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Pages from the Editors Note Newmarket ftot wily place where the sys tem faltered in ihe effort to sot up municipal government for in there two nomination meetings separate elections necessary to elect a council because of he shortage of candidates A heading on the fit the Canadian stated Municipal Affairs To New Ebb One Councillor Needed Three nomination meetings have been necessary in The Statesman reported municipal affairs sank to a ebb on Friday ev ening Of last week as less than a dentin ratepayers were In atten dance at Die second nominal ion meeting lor purpose of nominating candidates to con test the two vacant council scats As a further setback only one candidate J was willing O hi name stand for office to small gathering and a concert upstairs the meet ing was held in the clerks office where the group patiently wait ed until the deadline for more nomination but none were forthcoming Another nomination at bus had lis troubles in Car rick meeting was that of Owen Nicholas who later declined on Ids dot tors orders As it stands seven of the From the Files of I Council along with J Press- on move into the 1957 offices by acclamation A third nominal ion meeting for ha remaining council seat has been called for December by Chief Return ing Officer and the election it necessary has been postponed to December The members elected by accl amation at the first ratepayers meeting are as follows Mayor Nelson Osborne Reeve Sidney Kittle DeputyReeve Wilfrid Councillors Jack rough David Keith and Preston Another municipality which has bad its troubles is township near On voters went to the polls for second time in a month lo select councillors and fill an incomplete council slate MKMBER a ami Office Cat Reports Catnips By Ginger Serving nd the rural district of North York The Newmarket Ere The ExpreM Herald Residents on St were up in arms this week about construction of a commercial building in a residential area They did not know about it un til bulldozers started work on Monday The front of build ing will be close the street line New expensive houses close to it are set well back from the street Tins is example of ho dgepodge development in New- and shows the lived for some kind of zoning spile of need for commercial mid in dustrial assessment and 50 Years Ago years Deiember IS Sifts for Everybody Do Your Christmas shopping at lookers What will purchase silk hosiery dainty rayon dainty rayon sets lunch set boudoir slippers scarf glove purse moire oilcloth bridge cov ers rayon cushion bath towels mens lined cape gloves mens scarves and boxed handkerchief What will boxed handkerchief hosiery I en wis gloves collar and cuff sets kiddies silk ling erie ladies gown boy lilted mill purses What will pur- chase handkerchief- bou doir slipper glove silk hosiery pearl necklets scarf towels mens fancy mens fancy braces baby slippers What will purchase boxed handkerchief perfume com pacts peat I necklets mens and boys tics and armbands 25 Mr Clark Ihe first meeting of tho Hoard of dir ectors of the Toronto milk pro ducers in Toronto A wry enjoyable event look place at the Dixon Iencil factory on Friday afternoon December IJth when the employees of factory congregated at 10 pm to present Mrs Don Mi Donna With clock A very ap propriate was heard of by Mr Car while Mr Puftr presented the Mr tit- vnv B iiirU I Mr ju H IS ftuaMlL Mr Rob ert Mr Wei Brooks at tended Denton Bible at the Arena on Sunday J Simpson M PP and Mrs Simpson of alto Mis and Mr Merrick Were visitor of their cousin Mrs di Miss Kilbtr Walsh find Mm pupil at St their ttdt years it Mrs enter- lamed about forty people a progressive euchre on Wed- evening honor of Mis of W P of ton nit formerly of Newmark et has been honored with trie presidency of the Wellington County Sunday school to JO Mrs class teacher in the Christian Sunday School entertained about young peo ple in the school room on Wed nesday evening of last week Mr and Mrs P Irwin of Sharon leave foe Detroit today to pend the holidays A sleigh- of Newmarket friends drove up evening gave a surprise and enjoyed a jolly time Mr and Mrs attended the annual convention of the Ontario Wo mens Institute at last week There were about del egates present There are be tween ten and thousand members in the Province now Mr and Mrs of Port Arthur arrived in town yesterday and will spend a month with relatives near fifl Miss returned from the city Wednesday after spf a week with her grand- mother Mrs- V Ross and Miss have returned BBC at the holidays Mr of is Win holi days with parent Mr and W Mr Brodie of Toronto the of Mr Black tin Wednesday Vm of Parry Sound visiting his sister Mrs for the Christmas holidays SO Mrs Cane gave a pro gressive flinch parly last Friday afternoon for a number of Ind ies Mrs J Jackson of Toronto spent a couple of days this week with her mother Mrs I Bayly BURMA MASCOT NOW IN NAMS irismttefs In a ll of No ft In Italy ton fid In of lln explains that Itis His flMi IfiH III ill Wis let Ilia to it every Thursday at St by the Newmarket sad iteilted Subscription far two years for one year in advance are each Member of Class A Weeklies of Canada Canadian Weekly Newspapers and the Audit Bureau of Circulations as Office Department Ottawa Jthn E Slruthert Editor Caroline Ion Womsni Editor George Lawrence Racine Job Printing and Production THE EDITORIAL PAGE Sports Editor THURSDAY TWENTIETH DAY OF AND FIFTYSIX SOUNDING BRASS For many people Christmas will lie mixed on the world situation Perhaps some will he ones whose lives have been influenced by the state of the Possibly some will be helping who are coining to this country others may be tak ing litem into their own homes We realize that there is criticism of the government policy during this emergency immigration the government has lagged on soc ial measures to help citizens now living in Canada thn immigration policy has been attacked because inade quate screening has been carried out there is a fear that communists will infilitrate the country in this mass immi gration plan it must not he forgotten that it is an emergency situation that a humane act is being per formed in the name of Canada The basic reason for help ing the Hungarians is not wrong the free world owes Hungarian people much more for their stand for free dom Yes we should do more for old age pensioners but we should help the Hungarians also THOUGHT FOR TODAY We could the peace if Christians of the western world practiced what their taught them The threat to peace is the fact that otto half the world has a high standard of living ami the other half has a miserab ly low standard If as Utile as one third of each persons material wealth could be shared with other half of the world no doubt the causes of war would end This is nut more than what Christ asked his followers THE LATEST IN LAST STRAWS Not long ago newspapers carried a report that the American Legion intended to petition Congress to pro vide a special pension at the age of for all regardless of service or present benefits While was an American occurrence it highlights a situation that has become all too prevalent We refer to that perennial nuis ance the professional not the wounded disabled who certainly deserve countrys aid but the able bodied shirker who expects a free ride for the rest of his life because he once donned a uniform his coun trys service We have heard the exsoldier plea from door-to- door salesmen collectors of waste paper and assorted drunks and stumble bums and our acquain tance with real soldiers we would wager that per cent of them never hear a shot fired in anger far the larg est itfrcentuge of men who were in the armed forces did it as duty that had to be done something that was necessary for their own a their familys pro tection The necessity of fighting always has been and will likely remain one of the responsibilities of Society provided for those who returned the means to resume their normal lives and even improve on them It made an effort to compensate for the tiine gone front their lives That much it owes but no more ITS NICE TO KNOW this time of year business planners are their pencils iu search of the big question the outlook for tin New Year Querying 150 executives across the country The Financial Post sums up their an swers as follows The majority took for higher sales higher wage rat es ami employment prices Of the pro- duels they sell and higher costs for the materials they must buy Although its going to cost more to do business in theres a chance of an improvement in pro fits they indicate And a still further increase in capital expenditures by business is evidently the making HORNS If there is a doubt that a pedestrian or another driv er knows of your cars approach and the circumstances of the moment will not allow you to stop or otherwise avoid the situation sound your horn advises the Canad ian Highway Safety Conference Otherwise says Canad ian Highway Safety Conference keep it quiet The ring or button set so conveniently a finger- flick will operate it that sounds your automobile horn can be the means of saving human life or ending it I Fool- used the horn can frighten or aggravate people to such an extent that their safety and the safety of others is in serious peril How often have you been stopped for a traffic light only lo have the driver behind sound his born the second the light changed to green Remember how you felt Well that feeling of indignation anger and frustration can start a chain of events that could lead to momentous conclusions Your first reaction is to pin the other driver down with a scorching remark But there isnt time for that so you gear and gun and rush away to show him once for all that if anybodys going to hold up traffic it wont be you I Meantime an innocent motorist or pedestrian is in your path and with your feelings hurt and your temper enraged youre not as careful in your driving as you us ually are You can fly feet through the air they say before the pavement or tree or a house stops you dead THEY HELP US CANADA GAINS by the coming of the Hungarian refu gees declare The Financial Since the end of the war about have entered country They tire in debt to Canada for the new chance they find here But Canada is in debt to for their of our economic and cultural life Recently it has been hard to find as many suitable immigrants a country need Hun garys plight offers an opportunity not only to be kind but to practise enlightened selfishness by citizen value I stay in this busi ness Why dont do something that makes sense like selling whistles from door to door or painting eyeballs in a Teddy Bear factory Why dont Why dont cried advertising man Because youve got printers ink in blood said Slim our editorial advisor But I crave to do something where wont be frustrated at every turn where thora are no gremlins to bother me where there arc no printers to arouse my wrath where there are no clients to Insult me rav ed on Its merely the Christmas rush said Slim Weve all had a laste of it Aint nobody what can escape this here madness During this conversation there was an explosion in the dark room Egad Cyclops burst thro ugh the door with a burned en graving plate in his hand His glasses were alt splashed up with purple looking liquid and his hair was standing on end I resign Egad cried Its not worth This slave driving institution has drained me down to nothing Slim rushed over to dark room to calm down The new staff member was shaking with emotion He had just com pleted his ninth halftone print ing and mistakenly poured a wrong solution into the acid etching bath creating an ex plosion that rocked the outer of fice The office girls by this time had come out see what had happened am going into paint and wallpaper after this through with this newspaper business They didnt tell me it was like this when was at the institute It took us a good 15 minutes to get Egad settled down After four cups coffee he decided he at least would out the week- OUR SIDE OF THE STORY by HARVEY CONSUMER INTEREST IS NATIONAL INTEREST Once upon a lime there was a little country in It lived farmers weavers and smiths They were simple mind ed who worked hind ami took their wares market place where each surplus for the surpluses of other Bui it came to pass that the smiths began to ask themselves Why should we have lo work long hours over these hot forges and to swing Ihcse heavy ham mers day after day Behold those farmers working In the fresh air and sunshine Consider the weavers and cobblers how easy Is their work compared with this drudgery of ours And so the smiths began to work shorter hours and to take holidays and so did not make as many loafs as before And the others came with fond the suillhs gave them on half as ninny tools as Ik- fore Hut toon the weavers and cobblers sir took counsel and Mid Why should we continue to ive smiths same mount of goods as before when they are giving us only As of ll us loo holidays short hours and the smiths only half as us we have liven giving them Then will our goods ex for theirs at same rates as old which were fan rates alter all And then were the grieved and went to Out Km and complained saying tinhe your subject who live in the city how they have grown have forgotten that day lasts until nightfall think they have done a days work by five in the afternoon Yea verity they are become great sinners as much as they are forever breaking the com mandment Six days shall thou labor We humbly beseech Your Majesty to compel- these loafers to exchange their good for ours at the same rates its of old Then did the King accede to the prayers of farmers for their plea and they had And so farmer Mr pric es at those prices they could not find buyers for alt that they and so their granaries overflowed with grain could not soil while the families of city men less bread than before -j- j At last women of coun try began to complain and to in ihe men Ye think can make yourselves rich by produc ing not see that aic inakuig all own What needed plenty not scarcity All monopolies should be out lawed or subjected to stringent regulations and re gulations should be aimed it producing abundance cheap- IKvv All price- slug should ami at the lowest puce at which wilt bring to market quantity that consumer will buy Fairness between occupat ions be sought by mobility between occupations not by giv ing special privileges to memb ers of some occupations To these arguments the men had no answer except say What do you women know economics del back to your kitchen so it was for a time Hut at last women formed the Canadian Association of Consu mers and began to tench the men some economics They quoted Adam Smith the founder of Political Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production and the Interest of producer ought to be attended to only so far as it may bo necessary for promoting that of consum er Aud their arguments could not be refuted The producer inter- The statu the servant not the of the people elate is their guarantee against infringement on heir right their agent in international and national Unites it is not the function of the stale to assume the J those activities which rest on individual choice It was then that the boss rushing out from his office will a wad garbage in his hand Garbage is the name for free publicity stories about recipe for chocolate chip cookies or banks yearend statement we sometimes use when we rut out of local news to fill up ilu paper Weve got a cavernous hob on page thats got to filler or well never make the dead line ho shouted Dont forget that Christmas ad for store Somebody forgot and it in that galley over there someone turn down that Do you think this firms made of money asked the bos Then he added Oh what me to get mixed up In this business Life was much simp- Her when was on farm And so it went People near the breaking point on sev eral occasions Cyclops and Klet- had four fights week instead of their three It aint so much that its hare work In this here racket said Slim Its just that when you arc gain you meet comin and after a few years It gets disturbin to lh mind One more Christmas and think will go with a wo mens magazine as a proof said As fat as Cyclops is concerned that exactly where lie should be There was only one person who did not seem distraught by the Christmas rush and that was the proof reader Clarabeltc sits and reads her proofs and says nothing Clarabette must have some sort of gyro mechanism which keeps her on the straight and vol path She never gets excit ed We all envy her disposition Slim says she the only sane one here that we are all crazy but that we dont it I suppose thai is how we get newspaper cut each week by Dairy Farmer The Top Six Inches est is always partial and often opposed to the general interest The consumer interest in plain fact is the community interest Our story does not fit the facts in every respect Living stand ards are not living down New inventions more mechanisation more capital accumulation ate raising our real incomes itt spito of restrictions on product ion Out the lesson of story is unchallengeable Restrictive practices prevent the national income from rising as fast as it otherwise would The object of national policy should be to make the greatest possible of goods available to consumers The consumer inter est should be guide for nat ional economic policy The Canadian Association of Consumers is presenting Its case to Public Opinion which Is King in a democracy The election of Miss Isabel Atkinson of Saska toon to the presidency and success of her tour of reminds us that CAC Is a national movement and a movement that is growing in strength Governments and wou ldbe governments should tako note The case of the consumers is Just and they have many votes We spent a few day bit week in the reception center in Tor onto trying to be of some assist ance to those who are doing an efficient and wellorganized job of receiving and readying people to so out and find jobs Over the period of the last to years words such as refu gee DP have been used a great deal and to for the people who have escaped Hungary cot One rtilii that these people were living their country at the revolution their acuon5 they nut been conform to whatever they bad to conform to after ail they were free The started the revolution out They stand that compromised t and when the uprising wis crushes and the repressions stoned they had a o to their lives Undoubtedly they would have subject to ail the vindictive fury of the and They had to flee for lives or almost everyone must have thought something acted on it that in own mind made life afe no longer Wo are trying to emphasize this fact while former groups Of were the victims of oppression of one sort other they were most of time pushed out of their for mer country or found after the war in camps These people have taken an active stand against something we all hate The next problem is to place them and fit them into our own life hero will be easy in some cases and not so easy others but it will be just much to see an do it it is their test to lee if it cart be done to case this the way let to country condemning communis for smaller smallest who his trtwi his about it They our hor ror and Wail hex a number of people who the saro stand and act is a of er bet on the ice Thus wzJe and costume may the basic feehnj com mon with them Secondly it is seldom the things that or us the presence of stranger isnt what fie believes at labor government owned CSC that makes us prejudiced but most ly items kite the way he his cloth what and aw he eats and how he cuts his hair ether words the socalled rough spot that will tarn up in the everyday life the indivi dual Today there are jobs for ait of them Some will make their own jobs We are sure they want to work Alt they are ask- is a chance to A little patience or maybe a little more patience a little Christmas spir it and our whole community will be ruber for it There will bo more of us thus we can do more And having given to oth ers we will be better people and thus our community will be richer And so wo wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Now Year Canadians Arrive in to Join UN Troops The first plane new United Nations air transport com- nuud Is scon hero unloading a jeep slier at VN advance at Abu Suweir tone This Is one of Canadian which wilt bandit men and supplies from staging In for Ike l police force The Canadian loslenle has been out siid Hie command Inatgnls In With Mae and has been a