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Pages from the MEMBER Notebook The hit parade listings that dictate a constant flood of ir ritating startling disquieting and disgusting socalled popular music on Canadian radio sta tions are the result of a mon strous hoax according to an article by a radio station ex ecutive in the current issue of Magazine The current hit parades are dominated by the two lowest forms of popular music yet de vised Rock n and Vest- but this blatant and cheap masquerade is forced on us by a fractional but clamor ous minority J program director of radio sta tion CJOY in Guelph Ontario writes in the current issue of Popularity listings are com piled from recordstore sales jukebox preferences and disc jockey requests These three outlets are dealt with almost exclusively by fadridden teen- ages states The result is that adolescent taste dominates the choice of music played on most of the countrys radio stations Adults are exposed to songs with over simplified melodies monoton ous arrangements and uninspir- lyrics because these are preferred by the seven percent of the population between four teen and nineteen years old There has been at least one practical test of the biased choice made by popularity list ings Radio station in St Johns solicited musical requests from house wives in a single week No more than a dozen hit parade tunes showed up among the adult requests MacLcan article make a pointed conclusion We are constantly listening to music most of us like because we think its our favorite music From the Files of 25 and 50 Years Ago September About 20 mem bers of the choir journeyed to Holland Landing to assist in their Anniversary Services Sunday night Newmarket represented Three men William Hopkins S and are showing their handi work at the exhibit in the Simpson Co Art Galleries which opened Saturday and continues to October Mr has ten pictures on exhibit Mr ham mered and Mrs vood carving The handi work of these men highly Aurora Fire brigades from centres in York and Peel counties took part in a church parade to the Aurora United church Sunday The procession paused at the war memorial where Chief browning and Frank deposited a wreath The address at the church was de livered by Rev Gordon Armour Mrs W O and son Arthur left for their home in Man last week Mrs has nearly a year with her mother Mrs Jos Victoria Ave Her son Arthur who fcpent the summer in the cast returns to Wesley College Winnipeg where he is his fourth year In Arts Mr of Aurora ac companied by Mr and Mrs to where she remained until Friday when they returned home Mr and Mr Jack William son also Mr and Mrs Williamson motored to Lindsay Fair on Saturday Mrs Henry corner of Niagara St and Millard Ave has returned from a two weeks visit to her son near Keswick Dr A Hood Mrs Hood and run Campbell were visitors at the Manse last week On Tuesday evening Sept Mrs M and Mrs gave a shower in honor of Miss Minnie Moore at the home of her parents The room was beautifully decorated in pink and white streamers and flowers Some wen pres ent The brides gifts were borne in the mom in a lovely decorated basket and were pre sented to the bride and groom who were seated underneath an arch Lunch was after the bride opened her and beautiful gifts Follow ing the luncheon the guests par ticipated in community and games till shortly oclock October Good rumors Since the ath letic meet on the Fair grounds last month a good deal of in terest has been aroused in the matter of longdistance running and almost every evening the hoys may be seen covering the course Gordon Wright is be coming known as the local Tom Longboat and Clarence Lundy shows splendid endur ance Mount Albert The attendance was good at the market on Tuesday and prices show an upward tendency Butter 24 to eggs to 21c chickens turkeys Mr L P Armitagc and wife also his sister Mrs John Crone of Buffalo have just returned from a visit of eight weeks in the Northwest The crops in Manitoba around the district were very satisfactory They will average about bushels to the acre and the sample good The cutting was nearly all done when they left Miss Millard has re turned home after spending three weeks with friends at Port Perry and Toronto Her niece Miss Florence Hum- soy of Ottawa who has staying with her grandfather Mr Jos Millard during her ab sence will leave for her home tomorrow Mrs A Franks left for her home in the city on Monday after spending a couple of weeks with Mrs Low On Sunday she assisted the Christian church choir and in the evening sang a beautiful solo also sang in a duet with Mr Scott Miss Elsie Thomson of Tor onto was home over Sunday The family is packing up to move to where Mr Thompson has a good position Mr John Morgan who has been with a surveying party in the garni country got home on Tuesday and will enter the School of Practical Science in Toronto for another term Mrs Jackson had a few ladies to tea yesterday after noon in honor of Mrs Bailey of Portage la Prairie Mr and Mrs Cane and Miss Sarah Belfry visited Mr Nile at St Catharines on Sim- day Miss Charlotte Simpson has returned from where she spent a very enjoyable months vacation Mrs Daniel of Toronto and Miss Ida Williams have been visiting with Mrs J CAMPBELL ASSUMESRCAF COMMAND Air Marshal C Roy left former chief of air alaff now deputy commander lie Integrated Air e Command formally sign over command of the Marshal Hugh Campbell In a recent ceremony at Air Marshal the new chief of air looks on At Class Office Cat Reports NEWSPAPER Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Newmarket Era 1852 The Express Herald 1895 Published everv Thursday at 30 Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription for two years 5350 for one year 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 L Racine Production E- W Stefaniuk Advertising THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE THIRD DAY OF OCTOBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN WHO CAN ANSWER THIS Newmarket town council has this writer stopped completely Recently a building permit for a pro posed brewers retail store on Charles St was refused The reason for the delay was that the town engineer reported a drainage problem would be caused by a pro posed sunken loading driveway for trucks Council then held a special meeting and authorized a capital expenditure on a storm sewer for Charles St At this meeting it was proposed that the Brewers Ware house company pay a share of the cost of the storm sewer It also was stated that the sewer could be connected with a proposed storm sewer network in the Prospect St area Now at the last meeting of council a building per mit for the retail store has been approved There is to be no storm sewer at least for the present It wax explained that a sump pump would be installed in the loading driveway by the company This is what we are curious about Where will tho water from the sump pump go The building bylaw says it cannot go into sanitary sewers There was a meeting about a drainage problem two weeks ago Now there appears to be no drainage problem Was there a drainage problem or wasnt there and if there was how did it disappear so easily NEED INTEREST IN JERSEY SCHOOL How close is a municipal council to its taxpayers How much attention do taxpayers pay to the workings of their municipal council in Newmarket more and more delegations of citizens attend meetings of council and recently the council has found it necessary to act on ratepayers questions and requests In North Gwillimbury the council has been paying little attention to at least one large group of ratepayers Parents and trustees in the Jersey school area in the past two years have asked for help from the council in providing safer access for school children to and fpoin the new school on the Lockerbie Over pupils attend school It is larger than any pub lic school in Newmarket In fact it is the largest public school from Newmarket to Orillia There is no public bus transportation for pupils Children must walk un protected along the sidcroad and cross busy highways The Toronto and York Roads Commission has shown concern over the problem and it has authorized road markings and widened shoulders on the highways so that children may nave plenty of room to walk Par ents and school trustees met last week and there was general concern over the safety problem They claimed that delegations have been sent to the council during the past two years and that there was no action anil no interest as a result of their visits Meanwhile the police department on the instigation of Chief William Hill is training six boys for safety patrolling at highway crossings The police depart ment is doing what it can with its limited manpower It would seem that a township with a high revenue from summer cottages could afford extra personnel for the protection of more than school children Already there has been a serious accident at a corner near the school Perhaps council does not realize how many taxpayers it has in that section of the township HOPE FOR MORE SCHOOL GRANTS Municipal authorities in this district and taxpayers welcome the announcement that there will be provincial relief next year from the burden of school costs Re visions in the field of education grants are being plan ned by the Frost government The revisions would be part of reforms contemplated to remove as large a por tion as possible of the tax burden from real estate and particularly from the home owner and the farm owner Ontarios elementary and secondary school enrol ment which is now around is expected to don 1 ilc over the next to years The new grant system will aim at assisting the municipalities and through them the municipal taxpayer to solve the financial problem created by this expansion Increased school grants were introduced at the last session of the legislature but the premier said these are only a preliminary to what we plan for the coining years Let us hope that the plans are what the pre mier leads us to believe they will be The main item in the last raise of- school grants was an increase of in the a I per pupil grant paid to each elementary school board Total grants for elementary and secon dary school education will absorb million in 1957- IS CIVIL DEFENSE A MYTH The big trouble in this civil defense business so far as the is concerned is that be just doesnt know what to believe says The Financial Post lie doesnt know what is the best or the possible defense for the civilian population in an atomic war or if there is any defense at all He has been told that lie should disperse main in dustries and essential services like hospitals and com munications centres Yet all about him he sees big cities getting bigger and still more concentration of in dustry and hospitals At the same lime he is told that he should be prepared to cooperate in grandiloquent plans that pretend to call for the complete evacuation of our biggest cities in a matter of hours Having some first hand experience with weekend and rush hour traffic jams when only a relatively small portion of the total population is involved the citizen is doubtful of the success of any master I a of mass evacuation He remembers stories front the last war where defense was paralyzed rat her than helped by civilians blocking the highways The blunt truth is that the civilian population of Canada and of the United States has not been sold on civil defense That must come first then some practical plan if there is any OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by HARVEY IS NOT DEMOCRACY Defenders of special privilege are constantly try ing to make a case for some kind of dictatorship by mak ing out that democracy involves a lot of foolishness about equality They heap ridicule on the famous statement in the American Declaration of Independence We hold these truths to be selfevident that all men created equal The critics of democracy back up their theoretical argument by pointing to the democratic practice of giv ing one vote to every adult That practice they say gives the same influence on public policy to the opinions of a moron as to those of a Toynbee or a Russell Finally those critics contend that the equalizing tendencies in democracy will lead to disaster by raising taxes on incomes and inheritances to such a height thai- efficiency initiative and capital accumulation will be paralyzed and economic progress brought to a stand still What answer does a democrat make to those argu ments First we must understand what democrats mean by the word equality In the slogan of the French Revolution Equality means equality before the law equality of opportunity and an end of that mass of spe cial privileges which characterized the old regime The meaning of equal in the Declaration of Independence was stated by Abraham Lincoln 1 think the auth ors of that notable instrument defined with distinctness in what respects they did consider all men created equal equal with certain inalienable right among which are life liberty and the pursuit of This they said and this they meant We give all adults the vote because experience has shown that when any large class of people is disfran chised it is regularly exploited and when any attempt is made to give special influence to a select group the result is an increase in the power of the holders of spe cial privilege And it is simply not true that giving every adult one vole permits the moron to influence public policy to the same extent as does Bert rand Russell Voting is merely the recording of opinions that have been formed in the free discussion that democracy provides And in that discussion the voice of a licit rand Russell may have more influence than a million morons Finally the increasing share of taxation borne by the wealthy is justified on the basis of that other demo cratic ideal fair play The case for it was put by Churchill in defending the one of the first big steps toward Hie welfare state Said Churchill This budget places the burden of taxes on the Shoulders of the wealthy classes the classes that have most to gain from living amid a happy and con tented people and in a safelyguarded land The conclusive answer to the critics of democracy is to be found in experience No undemocratic system has consistently produced rulers of greater ability than the governments of the democracies And the classic example of disaster caused by misguided attempts to plunder the wealthy did not occur in any democracy but in the Soviet Union when the dictators liquidated the capitalists the managers and the kulaks The stale is the servant not the master of the people the slate is their guarantee against infringement on their rights their agent in international and national issues I it is not the unction of the state to assume the direct ion of those activities which rest on individual choice Catnips By Ginger A Utile nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men Anon Aint progress wonderful snickered Slim watch ing the boss at his telephone The bosss phone is one of those new gimmicks that put a half dozen lines into one phone and gives you a set of buttons to unscramble them The intercom had buzzed say ing there was a call for him and he was playing button but ton which is the button for try- Ing to find it Since there are only six he uses the process of elimination The lights blink wildly the buzzers whir and the boss dashes from one button to the next trying to find his call Yep continued all progress does is give you more chances to make bigger mistakes but I must say that phones sure give you a chance to discover the real person Why I know one little fel low that is just as meek and peaceable as you could want always polite and selfeffacing as long as the other person was him in the face hut you put him on a phone with just a copper wire between him and the person he was talk ing to he could be as nasty and snappy as a corporation boss with three ulcers many get occasions like that admitted the boss but you have to admit that its a great time saver and time is money he said beaming like hed just invented a new phrase know a situation where just the opposite took place said The boss sigh ed a I way knows a special exception to the rule There are a couple of fellers up in the Corners that are real polite and mean naturally polite In fad theyre so polite its a pain in the neck to do em a favor Each one is so appreciative for any little thing that you always go away feel in like you should have done 10 tunes more Why I lit a cigar for one of em once and he wrung my hand thank- me with a quaver in his voive and tear in his eye and vowed hed never forget it and I could call on him anytime etc until I a Into- an away When them two fellers get together those two Gaphonse and Alston aint even in the same league One day some of us boys was sitthV in front of the general store when a car pulls up and out leans a prosperous stranger who wants to know who owns that field of clover up the road Well he was one of the fellers I mean allowed as how he owned it and the stranger says he wants it all for a riding academy if Mort will get her cut and hauled and says thats fine with him and he could wait while he checked to see if he could bor row a friends tractor because his is laid up So pops into the store to use the phone to call his friend who is the other feller After five minutes he dont come out so I stroll in to get some cigars and can hear him thanking tother feller Well Mort would thank some and then tother feller would start say in as how it was alright wasnt anything and would say it was and start him some more The stranger waited awhile shooting his cuff up every now and then checkin the time and finally he says hell come back when the funeral was over and deal with the heirs and off he roars Now them two fellers was bad enough face to face but they was so polite that could hang up on the other theyd been talking face to face they would have started back ing away and when the con versa ion pot up to shouting dis tance it would have broke oft natural like So lost his sale all be cause of phones said the bos But what happened to other guy he asked He had just turned on taps to fill the water troughs the barn when the phone rang Slim answered and before could muster the gumption hang the thing up his wet pumped dry the troughs over flowed and flooded his ban and the seepage spoiled si bin of oats So much for progress said Slim he marched out by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches veiling a the country if only in the immed iate neighborhood one help hut be impressed by the number of big shiny hulk tanks on the road Three years ago hulk cooling and hulk haulage was just a had word and today it is safe to say the spring of most milk gome into the city from this area will be hulk hauled and hulk tooled It is reasonable to say that it is this way in most large popu lated areas Hie States OS well In most cases it will mean an in vestment of probably 2500 to per farm producing milk With an odd exception mostly smaller dairies it was done without additional premium on milk nor could the producers organization do anything about it whatever the reasons might have been for it Any savings that might be to the farmers benefit will hi in direct ones mostly in Ihe shape of better weights better pro duct and probably better lest There will bo some saving in time in handling ttie milk Ihe whole history behind these last three years give people something to thin about because the producer Organisation should have take the lead and should take a progressive altitude toward it Instead of this there en injunctions and advice stand still and this should be reexamined not much to find fault hut rathe to see that in a similar stiua lion more constructive think could prevail There is no reason in hulk haulage is the la new idea in the business that it is the problem will ever confront us It quite possible that lb licensing of dairies and strict rules applying to mil routes will change some da It is possible that some sort grading so long talked hut never actually put into feci may take the place of present fluid producers an manufacturing plants who much the sain- price net fluid producers get Continued on Page 14 Oil I PLAN ALLCANADIAN MENU FOR QUEEN One of Canadas foremost creative chefs Steve the King hotel In Toronto his been chosen to the state dinner during the forthcoming visit to Ottawa of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Chef Vojtech who has pent over years in the kitchens of the King Edward will pre- lure a meal which he claims will he wholly Canadian He Is shown above right supervising assistant chef John Vojtecb cooked for the Que during her last visit to Toronto