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a od ¥ ¥ Fi & 2 ; Ve Teh ob PAPER ATLA A (sds ade anadiusdiniiol shad Sismaisda Ss . . / Watch your label; it tells when your mon PORT PERRY STA ci - Editor and Publisher . , / Pre ; gs . $1.60 per year in advance, PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4th, 1943 A z 5 cents a single copy DESAI BR EE SER | x a pia eee ; hTERT FAR iam 3 : Nc ' J = - se ------ Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, Ris first, best country ever is at home.-- Goldsmith, y suitable crops in given farming areas. - ry Marketing at home and abroad to be developed, - and research to be encouraged. } THE PROGRESSIVE-CONSERVATIVE - PLATFORM A ddcument came to hand the other day, en- titled--"Policy of The Progressive-Conservative Party". tion in Winnipeg. It is a good policy. that has to be done is to put it into effect. As a bystander, the writer would like to remark that the policy should become of paramount im- portance--more important than the leader. Hon. John Bracken is doubtless. a great man with a good political record; but he cannot take his party into power, unless that party gives un- divided support to him. The Country will ex- pect an undivided party, capable and willing to. put their forward looking Policy into operation-- perhaps not all at once, but piece by piece, as. rapidly as possible. . . WAR Briefly stated, the Progressive Conservative Policy regarding those in active service 'will re- quire proper legal safeguards for returned men after the war, so that they shall not need to be selling pictures or begging work as was often the case after the last war. Adequate 'provision to be made for employment of those capable of work- ing, also for the disabled and their dependents. Great care is taken in the Policy for War Vet- erans' Rehabilitation. Mr. Bracken said--"Let us gjve to the men in uniform, as well as to all other citizens in Canada, the assurance that we have something niore worthy than we have had." j "To put this Policy into force it is suggested: 1. Members of the Armed Forces should not be discharged until their economic security 'is as- sured by placement in gainful employment or by assisted training and education to that end. # - 2. Employment preference given to the men de- mobilized from the Armed Forces. '3. Land settlement for suitable persons under - proper assistance and advice, with consideration given to group or community settlement. 4. Adequate pensions or compensation to be paid by the State on the "Insurance Principle". 5. Veteran representatfon on Government Boards dealing with: matters affecting Veterans. 6. A special Department devoted to Veterans' affairs, ' _ 8. Recognition, along similar lines, of the men who have served in the Merchant Navy. Agriculture The Policy demands parity prices on, farm pro- ducts; a fixed, minimum export price of $1.10 per bushel heat, with graded adjustments in domestic marketing making the minimum $1.25 per bushel. It also asks for a price stabilization corporation for the control of price fluctuations. : An educational program is suggested as to A thorough study of animal husbandry. Representation of primary producers on marketing boards. : A Central Farm Bank, and credit at low inter- est rate. 2% It was adopted at the National Conven- Now all ! A study of Health Service--medical facilities and 'hospitalization for farmers of Canada and their families. Labour Relations Under the principle of free enterprise, uniform labour relations to be established including col- lective bargaining, . worker representation, con- ciliation service; National Labour Relations Board having powers of investigation; adequate holidays with pay. Natural Resources Conservation and development are key words in the Policy for this Department, for the pur- pose of creating living opportunities for the citi- zens of Canada, Reconstruction The program in this part of the Policy is ex- tensive, so much so that it had better be dealt with subsequently in another editorial. But Mr. Bracken's introductory paragraph in this section is worthy of reproduction. : "Every human being that is born into our Seo- = ciety has a right to feel that he is welcome in it; that he has a share in Canada; that he is a mem- ber of the Canadian team, with a part to play in } it, as a citizen of Canada; that he will be expected to make the most that he can of his own life and to make the maximum contribution he can to . society; that he is entitled to a job, and will re- ceive. reward in relation to his enterprise, and that, in the event of old age, ill health or other misfortune overtaking him, he will have the as- surance of a reasonable standard of social and economic security." Some Pertident Remarks This is a very realistic world, and in political life ideals and practice have a hard-struggle to travel as a team. --- : Another fact is that ideals are common pro- perty. Every plank in this excellent Policy is linble to be "stolen" by opposing parties. In fact many of the basic principles here enunciated have been given out as chart and compass of other parties. The whole matter that must be decided by the electorate is as to the character and ability of the men who undertake to carry out this forward looking policy. It will not bé 'put into operation without difficulty and it will require a rare grasp of the facts of the case, and a grim and intelligent determination to bring about the required results. Ancient political history has but little to do with the present situation. Much of what is to be undertaken will have to be built from the ground up. There is a most unusual demand for unpre- judiced study as to ways and means of instituting necessary reforms. Bitter denunciation of opponents is worse than wasted effort. Such tactics simply set back the clock of progress by so much. The first step for accomplishment of any desirable program of re- form will be to find points of agreement. g It is fundamental that in nearly all cases our leaders are genuinely sincere in their service to Canada. Co This is the time for team play. There is ample room for every patriotic effort, and a rare oppor- tunity to display good sportsmanship. Sore PORT PERRY AID TO RUSSIA HOCKEY gona double header game at j It is the Arena on Frid The local Hockey Players and Fans are puttin Net proceeds go to the ( hoped that a substantial sum will go to the relief of suffering Russian) children as a result of this good sportsmanship, Your presence at a 25c. fee will help. night. Aid to Russia Fund. The Atlantic Charter, among other, aims, speaks of Securing for all im- proved labor standards, economic ad-! vances and social security. The se- curity plan in my Yeport is a plan for! turning the last two words "social security" from words into by insuring that no one in Britain willing to work while he can is with-' out income suflicient to meet at all] times the essential needs of himself and his family. The plan has not yet been discussed by Parlinment or con- sidered by the Government. What 1 am telling you is what I have proposed to them, ' The security plan includes, first, o! scheme of all-in social insurance for cash benefits, It includes, second, a, general scheme of children's allow-| ances both when the responsible par-| ent is earning" and when he is not, earning. It includes, third, an all-in! scheme of medical treatment of every kind. for everybody. The main feature of the sceurity! deeds surance. That scheme applies to .all citizens and not only to those who work for employers. It does not ap- ply exactly the same way to all citi- zens. One cannot very well insure a person who has no employer--a shop- keeper or a farmer -- against unem- ployment, or insure a person who does not earn by his work against losing earnings when he is sick. But for the things which everyone needs--pension in old age, medical treatment, funeral expenses--everybody will be insured. Everybody will be assured these and all the other benefits appropriate to him and his family by a single weekly contribution paid through one insur- ance stamp. With one exception, the socinl insurance scheme provides a flat vate of benefits, irrespective of the amount of the earnings that have been lost, for a flat contribution. The benefit will be the same for un- employment and disability of all kinds and, after a transition period, for pen- sions and retivements. It is designed to be high enough by itself to provide subsistence and to preyent want in all} normal cases, and it will last as long as unemployment or- disability lasts! without diminishing. - | The one exception to the flat rate! principle is that if disability has re-! sulted from an industrial accident or disease, then, after thirteen weeks, | disability benefit will be replaced by | an industrial pension proportionate to In addition to unemployment and disability, the scheme provides bene- fits to meet many other needs, includ- dianship of children, funeral expenses, training for new occupations. In regard to old age, the scheme proposes a number of changes. First, it makes pensions universal, applying not only to those who work for em- ployers, but to independent workers and to those who do not work for gain at all. Second, it makes pensions condition- al on retirement from work. " Third, it makes pensions in retire- ment adequate for subsisterice, equal Friday, February 5th, at 8 p.m. ' See the good sport. raided or damaged, the 'Works ® A.F. REPAIR AND MAINTAIN THEIR OWN AIRFIELDS. ' Should an Airfield be : RA.2 REF A Service Squadron' men are responsible for re-establish- ing order in the shortest possible time, to unemployment and disability bene- fits. But it brings them up to that level only gradually, during a transi- tion period of twenty years. During that transition, it is proposed that those who need more than they can get as contributary pensions will have their needs met by ad¢quate assistance pensions, \ Fourth, the plan enables people to go on working after reaching the minimum retiring age of sixty-five for men or sixty for women to qualify for pensions above the basis level which they would get if they retired as soon as they reached that age. The object of the schéme is not, of course, early retirement, but to leave men free to retire when they want to and to en- courage them to go on working while they can. In proposing to introduce adequate pensions over the transition period during which the rates of contributary in 'my report for Britain follows the precedent of New: Zealand. The plan for Britain is based upon the contribu- tary principle of giving "enough free allowances to all from the state, of giving benefit as a right in virtue of contributions matle by the insured per- sons themselves, as well as by their employers and the State. For pensions, contributions naturally must be paid over a period before pension age is ' the earfings lost, but not less than the disability benefit. i ing maternity, widowhood and guar- | pensions will gradually rise, the plan "FROM WORDS TOWARDS DEEDS = Sir William Beveridge (Taken from magazine "Britain.") reached. : For people in Britain, the practica point of most interest is to know what ave the proposed rates of benefit and contribution. © It isn't possible to be quite definite about that, because the benefits are related to the cost of liv- ing and we cannot tell for certain now what the cost of living will be after the war. What has been done in the report is to suggest provisionally the rates of benefit that will be enough for subsistence if the cost of essentials after the war is a little less than at this moment. On that basis, the most important provisional rate suggested in this report is eight to ten dollars a week for a man and wife in unemploy- ment, in disability, and as retirement pensions, with lower rates for a single person or for a man whose wife is also working. To these and to all other benefits, childrens' allowances, at the rate of about two dollars a week for each child, are added. Taking the children's allowances into account, it is children receive about twelve to four- teen dollars a week so long as unem- ployment or disability lasts. The pro- visional contribution corresponding to these benefit rates is for an adult man in employment about eighty-six cts. a week from himself and sixty-six cents a week from his employer, with lower rates for women and young persons. | A To the Home Folks Away from Home. I wonder how you folk get along about writing letters. Doubtless you think the things we'd like to know are "old stutf"; and the things you'd like to tell are treated to a blackout by the censor. . It's pretty much the same at this end of the business. It would make this letter much more interesting if we could tell all about Jim ------ and Sally ----, but items of this kind are barred in a country newspaper. Jim and Sally have many friends, and if you haven't anything nice to say don't say it. You never can tell who's re- lated to who until you tramp on some- body's toes. (Nothing's wrong with Jim and Sally, anyhow.) Country life is what you might call interwoven, and it often happens that some quite startling piece of news cannot be published because it would drag the name of some lovable individual into public ridicule or shame, On the other hand you cannot be picking out many good folks to sing their praises, for the fact of the mab- ter is that most all our people are do- ing a tine job of public service one way and another just now. Store- By paying these contributions, insured® persons in employment will pay about 'twenty-five percent. of the whole value | of the cash benelits received by them, exclusive of children's allowances and |. The other 75 of national assistance. percent. of the cash benefits will come from employers and the State. The important thing is that the sc- curity plan is: part of a policy of a national minimum, of giving benefits as a right which are adequate in amount, that is to say, are cnough for subsistence without other resources; are adequate in time, that is to say, last as long as the need lasts; and do not vary with the previous earning of the person insured. The plan as 1 have set out briefly is a completion of what was begun a little more than thirty years ago when Mr. Lloyd George introduced national' health insurance and Mr. Winston Churchill, then president of the Board of Trade introduced unemployment insurance. What I have been telling you about is my proposal to the Government. The*Tovernment is not committed in any way to anything that [ have said. It has only just seen my report and we won't expect them. to make up their minds--they ought not to make up their minds -- without full time for consideration, Government and Parliament, when they have had time to consider the plan, will adopt it. Having begun to work on this problem of social. se- curity myself more than thirty years ago, having lived with it for the past year and a half, and discugsed it with all the people who know most about it, I believe that this plan, or something like it, is what we need. It's the first step--- though one step only--towards turning the Atlantic Charter from words into deeds. + "WATSON THOMSON Regular speaker, along with Perey J. Philip and Dr. H. L. Stewart, on C.B.C. Weekend Review, Watson Thomson is heard over the National Network this week, on Sunday, Feb. 7th, at 8.30 EDT. Mr, Thonison was born in Scotland, served in World War I. "He is -at present attached to the University of Manitoba, as director of Adult Education, 1 | | | But I hope that the | _ keepers, clerks and day workers, teachers, preachers, and even editors have long steady hours not-set by any union. And the housewives have always been pretty much in that fix. It looks as though this group of folk are going to have to get back to more cooking and less tin canning. Reading the advertisements isn't the dizzy 'job it used to be. You don't have to run ahead of yourself to keep up with the styles. Although 1 must say, it keeps one busy to know at what angle a lady's hat should be worn--if any. : One blessing has descended upon us ngen--we don't have to wear cuffs on our punts. That's a help anyway, for it's no fun to go out into the garden' and to come in carrying half a shovel- ful of dirt in the culls. It makes for a lot less sweeping in the house. Just now it's snow that collects in the pant cufls. Speaking of gardens, 1 saw a lead- ing sced catalogue the other day--and it carried no colored pictures of the flowers. How shall we know what we have grown? Those célored flowers Letter to Those on | perfectly | | ctive Service gr to reach. I guess we shall just have to take chances this year and see what happens. We had a close call to losing two very good citizens last week. George Channell ran his auto into a bus in Toronto and was badly cut up about the face; but his luck held, and he was able to come home in a day or two, Then on Monday, Cyrus Switzer was knocked down and trampled by a horse he was shoeing--result a broken thigh and dislocated shoulder. This would indeed be a serious time to lose one of our two local blacksmiths, particu- larly when it is remembered that there is not another one within a ten mile radius. RX Weare growing quite accustomed to seeing horses these days. They are running the autos and trucks a close second in every day business. of course, on Saturdays the auto comes into its own. There is still more style and speed in the auto than with the horse. But if gas and tires continue to reduce, the day may yet come when the young man will again drive up with prancing horse, light buggy (not rubber tired though), to take out his best girl. However, there are no hitch- ing posts here now, and no shelter for the horses if it rains. You see the churches have become progressive along with the hotels, and the sheds have disappeared. [ wonder if they will have to be built up again? For steady war effort, year in and year out, you can trust the pupils in Port Perry Public School. Since the outbreak of the war, the youngsters have bought $2665 worth of War Savings Stamps. They have also contributed year by year to other patriotic funds. Since September, Relief Fund $15.70; througlé the Jr. Red Cross $60.00 worth of new cloth- ing to the bombed areas of Great Britain, : One is reminded of the creed of Charles Dickens--*Do all the good yon can, and don't make any fuss about it". That is the kind of patriotism that is being taught daily by our teaching statf--real citizens all of them. Yours truly, THE EDITOR. Donations to theAid to Ru of the 1.O.D.E., ort ssia [fund will be received and forwarded by Mrs. Gordon McKee, Treasurer hrough the Churches. Port Perry FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Rev. F. A. Farewell, B.A, Principal and Governor of Whitby Ladies' Col- lege, died on January 26th, 1028. He had been Prineipal since 1917. Port Perry lost to Whitby in a {hockey game with thirty minutes over- time. DeShane did some brilliant | zoal work, The Metropolitan Church, Toronto, was burned. Dr. J A. Mathers was appointed a High School Trustee for Port Perry. "Mr. and Mrs. W. H. McCaw cele- brated their golden wedding anniver- sary in Florida on January 9th: At the 8th birthday party of Scugog | Chapter, LO.D.E, Mrs. Ib. H. Purdy, Honorary Regent, extinguished the candles and cut the=birthday cake. Some thirty ladies were present at the party. Mrs. A. IL Rose, retiring Regent, was presented with a basket of Spring flowers. . Mr. John Harris was elected First Vice President of Ontario County Bar Association, Ice Sports Day Friday, Feb. 12 At Port Perry Arena Program of Races Fun for Everybody Port Perry Rink Directors - 7 are staging an Ice Sports program at vhe Arena onthe evening of Iriday, February further particulars. Keep the date.open. You {can depend on a good show --plenty for your money. ---- ta -------- PHILOSOPHER Kerry Wood, of Red Deer, Alberta, finds excitement in the outdoors and he has 'a way of turning his gdven- tures into stories which delight CBC listeners, too. 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