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THE DURHAM CHRONICLE Published every Thursday morning at the office, Garlâ€" hxa Street, Durham. Ontario, by W. Irwin, Editor and Proprietor. The Chronicle is mailed to any address in Canada at the rate of $2.00 or ear, 81.00 for six lonths, 50 cents for three mont s. 0 any address in he United States of America. $2.50 per year, .6125 for six months, 65 cents for three months. Foreign sub- scription rates on application. . . lember Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association Whoscwer is afraid of submitting any question, civil, or religious, to the test of free discussion, is more in love with his own opinion than with truth. â€"WA TSON. PAGE 4. “The Great Adventureâ€"The Change Called Death!” On this Christmas season we present to our readers this priceless giftâ€"the last written the vision before him. Dr. Marden, who died some three or four months ago, was one of the best-known editorial writers In 1898 he founded Success, a publication known as the Human Magazine, and edited by him up till the time of his death. The Great Adventure was written by him on a bed of sickness and at a time when he knew his earthly hours were numbered. Once upon a time, a butterfly, just emerged from the chrysalis state, was bitterly disappointed with the sudden change which had come over it. It could to maturity. Filled with regrets, for a long, long time, it hovered around its outgrown shell. Instead of usiiéfi its Wings to fly out into the beautiful world in win ° uller life, it shrank It longed to be a chrysalis again. ’ The butterfly was infinitely more beautiful than the Chrysalis. Its power of self-expression was many times enlarged. It could get around infinitely better; everybody admired it more, but still it _ ‘ " °‘ “J ------ ‘ #11 “think if. had ’ The butterfly was infinitely more beautiful than the Chrysalis. Its power of self-expression was many times enlarged. It could get around infinitely better; everybody admired it more, mourned its old eelf, its old apparel to Wthh it had We are like the butterfly. We grieve when we have to leave our old houseâ€"the body. We fear leaving it. We shrink from the new, unknown life that lies beyond the Chrysalis stageâ€"our existence care.of ourselves without this Infinite Power, this Inscrutable Wisdom, which keeps all of our life pro- cesses going, which gives and recalls life to itself. Now, since this Divine Power, this Infinite Wis- dom takes care of us so wonderfully up to the very point of the change we call Death, why should we then distrust It? Why should we shrink from taking the leap in the dark when the Father-Mother-God calls us to leap into His Everlasting Arms? If your child stood frightened in the dark, and you called to it to leap into your arms, it would not fear to do '90. Even though it could not see your face, it knows your voice and would not hesitate to jump when you called to it. aeventv odd year}; of my hfe. I will not distrust Why should I hesitate to change this old suit I have worn 39 long for a new one better adapted to 'n the war, when hides went up in price, shangngfacturers advanced the price of their wares in order to keep up with the increased cost. After- wards, wages commenced to soar, and prices went still higher. The war over, the price of raw hides dropped to an even lower level than pre-war prices, ter, wa es dropped some twenty per cent. gr l‘s‘ince, the? general public has demanded a cor- "spa din reduction in the price of shoes and has long tVliroligered why it was not forthcoming. ent meeting of the shoe manufacturers in gzefion at Montreal and their statement that the shoe industry, despite high prices, was in rather m straits. complicated matters in our mind. quite a little. and we were loath to express an opinion on m_- _........ “Mfi‘n {air-n“ in nnnnlnainnn I "but, “u“ "v ---â€"- â€"â€" -- .- _ . the subject. Too many pe0ple Jump to conclusions. In most any industry the big bugaboo against low- «in prices has been the “overhead” that has crept in. mid thei ncreased wages as compared with ten . The increased cost of doing business In! more than offset any reductions in raw material, wgges during the past three or four years. m condition has made itself felt in every line of business, from the small grocer to the large man- --.I 3‘ h. €mM-n3I-JA ft“. «savanna in Glihlv 0! ”“51"“, lav--- -_ v __ .1“: , and it is imiaééi‘fiie 'for anyone to glibly uphill away the reasons for high prices of today. Last week’s issue of The Youth’s Companion, pub- lished at Boston, Mass, gives about the best explan- ation we have yet seen. This Opinion, of course, is based on “dons in the United States, but we 3;.» m the argument will fit in well here. THE GREAT ADVENTURE .1» person who now buys well-made shoes of anti]; has to pay almost twice as much for as he used to pay ten years ago. At the same tho {w or stockrpan who has a hde a, mu m no more for 1t than he got in 1914, Thursday, December 11, THE PRICE OF SHOES u! or I! m undue profit. But anyone who mum-hoe industryknowsthit m w “waive. one 0‘ m facturing concerns wt and most prosperous man“ fgw that publish 'n still sells at less than the price of a single pair of good shoes, tanned leather ° sed to be. is considerably more expensrve than it u For three years few tanners have a profit on their books. Wages in the shoe factories are more than twice as high as they were ten years h below the peak of 1920. On the ago, and not muc average they were fifty-two cents an hour then, and they are forty-eight cents an hour now. “The cost of retailing is said to be much higher than it used to be. Precise figures are not easy to get, but everyone who really knows the business agrees that it costs more. than it should to market shoes. The retailers blame the public for wanting too many styles in shoes and the ladies in particular for demanding frequent and whimsical changes in fashions, which frequently make a good part of their stocks unsalable. “Obviously the man who has hides to sell is not , ' g one cent too much for them, Obviously the . tanners are not guilty of making an~excessive profit, I. and the manufacturers could not reduce their prices enough to affect the retail price of shoes without having to go out of business. 'l‘heretailer might modities, shoes can be too low in price as well as too high, and the workers are entitled to wages as generous as the industry can support. But those who grumble at the wide difference between the value of a skin and the price of a pair of shoes should understand that it represents higher pay for human workers.” There is a all of us if we it: us lie 'like dogs, and that’s worse; and some of us love money more than we do truth, honor and good- ness, and that’s worse; some of us cheat, steal and dodge our taxes, and that’s worser still, though among the elect it is sometimes considered a virtue. But the crowning sin of all is a hard, unloving heart and a soul without charity for the frailties of . others which rejoices when others are crucified and which attempts to hide its secret joy with sniffling and pious depreciation. No, whatever you do. don’t get too good. Heaven is going to be a big surprise party to most of us. Even people who tell the truth are saying business is getting better.â€"Peterboro Examiner. The ten commandments do not need to be rewrit- ten so much as they need to be rereadâ€"Kitchener Record. In the matter of weather, November could not beat October, but it was a good runner-up.â€"â€"Hamtl- ton H crald. The Brantford Expositor wants us to eat home grown apples. Have you an apple tree m your home ?â€"Border Cities Star. ’ Up to the hour of going to press, “N Ste. Marie district had not carried off gers.â€"Toronto Telegram. Some day in the far distant future, one of those mountain murders in Hamilton may be cleared up. â€"St. Catharines Standard. If you’ve still got the neighbor’s lawn mower in the cellar, it would be a good time to return it and borrow his snow shovel.-â€"Hamilton H erald. The cilivized peOples are those that pay the high- est prices for beadsâ€"Key West (Fla) Citizen. There isn’t much to success except that you lie abed an hour longer.â€"â€"New York Telegram and Mail. It is easy to recognize Sunday. Pe0ple have the tank filled instead of asking for five gallonsâ€"Vane comer Sun. It may be better to be happy than rich. but no noor man ever deriyed my satisfaction from the ihought.â€"Chicago N 9108. ’ DON’T GET TOO GOOD 3 a lesson in the following article for we but take the time to carefully peruse CRISP COMMENT neral direction of ' Egypt seems I is not exactly an ideal time lion’s taiLâ€"Torono Telegram, ., wolves of Sault off any bootleg- one of those CHRONICLE SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mrs. F. K. Iacksan, \xim Ic-lt here a month ago on a \isit with Hamil- ton friend. left tun davs ago on a visit. with rolaiiws in \mkshire, England. Mrs. W. J. Bailey of Winnipeg. who has been East for the past six weeks visiting friends at Hanover, is in town this week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. (J. P. Kinnoe and other friends. Miss Marjorie Brown, who for the fall season has been in Mount Forest, has. returned and is again with Misses ’ ‘uax. Miss Jean Baird returned from Hamilton last week where she went to enter training as a nurse in a hospilal in that city. Miss Baird was under age, but will return next year to enter training. Captain J. F. Wright returned to his home here last week after a sucâ€" cessful season on the lakes. Mr. and Mrs. 0. S. Aldcrson of New York visited over the weekâ€"end with M c. and Mrs. (LE: Hayron. Miss Dayidson, prinicpul of Hol- stem public school, spent, the week- and mth her friend, MISS Florence Kerr of Varney. SHAKESPEARE A SCOTSMAN? The Scots are as intellectual and capable a race as exists on earthâ€" and they are ready, if pressed, to admit as much. The Sphere tells of a Scottish boy in an English school who, when he was asked where Shakespeare was born, promptly reâ€" wfimfimfimn U01 ‘1” @@@@@@A 0 Buckwheat . Peas Hay Barley Oats Live Hogs Wheat Ducks .................. .10 g; Geese ..................... Chickens, milk fed. 54!) or over Chickens ................ J5 @ Hens .................. .10 @ Turkeys ...... . ......... .25 @ DURHAM MARKET Mack Sonnett Comedy “Friend Husband” TWO SHOWS :8 and 9.“) PM. FRIDAY-- SATURDAY December 12-13 ‘The Silent Partner” Corrected December 11, LEATRICE JOY ’Cause :11 A,- plied, “In Scotland, sin”. “What makes you thunk Shake- speare was. a Scotsman?” sand the svhoolmastr. “Because of his nboolity the reply. There are compensations. If you arc too unimportant to mfi'ord good clothes, nobody notices yoprclothcs. Au 0': us may he stobkholders in Covers are provided ‘0! Every Day Is Bargain Day THE PEOPLE’S MILLS Sovereign Flour Eclipse Flour White Lily Pastry Flour Wheat Cereal and Rolled Oats Bun Shorts Food F but Oat Chop Crimped Outs Mixed Chop Mixed Gain for Poultry Food chhford's Cd! Meal Pig Mal and Poultry Feeds sir!” was Total Assets $560,000,000. “rub”: BankPauMWomlfl “WOW nanny. Deco-hr u. an AT I acreases in Value the government. but usually we simply hold the bag. 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