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THE ERA WED AUGUST 21 1968 VOL 117 NO Editorials Well said mam The Era agrees with East Gvillimbury Deputy Gladys Rolling that there arc jobs in politics and municipal government that men can do better than women Mrs Rolling said that men are better suited than women to be works because their sex prevents them from raising hell with contractors We also agree with her contention that there is a definite place in and municipal government and that womans place is not solely In the as she claims it was before World War II Returning to her first point we wouldnt like to see women digging trenches pipe garbige bags onto a truck or spreading on a hot August day theres BO reason why a woman cant hand out parking tickets or handle a municipal clerks job iJs rKiknfous some men still do to feel that a womans the bedroom or kitchen r who feels this way is blind and deaf or plain stupid is around you A woman takes your money at the bank the newspaper you are reading waits on you at a store Women in business and commerce are here to stay and they are We see nothing wrong with woman mayors just the same as we have woman members of parliament Why a woman prime minister And as for Mrs Rollings platform on the qualifications should possess to be a good council member we suggest that everyone whether they are in politics or not would be well advised Well spoken Gladys Progressive The Keswick Trade Fair will be held this week at the North Gwillimbury Memorial Centre in Keswick under the auspices of the Jersey Association This is the second year for the Fair and shows how progressive the businessmen and merchants of that community are To their credit too that community has formed a associ ation to encourage and develop the tourist industry The communities along the south shore of Lake are to be commended for their progressive thinking For other communities endowed with such blessings of nature might tend to simply rest on their laurels and let business come to them So come to the Ke3wick Trade Fair Well see you there SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Our mass media You know that postal strike wasnt all bad I know it a great in convenience for some people and meant a real finan cial loss for others certain quiet didnt have to letters There was relief in the thought that you wouldnt be get ting three or four bills every day And there was positive pleasure in not being bombarded by adver tising flyers and other thirdclass course the day of reckoning when all the bills came in one bundle and there was no way of putting off writing those letiers Hut there was a little peace there It started me thinking about what would happen if the entire communications system was tied I do In fact if the whole noisy bothersome business ground to a halt for a couple of months wed probably all live a couple of years longer Those who would Buffer mo3t would be the young and the old Taking away the squawk and thump of their transistors from the ears of teenagers would be like tear ing a baby from its mothers But I dont think the rest of us would suffer I think wed thrive and grow fat and calm and interested in real life on a couple of months of peace and quiet Those who have been out of touch with civilization on a hunting or fishing trip will know In such conditions a newspaper is for lighting a fire with or clean ing a fish on Radio is completely unnecessary Lack of telephones means that nobody can get at you with bad news And sitting around a fire with friends is a lot more enriching than sitting around watching thirdrate old movies Indulging in the mass media or to thorn or allowing them to rule your day is merely laziness and habit And the deeper you sink into the slough of words the harder it is to break out Some people are addicted to the morning paper Its like the firat cup of coffee or the first cigarette They are surly and uneasy until they unfold it And what do they get Wars and rumors of wars strikes and rumors of strikes a lengthy rehash and expansion of last nights TV news pompous edi torials stating the obvious and as sorted junk Some never read a paper at all but depend on their news from the radio The thing goes all day long with a steady stream of commercials semihysterical disc- jockeys pouring forth piffle and the tat her One simply does Some make the telephone their news media Theyre not interest ed in world or national news but only in the local gossip and they literally spend a day ex changing Inanities with other ad dicts I would not care if we never had a telephone in the house One of my mottoes Is that no tele- Then of course there are some people who are hooked on all forms of communication As a re sult- they never read a hook never think an original though and can he led around politically by the nose These mass media add a lot to life hut they take a lot away as well Under their constant barrage we fail to cultivate our own gar- THE Readers ERA Dear Editor I would like to add my voice to those of the down town mer chants who are willing to stand up and be counted in favor of the Urban Renewal program I cannot understand why there should be hesitancy on the part of any The council did not hesitate to allocate funds to have an Urban Renewal survey and now that the survey has been made and the plan submitted they hesitate to enact the necessary bylaw True some may not wish to antagonize cer tain pressure groups in the town particularly when most of them probably wish to stand for re- election in December In that case why not a secret ballot There are only two alternatives for the down town core of New market unless we bury our heads in the sand until the storm of eco nomic disaster breaks over the area Either the downtown area can be redeveloped in a haphazard manner by private investors at great cost to the tax payer for roads and servicing or by approv ed Urban Development Plan were per cent of the cost of roads and services are paid by the Fed eral and Provincial governments The consulting engineers employ ed by the town have recommended a ringroad system for the down town core Council should feel obli gated to enact this into a bylaw as the least expensive of the two choices Maybe another correspondent will enlarge on what would happen it be attitude if let Dear Editor I have just returned from holi day in your town of Newmarket and I would like to extend a big thank you for the welcome and friendliness from everyone I met Despite the brewery strike which was close to a national disaster I didnt go short and one man even sent me six bottles even though it was so scarce and that was really something Well now I am home once again hut having seen some of your won derful country and met so many- grand people I shall do all I can to return for more THIS WEEK By Ray Third party bid In the lull between the Republi can party nominating ritual at Miami Reach and the Democratic partys gathering in Chicago the most serious third party bid in more than a generation is gather ing force in the United States It is led by a man who must qualify for the ideal native Ameri can fascit former Alabama gov ernor George Wallace Wallace and his American Inde pendent party pose threat to stable government in the US far more serious than any minority government crisis ever experienc ed by Canada Wallace could prevent the Am erican people from choosing a President next November With the US presidential cam paign about to begin in earnest public opinion polls credit Wallace with the support of about per cent of American voters In the South this rises to per cent The position which Wallace has achieved far outreaches the last Southern rebellion against the De mocratic party which came in with the organization of a States Rights party to op pose what was for that time a radical civil rights plank pushed through by Hubert Humphrey Wallace began his drive for a straight flush in presidential poli tics at the door of the University of in Then gover nor of that state ho went through the political charade of pretending to block Negro students and fed eral marshals from Integrating the school Using the governors office in Alabama as a national sounding hoard Wallace began to attract attention as the moat violent re maining gover nor in America Ho condemned the civil rights movement as a Com munist plot cultivated the white backlash against Negro unrest into an attack on crime In the streets and called for total victory in Vlet- played the role of a spoiler in the 1004 Democratic presidential primaries He ran up significant percentages In several dentin campaign but for the no mination of Barry Goldwater As a result the Republicans carried several southern states as Gold- water appealed to the same seg ment of voters as from which Wal lace had drawn his strength The organization of the Ameri can Independent party in itself re presents tremendous political skill dedication and considerable unex plained financial support It is not easy to get a new party on the ballot of most American states hut Wallace has to do this starting with California and con tinuing through a wide crescent to Florida Wallace will not be on enough state ballots to win the Presidency Rut because of the American voting system Wallace could pre vent either the Democratic or Re publican candidates from winning a of electoral votes The who gains a hare major ity of a states popular vote wins ALL of that electoral vote In turn the candidate with a majority of electoral votes becomes president If Wallace should be able to win enough Southern states to prevent cither major party candidate from gaining clear majority of the electoral vote the election will be decided by the House of Repre sentatives And it Is Wallaces hope that if this happens he will then be able to horse Undo his sup port to the candidate willing to meet the demands In this event not the American decide who is to occupy the House and what policies the new president is to pursue at home and abroad The threat of becoming reality has so shaken American politicians that proposals have been made to abolish the elec toral college and to elect the presi dent by straight popular vote Commenting on the Negro riots in Washington he told one elec tion rally Ill see that its safe to walk the streets of Washing ton if I to put soldiers on Crier see that the is think ing of raising its fares to four for sometime next year I remember when I could bay four fares for a quarter I especially remember because transportation was my largest single daily expense for my summer job This was In 1943 when I was going on and I got a job as a stock boy in the ladies sports wear department at Simpsons I was the only male in this whole department and wish I knew then what I know now about women I had to be at work at am and quit at pm and worked till noon each Saturday My job was to move stock from a storage room and place it on the shelves and on the racks I took my orders from the head of the shorts section of the department the head of the slacks section the sweater sec- lion and so on These section heads were all ladies For all this I was paid per week which wasnt too bad in those days The 12 cents a dav I paid to ride the St Clair street car and transfer to the Bay car and back again each day was exactly cents more a day than I paid for my lunch which consisted of two butter and a glass of milk at Simpsons Motor Grill This lunch cost me cents Through this penny pinching I was able to save enough money to pay my tuition and books for my next year at school as well as the sharpest onebutton roll doublebreasted gabardine pegged suit did I was able to find work during all of my holidays until I left high school a claim that not too many students can make these days But things were different in the There was a War on for one thing and a big shortage of help I worked at selling fish over the counter loaded freight cars with rail express worked on a farm and helped build a railroad through wilderness of northern Ontario all without any prior ience or training and all because there was plenty of jobs for high school student during the summer Today theres no shortage of help but a shortage of jobs even for breadwinners If there is a job open to a student theres a big lineup of applicants and many are disappointed The disappointed ones are left jobless for the summer and un able to earn money for heir edu cation or anything else for that Forcing into the army for the summer is not answer Nor is providing work camps May- THE ERA Serving York County Since Incorporating THE POST THE HERALD DAVID HASKELL Publisher TERRY CARTER Managing Editor News Editor DOUGLAS L REGAN Advertising and Business Manager Published every Wednesday 30 Company Limited Subscriptions for two years for one year Single copies 10c each Mem ber Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation Authorized as Sec ond Class Mail by the Post Office Ottawa for the payment of postage in cash Phone Newmarket 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