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ages from the Notebook the changeover was to dial telephones last fall re decided to have an unlisted iber at the house When one an unlisted number that fans that the information op- is not permitted to give it the number no matter how the enquirer may Ink his call to be decision lo have an un ited number came after years it careful consideration When tried to mow the lawn on a afternoon we were in terrupted by people calling in lassified ads or social items A at home which might take hour and a half would take three hours because of the mono calls Or someone might call us in shovelling the snow or the children change the rater in the aquarium to ask us general was killed in the Second uprising in pro vince in the fifteenth century The last straw was in when wo were startled out of sleep by the telephone jangling at 1230 am A man us what to do with a for the paper me or two other suggestions came to our mind but we told him to just mail it It was then that we decided to have the Unlisted number Our last name is spelled the Files of Unfortunately for him a friend spells his last name Strother and ever since we have had the unlisted num ber he has received many of the nuisance calls People call the information operator and sometimes she rings up his number He pleads that he is not the editor of the newspaner but he is not always believed During the liquor plebiscite campaign he received numerous calls But I am not Mr Strut ti ers the editor of the paper he protested to one lady Yes you are she said Now you listen to me and vent on with a long tirade of abuse We realize that the editor of a newspaper is in the public eye and should be available to the public But after all he should be entitled to a little private life too and until we had the unlisted number we had very little Incidentally Mr Strother is moving to Richmond Hill in three weeks so he will not be required to suffer the abuses which are sometimes directed the editor We must say that he took the inconveniences in a goodhumored way So after three weeks time all calls should be forwarded to Richmond Hill and 50 Years Ago Years Ago May Aurora Children of the True Blue Orange Orphanage pre sented Snowball a twoact in Mechanics Hall here two nights last week before I good audiences The play was under the auspices of Queen Mary Following the a musical program was given by the children Proceeds pre in aid of fund -25- Qucensville Neighbors and friends are caring for Mr and Mrs David Miller 84yearold pensioners who were left desti tute on Monday of last week when two men impersonating provincial police constables stole the old age pension money which they had just received dames was captured Constable Orval Smart on the night of the robbery and was convicted by Magistrate Wm Keith on charges of stealing from the pensioners and of impersonat ing a police officer Word has received from Mr Cooper well known in Keswick of his safe arrival in Kngland on the 3rd of this month He is on a trip Europe and expects to visit Southern Germany Austria and Hungary Adjutant Weiboum who was fin charge of the local corps of the Salvation Army in landed at Vancouver on Mon day last on his way to Toron to where he will spend his fur lough after seven years work in the missionary field in China Mr and Mm 1 of Newmarket and Mrs and Mrs C Park of Cayuga also Mr and Mrs spent Mothers Day in Whitby Miss Maggie Morning nurse in the Orthopedic hospital in Toronto came home for Moth ers Day last weekend 25 Three of Mr J It Brigh tons sisters from Bradford took tea with him on Sunday evening and attended the Mu sical festival Mr Frank and family of Hamilton visited his brother Mrs last week end Miss Jean Blizzard and friend were home from McDonald Hall for Mothers Day Years Ago May 17 Baldwin Breezes A modern Jack the Giant yarn A couple of our rural youths rambled up to town Sutton and there endeavored to make themselves agreeable and en tertain a pair of damsels But an avenging spirit in the of the damsels daddy lack the Giant got after them They fled and he pursued them a mile or more but they had on a full head of steam and tra velled to beat the record thus escaping the ferocious monster Ive no doubt they an ex pel of Huckleberry Finn and Tom when Injun Joe was them Something New The direc tors of the North York Ag So ciety have completed arrange ments for their annual excur sion to held on Thursday the nth of June For years tho board have endeavored to find some new point of interest and this time it is the town of Lind say running direct through Is a growing town in a beautiful lo cation and lots of accommoda tion to care of a big crowd We loam that Prof Arthur Oliver accompanied by his mo ther and sister leave Montana next week and to reach Toronto on 28 Their plan is to go to Orchnrd Bench very soon after where the two lat ter will spend the summer Prof Oliver has been granted a years leave of absence from his position a- director of the State College He Intends to three months in travelling through Scotland Frame Switzerland and Italy and will then tudv in Germ any for about a vear He sails from Boston on the of June and on his return to Montana is promised a substantial in crease of 50- John Morgan and John Kennedy students at the SPS Toronto are horn for summer holidays Mrs Howard Cane drives a handsome these days the of her father Arch Thompson left for on Monday to accept a at per annum Col has an engineer fixing up his launch at Jersey and expects to have it on the He is try ing hard to keep up with Com modore and Admiral fleet which is ex pected at Roches Point shortly Mr J P Hunter Toronto spent a few davs last week with Mrs J BUILT IN AND STILL CHUGGING ft lift The oldest locomotive In active use In Canada hauling train on the Canadian Pacific branch between Ion New Brunswick She Is old No 130 an American wheel arrangement built by the Rogers Locomotive New Jersey in and rebuilt at the Angus Shops of the CPft in l28 Her wheels are inches she operates on a boiler pressure of lbs and gen- a tractive effort of lbs Weight of tbe engine and Impress NEWSPAPER Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Newmarket Era 1852 The Express Herald 1895 Published every Thursday at 30 Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription for two year for in advance copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulations Authorized as Second Class Mall 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 THURSDAY THE SIXTEENTH DAY OF MAY NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN LICENSES FOR LAW BREAKERS This week the Supreme Court of Canada handed down a decision which is of vital concern to every Can adian and every purchaser of Canadian goods In the case of the fine papers companies which has been fought through the Ontario and Federal courts for several years the justices decided that a combine was illegal in spite of the specious claim by the companies that their action was not detrimental to the public interest The government charged that seven companies and merchants had entered into a combine to fix the price of fine papers and otherwise lessen competition Com pany lawyers had argued that the case did not fall under the anticombines legislation because their action was not detrimental to the public interest and that any was a conspiracy to hold down prices Mr Justice Robert Taschereau wrote that conspiracy is a crime in itself and that the public is entitled to the benefit of free competition After last years raise in the price of paper in spite of record breaking profits on the part of the paper com panies there will not be many people who will believe that there was a conspiracy to hold down prices The case touched off a propaganda campaign by the Canad ian Manufacturers Association and its allies in political and economic philosophy to change the whole basis of combines legislation Proof of the existence of a com bine should not be enough they argued It should be pro ven by the government that such a combine is detri mental to the public interest before handing down fines At present the Combines Act has only baby teeth For Canadian manufacturers this is still too much They would like to pull those teeth let the govern ment gum it To have to prove in addition to conspiracy just how each case was detrimental to public interest would result in endless almost hopeless litigation The Supreme Court would have to be staffed with 10 Solo mons instead of seven fallible humans While most com panion havent the gall to come right out and say they want an end to combines legislation and a free hand to do as they please they would like to weaselword the act into a state of im potency which would have the same end result Now if competition among manufacturers benefits the public and we believe that it does then the differ ence between what the manufacturers say and they are most vociferous in their protestations of love for free enterprise and what they do which is re vealed in court raises a stench of hypocrisy as high as the heavens Combines legislation was enacted to Comedy an ob vious evil which was the tendency of industrialists in the same field to act together to squeeze the last possible penny for their products out of the publics pocket In the interests of the whole community this type of piracy must be eliminated That years propaganda have had their effect is evident The woods are full of people who are ready to argue or accept the argument that some sort of mystic change has taken place in the hearts of men especially the hearts of industrialists and thai they are no longer the rapacious barons of commerce who went their ruthless way around the end of the cen tury and the beginnings of this one The argument runs that times have changed and they have learned their lesson they all want to be nice boys now and therefore such legislation as the Combines Act or continual investigation by the government are really unnecessary No farmer who ever built a fence to keep the cows out of his garden felt after a few years that the cows had learned their lesson and took the fence down He knew that the minute his back was turned the cows would be back in the cabbages For residents of this area the benefits of com petition are most apparent Last year the town of Aur ora laid new water mains In the tenders the cost of cast iron pipe was more than a third higher than the cost of asbestos pipe which was fairly new This year for an other water main the cost of cast iron is and at one point the price dropped cents per foot in six days Without the competition of asbestos pipe mun icipalities would still be faced with the same outrageous prices they have always been forced to pay just be cause there wasnt any competition and the selling price was every nickel the market would stand Combines legislation does not need weakening If anything the penalties for infractions should be made much stronger In the case of the fine paper manufactur ers the fine was a total of tor seven companies and 21 merchants and the government charged that the conspiracy had been carried on for over years If the seven manufacturers alone split the costs it amounts to a little over per year for each company Fin ancially it is more advantageous to break the law than to obey it When the government deals with violators of the Criminal Code it seizes all equipment used in an illegal business While it might be too harsh to seize companies guilty of violating the Combines Act the seizure of all profits made during the period of conspiracy plus prison terms for responsible company officials would remove much of thee temptation to break the law and pay a small fine for doing so At present the fine is merely a modest license fee for breaking the law POLITICS Election printing is a nice bit of extra business for the small town printer if he can get it but thivt is sub ject to his associations not the way he votes or the job he is trying to do in the community This year the Era and Express has no orders for the peoples printing for the federal election nor has the Aurora Banner we understand The Era is owned by the Conservative can didate so the party in power which decides where the printing is to be done makes sure that we receive none This is done in spite of the fact that our printers jobs are not subject the way they vote We recall thai when the Era was owned by a Lib eral it did receive election printing for the provincial election from tin Conservative authorities We find it more difficult to understand why the Aurora Banner did not receive some business shareholders in that com pany have not been restricted to the Conservative party Political It is high lime that election printing was taken out of politics and divided among the printers in constituency We also favor the ending of printing kickback payments about which most printers have heard something OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by HARVEY WRITERS TOO RESPONSIBILITIES Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger There is an old Baying lo the ffct that people who live in glass houses shouldnt disrobe in the daytime Too many of our current popular writers dis regard tin old maxim They criticize our statesmen for not living Up to the highest moral principles They criticize our whole civilization for its Philis tinism and materialism Bui when writers are asked what they arc doing to raise the moral tone of politics they are ant answer in the works of Erica Mann Polities is some thing for politicians And when they are asked what they are to raise the moral level of society they retreat in to their houses and divest themselves of all moral respon sibility These glass houses lake the form of claims that has no duty except to be to himself or to paint the thing as he sees it Such claims arc merely a transparent attempt to escape from every kind of moral obligation what soever There Is no form of iniquity thai cannot bo aided a skil ful writer under the pretense of painting the as he sees it Nov mi what grounds do writers claim exemption from the Mora One of the commonest- and flimsiest of arguments is sim ply snobbery In that view the trouble is with the reader not with the writer- If a hook ail anarchism and that all rulers he assassinated and if people are influenced the hook in make attempts on the lives of and presi dents the writer mav use the snob theory to defend himself He will insist that he did not mean what he said and that people of intelligence should know thai ley In- meant good health and rulers be meant bacteria He i not to be blamed if the man on the it reel took him literally This argument has pa mine val idity than could he claimed for someone who put into candy and defended himself by saying that he the candy for ornament in reality much of the ob jection censure is rooted in fear of censorship Writers Hunk that they run escape on by arguing that as an elite group should be ex empt from criticism The his tory of censorship shows the error ihat view Freedom of expression is pint of a general aliunde toleration It can not achieved by claiming privileges for writers The hist of unmoral writing is the theory of moral relativism the theory thai is no way of proving which moral code thai the whole Ides of morality prejudice or superstition Admittedly Hot as certain aboul lite foundations morality as our grandfathers were Out is obvious thai without one morality civiliza tion Indued human life itself would come to on end with startling suddenness If no one took care of infants none of would survive If every one went about robbing and everyone he met life would be in the words of nasty brutish and short Most moral codes though differ on matters like the propriety of having more than one wife a time are in substantial agreement in condemning rohliery and mm Perhaps tin- logical morality not be yoncl question but il does follow that we should abandon morality What would we of a builder who because he lay his foundation on solid would propose to his building in the air The set ions part of this letn of responsibility is very few people seem see Hid it is serious The general attitude seems be Are you mil whipping a straw horse Even who adopt ihe theory of moral relativism will condemn the really serious crimes Who defends robbery and murder today Unfor tunately a very great many Continued on Col state is the servant not the master of people the slate is their against infringement on their rights their agent in international ami national it not the function of the stale to assume the direc tion of thane activities which rest on individual choice A little nonsense now and men Anon Egad Cyclops has gone union Hes organized himself This all happened last week when he heard how much en gravers were being paid in the city You see when Cyclops came to us ho was supposed to bo a reporter but he got side tracked into making printing plates in that acid tank he has in the dark damp room at the back of the shop I am not going to be paid these starvation wages he cri ed at the boss Sure reporters and editors are supposed to be paid starvation wages but rot engravers Since Ive learned this trade Ill organize myself and youll have to pay me more And so he did Cyclops is his own president of the local He is the secretary of the local He also is shop ste ward In addition he is his own union welfare officer Is he his own asked Slim on Tuesday No but as president of his lo cal he automatically would be a member of his own arbitration board I pointed out He would nominate himself one mem ber the boss would nominate one then the two would get to gether and nominate the third Then Cyclops and the boss and then Is relished the wisest the nominee wool- sit down argue Cyclops case Slim The National Labor Relations Board representative made special from the city on Tuesday afternoon because he thought there was something he of per cent vote Cyclops -v- voted in favor himself organized Then or Wednesday how got sinister and irz Urchin in art of engraving Cyclops showing the fine in the past months and he was gettmg ty good at the trade The boss idea was to out Cyclops replace bun with Urchin nonunion But the boss was foiled again becau se Cyclops had kept the process of platemaking a deep dark secret in our shop He al so to to pass approval 00 fee ing allowed into the union On Thursday both Cyclops and decided to so or Z by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches Sometimes it is rather diffi cult to write a column on a sub ject that is too close to home There is a danger that our righ teous indignation may be takei as a personal grievance and thus we will stand accused of Using this column for ulterior purpos es However this is one occa sion when we 1 brave this chance mid iet it go anyway We have a small herd of some Shorthorns on our place and being a beet breed always pre- a great difficulty You see one either sets the income from by way of steers or one gets it through selling breeding stock It one gets it the first way then any quality there is in the original herd has to show up in weight for age gain per day and right on the old meat- block So far so good If the income is to conic from breeding stock then the trouble starts The old way used be to load the crea tures w i all the fat in the world and pedigrees with all the fancy a there were Having put up an animal that looked good according these standards it a supposed to sell like hot cakes We can assure you that the pretty little that fed on the milk of the land were more made up than a chorine from a Sen field Follies and in some were about as much use in a farmers herd up coun try These observations have Veen made by the thinking of people who make their liv ing by selling beef animals and certain policies have been de vised lo pel a bit more sense in to the business and thus protect the industry as a whole For example there new v lest station m connection with a college where bulls are pus through 168 days of lest feeding to see how they perform There also a policy in force which grades or classifies the female- in breeding herd to see what connection there is the performance of the offspring and the ancestry For reasons that are obvious we have out lo a Just these steps that it will lead us to measure of suc cess and increase of income in this business We had our cows graded we have a good grading two of the cows that were graded for example were AAA the highest grade avail able and as far as we know there are only about a so far thus graded We also sent a bull to the sta tion that happened to be the too testing bull in its group for Shorthorns and as luck would have it it was out of the family of cows So we thought we had the combination the well tested young bull not too hard to look it and the too grade cow Well the went to a sale at and you guessed it sold for very little money As a matter of fact he was the bottom selling animal We could prove it if proof were necessary that almost a year ago as a steer this bull would have meant more return over the scales which may or may not matter much The point we are trying to make is this We arc not the only ones who arc losing We venture to say that the different levels of government who devised this policy have at least as much actual cash in this as we have They support the station pay wages and hire staff As far as we ate ihis somewhat similar to a health measure which is lha result a lot of research The country for for the common good and it used lo protect all us The appro priate department talking about toxoid and ling the idea shots Except n e e a e of this ri d es not sell or use of the research it has own position in this mat- tee very We cannot go along with this scheme any ton- per because we do not feel wo can afford it It might be bet ter it the powers that be had a long and honest look at the re sult of their latest and not ver viable brain child CAN FISH FROM THEIR DOORSTEP A a fella Douglas Webster who has trout stream house in Mornings he wants a fish dinner he Just steps outside his bouse a soil chair and throws in line to sayj are almost as numerous as the trout Here Mary Cocnraae ana her son try their luck