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. ---too---For--example; -if-it-is more -than-25-words-at-18 EDITORIAL TOPICS Give From Your Heart! When a Heart Fund Volunteer calls at your home in observance of Heart month, it is our hope that the thought running through your mind will be somewhat as follows: : . "The dollars | have contributed to earlier Heart Fund drives have been used wisely and effectively. They have now begun to yield important dividens. Achieve- ments to date show why it is important for me to continue to support the Heart Fund." It would require a great deal of space to list all the achievements which Heart Fund dollars have helped to develop since the first Heart Fund campaign. Here are just a few of the highlights: : : 1. Thanks to significant advahces in diagnoisis and treatment, a higher percentage of heart attack victims are recovering from first attacks and returning to their jobs. . Medical science has learned how to prevent most initial and recurrent attack of rheumatic fever, frequent forerunner of rheumatic heart disease. . New ways to control high blood pressure have been developed, reducing damage to heart, brain and kidneys. . New surgical procedures can now correct -most congenital heart defects affecting thousands of babies born each year. . Heart transplants can now be considered because of Heart Fund dollars. The outlook for more conquests -is bright. But we cannot overlook the fact that the heart and blood vessel diseases still constitute our foremost health problem. They are responsible for over 50 percent of all deaths in Canada. So, put out the welcome mat for your Heart Sunday visitor. Profit by the heart- guarding literature she will leave at your home. Make your contribution a generous one. And remember: More will live -- -- the More you Give! Spotting The Brilliant Child - Many brilliant children go unnoticed because parents don't know what to expect. They can be overlooked at school too since very bright children are apt to find their work too simple. They become bored and their work and their work habits become sloppy. But here are some clues from the federal health department publication, "The Brilliant Child": The exceptionally intelligent child usually starts to talk early. If he says, "Mamma" or "Daddy" before a year or talks in sentences-before he is two, the chances are he is unusually bright. His vocabulary is important months, there is likely an indication of brightness. By five, very bright children have often taught them- selves to read. They have a never-ending curiosity and appetite for knowledge. They are extremely quick learners and understand explanations the first time. Their memories also are usually quite exceptional. Once you have made the discovery your child is exceptional, you must provide him with sufficient. opportunity to explore, ask questions, experiment and learn; whether it is at nursery school, on the farm, at the library, or on outings with the family. This is the only way he can develop his special abilities for a full and satisfying future. -~ EEE ER HRC SR -- Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadi Weekly Newspaper Association AR Be I INH Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association a Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. hn I a: SRRRRRRRRR nn a Authorized as second class. mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash, o bd 7 Subscription Rates: In Canada $3.00 per yr., : Elsewhere, $4.60 per year. Single Copy 10¢ KITE FLYIN' THE "GENERATION GAP" _ To This week, I showed my students a film about the much-vaunted "Generation Gap", and then had them write an essay on it. The gap, not the film. ' Coincidentally, on that very day 1 re- ceived two letters that gave me new ~ thoughts about the "gap." One was from my bold high school math teacher... I don't-.mean--that-he-was--old:-~ It was just a long time ago. It was a pleasant shock to hear from' him. The pleasure came from his report that he was alive and"well and curling and skiing. The shock was the realization that the gentleman we called "Old Flem" is only about 22 years older than I am. Strangely (as things so often happen in this world), I was talking about him in school that very day. The kids and I were talking about corporal punishment, strap- ping, slapping, the whole business. I.told them about how Miss Liza Mec- ~ Cullough used to break pointers over my head regularly, and Miss Mary Walker used to strap me and my young brother and a kid called Gee-Gee Relyea three times a week, whether we needed it or not. And we liked them, And how Mr. Cosgrove, our science teacher, a man of gigantic pro- portions and the patience of a saint, used to sweep two of us off our stools with one cuff. And we never held it against him And how my old math teacher, at a point when even the angels would be tried, used to give us a punch, with two knuckles, just below the ribs. And we liked and respect- ed him, when we got our breath back. Those people got a rotten deal, finan- cially and socially, from the community. But at least they could clobber a kid, and that's worth a lot of money, If you even shake your finger at some rotten little hoodlum nowadays, he either turns out. to be a barrack-room lawyer, or else he's too big to clip on the ear, because he could eat you alive, and would. ; 'My other letter, the same day, was a chatty, friendly one from one of my last year's students, now at university, enclos- tendency could be just as LGN TIR RAIA SN JIE. 0x mp RA SAINT ERNE APPAR Ta re y A), 5 Rtas IEr OF DAYS | GONE BY! 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 13,1919 For the first time in many years, the Warden of the County of Ontario was elected without reference to party policies and they had' such good luck in their venture that the chances are County Coun- cils of the future may feel encouraged to try the exper- iment again. Our coal dealer expects a car of nut coal in a few days. We trust it may prove true as it will help in a great" many éases. A pair of black gauntlets were = taken from Borelia Corner on Monday, at 4 p.m, A man was seen taking the gauntlets. Party will please return to same, 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 10,1944 During the month of Feb- ] ruary the Food Stbdres thr- ought the Dominion are put- ting on a special War Savings Drive. During January, 1944 Port -Perry Public School pupils invested $253.25 in War Savings. Sgt. Maunsell Gerrow, R.C. AF. has been home on fur- ~lough with his mother, Mrs, C. Gerrow. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 11,1964 Although 'last Wednesday evening was a snowy night about 75 people managed to dig themselves out to attend the euchre held in the hall i at Greenbank for the hockey ing a parody of Hemingway she thought I'd enjoy. How's that? Three generations, and no discernible gap. Maybe it's because none of us are teenagers any more. "Old Flem" would like: "Young Ruth, and Id enjoy talking to both of them. Well, to-go back to the beginning, some of the essays assigned were revealing, One blames the gap on age. Another says it's 'been "there sirice " Shakéspeare, which 1s true. Others say it's been blown out of all proportion by the news media, seeking for conflict and the sensational. Another says: "It is just the intense fear children have mobilized in their parents. And of course,-fear of-the unknown is the most powerful fear in man." The same one says: "Fear has advanced to prejudice, and prejudice is a. deadly emotion to deal with, Deadly because it is composed of blind hate between stran- gers. And hate is a policeman's face as he -confronts-a- barefoot girl, or-a -principal's- face as he confronts a long-haired boy." And on: "Then there are the adults who, posing as shocked and indignant, eat up such propaganda as "Wild in the Streets," search newspapers for teenage orgies on LSD, dust mimeographed sheets of drug- addiction symptoms, and systematically punch out words such as "job," "college," © "goals," "money" and "future." This essay ends: with the suggestion that, while this gap is not_as serious as racial or religious prejudice, it is closing people's minds. Adults fear a revolution, but the young people, "to my knowledge have not. even thought of such a thing. However, - getting stronger every day, is the young people's urge just to be left alone. This disunifying as a revolution." pie Glad to hear from you, "Old Flem," and you, "Young Ruth." And all I can say is "Phooey to you, Kim Smiley," whose opinions, fragmented, appear in the quota- tion marks above. ~--Toronto Telegram Syndicate boys. Miss Donna Samells of Port Perry will be one of the contestants in the forthcoming Kiwanis Music Festival. She is entered in the piano solo section, under 14 years, The Head Farm Forum met at the home of Mr, and Mrs. barriers with the U.S. and other countries 'was discussed by 17 members of the forum, . 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 12,1959 Efficient service and good fiscal policies have allowed the Port Perry Hydro Electric System to reduce its rates twice during the last two ~ years, + A fire was discovered in the engine room of Master Feeds on Tuesday, afternoon by Mr. Mahaffy. The local fire brigade was soon on the scene and after a quick eval- uation of the condition sent them back for the Reach tank truck. Citizens assisted fire- men' to cut holes in the ice and the Uxbridge truck arrived soon after the hole was cut. The Oshawa brigade also responded but the situation was pretty much under control, The Port Perry Lions Club are now having an Easter Suit. Draw for either a Ladies. or Man's suit. All proceeds for Lions Charity Work. The Ontario County Junior Farmers' Association has ent- ered the 2nd annual Inter- County TV competition to be held over Channel 3, Barrie. » ~--Alvin----Heayn last" "Monday ~~" evening. The removal of trade