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NR = . wie Stink sang a pleaging duet, "Anywheré] wg -kinds of strong drink and from| "may be of interest and appro . pupils and Seagrave Young Peo- of Toronto, called on Mr. and "chair, "introduced the guest speaker, When King Alochol, the monster £ + ; . i * he Se : - PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, APRIL 19th, 1934 RY STAR SAMUEL FARMER, Editor and Publisher ¥s , FIRESIDE. Lost love tu rarely revived. ; Livi frigid Love 100% : g H eo jealousy, certainty Susplelon feeds starves It, 3 ¢ & @ It 1s easier to hurt those who love us than those who do not. ; We are more fooled by our own sgotism than by flatterera. : : ¢ 0. | "We often get credit for good quall- ties by hiding our bad ones. . 8 8 Those who boast of many friends are | x generally advertising thelr own vir Mrs. F. White is visiting her son in Toronto this week. Mrs. John Masters spent a few days in Toronto this week. Mrs. Ralph Butt and children spent this week end with Mr, and Mrs. John Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Smappy, Buffalo, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Mitchell recently. ; Glad to report Mrs. Fursey is Some better at the time of writ- NE a ie Don't forget that the Com- munity' Club will hold a concert and dance in the Mancester Hall on April 26th. Program will be given by Port Perry High School . tues. ple along with other talent. A good time is looked for, Ladies ith cakes, free. = Admission C7 Phi Mr. and Mrs, Wilmer Boadwin, Mrs. Chas. Gerrow, on Friday of last week. ; op The April meeting of the W. A. was held on Thursday after- noon at the home of Mrs, C. W. . Moon with thirty-eight members and visitors present. The presi- dent, Mrs. Jas. Shunk, in the She was-assisted in the opening devotional exercises by Mrs. B. F, Green and Mrs. A. L. Orchard. The Scripture lesson was read by Mrs, F. Watson. Mrs. E. Butt gave an interesting reading which was appreciated. After the minutes and the roll call were dealt with Mrs. 8S. J. Wooldridge favored with a vocal . solo "Sunset". The resignation, as secretary, was received with regret, from-Mrs, Wm. Moase, owing to ill health, Mrs, S. J. Wooldridge was appointed to fill the vacancy, with Mrs. E. Butt - as assistant. The president then] ' Ry Miss R. Duff, W.C.T.U. Field Secretary, who gave a very in- spiring and helpful address on Temperance, which was thor- oughly enjoyed and appreciated. Mrs. R. Scott and Miss Ila Moon © With Jesus." At the close of the meeting a lovely lunch was served by the comimttee in charge, and-a social time spent. A hearty vote of thanks was ex- tended to Miss Duff for her ad- dress. A number of the mem- bers accepted the invitation and have joined the W.C.T.U. Great things may be the outcome ef® the year 1934 ends. : * On Friday afternoon Miss Duff paid a visit to the school where another impressive talk was given to the children and several ~ visitors were present to enjoy the splendid advice given to the children to abstain from all . Below we quote verses that priate: Shall We Yield Valiantly our fathers wrestled On the battlefields of yore Held his sway from shore to shore. id PHULOSORIER' |. * + . - W. E. N. Sinclair eceives Liberal " Acclamation At one of the largest Liberal Conventions ever held in South Ontario, Mr. W. E. N. Sinclair was nomina-. ted by acclamation to represent this riding in the forthcoming Provincial election--at 'Whitby on Wed- 'nesday evening of this week. i After the business of nomination was concluded, the speakers of the evening were introduced, Mr. W. A, Dryden presiding. i 3 Mr. Sinclair, the first speaker, was received with enthusiastic applause. He outlined his position in the House, and his statement was well received. He had supported the Liberal platform and continues to sup- portit. Mr. W. H, Moore, M.P., followed in an in- tensely interesting address, referring clearly to the financial situation in. the Province and the Dominion. - PROPOSAL TO DRAIN THE © MARSH H. G. HUTCHESON % About 1880, Port Perry was surprised to hear a proposition to drain the marsh that we now know as "The Game Preserve." A private banker, of which there were 8 number in Ontario at this time, a Mr..Codd, of Bowmanville, had become enamored of the idea that the South end of Lake Scugog could easily be drained and the land used for grazing. Cattle, he argued, could be bought when thin in the spring at a low price, and after a summer on grass could be sold to advantage before frost. A citizen of Port Perry, John A. Cull, was the active agent at this end, Title was secured to the submerged land, which at that date had considerable more water on it than now, and as the Cart- wright Roadway had not then been built, the problem of a dam or dyke was a difficult one. that stage: A few piles were driven on. the south side of the present Scugog Roadway .at the east end, were they were still visible until a few years ago. About this time Codd began to realize that he had taken on too large an order and was getting into deep water, or shall we say "getting mired", as the more suitable metaphor? His fears seem to have been communicated to the depositors of his bank who started a run. The run was very short lived for the reason that the supply of funds to meet the demands was meagre and his doors closed never to open again. Not one cent of dividend was ever paid to his creditors. TEN Codd, had formerly been manager of thé Bowmanville branch of the Dominion Bank, and had continued as a private banker upon the withdrawal of the Dominion, and from his training in a chartered bank might reasonably have been expected to. have avoided the tying up of his deposits in such an unsound venture, was sunk in this foolish enterprise. ~~ Cull had a claim for moneys advanced, secured by mortgage on the property. He foreclosed his mortgage and sold the pro- perty to the original "Scugog Game Preserve Co." in 1889. -- -- The cloging of this open water to the public was a shock to local sportsmen who had been accustomed to hunt and shoot over it and it was not.until a test case was made in the courts that they would believe they could be fined as trespassers. "PRIEST OF THE AIR --- By Francis Rufus Bellamy, in Readers Digest" Father Charles E. Coughlin (pronounced Cowglin) has raised himself in eight years from an obscure parish priest with 17 listeners to a radio crusader with an estimated weekly audience of 10 million--probably the largest steady radio audience in the world. This "gloomy cleric of Royal Oak," as he called himself back in the impoverished days when he slept, shivering, in the un- heated sacristy of his shingled church and wrote all his own letters longhand, can now hire a staff of 150 clerks and spend $380,000 a year for his own radio hook-up. He is building a million dollar edifice, and is said to bring over 5000 gouls-a year to his faith. He has become the confident of prominent men in Washington and he walks in and out the White House. His potential influence on the trend of events in America has aroused some of the most Lheated discussion of the year. Whether the leaders of his faith like it or not, he has definitely put the Catholic Church in politics. Despite his own statement that too many priests have been engaged in getting money from the people instead of to the people, Father Coughlin has gotten from the people more money than probably any single Catholic priest in the history of the world, in a like time. He receives 10,000 letters a day, approxi- mately 60% from non-Catholics, A big star like Rudy Vallee gets only 2500 unsolicited letters a month. Father Coughlin on oc- casion has received more than a million letters in. response to a gingle broadcast. And Father Coughlin's mail contains cash. He walked into a Detroit bank one Tuesday nforning and deposited $22,000 in one dollar bills which had arrived in Monday's mail. It was by no means an unusual 'occurrence. . Ignored by the press for several years after his radio broad- casts had made him a power to be reckoned with, he has now be- come the storm center of violent controversy in the newspapers. 1 Letters such as the following in the New York Herald Tribune have been appearing almost-daily all over the country: "A revolution which will make the French Revolution look = a (Continued on column 7)i3 5 tt (ER : (Continued on page 8) However, operations never reached] . tho' it is hard-from this end to credit his statement that $60,000 | \ . cluding the Government grant. - of $45 per pupil for educating 170 pupils. . this type dees not pay. tt A A A month ago [March 15, to be exact] an article appeared on the front page of the Star, héaded "Town Finances in Good Condition," in which an outline of the "town's financial progress was given by the auditor, Mr. Hutcheson. In that arti- cle the good work of the Council in reducing taxes at a time of financial s:ringency, was clearly stated. f Now comes the word that a further reduction has been made in the tax rate, which will be 48 mills in 1934. This will make a reduction of six mills since 1931, The record runs -- 1931, 54 mills; 1932, 63 mills; 1933, 50 mills; and 1934, 48 mills. This reduetion is particularly gratifying in view of the additional expense which has been placed upon the town in the matter of relief and a heavy County rate. It will interest our readers to know the proportion of cost of the various de- partments of town upkeep, The General Rate is 13.6 mills; the Debenture Rate is * 7.8 mills; the County Rate is 10.4 mills; and the School Rate is 16.2 mills. A word of explanation as to the School Rate. The 16.2 mills includes several items of expense. First there is the maintenance. This, of course, is largely for the upkeep of the Public School. Last year this was slightly less than $6000, in- ; Adding the annual debenture payment of $1652, (the Public School share) there is a total of $7650. This gives an approximate cost J] When it is remembered that the aver- age cost per pupil throughout the Province is $78, this is a creditable and econom- ical showing. The same financial carefulness is noted in connection with the High School, which last year cost the town $1100 for maintenance, plus $3200 for deben- tures, a total cost to the town of $4300 for the education of 140 High School pupils. The grants pay the rest. By the way, unless you pay amusement tax for movies, horse races, etc., you pay no part of the Provincial grants for education. When the County and Provincial grants are added to the cost, the rate per pupil is still less than $100, while tne average throughout the Province is about $150 per pupil. Two other items should be mentioned about school costs. In the first place everyhody knows that this has been a hard winter, and the cost of fuel has been much heavier than usual, In spite of the extreme cold, the school has been kept in comfortable condition, and there was no lost time. The other item was the re- placing of the roof. It might properly be remarked here that the roof would not have needed to be replaced if the original specifications had not been altered to meet certain insistent demands for "economy."' It is evident that "economy" of In spite of these increased financial demands the school estimates are only $176 more than the estimates of last year. Port Perry 1934 Tax Rate - Reduced to 48 mills. . THE CHALLENGE OF THE CHURCH A week ago last Sunday night Rev, Dr. Thornton preached a sermon in the United Church which received much .favorable comment. That sermon was a challenge by the church to the church members. It was not a challenge levelled at one particular church or denomination; but it was a challenge that should be ac- cepted by all Christian people. The need for real Christian living has never been so great. No N.R.A. can take its place. The text upon which the sermon was based reads:--"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." There was nothing mean or cramped in the life that Dr. Thornton pictured as the desirable, true way of liv- ing, There is ample scope for every legitimate development in life--intellectual, physical, social, and religious. It is a life "more abundant." The challenge to young and old was to live this life as the surest means of saving civilization. Still another challenge was issued. This time Dr, Thornton 'spoke to church officials and church members, Youth needs guidance and sympathetic understand- ing. What is the church doing about it? What is the church going to do about it? Thousands of young people drift away from the influence of the church, and become indifferent, cynical, or even hostile to the Christian way of life. Nobody seems to care.- If young people attend church and Sunday School, well-and good. become active Christian workers, so much the better. -The church is pleased. But if thi€ drifting process begins, there is seldom an active campaign to prevent it. This challenge of the church is a challenge to people of ability. Unfortunately this challenge is frequently ignored by people of this class. They live decently and happily themselves, and fail to see the menace of undeveloped and degenerating lives about them. If they do consider the matter at all, they come to the conclusion If they that it is none of their business, and they will not interfere. These same people are -- generous in relieving physical distress, but they have a horror of beoming "reform- ers."" This is the pet aversion of many otherwise splendid people, who know that wrongs exist; but they make no attempt to remedy the evil. . The day will never tome when there will cease to be the need of vital human sympathy. Laws can not take its place. Indeed our present legal attempts to re- mankind without sympathetic help may head us for social destruction. This becomes particularly evident when one sees the indifference or contempt in" which protective laws are held. Even the red lights are ignored by pedestrians who are in such a hurry that they cannot stop half a minute to save their lives. : The church offers a worthy field in which to work for humanity. It also offers a place of fellowship in which we can reverently worship God. Dr, Thornton has brought the challenge of the. church to our people. challenge that we cannot afford to ignore, In thousands of churches every Sunday the same challenge goes forth. No criticism of the church will relieve us of the responsibility of proper personal conduct and the need of those about us, if we are in a position to meet that need. The church is what we make it, or allow it to be- come, have the active support of every person who can be of service to humanity. Itisa The church can do a splendid piece of work in any community, and should SEAGRAVE (continued from column 1) Naught recked they of taunts or terror! strong! Forward still they bore the banner Through the struggles grim and long. Their's the honor--ours the blessing-- Of the freedom that they won; Now another battle's raging-- Shall their work be all undone? "God forbid it?" Let the answer Ring o'er fair Ontario, We, the children of the these sires Once again shall rout thé foe. What we have, we'll hold and never, Wider conquests we shall gain; And our country, free and pros- perous, A very. successful pie social and concert were enjoyed on Fri- day evening in the S. S. room of the United Church under the auspices of the Y.P.S. The pro- gram consisted of the follow: Bethel trio favored with various numbers, readings by the Misses E. Graham and M. Eagleson, vocal duet by Misses F. and N. McMillan; of Greenbank; songs with harp accompaniment by Doris Wallace. The main fea- ture of the program was a pre- sentation of a purse and sum of money to Miss F. McMillan in recognition of her valuable ser- vices rendered in connection 'with the Glee Club during the past several months, for which a very suitable reply was made. Mr. Harold Jackson in his pleas- ing manner read the address and made the presentation. Mr. R. Scott aunctioned "ff the pies on display, which netted the sum of $8.40. Miss R. Duff, of Toronto, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. Reynolds, while in the village. have returned home from a very pleasant week spent with rela- tives in Toronto. They were ac- companied by the latter's sister Miss Frances Gess, South Bend, Indianna, who will spend a holi- day here. Mr. L. Scott spent a few days with relatives in Peterboro. Sorry to report Mr. H. Eagle- son under the doctor's care. Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Cephas Sleep on their re- cent marriage. The community and district in general have lost another highly respected citiezn in the death of Richard Martin, which occurred day, April 8th, in his 73rd year. The late Mr. Martin was beloved by all who knew him for his cheerful and kindly personality, which in spite of great suffering at times, was borne patiently to the last. Born in- the District of Okshampton, England, Coun- ty of Devon, in the year, 1861, the son of Philip and Patience Martin, he came to Little Britain 50 years ago. In July, 1891 he married Isabella Matilda Broad.. Farming in Mariposa Township until five years ago, he retired to the village of Seagrave. There' are left to morn, his loving wife, one daughter Luella (Mrs. Hay- wood Short), of Seagrave, and One sister Harirett, Mrs, Davey, and one brother William, living in England, and three grand- 'children. A brother predeceased '| him some years ago. "The funeral which was largely attended, was held from the resi- dence of his son Albert Martin, Lot 2, Con. 2, Mariposa, on Wed- nesday, April 11th,~at 2.30 p.m. Rev. B. F. Green delivered a very mon and the choir rendered "Does Jesus Care." The pall- bearers were: Messrs. Rogers, were lovely, thoughts. : Recalling his companionship for years I bring these wreaths," besprinkled with my tears: ' showing kindly And emblems of a cheerful heart refined, I place them, mindful of his love and trust Above the. tomb that holds his sacréd dust. Naught of foes both fierce and Free, God willing, shall remain. /- Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Mark - at Port Perry Hospital on Sun- one son Albert on the homestead. . impressive and appropriate ser- Reynolds, Couch, Frise, Moon and J. Short. The floral tributes . These wreatha--the product of a fertile mind, % Nort! i . ee SL a ad EH Nall . Fes » DR a rN » Api fe a ~ --- in J i I EB Rr gies, ~~ i hS y -- CR ---- i =e A ETA 7 ak esr Fan gots ie es ft ds a i SA a ie EA y a SO rr Sy a a a No 7 tahoe N14 SSG --_ i -- $ oy i Fe, vo) dd N SE rn, Cand Pas oh Ned te LENIN eT vs fel vim i 3 rl x i Brae a Bra NT a ~ ne A, TE TTS FN 0 NLR a, PT RT Seto gh pes SU Ya, To gyre FE SUONC ANS Ara Se Nel