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- yd Riv. 88S 4" Te ARE TAR RTC NT REY) AY we aa" sr eee 's $e eet \ LEAT RE SR PORT PERRY ns One third of all injuries in- flicted by firearms while being used for hunting in Ontario are self-inflicted. In other words, the hunter loses control of his gun with the result that it ac- cidentally discharges, injuring or killing him. . The Ontario Safety League claims a thor- ough knowledge of safe gun handling and constant vigilance while hunting is necessary to reduce these accidents. Self - inflicted injuries from firearms are the direct result of not observing basic rules of hunting safety. The Ontario Safety League points out that observance of these rules will not detract from either the pleasure or success of the hun- ter and will provide reasonable safety for both the gun carrier and his companions. NZ The safety catch should be kept-"on" until ready to shoot, and any firearm should be un- On Capita Capital punishment leaves no margin for the inevitable er- rors of those who must sit in judgment of other men. The basic integrity of our judicial system is not strengthened and sustained when we take it pre- sumptuously for granted. How- ever ts faillibility must be questioned. No man and no group of men can have infalli- bility of judgment: juries and "judges can make mistakes. The utter finality of capital punishment leaves no room for the correction of errors in judg- ment. In Belgium the death penalty was abolished after it was established that a man had been put to death for a crime he had not committed. In England there has recently been an offi- cial acknowledgement that in 1953 Timothy Evans was hang- ed for a murder he did not commit. Et REE EERE RS 50 YEARS AGO Thurs., November 1, 1917 Mr. J. C. Brown is re tiring from business. Mr. Brown has been identified with the Massey - Harris Company in Port Perry Mr. for many years. Mrs. W. Mitchell, Utica while motoring with her son was thrown out when "the car turned over. She was fortunate in just hav- ing her arm broken. 25 YEARS AGO Thurs., November 5, 1942 Miss Elizabeth Chri<tie celebrated her 99th birth- future. von. Cassimip St. and are... VENR ES " tional discharge of firearms Do You Remember? | moving in the very near Mr. J. Watson, Green: bank has moved to Saint- field to live with his daughter Mrs. Lunney. and Mrs. Ploughman were present- ed with an electric table lamp and toaster by their friends of Scugog before moving to take up resi- dence in Port Perry. 15 YEARS AGO . Thurs., November 6, 1952 The popular game of five-pin bowling came to Mr. Wesley, Stata, Oshawa. ed Accidents Self-Inflicted loaded before crossing fences or rough ground where the hunter is apt to stumble and fall. Tripping and falling "is the greatest cause of uninten- with resultant self-inflicted in- juries. It only takes a second to remove a shell from the chamber which changes the firearm from a lethal weapon to a harmless one. Never run while carrying a loaded gun; the chances of tripping and falling are much greater than when walking at a moderate pace, and the gun 1s more apt to discharge be- cause of the impetus with which it strikes the ground. The Ontario Safety League emphasizes the importance to all hunters of observing these basic safety rules of safe gun Ah . \ J AN \ 8 1 \ Ra h 5 \ [| AN 4 \ \ = . A \ Ww { v. ( ' ) \ A h handling. Remember, no game is worth a moment of human suffering. Punishment In all human affairs and en- terprises allowance must be made for error. And we must make sure that there are provi- sions for the correction of error. All men commit errors. All men are fallible. All men are capable, both wittingly and unwittingly, of perpetrating in- justice. But injustice is not complete- ly beyond remedy, some remedy --unless it is made final by capital punishment. When capital punishment is the final act of a process in which un- truth has led to injustice, there cannot be any real rectification. There can be but little consola- tion for anyone in clearing the name of a man after he has been put to death by due process of law. Capital punishment is fully irrevocable. Once it is done, it cannot be undone. ES , on ; av Two Port Perry District men were elected as di- rectors of the Ontario County Vegetable Growers Association in Whitby, they were Fred Christie and Russell Pogue. Mr. Bill Lamb first winner of the Lions Club trophy in 4-H Grain Club, at a meeting and banquet of the Lions Club at Little Norway. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs., November 7, 1957 The new 'Memory Hall, Utica -was officially open- ed by Dr. M. B. Dymond Elmer - day. . Port Perry Saturday night the newly appointed min- - Mrs. Clarence Redman when the new King Pin ister for the Department and family have bought Lanes opened on Scugog of Reform Institutions. the Mrs. Jas. Hortop house Road. The proprietor is The old hall was lost by EEE EEE GIVE COPS A BREAK As Gilbert and Sullivan tunefully pointed ~out a good many years ago, "A policeman's lot is seldom a happy one." And it certainly hasn't grown any hap- pier in the interim, as even a casual glance through the newspapers will tell you. Everywhere, policemen are unhappy. In the cities, they talk of strike action. In small towns, they resign right and left, usually in a clpud of recrimination. 'Why are they fed up? For a whole lot of reasons. It's only surprising so many of them stay at it. First of all, they are poorly paid. This fine, old tradition, probably dates back to the days when a cop was a "dumb flat- foot", lucky to get a job with some security involved. During The Depression, the town cop was envied because he got a pay check, be it ever so humble, every week. Secondly, they must cope with continued interference from elected officials, or local big shots. It might be the Chairman of the Police Commission, more concerned with paring his police budget than with the quality of the policeman. Or it might be the fellow who belongs to the same ser- vice club as the mayor, and expects special treatment, whether it's a parking ticket or drunk driving charge. This is hard to take. Another thing that bugs them, even those who like the work, is the hours: .- working holidays; special details; calls in the middle of the night. And, of course, there's the job itself. Much of it is routine, even boring. Every- thing in triplicate. But a Saturday night can be a nightmare. How would you like to cope with a drunken fight at a dance? Or a stolen car, driven by a kid at 100 miles an hour? Or a couple of plastered prosti- tutes belting you about the head and ears with their handbags, cheered on by the mob? Or a call from delighted neighbors, at 2 a.m., telling you that Joe Scheiss is beating the brains out of his wife? And that's on top of the ordinary stuff: petty. thefts; gang tumbles; car. crashes; old acquaintance be forgot . . street beatings; jeering hoodlunis. But I-think all these things -are-seconds-- ary. There's something else that has turn- ed the placid policeman of even 20 years ago into a mean cop. And that's the atti. tude of the people. It's fairly new and very nasty. I notice it, with dismay, among teen-agers. Even the decent ones sneer at "The Fuzz#, as they term our stalwart guardians of the law. . I don't know where they got it -- perhaps from movies and television -- but they seem to think the policeman is some sort of brutalized Gestapo type looking for trouble. A few policemen. of course, foster this attitude. There are always a few bullies in uniform who release their own psycho- logical perversions. But they are a tiny minority, usually curbed by their peers. Even more disturbing, perhaps, is the number of adults who will stand around and watch a policeman being beaten up, afd enjoy it. (Continued on Page 12). PORT PERRY STAR CO., LIMITED No Serving Port Perry, Brooklin end Surrounding Areas |} P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Member of the Ontario Weekly Newapaper Assoc. Published every Thursday by The Port Pergy Star Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Bubecription Rates, In Canada $8.00 per yr. Elsewhere, $4.80 per yr. Single Copy 10¢.