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4 <--PORT PERRY STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 1st, 1965 Port Perry Star Co. Limited Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas fo 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. 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 $250 per yr., Elsewhere, $4.00 per yr. Single Copy 7¢ DOOD OEE@ Newspapers Underpriced David Lawrence, publisher of U.S. News and World Report, speaking to the National Press Club in Washington, states that newspapers should charge at least 25c. per copy to meet the problem of publish- ing economics. He said: "For a quarter or more you can get a pack of cigarettes, ride a bus or buy an ice cream soda. Yet the amount of information and in- teresting reading we have in newspapers is sold to the public in many cases for less than 10c. a copy. The substantial increase in subscription prices for daily and weekly newspapers will have to come. The reader will have to pay more." At the present time a yearly subscription to the Port Perry Star is $2.50, which includes. mailing to out of town readers. This, on the basis of 50 copies per year is just 5c. an issue. Over-the-counter sales and dealer outlets brings 7c.--but even with the extra 2c., this does not leave any profit margin, as the dealers are given the papers at a discount. It has also-become necessary to make a slight increase in subscription rate to the Port Perry Star. The annual subscription rate will be increased by 650 cents, from $2.50 to $3.00 on and after April 12th, and single copy will at the same time be increased from 7 to 10 cents. Subscribers in U.S.A. will have to pay an addi- , tional $1.50 per year for their subscriptions to cover the required postage. i This will take effect on and after April 12th. In the meantime any subscriber or would be subscriber may renew or subscribe at the present rates for as many years in advance as they may care, as long as it is done before April 12th, 1965. See announcement on another page in this issue. It won't be long before Spring entices the motor- ist out onto country roads and if he is a dog owner, he'll probably take his pet for a run in the open ground. It should be remembered that Canada is still fighting a long drawn out epidemic of rabies among the wild -animals, so dogs should not be allowed to run where they may encounter large or small wild animals, It should be remembered that any warm-blooded animal may take the disease, which is transmitted in the sa- ilva of the sick animal. All cats and dogs should be vaccinated against rabies. ' DON'T KNOCK THE TEENS hE nd No sense of adventure? He's all wet, One of my Ca DOODLE EWE FIFTY YEARS AGO Wednesday, March 381, 1915 Gilbert and Sullivan's Opera "Pinafore" will be shown at the Town Hall, Port Perry, April 8 and 9th. °° Messrs. Ingrams have sold their bakery and confection- ery business to Sarvis Bro- thers, of Prince Albert. The new proprietors are practi- cal men, with many years experience in this line of business. LJ LJ Mr. Paul Williams of Port Perry, and Mr. Fred C. Har- ran, Caesarea, have pur- chased new Ford cars from Messrs. Graham & Carnegie. DOOD PE¢ WANA OO PPO P90 POOP S 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 28, 1940 Nearly a hundred cars and trucks, two buses, were stuck in the snow between Myrtle and Manchester on Monday. * » An excellent piece of work has been done in the base- ment of Port Perry United Church. A new floor has been laid, a new hardwood top on the platform, the ceil- ing completely renewed, "and the whole basement has been redecorated. s Mr. Harold Hood has re- turned to [Peterborough to take a position with B, F. Ackerman & Son, HOO TEN YEARS AGO Thursday, March 31st, 1955 One hour play "The New Minister's Wife" and other entertainment by the Prince Albert Good Neighbours Club, in the Sunday School Room on Thursday, Apr. 7th. ° Word has. been received that James A. Harrison 8 former Port Perry boy has purchased the Richard Ben- nett = Tailoring Company Stores, North LaSalle Ave, Chicago. * * Neighbours gathered at the home of Wm. T. Harris to bid "Bon Voyage" to Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Whitby who are on their way to England for a three months visit. Ym SMILEY Terribly sad, he says. Baloney. Admitted, they A columnist on a big city daily recently fired a salvo. at high school students, The intrepid jour- nalist gave them both barrels, with no holds barred, as an Irishman might put it He had been speaking to groups of high school students from middle and upper-income homes. He took a very dim view of the kids, suggesting that: they haven't learned manners, have no sense of ad- » venture, are terribly sheltered, terribly staid, terri- bly sad, and empty. I'm sorry he received this impression of today's youth, It is not at all the one I have received in five years as a high school teacher, and several years as a parent of teenagers. In the same column, he managed to convey the idea that he was none of those things of which he accused the students, that he was, in fact, a hell of a fella who had lived life to the full. Let's face the charges, one by one. Bad manners. My personal experience is that their manners, on the whole, are better than those of their parents. They can be eruel, when they are thoughtless, but generally, they are more sensitive to the feelings of others than are adults. students headed across the continent on a bicycle. Others plan to go to Africa or Asia for the Peace Corps. Another swiped his old man's car, picked up two side-kicks, and took off for Mexico, My own son ran away last summer and hitch-hiked to Que- bec, after I'd expressly forbidden such a jaunt. From every direetion come wails of alarm that students will try anything: hot cars, drinks, drugs, sex. And this man says they've no sense of ad- venture! What they have is too much of it. Terribly sheltered, he says. Nonsense, We try to shelter them from the sordid, the harmful, the evil, as we see them. But the only teenager who is sheltered in this age is a kid who lives in a trapper's shack in the wilderness with two maiden aunts, and is kept chained to his bed until he's 20, They're a lot less sheltered than I was at that age, and a lot better able to cope with reality, as a result. Terribly staid, he says. Poppycock. They're con- formists, I'll admit, as far as fads and fashions go. But I scarcely think I'd call those writhing, scream- ing masses at a Beatle show staid, They're almost as unstaid as their old ladies were, swooning over Sinatra, Or their grannies, wilting over Bing Crosby, can be deeply touched, because the hearts are not yet hardened, They can be terribly sad, sometimes. But they can be wildly exultant, too. How long is it since you've been truly joyful, Jack? The kids are much more human, emotionally, than adults, because they have not learned those grown-up horrors: the control, the stiff upper lip, the smother- ing of the flame. And he claims they are empty. Empty of what? Dishonesty, greed, self-delusion, cruelty, selfish- ness, ruthlessness? I'm afraid he's right. But they are-full of a lot of things that have pretty well gone out of style with adults: pity, love, joy, fum, unselfishness, honesty, idealism, loyalty. Don't worry, I'm not soft on teenagers. I have two of my own, and sometimes they drive me right up the wall, across the ceiling, and down the other side. I teach about 140 of them daily, and there are days when I could go into class with a tommy gun and mow them all down. But they're people. And if IT have to associate with people, I think I'd as soon associate with them as with any other class of 'the species, --Toronto Telegram News Service FESETIREAL | TR Hl STRANI 2 LR yng Fi