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Pages from the Notebook Two election enumerators knocked on a door the other day and were given the cold shoul der by the occupant who said Im too busy for that Youll have to come back some other time At another residence the lady of the house snarled Well you were around here before just two weeks ago There have been two enum erations in Newmarket the first for the municipal plebiscite on the liquor and beer stores ques tion The second which is be ing done now is for the federal election on June Enumerators receive strange treatment from some of the re sidents There are citizens who seem to think that it is an im position to be required to give information It is a bother for some to have their names prop erly marked on the voters lists We fail to understand this at- From the Files of which seems to be a sick ness affecting the democratic system The attitude is akin to that which puts some people a- politics They are so far above that they dont bother to vote Another version of this kind of thinking is that the candidates are no good anyway so why vote We have heard this frequently around munici pal election time But just tell any one of these people that they are being de nied the right to vote and there would be an exceptionally loud outcry The person who told the enumerator to come back some other time likely would com plain bitterly if he found his name missing from the voters lists We hardly need to point out that there are people in this world who have been denied the right to vote and who would give up much to regain it 25 and 50 Years Ago Years Ago Apr Whoever heard of a combination like this Spare ribs and pie Young Peoples meeting will be held at the home of Mr and Mrs Raymond Marshall on Tuesday of next week The Mount Pleasant Ladies Aid are having the young people of St Andrews church Sutton present their play Eleven Old Maids in the church on Wed nesday evening 25 Town councillors Mr Fred Smith and Mr Arthur Evans of the Road and Bridge commit tee have been kept very busy this past few weeks answering calls from citizens in distress from bad roads 25 Mr and Mrs P Bernard and Mrs C of Toronto were visitors at the home of Mr and Mrs If Arden Ave this week 25 J Samson has return ed from Hamilton on Wednes day where he attended the con vention at the Canadian plant 25 Mrs Bell and Mrs Nash gave a cup and saucer shower on Tuesday evening for Miss Mc- who is to be married to Mr Rogers on Wednesday 25 Miss and P Gill- spent the weekend in To ronto at the home of Mr and Mrs Gillard 25 Mr and Mrs J It Davy who have been wintering in Toron to have returned home 25 Baldwin Breezes Those were beautiful bottles that the ban dit crew filled in the sugar bush last Sunday But what was in them prior to the raid that puckered up their courage How would they like lo be grouped like jail birds for the rogues gallery Their rela tives would be proud of them Im sure The Owl 25 There has been great scurry ing around over the Star pro verb contest The answers had to be in on Tuesday and contestants were asking their neighbors advice Mr and Mrs Harold of Toronto have been guests of Mr and Mrs Howard Cane Mr for the weekend while Mrs spent the week in town 25 Miss Mabel Hughes who left last November to spent Christ mas at Croydon England with her parents sails for Canada next week Ira and A Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Newmarket Era 1852 The Express Herald 50 years ago April 26 1907 The street sprinkler made its first appearance on Monday The Inspector has given no tice that all cellars back yards outbuildings etc must be cleaned and put in a sanitary condition before the of next month All householders should attend to this matter at once and thus prevent the out break of any contagious disease Point Capt Mclnnes has rented Strawberry Island Lake for the season Ho has not yet decided in regard to running the steamer this summer Ellis is preparing to place his steam ferry between Point and Belle Ewart in commission at an early date The Government wharf at the Point is a long from being ready for this summers traffic and if Capt Ellis takes in the route this season it vill he much needed in connec tion with the Radial passenger traffic 50 Beautiful monument The most handsome monument in St Johns cemetery has just been completed It was erected by Mr McLaughlin and his sister in memory of their moth er The granite pillar is sur mounted by a beautiful marble figure imported from Italy It represents a lady with a cross in one arm a n in the act of dropping flowers with the oth er It is a tribute of affection Two other monuments have re cently been erected in St Johns cemetery by and Doyle families Mr and Mrs of Mil ton were here over Sunday vi siting his brother Mr J A tedo 50 Mr and Mrs Arthur Coombs and their little son of Toronto visited over Sunday with his brother Mr Coombs Mr Chas who has been working in Toronto for the past five months got the end of his finger taken off with a shape r last week and he is now spend ing a few weeks at home Mr David Millard and his two daughters arrived back from on Wednesday Mr J Mader and Mr Jack Montgomery of Toronto spent Sunday in town Mr of the Toronto Police Force was visiting friends in town on Wednesday m Fast becoming an International carrier in the strict sense of the Word as illustrated above Canadian Pacific Airlines is inaugurating Mw TorontoMontrealLisbon service to be inaugurated in June As a result of the new extension Canadian Pacific Airlines internat ional routes now total 31000 miles Giant DC will fly between Toronto Montreal and Lisbon with an initial weekly schedule calling for departures from Toronto on Mondays and Thursdays and a return flifht from Lisbon every Tuesday and Friday Published every Thursday at 30 Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket and Express Limited Subscription for two years for in advance Single copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mai p Office Department Ottawa John E Struthm Managing Editor Caroline Ion Associate Editor George Haskett Sports Editor Lawrence Racine Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE TWENTYFIFTH DAY OF APRIL NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN GET OUT AND VOTE The vote on liquor and beer stores comes up next Wednesday Some people may think that it is not an im portant vote We disagree We think that there is an im portant principle involved to clarify the situation in Newmarket a heavy vote is required We heard one cam paigner who was working in favor of liquor and beer stores say that he would be perfectly happy if the re sults prevented the stores from being established here provided that all the electors marked their ballots Noth ing would make him feel better than seeing a no vote if it were a 100 percent vote The Era and Express does not wish to see the re sult of the vote percent no thus preventing the stores from being established here That would mean that an actual majority voted favoring the stores We fail to see why provincial legislation requires a per cent majority to carry the vote If the vote is low we never will know whether or not the people want to have liquor and beer outlets in town at least not for another three years So this newspaper strongly urges every citizen of Newmarket who has a vote to he sure about Newmarkets thinking and its responsibilities by going to the polls and marking a ballot Lets have a clearcut decision about this question A strong vote should satisfy the campaigners on both sides of the argument CHAINS OF OUR OWN MAKING It is not always the large events the headline mak ing occurrences that point the way the world is moving Vary small things can indicate the path our society is taking A short time ago we crossed the border and pass ed through customs As a routine check travellers arc asked by the agents to raise the hoods of their cars Just beside us another traveller was in difficulty He didnt know how to raise the hood of his car The inspector as sured us that this was not an uncommon occurrence Now this is not written to point out the ignorance of one particular individual who had obviously a sub lime faith in the manufacturer or complete trust in the mechanic who did it for him In other ways the same thing is happening to all of us We have at our disposal a vast technology Machines have lessened our labor in creased our material wealth and added to our leisure Rut as technology increases its effects its additional compli cations call for a greater and greater specialization of knowledge which leads in turn to greater areas of gen eral ignorance We have now reached the point where we arc pris oners in chains of our own making In the modern homo if electric power fails we go unhealed and unfed Pack aged canned frozen and readymixed foods decrease the labor of the housewife but behind this apparent sim plicity is a vast communications system which supplies the city from specialized areas When this is interrupt ed near panic follows The whole thing grows in a vicious circle Machines increase our material wealth which increases our de mands which again increase the number of machines And how many of us understand the robots which serve us We have millions of people living in a system of com plete interdependence We do not advocate a return to the good old days to the selfsufficient family unit As far as we have been able to find out the price of selfsufficiency was unbrok en days of constant and labor for sufficien cy and no more The things we all value in life are the result of a surplus both of time and of wealth But at the same time it poses a problem of tremendous import ance History has shown that many peoples and societies have been subjected to tremendous strains and shocks in some period of thin existence Some of them survived while others disappeared It seems a general rule of thumb that those who survived did so because their way of life was uncomplicated enough to survive a violent upheaval while highly organized societies went down That is now our problem Disaster warnings fly daily They may or may not be warranted but if they are and the shock they predict does come will our machines be only our monuments instead our saviours will we sur vive or pass like many others into the pages of history because we were too complicated an organism to survive the shock The New Era In Weekly Newspaper Publishing Editor J S Giles wet down the form containing eight columns of bandset type each letter individually set He was trying to make the wooden form swell to hold the type tight Then it was necessary to dry the form In the yard he built a fire and held the form it It dried all right Eight columns of handsot type fell letter by letter into the fire That was in John Giles who still owns the Que Watchman operated by his son and grandsons was one of the early printereditors in this country Today weekly newspap ers are set by machines and printed on highspeed press es The miracle of the weekly press continues lo awe onlookers Those of us who have found a satisfying life as members of Hie community relating the human in terest story of good neighbors and needling council to get on with its program feel justly proud of our pro gress Today expensive machines combine with electron ics to provide the district with its news and views We are constantly trying to improve New printing process es arc on the horizon new business methods are being adopted new techniques for gathering and writing the news are being opened to us This is why we join the Institute of Technology in Toronto in its ef forts to recruit young high school graduates to take training to become future publishers of Canadas weekly newspapers This progressive college offers young peo ple not only the skills but the management knowhow to build Canada by building the weekly press now offers prospective publishers two threeyear diploma courses one in Journalism and the other in Printing Management They are cooperating with Canadas weekly press in providing a combination of both courses to equip bright young students lo prepare themselves for the management of weekly newspapers To aid such students the All Canada Insurance Feder ation has established a bursary fund from which they will provide bursaries of each We commend such studies to your attention And we invite you to visit our plant to discover how those fellows behind the type writers and printing presses keep you acquainted with whats going on in your community OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by WBHARVEY PROVINCIAL RIGHTS IN A NEW GUISE Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger A federal form of government is always beset opposing forces that threaten its exist ence There are forces that tend to create a single domin ant government and others that make for the independence of the various parts Canadian federation as the late Henri used to say is a work against nature The four geo graphic parts of It Mantiines Old Canada Prairies BC are not only distinct but are parts of corresponding divisions of the United Stales In other words the natural geographic lines of- division of this contin ent run north and south while the political division runs east and west Also Old Canada is divided on lines of language religion and national origins If we had five political par ties based on these differences the fatalists among the political scientists would try to tell us that five parties were inevi table in Canada And if the country hud split up into five separate countries the fatalists would have assured us that the attempt to make one country of such diverse elements was foredoomed to failure To what do we owe our con tinued existence as a nation How have we escaped having parties based on sectional dif ferences In part it is the result of our federal form of govern ment which assigns some of the most controversial issues like education to the provinces but lo a very large extent it is due to statesmen who have had a vision of a Canadian Nation Sir John A with his National Policy of tariff pro tection and railway building laid the foundations for econ omic unity while Premiers Laurier and King prevented the country from being split on lines of religion and language Thanks to our statesmen we have always had national par ties in Canada and have there by avoided the paralysis of government that has afflicted many countries which have their legislatures split into numerous parties conflicts of interest The policy of building up a manu facturing industry in this coun try by means of the protective tariff has involved building up Ontario and Quebec at the of the Prairies and the The argument that agriculture benefits from the home market furnished by the employees of the manufactur ers may have some validity for a few farmers around Toronto and Montreal hut it obviously does not apply to a wheat grower in Saskatchewan No amount of statesmanship however can obliterate Furthermore the economic unification of the country has benefited Ontario and Quebec by concentrating the big in comes in these provinces In addition to our manufacturing industry there are our rail ways mailorder and chain stores hanking and insurance industries practically all of which have their head offices in Ontario and Quebec The of these concerns are domiciled in Old Canada and therefore report from ad dresses in Ont or Quebec Thus it is made to appear that On- The state is the servant the master of the people Ik stale guarantee infringement on their right their agent in international national ieeuee is not the function of the state to assume the i Hon of those activities which rest on individual choice A little nonsense now and men Anon This fellow here Scott Young in thy Globe and Mail is a column titled Job Same Despite Name think we could use a little advice a- round here said Slim Bliggens Tuesday Whats he pay I asked Oh hes about the town council up in Smiths Falls the name of dog catcher to dog control officer Then he goes on to these women broadcasters and columnists who think housewives shouldnt be called housewives that they should be called said Slim Too good to be called house wives Yeah guess so Sounds some- thin like fishwife or fishmong er I suppose You never hear any of those names like fishmonger and iron monger and so forth any more I said Young says that his experi ence has been that if a man is interested in his job and does it good he dont care what the job is called That for prin ters devils and cabinet minist ers as well as dog catchers said Slim Some undertakers in the US in particular dont call them selves undertakers or even fun eral directors any more They are morticians Young gets down to the rid iculous He says for instance that the American Newspaper Guild should do something im mediately about that terrible word reporter He suggests In formation Recording Executive Editors would become Word Welfare Managers by Dairy Farmer then is relished by the wisest en en n A street cleaner would Sanitary Assistant in Charge Municipal Surfaces I said ua Young says a garbage would bo Waste Disposal Coach man Slim pointed out We are tending that waHin here too I said Look at Egad Cyclops Hes got a sign on hU little room Engraving Dept Superintendent Egad Cyclops And the janitor wanted to know the other day if could have hi name stencilled on all the brooms with the title Building Supt And the proof reader wants to be called As sistant Copy Chief It aint what it used to be like said Slim As far as Im concerned Egad is the guy what makes them plates A linotype operator is the guy what sets type printer a printer and the managing editor is the boss or the old man Cyclops says that Kletehclofj shouldnt call himself ad vertising manager but rather he should be called advertising or der taker I told Slim Theres more in that remark than the eye said Slim I interpret malice in it Hes jus inferrin that Kletch aint a salesman that he just takes orders Anyway he dont need to talk says that if the building were down Cyclops would have to work out a algebraic equation first to decide which door was the shortest way outside Theyll never get along I said Nope said Slim The day they do this place will never be the same again The Top Six Inches It is very long since we had what could bo called an average spring so that it is hard to de cide whether this year is early or It is the last week in April however and we do have one field of oats in some seeds on and some ammonium nitrate on the wheat on the whole we would like to suggest that it is just a little belter than average in Even the roads are a little better than most years Getting a years work done is very much like driving tit a big city in very heavy traffic It doesnt really matter how fast one drives the time it takes to do it depends on breaks like stop lights people turning left in front of you and all the nor mal hazards of driving also has this much in common with driving that once you have lost the initial advantage it is very seldom recaptured again It is like a kids snakes and ladder game Hut the grass is turning green the land is drying and whether one gets there fast or not its belter than just to chafe at the bit What it really boils down to is a sort of farmers spring fever At that farmers are lucky in one sense It isnt material luck or luck derived from comfort and security or the type of luck that results in something falling into your lip without effort It is rather that in this day ami age of frustration and forc es beyond control we have spring when we can get away from it all because we have to work very hard get up very early and have the feeling of creating and growing and sow ing and cultivating Other people have the outlet of drink and all the other tools of running away We at least have a sane and creative way of forgetting the world We are forgetting the Middle East that fire burning among the oil wells that could set fire to all of us and the nuclear tests that could this very minute sprinkle us to us with little particles of dust that will affect us our children and all coming generations We are forgetting this feeling of frustration that forces arc at work in the world released by men but just barely controlled by them and closer to home the farmer has a chance to for get the ugly mess in Ottawa with confidential files secret agents taking down remark and making lists of friends a person has in his University days and holding it over head We are forgetting that in midst of nil this misery suspi cion hatred and plain stupidity there is wealth and material wellbeing and it wouldnt have to be like this if there were a way to channel the good sense and intentions of sincere people into a force that would kick the politicians into heck and gone until one is reminded that they are what they arc because of ourselves The farmer can forget it and having forgotten it he can go back to the source of it all the soil the sun the rain the moo ing cows the squealing pigs and the whisper of the wind in the trees It isnt material wealth but it is better than what most other people have VALIDITY OF SUNDAY LAW pays the major part of the Dominion Income Taxes The fact that the companies that pay the salaries are drawing their revenues from the whole Dom inion is not apparent from the statistics our corporations op crate throughout the Dominion and because the big incomes and fortunes are made those corporations it is right that corporation inheritance and Income taxes should be collected by the Dominion Gov ernment And because these taxes can best be adjusted to ability to pay it is right that they should he our major source of revenue T present arrangements whereby the provinces agree to leave these fields of taxation to the Dominion has the added ad vantages of convenience to the taxpayers and economy in col lection There is obvious wast ed effort involved in having the same incomes taxed by two governments still more in hav ing the same corporations tax ed by governments the name given those arrangements on Page Col Despite reports they would be prosecuted under Lords Day act If they conducted their business en Sunday Niagara Falls souvenir stores remained open to test the validity of the law Toronto a newspaper the Telegram has begun to publish Sunday edition and will be charged with violation of the act rajs a