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Shed Sahat a a . 3 WERE ul WEE © IRR ne > ---------- Watch your lakel; it tells whem your Subseription expires. ¢ 8 $1.50 per year in advance 6 cents a single copy PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9th, 1945 EDITORIAL * Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, his first, best country ever is at home.--Goldsmith, POSTWAR PLANNING Every person in this community 'owes a debt to those who have given military service in the European and Pacific wars. In some degree we are indebted to all who have honorably done their duty as war workers. How shall we pay that debt? There is really only one proper way, and that is to provide living conditions that shall promote the development of - good citizenship. For this purpose we need: 1. Employment for all who can work; 2, Recreational facilities for young and old. Several agencies are at work upon the first re- quirement. Locally the question is--What can be done to encourage our young people (service men and women, or otherwise) to settle here and make their homes in this community ? The answer to that question must be given by all citizens. Therd is room for far more employ- ment in Port Perry than is at present being given. The trouble is that there has not been strong enough demand that many much needed projects be actually 'undertaken NOW. First, practical steps for securing a better water supply; removal of weeds at the water front; sewage and drainage disposal; re- -building broken sidewalks, ete. These projects would meet the needs of some workers; but not all. Each business concern may find op- portunity for expansion--if attention were cen- tered in building up Port Perry. When letters come enquiring what facilities are offered for small industries, both the Council and the Business Men's Association should be' ready and eager to give that information. Other towns will compete to secure the location of these in- dustries. They won't come without asking; and they will expect some advantages if they settle here. This brings us to a consideration of house build- ing, It would be good policy to give freedom from taxes (except school tax) for a given period; and to be able to offer suitable .and sizable sites at low cost. - We would have difficulty in accommodating an - industry with our present housing shortage. Now that the school taxes are lower, there is opportunity to undertake more local taxation, savings in the cost of education over to the tax- payer. If Port Perry is to be a desirable resi- dential town, money must be provided to do es- sential work. Our general financial set-up is in good shape. Most of the debentures have been paid, or are about to be paid. In ordinary busi- improve- ments, and at the same time to reduce the annual 'There is no need to turn the whole ness we all have to make investments, if we wish to keep going in a progressive and prosperous manner. So it must be in municipal affairs. The ratepayers will need to assume certain obligations if they hope to see Port Perry grow; and thus secure a greater number of persons to share the burden of taxes. "We cannot stand still, We cither go ahead or lag behind. COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTRE After ployment and housing are supplied, there remains the need for proper educational and recreational facilities. The first of these services has received the best of attention and Port Perry stands well, to the front in the matter of schools, This cannot be said of recreatidh. Here we are indeed lacking, So it is not surprising that the Lions, Club has come forward with a very com- prehensive project that could be made to meet the needs of all the citizens--including municipal - housing. This project, or a similar one, could become an accomplished fact if all the citizens saw the value of the proposal and supported the idea in every practical fashion. Of course, it can only be ac- complished if undertaken on sound business prin- ciples; and a full realization that each of us shall shave the financial burden; and that includes the municipality as a whole. There is a tendency among some folk to expect the Government to do everything for us. Simple arithmetic will prove how stupid this idea is. Fhe fact is, the undertakings of the Government are now almost beyond the limits of financing such as most of us understand. Qnly by thorough self- help and patient understanding of the tremendous Government obligations, ean we tide over the next few years, What we need most at the present time is that every business man and every householder shall be eager to doll in his or her power to help. Unless we get over the "Let George do it" at- titude, nothing will be done; and that would be a sad let down for Port Perry that has very many men and women in the services. How about it folks? let's have your opinion. * ork . Editor of thé Port Perry Star: Sir,--In" last week's issue of your valuable paper some prominence was- given an idea sup- posedly. originating with the Port Perry Lions Club. I'would regret very much if proper credit were not given to the man who first suggested this plan. This man is no other than John Weir, 1 proprietor of the Sebert House Port Perry. Yours sincerely, W. S. Taylor, the practical living conditions of em- LETTER FROM GEORGE EMMERSON ' ' Deventer, Holland, : road. cross roads on the entire length of the TO HIS PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. HAROLD EMMERSON hot, white road. finished. ROBBED AGAIN For the second time this year the local branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce has been robbed-- this time in broad daylight. from The Globe and Mail, what happened: Two men, and possibly a third, held up the Canadian Bank of Commerce branch here early on Monday after- noon and escaped with an amount' of currency estimated at perhaps $2600. Three employees of the bank, H. W. Dawson, Miss Margaret Day and Miss Audrey Kerry, were locked in the bank vault while two men leisurely removed the money from the till, "The two men came into the hank about 2.15, carrying revolvers and "just stuck us up" bank employees suid. "They ordered us into the vault and remained in the bank for half an The time of the robbery was well chosen. streets were deserted. the Bank. The following, clipped . gives' some account of hour, we think. Then we managed to unlock the door and get out to give the alarm." It was believed a third man might have been in a getaway car at the door of the bank, the manager said, "but since we didn't see him, we don't know." "We didn't have a great deal of cash on the premises, since this was Monday", it was stated, "but we're not exactly sure how much was taken. They got what cash we did have in the till, though." Toronto police were notified of ihe robbery shortly after tt occurred. The Nobody saw the men enter Nobody saw them come out again. Excellent Races GOOD SOFTBALL. LARGE ATTENDANCE -- WEATHER CONSIDERED. In spite of threatening weather, and a drizzle of rain on Monday, there was a surprisingly good attend- ance at the races and other sports. Port Perry hasza good track; and there was a full line-up of horses in all classes, The crowd was pleased with the races. The final baseball game will be played at the School Grounds, Tuesday evening, August 14, Dowson's Orchestra put on good music before a large cromd at the dance. RACE RESULTS 2.28 Class-- 1 Gloria Lee 1-2-1 (Dowson); Del Troopants 5-3-4 (Inglis); Bob Dales 3- 1-3 (Wray); Miss Admiral Lee 6-5-6 a, 'Maud Gratton 2-1-p (Morgan); Bracken Boy 4-6-2 (Hen- ley). Time 2.21, 2.21, 2,22, 2.22 Class-- Madam Volo 1-1-1 (Fitze); Addie Gratton 2-3-2 (Taylor); Mona Grat- ton 4-2-4 (Fallis); May Third 3-4-3 (Wavells). Time: 2.181%, 2.14%, 2.17% ' Her feet about : July 20th, 1945 Dear Mom and Dad,-- Well, here I am again back from a five hundred mile trip through Ger- many. The day before yesterday, Major Bannatyne and I left here and went about 1560 miles into Germany to a little town where there is a Head- quarters and where we stayed all night. _ Yesterday morning we left there about nine-thirty and drove some 20 miles beyond Hanover to a little town where a cousin of his, who . was killed in a plane, was buried. The Major took some snaps of the grave, then we drove back to Hanover where we tried to get something to eat. There was only one place in the whole city where we could get anything, and that was only tea and ice cream, run by the Salvation Army. "I went in to try and get some money changed into German marks and had a terrible time as the woman in charge only spoke German and couldn't understand either my English or Dutch, Haw- ever I finally got the money changed and had a bite to eat. After this snack we headed for home and arrived here about nine-thirty last night. Yesterday I drove well over 300 miles 80 was rather. tired and hungry when I arrived home. I hardly know how to tell you about my trip as it can only be appreciated by seeing it oneself. However, I will try to tell you what I can, Germany, I believe, is the most beantiful country I have ever seen. At Munster we drove on the great autobaum that goes past Hanover and to Berlin, This road is similar to the Queen Elizabeth Highway. It has a boulevard between the two double lane traffic lanes. It is As smooth as a billiard table and runs hundreds of 'miles over the country side. There are no buildings along this road what 80 ever. All towns and cities are off to the left or right some miles away and the roads to these places are reached by clover-leaf, There are no The countryside along the road for miles is rolling with stretches as far as the eye can see of wonderful fields of grain. The farm lands and crops are superior to anything I have ever seen over here in any country. As we drove on mile after mile we finally came into a land of hills and valleys. ~~ These hills are more like small mountains and are covered with forests. It is absolutely beautiful to see this country with the near hills clear and bright and those far away fading into a purple mist. The little villages, when we had occasion to go off the, main road and into them, are very quaint and pretty with towering hills around them. They are' different to anything I have seen through the sectional parts of the continent. Get- ting back to the' autobaum for a moment. Can you picture yourself on a rise of land looking at these two ribbons running side by side" and dis- appearing into perspective nothing- ness, in nature's beauty? It is won- derful. - And so that may give you a hint of what North-West Germany looks like when speaking of beauty. Now for war and what it makes, ° You' have never seen people suffer, and I am glad. "T have seen it in France, Belgium and Holland, and now Germany. This is what Germany looks like, Picture a desert with a hot blister- ing sun beating down and a lone traveller on foot, walking to a goal he cannot: gee," This is what the auto- baum must look like to these Germans who are *walking--home ? I don't know, but they are walking. Children, young women, old women, soldiers still in their scuffy, dirty, bedraggled ¥ uniforms) and old men. \ Along the road you will see an old lady in her eighties, walking as in a fog with her little bag in her hand. You sce a girl in her early twenties lying by the roadside asleep, An- other with her head in her arms ery- ing and still another limping off the Farther along the road you will see a lone German soldier in his uniform, struggling along on crutches. Quite a contrast to the Supermen of yesterday. In the fields you will see women hy the hundreds cutting and bringing in the grain, All by hand. Everyone who has found their goal is working hard against starvation and believe me, they won't starve because they DO work. I never saw a smile during my trip in Germany. The eyes of the people were hard with a hate that seemed to bore right into your soul. One place on the road we stopped to put oil in the truck. I took several snaps of truck loads of people going by. Be- hind" us there. was a German truck stopped, with its load of people, I told the Major I was going back and take a picture. He laughed and 'said sarcastically "Yea?" 1 said "Sure. They may not respect me but they will respect this automatic I have on my belt." I don't think there were many smiles in that picture. I hope it turns out, ' In Hanover I was looking for a Can- teen and as I saw no Allied soldiers on the street to ask, I went into a large Cafe to see if there was any in there having a beer. «I found my- self in a large room filled only with German soldiers and civies, Every eye in the place turned to me and hate burned in them. I put my hand on the butt of my revolver, looked over the room and turned around and walked out. Quite a sensation to be hated by so many people at one time. I don't know whether I have trans- ferred any of my. feelings while in Germany to you or not. As I say, one has to experience these things to understand them. Germany was a great and beautiful country that turned its enormous energy the wrong way.and now is paying for it. Well so much for that trip. I expect to go to Amsterdam and the Hague (of war-time rationing, to hardship for many. HTN UE TF OIRARLAT SH AERIS APPLICATION TO LIFE Rev. E. G. Every one of us knows something Many times our citizens have found some reason to complain of the food shortage. We are now being called upon to share our meat supplies with the Armed Forces and with the starving peoples of Europe. Without rationing, some people would use more than their share while others were left without. Rationing is but a means of making people share what they have, rather than go the excess of greediness. En- forced sharing has been the only way to keep ué alive and going forward to victory. Of course, sharing depends a great deal upon the attitude of the people. That is why there is so much "black- marketing". The greed of a few leads St. John re- cords for us a wonderful example of |- the spirit of sharing, in the feeding of the Five Thousand (St. John 6:1-16), Our Tord was faced with a crowd of hungry people. Perhaps many of them had some food, were afraid that if they began to show it, there would be such a demand that they would not have enough for them- selves. But Jesus showed that there was 'enough for all. gave thanks.to God for what there was and then, by a miraculous act, He provided enough for everyone, but He blessed, and} Bruton sugar and so on, we ought to remind ourselves where our food comes from. Is it from any other source than God himself? It is He who provides us in the first place with the raw ma- terials from which our food is pro- duced. So now we see that not only does God create life, but He also sustains life. By our record from St. John's Gospel to-day, our Lord intends to show us that He will provide for us, if we are willing have our goods evenly distributed. The saying, "The Lord will provide" is not true for people who are not willing to work. It is true for those who are willing to share. God, out of His great love for us, is constantly providing for our well- being. We ought to return an act of love for Him. The best way that we can carry into action our gratefulness is in our proper use of His gifts. That means that we will have to use to the full the fruits of God's bounti- ful giving. There is enough for all, if we will share with others. There is another point which Jesus com- manded also--*Pick up the fragments that remain", That means there must be no waste. In pre-war years sufli- cient food went into the nation's garbage cans to feed the now-starving millions in Europe, So you see- that the food problem is yours, not only as a citizen of this country, but as a Perhaps, when we, begin to com-| citizen of the true kingdom of God plain about the shortage of meat and in Christ Jesus. SO Es OY. VT Tay at the first of the week so will tell you about it when I return, Last night when I arrived home there was .a parcel and a-letter from you, Thanks a million, It is the first parcel for some time and I was sure happy to receive 'it. I will answer your letter in an airmail to- night as I must go for the mail now and want to post this letter to-day. Keep smiling, All my love, George. DIED WAKELY -- At Dundas, Ont., on Monday, August 6th; 1946, Maxwell V. Wakely, beloved son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Wakely. Funeral from Armstrong's Funeral Home, Oshawa, Thursday, August 9th at 2 p.m. In- terment at Mount Lawn Cemetery, Oshawa, Mr, Wakely was a formar resident of Port Perry. = Beep x. TR _ SAMUEL FARMER. v cc Editor and Publisher Are super-highways and cars that desirable? The answer will depend upon the person answering. These blessings(?) are not herve yet, and if and when they do come it is to be hoped that the drivers will have mare self-control than some show with the fifty-mile-an-hour car. The greater the speed, the greater the need for extra care of machine and control in driving it. «oo "Coronet" states as follows: "What Needs to be Done." 1. Build safety into all new high- ways and improvements. 2. Provide competent traflie neers services in every state and city. 3. Rebuild depleted police forces and train their personnel, 1. Inspect all vehicles periodically at oflicial inspection stations. b. Provide specialized handling of traflic cases in court. 6. Keep dangerous drivers off the road through driver license examina- tion and improvement programs. 7. Get the facts, through accident reporting: and analyses. 8. Teach safety, including driving, in all schools. 9. Inform and instruct all drivers and pedestrians. 10. Enact and enforce modern traflic laws. --National Safety Council What is Your Community Doing? * * * engri- safe adult uniform, The new Governor-General of Can- ada is (or will be) Field Marshall Sir Harold Leofric George Alexander. Evidently there was no shortage of names in the Alexander family. Field Marshall Alexander is styled the "War's great strategist." There will be ample room for his talents in Can- ada. They will be employed to pro- mote Canadian unity. a When "Ramie" (a rival of flax) and "Nylon" (the super-silk substitute) are on the market for civilian clothing we shall be able to get some wear for our money. Ramie is a new fibre plant that is being grown in the Florida Everglades. * * * Ividently the weather man is not concerned about Sports Days, holidays or street dances. It wasn't even a real rain we had on Monday --just a Scotch mist. * + 0 . We've been® trying to figure - out why all the house shortage, The only conclusion we can come to is that the marriage 'market has been particularly brisk, and new homes have to be found somewhere. CE The finest slogan any resident in Port Perry community can have is -- "Invest at home". All the alluring stocks are not in it compared with a level-headed investment in a commun- ity where there have only been a couple of failures in forty years. I'm fields are not nearly as fruitful as the ones at home -- you know them can travel one hundred miles an hour DAY by DAY Jottings by the Editor or developing. There are same beautiful buildings in Geneva, Switzerland, They were put up for the League of Nations. They come in handy "for the United Nations set-up, or part of it. Switzerland sort of medal for remaining neutral all this time. It is in the heart of things, too. could deserves some . * * This formula is purely financial and---- national. Graham Towers is respons- ible. or The 3-2-1 Formula The 8-2-1 formula means that each F6of Canada's $22 billions outlay since 1939 has heen finanded $3 by tax- ation, $2 by public borrowing and $1 by borrowing from (he banking sys- tem. This shows that public accept- ance of high taxation and public sup- port of victory loans have made it possible to keep inflationary borrow- ing Lo a minimum, The 4-3-3 Formula Canada's debt payable in Canadian dollars increased $1.56 billions from the start of the war to the end of 1940 The 1-3-3 formula means that of cach $10 of increase in debt, $14 is held by individuals, $3 by busi- ness firms, life insurance companies and other non-individual investors, and $3 by the banking system. It is estimated that over 2.3 million per- SONS now own victory bonds, * LI over Forty thousand soldiers are expect- ed home within a few weeks. They will require a hundred special trains to take them to their several -home communities, It must be a real trans- portation job these days. But it is being surprisingly well-done. The beauty of it is, we shall hear less and less about the Canadian National debt, That political football is pretty well out of the game now. : * * * It is to he hoped that Canada will come first in the Dominion-Provinéial Conference. That will be the surest way the permanent pros- perity and harmonious administration of the Provinces. livery effort to promote Canadian unity will bring great profit to the Canadian people. Carve should be that private interests do not stand in the Lo secure taken to see way of securing this most desirable unity. * * * It is quite evident that rigid in- spection of hatels (for fire. protection) is essential in these days of hectic travelling. It is just as well to re- that cigarettes are re- sponsible for a very large percentage of fires. member, too, * * * It is not too soon to be looking around the house to see what clothing can be spared to send for those who have little or none in Burope. Winter is not far away; and it takes a long time to get things going, It will be cold enough by the time the clothing who need it most. Warmth will be much more acceptable reaches those here and can watch what is growing than style in this contribution. SPORTS DA HORSE RACE RESULTS Free for All-- Black Prince 1-1-1 (Tinney); Grat- wn Lee 2-6-x (Inglis); Lady Peters -2-2 (Leith); Patsy MacGregor 6-4-3 ry Judy Patch 5H-5-x, (Hop- kins); Silent Gratton 7-3-4 (Inglis); Lady Harvester 3-x-x (Wavells). Time 2.14%, 2.16, 2.15. Y, Continued THE SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT RESULTS Port Perry 12 -Brooklin 9 Scugog 7 Uxbridge b . Scugogr 11- Seagrave 10. The final game will be played at High School Campus on Tuesday Aug. Lith, at 6.30 p.n. sharp--Pou Perry vs, Scugogr, A hearty "Welcome Home" to these boys who arrived in Military District No. 2, on Tuesday. Pte. Lloyd Wakeford, C.I.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wakeford, Port Perry. Gnr. Russell H. Fines, R.C.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Fines, R.R.3, Port Perry (Scugog). H./Capt. J. H. Joblin, son of Rev. F. Gi and Mra, Joblin, Port Perry. WELCOME HOME! W/0 J. Gordon Hood, R.C.A.F., son of Mr. and Mrs. George Hood, 9 Brock St, Ajax (formerly of Scugog and Port Perry). * Licut. Dennis A. Steer, R.C.A., son of Mrs. A. Steer, 23 Ontario St., Ajax (formerly living west of Utica). [.A.C. Harry Carnegie, R.C.A.F, gon of Mr. and Mrs. David Carnegie, who has received his discharge from the Armed Forees. ¥ SICK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BUILDING FUND Previously acknowledged ........... $72.00 Mrs. C. L. Coulter ........cocoovurnn... 10.00 Total to date ............. NT vn $82.00 RATION CALENDAR Coupons becoming valid Aug. 9th-- SUGAR--46 to 61. 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