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PAGE 4 Whosoever 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 the Truthâ€"WATSON. â€"â€"_fi HAPPINESS What is happiness? From the long, out countenances on far too many of would be justified in thinking there is “The happiness of your life depends upon the character of your thoughts. “Keep your fears to yourself but share “Diligence is the mother or goou wr- The dictionary defines happiness as: “A state of well-being characterized by relative permanence, by dominantly agreeable emotion ranging in value from mere content to positive felicity, and by a natural desire for its contin- uation. Mental and moral health and freedom from irksome cares are its normal conditions.” It will be noted that “happiness” is not hilarity by any means. A person can be happy without vociferously advertising the fact. One does not necessarily have to register a contin- uous laugh to be happy. There is, too, in the def- inition, that while happiness is an agreeable emotion, it is obtained only by “a natural de- sire for its continuation.” This is where most of us fall down. It takes very little sometimes to make us forget that we should desire a con- tinuation of this “agreeable emotion,” when even the slightest obstacles cause us to fly off , the handle, get in the dumps, and imagine the‘ whole world has its hand against us. This brings us to that part of the definition in which “men- tal and moral health and freedom from irksome cares are normal conditions” for the enjoyment of happiness. Happiness is primarily a mental condition. We dwell too much on our troubles. We see too many of the bad points in humanity instead of trying to look around for a few good ones. We spend too much time worrying about the other fellow instead of looking after our own well-being. We fail to see that While the other fellow’s ways may not be ours, this is no proof his are wrong or that we are the final authority on what is correct and what is not. We drift too much with the stream. We are too prone to be fair weather sailors, enjoying cur- selves too enthusiastically when the sun is shin- ing, and lacking the courage to buck up and fight when the black clouds gather. We rememq her and agree that “It is easy enough to be pleasant when life goes along like a song, but the man worth while is the man who can smile when everything goes dead wrong;” but get crabby and morose when the time comes for us to don our fighting togs when things go wrong, and in the end are not only unhappy ourselves, but spread this discontentedness among those with whom we associate. Happiness is a game. Too many of us re- gard every kind of toil as irksome, get no pleasure out of the battle of accomplishment, and see positively nothing further in life than an existence of drudgery that ends with the trip to the cemetery. Happiness is aiogether a matter of mind, and one of the main points is we}! expressed in the lines of Coleridge: “It is one main point of happiness, that he that is happy doth know andi judge himself to be so.’ ‘ PREMIER BENNETT’S HOTEL BILL Premier Bennett is being criticized in Par- liament because he pays at the rate of one dol- lar a day for each of 15 rooms he occupies at the Chateau Laurier, Ottawa. With his extensive entertaining, he is said to spend approximately $24,000 a year as a guest of the hotel. The management of the Chateau say he is their best paying guest. Personally, we think Premier Bennett’s oc-x cupancy of the rooms at the Chateau is good business for the hotel, and we are of the opin- ion he is not getting any more favorable a rate than any other man would receive under simi- lar conditions. If anyone doesn’t believe it, let him step up to the manager of any high-class WhCanadaengase 15roomsonayearly rental. satisfy the management he will enter- “Wumwutuuggmmpynpy tbs-tum!!!"- Thursday 9 M‘y 26! 1932 THURSDAY GAINING FAVOR It would seem that the Durham merchants were not so far wrong when they adopted, and stuck to, Thursday afternoons as the most suit- able for the weekly half-holiday during the summer months. As the years go by, the day is becoming more and more popular, and it will not be long before the majority of towns ob- serve it from May to September. ‘ Among the two latest to change from Wednesday to Thurs- day are Creemore and Palmerston. Ccmmenting on the change, the Creemore Star says, after trying both Wednesday and Thursday, business men of Creemore “are unan- imous in favoring Thursday, with Wednesday evening an Open night.” As the Star suggests it would be a decided advantage if all urban centres would decide on the same day, but we scarcely hope to see this occur. Perhaps it is an advantage in some towns to hold Wednesday, or some other day, but as the variOus towns select the day that suits themselves best, they are entitled to hold any day they care to select. Mount Forest holds Friday afternoon, and commentng last week the Confederate says that Thursday is gaining in popularity over Wed- nesday, and that only two or three places, in- cluding Mount Forest, hold Friday. The Cow federate says, however, that many Mount For- esters would prefer Thursday, and it will be, no surprise if the town swings over to Thurs- day afternoon perhaps next year. About the only ones inconvenienced by the weekly half-holidays are the travelling men. They, naturally, would like Friday afternoon, but, failing this, would like some one certain day. Whether they will get it or not depends. We believe there are some towns which will con- tinue to hold Wednesday, just as Durham stuck to Thursday when it was about the only town in this locality taking that day. THE FAITHFUL DOG All hail to the dog! For hundreds of years he has been man’s best friend. The dog is the only animal that will leave his own kind and follow his masterâ€"man. He is faithful unto death, something we often cannot say of our friends, and, rich or poor, the devotion of the dog to those whom he knows is a lesson to hu- mans. We were interested in a report that came from Windsor the other day, of a man and his wife, unable to pay their d0g tax, and offering their two-dollar relief slip in the police court to keep their canine friend from being destroyed. The Canadian Press used the happening for a news item, and as fast as the mail services could carry them, letters were received from different points in Ontario. A Woodstock resi- dent wrote the magistrate asking that he be sent the bill for the dog tax, an unknown from Ottawa mailed the owners a two-dollar bill, and an East Windsor woman paid the tax and re- fused to give her name. There’s something wrong with a man who does not like a dog, and those Windsor officials who demanded the last pound of flesh must have felt rather sheepish when they found out that outsiders were willing to do for one of their citizens what they and their municipality had refused. HONESTY IN BUSINESS A dispatch to one of the Toronto dailies tells the story of a certain grocery merchant in an Ontario town who was caught short- weighing his customers. He pleaded guilty in police court to the charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. A phase of the conditions that makes the crime appear worse in our eyes was the fact that those who were cheated out of their dues were persons having orders from one of the relief committees. It is bad enough to steal from those who have, but to deliberate- ly steal from those who are in want is worse. If there is anything more despicable on this earth than the man who gives fifteen ounces to the pound, we do not know what it is. What a wonderful Opinion a man of this kind must have of himself! What a comfort it! must be to him to find himself in the company of decent people, those who believe in practis- ing the golden rule. What a feeling of pride in himself a man of this class must feel surg- Iing through his body when, before him, stands the little, hard-working widow, slaving to keep a roof over the’ heads of her small and numer- ous family, from whom he is systematically stealing the half-ounce, the ounce, or the quar- tor-pound of the necessities of life! It must be a gr-r-r-eat, and gr-r-rand and glor-r-ious feel- ing! There has been quite a lot said and writ- ten recently regarding certain men who picked up a million in one instance and a quarter mil- lion in another. To our mind they are princes of phila nthropy when compared, with the under- handed, snivening, shister business man who pinches a quarter ounce oi! the pound of rice, or butter, or sugar, or whtover it my be, and {mm-bankmntatthoupenuothune THE DURHAM CHRONICLE NO GUESS wonx HERE ~ om PAPERS’ onumfls There are still some people who think the world is run on the guesswork principle. Per- Denial-e e! Pollen haps science, which has recently been trying to Rom down Inger-sou "Y W dispute some biblical truths, has been respon- W“ “I“ ”1“" k W m sible for this. Science has convicted itself, for an m"! :1,“ : ‘0'”ng lm for now it has been discovered that a rise of two to be “Wt, collected $3.00 a . or three degrees would cause the glaciers to down payment on a suit. or 31.00 on odd melt, raise the level of the oceans 150 feet and ”W39“- ‘5 the 0‘39 m!!!“ be. Nothing . . . more was heard of the vendor ot the destroy our largest cities. Again, science has ”its, it u m People who mt discovered that a drop of six to eight degrees to "om being “done” by wm-m in the earth's temperature would bring back mm of clothing and other m- yanother ice age. According to this, the earth’s chandlse. can easily do so by patroniz- gexistence depends on a rather slim margin of ing the 1‘0“" dealer PW temperatureâ€"some ten to twelve degrees. Who mo‘ said guesswork? Observe the Motor Laws An exchange says the hippopotamus is not a sensitive beast because his skin is two inches thick. Perhaps not, but don't try tickling his ribs to find out. The annual Presbyterian church supper last Monday evening was a complete success. A large crowd assembled, had fifty cents’ worth of eatables for twenty-five, so what could be more successful than that? Perhaps one reason for our present condi- tion is we paid more attention to transoceanic fliers, automobile speed demons, baseball and hockey games than we did to the fellows who stayed home and did the work. Mexican jumping beans in Brantford post office nearly caused a riot when the heat of the office started them into action. Beans always were erratic little rascals, whether in Brant- ford or elsewhere. A speaker at Kitchener said that the world is “tariff-mad.” We can all agree with him, but who is responsible? It will not solve the trouble to have any one country repent and get the tar- iff down to something sensible. This necessi- tates a world-wide movement, and the country that hopes to fight the present world-wide tar- ifl‘ madness by reducing its own is simply look- ing for disaster. ‘ A Toronto grocer grappled with and held a bandit in his store until the police arrived. The bandit shoved a gun against. a police offi- cer’s chest, pulled the trigger, but for some reason the firearm failed to go off. The officer then clubbed the bandit over the head. No doubt someone will raise the cry that the police are too enthusiastic in making arrests. Englishmen resent the climate of that' country being made the butt of countless jokes, and recently several have voiced their disap- proval through the press. But what of the Eng- lishman who said the Canadian year had but three seasons, “July, August and Winter?” or Bill Nye of the United States, who said we had\ but two seasons, “nine months’ winter, with the other three darn late in the fall?” 1 A writer in the Toronto Mail and Empire points out that the Scots call Burns “Rabbie,” not “Bobbie,” “Robbie” or “Robert.” But what difference does it make? Burns no longer be- longs to Scotland; he belongs to the world, and no matter what he may be called, he will still be known as one of the world's greatest poets, beloved and honored wherever his poems are read. A youth at Mount Forest stole a dollar watch, was pursued, captured, found to have only a nickel in his pocket, expressed full peni- tence for his waywardness and was let go. He very nearly had “time on his hands” in more ways than one. The Dundalk Herald thinks John Aird, Jr., has been getting rather rough handling by the Hydro probers, and the “next thing we know will be wishing he had not received that $125,- 000.” Tut! Tut! The editor of the Herald could well submit to being handled by Gus Sonnen- berg if there was $125,000 in it. Look what the editor of the Chesley Enterprise did for a measly little old $5,000! Husbands are certainly a long-sufiering, patient lot. of peOple. Man in Detroit shot by his wife re- fuses to lay a complaintâ€"8t. Catharines Standard. The business man who retired to escape sales- nunship has returned to his oflice to avoid house- to~house canvassers.â€"St. Catharines Standard. A lion ran amuck in a Boston radio station the other night. We: always knew those crooners were bound to start something.â€"Peterboro Examiner. Ivar Kreuger, the financier, took more than $400,000,000 out of the 11.8., and spent it in Europe. The big SwedeIâ€"Sault Daily Star. . Can this be only the centenary of the penholdert Why, the poatofljee p_en.3_ must be older than that.â€" Oboerve the Motor Laws The motor and vehicle law provides that cars or other motor vehicles may} notgoiasterthroughthestreetsda town or village than twenty miles an‘ hour or across intersections at more thantenmilesanhom'.‘1‘hislawis transgressed by the majority of car drivers notwithstanding that the ma- jority of accidents are the result of too high a speed. Children playing in the street are frequently injured and too often one is killed. The injury or fatal- ity could have in almost every case been avoided had the driver been ob- ;serving the speed limit. The faster the car is going the less the margin of safe- ty. A car travelling at the rate of from Men to twenty miles an hour can be 'halted in much less space than one go- ing at from thirty-five to forty miles an hour. Much trouble and sorrow could be avoided were motorists to strictly observe the law. Why should motorists take the chance of going through the populated districts at a high rate of speed ?â€"Southampton Beacon. l Educating the Unemployed Can a man or woman with neither job nor income still accumulate capital for future use? Yes. That paradox is accomplished by equipping the unem- ployed with increased earning capacity through instruction during periods of enforced idleness. For an actual demonstration one can go to Massachusetts where a state emergency committee on unemploy- ment with the aid of 15 universities and other educational institutions is doing that very thing by means of free instruction in accounting, stenography. business law, business organization, English, salesmanship, marketing com- mercial art and similar branches. Almost 4,000 persons have enrolled for these courses which are free with the exception of a 25-oent entrance fee to keep out the triflers. Private sub- 'scription and public funds make them possible. When one is employed irorn eight to ten hours a day it requires considerable initiative and ambition to devote the few leisure hours to study. But with the jobless there is no exuse for not salvag- ing most of the unprodutive hours by preparing oneself for a better position and greater usefulness when opportun- ity returns. One of the tragedies of the present situation is the .iailure of some of the jobless to apply themselves to self-edu- cation while they have the chance. With libraries at hand it costs nothing but a little eflort. As for the dividends. they will amaze those who do the col- lecting.â€"Galt Reporter. Mm’s Menu-y ls Short The other day, a citizen of Palmer- ston. taking advantage of the sun- shine to do a bit of looting, fell into conversation with a man who was go- ing from town to town searching for work. News of the construction of s cc- ment highway from Palmerston to Lis- towel brought him to this district in According to this man’s story, he went to headquarters of the construc- tion company which has been awarded quest for a job was told by a foreigner “to keep on peddling.” This mm, now a transient, stated that no one told him to “keep on peddling" in 1914 when he Counter Check Books Let Us Quote On Your Next Order DURHAM The Chronicle We have them in all styles and sizes Ipplbdtorennmt. histamhelettncoodjobthchhom notcetbnctvhenheclmeMovu'a as. outbid!» Wot home. hemldsflnhuethupodthn. Perhnpsthkmm’sdnrymm mammbutnumm tumtorthemostputltmm. mumydthemumtm themwhomthepmwrcmla orgmnthkmmutormunho onewhohuobulmdhhmtpod- umbysmmutmdutytohuooun- tryinflmeotneed. Wt an bedone‘nboutit? Nothing. monummcnbmhumm whentheywmmndmbutmuchnw huflowedunderthemflnoeuu: and unfortunately. in tome cues. mm memory is “shim Spec- To the Editor of the Chronicle. DeurStr.â€"Inyourlostmuelno- ttcednn item recudtncthemchachool teachers and their voluntary reduction otsolaries.meorttclemodutttt were only hooray, so it would he of interest to know it it is a (not flat next year at reduced rates. If they heve agreed to take e ne- duction that will amount to one and o. helfmlllsonthetuxntethetwonld mean less than 10 per cent of their present salaries. Muny ntepeyers con- sider this not enough 11nd think that a payroll of over “1,000 per year for five teachers might easily be reduced 20 per cent. considered that four teachers are wo- men with no incumbnnoes. The same applies to the public school teachers and it is up to the Trustees of both schools to give some considerltion to the economic conditions now prevail- “My papa’s a bookkeeper," said nttle Albert proudly. “Yes, I know it,” replied small Dor- othy. “He’s keeping several thnt be borrowed from my papa." 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