fide A I i Notebook readers have to time why Some of our asked from time in our reports of Newmarket council meetings in The Era so much space is given to what said by Councillors and There is little publicity on the members of coun cil say Therefore we were pleased to see the people attending the meeting Tuesday night to learn for themselves that percent of the talking Is done by Coun cillors dug in and One citizen made the com ment in our presence this week that the democratic processes of government require plenty of discussion but in Newmarket democracy is talked to death Wo can hardly agree with this view as long as there are things to discuss free discussion must go on Yet there are occasions when rules of procedure are overlooked with the result that a member of council will take so much time on the floor that there is little left for others when a session approaches the hour of midnight Nevertheless the fact is that the two councillors to whom we have referred talk the most and are quoted the most in news reports This newspaper is not conducting a publicity campaign for either of them What they say happens to be news and we cannot make news out of what other members do not saw On this same subject of muni cipal press coverage we are re minded that Councillor Alex Hands has made several point ed references to what he seems to consider was undue publicity about Newmarkets water sup ply This week we heard one of Councillor Hands references to newspaper storied about a water shortage earlier this year he implied that there was no short age Those stories incident ally wore accounts of his water committee report to council Five minutes later Councillor Hands used the towns water problem as an argument in bis opposition to certain town de velopments We are not trying to make fun of the councillor arc merely pointing out that there can be different interpretations of water shortage and interp retations can vary as political motives vary among members of council At the moment we are not short of water if one of the pumps in the local wells does not break down we are not short of water if the assembly line laundry system at the Met ro home does not use too much and if the Green Lane well can be made to function before too long we are short of water if a big factory and homes are built without the new Green Lane well functioning if we dont dam up Creek and too many houses are built with the new Park Area well functioning but not the Green Lane well we are short of wa ter Or is it the other way around So what is a water shortage That reminds us that we have not mentioned again for some time that a pipeline from Lake Simcoe should be constructed to serve this whole district in cluding Newmarket and Auro ra Tuesday More active interest was shown by local citizens in town council this week than In the past years It Is at least that long and perhaps longer since there was an attendance of more than at the second council meeting this week held Tuesday night What sparked the interest in Tuesdays meeting beyond the verbal reports of the long heat discussions of the previous night was the distribution of two notices to the general public One was sent by Councillor Ales The other was signed Published by Four Newmarket Citizens One thousand of each were printed Tuesday at noon for post office distribution The latter addressed to the citizens of Newmarket asked Do you want a large new in dustry to locate in town It advised that the industry would provide firstclass employment for up to people and sug- Board Seeks Extra 7500 To Pay For that if people were inter ested they would attend the council meeting that night in the town hall Mr notice to the read An emergency meeting of the town council has been called for tonight in the town hall at pm It is about a new industry and concessions which would have to be given for it Momentous decisions will be made decisions which will affect the future of this town I earnestly urge every taxpayer to attend this meeting and to learn first hand what may to Newmarket if rash steps are taken by the majority of coun cil At least 200 people decided to follow the suggestions contained in the notices The majority of them remained until after the two main items of business were completed when council sat for the second consecutive night for close to four hours Discuss Shopping Centre At a special session on Tues- mover and seconder Councillors day night Newmarket council Ridler and withdrew it was divided evenly on the on Tuesday night and introduced of a shopping centre on two separate motions One cov- Yonge St so that approval was the approval for the shop- not granted the Eagle Building ping centre and the second Development company of the bringing of the Newmarket to proceed with the plant to Newmarket with project resolution which was in troduced by Councillors Glad stone and Robert was That the frontage on Street Lewis Farm be approved as a centre to be developed by Eagle Building contingent concessions Mr Ridler in introducing the new motion regarding the shop ping centre said that because of technical and legal difficulties outlined by the solicitor he had withdrawn the original resolu tion Mr said that the COUNCIL ACCEPTS Continued from Page assessment would be approxim ately or at the highest 7000 He questioned whether a factory that provided most of its employment not for the heads of households but for women was what was best for the town Although no figure for employ ment was included in the resolu tion mention has been made of an eventual employment of of who would be women Mr outlined the dif ficulties which residents in sub divisions already developed by Mr had experienced and repeated the request that one of these delegations had made to council that council consider the treatment they had received from Mr when enter ing future agreements with him He said it was a breach of faith to these new citizens of New market to disregard their recom mendation and give Mr Lenhardt every concession he requested A complete report of the dis cussion will appear in next weeks paper and Development company of shopping centre represented a Newmdrketi final plans to be commercial investment of one approved by the council and the end a half million dollars company in association with Lenhardt shall complete the extension of Millard Ave to the satisfaction of the town Councillors John Choppin and George supported He explained that the plan ning committee had been unani mously in favor of the Eagle De velopers since they were local people and would give first pre ference to local merchants when establishing the shopping centre and on the In association with Mr Opposed were Reeve Mr explained that Edward Deputy- they were able to have the reeve Violet St frontage for the Councillors Ales Hands and centre Alex Belugin Mr said that this amendment to the motion included the Millard Ave was introduced by Mr extension so that It deleted everything following would have to bear the cost ap- word council Only Reeve proximately In the and Councillors Bel- agreement with the town and Hands voted for the that vas Mr so that it was lost but the opening of Mill Mr Belugin who presented Ave through to the Edwin the most vocal opposition to the Lyons subdivision assumed original resolution opposed the by the town as one of the con- association of Mr cessions to Mr for his name with the proposition He work in retaining Tenatronics indicated that he willing to Ltd in Newmarket approve the group of local dents Ronald George Holly Messrs Lloyd end Nor wood who are the Eagle Build ing and Development company in their request for a shopping centre On Monday night approval for the proposed shopping centre included in a single resolu tion as one of the concessions which the town must grant be fore the tobacco plant will es tablish here Because of the op position which the lengthy reso lution received that night its ROBERT MARTIN Continued from Page to London Eng where he was quickly put to work as secretary for the district of Beckenham and Peng which comprised 26 troops Arrived in Toronto but had no official work for this period Moved to Newmar ket and discovered that Scout ing was in urgent need of sup port Instrumental in raising funds and largely responsible for obtaining the hall in which the group is now housed During these years he has held every office In the group committee and was Its chairman for the last three years Flew to Sweden to be presented with the Swedish thanks Badge by the Chief of Police of who was a Scout In the troop Mr Martin helped form This was their anniversary Retired as group com mittee chairman and appointed honorary chairman of Newmar ket group Hear Complaints Against Concerning Roads And Drainage Complaints against developers of several subdivisions in New market were received by council on Monday night They were referred to the reeve engineer and solicitor for immediate ac tion Many things in these new subdivisions should have been completed last summer but they were left and the people had to suffer in mires said Councillor Alex They shouldnt have to wait past this summer Mr referred to the situation at the subdivision on the north side of Eagle St A report appeared in last weeks Era and Express and said that these people were now Newmarket citizens and that council was obligated mor ally to help them find a solution to their problems Councillor Gladstone pointed out that some of the sub divisions were developed late last fall and that the weather had prevented certain work be ing finished He said he didnt blame the people for complain ing but that in some instances nothing could have been done before now There is no excuse for some of these things replied Coun cillor Robert Wonch The sub- dividers had plenty of time to attend to them during the good weather last summer The surface drainage problem on the Edwin Lyons subdivision an inadequate cul vert on Queen St West a drain age problem on Don Road and the difficulties faced by some new home owners report ed in last weeks paper were considered The solicitor suggested that the engineer report on vari ous situations Upon receipt of this information Mr Stiver said he would write to the appropri ate people asking that the nec- sary repairs be made As many of the complaints concerned new roads in the subdivision the as well as to Mr Stiver and Mr matter was referred to the reeve Bos worth Council was asked for an ail ditional grant of by the Newmarket Library board when the boards chairman Mr Mich ael appeared before on Monday night Coun cil withheld its decision ponding a full report from the library board Mr McMorrow told council that the project will cost approximately 12000 more than council authorized Donations have taken care of all but Mr McMorrow explained In presenting the financial statement for the building pro ject Mr said that the board originally entered an agreement with Hughes Con structlon for But due to soil conditions quick sand and an error in the early sewer records additional ex penses raised the contract price to Additional expenses listed by Mr were Stephens for shelving receiving desks and minor items of furni ture furnishings land scaping equipment archi tects Iocs sundries 500 This totalled or approx imately 64000- The town sold debentures for which brought in 51351 and with the donations of a total of has been rais ed Mr McMorrow explained Most of the work has been completed except for minor ad justments and the hoard is in the red to pay the bills Wo have returned to council to pres ent the situation and ask for a further donation Mr row said Councillor Alex sug gested that it is the personal re sponsibility of the past chair man of the library board Dr E Vandorvobrt and the present chairman Mr Michael that a deficit of 7500 exists on the library project Mr Kenneth Stiver town sol icitor said that it is councils re sponsibility to pay the outstand ing bills He explained that the library board is an agent of the towns and therefore its debts are the towns responsibility l board Is the creature of the town Mr Stiver added The board having incurred lia bilities someone is going to be sued if they are not paid and the town is legally responsible By granting the board didnt we limit them to that amount asked Mr If you authorize your agent to do some work and the board is your agent and that agent ex ceeds its budget that is your re sponsibility It is your business to deal with the board but the third party the firms who con tracted for this business in good faith looks to the town for the solution Mr Stiver added I dont see how this council can meekly accept this deficit replied Mr As a mem ber of the special library com mittee I didnt see the plans I was told it was none of my busi ness First we grant for the library The board returns and asks for an additional Council grants that When they were working on the foundation of the building they realized that It was going to cost S3000 than had been anticipated and yet the board disregarding the fact that council had set the total amount for libra wen I itUoivi put In everything had planned he added Why wasnt told Ibis extra The board exceeded lis by without any from this council Why didnt we receive re ports from the hoard asked Mr Mr claim that sev eral frills had been included in the new building He listed as fancy ventilation en trance and other thing which they could have got Along with out for a time Councillors and Alex Hands supported Mr in his demands an explanation as to why no reports were presented to council and how the board could overspend its allotment without asking per mission for an additional grant from council before not after had been spent Here we arc faced with the problem of the board having overspent greatly on this pro- said Mr that we shall have to pay If council had been told of this sooner added Mr it could have chosen this or that but not having had that opportunity the indignation ex pressed here is justified I dont know why council couldnt have had better contact The mayor is the only member of council who is on the library board I have no criticism for the other members of the board explained Mr only of Mr and Dr voort Those two fellows were the building committee and di dnt report If I were in their place I would resign he added The present and past chairmen should be asked to give a de tailed statement of this fiasco said Mr They should explain why they proceeded in this way without the town know ing Regardless of whether there are frills there or not council should have been inform ed supported Councillors and in their re quest for additional information from the library board Mayor Voted against the res olution Penrose Hired As New Constable Newmarket council has auth orized the appointment of Ever ton Claire Penrose as a third class constable to the Newmar ket police force at a salary of 3300 At the end of three months Mr Penroses salary will be raised to and he will be made a second class constable The recommendation that Mr Penrose be employed to replace Constable Saunders who resign ed from the force last fall was made unanimously by the police committee Chairman of the committee Deputyreeve Violet said applica tions had been received for the job and that Mr Penrose had had three and a half years ser vice with the Ontario Provincial police OUR SIDE OF THE Harvey EDITORS NOTE With two town council ses sions of each time and space required in present the facta on municipal de velopments this week ha pre vented us from making the editorial comments we had wished to make Too certain concessions by town have not yet been clarified and a final aateasment of the deal no be made week CAN WE LESSEN RACE HOSTILITY TO STAR CANADIAN ACTORS in combatting race prejudice we must rely chiefly on educa tion Christian and democratic ethics alike condemn racial discrimination The fact that racism has grown up In the face of that condemnation shows that exhortation will not suffice to end it We must uproot the fallacies from which it springs Most people will admit that It Is unfair to discriminate against a person merely be cause of the color of Ids skin or the texture of his hair The people who advocate segrega tion sincerely believe that neg roes are an Inferior race and that the mixing of races moans degeneration Pie task of education must begin with proof that those beliefs are fallacious fads about race differen ces are readily available In such as You and Heredity and Russ ells New Hours for Chung- World Here let suffice to say that most reputable biologists now that there arc no valid reasons for believing that any one race inherently superior to the others The great differences that exist between the various peoples of the world are cultur al that Is they are the result of differences hi education training There has boon much contro versy over trusts and what they reveal about relative ability of different races Tire one thing that comes out as as the sun is seldom mentioned the great differences exist within races not between them Every race contains individuals that range all the way from genius to idiot If wish to make mental ability the basis for an Immi gration or a eugenics policy we must deal with individuals not races If we want to admit only with high the way to do It Is to exclude people with low whether they come from or from Britain no matter what color their skins may be i Skin color is a ridiculous test of excellence as is obvious whenever wo try to apply It to any case In which our prejudi ces are not Involved for in stance tn horses or lie In classifying horses we use some basis that reflects capacity such as speed or strength Some of the breeds of horses are uniform in color Gibers like may be black white And so It Is with bo- lugs A champion fighter may white or colored a Jack or a loo Trails A good singer may he white or colored a Marshall or Marian Anderson Along with the myth of race superiority goes the notion that race mixture lead to defenera tion W do not want to be come a nation of mongrels is ivijuiKn argument for gallon are prac tically unanimous lit any Ing that race mixture Is not a bad thing- Race mixture produces more variations and more vigor The added vigor admitted to be good and it has not been proved that the variations are bad It happens too that most of us are of mixed race already The purest races on earth are the Australian the Hot tentots and the Pygmies It must be remembered that discrimination need not involve any feeling of superiority it ought to bo obvious that unre stricted immigration of Asians to this country would soon low er the standard of living of our workers almost to the Asian level without noticeably raising standards in Asia The population id India Is increas ing about a your that of Japan about One does not need to be an to figure out how long it would take to make this into an Asian country even If we admitted only the increase in pop ulation growth Unrestricted Immigration would result in the displace ment of people who have learn ed In work a liberal democ racy by people who have not Liberal democracy ia the gift Wu have to offer the rest of the world Is to preserve that gift that are justified in pre venting our countries from be ing taken over either by com munist conquest by peaceful occupation short immigra tion are more than defense of our standard of living they arc a defense of a rare and difficult achievement in the slow moral progress of the human race Immigration restrictions can not be removed as long as pre sent differences in economic and cultural levels remain But it should be possible to devise immigration restrictions which would not involve discrimina tion on grounds of race all immigrants apart from schol ars or refugees from persecution were required to be demoeruts to pass literacy tests and to bring with them stipulated amounts of capital it would be possible to reduce immigration to any desired lev el without any mention of race or place of origin The elimination of race pre judice is going to take a long time bee it cannot be achieved until people got of fallacy of racial su periority and the ear of race mixture The removal of all restrictions that is the estab lishment of world community must await great advance in the- standards of living and of culture in the depressed areas of the world Those who want to realize the ideal of brotherhood on earth must help the underprivileged to reach such a level of econ omic and cultural that It will be psychologically possible for brotherly feelings to between the under privileged and the more people of the West ice Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger in Jail is in trouble Priding a circular letter urging them to Hat Poison because party make it sponsored festival which held for yen- in hir To determine the cause of all tins yon have to go hack in history to the bays in June met in the pasture at the front Of the original Crown farm of township pioneer At the tobacco a prize always given for the contestant who could spit chewing tobacco the farth est Since finances have been in condition the past interested people sought hacker and the Rat Poison Company was persuaded to underwrite the Festival From jail Slim our correspondent and one of the patrons of the Festival writes way on the publicity committee I under took to write a letter to all friends of the Festival urgin them to buy Rat Poison In this here letter I pointed out that this here product whose manufacturers sponsor our has many including rats Other uses I included the rid of ones motherinlaw as worthy of mention with this here pro duct but that there was my mis take Im on a charge without bail of violence to overthrow mothersinlaw of the criminal code section subsection clause Since our staff has been very draw busy this week turning out a by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches The recent laying off of workers at one of the large implement manufacturing plants is the first sign that the present difficult farm situation has finally showed its effect at the end where it is most notice able Not only are implement deal ers stocks high and their ac counts receivable high but fi nally the- sluggish stream of sales has backed up to its source and it is going to result in reduced production fig ures were available from the chartered banks showing the size of farm improvement loans under which some imple ments can be bought they probably would show a rise too and the recent increase in price of used implements at some farm sales is just part of the same picture We very often complain about the failing farm income in times of a vigorous boom in this country but we seldom try to guess what would happen if there were an agricultural prosperity as well We believe that if farm income would in crease the next few years the country would have something that would amount to an in surance policy against any pos sible slackening of employ ment and would go far to as sure a more stable prosperity There are probably two or three major fields where stable and profitable farm income could provide a steady effect First would be the sale of im plements because the increas shortage of farm labor would force farmers to additional mechanization Second and probably hand in hand with the first one would be the re newed interest in the remodell ing of the farmers plant to cut chores and increase the labor efficiency We believe that the great majority of the present farm buildings to be K2 no re has had time to down and try to bail for Be sides hes better out of the during a busy week jSliflft continues in letter After all I couldnt ace no harm out a letter kind sponsor After all fair is fair and why shouldnt we use particular make of Think of all the and grain on which wrnak havoc annually a lot of us has law which could conveniently So done away with easy Rut fact that the names of Mayor of Corners and Councillor Colin Hoggs appeared on the as patrons was unfor tunate I think they swung some weight with the Crown Attorney to have me charged They have fer me since the sewer scandal of 1948 when I exposed them in the public prints And the thing that gits me mad is that if you do this thing like the Festival letter on a na tional scale you gits invited to Hall but all 1 got was a invitation from royal On tario police to a room in the jug with to it This abode aint Hill although the dep utychief serve lea in the ceils every y at four okay these people to talk and arts cake cut when a like ours without no subsidy iJce the Report there should be us mem bers of the Tobacco Chewers has to make the of it One thing about it all here publicity will to next years having been designed in the days of hand labor hand enuring and a supply of- labor Given the necessary income credit and a ray of hope we are convinced that barn equip- ment demand would be unlimited New stabling and of new barns equip ment to handle manure in bulk stable cleaners ventilators large power takeoff spreaders would be and be great demand We are convinced that there would be a great tendency to wards pipeline milking and loafing barns with demand for equipment suitable for such operations and if we may l a bad word a great demand for bulk coolers As a matter of fact the demand for bulk haulage would come from the farmers who dont want to bother with cans a much more natural state of affairs than what is taking place today Hand in hand with this there would bo a demand to improve the farm housing for the farmer who may have re modelled his barn may have improved the farm kitchen and who under better conditions now improve his whole house There would be also some demand for a second house on the farm since once again as in all periods of la bor shortage the married man would be the better bet These three phases would represent a great amount of vestment in new industrial products and could take up the slack if subdividing ever slowed down or if other Indus- trial activity eased off And all this would only cost the com munity at large on increase in food prices amounting to about what cents for a quart of milk cents per pound steak and cents for bacon Sounds like cheap insurance really for the dm The state is the the matter of the people state i their guarantee against infringement on their their agent in inhrmttomil and national issues is not the function of the state to assume the mom