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4--PORT PERRY STAR, THURS. JAN. 16th, 1964 Editorial Viewpoint Experts Should Teach Driving Psychologists run into many baffling problems. One of the minor mysteries is the refusal of all males over 16 to accept the thought that they might not be perfect drivers! Belief in one's own driving superiority amounts to self-delusion on a mass scale, says the Ontario Safety League. The youth who has handled a hockey stick since pre-school days does not believe for a moment that he could live on the same ice with an N.H.L. team. A man who has done odd jobs ever since he married will admit good humouredly that he is no master-carpenter. But both of them would bitterly resent the suggestion that they had anything to learn about driving a car. A boy seeking his first operator's licence has a potential 64 years of driving ahead of him. His car will become an integral part of his life. For many years it will probably be his most valuable possession. Yet it is seldom that he, or his parents, think it worth while in- vesting a little time and a little money in teaching him how to handle the car correctly--to give extra protection to his property, and his life. The O.S.L. appeals to parents not to teach their 16-year-old children how to drive. Parents are notor- iously ineffective as teachers of their own youngesters. But in any case, teaching driving is a job for experts. High school offers the best method of learning to drive. Graduates of high scool driver training courses are far less likely to have accidents than their parent- _ taught classmates. However, only about 100 schools in Ontario offer these life-saving courses (they are extre- curricular, and optional, in every case). The P.R.O. Drivers Club in Toronto expects to give "courses, combining classroom with behind-the-wheel in- struction, to over 1,000 youngsters in 1946. Other centres are considering introducing P.R.O. Drivers courses, which meet the very high requirements laid down for high school driver training. : Where organized courses are not available, parents are urged to send their sixteen-year-olds to reliable com- mercial driving school instructors. The money spent on correct. driving instruction is a cash saving if it avoids even one collision. But what is far more important is that it might avoid human injury, or even death. - For Better Manners 'Editorial writers, sports columnists and a few but not many spectators have recently deplored the many "tights and brawls breaking out on the ice in National Hockey League games. These battles have been called bad sportsmanship, and cited as terrible examples for young people. They have brought fines and suspensions but very little disgust. The way to end them occurred to us when we noted an editorial in the Globe and Mail about Mr. Gordon Howe, (yet), being chosen Canadian athlete of the year. If a couple of boys with names like Red Kelly and Bobby Hull didn't whack each other around they wouldn't seem truly red-blooded. . But if Mr. Leonard Kelly, M.P.,--should punch Mr: Gordon Howe in the nose on.the floor of Maple Leaf Gardens, the thing wouldn't only be undignified but anti-American. And should he strike M. Jean Beliveau over the head with a hockey stick; the whole matter would be reviewed by the Royal Commission on Bi-Culturalism, certain to start a student riot in front of La Reine Eliz- abeth in Montreal, and give M. Real Caouette cause to rise in the House of Commons with yet another example of Anti-French Canadianism. If sportswritersc would drop names like Punch Imlach and Toe Blake, hockey might grow into. something like cricket with the spectators applauding politely after each well executed play, murmuring "TI say" and "Well ~ done, old chap." : Let sportswriters everywhere give the plavers so much status that they will refrain from making public spectacles of themselves by indulging in common brawls. ' --Napanee Express ~ Port Perry Star. Co. Ld. Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and 'Surrounding Areas ___P, HVIDSTEN, : Publisher Editor Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star PE Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. ; Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Subscription Rates: In Canada $2.60 per yr., Elsewhere, $3.00 per yr. Single Copy 7¢ President, _ WM. T HARRISON / y ? "A Funny Thing Happened on t he Way to the Launching Pad". fr" y "WELL ... ER... AH... PET -- | RAN INJO AN ELECTION ---" Remember When? Sugar and Spice | 50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, January 14th, 1914 Over on Scugog there are two farmers who have reason to be pleased with their red clover seed crop. R. Prentice and sons had eighteen acres which grew a crop that sold for $737.40. Mr. H. Collins had four and three * quarter acres, and his returns from this field amounted to $227.00. Bulletin No. 172 of the Cana- dian Militia, announces the ap- pointment of Arthur Percy In- gram to be Provisional Lieu- tenant of the 34th Ontario Re- giment. - -- Af Those elected to Reach Coun-. cil for 1914 were Reeve Ralph McIntyre; Dep.-Reeve, J. T. Dobson; Councillors, John Stone W. F. Weir, John N.' Mark. Manchester -- While riding horse back the other day Mr. Alex Johns had'the misfortune 'of having his foot badly sprain- ed when the horse he was, rid- ing fell on some ice. RL ; 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 12th, 1939 Port Perry, Reach -and Scu- gog Agricultural Society held their annual meeting in the public library and the follow- ing officers were elected: Hon. 1st Vice, Bert McGregor; 2nd Vice, S. Farmer; Sec.-Treas., R. D. Woon; Directors, Jas, Boe; Grant Christie, Geo. R. Davey, ~Frank Gerrow, Lawson Honey, R. M. Holtby, John Mark, T. J. Sager, F. Shepherd. x xox 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 14th, 1954 Congratulations to Jack Whit- more, a well known Port Perry boy, on his recent appointment as manager of the Tamblyn Drug Store on the corner of College and Dovercourt streets in Toronto. . ¥ Frank Shepherd;' President, :Wm. F. Thompson; --floor; a discarded beer-mug. By BILL SMILEY SONS OF GOOD PARENTS A young couple I know had an ironic experience when they visited her parents during the holiday season. . The parents, solid folk, had recently retired. They bought a new home in a rather swanky development in a good-sized Canadian city. They have a '17-year-old daughter, nice kid who lives with them, .. When my friends arrived to spend Christmas, it was ob- vious Ma had been' busy. Everything in the new house was sparkling for their visit. She was proud of her home, and with reason. : ' They had a pleasant Christmas. A couple of days later, the four adults were invited to a party down the street. The teenage daughter implored to have a few friends in for pop and music. Her mother gave in, specifying that 10 kids was the limit. * x kx it. : The conversation, as so often, turned to puzzlement over teen-agers. You know the sort of thing we old squares discuss: the switch-blade heroes; the debutante Pa in Life, - which wound up demolishing an old mansion; the couple in some distant place who came home and found their teenage daughter os the second night of a three-day, all-night ho in heir ome. : Emerging from the party, at a. circumspect hour in this circumspect suburb, my friends and the parents were astonished to see the quiet street lined with cars. What was up? "They found out, in about two minutes. Every light was blazing in their new home, and there was a sound of revelry ~ by night whose location was unmistakeable. They hustled home. The son-in-law, a six-footer, was sent - in ahead, to give notice that the party was over. He wa shaken to the tips of his number tens when he walked in. There were about 40 people, mostly young males, in the modest living room. Ninety-four per cent. of them were drinking beer. The. other six per cent. were drinking something else. * kx Kx Beer caps and empty vodka bottles fought for attention on the rug, which was a squishy meringue of spilled beer and cig- arette ash. Some of the young gentlemen' had propped them- selves in chairs and put their feet against the pristine wall. The old Dad's most cherished possession, a solid silver christen- ing mug given him by his grandfather, lay on its side on the The Dad, witha mi rhty effort, forced himself to and introduce himself, A few were civil. Most, "including girls, sneered at him. Eventually, because the party had be- come a drag with these old squares around, the guests left, in their own sweet time, lugging half a dozen beer cases, 'Who were these hoodlums, punks, vandals? A m £ gang, maybe? One of them was the, son of a ay ane vision figure. Another was the son of a professor. Most were university students, as their jacket proclaimed proudly, The 138 were high school kids from good, middle-class homes .in e area. : What happened to the irl who was hostess? i She's temperamental and might leave home if crossed, one HE --Toronto Telegram News Service n ~The adults went to the party along the street, and enjoyed LJ