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DITORIAL PINION When you think about opportunities. for youth it is hard to beat the opportunities provided by Port Perry's Scout Hall. F.B.l. Director J. Edgar Hoover used to say that a boy brought up in Sunday school is seldom brought up in court. He could have been talking about youngsters brought up in scouting and guiding as well. A press release from the Federal Govern- ment's Secretary of State, Hon. Hugh Faulkner, says his department will be providing $39,970,000 in grants for "Opportunities For Youth (O.F.Y.) this year. Some enterprising Port Perry youths should try to get some of that money so they can hire themselves to fix up scout hall. Two years ago a Toronto group got an O.F.Y. grant and hired themselves to make mud pies in a vacant lot across from the St. Jamestown high rise development. Last year a group in western Canada got money to grow marijuana. The government says it will not fund such 'sensitive' projects in 1973. We certainly hope nor. There is nothing 'sensitive' about improving facilities for scouting. Neither the hardest nosed reporter nor the most cantankerous opposition M.P. could fault the government for encouraging local young people to fix up the hall. According to the governments press release. Particular emphasis will be placed on projects that provide community service and social benefits. OFY 1973 will provide job opportunities for 33,834 young people., Maximum earnings will be about $90 a week for post-secondary students and about $70 for secondary students. As in previous years, participants will be considered employed; hence, they will not be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits. It is expected that the Opportunities for Youth projects will give participants a direct experience in working with community groups and government organizations. One aim of the program is to help students support themselves and finance their education. Special efforts will be made to involve young people who are from low-income groups. When proposing a project, young people are asked tosubmit a detailed plan, indicating they have community support and interest, and outlining what they hope to achieve, how they expect to reach their objective, and the amount of money needed to cover salaries and administrative expenses. The press release fails to mention that no grant money may be used for capital expenditures. The government will not pay for building materials. If a group of Port Perry youths have enough initiative to A. approach Village council for approval of the project. B. Find a service club (Lions - Rotary, etc.) or other persons who will help obtain the materials, and C. Take the initiative by sending in the application form on their own, Port Perry could have Scout Hall back in shape with Ottawa paying all wages. It is worth a try, Application forms are also available at the Port Perry Star office. PORT PERRY STAR Company Limited Na >, Gon | : (om): rs Serving Port Perry, Reach, Scugog and Cartwright Townships P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher J. PETER HVIDSTEN, Advertising Manager WM. T. HARRISON, Plant Manager 'Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association Member of the Ontario Weekly Newspaper Association Published every Wednesday 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 MILEY UGAR AND BILL pr Srice ...A SELL OUT BY ANY OTHER NAME Recent new stories about fuel shortages in New York City and a number of north-eastern states must have been a real shock, not only to many Americans, but to every thinking canadian. I know it shook me, when I considered the implications. It was the first strong warning of what's to come -- a world-wide shortage of fuel and energy. And that's a frighteninging pros- pect. Experts have been issuing warnings for 'years, but these usually consist of an article in the Saturday supplement, easily forgotten or ignored. I'm no expert, but any school child knows that there is only so much oil and gas in the earth, that there is only so much water-power to be harnessed, and when that's gone, it's gone. For good. Already parts of the U.S.. especially the heavily industrialized and populated east, are on the verge of a crisis in the fields of energy and water. What happens in the States will inevitably happen in Canada, though it may take a - little longer, because of our much smaller population and much greater reserves. But unless science can come up with some new, cheap means of producing energy and fresh water, things are going to be pretty shaky by the turn of the century. Perhaps, as always, it's the only way man can learn anything -- by having it shoved down his throat. Perhaps we won't stop wasting energy resources until we're reduced to the point where we're cooking dinner over a fire of buffalo chips, as the pioneers did. Except that there won't be any buffalo to provide the chips. Wouldn't you think that Canada, having witnessed at first hand the ravages the Americans have made on their own resources, would have learned a lesson? Wouldn't you think that we'd be' hoarding carefully, with an eye to five hundred years from now, our dwindling resources? Wouldn't you think that our so-called leaders could see more than twenty-five years ahead? Many of them seem to be thinking no farther ahead than the next election. One of these fine years, unless we begin to conserve and preserve, there'll be an Old Mother Hubbard story that will wreak untold misery on millions of humans. But that's an old tale, of course, in this country. Through a combination of human greed, short-sighted leadership and plain stupidity. Canadians have been content to continue their century-old role as hewers of wood and drawers of water, and to sell anything they could to foreign investors: British, American and European. There's a great lot of red-hot nationalism in our country these days. But ninety-five percent of it is words, words, words. The people who make the real decisions are not the writers, painters, students, but the coldeyed, grey-haired men who sit in the board-rooms, and would sell /their grand- mothers into slavery if the interest rates were right. They're the babies who have looted our forests and mines and are currently pawning our energy resources. And they're the birds, with some notable exceptions, who take off for the Bahamas or Switzerland when the taxes get rough and they've made their pile. To most of them, the unemployed, are an unfortunate statistic, the poor a necessary nuisance. They know where every nickel of - government handouts is. They know every tax dodge. They are the real and only second-class citizens of this country. Holy smokes! I'm beginning to sound like a communist agitator. I'm not. I just get sick at heart when I see what's happening to the country I love. Talk about being sold down the river! We're being sold down all our rivers and all our pipelines as well. Canada might be compared to youth. Youth can, and does, burn up energy without (continued on page 15) 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, Jan. 28, 1923 Coal was scarce in the area but, fortunately, it was good sleighing weather so people took advantage of the opportunity to draw fire- wood. Some coal was avail- albe at $14.00 per ton. Port Perry's high school hockey team trounced a similar team from Whitby 7 - 0. Mr. Harold Archer bought Carnegie's Hardware Store. Someone lost his Buffalo robe and was advertising in the Star for the finder to return it. Boy's tweed suits were selling for $7.50. Mens long flannels were 89 cents. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, Jan. 29, 1948 "Screaming about high prices will not help us", opined the Port Port Perry Star in 1948. "Hard work and prayer are the only effective cures'. Among the high prices to be complained about were asprins at 18 cents a package. A. C. Heayn, Fred DeNure and Jos. Allen were elected to the Port Perry Lawn Bowling Club executive. Three fellows from Prince Albert drove their sleighs all the way into town to pick up members of the United Church 50 - 50 club and drive them back to Prince Albert where a lovely evening was had by all. S. Cyton, Ivan Kerry, Owen Reader, F.H. Smith and G. Weir were elected to the Legion executive. "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" starring June Haver and Mark Stevens was playing in Port Perry. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, Jan. 30, 1957 Port Perry's one man police force asked council to hire another constable to handle the 'extra traffic" expected when two "liquor outlets" opened in the village. The National Film Board of Canada had a camara crew at Manchester shooting scenes for a movie. The Ontario County Junior Farmers Association held its annual meeting at Port Perry High School and elected Bert Pearson of Uxbridge President. Braising Rib Beef was advertised for sixty nine cents a pound. Margarine was 4 Ibs. for one dollar and a 4 pound pail of white honey sold for $1.10. 10 YEARS AGO Thursday, Jan. 31, 1963 Richard Stevens and'Anna Forder, of the Port Perry Figure Skating Club won the Ontario pairs championship. Furnace fumes filled Port Perry High School giving the students an unexpected day off. The Star reported that the students did not mind a bit. Maurice "Rocket" Richard was in town and 1,000 people turned out to meet him. The minor Hockey Assn. held a draw. Dorothy Mec- Lean won a golf set and Rebbecca Bruton won a hair dryer. West Side Story starring George Chakiris and Rita Moreno was playing in 'the a area.