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Pages from the itors Notebook A relative visiting our house hold recently expressed disap proval of Sputnik The conver sation had drifted around to the Russian a conversations do and our visitor of a genera tion senior to our own said What business have they run ning around up there It not possible to answer that question The situation reminded us of short story we had read years ago We cannot remember the authors name but we do re member a domestic scene where the wife was reading a news paper She was reading aloud to her husband about world troubles and the time was in the twenties or early thirties She told him the newspaper was warning that if things kept up the way they were developing general would rule the world Repeating the mispronuncia tion she asked her husband about general choss Half interested behind the se cond section of the paper the husband said he thought it was one of those Chinese generals warlords who constituted re mote threats to the peace of the times Perhaps some people see Sputniks name in the paper and with a glance wonder if hes a general up there Whether he has any bu siness up there or not perhaps he will make people think For people thinking may well be a factor which will at best re- From the Files of tain the freedoms we have been enjoying in a democratic society and at least a modern civiliza tion Expressions of emotion we doubt will contribute to the sal vation of world society Perhaps members of the American state department too will arrive at this conclusion before long It is to be hoped that they will We are in a new era where national and ideological differ ences can no longer be resolved satisfactorily by war It can no longer be conceived that we should go to war and fight for freedom That phrase is now extinct war would be more like a fight for destruction The economic and political leaders now have a responsibil ity in the defense of our free doms far greater than that of the military leaders New residents from thy UK and Europe have revived an in terest in soccer in the district Soccer is a fast exciting game and we like the attitude of play ers An item in this weeks sports section best describes the spirit in which the game is played the Brampton goalie was so brilliant that the New market players after being rob bed of certain goals had to stop to applaud Haan for his effort It was something you wouldnt see in hockey a player just robbed of a goal stopping to give a hand to the opposition goalie and 50 Years Ago Honey Prices Goinjfcf Up Honey producers throughout the Province are rat ified with the recent stead rise in price for their product As a result of heavy exportation totalling over one quarter of a million pounds in September alone the domestic price ha risen from a cent and a half and most producers are now refus ing to sell for less than six and a half cents per pound net A New York City paper re ferring to a luncheon meeting of the says A short musical program has been ar ranged with songs by Moss Johnson a former resident member of the Studio Club who now represents the membership on the Committee of Manage ment Mrs Johnson will be ac companied by Robert Jones a resident member of the club Mrs Johnson a daughter of Mr and Mrs J O Moss of New market Miss Windsor of Mussel mans Iake has returned home after her vacation Misses and Pearl Rose accompanied by Messrs Dick ey and of were visitors in town on Sun day Miss Nellie of London spending her holidays with her sisters Mrs Skinner Mrs Willis and Miss Nellie Windsor of Mr and Mrs Roy of Toronto spent Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs Joseph Smith Miss and her sis ter who have been visiting In Western Ontario for five weeks returned home lad week Mrs David Kid- ridge and Clifford all of Toron to were in town on Saturday Mrs Rard of Michigan It spending some time with her aunt Mrs Joe Gardner Mr and Mrs J Garrett of Holland Landing were visitors Manse this week A very pleasant ev ening was spent among the young people of Newmarket and this place at the birthday party of Miss Ada on Thur sday of last week Another storey is being added to the kitchen of the Royal Ho tel Room for pupils Mr George A Town ley Bandmaster is just starting a class of instruction in Band music and will accept a limited number of pupils There are a few vacant instrument which could be well filled by some of our young men Mr and Mrs Fred Sax ton have decider to spend the first part of the winter in Toronto and left for the city on Tuesday About young people most ly from Newmarket attended a delightful birthday parly giv en by the Misses on St Mr Andrew Irwins little bov had a birthday party last Satur day afternoon Miss was in Whit by on Wednesday and Thursday on Post Office business Miss Trent left for Toronto this week where she expects to reside for a few months at lea I Miss Nora Fletcher accom panied by her cousin Miss John son and lemon friend spent Sunday in town Mrs Gore Bav is visiting her sisterinlaw Mr J It Mrs Oar re it and Miss Thompson of Bradford were calling on friend in town lat Friday Mr and Mis Nat Bailey of were visiting her sis ter Mr J Parker over Sun day Mr of Bronte is spending a couple of weeks un der the parental roof Mrs Rev Spent ov er Sunday with friends in Town prior to leaving for California on Tuesday In Queens address above to tha nation she ninth fate hint of things la coma in new concept of the throw when the said Travelling Is becoming so quick and easy that I hope to pay more visits in the future It was her first experience either on this continent or on any other of live a speech Upmarket and Express Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York The Newmarket Era 1352 The Express Herald 1895 Published every Thursday at St Newmarket by the Newmarket Era and press Limited Subscription for two years 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 Sports Editor Racine Production E W Stefaniuk Advertising THE EDITORIAL PAGE THURSDAY THE TWENTYFOURTH DAY OF OCTOBER NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FIFTYSEVEN ARE CONVENTION EXPENSES NECESSARY The value of municipal representatives attending conventions has been questioned from time to time at meetings of Newmarket town council Travelling and entertainment costs paid by the taxpayers more than once have caused disagreements among members A letter by a Newmarket taxpayer who did not sign his name wad sent to this newspaper with enquiries about similar expenses to the County of York and the Toronto and York Roads Commission While we are not inclined to publish an unsigned letter the questions are put in the form of a challenge to this newspaper to do a public service The letter letter asks how many people members or officials were delegated to attend the Canadian Good Roads convention held in Saskatoon in September from the county and the roads commission The letter asks the following additional questions What was the total cost to the commission and the county and indirectly to the taxpayers for attendance at this convention Actually it would appear that eight men and their eight wives were at the convention and the total cost was paid directly or indirectly by the tax payers of York County the writer says What was the Aggregate cost of this convention expense to Sas katoon and any additional side trips to Vancouver Banff or Louise or other places visited by any of these representatives while in Western Canada The writer also asks if it was necessary to send eight men and wive to this convention at an es timated cost of payable by the taxpayers of the County of York Why What written reports if any of the convention proceedings have been submitted by any one of these eight delegates to county council or to the Toronto and York Roads Commission which paid their expenses The writer instructs us to ask the clerk to show the original resolutions and official minutes dealing with the persons to go on this convention and the money to be provided for it by the county and by the commission He also suggests that we see the chairman of the com mission and ask him why Obviously the writer possesses some knowledge of county and commission activities Otherwise lie would not write a letter of this nature with detailed questions We are of the opinion that some conventions are a waste of time and money Having observed a d Roads Convention we would put this one at the head of the list We think that the writer of the letter should have the courage to sign his name We also would like to know the answers to the writers questions 14 FOR COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE District high school teachers realize there is some merit in the idea of reducing the age for compulsory education At a recent meeting of the local Secondary School Teachers Federation there was discussion on a recommendation that the age be reduced from to 11 A tie vote on the resolution was recorded It would be interesting to know what percentage of the and are attending high school be cause they and thetr parents Want those extra two years of education Consider the youth who is merely putting in time at school while he and his parents are wishing that he were of school earning a living and possibly learning a trade Perhaps large numbers these stu dents literally putting in time under compulsion are causing extra school accommodation to be built and mak ing education more difficult for those who want it It is quite possible that these draftees are using up the time and mental energies of teachers to the detriment of students who are making a serious effort to obtain their education SOUND GOVERNMENT Constitutional or parliamentary monarchy with a sovereign like ours is a very sensible form of govern ment says The Financial Tost Republics taken by ami large dont stack up well in comparison They and their leaders are constantly engaged in fighting the next elec tion and to that party interest the interest of the country is most of the time taking second place A president may become sick in body or mind lie may lose touch with public opinion His leadership may falter or disappear Theres nothing to be done in any of these circumstance except wait for his term to end or have a revolution The Canadian system of course is not the product of s peri r wisdom Its strictly a matter of historical good luck OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by HARVEY PACIFISM IS NO SOLUTION In view of the terrifying possibilities of an atomic war a few hold spirits are suggesting a heroic alter native surrender T heir position is not that we should give up the struggle but that we should substi tute passive or moral resistance for physical resistance Let the communists take over the world and then de monstrate the superior moral worth of our position by mass civil disobedience accepting without resistance whatever punishments the communists might choose to Impose but frustrating their plans by refusing to carry out their orders filling their prisons and concentration camps and thus becoming a burden to the communist state Few people take the suggestion seriously but since some of those who do ate people of ability and charac ter it is advisable to examine their position Some pacifists base their position on religious grounds they think it is Christs teaching that is to say Gods will that we resist not evil To that argu ment I have no answer I do not pretend to know Cods will in the matter Most pacifists however attempt to argue the mat ter on worldly grounds They argue that a moral cause need not be defended by military methods Ideas can not be stopped by tanks is one of their pet slogans They further try to make a case for their position by appeals to history They quote the old saying The blood of the in a is the seed of the Church and claim that Christianity triumphed because of the per secutions They find a modern example in the case of India claiming that the civil disobedience won independence from British rule None of these Arguments appears convincing The idea that Christianity triumphed because of the persecutions is a myth Christianity triumphed there were long period when it was not persecuted and was free to propagate its beliefs The Christians them selves rap hardly have believed that persecution gives victory to the persecuted if they had they would hardly have persecuted the various kinds of heretics so consistently As Mill pointed out persecution was suc cessful w re v r it was persisted in Protestantism was stamped out of Austria Fiance and Spain Even if cases could be cited in which a martyr was willing and able to undergo torture for his belief and thereby to win converts to his cause there is no reason for thinking that the same thing would happen today The martyr technique will succeed only under special conditions There must be a religious or superstitious people who will believe that ability to undergo torture proves the truth f the victims views The persecution must be of religious beliefs that is beliefs that can be neither proved nor disproved by the methods of science And the persecutors must be bunglers None of those conditions exists in the fight against communism Democracy is not a matter of faith it is something to be defended by rational argument and by the verdict of history The communists are not stupid enough to perpetrate their tortures in public They break their victims in secret torture chambers and put them on show only to confess their crimes and errors Still more fatal to the pacifist position is the fact that heroic endurance of torture does not convince the tor turers it merely exasperates them The case of India proves nothing British policy ever since the middle of the century had to grant selfgovernment to colonies as soon as the people of the colony were considered capable of governing themselves and Nehru were asking for free dom from a people that believes in freedom To get evidence that passive resistance can defeat communism the pacifists will have to produce a case in which their method has worked against totalitarian masters Eight nations in Europe have been under communist domina tion for some fen years now Several countries under Nam rule for years The only ones that obtained oven a or temporary release from bondage those which showed a readiness to fight The record mows that the should be reworded read Tanks cannot be stopped by ideas It is true that communist arguments cannot he stopped by auks they must 1m met by counter argument to present those arguments is the of this column Hut il equally lnie that tanks cannot be stopped by Ideas nor can ideas be met by dead democrats who have bean liquidated by the com secret police sa7 an of ikr hth mnnemea on riffhh agent in intcrrntioml national mm function of th fo those which on individual choice little nonsense now and mm Anon Corners town council ha made a awful mistake de clared Slim the other day Theyve gone and hired a industrial commissioner So I asked So they have a industrial commissioner at a year and his personal Willys Knight sedan around like a white elephant with no industrial land to jell Slim declared If they have no land to sell they hire a commission er asked Councillor Bust and Mayor May not had a plan to annex vast tracts of land in East township to make way a big industrial boom ex plained Slim They got over confident and hired this here commissioner a former cream separator salesman from Dank- waters Junction He gits a fat salary sittin around though It appears that East Thimble- berry is to fight annexa tion all the way The East boys says they will take all the industry into their township which the Corners industrial commission er can lure up Dont need an nexation says the township So the Corners is stuck with no industrial land and a sales man eh That will be a politi cal hot potato I said Yas The last piece of good then is relished the wisest factory land went to the Reich- water distillery in Slim Tile Corners council had figured that they should get on to the bandwagon with all thi here national development They even figured that they an American toothpick inn lin ed up until this here East thorn in the side crop ped up Why dont they fire the in dustrial commissioner then Cant Signed a contract Besides they wouldnt swaller their civic pride to do it up in the Corners If only a few months ago that Mayor marie a speech about the Seaway makin Cor ners a boom town If a sort of a political promise which he aims to carry out If necessary hell bankrupt the town it Slim said Cuttin Corners is by East I oh served pointing to a map on wall Theyre going to have a tough time in the face opposition Yeah All them politicians are their sleeves One of them me that after Cuttin Corners be comes a ghost town theyll an- 1 it to the township place to put their sewage plant And they aim put their garbage dump at south end of Main St by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches One mans hard slugging is another mans holiday or vice versa and while our Mr Editor may have been mouthing naughty words about farm col umnists who take off every so often to sunnier climes we were winging our way to Chi cago to the International Dairy show Flying over the yellows and browns of the fall countryside is one of the wonders to us The intriguing pattern of plowed and disced ground different shades of pasture and fall seeding the rows of corn and other hoed crops are just like patches of an unending quilt with all the missed Stitches and laws show ing Going Western Ontario We saw also the raw sores of gravel pits like drying scabs on living tissue the unfinished houses of subdivisions with empty windows like a blind animal and an odd train with a long plume of smoke Fresh scars of tile draining are seen here and there and the long soft yellow ribbon of a buried pipe line is a new feature we have not seen before Over the lakes the tankers and ore and grain carriers are moving a movement noticeable because of the fath- pattern of their bow waves It was a beautiful clear day warm yellowbrown and aut umn until we got over Chicago which was dirty smelly ami covered with a yellow dim smog From up above we saw it and from below we studied it especially near the stock yards where the International Dairy show was held It is a large affair In many respects better and in others more primitive than h we know at the and Royal The stabling is prim ItiVe but satisfactory and there is little room front the cows there is more thorn which is an advantage Probably the most difference is the fast pace the show while it is on On starts at 10 am a very preferable time to the am we arc used to and on shows nonstop for the day program Put still we finished around to pm the afternoon This is achieved by having as a rule more than at home As soon as on class is out another one waiting at the gate and makes great difference iallv since one doesnt have walk the miles and miles we at the Toronto show to to the barn from the stable For our money no greater could be found these shows than a new ring much closer to the stable Another feature which thou be given consideration is not all the breeds show at same lime Tins results in voluntary exchange in and all of us from the nor aide of ihe border worked and made things The actual showing part liie fan could be made more interesting and from standpoint of the much faster The of junior calf classes of bo sexes would help matters well And then of course one the local feed companies serving coffee and a no tree to alt herdsmen pro ably the least expensive adve at the fair with the results DR SIDNEY SMITH STARTS CAMPAIGN I was hi lint speech as a