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PORT PERRY STAR, Port Perry Star Co. Limited Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas WM. T. HARRISON 2 Editor * Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. P. HVIDSTEN, - Publisher Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. ' Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in 'cash. Subscription Rates: In Canada $8.00 per yr., Elsewhere, $4.60 per yr. Single Copy 10¢ Your Breathing Troubles Do you climb slowly flights of steps that you used to do at a run? Do you find yourself wishing some of your friends would walk less briskly so that it would be easier to keep up with them? Have you given up tennis or soft ball because it made you puff too hard for com- fort? Do colds seem to be more frequent? + If this sort of thing is happening to you, you have a the Canadian Tuberculosis Association and its branches are distributing a booklet with advice on what you can do about shortness of breath. The booklet is not about tuberculosis. It title, YOUR BREATHING TROUBLES, states. Tuberculosis associations are_interested in healthy lungs, for which reason they have a stake in the preven- ~ tion and treatment of all respiratory disease. They are all too well aware that in the last few years some chest diseases have increased alarmingly. There is four times ago -- and a very disabling disease it is. : Asthma, bronchitis and emphysema, the most common causes of breathing difficulties, are discussed in this new booklet and there are practical suggestions for those who want to improve the situation while improvement is pos- sible or keep discomfort from becoming more acute if it "is too late for improvement. - The Booklet is- available free from your Tuberculosis ~~ Association as a Christmas Seal service. © Sip It Slowly Next time you drink a glass of water, sip it slowly, Roll it over on your tongue as you would a vintage wine. It's almost as rare. For clean water is getting harder and harder to find. As our population grows, the avail- - able supply of safe, healthful water dwindles. More and more of our lakes and streams are becoming so polluted that they are unfit for human consumption. It is hard to believe that Atlantic Salmon once ran up the Don River, in Toronto. . : } : ~ Who's guilty? You... me...all of us. The city or town that pours its wastes into a river. The factory ~~. "that uses the nearest available stream as a gutter. The ~ builder, the farmer, the miner, the ordinary citizen." All of us contribute to water pollution -- many quite un- wittingly. So we mast all do something about. it. : 04 _. Learn about the clean water program in Ontario and in your community. We've got to clean up our used water. And we've got to protect the clean water we have. It's up to you, the citizen. PEN DODO ODDOPDDDOODODOOPOPORPODODPDODPDO OOOO E J G AR O40 In its wisdoin, the Canadian Parliament has de- cided that the death penalty should not be abolished, that capital punishment should be preserved. I agree, Completely. In my youthful, idealistic days, T had a crazy idea that the cold, deliberate taking of 'a human life by a civilized society was wrong. : . But I'm becoming blunted in a world where young men who never did a nasty thing are killed daily, and women and children are bombed and burned * daily, all in the name of peace. iy In the face of this, who can worry about a hand- ful of hoodlums about to be hanged? If there's the odd one who wasn't guilty, tough! There are a lot of other non-guilty people dying these days, and always have been, Without a trial and jury. What I can't undertand is the Canadian Parlia- sment's lack of follow-through. It's pretty disap- 'pointing; to one who has upheld this. nation against its petty attackers for years, : x Bu we get this again and again, Take the Gerda br Munsinger case. A few red faces, a few TV tears, Bh and it's all over, : : In the capital punishment case, our Canadian "lot of company. -In fact-you have so much company that It is about breathing difficulties, as the crude business, ing with murderers. lieve the most sporting way, for the culprits, and the least lacérating way, for a touchy society, would be to throw all the varieties of bia into a hat would add a certain "Jenny-Say- - thing, which, in these trouble Quebec within the fold. : Throw them all in a hat, There's something for For the softies: slashing of wrists and gentle expiration in the bathtub, or an overdose of sleeping pills, For the hards: electrocution; gas; everybody, ££ ae , HRA PE TRS Fis Seth BLY tt Be FO TLE pe SHEE BE ELELLS BRL RARE WENGE 150d ed, | Belial POR ii ert A VA TAN SX RSL LEBEN > COREY HLT a Cate dl hE] Ap et AE PLR SE ERR £Neg Go is rie AY . = 8 8A ' . as much emphysema, for example, as there was ten years -- ------ ------\ a a CROSOR DROSHA, p 50 YEARS AGO 'Wed., June 1st; 1916 Mr. Morley Campbell has sold the G. Schell property on Lilla St. to George Stephens, shoemaker, and the Jarvis property at Prince Albert to -George Schell. : Men with teams who can as- sist in transporting baggage of 116th. Bn, to Whitby from Port Perry on Thursday, are asked to communicate with Lieut, Wimperly, Port Perry. ~ We congratulate the choir of Manchester Church on se- curing Mrs, Smith as organ- "ist in place of Miss Hartry who has gone to Toronto. At a meeting of the Town Council on Monday night, the town constable was ap- pointed pound keeper and empowered to take cattle from the streets of the cor- poration and impound them. 208 "a a Za OR OLOTONTONOIOSOT NOI and - Did they do it? Not they. They cast théir votes and went home for the holidays. Not an iota of imagination in the whole hang- dog group. This was their chance to give Canada a penal system unequalled in the world. | I don't, for one instant think all those chaps who voted "Nay" are in favor of hanging. It's a pretty After all, some times the rope is - too loose, or the head is too loose, and the girl re- + porters puke, I think something could about this. Paper bags, perhaps. Ph Not a single M,P., suggested another way of deal- There are dozens. .and let the prospective departury take his pick. It" woy" to the whole d days, might keep be done But I be- 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 3rd, 1941 - The Annual canvass for local and general war ser- vice work begins Monday, May 5th the objective is $2100.00. Ptes. Archie MacMaster & Harry Carnegie, -New- market, were home for the week-end, Rev. F. G, and Mrs. Job- lin spent a couple of days with relatives in Toronto. Several members of the Scugog Chapter of the IODE ~ attended the annual conven- tion at the Royal Connaught Hotel in Hamilton. Some ninety friends joined in a birthday celebration in George honour of Mrs. Sweetman," Scugog at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Don- ald - Crozier. OOO® WHEN CAC OR OL OO OROROLOT ORO OR SS OTOROT fink PICK YOU R_ EXECUTION RARE TI politicians had a chance. to set. the. world on fire, diving .into_an_empty- (conecret 10 YEARS AGO June 1st, 1956 ~~Mr, : Clare Keevil, Clare- mont, has been appointed Te- -.chnical-Advisor in the Ground Observer Corps. At the Rod and Gun Club Safety meeting, Mr. Regan of the Toronto Harbour Com- mission was the guest speak- er. : The Port Perry. Ball Club expect to enter . the Tri- County League this season, Mr. Bruce Young will be the - manager of the league. - ~ Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Nel- son, Utica, have sold their home to Mr. and Mys, Earl ~~ Fielding, Ashburn, : Mr. A. J. Carnegie, Port Perry, was presented with a 50 year medal as a Master Mason of Fidelity Lodge by his son Mr, Wm, J. Carnegie, SMILEY For the exotic: the guillotine; the executioner's of vipers. spaces smartly, of their wives. Th There are great possibilities. suggestions, and I'll pass them along to Parliament, Torgnto Telegram New Service axe; impalement on a sharp stake; being torn to pieces by four wild horses; being lowered into a pit Of course, you have to take what you get. Just because you're a flamboyant type doesn't mean that you're going to pick the ballot saying you'll be burned at the stake. You might get the one saying death by strangling. Tough, But at least' there'd be sonte imagination in the whole thing. And this could be spread through the whole penal system, Shoplifters could 'be deported to the U.S. Kids who 'stole apples would be branded on the forehead with T for Thief. LILLY Income-tax-cheaters and people who were tricky with their expense accounts would be sent to the tundra with four dollars, a fishing line, and all three is would fill up our great northern Pass along your a / 1 -empty- (conerete-bottom) swimming. -- -- pool; bullet through the head. i EI Mp ad