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~ - a PC 28 re LE 3 BNE =e Rt Se ETS Panty Me -- 53 Cap oo Pd CY RTT em ------ \ - Xy 4 -- PORT FERRY STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 16th, 1964 Editorial Viewpoint Crack Down On Door-To-Door Salesmen We read not only with interest but with approval that Premier Robarts intends to take further steps to protect the public against unscrupulous salesmen. A select com- mittee on consumer credit has been investigating the op- eration of used car dealers and Premier Robarts stated in the legislature that this committee would be re-appointed to delve into such fields as insurance companies, retailers and door-to-door selling. Action certainly is overdue in the matter of the last- mentioned type of salesman. We continue to get com- plaints at this office regarding the operations of smooth- talking individuals selling magazines, house siding, as well as offering to do repair work at homes in the district. Most of them are out to make a fast buck and elderly people are their favorite targets. Some of these sales- men are well versed in the law, too, and have been known to laugh in the faces of police who tried to lay a charge against them. Our advice is that we should not rely too much on the government committee on consumer credit. Instead, householders and particularly elderly people, should be wary of house-to-house peddlers. Their number likely will increase with the arrival of spring. It should be remembered that almost every product and service these door-to-door salesmen offer to provide may be obtained from some local merchant or business- man who is well known and can be trusted. A Mirror Of The Community A Newspaper is the mirror of the community it serves. It reflects the good and the bad. In short, it can only re- port the news; it connot create news. Because this is true, some of the same names and faces appear repeatedly in its columns. They apvear be- cause these are the people who are ones who lead and do . the work for virtually every organization in the com- munity. Many refuse to run for public office: even a larger group refuses to accept committee appointments or posi- tions of leadership in the several organizations that make up life in every community; and many more refuse to participate (do the work) in the activities of these groups that make news. These are the people who are missing from a news- paper's news columns week after week. That isn't the choice the newspaper editor made, however, If it were possible an editor would like to have EVERYONE'S name in the paper EVERY WEEK. Until new names and faces take part in the many facets of community life that make news, they will be conspicuous only by their absence. A newspaper has no choice--it can only report the news, it cannot create it. Avoid Carelessness With Fire During the next few weeks the warning: --"BE CAREFUL WITH FIRE"! cannot be emphasized too much. The early spring period is a critical time of the year due to the dry condition of the vegetation. With rising tem- peratures and windy weather, fires spread rapidly, are hard to control, and can cause serious losses in woods and plantation areas as well as posting a threat to buildings. Dead grass, "and accumulations of dry leaves and other debris create hazardous conditions and any care- lessness with fire should be avoided. This is the time of year when cottagers and property owners are cleaning up around grounds and buildings. Often spring fires result from grass fires and burning rubbish allowed to get out of control. danger can be avoided. Burn only when safe to do so--best in the evening and never when the wind is high Keep the fire under supervision. Have water and A shovels handy and build a fire guard where there is any risk of spreading. Play safe by taking every precaution and if in doubt, wait. By following a few simple rules ACHE A) Re J F------ Sugar and Spice FIFTY YEARS AGO April 15th, 1941 STARTING TO CUT Carnegie Milling Co. have started to cut their winter's hauling of logs. They have twice as many on the ground as they had last year and expect that it will take 5 months to finish sawing them. * x TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO April 13th, 1939 MARSH HILL -- Mr. John Davidson, who has been in 'charge of a school hear Port Perry is spending the holidays at his home here, Mr. Wilmot Swanick of Tor- onto University spent the week- --...end-at-his- home here. Mr. Harold Tomlinson who is teaching school at Blair-Hamp- ton, was a caller around here on Sunday. Mr. Wilmot Bonn started to run an auxiliary car through the water on the 13th conces- sion but later" discovered that a ferry boat would serve the: pur- __pote better... Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Serving Port Perry, Brookiin and Surrounding Areas WM. T/HARRISON P. HVIDSTEN, Editor Publisher Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Subscription Rates: In Canada $2.60 per yr. Elsewhere, $3. 00 per, yr. Single Copy ¢ +r a * kx TEN YEARS AGO April 15th, 1954 MEN RETURN FROM KOREA Veterans of the war in Korea, whose homes are in the south- 'ern part of Ontario County, ar- rived at a west coast port last Saturday. = Thirty-six officers and 1,342 mien, the bulk of them comprising the 8rd Battalion, Royal Canadian. Regiment are returning to ' Canada after a year's service in the Far East with the 256th Canadian Infan- try Brigade. Local men returning home are: Cpl. H.W. Collins, Port Perry; L-Cp. H. M. Doucette, Uxbridge; Cp. J. T. Shorrick, 'Uxbridge, SET By BILL SMILEY LOVE THAT SUNDAY Last Sunday was one of those days. Filthy outside, with mud and rain and wind. Dismal inside, with everybody bored and crabby. - I mooched around the house gloomily, wishing the golf course was dry, or the trout season open. Then I started thinking about what Sunday really meant, was ashamed of my- self, and cheered up considerably. - As some wit remarked: to our ancestors, it was the Holy Sabbath; to our great-grandfathers, The Lord's 'Day; to our fathers, Sunday. We call it The Week End. The Sabbath is not of Christian origin. It vas.origlily, a -Jewish holy day, on the last day of the week. Like most of the laws of the ancient Hebrews, observance of the Sabbath was a combination of religion and common sense. Man needs a day of rest in every seven. He demands punctuation marks in the life sentence he is serving. However, there's a vast difference between the Sabbath of * the ancient Hebrew and the Sunday of modern man, x Kk : : The former lived a pastoral life. When the Sabbath came along, all he had to do was lie round and count his sheep. He wash the car or catch fish or play golf, drive 80 miles to visit - some relatives of his wife, apd tear home to watch the hockey game, If it were not for Sunday, the Saturday night bath would become obsolete. If it were not for Sunday, many men would go through life without shining their shoes. Sunday, many women would never get a new hat. Sunday is a great comfort to those intent on getting to heaven. They don sober garb and pious mien on Sunday morn- _ ing. On_Monday, they go back to the normal pastimes of try- ing to scramble to political, social and financial eminence over the crushed and bleeding bodies and souls of their fellow Christ- ians, secure in the knowledge that if there is a rush for seats 'on the judgment day, they will have some pull with the man- agement. Sunday means church. Church, too, is a good thing. First of all, it provides employment for ministers, and employment, "or lack of it, is pretty important these days. 'Secondly, it pro- vides probably the only place in modern society where people' who like to' sing, but sound like hyenas, can vent their frus- tration without someone telling them to shut up, A. Es JA After church, what ? There's nothing particularly Christ- jan aobut gorging oneself with food and sitting i in a stupor look- ing at television. What about a nice Christian game of golf, with no swear- ing when one slices? What about a little walk in the woods, worshipping the wonderful world of nature that was created for one? And if one happened to look down and see a fishing rod in one's hand, one shouldn't worry too much about it. Remember the old adage: Evangelists may rave and shout, But 4 only God can make a trout. : ~The Toronto Telegram News Service. : 5 If it were not for Uy L 3 didn't have to roll, grogning, out of bed after a late Saturday - might, scramble around trying to get his family off to church,