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© / / / / / / / / / / / / / i | / / / / / / / / / / / XIE SRS TA SRR DSR Oe EAE a bot ne bt Gh . Move Car A Should cars involved in accidents be moved off the road immediately? Or must the vehicles be left where they are until the police arrive? Few drivers know their rights and responsibilities in this regard, ot The Ontario Safety League says that the first duty of persons involved in an accident is to make the highway as safe as possible for others. get the cars off the highway and to the side of the road AS SOON AS POSSI- BLE. Obviously, though, no car should be moved hurriedly if to do might fur- ther injure someone hurt in the colli- sion. Failure to move slightly damaged cars delays and endangers other traf- fic. Drivers can be--and are--charged = TORIAL PAGE In other words, for wilfully blocking traffic with their - damaged cars. Further, drivers may be held liable in damages if other per- sons suffer loss or damage because of the additional hazard created by stopped vehicles. A lawyer says, "A driver- is to re- main at the scene of the accident, must Taking Intrusion of Government, courts, commissions and such like into private business and the privacy of citizens generaly seems to be on the increase to such a degree that any evidence of a firm stand.on limiting of public powers is newsworthy, A recent example is a ruling in the state of Michigan. When a movie theatre took a Battle Creek newspaper to court because it refused to print advertisements for art movies, on moral grounds, the theatre lost its case, first in a lower court and then on appeal. The court said what has been said before, that a court may not order a ~ newspaper to publish anything. One of the opinions cited in the rul- ing was from a court in Iowa: "The newspaper business is an ordinary busi- ness. It is a business essentially private ~ in its nature--as private as that of the baker, grocer or milkman, all of which perform a service on which to a greater 1867 Ui 1967 / PORT PERRY STAR Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas - P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher - WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoc. Member of the Ontario 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 $3.00 per yr. Elsewhere, $4.50 per yr. "Single Copy 10ec. IS SSS SENT YS SYS LL LL AR RR . / AAA AAR LAER AAA ALAA RESALES SESS SY RE oti 5 Cao iy AEE + ter Accident render all possible assistance and may be required to supply information re- specting his name and address, as well as that of the owner. But there is no legislation to prevent a car being moved after an accident; in fact, no vehicle is' required to await the arrival of the po- lice. The law requires that the police be notified. It also sets out the duty of the parties involved to provide identifi- cation, and evidence of vehicle registra- tion, to one another. All reports made about an accident, whether made by individuals or by the police,. are without prejudice and are for the information of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles. No statement in the report will be deemed part of the re- cord in any action in damages." The basic rules of the road still pre- vail after an accident, the Ontaro Safe- ty League emphasizes; the first res- ponsibility of everyone concerned is to make sure that the first collision does not lead to another, A Stand bE or lesser extent the communities de- pend but which bears no such reation to the public as to warrant its inclusion in the category of businesses charged. with a public interest." ~.. Newspapers, butchers, bakers .and candlestick makers are far more under the control of the public when they are treated as competitive private enter- prisers whose. profits depend on the approval of readers and buyers than they will ever be if the day comes when they are overwhelmed by government regulations. That day could come and the cusumers would not gain, they would lose. Come to think of it, that ruling down in Battle Creek has another newswor- thy aspect, It came about because someone took a stand on a question of old-fashioned morals as opposed to-the- new morality, which is not new at all. Tt used to be called the work of the devil. --TIrom "The Printed Word". LY F EE ESLER SIE 50 YEARS AGO 25 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO Wed., February 14, 1917 Mr. J. H. Brown, member of the 1.O.O.F. was honoured and presented with a jewel _ for services in matters per- taining to the welfare of Warriner Lodge. - Lieut. A. Doubt, of the 182nd Bn. was in town visit: ing his father. Dr.. Clinton, Representa- tive of the Provincial board of Health, gave a motion pic- ture-in the Town Hall to the pupils of the schools in Port Perry. and surrounding dist ricts on the dangers of Tu- berculosis. ---- Over 60 teenage boys at. tended the Boys Conference "banquet held in the Metho- dist Church. The speaker of Thurs, February 19, 1942 An all out drive to buy Victory Bonds was launched in Port Perry and district. The quota for Port Perry, "Reach-&Scugog-is-$120,000.-- Clerk G. F. Manning was in Toronto securing talent for the Victory Loan Ice Carnival to be held in Port Perry in the near future. AC2 John Leahy left for New York R.C.AF. Station. Howard Franklin, RR. 4, just received a Record of Performance certificate from the Federal Department of Agriculture, that credits a cow of his fine Holstein herd with a production of 826 Ibs. fat from 21,914 lbs. of milk. Mrs. Kerry, Scugog is ac- Thurs., February 14, 1957 Mrs, C. Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dorrell were pre- sented with Gruen wrist 'watches for long and faiths ful service for their work in the Sunday School. Mr. Hugh Baird was guest of hopour at a presentation banquet held in Greenbank United Church. Hugh won the Canadian: Plowman's Championship at the Inter- national competition held in Brooklin last October. Mr. Art Brock has recently been elected a Director of the Oshawa Skeet Club and the evening was Mr. J. P. Hagerman, secretary for . boys work at the Y.M.C.A. in Toronto. companying her niece Miss Holmes who has been visit- ing here, to her home in Manitoba. also received the position of Vice-President: of the Prov: .ince of Ontario Skeet Asso- ciation, ; MY FINAL SAY 0.K. I know. Enough is enough. This is positively the last in a series of columns on education. Let me repeat that I'm no expert, just a parent, tax-payer and teacher, and 'equally concerned. in each role. I've been critical. In some quarters, no doubt, my remarks have been considered rank heresy. But there is a positive side. Let's look at it. Most cheering is the tremendous interest in educational improvement both from within and without the system. Departments of education 'are spending large amounts of time, thought and money in'an attempt to scramble ; into the second part of the twentieth century. New universities are' springing up like mushrooms, with- fresh and invigorating ideas, vital young teachers. Men and women in all walks of life are taking a hard look at what they are getting for their money, and what they want for their children. As a result of these things, much of the old rigidity and inflexibility are erumb- ling under heavy fire. Changes are coming. It's not been any .easier to get them started than to make a team of oxen break into a gallop. But they're coming, even though they may gallop right through the fence. : Thomas Acquinas hasn't much to say to the swingers of today, with the New Morality on one side of them, and nuclear annihilation on the other. In fact, a punning colleague sug- gested: "Should Old Acquinas be forgot?" Egerton Ryerson is not exactly haunting the halls of Ryerson Institute. It's more likely he's holding his heavenly head in his hands with horror as he sees the students of that establishment: putting away more ale per ca- pita than their prototypes of Oxford and Cam- bridge in the days of Elizabeth I. However, we drift. Here are some of the improvements. Some may flop. But at least 'the ponderous pachyderm is pulling its feet With a resultant, re- out of the mud at last. sounding squelch, \, \ . . . . Teaching machines, teleyision, computers .. will take over 90 per cent, of the dissemina. tion of knowledge. They're a fact now. The kids of today's students will have to listen to boring tales from their parents about the "good old days when there was a teacher in. every class-room." This revolution, in turn, will eliminate the lock-step progress of the present, where the - swift are held back, and the slow are scramb- ling, because courses are aimed at the aver- 'age. The kids will move at their own speed. Learning will be statisfying and exciting. There'll be strong opposition to this. There'll be dark whispers that it is undemo- cratic, that it will produce an elite. They'll say it's bad for the bright child because he won't be emotionally mature if, let's say, he's ready for university at 13. "i Baloney. Education isn't: democratic now. Not when one kid has to slug groceries after school to buy decent clothes, and a class-mate is out skiing. Not when the first kid hasnt a chance to go on because he must help sup: port his family, while the second kid goes off to university to find a husband. Better an elite of the mind than an elite of middle- class money and morality. i As for the emotionally mature bit, that too, is poppycock. Some people are emotionally _mature at 10, others never. Another big change will be curricula. Kids will be taught less facts, more about life. That is, instead of square roots and dangling participles and the * Peloponnesian Wars, they'll learn about themselves and other people, about beauty and economics, about leisure and love. ~ Annual examinations, which have about as much to do with education as I have to do with Sophia Loren, will vanish. Schools will have shorter terms, more fre- quent holidays, but will likely operate year- round. Teaching will improve, because it will be. come a dynamic, creative profession, attract: ing the dynamie, creative people. I hate to spoil this vision of educational Utopia, but I have one more prediction. The whole thing is going to cost more and more and more, That's the only prophecy I+will unconditionally guarantee. --Toronto Telegram News Service