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making, but when they are poor and market conditions almost unbelievable, about the only thing the employer of labor hears is his duty to his employees .and the furnishing of as much HARD DAYS ON BUSINESS Manufacturing establishments employing labor are having rather hard sledding these days. When times are good one gets an earful of the immense profits some concerns are A real friend is worth more than words can tell, so if you have been particularly friend- ly with some one in the past, don’t reveal that you are little more than a cad by turning your back when he meets with some adversity. We have little sympathy for those fellows who want to hang around you when your money is flush, and then take to the tall timbers when it is all spent and they think you’ll soon be needing a hand-out. True friendship is not weakened by adver- sity, and the man whose friendship is worth anything is the fellow who stands with you, right or wrong. If you have a friend like this; value him; don’t let idle rumor or temporary; backsliding allow you to desert him. We have often heard it said that a man can get along without his relatives, but he simply cannot go far without good neighborsâ€"and him when the sledding was good, but they are there on the job when the butterfly variety have taken their departure. cast aside and criticize a friend who wavered for an instant? Not if you were his true friend, you wouldn’t. Neither should you con- demn a society, a church, a hotel, a hospital, or a thousand and one other things because on some occasion they may have wavered in the path of duty. This is the time they want and need your sympathy. True friendship neverl wavers except under exceptional circumstances or conditions. The friends in prosperity are, We believe this line of thought could be continued indefinitely. We can have a real friendship for others than people. We should Like humans, they are liable to slip occasion- ally. Why then condemn them ? Would you the sea is calm and the sun shining they will bask with you; but let a storm cloud appear and the waves begin to roll and they scamper for So, we believe, it should be. There are far too many peOple who are willing to be friendly, providing they can use it to their own advant- age. We have all met this class. They are what are known as fair weather friends. So long as Hardly so with friendship. True friendship demands there be something more than a mere shake of the hand and an “I’m sorry”. If you are truly possessed of a “friendship” for some- one you will not st0p at words of sympathy. friendly with him. Friendship means much more. A person can be friendly with another man and not have very much interest in him.‘ He may feel sorry for some misfortune, but further than that, there is nothing between them that calls for more than a mere expression of sympathy. FRIENDSHIP, WHAT IS IT? ‘ What a foolish question. Anyone knows what friendship means. If they do not, it is an easy thing to turn to a dictionary. Here they will find that friendship is “a friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons.” So far, so good, but we feel that if this is the correct definition it is not quite enough. Whososvor is afraid of submitting any ausstion, civil or religious to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with the Truthâ€"WATSON: PAGE 4. as possible that conditions may not get Thursday, January 7, 1932 With money as scarce as it is, it might be further argued that all towns should live within themselves. -A business man in one ’pression, prohibition methods can not make a man spend his money other than he desires, and if he has no more brains than to spend in amusements that which should go to his family for necessities, We cannot see that municipal prohibition enactments can help much. I tors. They are all in the “amusement” class and to us it seems narrow to pick the midway out of the lot. The midway business, like any other, is an established one, and it is a question if the sporting one. While they are a travelling or- ganization, they pay a provincial license, are also assessed for a fee by the t0wns in which they exhibit, and are, we suppose, entitled to make a living provided they do it honestly. If they take too much money out of town now, what must they do when times are normal? The same might be said of travelling concert troops, or movie films, or legitimate stage ac- ABOLISHING MIDWAYS One of our exchanges asks if midway shows should be abolished in these times of tight money, and says legislation of this kind is being- considered by Kitchener and Stratford. The old argument that they take too much money out of town is used. Chain letters are foolish thzngs which only give unnecessary work to those inclined to answer them, and accomplish nothing. We were in the Durham post office the other day when a man lifted one for his young daughter. Upon being asked what we would do with it we had no hesitancy in replying the waste basket was the prOper place for it. The young woman in the case was just at that age when she might answer it if delivered, but she never got it. THOSE CHAIN LETTERS We notice that Sir Robert Baden-Powell, {head of the Boy Scouts, has advised all Scouts to throw any “chain” letters received. into the waste basket. A good suggestion. If there was ever a fool idea originated, the chain letter is one of them. While we live In an age of en- lightenment, there are still peOple sufficiently superstitious to carry out the requests of these nonsensical communications under fear of the consequences. Take it from us, there is nothing i in it. Not only wood furniture has dropped in price, but metal as well. Metal beds have drop- ped 59 per cent in one-style and 64 per cent in another. Every room in the house is repre- sented in the reduction in price, while chests, tables and every other kind of furniture is down from 35 to 60 per cent. You may believe it or not, but this is true. A survey of the furniture situation reveals that prices are now 20 per cent below the 1917 level, and 65 per cent below the 1920 level. This drOp does not seem to be in any particular line, but all lines have fallen. Plain oak dressers sell for 73 per cent less than in 1920, arm chairs 53 per cent, office chairs 36 per cent, and other articles of furniture at a similar dis-‘ count. There are few of us who have not heard the , statement that the prices of manufactured pro- ducts have not come down in the same ratio as other things but this is not so with furniture. We have before us a copy of the Furniture Journal for January, and there is an interest- ing comparison there of the prices of today compared with those of 1917, when they were normal, and 1920, when they were at their While prices may not be down where they fit in with the spending power of the people, they are down quite a lot as compared with 1920. To bring them any lower in a good many instances would mean ultimate insol- vency, a condition worse by far than part time labor. a disastrous condition when manufactured goods cannot be sold; it is more disastrous when those who depend upon their daily toil for the furnishng of their daily bread are thrown out on the street. Generally speaking, manufacturers are doing all in their power to keep their plants running, the most of them expressing satisfaction if they break even. All hOpe of profits has been abandoned. THE PRICE OF FURNITURE THE DURHAM CHRONICLE to do the 366) Toronto the Good There were no .bank robberies year, thus _e_mph_asizing the fact t Some day we expect there will arise in this land a hstorian who will complete a book on Canadian history and include among Canada’s one of the “expert” who came up from the city to repair the farmer’s binder. After watching him work for a time the tiller of the soil de- cided than an expert was “a very ordinary man a long way from home." Dr. Wallace is a long way from home, so far as the Ontario public is concerned, and the memory of Laura Secord will linger in Canadian history long years after The Liquor Control Board has ruled wisely that it is not a breach of the Act to make wines in the home for home consumption. As far back as the writer can remember, and even in the pre-prohibition days, it was the custom in many families to make their supply of light wines. It would indeed seem like a most arbitrary law that would now take this privilege from them. No prosecutions will follow unless there is a suspicion of sale. I We received our annual Christmas box from the church last weekâ€"the little fellow with the duplex envelopes labelled “The Lord's Treasury”â€"â€"you know the kind. One envelope lis “For the Support of the church”, the other ;“for the Extension of the Kingdom”. Our llinotype Operator says this latter is wrong. From the contributions of some people it should $18.40; in Nova Scotia, the highest, the cost is $43.70. With her hundreds of miles of im- proved and paved highways, Ontario motorists have the advantage. read “extinction” instead of “extension.” Two noted members of the fourth estate passed away this week in the persons of Irving E. Robertson, editor-in-chief of the Toronto Telegram, and J. K. Munro, Ottawa corres- pondent of the same newspaper. Both men were high in the esteem of the newspaper fraternity, and the Telegram has suffered a heaVy loss in their deaths. The week-end snowfall in Montreal cost the city $78,000. It’s an ill snow that doesn’t blow somebody some good, was no doubt the song of the unemployed in the Quebec city. And now investigators tell us that sweeping the ice in front of a curling stone does not in- crease the distance travelled. What of it?, Curling, without the sweeping and roaring, would not be curling. A baker at Hawkesbury, near Ottawa, cast his vote on Monday and then went home and shot himself. The candidate must have been worse than useless to make a man do that. There are altogether too many people in the public eye who think wnning two or three ”medals at the Olympiad, or elsewhere, should entitle them to bask in the sunshine of laziness. They should blame themselves rather than their country. learned to do something useful in his youth so ".5.“ Au vauauuul HISIOl'y long years some of those who deny her are forgotten. Three women well established and a fourth given a start! It looks as if the $300 would continue through the years as an investment in the gold bonds of friendship. The business woman made good and in a short time handed the $300 to an- other woman whose need was great. mes woman who had been offered a good position on the Pacific coast, but did not have the money to go to it, handed her the $300. t woman, now well known in her field, handed $300 to an art student who finished school and became estab- lished. She, in turn, hearing of a bus- This is the story: Some years ago a talented student of sculpture was down to her last cent and was about to give up her studies. The New York man offered to advance her $300 with the understanding that when she “got on her feet” she was to pass that amount on to someone in need. A New York man made an invest- ment of 3300. He has nothing to show for it. He will receive no interest. He knows he will never see the $300 again â€"and yet he considers it an exception- ally satisfactory investment! y The manufacturer on his side is coming to realize that the local dealer appremates very much this form of co- operation. He further realizes that it is not necessary to take a full page spread to attract attention because of the nature of the local neWSpaper, which is not merely glanced through and tossed aside like the huge city editions. but is read with close personal interest by every member of the family. . “Mummy, why did lddy?” “Oh so you’ve begun to won marry 1', too." ceedsofhlssalesusedtopayforad- ‘vertlsing 1n the large centres. When a district salesman tells him that the company is backing up the deala' with a campaign in the metropolitan papers and national magazines, the local man is pt to come back: “That’s all very; well, but if you want me to handle your 1' line you must advertise in our local; newspaper.” I the close-up contact of the home town weekly. Many automobile and radio manufacturers have adopted the plan of spending a fixed sum for advertising in the local dealer’s community for ev- ery machine sold by the dealer. Plans of this character have worked well for the dealer. He has been encouraged by the fact that the sinew provided by his sales has been used to stimulat further sales in his own district. He also ap- preciated the fact that a manufactur- er’s ad with the dealer’s name attached made a valuable tie-up to a campaign in the metropolitan papers and nation- . a1 magazines. It shows the prospective customer there the goods are to be had and is a real stimulant to actual sales. Incidentally the local dealer has be- changed. Many great national adver- tisers have awakened to the fact that the metropolitan newspapers are not alone sufilclent to carry their message to the people of the towns and rural field. They realize that such remote ppbllclty should be supplemented bv The time was, not so many years ago, that the only outside advertising ap- pearing in local newspapers was patent medicine advertising. But all that has turned to making automombiles. Doz- ens of other instances can be given where the manufacturing companies changed their products to meet new conditions. Those that didn't failed. If the railways will get into the V? cumbersome officials and rolling stock and put in their places producers that do not eat their heads off, there my be hope for the C.N.R. yetâ€"Kincardine News. OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS sooo moms tinâ€" ‘Im INVESTMENT Affection Tor ; M? «in. A false display of love to Some little favor to attain I've never known a, Prince or Boot was not lTostlckwlthhimuntotheend. tolick The dog is listed with the dumb No voice has he to speak his creed His messages to humsns come By faithful conduct and by deed. He shows as seldom mortals do. A high ideal of being true. R. L. Saunders, PHONE C The Variety Store Infant’s Delight, 4 cakes Wood Clothes Wheeling Yarn, 1b. Sweater Wool, all shades January Clearing Bargains mum awonnmnmnoc Mano-n5 Buflett Sets Centre Pieces OLD HONEY f-Edwu'd A. Guest. at 150â€"300 All for 36¢ 10c