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N Editorial Topics ' © APRIZE WINNING EDITORIAL Publisher's Note: Mrs. Ridgetown Dominion was this year's winner of the Ontario Water Resources Commission prize in the Ontario Weekly Newspaper better newspaper Competit- ion, Prize is given for the best editorial submitted on pollution. The winner entitled "The Thieves Go Free" is printed below, for benefit of our readers. It was published August 7, 1969. The Thieves Go Free Last week we visited Kenesserie Camp, the United Church Camp area on Lake Erie, near Clearville, and stood thoroughly ashamed to represent the older gener- ation before the young campers as they told' us how water pollution was affecting them. It is one thing to read about the problem of water pollution at Windsor, or in Hamilton Bay, or somewhere .else, it is another to relate it to eighty little girls who want to learn to swim and can't go in the water because it has been made dangerous by contamination, contamin- ation caused by us, the older generation. Last year campers were forbidden to use Lake Erie for swimming because, tests proved it was contaminated. Officials quickly as possible had a swimming pool constructed. That mark you, in full view of the broad surface of Lake Erie! Bad enough as that was, the situat- ion this year is worse, because tests proved that the water in the pool required more treatment than safety levels permit, so there we stood last week, eighty little girls grinning to prove they were good sports, and we with our head lowered in shame, looking at the lake on our right, the pool .on our.left, and no place to swim. This problem of water pollution. is a local, as well as a national disgrace. We have taken one of the most beautiful areas in God's world and fouled it up by the ruthless, wanton, almost deliberate destruction of our own natural resources. We have made a slogan "Ours not to use but to destroy!" We are all guilty. Industries in search of big returns on their investment have poured wastes in the rivers to avoid expense. Farmers in modern farm methods use fertilizers which find their way into the streams. Individuals carelessly or deliberat- ely, throw bottles, tires, old cars, junk, sewage into our waterways. ' Thisdestruction of our natural resources is "theft" just as surely as if we stole the money reserve from the Bank of Canada. Thieves who steal money are followed, capt- ured and punished, but thieves who steal the heritage of natural resources from our children are not stopped. " Personal liberty stops when it encroaches on the rights of others. It does not give the right to clutter, bespoil, destroy the natural resources which belong to us all. If a program of education regarding the danger of pollution is not enough, then a' get-tough policy will have to be adopted with fines stiff enough to prove - a real deterrent. The few must not be allowed to destroy the heritage of our youth, ~ . .Continued on page 6 . . . PORT PERRY STAR COMPANY, LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher WM. T. HARRISON, Editor 7 Member of the Canadian Weekly Ne 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 Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in eash Second Class Mail Registration Number 0265 . Subscription Rates: In Canada $4.50 per yr., Elsewhere $6.00 per year. Single Copy 10¢ Gerald €C. Craven of the ° OH, SAY CAN YOU SEE ..... ¥ wp i THAT OUR FLAG 15 STILL THERE .... & EVERYBODY NEEDS A GLOW-ON Beginning of March, and our neighbours _still have their outside Christmas tree lights glowing. Glowing with rage? Glowing with pas- sion? No, they're just glowing because the snow is so deep they can't get out to un- plug them. But glowing is something there should be " more of, especially in the miserable month of March. There must be something in this sad, rotten, mixed-up, wonderful world to glow about. Let's find it, you and | together. So. what glows? The sun. People. If the sun, or people, cease to glow, they're dead. Ashes. Dust. Just as our neighbors' Christmas tree lights are still glowing because they can't get at them for snow, our spirits, and yours, I hope, are glowing because they, too, are still plugged in, and no amount of snow and ice is going to stop them from casting their light. There's always something to glow about, though at times our light seems to be hidden. : o Our daughter is not as sick as she seemed. She's sicker. Unglow. But my sister, and all her aunts, and Earl Mun- roe of London, Ont., with whose sister Jean I was madly in love in Grade-6, and Mrs. Rhoda Beal of Weyburn, Sask., have writ- ten or called, to express their alarm and concern. And one of her old teachers, and a neighbor, both sent her a rose. Glow.' And Kim feels great one uay, and full of beans and plans and smiles. Glow. And . that very evening she's completely pooped and utterly depressed. Unglow. And my wife, after 20 years of worrying and sweating about the kids (unglow) be- cause they don't have any life inzurance, has. finally decided that it's high time she Sugar and Spice industry at any cost. started worrying and Sweating about me. Glow. There are all sorts of things to turn off and on about, besides belated Christmas tree lights. There's the state of your health, for example. If you can get along on anything less than all fours, your're in business. Ask any arthritic. There's the state of your mind. If you have an IQ of 80, relax. It's probably higher than any mark you ever got in school. If you-have an IQ of 150, relax. Who needs it in this push-button world? ~And ther there's your spiritual life. If you believe that God saw the little sparrow fall, bully for you. And if you wonder why He didn't do something about it, you've got plenty of company. And, of course, there's pollution, the poor man's Communism. It's the capitalism of the 1970s. Everybody is against it. Except the big industries and the hydro and gov- ernment and the town that wants a new No-glow, And there's inflation. This produces a very definite glow, especially among the middle class. Some of them are glowing so brightly they're apt to blow a fuse. But there's always the Just Society. Just what; and just where, and just when, have yet to be resolved, but there's no question 'that we have a Just Society. . Just as long as you're in the $20,000-t0-$30,000 bracket. No, definitely, glow. We all glow occasionally. Let's try to glow a little brighter. But anybody who glows all the time should take a cold shower. Sometimes my wife is sad. Sometimes she is wonderful. And sometimes she just plain glows. That's the best. Try it. --Toronto Telegram Syndicate Of Days Gone By 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, Mdrch 4, .1920 The line-up of the Port Perry Hockey team which defeated Whitby 10-1 were: Goal - Deshane, defense - Jackson and McGregor, wings - Bowerman and McGregor, centre - Boe, subs - Raines and Anderson. x * * 'The Victory Loan Com- mittee donated to each High School and Collegiate Instit- ute six medals as prizes for essays, The winners in this school were: Upper School - Elsie Rose, Hildred Patten Middle School - Miriam Harris, Elizabeth Hooey Lower School ~ Florence Mc- Laughlin, Lewis McLean 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 8, 1945 The Sebert House Dining Room was the scene of a very pleasant event last Friday evening when executives and players got together for a din- ner party. Each player was the recipient of a Perkins Leather Billfold as a souvenir of his association with the club. * kk Xx On Scugog the new church is being wired by electricity and the new furnace is at Mr. Parrish's store ready to be installled. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 10, 1956 Miss Barbara Love 'was. crowned Queen of the Carni- val by Miss Grace Davis at the high school. The Queen will reign in her glory March 11th - at the Memorial Gardens Ice Revue and Carnival. * * * Two Caesarea men, Earl Thomas Burr, 31 and Fred Frayer 61 were drowned in Lake Scugog last Sunday afternoon ~~ when their car broke through the ice and' . plunged into deep water about 500 feet from shore. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, March 10, 1960 The Creamery Package Co. Trophy was won by a local rink skipped by Marie Snooks. The. other members of the team were Jean Gray, Verna Buller and Elma Doyle. Teams were present from Keene, Bob- caygeon the Toronto Granite Club and Sunderland. * * % Port Perry Senior boys climaxed an undefeated season Saturday, March 6th when . they travelled to Belleville to capture the Central Ont- ario Secondary Basketball title. Team members were: Neil Palmer, Arthur Jefford, David Milne, Lloyd Wilson, Brian Taylor, Murray Blain, John Croxall, Ronald Willer- ton and David Morton.