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NT DIL Wear el 1 NN PT ve ESSE SRR SERN ~ [a Dl SER a = = Sy SNE -- PORT PERRY STAR, Thursday, A 8th, 1965 DEPP PPO PPDIIETP POOP PP p rt Perry Star Co. Limited Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas \ P. HVIDSTEN, WM. T HARRISON Publisher Editor 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, $4.00 per yr. -Single Copy 7¢ National Wild Life Week National Wild Life Week is not a week to promote the sale of some dusty merchandise but it is a week the girls and boys for generations to come will be on the receiving end. It is a week when no one is asked to buy anything, no contributions of any kind solicited, but is strictly an educational week when the public -- especially the school teachers -- will stress the need of conservation of not only our wild life but all of our God-given natural resources 8o that fututre generations can see bird and anima life alive and not have to go to a museum to see dead and extinct gbecimens in a glass cage to keep moths from eating them. National Wild Life Week is much different than other special weeks because National Wild Life Week was created by a special act of the Federal Govern- ment in Ottawa dated April 17, 1947, with a twofold purpose. It was created to have the people of Canada, during the week of April 10, focus their attention on conservation. The other purpose for creation of the week was to act as a living memorial to the late Jack Miner whose birthday was April 10th at which season of the year the birds return to Canada to nest, Jack Miner gave hig life to the Cause of Conserva- tion. While he was living he was often referred to as "the father of Conservation in Canada". He not only -gave his life but he gave his all to the cause so near to his heart. A year before he died the King of England bestowed upon him the O.B.E. with a citation "for the greatest achievement in Conservation in the British Empire". The Right Honourable Leslie Frost, former Prime Minister of Ontario, on April 11, 1960, referred to Jack Miner as "Canada's greatest naturalist". One year ago the Minister of Education of Alberta in pay- ing tribute to him referred to Jack Miner as "Canada' s greatest and most loved naturalist". Last spring 1964, Mr. H. J. B. Gough, that greatest educationalist in Newfoundland, referred to Jack Miner as "our nation's greatest Conservationist". 'How fitting it was that the members of The House of Commons and members of the Canadian Senate should proclaim the week of April 10, in each year, to be known as National Wild Life Week, which many leaders refer to as -- "Jack Miner Week". The ten provincial Prime Ministers, the 'ten Min- isters of Fish and Game and the ten Ministers of Edu- cation have all issued requests, through various pro- vincial channels backing up the Federal Government's "proclamation asking the people and organizations to observe National Wild Life Week. All preachers, priests and rabbis have been asked to preach on God's great outdoors on Sunday, April 11. BOBO Ll Ooo AA AL AAA LSA AL CSAA SLL LE LL ooo (a a a a a a aa aa a aa a alalale a aaa a a a a a a a a ad FIFTY YEARS AGO April 7th, 1915 At a meeting of the Town Council on Wed. the 31st day of March, 1915, a petition was received from Isaac Haddley and 68 others to cause a sidewalk to be laid on the north side of Balsam St., between Cochrane and Rosa streets. * * : Mrs. George Jackson spent Sunday in Pickering where she spoke in the interests of the W.M.S.. Mrs. Jackson spoke the previous Sunday in Claremont on the sama subject. J] * Messrs, Holtby and Smith attended a large auction sale at Belleville. Mr. Holtby purchased eight thorough. bred cows. 25 YEARS AGO April 4th, 1940 The second annual banquet of Ontario County Holstein Breeders Association was held in the United Churrh schoolroom, Port Perry on April 2nd. Ninety-one ladies and gentlemen enjoyed this festive occasion. Addresses were given by Reeve Letcher, R. M. Holtby, H. J. Colson, Rev. W. J. H. Smyth and E. A. Innes. * e Chief Roy St. John and Mr. John Tinsley were the guests of Port Perry fire- men at an oyster supper on Monday night at Crickle- wood Lodge. 0» . Mr, Jack Hope has secured a position in Palmer's Gro- cery. TEN YEARS AGO April 7th, 1955 In making a study of the 1955 budget, Council feel that the mill rate could reach 60 mills this year, although it is being given further study. * * . At the annual Chilliwack Plowing match held inlChilli- wack, B.C., Hugh Baird of Blackwater 1954 winner of the Esso tractor class at the International Plowing match last October, captured first prize in Chilliwack open tractor class and also won a trophy for the best plowing of the day. * * Mr. Archie Crosier has been appointed accountant at the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Chatham, Ont. SUGAR and SPICE By BILL SMILEY EVERYBODY'S DOING IT Watching the world lately, I find it hard to be- lieve that mankind has progressed very far since the day Cain clobbered Abel and began a fad that has never lost its popularity -- murdering one's brother. Whether it's Alabama, Hamburg or Havana, Quito or Quebec, the pattern is the same: clubs swinging, women screaming, skulls cracking, blood spurting. Hammering one's fellow citizen with a billy-club is one of the leading outdoor sports of this genera- tion. It's difficult to believe that all the hatred and viciousness among men is based on color, or religion. 'The Pakistanians and Indians loathe each other. They're the same color, different religions. The Viet Nams and the Viet Congs murder each other with mutual relish. Same color, same religion. In South Africa, whites kick blacks around. In North Africa, blacks kick whites around. In both cases, religion is ammaterial. In South Aemertea, the rich kick the poor around, and they all go to the same church. In North America, wives kick their husbands around. Same color; same religion; different sex. Al If it isn't racial or religious or sexual, what then is the basis for all the pounding of other people? Is it simply fear that if you don't smash the other fellow's skull first, he will kick you in the groin? Or is it something more simple and primitive, just a savage joy in the letting of blood, in pain and cruelty? It's hard to know. An anthropologist will say one thing, a psychologist another, And a good bartender could probably come as close to the truth as either, It is my experience that the tensions of race, creed and color are completely artificial. It is only when they are fanned by ignorance, fear or malice that they burst into flame. Ignored, they dissolve and vanish, The other day, r was supervising an examination. For something to do, I looked down a couple of tows of students and checked off their national origins. They were Swiss, Polish, Dutch, German, Italian, Norwegian, Anglo-Saxon, There were Jews and Roman Catholics and Protestants of all deno- minations. They didn't even look as they should have, A red-headed German and a red-headed Jew. A couple of swarthy, black-haired Mediterranean types called Smith and Jones. And I happen 'to know there is no hatred, no tension over race or religion or pigmentation, in this group. There is only the normal clash of per- sonalities, based entirely on individual likes and dislikes. In 1943 I trained at a R.A.F. station in England. On my course were pilots from half a dozen Euro- pean countries, from Canada and the U.S., from Africa and Australia, from Trinidad and India, and from all over the British Isles, Color ranged from silver-blond Norwegian, through coffee-hued Maori Indian from New Zeal- and to coal-black West Indian. Religion ran the gamut from agnostic to fervent R. C., from Baptist to Moslem. We were like brothers. On my 21st birthday, having sprained ,an ankle badly in a rugger game, I couldn't walk to my own birthday party. I was carried to the pub on the shoulders of a magnificent turbaned Sikh from India, a Polish count, an Australian dairy farmer, and the scion of a fine old Belgian family. It was my finest hour ,when my brothers deposited me gently at the bar, And it helped convince me : Shit race, religion and color have very little to do with man's iithu ri . or humanity . . . to man, --Toronto Telegram News Service