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> JAY A HY HE ts ie 7 GY 5] 5 Editorial Topics White Cane Week Not all blind Canadians are totally blind." According to A. N. Magill, Managing Director, The Canadian National Institute for- the Blind, about four-fifths of Canada's 26,000 blind persons have guiding vis: ion. "In some ways their problems are more serious than those of the totally blind," said Mr. Magill in a special White Cane Week interview. 'Their handicap is not obvious and they are denied the good neighbourly assistance the public give the rest of us voluntarily." 7% Totally blind himself, Mr. Magill explained some im the factors in partial sight. Some have lost their side vision and see only through a small area in the middle of the eye. Others have no centre sight and must do their seeing around the edges. Some see through a mist and must go about looking into an endless fog. In some cases vision just ends a few feet from the person con- cerned. In many cases the partially seeing blind person sees too well to be obviously handicapped and must train himself to ask for help. . Because blind people are people, as the theme of White Cane Week emphasizes this year,.the partially sighted person must overcome his embarrassment and ask a passer-by for the time when the overhead clock is outside his visual range. While he may take his cue from the stoplights be-. side him, instead of asking for a guiding arm across the street, he must ask for help when reading the menu in a restaurant. Not long ago a partially sighted housewife went into a store to buy a snow suit for her son. It was almost closing time, (but, because blind people are people, she thought could make her purchase quickly. She found a snow suit but could not read the price. Spotting a clerk who was busy Putting things away, she asked the price of the garment. "The price is as marked, madam," he answered. Too sensitive to explain her predicament, she left without making the purchase. 2 ns "Learning to ask for help is more difficult for some than for others," Mr. Magill observed. With White Cane Week under way, remember that blind people are people and be ready to lend whatever aid is necessary. MILK NOT ENOUGH - If a child is kept too long on a milk diet without solid foods added, he will develop anemia says the federal health department publication "Canadian Mother and Child." Milk is an almost perfect food, but it it not quite perfect, as it does not contain much iron needed to build blood and muscle tissue. By about three months baby's stores of iron from his mother are getting low, so he needs more iron. He may still be fat and chubby but his skin will be very pale; later on, he will tire easily and become irritable. By introducing the solid foods in time, you.will provide him with the iron needed to prevent the occurrence of this anemia. PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED "Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor be Member of the Canadian 'Weekly 'Newspaper Assoclation Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Thursday by The Port Perry ; Star Co, Ltd, Port Perry, Ontario. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office epartment, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash, Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr, Wsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ " 344 %) Fry dt wo ARAN? V¥ 0 NEN e R t list. OH, THE FRUSTRATION OF WORKING I've been thinking seriously about giving up my -job as a teacher, and settling for a lot less money and a lot more peace of of mind. And I'm not the only one. Colleagues, right and left, are unhappy. One would like to go into the hotel busi- ness. Another dreams of buying some rough land on Manitoulin Island, and. raising sheep. Others, who have been teaching a long time, are planning to quit soon and take a reduced pension, rather than battle it out to the full term. They can't face another five years of teaching apathetic, lazy and insolent kids. = Another friend, who has taught happily for 23 years, says he used to look forward to every day of it. This year, he admits, he faces each day with a sort of vague horror. Still another is socking every nickel he can spare into investments so that he can get out while he retains his sanity. Had lunch the other day with a chap who this vear, after some years of running his --own-business;-came-into-teaching==in-the technical department. On his own, he worked 10 or 12 hours a day. At this lunch period; he didn't (stop talking for half an hour, From the outside, he thought - teaching was a snap. The pay was good, and the holidays looked great. Now, he's exhausted 'at the end of a' teaching day, though he's done no physical labour. He said: "I never knew there were kids like these." Perhaps we 'sound like 'a bunch of old fogies who are getting tired. Most of those I've mentioned are in their 40s, not quite in the old-fogey class. And they've ens joyed their teaching for years. So But another: colleague is talking aboot going to the Northwest Territories. An- other is thinking of taking a job in a steel plant. His wife, also a teacher, wants to get out and do social work, at less money. They are all in their 20s. All of us are making quite reasonable salaries. "It would be quite a wrench, fi. Sugar and nancially, to quit, especially for those who have roots in the community, a mortgage, and growing children to educate. But the malaise is there, And it's diffi- cult to put your finger on the trouble. Our. wives are getting worried. They ask, "What is wrong, specifically?" And it's difficult to give an answer that doesn't sound tri- vial. It's a host of little things which ad up to one word -- frustration. What is the trouble, then? I think there are two major sources. First, the pendu- lum has swung too far -- from a system that was archaic. to one with ned permis sivences. Everyone is supposed to do his own thing. Sad truth is that a majority of teenagers hasn't got a "thing" to do. They. want to be entertained, not learn. They'll sit happily through a movie at. school, chewing gum, But try to get them to talk about it, express their ideas, relate it to their own lives, and they groan with boredom. They're mentally lazy, as most teenagers have always been. Their favour- ite comment on a thought-provoking, stimu- lating movies, is "Stoopid. » "I've never believed In corporal punish ment, either as a disciplinary deterrent or as a spur. But I'm beginning to wonder, I-am hurt and alarmed at the increasing lack of courtesy, the "who cares?" attitude of kids, and the increase in plain, dirty talk. (The language you can 'hear in a modern high school, especially among girls, would curdle your blopd.) You can imagine the joyous rapture of my wife to. my proposal that | quit. Like the good little wife she Is, she sald she'd go anywhere with me, and do anything, as long as | was happy. She made up a great list of where and how we could save money, without the salary. : But the reaction has set in, and in 100 casual, little hints she is revealing the itter folly of it all . But I was prepared for that. and I'm going to keep her thinking about a shack, and a pot-bellied stove, and potatoes, and porridge for a while yet. I'll do her good. J =<Toronto Telegram Syndicate * 50 YEARS AGO © January 29th, 1920 'There were three contest- ants in the contest for the Wardenship of Ont... County, "and the position was captur- ed by Reeve Scott, of Picker- ing. The contestants were Reeve Weir of Reach, Reeve Scott of Pickering, Reeve Noble, of Scott. * * * Mr. Ross Hood attended the Ford convention held at the King Edward Hotel in Tor- onto. * EJ LJ Mr. Sam Griffen is work- "ing at the Piano Works in" Oshawa. 25 YEARS AGO Feb. 1st, 1945 A former resident of Greenbank Flt. Lieut. E. J. Salter was awarded the Bri- tish Empire Medal in the King's New Years honour * * * Officers elected at the an- "nual meeting of the Port Perry, Reach and Scugog Agricultural Society were: President, Fred hristie; 1st vice, Armour McMillan; 2nd vice, Leslie Smith; Sec.-Treas. R. D. Woon. * [ EE J By-Law No. 1108 was pass- ed by council appointing the following to various boards. A. B. Cawker to the Board of Education for 3 years. Rov O'Neill to the Board of Health for 1945, Mr, W. H. Harris to the Public Library Board for 1945, and Chief George Holmes to the Sani- tation Board for 1945. ; 15 YEARS AGO February 3, 1955 - Mrs. Art Brock, Regent Scugog Chapter §.O D.E. -made a presentation of books to the Library on behalf of the 1.0.D.E. members. [J i J LJ Mrs. R. H. Cornish has been anpointed to replace Miss Harris on the Library Board. ® 0% * The one roomed school at Epsom was damaged with fire. Port Perrv & Uxbridee Fire departments were call- ed in to fight the blaze, * eo Mr. Robert Walker was elected president of - the Manchester and District Cre- dit Union. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rea. der celebrated their thirty- fifth wedding anniversarv. About thirty-five of their im- mediate family helped them: celebrate the occasion. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 4th, 1960 Mr.. Ted Lamb, RR. 4, Port Perry was elected pre- sident of the Ontario County Junior Farmers. ££ *_ 0» : Port 'Pérry Juveniles won the fist' play-off series from Uxbridge, score 30. * J * Two cars were involved in an accident on the Oshawa road, the cars were driven by. Altona Marks and Mr. Panter both residents of Port Perry. Miraculously 'no one was injured.