ft wrr V- v 7 x Editors Notebook Ouf now years mail bag this first week has disgorged piles of the usual propaganda gov ernment departments institu tions and organisations which want us to publicize their causes or needs New budgets are made up to swamp editors with propaganda We see the new year acting as a stimulant to public relations writers who with renewed energy turn out volumes of material to fill the editors desk and wastebaskct our pile of mail this week attempts were made to sell us everything Little thias notebook a syndicated column to a crime solving con test Promoters and syndicates tell us that they have hundreds of ways to increase our circula tion Sometimes we wonder if these people know that news stories can sell a newspaper too The new calendars have been piling up A publishing any in St Thomas sent us a cal endar with a beautiful painting of a flower garden on it We like the picture but being a calendar it is of little use to us We must write the printers and tell them of the error But we are still wondering was our cal endar the only one with the error or were thousands of calendars mailed out to business establishments from coast to coast by this St Thomas firm Should the latter be the case we have nothing but pity for the poor employee who was re sponsible for this gross error no doubt his first of the new year received a Christmas card this week The writer address ed it Newmarket Daily Area Ere or Era Newmarket North York Ontario Greater Metropolitan Newmarket Last week we said that we al ways encouraged letters from our readers This one must have come from far afield but we could not read the postmark on it It is written as follows Citizens of Newmarket Now is the time to engulf the remain der of York County Alas poor York knew well Now or never The oc topus Greater Metropolitan Neapolitan Cosmopolitan Tor onto has gorged itself with York County assets What ho Warden Let fall the portcullis the bridge draw up Man the portholes For a Happy New Year The card was unsigned May be it was written by the ghost of William Lyon Mackenzie- From the Files of Years JANUARY The following spent New Years Day with Mrs Mor ton Joseph St Miss Laura Morton Mrs Howard Morton and daughter Marion from To ronto Mr and Mrs Col lins and Miss Jean and Master Gordon Collins of Mrs Rev Park of spent a weeks holidays with her father and mother Mr and Mi iL Ave Mr Park coming for Nov Years and re- turning to their charge on Thursday Mrs John and tvo children of Holland Michigan also Mrs Wood of Au rora and Miss Wood spent New Years Way with Mr and Mrs Evans film St Mrs and Miss Jean Tyler of Toronto were the guests of the formers mother Mrs Saunders Queen St V gi Mr Will is leaving on Saturday to visit his bro ther in San Francisco Calif for tvo or three The rural mail carriers for the first time since their ap pointment had a chance to en joy Christmas and Years day the same as other people Mr and Mrs A Cornell- returned from on Monday where they spent the Christmas holidays the best market ever seen in Newmar ket was experienced hero last Saturday morning Poultry was abundant very fine geese hut turkeys good as the previous market day Some extra heavy geese were sold for 20c a seemed Jo want them not even the buy ers Quite a jot of butter and eggsthe latter dropping price Prevailing prices wore as follows butter to lb eggs to chickens a lb geese to lb ducks lb turkey lb potatoes a bag apples 25 to basket S9 JANUARY Miss Annie and Miss Nellie Lloyd also Miss Ella and Mr A Lloyd Toronto spent New Years at the power house Mr P Porter and Mr Pinley both of Ottawa were visiting with relatives in town on their New Year va cation- Mrs Stevenson and Mr Stewart Stevenson of Toronto Junction spent over Sunday with Mrs Webster A large family gathering and Christmas Tree took place at the residence of Mr Robert Manning on Christmas day The Misses Hughes were holiday guests of Mrs Andrew Carson at Barrio Miss re turned to the city on Monday after spending nearly week With relatives in town Mr Richardson of To ronto brother of Mrs spent Hew Years Day at the Dominion hotel Frank of Toron to son of Mr Traviss was home for New Year days entertained a large number of young people on New Years Eve in honor of Miss Adams Mr Hoover has decided to go to the In the spring arid is offering his pro An town for sale Messrs and Gray of Toronto vero home on New Years Pay John of Morden Manitoba in town this week calling on old friends Miss Gertie Haines returned on Monday from Pembroke af ter nearly four months ab sence Mr J Stokes la now com fortably settled at the Indus trial Homo He drives a fine span of Shetland ponies Mr and Mrs Fred Saxon are spending a month at Mr J Hunters Toronto Miss Frances Morrow of Tot tenham was visiting Mrs By ron Lot St last vcek NEW SHIP RCN IN ATLANTIC J i- Newest addition to the strength of the Royal Canadian Davys first Squadron Is fihe glides In toward her at dockyard Halifax- She to by Lieut fimv If A Porter BC which arrived in Halifax as the third modernized frigate to in the Atlantic command She with two other frigate version ships and Toronto serves with the squad- which was formed last Nov 10 with the destroyer escort market pa and Serving Aurora and Hi rai districts of York Era The Herald 1895 NEWSPAPERS at St by me Era and Express limited Subscription for two fpt one In Sfagt each Member of A of Canada Canadian and ihp Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Math Post Office Managing CAROLINE ION GEORGE V- IAWRENCE RACINE Job Printing and A L PA G E PAGE TWO THURSDAY THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR crossroads When we hang a new calendar on the wall in Jan- uaiy we are reminded to review the past and look to the year ahead an excuse to say This will important one a crossroads year for our community looking Newmarkets past no one year stands out as being more important to the economic progress of the municipality than any other The community is as much at a crossroads one month as it is another It so happens that recent have brought New market to a crossroads During the closing weeks of 1953 the efforts of municipal leaders to encourage in dustrial development brought that development to a standstill temporarily at least The last available site suitable Tor an has been taken There is vacant land the outskirts of the town bit extension of water and sewage service to these areas be a slow process keeping pace with normal development over the years ahead A very large industry of course would so concerned about the service the has t offer industries require nearby water mains and sewers In the past the town council has pursued an in dustrial development policy to w anything we can In the last few weeks of municipal leaders realized that their zealous endeavours to jure an industry result- In the loss of another which would have been of great er economic value to the town As it is a firm female build a plant here while another have employed skilled labor probably will locate in Toronto Council acted in haste to accept the off er along in recent months Mayor Gladman commented this week Nbtlnng else was in sight lit the time We had to what we could get we didnt know about this other industry It is easy to say- what should have been done after a mistake is made and not bitter condemnation is voiced against council- Yet it be that a lesson has been learned Future councils will have the benefits of learned Perhaps the i coun cil be encouraged to formulate a pol icy for the future one which suit the needs of the community wellplanned policies which the council can make would have farreaching effects of benefit to the municipality for years to WHAT FOR THE FUTURE in adopting an industrial policy for the future council will find conflicting it comes to assessing the needs of the community Who is to say what is host for Newmarket in the future Council may want to encourage or to discourage indiistrial development industrial expansion may grow a large community with most of Its citizens being commuters holding jobs in the city In that event the community no doubt would lose much of character it would become ah extension of rf m city suburbs and lose its identity Or the could continue to he self suffi cient oh the a large percentage the citizens being employed locally Those who prefer the self sufficient community wilt favor a wisp policy to en courage the right kind of industrial development Cer tainly there is more appeal the self sufficient It hiiggeste a healthy the part of its citizens Sri local of It JwUetvcpmrhunily spirit Citizens who work and play In community know their neighbors belter than the suburbanites interested in good in the welfare of follow citizens We aretod ah overbalanced residential assessment Is the us that for in there is an ideal JjiiWebn anil Jin da trial good in for new industry Will employ k Mid work- a A textile firing has less to offer youth Without good the young people the city for their I AH things should beslr a jo to course future of present the of that the metropolitan area will hot grow indefinitely that it must slop somewhere and that it will never reach Newmarket we are not to and plan for the kind of com- we want Newmarket can afford to be fussy at the present time Hodgepodge development is not wanted must be an ideal toward which municipal leaders can plan or whats a heaven for WHAT HISTORY SAY What history say of Canada Tlie Financial Post asks this question as it comments on the countrys wealthiest year has just passed history The new year arid the whole of this challenging land will be bigger still liut is being big enough asks the Let not confuse bigness with or worth The same plight be assessing the giess a lkeNcWnifirkefe By itself gmatuess in size has no value in the saga of history or of human affairs the Post goes on to say There is intoxication and selfsatisfaction in Canadas impressive records if recent years But in this welter of big figures we lone about the important things We Canadians go all over the world everybody envies us and most people like us Nobody is mud at us But the shortpants of colonialism or no longer fit or become us What thonghiful thing should we do can en liven our sense of being Canadian Enlarging and en hancing our own sense of nationality is oho thing we can dp and the Western World commend us for so doing We can slop being secondrate Canadians or second rate by being ourselves Canada is much better itself and for its friends as it isthan by be coming a sickly sibling of a Our Common wealth is the worlds successful alive and useful That is one thing we can keep Canadians are fairly good in mechanics in chem istry and physics We have opened up a big land We have good people in mining forests farming atomic and medicine How good are wo in other fields It is time that we concerned ourselves also with those things of the spirit Up to now history has very little to say for us- TO PROLONG LIFE Need we die We all believe that death Biologists tell lis that we carry us the seeds of bur decay and natural death is a necessary re siilt of our mode of being medical feature the Service England suggests that someday scientists will be able to prolong life Lethal chemical changes begin to work in our bodies from the day of birth and possibly even the stage The ultimate cause of death is probably poison ing from waste products Yet scientists have shown that life is inherently continuous The tiny onecelled is sign ificaht because dies It lives by the process of dividing itself into two new cells A biologist watched this by through generations years In Alexis Carrpj of the In- took a piece of heart tissue of chick embryo put it in a special apparatus and demonstrated that it would is why it was finally thrown away ihe been carried on for centuries Tliecpmploxlty of man has proved to lid Jus undoing We die one sot of body cells others down Just how takes place on tern A famous physiologist prolonged life of fruit 90 percent by lowering the breeding temperature by twothirds lias estimated if the of human body loweved tci degrees human could be extended Today surgeon start human pumping again after- they McnnwhiJe the problem for the vat majority of is not whether they ill live til tumor 1 goes my is important to death rate mean an hi human fur pro duction But it does not venture 1 at ion increase so rapidly would eventually fid I to for life billions There is even argument today ahoutSylielhcrinoIuclin will match the present rate of JtftlwMi popu lation for too long h not of the Infringement on their rights their agent in intern not of the state to the direction on individual choke Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Slim was reappoin ted municipal fence viewer at the councirs inaugural meeting at the Corners on Monday We received a report of the appointment from our East township correspondent tins morning Say just what does a fence viewer do I asked r- V Why views fences course said Slim Us fence viewersgets a annual stipend of 25 bucks and you I know how we gets along Frankly I think the fence viewers of the municipality is a Seems like others is raises- a taxpayer I object I said is to prove all the fences have been viewed in I tell you a fence er could be getting away with highway robbery Now Ill bet the average viewer collects his annual stipend without viewing a single- fence in his term of office Mind you he might see a wire one in his own gar- den once in a while but he is probably looking through it to observe a well dressed young lady walking along the street But casual unofficial views shouldnt count Or a fence viewer who wanted to he partly honest could rent a light plane and fly over nil the fences in the community merely giving them a cursory view Plane rental might be and he still would have of the money to spend Oh well weve got lots said Lots of what of taxpayers money to spend in Cuttin Corners Wll up there we down here I said- Anyway Im talking about gen eral principles I think there should be some sort of investiga tion into this fence viewing bus iness We certainly dont hear any reports to council on the re sults of fence viewing Not once have we heard of any bad fences and there must be some bad ones around fence viewers job can be a highly important one said a of neighbors who squabble over the position of a fence A view er has got to arbitrate and de cide where the fence should be fence viewer is next thing to a judge in decisions this Then a fence viewer has got have a eagle eye to do his job right Why I have climbed trees and hung upside down from a television aerial to get a good view of a fence at times- Not only should us fence viewers get a raise we should also get danger pay as you may I think we should have an investigation and full report in council I said by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches The new year well under way now stalled with the and conventional trimmings There were pictures of first babies in the papers and the first calves of the year The last year was reviewed and many good wish es exchanged New years reso lutions were formed and in time they will be broken Also most dairies have sent out the quota notices and on many- a dairy farm there is bitterness and even deep concern The dairy business is still in great ft- cutties and some important will have to bo made and soon We do hot want to sing the old song of complaint against the producers organization It is a large organization which has in Some ways contributed to the good things in the fluid milk market and it- Is resenting what is weak it It is- cautious- over- timid it lacks the drive necessary to the will help us all It has held unreasonable in the face of a declining for other farm products At the it has- let some practices be established and one of these in particular may lie the ruin of orderly marketing Wo are inferring to the so called arrangement which means that even if- the dairy Wants pet cunt of the ducers milk it will only be obliged to pay full price for DO of it A some dairies have fold their shippers that at least percent plus milk will have to or else This make it for the producer to sett surplus milk at a price for which it cannot he produced There limit to this Soon the percentage will- climb until the proportion of full priced milk to the total shipped will be smaller and smaller When the distributors managed to get this thin edge of the wedge into the contract they also put their hands on the throat of the dairyman From all reports it also seems that quotas for the coming year are lower than other We are particularly upset by the trcatniDnt handed out to the shippers of one dairy This or- smite time ago sold their trucks to truckers la order to lUp them ia- for those arid- are given more so that they increase their income The truckers same dairy who t have their quota ciit- year after year shippers will ship their- know of one truck that taks only a half to now Strict man going any other or to enlarge Shippers on this route may not switch to other dairies V We realise that this glaring case injustice is not the rule every Where but it is a of rules regulations plus back room deals lack of courageous can do in our midst thus affected bear all the burden of marketing controlled ihiction without any of its flt Our industry cannot attract youhger men nor prosper and be the backbone of farming industry until our own organiz ation sees fit to eliminate these practices born in and perpetuated in selfishness and stupidity BORN IN STABLE CHRISTMAS DAY An event Hint happened in years ago was re- pealed this Christmas at Clinton Mrs a Dutch immigrant wife gave birth to her son in the stable of their farm on Christmas The father rushed his wife and new born son to hospital as quickly as he could and both mother and son are doing well Mrs Kehorst did not realise the significance of the event until she heard a nurse singing a Christmas carol in the hotel corridor iuyjJiL i