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4 -- PORT PERRY STAR, THURS. DECEMBER 17th, 1964 Editorial Viewpoint Make Tt A Safe Christmas More than any other holiday, Christmas is a "home" holiday. There are more accidental deaths in December, the Christmas month, than any other month. This may be coincidental, but it is a frightening fact. It calls for a minor intrusion into the holiday excitement and spirit so the lives and limbs of family members may remain intact and Christmas joy may not be switched, in seconds, to tragedy that will mar all Christmases to come. From the National Safety League of Canada come these pointers, sensible, simple and brief, for keeping joy and happiness in Christmas: . Avoid scattered toys that can trip a careless walker. Use care in climbing stepladders; do not climb higher than balance will allow; never substitute a chair for a ladder. Salt or eliminate ice on steps and sidewalks. Even fireproofed trees and decorations must be kept far from heat and flame. Don't tempt fate. Metallic trees can deliver severe shocks and burns if defective wiring leaks electricity. Defective wiring can also set evergreens ablaze. . Dried-out evergreens should be thrown out at once. The League suggests these points be followed for a Christmad without tragedy: Buy evergreen as close to Christmas as possible; keep. it cold until it goes up in the home. : Before erecting the tree, saw an inch off the bottom of the trunk, diagonally. Place the tree in a water-filled stand, and keep the well filled with water. Keep it as far as possible from heat and flame. Use CSA-approved (Canadian Standards Association) lights. Discard old strings of lights with frayéd or ex- posed wires. . Do not overload electric outlets or connections. "Use common sense, take precautions, have a Happy Christmas," said Gay McLaren, NSL's general manager. In Canada, as most hospitals fully realize, nurses are hard to come by and harder to hold on to. All too many of them, their training complete, head for the United States where they usually can earn not only more money but keep more of what they earn. It is an intensely frustrating situation and its ef- fects show up in under-staffed hospitals such as the new one in Toronto which a year after opening still has more than half its beds empty, due solely to the shortage of nurses. This is an acute shortage of qualified personnel. What is true of nurses, of course, is true of many other occupations in Canada today in which the demand for skilled workers far exceeds the supply. Medicine, teaching, engineering, science and management are only a few of the more important professions which come to mind. That the country should suffer some loss from among the newly trained members of these and other professions is inevitable. And such people certainly are not to be blamed for wishing both to gain higher remuneration and broader experience. But need Canada give them so much incentive to go? Would we, for example, lose quite so many each year if the tax advantages of being a United States resident were less manifest than now is the case? It is not just a question of whether U.S. rates are or are not lower than our own. Exemptions and conces- _ sions there are considerably more generous with the U.S. taxpayer getting a major "hreak" in that no tax is pay- "able on that part of his earnings spent on mortgages, in- terest, or on any interest on cars or other personal pro- perty bought over a period of time. Who will say that such inducements are not a factor influéncing many Canadians who are needed here to go south? | 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 Ratgs: In Canada $2.60 per yr., Elsewhere, $4.00 per yr. Single Copy'7¢ a true friend cent fo thee ONE greeting card | TWO-ceyi stamp \ THREE should be WL PREP E..... ¢ rE : \Podtage is A DUETS 4 N © | A -- J) | Remember When? FIFTY YEARS AGO Wednesday, December 16; 1914 Naval victories of the British fleet report sinking of German 'flagship = The Scharnhorst, the Gneisenau and the Leipzig off the Falkland Islands. Buyers of horses for the war have been in Manchester this week, securing good horses. Mr. W. F. Walker and Mr. R. M. Holtby fook a number of Holstein cattle to Guelph Win- ter Fair and were very success- ful. _ Mr. Peter Christie captured two prizes at the Guelph Fair on his Clyde Horses. * * * TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Thursday, December 14, 1939 Canada--the Bridge. Some day it is to be hoped the Bri- tish and American peoples will become a great world unit, . . . And Canada will be the bridge spanning the distance that sep- arates these two great sections' of the Anglo-Saxon people. The Christian Science Monitor, sta- ted recently, "Canada is the keystone in an arch upon which may be built the greatest of all peace structures". Attorney-General G. Conant declares Bingo Games illegal, despite efforts of the politic- jans to permit the playing of the game. Only the Canadian Parliament has the control, and not even the Governor - Gen- eral of Canada could authorize Bingo Games as being legal. - * & ® TEN YEARS AGO Thursday, December 16, 1954 Father instals son Master of Fidelity Lodge. R.W. Bro. A. B. Cawker had the unique pleasure of installing his son as Master of Fidelity Lodge. This was the first time on record that a father and son installation has occurred. Port Perry Flyers trounced Lindsay at a hockey game on Saturday with an 8 to 2 score. Toronto teachers secure sal- ary increases, with maximum $6400. for high school teachers.. IN AND SPICE by Bill Smiley HOW TO LIVE WITH CHRISTMAS Thirty days hath September, April, June and Christmas, At least it seems that way.' About the middle of November, the advertising swings into high gear, We are implored to buy "a gift to enchant her"-- like a dainty electric shaver. Or something 'he really needs" --liké a tastefully-wrapped bottle of dgndruff remover. Around the same time, the "Christmas music" begins. We . are warned that Santa Claus is coming to town. We are re- [J] minded, 18 times a day, to listen, through the thunder of traf- fic and the snarl of aircraft, for those jingle bells. We are told, for 20 days before (Christmas, that somebody saw mama kissing Santa Claus last night. It make' you feel all sort of saced and . . . well, you know. Barfy? Women start getting that harassed look about the first of December. They spend hundreds of hours at their Christmas chores: ruthlessly hacking off the list of people who didn't send us a card last year; desperately wondering what to get Uncle. Dud, who is in an institution; frantically trying to get their husbands interested in trees and trimming and turkey. Well, cheer up, chaps. It comes every year, but it lasts for only 30 days. Perhaps something to get your mind off the whole thing . . . ~ With Christmas in the offing, perhaps you'd be interested in a new party game. Any number can play. It is guaranteed to increase the spirit of goodfellowship and jollity at any Christmas party. Called "Conjugation of Irregular Verbs", it was invented by Bertrand Russell.. It goes like this: the player is given an irregular verb; he conjugates it. Example: "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pigheaded fool." Get the idea? Let's try another. Ready? 'I am witty and sparkling. talkative. He is drunk as a skunk.". One more, "I day dream. You are an escapist. He ought to see a psychiatrist." This sort of thing is certain to get a dull party off the ground. © . ' Now, how about some!' Christmas definitions, so that you won't be misled by a lot of cliches that have sprung up around the sacred and joyous occasion. Christmas list e-- men acquire a heavy list to starboard from reaching into their hip pockets for wallets so frequently. Women acquire a different type list: plevis thrust out, back tilted badly to the rear from the waist up, acquired from carry- ing parcels piled to their noses, Christmas pudding -- closely allied to Christmas list. It is more noticeable in men -- a type of paralysis that comes from pudding their hand in their pocket so often. Christmas Carols -- girl children born on Christmas Day and named Carol. Far better to call them Mary. You are unusually Chistmas tree -- any coniferous tree which falls over the moment it is placed in a stand. pr (Continued on Page 13) i ad