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1 FOUR-YEAR-OLDS CAPABLE OF OPER- ATING SNOWMOBILES SAYS SNOW - MOBILE FEDERATION DIRECTOR . News Ttem "When / TRADED JHE TRIKE, | KEPT THE TRAINING-LUHEEL Cd \; Thanksgiving Ever look up the origin of Thanksgiving? The Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia has this entry: "A national holiday . . . commemorating (the) harvest of Plymouth Colony in 1621 . Colonists and Indians shared the first feast.'"" With Thanksgiving Day, 1972 come and gone, we might do well to ponder that bit of North American history. wy It is trite to remind ourselves that this country is tavishly endowed with beauty and natural resources, that our standard of living is among the world's highest; that, in spite of pollution and a rising crime rate, our cities are attractive and relatively safe--for the white majority. They are a danger and frustration to most of the Indians who gravitate to them in ever-in- creasing numbers; who are lost both spiritually and materially, in the midst of plenty, and in a land their ancestors once claimed as their. own. To suggest that there are easy solutions to Indian problems would be folly; their own best leadership.is as baffled as the non-Indian agencies which try to help, but somehow they must be drawn into the Canadian community as worthy partici- pants in its life, worthy in their own eyes because they are persons of worth. Welfare and liquor have had their demoralizing effects, but they are more the result of the Indians' peripheral status than its cause. To some Indian people the idea of integration is (continued on page 5) PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited SN oN Kray Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher JOHN W. SIMS, Editor WM. T. HARRISON, J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Plant Manager Advertising Manager Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday 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 Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rates: In Canada $6.50 per year. Elsewhere $7.50 per year, Single Copy 15¢ Morn A " BILL MILEY UGAR ano Bric ONE HOLIDAY THAT'S ALL OURS . There is one holiday during the year that is truly Canadian. Period. Any réd-blooded native of this fantastic country can name it without a second thought. Christmas and Easter are religious holy-days that we share with all of Christendom. The Twenty-fourth of May, the Queen's Birthday, used to be big stuff when I was a kid, but now it is the third Monday after the second Saturday immediately before the first full moon, or something of the sort. It has gone straight downhill from firecrackers and -skyrockets and burned fingers to a sort of Opening-up-the-Cottage day. No deviltry, no more fun than cleaning up the cellar. The First of July, latterly Dominion Day, and even more latterly and slatternly, Canada Day, has degenerated into a hot day which is shoved toward the nearest Friday or Monday on the slightest provocation. Once an oceasion for the planting of trees, the flying of flags, and the baying of speeches proclaiming our allegiance to the Empire, it is now most notable as the weekend nearest the opening of the bass season. Then there once was the Twelfth of July, when Protestants and Catholics alike turned out to watch The Walk, make snide comments about King Billy and his horse and inspect with a critical eye the red-faced, straw-hatted Orangemen, and smell the hot-dogs and beer, and thrill to the squealing of fifes and the rattle an thump of drums. : I'll never forget one Twelfth, in which an Irish Catholic, who had joined a Scottish regiment, led the Orange parade, in kilts, and my. kid brother, about 15, made five dollars playing the bass drum for (I think) Dalhousie Corners, which had found itself with two fifers and a drum, but no drummer. That was real Canadiana. And the speeches, Boys, didn't they lace it to the Pope. Almost as hard as modern R.C. theologists and Women's Libbers do. All gone. All that good, harmless hatred and intolerance sunk beneath our growing sophistication and tolerance. Who would dare, today, to stand up on a platform in a broiling July 12th sun and attach the Papacy, the Frerich and anything else he could get his tongue to, while the locals rolled their eyes with delight, and sweated by the bucket? : Next (at least in some provinces), is Civic Holiday, the first Monday in August. This, too, has become a dog of the first water. Originally a day set aside for civic pride and the beginning of Old Home weeks and such, it has become a day when the local service club runs its annual skin game, whether it's a tombola, or a massive bingo or some other form of harmless blood-letting. Blood equalling money. Pity. And, of course, Labour Day. In the larger cities, there is still a small contingent which will march with banners announcing that Branch 49 of the Union of CWAF or WHAP or BUNK is still carrying the flag and fighting the good fight against the toils of tha anaconda, Big Business. But this is a little hard to take. Originally, there was immense pride in this day, which was wrested from the vested. But today, Canadians who know that the unions are just as big as, or bigger than, Big Business, sensibly pursue some other entertainment, like grabbing one more weekend in the fun and sun, Well, as you can see, I've been leading you relentlessly and inexorably toward the only holiday that grabs Canadians right _ where they live, whether it's in the head or the bowels. Thanksgiving! Talk about flags and speeches and drum-rolls. We don't even have to lay them on. Nature does it all for us. The flags are not the Union Jack or the Fleur de Lis or the Hammer and Sickle. They are a blaze of scarlet and gold that don't speak, but quell the human heart in their magnificence. And, paradoxically, they speak. They say, "You'll never see anything like this, anywhere else in your life, buster." And the drums roll, over golden valleys and blue water and purple haze, until you want to weep with the thought that all this cannot last. : And the ducks duck, and the fish fly away, and the golf shot goofs, but you have had the unparalleled privilege of being a Canadian at Thanksgiving. . ; Did you give thanks to whatever your god is? Did you say a little litany because the Canadians weren't disgraced in Russia, and fought their good fight. And fought. And. fought. ; Happy to be alive? Healthy? Old but not licked0 Young but not confused? Give thanks, chaps. Were mighty, mighty lucky. * years service with the Chry- 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 12, 1922 At the High School sports * day Alpha Crosier was the winner in the running broad jump. Runner up was Isabel Lucas., in senior compet- ition. ; Mr. A.L. McDermott has moved his furniture rooms w and undertaking parlours to his new premises one door West of H. Archer's Hard- ware Store. A troop of Boy Scouts is being organized in Port Perry with Mr. M. R. ¢ Arlidge as Scout Master. Elected to the advisory board were. S. Farmer, Mrs. Geo. Jackson, Mrs. Geo. Woods, Dr. J.B. Lundy and Mr. H.C. Nasmith. A large number attended e the School Fair held at Manchester. This fair is one of the most popular with young and old, 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 9, 1947 Four members of the Port © Perry Lions Club attended the Advisory Committee meeting held in Peterbo- rough. They were past pres- ident, Don Crozier, Lion Art Crook, Lion Mansel Gerrow and Lion Cecil Ptolemy. % Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jeffrey of Scugog are moving to their new home in Port Perry. Mr. W.F. Crosier of Man- chester won six prizes on six entries at Markham fair this year, Mrs. Groupe of Prince Albert has donated a piano to the Sunday School of Prince Albert and Mrs. Newham a space heater. Mr. MacChristie,- Manchester was one of the g winners on Achievement day for the Beaverton Baby Beef Calf Club at Beaverton Fair. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 10, 1957 Beare Motors Limited received a Long Service Award at a dinner in Toronto recently. This award was given to some fifteen dealers in Eastern Canada for twenty-five ® sler Corporation. Anson Gerrow of Scugog Island has just returned from a trip to Western Canada. The third liquor vote taken in Uxbridge in 41 years was » defeated last week in plebis- cite that saw 87 per cent of the eligible voters at the polls. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 11, 1962 @& Eunice Roach, Manches- ter and Susanne M¢Master members of the 1st Port Perry Company. under the leadership of Mrs. Dorothy Nelson received their All- Round Cords. A The South Ontario County Plowing Match was held on the farm of Leonard Jarvis, Seagrave. The Hon. M.B. Dymond Trophy was won by Howard Malcolm, Green- bank for best plowed land. In the Cartwright High * School Field Day, the Senior boy's champion was Floyd Argue with 24 points. A 47 year old Bowmanville farmer Garnet Rickard, was nominated as Progessive Conservative Candidate for =» Durham Riding.