r V fetors Notebook WSSJ 5 The three banks in town will have considered every detail concerning the convenience or inconvenience to the public in their decision to instigate the five-day- week Banks have been open only one hour on Saturday mornings This one hour probably has been of little convenience to merchants They cannot make deposits from Saturdays business until Monday morning Few farmers would able to get into town before on a Saturday so there is not likely to be any added incon venience to them- While the banks are doing away with the one hour on Saturday mornings there is to be the added hour and a half banking time late Friday afternoon It would seem that this extra time on Friday will be of more convenience to the public than the one hour Saturday morning and at the same time it will give bank staffs a longer week end which is the trend of most business concerns and many in dustrial concerns strong complaint voiced in plain but forceful language by a representative of the con tractors There is very little I can say the people not children who walk up and down on new concrete that hasnt dried yet he said Another man stepped into some wet cement Instead of stepping back out of it he plowed right across and it re quired a workman to a half hour thats cents to us to the surface It is difficult to believe but was sworn to be true workmen appear to be cooperating as much as could be expected during the Main St project They have a difficult job to do on a crowded street and the cooperation of pedes- and motorists will help them get it done quickly Serving Ntwrnorfctt Aurora and rural of i Herald published every Tfmtday at Main St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express limited Subscription for two years 50 lor one year in advance Single copies are oeh Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Ottawa JOHN E Managing CAROUNE ION Edit LAWRENCE RACINE Job Printing and THE EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE TWO THURSDAY THE FOURTH DAY OF JUNE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY- THREE The Main St project provides entertainment for many bus iness and professional people during the weekdays and people around the digg ings try to outdo each other with witty comments or by re lating amusing incidents One Main St merchant has won notoriety already for his comments He Is the work crews strongest booster now since they eliminated one step into his store doorway There are plenty of com plaints and comments from the townspeople but for the first time this week we heard a From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago According to one of our read ers Main St was a gift to the community in the early days of Newmarket- Possibly that ex plains why it is so narrow Our reader has a copy of an Era more than fifty years old in which the editor of that time Erastus Jackson tells how a miller who once owned proper ty along the Holland River then navlgatri by trading In dians in canoes donated two lots for the new settlements main street Probably there was little planning done for Main St in those days The city fathers no doubt accepted the gift in haste and so Main St came into being We hope to have the full story next week JUNE I Mr and Mrs Earl and Miss Evelyn mo tored to on Sunday to visit Mrs Arthur Acton The family and a number of friends gathered at the home of Mr and Mrs Monkman Oak Ridges late of Newmar ket on Tuesday evening to wish Mr many hap py returns of his birthday At the Aurora horse show on Saturday a horse shoe pitching competition will be one of the drawing cards Tins is open and it is creating considerable interest Get in shape boys Mrs J spent a week in Toronto visiting her husbands niece Mrs J Fennel and on Sunday morn ing she attended St Pauls church on street and heard Canon Cody preach a very earnest and impressive sermon to the cadets of St An drews College Mrs spent a day with her mother last week who has returned from the hospital much improved in health Mr one of the proprietors of Victoria Sweets has just returned from a weeks vacation at London- Mrs Fred Harlow of Buffalo spent the weekend with Miss Dennis Mr and Mrs Harold Western and family motored from To ronto and visited Mrs Hall his aunt on Sunday Mr and Mrs Herbert Lues- by and little son of Toronto visited his brother Mr Georgo during the holiday Congratulations to Miss Ruth Ames daughter of Alderman Ames on graduating from the Toronto General hospital Mr and Mrs A visited her sister Mrs Hill for the weekend and attended Old Folks Sunday at the Christian church Dr V Hart and family of spent Sunday with Mrs Evans and Mrs II Belfry on Prospect Ave JUNE Mr and Mrs John and family of York Mills and Mr and Mrs Levis and son of Toronto were guests of Mrs W Smith Prospect St Fourteen Specialty foremen engaged big bus and two span of horses on Monday evening and took a ride to Queensville where a hot supper awaited them at the ho tel After spending a couple of hours socially they returned home much pleased with the appearance of the country Some of the men came from and it was their first trip in this direction The volunteers leave next Tuesday morning for annual drill at Newmarkets complement is six noncommissioned officers and privates but Major Al lan is afraid the number will not be complete There doesnt seem to be so many of the boys who want to go to camp as there used to be Mr Irwin clerk of the peace and wife have gone on a trip to the Pacific Coast Mr Irwin was in town last Friday bidding friends goodbye Mr Tim Wesley a student at Knox College and son of Mr Jos Wesley of this town has been assigned to Parry Sound District as supply for the sum mer Mr Hoover Newmar ket left yesterday afternoon for Moose Jaw Assiniboia and may be away all summer Miss Lucy Case of formerly of Pine Orchard is in town visiting her cousins the Misses Case She expects to remain here for the summer Mr Alexander of Gait who is now in his year and has taught school for years of which were in Newmar ket will superannuate next month Many of the men of this town will agree with us that he was the beat teacher they over had TO END CANADAUS STOCK SWINDLES A LINK WITH THE PAST Thousands of travellers pass the old Quaker meet ing house on Yonge St unaware that it is the oldest church in York County It is probable that most passing motorists do not even see the little brown wooden build ing its last coat of paint almost worn away by wind and rain It could be taken for an old abandoned frame school house or an implement shed No doubt there are many residents of Newmarket who know nothing about this old building a few hundred feet south of the York County Home on the outskirts of town It was built by the R e i s Society of Friends soon after the first settlers began moving up via York along the newly constructed Yonge St road Many of the settlers were Friends from the United States who came to carve out their new homes in the forests of the countryside which is now North York Through many generations the descendants of the early Quaker families have dispersed Many have joined other churches Now the Conservative friends who attend the Yonge Street Meeting add up to a mere handful of people There are no funds to put the his toric meeting house in its original condition A few Friends formed a committee last weekend to see what could be done about improving the building and grounds The committee hopes to erect a sign in dicating that the building is a Friends meeting house Funds are not available from the federal historic sites committee it was found Enquiries have been made but it was found that there is no financial assistance given by the committee to maintain historical sites connected with any religious group The Friends meeting house now used only once or twice a year stands on property owned by Mr David a farmer whose residence is a few hundred feet sooth He is of the fifth generation of an old Quaker family which settled on Yonge St Mr Doane himself has maintained the meeting house in its present condi tion by making general repairs If it had not been for his interest in the Society of Friends and the history of the building it would have fallen into a worse condition before now One individual cannot be expected to continue to carry the responsibility What will happen to the old meeting house in the future Unless interest and finan cial aid is forthcoming from some outside source it is possible that the Friends meeting house the oldest link with the days of the Yonge Street settlement may be forgotten some day and fall to ruin COUNCILS OWN PROTECTION When the municipal council in a small town raises the salaries of municipal employees it is natural to expect that the taxpayers want to know how much the total expense will be whether the added expenditure is provided for in the budget or whether there is a necessity to slice into some other departments budget In a small town too municipal employees do not want figures on their personal incomes spread over the pages of a newspaper any more than does a banker lawyer president of a manufacturing firm or any other private citizen Intelligent reporting can be expected from a community newspaper which realizes a respon sibility to the individual as well as the whole community By rumor it was learned that council recently in creased salaries for members of the police department and for the town clerk Humors sometimes do not con vey the correct facts It is only common sense for council to be certain that the ratepayers know the cor rect facts The town council is only protecting itself when it goes out of its way to make sure that ratepayers and the rest of the public know exactly what is going on in municipal affairs The recent meeting of council was called and des cribed as a committee meeting a type of meeting to which the press is not invited Committees make re ports and recommendations and the policy decision is usually made at a public meeting of the whole coun cil It is then that all final discussion takes place Salary increases for town employees public busi ness were decided at a committee meeting when there was no public or press representation In good faith a general enquiry was made following the meeting No information was given about salary increases When council does not want to give out information it would seem that it does not want or need the protection of public confidence at the time But rather than risk making a mountain out of a mole hill it should be suggested that probably court- ice Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger cil had no intention of keeping information from the public Probably it was an error of circumstances In some quarters however reports of councils action carried to taxpayers by rumor were received with sus picion Suspicion that council is tiying to put something over on the public is unnecessary Rumors and comments on the recent action of council to raise salaries merely shows that council is well advised to be mindful of the importance of public relations A well informed public is councils own pro tection No occasion should arise where an important policy decision is made without the publics knowledge The results of such an occasion later could become a problem for council BEWARE OF MYOPIC VIEW Taking a long look into the future Dr Sidney Smith predicts that Canadas two powerful neighbors the United States and the Soviet Union will still be in business and will still be strong a century from now In an address before the Royal Empire Club in Mon treal the University of Toronto president said If we look ahead one hundred years it is safe to predict that the United States will be there Canadas neighbor over a back fence that is four thousand miles in length She will still be a world leader and our rela tions with her will still be one of the most important factors in our national life It has been suggested that the tide of Americanization is too strong to be resisted and that as the years go on we in Canada will become to all intents and purposes an economic and cultural satellite of the USA Whether that will be our fate or whether we will grow as a strong independent neigh bor depends on ourselves Personally I have no doubt about the answer to that question We have another nextdoor neighbor to the north west the Soviet Union We do not know this neighbor very well although her territories are very close to ours and although there are great similarities between our two countries Each has its mountains and prairies and its wide range of climate and each embraces a large part of the Arctic world Looking beyond the interna tional tensions of the present I think it is safe again to predict that one hundred years from now Russia will still be there and will still be strong It seems likely that the development of the far north will have pro ceeded apace and that communications will be such that Russian ambassadors will fly straight across the Arctic to Ottawa instead of via Berlin Paris New York and Montreal When we know our Russian better wo shall understand a great deal about the nonWestern world that we do not understand now The historian A J Toynbee has reminded us in his latest book that from the point of view of Russia and the Orient the Western nation have been aggressors throughout modern history Russia was invaded overland by Wes tern armies in in in in and in In that perspective it is possible to apprehend some of the reasons why the Russians distrust the good of the West Indeed it would be surprising if they did not continue to distrust us for some years to come If the Russians fail to welcome Westerners with open arms their history does much to explain their hesitation For the sake of future generations we will do well to try our best to understand Russia Wo should in the name of Christian decency go halfway in meeting every overture of friendship Wo must work out a modus Vivendi with the Soviet Union and we should not expect her to conform to our ideas of how she should run her own affairs any more than we would accept such dic tation from her Russia has had a centralized authori tarian government since the fourteenth century it is scarcely reasonable for us to expect any other kind of government there in the near future In this area of our external affaire above all wo should beware of taking a myopic view WHO OWNS CANADA Dont worry Canadians still own Canada says the Financial Post It quotes Shells of the Cana dian Manufacturers Association who recently pointed out that the proportion of domestic capital investment in this country despite the increasing influx of foreign money is steadily increasing A generation ago Mr Shells stated the net foreign investment from all sources in Canada amounted to almost percent of our national wealth Today that figure is less than five percent A scries of conference extending over two years is climaxed by the signing of a joint agreement between New York state and Ontario to tighten laws affecting the sale of stocks Dana Porter left attorney general of Ontario and Nathaniel Goldstein at torney general of New York signed the agreement Calculated to end the peddling of market issues which la the past ten years is estimated to have cost unwary US investors half a billion dollars HOW WW and national It of Slim read a clipp ing from a recent dairy fann ers magazine that tells of calves dicing because they were fed on vegetable oils It say so right here in this cow bulletin Slim said The following Is the clipping Slim picked up Recent experiments at the University of Minnesota under the direction of Dr Gull have confirmed what a lot of us have thought for a long time that dairy calves fed whole milk thrive better than calves fed skim milk with vegetable added in place of Experiments found that dairy calves fed vegetable in their diet invariably died by the time they were three months old Some who were switched to a diet be fore three months survived What these studies reveal is that calves fed corn oil to re place appear to show a vitamin deficiency as indi cated by heart lesions and muscle dystrophy or wasting of muscle tissue This condition arises in spite of the high level of vitamin in corn oil and Is not corrected by adding vitamin E to the diet More than dairy calves have been used in these experiments Now aint that a caution said Slim them calves dieln like that Sure sounds bad I said What about humans Why dont they die too Well now what about humans If calves die from this here stuff humans should too A good lot of our consumer food products is made of vegetables oils these days Why dont we die Probably the farmers wish some of us would They dont like this vegetable oil stuff since it Is hitting the butter business I said Well this is pretty strong stuff if it kills calves said Slim This cow bulletin has a pretty good reputation Cant say that It would be println something that aint true Yes it is pretty strong journalism to print this story about vegetable oils wonder if there is some catch to it Sure a lot of food for thought mused Slim If humans can eat vegetable oils and calves cant there must be some significance to It but I Just cant it out I guess humans have strong er stomachs than calves have I said- I guess they have Its the only answer said Slim But the farmers gonna like It by Dairy Farmer It is nice to get away from it all and while one is fresh one can soak up a lot of new exper iences and impressions After a while however it gets kind of dull and the very newness of the country gets monotonous We will try to get few exper iences sorted out just in case you are interested We were interested to see how much the business of farm ing influences the Style of the homestead As we moved through the beef district and the dairy district wo got into the cash crop farming area The silos were replaced by corn cribs and the odd tobacco farm had its own characteristic build ings We were rather at the of it all along one of our main highways there were very few well planned or even neat homesteads Again we noticed that for a rough soil analysis there is nothing like looking at the buildings It might not tell you whether the land is heavy or light but it sure tells you If it is good or not We were amazed at the amount of tiling going on in the South West corner of the province We also saw some now farm homes a rather Inter esting appearance since for years lie sign of any properly was the building of new barns and silos On the other side of the line we saw a lot of farming country that is not nearly as good as ours and some that is up to the best It is rather surprising that there are few fences in some of the best fanning country and we saw some new Ideas in cattle hous ing a combination of loose housing and stanchion milking a very good Idea The cows are in a loose pen during the day and get their hay and some times their silage there They are fed their concentrate In their manger It gives them the necessary exercise it keeps the manure in one place and It doesnt require very much labor or an auto matic stable cleaner One set of stanchions say 16 In a row Is sufficient to handle cows It is an idea that Is appealing to us provided there is enough straw to do it The milk situation across the bonier isnt any better than here Their prices have been slipping and in many areas Is lower than here But in each case the price to the consumer is down too Funnily enough It is in the South that milk pric es are good in the Deep South too Organized milk producers are complaining that thcrp is much publicity given to the surplus of butter the price of which is Government supp orted and all other farm pro duce supported only gets casual mention Organized farm groups are working hard to find a new nutritional approach to the eon sumption of milk and milk pro- ducts They feel and rightly so that a great deal of damage has been done by fads and that all that passes for scientific opinion uttered by doctors with more degrees than brains is not the truth A panel discussion we heard on milk and nutrition by some of the best authorities one could find made it clear that for example skimmed or partially skimmed milk for children is not good at all since the child needs the energy whole milk provides Just to close this may we say that organized milk pro ducers In our opinion are short sighted to say the least If they dont take less money for milk this summer and ask for more next fall If we have to take less money come fall It will stay there Yet the cost of pro duction In the fall will be up A two cent reduction to the con sumer today would assure us more money next fall Will we ever try to look Just farther than the end of our noses DEER SPREAD TO NEW AREAS Tourists who want to save a few bucks driving on Cana dian forest highways will heed the government warning that fawns bear cubs moose and deer may be just around the next bend so drive carefully Here a pretty young visitor demonstrates how tamo the animals have become Deer are spreading to area where hitherto have been unknown