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Pages from the Editors Notebook The weather has postponed ball gomes caused havoc in the subdivision ruined crops and spotted holidays this yean Unusual rains have con tinued for so long that they are not unusual any more Travelling from Lake Huron to Newmarket a- couple of weekends ago noticed that grain stand in the fields the general report is that farm- era all over the province are having difficulty harvesting 11 been so wet that the grain growing in the stocks Some people blame atomic and experiments for the bad weather Weather men lay that a change in the Jetstream above the earth has caused a milder climate in part of North America with different Hurricanes tend to come this way more often dont know what to ex pect this fall and winter We would prefer more snow than last winter for skiing Snow reminds us of a story from Northern Ontario by way of Dr Cage We are not From the Files of sure of the details but we re member the general of it Tourists in the area always thought the Indians were good at predicting the weather This one particular old Indian was working for a lumber firm in the district and he was asked by a traveller from the south about the coming winter Long cold winter this year me predict said the Indian Well just how can you tell that its going to be a long cold winter said the traveller While man cut lot more wood this year was his ex planation The tost of dying is up says Mayor If New market council recently passed an account for for the fun eral of a former indigent pat ient It was necessary to raise that to The cheapest coffin was cost of opening grave rough box 10 making a total of That left for the fun eral directors to pay for help and vehicles We suspect that there was no profit for the fun eral directors 25 and Years Ago Years Ago ft err ember mi Playoff for second plate Christian A and Trinity Soft- hall teams on the sand- lot for the first game of the playoff for second place in the Interchurch league starting scoring from the first innings and added up a large lead on the Christians However the Christian lads tame back to give the United a hard fight and excitement was at a high pilch throughout the game Red Bitching aided admirably by his probed too much for the Hilltop Lads Buck Bond and Sparky Vail for the Christians loomed up be- fore the crowd Oil Friday the teams battle for the final decision for to challenge the Catholics for league champion ship At the Toronto Exhibition Jack the sixteen year old wn of Mr and Mrs Ave won the silver med al which was the second prize for cornet soloists under twen ty years of age Jack who be gan to play when twelve yearn old has been taught by his fath er and is a great credit to teacher The Misses Violet and Lucy Carroll Beatrice Mackenzie Doris Butler and Margaret Knott all of Toronto were of Miss duiing the Young Friends Con- feence last week Miss Moss was enter tained at the home of Miss Th ursday evening when she the recipient of an electric iron Mr arid Mix Young Miss Young Mr Jack Cliches or and Mr Jack Young spent Labor Day In Toronto Mr Atrial Mailman Mr- Deri Mailman Mia Mailman and MJia of were weekend guests of Mi and Mr Osborne Mr and Mis Chapman An- St spent the weekend with their icon And daughter Mr and Mrs of Toronto- Mrs John accomp anied Miss Hazel Taylor who has been spending a weeks vat- in to Plymouth Years Ago SEPTEMBER Miss Elsie Thomson of Toron to was home over Sunday Miss Grace Cane has left to attend Whitby Ladies College Mr and Mrs missionaries to British East Africa are spending a few days with Mr Jacob Doyle be fore returning to their mission They are accompanied here by Mrs mother Mrs J Doyle of Drayton Mrs M Hughes was at home to a number of ladies on Wednesday Miss Nellie who was unable to try her pianoforte ex amination in June on account of iJlnei passed the same at the Toronto Conservatory of Music last Saturday is a pupil of Miss Mrs Richard was visit ing at Mrs Lome Miller Lot Street on Friday Mi and Mrs ft A of have been spending i week visiting With Squire Bol ton street Mrs ie is a granddaughter of Mr Bolton Mrs and pa returned from Pent- broke on Saturday Mrs John Hunter has return ed home after visiting friends at Woodstock and oth er places in Western Ontario Mrs Murray from Canning- ton has been visiting fitend in the past two weeks Mm Caldwell is spending a few days with her daughter Mr C It Clark Mr Cald well spent Thursday here Miss Starr and iter Prospect Avenue are spending a couple of weeks relatives at Mr and Mr Chris and family of Brandon Man are visiting among friend for a cou ple of months Mr- George Thompson and mm have returned from but the other members of the family stilt remain Miss Anderson went to Toronto Monduy last to attend Normal school beginning 1Mb September Miss was at home to a number of friends on Friday evening of last week In Scotland With Stratford Stars Canadian acent In cheering crowds at loin- aestiyal many of them are busy M m Canadians Gabriel at light and seen above a lourttt with gold Mauley Montgomery Of Edinburgh rttnis famed Tit Can la I for his tier romance of and Serving Newmarket and the rural district of North York Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger The Newmarket Era The Herald Published every Thursday at Charles St Newmarket by he Newmarket Era and Express Limited Subscription 600 for two for one year In advance Single copies are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association and the A Bureau of Circulations Authorised Second Class Mall Post Office Department Ottawa Caroline Ion John E Struthers Managing Editor Women Editor Sports Editor Lawrence Racine Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE NEED A BAND SHELL NEED ACTION FOR SCHOOL ROAD How many to wits are there with fine old band stands in centra parks with no to play in them Probably there are many Newmarket having a band hut no bandstand is an exception It is a good band having won a first prize at the Canadian National Exhibition the baud members and their lead er Mr William are to be congratulated on win ning the award We heard a reasonable criticism last week in the form of the following comment Bui we never hear the band and I understand the taxpayers pay a subsidy every year Except for the odd parade it is true that the people of Newmarket have little opportun ity to listen to the Citizens Hand There may have been one concert in the town hall in recent months The main reason is that there is no suitable place for concerts Band concerts are for the summertime in a quiet park And a bandstand or band shell needed no one try and convince us that the cement block monstrosity the Lions Park is suitable bandstand It is what it the top of the parks public lavatories As for the subsidy it is justified as helping to pro vide good recreation for the townspeople think musicians rate with swimmers hockey players and base- ball players The addition of a modern band shell for public performances would not be so expensive a pro ject Among the bands members is a number of crafts- men and the labor could be provided without charge An associate professor at the University of Toronto says that costs can be low In a recent article Mr Henderson wrote that the best acoustical conditions will be obtained not with complicated curved surfaces but with a few flat planes properly related one to the other The basic elements of the shell are a raised plat- or stage and a plane rear wall They provide the cheapest elements to construct about double the sound energy to each listener do not cause foci or concen trations and the raised stage provides good sight and lines for listeners to see and hear With a fine band in the community let us band shell Contributions for a band shell fund will be accepted through the Era and Express As for site most of the musicians seem to It that the Lions Park being central and reasonably on Sunday evenings would be best ARSENIC AND OLD LUCE Canadian Mrs Claire Booth Luce Ambassador to Italy managed to get her name in her husbands magazine TIMK It seems that the arsenic in the paint on the ceiling of her bedroom in Home fell into her breakfast coffee which is an activity The lack of good access roads to the new J Bell public school at the west end of Newmarket creates an intolerable situation The extension of Millard Ave which requires by agreement a culvert and a amount of construction by Mr would be the remedy On the opening day of school parents took their five year old beginners to the J Bell school One could drive or go by taxi the long way around by Davis Drive or along a questionable r Forest Glen At Forest Glen there was a mud hole and a member of the works department stood by with a shovel and some gravel to help any motorist who became stuck One mother took her child all that way and had to push a younger one in a baby carriage Possibly she went by way of the shaky footbridge on the Millard exten sion It is enough to expect smalt children to walk to the Bell school during the best of weather But during fall rains or winter storms parents will worry about them crossing the shaky footbridge over lite Millard creek or taking the board walk from Ontario St or walking along muddy Forest Glen Some children from the new subdivision who attend other schools must take the same route Millard Avenue must bo completed By agreement Mr must complete construction by the end of All acceptable means should be taken to urge the work to be done as soon as possible agree with Councillor that Reeve suggestion is all wrong Water promised for another subdivision under the terms of a separate agreement has nothing to do with Mr Millard Avenue commitment To withhold water connections there as the reeve suggested would amount to a form of black mail which not be permitted by council It does not decrease the need for the opening of Millard Avenue While Mr is not bound to complete the work until the end of it seem that a start should have been made by this time to avoid bad weather this fall Council is doing the right thing by putting the pressure on him His obligation started when approval was given for a shopping centre on St Whether or not a shopping centre is devel oped on St does not have a bearing on his obli gation to complete the Millard Avenue work council fulfilled its part of the agreement by giving its approval for the shopping centre Slim idea that he could be the Liberal candidate for Thimble North riding since no been named yet for the next el ection Olio wha ham been audi a t e for Thimble North for number of announced bis dont see how you could reason why you should candidate told Slim Tuesday Why it absurd Anybody could be can didate as well as you and Ihorw are hundreds of In that riding up Yak yak laughed Slim That theres exactly what I mean and lhat lhcrc5 the key to my election campaign Whats your slogan My platform slogan is Why Not Me and why said Slim Youve got there I said Take any reason why think shouldnt be candidate and apply it to anybody else and just see if it wouldnt fit With a pair of glares with thick black rims and maybe a bow tie or a cookie why not me Slim reasoned Have you spoken to an wo mens groups I asked Countless Thats where Im up on the Ordinary perron Why the Corner Civic Betterment Associa tion has got booked every fall regular With women by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches got experience than any thing r qualifications are mounting- How about a cam paign manager I suppose it never to you that a good candidate have a campaign manager who follows on your heels at all times I pointed wit Ive got Ihc man the advertising man at paper here Hes got the deportment too he worked for a year as a waiter at the restaurant one of those fashionable restaurant oner And he know all about what makes ihe public respond and all that With a pair of sun glasses and false whiskers ha should be all right I said He from Saskatchewan you know and hes under suspicion of be ing AH the more reason should he my campaign manag er Shows that have an un biased tolerant outlook at ail times Slim argued The only trouble with slogan that somebody might steal it Youd wild out circulars a to mak sure you it first ie nomination meeting Nest month in the Thimble berry com munity hail Youd cellar be there with a photograph Shm OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by W HARVEY THE FASCIST THREAT FROM WITHIN After World War I democrat- governments were in office the voy from Spain to the Soviet Union But one by one most of those governments gave place dictatorships not only in countries in which education- at standards were low hut in cultivated Germany only in which hud known freedom but in Holy af ter two generations of democ racy Must the some thing hap pen again The democratic machinery is creaking again hi Italy and still so hi France Are there forces In the modern world which are making de mocracy obsolete Is It just by good luck that we retain our liberty At present the political skies are unusually bright the sians talking peace in usual now giving some signs that they want it McCarthy mug- into a Hitler a few months ago Is hardly ever heard of now Happy days are here attain but It is in fine weather thai you fix the roof and before we decide that democracy is no longer in any danger wo should lake a took at the force frustrated the bright hopes we all had in Among the forces that proved fatal to democracy in and there are several which do exht in the old there was Hegels demo cratic philosophy the worship of the militaristic stale Next the Weimar was a sudden break with Use past and people do not easily make a change in their loyalties es pecially a change from loyalty to a which easy and natural to loyalty lo a consti tution which require consider able Finally there was the peace treaty with dm foolish gotlt arid impossible reparations demands The Ger man attempt to reparations by printing paper marks and the attempt lo collect reparations by occupying the led to ruinous inflation By concentrating their attack on the Treaty of the won seven percent of the genu in the ensuing election Hut It absurd lo say the peace treaty was the chief cause of the failure democra cy even in Germany sealed down In Die Dawes Plan unci In the Young Plan ft- ended by 1033 Historians had already cleared Germany of sole responsibility for the war In abort the terms of peace had teased to injure Ger many In four years the in the Reichstag had fallen to two and a half percent Actually Jl was Ihc failure of the governments of the day to deal with the problems of the Industrial that permitted the dictators to power In Italy the postwar depression iiud confusion a series of revo lutionary strikes and the break down of law ami order in many dislriets paved the way for Mussolini In Germany the vote with the growth of unemployment Hut Hitter never got a majority in the while elections were free Mussolini could have been stopped by a determined democracy JJoth dictators the machinery of democratic butt prac tically ceased lo function lessor say They did not mi much destroy democracy as fill a up left by Its demise In the experience of are certain lessons for us Probably moat important thul people today expcil to make the system work is dead hilled by the Great predion Any y v e I which does not take viiuiou action to combat unemployment will be defeated And if democratic parties adopt democracy it- self may be discredited the people may to mi avowed dictator Freedom from depres sion may tie a prerequisite of our her freedom r The first duty a oveio Is to govern maintain to prated life and properly and keep the sentiul services in operation governments of Italy and Germany failed in that primary duly The prime cause- of the of those was the of parties which neces sitated coalition coalition is by nature weak lie- cattle the parties have different policies the ean entry out only the policies on which ils members will Ten alien they mo not in sufficient agreement to take vigorous ac tion of any kind The resulting paralysis of give the demagogues Tin da lute i much greater If there powerful anli-dcmu- in He parties monarchist fas cist or communist pur pom- is nut to solve problem hut to aggravate litem in order to discredit democracy The democratic parties have unite in order gel major ity This leaves democrat opposition to which the can turn when they decide it is time for a change In that situ ation voting the gov- eminent menus veiling attain democracy a word there an- two ma jor internal demur rary tin danger of a serious depression with the resultant opportunity far demagogue dictator and the that the party system might degen erate into u system of splinter groups with the resultant par- of government and lass of public de mocracy We must give thought to the problems of preventing depressions and of vigorous political lies The in tenant aat of the triable fa infrituement on their their titrut in and national isuea it fa the auction of to dire fit ion of activities which reft on individual Teed dealers and have been visiting us lately in ever increasing numbers The problem of feed this winter will be very serious and whether it is their desire to help us or the feeling that we are good prospects that moti vate their visit we do not think that they have grasped the two outstanding facts of dairy feeding One in our opinion least is the fact that no matter what they claim the dairy feed business is a stagnant and very proposition Af ter all our whole years if nil of it was pur chased from utiu dealer would be a very small percentage of what a house will use in weeks Since all dairy farmers are trying to grow as much as possible of their re quirements there is really very little business in dairy feeds Granted there is more specially feeds such as calf starters milk supplements etc but really no volume The second fact is that this will be oik inlet when pro tein supplements will be iti great denial id Certainly there will be hay to feed si luge feed and some grain too But there wont be any iputtUy in any of it and Ibis means one thing they all tow in pro- trio We art convinced the increasing emphasis on rough age feeding also discourages alt advances and new ideas n dairy cattle feeding have been more discoveries made in poultry and beef feed ing in the few years than dairy cattle feeding it is move to say thai dairy rattle nutrition the new ideas were nunc in and lie handling of liny than so feed ing and mixing if What dairy cattle feeding needs U least tout die stand point of is a approach on the Hit feed After buys service as vtll a pro duct and we pretty convinced that who comes with it wilt a lot of and too It might just that shortage or a ha reached the where the old fashioned way of preparing feed takes too much time Nor is the equipment available to individual dairyman to even his own feed to the best of advantage Let us say for example thai feed dealer would come to us ami say We will come lo your barn as of ten as you require and take your grain and grains to the mill roll it on out efficient machinery mix it with and concentrate to it according lo your initiation and deliver it back lo the huin and we would be very rested It would uniform feed for the wholts winter It would do with the need of own- any machinery grinders tollers etc It would save and a mote feed and remove the worry of not having any prepared and ready when it is needed the feed denier it would mean increased sate of and move own through the feeding sca- He could buy quantities advance ad thus make more plait his laivc and better and make better esc of what he think of trying to the soil a pro- duct or brand and tot the far mer worry about the rest it will not bring the now business cased on routd go a Ions ways move milk itvti a tut V new towards which Craw ford Is holding Is a Canadian industry and ready for a revolution Until now heel farmers planted the seed in then thinned Ihtm out Ishorlnusty by hand A new seed from which only on beet will grow permit precision planting and no thinning out a job for which seasonal alwayt hard la get Around Oat where most of crop is grown looking forward to larger acreage less labor ahartait profits