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2 Ik THE ERA WED SEPTEMBER 20 VOL No Progress Not Blight When the first white settlers reached York County they found fertile land covered with stands of white pine oak black walnut sugar maple and elm trees These provided them with building materials and with a source of cash income A few of the original trees still stand a very few but succeed ing generations planted trees along the fence line so that many country roads became arched with leafy branches providing a shelter from the summers heat for the traveller by horsedrawn vehicle Then came the automobile and the country roads soon became highways and superhighways Providing good highways for the increasing number of motor vehicles has stripped the last vestiges of beauty from the hearts of our towns and villages They have become devoid of character and one major result has been the loss of pride in their community by residents The same fate is in store for those small communities which have so far escaped the axe unless immediate steps are taken to plan remedial action Wholesale residential development has also meant the sacrifice of beauty In former years before municipal authorities learned that pre- ventive regulations must be written into subdivision agreements the farm lands were stripped of all trees before development begin leaving boxlike piles of bricks sitting in a barren setting and the home buyers faced with expensive tree planting and a long wait for the tree3 to mature New highway construction need not necessarily mean the destruc tion of an areas character if plans are made and carried out to replace each tree that is felled with a good size tree of a variety and quality that will ensure that within a few years and for decades to come people may once again take pride in their surroundings Progress is bound to cause changes in this area Beautiful old homes built for large families will give way to expanding commercial centres the old trees will yield to disease and road widening will claim others but all changes should be planned on an overall community basis to ensure that we do not lose more than we gain Vending Death Statistics in the war against smoking show a decrease among adult smokers but a marked growth of tobacco sales despite such warnings as that given this week by Dr Hammond of the American Cancer Society who says two packs a day can cut your life expectancy by eight years The answer patently is that more young people arc smoking And the cigarette vending machine has to be at least one reason why Time was when there was at least some curb on cigarette pur chases insofar as the purchaser had to get them from a tobacconist or his corner drug store or grocery The proprietor usually refused to sell to customers under either from a sense of responsibility or because he could get in trouble with the law if he did Not any longer Nowadays the ubiquitous cigarette vending machine has taken over The only check on under 10 purchases is a printed warning that this is illegal a pitiful effort if ever there was one which is more likely to encourage a teenager than discourage him the same kid steals money from the vending machine or damages It he can be fined up to This would be ironic were it not that the same Federal Government which urges us to quit smoking still is paying subsidies to tobacco farmers Letting the kid acquire a habit which can shorten his life apparently isnt quite as important as protecting the vending business Hut in view of our Governments muddled thinking on tobacco it figures vr Dear Editor As you arc well aware our sum mer programs have terminated and we have closed the doors on what we feci has been a successful sum mer It would certainly be remiss of me if I did not mention that part of the credit for this success be longs to you and your staff Most definitely Mr George deserves a vote of thanks for his efforts and cooperation as do George Gil Shep herd Hill and Rob Shaw Thank you for your assistance it most certainly was appreci ated Donald A Popple Director of Recreation dishonesty The firm feels that although jKjIygraph tests are cost ly the expense is worthwhile for the protection it gives the cus tomer Dear Most of us have a social security card nowadays which is a good idea for identification purposes Hut perhaps the government had hotter supply us all with pedigrees A friend of mine applied for a job as a partlime salesclerk paying the magnificent sum of per hour She was given an application form which contain ed many personal questions abso lutely nothing to do with the quali fications necessary for the Job and when she was Interviewed she was asked If she would taking a liedetector lest I realize a salesclerk has to moot the public but If an employer is such a poor judge of character that ho has to a teat then surely ho or she Is the one who should bo looking far different lino of employment Mrs KThompson Editors Nolo Tho firm In ques- s checked and It does sub- job applicants to A com puny spokesman sometimes other than Dear Editor I Im not against politicians be stowing favors on their faithful followers by supplying them with enumerators jobs during election lime but J do think that these people should have more edu cation I was at a friends house In Newmarket last week when two enumerators came calling One was a male about to years old He was filling out the forms The other was female about to During entire time the old gentleman was filling out ho forms the female was constantly interrupting him by spelling out various words for him She obvious ly had seen some of the forms ho had filled out before Hut ft Is also obvious by these forms I hat he Just wasnt listening Ho wrote the name of my friends street on each form mid spelled It a different way on each form My friends occupation is but ho will likely shown as a redder on voters list Who deserves a cuff on the laptd for this type of business No Ward Heeler Ills wife will now be known as On behalf of my mid myself J would like to thank Town merchants and Newmar ket Km for most trip to which I won through this paper Yours sincerely Mrs a Andrew St Newmarket A PATHWAY TO MAGIC The wooded wonderment which lies beyond this leafy path- way certainlv vindicates the phrase The best things in We are free In this affluent age it is indeed a rare pleasure when a person can purchase true or the small price of a short walk in the stunning surroundings which intermingle with each province Bravo Stratford I wonder how many people in cluding English teachers ever sit down in this ratracy world of ours and read a play by Shakespeare Or anybody else for that matter Im sure the number of persons on the North American continent who do this for the sheer joy of it annually could be counted on two hands and two feet And I wouldnt be among them The only people who read plays are producers directors and actors who read them for obvious reasons and high school students who read them because they have to Plays are not written lo be read but to be seen Just as operas arc written to he heard and houses built lo be lived in and cars built to rust and women built different from men Thats why I enjoy so much our occasional visit to the Strat ford Festival Suddenly a becomes not something you had to memorize in school but a real man baring his tortured soul before your naked eyes Suddenly a turn of phrase or a shrug brings tears to your eyes Or an unexpected belch draws a wave of laughter Or an old cliche like A horse a horse my king dom for a horse becomes a wall of mad anguish I hat has you boll upright in your seal This year we wound up our sum mer with a real hash of playgoing at Stratford It was great Kim the Hi yearold cynic admit ted I really dig that Shakes peare Fourteen years ago my wife and I saw a production of Richard III wilh I he great Alec starring It was first season of the festival when the theatre was a huge teal rotten hot in mid summer it was something now colorful and vital on Can adian scene We wore thrilled Tills year wo saw the same play with actor Alan Hales playing the emotionally and eally warped Theres a handsome theatre alcconilltimied The festival is no longer some thing new But its as vital and col orful ever And its still a thrill Despite a fairly solid lambast ing from the drama critics the fes tival is having a solid smash this year at the box office Which mere goes to show you how much at tention anybody pays to drama critics outside of New York It also shows think that the festival is more than just a thea ter For the real drama buffs of course the plays the thing Hut for thousands of others its a sort of pilgrimage to an exciting an nual event Not even Will Shakes peare could fill that theatre night after night year after year People come for the mimic tho modern drama the art exhibits and the whole involving atmosphere Things have changed a lot since that first year we attended No longer do you have to stay in a private home where landlady is not only a kook but plastered as ours was Motels have mush roomed but its a good Idea re serve No longer do you have sit on lho bank of the Avon paddling your feet In water and drink ing gin and Ionic out of a thermos Now you can paddle your feet In lho of any of several good bars No longer do you sit down i good meal prepared by lie La dles Aid for a dollar and a Now yon can take your pick of some flue restaurants Hut the price Isnt Im afraid Yep festival has changed and so has town Some people yearn for good old days 1 think everything has Improved loo per cent One big is longlhened season which gives thousands of high school kids a to alive ami exciting Anil thats way It should ho Long llvo Festival It was a great Idea nobly conceived and executed Its a source of real something in Canada that does not flop but flourish WEEK By Ray Enter Mr Stanfield rf When Canadas MPs assemble in Ottawa Monday for the new session of Parliament the shadow of Robert Stanfield will be cast over the proceedings even though he will not be sitting in the Com mons The task of delivering the Con servative partys reaction to the Pearson governments lineup of legislation will fall to frontrow members of the Tory caucus especially Davie Fulton But it is to Mr Stanfield that the Conservative MPs the press and the nation will turn for signals in what has be come an entirely new game in Canadian politics Even before Mr Stanfield en ters the Commons Cyril Ketme- PC has offered his seat Col chester Hants there is already a new relationship between the Government and Opposition Mr Stanfield resigned last week as the Premier of Nova Scotia The era of intense personal via- diet ess which characterized the exchanges between Mr Pear son and John gone for good Mr Stanfield will offer a temperate reasonable re sponse to government programs And it is obvious Mr Pearson will keep exchanges on as moderate a level as possible It is to the Gov ernments advantage to do so be cause the less the voters are stirred up by controversial issues so much the better for the party in power Despite the past failure of pro- vincinl leaders to carry the federal Conservatives to power there is a big difference in the prospects of Robert Stanfield and say George Drew Mr Drew inherited a party with little more than a corporals guard of MPs Today nearly Conser vatives sit in the Commons Mr Drews support was confined almost entirely to Ontario while brings with him a massive following from the Atlantic prov inces to join with the Western backing of the old Diefenbaker bloc The party has substantial support in Ontario there is little doubt that Tory Premier John Rounds will win reelection next month even though it is only in the big cities the Conserva tives of today look a real power base Mr has fantastic suc cess in Nova Scotia during a 20- year provincial career Taking over a party in that hud not a single member in the legis lature he built a machine that now holds of its seats It is likely according to tho early signals that Mr will lino up only slightly right of centre in political spectrum Western Tory inference plus the pressures of the next election cam paign will likely nudge him square ly into centre field This will force the Liberals further to ho left almost into the arms of the NOP Mr already begun 10 the big city vole although ho revealed his heart is still really in country Ills call for con tinued supremacy of the family farm will of course appeal to rural voters Hut Is this a chink In his vision for the future a future that will almost certainly see family farm replaced by vast me chanized food factories To credit however appears he litis a real under standing of Quebecs and also of lie deux nations philosophy The problem Is that the Tories will gel Into a pile of trouble If go around talking wo nations Ami If I hey do they will he misinterpreting heir own pulley report Tory policy clearly stales thai Canada Is comprised of two founding peoples Tho FOR t i reference to two nations appear in French And anyone who cares to check the Canadian Dictionary will find that while nation means a country in English it can mean people in French It is therefore entirely correct to speak in English of two peoples and in French of deux nations with both mean ing precisely the same thing Crier By Elizabeth 1 The move of Channel 3 which is our local channel so to speak is as yet undecided and everybody in the affected area who wont be in the proper location or in the funds to be connected to a cable antenna system still has some time and hope The public furor thai ensued when this intention first made news would rate the television waves as arteries of our I Its hard to imagine what it was like without TV but also that it did become to such proportions a part of peoples lives This facl then would seem to place on those who govern such a medium of both communication and education a grave respon sibility in the selection of the pro gram as ultimately the mind ac cepts the themes and attitudes that are being hammered into it day after day night after night What opportunity to spread he treasures of our literature and music to familiarize our children with names and stories of our pioneers warriors and scientists lo bring life Canadian history and authors thoughts on present and on future what instrument to form a people and its identity This constitutionally is the pur pose of the and of its net work financed by public purse It- hns been neglected to a degree that the Canadian writers have officially protested the handout fraction of the budget spent on Canadian scripts while at the same time many millions go abroad buy material that often both In dialog and action comes as a revelation of levels of amusement and Intelligence The French network of the Is being accused of using his public enterprise us a political means to split our unity which may or not be true The network certainly Is using to lei he people be brainwashed by an alien culture which from Jesse James to mod ern police records Is sold through advertising agencies while Cana dian is starving or goes bankrupt Never before has a government hail its hand tool as our television network shape and educate a nation never ho many willing sit and look and listen and has both so shamefully abused THE ERA Serving York Counly Since Incorporating THE POST die THE HERALD DA VIII ami Publisher J IOIKIKK Advertising and Manager III News Published every Wednesday at Charles SI Newmarket Ontario by Newmarket Km Company Limited Subscriptions or I wo years for one year Single copies each Mem her Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association awl the Bureau or Authorized as Second Class Mall by Office Ottawa for the payment of cash Phono Newmarket Owlet KeiwWi I W -Jmi- I