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THE ERA WED MARCH VOL NO Editorials Lower honest taxes York County councillors are to be commended for their efforts i being able to lower the mill this year It is hoped that the countys councils will follow suit The County year mainly because of an increase road expenditures Municipal councils because they are caught fin the Councils may be able to trim a few dollars hero on their road expenditures a few dollars there on sewer expenses but the real whack will come when the new York County School Boards announce their education levies The school trustees conducted salary negotiations with the teachers in a businesslike manner It is hoped that same restraint is used when they present their education levies to the countys municipal councils Lights for snowmobiles Snowmobiles and their means of lighting- were brought to the fore in a recommendatnon made by a coroners jury in Bradford last week when they were reviewing the circumstances of the death of Robert J on Jan 14 The jury made an excellent suggestion when they added this rider to their verdict To the motorist and pedestrian snowmobile lights can be confusing and frustrating and unless securely fastened the light is worse than useless to the driver Regardless of lighting the human element is still the main factor in these snowmobile fatalities and accidents These machines are capable of the speed of automobiles they laek most of the safety features and like a car with an irresponsible driver they can be a potential death trap Many other factors were brought to light at the inquest because two members at least of the five man jury were snowmobile enthusiasts and were able to ask intelligent questions The farseeing person or persons responsible for the selection of the jury are to be commended Too often a coroners jury is composed of people who are unable to follow the trend of evidence because of lack of knowledge in the factors involved The inquest ran smoothly with clear concise answers to questions due no doubt to the lead provided by Fred Dow and Walter McMillan who know the problems and the three other mem bers of the jury Keith Noble Robert Brown and Jim SUGAR SPICE By Bill Smiley Well Im back to normal Last week I wrote a column which must have made faithful readers believe I wis either taken with drink or breaking down mentally It was full of joy and good spirits looking on the bright side and revealing silver linings Its a great relief to me and it must be to you to go back to normal Lost week was a brief mental This week Im back to my old sane snarly mis anthropic self the man my wife is act as your the brood ing dark self that is hidden behind your bright sunny exterior Im going to let you take out your aggressions vicariously through mine Ill list what I despise and detest in our society Send in your own special beefs and well keep the column going for months Every day hates something There is no particular order to these items My venom extends with equal virulence to each First Nonreturnable bot tles I know The old ones were bad enough cluttering up shelves and basement floors until you had a carload It was a halfdays work to take them back to the store and haggle over them because the store said they sell this brand or that But you could get rid of them And for kids they were in many instances their sole source of income Many a Saturday I spent as a boy search ditches for miles and coming home with cents for a days work The nonreturnable bottle is about as easy to get rid of as chronic arthritis I demand that their manufacturers give every customer free a plastic bucket when theyre dropped into it The same goes for cans that hold drinks whether beer or pop In ten years you wont be able to step on a piece of nature south of the Arctic Circle without twisting your ankle on an empty beercan Next Longdistance dial I telephone calls A few years ago you gave your number to good old operator and within a reasonable time you got your party or didnt On the doityourself plan with a string of digits as long as your leg anything can happen A friend of mine called his son in Montreal the other night He didnt have his glasses on and wound up talking to the secretary of the Sheep Breeders Association in Auckland New Zealand How about zippers Great invention but it should have been strangled at birth What ever happened to the good old button Every time I tangle with a zipper whether its on my galoshes or my fly there is a moment of sheer cold Apprehension Often its justi fied and there I am with my galoshes flopping around like a pair of drunken crows Politicians Not all of them Only those who promise to hold the line on while providing better services And then do the opposite Taxes The rich are hit hard but have enough left to avoid starvation The poor pay none or very little Its the middleincome bird who gets it where it hurts One of these days Im off to Bermuda where taxes is a dirty Social slavery know that as individuals we have free will But we strangled with so many regulations and traditions and pressures that our free will becomes a brokenwinged bird in a cage tastefully decorated with that turns my stomach it is people who preach love including hippies and spend most of their time tell ing you about all the people and things they hate Hate How can people hate other people Yet they do I hate but I cant remember ever hating a person in my life Lots of people are despicable contemptible mali cious or just plain boring But you dont hate them You pity them I hate hate and theres lots of it around OK chaps Its your turn Lets hear from you This Js hate Dear Editor Now that Heart Month is over for 1969 may on behalf of the Canadian Heart Fund and the Ontario Heart Foundation thank you moat sincerely for your help and cooperation during our campaign month The coverage wo receiv ed from your newspaper has sur passed all expectations and it Is due to this fact that our Cam paign has been so successful You have enabled us to inform readers that February was Heart Month in Canada and also what the Ontario Heart Founda tion is doing in the field of cardio vascular research which is of be nefit to the public We have always enjoyed the association with all media re presentatives in Ontario and it is a pleasure to look forward to this continued association the Once again our heart felt thanks for your help during February With best wishes ONTARIO HEART FOUNDATION Miss Esther M Richards Director of Public Relations THIS WEEK AND NEXT by Walt King Ontario Dear Editor Your editorial of March Sheer Folly was sadly misinform ed animals for research If the Char ter is changed and the Humane shelters virtually become supply houses for the labs how much money do you suppose would be received in the voluntary subscrip tions on which the Humane Society depends Therefore Mr Hughes statement that the shelters would have to close if Bill becomes law is not nonsense You think it is right to cut down the little muscle that the Humane Inspectors now have If you were to spend a day with one of the Inspectors on his rounds and see what they see and try to deal with the type of man who is making money out of neglected or abused animals you might come home advocating increasing rather than decreasing the powers of the Inspectors Yours very truly Dr J S Robertson Man and His World forever Theres at least one Cana dian who wont be cheering when the turnstiles of Man and His World start clicking again this Torontos Mayor Wilham must be wondering just what brand of magic his opposite number in Montreal is using to charm open the Federal purse once again Merc weeks ago Mayor Jean was considering stepping down and Man and His World lay under the shadow of the bulldozers Then came word that Ottawa would allow Montreal a moratorium on its million Expo debt so that the fair could open again And how Torontonians fumed The Canadian National Exhibition has had nothing more than vague promises of a Federal handout since 1965 and when its infant cousin in Montreal landed a fat Federal gift with such seem ing effortlessness who could blame the for being plaintive and even a little resentful But if Toronto could see further than its wounded civic pride it might realize that the Federal Government is for once There are undoubtedly all kinds of reasons for investing in the Paddy Conklin the Exs King could offer a few Mayor certainly could And all the itinerant pushers and exoticjunk peddlers that swarm back to the Exhibition Park each summer could suggest But politicking and vested interests apart there is one final way to assess the value of fairs like Man and His World and the Which one would Joe Public prefer to spend a day visiting An unfair question After all Expo had millions of dollars both domestic and imported to turn it into the greatest worlds fair ever This money was made available on the understanding that it was to be a event On the other hand the good old Toronto Ex bearing the slogan Canadas Oldest Permanent Exhibition has been playing to tepidly enthusiastic crowds since and on a shoestring budget and Federal levels cannot support two fairs of the magnitude of Expo or an expanded CNE And Expo simply offers more value for the money Even last year when passports cost Cana dians bought a work at Place dAccueil At the the visitor pays his the privilege of being lers paradise Since Expo two new ideas have sneaked in but basically the Ex retains its localtradefair flavor Ironically the only lineup to be seen at last years was outside the building where Expos awardwinning movie A Place to Stand was being shown Man and His World doesnt have to be redesigned rebuilt or revamped as Torontos Exhibition soon will And bitter pill though it is for Anglophile Toronto to swallow Man and His Worlds loca tion in the heart of La Belle Pro vince is a definite selling point for American tourists Montreals fair has proven itself a crowdgetter With this years reduced entrance fee and the shorter season it will hope fully overcome last years cold weather bugbear and attract even greater crowds If Canada is to have a National Exhibition then let it typify the gigantic achievement that was Expo rather than the popcornpermeated glitter that is the present CNE Crier By BILL GAMBLE Now that the tremend ous response to my recent col umns about the Newmarket Credit Bureau has begun to fizzle out I feel the time has come for me to clarify my opinion for the bene fit of those who may have mis interpreted my cause Despite the adulations of those people who were prepared to carry me shoulderhigh along Main Street because they felt I had avenged their allegedly unjust treatment at the hands of the Credit Bureau most of which probably was well deserved I must emphasize that my Intention was not to protect or he partisan to debt dodging I did not attack the Credit Bureaus position as a collection agency or a centre for credit rating Where credit buy ing abounds such things are ex pedient But toward the few dis senters who expressed anger at my columns arguing that they could see nothing wrong with keep ing files on private individuals I direct this column intrinsic to our democracy Wars have been raged for its protection and many have died for its pre servation Sections of our Canadian Bill of Rights amendments to the Magna Carta and Article IV of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the USA all guarantee the individual freedom from the inva sion of privacy And any attempt by any organization no matter what the justification may appear to be is not only wrong but also contemptible Grave concern has been expressed In recent months In the United States about this very sub ject Magazine articles have re lated how what began as routine checks by computerized creditrat ing organizations has now mush roomed into comprehensive filing systems whereby a persons entire details of his marriage who he escorted to what motel on what date etc And the latest trend In credit rating according to a recent TV program on an American chan nel is to keep files on the psy chological makeup of individuals their temperament their ap proach to certain situations and their attitudes toward social mores The Where is it going to end Im not suggesting that the Newmarket Credit Bureau has gone this far But when it keeps files for purposes other than credit- The Credit Bureau knows its limi tations and has indicated it in this months Bulletin It warns in part atlon agrees to hold strict confidence for his own ex clusive use and to be responsible for all damages arising from a THE ERA Serving York Since 1852 Incorporating THE POST Oppress THE HERALD TERRY CARTER Managing Editor GEORGE News Editor Published every Wednesday at Charles St Newmarket Ontario by the Newmarket Era Express Company Limited Subscriptions for two years for one year Single copies each or by carrier per month Mem ber Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the Audit Bureau of Circulation 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