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Interesting Contest The last Ontario election wes held four years ago About 64% of eligible voters in the Riding turned out to cast their ballots, considered good for an Ontario Thanksgiving A celebration closing the "harvest season, when "all is safely gathered in, "traces back to earliest auspices featured sacrifices to the deity or deities worshipped at the times and places involved. Despite moving ever farther from the agriculture-based economy in which the farmer saw plainly more than his own efforts involved in producing a good crop; despite increasing secularization and fading belief in supernatural powers to which we owe our blessings, we still retain a dim instinct that at Thanksgiving we acknowledge a debt of gratitude, though we are for from certain to whom. On the purely humanistic side, an assertion that we are acknowledging our interdependence on eoch other, or giving due thanks to those from whom we have received gifts or favors is apt to meet scornful rejoinders from a sceptical younger generction that has only contempt for the ar- chitects of this present world of poverty injustice pollution and wor. in fact, Thanksgiving can only be explained and justified on its original terms, that fact that on his emergence as a perceptive thinking being, Man found himself on a fair, green planet of clean air, pure water and fertile soil, well meriting his grotitude to whatever power or process put him there. The Board of Evangelism and Social Service, The United Church of Canada, T PERRY STAR POR ¥ COMPANY, LIMITED GY, Member of the Cansdian Weekly Newspaper Association © Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assiciation _ Putilishes every Wednesday by The Port Perry Ly, Authorized as second clans maill by the Post Office A Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0266 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr, Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ "u Spagna HERE'S RELIEF FOR TEDIOUS NEWS It is quite an ordeal reading the headlines these days. President Nixon's surcharge has ti? : | im HE i : 7 the thousands of new words added to the language every year by science' but I have a morbid interest in the abortions that creep into daily usage. Younger readers may stop here. 'Their -elders.'those who have a stomach for it' may means, "You're pulling my leg." Try to i Abell fs eae as ink? att fi ft