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4 -- PORT PERRY STAR, THURSDAY, JUNE 4th, 1964 Editorial Viewpoint A Town Without Taxes! (Meaford Express) One of the favourite pastimes these days is com- plaining about taxes. Over the week-end we took a flight into fancy and thought about a town without taxes. We came to the conclusion that we don't really need taxes in Meaford. We could make it a "Do It Yourself" community. This would make our Town unique - so dif- ferent that everyone would want to come here to live. Of cours® without taxes there are a few things we would have to.do ourselves. Roads and sidewalks are a good example. We would- n't have to worry about whether or not Council paid any attention to our complaints about the condition of the roads and sidewalks. If the road was bad outside our home then we could order a load of stone chips and a few barrels of asphalt, get out the garden roller and do the repair work ourselves. Or, IF we had co-operative neighbours then we could arrange to share the work for the whole block. Of course, if anyone in the block was unco-operative we would have to leave the holes in front of his house unfilled and there would be some streets, where the residents didn't care, that we would want to avoid. Citizens could shovel the snow off the streets and save a lot of money that way. Police work would not be a problem because there are about 1,100 homes in the Town and if each home sup- plied a man for an eight hour shift once a year then we would have 24 hour police protection. We wouldn't need a cruiser because each man would have to supply his own car and gas. The man on duty could always take home his prisoners and then we wouldn't need cells. Fire protection would be simple -- as long as we had friendly neighbors to fogn a bucket brigade. Street lights would not be a problem because we " could each put a light outside our homes and let it burn all night. ; We wouldn't need garbage disposal service. We could each build an incinerator in the back yard and burn it before going to work in the morning or, per- haps, save it until the neighbours were holding a back- yard cookout. : Even education wouldn't need to be a problem. Class- es have anywhere from 25 or 40 students and. the parents could divide the teacher's salary between them. $200 to $300 a year per pupil should handle the salary and classes could be held in different homes. One problem, of course, would be the fact that the County of Grey has imposed a levy of 'over $50,000 on the citizens of Meaford for this year and this amount will certainly not decrease in years to come. We would have to find some way of collecting about $12. for each man, woman, and child for our County Cousins. Perhaps, if we didn't have any municipal organization they would - have to come and collect it in person? Sometime before the first light of Monday morning "dawned we gave up our fanciful dreaming and decided that a "Do It Yourself" community would be not too practical. Perhaps the fact that we have a big load of topsoil to spread this week, grass to cut and a driveway to surface had something to do with our decision. Never seem to get all the odd jobs done as it is without adding more work on a municipal level. Guess we had better stop talking about it and, in the future, just pay our taxes. Seems to us that it is the cheapest and the easiest way after all. wf wT Wn During Red Cross Water Safety Week, make it a point to learn about Red Cross Water Safety. Make it a family affair. June 7 to 138 is Red Cross Water Safety Week in Canada. EAL CCE TRERARIL. A. TR, APT A few seconds spent in serious thought about the dangers of water recreation could prevent hundreds of drownings. This is Red Cross Water Safety Week in Canada. Think . ... don't sink! Be water Wise. 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. 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 $2.50 per yr, Elsewhere, $8.00 per yr. Single Copy 7¢ Lp Si AE ARN Y I FY TLE AIA ALGER IAC Sl BALE Rat CH 4 ¥ ah 3 bE pee an SE RL INCE MR. ROBARTS WANTS po A DISTINCTIVE. PROVINCIAL FLAG, HOW ABOUT. - SAND BARS REPRESENTING THE GREAT LAKES SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF THE LCBO AND THE DRYS) -- 0 RAAT AT La RY Arle BPA < wl / ( | FTE HAL ROT 10 8 WIRY LLRR ( BARS : 1 [8 fa ws ~~DEMOCRATIC z CLUSTER AT QUEEN'S PARK ---- OOPS, INDEPENDENCE PARK ! CLEAN SHEET FROM ROYAL COMMISSION ON'SYNDICATED CRIME (#) _ & Moone ¥ GRADUATE , PEARSON HERALDIC, CoulEGE | | Remember When? 50 YEARS AGO June 3rd, 1914 -At a regular meeting of Town Council on Monday evening a number of matters came up. A complaint was received from Mr. Wm. Dobbins, wine clerk at the Sebert House, claiming $35. damages for injury through de- fective sidewalk. No action. taken. The Assessment Roll was re- ceived and showed an increased assement of about $86,000 over that of last year. Court of Re- vision will be held Monday evening, July 5, at 8 o'clock to hear appeals. * %* * _ 25 YEARS AGO a June 1st, 1939. .. : """Pownship School Board to be in operation beginning 1940. Scugog Island holds important meeting with Mr. V. K, Greer, Chief Inspector of Public and Separate Schools in Ontario. When the By-Law is passed five trustees, who would consti- tute the new Board would be elected at the Municipal elec- tions. : The south part of Scugog Is- Eo] ~ "land was hit by a small cyclona on Sunday afternoon when high wind, hail and rain came with such force that trees were blown down, windows broken, fences torn and fields flooded. If looked quite serious for a short time. The Foot of the Island received no rain at all. x kk 10 YEARS AGO June 3rd, 1954 Blackstock -- Misses Helen & Mabel Van Camp visited Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Drinkwater in Ottawa for the week-end. Port Perry--Congratulations to Mr, Bill Brock on his gradua- tion from the U of T and re- ceiving his degree of Bachelor of Commerce. Manchester--Mr, Grant Innes has the well and cellar dug for his new home on Hwy. 7-12. Sugar and Spice By BILL SMILEY A SHOVEL FOR SYMBOL? I don't know how you feel about it, but that "distinctive" Canadian flag with the three spindly maple leaves on it makes me want to throw up. I'd like to see somebody ask you to go out and fight and die for it. --~ No, I'm not a Red Ensign boy. makeshift, at best. It is too confused with colonialism and the merchant marine and the Union Jack ever to be accepted. If we MUST have a Canadian flag, which I deny violently. By the way, I think the Canadian Legion has had some pretty shoddy treatment from the daily press because of its espousal of the Ensign, and it's less-than-enthusiastic reception "~ of the Prime Minister, at the Winnipeg convention. What's wrong with an organization standing up for some- thing it believes in? Everybody else does it, from hog producers to folk singers. But the Legion was suddenly made the-butt -of a vicious and slanted attack in certain dailies. o NE. BE The men who did the dirty work in two wars were suddenly "catalogued as a group of reactionaries, or as one daily put it, a "bunch of old soldiers," trying to tell the rest of Canada what flag it should have. This canard was climaxed by a brutal cartoon by Duncan McPherson in the Toronto Star, portraying the Legionnaire as a bleary-eyed, beery-nosed old blimp, clinging to the past. Even the Star was embarrassed by the cartoonist's lack of taste. But this isn't a defense of -the Legion. It can look after itself. It has a minority of old boozers, So does the yacht club and the curling club and the service club and the press club. Before I finish this digression, let me ask a question. What's wrong with booing the Prime Minister? "impolite, but it's a heck of a Tot better than assassinating him, and I know he'd rather be booed than defeated in office. ~_ At the same time, let me express my admiration for Mr, Pearson's courage in attacking this flag fiasco, and doing it in fronj.of a body opposed to his views. None of hig three predecessors had the guts to do it. But to get back to what I originally started to say let's get everybody sore at me and get it over with. The whole business of flags is a medieval hangover, with juvenile overtones. Men used to rally around flags, in the days of hand-to- hand combat because they were trying to find somebody else ,who was on their side. EE A J ~~, War evolved (or degenerated, if you like) until the stret- cher-bearer became a lot more heroic than the standard-bearer. If you want a bit of gay bunting, by all means go to it. Hang up a rosy apple for the Okanagon Valley, or a lobster for southeast Nova Scotia, or a rampant oil well for Calgary, and enjoy it, But a Canadian flag is an anachronism, in the first place, the maple leaf, to me and many another Canadian, is just a dang nuisance that clutters up my Lawn in October. The only possible symbol that would represent the whole of Canada is a snow shovel. = --Toronto Telepram News Service tad re The Red Ensign was a It may be 4