a person of good reputation On the other hand when it comes to be determined whether the same person should pay damages that he has caused to another by his drunken driving that question must be decided by a judge of our higher courts who is a highly trained and qualified individual Does this make sense I think that there is something radically wrong with the entire system of administering criminal justice when the liberty of the subject is entrusted into the hands of men or women who are not even called judges although they have in some respects great er power than judges I cannot judge the quality of any individual magistrate or justice of the peace and do not intend to do so I am however one of those individuals who be lieve that our system of admin istering justice must not only be perfect or nearly perfect but that it ought not to be carried on in any manner where the cir cumstances are such that its per fection is open to question Judged by that standard I say how can we regard our system speed and simplicity We have what one may call a conveyor- belt system of criminal justice Police magistrates deal with large number of cases every day Can anyone no matter how conscientious do his best when working under constant pressure The opportunities for doing good that are open to a magistrate are beyond possible assessment I think that even the case of a person charged with drunkenness is important and requires time and study Care ful handling of such a case may save a man from entering upon a road that leads to social and economical ruin for himself and his family It may result in sav ing thousands of dollars of pub lic funds that may otherwise have to be expended in social services But have our magis trates time for this sort of thing They need time not only to hear cases but time for study time for reading time for rest and for recuperation They must in the words of Mr Justice of the New York Appellate Court- have time for brooding for lonely reexamination so that the full flavor of a case can seep through their pores Our magistrates just do not have time for this type of case treat ment in our overcrowded police courts In my very limited experience as a magistrate I found people pleading guilty who were in fact not guilty I believe that many people plead guilty thinking that it is the quickest and cheapest way to end a troublesome mat ter I think magistrates should carefully scrutinize the facts of each case even after a plea of guilty is entered The primary duty of all those engaged in ad ministering criminal justice is to protect the innocent Some times people have to be protect ed against themselves There ap pears to be an insufficient appre ciation by the public that the trouble in securing any em ployment of trust or of immi- into another land and will be liable to more severe penalties if he is ever convicted again thing our system of keeping records should be chang ed and that the record of con victions be eradicated after a given number of years if no new conviction has been registered against the same person A con victed person ought to have a chance to start over again at some future date with a clean sheet These are some of the matters that have worried and disturbed me and should worry and dis turb you None of us can tell when he or she or someone close and dear may be charged with some and whose entire future may depend on what some magistrate or justice of the pence may do The quest for justice a neverending task The police the lawyers and the judges ad minister the system of dispens ing justice However is the sys tem adequate and efficient Can and ought it to be improved up on I have placed some facts before you which to my mind indicate that an improvement in the system is necessary and pos sible It is for you to say whe ther it is or not and what the improvement ought to be TWO ARE MATRONS NOW Photographed together Corbel Out are Mr Janglois left and her quintuplet fitter lift before Cedle took on honeymoon Annette was married month in Montreal Cecil a bouquet of pink roses and gown Atis a OVER 100 ATTEND FEDERATION DINNER Kettleby About members of King Township federation of Agriculture and their friends en joyed a turkey dinner in the Uni ted church hall Kettleby on Nov 29 The church catered Guest speaker was associate ag ricultural representative Ed Pear son He referred to his six and onehalf years of service in this area and mentioned many made in agriculture sentence of imprisonment or the during that period fine which follows a conviction is not nearly as important as the conviction itself The sentence is served or the fine is paid and of administering criminal justice forgotten but the conviction re- fc I mains and continues to blemish against the character of the con victed person for the rest of his peace and these offices I Person a marked person He will expert- as perfect or nearperfect when the bulk of the criminal cases are tried by magistrates or justices of the may be filled by persons without any legal or other special train- at all I am also one of those who believe that there is no greater responsibility than any person can ever be called upon to assume than to pass judgment and sentence on a fel low man The best men or wo men in the land are none too good for this important task Thcn I ask can we expect the men and women in the land to accept appointments as at the low salaries paid to persons holding those offices I think therefore that our criminal Justice is due for a whole system of administering view and for possible radical changes have set up two distinct kinds of procedures for dealing with civil and criminal matters Civil trials are presid- over by a man who has no training at all Our civil proceedings are slow and ponderous and could be im proved upon while our criminal proceedings are fast and fairly simple I wonder whether we have nut sacrificed important safeguards for the protection of our liberties for the sake of Master of ceremonies was pre sident Charles Grubb Greetings were brought from the county by Agricultural Representative M Cockburn Bruce Kettleby sang and the Fuller quartette from Oak Ridges were guest artists Pat Fuller playing the guitar sang with her three brothers The Hon Gordon Churchill minister of trade and commerce and leader of the trade mission to Britain talks to Sir William chairman of the dollar exports council in London The Canadian delegation 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