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« AAT A N 'YA 0 Ma)' BT FRSTY TR) SAY wna DB - AB $0 AR "ROR LT AL HY Se * yi le. ve s fey IY A CEPTS SOR HEATER IT SA, © Fait LA ENT AM FR bE FAT £00 ol ok? PAT HAGE RM MERE VX PINE aid PURHIR EIT : JH ARAL Res Fn FOR i SPR ERT Lh BR TG Rs / | A 4 -- PORT PERRY STAR, Thursday, June 24th, 1965 AMENDING THE TAIL THAT WAGS THE DOG 3 . . " 4 0 i / N } ~ ut Port Petry Star Co. Limited : 0 Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas RB P. HVIDSTEN, WM. T. HARRISON ¢ Rx Publisher Editor Member of the Mewber 57 the Canadian Weekly Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assos. 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 $3.00 per yr., Elsewhere, $4.50 per yr. Single Copy 10¢ ] Amateur Driver Highway Peril . What is an amateur driver? asked the Canadian Highway Safety Council, then gave the answer. "A driver shows he is an amateur in many ways. Some of them are: screeching tires on curves or starts; failing to signal turns; lane-hopping, particularly without * ' signalling; driving at speeds considerably more than the posted limit; starting to leave a parking space without looking back; driving so slowly that other traffic is de- _ layed; driving with one hand on the wheel; tail-gating; breaking a traffic regulation merely to achieve a feeling of dominance." The motorist who drives professionally respects traf- * fic laws, particularly those regarding speed, the Council said. Not only is a professional driver considerate of other drivers, but he makes certain he is protecting himself: .. . . : ? Biggest Circulation In Town Publishers and Editors of weekly newspapers serving the smaller communities and contiguous rural areas have ' been examining at various meetings their selling meth- ods. As good businessmen, they are not satisfied with the results they are achieving. . a At one convention there was a professor from Indiana ? who had had a great deal to do with selling space for a R : M F M B = 2 W H : N large number of weeklies in a midwestern state. His LF sales argument for these weeklies was that in their com- FIFTY YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO TEN YEARS AGO munities they had fhe biggest circulation. Reader's Di- = Wednesday, June 23rd, 1915 Thursday, June 27th, 1940 Wednesday, June 23rd, 1955 gest, for instance, which boasts that it has the largest Forty-eight candidates are Plans are under way to Harvey Graham, Black- "circulation in the world, has rarely, if ever a larger cir- vio Entrance Exams at form a Volunteer Home stock was chosen top stud- " o culation than the local weekly or semi-weekly Newspaper port Perry. Guard in municipalities of ent in the Junior year at in its own community. . LO Port Perry, Cartwright, Scu- Kemptville Agricultural Years ago the late Louis Blake Duff, who had passed Tom Marks and his big gog and Reach, with head- School. He was awarded the from being a weekly publisher to a financial business, Company have been engaged quarters at the Armouries, Kemptville Alumni Associa- was wont to say that the weekly publisher had a mono- yy the Port Perry Band to Port Perry. tion Award, also the Howard poly of interest in his own community that no city com- ,p5ear under their auspices . oe Ferguson Memorial Award petitor could possibly take away from him. There are 4 the Town Hall, Port Perry " . for highest in general pro- v o few areas where there is direct competition of another for three nights. They will Congratulations to Miss ficiency. weekly or semi-weekly, and the local paper, therefore, present good clean Plays Thelma Crosier in securing * ws has an exclusive franchise, unwritten and unofficial, to gyeh as--"The Golden Rule" the position as teacher at The W.M.S. of St. John's serve the home folk. "Peg O' My Heart", Ete. the Yellow School. Presbyterian Church, Port Selling national advertising for small newspapers is prices to suit all. 25c. + Perry celebrated its 75th An- not easy. Yet it is true that the general use of weekly LI On Wednesday last Port niversary on Tues ., June 8th. newspapers throughout Canada would give advertisers a Prospect--The young peo- Perry Hospital opened its » @ " ' healthy and rewarding coverage. Before there is much ple of Prospect will hold a doors to the meeting of the A crowd of 200 people buying of this type of advertising ,the country publisher Garden Party at the home of Ontario County Medical As- turned out to watch the cere- will have to make sure that everyone understands that my wm. J. Cook, Tuesday sociation. There was a good mony as the cornerstone was his paper has "the biggest circulation in town." It will evening, June 29. Buses will attendance of Doctors from laid in the new Odd Fellows be surprising if there is any exception to this stated fact. run by Cawker's Livery at all parts of Ontario in spite Hall in Brooklin on Satur- --Printed World. Port Perry. Fare 20c. of stormy weather. day. 74 DOO OOPDD EH DO@ 6 /e NEW BREED OF PYGMIES he didn't see as much of his family as the poor, turn into a party boy. He was tired on Saturday v | 2 Well, father, how did you enjoy your day? Con e-gutted creature who brings home the bacon Hig, and he went to ool. E) ay i like going to : : -day. church next day, he di e didn't, he d . Personally, Father's Day saddened me, as it sad- Nowadays, father gets a day off. Does he potter But he wasn't pestered all day Sunday by boy dens me each year. in the garden? Does he go fishing? Does he play wanting to be taken swimming, or wife wanting to The mere existence of such a day is an indication golf with the boys? Would it were so. He is go for a drive, or "have somebody in." He made of the new low to which the father has sunk in kicked into the street with the children, while mother the decisions. If he just wanted to sit on the veran- the family unit. Just a few decades ago, every es yaaiova: modern women do around home, with dah and look at the grass growing, he did. ° ° , : , ; worth of labor-saving machinery, ot that he was an ogre. Uusually, we we day Tras father's day, and there was no fooling There is nothing more pitiable than the sight of a picnic on Sunday. But there --t vo fo A bout it. a father, on his day off, wandering forlornly about foolishness about Dad doing the cooking on an out- ' When I was a kid, there was none of this non- a supermarket, trailed by two or three whining kids. door grill. Mother made the lunch, and Dad would f sense of father helping around the house. Nowa- When my Dad got home from work, he didn't sit on a stump, in his Sunday best, gazing with 2 . days fathers scrub the kitchen floor on their day have to set the table, run. around looking for the dignity and a certain amount of distaste, at nature. 2 off, and help with the dishes after dinner. In the kids, then jump in the car and go to get a quart of After lunch, he would recline on a blanket, in the N ' good old days, father didn't have a day off, in the milk. Nor did he have to 'pick up a few things shade. He was relaxed, that man. : first place, and mother wouldn't have let him dry on the way home," because mother looked after her Another reason for his unquestioned head-of-the- ; the dishes, in the second, because she knew her own shopping. house status was that we didn't argue with him. place, and his. No, sir. When my Dad got home from work, he Now you have to discuss everything with the brats. Perhaps it's the increase in leisure time that has was greeted affectionately, but politely, and left Today's father can get into a 20-minute argument turned the head of the house into the foot of the alone. He retired to HIS chair, and read HIS paper, with any kid over the age of five, at the drop of family: a substitute baby-sitter; an unpaid domestic until he was called for supper. During the meal, a suggestion. And come out whimpering. " ' slavey; a handy wailing-wall; and in general, a pale reflection of his dignified, respected male forebears. Until a couple of decades ago, father worked a six-day 60-hour week. But he didn't get ulcers, or drop dead at 45. And do you know why? Because he was not forced to listen to a 30-minute mono- logue about the terrible day mother had. Nor did he: have to break up quarrels among the children. _They wouldn't have dared squabble, i. And on the weekend, my Dad wasn't expected to One generation has turned fathers from giants to pygmies, And now, if you'll pardon nie, I have to go and make the beds, while my wife dries her hair and watches a little TV, --Toronto Telegram News Service fa Lk Fe 74 2 RATT 7h HY 5 BREEY, , Ld FAR 4 {5 SO i) ay PES THI