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| DITORIAL f ve . PINION RE 3 2 5% 22 Was it all in vain? AnzhiThG, Say it softly to yourself a couple of times. It's a beautiful word, making one think of some ancient and legendary Eskimo story. Say it - again, softly. It's almost haunting and mystical. Let your imagination run as to.its meaning. Now say Rembrance Day. We don't have to be told, nor do we have to use our imagination to know what this means. Each November, we stop for, a day to pay homage to those who fell in battle, and to pray that they did not die in sin. Amchitka. Remembrance Day.' What is the connection? Could they possibly have anything in common? . Amchitka is an island in the Aleutian chain {omewhers in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean. On, or any time after the 4th of November the United States will detonate a nuclear device _ under Amchitka Island that is 150 times again more powerful than the bomb that blasted Hiroshima into: oblivion. The potential damage that the Amchitka test could do the ecology of two continents and one ocean is. immense. So immense that irreparable. So why are they going ahead with it? Because the United States government feels it necessary for that country's national defense. They are going ahead with it because that government, and the governments of Russia, France, and Red China feel that all nuclear testing is necessary for con- | servationists feel that any damage would be | POLITICAL NVI VIC]R= their respective national defenses.-- Along with Amchitka, Remembrance Day will also take place this week. In an attempt to.reach the 60 percent of the present population who have little or no recollection of World War Il, this year is: "If you can't remember. . . think. If you can't remember war, think of the peace, and what you are contributing as a citizen. "It i is a noble theme. For even those who are not old enough to remember should be, aware that 114,000 Canadians died in two world wars. Yet they're still at it. They're going to blow up Amchitka for the national security, and they'll keep blowing up Amchitkas for the national security. Like the soldier who, for the national security died facedown in the mud somewhere. Did he die in vain? Isn't it strange somehow that it is those who can remember war that have decided to blow up Amchitka? Maybe the theme of this Remembrance 'Day is wrong. Maybe, "If you can't remember war, the theme think: of peace" should be ¢hanged to "Even if you can remember war, think of peace." And maybe, just maybe, we won't need any more Amchitkas. JBM | PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED - a9 7) Sa, wWNA < (oun) = ] A s 7,0, > "tas ow . Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher - Editor JOHN B. McCLELLAND, Associate Editor «WM. T. HARRISON, P. HVIDSTEN, Jr, ~Plant Manager. Advertising Manager Member of the.Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assiciation Published every Wednesday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class maill by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6.00 per year. * Single Copy 10¢ AMILEY )UGAR BILL PN NITN AND PICE We've just been through a perfect late fall weekend in these parts. The sort of weather we'd been waiting for all summer, and which refused to arrive. But the weather was the. only thing that was perfect. The rest of the weekend was a comedy of errors. : My wife had lost her glasses. 'She can see about eighteen miles; but has. trouble with the small print. So I was volunteered. on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, when I had planned to get in a last game of golf, to drive 75 miles round trip, with her, to the optometrist. For an eye examination? Oh, no, she could 'have obtained a prescription from the doctor. No. Merely so that she could choose frames for the dam' things that would enhance her beauty. : She had explained that the optometrist was closed on Wednesday afternoons, and that since I was free on Saturday, there was no reason I couldn't drive her yak yak yak. Just before we left she wondered whether she should call to make sure he was open. I scoffed at the idea. "Don't be silly. If he closes Wednesday afternoon, he'll be open Saturday. Especially with all that. out-of- town business." So she didn't. I mellowed a bit on the way, with the sun smiling on a world of magnificent colour, But I'd still rather have been six other places. We got there parked, walked to the store and -- you grabbed it -- he was closed. Ten minutes later we were at the curt recrimination point, and twenty minutes after that we were laughing as we lumbered off on the home journey. . Arrived chez nous and the Yomse was like an oven. We were bickering about who had turned the thermostat up to-75 (it was 75 out- side), when a sepulchral voice from above informed us that our only begotten son had arrived, taken a shower, and turned on the heat to avoid a chill. He's the same character who will walk around in his bare feet in winter. Following a long-distance call of a few days before, .we had half-expected him, along with his kid sister. Half, because you never know with them. However, Old Fuss-Boots had decided we should stock up with grub, just in case. We ~~--hadn't all béen together for about eight months. So we went all out: a turkey, a big -roast, wine; all sorts of goodies. The freezer was bulging with meat. Kim didn't come. When his mother asked Hugh what he would like for dinner, and rhymed off the delicacies, he answered calmly that he was a vegetarian and had brought his own little packet of brown rice. There are times when it's hard to keep your temper, but we managed. By the time we'd sorted this out, coolly we had a desultory dinner of boiled brown rice for him, Kentucky fried chicken for us. But fate still had a facile, fickle finger for us. Hugh had come home to get away from the city, see the glory of fall foliage, walk in the woods and on the lonely beach. He woke up Sunday morning, stretched his neck, and had a muscle spasm. This is a thing that sets "your neck over on oné shoulder and gives you a foretaste of hell if you try to turn your ' head. Spent most of Sunday, another perfect day, trying to find the local chiropractor at his carefully concealed cottage ten miles from-town, and thereafter slapping hot towels on Hugh's neck. He could see only the foliage on one side of the road, as we drove. Home to Mama, and the last; blow had fallen. The [reezer compartment of the fridge wasn't working. And it was loaded with meat. All of which was rapidly getting limp. The meat is in the he neighbour' s freezer, Hugh's nétk is slightly better, and, at time of writing, it's another beautiful 'day in which I'have been chained, first, in an in- stitution, and second, to my typewriter. Tomorrow, everything will be back to normal. And it'll snow. . Ti REAL tice oA BAIR A GAA | years 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 21, 1921 Mr. Martin of Prospect" had the misfortune to break his arm while cranking his = car. Mr. Roy Scott, Seagrave had a narrow escape while ploughing. He was stunned. by lightning and hig horses ran away. ce The arches of the new rink are being raised and the people are beginnning to get some idea of the size and splendid construction of the building. ~ Mr. Elgin Frise of Seagrave is home from the west and reports good crops . in Manitoba. A nieeting for those -in- terested in the Progressive . Party will be 'held at the home of R.M. Holtby. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 24; 1925 Jessie McArthur and Jean Trembley of Blackstock won the Cartwright Public School public speaking' c contest. ranging in age from 11to13 | "There were 18 contestants The congregation of St. John's Presbyteriari Church observed - the 90th an- o Presbyterianism in this community, The following executive for the Port Perry Hockey Club for the 1946 - 47 season are Pres. Dr. Christie, 1st Vice. Ernice Bottrell, 2nd vice Bill 'Beare, 3rd Glen Owen, Manager Sam Naples. 15 YEARS AGO Bi 4 Octohad 18th, 1956 ~The" "highlight of the plowing events was the victory of Hugh Baird, 22 year old Ontario County Plowmen from Blackwater who 'won the- Canadian Championship. Miss Lucille Gray was installed as Noble Grand of Maybelle Rebekah Lodge, by the District Deputy Mrs. Mildred Rainie and staff of Orono. The Port Perry Lions Club will hold their annual bingo and dance at the High School. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 19, 1961 Mrs. Velma Foster was installed as Noble Grand of Maybelle Rebekah Lodge. The plowing match this year was held on the farm of J.A. Brochie, Brechin. Over seventy ladies and gentlemen enjoyed a guided tour to Lake Placid under the capable supervision of Mrs. Jessie Robertson and Mrs. Keith Mark. | Bruce Martin and Don Beacock of Prince Albert attended the Provincial Inter-Club 4-H competitions at 0.A.C. in Guelph. _niversary of the founding of - - LJ LJ