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Watch your label; it tolls when your Bubscription expires. L J LJ LJ] $1.50 per year in advance 6 ceats a single copy EDITORIAL Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, his first, best country ever, is at home.--Goldsmith. GOVERNMENTAL CONTESTS «There is a theory that government of the people, for the people, and by the people, is best expressed in the municipal council--as it is closest to the people. - The proponents of that theory don't attend municipal meetings in small towns, where fringes of ratepayers occupy end seats, and listen to the Councillors tell what might be done by them for the town, if they only had all the taxes to spend for local improvement. But they don't, and that's that. The fact of the matter is that the average ratepayer will have to take a'much greater in- terest in public affairs before this "closer to the people" theory will produce better government. Just now that interest has little or no over-all outlook. We want all we can get. In another column in this issue of the Star, appear facts and figures cited by Dr. Rynard, of Orillia, that should give us all grave concern, But we shall need to know ever so much more about these matters before we. can personally do much about the problems presented. : Decentralization of government is a fine ideal-- if we can find enough trained and public-spirited citizens to carry on local and provincial admini- stration intelligently, i At present we have not passed the stage of diagnosing the case. : Our young folk and older folk know little or nothing about, the rules of debate, methods of procedure, and constitutional opportunities and restrictions. "Nor do they know the facts of most public matters. Our newspapers have fostered party criticism of those in public office. It is a policy that sells ; the papers, for it is more popular to Fkick" than Lit is to try to make good. At bottom our trouble is that we have too much Government for our population; and in the - great West we have spread ourselves out too thin--without counting the cost which the ele- ments exact. who change their tune if they gain power, At the moment there is ample room to find fault with what is done or what is not done by any Government. How to do better is not so easily stated. Reforming the situation will take years; and is really an educational matter in training for practical politics--not merely the practical politics of gaining office; but the ability to meet circum- stances wisely; and to secure best results when spending the taxpayers' money. The school and the Immigration Department could make a start in right directions. SOMETHING HARD TO UNDERSTAND The industrial worker sells his labor. That is his source of living; and it is his right to sell that labor in the best market he can find. Within reason he has a right to organize for the purpose of promoting his own interests, by securing higher wages and better working con- ditions. If he cannot secure a proper proportion of the profits of production, which his labor helps to «arn, he has a right to refuse to work--to go "on strike". That right is as fair for him as the employer's right to dispense with the worker's services. So far this is simple business procedure, What is hard to understand is the right (?) of the worker to picket his employer's premises, and to refuse to allow the owner or officials to "enter said premises for the duration of the strike. Such methods are a distinct attack on freedom of action; and must hamper any movement for reasonable settlement by negotiation. To allow such power on the part of the worker to go unchallenged is a dangerous proceeding. Indeed, the whole system of picketing carries with it the seeds of disturbance. i The right to persuade other workers not to take on the work, which the first worker refused, is open to debate. Custom has permitted this form of "persuasion"; but frequently it has been Dr.. Rynard, of Orillia, was the speaker at the Lions Club meeting in Port Perry last Friday evening, and his address was conceded to be one of the very best yet given before the Club. Statistics re Lionism were first quoted by the speaker. "He said that Lions Clubs represented the largest service organization, having a total membership of 225,000. Tt is the lead- ing service club in three-quarters of the United States. President Truman is a member, and every Thursday fifty Congressmen who are Lions hold their luncheon at the White House. The Lions organization has a mem- bership in fifteen countries and the President of Lions International for 1945-1946 "is" Dr. Ramiro Collazo, of Cuba, Seven thousand Canadians Lions, with 106 Clubs, and an average membership of 356 in each Club. «x 0% So much for statistics--a very clear and comprehensive picture of the ex- tent of the Lions organization. Bu: Dr. Rynard issued a challenge to his listeners. He emphasized the Lions slogan-- "Liberty, Intelligence, Our Nation's Safety." o Particular stress was placed upon the final phrase--*"Our Nation's Sife- ty". Present national conditions are a challenge to all Lions, who are looked upon as leaders in good citizen- ship. Outstanding in Canadian problems is the matter of national debt, which now. stands at sixteen Eithien dollars, and which imposes interest charges of $150 per annum on every man, woman, and child in Canada. As children, the very old, and citizens unfit for pro- ductive service do not earn, nor do they pay taxes to any large sum, the national interest bill will have to be met by three million taxpayers, make the average $600 per year for each of these citizens. : Of course, war is responsible for demand for increased outlay by the Government continues with $700 mil- are | most of the lavish spending; but the! 3 Population and more population is the solution woefully abused. - of our difficulties--if that population ean be in- Great suffering is entailed by this struggle telligently informed as to best methods of making between industrial employees and their employers. 8 living and at the same time adding to the Modernsstandards of living have gréatly improved wealth of the country. in recent years, and have opened many new Research should play a great part in this plan. avenues of employment. But these employments During the war, British farms were under super- are of such a character that require full co- ; vision, and the farmer, who did not make good, operation of labor, skilled and unskilled. The found his farm taken over by the Government whole modern standard of living can easily be and run as it should be run, ruined; and we could return to primitive con- It is no use to put a lot of people to work to ditions, where "touch-the-button" skills would be break up more land to grow more weeds and useless. ; harbour more pests. The weed menace of 1945 To an onlooker, the present extreme tactics is too great to allow it to be increased in succeed- of labor appear very short-sighted, and will likely ing years. Weather conditions and labor short- prove to be of the boomerang variety. ; age have been largely responsible. For most of us in these parts (?) we shall ix But to get back to decentralized Governmeit, still keep on doing the best we can in work that the whole scheme must .be fostered by others presents itself; and give best possible value for st than those who happen to be in opposition; and . the money we receive. +) o ° Clothing Collection FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th, . "has been set for the day for the J Clothing Collection in Port Perry. y Persons having contributions please , phone to 94 Port Perry, and the truck ONTARIO will call to make collection. - "Please phone in early so that proper ; route will be made for Mr. Griffen, Hours of Work and 5 who is kindly loaning his truck for this : a ions with Pay Act, 1944 : Out of town contributors will please Vacations wit ay ct, - deliver their gifts to the Post Office, side entrance, The Industry and Labour Board which This collection is general, sponsored administers The Hours of Work and Vacations "| =. by the Lions Club, for Port Perry, ~ with Pay Act, considers, in view of the termina- 5 Reach and Scugog, and Cartwright. tion of hostilities and the cancellation of war Please call C. Ptolemy, 245, Port production, the acute manpower shortage which Perry; J. L. Sweetman, 112 r 13; T.| existed during the war years will be minimized, Langfeld, Nestleton; and C. Venning, therefore the postponement as to working hours Blackstock, 187 r 2 Port Perry. previously provided shall be cancelled and PLEASE TAKE NOTICE : effective November 1st, 1945, the working hours The Clothing Collection is to- be of an employee in any industrial undertaking made on Friday of this week. Do- shall not exceed forty-eight (48) in the week. nations should be securely parcelled, AND DON'T FORGET TO PHONE 1. Regulation 4 of Ontario Regulations 94 PORT PERRY 8/44 is amended by adding thereto o it you have anything to contribute-- g | ta or better still--take your parcel to the following subregulation: the side entrance at the Post Office. (la.) Notwithstanding the provisions of : subregulation 1, an employer may adopt one or more overtime work periods in FILMS FOR RURAL PEOPLE a his industrial undertaking between the The Rural Film Board are again Ist day of November 1945 and the 31st - 1 commencing fall and Sonter programs day of December 1945 without a consent § Jot the rural pe op ates ia ty ha. in writing of the Board, but the overtime - the opening meetings: y shall not exceed thirty hours in the Monday, October 22, Zephyr Hall aggregate, Tuesday, October 23, Greenbank Hall . E Wednesday, Oct. 24, Seagrave School - 4 Thursdey, October 25, Epsom School INDUSTRY AND LABOUR BOARD, : Friday, October 26, Manchester Depaitment of Labour, Ontario, Mon, Charles Daley, { +. Those in charge are anxious to co- th: Minister of Labour, Kae Ae with the Victory Loan Drive, . 12v 5 he ational Clothing Drive, and in any M other ay that will fit Fi ith YorlL _-- 0 the ion HONE ? PoP Buy Victory Bonds. Supply Rehabilitation Funds ' » i lions interest and carrying charges; $250 millions for family allowances; and $450 millions for national health. Dr. Rynard is of opinion that too much spending power is delegated to the Government at Ottawa--that the Provinces are better able to administer family allowance, health insurance and similar funds, as they are closer to the people. . His solution of the debt problem is immigration, Canada should have a population of thirty or forty million people. This would relieve the indi- dual tax burden. Dr. Rynard claimed that the Canadians are the most heav- ily taxed people in the world, because PORT PERRY STAR PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, OCTOEBR 18th, 1945 PORT PERRY LIONS HEAR CHALLENGING ADDRESS weshave relatively so few to pay the taxes. Comparatively, the individual tax burden is much lighter in the United States. This being so, there will be a tendency for young, enter prising people to cross the border and make their homes with the people to the south. Already since federation, 25,000,000 Canadians have migrated to the United States. Twen- ty-five or thirty million selected in- dustrial and agricultural immigrants from IFurope would do much to ease our tax burden, ) Turning from the matter of debt, the speaker dealt with the moral tone of our people. One in cach group of fifty Canadians is suffering from venereal disease, while -in Dempark the ratio is fifteen hundred. In the past twenty-five years crime has increased 3009. In 1911 the convictions for juvenile delinquency were 238 per 100,000. In 1940 the convictions had risen to 850 per 100,.- 000, How are we to help solve some of these" problems? By courses «in one in pre-marriage schools, By seeing that children attend Sunday School. Only seven per cent of those who have attended Sunday School are convicted of juvenile delinquency. The other ninety-three per cent of convictions are of youngsters who never go to Sunday School. Lions are challenged as leaders to attend Church and see that their children go to Sunday School. "You, as Lions, are watched by Juveniles. Make your example what it should be. This is a Christian coun. try. Go to Church. "Your town will be what you make it. Let me quote these lines:--- our Our Kind of a Town If you want to live in the kind of a town Like the kind of a town vou like, You needn't slip your clothes in a grip And start on a long, long hike, You'll only find what you left behind, Ifor there's nothing that's really new, It's a knock to yourself when you knock your town [t isn't your town--it's you. Real towns aren't made by men afraid Lest somebody else get ahead. When everyone works and shirks You can raise a town from the dead. And if while you made your personal stake Your neighbour can make one, too, Your town will be what you want to see; It isn't your town---it's you, nobody Build to-day. Then strong and sure With a firm and ample base, And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. E. F. Cawker Retires from Butcher Business in Oshawa (Times-Gazette) When eggs were three dozen for a quarter, butter ten cents a pound and a housewife could get the best cuts of steak eight pbunds for a dollar, in short, in the year 1898, I. F. Cawker started in the butcher busi- ness in Oshawa. On Thursday, Oc- tober 4, after 47 years continuous at the cutting board and counter, he officially retired by selling out to a returned soldier, Jack Shephard. The present staff is continuing with Ralph Butt, who has heen with Mr. Cawker 23 years, as chief clerk. The former proprietor plans to continue working for a time until Mr. Shephard is familiar with the new premises. An amazing story of the Cawker family interest in the meat trade was recounted by Mr. Cawker., His grand- father, John Cawker, came to Canada to settle in Bowmanville over a hun- dred years ago. Just when it was, no one is sure. Five sons were all butchers, R. R. Cawker and C. M, Cawker followed the trade in Bowman- ville, Wesley, son of C. M. Cawker, carries on the family business in / Bowmanville to this day. S. TI. Cawker went to Port Perry in the same business and to-day, his sons, A.B. and John Cawker, parpetuate the tradition under the Time of Cawker A fourth son, Im- manuel, settled in Oshawa and for a time was in partnership with John, father of I. IF. Cawker. In this at- mosphere it ean be imagined that there was one, and only one course Jrothers, for young Frank Cawker to take. Sets Up Business "About 1877 my father's business wag located about- where Don Chris- tian's Hardwatré store is now," Mr. Cawker reminisced. "Then he and Emmanuel separated and father open- ed up on King Street East on the south side not far from the corner of Simcoe, In the Fall of 1898 I was ready to start in for myself and hung out my. shingle on Simcoe Street South, where the Model Shoe Store now is." Not until 1912 did he move to the present location, After becoming established, Mr, Cawker took that step in universal Con- Editor and Publisher SAMUEL FARMER Nylon Hosiery in 1946 Some nylon hosiery will be available in Canada soon after the turn of the year, but at the start the supply will be limited, and it is likely to be well the supplies are likely to meet demands, due in part to technical problems in veconversion at the spinning mills. Nylon yarn has been coming from a plant in Kingston. A four million dollar addition is being built to the The addition will have productive capacity equi- valent to about half of capacity of present plant. When the addition is completed, in June or July of next vear, nylon yarn will he available for fabrics for undergarments, ete. into vear before factory. * * * Hysteries and dramaties did not save Pierre Laval, The man who sacrificed France for his" own greed and glorification seemed unable 'to that the end had come and good fortune had really forsaken him. * * * helieve Newsprint quotas are to be dropped by manufacturers, and Government regulations are being removed. Can- adian papers will be able to, spread themselves, The story is quite dif- ferent in Great Britain and Ireland. «oe Discovery of large stocks of sugar in Java within recent days is rated as big news for Canadian users, The Fi- DAY by DA Jottings by the Editor nancial Post is informed. But present rosy estimates by U.S. officials that sugar rationing may come off early in 1946 are still discounted here. As the Java sugar is an accumulation of some years, it may have to be re- processed. It is not bagged at pre- sent, This feature will require time to accomplish. eo we Household goods for which Cana- dians have been waiting since the carly years of the war, are in pro- duction again and finding their way to dealers in a steadily increasing trickle. But manufacturers estimate it will be at least another six months before anything like normal shopping conditions return. eo Talk Health Talk health. The dreary, never-ending tale Of mortal maladies is more than stale; You cannot charm or interest or please By harping on that minor chord, disease, --"Speech", by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (18566-1919), * * LJ It's a strange coincidence, said the Man on the Eight-Twenty, that my wife happened to remember that she needed a new dress badly just after she found that I'd left several ten- dollar bills in my last winter's suit. and became a 1903 he married Gertrude Oshawa. In the course of vears they had three children, Mrs, Gunn, Toronto; Miss importance man. In Cook of Murray tinwa, Saw Oshawa Grow At the turn of the century, Oshawa had a population of about 4,000, There Mary Street and Ritson Road. The western hounds of the town were just over the creck. Early in the century Oshawa felt depression. My. Cawker debacle of the "30's. town issue a relief meat ticket worth 10" hie said. At this time too, the civie fathers had not yet paving streets and after a rain the mud on King and Simcoe Streets was up to the About 1910, or the following streets were paved for two blocks each way. That was an event, Mr. Cawker related. My. Cawker is in good health, and expects to enjoy life and carry out hobhies for which he has had little om no time, heard of ankles, vear, these Congratulations married | were not a half dozen houses between! ed Myrtle Station Thankoffering: services will be held Edith iin Myrtle Church next Sunday, Oct- ; Ath per 21st, at 11 Cawker, who is teaching at Owen Roy, Sound Collegiate Institute and Stuart, have charge of both services. h who is with the Civil Service in Ot- burn choir will provide special music am. and 7.30 p.m. I'loyd Honey, of Baltimore, will Ash- during the evening service. A number from the Myrtle congre- gation attended Thankoffering services in Prospect Church last Sunday when Rev. Hugh Crozier, of Whitby, preach- two fine sermons. The special music was good and in keeping with the occasion, ] Mr. Arthur Gilroy visited recently with friends in Fort Erie. Mrs. Krnest Duchemin and little stated that it was just as bad as the daughter Joy, of Toronto, spent a few "I've seen the [days last week with David and Mrs. Duchemin. The following articles were com- | "Hughsons were: Mr. and Mrs, Lloyd It is cained by Miss Audrey Kent in her initial showing of Angora Rabbits at the loxhibit the Dominion Rabbit Associn- tion. held last week in Toronto. Miss Kent won the following prizes: First prize (Silver Cup) for Senior Doce in a class of 31 entries. IMirst (Silver Cup) for the best Angora in the show in a class of 71 entries. IYirst prize (Silver Cup) for best wool texture in class of 71 entries. Also 2nd and 1th awards, Only were shown, pleasing to note the success annual staged by Breeders' prize I seniors PROSPECT Reve Hugh Crozier was a guest at theo Mr. Wine Holthy home on-Stinday. Myo and Mrs, Go Wilson, daughter Miss Helen Wilson and son Tpr. Gor- don Wilson, of Mount Zion, were at the Mrs Lo Smith home on Sunday. Mrs, FL Bennett, of Taunton, was a visitor over the week-end af the home of Mrs, Holliday. The Thankoffering Services held in Prospect Church, Sunday, Oct, 14th, were very much a success, Rev. Hugh Croziow, of Whitby, brought two fine messages; the Mount Zion choir ren- dered very choice music; Miss McGill, of Oshawa, sang two very lovely solos; the Brooklin Male Quartette sang two pleasing numbers, The objective was S150, but the Thankoffering was S168. The congregation of Prospect Church is to be congratulated in its efforts to makd the service such a SUCCeSS, Mrs, Go Hayes and Mr. and Mra. Harold Hayes, of Columbus, were vi- sitors at the Mrs. Holliday home on Sunday, pleted by Myrtle unit of the Red Cross cand taken to, Brooklin for shipment: '1 girl's pullover, 1 boy's sleeveless sweater, 1 pr. navy gloves, 6 prs. "boys" pants, 21 baby's nightgowns. Mrs, I'red Beadle and daughter Shirley, of North Oshawa, visited re- cently with her parents, W, J. and Mrs. Cook. Recent visitors with the Norman Hughson and Danny, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stockley and David, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Radburn, Marilyn, Brent and Mr. Glen Watson, all of Toronto. Iilwood and Mrs. Masters were in Pontypool .on Sunday, October 7th, when they attended a family re-union at the home of Mrs. Robert Gray. The Woman's Association met at the home of Mrs. Clarence Harrison on Wednesday afternoon of last week in the regular business and social meeting, The president, Mrs. David Duchemin was in charge and opened the meeting with a thanksgiving wor- ship service, assisted By Mrs. Hudgin. Mrs. Harrison sang a solo, "At the end of the road." Seventeen members responded to the roll call by "Some- thing to be thankful for", and seven visitors were also present. After the business period, a hymn and the Miz- pah benediction closed that part of the meeting. A short program fol- lowed. Little Miss Kathryn Hamilton recited alittle poem very nicely; Miss Iiileen Brown sang, "When it's lamp lighting time in the valley"; Mrs. Cooper read, "A Fish Storey"; Mrs. Duchemin read "A Victorian Idea"; and a contest of jumbled letters proved to be the names of Canadian cities, The hostess served afternoon tea, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Flemming, of Detroit, visited with their niece, Mra. Harrison and Clarence from Saturday until Tuesday, The George Butsons, of Greenbank, were down on Friday harvesting the crop of vegetables in their garden here. " Gnr. Maw, R.C.A., is home again and although he is released from the service, yet he does not expect his discharge until March or April of next year, Mr. and Mrs. W. Williams and Mrs. Fritshaw were visitors in Toronto on Monday. ' ~The Elwood Masters are picking Columbia raspberries from their bush- es. The fruit is ripe and large but the flavour is perhaps not quite so rich as when the berries ripen in their season, George Cooper has received his dig- charge from the R.C.A.F. and after a holiday at his home, he left on Tuesday morning for Cadillac, Que,, where he has secured a position. The sale 'on Monday of household articles belonging to the estatd of the (Contnued on Back Page) i i oo i Sd Vp « -~ a a ~ A Pay ve - ce i a i" hy SRA a wp ag se mam