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ITORIAL PINION Why A Weekly Press? Surrounded by hefty daily newspapers, on-the-spot television newscasts, frequent radio news broadcasts, all covering important events foreign and domestic -- whet does the suburban reader get out of his local weekly? What he gets, if his weekly is e good one, is e detailed knowledge of the community in which he lives, in which his children are raised, in which his private life is passed. Daily newspapers, television, radio -- all are called ; the "mass media." And rightly so. They deal, as they should, with mass events, mass movements -- when an individual entérs, he is almost always, an individusl whose actions have had an effect on a large number of people for good or for bad. The mass medie are, and pride themselves on being the voice of The People. But | am not a people. You are not a people. We are persons, you and |, and we need to know what is happen- ing that affects us as persons, and what the persons we live among are doing that will touch our daily, private lives. We want to know, also, how larger events touch us. We may read in the daily, for example, that the stete education department hes decided that all schools must offer certain courses in this or that field. This means little -- until we find, on reading our local weekly, that the high school our child will attend next year has shifted its curriculum to offer the mandated course. The local newspaper, also can act as 2 lever to raise standards in local government, to improve local facilities, to acquaint the representative with the principal subjects of concern to the local community. The local weekly can help preserve the importance of each man in his own right. It is a cynical old saying thet everyone is created equal, only some are more equal than others. The engagement of your daughter is as important to you and to God as the engagement ' of the president's daughter -- and, though the metropoli- Hospital, tan daily may find little or no room for this supreme have event the local paper can and will tell your world of her Mr Clarence: ae agcag adjacent ah > i & There are other functions for the slim, sometimes un- BILL "MILEY to Mr. J. J. Giteon, and Br: polished, little sheet to perform -- it can trumpet the Gibsor has solic hs property merits of your home town, tell you where you can buy on Queer Street to Mr Kell : that dress without going miles away, wern against comm- UGAR AND PICE eu. 2 unity blight. and tell you that Aunt Millie is back * " from Florida and your fourth grade teacher is in the 15 YEARS AGO hospital -- maybe you should send her a card? FAREWELL, OLD CAR minutes ister they were sitting, brows 'Thursday, August 30, 1956 All these things the dailies, television or radio can- a O bake Qe Ob Oe furrowed, with about three out of forty ™ 2 ae 0 not do. Their news must interest everybody, must travelling I do before summer bids us fare- S caiman, thie toeenn is coming to town under the affect The People. They deal with the great of this well will be on foot. Kim passed her driv- you could read and write, eh? euspies of the Port Perry world. For news about you and me, read us. ing test today. Lions Giub. It was a pretty tense morning for both Unfazed, they just grinned, Peter retor. Port Perry bowlers finished ONLY TWO OF EACH of us. She was afraid she might fail her ted, "Yesh, we shouldnte gonna sleep "in the money" in the big test. I was afraid she might pass it. in all them there English clases." Fine lewn bowling (Oshs The staff members of a weekly newspaper are not dust to complicate matters, she turned physical specimens both, they'll probsbly wa. They were, Beer unique in their physical components. Each one comes up for her test at 9.30 a.m., only to dis- make excellent but dangerous drivers. Fred DeNure, Prenk Hasting equipped with one pair of eyes and one pair of ears, cover that she was slated for 3.30 p.m. oo Out Gs ané Art Cox. and like everybody else, has no special powers to see «She claims it was their mistake, but know- aa Griving == Mire. Henry Skerrat was the Continued on page 5 my daughter I have 2 good iden who yo" rnty ms quite tough. best of many entries at the are : made the error fot my license, the job of testing CHE in the Intemations managed to. work her t= at 10 am, me to arrive at his place of "The Enternations! Plough that meant I had time for only about ten apn ena te way ye COMPANY, LIMITED cigarettes as I waited, pretending to reed = 40) ou. om two bucks, and the morning paper. But it gave me 2 chance to look at the wet i eee ee people preparing for their tests. Quite « . was same procedure crotssection. They ranged from a skinny Police chief had her pick him up et the 16-year-old boy who wanted « drivers office, they drove around three or four license for his motor cycle, to an old blocks and she took him home to lunch. chap with a hearing aid and almost blind (At his place, not ours.) in his Both passed, but I hope | Today there's a whole battery of phy- Then «a couple 'students: oes ¢ maantape, of mine walked in. They are the type ond ee Ee eee ' ee; vwho have probably been driving for all for that. TY really like to see is E Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association several years without « license and have | & Cumpulsory test for every driver sbout Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assiciation finally been nailed. They are pleasant lads, every two years and « good stiff one. but while neither is dumber than an Could you pass, Jack with color a tan in onion cei mone gomeer vu great Tey nda Go owe a Se : ; filled out the application cards wrong, and your total inability to parallel park? Could | Authorized as second clase maill by the Post Office had to do them over again. When Mike you pam, Grandad, with your arthri- Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash ee ee tis?] think & great many of us would be put jerked thumb at Peter and out to pasture. ee ae "too kets Que Oem bin," sie Ge Kim returned, 1 expected vo 'Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., officer rolled his eyes. He wanted an see ber 'aun =e 'Bhe Elsewhere $6.00 address. was beaming My heart ow yen. Ree oay a 'Then the pair ant Gown at the long 'There' 'to be & fight bere every