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v from the a- iters Notebook enjoyed the remark made by Citizen Bill Janes at a meeting of town council Mon day night when he suggested that the Era and Express help ed to make a political football of the question of opening or closing Millard Avenue Poss ibly if we were residing on Millard Avenue we could feel the same way as Mr Janes and other people Hying on that street but we dont We have been accused of using an elephant gun to kill a Ilea following one or two editorials on other subjects We do not want to get back Into the prog and cons of open ing Millard Avenue again but we would like to point out that most any subject of interest to the citizens of Newmarket on which we report or express opinions could become a polit ical football That is no reason why we should refrain from reporting the facts or expressing our own editorial opinion for what it is worth If we published council news only when there was no possibility of political contro versy resulting then we would not be fulfilling our duty to our readers We recall writing one editor ial In favor of opening the street The subject had been discussed by town council and we expressed our opinion as our readers expect us to do Election time came a short time later and as controversial mailers usually do this one be came a good platform subject We do not think that Citizen Janes really thinks that a newspaper should not air the facts and voice Its own opin ions on local issues Serving Aurora and the alt Melt of North York rf Era 1852 We toured the new J Bell school on the week end and we consider it to be a good practical type of building Taxpayers should know that it has an economical heating system There are four oil fur naces in the building at separ ate points While the sun heats one side of the building the two units on that side are not using up fuel At the present time three rooms are being used for class es The school board is not pay ing the cost of heating the other seven rooms because the contractor has not completed work in them Of course the brightest fea ture of the new room school is that it cost 118000 A few years ago the six room Prince Charles school cost 160000 A year ago a four room addition to the Stuart Scott school cost in the neighborhood of The taxpayers got a break this time Jhe Exprm Published Thursday of 142 Main St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express limited SvbscrtpUon 4 tor two nan for on Singh arm of Clou A of Canada Canadian Weekly Association and of Circulations Authorized a Second Class Mail Post Office Department Ottawa cmouni tiIAiif Sport foviar LITTLE NON9EN8e NOW AND THEN IS RACINE Job KM fag and T HmSDiT ORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JANUARY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSIX From 25 and Years TRY ANYTHING POLICY TO CONTINUE A PHASE OF Newmarkets search for a source of water supply caused anxiety among residents of Holland Landing last week Preparations were being made to drill a test well near the village by the International Water Supply Company employed by Newmarket tpVj find a new source of supply The test would cause local artesian wells to go dry and affect wells supplying two industries property owners feared Knowing they had no legal grounds on which they could prevent the test they appealed to Newmarket on a moral basis with justification Newmarket decided to abandon the teat resulting in a loss of the amount which the town must pay the drilling company MISSING OPPORTUNITIES V January i 1931 Band Serenade We acci dentally omitted to mention last week that the town band serenaded the council elect as soon as the results of poll were made known and created some cheer and recognition of their popularity Mrs D has returned from Toronto where she spent the past three weeks or moiv with her sister Mrs Will Hun ter formerly of Mount Albert Mr and Mrs were Toronto on Monday at tending the spring shoe style show at the Royal York Mr Holmes of Toronto is the now manager at the Bell Tele phone office Arctic Owl Carries Off Tur key Swiftly dropping from the skies with wings to snatch up a struggling pound turkey then pinion ing to an immense height a white Arctic owl made a raid on the farmyard of Henry Whitney North yester day Later when wounded by Whitney it attacked him sav agely tearing through overalls and underclothing and digging its claws into his body before it was killed Whitney was in the barn when he saw one of his turkeys being carried off Snatching up a light gun from the house he tried to follow the marauder from the skies but lost sight of it Later because f its fiery eyes glowing through the dusk Whitney no- iced the bird perched in a high eating the turkey A shot wrought the bird down with a wing It was of a ipecies rarely found in this of Canada with a sixfool spread of wings January Mr W Evans who has been miller for Messrs H V and Co for the past three years left for Canning- ton on Tuesday to take the position of head miller at that town Miss Edna and Miss Hartry gave an At Home in the Sovereign Bank hall on Wednesday night to a large company Constable Savage who has been on GTR detective work in western Ontario during the past three months is in town again this week Weather prophets are some what puzzled at the mildness of the season The average tem perature of December was above the average for several years The early Metropolitan car was delayed about two hours near Aurora last Friday morn ing by an electrical blowout in car connections For more than two weeks red squirrels have been seen skipping about among the maple trees on Park Avenue Owing to the very mild wea ther Mr has been able to get the roof of his house reshingled and repairs rapidly made Before oc cupying it again he intends to have the interior plastered For the benefit of those per sons who are contemplating at tending the Sherlock Oratorio production of in on Jan 25 it may be stated that the Metro politan railway has undertaken to provide a special car on the of this performance if as many as 35- people will make use of it- town has a try anything policy governing the search for water it gives the International Water Supply Company a free hand to drill on any ground where it may be inclined to take its equipment The fact is that town officials did not know drilling equip was near Holland Landing until local residents complained Thousands of dollars have been spent in the past few years for test drilling in the hopes that a plentiful supply of good water would be found It is claimed that the funds do not come out of taxes but that consumers of water finance the test drilling through their water payments It would seem that the search policy stand close reexamination by council Judging by results it appears that the forked twig method of searching could be no worse it is claimed that test drilling depends on luck a large degree Then too the recent Holland Landing incident suggests the towns policy ally is based on a rob thy neighbor method Looking to the future it would be worth investigate the possibilities of going to Lake Simcpe stated last week numerous opinions havebeen on that subject few from authoritative sources Surely the department of mines or some provincial source has sufficient information to whether or not the lake could stand a large tion of water by municipalities or whether or not a pipe- line could be financed by district communities joining forces Water supply problems in Aurora and are the the two towns only four miles apart have not cooperated in attempting to solve the mutual problem It is logical to think that any project to bring water by pipeline r any source north or south would be financed by these close neighbors Yet Aurora has continued for several years to conduct an independ ent try anything policy as Newmarket has MUNICIPAL miss opportunities to learn from the experiences of other communities This is noticeable to this newspaper which covers the activi ties of Newmarket and Aurora councils and others in the district We have noted above that the neighboring towns only four miles apart have never acted together to solve a mutual problem water supply There are other problems which both must solve Aurora has solved most of its development problems with an overall policy yet we feel safe in saying the majority of the members of Newmarket council probably know little or nothing about Auroras policy An exchange of information could be of mutual benefit to the towns liaison committees on councils could meet and discuss common problems No doubt are towns which have passed through develop ment phases which our towns are now approaching and 1 be profitable for elected representatives to study their Among the reasons for mis sing such opportunities possibly is the lack of municipal experience possessed by individual council After every election there are new members who spend FI time learning the ropes at home and perhaps councils never do consider they have the time to study municipal matters out of town recent years a good example was shown in New- Urn market councils apparent lack of awareness of experienced by municipalities close to Toronto Pitfalls encountered during rapid housing development in North York and Toronto townships particularly in the latter were sufficiently publicized to serve as an advance warning to us Had Newmarket given closer study to Toronto township probably it would have adopted a firm development policy earlier Cooperation between Aurora and Newmarket could do no harm to either A healthy rival may exist without preventing joint effort on municipal projects We would go so far as to say that there could be a mutual effort ill certain areas of industrial promotion After all a town can only tell the truth to prospective indus tries and the facts about features which would attract industries cannot be hidden The two towns could work together to promote this district as an industrial area A solution to the water problem together would tie in with such a promotion OUR SIDEmFJTHE STORY WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE PROPHECIES I Raises Roof at Launching for New Theain According to our calendar we have entered a new year According to our custom we have been given the regular annual array of prophecies We have been assured will bring advances in income in health in education in the sciences and in the arts The prophets of doom are with us loo Communists- technocrats and others are still predicting the impending collapse of capi talist society How should we regard these prophecies like fish to the point where life is reduced to bare subsistence level He responds to the changing seasons but lie can build houses and fires so he does riot have to go south to survive the winter He re sponds to new insights and to now ideals lo new facts and to new fallacies He exercises conscious choice among various possible ways of responding and is in that sense free and therefore unpredictable On the basis of past experi ence it would appear that the safest of prophecies are those that predict that things will go on pretty much as they have been going in the recent past The further the future the prophet tries to see the more likely he is to be mistaken Prophecies of the speedy col lapse of society like prophecies of the end of the world have so far all been mistaken The political prophet en counters a peculiar difficulty in that his predictions may- change the events he is predicting If an astronomer predicts that ah edible of the sun will occur next July his prediction have the slightest effect on the event If a political prophet predicts a rebellion next July there will probably be no re bellion the government Will take steps to prevent it reception In Toronto Col M national chairman the Stratford theatre fund liter- ally the roof to snow Betty Grlrnley two seats surrounding a tiny stage authentic from the days of Shakespeare Model of new Stratford theatre was unveiled In con- With launching of national campaign to to build- permanent structure at Stratford The new theatre which win replace the tent now housing the Shakespearean pro- scheduled for completion in time for the- season the same she the steel frame structure will the tent atmosphere Basic design of the auditorium and remain trie same as will the setting the should not be surprised political prophecies are so often wrong Humanity is something more than fish in a stream whose actions are de termined by instinct and en vironment It is more than variety of birds migrating to escape the Winter The laws of nature set limits to mans achievements but those limits are very wide Man cannot escape the biologi cal cycle of birth and death but he does not have to spawn To be sure it can be ar gued that a good prophet would take account of the effect of his prophecy before he made it but this would result in a diff erent prophecy which would have a different effect and so on ad infinitum Marx may be cited as an ex ample of a prophet who realiz ed that his predictions would affect the course of history but the effects turned out to be the opposite of what he expected Marx failed to see that the conservatives would proceed to introduce social welfare legis lation as Bismarck did with the avowed purpose of killing communism by kindness By having the state provide a measure of welfare for the workers and by deliberate pro paganda the nationalists in Germany succeeded in la ting patriotism in the masses of the Now if Marx had foreseen how infernally successful these nationalist ap peals were going to be he would have predicted the act ual outcome fascism But then if he had foreseen and predicted all the horrors of fas cism in a convincing way fas cism could- never have been realized Marxs predictions clearly in spired the men who made the Bolshevik Revolution and ere- communism in Russia But communism in Russia dicta torship slave labor espionage and police brutality is about the opposite of what Marx hop ed would follow the revolution Nevertheless Marxs prophecies although falsified by subse quent events are still the main spring of communist activity all over the world by WBHarvey Age that attracted and is still attracting idealists all the world p m m A What then went wrong with communism The answer has been given most convincingly by Russell in The Practice and Theory of Bolshe vism and by Leonard in Principia Pblitica These writers point out that the Bol sheviks mistook the means for the end and persistently devot ed themselves fomenting class war and plotting class war and plotting revolution They thereby not only lost sight of the happy society Marx expect ed but their methods made the creation of such a society im possible In human affairs the means affect the ends You cannot achieve a society of bro therly love by spreading hate and practising fratricide The communist movement reveals the power and danger of Marx predicted a revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat but he hoped that the revolution would be followed by an age of peace progress and prosperity It was this promise of a Golden What then do we do about these prophecies We must develop a healthy skepticism towards all prophe cies of doom They have all been wrong in the past We should remember that we in the democracies have come a way from the Dark Ages even from the century We can continue to confute the prophets of disaster if we will make the effort Just as eter nal vigilance is the price of liberty so the price of progress is everlasting work The state is the servant not the master of the people the stats is their guarantee against infringement on their rights their agent in international and national issues it is not the function of the state io assume the of those activities which rest on individual choice men a Horace radlp com mentator who reviews news from weekly newspapers In vited Slim on his broadcast last weekend It was an unfortunate broadcast because Slim didnt follow the script Afterwards our boas was embarrassed to tears and almost fired gens told him that if he object he would go and work for the Comer Clarion Blast- under William Rudolph Cursed Jr This heres a free country and I was my own self not this here newspaper Slim stated Before the broadcast Near bam told Slim that they must not discuss any con troversial Issues and that noth ing must be said that could pos sibly hurt anyones feelings In the small towns of Ontario Thats why wo use lots of cat and dog stories humorous and gentle human interest items he warned Under no circumstances may we quote an editorial opinion Might upset someone And say something nice about our Over Listeners Club So and went on the air went through a nice preamble about the folksy small towns of Ontario and the quaint people who work on the little news papers He Introduced our own for all those Sun day morning listeners What do you enjoy report ing about most of all in your quiet little rural district of by Dairy Farmer ANON Ontario asked up political dais graft an patronage an stuff like that there Slim de clared Well ah yes of course fumbled And I am sure that with the quiet life of your little district It Is most certainly far better place to work than In the cities No ulcers or ha your Job eh Aint noticed that said Slim Well now what was the most Interesting animal story preferably cat did you find this past year In your area the broadcaster asked Slim This here old lady 6 she was was kept awake nights by her neighbors cat the back yard fence said Slim She a snare it and hung It to death on a willow tree The Humane Society was brum In but over some legal technical- failed to pin a conviction onto her That there was up i In Cuttln Camera Then there the story about another old feller who drowned neighbors cat In the an he Times almost up for this broadcast today Nearbarn quickly cut in but we have an other question here for Mr and do you that weekly newspapers make bet reading than the daily- newspapers Well Continued on Page Got The Top Six Inches i With the continuing decrease in the farmers net return the question of marketing farm products becomes more and more acute There are two reasons for this on the whole One is that if the farmer could supplement his income by part of the profit made from distri bution there would be a chance that he would be making more money and the consumer might get a better break The other reason very much the same although it could be stated differently It is a desire to eliminate exces sive markups and get a larger share of the consumers dollar The problem of marketing has many ramifications and here is hardly an organization of farmers these days which is not directly debating the prob lem It is a problem which has many difficulties connected with it Should we enter the field of marketing farm pro duce as private concerns on a strictly profit making basis and simply run two businesses In stead of one or should we form cooperatives for the job Should we try to control pro duction in the sense that would make marketing more orderly or should we seek government legislation to give us some con trol and protect ion The East Feder ation of Agriculture is doing real service by attempting to discuss this question at its next meeting on January 25 at in the form of a panel discussion and it is to btf hoped- that a large attendance will underline the of the problem -i- Let us not fofget that- the WOLF INVADES greatest difficulty in improving our lot is the lip service paid to our problem the grumbling and the beefing and the lack of interest What we expect from meeting is a few clarifications about the problem itself For example it would be interest ing to find out just how far and how much it really costs the farmer to have the government act as guardian angel and the protector of the weak We have a gnawing suspicion that every time we get a piece of legislation and a set of regula tions to make it work we not i only sell some of our freedom of action which we would have to give up voluntarily anyway in any organization but we also give up possible profits because the government by the very fact that it is every bodys government attempts to give a little bit to everybody For example when the milk price structure was under fire we had the milk control board and legislation to protect us from artificial substitutes and price wars But today when milk could sell for 25 cents up and not too many questions asked there is no hope for this The government is hot in antagonizing the con- burners after all more con sumers than producers vote secondly wc have no on of action to act This Is the point that should be cleared up at next days meeting this and other problems We hope that there will be a good crowd on hand and many questions After all questions i A If the pelt would a coat ulJu-