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: 4 £ ) Eo d--- ge H | +t | | i | 3 iS ~ warm A ------ a AIS 3 Ls hy RE fa A (s vA! int $1.50 per year in advance 5 cents single copy "zz || PORT PERRY STAR Watch your label; it tells when your subscription expires. PORT PERRY, ONT., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th, 1934 BR ) -- General News of PORT PERRY "BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE." the Week. | Oakwood residents are protesting against the grant- ing of a license for the sale of beer and wine in an inn which has not been used for some years. Complaints of this nature have become quite numerous in Toronto and vicinity. 000 Toronto Exhibition was concluded last Saturday evening in a grand closing ceremony, with massed bands, the exhibition chorus, boy scouts, and a de- tachment of soldiers. It is estimated that 25,000 peo- ple enjoyed the spectacle. There was a total increase in attendance this year of 83,000 as compared with last year. 000 'John S. Labatt, of London, is back to his daily du- ties, but is said to be closely attended by bodyguards. i te 0 0 0 , x ire has broken out in No. 8 hatch of the Santa Riza, a ship en route to Balboa. The 8.0.8. signal - was sent out by wireless when the boat was 200 miles from its destination, \ ' 000 Two boys were killed at Beachville railway crossing «near Ingersoll. :- They were driving an auto, and had "warning of the approaching, train as the wig-wag was -moving, but people ate of the opinion that the boys "thought the wig-wag was operating because of a freight train that was'standing on the track near the crossing. The names of the dead boys are Wesley Brown and Hugh Connolly, both of Burgessville, 00 ' During the munitions investigation at Washington, the name of King George was mentioned as one who used his influence in the sale of armaments made in Britain. So long as armaments form part of the trade of any country; it will be considered to be part of the business of the leaders of that country to promote that trade. The great task of those who would avoid war will be to have the manufacture of armaments. out of private hands. : et loo o Rev. T. T. Shields, of Toronto, was married quietly on Thursday evening of last week to Miss Leota Griffen, a worker in the church office for a number of years. Their honeymoon is being spent in Europe and Great Britain, : Fa: 000 Rl A plot was formed to kidnap Premier Bennett, and hold him for big ransom, according to a confession by one of three men arrested in Ottawa on a charge of housebreaking. In this connection it might be men- tioned that John 8. Labatt is said to have identified two of his kidnappers after studying some forty pic- tures submitted by the police. 000 "Proactinium" is the name of a fabulously valuable metal discovered in the Great Bear Lake district. It is a product of pitchblende from which radium is also produced; but it is immensely more powerful in radio activity. This new metal is valued at a million dollars an ounce, : 000 A hydroplane race staged at the Canadian National Exhibition, resulted in a win for Little Miss Canada IL The hydroplane was piloted by Harold Wilson, with Miss Lorna Reid, of Toronto, as passenger, i 00.9 In the international yacht race, to take place off Newport 'on September 16th, the advantage seems - to lie with the "Rainbow", the American contestant, with Harold Vanderbilt as skipper. The voyage across the ocean remains a disadvantage to the challenger. 000 ~~ The Toronto Professional Basdball Team, got off to a good start in the International League play-offs, by winning the first game from Rochester, 8-2, L) SAMUEL FARMER, Editor and Publisher most reliable information concerning Correct name? ................ Parents? ",........ CR I A A AAT Now that the War Memorial Library is to be built, the committee whose duty it is to prepare the "Book of Remembrance" is anxious to secure the those who enlisted in the service of their country.' The list which has been secured as representing Port Perry and district is published herewith, There may be omissions to be recorded and other corrections to be made. Information as to the following questions regarding any of the men of which our readers have accurate knowledge should be sent at once to Samuel Farmer, editor of the "Port Perry Star." This information is required at the earliest possible date, | Brooks, G Clark, A. Coulter, W. H, Elliot, Joe Doubt, A, B. Hood, G. Hooey, E. Leask, L. ! Moughton, A. McKenzie C. Midgley, Mm. Alexander, Ww. Brown, Lorne -. Chantler, W. Fox, F. Hubbard, A. Ireland, H. Johnston, J. F. Abbott, Harry Abbott, Thos. Allin, A. W. Andrus, Will Allen, Gordon Butt, R.. Boe, Arthur Burr, Graydon Bowerman, T. H. Bradley, Gordon Bentley, 1. R. Bowerman, Ivan Browne, Orr C. Beare, Earl Bond, Louis Cooper, A. Clay, H. S. Cafley, Will Camplin, Joe Campbell, Fred" Camp, H: M. Carnegie, Harry Date and Place of Birth? Date and Place of Enlistment? Official Standing? . Decorations, if any? ..... Savi s Date and place of death? ...... . | Bowerman, Geo, . . (Clark, H, Photo, if possible, of those killed in action ......... Killed in Action or Died of Woungs. Parette, H, Raines, T. Roberts, H. Soper, R. Stone, A. Slaugliter, H, Wallace, A. E, Williams, H. G, Wallace, E, D, White, H, "Died Since the War. Kettle, Harry «King, Martin Midgley, W. Parette,. G. Raines, A. Sutherland, J. Taylor, I, Whitfield, R. Steer, A. Service List Ireland, R. Jackson, J. E. Jamieson, G. A. Jeffrey, C. Jackson, Clifford Johnson, Alex: Kight, Frank Kettle, Chas, Lynde, Will Lee, James MacGregor, W. E. McBrien, Jas. H. Middleton, W. B. Marsden, J. H. McMillan, James McCaw, Emma McKinnon, C. Marsden, Wes. Maitland, O. McQue Mills, Basil Martin, W. EE I II ERIE SPN eee Teer teri seeras ers aa Carnegie, Charles McKay, Fred Chettleborough,W, McTaggart, Wm, Corrin, A. E, Cox, Aaron Cormack, G, Collacutt, Jack Crawford, Jas, Carndell, M. Collins, M, Crozier, N, Cockburn, Rus, Clark, W, H, Cook, Elmer Comber, A. B, Crawford, J. E.. Daft, M, Diamond, E. Doubt, Arthur Ebbels, Arthur Evans, Donald Elliott, Victor Eayling, H. Edgar, Frank Ewen, George Elliott, Geo. Eglan, H. Fines, Ted Fowler, E. Flewell, Gordon Fisher, F. Foster, E. Ford, Maurice Gray, Arthur Gebner, Will Harris, R. B. Hood, Ross Honey, Morley Honey, Lee Hoover, Owen Howard, Wm. Hayden, Victor Heayn, Chas, Hayden, J. H. Harper, Russell Harrison, Wm. Heayn, Gordon R. Harren Harrison, Frank Harding, Thos. Ingram, A. P. S. J. Irwin McTaggart, Jack McTaggart, Lorne McTaggart, Dan, Mitche ) Jas, E. McMillan, Alex, M Moone ike May, William McDermott, A, L. * McMillan, Isaac Nesbitt, Clayton Nott, Vernon Nott, Harry O'Neill, Clarence - Ouderkirk, H, Palmer, Chas, Plum, C. H. "Pomeroy, E. S. Purdy, Clarence Parrinder, A. Parrinder, J. . Preritice, Geo. Richmond, Harold Read, James Reed, Arthur D. Rogers, Walter Roberts, W. E. Russell, V. - Sarvis, Bert. Short, Clinton Spence, Gordon Spence, Frank Stout, William Stephens, C. Sornberger, L. Shunk, 'Orr Sonley, Russell Switzer, R. Sangster, W. A. Tinsley, J. Trebell, Frank Trebell, Russell Vickery, Clarence Ward, J. E, Wilson, Ernest Wray, Fletcher Willan, Russell White, Geo. S. Webster, Chas, Young, John W. "hand, After the: crash on the high- . watched over by Cook. . : Midnight Chase Lands Culprits . In Police Court Appearing before Creighton last Thursday morning on a charge of breaking and entering the refreshment stand of Elmer Cook, at Myrtle Station, in the early hours of the morning; Nicholas Marchuk, of Brantford 'and Everett Baylis, of Windsor, coloured, pleaded guilty to the charge and were remanded in custody for one week for sentence. It was learned that the two young men were driving in a car alleged to have been stolen in Welland which carried licence plates stolen in Brant- y ford. While they were trying to | break into the stand they aroused Mr. Cook, who scared them away and gave chase in his automobile. The chase continued north along the highway to d point about two milés south of Man- chester where the car containing the two young men left the road and over- turned in the ditch. When court was called this morning Baylis appeared with his head and face bandaged, while his right hand was also bound up. Marchuk appear- ed also suffering injury in the crash as he also' showed bandages on one way Mr. Cook sent in a call to Pro- vincial Constable Jarvis here. On his arrival on the scené he found the two young men 'lying in the ditch being Magistrate |- Fair, PRINCE ALBERT The Manchester School Fair is be- ing held this year on Sept. 19th, The teachers and pupils are looking for- ward to it and are busy preparing. The formal opening of the school on Sept. 20th, is being arranged for by the trustees, assisted by a com- mittee. We understand that after games are held a roast chicken supper is to be served in the basement of the church. Visiting baseball teams and the Prince Albert pupils are to be ad- mitted free, others pay a 26¢c,-fee, A meeting was held Monday night to complete arrangements. Mr. and Mrs. B. Midgley and family of Cartwright and Mr, W. Midgley visited at their home here on Sunday. Miss E. Smith returned -to her school near Plevna, last week. Miss A. Wagg accompanied Mrs. Smith on the trip. Some of those. attending the To- ronto Exhibition last week were Mr. and Mrs. L. Bond, Audrey and Olive, Mr. and Mrs. McCrea, Mrs. A. Bond, Mrs. Heayn, Mr. B. Snelgrove. Miss M. Campbell, who has been visiting. her cousin Mrs. Greaves, has gone to visit with relatives in Owen Sound after attending the Toronto 'Mr. Overton, ot Throntd, ho has bought the property of the lata Geo. --0shawa Daily Times. Bond, moved in last week, § TERRIBLE TRAGEDY AT SEA. BURNING LINER IS BROUGHT HOME One of the worst ship disasters for many years occurred off the coast of New Jersey, on Saturday, when the ship Morro Castle caught fire and was destroyed, The Commanding Officer had died the day before from a heart attack. Chief Officer W. C. Warms was in out. It does not seem to be known the cause of the fire. Of the 552 pas- sengers and crew on board only 328 have been accounted for. of $4,800,000 for the Ward Line. Of the Canadians known to have been on board the tragedy-ridden liner Miss Eva Hoffman, of London, Ont., was among. the identified dead, while Wilfred Kedy, Bridgewater, N.S, Royal Bank of Canada official at Havana, Cuba, was saved. 'Grim and uncommunicative, Chief Officer Willlam C. Warms of the Morro Castle, the ship burned at sea off the cost of New Jersey, followed sea traditlons by sticking with his burning ship, came ashore from the Coast Guard cutter Tampa with ten of the fourteen officers and men-who stayed with him on his blazing bridge. Exhausted and showing the horror of their experiences on smoking decks and storm-whipped ocean, the ten trooped silently down the gangplank. A cheer in tribute to their courage, rose from the Tampa's crew as the little band stumbled onto the dock. Another was brought down on a stretcher. He was chief Operator George W. Rogers of Bayonns, N.J., charge of the chip when the fire broke | The ship was built in 1930 at a cost | The newspaper which was once the privilege of the well-to-do has become | part of even the humblest man's life. We spend from cight to twelve years at school, but we read news- papers all our life. Their influence upon us is, therefore, deeper and more lasting than the educational influences. Yet in all countries education is a much discussed topic commanding general interest, while the press, al- though frequently attacked, is seldom subjected to critical analysis. The intellectual role of the press has been dealt with in a recent pub- lication of the League of Nations, It is mainly the part of the press as a weapon of political information that we -are concerned with. If the average reader is to {form even an approximately correct idea of the exceptional gravity and complex- ity of the present situation and the menaces that seem suspended over all of us, political information would have to be ample and veracious. But al- thought governments and journalists are unanimous in extolling this con- ception of newspaper information, the newspapers very seldom abide by it in practice. In the enormous majority of newspapers, the space allotted to political problems of capital import- ance is very restricted. These items, moreover, are not always given the necessary prominence regards pages and titles. The front pages are usually taken up by the descriptions of great exploits, but also of great crimes. There are, of course, newspapers which, even though not altogether im- as in a state of physical collapse from his long vigil. His lungs scared by, smoke and flames which enveloped the wireless room. Warms, who succeded Captain R. Wilmott when the latter died suddenly! the night before the disaster, carried his right hand wrapped in bandages. | The knucklés were broken--how he did not know Fon RE 0 fone A compilation of the Associated | Press showed 427 survivors of the' "I fire which swept the luxurious vessel on Saturday, with 111 bodies in New Jersey and New York morgues. Fif-| teen were not accounted for A revised Ward Line report showed 563 passengers and crew were aboard, and, that twenty-two are not account- ed for. It was believed they perished in the flames or were drowned and their bodies lost in the sea. At 3.23 a.m. Saturday came the first word of horror. The last wireless heard was. "Fire just outside radio room." Then there was no more.. Members of the crew quickly arous-, ed, spread the alarm. They dashed about the decks, bursting in cabin windows. Passengers who opened doors, only to find themselves shut off from passageways, jumped through the windows, Some of the crew sald if all had been orderly on board, the passengers would have been saved without loss of life, but the lifeboat hands said, many balked at attempting to brave the flames to reach the boat deck. } All along the coast, in the hour of early dawn, the ery of fire rose, but seas were rolling too high for boats to put out from Coast Guard stations. Many attempted it. Not until after daybreak could rescue ships near the scene of disaster. One of the first of these, the yacht Paramount, picked up seventy in the water. Most were in nightelothes, attesting to 'the haste in deserting the ship. BLACKSTOCK MARRIED on Saturday, Sept. '1st, 19384, in Toronto, Miss Helen Cora Dennis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dennis, Newmarket, to Mr. Betram L. Hooey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hooey, Blackstock, by Rev. L. L. Lawrence, pastor of Windermere United Church,- who is a personal friend of the groom. A reception was held by Mrs, Dicker, aunt of the bride, at her home 219 Melrose Ave. Mr, and Mrs, Hooey will reside at bd Brock Ave., Toronto. partial, give their readers a complete and comprehensive documentation on world events, like the Rondon Times, the New York Times, the Paris Temps, the Prensa of Buonos Aires, and a few more. But they cater to numerically small and their total circulation does not come. up to the circulation, for example, of the London Daily Mail. More than ever it is the masses that count to-day and their only source of information is the mass press, When the newspapers wrote for a small but choice group of readers they could afford to keep their standard high. The new type of newspapers. which are a creation of the machine age, depend upon their accessibility to the masses at large. elites To achieve this , they must lower their level not only "to that of the average reader, but to the absence of level of the most ignorant and uncultured section of the reading public. This is a sociological tragedy or a commercial Teaassity, as you take it. No newspaper, no matter how in- fluential and financially strong it is, can bear the expenditure of keeping special correspondents the world over. From this cconomic necessity was born the institution of the "press agency." In every country there are one or more such agencies, the most important of which is usually directly or indirectly controlled by the govern- ment. Each of these agencies dispose of a net of branches and correspond- ents in the interior and in all the great capitals, but their role is merely that of a control device, for the hulk of foreign news is transmitted from agency to agency. All great agencies have agreements hetween them, by which, for example, the French Havas sells only to Wolf in Germany and vice versa, The man-in-the-street in facist Italy and bolshevik Russia know about each other what the [Italian Stefani and the Rusian Tass deem advisable to tell each other, and no more. The first result of this state of affairs is the government control ol the press. Undér the prevailing sys- tem only such news is printed ag is in keeping with the government policies, while acts hostile to the power, like mutinies, strikes, ete., are passed over in silence. The foreign countries receive strictly one-sided in- formation. This would not be so bad in itself if the readers were given the corrécet interpretation of the news But here is where national antagon- isms come in and deform every bit of information. Naturally it is danger- INFORMATION AND DEFORMATION A Study of Newspaper Influence Condensed from article by Mare Jaryc in "Europe," Paris, taken from the 'Magazine Digest." ous and diflicult to change a text, but it can always be slightly deformed in the translation. And there is also the open door of suppression: The power of the press is to suppress" to quote Northcliffe, The newspaper veceives from the news agency a far greater number of lines than it can dispose of. It must, therefore, select and in so doing it censures. Besides, news is very sel- dom reported literally. The items are rewritten, transposed and, therefore, moditied according to the newspaper's political tendencies and business in- terests, The question of the place assigned to news items is likewise of capital importance and, therefore, subjects to various considerations and individual judgment. A socialist newspaper will put the news of an electoral victory of its party on the front page. The con- servative paper will either skip it en- tirely or at best insert it between in- consequential items on the fourth or fifth page. In his essay The Press as a Power, the German historian Buss- man quotes striking examples of the partiality of newspaper information. He takes an an example an event which, being expressed essentially in figures, would seem to be exempt from all bias: the presidential election of April, 1932, - Following are a few titles casually picked by the writer from the newspapers on the morrow of the event: Hindenburg remains in power. Hindenburg's defeat. The people clamour for Hindenburg. Overwhelming majority against Hindenburg, IMindenbury elected--Hitler defeated. Hitler scores 5 million votes, ete. one of these titles are lies. They are merely interpretations to suit the \ tendencies and interests of the single papers. . ' Another important source of in- formation is the image, i.e. photog- vaphy, which is essentially truthful. There is no doubt about that. But it i a man who chooses the field of the chjective, and in so doing the -photo- graphic reporter obeys the same im- vulse and considerations as his col- leagrue the editor. Let us take the typical example of a political meeting in the open, If it ia communist demonstration, the photographer of the party paper will "aap the center where the crowd is fonsest and the attention tensest, and ve will 'be impressed by the spirit and compactness of the masses caught by the objective. Instead, the reporter of the conservative paper, if he knows his business, will take pictures at the periphery, where the crowd is thinly scattered and the words of the orator hardly audible. We will see pictures of groups of loafers, seemingly not interested in the ongoings on the plat- form. The partiality of photographic in- more dangerous than that of the text, because of wide- soread interest, illustrations and the ifaplicit faith in the truthfulness of the picture, which is the work of a nachine, while the text is the work of nan with all his inherent weaknesses, So blind is our faith in the machine, that we are liable to forget that it is formation is even wan who controls and directs the machine---for better and worse, Another powerful weapon of the press is the satirical design or car- This is much older than mod- crn journalism. Even the. pamphlets of the Reformation. contain cartoons © monks flirting with loose women and of the pope disguised as Anti- christ. . : , The popularity of the cartoon proper is somewhat in decline today, but the art. of ridiculing has attained a high degree of perfection thanks to photog- raphy. 'he German Republic, dressed in a black coat and seated at his desk, is a respectable looking person. In bath- ing attire the corpulent ex-saddler is ridiculous, The publication of a series of pictures of socialist and liberal per- sonalities in not véry flattering situa- tions, undertaken by a Leipzig pub- lishing company during the agony of (continued on back page) toon, Ebert, the first President of | CH on na EERE Akay ro J | A ¢ x ape ny Rl wi ag EE : ws RET ey" a an. ra