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ERA It Welfare Study Needed Chinas Newmarket Town Council appeared to be off to a good start for the next two years following the inaugural meeting Mayor Drew pulled no punches when he reminded the rate payers that in the tax field they can expect no reductions and more than likely a raise in the mill rate From the moment that council make a start to consider the budget they should all concentrate and every dollar and try and make the cloth fit the suit There are one or two sections in last years list of expenditures which rate a long careful reconsideration These two sections we submit are municipal grants and the vicious widening circle of public welfare The problem of creating a recognized standard for those entitled to welfare is a thorny one and has been batted back and forth between Queens Park the Counties and Municipalities for far too long Last year in Newmarket the amount granted in the budget for relief under Public Welfare amounted to In supposedly affluent times like these in Canada this amount of money for a town the size of Newmarket is indicative of the urgent need for closer super- vision of how and to whom these payments are made Regardless of who sets the rules there are too many loopholes which are allowing people without conscience to demand a standard of living many hard working ratepayers feel they cannot afford themselves and it is the ratepayer who is paying the piper without chance to call the tunc There is no inference here that deserving cases should not receive assistance but the sooner some of the are weeded out and forced to assume their responsibility in society the sooner we shall see about of that local figure cleaned off the Newmarket public welfare bill Looming as an ominous warning to any wouldbe intruders are two piles of snowcovered logs in front of a wooded area These two solitary sentinels stand as rigid as any Buckingham Palace guard almost dar ing anyone to enter the forested domain of the Canadian north SUGAR V By Bill Smiley 100 Years Of What Its A life Sentence The conviction of four youths following their misbehaviour on Newmarkets Main St is long overdue and Constable Harry Diamond is to be congratulated in his effort to make the Main St a thorough fare to be travelled without hooliganism foul language and constant fear of being caught in a brawl We submit it is dangerous and embarrassing in many cases particularly for a woman to travel the Main street alone during the hours of darkness The police cannot be everywhere at once but one or two more convictions in similar cases would tend to discourage some of the degrading performances which occur far too often in this area It is probably wasted effort to remind both parents and the young people involved in these cases that conviction isnt just a matter of paying so many dollars into the court treasury and the whole incident is forgotten These things are virtually a for life sentence The majority of applications forms for jobs licenses and character statements require notification of convicted crimes and this type of conviction could have serious repercussions on a young man in later life long after the incident is thought to have been forgotten In conjunction with some of these incidents the news desk of a newspaper is one of the best places for a study of human nature Have a son or a daughter involved in a court case and the first place a fond parent heads is for the reporters desk to inform him of the true facts about the incident or how dear Johnny was railroaded by the police so the story Conversely little Johnny manages in some mysterious way to scrape through Grade and his name is missed in the listing there are instant demands for front page type to announce the fact We old codgers like our Main St and object to being faced with Coast brawls and similar disgusting incidents if our families have to traverse it at night We can be assured that the police will do their part and it will receive full and fair recognition in the press This particular misdemeanor can draw up to a fine or six months or both arid we would assume that Magistrate Hollimakc is as fed up with it as are Wouldnt it be fun if we could conjure up from their neglected graves Sir John A and the other Fathers of Confederation and take them on a tour of the nation they tied together years ago with string and sealingwax Would they think they had buiided well Would they swell with pride over the nation that has emerged Would they look with awe on what has been accom plished Or would they cry as with one voice Lcmme outa here J What have you done to our glori ous Dominion The physical changes in those tiny decades a in the human span would surely impress them The vast towers of steel and concrete in our cities the ribbons of road and rail that span the continent the St Lawrence Seaway And surely they would be thrill ed by the vast technological leap made since they stood together for that stiff portrait in Charlotte- town They would be dazzled by the simple facts of electric light and power flight by jetliner radio television the telephone the automobile oilheating air- conditioning and a thousand other things we take for granted But how would they feel about the country they created after the fancy wrapping came off the toys After theyd seen the Toronto City Hall and flown across the coun try in a few hours and plunged into the bowels of a modern mine and gone up in a chairlift at Jasper and faced annihilation in a Montreal cab and groped for their drink in a gloomy cocktail lounge Behind the glittering playthings would they really find much change in the country Not at this time of year anyway It would be still a shambling geo graphical monster buried in white tail turned to the north wind Only a sprinkling of lights a few curls of smoke and a few ants crawl ing about would suggest it was not straight out of the ice ages And if Sir John A and his fellows lifted that familiar blanket of white and peered under it would they be surprised and delighted by what they saw Would they per- ceivc a mature virile independent people proudly proving that the twentieth century belongs to Can ada One look would reveal a material prosperity and comfort beyond their dreams But it would show that a lot of other things they were familiar with had not chang ed or improved in years Fear of the US corruption in high places French and English Cana dians wrangling dirty fighting at Ottawa the taxpayers being bribed with their own money the rich getting richer and the poor getting children a familiar world to The Fathers But the sorrow might change to horror when they looked beyond the familiar things and saw that the healthy looking body was riddled with disease The pollu tion of air and water would make them furious The soaring rate of divorce drug addiction homo sexualism alcoholism would appall them The number of dead on the highways each year would sicken them The power of huge mono polies would frighten them And the apathy of the average well- fed Canadian would disgust them No wed have to divert their attention quickly and turn it to other things that would dazzle them Perhaps theyd be impress ed by some of our great cultural traditions developed since their time Like the Grey Cup Game when the punks and the drunks take over Or Hockey Night in Canada one of our great national customs when this entire sprawl ing nation is linked together into a warm friendly group of idiots rising as one man of fetch another beer when the commercial comes on Maybe theyd enjoy a tour of one of our new atomic energy plants But I wonder what theyd think of the pictures of Hiro shima We could tell them what we did in the two great wars But one look at the tax bill for defense would give them apoplexy And so it would go Personally I think that after the initial novelty wore off Sir John A and The Fathers more in sorrow than in anger would return to where they came from without ever tak ing a look back The convulsions which have shaken China the past several months have no counterpart in modern political life since the Russian Revolution Yet the evi dence suggests that the current upheaval in China is for the pre sent confined to Communist Party cadres and does not involve the masses of Chinese people What does seem clear is that at a time when could use a strong dose of decisive leader ship there is a sort of anarch lal democracy prevailing at the upper levels of Peking leadership The future of Chinese nuclear development the question of a Peking sent at the United Nations and the role of China in Vietnam are all paramount issues for the Chinese Communists It may be some consolation to the West that the Great Prole tarian Cultural Revolution has for the time being rendered the Chinese Peoples Republic quite incapable of leadership Because contact between the West and China is still so limited even the best informed speculation about Chinese intentions is none too well founded Recent signs however have put quite a different emphasis on the cultural revolution and subsequent purge launched by Communist party chairman and father of Chinese Communism Mao The first interpretation of this upheaval was that Mao was clear ing the decks for his inevitable departure by reinforcing the revo lutionary spirit of Chinas younger generation Mao so this line went was alarmed at a growing lack of fervor among Chinas young Com munists Knowing neither war nor revolution Chinas people had to be banded into tough Red Guards who could be manipulated for the good of the regime Their target was revisionism the fatal Chinese Communist catchall definition of anything which strays from the original Com munist gospel as preached by Mao After months of Red Guard rampages through Chinese cities believe that civil war might out in China The grim drama now unfold- in China may be a final test of Mao famous phi- of the country versus the city the theory that the peas ants when marshalled into a fight ing force can overthrow a city- based regime This theory worked for Mao in the Chinese civil war and he has since that it will work on a global scale with the peasants representing the undeveloped world and the cities the industrialized West v fe I- i I Elizabeth Centennial decorations are going up in Newmarket A lovely begin ning can be seen on Water Street communicating the spirit of this unique year The population num ber has been brought up to date on our signs the Centennial Calen der is already quite impressive and doubtless many more and new events will still be added One very suitable memento of this exciting lime would be the reopening of our quaint old rail road station for commuter traffic with the Centennial Train the first one to be piped into the town After all so many companies and organizations are doing everything to leave their mark so why not the If our Member of men would help here as he prom ised at the last election this should not be impossible Just Imagine the old red all done up with flags and flowerpots at first to greet the Centennial Train and then to greet weary commuters coming home with sight and breezes of the smalltown air that and countryside news leaking makes them glad to live here through the Bamboo Curtain now rfS shows conclusively that it is Mao himself who has been fighting for his political life Red Guard posters the most common means of spreading news in China tell of how Mao was forced out of his post as Presi dent of China in following the debacle of the Great Leap forward that bold bid for over- night industrial development which instead almost wrecked Chinas primitive agricultural and indus trial society Maos chief ally in the current struggle is defense minister Lin Pino now regarded as his heir- apparent The first prominent victim of the cultural revolution was the mayor of Peking Peng Chen He was ousted and as an indication that the struggle is far from over the Red Guards are now attack ing Chens successor But the most bitter scorn of the Maoists has been reserved for Maos successor as president Lin the secretarygeneral of the Communist party ilsiaoping And even Chinas popular premier Chou EnLai has come under attack by the Red Guards who have demanded a fiery death for The Chinese Communist obviously sharply split with the basic division between elder hardliners represented by Mao and Lin Piao and younger or less fanatical leaders who oppose Chinas split with Russia who favor better relations with America During all of this incredible li fz Dear Editor We wish to thank The Era for donating this space in their news paper to enable us to inform the residents of Newmarket and founding area of what the New- market Optimist Club is presently doing and what wo hope to do in the future The word Optimism as it appears in Websters Dictionary is The Doctrine That The World Is The Best possible World This is one of the seeds we hope to plant in minds of young lads in this area The club and its members are active the Boy Scouts Girl Guides Air Cadets Amateur hockey baseball and soccer leagues objectives of the construction of a at present is stage but will provide the of this area with a supervised recreation club We hope to provide a wide variety of sports and other activities giving any boy entering the centre an opportunity to be an active parti cipant This we hope will give those youths who are not able to make the grade in organized sports or who arc not sufficiently interested a place to go with their friends Every boy will be welcome and someone there will always offer them a helping hand are very proud to announce that the Richmond Hill Optimist Club with a membership of was sponsored by Newmarket Optimists and became the first club to be chartered In this Centen nial Year We especially wish to congratulate John Lieu tenantGovernor of Zone 8 John McDonald President of the New- market Optimist Club and Matt Boyd New Club Chairman for Newmarket who were instru mental in the formation of this Al the country Not everything is so decorative however that meels the eye and mind Things are being smeared on walls in public places which are of the vilest nature and make one wonder who would ever waste their thoughts and efforts in such man- Some of the culprits have been tracked who to the worst dismay turned out to be from out of town From police reports and papers recently it would appear that nuisance and disturbances and offences are mostly caused by characters not living here at all We should not have to tolerate this sort of thing One maybe can not throw the book on minors for every misbehaviour but it should be possible to gather up this crowd when caught in action to dump them at the Town Line for a good healthy walk back home and with orders not to visit here again This handful of troublemakers are quite well known in places where they usually upset the order If police and our youth in local pride would hand together it should pose no major problem to remove these undesirables and keep out town free from outside filth J Trouble will arise at one time or another every place where things are going on and people upheaval however it would together in great numbers the height of wishful thinking to or someone will think lip some mischief or annoyance thai takes taxpayers money to be rectified We wont pretend thai Newmarket youngsters are all angels but certainly we wont be saddled four neighbours problems on top of our own J fl fa THE ERA Serving Northern York County Since 1852 HASKELL Editor arid Publisher GIL SHEPHERD News Editor Published every Wednesday at 30 Charles St Newmarket Ontario by the Newmarket Era Express Com- Limited Subscription lM for two years 400 for one year- in vance Single copies are cents Member of Canadian papers Association and of Circulation I we paid hundreds of millions of Ontario taxpayers v Si