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Watch your label; it tolls when your Bubscription expires. ¢ ¢ $1.50 per year in advance 5 cents a single copy PORT PERRY STAR PORT PERRY STAR, THURSDAY, EDITORIAL Such is the patriot's boast, wh ere'er we roam, his first, best count ry ever, is at home.--Goldsmith, LESS HOME BAKING This summary as to the amount of baking done by Canadian bakeshops, gives an idea as to the trend of housework in general: "The marked increase in sales of cakes, pies and other fancy bakery products that took place in wartime has implications for all food firms, be- cause it reveals the growing tendency of the housewife to delegate more of her work to special- ists outside the home. Behind the wartime rise in bakery sales are (1) higher incomes, (2) more working wives, (3) shortage of sugar for home baking. Once housewives have more sugar and more leisure, experts say, they will probably do more baking for a while; but after this postwar spurt (again quoting the experts) will go back to letting bakers make more of their cakes, just as, after the last war, they let bakers make more of their bread. This, it is stated, is true in gen- eral of all food products, because (1) if incomes stay high, housewives will pay more for leisure; if incomes drop, more housewives will have to work; (2) the trend to more jobs for women is not basically a war phenomenon; there will likely be more working women, fewer housewives in 1949 than: there were in 1939, whatever the level of prosperity." . There is another phase of this subject, too. Not many homes have modern equipment (for baking, canning, etc.).to permit of efficient pro- duction at prices in competition with commercial concerns. These latter have better access to raw . materials; and through radio and other adver- tising they are educating the housewife to the idea that it is "good business" to buy ready made cooking--as the cost is little more, if 'any; and the - product is more uniform. So.say the advertisers. But 'we still like the pies that mother Fantivies te make. : I : * * *- WHY CHANGE THE CANADIAN FLAG? EAnconiie to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Can- ada has a flag. It is commonly known as the Red Ensign, and is 'emblazoned with the Union Jack and the Canadian Coat of Arms. Australia has a similar flag, except that the field is blue, the Union Jack is in the same position, and the dis- tinctive markings are six stars, variously placed. New Zealand flag has a red field with the Union Jack, and four white stars. South Africa has a more distinctive flag, consisting of orange, white and blue stripes. On the centre white stripe is a triple device, the leading feature of which is the Union Jack. : Evidently the Union Jack has a leading place on the flags of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Why change that place? The flag is a symbol of our loyalties. Have our loyalties changed? Could French Canada gain anything by replacing the Union Jack with the Triocolor, or putting the Fleur-de-Lis in the position now oc- cupied now bythe Canadian Coat of Arms? We are a nation of many nationalities. The flag could not represent them all, growth Britain has been our main and at times our only protector. No other loyalty could bind Canadian people so closely as has the British tie." In the main.our people are of British descent, and are imbued by British ideals and tradition. Nothing shows the impartial administration by " Britain more clearly than the strong position held by our French-Canadian citizens. Britain con- " quered France; but the terms of peace were so - generous to the French that they have promoted French isolation, and have given to that people In the years of our - undue power in the government of this country. Actually, it is not important what is the design of the Canadian Flag, so long as that design does not indicate a change in loyalties. We can be a great people, if we can be united. But in every sense all our folk have been nurtured in a British atmosphere, and even where this is less evident (as in Quebec) British freedom for self govern- ment has granted liberties that no other governing nation would have granted. * * * THIS BRAVE NEW WORLD Here is a partial list of the contribution which science has made to humanity during the years of the war-- More efficient engines for planes, cars and ships; Better fuels and lubricants to service those engines; More precision Bistroments of all kinds, but especially in the field of radio communication and ~ radio direction finding; Improved metallurgical processes, resulting in better metals and alloys; Many more synthetic materials, such as rubber and plastics; A wider application of products obtained from coal, wood, and sea water; q A wide range of drugs and medical formulas for curative purposes; Atomic energy and the control of cosmic rays. There is the setup in part with which humanity must gb to work to make constructive peace, Our greatest lack is in unity of purpose, coupled with unwillingness to share wealth - and assume re- sponsibility. Never has humanity had grefiter resources and greater power to develop those resources than it has to-day. At present all peoples are pulling 'and hauling.to secure the lion's share of wealth at the lowest possible post. This attitude seems to be the natural outcome of a six year's struggle to secure the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--for all mankind? Like all ideals, this great charter for human freedom finds reality beset with difficulties. The struggle for "a place in the sun" will continue until we learn that the world is one, and selfish- ness is really foolishness, shortsightedness. At bottom. there is a sincere desire to get out of the present world muddle--if the cost is not too great to individual and collective interests. If we can get through 'this winter witliout a major disaster to humanity, the heat of our desires will likely be modified. Just now, we are really too prosperous in the Allied Countries. We cannot see clearly the predicament of those who suffer. What we need most is that all the organizations for the promotion of self-interest, and all the or- ganization for the promotion of human welfare shall pool their resources for the general good; and thus take a short cut to the development of their own happiness and well being. Our. best example will be found in the host of women, who continue to knit and to sew, and to send ditty bags, and clothing, and parcels to the . sufferers; who are strong on good works, and slack on arguments as to our "RIGHTS". * During the past few years we have had such a flood of money that we have come to think that money is everything, and that if we stand firm we shall get our price. The supply we most need is a supply of the milk of human kindness--the ability to see and sympathize with the sufferings of others. LET'S FACE NOVEMBER 22, 1946 THE FACTS By M. M. Boyd, B.A. Let's face the facts! Back in 1939 few of us believed that a second war was perched square on our doorstep. Still fewer of us dreamed that the war would end only when we released a new and devastating force upon the world. I refer of course to the atomic bomb. We just haven't caught up on our thinking. We fail to realize what effect this can have on the all-impor- tant problem of human relations. Just as we failed to realize that our world was being plunged headlong into world conflict, back in 1939, We should have known that war was coming. We should have known also that some day sejence was going to give us the means by which we could obliterate civilization. We have the means. What protection have we against the misuse of such power? A glance at the world situation and the state of relations existing among the nations discloses a disheartening amount of fear and suspicion. There is evidence that the nations are re- aligning on the basis of what appears to be their own personal advantage not on what constitutes mutual inter- est. We haven't learned that the world is a community. We still think in terms of national advantage and national prestige. This deadly situa- tion exists even after we have made practical the use of the atomic bomb. The Democracies are afraid of Russia. Russia is afraid of the De- mocracies, She is afraid of our po- tehtial power if we ever decide to act 'as' a' combine in the interests of cap- italistic Fascism, - The USSR. rightly knows that we are not truly democratic. She real- izes with clear-eyed vision that we have achieved a democratic form of government unsupported by a demo- cratic way of life. Furthermore she believes and has good evidence to sup- port her beliefs, that a democratic form of Government unsupported by a democratic way of life inevitablly leads to Fascism. , Germany was a re- public with au demoeratic form of Gov- ernment, so was Spain and so also were the Republics of South America. It isn't necessary to show how these republics became Fascist. In brief, however, it was because a democratic form of Governmeiit elected by people who weren't democratic themselves had to collapse. We have a democratic form of government but we haven't Democracy in our way of life. Democracy in its true sense is an attitude which governs all human con- duct. It is based on two things; the supreme value of the individual human being and an unshakeable faith in the .-.| power of human reason to solve its . great-grandchildren, Mrs. W. H. McCaw From her old home in Port Perry, 'November 6th, was held the funeral service of Emma Josephine McCaw, "who died in St. Petersburg, Florida, on October 31st, 1946, after a short ill- ness. - Mrs, McCaw was born in Port Perry, August 10th, 1857, the only daughter of Joseph Bigelow and Eliza- beth Paxton Bigelow. She received her education in Port Perry Public and High Schools and Woodstock College. She married Mr, William H. McCaw in 1878 and they made their-home in Port Perry. After Mr.- McCaw's re- " tirement in 1917 they spent their winters in Florida and since his death in 1930 she has spent the greater part of her time there, She was a former member of the Baptist church in Port Perry and later of the 1st Congrega- tional church in St. Petersburg. She is survived by eight daughters, Mrs, John MacDonald and Miss Eliza- beth McCaw, of St. Petersburg, Flor- ida; Mrs, Arthur Carnegie, Mrs. David Carnegie, Mrs. Harry Nasmith, Mrs, Harold Emmerson, of Port Perry, Mrs, Frances Coone, of Providence, R. I, and Mrs, Morley Honey, of Toronto. She leaves 21 grandchildren and 20 Three brothers predeceased her, Progressive- Conservatives Elect Officers Last Saturday evening the Progres- sive-Conservatives of Ontario Riding held a rally at Brooklin, and elected the following officers: President--J., M. Roblin, Whitby. 1st Vice President--Hayden McDonald, Oshawa 2nd - Vice President--Grant Christie, Manchester. 3rd Vice President--Mrs. Hastings 4th Vice President--Mrs, Hood. Secr¢tary--R. D. Humphreys, Oshawa, Treasurer--Jos. Bannigan, Pickering. It was decided to have a membership fee of $1.00. ------ PPPs me FIRE og AT 84, WILLIAM ORSER GETS HIS DEER Deer hunting. has not been reported as 'good this year. Scarcity of snow made tracking poor. But Wm. Orser, a native of Scugog Island, was for- tunate in securing a fine two-year-old. William Albert Orser was born on Scugog Island, May 1, 1861,, He was raised in Carden Township, 18 miles east of Orillia. As a young man he moved to Golden Valley and spent 28 years as a river-driver, He still enjoys working with wood, Last winter he cut over 30 cords with 7 a buck-saw, split and piled it and, when dry, moved it into his woodshed for this winter's use. He moved to a farm near Dungannon in 1915, and three years ago, with his wife, retired to Dungannon. TALENT ABROAD A valuable member of CBC's Toronto studio staff. Pretty Jean Gregory, a pianist on high rank, who has been in England Germany. a PETTY THIEVING Complaints are being made of the loss of milk bottles, and money for milk tickets. This petty thieving is very annoying. Any person, who can give information to the police regard- ing this matter, will be doing a good turn to both customer and dairy pro- prietor, 0) problems co-operatively. -« It's easy to put money first. Most of us do. It's easy too, when you have money, to put power first. This we '| know to be particularly true of both our industrial leaders and the so-called 'Giants of Labour'. Due to the effort of those who largely represent capital and those who represent labour we, the majority who stand in the middle, ard pulled back and forth, Labour. in this country is deter- mined to be united. They realize that unless they achieve strength through union they will be at the mercy of those who pay their wages.. They know what that means. They are determined to establish rights, fo set the condi- tions and wages of work. Employers resent this dictation from below. They are convinced that they have rights and that these rights are being destroyed by the encroach- ing power of irresponsible but united labour. The Government which reverts the people as a whole is thrown unwill- ingly into the role of arbiter. There is no clear vision or agreement in par- liament as to what should constitute the basis of arbitration. If it leans toward the claims of labour it ig be- coming the tool of organized labour. If it leans toward the employers it is reactionary and a defender of priv- lege. Democracy does not provide for the rights. It simply provides re- sponsibilities. He who employs labour has a great responsibility toward the labour he hires. It is his respons- ibility to provide the best possible working: conditions and the best pos- sible wages. It is to the interests of gociety that he do so. It is also to his own interest. No man can live to himself alone. It is the responsibility of the worker to do the best job he can, to give real and constructive ser- 'vice, It is the responsibility. of the government to see that every man has the opportunity for work. Until our democratic Government, our employers and our workers assume these re- sponsibilities this nation will go stead- ily forward on the road to Fascism, No amount of quibbling will change the facts. We can find excuses and reasons aplenty for refusing to see that this is the simple problem. Every such excuse and every such reason will deny the two fundamentals of a Democratic Way of Life. They will put other things before the supreme value of the human individual; they will disclose a lack of faith in human reason co-operating to solve its pro- blems. Neither in the home nor in the school nor in the institutions of industry do we as a nation act demo- cratically. We talk about the four freedoms and deny them daily. If apparent personal advantage con- tinues to determine the character and behaviour of the people of this country we'll have Fascism before we have time to realize it. Through our democratic wackinery of Government we have the means of putting Labour in the saddle. We also have the means of putting into power any demagogue representing either Labour or Capital, He can destroy our democratic form of government and he will do it on the plea that he is defending our rights. Actually ne will be taking away the opportunity for you and I to exercise responsi- bility. There is only one real safeguard for civilization and that is true Demo- cracy. In essence every world religion has had as its core idea"the responsi- bility of man to man. In essence all worthwhile education teaches this truth. In essence all our constructive activity depends upon social co-opera- tion and the innate worth of the in- dividual. If we persist in denying this Canada will be Fascist. In Fascism lies disaster. What would have hap- pened if Hitler had had the atomic bomb in September nineteen hundred and thirty-nine? . Change in Library Hours Commencing Thursday, Nov. 22nd, the Library will be open in the after- noon from 3 to 5 on Thursday of each week, instead of evening from 7-9; other days are as usual. Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday evening from 7 to 9. Afternoons on Thursday and Saturday 3 to 5. Closed all day Wednesday. * x % A few of the bogks purchased during 1946 are listed below: Book Author Higher Hill 'Grace Campbell Roger Sudden Raddall R. C. A. F. Overseas Power Carrying Place Mowat In Quest of a Kingdom Weatherhead Collected Poems Pratt Anna and the King of Siam Landou Quebec De la Roche Retreat from the Dolphin Raddall Understanding New Zealand Wood Lake Superior Nute The Weeping Wood Baum Bridge to Brooklyn Idell When hearts are light Again, Loring Mountain Born Yates Died in the Wool Marsh Lay that Pistol Down Powell Now that April's here Newman The Prisioner Lother The Ballad and the Source Lehmann Net of Cobwebs Holding Captain from Castle Shellabarger Apartment in Athens Wescott The House on Clew Street, Lavin Red Fruit Bailey Young Bess Irwin The Emperor's Physician Perkins Together Brucker All This Difference Dumbrille The Wise Forget Howard Silvertips Chase Brand What became of Ann Bolton Bromfield Never Say When Peter Cheyney Rembered Death A. Christie Between Two Furious Oceans . Diespecker Escape the Night Eberhart With This Ring Eberhart Stairs of Sand Z. Grey Two Solitudes MacLennan Lake Ontario Pound Lefty Rorke Sugar Shanty Rorke Hard Facts Spring Health for You Crisp A Woman in Sunshine Swinnerton The Thurber Carnival Thurber Finn SAMUEL FARMER Editor and Publisher DAY by DAY Jottings by the Editor Evidently union labor believes in striking while the iron is hot. The general idea seems to be to ask plenty, so that in the end they will gain what is wanted. Negotiation is a slow and expensive process, and in the Ford strike, there seems to be a determina- tion to stage a "fight to the finish" on both sides of the dispute. Satur- day Night has sounded a note of warn- ing. That journal says: "The aggressive element in the leadership at Windsor f§ convincingly communistic, and is much more con- cerned with making free enterprise unworkable than with improving the lot of the Ford workers." ¢ sw General Brock Chisholm, Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, has start- led and annoyed many people who have grown accustomed to popular estimates of right and wrong. He is reported to have said that "the con- cepts of right and wrong were foisted upon mankind by politicians and priests for the puspose of maintaining their control over us." Perhaps that statement will do some good, if it will rouse our leaders to take less for granted; and to look into the matter of human conduct from the standpoint of the essential foundation principles of life, and not merely from custom, and personal desire. rv A recent cartoon in National Mag- azine hit off weather forecasting well. It shows two birds sitting on a limb watching a man saw wood. The caption read--"We can always tell what the weather is going to be, if we watch these humans". « * a Weeding out bad citizens is the busi- ness of the courts. They are not all Japanese or Germans. To prolong the enmity of these peoples is shortsight- ed. The folk who would exclude all Japanese from Canada, might gain a will and the good trade of the peoples of the Kast. Crime will not be sational radio dramas, picture shows that show how crime is committed, and lurid printed matter. We have more than our share of this kind of stuff, and far too few well written stories of life, with its good reduced by sen- of wholesome health, sense of humor, industry, cour- age, and the kindliness that makes for good neighbor relations, * * * In the drama of reconversion, we are in the phase of scene shifting, The stage is being cleared of the equip- ment and the men of war, and the set- ting up of the machinery of peace production. Quick change is not easy. * * * Millions of tons of anthracite coal are reported to have been found in Alberta. We can do with plenty of it in Ontario and Quebec. * * * Thirty-four days before Christmas. Better do your shopping right away, if you are going to do it carly. * * * A new and embarrassing factor fac- ing Canadian officials it that U.K. has indicated it cannot supply as much woollen and worsted cloth in 1945 as had been promised. Some of this may be made up from other sources. But the present potential "gap" is said to be of considerable proportions. What is feared is that for the next six or eight months not only will civilian find very little cloth or suit- ings but that present and future vete- ran priority certificates may not all be honoured. ) . «9 The blunt charge that Quebec tavern keepers were forced to pay large sums of money to Union Nationale Party funds before they could get their liquor licenses renewed in 1945, is made by Blair Fraser, Ottawa editor temporary advantage; but in the long run this country would lose the good of Maclean's Magazine in the Nov, 15 issue. NIGHT CLASSES AT Port Perry High School November to April, 1946 ONE OR TWO EVENINGS A WEEK Classes will be held in Shop Work, starting .im- mediately; and in Home Economics as soon as possi- "ble. Registration, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 7.30 p.m. Registration Fee--$3.00. I. R. BENTLEY, Chairman Bd. of Education. J. C. CRANE, Principal. Local Bank of Commerce Changes Managers Having reached the age of retire- ment, Mr. E. R. Hayes, who has been local manager of the Canadian Bank of Commerce since April, 1931, has been. succeeded by Mr. J. R. Helm, of Bloomfield. Mr. Hayes and his family have been excellent citizens and it is a real plea- sure to know that for the present, at. least these good people will remain in Port Perry. We should miss them very greatly in so many ways if they moved away. Mr. Hayes hag proved to be a most willing helper in all public welfare work, such as Victory Loan, Red Cross, 1.0.D.E., Lions Club, etc., etc. No matter what it was for general wel- fare, he was always doing his bit. In Church work it was the same with the ladies of the family. Mrs. Hayes and her daughters have been mainstays in church activities. It is good to see Harold following in his father's foot- steps. Just now, he is teller, in the Bank here. Billy is also teller in the Ajax Hank. gon to Port Perry. itime: We welcome Mr. and Mrs. Helm and Pte. E. At present the Pte. R. M. Wilson, Greenbank; L/Cpl. FRED HILL A young man from the West who still belongs to the army, who is tenor in "Stardust Serenade", weekly musicale preseted on Sundays over CBC at 7.30. -- > Expect Home From Overseas The following personnel are report- ed to be on the "Queen Elizabeth" and are expected to arrive home in a short Gnr. A. A. Goose, of Scugog; Merle "Dowson, Port Perry; housing situation is a serious problem,' T. A. McCrea, Prince Albert; Pte. N. and it may be that complete settling A. Hubbert, R.R.1, Myrtle; Pte. A. S. will be delayed for some time, Harper, Prince Albert,