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and Express Member f Awdit Bareaaof Class A Newspapers Serving Newmarket and tbe rural districts of North York ltHa year at publication every at M Charles St Newmarket by tbe Newmarket En and Express Limited SakscripttM for two rears foe one year in advance Single are lie Member at Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Circulating as Second Class MaiL Department Ottawa Baxter Publisher G tones Editor George Sports Editor L Racine Margaret Arnold Business Newmarket Era THE EDITORIAL PAGE Express Herald THURSDAY THE THIRD DAY OF MARCH NINETEEN By Andrew Murdison Heart Throbs Humor CAPITAL PUNISHMENT No issue has been calculated to si social and moral conscience of a peopl than that of the death penalty for murder ers Being debated in Ottawa this past week with one further day being allowed possibly this week the private members Bill at the of writing has not yet come to a vote Already thousands of words have been writ ten regarding the arguments both for and ist and most disconcertingly to the searcher for the correct answer each side is persuasively eloquent Although acknowledging the individuals right to answer this question for himself if after digesting the available facts he is still undecided it would not be unwise to take the line of authorities who are involved in the situation every day of their working lives Namely the police For it can be pre sumed that from their experience they have than a morbid passing interest in this Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Nicholson said recently that a time may come when the general level of Canadian social behavior would make it safe to abolish capital punishment but he did not believe that that time had yet have a pre pcrsetoYhpofe I and is there were 1431 at stores In Cana these are not arent I ha t many rural Most of And a little way off supermarkets but not necei pear to specialize in fruit and HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT Some apprehension is being privately expressed by officials and doctors of York County Hospital who are viewing with un easiness the proposal for a new hospital in Richmond Hill We do not believe this is by any means a general attitude but its exist ence within a minority group is sufficient to warrant a comment They feel that if es tablished a hospital to the south of us would detract from the amenities possibly available to Newmarket It is presumed they money grants equipment and even surgeons Initially perhaps there may be so duplication of services and a small cutback in money available but it needs little reflec tion to quickly understand that this boom ing area will inevitably need the Richmond Hill hospital Indeed as the years go by well certainly need more and any opportu nity to build hospitals wherever they may be should not be turned down nor obstruct ed These developments will be expensive but they arc part of the standards we ex pect from todays way of life and ones we have come to accept We may have complained in the past that we couldnt get Grandma into hospital quick enough to have her but new hospitals will be the answer to just this very problem Far from lowering the easing of the pressure on an al ready overworked staff at the York County will allow the care and treatment of patients to proceed without the stress of a lineup waiting outside for an empty bed FAREWELL FEBRUARY February is now behind us and optimists are looking forward to the first breath of spring after the interminable They will not be put off by realists who in sist we still have another two months to go never seemed to have been popular with any one with the possible exception of those born on its 29th day and who every four years claim a legitimate birthday It has ably been a dreary four weeks the magic of Christmas and the New Year having long worn off and the brightness of Easter still too far away It takes on the aspect of a calendula This despair seems to permeate every where business slows down the stock mar kets sag and people are more than usually hard up presumably having struggled to pay the yearend bills February does little to help them and for an hourly paid worker actually cuts down his wages Apart from the leap year February has only 24 working days while other months as which results in a 15 per cent cut in the money a man has to spend in such stable monthly calculations as rent and mortgage repayments Hence the shortage of cash Roll on March WAR AMPS KEY TAGS Did you ever lose your car key Then know something about the lost car key ice of the War Amps of Canada For the War Amputations Association of Canada has operating a vast Do- ice of finding lost car keys car owners To do this they sell little key tags to motorists Last year the key motorists in Ontario Purchase of the tags is of course voluntary In the next few than car key tags will be mailed to Ontario motorists part of a Canadawide mailing of seven and a half million tags AH the key tags are manufactured by Not only does the key tag ser vice keep these men gainfully employed but all the profits go toward the benevolent work of the War Amputations Association of Canada Allan David Piper who wears two iron hooks in place of the hands he lost a grenade explosion in 1942 is General Ma nager of the War Amps Key Tag Service Piper says that the system of sending out duplicate key tags in the paying off real dividends because Canadians have two ca both husband and wife have car keys The key tags are sent out gratis The recipient is expected to mail back to the War Amps cents for duplicate car key lags cents if only one key tag is required The Resilient Retailer of the into a greater nation than it the above proof the it sufficient to justify