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SAMUEL FARMER, Editor and Publisher "PORT PERRY STAR < - rrr ES SN PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MAY 27th, 1948 ° "] Watch your label; it tells when your 21 va & 5 Subscription expires. * + 0» per year inadvance. LH cents a single copy a EDITORIAL Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, Ris first, best country over is at home.--Goldsmith, DANGER! -- SULFA Toronto Saturday Night carries a warning, by Dyson Carter, against the use except upon the prescription of a competent phy- ' sician. "Let us get down to, cases. rageous. These drugs should to people suffering from mild diseases (such as the cold) which are self-limiting.- And control over the initial dosage of sulfa drugs is not cnough; even if the patient shows no immediate symptoms of poisoning; extreme sensitivity to the drug may appear at any time. So great is the danger that any patient who has previously taken a sulfa drug should, before further treat- ment, be tested with not more than 1% grain not indicate the visible symptoms of sulfa "sensitivity", taken by mouth. (We be judged only by a physician)." The article says in part: To prescribe sulfa drugs for a cold or ordinary sore throat is out- The extreme danger that constant sensational DRUGS of Sulfa Drugs, broadcasts may bring reached its climax a few years ago when Orson Welles put on his Broad- cast from Mars, and the people in New York in many cases went wild with fear. There is a certain grimness and calmness that _ must be built up in all of us, if we are to be fit never be given silence", days. hours. since' these can Don't -leave your radio running, without refe- rence to what is being broadcasted. just as well to give the machine a rest sometimes, to face any real trials when they come, if they do. Such a state of mind will not be the result of constant radio listening. "Even the theatres have some hours off, when they and the public can enjoy the "solace of some But the radio keeps going from the break of day till long past midnight -- sixteen hours out.of the twenty-four, Libraries are open only during certain Museums and Art Galleries are open but a few hours in the day. much of the time. son's "Brook"--it goes on forever, ' Schools have holi- Churches are closed too But the Radio is like Tenny- It will be 'New ones are scarce. "What do you know about the mental damage that results from sulfa poisoning ? aware that no airplane pilot is a plane for several days after sulfa has been ad- realize experience reveals extreme mental dangers- in ministered? Do you: sulfa drugs?" * * * * ALL IS GRIST TO THE MILL It must be an unpleasant task to constantly "strafe" Premier Mackenzie. King. hardly expect the following quotation from an address by Archbishop Owen, Anglican Primate of all Canada, to be the text from which to launch But "All is grist to the Globe and Mail mill", when this subject can be dragged one more tirade. mn: "Canada has no need to be ashamed of her war 1 am profoundly impressed with it. effort. ' say that with the utmost deliberation, great undertaking, Thank God for it. We should be proud and thankful men and women." It is time to call a moratorium, a halt, a sus- pension of activity, or whatever you like to call it, on this general and continuous state of dis- Satisfaction. It is doing no good, and is spoiling a tradition for fairness that used to be considered | to be the due of The Globe and days before the amalgamation. Mackenzie King is our Premier, and-in the eyes of non-partisan observers, has been a competent leader of a Government that has had to face stu- pendous difficulties, * 0% * 0% WANTED--THE SOLACE OF SOME SILENCE When a man like Gladstone Murray, who used to be manager of the CBC, says we need the - "solace of some silence", we may take it as an authoritative statement. We are living in jittery Are you allowed to enter that clinical Ld * * * 18 CENSORSHIP RIDICULOUS? © Trying to lash up enthusiasm in a ward rally in Toronto, T. L. Church, M.P., is quoted as de- claring that the people of Canada were not being told the "real facts" about the conduct of the One would I It is a the Mail, in the war and that there exists a "ridiculous censor- ship by a lot of amateurs." Is wartime censorship ridiculous? person would accept that. Censorship is an in- dispensable weapon of warfare." " ) Is Canada's censorship "ridiculous" and run "by a lot of amateurs"? Mr, Church doesn't know what he is talking about. ~ Press and radio censorship in Canada is handled almost entirely by men of long experience in the business of handling news and views. Church meant that they are amateurs at with- holding facts, he would be right. press censorship staff has shown itself imbued with the aim of giving the public as much infor- mation -as promptly as possible and to withhold only that information which common sense and expert advisors on military supply and intelli- gence matters show clearly to be desirable. ----------Canadian-censorship-has- sometimes erred. It has had staff men who havé sometimes erred in & No sensible If Mr. But Canada's suppressing for a few days or a few weeks facts which thousands of Canadians knew and which enemy intelligence certainly did. Censorship has perhaps erred in some cases in letting too many facts be known too soon. People who know the workings of censorship intimately in this country, and those who can com- times. Our nerves are keyed to a high pitch. pare it with censorship in Britain, the United States and elsewhere, very readily testify to the general good sense and efficiency, of the Canadian , censorship and to the frankness and fullness of the war reports regularly given distribution to the Canadian public. --The Financial Post THE PATRIOTIC PROGRAMME The Union Jack "Tis thy flag and my flag, the best of all flags on'ecarth; Oh, cherish it, my children, for 'tis ' yours by right of birth. Your fathers fought, your fathers died," to rear it to the sky; And we, like them, Will never yield, but keep it flying high. : "Tis thy flag and my flag--across the ocean wide : Our kinsmen look upon it with a thrill * of love and pride; It speaks to them in distant lands, wherever they may roam, Of honour, faith, and freedom bright; of country, King and home. "Tis thy flag and my flag; dark mil- lions own its sway, ~ And know that 'neath its ample folds their night is turned to day. With us they join in heartfelt prayer, ascending to the sky That God will bless the dear flag, and keep it flying high, Miss Irene Mulligan, Narrator ' Narrator: upon the British Empire. Its people live in countries scattered all around the world. Theif homes are on every continent and on islands in. every sea, - They are a freedom loving people, eager to maintain their own liberty and willing that others should enjoy the same privilege they demand for themselves, They are a peace lov- ing people, going their way with no wish to quarrel with their neighbours, They hava been forced to fight in many wars but they hate war and after 1918 they hoped that war would be banished from the earth. When Hitler began to arm the Ger- mans and to threaten his neighbours, the British people thought that his threats were idle words, and that there was no danger of war, Because they hated war and did not believe that war would come, its coming found them unprepared. In the words ef the Prime Minister Churehill (a pupil) "Sir, we did not make this war. We did not seek it. We did all we could to avoid it. We did too much to avoid it. 'We went so far in trying to avoid it as to be almost destroyed by it when it broke upon us," 3 Narrator: The British Government did everything within its power to pre. vent war but-the Germans overran Austria and Czecho-Slovekia, and in September, 1939, struck at Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany and British soldiers moved to France to take their place beside their French comrades. Hitler belieyed that the British were weak. He believed that they would The sun never sets not fight, He thought that the Empire was falling to pieces and that the Do- minions would stand aloof from a European struggle, : On that fateful September day a message - was - flashed around the world: "Britain is at war with Ger: many". The message was picked up in "Australia, One hour later the "Liverpool, with lightning strokes, the Nazi hordes descended upon Denmark, Nor- way and Holland. They entered Bel- gium and set themselves to the su- preme task of conquering France. With a weight of force unparalleled in human history the Germans struck. They broke through the French lines, They poured into France. The armies of France and Britain were separated. The British were slowly forced back. Attacked from two sides, they fought against terrible odds. = Five enemies faced them for every soldier they could muster. Their tanks were de- stroyed. Their trucks were shattered, Mile by mile they stubbornly retired until they stood with their backs to the sea at Dunkirk. They were shattered by gunfire, harassed by aircraft. Ringed about by what was left of their guns. they fought on, In their hearts was no thought of surrender. Then from across the channel came the strangest fleet the world, has ever 'seen, Pleasure boats from the reaches of the Thames," ferry boats from Blackpool and Grimsby, fishing boats from Hull and Norwich, big boats, little boats, sail boats, power boats--everything that could be _ gathered from cruisers. to row boats-- Royal Australian Navy. slipped silent: ly into the station, Narrator: In the spring of 1940, night to take up its battle tugs and trawlers, smacks and schoon- ers, manned by fishermen, bank clerks, school teachers and office boys, crossed the channel to take-off the beaten British battalions. Day after day, this weird flotilla crossed and re- crossed the Strait of Dover while over. head roared the fighters of the R.A.F. driving off the deadly dive bombers. Three hundred and thirty-five thou- wo ~The J and their guns. High School "Open Night" The popularity of ""Open Night" at Port Perry High School was very evident from the large number of people who attended this event. 'Hall was crowded at the opening program, and those present were well rewarded for their attendance. The singing, under direction of Mrs. Rowe, was The harmony was most pleasing in the numbers given. Port Perry High School has received great praise from the Music Inspector for Ontario delightful. High Schools, The Patriotic Program, under direction of Miss Lois Spooner, was timely, 8o clear and concise an outline of the outbreak and progress of the war, that we are printing the narra- tive in this issue. Miss Clare Glass presided. display in the Gymnasium of the work of the ts, received the attention and praise it so well deserved. Among the exhibits might be noted-- studén The photos of former students now in the armed forces. ranged by Miss Spooner. « Models of Port Perry buildings, constructed un- der direction of Miss L, M. Harris. The typewriting demonstration, supervised by - Mrs. Clifford Coulter. Household Science display and demonstration, under direction of Miss Bryce. - Shop Work, directed by Mr. Foster Vernon. The Assembly and well presented, It was Port Perry High School Gathered and ar- sand British and French soldiers were brought back from the beaches of Dunkirk. They had lost their tanks They .were battered and weary, but the world knew they would be ready to fight. again. On the beach at Dunkirk, a tired British soldier sat beside a weary Frenchman. He said-- British Soldier: "Cheer up, matey, it's not all over yet." : French Soldier: France is lost. surrender." A French official in Paris said-- "France has fought valiantly, but she is conquered. The British, too, must give up the struggle." Hitler told his people-- "We have crushed the French, It is Britain's turn next. She would do well to make terms while yet there is time." Goebbels: "Our armies will have conquered the proud islands before the summer is over." German Airman: "The Fuerhrer will be in London in August." Narrator: But.from London, Win- ston Churchill spoke for the British people: : Churchill: "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Narrator: German armies massed on the consts of Holland and France. Now the British people stood alone and unarmed against .the threat of Glerman invasion. To meet the expect- ed invasion Britain had fewer than 50 tanks and only a couple of hundred field guns, some of them brought out of the museum. The Home Guard armed themselves with shot guns, an- cient rifles, muskets and knives to de- fend their homes. Then began the battle of Britain, that great struggle for air supremacy which raged from August 8th to the end of October 1040. Viciously the German Air Force struck at our ship- ping and harbours, our air-fields and factories. = The fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force, though vastly out- numbered, rose fearlessly to the at- tack. Day after day, watchers on the south coast of England saw small groups of our fighters take on whole squadrons of :Germans and send them scurrying home across the channel, British losses were heavy and all ser- vices strained, but Britain carried on. The most brutal phase of the battle came in the month of September when the city of London became the main target of German hate, In thirty days the capital withstood thirty-eight afr raids by day alone. London suffered. "It is the end. England, too, must Her docks, her warehouses, her fac- tories, her historic buildings, her homes, her hospitals and her ancient churches were blasted by bombs and burned by fire. Day after day for three long months our dauntless Spit- fires and Hurricanes struck at the in- vaders and blasted them from the skies. On one day alone one hundred and eighty-five German planes were shot down and the end of October, two thousand, three hundred and seventy-five German aircraft were de- stroyed. The R.A.F. was supreme. The battle of Britain was won, "Narrator: If the Germans hoped that in her hour of peril the British would be deserted by her Dominions, they were mistaken. Ship after ship brought soldiers from Canada, from Australian and from New Zealand. South African divisions advanced to attack the Italians who were threaten- ing Egypt and the Suez Canal. Dusky warriors from the hills of India, every man a volunteer, swarmed to the colours. © From all parts of the Empire young men came to 'Canada to be trained with their Canadian com- radés as air crews and increasing numbers of these intrepid airmen be- gan to pour into the Motherland. That bulwark of freedom, the Royal Navy, guarded convoys on all the seas and the naval forces of the Dominions fought in every water. Convoying troopships and merchantmen across the submarine infested seas is a grim and toilsome business that has been relieved by many gallant exploits. No tale is more thrilling than the daring of the three small' cruisers, Ajax, Achilles and Exeter, which ran to earth, in the harbour of Montevideo, the powerful Graf Spee and drove her to a shameful suicide; or the story of the Fleet "Air Arm whose torpedo planes, launched from the heaving deck of the gallant Ark Royal crippled the great Bismark and left her rolling and helpless while the hounds of the Fleet raced in for the kill; or the story of two yonng Canadians who boarded a submarine, which their ship, the Canadian corvette Oakville, had dis- abled, and captured the whole crew be- drive home the oft-repeated lesson of history that victory is not always to the strong, but to the stout heart. Narrator: In the motherland fac- tories that had been turning out the innocent utensils of peace were now making tanks and ships and' guns and In the Dominions, peacetime indus- tries turned to the making of weapons to put in the hands of their fighting men, While her forces at home were still unarmed and unequipped, Britain sent men and weapons that could ill be spared to Egypt and the Middle East. In the words of Mackenzie King: "It was the presence in England of the first and second Canadian divi- (Continued on back page) fore the submarine sank, These tales] planes to strike the dreaded enemy. | --_---- I Ex NI] SIN Letter§to Those on Active Service To 'the Home Folks Away from Home. We're feeling a bit blue these days: Meat rationing starts this week. about the long continued wet weather. At the time of writing, many of the farmers have no seeding done. This is bad business in a year when more food is needed than was ever needed before. But we have had bad starts before this, and have come out all vight in the eml. So we'll hope for the best. In town there is a real transformation, The trees will soon be in full leaf. There are busy people in the gardens these days. The event of the week was th& Open Night at the High School. The staff and students put on a good show. 1 wish you could have heard the sing- ing. It is not much wonder that the Music Inspector gives high praise to Port Perry High School for its sing- ing. The Patriotic Program was ex- ceptionally fine. Do you remember the time when you had to- speak your piece? Well, there was a whole row of speakers in this set-up, and they declaimed in fine style with Irene Mul- ligan as the Narrator. What she nar- rated will be found elsewhere in this issue. It was such a clear and concise resume of the war and what the Allies ure doing, that 1 thought I would print it pretty much as it was read. We need to get the thing straight these days, for if you were to read the Globe and Mail or the Telegram, you'd think that nothing was right if Mackenzie King had anything to do with it.. To get back to Open Night, the centre of attraction in the display in the Gymnasium was a splendid group of pictures of former students of Port Perry High School who are in military service in the present World War, There are 100 all told, and Miss Spooner undertook to secure pictures of as many as possible. The response was splendid. Ninety-one out of the hundred pictures were secured; You may be sure that there was a crowd around that exhibit all the evening. The list of names will be found else- here in this issue. - Two pounds per person per week. Ve- getarians will have the best of it. But the poor fellow who is used to his daily porterhouse steak, he's out of luck. The butcher thinks he's out of luck, too. It's all very easy to go in and order a couple of pounds of meat, and present the necessary coupon; but when it comes to cutting the exact two pounds of flesh, the butcher will be in about as bad a pickle as Shylock. It_will not be eisy to guess exact weights in cutting meat. And you can't shake just a little bit more on to the scale if the weight is a bit short, or take a wee pinch off if there is slightly too much to make the proper balance. The young folk are making another stab at fixing up a tennis court at the Town Hall. They are beginning to find the need of some recreation at home, and are turning. in to do the necessary work to make things go. That's the way to get it. To-day's slogan is--"If you want anything done do it yourself--if you can", Once in a while the-general public takes the bit in itgajReth, as in the case of the 24th of May. The Domin- ion calendar of legal holidays does not include the 24th; but you remember the old rhyme-- bi The twenty-fourth of May Is the Queen's' Birthday, If you don't give us a holiday, We'll all run away. Most municipalities, proclaimed the 24th a General Holiday. Toronto took the lead. Most of us feel like taking a holiday 'after that long hard Winter and late Spring. It is a good time to put in the Garden anyway--the Vie- tory Garden that we may need much more than we now suspect. Cheerio. - Yours truly, THE EDITOR. CHINESE RELIEF TAG DAY SATURDAY, MAY 29th China needs and deserves our support. Treat the taggers generously. They give their time freely in. this practical method of showing our appreciation of Chinese heroic endurance. They need our help. 7 ws Former Students of the Port Perry High School now in the Services In so far as we have been wef ascertain, this is our complete list Bf ex-students (of the High School only) in the Services, for 91 of whom we have snapshots or photos. There are 100 names in the complete list-- Fred Colbear Joel Aldred Richard Steer Clarence Beare Garnet Weir Vyrtle Crozier Archie Crozier Bill Stephens Bruce Oke James Kerr Allan Aldred Ivan Rogers Bert DeShane Archie MacMaster John Leahy Hughes Williamson Archie Crozier Archie Anderson 'Douglas Dale Kenneth Lee Harold Hood Gordon Hood Jack Cooney Glenn Moase Frank Denshdni Elmer Lee Hugh Rogers Milbert Howsam Malcolm Nasmith Bill Aldred George Howsam Bob Ewers : Harold Bentley Lorne Beare Harry B. Carnegie Tom Hayden Kenneth Hillier Robert Crozier Clare Wooldridge Byron Holtby Grant Roberston Murray Luke George. Emmerson = Alex Woods Reginald Moase Fred Densham Harvey Clark Mansel Gerrow Walter Sheridan John Orde Murray Holtby Bill Leahy George Stone John Christie Leonard Colbear Tom Meneely John I. Sweetman Nicholls Grant McDermott George Mulligan Bill Willard Ross Wooldridge Jack Sangster "Ted Cooney Dennis Steer Bryce Moase Robert Sheridan Robert Allin Gordon Carnegie Donald Tom Harris Hugh Nasmith Charles Cann Terry Woods Bruce Beare Sid Brinkman Harold Hayes Harold Scott Burgess Beare Earl Jackson Bill Beare Harry Carnegie Morley Honey Laura Rogers Elizabeth Crozier Florence McMillan ~~ Beth Griffen 'Doris Mulligan ~~ Joan Hayden Enid Wallace Mabel Buttle Glenn-MacMaster No Pictures-- Grant Real Ed Bennett Ralph Emmerson Edgar Emmerson : Walter Reynolds Morley Luke Douglas Pilkey Melville Lakey Reid MacFarlane Elwobdd Crozier