Pges from the Editors Note Legitimate theatre goers will be pieced to know that New market will have a fully stage for a change with adequate curtains and adequate lighting Work la near completion at the town hall where the audi torium is being renovated and improvement are being made to the stage A fake ceiling is being built in the auditorium and the ceiling and part of the walla will be covered with material The auditorium has been a poor sight for many years The acoustics have made production of voices difficult in dramatic performances and speeches Councillor J Dales chair man of the property committee says that the auditorium will now bo fit for the solemnity of the magistrates court held during weekdays While keeping the costs down we will have made some great improvements which have been needed for many years says Mr Dales We will have a well dressed stage fit for public meetings for example the annual nomin ation meetings Candidates will now have a respectable background he said Mr Dales hastened to add that by background he meant the ap pearance of the stage behind the candidates not their per backgrounds v has had an Dramatic Club for a long time but the members of the club particularly the stage hands have always suffered hardships in staging a play The new lighting and curtains will bring about a great im provement The stage however is still ancient and too small Con ditions during a performance cause so much crowding it is like working on a play produc tion in a piano box In a town that has a strong interest in dramatics it may be possible that still better fa cilities for the stage will be ac quired in the future Stacks of papers pamphlets publicity releases and picture material come onto our desk each week not to mention other regular material from correspondents necessary for the paper Some of the free material we recognize at a glance and In to the it goes To read all of the publicity re leases every week we would have no time for the publica tion of a newspaper But here is a publication right in our town which we noticed with Interest yester day the Pickering Prep Press It is put out by the Firth Mouse students at Pickering College equivalent in ages to public school students One feature column in the preparatory department pub lication called This That caught our eye We publish here part of the Prep Press column Bill Ward and Terry Howe finally got glasses Kenny can part his hair again Mr had two more experiments One went and the other one only went Haraldo Jikes swimming looked a Clean last Friday much more in- some of public relation- offices in various parts of the country mi Aurora and rural district of North York Era If Exprtu Herald Published every Thursday of Main St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express far two yean far one year in advance copies are 5c each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Past Office Department Ottawa JOHN Maria fog Editor ION Women Mite GEORGE Swarfs ftffiar IAWRENCE RACINE Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE TWO WEDNESDAY THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF DECEMBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYTWO From the 25 and 5 0WM DECEMBER The Pencil Department at Canes Factory is running again The first shipment of pencils went to Toronto on Wednesday of last week and are said to be first class Several big loads of Christ have passed through town to the city the past two weeks The town band is putting on a Santa parade next Sat urday afternoon to inculcate the spirit of Christmas among the citizens Mrs and son of Ux bridge spent a few days last week with her father Richard Young Mrs Terry of Millard Ave closed her home last weekend for the winter She will spend the holidays with her daugh ter Mrs A Toronto Mr William Johnston of Kettkby engineer on the freighter Agawa was first man to be off the ship by the Island fishermen lie was the only one of the crew that suffered a result of the hours of terrible experience Key Terry and wife of Que were in town Just Saturday regret to learn that Mr had to return to the Newmarket hospital again A of men came down from on Tuesday night and trimmed the town bowlers at the alley Many friends of Mr Phillips shoemaker in the market building will learn with regret that he to go to Newmar ket hospital last Saturday for an operation DECEMBER wife and child arrived here from Da kota on Wednesday and spent the evening with Mr John Ro gers They expect to spend the winter with her parents at Bel- haven Mr Glancey has been greatly troubled with his eyes and went to Toronto to con sult a specialist Mr A If ills new store and refreshment rooms were the admiration of a host of visi tors on Wednesday afternoon and evening who were graci ously received by Mrs Cook and her assistant Miss Lush Yesterday afternoon the pu pils of Mr P Arthur Oliver gave a delightful recital at his mothers residence There were ID numbers on the program and all acquitted themselves admir ably showing the ability of the teacher with all grades of pupils Mr of Correspondence school has kind ly donated one years subscrip tion for Science and Industry to the Newmarket Public Read ing Room Sleigh bells are tuned up but dont get a chance to jingle very much Dr Stuart of the city formerly of tins town was in Newmarket yesterday visiting With Mr A Ramsey and calling on a few former ac quaintances Mr Vancouver has our thanks for a beau tifully illustrated pamphlet de scribing the Sunset doorway of the Dominion Col Lloyd leaves on Tuesday to attend the Board of Examiners in connection With the Ontario Veterinary College Toronto r J Si- -i- V- Charles has been crowned with St t l known if the coronation ceremony at least touch the head Of the Queen Tho crown wconiurt of a gold circlet set with jewels From this circlet also set with gems Arches of gold rise fln rom the point at which they cross W IS surmounted by a cross decorated with law Jwshown In this photo ere the orb the sceptre with cross dv orb signifies independent the the with crow signifies royal power with 1953 DEBENTURE DEBT An increase of nearly a half million dollars to Newmarkets debenture debt has been forecast as a possibility by one member of council At least that figure would be far off the mark if debentures aye to be taken out for a new sewage disposal plant as well as the project approved for the recorisfnietipii of Main St and sidewalk Considerable has been done S and out of council towards the prospect of a heavy expen diture for a disposal plant Letters have by the Ontario of health toVcpuncil asking 1What is being done about a disposal Although the department of health has no power to force market to build a sewfige disposal plant it has fitantly reminded the council that it should be doing about conditions Pressure has been put on councils on a number of occasions by property owners who reside north of Newmarket who suffer from the results of dumping raw sewage nt the Holland East Gwillimbury farmers and property owners in Holland Landing were told at a meeting of council nearly two years ago that a start on the disposal plant would be a probability by the summer of Newmarket has no legal obligation to the depart ment to construct a disposal plant and the higfc cost is a strong argument against it A moral obligation however to the residents north of tewii is a strong argument for it It would seem that one of the 1953 councils major considerations is this disposal plant Opinions in council are that the Main St construc tion costs will be greater than the first estimates of the municipalitys share It is believed that the disposal plan would bring capital expenditures close to a half million dollars Coimcilvil wonder whether Newmarket taxpayeis will want this high increase to the debenture debt In the end council probably will put the question to a vote of Iherate- payers Before council were to put the question to a vote it would need to do a thorough job of public relations The in this growing municipality shall be to consider the same advantages and dis advantages as they did before the Main St vote last fait High costs of construction these days may be vised as an argument against municipal projects Such as the sewage disposal plant mentioned above The City of Toronto is considering the building of a new civic centre to replace its present city hall Two opposing Toronto newspapers have favored the expenditure One describes it as a fine but costly project in spite of present day high costs the Toronto Telegram says that it is a question of preparing for the future Says the Telegram the evidence denoting con fidence in this country which Robert president of the Dominion Bank submits in his annual report comes at an opportune time It is suggested that the city council might be fright ened by the cost running into many millions Mr sees the signs in the current rate of population growth which he declares if maintained see Can ada with nearly million people by twice as many as at present Nothing fee more Short sighted on Torontos part if in thinking of present day costs it neglected to prepare for its future growth and by that neglect Atiflfelfarffc Surely the same long term view may taken by a municipality like Newmarket whn it considers these capital expenditures There is little that progress will be halted and by extending their confidences into the future municipal leaders may not find the thought of such expensive projects so over whelming LONG WAIT FOR PESSIMISTS This is season of bank reports a time when bank presidents the future of national and international economic trends Most of these re ports from Canadian bank presidents indicate bright future Most of them look forward to a growing Can- enjoying the fruits of progress and an increasing population As for thought of economic recession we hear about from gloomier individuals from time to Ihmy the National Hank of Now York feels that a recession has put off applies to the United States can apply to According to this banks news letter the passing of any defunco peak does not offer a serious threat We have had with a previous and fargreater reduction government purchases than anything now likely namely at the end of the second World War Even able and experienced economic analysts could not see at that time what could possibly come forward to fill the gap ini demand Predictions of un employment in the ran as high as to 10000000 people They of couise utterly with out basis In concentrating upon the gap the prophets of this school failed to realize the extent of peoples wants and the vigor and the ability with the business organization would plunge into the task of satisfying those wants In Ins experience there is a- lesson for all During declaimed and undeclared war when the influence of purchases both actually and is at its peak it is natural to think that business could not sustain a reduction hi those purchases with out depression But this is not inherently or inescapably truev Depressions and recessions have been talked about and postponed for a good number of years now Many of the pessimists have had a long wait CANADIANS SHOULDN BpAt A lot of Canadians arid many Americans too have been sharply critical of the length of the US elections They claim that such campaigns wear put both candi dates and the audiences and the more they are pro longed the dirtier thoy become the Financial Post says In presidential years the US campaign gets under way with thy party conventions in e a July and winds up the voters go to the polls on the Tues day after the first Monday in November Thats four moiitlis every four years when politics dominate every official move One wonders whether we handle this matter much better in Canada True we have no fixed elates for our federal elections but that does not mean our campaigns will be shorter Sometime they are very much longer Take the present situation Except for possibly a handful of Liberal Party stalwarts and even they may not have made up their minds no person knows the exact date of the next election It might be next spring but it could be put off until a year from then The campaign however is well under way already If anyone doubts that just read a few pages of Hansard listen to almost any speech of any of the political leaders Be he Grit Tory or Social Credit the keynoteis politics and thats the way its going to continue until the polling starts preelection promises have started Ignoring the costly experience of British Columbia and Saskatchewan the CCF leader comes up with a national health plan Like the famous baby bonus of an earlier day nobody for it nobody knows what it will cost But that seems to make little differ ence Already members of the other parties are getting on the bandwagon because there is an election coming the will be lucky indeed if all sorts of other expensive vote catching schemes are not offered before the next race been run CENSUS REVELATIONS The census- is certainly proving an exhaustive survey The latest publication on the subject is a break- clown of the total labor force of the country into all its multitudinous trades hud professions and although it Is doubtful I is record of the my fellow Canadians will benefit us a material sense is doc union We find hi the for example that our country to employ and detectives to enforce a staggering revelation only bootblacks notice there are 18 canvassers no rs and sol ichors In he a there re roughly six men each officer officers including officers to 177 other rnjdss While on our ships there mbrc captaihsj mates pilots and engineering officers- sailors ami Ami for women r the list gives pub lady i prospector lady hud rock driller and lady hoist crane or dor XM Possibly the astonishing of all when we consider wagnitudo of this work is that in the of Canada there are only statisticians mi 9 It not of infringmtnt on righto In fn function of fto fo wwm ffto on individual cftojco i imutj it rat Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger About the reports yesterday that horses were put on the payroll at military camp Slim our Corners correspondent wrote in his despatch yester day Bern an old army man from away back I feel that this 5s a step hi the right di rection I can remember that years ago they was a lot of asses on the army payroll Re ports of horses on the shows that things are looking up J Yesterdays reports from tawa tell the story of reported deterioration in the situation at Reports following an investigation indicate that horses hired by army person- were placed oh the payroll under the names of civilian laborers This harks back to the muv sewage disposal scandal of up here in Corners Constand Vigil of the sewage works here accused of irregularities when It was discovered mat skunks was on the municipal payroll Charge were against Vigil and there were months of court cases and oyer the incident Skunks hearing of prominent local citizens were oh the payroll of the sewage disposal department- defence proved weak writes Them skunks which he hired were designed to ill a What with the sewage disposal at a low ebb during the thirties- Vigil noticed that the usual odor was locking Rout tine checks by his seniors ried Vigil who believed that weak aroma indicated a weak in his sewage system Skunks thereby was ported to provide a better to the higherup the municipal setup The Ottawa report goes on to say that a contractor receiv ed payment for for lay ing sewer pipes and manholes although about of the work had been done before hand by the army Ah electric refrigerator was obtained from a local hardware store and bill ed as something else accord ing to the reports from ah in vestigator Some bags of cement disappeared much of it prob ably into unauthorized pro jects of one kind or another or wasted or pilfered in small quantities the report went on ijt seems to me that much of this has been reported before Your favorite correspondent re calls doing a report on the in genuity of plans by military personnel to lift a quantity of equipment including kitchen steam shovels Such pieces of heavy equipment loaded onto freight cars shipped out of camp arid sold in the Belleville district We marvelled at the ease with Which this Colossal undertaking was managed Its something to say for the efficiency of our army engineers or whoever they were Horses on the army payroll is the best we have heard yet Bliggens commentary on the progress made by the army from the days of asses on the payroll to more efficient and modern methods whereby horses are used Is a worthy one- It just goes to show that the day of the horse in the army is far from over too We may talk about tanks planes jeeps and other modern military equipment but after all we are shown here that the horse can never be done away with af ter all that science has done m The I It has been a matter of some concern to us that lately little attention has been paid to the opinion of farmers in a great many matters concern ing us vitally We do not mean to suggest that nothing has been done to help farmers in their present difficulties All we want to say is that any at tention received by farmers was accorded by minister and departments in he might call their- routine work Very seldom has the farmers voice been needed or even heard The reason for it is very obvious There no farm organization that truly and really represents the far mers their views and their problems This obvious to all those who attended the last mooting of the York county Federation of Agriculture Granted there is- i national office very ably arid weir fill ed by Mr He has some of the best brains there to help him carry out the task of representing the national view of farmers to the government Those who rend their bulletins briefs and other releases have to ad mit that the Ottawa office Is doing what car bedonc The trouble is that there the organ ization stops From then on down there is neither support nor spirit nor even a common win How or a grownup people calling themselves the York County Federation in the year 1052 can fool away a whole day without any at tempt to discuss bur immedi ate problems is beyond our comprehension It is obvi ous to that need great Prices arc and costs are going up The outlook is bleak and the need for action is great And yet there was the meet ing complacent showing all signs of softness which can be due to prosperity away the day passing a few resolutions without any discussion Listening to it all we couldnt help but get into a sad frame of mind There in that meeting was the answer to all our prob lems We are not getting any bold courageous act on the part of the government because there is no boldness and cour age at the root of the atioh There is no action on export markets because there is no voice on the part of the growers demanding it lt is all confusion and lion arid Jack of imagination are very much afraid that the Federation lost its greatest asset the last few years by having lost its power of indignation We ore ail putty in the hands of a few selfseeking and leaders The Federation is a queer conglomeration of or ganizations its directors dele gated rather than elected and lacking the drive that only real indignation and a strong con viction can give We would venture to say that something will bo done in Ottawa about the price of cigarettes because other day 1000 growers held a meet ing with their federal present would also ven ture to say that any other group thai can show the gov ernment that it means business will get action We wont get any action be cause we have no voice and the few good men at the lop have no support We will get the leftovers and whatever the government sees fit to give us KEEP THIS LIGHT BURNING J S r fi