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Gilt Edged Poverty Perhaps one of the most enlightening points of in the recent it Council in one certainly does llot 1 order to obtain assistance from public funds A rather alarming point under the interpretation of the Act local Welfare Officer in any community less of his own viewpoint on the case of the which might be in he appear the statements made at the of the councillor of the press table could also be eligible for of assistance under the same terms We must agree with the thai to of who managed to eke out a mere existence during the dirty thirties it is startling to know that white we have many jjockcts of genuine poverty and needy communities it still to obtain assistance under the Act while owning considerable collateral not suggesting tint there Ins boon abuse of he terms of is particular in Newmarket There could be many nuances of iicd Inch only the files of the administrator could reveal We ire suggesting that the officials il Queens Park take a long hard look at some of the chines and conditions of paying welfare in this affluent province and revise them to allow the local adminis trators a more peronat investigation and decision in an area where only they know all the facts Act Shocking The Era has been criticized by a few of its readers for publishing see The Readers Era on this page the photographs of two children who were kilted by a car on DavisDrive last week Some readers termed the publication of the pictures shocking Thats exactly what The Era intended when it decided to publish the pictures to shock people into driving at the Davis Drive speed limit The shock principle is nothing new Most Canadian traffic safety organizations use this method of making the public aware that the ears they drive are a weapon of death when driven at high speeds Children see movies at then school- depicting gory road crashes The feeling among safety groups is that this is the best method of making people aware the dangers of high speeds If the publication of the pictures of the tragic death of thee two Newmarket makes people dne move slowly along Davis Drive if it saves the life of one person if it stops one minor accident then it will be well worth a hundred times the criticism Strength In Unity Amove locooperate and Annua sport clinics and tour naments in the future is to he commended and idea- on the subject should be forwarded to Don Newmarket Recreation Director or Ernie who holds the same position at Aurora There should be rivalry between the two towns but it should be con structive rivalry and the sporting appears to be a logical place for the two to make a start There has been duplication hi main between Aurora and New market for too many years and perhaps this could be one way in which could pool ideas and them for the betterment of both placet the spiralling costs that two municipalities eptiated by only a couple of miles should need to have duplication to the extent they have Each towns boundary is giaduallv creeping toward the other and it is almost inevitable that within a wry few years the two municipalities be joined at least geographically Any move in spoiling i policy which can save the tax dollar of place should be encouraged Lets hope the recreation commission of hotli it able to spearhead a drive which could It to economic mem for everyone in the com bined population Festival Appreciated could rightly be termed Iho cultural highlight or the rear stalls in Newmarket We refer of course to the Music Festival sponsored by the from the spring II SUGAR AMD SPICE by Bill Smiley Its Been A Tough Week Weve been a pretty luck Wound our place tliis ye winter friends neighbors and rela ives have been coming down with from the All I nit tid ami items like oriental hepatitis anil whooping mumps We havent had so much as a sniffle was too good to last and we got the whole bundle this week Nothing serious physically but menially and emotionally a il was the dentist Kims was her regular sixmonth check up Its a breeze She waltzes in blithely has her gums frozen and the dentist pumps a little concrete into a pinhole jmi couldnt see with a telescope Its it little different for father 1 also go regularly to the dentist Every three or four years When I have a broken tooth or two and have wild slabbing pains from scl eral of he other old stumps and haw- postponed my about six times I go down for my Sweating liembliag and Ibe of Prometheus as of porcelain looking loth drill And then theres always that steps back with some kind of chisel cocked in his hand shakes a pity than in il Tourists prefer to go from city to city these days Visions of the blood the the swirl through Well Hints the Cfiiin Worse was been suffering bad for years 1 know Everybody lias one a bad hack or a bad hip One week the doctor says its an inflammation On the next visit he says its an old injury aggravat ed by tension Next trip its bur sitis Next xray its it calcium deposit If had half Hie I in my shoulder I could be one of those models in the toothpaste ads Anyway finally decided to do something it Or my wife did She didnt mind my groan the point where I couldnt a bottle any more out weeping I realized that m Ive mentioned what a yell streak I have about needles ilh dot as the needle The only comparable Ive had lime in a hospital I was wheeled this room for tests Flat an back Two nurses held hand one mi each side of the lied lie of them thought sick detail Sulla that my wife and to till eye doctor THIS WEEK AND NEXT By The Changing Classroom The tempo of our schools pick- In Hie eWorld War year up this week as begun educators set out to five every lo hone up for examtime that a standard education hopefully often torturing finale to the school concluding in a university liberal year which builds in pressure arts course was the heyday through May and June of progressive education when that young into the job mi I of the educated most alert and most form of automation brought a sec- rticulate ever turned out by Hie look at education after World auadiati school system War this mean that our It became increasingly apparent ion system has reached some kind that education had to be modeled l Utopia or that everything done for the student rather than reverse Differences of intelligence and background began to be rec ognized What good for one stu dent is harmful for another and the recognition of this brought an end to the idea that every ones goals hould be the sme Of course not Hut it docs mean hat broadly speaking Canadian are at last coming to iiips with the problem young people for the kind of Id they are going to have to ing race This must he due partly to a better balanced judgment of their elders as to what kind of world On the positive side there is probably less political naivete to day than ever before There is more questioning of longaccept ed standards less blind diaus who hi l I- I an I other media do seem to care about what is happening on the face of this earth They wonder about Vietnam the bomb the Negro revolution the Quebec question and the treatment of our Indians out I lians hi a be North idealism in without i who will soon Dr la cached Hie second THE Readers ERA laue children An the tor oil ghoulish the Brief and suffering of the ictims families by publishing hole of their dead children Iny- on Drive I realize a newspaper has to but and many others con uiei who Ontario St THE ERA Serving Northern York County Since