From The Files Of 25 And 50 Years Ago I County Council There will The Newmarket town and Pages from the Editors Notebook Newmarket and the rket Era 1852 a districts of North York The Expre Tyrrell See By Andrew Murdison Heart Tnrobs Humor triple lias recently faculties for There has net ai-llit- John E Struthers Managing Editor Caroline Ion Associate Editor Racine Production Ian Baxter Publis George Haskett Sports Editor E Stefaniuk Advertising THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE EIGHTH DAY OF JANUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYNINE INAUGURAL MEETING There can be no denying the fact that Mayor Alex has cultivated a new attitude among members of town council and employed officials toward their res ponsibilities Perhaps the general public too has a greater regard for municipal politicians and particu larly for the offices they hold Some of this respect can be attributed to the past two inaugural meetings Compared with the former meetings when a clergyman said a few words and the clerk went around the table briefly swearing in the members the 1958 and meetings have been conducted with dignity and great attention to the seriousness of the oath of office and oath of allegiance Starting the year with a reminder like the one Monday night a council member is likely to remember his oath of office before every action he lakes and decision he makes during the year Town Clerk Wesley Brooks and the mayor are res ponsible for raising the level of dignity at these Inaug ural meetings The wise words from Magistrate 0 in no small way contribute to the general sense of responsibility on the part of the council The effect of the magistrates comments equals the great respect the community has for Col Invitations were sent individuals representing business industry community organizations and the general taxpayer lo attend the meeting The result was that 101 people attended compared with none in some former years tins result alone creates more interest in municipal affairs This perhaps is the time lo congratulate Mayor for his leadership hard work and devotion to the job of cultivating civic responsibility While council members may react at tinier hi bulldog tenacity and Overeagerness to get a job done they can never accuse the mayor of being insincere If town council continues the good work it has been doing in 1958 New market need have no fear about tin conduct of its among Japanese reported After Pearl Harbour BCs Japanese language schools three newspapers and shops in Vancouvers Powell Street ghetto were peremptorily shut down They have not reopened but at least Japanese are no longer excluded from Vancouver swimming pools and theatres found thai of the wartime Japanese forced lo relocate in tarpapered shacks of in terior mining ghost towns have since settled in Toronto There Mrs Muriel executive of Hie Japanese Canadian Citizens Association campaigns for easing of Ottawas exclusion laws which make Japanese second- class immigrants Japanese here are today racially restricted to bringing to Canada only a husband a wife a fiancee a mother over 60 a father over 65 During the war the editor of the Era was a student al a Canadian Army Japanese language school in Van couver By July of 1945 about Japanese Canadian citizens in the Canadian army had arrived at the school having volunteered for Pacific duty We had great ad miration and respect for these people whom we called nisei second generation in Canada Despite the fact that their homes and bad been seized by the government and that had been deported from the coast they volunteered to fight for their country We are certain that the conscience money- paid to the in dividual replaced only a small fraction of what was lost The wartime treatment of these Canadians perhaps necessary was a dark part of Canadian history The frustrating fact is that seized properties fell easily into hands of opportunists who might not have cherished citizenship as much as our Japanese Canadian friends Freedom of speech wu curtailed in those days of fan HI ami ihnsc of out Japanese comrade unable Co take part in public debate in Van that time II is satisfying to mow that most have been more si rcessful in Canada si nee the war 111 bus mess ill CONSCIENCE MONEY Conscience money totalling 1000 has been paid by Canadian Government to of the The ha run on Japanese forced to evacuate from Britisl Columbia been a pot liar of material for humorists Tin inic World War as suspected enemy liens Liberty Canada ra wax says Clhc Baxter in The Magazine has revealed More than rial Post vtiun bill funny Commuters are os since returned to BC to find racial discrimination ing the rail of rtli America a fortune The rai there ha Ijeen virtually wiped ink way tor is inherently unprofitable at an covered in a survey He learned that Japanese level of fa fishermen have returned to BC but now ft fish together with Occidentals joined in Its til 111 that haunts all municipal nil Over Kill Japanese arc enrolled in the University of lie Iranspo much demand over too sin British Columbia and are now allowed lawyers and pharmacists to practice as and some mill Vet pipedream of hubs of on OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by HARVEY MUST WE HAVE ANOTHER DEPRESSION Mayor Betugins Report On Trie Towns Business MOSTROBBID BANK IN ONTARIO ads tenant not mailer of mi on ihir lights national issuer it is not Ihr function of As slate a of hirh at on individual VOWS SHE WILL KCEP TWIN SONS