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4--PORT PERRY STAR, THURS, NOV. 21st, 1963 Editorial Viewpoint Ontario Heart Foundation With the formation of a Chapéei' t% the Ontario Heart Foundation in Port Perry it would be appropriate to re- lease some statistics and figures issued by the Founda- tion. Over 509% of deaths in Canada (1961), or more than 70,000 people, were due to some form of heart disease. Furthermore 1,400,000 Canadians are afflicted by the disease with over half being between the ages of 25 and 64 years of age. An estimated 75,000 children suffer from this terrible ailment. This situation is gradually improving due to research being done by the Ontario Heart Foundation. At pre- sent 51 research projects are administered by this or- ganization. Each of these is composed of a team of doctors, nurses and technicians who have had training in the study of heart disease and are especially qualified to carry on research. To develop increased public awareness, the Founda- tion makes available up-to-date and authoritative infor- mation about heart disease through the use of films, speakers and literature for service clubs, schools, hospi- tals and other interested people. Besides administering funds provided by the Depart- ment of National Health and Welfare, and the Ontario Department of Health, private and corporate support is sought through the Canadian Heart Fund. tional canvass is conducted to help finance the work of scientists in medical schools and clinics throughout Canada. 'Taxing Pride Of Ownership Off hand we just cannot think of a regulation more antiquated than the present system of raising municipal taxes through property assessment. While everyone will admit there must be some basis on which to raise money to finance municipal spending, the present system of as- sessing is a tax system against pride of ownership. Several economists are working on the problem for governments, but either they do not seem to be able to devise some better scheme, or governments do not choose to accept the findings. We rather imagine the latter is the case. Under the present assessment system, those who take pride in ownership pay more than their share of muni- cipal taxes. Just because they choose to own valuable "property they do not require-any more services from the corporation than a less valuable property -- it costs n more for police, no more to educate the children from a large home than it does the children from slums. How much more street lighting do the people from a highly assessed property require than those living ina hovel? "What equality in corporation taxes is there for the person with a fine home, paying a high assessment rate, thus high taxes, compared with a person down the street in the same earning bracket, who chooses to live in an old house with half the assessment? None! To compound the matter, every time the - Property owner makes any improvements, the assessment is auto- matically increased, thus his taxes are increased. "And 80 it goes, with the differential between the two increas- ing with -every addition or improvement. Where is the equality in this assessing system when such obvious inequalities are permitted to exist? To attempt to make municipal taxation more equit- able, would an assessment system based only on floor space be more equitable? --Rodney Mercury Heartening Sign "More and more," comments a leading educator, "our society must teach itself to think in terms of a continu- ing education, beginning in childhood and going on with- out cessation to the edge of the grave." It must indeed. Fortunately, there is growing evi- dence to support the belief that this is much more widely realized today than it was a few years ago. There were never, for instance, so many adultteduca- tion, night school and hobby courses as there are this fall ' --and never so many students of all ages eager to enroll. It is a heartening sign. Pori Perry Star Co. Lid. 'Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas WM. T HARRISON Editor P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. ILtd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in eash, Subscription Rates: In Canada $2.50 per yr. Elsewhere, $3.00 per yr. Single Copy 7¢ TU February is Heart Month and during this period a mas forme frog oy ite Wade. LTT deni ee Remember When? Sugar and Spice | 50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, November 19, 1913 Mr. B. Smallman preached-at Prince Albert last Sunday even- ing to a very good congrega- tion. Master Harold Jackson, young' son of Mr. and Mrs. George Jackson had the misfortune to fall out of a tree some fifteen --feet.; As a result of the fall he broke both wrists and loosened some teeth, besides wrenching his lower jaw. x kk 25 YEARS AGO i Thursday, November 17, 1938 In the Provincial Inter-Club competition for stock judging --which--was--held--in--Guelph--on----- Friday, Ontario County carried off top honours in the Swine project. The Ontario team, which was comprised of Orval Heayn and.Fred Christie, rep- resented the Ontario County Swine Club which was sponsor- ed by the Port Perry Agricul- tural Society. y * 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 19, 1953 Mrs. W.. Ford, Miss Verne Ford and Mrs. Manley, of Lind- say, called on Mr, and Mrs. Mac MacMillan on Monday. Port Perry Lions Club Bas- ketball team defeated Oshawa 37 to 24 in a well played game in the High School. Norm Haugen, Geo. Rodd, Jack Grif- fen, Mac Christie, Ron Walldce and Jack Owen were the score collectors for Port Perry. Letter To Editor The Editor and Staff, Port Perry Star, Port Perry, Ontario. Dear Sirs: We would like to take this opportunity to expréss our ap- preciation for the fine response you have given our news ser- vice programme in connection with the Convention of Jehov- ah's Witnesses held in the New- castle Community Hall. The assembly was not only beneficial to.the hundreds that -attended, . but also the many good people in the area who ex- tended their hospitality so gra- ciously to us. ! ~ Yours turly, T. Down, Public Relations. By BILL SMILEY : | 1 think you'll agree that we all have pfoblems. don't you're either dead or rich, and in either case have no business reading this column. ' Wouldn't it be grand if we voters could solve our problems as easily as the government does? When an ordinary person has a problem--too many bills, Mother hitting the bottle, children getting lippy, storm windows not on yet--he has to do something about it, either positively or negatively. ~~ NR -- That is, he finds a solution to the problem or he doesn't. He stops paying his bills, tries to get Mom off the bottle and onto the bingo games, gives the kids a belt on the ear. and talks his neighbor into helping him put on;the storms. *x * * : Or, if he's another type, he pulls his head into his shouiders and hopes. He hopes that he'll win a sweepstake, that Mother will join AA, that the kids will stop bullying him, and that it'll be a mild winter. Either way, he has to make a decision--whether to act or hope. Not so' the: government. = Municipal, provincial or fed- eral, it has a much neater way out of dilemmas. It appoints a body to look into the matter. And in this case, body and corpse are often synonymous. ; Ask a municipal council for new street lights, adequate sew- age disposal, or patches for the potholes. It listens politely, and promises to "refer the matter to the proper committee". Six months later, when your fine fire of indignation has fizzled out, the council announces that the request would cost too much. Ask a provincial government for more booze outlets, for bigger highways and smaller schools, and it immediately ap- points a commission. After studying the matter for two years, the commission announces that, having weighed all the factors, it has decided that the best solution is an increase in the sales tax. ' : ; Ask a federal government to do something about unem- ployment, segregation or culture and it appoints a Royal Com- mission. This sounds more imposing than the town council's "committee", but serves the same function, i After four years of intensive study by the top men in the land, the commission states, in a 784-page brief, that unemploy- ment is bad, or that segregation 'is silly, or that culture is good. You think I'm exaggerating? Tell me, then, why the Government recently appointed the Royal Commission on Bi- lingualism and Biculturalism. Because it didn't know what to do about all the fuss the people of Quebec have been making? You're right. I Hh is commission: nothing but the best. But I am 'certain thay its public hearings will do more to increase French- English irritations than lessen them. And I am equally certain that its findings will be as stimulating as a tapioco pudding. After all, everyone agrees that Canada has no culture at all, An here we have a commission to investigate two cul- ures! ba rg _. And anyone in his right mind: knows this country is not bilingual, despite all the night school classes filled with people madly "taking" conversational French, But never mind, we hive a commission to look into the matter, so all is in safe hands, : * x Kk 0% However, all this is none of my business. I'd love to be bilingual and bicultural, but I aint neither. And I daresay you aint neither, neither. Rp All I wanted to say here was that I find this commission idea fascinating. It's the solution to every problem that pro- mises to. be awkward. Jack, next time your wife says she simply must have new drapes to match the new rug that she had to Tn to match the new chesterfield, just cool her with, "I've appoined a commis- sion 'to look into it". 4 : ~Toronto Telegram News Service If you J of