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Editorial Topics oo "Thinking Day" When "Canadian Girl Guides, Brownies and Rangers give their pennies to the World Friendship Funds, usually on Thinking Day, February .22 (birthday of their founders Lord Baden-Powell and his wife, Lady Baden-Powell, World Chief Guide) they are helping Canadian Guiding and Guiding around the world. Part of the Fund goes to the World Association for the Thinking Day Fund. All members of the World Association contribute to this, and t isused to promote establish Guide programs, espedilly in those countries where there is need. Direct aid is.given to Guide Associat- ions in time of disaster, and much work is being done in refugee camps. A small part of the fund goes to the four World . Centrgs of Guiding - Our Chalet in Switzerland, Olave House in London, Our Cabana in Mexico and the newest one, Sangam in India. Many Canadian Guides have visited these centres, either for a holiday or for train- ing and have met sister guides from around the world. The major part of the fund is used for Canadian Guides. Each year, Canada receives many invitations to send our girls to international camps and training sessions. If there is sufficient money in the World Friendship Fund, Can- ada can give financial assistance to girls to travel to these events. Financial help-is usually slight {of necessity) but returns are extremely high. In addition, financial help is given from the Fund to Guides visiting Canada from around the world. The Guide Law, "A Guide is a friend to all" is well known. The Canadian World Friendship Fund enables international application of this law. Why Thinking Day? In 1926 the suggestion was made that the joint birthdays of the Chief Guide and Chief Scout, February 22nd be set aside as Thinking Day. On this day a chain of warm, friendly thoughts encircle the globe. It does not matter that many of the girls have never seen each other. They all belong to the same world family. Birthdays naturally make one think of presents. In 1932 an idea came from a Belgian Guider that each member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts contribute a penny to develop world friendship. "A penny to put thoughts of world friendship into action". This_money helps send trainers to establish the Guide Program in new or associate countries, assist in refugee camps and aid Guides in disaster areas. _* * * Every insured driver pays for every insured collis- ion. If your neighbour wrecks his car, part of the bill will be included in your future premiums. The Ontario Safety League points out that helping to keep others out of trouble on the roads is more than a matter of decency, and common sense; it is also a question of dollars-and-cents self interest. PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Aréas P.. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor Member of the Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoclation : Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Assoclation 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, Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., 0, per | , Single Copy, 10¢ $63 to remove the problem of its not start- . bandage that cuts off the circulation $0 'my daughter announcing cheerily, though "with a touch of trepidation, that she was 'again, . It's the method some young people AN Ve fight = ! "YER EVES ARE LIKE LIMPID POOLS, BABY. WHAT 1VE DONE FOR OJHERS / cAN Do FoR YON 7" | Sugar and Spice CRESCENDO OF CATASTROPHE Isn't it odd how troubles come in batches? You can sail along for as many as two whole weeks with everything going as smooth as cream. Then the roof falls in. Ours almost literally did last week, when he ice piled up nearly two feet deep be- hind the eavestroughs, and I couldn't find anyone to chop-it off. latter. A commune is an idealistic utopia in which everyone shares the work and the food. Just one big happy family, with no nagging parents and nobody stopping one from doing one's thing, The commune has vague links with the early Christians and the modern Israelis, which is a nice touch of irony. There have been hundreds of attempts to form such communes in the past. The only thing wrong is that they don't work, unless they are rigidly authoritarian, like the communi- ties of Mennonites. Kim spent a (presumably) happy week in the commune, then caught hepatitis from one of the other inmates, and lay sick, semi- conscious, without eating, for about two weeks. She had too much pride, feeling she had let us down, to call. We didn't have any phone number and were waiting for a letter. We finally wrote. She staggered out to the emergency ward of the general hospital, where they gave Your run of calamities, however, usually begins with a few minor things, like a tooth- ache, or the flu, then builds steadily to a crescendo of catastrophe. That's the way it's beén with me in my latest bout with the fates. Knobs coming off doors. A broken tooth. Coming down and finding the front door wide open with the temperature 10 below and the furnace straining to keep up. Wipers on the car broken down, which is a fairly easy route to suicide the way it's been snowing around here this winter. Then my car, on which I recently spent ing 'in the morning, started not starting ~ again. My gimpy curling knee got gimpy and I've been limping around .ever since like a sailor with-a wooden leg. But these things you "dre used to, and cope with, one by one. Got my tooth fixed. Got a. chap to hack the ice off roof. Got the door-knobs workin, the wipers. work- ing, and the knee wrafiped 'in an elastic into the snowbanks. : On a Thursday night, one of the mem. bers, who had lately been getting a bit weird (going on a big religious kick), dress- ed himself in his best, went to his room, and set the house on fire. The others bare- ly 'got out, into a \winter night, with the clothes they were insand nothing else. He was burned 'to death. The house was de- stroyed, Somehow, Kim got into hospital. All she'd saved was her Christmas present, a radio. A frend loaned her some clothes. She's feeling better, ° But, and there are some big BUTS, we don't yet know what damage has been done, Her liver is affected. Its normal thing is 85 to 50, whatever it does. A doctor told her . that the worst case they'd ever had in the badly. my face is purple.' It's the things over which you have no control that hit you right, between the eyes, Like Sunday noon, when we got a call from calling from the hospital. With infectious hepatitis. 4 You can't say that the kids nowadays don't live dangerously, at any rate. Kim hospital was 3,500. And they to! left for the city at New Year, having quit pers was 6,000. Y, 10 haw, the .university to live in a commune, Give us a prayer if h I don't have to, go_into the commune bit will you? prey To ys, omen} Toronto Telegram Syndicate use in today's society to escape from the _ her a shot of penicillin and threw her back EVENTS. Of Days Goné By! 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 12th, 1920 Mr. of the St. Charles Hotel, has put in two Snooker pool tables and one pool table. The bye word among the boys now is 'snooker'. Attendance at the Public Schools at the south end of the Reach Township and in the northern part of Whitby ~Township has been very small. 'Reach no. 3 has an average attendance of 5 and East Whitby No. 7 has an average attendance of 3. Reach no. 3 has been closed for lack of pupils. : The rink fund is $64. to the good and the people who attended the Carnival Friday of last week really enjoyed themselves. : The following won prizes in the races: Speed Race -- 1st prize Guy Raines; 2nd prize Gord- on Howard. i Keg Race -- 1st prize.Ted Jackson; 2nd prize A. Me- Farlane. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 15th, 1945 L.A.C. Elmer Lee is enjoy- ing a few days leave with his wife and little son Larry. The Port Perry High School was the scene of a gala event when the Lions Club held their 'Cigarettes for Overseas" Euchre and Dance where over 300 patrons, young and old played cards and danced to _ the music of Carmen Rogers' Orchestra. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 17th, 1955 Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Sweet- man entertained 14 members of their family to chicken dinner in their home Sunday in keeping with their 30th Wedding Anniversary, Feb- ruary 10th. The winners of the Tele- phone Euchre which was sponsored by Blue Ray Chapt- er Order of the Eastern Star have been determined and first prize 'a pair of blankets went to Mrs. Guy Raines, with a score of 81; second prize a table cloth was won by Bruce Beare with a score of 78. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Feb. 18th, 1960 The Sunday alarm called the local fire brigade to Taylor's Garage, Cartwright Township. ~~ The blaze was quickly quelled but some $160. to $200. damage Yesult- ed. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Christie are 'spending a month in Florida. To. celebrate the 60th anniversary of Scouting in Canada, Port Perry Scouts, Guides, , and Brownies will attend varigus = churches in the community on Sunday, February 21st. .- : Rogerson, proprietor 4