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1 A friend of ours went fishing at Lake SImcoe a couple of weekends ago It was the first time that he had ever fished He hooked a lovely lake trout He is now under the impression that he ranks as a fisherman We submit that while his is one of the largest caught on the lake so far this year for him to call himself a fisherman on the of this one ex perience is very similar to call- a man who raises a tomato plant in a garden box a farmer That one experience we say is nothing more than a one- page introduction to a five- volume book- He can not claim to be a fisherman until after many years of painstaking pur suit of fish and he must also realize that it is not the fish one catches which makes the fisherman Ah no That is the very least of it What does our friend know of the boredom of a hot sum mer sun on a flat lake the cramped shoulders the sleep ing legs What does he know of the monotony of endless trolling broken perhaps by a moment of wild hope when the hook snags a piece of drift wood Has he climbed out of bed at two oclock on a rainy morning driven hundreds of miles to fish a lake he has been told of only to find a thousand others there before him and all boats rented out We submit that until he has tasted the bitterness of these and similar experiences he has no claim to the title of fisher man Our friend hooked his fish on the first bite He lost no tackle broke no line This might be considered evidence of skill That is how he con siders it We say it means nothing whatever but sheer luck or else he was using a clothesline and a butchers hook He knows nothing of fishing until he has seen the prize of the year slip the hook at the side of the boat or snag ged his line and lost the prize From the Files of lrfT ice Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger 5 after a battle or even seen the dang thing jump out of the boat and back into the water while the man who caught him was being congra tulated by his fellows Has our friend seen bass of truly gigantic proportions swim casually within three feet of him even nose his bait and then depart while a cast a few feet out inevitably hooks the undersized the half-inch-less- thanlegal These experiences are the tempering of the fishermans ambition the hardening of his soul The experience of not catching a fish repeated a thousandfold is what makes ft the fisherman not the lucky PAGE FOUR catch the holeinone And in the realm of story telling it is not the fish which is caught which counts They can be measured weighed and tasted It is the one which got away which makes the tale The spinning of yarns of tre mendous battles against over whelming odds the whale on the end of a twothread line brought almost to gaff before lost Here is the making of the fisherman off North Publish ivy Thursday at 142 Main by fro and Express limited Subscription for two for in arm Se of Class A Wmektitts of Canada Canadian Wkly Association and Audit Bureau of Authorized as Class Mail Post Ottawa John mm CAMXINI Worn Sports Job and E I A LP A G THURSDAY THE TWENTYEIGHTH DAY OF JUNE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYONE A salesman was in the office on Monday proud in a some what perverse manner of his beetred sunburn and work- blistered hands We enquired after his condition Been working on the cottage he told us It seems that every week end since the roads were pas sable he has loaded family and construction materials into his car and gone to the cottage re turning late Sunday night The entire weekend is devoted to working on the cottage We remarked somewhat naively that we thought a sum mer cottage was a place where one went fora rest and relaxa tion Apparently not A sum mer cottage is a place where a man works twice as hard on the weekends as he does at his job during the week 50 Years Ago JUNE Last Saturday was a fine morning and there was a big crowd on the market The prices of butter and eggs were on the decline Large quantity of green vegetables Prices paid were eggs to cents a butter to 3d cents a lb dressed hens to cents a lb apples to 35 cents a basket Green onions were cents a bunch or for cents tomato plants 20 cents a box Five hundred people assembl ed in the Aurora town park on Thursday evening where four banners for Orange Lodges were dedicated Rev Canon Ward- pronounced the dedicatory prayer Addresses were given by Mayor Walton Rev Kenneth Waters Rev P and Rev T White After the ceremony the lodges marched to the lodge rooms headed by the citizens band Miss Ruby Moss passed an exam in sight singing with first class honors at the Toronto Conservatory of Music last week Miss graduate nurse of York County hospital who has been spending the past month with her uncle Mr C at Kingston has re sumed her position of night supervisor at the hospital In the bankers tournament at the Summit Golf and Country Club recently McLennan had the best not score of the day The toitrna was attended by over bankers from Toronto and sur rounding towns Mr McLen nan is the manager of the Bank Of Montreal Newmarket and had a net score of The high school teachers who have been appointed to mark papers in Toronto are Mr Kidd Mr Gardner Miss and Miss Cole Miss Currey who Tjias received her leaves this week on a trip to Europe THE OLD HOME TOWN JUNE Rev and Mrs Rogers Mr and Mrs Cody and Miss Walsh left on Wednesday to attend yearly meeting at Pickering The trotter Black Joe owned by Mr Ed Jackson proprietor of the Forsyth House won first at Guelph and London race3 last week making a rec ord of Alderman Hughes of St Georges ward broke the record last Sunday by having new potatoes green peas and new boots for dinner Home grown strawberries arc now selling at boxes for cents or cents a pail The thermometer was in the shade last Wednesday af ternoon Mr Case has purchased Mr Thos Ranks house and lot on St at the south end of Aurora While out looking for stock last week Walter and Jacob Taylor caught a young owl In Lundys bush near the of Whitchurch It stands about feet high and is a beautiful specimen Mr intends to tame it The quarterly lea of the ladies aid of the Methodist church on Mrs Geo Richard sons lawn was most successful Instrumental music was sup plied by Misses Edna Cane Net tie Forester Jesse Miss Edna and Miss Wilson Newmar ket and Miss Terry Mount Albert successfully pas sed their recent examinations at Toronto Conservatory of Music Mr Henry is putting In a soda water fountain A construction gang was tak ing up the old rails and replac ing them with heavier ones all along the track in this vicinity last week Last Monday night store was entered and was stolen from the till and some cigars By STANLEY ARENA POLICY The Newmarket Arena during the past year has been operated as if it were a private business in the sense that it has received no benefits or subsidy what ever One of its latest charges has been for police pro- tection a bill which it paid despite the fact that as a public business the arena commission could reason ably expect police service without charge The arena commission has paid from its revenues all charges in cluding maintenance debt interest insurance salaries etc But while it has been able to pay its own way so far there is a strong possibility that it will end its year in October in the red The amount will be small but when it is remembered that the balance sheet does not allow for any reserves for maintenance and deprecia tion this fact becomes of utmost importance Of equal importance is the fact that to pay its way the arena commission is obliged to turn every minute possible into money The question is Is this what was intend ed when funds were contributed from private individ uals and labor volunteered This question was raised last spring in these columns and it has never been really answered The arena commission has no choice but to operate as profitably as possible It has to if it is to pay the charges that are levied against it But because much of the financ ing of the arena was done by private contribution and volunteer the definition of a policy is a pertin ent issue Those who gave believed they were provid ing for future community benefits in the form of cheap er and freer time As long as the arena commission is required to make every penny count these belief its are not The whole question of policy should be discussed in council The arena commission should be assured of some financial relief so that it in turn can provide those community benefits for which money was contri buted and labor given by private citizens ANOTHER WEEKEND ACCIDENT There was the regular weekend accident at the cor ner of Davis Dr and Yonge St on Saturday Four cars were involved and a woman was badly cut It was the kind of accident to be expected on a narrow high speed highway at an unprotected intersection- If peeling back the shoulders of Yonge St on the hilt south of the intersection is out of the question at the present time surely there is nothing to prevent put ting up signs on the approaches to the intersection warn ing motorists to go slow to watch for the intersection It wouldnt be the final cure by any means but at least the stranger would bo warned and the habitual travel ler reminded of the danger The hazard of the corner is so obvious its of accidents there for any one to examine that it is in credible that nothing has been done so far to avert it We know from the experience of the Oak Ridges people in their efforts to safeguard a school crossing how seemingly interminable is the delay of the government in acting on these matters It took the Oak people the better part of a year to have two crossing lines painted on the highway and a pair of warning signs erected At that the crossing lines are invis ible from the north because of the slope of the high way until the driver is right on them We realize that these matters should be studied but surely there is room for the application of common sense while officialdom deliberates Just why cant signs be placed there now pending a more permanent solution A r NOT MAKING FRIENDS The Ford Motor Co of Canada is laying off its men because it cant soil enough cars under the governments new credit restrictions The company and the unions have petitioned the government to ease those restric tions So far the government has not acted We hope the government will remain firm We can see no son at all to justify an exception If the company had reduced prices of their vehicles in an effort to move them and still had no success wo would have a certain amount of sympathy for their position If the union had accepted pay cuts and if company and union had each in its own department applied the normal measures any company takes to move its goods in a competitive market then they might have some claim to exemption To the best of our knowledge none of this has been done What appears to have been done is that company and union have used the threat of mass layoffs in an effort to force the government to end its antiinflation restric tions That is the only conclusion to be drawn from the news announcements We are not concerned with how the company runs its business We are very definitely concerned with affects of inflation The government has imposed anti- inflation measures An exception for one industry is like breaching a dike The credit restrictions werent imposed to make it easier for automobile manufacturers It seems to us that there is something a good deal more important than whether there are layoffs at Fords Business is at the bar of public opinion these days In the past they have licked obstacles that make antiinflation restrictions look like peanuts Instead of yelling at the government and warming up a sizeable resentment against themselves and big business gen erally it would be better sense to work with the gov ernment and show the world and the commies partic ularly what big business can do when the chips are down ITS PLAY SQUARE OR ELSE Dairy Farmer presents a strong indictment against baler and binder twine price increases in his Top Six Inches column on this page To it can be added doz ens of instances where price juggling and manipulation of one sort or another have jockeyed prices to take full advantage of the times in which we live Some of this manipulation involves only a few cents to the consum ers Sometimes it involves larger sums All of them add up to a form of business immorality We fail to see the longterm advantage of the quick profit at the expense of consumers Up to now Canada has had an economy which has been fairly free of gov ernment restriction How long that happy condition will last depends entirely upon businessmen large and small in every kind of business The rise and fall of prices the growing shortages these provide many an opportunity to turn a quick dollar But someone always pays and such is the temper of the consumer that in the end it will be business which will foot the bill in the form of controls and other forms of government sup ervision The price war in New York was an eyeopener not only for the natives but because of the publicity it re ceived to nearly everyone on the continent That drop in prices set a lot of people to thinking and their thoughts are not coinplimentary to business Right or wrong business is going to be blamed for its share in rising prices and it is business which will suffer most if the public really puts the pressure on for price control But there is more than immediate selfinterest in volved This playing fast and loose with a runaway economy is not helping to cure its ills Inflation can do more damage to our defence against communism than a dozen spy rings It is simply patriotism to give the customer a square deal the benefit of every cent of savings possible THE MALIK PROPOSAL Wo fail to understand the excitement which Jakob Maliks proposal for a ceasefire in Korea has caused The Soviet delegate to the United Nations made the proposal in a radio speech on the weekend has been received with cynicism on one hand and hope and the wild belief that Russia is admitting defeat in Korea on the other We cant afford the cynicism Canadas minister of external affairs says that the proposal should be explor ed This by all means But to consider the proposal as a weakening of Russias policy of expansion in the east is foolish to the extreme This is no admission of defeat a switch of tactics yes Unfortunately the war being fought in Korea is in capable of simple definition It is at once a police action being conducted by United Nations forces with the containment of aggression as its objective and it is naked war between democracies and communists a part of the pattern of global conflict The hearings have clearly shown the limi tations of such a war have emphasized a growing reali zation that the forces of the democracies might bo com mitted indefinitely to a war without end a war of attri tion with no of a clearcut success We believe that Mr Maliks proposal is aimed at that section of public opinion which shunning an allout war with Russia is equally repelled by the thought of an endless war in Korea How well tuned this shrewd ness is becomes obvious by the manner in which the proposal has been greeted Mr Malik says that Russia and the democracies can live together This is true as far as it goes Commun ism and democracy have lived together since but during those years Russia has absorbed its neighbors and must continue to expand to exist We do not believe war is inevitable but the alternative is a weakening of Russian imperialism which in turn would spell an end to the domination of communism servant not of is their guarantee diriJl in international and national issues it Of the state to assume the direction of those activities width rest have decided that its been a long time since anything has been done for the children in this column As one of our well known writers about children asks Did you ever stop and think that our children will be the next generation How many of you children have ever stopped to think of just that Slim lieves that the next generation will be made up of a highly de veloped species of vampire bats Regardless you must continue to think that you the next generation To continue with my story to you once upon a time there was a little valley called Gingers Alley It was a very happy lit tle valley All the people in it were happy especially Slim and Min and Win Slim and Min were two re spectable husbands and wives or rather one husband and one wife and Win was their little daughter Win Slim worked at the valley tavern where he looked after part of the plumbing He turned off and on the taps there Min played the old square piano and sang songs huskily while their little daughter Win a popular child actress of that period tap danced her way into the hearts of the valley people who visit ed the tavern She also turned the music pages for her mother Among the people who visit ed the pretty little tavern in the Alley were Bruno the Bear a lumberjack who was always very happy though gruff and the a happy little baokie though sneaky All were very happy until one day a dancer came to work at the pretty little tavern name of Lippy Lou from the city Things in the valley went along well and happily as usual for a while but later there was a noticeable change The little group at the tavern was no longer happy A sinister qual ity had set in When Lou danced Mitt sneered and Slim leered and their little daughter Win jeer ed Jealousy What an evil thing it is especially among valley people Things had been so happy And to make it worse Bruno and had started drinking too much They just came to the tavern and sat and drank too much They were not happy any more Then one awful day a terr ible thing happened Lou had been missing and did not appear for her noon act Nobody worried much at first but they soon found that it was a fateful day It marked poof for Lippy Lou One of the little valley people BilHe the Wild Bore found her in the bottom of the new valley subway completely embalmed inside a piano Murder yes thats what it was At first the finger of the law pointed to Turner Under the little valleys mortician but a motive was lacking The whole valley police force of sparrows left no stone unturned But to this day they are still looking for the person or persons who could have done away with Lip- Lou Was that not a sordid and thing to happen in a happy little valley where everybody was happy All the valley people turned up at the funeral and paid their respects to Lippy Lou even if she had been no friend of theirs They just wanted to there with their big eyes Slim and and Win were there Slim was wailing mourn- fully and Win was sticking pins into an effigy of Sally Rand Win tap danced her way into the hearts of the valtey people People read the stories about it in the newspapers and every body wondered how such a thing could ever have happen- What was the motive No one knew fe Now in the valley is happy again by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches We are wondering how powerful public opinion is We are wondering if the indigna tion and the justified uproar of a group of people can really in fluence and prod the govern ment out of its tremendous in ertia We think this year is an aw fully good time to find out We would like to see what action or investigation will be forthcom ing to find out the reason for the recent increase in the price of binder twine and baler twine Just look at the facts of the case Price of baler twine went from 640 a ton to It went up of course just before the haying season got underway That is bad enough but just consider it a little further All the supplies that went into the manufacture of twine for this years use were already on hand Whats more there al ready has been a raise in price from 525 to 640 since the end of last haying season In other words if the raw material was up in price this raise one would imagine would take care of it But this is not all All the companies raised their prices the same time You may think that this is a coincidence We dont think so We think it is barefaced attempt at extortion We think it is as bad a case of robbery and hold up as any we have ever heard of And finally the prices were raised at a time when the manu facturers of these items were sure that the importation of readily available supplies in other countries would not be possible because of lack of time Well there you are Free enterprise at its glorious best First an implement is sold Then some more balers are sold Then comes the socalled predicted shortage of implements So everybody rushes and buys some more balers Then when all the balers are delivered and most of them paid for bingo up goes the price Nobody stands to lose but the farmer The implement has finished this years run and cleaned up at high prices Next year there either wont be material for it in which case it doesnt matter if the price of twine goes up or else the farmer can be counted on to forget past injustices they usually do We all realize that prices have been going up or alternatively the buying power of the dollar is going down We farmers have profited to a certain ex tent by this very same thing But there should be public in dignation against the kind of barefaced exploitation that is obvious in twine prices The twine combine has the farmer where he wants him- Having invested anywhere from to 2500 in a baler he now has to use it Chances are he traded his old haymaking implement in on the deal To buy again would mean a serious toss The whole situation is due for some serious questioning investigation We do not deny the right of the manufacturers to make a living and a profit But the very tim ing of this last raise in price and the concerted action on part is open to all the suspicion J one can muster Here is a mat ter for the authorities and Federation of Agriculture look into if ever there one AS A NEIGHBOR HE DOESNT LOOK SO PEACEFUL MZ iMrm