Pages from the Editors Notebook A couple of weeks ago we printed a letter from Mrs John Ash of Pine Orchard who wrote that she had a green gloxinia time of writing blooms of light purple and flowers She asked if anyone had a plant with a larger number of blooms r The reply was not long in coming From Kettleby a cor respondent wrote that she had two plants one a dark red with flowers and buds on it the other red and white plant with buds and flowers on it From Keswick came a note on Mrs Freeman Pollocks gloxinia planted in February and at time of writing with two full blooms in purple edg ed in white and 35 other buds The reporter notes that Mrs Pollock is quite proud of her success It was this last touch as as the reports of other gloxinias which prompted us to enquire about them We had never heard of a gloxinia be fore We enquired of Mr Eu gene McCaffrey of McCaffreys flowers who told us something of the plant that it was grown from a bulb was exceedingly attractive and that the num ber of buds reported was a re markable achievement Won der if there are larger glox inias We had a story on the ap pointment of Mr Joseph former headmaster of Pickering College to the of Hart House prepared for last weeks paper but were unable to get it into the space we had at our disposal We re gretted the omission for personal reasons as well Mr is an ideal appointee for a task which contains a good deal of idealism in its objective Mr made a lasting impression upon the boys he taught during his long tenure at Pickering College Years af ter their departure we have no ticed that when Pickering old hoys get together their first questions are invariably con cerned the whereabouts and health of Joe Since he left Pickering Col lege Mr has made a brilliant reputation for him- From the Files of self in penal reform through his work as deputy commis sioner of penitentiaries Unfor tunately his new title that of warden coming as it does af ter his penitentiary work has encouraged a false impression of his new job But there is no connection a and impress The Canadian Weekly Editor which is a monthly magazine published for the weekly press has for its front cover a month ly cartoon on the days of weekly editors their joys their tribu lations their victories and their defeats The current is- sue carries a drawing of a re- PAGE TWO machine for writing editorials The editor simply inserts copy paper adjusts various knobs for choice of topic and the tone he wishes to write in presses a button and presto A ready written edi torial We take pride in writing our own editorials good bad and indifferent as they may be but when the weather is as muggy as it was over the weekend how handy such a machine would have been Serving Aurora ami rural districts of North York Published every Thursday of Main St Newmarket fay Him Newmarket Era and Express limited Subscription for two yon for year In advance Single copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers y Association and Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa A fUVftW JOHN New Editor CAROLINE Women Erffor Sports LAWRENCE RACINE Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE TWELFTH DAY OF JUNE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY- TWO We are sometimes fascinated by the understatement with which the old time editors used to report startling to this present day editor anyway events We refer to an item in the 50 years ago column on this page which reports how a steer broke away from a herd going down St entered the post office through the door and came out through the window Beyond these basic facts the editor of the day simply adds that the window was insured The modern editor would have a picture of the drover a picture of the post office a pic ture of the broken window preferably a pretty girl looking out and an interview with the steer Even then hed not be satisfied that the event had received complete cover age But perhaps the old way vas better What a feast it gave the imagination Nowa days the stories are so written that a mechanical doll could understand them What an in sult to the mental processes of readers 25 50 Years Ago JUNK The and Fort Erie Peace Bridge was opened last veek The bridge crossed officially by the directors of the Buffalo Public Bridge Co and in return they escorted a Canadian delegation to the American side The day wit nessed one of the greatest traf fic jams in Buffalos history Attended by Kings weather Mount Alberts third annual Sports Day was held in the Memorial Park on June 3 As anticipated a year ago this years event was quite the most successful both in regard to attendance and general inter est The Canada a pageant will be presented in the high school auditorium on June and The cast num bers over GO persons and in cludes many of our prominent citizens This be one of the outstanding features of the jubilee celebration Motorists on the highway from Newmarket to Lake can hardly fail to see the beautiful iron fence feet which adorns the front of the old Sharon cemetery The iron posts are grounded in ce ment blocks making a perm anent Job and adds greatly to the cemeterys appearance The fence is a gift of a former Sharon resident Mr J Smith of St Catharines The Toronto Transportation Commission is willing to sell the AuroraSchombcrg radial to the It is understood that if the takes over the line they vill operate it as a steam freight spur only THE OLD HOME TOWN JUNE The statue of Queen Victoria purchased by Premier Rose while he was in England last year is now on its way across the ocean and will be placed in Queens Park Toronto on ar rival It is a striking replica of Victoria who appears in a sitting position on her throne with sceptre and full regalia Cost of statue is 10000 A grocery advertisement in this issue of the paper lists the price of the following fruits dried apples fie lb one gal lon tin apples lb pail jam plums blueberries cherries per can President Warren of the Met ropolitan Railway announced last week that new cars will he installed on the road at once These ears are feet long and have cross scats and baggage storage space The old bridge across the creek on the Centre Road is replaced by a new one Messrs Jones Bros of Brown- hill have the contract The I awn Tennis Club have secured new grounds and have had them love led and sodded A most peculiar accident hap pened in Aurora Tuesday af ternoon A drover driv ing a herd of cattle down St when a steer left the herd and passed through the post office door Once inside the animal turned and made a bound through a large plate glass window then returned to the herd and went on as if no thing had happened Fortun ately the window was insured By STANLEY SLUGGED IT SAYS man A I BATWEuL fell IS OUT Of THE UP FOE THE OUT OF HIS WEEKS HE CONVERT AND THE NAILS J A OH tov SEEKS NEW INDUSTRY POLICY PISHES OUT SAD ABOUT HO Deputy Reeve J Spillette has urged upon council the need for road signs on Yonge St- advertising the municipality A lot of people travel up Yonge St and never know anything about Newmarket They dont even know where it is said Mr Mayor Vale said that there would be a report at the next meeting of council on the cost of the road sign We hope the mayor is right The subject was first brought up in council a year ago and a committee appointed to act but nothing came of it Mr made one or two efforts to stir up action during the year We hope hell have more success this time The subject came up when Mr asked for a definite policy on the pursuit of new industries for Newmarket lie suggested widespread advertising in trade magazines a catalogue of potential industrial properties and available municipal services While cool towards advertising the mayor made the sensible sug gestion of a contact man at the Trade Fair By way of a progress report he cited three enquiries last month and five last year Nothing came of them however The discussion served the purpose of a report on an activity of council about which there has been some criticism from the street and some good may come of the road sign proposal this lime But beyond that Newmarket doesnt seem to be any closer to adding new industries than it was before a fact which leads to the conclusion that the town may be going about it in the wrong way One great disadvantage to New market is that there is not much choice of readily avail able industrial sites The cost of development must be borne by the new industry Possibly Newmarket could find a readier market if it undertook a develop ment program which would provide over the course of a year or two sites which it could sell at a profit Every municipality in Canada is after new industry Under those conditions it is an easy matter for an industry to encourage bids in the form of various municipal concessions and eventually locate in the municipality which offers the most in the way of reduced municipal costs As far as wc know Newmar ket has avoided this policy and it is to the credit of council that it has It simply doesnt pay in the long run The bettor course would be the planned develop ment of municipal sites in the course of Newmarkets natural growth Still another consideration is that the rush by industry now for new locations will only just have begun if the St Lawrence seaway is built If Newmarket should develop industrial sites for the future it could be sure of a ready market a few years hence when the industrial expansion in this area really begins OVERLOOKING A POSSIBILITY We think Newmarket is overlooking an industry right at home which if encouraged would provide just as solid results as a new factory although less spectac ular perhaps We mean the tourist industry New market is right in the centre of one of the most histori cal areas in this part of the province If local historical sites were developed and widely advertised it would encourage a heavy influx of American visitors Surveys by the province have shown that the majority of travellers from the United States visit Canada to sightsee A good many of those same travel lers come from Ohio and Pennsylvania It is sometimes forgotten that many of the farms along Yonge St were settled by Friends who left those states during the period following the American revolution The meeting house on St just south of the industrial home was built by those Friends and their Us So was the Sharon Temple St was one of Upper Canadas first roads and along it came the settlers who penetrated as far north as Midland and Orillia Midland at least has a very active tourist bureau It would be to their advan tage as well as to Newmarkets indeed to Auroras and Richmond Hills if they worked together to advertise the highway as the historical route it is and the Yonge St municipalities were to work together to restore the old buildings and historical sites along it As a start Newmarket and Aurora might set up a joint committee which could survey the existing sites and determine the requirements for restoration and its cost Possibly a levy on the merchants who would be sure to benefit might help defray the cost The York Pioneers could be reckoned on for assistance and the government With proper promotion and the investment of a relatively few dollars this section of Yonge St could be made into a sightseers paradise with a proportionate return to the municipalities of tourist dollars ARMITAGE HEIGHTS OPTION The Newmarket council last week unanimously granted an option Mr Tom on the land on the south side of Eagle St at Heights If arrangements between Mr and the Bell Tele phone Company can be completed successfully he will build a structure to house Bell trucks and equipment Council was assured that the building would be of respectable appearance and grounds adequately fenced There is no question that the building would be accept able if other Bell buildings are any criterion We wonder however at the unanimity of council in granting the option Our recollection was that the land was being reserved for house lots Possibly there are reasons why this is not practical but we would be more assured about the possible sale of the property for industrial purposes if the council was working along the lines laid down by sound town planning There is no indication that it is It is truly amazing how Newmarket has expanded in recent months The property west of Lome Ave for example seemed to have no immediate future two or three years ago but now it is an attractive residential block The same might be said for other areas about the towns boundaries But to date there lias been no planning to regulate this growth to the advantage of future developments There should be provision made for future parks future industrial areas future com mercial areas future schools The needs of the future should be the means to plan the present growth but so far expediency seems to be the only consideration Eagle St is one of the main entries into Newmar ket Will such a building cause future traffic jams Had the land be better left for commercial development Should it be a tourist park There are a number of alternatives to Mr proposal Perhaps his is the best we dont know nor we bet does the council We think it time that the council took steps to plan for the future along the lines indicated by proper town plan ning instead of making their decisions in terms of the needs of the present EXPECTED POPULATION BOOST Underscoring the need for town planning in New market is the estimate a conservative one that at the present rate of natural increase Canadas population will roach the million mark by The population growth will not be general but will be concentrated in urban areas The area around Toronto including New market and other North York county municipalities will show proportionately some of the biggest growth When the Financial Post queried municipal authori ties on what municipalities should do now to prepare for the population increases most of them said the greatest need was for town planning followed by a greater share of the tax dollar Competent and strin gent zoning should be done now the Financial Post says in its summary of replies to ensure adequate future facilities and land availability and conformity as residential industrial parks schools etc Transporta tion traffic congestion and downtown business too should get careful attention and planning Next to city planning respondents focus attention on budget planning Once municipalities have things lined up on where and how they can expand theyve got to look to where they will have to go in the future and as a result where financial limitations lie state Is the servant not the master of the people the is their guarantee against infringement on their rights their agent in international and national issues If is not the function of the state to assume the direction of those activities which rest Oil Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Newmarket audiences were deeply impressed by a talk given by Dr piae at an open meeting of the Family and Community on Friday night Dr head of the School of Child Conditioning at New Hampshire spoke at length on Child Upbringing Its Place And Need In The Home A great influence on thinking in America Dr is a leader in his field His work has vated a new mass practice in the conditioning of children to meet the challenges of society today Your favorite correspondent and friend Slim attended the noted child lecture It has been a popular thought in the last decade or so that your child must be free to express himself said Dr Pro- sopopiae If he must justify his existence by smashing the radio breaking lamps and fur niture and biting the family pet on the hind leg he should be given a free hand That was the popular belief in condition ing a child for adult life No spankings were allowed l object of this was that the little personality was free to develope Dr explained Many mothers nod ded approval to this your respondent noted Now my theory is the com plete opposite said the doctor To condition your child for the society of today he must be beaten and spanked regularly I recommend it before meals If your little precious smash es the radio or a lump go out to the garage and smash his tricycle If he bites the family pet on the hind you the parent should bite him back on the hind leg There was a murmur In the audience and everyone turned around to frown at the associations pro gram director who was sitting in the back row This is an era of prop and advertising Our must be conditioned to For instance it good idea if mother had nightly discussion with their children should call father a sore begin with and father call mother a rant just to get thing way Threats should and father should call by ending the matter you want a divorce it as all right with Then explain to that it was just Hot air Competition should When ther argument between yes and the neighbor with your own kids to try cooperation when they get persuade them to star stones and renew terrt The audience was pressed with Dr Pro talk Mrs noted mother was leave in a huff The director was taken int room by the president en a severe How did you ever old buzzard the whispered hoarsely ruining the minds of respectable mothers this up If we are going toV our children for th type of society we them a sample of life concluded the specialist There was a hush was left of the audi Slim rose and gave Dr P a thundering ovation The thing what trouble commented terwards was knew what the pro try in to say They the point by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches The costofliving index this mythical measure of our gro cery bill has taken another dip Various officials and poli ticians are pointing to it with the pride of a father who has just noticed that his offspring has begun to walk May we be permitted to dif fer The drop is a large one and the fourth consecutive drop but it is almost en tirely to declining farm prices reflected in the cost of food es pecially meat This decline while it eases the housewifes troubles and helps the wage- earner seriously influences the buying power of the farmer and will effect the wellbeing of the whole country sooner or later We do not lay any claims to being an economist But it is common sense that no groat happiness and prosperity can result when one group of peo ple take a beating for the bene fit of all other groups The index is made up of three factors investment on capital labor and the farmers share These three contribute to our government in t axes and we suppose that it would be only fair to state that tax ation is the fourth factor If the index declines through drop in agricultural prices the the other three will benefit al though the government might lose in taxes and will have to spend more on subsidies What we me getting at Is that the present decline is not a true picture but results from the sacrifices of one group Unless each factor will decline ftt the same time the decline in food prices will create a hardship that will eventually cost the others more than it did before We do not look for na tional catastrophe because of the decline in farm prices Its effect in buying will be gradu al But remember met can stop buying everything and still also remember that this they can exert influence on polity of the It takes it but farmers can change their We arc out on a limb an bacon and eggs same at the end of Farmers probably sent the greatest home appliances i It seems to us capital should do ing on the subject that the buying pi farmer is being think out might mean Cheap food is a policy It is able industry to competition with tries But it putt burden on the his buying the most reli that industry bas is forced to and in the whole group will to the To put it briefly when wo see the r a drop of the cost when it is the result of a loss to the faro wondering what a don and drastic takehome pay done in the case wo know strikes and a great hit ions against and the banning produced merchaij Oh well Fori tithe only the fan hurt so NICE KITTY DEAL THAT DIDNT