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In every generation problems plague us. We are discovering that 'plenty' brings its peculiar dilemmas just. as depression did 30 years ago. Consider the cushions that surround the young adult to- day. He has a five-day week, ~ guaranteed holidays, a portable pension. His household is pro- tected against hospital bills and it will soon be free of heavy doctors' fees. His wife receives the family allowance, and should he be laid off, there is unemployment insurance to tide: him over until Canada Manpower Centre finds him another job. Economists, for several years now, have been talking about a guaranteed income for every- - one as a way to keep factory .wheels turning steadily, and politicans like the Hon. Joe Green believe it will soon actu- ally come to pass. -« Utopia? Not quite! Ease can corrupt as surely as deprivation. Just as no one works well shackled by pover- ty, debt and fear, neither is he mentally healthy unless he finds purpose in whatever he does. Automation continues to di- minish hard labor and the need for skill. Watching a pointer, _throwing a lever at intervals, while vitally necessary can be the ultimate in boredom. What must come are creative hobbies and "second jobs", the latter voluntary and altruistic. Mentally and physically. handi- capped people need help; so do immigrants with language prob lems and Indian-Metis young people adjusting to life off res- ervations. Boys and girls need supervised recreation and lead- ership. Every community has its own particular require- ments. It takes a lot of prodding to evoke this sort of self-invest- | Do You Remember? Prosperity Brings roel ment. Kconomic security can release the capacity of a John Fitzgerald Kennedy or it can rob us of challenge and point. It all depends upon our moti- vation. At bottom, this is a moral problem and its solution is ur- gent. Let the churches roll up their sleeves. They were never more needed. The Board of Evangelism and Social Service, The United Church of Canada Only If Necessary IN AND OUT OF OTTAWA people have been trying to put a price label on.implementat- ion of the recommendations of the .-B- & B Commission with respect to language. Premier Robichaud of New Brunswick says he will need financial assistance from Otta- ~wa-if education is to become. billingual. Other provinces will find themselves in the same predicament. Higher cost for education always make it more ' expensive. to keep a roof over your head. Court costs will be affected. Legislatures will find printing costs increased. Costs to busin- ess will raise prices for Canad- ian consumers and add to the difficulties of exporters. "~~ A manufacturer, a man of goodwill, who to date has been able to use in Quebec installat-- ion manuals produced by his company's French subsidiary - says that the cost of producing duplicate catalogues and draw- ings for his plant would be very - high. . os All this is not an argument against billingualism. It is mer- ely a suggestion that it will not "be common sense to duplicate materials and services where they are really not necessary. The Printed Word Son". 50 YEARS AGO Thurs., March 14th, 1918 Mr. Cecil Beare, son of Mr. & Mrs. Thos. Beare, Manchester was assaulted at work in Hamilton, He suffered - three broken ribs after being hit with an iron bar. The following is a quote: from a letter from "A Self-Made Farmer to his "You say that -a few of you fellers is liable ter be took soon ter go ter the Front. (Just goes to show how important education is). 25 YEARS AGO March 11th, 1943 A $10,000 fund to erect a memorial in Port Perry, Ont. to D. D. Palmer, . founder of Chiropractic, _,old Port "School student was one of was launched at the meet- ing of Associated Chiro- practors in Toronto. Gunner Merl Dowson, _R.C.A. who has been sta- - tioned at Debert, N.S, visited home before leav- ing for Woodstock for a course, Miss Doris Hull, -a piano student of Mrs. McClin- tock, passed her Grade I Pianoforte Exams with Honours. 15 YEARS AGO Thurs, March 12th, 1953 Jean Samells, a 16 year Perry High 13 Ontario girls chosen to spend a month in Britain, and will get special seats to> see' the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II The anpalted manager- ess of the new Simpson 'Sears. order office is a _ well known citizen, Mrs.' D. Banon. Private Lloyd Evans of Port Perry was one of 22. members who recently qualified as clerks in an army test. 10 YEARS AGO Thurs., March 13th, 1958 - Port Perry High School went all the way to win the COSSA Senior "B" 'Title, by defeating Albert * College. Grant MacDonald and Ray Litt were among six local teachers cnrolled for a two night course on Guidance Counselling at at Lindsay Collegiate In- ' stitute. RH FEA DIA ARIS RISE EE 4 ah YN 4 "SMILEY THE HUSTLER A funny thing happened on the way to- the proof-reader's, a couple of weeks ago. My column appeared, headed "Gloom and Doom." It was riddled with quotations by' experts, allusions to economics, references to the stock market and ail sort of similar portentous fulminations. | imagine bewildered readers shaking their heads and Yhultering to their spouces, "Here, Mabel. What's come over young Smiley. He sounds learned, intelligent and as though he'd lost his last friend. Com- pletely out of character." What happened was that the headings were inadvertently switched on my column and that of Ray Argyle, an old friend who writes a' perceptive column on current affairs. And his readers must have been equally baffled, asking, "What in the name of all that's ridiculous has happened to Argyle this week? Pure drivel. Never knew him to write such puerile nonsense before." Oh well, - the allies made bigger boobs than that and won the war. At 'any rate, it may be of some comfort to you to know that this week's column' is not only mine, but is being written by the undisputed Russian Billiards champion of the local curling club. I'm not much on the ice, but I'm a heller on the pool table in the basement. It shook a lot of the denizens of the bil- liard room, but none of them as much as it shook me, 'including one bird who' tried to oneupmanship me by bringing along his own private cue, to make the finals. "Should have seen the tiger I faced then. Six feet four, 20 years younger than me, fine golfer, hawk-eyes of the out-standing hockey goalie he- is, -and the hottest pool shark in town. Now don't panic, mum, I beat him. It was best three games out of five. He took the first two so fast that all I had a chance to do was chalk my cue and spot the balls he kept knocking in, Isn't this exciting? Well, as we old fighter pilots put it, there I was at 30,000 feet, upside down, out oR 4 of ammo, and three straight games to win. I knew that only sheer brilliance and naked courage would save the day. So I gave him the old reverse treatment. Instead of making points, I kept losing them. You can do this in Russian billiards. Pretty soon I was 28 in the hole. He was about 30 in the clear, a difference of 58. He got over-confident and careless, start- «& ed knocking the balls around, losing points, and I craftily crept out of the hole, a few at a time, Suddenly he realized this old duffer might beat him, got desperate, and I had him .on the run. Nothing to it, really. The thought of the shame if I beat him destroyed his confidence and he was a sitting duck. That's my story, anyway, and there were no witnesses. Speaking of games, never play them with women. I found out years ago that the only game you can play with them is the love game, and éven there you have about as much chance of winning as you have with a slot machine. (Continued on Page 8) PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED Serving, Port Perry. Brooklin and Surrounding A 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 "Bitar 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, $4.60 per year. Single Copy 10.