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J Pages from the I r I Notebook Volunteer canvassers from Newmarket service clubs will be calling at homes today and this evening for the district unit of the Canadian Cancer Society Doug of the Newmar ket Rotary club Is the chairman of the local drive and canvas sers from the Lions club Leg ion and Optimist club members will be calling Citizens are urged to contrib ute to the Society to aid cancer research in Canada and assist in welfare work locally among cancer sufferers The traffic lights at the corner of Main Sf and Davis Drive Newmarket have prevented many accidents At busy times the lights and the additional ac cess lane on the south east cor ner have made a vast improve ment to prevent congestion From the Files of But have you ever approach ed the corner late at night when there is no traffic to be seen Its a long wait for nothing when you hit a red light It would seem that a flashing amber fourway caution light or a flashing red fourway stop would be sufficient for the off- traffic hours Speaking of intersections there are two left in Newmar ket which are threats to safety One is at Main and Water The other is at the junction of Pros pect Gorham and Water Sts We have seen plenty of con fusion at the latter intersection Often drivers do not seem to know what they should be doing when they make a turn north from Water St and we can hardly blame them especially if they are strangers meeting traffic and 50 Years Ago years ago April General Hospit al of Saskatchewan hold their annua Graduation Exercises April 28th where Miss Ella Grant of Yellow Grass Sask will be one out of five among the graduates Miss Grant is a niece of Mr P J Cole 25 debaters won at Sutton on Wednesday night The debaters for Sutton Miss McDonald and Mr Smith for Miss Irene Milne and Mr Harry Mar tin Both sides gave good argu ments but received the decision of the judges who were Mr Anderson of Sutton Mrs J of ville and Miss Eva Gilroy of Keswick Albert At a recent meet ing of the citizens the fire bri gade was reorganized and now Joe is head of it with Mr Wilf Dike assistant Mr is looking after the che mical engines and having them put on a trailer which will be much better than they were The Police Trustees were also asked to appoint a constable for the town something that is bad ly needed Kettleby On Friday evening about eighty friends of Mr and Mrs Harry Stephenson gathered at the home of Mr Oscar flea- cock In charge of the charivari A pleasant evening in crockinole and cards Mr and Mrs Stephenson were present ed with a set of dishes 25 Mr and Mrs- Whipple of Mid land spent last weekend with their daughter Mrs and Mr Veeks 25 Mr and Mrs J who have been spending the winter in Toronto have returned to Newmarket Mrs T P Robinson of St Catharines ipent the weekend with her husband at the home of John Mr and Mrs Eves are motoring to St Thomas on Sat urday to see their daughter Miss Olive Eves at Alma Coll ege Mr and Mrs Frank Fox from Buffalo visited her sister Mrs J- Collins and Mr Collins last weekend Mrs George Mitchell of r v formerly Mrs who was recently mar ried to the Rev George Mitchell is visiting in Newmarket ROAD NOT IN WRONG PLACE Motorists and pedestrians along near Toronto willing to their eyes were deceiving Ihem when they aw these hydro poles sprouting up from the middle of the way poles are there ami there to stay Its the road rerouted and Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Newmarket Era The Express Herald 50 years ago May 3 The Newmarket Canal The dredge and pontoons that are to work on the Canal from New market to Lake Simcoe are to be towed to the mouth of the Holland River tomorrow and work is to commence next week at straightening and dredging the course of the river -50- What is the matter with Keswick citizens welcom ing any butcher whether local or not who will occasionally un dertake to visit our village 50 Keswick The farmers around here have been busy seeding lately but the wet weather has put them back some 50 Mount Albert Narrow Esca pe Some thoughtless person set fire to the accumulation of dead grass and reeds in the old Cem etery on top of the hill one day last week The flames set fire to the fence and only the prompt action of the residents in the vicinity prevented them from spreading to the adjacent build ings 50 Getting busy Five cars of woodenware from the United Factories were shipped last week and five more are to go this week Orders are coming in lively and all the departments are getting a rush on 50 Congratulations Newmarket is honored in that one of her sons Mr Alfred Miller A son of Mr M Miller has won great distinction at the re cent University Examinations in Toronto At the Convocation in Victoria University on Tuesday evening Prof Wallace presented the degree of Bache lor of Divinity to Mr A Mil ler also the Gold Mod al and the Cox bursary New Testament Theology 50 Mr and Mrs T Bailey of Portage la Prairie visited Mrs Cane last Saturday accom panied by Mr Lukes of Brad ford 50 Mr and Mrs A lum and little daughter Vera of King City visited at Mr W MacCallums Huron St 50 Mr left for Cobalt on Mom night where he expects to the summer developing two mining claims on Larder Lake 50 Prof of the School of Practical Science Toronto spent over Sunday with his niece Mrs Howard Cane Published every Thursday at 30 Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription for two yean 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 Mail Post Office Department Ottawa John E Struthers Managing Editor Caroline Ion Associate Editor George Haskett Sports Editor Lawrence Racine Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE vote I said But that aint half the story It turned out that one THURSDAY THE SECOND DAY OP MAY NINETEE HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN GOOD JOBS WASTING In the next four weeks 16500 young men and wo men will step from Canadian universities into the busi ness world A Financial Post Survey shows that they have received more jobs offers than any other Canadian graduating class has ever received Starting salaries will be the highest yet in the range of to a month for engineers to for many arts gradu ates Engineering salaries will be about a month higher than in about higher than in This yearns in 1956 most intensive competition by employers is probably for the engineering gradu ates Last year of these received about job offers and there are indications that the number of jobs per engineer is higher this year The to undergraduates who want temporary summer jobs will find them almost as easy to land as the graduates will find their jobs DISCRIMINATION IN TAXING The Ontario governments policy on unconditional grants to municipalities this year brings forth a few questions about its fairness At least the results of the policy cause a situation which does not seem fair and we wonder whether or not the policy was pushed through the House without too much thought The government provides the grants to reduce the tax levy on residential and farm property in all munici palities Business and industry does not receive benefit from the grants This sounded reasonable at first but when one examines the position of many small business men the question of fairness arises The result of the provinces policy is that there is a discriminatory tax rate in municipalities business owners are paying more than residential property owners Let us look at two property owners Owner num ber one is a retired businessman who has rented JiU store to someone who is operating the business on his own Owner number two also is retired and owns four houses in town Both depend on rents from the properties which have been leased as income upon which they live Along comes the tax rate and owner number one is penalized by the discriminatory tax rate resulting from the provincial governments policy on grants He is receiving the same rent from his store but pays high er taxes Owner number two who has invested his money in houses pays less in taxes than the first owner The intention was to help the home owner but some one overlooked the fact that there would bo unfairness in a discriminatory tax rate which to our knowledge has no precedent We know that numerous property owners w h do not operate businesses but depend on rentals from business properties are paying extra taxes this year and no doubt in surrounding townships and other municipalities others are doing the same Per haps the limiting of grants to benefit only the home owner was not so wise and popular a decision as the government had hoped it to be HOSPITAL DAY Almost every boy and girl in Ontario today began life in a hospital This is quite different from 20 or years ago when most babies were born at home Through the years the hospital has become more and more impor tant in the community As medical science has progres sed in its ability to heal the sick so hospitals have ex panded their facilities to give doctors uptodate work shops in which to treat their patients No one would want to live in a community where there was no hospital for even though we often fail to notice it when we are well it quickly becomes the centre of our existence when we or someone we love become ill or meet with an accident Yes hospitals are truly guar dians of the peoples health Newmarket the communi ties of York County and some in Simcoe and Ontario counties are fortunate in having a fine uptodate insti tution to serve them in York County hospital at Newmar ket Since the new wing has been added to the hospital the patient capacity has been increased greatly and nu merous new services and facilities have been added Certainly it is an important organization in this area being the only hospital between Toronto and Next Wednesday May Hospital Day is being recognized at York County The hospital will be open to the public from to pm when an inspection may be made The Ladies Auxiliary of the hospital an im portant organization which has helped the hospital in public relations and patient comforts will serve tea in the cafeteria on Hospital Day CROWDED SKYWAYS Canadas airtrafficcontrol methods are years out of date creating a growing danger of midair crash es similar to those in which 200 people died last year in the United States Were using 1936 trafficcontrol methods on 1956 planes Franklin Russell writes in Macleans magazine The postwar period brought thousands of new airliners many as swift as World War Two fighters Control methods did not keep pace The Canadian Air Line Pilots Association estimat es that only ten per cent of the near misses are actually reported When they are reported in detail they prove that pilots have good reason to be terrified Pilots re port misses so close that radio aerial masts have been snapped off and rudders damaged by propellers Part of the reason for this dark picture of air traffic is the cumbersome control system being used in Canada says Russell By the time an airtraffic controller holding a radiotelephone handset and a pencil can write down a planes altitude direction speed and other details chart a course and then check it against reports from other planes in the sky the plane might easily travel miles There is no speedy automatic system of control OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by HARVEY THE UNITED STATES IS NOT AN IMPERIALIST POWER T Allen has written Mac Leans March 1057 a jolly ac count of the way Canadians are exhibiting an unreasoning and hrand of antiAm ericanism His story is on the personal level But there are political aspects of this question that should not be overlooked Our generation has witness ed more and bigger changes in the strength of nations than used to happen in centuries In the world stage was oc cupied by Europe The powers that counted were Germany AustriaHungary Britain and France The USA and Japan despite their rapid growth and industrial strength were def initely in the wings Today the European great powers of are all thirdrate powers There are only two great powers in the world the US and the USSR It takes a long time for peo ple to adjust their thinking to these changes in power A that had grown up in the memory of Napoleons conquests from Madrid to Mos cow found it hard to believe that the FrancoPrussian War signalled the eclipse of Franco by Germany Similarly our generation which has wit nessed the sweep over Europe from Spain to the Vol- is finding it hard to realize that Germany even if reunited is now a secondrate power compared with the Soviet Union For some Canadians the most painful readjustment in their thinking appears to be the realization that the United Kingdom is also a secondrate power compared with the United States It would appear that that change accounts for some of the antiAmericanism that Mr Allen notices People who grow up know ingand proud the Bri tish Navy was the protector of this continent find it disagree able to bo told by Sir Winston Churchill that nothing but Russian fear of the American Abomb prevented the loss of western Europe to the Red Army Whatever the explanation It a fact that antiAmericanism is by no means confined to a few odd characters like the wo- man who smashed a stamp vending machine in Florida be cause it would not work with an eightcornered Canadian nickel One of the most wide ly read almostdaily news papers in makes Amencaniam its favorite theme A frequent commentator lakes the same line revels in it Worse still there are profes sors of history in Ontario versites who indulge in this same pointless pastime It may be asked What harm do these vaporings do The answer is in the charge they are levelling at the US which is none other than the silly com munist charge of imperialism It is amusing if also depressing to hear a crowd of Tories definitely not Progressive Con servatives but Tories who are stilt living in the days of Dis raeliworking themselves up Into a noble rage about the in iquity of the US action in renting a base from Ethiopia This antiAmericanism non sense is giving very welcome aid and comfort to the com munist enemy The central theme of communist propa ganda in Asia and Africa is western imperialism On the record they have no case against the US in the eastern hemisphere since the Philip pines have been granted their independence These Canadian accusations against the US ore among the moat valuable wea pons in the arsenal of commun ist propaganda Since the existence of Inde pendent states in this hemi sphere is sufficient evidence of the nonimperialist nature of the US it should hardly be necessary to say more It may be worth noting however that possession of a base is quite a different thing from ruling a subject people Gibraltar is a base It would be childish of the Spaniards to argue that its possession by Britain is a case of imperialism Precisely the same goes for the base the US is arranging in Ethiopia It is noteworthy also that in this matter of imperialism US is unique In eery other great power in history the ex treme nationalists the super- patriots have been imperialists In the US those elements the Klu the per cent Am ericans and their ilk are iso lationists This antiimperialist the iso lationist sentiment has been generally dominant in US politics As late as it was so strong that the government despite its sympathy for France and Britain could not consider entering the war until the US was attacked What is to be feared about the US is not that it may become imperialist but that it may revert to isola tionism rerouted The the not ike matter of the the it their against on Heir rtjhte their agent iniemat tonal and national issues it is not the function of the state to assume the diree Hon of activities which rest on individual choice A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest mtn Anon This week our Cuttin Cor ners correspondent Slim gens telephoned us the report on the vote in nearby East township which was lost by one spoiled ballot The vote was a complicated affair in East Thimbleberry The story behind it was this the planning committee was seeking to change the zoning bylaw to allow a chewing to bacco factory to locate in East township just outside the limits of Cuttin Cor ners Corners folks wanted that there chewin fac tory bad said Slim Councillor Bust of Cuttin Corners was really anxious to get the tobacco factory located on the outskirts of town Our correspondent was told by a re liable source close to Mayor that Bust had a secret plan that as soon as the factory was built he would introduce a motion to annex the land on which the factory stood There by Cuttin Corners would get the industrial assessment from it So you can see that there was a terrible amount local politics mixed up in this here affair Then the East Thimble township council didnt know what to do Pressures was on the left of em press ures was on the right of em Sos they decided on a public conundrums Slim said You mean referendum I said Yas Heres the result of the vote It was in favor of changin the bylaw and 27 against Wow That was a close of the ballots which was in favor of changin the zonin by law was discounted because the voter had voted for and against and another was a spoiled bal lot said Slim How unfortunate I said That aint half the story Everybody knows who spoiled the ballot It was Will fifth concession farm er the fastest in the township who intended to vote yes the chewin to factory said Slim un folding the whole story What on earth did he do to spoil his ballot I asked Well Will B is a little soft in the head about some things It ppears that he got all excited in his ballot and got and when he spit he let fly and hit the bal lot square between the yes and no position Several scrutineers fer a half hour over that bal lot to figure out what was the voters intention Will told them that he recognized his ballot and that his intention was yes and hon orable But them scrutineers wouldnt accept it Said it was plumb spoiled spoiled by chewin Is that supposed to be the moral of the story I said Something like that I said Well I dunno But it was a wad of chewin which defeated the factory up here in East Thim bleberry township And Ill tell you folks in Cuttin Cor ners is mighty sad about it by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches The milk problems arc pretty much the same the world over In our recent trips to Ohio and once into the heartland of dairying Wisconsin farmers are faced withthc same diffi culties Bulk is coming in as fast as it is here and maybe faster The number of the herds is going down and some are getting much bigger There is a def inite trend to loose housing it being the great thing and among more careful the dairy breeders there is a trend back from housing to comfort stalls of the Interesting fea tures of the present turmoil is the fact that the larger and old established herds now close to the great cities are finding that labor and other troubles are raising their costs of pro duction and at the same time the dairies can get cheap milk in by huge tank trucks from cheaper If anything the problem there is much bigger than here The cream producers from the small herds in Kentucky and Missouri and some other border states ship rtilk several hund reds of miles into cities like Cleveland and thus just about force the producers in the im mediate milk shed to give up and subdivide Another feature of their dif ficulty is that when a man is shut off for poor quality milk and in some markets they are pretty strict he gets on to ship milk to what they call the jug dealer the guy who is coming in here now and the law gives them loopholes to do this al though this cannot happen here Nor is it any easier for either the small or the big guy to make money out of milk Wages are about to 1009c higher for farm help and there price is set also though a bit higher than ours in certain parts of the year Their tax situation is dif ferent and not nearly as favor able as ours There a large breeding establishment is al lowed a lot of deductions and as a matter of fact for four years it is allowed to lose a lot of money but in the fifth year they have to make a profit on the farm or else they are de clared a hobby and all the back income tax becomes due in one lump If the fifth year is a good one it is all good and well but if it has a bad fall or a late spring and they are having a bad one there this year things can get pretty grim What they do have at least In some breeds is a large vol ume of buyers and here a far mers breeder will pay for value and will pay well The sale we attended had a heifer sell for and some others well up in the four figures The only sound operation is the family farm with the boys helping and maybe one hired man and working to acres of land and milking cows This of course is built on the old principle of not pay ing the family but getting a good livelihood out of it for them We are wondering if it will ever come to this here getting huge tank trucks to bring milk from Quebec or the North and supplying the area where the old milk shed will get priced off the market Relief for the dairy farmers must come from somewhere be cause the present price struc ture is killing us all It should not be allowed to develop to an operation where it is only a money making proposition with free labor if it is done ineffici ently on poor land CHINESE PASTOR FOR ANGLICAN CHURCH First ChineseCanadian to a call to be pastor at an allwhite Anglican church Rev Andrew Lam show with his wife and two children will move from Vancouver to early In May In Vancouver air Lam has been pastor of the Good Shepherd Mission in the citys Chinatown for the past years The decision to move to Winnipeg was made after years