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ed home in the sno Wanveue MUTIL TL L03 Haw P the mu in Winnipeg and they made an aw» ful but the silly things should have stayâ€" *T Linss to the Hirst nflee.-'nu Printed No, she hadn‘t had any trouble about mlu reservations. The firm she works for all kinds of priorities and she got what she wanted. There were m‘mc.n‘. kept off CC Ca L Ls caada an aur. She was stopping off a day or two in Rulutommfmndlmdthonm:.fo luontoumtrulbydr.No more trains for her; they‘re too slow, She wouldn‘t come again until the war was really over, but cotâ€" _uunuflmhulmllymwbe quite a . Tbe_gr_iq:sby Independent First trip through the mountains, she told us at lunch. She‘d gone west by T.C.A. to Vancouver, had visited Seattie. Funny how the Seattle people had crowded the boat. ‘They just don‘t listen to the radio. There‘d Mwmn\'mnrmdvm were j but just the same one couldn‘t wet a seat on the deck. People really were ONE MEETS SUCH mnueanmndwiihthem?w ons heard about them. It is then a situation which calls for reason, not panic, careful study r:thu than nlil‘l;‘(:lty. Speaking orw\vrmnx of crimesâ€"gullibility, a willin accept enrythluwehur.hurulnm«m. Better that we should spend sometime exâ€" ploring the facts, if only as a means of putâ€" ting us on guard against those, who, with great porsistence urge us to believeâ€"not alâ€" ways the truth, but the things they want us What conclusion can we reach in regard to the suggestions that this is a monopoly ridden country ? It may be that combines and cartels are beneficentâ€"I don‘t believe it for a momentâ€"though in one form or another they may be a, part of this world for many a What is the other conclusion: Cartels and combines affect only a part of our econâ€" omyâ€" and a comparatively small portionâ€" Countries. In order to relieve the av man who 'eydeflnitelydmnotmtwnmn.n of either cartels or combines, the modern devils of the day, I present a few figures which give the facts. Read them, rememberâ€" ing as you do that cartels and combines are supposed to raise prices in the countries in which they functionâ€"and, at least as far as the records show, they function feebly in Price Index Increases since the Outbreak of !g_l:}g?tbfflry, 1945, in Canada and Other ‘?Mn:‘:h.:lub;;n told that this eon:’- :ryw.. That wonld’;nd«d be a’a'; awkward position. I can‘t think of anything to compare with it, except possibly to have one‘s foot flllhththcmmp'whnthoufihm is P c ie n ds nc oo on top 0 R. J. Deachman. ARE WE SLAVES? independence is afraid of o always to the most perfect independence. whkhkxméffi."“ * c ~al #e (2) Wh prices are low in Canada, closge to the lowest. (1) Our cost of living seems to be, at Malib&.uthatoz‘:hnyh:t.hhe:‘hdiu coutry in the world w & in the warâ€"this includes also tm All that remains is to point out two LIVINGSTON and LAWSON, Publishers. & . J es i Established 1885 temher Canadian Weekly Newspaper Nights, Sumdayn ioh is 0D in Canada per year in United States, payatle J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor. Thursday from office of h_;-dO-k?t?i.cnmy. (Preâ€"war levelâ€"100) Cost of Wholesale Living _ year in Canada and $2.50 178.6 219,.2 142.3 148.2 140.8 170.4 us from a postâ€"war inflation. hands of eleven million Cana Mywwufluwdm had enlisted, when they returned to their farmuomrtmunlnthoprleudnock were terrific. 'l‘hcyp‘ld.mw:'m)forn team of plow horses; $80 to $100 for a cow ; $2 apiece for hens. Plows, harrows, discs, harness, foodwmallw‘ludweordlndy. The :rhot of it was that hundreds of them failâ€" , and became a burden on the country they had fought to keep free. They died of slow hunger and discouragement. Their children grew up bitter und.hnrd as nnils. IF YE BREAK FAITH inmmfmmmm helaned whipped of them. They didn‘t have a chance to build homes, get started in a small business . . . buy equipment for a Continue the list yourself. You‘ll agree that among the things money can‘t buy are some of the most valuable treasures life has to offer. "If ye break faith"â€"you will remember McCrae‘s immortal poem written during the Well, we did break faith. We let the men who came home face conditions that drove them nearly crazy. Back in Canada they faced a more insidious foe than they had in ;hndon. They faced an inflation that Their new "civies" cost them $75 to $100 a suit. Shoes were from $12 to $18 a pair. Work socks cost $1.25 a pair. Their wives mtqlutom:bunwnhmk. that were utterly beyond their ty to Money can‘t buy inward peaceâ€"p¢ace iSthe reâ€" sult of a constructive philosophy of life. living and wholesom with our fellow men. Money can‘t buy sunsets, songs of wild birds, and the music of the wind in the treesâ€"thescare as free as the air we breathe. Money can‘t buy a good characterâ€"good charâ€" acter is achieved through decent habits of private last war. Money can‘t buy a clear consciencâ€"square dealing is the price tag. Money can‘t buy real friendship~friendship must be earned. Money can‘t buy happinessâ€"happines is a mental condition and one may be as happyin a cotâ€" The things that money can‘t buy would make a long list. Here are some of them: Money can‘t buy the glow of good healhâ€"right living is the secret. tage as in a mansion. Failure is humiliating when the same lesson has to be learned twice. It is shameful when it results from the overweening vanity of success. Success teaches some men much the same lesson that failure would. It sobers them, and impels them to walk humbly beâ€" fore their destiny. For the others, who think success is an occasion for pride, disaster awaits around some hidden corner, in the company of oblivion. With them stards failâ€" un.nurnlnd.uud:nfin!. + THE THINGS MONEY CAN‘T BUY Thohucm:‘gm Lorimer for many years editor e Saturday Post, once wrote these words: “ltlss:‘[:: thing to have money and the things that money can buy, but it is good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven‘t lost the things that money can‘t buy." A wise father will buy his son boards, and let him make a box. The corners may not be square; the lid may not fit, but the boy will have learned more about the next box than if the father had saved him from his failure with the first. The years of effort Pierre and Marie Curie invested in the isolation of radium: were they a record of failure? They would have been, if, to the Curies failure had not been im&lndon. The long and contiruing anâ€" nals of eeomuettordzuumnnefldhll record of unsuccessful trial, challerging the :ourun and imagination to still further efâ€" ort. To most men, failure : an enemy, but to those of perception she is afriend. She is a guardian on strange paths, the guide to the w of success.Her fee is sincerity Scientists know that. Edison dreamed the electric lamp, and tried some 2100 matâ€" erials before he perfected a practial filaâ€" ment. Two thousand failures? No, jist 2,000 new ideas: all the ways it couldn‘t is done. FAILURE To some, the company of failure is shameful. To the wise, she is an inwiration. Hf?;l‘t. rekindles th‘:l;‘rh 'fi::-'hz'i.‘: i ope. They ‘Ml'li__‘_ nt of failure has not destryed the No government, no set of rules can save Hundreds of them died of sheer discourâ€" nent, thousands grew hard and bitter and ; it has merely pointed out the wrong we ioing to "break faith" again, It‘s in the ans whether THE GRIMSBY INDEPENDENT Before you go to sleep tonight ask yourâ€" self if the firm you are with, and the world in general, is any better off because of your having lived another day. wood, after he had split it. That would be on another day. This day was filled with music and adventure; life‘s cup was full. A reliable man soon gains the attention and respect of his employer. When an opâ€" wzlflm.thhfellovh usually the first in to get it. _ Altogether, it exciting day. Nothâ€" Mhumw&fingh&u suggested you would be helping to pile the The pile of sticks beside the saw table g-'::mb u the nforgettable Thew. you the u: aroma of newâ€" ly cut wood. You ed at the sawn ends, pleased to find one where the saw had cut through a knot. You counted the rings which measured the years the tree had 1i You weren‘t aware of it then, but the whlmofthatuwvutobeeomrnolyour being. The highâ€"pitched "whiâ€"iâ€"ine" waving down and back was punctured by a sharp "zing" at the end of each cut. It raucous music had a crude rhythm which you measâ€" ured off unconsciously. It was fascinating to watch the whirling teeth bite through the wood, smooth and clean, as if it were butter. Oneeortwieethe{letyouholduplmuthe saw cut through it. C inflation will overcome us again, or not. We have the say. lt’-ourcoum....wrm- ernment . . . our world. ting together, like the boys overseas, we can whip anything That was a great day. . The little gas enâ€" gine, connected by beltâ€"with the saw, was a marvel of ingenuity. It chugged once or twice at intervals, until the saw bit into the wood, when the extra load woke the spark, and the exhaust coughed with every revoluâ€" tion. To your mind, that engine had power! on earth, even hard times. It is strange how a vagrant sound, which you might have heard yesterday, will strike through to a longâ€"lost memory and call forth a day that is pastâ€"so far past. This time it was the whine of a buzzâ€"saw. You recalled a certain day when your father bought a cord of wood and hired a man with a portable buzzâ€"saw to cut it up for him. _ BUZZâ€"SAW MUSIC to hare "the bes, who S portant m most r.dq:u'mwld-iu'mâ€" the time to make 4r¢! And NOW come true by puf Sure those plans "Â¥op fad diat that future by figâ€" that‘ future us must fight for aar‘s dolhs wondig to keep Canâ€" keep that dollar w Uniess we can You & Co.â€"along h a full dollar, Canadaâ€"will face with the rest of why it‘s important Néation! ‘That‘s ever nowâ€"to fight foWâ€"more than wo'n: a ;lvollu. a dollar that‘s y NOW es wow civilian .oo!;huy? Because m]l.,lr..dm, are scarce, and to FIG to mainiow is the time 4 price conâ€" ‘OU AND COMPANY that family you work~â€"you and A small Lx you‘d & and plan Published by THE Jn inltiont FWING INDUSTRY (ONTARIO) so reves! the dangers of inflarion. Y OU & Co. trols and price ceilings. We rationing. . We Ur to now, Canada‘s controls have really worked. We‘ve been able to prevent inflation. But we must fight now to keep those controls working, until the supply of civilian goods can come up to the demand! What hlppenes after the last war must not hurpen again! For the sake of our children, for our returned soldiers, for ourselves let‘s keep up the fight against inflation. lhuhcco-o-lufl;nooud. If we don‘t, m'l'm‘ to find some day that our will buy only a quner’smllof‘oods. And that means that dollar is only worth a quarter. This is inflation! "“‘Ofll.mm_hrl- r the future as part of a Nation "Jimmy" Dunham trying to explain to "new Canadians" that meat ration tokens are not sold in two dollar lots, but must be obtained in exchange for a coupon. A tedious job. 6.45 in the a.m. West, the Barber, sweeping off his.sidewalk. 8.45 a.m. just two bours later Ernie Buckenham sweeping off his sidewalk. 5.45 p.m. a lot of sidewalks that never felt a broom all day, Norm. Harris telling Bob Bourne that none of the bum fruit going on the market is his, because he does not grow any peaches that are smaller than Youreguentjobh the road you are now travelling on. It may be a main road, a detour, or a connecting road, but it surely is attached to the great highways that lead to the ultimate of our dreams. Heat waves rising off the pavement last week reminded one of the tropics. We could have used that heat last December 11th and 12th. Highway Road Foreman Peter Robertson and his crew have finished giving the old street a contâ€" ing of tar and fine stone. "Chuck" Walker with a brand new, long handâ€" led shovel. Had no idea Mrs. Walker was strong enough to handle a shovel that size. ‘The fliag pole on the town lot, next the bank, has been fixed so it can be raised and lowered on a hinge. MAIN= SJ REET must buy only Make this Pledge Today! I pledgo myseif to do my part in fAighting inflation; By sbserving rettening and svoiding &*h-“. By respeciing price centrels and other By buying Victory Bonds and Wer t btpicg: T wl mes bns ces two where one will do, '_: will 1 buy Harold B. Matchett Business Directory BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. 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