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< tions. the estimate of 166,800. serious- Casall > Zr SR ER any Sons HES PORT PERRY Editorial = 5 1,668 Died From Falls DEATHS: During 1966 a fotal of 1,668 Canadians died from falls of all types. 757 of these deaths hap- pened at home. Another 287 happened in resident institn- Total home accidental deaths for the year, which in-' clude falls, drowning, suffoca- tion, fire, explosion, poisoning, firearms and machinery, was 2,080. The 757, fall victims a- mong these were obviously a very large majority -- larger than any other cause. Age is a very great factor in, falls fatalitios, as the following figures illustrate: ' Deaths in 1966 . Under 5 5-9 10-14 15-24 59 13 14 43 25-34 35-44 45-54 53 71 92 120, 65-74 15-84 Over 85 200 ~~ 492 502 [NJ URY: ~ Unfortunately. it is not pos- sible to tabulate accidental in- Juries, especially those occurr-, ing in private homes, as exactlyf as it is deaths. However, sev- eral hospital surveys indicate - that, for every 'death from a fall, there are just over 100 in- Juries serious enough to require hospitalization. It is from this figure that we have projected Changing Human Size Man's growtl'rate has been changing in the last few cent- uries. The one-year-old infant of to-day is seven per cent taller "and 12 to 15 per cent heavier - than his counter-part in the #{ 19th century, says Dr. M. Wittenborg, Boston radiologist. Today' s boys aged nine to 14 _are six to eight per. cent taller and 12 to 15 per cent heavier than in the last century. And in England, a youth achieves maximum height at 21 years, while in 1888 it took 26 years, he adds. He 55-64 ly injured br killed in Canada each year from accidental falls. This'is a conservative estimate, for it does not include any vic- tims of .falls who receive home or private treatment elsewhere than i in hospital. lh The Federal Income Tax Since' the beginning of the year, Canadians have been cele- brating the Centennial of Cana- dian Confederation and, in the midst of all the events marking this important occasion, many of us-have probably forgotten that 1967 marks another anni- versary -- the Golden Anniver- sary of the federal income tax. It was fifty years ago, in 1917 that Sir Thomas White, then Minister of Finance, introduced his Income Tax Bill. Although reluctant to do so, Sir Thomas THE USE OF CHAIRS - J INSTEAD OF KITCHEN STEP STOOLS - CAUSES MANY PAINFUL FALLS ' BE SURE TO KEEP STAIRS CLEAR OF TOV, TINS AND OTHER 0B5TRUCTION CHECK FOR peeEoTS. AN MAKE WITH SAFETY FE (115d Va FREE FOLDER, WRITET Home SAFETY Of DEP'T, Sol 200 1 ir ToRoNTS BILL SMILEY [Sugar and ALL'S WELL AT SCHOOL There are heartening signs that a revo- lution, bloodless, but sweeping, is taking place in education. There are indications that the oppressed people: have have passed the muttering stage, have attacked the Bastille, will free was faced with a wartime emer- the prisoners and in the process over-run gency and felt that emergency measures were necessary. It was accepted, equally reluctant- ly if not grimly, by the people on that basis. Canadians at the 'time were assured that it was a temporary tax only and that, it would be abolished at war's' end. It is interesting to. compare | -some statistics: in-1917, the-in- - come tax on corporations was 4 per cent -- it is now more than 12 times that; a married man without family earning $6,000 a year was required to pay $120' income tax -- he would now pay roughly. $600. Fifty years have passed. Not _ only is the income tax still with us, but at great expense to the _ taxpayer a Royal Conumission .. "has completed a massive report on the subject and has recom- mended new ways to use the income tax structure. All this just goes to show "that nothing is as "permanent" as a "temporary" tax; A EE 1 Do You Remember? | "of chaos. "Kerr, 50 YEARS AGO "Jan. 31st, 1918 Word has been received that Flight Lieut. George Howsam is now in France, and that he recently. - brought down a German aeroplane. 'Due to the fown lights failing there was no show this' week but tickets will good for next week when "The Rosary" will he played. Jan. 28th, 1943 25 YEARS AGO Flight ° Lieut. James He was a guest speaker at : RCAF. was in. town during the week-end. the Lions.Club Meeting o on Friday night. While shoeing a horse, - __Mrs. Cyrus Switzer was knocked down & trampled resulting in a broken leg and a dislocated shoulder: He was taken to the Port Perry Hospital. 15 YEARS AGO Jan; 29th, 1953 Jessie McArthur of Blackstock was one of six girls across the Dominion of Canada to attend the Coronation celebrations in England in June. A Port Perry resident, Mrs. Dhel Bentley became the first woman in Ont ~ ario County and possibly - ~the-province to be chosen for jury duty. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 30th, 1938 Mr. Ray Cook received burns to his face and nos- . trils while working an a discarded refrigerator un. it. The accident occurred at the J. J. Gibson Poultry Plant, when the amonia gas in the unit exploded. "Mr. Lloyd Fawns report- ed finding a Canadian Weather Ballon behind his barn. It was about 5 feet high with a radio device attached, and a parachute to let it down slowly when the balloon breaks. " "own compartment. the Swiss Guards, defenders of the ancien regime. And all will be wine and dancing in the streets. And chaos. But out of chaos eventually emerges arder. And out of the chaos of the French Revolution emerged a completely new concept of freedom and equality that had a tremendous impact on the world. Perhaps the revolution in education will - produce a similar -freeing-of the spirit of man, allowing him to cope with the great and -relentless pressures . of this. age and those to come. : Education in this century, the century of the common man, has been a failure on a grand scale. It has failed entirely to come to grips with a society that has been turned upside down and inside out by two global wars, mass communication, a tremendous spurt of technological advance and a close, hard look at traditions. Educators, with a few notable axoeptions; have been timid( shying from anything that might upset the system. The public at large has ignered education, except to bleat about the cost. --As a result; education-has been a genera- tion behind the. times. It has become a monolith of repression, rigidly and ' con- formity. It has been an élephant waltzing with a giraffe. But fresh winds are blowing through the concrete boxes in which young minds are spposed to be exhilarated, excited and liberated. And with many another, I cry Hi a loud, sincere, "Halleluia!" Go into an elementary school today. You "may be shocked to death. Instead of sitting in neat rows, facing a teacher, and putting up their hands so- they can spout some meaningless "information which has been wandering all about the room, doing things, looking up information, actually talking to . each other, which, of course, is puré heresy. 1t looks like anarchy, but it isn't.. The -teacher is teaching, not just telling. The kids are learning, not being taught. No longer are they little sponges, each in his ideas, a joy in finding out for oneself. Go into a high school. supposed to be reading a.poem, preferably written at least 100 years ago. Then he is supposed to-eficit from the students, with a series of childish questions which bore the bright ones and are. ignored by the "dumb ones, the meaning of the poem. Then there is supposed to be the search for simi- lcs and metaphors." Then he is to put an analysis of the poem on the blackboard. the kids copy it down, and everyone is happy. They have. tdane" a poem. They are being S AY years ago. Look what God made out of a heap - "where it belongs. memorized; you're apt-to find the children | "There is a flowing of The teacher is 7 Spice| taught the joy of poetry. They are being educated. - But what's this? They're not even sitting in rows, but in a circle. They're arguing 'about the poem, which was written three 'They relate it to their own lives. The discussion may run from hippies to drugs.to broken hearts to religion to joy to beauty. They may still be fighting about it when they leave the classroom. Dreadful. Disorganised. It's all disgusting and degeneinle, but it's happening. And not just in the classroom. There are field trips in geography. Imagine. Going right outside where the geography fs. A visit to parliament by a history class. Shocking. History should be in books, A trip to the theatre for an English class. Sheer 'depravity. . That Shakespeare can be pretty filthy stuff, if it isnt carefully censored. My wife tells me that some of the pro- fessors at university are actually teaching these days, instead of just. talking at you. Where will it all end? The iron hand has been removed and one of these days we're going to be faced with a generation of kids who like school so much they'll ' have to be kicked out at 16. --Toronto Telegram News Service ; ALTERNATIVE IS WORSE hs -- "A recently published book of reminiscen- ces by Harold MacMillan includes the re- 'mark United States and Great Britain were not in reasonably good accord on matters of foreign policy. Winston Churchill agreed with one of his principal aides that allies were difficult to get along with, but added that it was easier to get along with them than not od 'have any. | PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin_ and HLL Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper 'Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Thursday by. The Port Perry " 8tar Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. 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