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THE ERA WED NOVEMBER VOL NO No Place For Hippies The day of the hippie and the school dropout would appear to be on the wane if events linked with the commencement held at Newmarket District High School Friday are any criterion With justifiable pride Principal Fred Bradley told a packed house of parents friends and students that those who graduated this summer were a credit to the school and the community He pointed out that two thirds were continuing their education with the balance accepting positions in the business world such as bank ing nursing and other professions Comments made by the grads indicated they realized well the value of an education and appreciated now if not before the efforts of the teachers to instil a curiosity which could only be satisfied by further study In these days when the exploits of the hippies gain so much publicity it is gratifying to know that they will gain few converts from this district It is also worthy of note that the students have respect for their parents and teachers As long as this prevails we should have no fears about the success of those who were honored as graduates last week and the students who will come forward in the future to receive diplomas Why Should Township Pay A case was heard in Juvenile Court at Newmarket recently and the outcome has left residents of Whitchurch Township somewhat dis mayed and more than a little disturbed The parents of a pupil at Pine Orchard School were charged under the School Act with wilfully keeping their child out of class and a con viction followed The penalty against the parents was not only waived by the Judge but the Court Costs must now be paid by the township This would seem to be a strange state of affairs We would like to know who was wrong here the parents the school attendance officer the Area trustees or the township taxpayers The conviction would indicate that the parents had indeed com mitted a breach of the Public School Act The waiving of the fine would indicate that the Judge for some unknown reason was sympathetic Cowards the accused The assessing of costs against the plaintiff would suggest that the Board was in error in pressing charges in the first place The amount of money is not important here The principle Is We feel that the school trustees and the township taxpayers have every right to an explanation If indeed they can crack the circle of secrecy that seems to surround most Juvenile Court proceedings Stouffville Tribune SUMMER IS ON THE ROCKS Although we have been experiencing a flurry of Indian Summer in certain parts of Canada there is no doubt summer has gone for 1967 And here Linda turns wistfully and takes a long and nostalgic look back remem bering the serenity and beauty of Canadas Centennial Summer SUGAR SPICE Dear Editor Since the publication of the Grade 13 results last August we have been the recipients of so many congratulations from friends and people we hardly know In connection with our daughter Annettes success at school Of course as parents we enjoy the honors heaped upon her but add a word of caution she and her fellow graduates arc barely starting their education The real test of prowess and character is yet to come and such will repeal time and time again for the rest of their lives We hope they are the kind of material to help build this country in the days ahead We would deem it a privilege and kindness if you would mention some of the groups ami individuals to whom we owe thanks for mak ing Newmarket a good place in which to raise children Our first welcome to this town was by Mr Jackson at Stuart Scott School when wo attended to register the children for school THE ERA Sovlng Counly Since Incorporating THE POST Cue routes THE HERALD DAVID It ami WILLIAM J IOJJlltilt Advertising mid Manager ill Published every Wednesday at Charles SI Newmarket Ontario by he Newmarket Company Limited Subscriptions for two years MOO for year copies each Mem ber Canadian Weekly NcwspaHr Association ami the Audit of Circulation Authorized as Second Class Mall by the Post Office Ottawa for the payment of postage Newmarket JO Phono Aurora YMfft Ketwlck Keswick Mr Jackson never stopped mak ing them feel at home and recog nized later during his visits to class rooms We last saw him during the Lions Music Festival at St Johns auditorium explaining the beautiful Centennial medals to our youngest Inspiration has been provided by Mr Jones Mr Grant Mr McLen nan who probably turned Annettes inclination toward mathematics Mr and ninny other public school teachers who made our childrens educational start so interesting Organizations which have play ed a pari were the Canadian Legion sponsors of the prize awarded to both John and Annette and the Lions and Opti mist clubs Appreciation must also go the late Mrs J T Rhodes and Canon Rhodes to Mr Arthur Oath and teachers of Newmarket District High School with special mention of Miss sinco retired A special word of thanks must also go to the donors of vari ous prizes to high school some of which added to Annettes Hap piness Sincerely ami Anna Dear Editor I wish to thank you and Mrs Ruby for tho opportunity that you afforded of our resi dents to Senior Citizens Night presentation of Hast at Town Hall by Newmarkot Drama Club Would you please also thank those who In addition to yourself made evening XSslho All residents of who attended thoroughly enjoyed themselves and look forward to another out at future date It was certainly a most suc cessful experiment Your continuing Interest in our and residents is ap preciated Yours truly A Young Superintendent By Bill Smiley Give Cops A Break As Gilbert and Sullivan tune fully pointed out a good many years ago A policemans lot is seldom a happy one And it certainly hasnt grown any happier in the interim as even a casual glance through the news papers will tell you Everywhere policemen arc unhappy In the cities they talk of strike action In small towns they resign right and left usually in a cloud of re crimination Why are they fed up For a whole lot of reasons Its only sur prising so many of them ptny at it First of all they are poorly paid This fine old tradition probably dates bark to the days when a cop was a dumb Midfoot lucky to get a job with some security involved During The Depression the town cop was envied because he got a pay check lie It ever so humble every week Secondly they must cope with continued interference from elect ed officials or local big shots It might be the Chairman of the Police Commission more concern ed with paring his police budget than with the of the ikiIIcc- Or it might he the fellow who belongs to the same service club as the mayor and expects special treatment whether its a parking ticket or drunk driving charge This is hard to take Another thing that bugs them even those who like the work Is hours working holidays spec ial details calls In the middle of the night And of course theres the job itself Much of it is routine even boring Everything In triplicate Hut a Saturday night can he a nightmare How would you like to cope with a drunken fight at a dance Or a stolen car by a kid at miles an hour Or a couple of plastered prostitutes belt- lug you about the head and ears with their handbags cheered on by the mob Or a call from delight ed neighbors at am telling you that Jon is beating brains out of his wife And thats on top of the ordi nary stuff petty thefts gang rumbles car crashes street beat ings jeering hoodlums Hut I think all these things are secondary- Theres something else that has turned the placid police man of even years ago into a mean cop And thats the attitude of the people Its fairly new and very nasty I notice it with dismay among teenagers Even the decent ones sneer The Fuzz as they term our stalwart guardians of the law I dont know where they got it perhaps from movies and televi sion but they seem to think the policeman is some sort of brutalized type looking for trouble A few of course foster this attitude There are always a few bullies in uniform who release their own psycholo gical perversions Hut they are a tiny minority usually curbed by their peers Even more disturbing perhaps is the number of adults who will stand around and watch a man being beaten up and enjoy it Theres always of course been war between the and populace Hut It used to he a good- natured funwar You tried to cir cumvent the law whether was swiping apples or beating the speed limit If you were caught you grumbled a bit lied like a trooper ami probably got off with a warn ing And was happy Now Its open and blatant battle Its virions and It Is fanned by newsmen ami television They always seem to be there when the cops are manhandling some scream ing punk but are never present when same constable Is being kick- Into Jelly Ive met a lot of cops In my day some in I ho linn of my duty and I hasten to add in the lino of theirs A few of them woro real hoods but the vast majority were decent ordinary chaps who would go out of their way to he helpful Its rotten job but remember men somebody loves you WEEK By Ray Argyle An Exciting Venture v fa Legislation for the federal gov ernments new Department of Cor porate and Consumer Affairs is now moving through the House of Commons For John Turner the youth ful Montrealer who stepped up to cabinet rank as RegistrarGeneral and who will pilot the new depart ment the opportunity to be friend of the consumer is one no politi cian would turn down Turners Liberal leadership am will he nurtured on his performance in the new depart ment Judging from his address to the House in outlining the de partments functions Turner will be an able administrator hut not an innovator or reformer The careful inclusion of cor porate affairs in the title of the department could be taken to mean the government is anxious the new agency not be tinged with an anti- business image In some respects it will be a counterpart to the US Federal Trade Commission which launches prosecutions against misleading advertising fraudulent merchan dising and foods or medicines dangerous to health It was the FTC which led Congress to force cigarette companies in the US to label their packages with a health warning Turner launched debate on the new department with a broad- ranging survey of government intentions He drew a parallel between the departments responsibilities and the assumption by the government in past years of responsibility for keeping our economic system com petitive stable and productive Now he said the government proposes to set ground rules for business activity And it will be easy to tell them from economic policies although the aim will bo to encourage maximum efficiency and responsiveness to the needs of the public at large We arc all consumers said Mr Turner Personal expenditure on consumer goods and services is now running at a rate of about billion a year in Canada That represents about percent of gross national expenditure Tills Is why Turner added the government feels the time has arrived to influence both the demand and supply sides of the marketplace Although tho department com bines both corporate and consumer affairs Mr Turner goes to some pains to explain that its interest is to represent the consumer not the corporations This is how he put It parliament functions wo class under the heading of corporate affairs do nut representing the interests of corporations in the government Just as the con sumer branch will be directly con cerned with representing help ing consumers the branch will bo available to protect and help Investors trie HONORABLE MEMBER FROM UGH PARK HAS A QUESTION REGARDING AIR POLLUTION WOULD HE PLEASE FOLLOW PROCEDURE Along with its new ties the department will pick up the old duties of the Registrar- Generals office These include the combines branch restrictive trade practices patents trademarks bankruptcy and incorporations The relationship between pur chasers and buyers is becoming increasingly impersonal says Turner He out that many people feel they are overwhelmed with conflicting sometimes mis leading claims sometimes with ex- advertising sometimes with unnecessarily high prices or inade quate services with unsatisfactory warranties or hidden charges Turner says what has been lack ing has been specific responsi bility and adequate machinery for the identification of the consumer interest The minister describes the main goal of the department being to protect Canadians against fraud deception and unfair trade prac tices He also lists quality safety and protection as safeguards which consumers should enjoy In the investment field Turner says the department will study provincial security regulations to discover gaps which can be closed by federal legislation Crier Elizabeth Quite a few of us may have been staggered the information pub- recently that onethird of all junior consulting engineers are in the income bracket of through the boom that this pro fusion has seen within the lust two Immediately thinking of the Urban Renewal Study on our own town did we then realize that the bottom of this gold mine Its ourselves contributing to it with our taxes under all denominations The whole country has success fully been bluffed Into believing that its elders are undereducated In whatever project of civic admin one no longer relies on sound advice horn of a lifetime of experience the governments will call for the opinion of consultants of whom see the above it goodly number are fresh out of two and three year courses collect lug healthy fees for doing their post graduate studies It should he no wonder that the mess In plan ning traffic development or even labourmanagement relations was never worse before How far the Intellectual sellout bus penetrated every walk of life Is illustrated in the recent Tlmhrell case where a young girl was rendered qualified by some diploma to make recom mendations on parenthood and childrens lives our own case where we would like to modernize redevelop our town the Departments involv ed would not be half us Im pressed with the ideas of local talent a study survey htm to be made on this place that costs a fortune The merit the first part so far published Is quite obviously the enlightenment of the consultants themselves on our town and plus a few Wo nil could read the excerpts in this paper some months ago and In bewilderment now we can only hope Is not another past graduate study of a junior In these upper income The whole Information by the way con he obtained In it more detailed and enter iniiilng form us History Newmarket which Is now on side at the Town Office for and everybody really should buy book Since we before too long will pay tint only nil these consultant fees but their education In free university training there la no end In sight of pounds of The and day la rapidly approach when the grain of valued x and common consulted Its grave An the gullible keep digging a paying digging 4 j i I I I S ii I I