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w-i- from the Notebook The BcJI Telephone Company recently constructed a new equipment building on Eagle St of a simple modern design At the entrance to the town from St the building itself is not detrimental but an adjacent unsightly equipment yard enclosed by a high wire fence is what draws atten tion of the passing motorists and unfortunately the nearby residents Town council has had a few complaints about the property- According to information given at the last meeting of council a week ago Monday the company plans to plant shrubs and trees around the equipment yard which displays only piles of telephone poles and wire Permission was giv en by the town to use the pub lic land at the front of the property for planting One member of council It would be a good thing to cam ouflage that Eagle St intern- ijent camp The Optimist club Friend of the Boy held its annual fish ing derby at Lake re cently and although a large From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago number of fathers en tire day trolling in of Lake for tlinlttr it was a boy who brought in the and lake trout to quality aged Bill St Newmarket who had done any lake trout fishing was in the oompcJitioWj by a friendly Optimist won a glass rod for his and two contestants with the popular win have provided hhn with a reel and line to go with his new rod Now Bill is fully equipped to continue making a name for himself in the anglers circle There were contestants in the derby and the Optimists made a profit of for boys work Films were shown at the conclusion of the day and the contestants saw Mr Cliff catching last years prize winner on the screen- A McNeill won the prize for the most humorous incident He had a strike and fought for several minutes Tiring he handed his rod to a boat part ner to continue the fight To the dismay of the McNeil crew a large branch of a tree was finally landed Mrs Angus Williams of Ot tawa is spending a week or so with friends and her daughter Mrs E Cane Mr Williams came here with her and is- spending a week or so with Mends and relatives about town and vicinity The beautiful silver tea to be competed for by the at the fair grounds here next Monday is on view In- the store window of Road- house and Rose There is a prolific bloom of peonies about town which de notes a most attractive display at the flower show in the mar ket building Newmarket on Saturday afternoon and even ing It is open to the public free of charge and the horticul tural society will be greatly pleased if there is a large at tendance of visitors as the more the beauty of flowers is admired the greater the inter est in making home and lawns attractive The annual reunion of the Smith family took place at the home of Mr and Mrs Richmond Hill last Saturday Friday afternoon the Miller brothers who make their home with their mother at Mr Prospect Ave decided to go for a swim in the creels about half a mile south of the corporation near what was formerly called bines bridge on the After enjoying their dip they started home by way of the track and had only come a short distance when they dis covered a large mudturtle on the bank outside of the rail They had no difficulty in catch ing it and carried it home in triumph by way of Main St when many people saw a mud- turtle for the first time in their lives and Mrs Clark offi cers of the Salvation Army in Newmarket for two years have Accepted a call to Collingwood and will leave town on Friday Airs Selkirk and Mrs Morley have returned to their home in after spending a few Weeks with Mrs Mr Jane Hall returned home Week titter spending sev eral months with relatives in imperial JUL A portable sawmill has been erected on the flats north of Mr Jesse Hughes residence which is turning out lumber and lath at a great rate this week In addition to the on the ground a quantity will be brought here by the and the mill expects to have steady work for a couple of months or more On Tuesday last Mr and Mrs Michael left here on a trip to visit friends in Mani toba and points vest Mr and Mrs are among the enterprising and successful farmers of North and after many years of care and labor are leaving their itne in care of their sons and are enjoying the fruits of their careful husbandry Mrs J D Roderick of returned home after spending a few days with her sister Mrs Clark The Aurora boys came here last Saturday with the inten tion of putting the Newmarket team out of business having five picked men from Toronto to help them but they were hopelessly buried by a of to Last week was a redletter date with the town and a fitting sequel occurred on Wednesday evening of this week when young men sat down to a bounteous repast at the Eagle hotel to eat and drink the health of five happy couples who enjoyed choice music of horse fid dles tin horns and cow bells a week ago which celebrated their passing from the state of single blessedness Mr Doyle made an Ideal host and served up supper in a manner of which city caterers might be proud Mr Frank was unanimously elected to the po sition of chairman and very ac ceptably did his part After enjoying the viands on the table the following toast list was presented those whose names are attached to various toasts responding In a very brilliant manner The King Our Victims coupled with the names of Messrs Pat terson Schmidt Collie Simp son and Thompson As none of these gentlemen were present Mr K Martin offered some fatherly advice to the assembly Justifies Ms at heHs coach ifns g Scarce con victory rowing teWWIM By St and NEWSPAPER Serving Newmarket Aurora and the rural district of North York Era The Express Herald Main St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription far two years for to copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mail Past Office Department Ottawa Managing Editor Womens Editor GEORGE Sports Editor Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger LAWRENCE RACINE Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE a page two WEDNESDAY THE THIRTIETH DAY OF JUNE NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYFOUR NEED MORE new customs and new laws We know how difficult it would ourselves Lithuania Italy or any other European country We do not suggest that there be special laws for new Canadians the preset regulations IS ffitecfc citizens in the communities where they live We have in mind regulations concerning the licensing of motor ygB9FS0iia in this newspaper last week that an immigrant was convicted of operating a car without a license The conviction was made after charges had been laid struck aid fatally market The mans brother was convicted of allowing interpreter was used it was reported In passing the highways requesting that both your operators license and owners permit be suspended until such time as youV can Highway Traffic act The regulations governing the licensing of the operators of vehicles certainly are inadequate that applfeaRt must English ip he cannot he is unable to read the simplest road signs It seems or a time providing that he alt automobile from the town post of or is of no importance as far as the passing of a taut Nor is the be Mm the province all his life More stringent regulations and tests which require an understanding of the law are traffic acci dents in Ontario Is to life decreased SOCIETY I lor Society was through the Horticultural Society that the animal Trade Fair was started in Tins Hon of the products sold by the merchants of Newmar ket It will be held and this year Society to an interest lit their own homes which is the best way to beautifying a community One practical means of en couraging town nursery stock considerable discount The civic year flowers for gardens on public property This year many citizens were impressed favorably beautiful displays of other fire hail the registry the town hall at the schools the waterworks property and at the hospital The sight of tulips growing in a Wtl at year was a sure im0im Newmarket citizens are interested iiBfcqpa munily Credit goes to life lOjrtkulturat jcitity fo helping to maintain this interest SOCIETY OF FRIENDS The historical background of the district around Newmarket has strong ties with the Society of Friends which has been holding yearly meetings at Pickering College this past weekend An anniversary also was narked by the Friends this month the anniver sary of establishment of a Friends meeting on St The Friends were the first settlers in this district They built the first place of worship of Toronto the old Friends Meeting House which still stands on Street just outside the town limits Many old Quaker names are in this district The families which settled here at the beginning of the century formed the pillars of a community known as Street which covered a large section of North York The meaning of tolerance is found in the religious and historical background of the Friends On the sub ject of tolerance a s e a at the Friends annual meeting said that the individual should be willing to say I could be wrong but the prevailing unwilling ness is now causing much of the worlds trouble The symbol of the Friends faith tolerance and temperance give more encouragement and hope for the free world than do all the political leaders FREEDOM OF CHOICE In an address Freedom For Whom Davidson Dun ton chairman of the board of Governors of the spoke to the Saskatchewan mass communication in a free society Part of his address is as follows There are persons some in universities who dep recate these modern means of mass communication remark or least keep them out of their own lives You might as well try to ignore the sky television are an inescapable part modern life No one can wish them away Whiife is important is that we try to see they are used to serve the kind of ftiwsociety say wfc have food for thought of most people comes from these mass communication machines Their opinions find senses of values are SiffXSKIP provides them and hear and see Therefore the shape and quality of our society through the years will depend a good deal on what the machines put out And everything in our society including universities is bound to be affected do believe we all have to do some uptodate thinking about how our principles of freedom should apply in these new means of communication Our forefathers freed speech and the printing press from government control When they did so they in fact assured a good among people by tbe means then available There was a fairly equal chance for all men to talk and to listen to others as they chose There e through the small printing avenues of the time for different writ to be published and to be available to fair propor tions of the reading public of the Bjt conditions have changed the early days of the original fights for freedom of expression Now a relatively small number of great printing presses turn out a large part of the actual reading material of most people A few the broadcasting heard effectively by the population of a whole region A handful of men control the making most moving Jm smalt broadcasters organization heads can control a large part of the ulcus that the of most flhit we dan ger to a genuinely free and fair interchange of ideas has developed froiji the over means of of so An allied restricting influence comes from the commercial factors operating on machines of mass largely from the pro- l fcw some reason another bit an incentive to attract the greatest of people for the lowest cost am not at all against or commercial business or people in large numbers Hut think we have to realize where Continuing pressure to interest the biggest possible Call lead us The tyranny of majority taste can be as as any We are not certainly carrying out our principles if our mass communication facilities put out just those ideas and types of material which happen appeal at tho moment to targe numbers of Smaller numbers have their rights too There is true freedom in communication only if ideas which happen to appeal to numbers of people have a reasonable opportunity to lie heard Then people as a whole have to weigh ami choose and per haps change their minds for themselves The essence of freedom lies in freedom to choose from a variety of alternatives if no alternatives in kinds of ideas and presented there can be no freedom of choice ffc Is not again on their right ggmnt In and national it net thm function of tho toim to rait on Mc township police made a raid on one of the strangest camps ever found in the vast Thimble swamp re gions last week The camp was not the scene illegal dis tillation as might be expected No This particular swamp camp was engaged in the man ufacture of the lamp black we heard so much about a couple of weeks ago Slim our faithful editorial advisor and Cuttin Corners correspondent exposed this lamp black factory after it was learned recently that there was a market in the big city for real Thimble marsh What was being sold of course was worthless and sterile soil mixed with lamp black so that it would look like marsh soil We all heard about it in the newspapers and by the radio Rounded up in the big raid after Stints expose were sev eral citizens of township who live on the edge of the swamp and the leader of the lamp black ring a for mer London chimney sweep Harry When interviewed by Bligg- ens the ring leader said My names In terested in only a hon est Oi merely come to supply a demand to a demand ye Police discovered a battery of lamps hidden away in the marsh plus 17 coal oil stoves and a large puffing chimney with a Que that produced six pounds of lamp black an hour Leader was in charge of extracting the valu able lamp black which the group marketed to owners of blowsand farm3 at the far end of the township said These ere politicians says we is a conservation problem when alt we are is a good market of otherwise useless material them city people wants to buy sand and lamp black why shouldnt we make an honest buck asks you said injured and in dignant Since the lamp black ex pose irate of city home owners have been up at Corners on the steps of the town hall demanding their money back Mayor has been pes tered by hundreds of telephone calls about the lamp black scandal and Tuesday he was near a nervous breakdown It is rumored that he is to resign over the scandal and take over as head of the Cut- tin Corners Transportation Commission but there has been no verification of the rumor What is worrying is that two members of council have sold blowsand to the black ring Summing up the lamp black scandal Slim said this week Nothing has happened like this in Cuttin Corners or in township since the late Samuel Dyerly sold cemetery shares for that worth less rock quarry he owned on the east side of town Farmer Haying will not be any easier irs by the took of things Growth is heavy and the weather oh well the weather just behaves as usual The three tremendous storms jpgp help either There is another hjfc that comes into the picture linage the sneaking suspicion there is much more hay country than there was say four or five years ago There is more hay to handle and there is more than anyone can really manage efficiently There arc many reasons for this First probably Is the very great and intelligent edu cational campaign carried on towards grass fanning and conservation We have talked hay and pasture so much that ihat is just what people are doing growing hay and pas ture Secondly we think it Is an attempt to loose house at least dry cows young heif ers and it takes a of hay to do it We had a barn last year that over ton of hay day to carry Another reason yet is that growth is so varying front year to year This year for example the clippings of five acres of pasture and another five acres of hay filled the silo in one place and a little less acreage did another silo list year it would have taken at east another five acred to fill the same silo because growth was retarded also sawed more buy because having invested in hay making machinery it did make lot of use it it a great it be came handle huge of ftiKl there was room tax tfie Finally titers of the one bad year when hay worth 30 a ton when the hew seed didnt grow and when many old mows made farmers real money That memory lingers on and the hope of another cleanup keeps them thinking We should also mention that it costs less than halt to seed a field down than it used to another encouragement to pro duce large quantities of hay The result is all the adver tising of standing fields Of hay to sell in the local papers and the acres and acres of hay not yet touched that we will be required to handle yet Of course all this a step in the right direction After all there will be more and more grain sown into sod and better and better crops raised and eventu ally the cost of production go down on keeping livestock We will try to lick the hay by filling an extra temporary silo this year and by breaking an extra field for fall wheat And we wilt hoping fur some real haying weather in between In the meantime cows are not doing too badly on pasture the young stock is happy and we have the usual feeling ot dissatisfaction with the way calves are getting along dont know the answer to question why out of a group of alt about the some one would thrive on pas ture and buy and a hit of grain white another one would not do well at all We are begin- to suspect that the real problem starts they are very A well started calf will go on and do well but mistakes made last October and come tit haunt us now mum you