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TR PACT RE SI AE SE di Petia rt ~ ' AIT oa ein Li ¢ 5a #3 M oo ALGAE », i o£ Lk, ra py 4 of o as oom. i a 7 Ve. hn Lh o> 3 vr - at? of Sa 'Educating The Hungary In today's tense. and over-populated --i8 the single most important task Lr world, the salvation of humanity be- faced by governments, private business, A gins with education. 'Around the globe churches, news media and all other or- the unskilled must be taught new ways _ ganizations interested in the welfare of ay that will enable them to find work. = ' humanity. + The hungry hy be helped with mod- Zor fu ff r= Ban Nt ie LN a CG GT AIR v Ce A LAN a i. ern methods to grow better crops. And 3 | d S d | NE the millions who are befogged by out- ou end Less id dated taboos and superstitions must be P : HN awakened to the grim realities of man- Taxes bear down heavily on all Cana- SERN kind's problems. : dians these days. If you add up what ik Among the most serious headaches Canadians pay out in personal income Pak farmers in under-developed countries taxes, plus all the indirect and hidden a face is the rat. Despite strenuous ef- taxes wrapped up in the price of goods o forts by the United Nations Food and and services, along with the various oh Agriculture Organization, rat plagues Sales taxes, it would amount to more still occur from time to time. In 1953, than a third of every dollar earned, for ratg.destroyed practically the entire - Most Canadians. crop of rice and corn in Mindanao in the Can Canadians afford more wi Philippines. A few years ago, a rat One would think not, but governmen plague ravaged the Sudan's sorghum apparently think otherwise, judging crop. o from their stated intentions to increase In many countries, specialists can. use their spending programs. Governments _ poison to wipe out the pests. But the can raise money for their spending only appalling truth is that in India, with by taxation or by borrowing and there its 500,000,000 hungry people, there is is reason to believe that governments a taboo on killing: destructive rodents are scraping the ceiling of their borrow- and monkeys. When P. C. Sen, chief ing capacity. This means that the "minister of West Bengal state, appealed money for increased spending must to the population to fight the rodent come from higher taxes. But there is menace, he could not ask Indians to an alternative, whereby governments - wipe out the rats. | ! _can do what is necessary without rais- Although hundreds of millions of ro- ~ ing taxes or without excessive borrow- dents eat about 10 per cent of India's, ing. This is by establishing a sound . grain harvest each year, Mr. Sen had to system of government spending priori- SAN ~ 50 YEARS AGO © 25 YEARS AGO -- -. 10 YEARS AGO suggest that the rats be caught and in- ties so that the urgent and necessary Wed. F 28th. 1917. : : Te poet | jected with hormones to space out their ~~ things get done first and the less ne Esty Ph IT Wed, Faliuary 26H; 1942 Thurs, Feb Blot, 1957 Ly . : i 3 i i Rev. John Ford of the ~ : litters. Or, he said, they should be fed cessary or urgent things await their ; : with vitamin-deficient food to impair turn. The Jey is obviously the word Be Oe is = LA a ne . TE . . . [1 : g A y their fertility. Estimates of India's rat - necessary and a more searching and ¢ usic provided by the embarkation leave, prior to dress regarding the life of h.. &F | population range up to five billion, 10 md as definition of the word is re- ghogs suid iin 2 re: leaving for overseas. Bedenzoysl ste Fothes Fg a i 24 Ia quired, eo Dave-Carnegie was-enjoyed.......__ and Son Banquet. A church I : dia's human population Money for government: spending pro- Mr. J. H. Brown tendered R. W. Clifford Smith, of parade of scouts, cubs, guid- bt Equally serious is the Hindu ban on. be found 4 th his resignation as Treasurer = Courtice was chosen as the- es and brownies concluded ty the slaughter of cows. The Indian Gov- ~~ S-2ms can also be found In another Way of the Village of Port Perry, resident minister by the Scout week by marching to ! ; oIment self. ia edged to protect 0 eliminating wasteful methods and after some thirty years of United Church congregation the Church of the Ascension, { the li £ ) Ta 1 oa t practices just as any progressive busi- serving in that position. On of Port Perry and Prince led by the Port Perry High $ po 2 Hn a 5 " ness would do. At the Federal level, heholt of the: Connell a. Albert. School Band. orm the natjon's siree's ah Yanuom, the Royal Commission on Government S Xajspayers a.purse. o Port Perry High School " and reproduce themselves even faster ils . ; gold was presented to Mr. i The United Church Young than the people. To the devout Hindu, - Organization pointed the way to achiev- proyn Mr. Brown is leav. Literary Society have parch- po; es are presenting a spe. a the cor 2 & bolic of motherhood. and [Pg this and more could be done to im- ing to take up residence in ~~ 3sed & new radio-victrola. cial night of Plays, Songs & : SE To ae oo let aloe Kill ed plement its recommendations. Toronto. : No CHa Music at the Port Perry : armed, . ; : Mr. Leonard Leahy, who r. Owen Reader, Toron High School. : India's "holy" cows consume vast quan- The Chamber of Commerce movement ro.ontly joined the Royal was home over the week- tities of grain, in a land that is now de- has long called for governments to es- Navy, has left for overseas. end to help celebrate his par- = The Port" Perry High 1 pendent on importation of at least 10, tablish and maintain spending priori- His headquarters will be ents-36th Wedding Anniver- School won the InterSchool 000,000 tons of food grains annually to ties and also to eliminate wasteful me- Rottamouth. o Eoberts 5 co we Diana ey, The : ! : ' ' 1 e tober as : irector for the p w I stave off starvation among its people. thods so oi Condes progress. Will |. iced the avoring. pie. ©. Mr, snd Mes. Bo Banl, Sas Miss N. McCully. Miss Es- Yet despite famine problems, India's proceed without crisis. : ture house at Port Perry katoon, visited relatives in ther Pickard won the award i population will double to a billion with- : --Canadian C. of GC. from Mr, Quinn. Greenbank recently. as the best .actress. l in 30 years unless there is more inten- yi sive education on population control measures. Teaching people to value human life 31h 1 pene wien the Lines of nim 83,40 Pro GOODBYE OLD FRIEND meetings In that town hall. It was the only where elderly ladies could watch the Sailors Mo duce smaller healthier families, to real- y yh ive thai they cont Toshion thir future It was quite a blow to me to read recently non-denominational meeting - place in town, Farewell Dance in comparative safety. EL i \ that the Wiarton Town Hall had been des- and it was there that great causes were laun- Our children made their public debuts \ i through hard work and proper planning troyed by fire. Admittedly, the catastrophe ched and collapsed; that political careers were there. Ill never forget the night Kim, age ; i I EE ona EL pains Sian reple Na Hiroshima, or ne San Toa begun and ended Aha} human triumps and three, dressed in a bunny costume, spotted B 0 P) / cisco earthquake, or even Hurricane Hazel, tragedies were recorded. And | was in on me in the audience, burst out of the dance i 4 ' PO RT PERRY STAR : but it hit me pretty hard. all of it. ; line, and hurled herself into my arms. : | Tel TCO. LUMITED - ¢ It was rather like reading of the sudden It was a regular breeding-ground for lost Or the night Hugh, about nine, won the - . y Av / 2. fn ; : : death of an old girl friend. You knew she causes and last-ditch battles. We fought such grand prize in the music festival, even though £2 ; ' Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and / had gone to fat and drink. But you could behemoths as the CNR and the government; two of the notes on the piano did not sound. oy , Surrounting.. Aveds ' remember when, at her best, she was the heart we lost. We battled to salvage moribund in. . Or the night I was an unwitting sucker in" IA) #0 TT 5. of your life. : : dustries with heavy transfusions of local cash; an elaborate practical joke, at a concert. I nh '. ' A lot of personal memories came crowding and some of us are still anemic. "was to pretend I was playing a trumpet solo, oh ' ' back when I read about it. That ugly old But a lot of good, positive work was done while a real trumpeter played the piece off- % i ' , building with the shaky bell tower on top was there, too. The commercial fishermen, the ~ stage. He double-crossed me. Warned the . ix ' / one of the hubs of my existence for more farmers, the resort owners and the merchants audience what was going to happen, and when a H / . than a decade at a special time in my life. met there, fought with each other, but emerg- I went into my routine, no sound. Felt a fool. Ws ' ' It was when I was young and my family ed, united in each case, to fight for their ex- Or the nights the old girl and I stumbled 52 ' P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher ' was young and I was learning the newspaper istence, and the betterment of the area. through our lines with the local little-theatre ¥ ' WM. T. HARRISON, Editor / business. - I didn't have a mistress. I didn't Another function of the council chamber group. Or the great New Year's Eve dances, N he Member of the Canadian Weekly ' hang around the pubs. I didn't take part in ~~ was that of courtroom. This was one that I when the whole town was out, flying. Got a i: / Newspaper Assoc. , all-night poker sessions. I just went to the didn't mind seeing go up in smoke. It's the sock in the eye at one of them when I Auld- s ' Mewher of the Datatis: Weekly / town hall. I spent more nights in its council only time the council chamber smelled bad-- Lang-Syned a pretty young matron in the b HES ewspaper . ' chamber, crouched over the rickety press =~ on court-day.-- Most of the time it smelled usual fashion, Not from her. From my wife. ' Pitisied grety, ii £ The Bott Porsy : table, than I did with my family. dusty, waxy, and cigar-smokey and just plain Town halls, those great, ugly, draughty ~~ ik / 4 On more than one occasion, my spouse, a ©ld. But on court days it stank: hangovers, chapters in our history, are burning down, ' Authorised po Seeond sia mal by Sue Your / tender young wife and mother, displayed psy- Puke, fear, shame, curiosity and the law. ~~ falling down or being torn down. They are ' payment of postage in cash. ' choneurotic tendencies toward the old town But that was only one part of the old town being replaced by modern efficient "muni- ' Subseripton: Rates, In. Canada $5.00 per yr. 4 hall. At least twice she suggested I move a hall. Across from the council chamber was cipal offices", which have about as much tra- " ? Enewhers, $4.50 por yr. Single Copy 10c, ' cot into the council chambers, and not bother the auditorium. And what memories that dition, humanity and warmth as a filing ! ' darkening her bedroom door. brings back. Concerts, plays, recitals, dances cabinet. piileinl 2 hbo abebuchehebidedntichs hebobubobahubobedeh od ubedad states Fil bet | attended more than a theusand and political meetings. It even had a balcony --Toronto Telegram News Service +