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Bags NOTES AND COMMENTS Eo = Canalian Polifies | fe : ~The best thing that could happen in the - Conservatives and 'the Liberals might i forthcoming election is a deadlock in which' unite to form a coalition party, Actually Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association ge I dd Le * neither _ could form a government. 'is not made because we are opposed to either 'vitally "being of this country, have been in power since 1921, with ex- .ception of a five year's break, have become _ there is no différence essentially: between. the two. The logical opposition, and one which would serve to force good govern- ment in this. country, would be a national union of - both the CCF and the Social Credit. They represent the obvious _op- position for both the Conservatives and the Liberals; 'We will really never have good the Liberals nor the Conservatives This statement party but rather because we are concerned : with the general well- The Liberals who +, to be cut down, Tree surgeons from . Summer, : r BS ------ -- > ' " - However, if the election resulted in a stale- -.be forced to do'some real soul searching. " hope, - ter type of man. a political machine too careless of the government in this country until we are © country's wealth and too much concerned back to such an arrangement. Look with its own patronage, ] i what it has done for Great Britain. he ' As long as we have a four party split-- 4 \d i * . . . A The Conservatives have shown no real the province of Quebec will wield undue capacity to come to grips with problems of Canadian life and they have been too prone to recruit a poor type of candidate for office, influence in the Federal house and we have yet to see any good effects of such influ- ence. Just the other day Uncle Louie pro-- mised in an election speech that Canada would someday have an ambassador to the Vatican and we don't know of any instance avhere such an embassy has either contri- buted to the cause of world peace or the Spread of democratic institutions. The CCF and the Social Credit parties are incapable 'of forming a government. mate--as we hope it will--all parties would However, in the light of present facts, it looks as though the Liberals will be re. turned to office with a reduced majority, In which case Canadian affairs will pro- bably pursue a rather aimless drifting course which we have come to associate with the Liberal administration. The Liberals might conceivably shed their barnacles and sloth and get off to a 'fresh, clean, new start--which they badly need; the Conservatives, with a burst of new miglit attract to themselves a bet- Best of all--the thing that should really happen in Canada--the . say streets, . .ists that the proper by-law prohibiting _this morning, : with hydro-chloric acid, The bald fact France Lowers the Flag Some three years ago we wrote 10 the effect that the best thing France could do was to get out of I'rench Indo-China. The war their has cost her some 'two billio five hundred million dollars and countless' lives. . The war has reached a stage where she can no longer continue to support it, - The United States has refused bluntly to subsidize it or to supply men and arms. . France now must retire, - the French. 'covered. But this presents her with a grave pro- blent. = She can neither surrender nor find "an administration strong enough to main- tain order while her army is withdrawn. herefore she has to sit tight waiting to see what conies out of the truce and the peace negotiations in Korea. ilar mess. Britain when she was faced with national- istic demands in India and Pakistan. France did not profit by her one can say. Even the Netherlands fiasco wppeared to have little or It seems that the Nazi in- filtration of French political life did some- thing to it from which it has never re- - Why example no no meaning for When the world becomes aware of the nature of the debacle in Indo-China, France will again have to turn to her affairs in' North Africa which are in somewhat sim- The gap that separates national polit- ican thinking from the kind of thinking . that chaacterizes the United Nations is one How different were the actions of Great which gives us mueh food for thought. THE PASSING SHOW © by "M.A.C." We have learned how to cope with. hot spells--we simply write an edi- torial on them and before the ink is dry the weather has changed. There should be some way for us to capital- ize on-this device but so far we haven't_been able to tvork out any- thing practical. "Toronto's new ' underground ears have begun to arrive in the city, and soon will be carrying traffic through the subways . .. and then Toronto will be back to the condition it was in when they decided to have subways to relieve the condition. The obviou solution is more underground. : * * * - 5 * * * PF An Italian coming home drunk pro- ceeded to give his wife a hair-shampoo A slightly deaf friend of ours during a motor trip asked us the name of the little village through which we were of his hair-raising escapade landed passing, him in jail. This type of hair-do un- : questionably lends the finishing touch. "Stittsville", we announced; To make sure she had it right she repeated, "Sitsville?" That we think represents an iniprovement but not as 'good a one as that which follows. "This is Maberley" we volunteered. "Oh yes, Neighbourly," she replied. Now why didn't someone gall the place Neighbourly in: the beginning. What a fine name for a little village. on TEE I Dr, William McCrea of Dublin, Ire- land loved his dogs so much that he kept 110 of them in his rented resi- dence. The animals bounded in and out the windows, chewed up the car- pets, munched on the furniture. The landlord convinced that the place was going to the dogs took the Doctor to court where he was fined some £550. : Lady: "You old drunken beast, if I Humour were in your condition, I'd shoot my- "At her request you gave up drink. self." ing 7" aay Drunk: "Lady, if you wash in my "Yes iol ul condishion, you'd mish." "And you stopped smoking for the : same reason" : "1 did." "And it was for her you gave up dancing, card parties and billiards 7" > LN Fy stiff I wonder what is the matter with it." : \ " "Well, after all this reformation I 'bi th it" decided I ¢ould do better." 3 eage with it. ] ; - "Correct." ; 5 Wife: "I don't know. It was nice ( tJ Then why didn't you marry her?" and soft yesterday when I painted the ~ NOTICE RE HOLIDAYS _ "In order that the staff and employees of the PORT PERRY STAR may have holidays there will be no paper published on > AUGUST 6th, 1953. Please arrange your advertising schedule with this in mind. We thank you for your co-opération in the past. a --THE PORT PERRY STAR CO. LTD. Week of August 3rd, 1953 ~ DISTRICT DOINGS Lion: - "My shaving brush is very Automatic Speed Trap for Lindsay It is understood that Chief of Police J. Hunter will recommend to Town Council at the next regular meeting "the purchase of an automatic speed trap. : This idea, which has been tried out successfully in other towns and cities, not only thecks on: speeders but pre- vents accidents, LIQUOR LICENSE FOR TALLPINES LINDSAY-- * The Tallpines Hotel in Minden Township was given a summer opera- tion dining room license, provided its building is brought up to. boards standards. . PARASITE ON« NORTH YORK OATS Sy : STOUFFVILLE-- Many fields of oats throughout North York 'are showing yellowish patches this year, according to Agri- cultural Representative W. M. Cock- burn. Up to the present, much dam- age has been caused by a very minute - eel-like worm. Srl The Agricultural Representative warns that infested fields should not be sown with oats again for a number of years. He explains that the affect- ed oat 'crops will show a bronze dis- | coloration on the tips of the leaves if the nemotade is at work, 3 " For the current year, Mr. Cockburn urges the full use of commercial fer- tilizer to. stimulate rapid growth en- abling, the plants to partially over- come the effects of the parasite, HOSPITAL NURSING STAFF "VACANCIES BEING FILLED WITH BRITISH NURSES LINDSAY -- : Miss Evelyn Wood, Superintendent of the Ross Memorial Hospital, an- nounced that she had been quite suc-' cessful in her quest for more nurses, However, she did not meet with' her success in the Canadian nursing field, She had to advertise abroad. Recent additions to the R.M.H, staff are six British nurses, a British Laboratory Technician and a 'Maltese male nurse. ting down some of the speeding in - the town area. 'CLASS PRIVILEGES AN THE STAR EDITORIAL PAGE LANDMARK BOWS TO ELEMENTS BOBCAYGEON-- ; One of Bobeaygeon's oldest: land- marks had to be destroyed recently, A huge elm trde in Canal Park, after having been struck by lightning, had was unfair-te- the' people who were paying their full income tax or be subjected to ignomy of being sued or having their earnings attached by garnishee, : This is nota political issue, dt is a moral issue. The majority of mem- bers of the recently dissolved: parlia- ment were parties to the move. and -gave full support to the arrangement which grants them special tax ex- emption, © Only in a few instances - were there men of sufficient character to¥sec the unjustness of 'the situation and publicly oppose it. Now would be an ideal time -to-- get this matter straightened out by having our can- didates take a stand on this issue, Toronto were employed to do- the job. ~The huge tree had provided welcome shade for a long time for many citi- zens as well as the thousands of tour- ists who flock to Bobcaygeon every It was found to be 30.inches through after it was felled, ; Thus, another landmark in pretty Bobcaygeon passed on, : POLICE ENFORCING NO U-TURN BY-LAW Who wil be first? LINDSAY-- . "Several charges have been laid WHO FILLS JAILS? against persons violating the by-law = ; Vi 3 prohibiting U-turns on Kent Street, It has been charged that Canada's hg new settlers re "filli rails", "Chief of Police John Hunter revealed ow. settlers re filling pur jails . The facts are interesting, says The . AN ng ), He said that "all the violations took Financial Post. place at the corner of Kent and Lind- Some say the Poles are given to The Chief warns motor- mishebaviour. Well, they don't per- form even their fair share of crime, Poles born in Poland now resident in Canada represent 1.17% of the popu- lation. but only 0.96% of convictions from crime were against Poles, The Italians? Well-behaved, they have 0.41% of the population and only 0.15 of the indicments. What about thé Germans? Those born abroad and now living in Canada comprise 0.309% of the country's popu- lation but they account for only 0.16% of the total convictions. Just half as bad as they should be. For the Finns, its the same story. Ifor- the Duteh, the odds for crime arg away low./ They have 0.30 of the total population and 0.06% of the convictions, : k The Scandinavians, the Balkanites, the Orients -- all behave themselves well--or at least considerably better "than Canadian born. The Canadian born here with 856.3% ; SE an Fi. of 'the population do 88.9% of the TRUST SPEED TRAPS crime--more: than their share. WILL TRAP OFFENDERS It takes courage and guts to he an Uxbridge.--The police office has YC immigrant. First, it takes money and ported that they now have three dif- ! willingness to save. It takes a lot of ferent speed traps in operation and 001 fortitude to make the decisioo that it is hoped they will aid in cut- to. pull up stakes, leave one's job and friends and accustomed surroundings. It takes real character to facé the un- certainties. j --U xbridge Times-Journa i: is the U-turns has been passed by the Council of the Town of Lindsay and has been approved by the Department of Highways in Toronto. "The By-law will be rigidly enfore- ed", states Chief Hunter. MINDEN-- 'The people in the Minden area are none too pleased about an exhibition of stunt flying performed over their village recently by a plane bearing Navy markings. It was a hot, sultry afternoon in Minden and this centre of 600 perma- nent residents was catering to a mid- summer influx of tourists when the deafening roar of a plane startled them as it swept in at a low altitude. The performance was repeated again and again at levels too close to -the village rooftops for the residents' com- fort. ° These traps are. located at various locations and warning signs have been erected where motorists can see them. Port Perry, Ontario, TH URSDAY, J ULY 30th, 1953 Maskinonge, Ont."s 'Uxbridge and Port Largest Fish, Great Perry Jr. Farmers Favorite With 'HaveBusTrip Fishermen WL On. Sunday, July 26th, 58 Junior Farmers and Junior Institute mem- ; } 'bers from Uxbridge and Port Perry Department of- Lands and Forests Clubs took a bus trip to Midland. bulletin recently contained a most in-" Their first stop was at Little Lake, formative item on the maskinonge. Midland, where they enjoyed excellent = swimming facilities and where they : 3 had their noon lunch "For most of Ontario," said the bul- h. letin, "the season for Maskinonge, the Province's largest game fish, opened July 1st, Dominion Day, and extends to October 15. Exception are: North ant west of and including the French and Mattawa Rivers and Lake Nipis- sing where the season is from June 20 to October 15; St.' Clair River, Lake St. Clair and Detroit River, June 25 to December 15th, and Lake Erie and the Niagara River between Lake Erie and Niagara Falls, July 1 to Dee. 15. Anglers are limited to two muskies in one day and 14 per season, no less than 30 inches in length, Limit for black bass is six in one day not less than ten inches long, Muskies are found from the 1000 Islands of the St. Lawrence through the Kawartha Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay to the Lake of the During the afternoon they visited Hunonia House, Midland: This is a museum. Here can be seen various objects connected with the pioneer life of the distirct. "There are also many Indian relies that are of interest, The next visit was to the Martyr's Shrine, Fort Ste Marie, The Martyr's Shrine was the fortified headquarters "of the Jesuit Missionaries who labour- ed among the twenty thousand Huron Indians inhabiting the Georgian Bay region from 1625 to '1649. These in- trepid pioneers, after surviving the ome Journey in canoe and portage wlonb the Ottawa route through al- most impenetrable forest, erected with toilsome labour their primitive set- tlement at Fort Ste. Marie. Besides the massive stone fort, it comprised a church, a residence, a hospital--the first in Ontario, Here they ministered to the spiritual and physical needs of the Hurons, who flocked to them to in popularity on Ontario menus, is Woods where 50-pounders have been "the number of several thousand every taken, - year, * After leaving the Martyr's Shrine, the bus returned to the Park at Orillia. Heve the group enjoyed swimming again and had their evening lunch. Liveryone was agreed that this was a Maskinonge are standing up well under heavy demands of sportsmen. Fishing grounds are restocked. by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests since Ontario is one of the few places in the world where fish Splendid outing, - are hatched and raised successfully to J fingerling stage or better, teem, The open season for frogs, gaining SIGNS OF LIFE-- Road signs and markings are in- tended to protect you by warning of changes in direction or condition of road and the distance ahead an ap- proaching vehicle can be seen, Rae gard them as "signs of life", from July 1st te October 15, with a limit of ten per day per person. Tak- ing of frogs at night with artificial . light requires a license from the De- partment of Lands and Forests. Un- der this license, they may be sold com- mercially. Most sections in Ontario cannot support a heavy harvesting of Cross the centre line only when the dotted section is on your side. This frogs continually. Officials advise: indicates that you can see far enough Don't take all the frogs off the-pond; ahead under normal conditions to be leave some breeding stock for next able to pass other traffic safely, year," -- Clipped Comments CONANT & CONANT BARRISTERS and SOLICITORS Gordon D. Conant, K.C. Roger D. Conant, B.A. : Offices: 5 : Oshawa, Ont., 7! Simcoe St. S. Phone 3-2227 Ajax, Ont., Phone 25 INCOME TAX 1 - The "present election canipaign has produced no suggestion from any of the "candidates, at home or abroad, that they would be willing-to forego the special income tax privileges they enjoy. if elected to parliament. As things now stand thetembers of par- liament are given a special income tax exemption on $2,000 over and above that enjoyed by the average citizen. 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DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC MONDAYS, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY For -appointment, Phone 205R Queen and Scugog Streets PORT PERRY Santl and Gravel Government Tested Landscaping, Sodding, Loam, and Stone. Phone 88R Port Perry Free.Estimates. W. J. SYMES septd - OF ALL KINDS EXCAVATING Favestroughing, 'Asphalt Siding, CELLARS - DRAINS Estimates given on all kinds SEPTIC TANKS of work. GRADING EARL WALLACE "CLIFF BAKER, Manchester | Port Perry july 17 ELECTRIC FLOOR SANDERS New or old floors sanded and finished, or waxed and polished by the square foot. > Electric Floor Sanders, or Wax- ers and Polishers for Rent. R. PICKARD Phone 281W, Port Perry, Ont. INSURANCE Are your policies up-to-date? Whatever your insurance needs may be, consult H. W. EMMERSON Phone 41 ICROWN "LIFE ILE YY-N of I ole] VINNY] Port Perry DR.J.B.LUNDY DENTAL SURGEON (Over Telephone Office) {PORT PERRY . ONTARIO Office Hours -- 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Phones: Office 68W. Res. 68J ee '| Consult the Crown Life Man ARTHUR W. 8S. 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