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ee SAR EDITORIAL TOPICS False Prophet The Postmaster General, not content with making life difficult economically for newspapers, has now prophesied a falling-off, if not the demise, "of mass communications, which he says will tend to be replaced by individual communication. . It is likely he is just as wrong on this score as he is with respect to the efficiency to be gained by eliminating Saturday mail. In the same discussion he deplored sensationalism of mass communicators. There might be directed to his attention the Good News reporters of Toronto radio station CFRB. All of them students of the journalism course at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, they have . been hired for the summer and bid fair to be the city's more quoted newscasters before, the end of the college vacation. ik --*"The Printed Word" TODAY'S CHILD BY HELEN ALLEN . TorontoTelegram Syndicate The big smile is typical of Davey's disposition, for this is a happy, easy-going little boy. He is healthy and sturdy with big brown eyes and dark hair. At 22 months Davey is not very talkative, but he understands every- thing said to him, especially the word "no." A friendly, cheerful child, Davey is not over-active or inquisitive, though he shows persistence in activities that appeal to him. He enjoys people but can play contentedly alone. He is doing most things at the average rate and it is felt he has higher potential. This little boy needs a loving mother and father who will provide a stimulating atmos- phere and will not be concerned over epilepsy in his background. To inquire about adopting Davey please write to Today's Child, Department of Social and Fami- ly Services, Parliament Buildings, Toronto 182, For' other "information about adoption ask your local Child- ren's Aid Society. COMPANY, LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assortition Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Thursday by The, Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Second Class Mail Registration Number 0268 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ | BILL . Sugar and ABOUT: GARBAGE AND ALL THAT Summer wanes, and so does the sky, and so do I. How and why do we wane? The summer wanes with sadness and dignity, as is her custom. The sky wanes regularly. ard I wane Violently. Some people grow benevolent and kindly as they get older. | just get more violent. I hope | turn out to be an Angry Old Man. And | know | will, if | can just hang on SMILEY "long enough to get old. It's a world to turn anyone, even a. gentle, sweet chap like myself, a bit savage. Don't think that I'm just getting crotch- ety. I've been crotechy for years. You hear people 'going around all over Canada saying. "My isn't that Smiley crotchety?" And others replying. "Yes, crotchety is the word. If there's a word for it, it's crotchety." £ Mind you, I love the world around me, and up to half a dozen people, and I laugh like a mental case at some of the things I see. But there is a limit to the amount of garbage I can stand being thrown in my face day after day in this year 1969 A.D. That makes me just like the Prime Minis. ter. ory For instance. We have so much surplus wheat that we have a national hernia, try- ing to lift it from here to there. Politicians go white trying to figure out what to do with it. Why don't we give it away? 1 don't mean the farmer. I mean- Canada. Pay the going rate to the farmer and give it away to people who are starving.. Up go the taxes. So what? --They go up any- way. : . For instance. Our educational system caters to the mediocre, to mass-production of the mediocre, just like big industry. The intellectual elite among our kids are starved to death, that is, bored to death, and the kids who are below average are swept under the rug. ' This means our schools are full of fat, lazy kids who are there only because they don't want to face the lean, cold world. I'd turf out on his or her tail, at 16, every. kid who wasn't interested. And I'd let him back in, with generous help, when he be-- came interested. Spice For instance. 'Daily newspapers lie daily. Not downright lies. They merely slant, distort and colour the "news", de- pending on their policy and politics. How- ever, it's. a free country, and I guess 'they're free to lie. 'or instance. Television could be a tre- mendous force for spreading peace and love in the world. What it does is spread Jam on cake, and violence 'on ignorance. With a few notable exceptions, it serves its patrons garbage in a fancy wrapper. Its entertainment does not entertain. Its news seeks out the sensational or the silly. Its commercials are aimed at a world of morons. Do you really believe, for ex- aiple, that a certain brand of beer is mak- ing Canada famous throughout the world? Or that you can get clothes cleaner in cold water than in hot? Or that you'll never make it if your armpits sweat? And for all this obscenity the three big U.S. networks last year split over two bil- lion dollars in profits. The CBC, which gives "us the same- refuse, generally, came up with its usual deficit. This shows the su- periority of Canadian television. Somehow. For 'instance, There are two laws. One for the rich and one for the rest of us. And any lawyer and any policeman knows it. If you're a dumb kid from Newfie, or an Indian who got drunk; you can rot in jail for a month or two before your case is even heard. or businessman, and you have the money and the right connections, you're home free and everything is hushed up. For instance. Poverty. Twenty million people living in one of the higgest coun- tries in the world, with enormous natural resources. And millions living in sordid, scualid poverty. For instance. The Church. Again with a. few notable exceptions, it does not face life: It wrings its hands, or washes them. Pilate-fashion. You don't see many prea- chers charging into a finance company and brandishing. a' whip these days, do you? For in<tance. This column is about gar- bage.- And T just remembered this is gar- bage day and I forgot to put mine out. --Toronto Telegram Syndicate 50 YEARS AGO | Thursday, August 28; 1919 The milkman was on his rounds this morning and the cock's shrill clarion could be heard on all sides when the teams left in the Bowling Club tourney decided bn a cessat- ion of hostilities, leaving the. ownership of the Carew Trophy and individual prizes undecided until Wednesday. Skip Thompson of Sunder- land and Skip Jeffrey of Port Perry will fight it out on the Lindsay green at 2:30. 25 YEARS AGO. Thursday, September 7, 1944 The weather man smiled on Port Perry Fair this year _but it didn't look as though it was going to first thing in the morning. A good attend- ance was reported. On the opening day at Port Perry High School the record was broken in the . matter of attendance. One hundred and ninety-one pupils were enrolled. Results released from Ont- ario Department of Education shows that students from Port Perry Upper School. (Grade 13) passed 100% of # their examinations. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 9, 1954 Registration at the New Public School this year, reached an all time high. Principal Roy Cornish reports . the attendance at 330. Speed trials over the course of a measured mile will be held in Lake Scugog. The Port Perry Yacht Club assisted by. Reg Sparkes have gone to great lengths to bring these speed trials to Port Perry. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 10,1959 Another old landmark at Caesarea was wiped out Sept- ember 3 when fire destroyed the Holiday Inn, a well-known restaurant and dance hall in the area. EER Sat If you're a middle-class doctor - Dr. M.B. Dymond, Minister of Health for Ontario and family have returned after an extensive tour of Scotland and 2 mg . I. It "was a fair day, in fact it-was a really hot day, but thousands of people attended the fair at Port Perry. we The paid attendance was estimated at 6,800 but since the public school children had free passes, probably the attendance was around 7,000.