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and Heart Throbs Humor Gambles Member Barest of Circulation and A Serving Newmarket and the rural districts of North York rear publication the Newmarket Era and for one year in advance Stn inada Canadian Weekly Newspaper Office Department Ottawa Era THE EDITORIAL PAGE The Express NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTYTWO by Andrew Murdison Passing Glances THESE ARE THE ENGLISH from The Financial Post In the modern world It is often thought that the English are an anachro nism Yet they continue to survive Their form of government is republican where- I as the is a monarchy This paradox was pointed out by Lord Britains Minister for Science and Technology proposing the toast to England at the Royal S c t of St George in the City of London Here is a digest of what he said By VISCOUNT HAILSHAM The English invented nationalism but they are no longer nationalists They have won and lost three or was it four empires in France in Massachu setts and Virginia in India in Africa But they are no longer Imperialists They are Europeans who have carried the civilization of Europe to the four corners of the earth Their two abiding sins are their sentimentality which Ihey mistake for virtue and their capacity for selfdeception which others take for only false gods they worship are flippancy which they call a sense of hu mor and sport which they have elevated into a fetish a fetish which incident ally is in some danger of conquering the world But in their flippancy they have found a prescription for wisdom and a recipe for endurance In their sports manship they have succeeded in popu larizing justice and fair play The English have an infinite capacity for demanding the best of both worlds and an unusual measure of good fortune in obtaining it They have invented by far the most flexible and efficient of government that the world has ever seen but their political literature Is composed entirely of predictions of disaster or enthusiastic and lavish of forms which have long lost their ori ginal purpose The English are tolerably greedy but on the whole dislike good food They refuse a drink although only an Insignificant minority appreciate good wine Indeed as a beverage they prefer medicine Whatever good manners they ever had were obtained from France and Italy But by and large they have a genius for getting on well with one ano ther which others would do well to emulate They have more than their share of brilliance but they distrust brains and persecute originality at least until it de velops into eccentricity when it is highly prized They can never get used to the idea that clever men can also be practical and that blockheads are not necessarily good They praise youth but they re- ward anil idolize old age They are a nation of hypochondriacs who enjoy I usually good health They believe in the para dox of pampering the and leaving the severely ill to rough It in hospitals of almost medieval construction They are among the most successful people who have ever inhabited the planet Vet they cannot understand why they are not universally popular The theologians of science have lend- to he English the empiricists or American It that Newton Rutherford rank as English But A the atomic bomb and sputnik In the modern often thought that the English are an Yet they continue to They are royalists whose form of government a republicanism presided THE LAST SESSION What many observers believe to be the last session of the present government has opened at Ottawa What follows the opening or when a de cision is to be made with respect to a general election nobody knows And after the Prime Minister led the press and the public down the river to Quebec for a much publicized Cabinet shuffle that never materialized little faith is placed in anything Mr says or doesnt say Nevertheless the politi cal thermometer is at the boiling point across Canada The big question is with respect to the budget Will Mr Fleming who is now looked upon as the man of the year following a secret 90minute session with the Prime Minister from which he em erged visibly shaken but unbowed bring down a balanced budget with in creased taxes or continue down the river riding his deficit of the current fiscal year amounting to one billion dollars Mr Diefenbaker so loves the limelight that he may postpone a decision until af ter the Royal visits in June Meanwhile the people across Canada await in a state of mind reflecting that of the ment confusion anxiety and indecision It is not good HE SHOOTS STRAIGHT General Howard D Graham recently appointed president of the Toronto Stock Exchange spoke boldly and courageously before the Empire Club at Toronto On to Britain he learned that Canada was not so popular in the United Kingdom The Canadian attitude to wards British entry in the European Common Market was resented He found that many moves made by Canada in the financial field were unpopular He also found uncertainty about the future of the Canadian dollar in relation to its US counterpart Also there was a reluct ance on the part of foreign i put money in Canadian industry at this We commend General Graham for be ing honest with his Canadian audience The truth may hurt but blindness with respect to where we stand and where we are going is worse The meeting of lop US cabinet figures and our own at Ot tawa last week was not productive of anything tangible There is no confidence our people that our government has the faintest idea of whats going on at home or abroad General Graham points out that whereas abroad there is a close working arrangement between labor management and government we lack this close association among these three powerful factors Recent strikes and their costly aftermath bear the General out We need business men of broad experience at Ot tawa and we havent any now Liberal leader Pearson seems to be attracting top men to his party and policies We must have far sighted leader- in politics who have proved themselves in business Rons of J Bub- Ihi the tycoon led he Wit the devil It i Aurora Council News I Darwin can exploded launched the By ally beloved be the Amei like the Fifth a monarchy governed by a king who his authority which Is limited but from the fact that he pretends to be only a president and is elected There is a danger into which we must ver fall In mocking the English we are entitled to do because we thereby mocking one another we must never cease to love England For patriotism has been the most in the world WHO IS BENEFITTING Since Christmastime the parking meters have been down from Main St And since that date another parking problem than the one which previously existed has come into being This is the problem of who Is using the parking themselves are using front of their those customs to use the spaces made free by the search for a in the lot at the of the Hank of Montreal and that therefore tl so tired of walking a the parking I the of a I perhaps the such Hi