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(> a a SA - Et CPR "iii ©, Yay a ia ot - ile CA fa em rd ot Wa oA Ni» a TEE No Tan $5 x aa \ ENE NN, AE SN of Elsewhere, $4.60 per yr. . / - ARNEL. AE Tidy rt # Silas LS SAVE 1 " ts Ey DRAENEI ERASER SHE BURR SEER RU RTC TREE AA CHOOT URC The extra taxes which Finance Min- ister Mitchel Sharp is to impose on Canadians later this month will not be popular but as the necessary antidote to current, inflationary trends they are the lesser evil and must be accepted as such for the time being. On rider to that is that the taxes be well-conceived and fairly apportion- ed. We will soon have the answer to that one. A second rider is that Ottawa must clearly show that it means to at least hold the line so far as its 'own spending is concerned, while doing everything in its power to have the pro- vinces and municipalities do likewise. With the three levels of government doing more than one-third of all spénd- ing, inflation cannot be effectively con-- tained without such a slowdown. More than this, taxpayers who must now surrender another $300 million worth of their earnings in the national inter- est will not expect less, Let no one say that there is no room for such restraint. Spending the - three levels of "government in this crease in the gross national product of just 70 per cent. Making every allow- ance for the needs of education and other essential services, a point has clearly been reached when at least a temporary halt must be called to bur- geoning expenditures. CT The point was well put in a recent address by Mr. Henri Joly, President of the Canadian Manufacturers' Associa- tion, in a Montreal address before mem- bers of the CMA's Quebec Division. Said Mr. Joly, in part: "Expenditures by all three levels of government have been climbing apace and have added greatly to the demands being made on our resources in this period of high economic activity. Clear- ly, things being as they are, we just cannot do much -that we would like to do at this present time and there must be a firm determination of priorities by all three levels of government. We can't have everything at once. "I stress this point about government Entirely Believable News Item: Business firms in Can- ada are now estimated to devote at least two million man-hours a month to the job of collecting taxes, completing forms and reports for the federal government. " Comment (from a small business- man) : "I wouldn't doubt it for a min- -----ute.--And, believe -me; sometimes it ria feels.as though mine is doing it all." AAA A A RS ENE XN EN ENN NN URN Cr pepappepapey ane PORT PERRY STAR CO., LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin end Surrounding Areas =. P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd.,, Port Perry, Ontario. o Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash, Subsreiption Rates: In Canada $8.00 per yr., / / / / / / ' / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Single Copy 10c. AAA AA AA A AAA AAA AAA AAA RR ARR AAR THE LESSOR EVIL AA A A A SASS SS SNS SENS AA A A A NaS SY AA A A SN AAS S SSS SNES be * gn Cora » 3% » 3% bgp a 3] spending because the level of corporate and personal taxation being what it is, Canadians, must certainly not be called upon to carry an even heavier burden in order that government spending shall ascend to still higher heights. "The promised cutbacks must be meaningful and, T repeat, they need to be made not only by Ottawa but by the provinces and municipalities, too, if inflation is to be checked . . , ." Mr. Jolly is right. We can be very sure that governments will not hesitate to accelerate public spending as soon as the economy shows signs of losing steam. They must not fail to ease up on the pedal now, when the need to do So is so apparent. ai , "Industry" . ~ Multiple Sclerosis A Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada is to be organized in the Oshawa area, according to Colonel J. M. Dunwoody, President of the Ont- ario Division. The new Chapter will - . serve the county of Ontario. The pur pose of the Chapter, which will be the Society's 19th in Ontario, is togtrength- en the Society and help it to serve the Multiple Sclerosis patients and the com- munity in a more efficient manner. Multiple Sclerosis patients and others .- interested in the seriousness of this problem and who would like to lend their support to the work of the So- ciety in the County, are invited to write to Multiple Sclerosis; 76 Avenue Road, Toronto 5, Ontario. Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the' central nervous._system which is fre- quently diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40. Often these young adults, many of them parents and just getting started in life, find themselves faced with a variety of symptoms--blurred or double vision, incoordination, stumb- ling or staggering gait, partial or com- pete paralysis. There is no known cure. The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada supports medical research into the cause and control of this great neu- rological disorder. This is made possibe by nominal mem- bership fees, private donations and - various appeals. THANKSGIVING IS THE BEST day in the year? Think carefully, now. (No objection to Yanks playing the game.) Originally, our holidays had religious over- - tones. Hence, the term holy days: Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving. Then we developed patriotic -- or, if you prefer -- political holidays. These include -such stirring times as Dominion Day, now better known as The First f July; British Empire and Cmmonwealth and The Queen's Birthday; Armistice or Remembrance Day. Finaly, we 'have a few pure pagan holidays tossed in: Labor Day; Civic Holiday and New Year's Day. : : Well, let's start at the bottom, and elimin- ate. Civic Holiday has no significance what- ever. It's the day on which everyone gets out of town for the weekend, except the local merchants, who are supposed to get a civic hliday, but spend it working like mad at the service club carnival, raising money for some worthy cause, It isn't even a national holi- day. Big-city stores ignone it, Labor Day, as we all kitbw, far from being a tribute to organized labor, is a day on which nobody does a tap of work, except for getting their kids ready for school, or closing up the cottage, fa The next in insignificance is difficult to choose. We have Dominion Day, of course. ----Ag-a-Canadian; what-is-your-favorite holi=-- Er eat 50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, October 18, 1916 -Lt.-Col. McBrien has been promoted to the rank of General, being placed in command of the 4th Divi- + sion. PE Somewhat extensive re- pairs are being made at the power house, : Mr. S. Jeffrey has return- ed from an extended trip to the West, and has secured a considerable amount of busi- ness for his harness factory. Port Perry High School contributed $6.60 to the Edu- cational Department of the province of Ontario to raise a memorial to Edith Cavell within the Province. Cpt. J. Patten has arrived in Port Perry to take over recruiting here. He .is a veteran of the South Afri- can war. A fine new bridge is being built' over the Nonquon at Seagrave. : Once it was a day of horse races, picnics, boat 25 YEARS AGO * Thursday, October 26th, 1941 Mr. R. M. Holtby is in Peterboro this week attend- ing the International Plow ing match, Mrs. C. Harrison, Mrs. D. Luery and Mrs. Frank Har- rison, Myrtle, Attended the annual Section meeting of the Woman's Missionary So- ciety, which was held in Greenbank United Church. Miss Verna Niddery, R.N., Oshawa is spending some time with her parents at Prospect. obi The home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moase, Port Perry was the scene of a pretty wedding, when their only daughter Grace Lillian, be- came the bride of Mr. Frank Reader, Oshawa. Mrs. Fisher who has been visiting her sister Mrs. M, Munro, Prospect, has return- ed to her home in Geneva, N.Y. : excursions, and speeches in the park. .Now it is merely a day which, annoyingly, doesn't always fall on a Monday or Friday. And we have that whatever-it<is Day in May. It used to be Queen Victoria's Birth- _ther to exchange lies, drink, and listen to the inevitable speaker trying to convince them it was all worthwhile. Good Friday is gloom, darkness and bitter wind, remnants of snow drifts. A day of death, sacrifice and sorrow. ..Cold, cold, and f sea a HE RR YEARS AGO 10 "Thursday, October 18, 1956 Mr Hugh Baird, 22 year old Ontario' County Powman won the Canadian Champ- ionship, at the International Plowing match. He will be a competitor in the world plowing championship match held in the United States next year. Two cars driven by Port Perry people collided on the Oshawa road just south of Port Perry. Mr. Wilmot Walkers car went out of control and sideswiped a car driven by Mr. Norman Cro- zier, Sister Lucille Gray was in- stalled as Noble Grand of Maybelle Rebekah Lodge, by District Deputy Sister Mil- dred Rainie. Seagrave . United Church held their Golden Jubilee on Sunday, October 21st. day. In the morning trees were planted. For the rest of the day, and night, you burned your fingers on firecrackers and your eye- brows on Roman Candles, I guess what we're supposed to do now is sit around and think of our Commonwealth brother in Zambia and Senegal, or the Queen, whose birthday is in another month, or something? What we actually do is open the cottage, or go fishing. And then of course, there is New Year's Day." Hangovers and broken resolutions. Ac- tually, New Year's depends on how fervently vou first-footed it on the preceding eve. It can be as bleak as a beverage room, or as rambunctious as a rooster. But ahead of it there lie three cold, dark dreary and deadly months of winter. The two saddest holidays of the year are Remembrance Day and Good Friday. And, appropriately, they come at the most dismal times of the year. On Nov. 11th, the sky weeps, the widows and mothers weep, the flags droop at half- mast and the bells toll. The only joint in town that jumps is the Legiongfall. After the solemn rites have ended, old cronies ga- the earth is dead and frozen. Christmas is another thing. . A season of peace and joy on earth with goodwill toward men, according to the ads and the intermin- able carols. But, let's be honest. By the time The Day has arrived, you are baffled, bushed and broke. a That leaves nothing else but Thanksgiving. That's my choice, every year. It's the best Canadian holiday, and we had a wonderful one this year. . First, there are the physical delights. Weather is usually fine -- brisk and bright. Scenery is magnificent: blue, bronzé and crimson, Blood bubbles in the veins. Fire feels good. Food tastes like mever before. Lungs lap clean air. Sleep is sweet, smooth and as dreamless as whipped honey. : And then there' the thanksgiving itself. Thanks for good health. Thanks I'm alive. Thanks for children. Thanks for a good har- vest, or fat beef, or a steady job. Thanks for a chance to go on living through another year of those other holidays until T can say thanks again. ~Toronto Telegram News Service enjoy good food and. v