By Ginger Sin reply to an editorial about to return to How far would we the farmers hog marketing get if we suggested to other I scheme which appeared in the their produce to the farms and Era recently we received a farmers decide what price letter from Mr Ross be paid at former columnist for the years Era He defends the schema a cenS M Li sellin Mr Parker writing in the found that it could not Era and Express December 29 bargain successfully unless it makes the point that there had control of all the hogs should be no compulsory hog marketing Some 50 years cooperative for ago there was a system for marketing hogs buyer or marketed drover came to the farm Ontario The hog producer now The hog producer could bar- has the bargaining power gain for a price before the hogs through his cooperative to set a left the farm With the motor price for hogs truck a new system was The majority of replacement veloped to sell hogs The hogs or baby pigs is now sold where were picked up by truck at the there is competitive buying farm and were taken to the What would happen if we should buyer buyer or packer to the Stouffvilte sates arena decided on a price to be paid some Saturday and suggest that and sent a cheque to the hog the buyers be allowed to set the producer less trucking and price of pigs without compete carrying charges bidding The cooperative Tills was the worst selling hog selling system is only asking practice that the hog producer the buyers or packers to bid on had ever met The hog producer hogs instead of setting their own had no bargaining power or voice prices in the price paid This is the Mr Armitage farms near Pina system that Mr Parker wishes Orchard Newmarket fc from the Files of and 50 Years Ago Exprtsi Vsv V v Published every Thursday at 142 Main St Newmarket bytheNwmarkei Era and Express limbed Subscription 4 for two years 250 for ana year In advance Single are Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers jy Association arid the Audit Bureau of Circulation Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa JOHN I Managing cAMXtNi ion haskett I LAWRENCE RACINE Jab Printing and Production PAGE THURSDAY THE FIFTH DAY OF JANUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSIX January Hockey Boys Hurt Lost day evening some of our junior hockey boys were driving to in a truck but when nearing Holland Landing the truck skidded on the icy road and turned turtle mem- of the team were more or less injured Douglas Wilson had three ribs broken the others were Herbert Cain and J Dr Wesley of New market and Dr Campbell of Bradford were called by phone After being treated the boys were driven to their homes Old Folks Entertained In mates of the Old Peoples Home Newmarket were guests of the St Patrick chapter of the Royal Arch Masons of Toronto at a banquet and concert stag ed- on Tuesday night of last week at the Home Later in the evening members in the role of Santa sat in groups and handed gifts of a varied nature to aged guests Following the presen tation of gifts a fine musical program was provided by local talent and members of the chapter Over 200 attended The Grancaise at Orange About 20 miles from or miles from Avig non is Orange where the fam ous Dutch family the House of Orange rulers of both Holland and England had its origin Here are Roman remains eluding a famous arch under mil victor has passed With his legions and a theatre which will seat in the open 10000 spectators The acoustics are about perfect and if you are on the topmost row you can hear the voices of the stage distinct- Every summer at the end of July or early in August the t famous a series of Greek trage dies while the tourist may en- i Joy today as much as the an cients on some Roman holi day January Shooting Match Several sportsmen took part in a shoot ing match at brick- yard on New Years day The entrance fee was too high to make it very interesting First of Season Dont mis3 the hockey match vs Newmarket at Newmarket rink Monday evening Free Reading Room The last hook taken out in was by Master Cliff Knowles the first for by Mr Graham Miscreants still clip pic tures and ads from the papers and magazines which is con trary to the regulations Splendid skating on Fairy Lake again on New Years day and a big crowd enjoyed the Mr and Mrs C of Allandale spent New Years day with Mrs Hughes Mr John Storey of Toronto Medical College expupil of Newmarket high school was in town this week Miss Ada and her brother Mr Richard spent part of the holidays at Georgetown Miss Bertha Rogers of Toron to daughter of Rev Rog ers spent New Year holidays at Mr Jacob Doyles Mr Ed and Mr Albert of were home for Christmas holiday Three young ladies from Jamaica who had been attend ing Pickering College are spending the holidays at Mrs Allen Codys Mr Meads spent New Year holidays with his son in Toronto and his daughter Mrs Workman of Toronto spent the holidays here wilh her mother Mr Harry Barker of Hol land Landing is visiting his brother and sister Mr and Mrs Barker of Queen St Toronto for a few days HOPE FOR EARLY ACTIONS- if- THERE IS a lull in Newmarket town council at present Every year until the new council is duly installed at the usual inaugural meeting there- is a blank period in the last part of December and in the first part of January Usually it is not until lately in January that any real action starts But no matter how pressing the needs for certain action may be they must wait until the traditional time lag is over New- market is a little slower than its neighbors Most muni- cipal councils in the county have held their inaugural meetings and have settled down to business We confess that we are impatient about progress l in municipal matters Before the elections in Decern- her a recommendation was submitted to council for an overall planning policy for Newmarket which if implemented could mean real progress in providing new industries employment in or near town for the many who live here but must work elsewhere Over a month has gone by since the recommendation was made In the meantime there have been the elections Christ- mas and New Years holidays and next the inaugural meeting and naming of council personnel to committees At best it will be a long time before a new plan- policy will have any effect Possibly there will be lengthy discussions arguments and meetings before r policy is even adopted After its adoption sur veys no doubt will be made authorities on specific plan- subjects will no doubt be sought out for advice appointments to a planning board if such is to be form ed will have to be made in the past we have heard great proposals made in council Sometimes it takes months sometimes years before results are seen The council has a num ber of new personalities and we have no idea how all will work together and how efficiently and quickly they will tackle the communitys problems At this point we can only urge that they get d w to business as as possible and face the problems in guiding Newmarkets growth AN Ul NEW REEVE of East Gwillimbuiy town- Newmarkets neighbor on its north boundary ex pressed the desire for cooperation between the two municipalities in future planning In his inaugural ad- dress Longford said that the two councils ivi should not feel they should pull the wool over each others eyes in any negotiations East Gwillimbuiy municipal representatives seem to realize that develop ment at the north end of Newmarket requires more attention by both municipalities with full cooperation between the two The reeve expressed an attitude fa- to a planning board made up of representatives both municipalities Newmarket should answer promptly with a proposal that will result in early by the two municipalities PARTIALLY ACADEMIC SUBJECT A PROPOSAL made at a meeting of Aurora town council Tuesday night is questionable from a kind of academic point of view not from the point of view that it has a direct effect on the taxpayers of that com munity With opposition from Councillors Keith bet and Bailey the council has decided to draw up a bylaw to control the building of new service stations in the community While Mayor Henderson said that the purpose of the bylaw would be to give council control over the cation of sites for service stations newly elected Clarence Davis who proposed the bylaw said that Aurora has enough service stations now Others ex- pressed the same opinion Councillor Bailey who strongly opposed the idea of having such a bylaw hint ed that the bylaw would give council power to stop any further opening of service stations and Bailey said that the bylaw would be in violation of certain principles of freedom Since control was wanted Bailey asked Why not dentists lawyers tanneries banks and so on The whole question harks back to a similar when it was suggested by some members of New- market council thai there were enough taxis in town and a move was made to prevent a man from being is sued a new taxi license A similar issue took place in Toronto when possibly innocent and well meaning fac- wanted more controls Aside from the academic point of view concerning restrictions on enterprise Auroras proposed bylaw is that the council could well avoid for the reason of Control of sites if wanted can be acquired ing as suggested by Councillor By that means council would not be accused of be unfair to one group All policy decisions would be complete in one clean bylaw Zoning however has drawbacks to other municipal policies other hand there arc openings for unfair ness through the power of council in the proposed by law Theoretically oil companies or owners of exist- service stations could gang up and exert a subtle kind of pressure on council or councillors to keep out ail new business opposition Results could be embarras sing if not of a scandalous nature theoretically OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by W Harvey A MONROE DOCTRINE FOR DEMOCRACY A POLICY FOR THE LONG PULL HOW TO ENJOY WINTER SEASON Once upon a time two teams of wrestlers the Reds the Blues were engaged in a match for the worlds championship Each team followed its own rules The Blues followed the ordinary rules of wrestling by which a contestant who loses one fall is permitted to try again later The Reds used brass knuckles black jacks and any other weapons they could get into the ring And when they got an opponent down they strangled him Thus the Reds had a slight advant age are apt to forget that imperial ism was off this continent by the Monroe Doctrine back ed up by the power of the United States During the Civil War the only period during which the United States was not in a posi tion to resist European en croachments the French invad ed and conquered Mexico They withdrew only when Na poleon III was handed an ulti matum by the ambassador of the Re- United States The communists have ex actly the same advantage over us In a democracy they may lose ten successive elections but are free to contest the eleventh Their party organization con tinues to function Their press continues its campaign of vili fication When communists get control of a country anticommunists do not get another chance All noncommuntet parties social ist and peasant as well as capi talist are outlawed Their press and radio are seized and their leaders liquidated As far as we know little San Marino the only communist country in the world that has ever per mitted one free election When winter sets in nd the Christmas season offers a few hoar of leisure some people like to put on or snow hoes Others curl up with a good book in front of a fire But group is more enthusiastic about their tfcJU the of Audubon society They stalk thsir sod stand fox hours or taking photos At Scarcer Campbell counted hi day an unqualified this screech awl of indignation is habits BO necessarily directed at Would it not be possible to adapt to the present struggle a device that proved effective in preventing the of this hemisphere by a previous generation of imperialists We What we need is an expand- Monroe Doctrine for Containment must be con tinued but it is not enough It merely prevents conquest by forces coming from outside the country A Monroe Doctrine for Democracy would have to be a policy of preventing dic tators from taking over any democracy whether they from without or from within Communist parties all over the world are certain of sup port from Moscow We must give democratic parties the same of communist international must be matched by a democratic In- The democracies still try to adhere to the policy of nonin tervention in the internal af fairs of other countries policy was invented to pre serve peace It has no other justification It has failed to maintain peace because the communists refuse to follow it It has become a selfimposed stockade which compels us to stand helplessly aside while the forces of the enemy take over country after country We were able to act in Korea only because there was a gov ernment which called on us for aid Had the communists ob tained power by a coup as they did in Czechoslovakia the doc trine of nonintervention would have prevented us from acting The classic illustration is found in the cose of General Franco He never had the sup port of anything but a small minority of the Spanish peo ple Even though he was sup ported by most of the army and navy he would probably have met defeat but for the help he got from Mussolini and Hitler assisted by the stupid nonin tervention policy of the dem ocracies Yet in spite of the hostility of most Spaniards Franco has remained in power for two decades If the democracies had been bound by treaty to come to the aid of the democratic govern ment surely some one of them would have had sense enough and decency enough to give the Spanish government the small amount of aid that would have been needed to defeat Franco The point is that aid must be given to the democrats be fore the dictator his position Otherwise art action from outside merely strengthens the dictator by en listing on his side the patri otic feelings of the people This was demonstrated when sanctions were imposed on Fascist Italy Mussolini was by no means a popular hero until he was able to pose as a mod ern Caesar defying France and Britain It is true that democracy cannot be forced on people who do not it It was no doubt overoptimistic even to expect that a people like the Koreans without experience in selfgovernment would be able to operate a democratic govern ment successfully At the same time it is false to say that for eign help is useless West Germany Japan arid Italy now have democratic governments and while we cannot say that they are safely democratic we can say most emphatically that they are more democratic than they would now be had there been no war and no occupation Democracy cannot be impos ed but dictators can be deposed Democracy cannot be created by force but it can be fostered It has been fostered by meas ures which could never have been applied had not the dic tators been first removed by force A Monroe Doctrine for Dem ocracy is simply a democratic insurance policy It has its parallel in the clause in the Constitution guaran teeing a republican form of government in all of the states The state ie the servant not the waster of the people the state is their guarantee against infringement on their rights their agent in international ami national ieeties it ie not the function of the state to assume the l A little nonsense now and then is relished by the Anon SHm bur special correspondent from Cuttin Cor ners reports on the inaugural council meeting this week when Mayor Reeve Holland Rivers and the others were in stalled in their respective off ices for the i31h consecutive year The council received the re port from the police arbitra tion board there reports Then- Councillor Colin de- Hoggs got up and said that he a very pretentious matter to bring up one that hed thought up all by himself with out any political assistance Councillor preambled around fer a while bcforc he got down to the point that he was a man of action and all that without fear favor from anybody pointed out that the police act says that there aint no compulsory arbitration Since arbitration is arbitrary he said council had got to pay raises to the constables and according to the deci sion of the board and thats law t He said that council was aware that it will have to pay the five officers a raise because they hafta Then he delivered coup the stroke of genius that took council Well fire the five officers and well hire five more chiefs and with the present chief we can pay em what we want tor he declared y- Well since council was m en nobody what to say It was dented arid all that l usual said Mayor Its unheard of said Holland Rivers Its quite a trick if we kin git away with it said sly old Councillor Mayor May stroked the bald pari of his head and look ed at Councillor Bust You think you get away with it Pay six chiefs starvation wages save the money for Important municipal project Council voted to put the matteY into the hands of a spe cial committee Then they got to over What theyd spend the money oh which they would save One wanted a bronze plague on the bridge at the entrance to town with names of the roads and bridges committee oh it Another a raise in council salaried Another wanted more with miscellaneous account got to about which of police would do the police work If a bank robbery alarm one chief would order the others to go get the and all the others would be all the others if you know what I mean Who would collect the parkin meter revenue and do all them sort of menial jobs Council got so contentious about it that the had to be adjourned fast before there was a fight I dont know whats to come of the idea but I dont think the committee will make much headway up in Cuttin Corners One thing about it though they gel real original ideas in CutOn Corners says Slim The Top Six Inches It was slushy and foggy yes terday and we had to make a trip It was a pretty long one too about miles return and it was with great relief that we found out that it was possible to go by train Ever since we were very the trains had a fascina tion for lis there is something overwhelming about the loco motive belching smoke and hissing steam the size and the power of it So we boarded in Toronto in the morning having acquired a first class ticket and and CitIed down in great comfort As we wore tearing through the countryside among the farms and small towns blan keted for the winter we were congratulating ourselves on our wisdom Our reverie was interrupted by a man in uniform who in a great hurry to tell us that it was time to get My friend and myself had no idea what time It was and so we tore through about six cars to get the place selected for our debarkation You see while there arc two doors and sets of steps to get oft each car some mysterious decrees where the passenger should get off And never that place on the car in which one rides We made the long trek to front of the tram only to dis cover that they mode a mistake and we had another hour and a half to go We wanted to get off at and they were going to put us off at Of course this was all printed on our tickets which took about minutes for one man to make out an operation that leaves one wondering if this Is still done the same way as it was done years ago Then the train stopped at London and we were to be there IB minutes After about a half hour of shunting and jerking and we do mean rough handling we started off Having eaten in the meantime while they were trying to shake something off the train and eaten well at rather expensive prices we fi nally got off at Having attended our business we took the other railroad com panys train back According schedule as it was to take four hours and seven minutes to do the trip Well we minutes late on the run of a little over four hours It getting late and we how we get Newmarket y We asked the conductor who seemed to have the amount of gold braid on J he had a timetable with him to tell us if there was a train coming to Newmarket that night He informed us In no uncertain terms that he had in deed no timetable making us feel that such a suggestion was well below his dignity and that it Is only gome fool passenger who is as stupid as we are could even think such a thing up He finally suggested as we were getting in to town that if we were to see the passenger agent he would arrange that- the train would stop here By that time we cared little if we had to walk but as we were- walking out of the station we ran across another impressive collection of gold braid who turned out to be the passenger agent After some frowning he as- me that there was no train until next morning We came home en the It was not as comfortable and not as quiet but at least had the impression that it in order to people who have to go where Trains seem to run for many other reasons none of which seem to he connected with the people who try to use them- fouND frfv Sir 3JCCJ j I zlW si 5CJ i Rodger St Joans Que a steward serving aboard Labrador poses proudly with a collection of his painting done during the Arctic tour this summer Other seamens fln ship included leather work model ships and diode