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Actually in this late 20th Century, it offers a prime opportunity for anadians to take to the roads in six million motor cars and kill and maim themselves and others at a rate three to four times normal. Dominion Automobile Association represented by J. P. Lewicki, Director, approaches this week-end with un- derstandable apprehension as the highway death toll re- gisters a steady, unrelenting rise each year on the Vic- toria Day week-end. On this first fine-weather week-end of the year there is an urge, irresistible to some, to travel a distance and return which would and should normally account for a week's leisurely driving. , Dominion's Statistical Research Department have computed the average risk on Victoria Day week-end to "mount three-fold, and two out of three of these mishaps generally can be accounted for by the urge to travel too far, too fast, in the short time available. Long stretches "of high speed driving on congested thoroughfares create a state of mind which engenders impatience with momen- tary traffic tie-ups and which cause the drivers to attempt passing in potentially dangerous situations. Mr. Lewicki offers the following hints to holidaying motorists over the long week-end which, if followed should reduce the hazards to normal, which is about the best which can be hoped for in this 1964. 1. Don't try to squeeze a week's travel into 3 days. If you must go that far, do it the safe way, by train or plane. 2. Start for home early! Shun the roads on those last few dark hours of the final day. Give your- self enough lead time to arrive home in good time at reasonable speed. 38. Try to realize that an accident can happen to you, too, not only to the "other fellow". Remember who's the other fellow's "other fellow"! Small Words Budding writers are apt to have a fondness for the $64 word when a 64-center might more clearly convey the intended meaning, says the Glengarry News. Big words may indicate fine learning but they do not always get the message across. "When you come right down to it," writes Joseph A. Ecclestine in Printer's Ink, "there is no law that says you have to use big words when you write or talk." He illustrates his point with the following paragraphs in which not one word is more than a single syllable. We recommend them to teachers of composition. "There are lots of small words, and good ones, that can be made to say the things you want to say, quite as well as the big ones. It may take a bit more time to find them at first, but it can be well worth it, and all of Some small words, more than you might think, are rich with just the right feel, the right taste, as if made to help you say a thing the way it should be. : "Small words can be crisp, brief, terse--go to the point, like a knife. They have a charm all their own. They dance, twist, turn, sing. . Like sparks in the night they light the way for the eyes of those who read. They are the grace-notes of prose. You know what they say the way you know a day is bright and fair--at first sight. And you find, as you read, that you like the way they say it. Small words are gay. And they can catch large thoughts and hold them up for all to see, like rare stones in rings of gold, or joy in the eyes of a child. Some make you feel, as well as see: the cold deep dark of night, the hot salt string of tears. «Small words move with-ease-where-big words stand still: -- or worse, bog down and get in the way of what you want to say. There is not much, in all truth, that small words will not say--and quite well." . Perry. Port Perry Star Co. Lid. Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas WM. T. HARRISON : Editor P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Ontario Weekly 'Newspaper Assoc. a 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 7¢ © manner. "There's Crazy Laundry Marks All Over My Party Dress!" SHIT 411) = HIP . Sx 50) / 77 7/ ; / Ve 097) /, 7) 4 , / # / y 77 y / 28/4 y, 7 4a AY. 7] ed | 7 | Remember When? Sugar and Spice 50 YEARS AGO May 10th, 1914 As the Dominion Government has gone to considerable ex- pense in - beautifying the grounds around our post office, we would like to warn the cows and persons who tramp over this freshly raked and seeded soil, to keep off, as their foot- prints will add no beauty to the lawn that is to be. * * 3k 25 YEARS AGO May 18th, 1939 Port Perry Council. The tax rate for 1939 was struck by Port Perry Council at 46 mills, a reduction of 2 mills from last year. This is looked upon as a distinct achievement, par- ticularly when it is noted that provision has been made for "laying a'considerable stretch of concrete sidewalk. It must also be remembered that extensive improvements were made on the front street last year. advertising Port Perry. * %* sk 10 YEARS AGO May 13th, 1954 Ambulance Service for Port It is nice to know that Port Perry is to again have an ambulance service. Of course we all hope that we will never need to use it ourselves, but it will be a comfort to know that a local service is available for those "who are unfortunate enough to be seriously ill or in- jured. Charles Brignall, Jr. has had his sedan converted into an. ambulance in a very ingenious By making the side post so that it can be removed and swung out, with the door, he has made the interior of the car easily accessible for the comfortable stretcher which. is held firmly in place inside the car. hy : 'The car has also been equip- ped with a red light, Charlie, who has done most of the work of reconverting the sedan is to be congratulated upon the pro- fessional appearing job he has turned out. are merriest when they are from home." 8y BILL SMILEY | WISE WORDS FROM WILL Everybody is writing about Shakespeare these days. The only sour note in the fan fare of acclaim marking his 400th anniversary is a deep, rumbling sound that has many people baffled. go; A few romantics claim it is the ghostly applause of nearly four centuries..of playgoers echoing. down the years. A few realists assert that it is the mutinous mumbling of 20 genera- tions of students who had to memorize chunks from his works. Personally, I think the discordant note is caused by the rapid rotation in his grave of the bones of The Bard, a shrewd businessman, as he agonizes over all those royalties he is not collecting. Otherwise, things are going swimmingly as the critics and professors of English peer and peek and poke among the mag- nificent debris, and the inane argument about who really wrote his plays waxes once more with futile fury. 2 But I'm not concerned with that.. There are enough people plodding. about 'through his works, trampling poetry underfoot as they search for clues to prove that he was really Bacon or Marlowe or the Earl of Something, er PY rors Let's look for a moment at the real Will Shakespeare. We find him in the hundreds of brief passages that have come ringing down the years with their universal truths. He had to put them in the mouths of others, of course, but the man himself is there, warm, alive, grinning, scowling, scolding, exulting. : What could be more human, for example, than his pride in his own success? When the opening night performance of Hamlet showed that the play was a smash, he deftly inserted in the last scene, and on the spur of the moment, the joyful line, "A hit, a very. palpable hit!" We can see his amused tolerance of his wife's lack of muscle in another famous line. She'd been spring cleaning and had slipped a disc, while trying to move an old tvwnk full of sonnets. '"Frailty, thy name is woman," quipped Will. =~---We-can-sympathize-with his-honest rage (this was before dry-cleaning) as he scrubbed the gravy-stain on his mew silk breeches and bellowed, "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" What man's heart does not warm to The Bard's forthright suggestion, in Henry VI, Part 2, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." : Is there a housewife living who has mot echoed, at some 'time, Shakespeare's immortal comment when his wife came home from the butcher with a stringy roast, "This is the most unkindest cut of all." ? Many a man has wished he had the gift, and the nerve, that Will displayed the night he got home from the pub, tiddly and tardy, and was confronted by his wife, her sister, and his mother-in-law. Did he say he was sorry and would never do it again? Not he. He roared, "How now, you secret, black and midnight hags!" He knew men, as witness, "'Tis ever common that men He knew women, too. "There was never yet a fair woman but she made mouths in a glass." Se : Sh As this piece of research ends, I can hear a multitude of English teachers saying, in 'unison, "For this relief much thanks." #0 Md Ta td '. --Toronto Telegram News Service 2H Se a A SAA He