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¢ "<4 - ail - -- . i » r-- ' / . oo . aie . h r i = i \ . ' A = # A p v 4 drives in life are simjlar to yours and mine. = sary. Watch your Label; ft tells when your subscription' Nf Expires. : a ------ $2.00 per year "in ' advance. Se. ¢. Single Copy | 12 50° per year outside Canada. dt Ba ar | Notes and. Comments 4° WILL THERE BE ANOTHER WAR?" It's quite' plain. to all of us that there are three answers to + this question ; some people are sure that another war is inevitable, 'others are:just as sure that there won 't be another war, the third group is an agnostic one who quite frankly say that they don't know. ~All are agreed, however, that if there is war it will be a war between Russia and the Western world. Is there any way in "which we can evaluate or "Judge the merits of each answer. 'We believe there-is. . Let's look at the first answer. War with Russia is inescapable, Those who maintain such a belief do so because. of many reasons - which apparently are well substantiated. Russia has developed a different way of life from that of the democracies; she has shown that she believes in an expansionist: policy ;. most significant of all she has demonstrated time and time again that she ig unwilling to co-operate with us in setting up the basis for a peaceful world. Further more, if we can believe available reports Russia has 'con- sistently added to her armed strength, has developed both the atom and the hydrogen bomb or is sc close to a'knowledge of the manu- facture of these dreadful means of dé&struction that for all reason- able purposes we can assume. that she possesses them. Certainly, there is sifficient ground for war in any one of these areas of policy. J s What we e forget i is that Russia is just as 'conscious of the cost of the next war as we are, and we know--at least our scientists are constantly telling us, that another war will mark. the end of it izatiton. There is little question that any war involving the use of the atom bomb and its more dreadful offspring the hydrogen bomb will result in such catastrophe that civilization will be shattered. The truth of the matter is that there are many reasons why we should go to war but none of them is of sufficient weight or im-' portance to sacrifice human civilization. - Nor will we. Within our own country and in the United Statés we have . groups who are fundamentally opposed to each other's way of life. The coal miners are set against the mine operators, the supporters of the welfare state are bitterly 'opposed fo those who believe in free enterprise; the farmers as a group have always looked af =life-in-a 'different: -way-from-labour, the Catholics are fundamentally different from tlie Protestants and the French in Canada have an entirely different way of life from the English-speaking Cana- dians. © From time to time our relations within these groups breaks down ; sometimes Such breakdowns are marked by violence. But fundamentally we are mot dut to destroy the oppusing group p be- cause we know that it would involve a cost and because we know what that cost is we refuse to entertain the idea of destroying our "opponents. What value lies in desperate self-destruction? =F The people 'of Russia are human beings and their basic, needs and They have chosen a different way of satisfying those drives and those needs because they. think it offers them a surer reward in satisfaction; we, on the other hand; maintain that our way of life is more rewarding. The fact of the matter is that truth lies somewhere between the two. We have adopted communistic ideas in order to deal vith' problems-in our complex world and similarly Russia'has been-forced to adopt and to use many western ideas--that these ideas have been mutually beneficial it is useless to argue--they were neces- The impact of the modern world has shattered many: of our culture patterns and'there is little question that the next five years will see more of them shattered. It seems far more intelligent to allow outmoded culture rings and customs change in order that _ progress may continue; and the same thing has happened in Russia -and will continue to happen. Should we come.to the point where we are more concerned about patterns of behaviour that will not work than wé are about civilization itself man will commit suicide. However, such suicide would contradict the entire history of man from the time civilization first began more than ten thousand years ago. In a manner of speaking it would contradict one of the basic principles of life itself. Those men who- believe war is in- evitable or would plunge us into another world war are seeking to do so at the cost of humanity itself. It seems tragic that they themselves cannot see this or seeing it Wicked) ide it from us. The queston is not one of war or no war. . citis'a question of the very survival of humanity. 3 preside over the'cases. It would seem that they take these cases" and deal with them without thought as to how severe they should be dealt with. The penalty is very often out of pro- Port Perry Rod and Gun Club -|grow out-of our--baby stage. On Friday evening, Feb. 17, a party of Club members journeyed to Whitby to hear Pete MeGillen, who was guest x, Soslier at a. meeting of the Whitby in Augustus, Past President of the' Club introduced Pete 'and told ¥f his travels and that the Toronto Tele- gram was the only Tororito paper that has a full time correspondent-for out- door life. "His travells takes him' to, the east and west boundaries and far into the north. In Pete's talk he spoke of the spawns ing of -the muskies; of their travels up the stream to, the shallow waters; and their spawning, and their habits during -this period. He also spoke of the building of the hatchery at Deer|. Lake near Havelock around 1934-36, and of the percentage of fry that it 'takes to raise muskies to fingerlings. He told us as to why it was that the ., minimum of. 30 inches for muskies was 'brought into force. = A muskie does not spawn until it-is around 27 or 28 inches in length, and that is' why our ~muskies 'were decreasing in numbers. This measure was taken so that this |<% fish would Have at least one year to s.. spawn before becoming catchable size, | This talk on the muskie was very in- teresting, as it gave a clear picture of this fish's "habits and good advice to ' those who are seeking them. Pete also ghve several.instances of law infractions that' go on throughout the province, and in many instances are dealt with very Hghtly by those acti BLS portion to other. cases of a similar nature. Two ~very interesting films were shown. One, "River Watch" a trip from Montreal to Belle Island, shown how the ice is broken up by the ice breakers; the lifting in the fall of the buoys and their placing in the spring; and of the taking of #pplies to the Light Houses. The other picture, "Trapping in the James Bay District. It showed the trappers laying their trap lines and their lifting them on the return trip. Information. was given us that the open season for the trapping of musk- rats was from March 20th to April 21, both days inclusive. The Whitby Club are coming to Port Perry on March 9th. This will be known as Whitby night. They are putting up prizes for both'shooting and |' casting. They are bringing with them two pellet back stops. From what | have heard .of these they are much better than the heavy thick planks, i Club 'activities will 'be as usual at the High School this week. - --Ott Hamilton. - 4 { - NOTICE There are 6 pages of Local News this | week. -|the United Counties. News F lashes: from |P. P.<High School . Last Friday it was our Junior Boys' : Basketball Team which came out on the right end of the score-sheet. These fellows went out on the floor at Ux- bridge to avenge the defeats our.other teams had just suffered. The opposi- tion counted 'the first' point: of : they .|game, while our boys missed some Sree shot chances," Then Wallace scored on a break-away: and their hustling of- forts continued, so they led 16-9 at half time." A quick basket showed they were going to keep up the pres- sure, but the potato boys were right in there too and closed up the gap in scoring continually before another 2 baskets put the game away, with the visitors on the happy end of a 27-20 Score. Our two-platoon system paid off, with both squads doing.some valu- able sniping. Peel, Wallace and Rodd seemed to. lead the scoring. The night's. play had begun with the senior boys' gome, About that, we plus some new recruits, fought hard and kept the black and gold squad be- low the 50 point mark, while picking up a few themselves. Our senior girls were successful in their hard-working attempt to dislodge the league leaders from their lofty position. The home team got the first counter, with the Howey-Hall com- bination soon tying it up. Ourx'sextet couldn't get their passes clicking, how- ever, and Willis and Skerratt weren't to be stopped; the bad news was 10-19 at siesta time. Our play really tight- ened -up in the second half and the: rivals were held down to 7 points but our. forwards could only muster three baskets, so the tilt ended "26-16. The junior sextet met an improved team and the two squads really battled it out in a hair-raising contest. James again sniped the first basket and her '@xample was followed by McKee and Brock; but Uxbridge came tight back and by the end of the half it was. all tied up, 10-10. Port led, by one point at the breathing spell; Uxbridge an- swered with 3 points, and' we were just going all out to get that tying basket when the home team clinched it with two fast enes in the dying seconds of the game. 'On Friday of this week, we entertain Bowmanville for the final games of the season." The girls néed two victories to have a mathematical chance wf fin- ishing in first place, and the junior boys should continue their winning WAYS. We would like to take this oppor- tunity, to mention here a point which we have pondered for some time. When a team is visiting our Alma Mater for a game, don't you agree that there should be no booing, 'hissing or cat- cdlling when the visitors try for free shots and when they stack up some points? Let's' be sports and let's After all, they need encouragement, too. A popular song of about two years ago has been experiencing a' comé- back at Port Perry High School. The song? "Let: it 'Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! In spite of such wishful thinking the buses are managing to | make most trips on time. ;-'The Friday assembly was evidence of Ten B's geniuses. Peter Carswell was the genial chairman, Joan-Lewis read the Scripture. W& thought that Jean Samells and Bob Rowland tried just a little too hard to be individual- istic whilé playing a- violin and- piano duet. Marion Taylor came back- to school recently. She and Don favored with guitar and vocal selections. We hope you are feeling better, Miss Parker. We miss you. * It takes those tantalizing ovdours wafted from the Home Ke, Room to make the school seem like home. More news mext week. - : pt AE) SRR iS SEER Something of Interest "Peter Proskin of Darlington Town- ship pleaded guilty before Magistrate Baxter for cutting maple, oak,~elm, beech-and pine trées having a direter of less than ten inches; contrary to the provisions of Bylaw No. 16563 of the! United Counties of Northumberland | and Durham. The charge was laid by: ham County.' The hy:law was passed : in 1947 in the interests of conservation to restrict unlimited cutting of young {reeb, Mr. A. W. 8. Greer, K.C,, of Oshawa, represented the accused and Mr. Alan Field, Cobourg, represented + period. Mr. Howard Millson, who was recently, 'lappointed Tree Commissioner: for Dur- Gala Night Well Attended Ideal" weather: and an attractive washing machiffe assisted the Recrea tion Centre Committee to entertain a large crowd at their recent Gala Night in_their enlleavour to vaise the mark £430.65. Miss Zilla yackson, Port Perry, was an astonished and delighted young receive the General Electric 1950 Washing + Machine, as winner of the luéky number draw. This" draw real- ized a profit of $237.20, Three «door prizes were drawn at 10.00, 11.00 and 12.00 p.m. The first lucky number--9--was held by Miss D. Stone; the other two numbers---113 and 193--are as yet unclaimed. Tho, holders may prove their claim and re- ceive their prizes from I. A. Boyd at the Port Perry Star Office. popular throughout the evening. Every effort has been made to provide. excel- lent prizes. . Thirty-eight were won by fortunate -players. wis realized for the Recreation Com- mittee by the Bingo. y . Ac anteen service was snintained by the Canadian Legion (Port Perry Post) which was well patronized. A' profit of $25.45 was realized by their efforts. The Boy Scouts were in charge of the--check- ciated service was in aid of thé new building to erected in the spring. The dance was conducted by the Re- creation Centre Committee in the audi- torium with the popular music of Van de Walker's band. Square dancing every hour an the hour.by Johnny Christie, caller; Les Beacock, violin; Fréd Christie, guitar, and the versatile Wes Jackson at the piano. The dance floor was crowded all evening proving the appreciation of the dancers for this | arrangement of music. The net pro- ceeds from this venture were $47.00. The Recreation Committee wish to thank all-iwhose co-operation and en- thusiastic work made the venture the success it was, The next Gala Night is scheduled for March 24. = At this time a 1950 Pon- tiac will be given to the holder of the lucky number ticket. Tickets are now available. Any out-of-town folk may procure tickets by sending money Irving Boyd, Port Perry Star, Tickets $7.00 each. Can you Beat This! Exceptional Anniversaries Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Michell have an unique record in that their parents (all four) have passed the 50th Wedding Anniversary and all are in good health. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Mackey of Osha- wa, celebrated their-54th- Anniversary on February 4th last, and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Michell, of Claremont, celebrated their 67th anniversary on the 22nd of February. The Mackey ancestry. settled at Kin- sale, Ontario and the Michell-ancestry settled at Claremont, during the early part of the 19th century.' Is this a record? If you can beat this record please notify the ~Port Perry Star. Brownie News A delightful Valentine meeting was held by the girls on Friday, Feb. 10. The - Toadstool was gaily decorated with cards for each Brownie, on which were written their duties for the meet- ing. The Sixers took over the game ies served the sandwiches, cookes Valentine cakes nnd ginger ale. Lucky prizes were won by Glorin Hastings and --Muricl- MacMaster. - - The -very pleasant meeting was closed with the Brownie Taps. The regular meeting" was held" at the school on Friday,-February 17th, We missed some of the girls who were jabsent with the flu. Get well soon Laitls, . We began our semaphore -in- struction and the little girls: shoved "the big girls how quickly they "could learn, * Valerie conducted the pow- wow ganie and after a lively sing- song the meeting closed with the. Brow- [nie T Taps and prayer. ; on:the thermometer which they did by lady when talled to the platform to. The. Lions Club. Bingo was -very| $121.00 profit' room.-- This---much--appre-} order_and return address envelope to | Seconds, brownies and tween- |. HOCKEY NEWS Port Perry's unconched Juveniles ventured to Beaverton 'on Tuesday night to play an exhibition game with the Beaverton Green Shirts, and de- feated them by a score of 11-8, Don Ashbridge opened. the scoring for Port-Per ry early in the first period. Beavérton soon tied up the: score on a goal by R. Kirkpatrick and then took the lead less than a minute later on a goul by B. Howe. Port tled it up at 8.40 when | dise behind the Beaverton goalie, De- Nure back shortly after and scored on long shot from the blue line to put-Port out in front again, Don Ashbridge took the puck at" the face off and worked his way into the gnémy tervitory and put Port twe up after scoring on a close-in shot. - B. Howe came back fast for Beaver- ton and scored two fast goals at" [2.08 andy 13.42 to put them on even terms again. Port took the lead again at 17.13 when Ashbridge scored on a pass from Ron Wallace. ~Port-started- off fast again in the second period when little Johnny Pal: lock scored at 1.10 putting them two goals ahead. _The play sea-sawed back and forth until midway in the period avhen Port increased their lead to three goals. * Beaverton got back into the running again when lL. Westcotte scored 45 seconds later. P. Sulmah scored again for Port at 18.38 and Beaverton ended the scoring in the second period on a onl-hy J. MecDoiiald at 19.03. The play "in the third period was somewhat rougher than in the first and second periods. Port Perry opened the scoring again at 6.35 and Pete Sulman came back to score for Port again at 7.40. The play began to roughen up a little at this point and two penaltiés were came tharided-out;- one-to-DeNure-of-Port-and the other to I, Westecotte of Beaver- ton, both for roughing. After the two penalties were handed out the players feelings became more at case and the play Slowed down some what. G. Lightfoot rid at 10.40 on a long hard shot from the blue line that just ¢éaught-the corner of the net. } Port came back fast and potted the rubber in the: Beaverton net at 11.58 making the score 11 to 7. "Beaverton ended, the scoring-at 16.00 on a goal scored by R. Kirkpatrick. The final Port Beaverton: 8. score: Perry 1H, * . * * "Logk folks; w hat! no onal Port, Perry has a hockey team and nobody knows it. They have played six games and only lost one by a score of 5-4. Not bad with na coach. * Isn't anyone interested in coaching an up and go- ing hockey team. They haven't had any offers. What is wrong with all the hockey fans in Port Perry? How. about coming out to some of the games? They could use a little sup- port. It's pretty tough when you have to pay to be able to play hockey. Someone said, we had a good hockey team 25 years ago. Sure! but we had a rink thén. We can have one next year if everybody gets behind it. Think it over you hockey "Tans. We still need a coach for our team. tl ye Scout - Guide Week This is Scout-Guide week and every- where in Canada special activities are taking place. - On Sunday evening the Guides; Brownies, Scouts and: Cubs with their leaders will parade to the Church of the Ascension at 7 o'clock where the Scout Chaplain, Rev. J. Coneybeare will deliver the sermon. Members of the Group Committees will aldo attend and it is hoped -the parents will show their interest by attending, laa -W. M8. The postponed February meeting of the Afternoon Auxiliary of the WAS. was held on Tuesday afternoon, in the ladies' parlor of the United Church: In thé absence of the president, Mrs. Koch, the vice- president, wag in charge of the business period and the de- votional session. - Mrs. sehted a chapter of the study book, "Growing with the Years" in a very interesting and capable manner, This chapter told how the United Church lends a helping hand across Canada and around the. world, wherever the battle is. joined with evils that hinder the development of children, frustrate Fred DeNure yotted tne N Jeffords or. {cipalities had "Holines pre- | - Post Office Hospital Situation Monday FATA] the newly appoint- ¢d Board of Diréctors met in the Port Perry Council * Chambers and after; aequainting new members with some of. the By-law facts the Directors pro- ceeded to elect its executive, resident--Herbert Brooks Viee-Président--Don Crozier, ec. (pro tem)--Mrs. C, Sleep. Asst. Sec. Treas. --E, Hayes. = = « House Committee -- Myr, E, Martyn, Mrs. Sleep, 'Mr, Suggett, Property Committee--Mr, G, Reesor, Mr. Tetlow, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Heaslip. Finanace Committee--Mr, D. Crozier, ~My, E. Martyn, My. Heaslip. The Property Committee was in- structed to contact Engineers as to Heating, Sanitatidn, Wiring, Laundry, and secure plans and' estimates that will be" approved by the Board of Health. = Ask for tenders' on these plans and specifications, then present these facts to the various councils, along with the amount required of them. After seéuring the assurance of receiving this amount; the Finance Committee would be able to go to the government and secure grants to cover their share of the costs. . At the of the meeting Mr: Hayes read a letter which he felt cov- cred the Hospital situation from its beginning to the. present. The. letter was received by the Board of Diree- tors as being very complete and a re- gret was voiced that it had not been iven at the public meeting, but that the press be asked to publish it for the benefit of the-.public. The letter is as follows: -- ) : close It is understood "that there are a nambér of people in our community whore -not-fully informed ns -to--just' what happened in connection with the made to establish the Com- munity Memorial Hospital, so we will try to explain this matter as fully as possible. In the spring of year 1946 after it became known that Mrs. Whitmore was-offering for sale the private Hos- pital she had operated here for many years,-n npmber of local citizens op- ened a campaign th raise funds to es- tablish the Community Memorial Hos- pital. ) A total of approximately $13,216.00 was raised by donations from private citizens, municipalities and local™ or- ganizations-and over #2, 000; -more -was- pledged. The real estate owned by Mrs. Whit- nore was purchased for $9,000" and furnishings, equipment, ete. for $2,- 338.28. © Also $1,000 was paid for equi- pment hich was used in the hospital but was owned by local Doctors. A Government Charter was obtain- ed and it was expected a license would be granted authorizing the Tospital to operate as a public Hospital and to be eligible for yearly government grants of a substantial amount, after some _ changes and improvements had been made at a small cost. But owing to government regula- tions this license could not be obtained without some very large and costly additions which in the opinion of the Board would not be satisfactory to make to the old Hospital Building. The Community Memorial Hospital started operations July Ist, 1946 and carried on until October 31st, 1948. At the end of the first year, opera- tiona showed a loss: of about $1,200 and it was expected that local muni- cipalities would make up this_ deficit, but the board was advised that muni- no legal authority to grant monies to hospitals which were not licensed to operate as Public Hos pitals. Owing to increased cost of opera- THE PORT PERRY STAR CO. LTD. Authorized as Second Class Mail) Cesena WE RP Lr Published by Department, Ottawa. Reviewed New Directors Take 'Action' not received municipalities; the deficit steadily in- creased, to about $4,000 'hy 31st Dec ember 1048 and as debts were stead- ily accumulating, it was decided to glose hospital and it was hoped 1t could be reorganized "so that opera tions could be carried on, on a sound and satisfactory basis, The books of the hospital were aud ited by (Monteith and Monteith) Char- tered Accountants as at 31st Decem- ber 1947 and 3ist December 1948 and the statement is. published else where in this issue. Anyone 'desiring to make uo dona- tion to the Hospital can do so by get- ting in touch with the Finance Com- mittee chairman, Mr. Don R. R. 3, Port Perry. te Obituary "MR. HARRY G. WILLARD Mr, Harry G. Willard, well® know retired business nian died suddenly ne his. home, in Port Perry, Wednesduy the 15th day of February, © L Associated for many years with lus father, the tate William Willard in conducting the general store business of Willard and Co. Mr. Harry Wil lard later carried on for many years - Crozier, when he sold his business to Et Ar gue dn 1940. joying the companionship of. his fanr- ily and his many life-long friends. The end came suddenly from the heart condition which had Te- veloping for some time. been the former Emma Peers, and by his son Grant, and. daughteis Helen and Reta and hig; sister Mrs: R. J. Harper. His younger son William,.R. was kil- led in overseas war service. Mr. Willard was a member of the United Church. His pastor, Rev.<\V. C. Smith, in conducting the private funeral service on" Saturday, made kindly referencé to him. Willard's fine qualities of love of home, 'delight in good music, and his gentlemanly bear- ing and spirit of genuine friendliness at-all times. The interment. was at Comsat, -Prince Albert. ty PRINCE ALBERT "Mr. and Murs. Jack Heaven, Toronto, visited Mr. and Mrs. A. Harper, on Sunday. : A father and son banquet in the in- terests of the "Cubs" was held in the Friday "night, Pine Grove Smith, of Toronto, were down at their summer home on Sunday and like many others found snow drifts in these parts. helped out. - Our W, A. met in a body and 4 ive a surprise visit to Mrs. Albert Harper, on Wednesday night, Feb. 15th. Dur- ing the very pleasant evening spent, Lillian was presented with a token of remembrance for which she graciously - expressed her thanks. Of course, the usual délightful lunch was served. Mrs. Newnham spent last week with relatives in Toronto. Owing - to weather conditions the church attendance was small on Sun- day. Just here we are reminded of Mis. Kate Aitkin's broadeast the other morning when she quoted someone: "We" think that you should go to chifreh if only for a visit." For one day you will have to go, and the Lord tions and the fact that grants were will say, Who is it?" >t , by*"M. The United States "has a plan to speed up the economic 'unification of Europe . . That's né Zplan It's a miracle! ' ror There's apt to he.a sugar surplus in the world this coming year but the growers af Canadian sugar-beets don't consider this sweet news you may be sure, . LJ LJ LJ Parliament i is having a lot of trouble with ruleg of procedure . . . ina very the progress of women or rob men of their birthright as sons of God. ST. PATRICK'S SUPPER -- -- PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - sm prieianhaiabia ans als -------- SSS "short time it will be having trouble The Passing Show A.C." An Englishman, a member of parlia- ment, claims that trade difficulties are more_'fantastic than anything in Alice in 'Wonderland' and at that he can't be far wrong, i * ed L] . ' The Mayor of New York is all for hiring a 'rain-maker', Sounds as though he has 'water on the brain', . . * * gdjng to preach on the tople "He ran Away from His Own Wedding" . with just the procedure. MARCH 17th. head? WEE from™governments and He lived quietly from that time en- Church basement on. Feb, 17th. Miss E. Spence and sister Mra. .. "A good many cars had to be - The minister announced that he was" Now 1 wonder what put that in hie 0 his grocery store, eventually retiving : im My Willard-is-survived-by his-wife,---- or Po, NC