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the Files of MEMBER and 50 Years Ago October Business Improving Last week the Office Specialty ship- pod several carloads of office furniture by the besides a carload by truck every day to Toronto Hamilton or soma other Ontario city The Pencil Factory shipped between three and four tons of lead pencils by the filling many rush orders The Davis Company arc constantly shipping largo quantities of leather by express all over Canada and the United States Iast week they got in ten carloads of hides some of cars which were shipped from Vancouver are said to been loaded with hides from New Zealand Kettlcby Miss Roberta was hostess at her home here on Saturday when the Wood- bridge and Vaughan telephone employees gave a cup and sau cer shower for one of their members MLss daughter of Mr and Mrs Alfred of Strange whose marriage will take place Oct Mrs Josephine Moore attend ed Fair with relatives from Bluffs Mr and Mrs If C Watt and von Donald of Toronto visited at the home of Mrs Watts parents Mr and Mrs I J An derson Miss Grace OUalloran of Toronto spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Mrs Robert If spent Thanksgiving holidays with her daughter Mrs Hall in Tor onto Mr and Mrs negate taut family of Wetland spent the holiday weekend at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Sanderson Mrs M A Rotham of Toron to Miss Jean McCrelght and Mrs A K Travis of Markham were visiting with Mr Ellas Smart last week October 18 Farm Produce Fair market last Saturday Prices fol lows butter to 30c lb eggs to 27c do dressed chick ens 10c lb dressed chickens to 1 pair dressed ducks to turkeys to He lb apples to 25c basket pears to basket potatoes to onions 35c peck celery per head cauliflower 10 to each pigeons to pair to 200 each Severe cold weather During the past week has been the cause of many chapped hands and reddened faces and in creased the demand for Almond and Oatmeal Cream United Factories The last of cars of logs over the G from were deliver ed last week and the yards are now pretty well filled Mrs of Toronto spent over Sunday with her sis ter Mrs William Mrs Wootten has returned home after spending two weeks with friends in Michigan Mr and Mrs Calvin of Killarney Man and Mrs of Queens ville spent Monday last with their cousin Mrs If Dr Cook after spending the greater part of the summer with her sister Mrs at their old home Daw son Manor has returned to her home in Toledo Ohio wilh youngest daughter Mrs J Joseph Mrs Fitzgerald of was visiting friends in town over Sunday and attended Brad ford Fair Mrs I J Kellar of tiquo Mich was visiting Mrs Dunham a couple of days last week Mrs of Gore Ray is spending a few days with her sisterinlaw Mrs Manus Mr Russell Storks left last Monday to accept a position in Mr Scan Ions grocery in Tor onto GOOD TO HAVE AROUND THE HOUSE Visible proof that the atomic age make thing In this slave manipulator of the AM Atomic Canada plant at Port Hope The manipulator is to handle hot or radio active substances hut it can be pressed Into service tor lighting or picking op lost collar lie plant la In Canada to produce fuel for atomic SHE OWES IT ALL TO HAY FEVER I Hay few drove Brooks from to a holiday in Florida Free of the sniffle and aha a Sty contest and can be known aa liubaidy and Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Newmarket Era The Express Herald Published Thursday at Charles St Newmarket by the Newmarket and Express Limited Subscription for two S3 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 Mall Post Office Department Ottawa John E Struthers Managing Editor Caroline Ion Associate Editor George Haskett Sports Editor Racine Production W Stefaniuk Advertising THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE SEVENTEENTH DAY OF OCTOBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN MANY BENEFITS FROM DISPOSAL PLANT Newmarkets agreement with the Ontario Water Resources Commission for the construction of a sewage disposal plant and greater sewerage system is one of the most important steps forward taken by this muni cipality in many years By step forward we are not pretending that Newmarket is ahead of other communi ties The step merely brings the town up to date with regard to municipal services The town has needed a sewage disposal plant perhaps since its existing system of sanitary sewers a installed years ago The recent report by the medical officer of health on gross pollution in the Holland River prohibits lis from saying that the disposal plant idea was introduced by leaders having great foresight It was not a matter of choice but rather of necessity Nevertheless the project will mean that the town and area surrounding it will be free to develop on a sound basis There will be land which can be developed for industrial use having the necessary sewerage ser vices available There will be no public health hazard from subdivisions already developed or approved and which have threatened to cause public health hazards and municipal headaches In addition the project will end pollution in Holland River The lands adjacent to the river can be improved Through the Holland River Conservation Authority interested organizations and citizens the Holland River valley could be conserved and made into a beauty spot A few timbers in the water control gates of the old canal locks could form three fine con servation ponds north of Newmarket With clean water once again flowing down the Holland it is to be hoped that this project will be undertaken at an early date In all Newmarket and neighboring areas are ex pected to receive great benefits from this new project PROBLEMS NORTH OF TOWN East township is being presented with a proposal to share in the cost of the new sewage plant upkeep We are unable to see where the township has any choice in the matter Development north of Newmarket requires sanitary sewage services and the operation of a separate sewage disposal plant by East would be more costly A study of the townships relation to this new sew age disposal plant project leads us to believe that it is hardly moral to ask East to enter an agree ment without first suggesting annexation by Newmar ket No doubt annexation of the North End district is unpopular among town council members We suspect also that it would not be favored by some of the members of East council who might enjoy the new field of governing urban development East is a rural municipality but in re cent years it has been given urban responsibilities in the builtup area north of Newmarket Tax revenue from existing properties north of Newmarket plus developing subdivisions would not pay the cost of the townships share in the new disposal plant That means that the taxpayers in the jural parts of the township will be re quired to help pay and they will be receiving no imme- diiate benefits A farmer near Holt for instance likely would be in favor of Newmarket annexing the area north of town There w be no immediate advantage to the town annexing the area It would be necessary to lo cate industry to help balance the increasing residential assessments New subdivision problems similar to ones experienced by Newmarket in the last three years are bound to crop up in the residential areas now under construction Does the township council more experi enced in rural administration wish to continue in the field of urban development It would seem to us thai now is an appropriate time to give this question serious consideration Does Newmarket wish to take on more development headaches We suspect that its officials do not But in our opinion it is hardly fair to rural taxpayers for a township to take on these urban respon sibilities if it can avoid them INDIVIDUAL HAS RIGHTS Residents in the Eagle St area are petitioning town council against the possibility of a welding shop being opened in that residential area We are- in complete sympathy with these residents who want to protect their property values On the other hand a citizen has an opportunity to sell his fine home and surrounding property to the weld ing firm He has been trying to sell his residence for past year because his place of employment is in another community Because of the lack of controlled Continued on Page OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by W HARVEY INCOMPETENCE IN HIGH PLACES Cyrus Eaton Canadianborn Cleveland industrial ist recently made frontpage headlines by attacking the US tendency to give help all over the world lie re commended a policy of selfcentered isolation for Canada Readers of this column will know that I consider such a policy shortsighted and immoral I am not going to restate my arguments hero I wish to raise an issue that is much more vital to democracy namely why so ouch attention should be given to the views of a man who has bad no special I raining in economics or merely because he has made a lot nf money Quali fied students of economics and political science would disagree wiib Mr Eaton his opinion would no doubt carry more weight with the average voter than WO lid the opinions of half a dozen experts If democracy is to meet the challenge totalitarian communism it cannot afford to make too many mistakes In the days When noble statesmen did not itch To in mailers which They did not understand il made little difference whether the voters understood economics or not Now when voters insist that stales- men interfere in practically everything the chances of making mistakes are multiplied manifold Most governments today employ large numbers of experts and are likely In be fairly well informed Hut a government cannot go far in defiance of public opin ion if attempts to do so il will noon cease to be the government The victory of Social Credit in Alberta is the standing proof that an electorate by no means below average in education or intellect can be led to approve a program which competent economist agree would lead to disaster No easy solution is available The vol must cither acquire an understanding of economics or lie guid ed by those who do And is probably unrealistic to the mass of voters to acquire that understanding Professional educators tell us that high school students are not mature enough to grasp the subject And there is not much poinl in scolding adults for not studying it since most books written by economists are not only dif ficult but dull And books written by laymen are often misleading and dangerous The average man therefore must be guided by the opinions of the experts The problem then is How can the voter distinguish the expert from the ipiack On this continent we tend to consider that a man who has made a success in an field especially if he is a successful businessman is likely to be a sate guide in every In Europe perhaps conspicuously in France the businessman does stand so high in public esteem There the intellectual tends to he exalted- The results are not as good as one might expect one think artists musicians actors and writers are counted as in tellectuals Again because of the extreme specialisation in education today mans people who are rightly con sidered intellectuals are completely it of any knowledge of economics or politics Ortega asset contends that the conceited intellectual of today knows less history ami politics than did the educated man of the I Ml century Probably the moat brand of intellectual is the professional writer France has many of those and manv of them are communists Raymond has dealt with them in a masterly little book I Opium ilea Intellectuals the opium of course being Marxism The cleverer a writer is the more dangerous he is if he is an economic illiterate that reason most Schools of Journalism require he i students to take courses in economics ami politics Departments of Eng lish do not Writers ami public speakers all who address the public on questions of social policy have a heavy res ponsibility to make sure that are not propagating nonsense And the only way to avoid the pitfalls is by serious study Neither native intelligence nor a Study of unrelated subjects is any substitute The common man is any man outside his special field competence The the not the master of the people the stale is their guarantee infringement on their rights their agent in international and national issues it is not the function the state to assume the direct tun of those activities which rest on choice Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men Anon Do you believe in reincarna tion I asked Slim this week never took no mind to believe that Muff Do you Well I dont know I said Im beginning to wonder about Frank a n You know Frank Hes got that ladies wear store there down on Main St Oh Frank sure He was the centennials biggest promoter Sure I know Frank Hes to film the C U tin Corners twelfth anniversary celebrations next year for the BBC in color Im But whats he got to do with reincarnation Well Im not sure yet Im conducting investigations about it Im just wondering if Frank was once a type gremlin Type gremlin Slim Either that or he has powers to hex I said You know how its been with the paper Ev ery time we run an advertise ment something happens Eith er his name gets on the ad up side down or somebody a line out of it before it goes to press Things will go normal for weeks until Frank puts an ad in the paper Thats the week that something always happens And just happens to happen to Franks ad Tis uncanny at times agreed Slim Those things are usually at tributed to type gremlins that get loose around the back shoo Yas Ive heard Uncle talk about them recalled Well could it be just re motely possibly be that Frank was reincarnated a type gremlin I asked Preposterous Impossible Fir dont believe in reincar nation Secondly youve it backward- If then- wore such a thing Frank could be come a type gremlin the next world But he couldnt have been one And then if there is such a thing as re incarnation he wouldnt become a type gremlin hed become an in Fairy Lake Thats hed become because hes sa enthusiastic the yacht club here i Slim But I told ev thing yet On the CJRH station had a last week about a vice Frank go that They something everything goes and pi the store at the end a W they ever get Frank wih the weekly radio people ha- too 3 hy Frank Dawson Has he hex on newspapers aior rig v y a Hes I that Fran to haunt her- i Tii- about -T- all I i to to nsaJce a ha of the Maybe ha RCAF FLIES Hamiltons N to no is to AslMadittj S el cec ire jara Xc CANADIAN PHOTO A of trip to Portugal was won by Mr of Ottawa for this photo She it in contend first over other tries HOPES TO CLIMB CANADIAN MOUNTAIN toa Canada to wntrM Me has t MohVnunsn nf to to plant the on t of the mountain alongside