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It's time to stop talking it is not usually the position of a weekly The time has come to make more than just o 'fundamental review." The country is at an economics crossroads, the future of which will determine whether we stand as a politically and economically independent nation, or fall into complete oblivion. It is imperative thot at this time the right steps be token. Canada must determine what needs ore required to maintain @ decent standard of living, and more important. must determine whether these needs can be realized within Canada, using Canadian resources, Canadian labour and technology, and Canadian capital, in a manner dependent upon nobody We hove the resources, we have sufficient capital, the rest is up to you, the people. If it means @ sacrifice, if it means going without a second car, a colour TV. or a vacation abroad, then surely this is o small price to pay for the future of our nation. Call it ultra-nationalism, call it pan-nationalism, or even chauvinistic nationalism. Call it whatever you want. it is time thot this nation stands On its own feet. to go alone. Economists moy argue thot it can't be done. Hogwash! Whot have they got to do with it? The onus is om you-the consumer. If you decide to get off your hands for a change and do something, then it will be done. J. B. M. > PORT PERRY STAR % COMPANY, LIMITED Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assiciation Published every Wednesday by The Port Perry Star Co. Lid, Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second clans maill by the Post Office Department, Ottawa. and for payment of postage in cash Serond Clans Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr, Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ BLACK Days FOR PEKING Tors { BILL MILEY S UGAR ano Spice BIZZARE ANSWERS TO A-YEAR TO GO Recently I wrote a column on the subject of what the individual would do if he or she had one year to live. I asked for suggestions from readers and have received quite a few. Perhaps the most interesting ideas came from a Grade 9 class. Their teacher had suggested my topic and asked them to write an essay on it. The results were revealing, touching in some cases, rather horrifying in others. I'll give you a sampling, reproduced just as they were written, grammar and in most cases, the boys were brief and pungent. The girls tended to write what the teacher might think was worthy, with a few notable exceptions. They waxed romantic and dramatic. The boys were blunt and honest. Grace: "About a month before I was to die I would go to a church every day talking to _~/@04 and then later to a priest." Lynne: "If I had one year to nve I would quit school, leave home and go live with my brother in Montreal. When I died well I guess I die," Debbie: "I would quite school and . . . go to Las Vegas because my mother and father _. . Said it is the best place to go if you want and get all kinds of trouble .. ."" Susan would smoke in front of her parents and come and go as she pleased with no housework or baby-sitting to do "and probably get anything I wanted, especially from my dad." Bonnie: "I would like to leave school, leave home and go with a motor-cycle gang fora year . . . have cops after me all the time and get in lots of trouble. And about one month before I was to die I would try to take a trip on speed and see what it really did. And just live in freedom." Tom: "I would borrow 5,000 and make a formula to blow up the world just before I died I would blow up the world." That's one way out Tom. Jim; "I would like to turn 18 and quit school, start drinking, get my drivers license and start working." There's a combination. Tom : I would get leave of school and bum it all the way. And by a snowmobile and a Frank: 'I would go to banks and borrow 20,000 and go have some fun. First I qould go and steal a car and smash it up. I would buy a lot of food and give it to Care. I would go to Toronto and steal a bunch of junk and sell it to somebody. I would burn down the schools and factors." There's a nice, wholesome kid Steve: "First I would quit school. Then ~ since I'm 18 go out and get stoned (bloody maries). After about a week recovery I'd buy a .303 and shoot President Nixon (good). Then I'll go to the electric chair and go the fast way." , Jim: "IT would want to go all over the world with my wife write a will leaving everything to my wife and would Continued on page 19 iit if if ap if a Ip BE 11:15 a.m.--Morning prayer and Church School PORT PERRY BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. D. C. Payne, Pastor SUNDAY, OCT. 17th-- 9:50 am.--Bible School 11:00 a.m.--Three Bible Ways to Take Care of Yourself. 7:00 p.m.--Denomina- tionalism" A Curse! or a Blessing? Wednesday, 8 p.m.-- Prayer & Bible Study United Church of Canada SCUGOG Pastoral Charge SUNDAY, OCT. 17th-- 9:45 a.m.--SCUGOG 11:15 a.m.--MANCHESTER PENTECOSTAL CHURCH Rev. R. Batten, Rev. I. MacLean 10 a.m.--Family Bible Hour 11 a.m.--Morning Worship 7:00 p.m.--Evang. Service. INVEST NOW! VICTORIA & GREY TRUST Guaranteed Investments FIVE YEARS AGins" 191 Queen St. Port Perry Telephone 985-7306 N Mo Jar on n spr Th Mi fun bre Ru las his Re ) file gu » a 7 * . > . + © + o . e . * . .