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it, but despite all this cannot see that there would be anyhing gained were the foremost nations of the world to call a halt in their military preparedness. Of course it would be all well and good if all nations were to adopt this principle, but all of them will do no such thing. Human nature is too suspicious, and this disarmament queston is but one more of those things which are theoretically correct but which will not work out in the reality. In business life even neighbors do not trust each other. This is the reason for mortgages and certain legal forms when business is done on any other than the “cash down” principle. Theoretically, if a man borrows a thousand dollars from his neighbor he should pay it. In the reality a large number will not until forced to do so. Why should we expect nations to do something that we as individuals will not? Theoretically, no man should take that which is not his, but we still have our police force, our vaults and other safety devices. We cannot hope to change the tactics of the bandit and the lawbreaker by refusing to lock our doors, discharging our law enforcement officers, and resorting to pacifist methods. We must be prepared for him. A And so with nations. We dare say none of the leading nations of the world would object to some scheme that would do away with the expense en- tailed in keeping up its army and navy and policing its borders. They all know that war is wrong, but even in our present-day civilization we cannot get away from the law of the forest which says that the strong shall survive and the weak fall. And anyway, why should the “peaceful” nations of the world be expected to lead in the disarmament scheme ? Why not try out some ‘of this disarmament argument on those whose past record nas shown that they are not to be trusted with too much power? Disarmament and world peace is a lofty ideal. Of that there can be no doubt. But the time is yet afar off when peaceful nations are to scrap their defence and place themselves at the mercy of others who may not be so particular. We have all of us seen the man who loses his head and starts to “clean up” on someone. But did you ever see one of these fellows swinging his arms and squaring off at someone he knew full well could mop up the street with him? So it Is with nations. The nation with the big army and navy and peace- ably inclined is the best guarantee of peace we know of. Disarmament and guaranteed world peace may come some day but it is so far in the future that we do not expect to be here when it arrives. To speed up. this service has caused quite a change in the original idea of the railway author- ities, and the methods that have been called into (play prove beyond any shadow of doubt that the mixed train cannot single-handed bring the morning mail into town on time or anything near it. As things are at present a “special” train running on a way freight schedule does the freight work. This train leaves Palmerston at nine o’clock each morning with empties for the Stone Plant, does the work the mixed used to do and, ‘arriving in Durham around eleven o’clock, returns to Palmerston as a “special” with a full train load of stone. The mixed follows after the arrival of the passenger trains from the south, does little or no work on the trip up, and returns at two-thirty-five. Instead of stop- ping at the “Y” on the northbound journey, our mail train now comes in to the station and returns later to turn around, something that should have been done all the time. If Durham has to put up with a morning and afternoon mixed train on the C. N. R. it would seem to us that the running schedule is about as fast as it can be made, but will no doubt return to the old unsatisfactory conditions once the demand for empties at the Stone Plant ceases. We simply cannot agree with those who advm cate that countries like Britain, the United States and France, and latterly Canada, should lead the way in disarmament. The change in the methods of doing business during the past few years is little short of revolu- tionary. While the general run of businessmen, es- pecially the smaller storekeepers, condemn the credit system, it can be noted that more and more of the larger firms, including our mail order houses, now blatantly advise prospective customers of their “deferred payment” planâ€"and go so far, even, as to The “deferred payment” plan is not a new scheme by any means, though a perusal of some of the advertisements would lead 'one to believe so. Since business began there has been the “deferred” or “time” payment method of purchasing. Until V017 _ recently this method has been confined mostly to the patches of machinery. chop equipment and think we are entitled to a better mail service. The'i speeding up of the mail service, however, makes it a' lot better than it has been during the past two years. Even one o’clock, and arriving here on time, is a lot better than one o’clock and meandering in any time between half-past one and two, and often later. We are Opposed to war, big navies, tOp-heavy standing armies and ‘all that, and with three campaigns stowed under our belt may be pardoned when we say that we think we know a little about Circulation for 12 montbs,1,4oo. PRICEâ€"Samoa”; $2.00peryearinadvmce,to_the UnitedStatssafioperyearinadvance. Whosoever is afraid of submitting any WW)”, civil or religious to the test of free discussion. is more in love with his own opinion than with tho Truthâ€"WA TSON. Residents of Durham and vicinity have no doubt noticed that during the past week or so our morning papers have been arriving at the C. N. R. station “on time”. For this we would like to ex- tend our thanks to those responsible, but at that PAGE 4. The Durham) Chronicle THANKS A LITTLEâ€"BUT NOT TOO MUCH THE DISARMAMENT QUESTION DEFERRED PAYMENTS Thursday, May 9, Personally, we are not in favor of extending the .principle‘ too far. Without the deferred payment plan many of our present successful businesses would still be working with obsolete machinery, but when it comes to a promiscuous adaption of this principle we believe a mistake is being made. A man is justified ’in going into debt in order to install machinery or equipment in his business, but it is another matter entirely when he anticipates the purchase of something he could do witnout or which ,in his case might be placed in the luxury class. Human nature is funny. You can sell - some peOple anything at almost any price providing you make pay-day far enough away. .. ' , POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE The political independence of the electorate during the past few years has been a matter of concern, but it would seem that newspapers, too, are adopting this same policy. The Toronto GLOBE is an outstanding example of where a metropolitan daily, and long known as “Canada’s National News- paper” and supporter of the Liberal party, has “chucked” the politics and now claims to be inde- pendent. The latest is the Port HOpe GUIDE, which since 1831, has been an exponent of Liberalism and now joins the ranks of the independents. In an- ouncing the change THE GUIDE states that in the future it will be “an independent town newspaper” and concludes by asking: “Why should a newspaper be the one and only example of business foolish- ness?” In the small town, especially, the weekly news- paper. mars its influence as a news medium by beâ€" coming embroiled in the heated political arguments of the day. It always makes enemies, and if this were accompanied by results it might not be so bad; but we have our doubts if a weekly newspaper in the average large rural riding, turns many voters to its way of thinking by the arguments advanced. ) The editor of a weekly newspaper should de- mand the same right as other citizensâ€"to use his franchise as he sees fitâ€"and from our observations invariably insists on this privilege. In any other business we see the hard-boiled Tories, Grits, United Farmers and others, but how many of them are pre- pared to back up their convictions to the tune of losing customers? Newspapers today are not the party organs they were a few years ago. They have become organized into disseminators of news and as such eschew that which causes useless dis- cord. Their subscription list and their advertising are their bread and butter and they would be fool- ish to sacrifice their living in order to promote the interests of any party or individual. The editor may be a strong party man, direct the activities of his party at election time, attend committee meet- ings and all that, but this he does as a private cit- izen and on the same level as other men. Nobody ex- pects the merchant to drive his customers away with political argument; why should it be expected of. the newspaper? Up here in Durham where the traffic is not so heavy as farther south in the province, accidents, fortunately, are not numerous, but at that a good many of. them could be avoided with care. There are some peOple' who, when behind the steering wheel of a motor car and judging by the manner in which they drive, must imagine they are the only travellers on the road and if they come through without accident it is more attributable to good luck than carefulness. Only last Monday morning we saw a car going through town at too high a rate of speed for safety. When it passed the main corner it was travelling, we would say, at the full limit allowed by law in the open country instead of the ten miles an hour pro- vided for intersections in town. Others on the street at the time remarked at the speed, but like ourselves, none of us wants to get the other fellow in trouble. We have little sympathy with the traffic officer who splits hairs over speed on the open high- way but we do think that it is up to motorists to observe caution passing through towns. With four- wheel brakes it may be perfectly safe to travel thirty-five miles an hour along the main street of the ordinary small town, but it looks bad, and should an accident occur there is little likelihood of much sympathy being expended on the guilty motorist. This class of motorist not only suffers himself, but makes it hard for those who try to be careful. 3am man with political aspirations and wishing to re- present his community in Parliament, has, with his party, something to sell. Then let them advertise what they have got and pay for it. That is what party campaign funds are for, and~to which the newspaper can contribute the same as any other business. The time has passed when the local newspaper will consent to be the goat for the whole political party, and, in lost business, wasted energy and free space, pay for that which should have been paid for by the party as a whole. The day is not far off, indeed, it is here, when the “prominent citizen” aspiring for political honors, must state his case through the/ advertising columns of the press the same as any other business man. A the like, but now a person may buy anything from a linoleum for the floor to a motor car, and a large number of pe0ple are naturally taking advantage of Owen Sound evidently believes in the saying that if you don’t make yourself heard you’ll get nothing. ~Now the Sun-Times wants an air-port. Durham has both these things already. We have our own air and get the port at Walkerton. it. Not all the “bulls” are made in Ireland. Last Sat- urday 'we heard a ladv radio announcer from Toron- to, giving a talk on shoes andhose over CFCA, say thatoneoftheremarhblothingainsprinzstyles m that ‘theahoeomdhooowgitjgndinliand NOTES AND COMMENTS THE DURHAM CHRONICLE S. S. 2, Egremont Jr. IVâ€"Norma Ferguson. Vera J ohn- son, Sadie Davis. Sr. IIIâ€"Norman Gordan, Douglas Johnson. ' Jr. IIIâ€"- Jimmy Ferguson, Willie Campbell. Jr. IIâ€"Percy Gordon. Viola Pollock, Ivan. Johnson. Sr. Iâ€"Bert Marshall, Bobbie Webber. Sr. Pr. Aâ€"Clarence Gordon, (Lenore Davis and Clifford Gordon, equal) George Webber. Sr. Pr. Bâ€" Helen Lindsay. Jr. Pr. Aâ€"Bobbie Mighton. Bâ€"Norma Lindsay, Wanda Stephenson, Orvin Pollock. Câ€"Vernon Campbell, Vincent Campbell, Minetta Webber. S. S. 3, Bentinck Sr. IVâ€"Lillian Park 73, Joe McCul- loch 71, Jean Coutts 68, Russell Bart- man 60. Jr. IVâ€"Charlie Mighton 62, Claren Reay 56, George Bailey 55. Jr. IIIâ€"Albert Reay 59, Myrtle Bartman 57, Grace Reay 57, Clifford Brown 46, Herbert Wells 34. Sr. IIâ€"Jean Reay 70, Pearl Bartman 47. Jr. IIâ€"Ruth Bartman 50, Bernice Wise 37. Sr. Pr. â€"Howard Bailey. Jr. Pinâ€"Edith Bart- man, Marjory Brown, Ada Reay, Ar- thur Wise. SOCIAL AND PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Allan of Toron- to, accompanied by Mrs. (Capt) H. McElroy and two children, Fort Wil- liam, motored to town Saturday visit- ing with Mr. and Mrs. T. Allan. M1. and Mrs. Allan returned to Toronto the same day, but Mrs. MdElroy and child- ren intend spending some time with her parents here. Mr. and Mrs. H. Rodcnberg of Long Beach, Calif., visited last Week with Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Storrey and family. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas and little daughter, and Miss Orma Burnett, of Listowel, accompanied by Mr. Cecil Johnston of Holstein, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Burnett. Messrs. Blaine McFarlanc and. Wal- ter Renwick have gone to Wingham. where they have accepted positions. Mrs. Ed. Burnett of Hanover was in town for a few hours yesterday and. gave us a call. Her daughter, Miss May, known to many of the younger people here, is about to graduate as a trained nurse from the hospital at Oshawa. Mr. John Bryon of Owen Sound spent Sunday at the parental home. SCHOOL HONOR ROLLS U. S. TRADE COMMISSION AROUSED Although the official plans are withheld, it is thought that the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into power trust propaganda will be extended to include the alleged buying up of two Boston, Mass. papers. Senator G. W. Norris (left) of Nebraska and David I. Walsh (right) of Massachusetts, have been particularly outspoken in their condemnation of what they term an attempt on the part of the power trust to influence the press of the entire country. â€"Irvin Sharpe, Teacher.- cal-I'm.â€" Chickens Don’t Like Oats Scientific tests conducted at the School of Agriculture at Cambridge, England, have shown that fowls digest oats much less completely than they do wheat. The chief difiiculty‘ seems to be with the hulls, which horses ap- parently delight to chew, but which are apparently just so much unneces- sary impediment to digestion in the gizzard of 2. chicken. Candy Specials for this week-end : Sc. Chocolate Bars, 3 for ....10c. Scotch Peppermints, lb. ........ 29¢. Peppermint Humbugs, lb. ....29c. Fresh Salted Peanuts, lb. ....25c. Licorice, Allsorts, lb. .............. 25c. Chocolate Caramels, rb.. ........ 33c. Chocolate peppermint patties 39c. Assorted Cream Bon Bons, 39c. R. L. Saunders, Prop. PHONE 4 numnn SEE OUR WINDOW DISPLAY! The Variety Store The Sweetest Gift of All A box of Smiles ’n Chuckles or Neilson’s Chocolates in all sizes, specially wrapped for the day. CUT FLOWERS Carnations: Roses, Sweet Peas, Here you will find an array of suitable gifts for the occasion including: Silk Scarves, Silk Gloves, Kid Gloves, Silk Hose, Umbrellas, Hand Satchels and Purses, Toilet Articles, Writing Paper, Neck- laces, Handkerchiefs. Mother’s Day Come in and see our special displays. Sunday is gathering extended .a very hearty vote of thanks. The ladies were pleased to have with them Mrs. R. Lawson, Mrs. are the ofl’ieers elected: President, Mrs. G. Turnbull; Vice- President, Mrs. P. Torry; Secretary- Treasurer, Mrs. G. Reay; Directors, Ms. B. Coutts. Mrs. J. Porter, Mrs. G. Alexander; Press Reporter, Mrs. W. Fulton. Georgel'mrnbull. Bentinck. on Fri- daylast,andorgan@daU.F.W.o, Club. In spite of the storm there Was a splendid attendance and the meet- ing was most interesting throughout, Following the opening singing was in. dulgedinandthecreedrepeatedm unison. Mrs. Arthur Edge, president or the Rocky Club. read an excellent paper on “Essentials on Farm Women’s Organization,” and at‘ the close the was spent, during which refreshments were served by the hostas and assist- ants, Mesdames B. Coutts, G. Reay and F. Torry. The June meeting of this newly-organized club will be held at the home of Mrs. G. Reay. The World’s Greatest Show 33mm You will gasp at the GREAT CIRCUS! You will marvel at the CHARIOT RACE! You will cheer the SEA FIGHT! You will tingle at the LOVE ROMANCE! Coming! f. F. W. 0. CLUB ORGANIZED May 16, 17, 18 Star Theatre GALLEY SCENES! Prices 35c. and 25c. at the 3 A. A. AUOE Phone47 ; - DURHAM ONTARIO‘ For This Week SPECIALS a; very low prices. 11 “ill pav you to see these beiore cu bur TENNIS SHOES f for Men, Women and Children! Bring in the kiddies. and ELL-c. them fitted. We only carry 13:0 best and the pricm 52"“ 2*:‘1' Just the thing I , ‘ Aor HEY-J.“ Men’s fine and heavy Work Shoes. Men’s Work Shirts: from 547w U1; THE PEO Western Fm CHILDREN‘S OXFORIH in Black and Tan per We have three cars 4 in stock. Leave 3'01 COMIN Car load of Mill at the following pri< Bran $34.00; Short: We expect to 11: Monday, April 29 ' custom chopping aga HIGHEST PT Phone 8, Day or Ni and since S'M ‘ the best. ka . DRESSESâ€"II} .L-‘L 1012. SWEATERSâ€"wft >14 SILK LINGERIEâ€" apmc HOSEâ€"Best qual F INE’S RAYON SILK we have a beautifull ', May S, 1929 Gunn s «The H4