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ey SERRIURAYR Their parents' children Before a youngster is nine years old, he's seen somewhere around 10,000 acts of violence on television. Take your kids to a hockey game and he's likely to see violence in another form, 'necessary, to let off steam." Take a gander at the entertainment page of any large daily, and you'll likely find an array of butcher knives, sawed-off shotguns, six-guns, Kung-Fu stances and machine gins staring back at you. There's the queen of the SS who tortures and maims, a fed-up citizen who guns down punks in New York, a canoe trip-turned blood orgy and perversion, or a guy with a fistful of dollars who blows brains out by the dozen without ruffling his poncho. And when a boy goes on a rampage; picks up a rifle and kills some people, John Q. Public raises his collective' voice and self-righteously de- nounces the cause of the tragic happening. Government. Corrupt government bending to the will of the gun manufacturers. Irresponsible government that's too lenient on the gun users. Apathetic government that lacks the will to impose strict gun controls. » Meanwhile, John Q. makes excuses. Like the guy who can't quit smoking, we'll insist that the connection between television violence and street violence hasn't been absolutely proven. Millions of kids count to 10 like Ernie and Bert, buy whatever toy is pushed this Christmas, and even when television was still relatively un- sophisticated, millions of youngsters ran around with coonskin caps like Davey Crocket - a TV idol. | Remember When..? = 1°] But, somehow, the influence of violence has to be proven. Hockey, for example, has become more and more violent, to the point where managers of winning teams come out openly in support of it. "If it's what the people want, we'll give it to 'em."' Let there be no doubt about it. Indifference, apathy, negligence, irresponsibility, and ignor- ance are terms that fit the public at large. We create violence, and we create the need for violence. We would welcome a system where the only shooting going on would be crap and the breeze, but we cannot simply legislate guns out of existance. There are as many people who find enjoyment in hunting, target shooting, and are responsible to boot. Instead of gun control, We'd suggest Parent Control. 50 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 4, 1925 Benjamin Crandell Senior the first white child born in Reach, was born in a log cabin one hundred years ago this year on June 1st. booked for the Ontario Junior Farmers to visit Guelph Agricultural College. Port Perry was without hydro because of a severe electric storm. Apparently the hydro came in from Greenbank where the big transformer there was hit by lightning. - Mr. A. L. McDermott has purchased a new motor hearse. It was'an American Limousine model of combin- ation hearse and ambulance. 1. Any parent who watches Hawaii Five-O, Gunsmoke, or The National; a year in jail. 2. Any parent convicted of urging junior to get out there and kill some kid on the other tyke team; five years in jail. 3. Any parent who leaves his rifle or hand gun within the reach of children;_ life imprison- 'ment. 4. Any parent who buys a gun for his child without providing the proper parental guidance in the use of that firearm; life imprisonment. 25 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 1, 1950 Some of the students taking part in the Cadet Inspection this year at the High School were Cadet Lieutenant Fred Denure, director of the band, commentary broadcast from Capt. Bob Helm, Cadet Quarter Master Bob Fallis in En A two-day outing was. a tank under the guidance of charge of First Aid, Cadet. Sargent Ken Sturman in - charge of Bren Gun teams. Many trophies were present- ed. In the absence of the principal, Mr. Crane, Mr. Grant MacDonald who was in charge of cadet training, acted as chairman. Mr. Scott Wilkinson, Utica, graduated from the Agricul- tural College, witha B.S.A. degree." This quotation must have applied 25 years ago and it still does to-day, 'It doesn't matter whether the cow comes in liquid form or as solid beef, at today's prices -- she's a luxury". The Grade 10 boys of Port Perry High School were in Toronto as guests of Master Feeds. They were accom- panied by Mr. MacDonald and Mr. George Sword, Manager of the Port Perry Master Feeds. 15 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 2, 1960 The Cancer Campaign in Port Perry and area raised $2,317.50. -Mrs.--J. K: Lawrénce was Campaign Chairman. Lil Dr.M. B. Dymond, M.P.P. for this riding stated that tenders for the reconstruct- ion of the highway for seven, miles from Port Perry to Caesarea would be called in August this year. The cause- way this year was covered with water for eight weeks. Warden Ben Smith report- ed that some 600,000 muske- lunge were placed in Lake Scugog. * Queen Scout Brian Simp- son met all the qualifications and was chosen over many other applicants in the: dis- trict to represent Canada at the American Scout Jam- boree held in Colorado Springs, U.S.A. ' In the Religious Education Rally held at Port Perry Public School, Betty Medd and Joyce Wilson represent- ing Epsom School were successful in winning the Junior Barner. Muriel Bry- ant and Glen Houghland representing Chalk Lake won the Senior trophy. 10. YEARS AGO Thursday, June 3, 1965 David S. Milne graduated" from the University of Toronto, the youngest mem- Bill Smiley Whitby. ber in the 1965 class of Dentistry. Miss Bonnie Wallace left for France along with 25 other students from Queen's University, Kingston. This. was made possible through the International Student Travel Centre. Dr. C. H. Vipond was chosen as the Liberal candidate. } . Port Perry High School cadets day was held at the High School with Roger Pick- ard and Geraldine Cooper chosen as the Corps Com- manders best cadets. Blackstock Women's Insti- tute celebrated their 59th anniversary. The Junior Farmers Rifle Competition was held in the Uxbridge High School and the Ontario County Jr. Farmers were the winners. The team consisted of David Hawthorne, Claremont; Bob Robertson, Port Perry; Ralph Honey, Seagrave; and Allan Jones, Claremont. Reeve J. J. Gibson and councillor, Bruce Beare attended the official opening of the new Fire Hall in The day tv blew it This is a bad time of year for female - television watchers. The hockey seasons are in full swing. And already the sports writers are running stories about next fall's football players. It's got so that a girl hasn't much choice on the weekends. She has to knit or get drunk or do some work around the house, whatever her thing is. She is a widow, to all intents and purposes. Her husband has retreated into the weak-ankled, hit-fumbleéd, slicing, pass- missed womb of his youth. He is of no more use than a large vegetable. True, heissitting ina chair, but he must be watered and fertilized occasionally, or he will just wither away, as he watches; mesmerized, large hairy young men, ee all the things he could have done better 10 or 20 or 30 years ago, if.only he'd had a decent coach, or the money for proper equipment, or hadn't got married. Wouldn't you think that, in International Women's Year, the poobahs of television would have ntade at least a token effort to destroy this annual spring edition of Cana- dian domestic life - a big,fat turnip stuck ina chair with a wasp buzzing around it? Surely there is one bright light among the dim bulbs which illuminate the world of TV. This was the year for the big switch. 'With a little imagination and intelligence, the big advertisers could have millions of women slumped in a chair drinking beer and never removing their eyes from the screen and moving their limbs only to reach for the sandwich brought in by George. There's no shortage of women's sports, andthere is no shortage of women who would watch them avidly, and who also control the purse-strings of purchasing. Why haven't the networks replaced those panty-waist hockey players waltzing around clutching each other's sweaters with wornien's wrestling - a couple of bosomy, muscular, sweaty broads with- their false teeth out, pounding each other across the chops with elhow smashes? This would be a normal release of the aggressions of women watchers, who would -beas sweet and docile after the event as their husbands are now after seeing Muhammed Ali pulverize Elmer Scherk. : Then there could be all sorts of women's contests of skill on the tube. Every grown man in Canada is an instant expert in hockey, because he donned the blades as a tyke, and learned that you have to shoot, pass and hit, even though he could never do any of them when he should have. He shot to get rid of the puck, pretending it was a pass so nobody would hit him. On the other hand, every woman in Canada isanexpertin the things she never learned to do very well, as well. Supposing the idiots who tell us what we are going to watch on television announced that there was going to be an ass-wiggling competition, - 3 Every woman in the country, from four to '84, would be glued to the set. The males wouldn't get near it. They would mope about the kitchen and have to do the dishes in .. disgust, or wander into the backyard, and clean it up, just for something to do. Just as the men chuckle now, when they're watching those over-paid clowns, 'and say: 'See that beautiful elbow?", or "That was a lovely butt-end," or when some ape slams another orang-outang into the boards: "Wow! Atsa wayda hiddim", so would the ladies have their inniggs. I can hear them, # ) - viewing such a muscular trila as mentionedg above. . "She looks like a bowl of jelly with palsy." "I'd made. her look sick twenny years ago." . "They godda be falsies." "She didden learn that strut in: the Presbyterian choir." "She wooden be bad if she wuzzen knock-kneed." a, 4 Just a sample. There are many other feminine sports that would be sure-fire to, attract the fair flower of our land and push those barrel-chested, carefully-casually- coiffeured inarticulate male athletes right 1 back in Hayfork Centre, where they came from. 2A How about a dirty joke confrontation? # What do you think about a Lemme Show Ya - My Operation contest? How doés a Boy, Did I Tell Hill Off! competition sound to you? 'The possibilities are endless. But the TV moguls blew it. And $0 did Women's Lib. - The Argyle Syndicate Ltd. eate | ¢ '