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Pages from the Editors Notebook and Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger How many meetings of com munity organizations do you at tend in an average month Are you overorganized Someone told Us last week that he was going to quit all the organiza tions he belonged to move to the Glenville Hills take on an assumed name and have an un listed telephone number If I dont quit all these or ganizations soon Im going to have a nervous breakdown We moved here from the city to get away from the hubbub and it was nice and peaceful for a while Then my wife said I should Join a service club I did Next it was a church club and Im supposed to attend home and school meetings I was put on the executive of the bowling group and I have canvassed for three worthy causes in the past year I sell draw tickets for hockey teams deliver four kids to the Scout meeting and three to Brownies from my street I must be interested in our own kids activities at hockey Cubs Scouts Brownies the skating club the junior bowlers and oh yes school too Then a lady told me the oth er day that I was not taking on my full share of responsibility From the Files of to the community because I would not be a candidate for council this year She belongs to the voters league or some thing and thinks Im a shirker because I steer clear of the monthly ratepayers meeting I tell you if I cant get a suitable lot out Glenville side- road Im moving straight back to the city he said Ive just got to get away from this quiet peaceful small town life while I am still healthy and sane It has been said that Newmar ket has too many organizations But there are many people who like to be active all the time It is fortunate for the community that this is so it makes a bet ter community But there is the thoughtful quiet type of person who also is an asset to the community He does his share of thinking votes intelligently and contributes to worthy causes It is not neces sary that everyone be a going concern and work diligently in five or six community organiza tions We must have those sol id citizens too who choose to remain at home and be the philosophical thinking back bone of the community The trouble with that chap who was complaining to us was that he was too afraid or just didnt know when to say No Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Newmarket Era The Express Herald 25 and 50 Years Ago December Mount Albert Steam Baths Something new in the commun ity are open every Wednesday from pm Saturday from pm Sunday all day until pm Open to ladies every Fri day at pm Children Sat urday at I pm Adults 25c children by request of three hours notice Hotel un der new management Aurora sewerage system was officially put into operation on Saturday afternoon by Mayor Sam Tay lor in the presence of a large crowd of citlzeas Mr Walter Johns who has been employed in the Store at Marie has returned to town and is now filling a similar position in the local Chainway store Mrs Albert and son Carl of Newmarket spent the week end at visiting her cousin Mrs Robert Davidson Mr and Mrs Mann of Toronto are spending the week with Mr and Mrs Arthur Winn Miss Mclndoo of the General Hospital at Belleville spent the weekend with Mrs Andrews at the Parsonage Some two dozen or more Newmarket people cast their votes in North last Monday for the council of Mr who has been visiting her sister Mrs Isaac Johnson for the past few weeks has returned to her home in New York Mrs J of Hamilton a Newmarket girl who has been superintendent of the junior de partment of United church Sunday school for the past years was given a great sur prise at the close of the anniversary program in the schoolroom on Monday evening Mr and Mrs Hall and daughter Jean of Toronto were guests of her mother Mrs DECEMBER Public Library About worth of new books have just been placed on the shelves The Board has spent about 80 on books during the year The public is invited to inspect two Mauser rifles which are on ex hibition in the Reading Room These rifles are two of those taken from prisoners in the South African war and were presented to our Board by the Dominion Government The rifles show excellent workman ship and will carry about a mile and a quarter The form er owner has carved his name on the stock of one of them The case in which the rifles have boon placed was made for them by Mr Mrs Asa Rogers or Toronto formerly of Newmarket left on Wednesday for the Southern States to spend the remainder of the winter 9 Mrs Jas gave a five oclock lea on Monday after noon to a few friends Mr Anderson was in town yesterday canvassing owners of property at Orchard Beach for the reeveship of North Miss Ethel Hunter or Toronto spent over Sunday with her cousins the Misses Miss Felicia Smith of was the of Mrs J a couple days this week Inspector of Aurora has been in town all the week conducting the exams of the CO training at the Model School Our merchants have laid in a choice selection of Christmas roods Just take a look through Newmarket stoics and it will surprise you Cedar Corners The fanners around here have their work all done up and living on the fat of the lamb and that makes them pretty gabby in the line of politics Mrs Matthews of Windsor is visiting her daughter Mrs Watson IN FIGHTING MOOD by opposition parties to have debate on the on automobiles had Prime In a fighting mood He angrily i Plans la spite of by and Social Credit members Published every Thursday at Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express WmUed two rears for one rear in advance Single copies arc 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 Associate Editor George Haskett Sports Editor Racine Production E W Stefaniuk Advertising THURSDAY THE TWELFTH DAY OF DECEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN THE EDITORIAL PAGE HOPE FOR TEAM WORK The Era and Express congratulates the new town council of Newmarket for on being elected The members are Mayor Alex Reeve John Luck DeputyReeve John and Councillors Clarence Salisbury George George John Mal colm Lome Paynter and Bert Kent Missing is rep resentation by a woman a situation which is to be re gretted The female influence on a group of men during meetings of local government can be an asset we have seen dignity restored to council meetings on past occa sions when a woman was elected to council The record of the council of this past year is not exactly a shining example for future councils to follow Perhaps we could say that it was a negative year for municipal government here the past record presents a challenge to the incoming council of For we have a completely new executive group and we will watch their activities and decisions with interest Among the possible challenges to the new govern ment will be the evidence of increasing maintenance costs for streets in Newmarket The capital costs for new pavement in town might appear too high at first glance but the eventual maintenance savings in future years may well justify a large street program in Another possible project could be the removing of dead end water mains from the local system This would improve the quality of drinking water and the function ing of the system Such projects are hot ones which would bring immediate praise and publicity to council but they mean much to improving community life Whether or not the town council of works as a team will determine its value Like football teams a council may have two or three excellent ball carriers but only if all members think and perform as a good team will the achievements be a i by the ball carriers PUBLIC SPIRITED LEGION It is time for congratulations to the public spirited members of the Newmarket branch of the-vJanadiatfLe- gion Last year the Legion sponsored one of the best A and the largest Santa Claus parade to be seen in New market They are sponsoring the parade again this coming Saturday morning The branch also is estab lishing another outdoor rink this winter for the east side of town It will be maintained and supervised by Legion members This week the town council approved a 100 grant to the branch to help the rink project Legion members played a big part in Newmarkets centennial celebrations in August The enthusiastic support of the Fairy Lake regatta helped make the centennial a success A i e c I result of this interest was the formation of a Yacht club and public interest in conservation of the river valley and the beautification of Fairy Lake Besides their interest in ail community activities and projects Legion members conduct numerous wel fare projects for which they receive no publicity and perhaps little recognition Veterans in unfortunate circumstances and the needy families of veterans are given assistance by the branch Children of men who were killed in the war or of those who have died since have been given financial assistance for education Oratorical contests have been sponsored All in all the community can be thankful that a Legion branch exists here and that it has unselfish communityminded mem bers always ready with their talents energy and en thusiasm NEED PARENTS HOCKEY CLUB Organized sports are not lacking in Newmarket and district Any youngster with a desire to play hockey has been given the opportunity to play There has been no shortage of team sponsors among the service clubs and business men and a small but willing band of adults provides coaches managers and referees What is no ticeably absent when the youngsters play hockey is spectator enthusiasm League games arc played before rows of empty seats If all of boys in local hockey teams attended all the games to see what their sons arc doing the clubs could boast about fair crowds would think that parents would be interested enough to attend and ob serve their sons behavior as a member of team how he p ay s the game Perhaps the Community needs a parents hockey club more than it needs sponsors for teams OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by W HARVEY RESPONSIBILITY GOES WITH LIBERTY We all agree that responsibility goes with power But do we realize what that statement implies It im plies that we are all responsible Freedom involves power the power to do anything that is not illegal up to the limit of our ability and resources Every free man has his portion of power depending upon his ability and resources The tentalent man the man of wealth or position has heavier obligations than the onetalent man but we all have some responsibility J Mill made the point in words that should be made the motto of every educational institution in the free world The object is to lead the student to take an interest in history as the unfolding of a great drama to terminate in the happiness or misery of the human race an unremitting conflict between good and evil a con flict in which even the smallest of us cannot escape from taking part In short you and I are not spectators of the drama of history we arc the actors and the authors of the play Ortegay writing when were ruling Europe from one end to the other when democ racy had capitulated in Italy and Germany without a struggle perceived that the fall of liberal democracy was due to the growth of irresponsibility Said he The most radical division of humanity that it is pos sible to make is that w i splits it into two classes those who make great demands on themselves and those who demand nothing of themselves If the irresponsible attitude became general our civ ilization would certainly collapse To think we can build a decent society out of entirely selfish individuals is to think we can build a skyscraper out of sand Public spirit a willingness to make some sacrifice for the gen eral welfare is the cement of society With a little cement and water we can make concrete out of sand With a little public spirit and scientific study of our problems we can build a worthwhile world How then are we to prevent the spread of We have three traditional agencies for forming character or inculcating morality the church the home ami the school The churches are doing their part but what of the millions who do not come under the influ ence of the churches Home training is vitally important especially the unconscious training the example we sol the people or conduct we praise or blame But home training re flects the training parents have received in the past It is not likely to strike out a new course Moreover there are millions of eases in which the home influence is on the wrong side and favors the attitude of irrespon sibility There remain the schools The schools are in a position to do much because they have the children under their control for many hours per week at the age in which characters are formed In the past school training in public spirit has consisted largely in develop ing patriotism In some cases as in Germany this train ing has been all too successful It became a menace to mankind because it interpreted patriotism to mean will ingness to die in battle for the Fatherland and embodied Hegels pernicious doctrine that the State is not bound by the moral law What is needed is a of patriotism to mean a life of service rather than a death of glory and an insistence on the liberal theory of the state as voiced by Gladstone Reasons of state do not justify anything which is not justifiable on other grounds The schools are already doing much to public spirit civic duty political morality or whatever you like to call the responsible attitude Unfortunately many modern educators contend Dial the schools should not teach morality They say that morality in relative that we do not know which moral is the one They argue that teaching morality is propaganda or in doctrination and lias no place in education Now the fact is that character building or moral education is an essential pari perhaps he moso Import ant part of education Without some morality civiliz ation would perish To let grow up without morality because we are not sure Which moral code is the best would be as sensible as starving to death he- cause we do not know what is the ideal diet President Dickie of Dartmouth College put it this way The more relative certain values become the greater becomes the importance of differences in de gree The emphasis falls increasingly on rightmind ednesshow to keep the mind free from low and sor did desires or from rnore refined selfishness how to keep the mind accessible to the wants of humanity The stale the servant vol the master of the people the state their infringement on their their agent in international and issues it is not the function of the state to assume the direct ion of those activities which rest on individual choice little nonsense now and then is relished the wises men Anon A friend of our editorial ad visor and Cuttin Corners corres pondent Slim spoke at a meeting of the Cuttin Corners last week An author ity on bird watching Dr Doug RichmondEwer spoke on the I Search For Adven ture or Have Bird Catchers Net Will Travel Slim suggested that I cover the speech Said Bliggens That there feller has watched birds all over this here world he a good thing to do a writeup on hi speech So 1 covered the speech RichmondEwer said that re developed a great interest in the search during his childhood developed a great interest in searching searching for this searching for that or searching for naught The very searching itself became a means to an end often I would search with no particular objective in mind Clearly I had developed a passionate love of the search be cause per cent of the time I would be searching for nothing whatsoever So it was that re luctantly I sought the security of psychiatrists couch for early adjustment I was to first overcame the initial mania now well known to the modern school of searchers Having overcome the first pains of the birth of the yon for the search I snatched off my doctorate at Oxford in archae ology anthropology and orni thology It was there at Oxford that met my great and loyal friend Col Wellington late of the More Gore Lancers Indian Army retired of course It was in the summer of that we set off on our greatest expedition in search of that rare bird the Asiatic better known as the Mongolian and I led that expedition Im proud to relate Though a failure that expedition proved much of value to the world of bird watchers There were hard ships though On that expedition our group suffered misery and privation Well do recall our weeks of exposure to the element in Siberian wastes the of the Lena River Each of slept out in the cold nights with nothing between and the ground but one thin live straw mat Yes it harrowing adventure that in search of the though a failure our proved to the scientific bird watchers that the WAS extinct H was the following y that we made our great Afr safari search of the the version of Polar Key Bird The Dodo you undoubtedly know irascible elusive sand walk the Sahara Days and man 1 end we would the desert wastelands Tired thirsting we almost met ri when drink was not to found and our own supplies dwindled to one case of OX gins Carbonated Dew the even of We out of the that year mere shadow our former selves having pursued bandit and having suffered the the SaM and treachery of of them We had lost two members ard one our glorious leader Col ington late More Gore Lancer tin Army retired of course For days FitsPrivy had delirious on the latter par our Sahara safari His eye seared from the blazing wandered in the sand and last seen and heard reciting And my message to you evening fellow and is to arouse out your sleepy dull suburban lives arte searcher Bo searchers for venture Bird watching cart bring and light into a dreary life say to you get your big fat easy chairs an into the countryside a serve Observe the the bird world you richly rewarded in the pleas of mere searching for the of nature thank by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches There are some disturbing events shaping up in the cattle and unless we do some fast thinking and take some fast action our export business the USA could be very seriously affected You may feel that this is only of some concern lo the purebred man and then only in some of the breeds However this is not the case since a size able proportion of our export is not registered Those of an older generation Well remember the havoc and disaster that and Bangs di sease caused in this country some odd a s ago Damocles sword of contagious abortion hung over the heads of almost all breeders and there was a lime when it threatened to ruin our whole live stock in dustry However vaccination a along and today the storm of abortion that eon Id cause a whole herd to lose their calves is just a memory of a nightmare It cost the country countless thousands of dollars and all ag ricultural authorities have la bored incessantly to avoid the recurrence of this disease After a few years it was felt in some stales that the disease could be eradicated completely it the proper steps were taken This idea was underlined the possibility thai human beings an contract d lent fever which is really a form of brucel losis And so the pressure has been mounting front many sides Health authorities in large ci ties for example Montreal and Chicago today will not Let milk come on the fluid milk market unless the cows are brucellosis free And SO regulations were set up to Control the shipping cattle from one area to another These restrictions kept increas ing until today there is danger that all export States will be restricted to that are free listed that is I by the federal authorities it country as being free from abortion Our authorities have aware of this possibility some time People in knew that litis could ha and they have devised a to make certain areas dec brucellosis free provided tain conditions are fulfilled provincial authorities also aware of the sign of times Instituted t policy which make the vaccination calves compulsory It seems now that in all this regulations ma forthcoming from the concerning border crossing would or could virtually he export You might think this is a high handed Yai attitude but the fact ilia is not so Already there at la lions for interstate meni of cattle The I i is Hear wile breeders and cattle owners correct the mistakes a cleanup campaign w least two thirds in favor DO the answer If the carries the required numb signatures and if the tests show less It a it cent of the cattle and less five per cent of herds int that year the area will dared brucellosis free for iod of three years If is not suggested that a step will be easy to ft but we are convince there is little choice in the This is not only the Jem of a few exporters of the whole farming con GOWNS WORN BY QUEEN PRINCESS Although they did not appear together Queen Elizabeth Princess Margaret wore a couple daring evening dresses the same night The Queen Is wearing a white tulle dress attends a reception in the British Museum London same evening the Princess sporting a blue satin was the guest of honor at a students ball In Staffordshire