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Whoaocvcr is afraid of submitting any question, civil or religion, to {M tut of fm discussion, is more in love with his om opinion than with the Truthâ€"WATSON. PAGE 4 Under this heading. the last issue 01 use Farmer-3’ Sun says: “There is no economic group in the Dominion more difficult to organ- ize and more easy to disorganize than the farm- ers. The pages of Canadian history are strewn with the names and the dust of farm move- ments that have flourished and died.” After reading the above paragraph from one of the Sun’s editorials, we wondered. Is the Sim really serious, or is it merely trying to fur- ther dissatisfy one of the country’s major groups in industry? If serious, the editor can- not be very well informed on the conditions in other industries; if merely attempting to spread further dissatisfaction, then the Sun is most certainly more interested in forming wrong conclusions its merits. There is no doubt that the farmers are disorganized. There is no doubt that they have had far too many troubles during the past three or four years, troubles that have caused them many financial worries and have placed the industry at a low ebb, but to hold them up to ridicule and say they are “more difficult” to organize and “easier” to disorganize than any other class of industry is rather wide of the mark. Farmers who read and know of the general conditions throughout the world know better than this. It is true that “The pages of recent Canad- ian history are strewn with the names and the dust of farm movements that have flourished and died,” but this same statement can be made of every other industry in the country. If the editor of the Sun doesn’t believe this, he may easily find the proof if he looks for it. The farmers as a class are just the same as those in any other business calling. When times are prosperous and they do not need it, they organize. When the pendulum of business swings against them. they drift away. If they are any different from other business inter- ests, the blame should fall where it properly belongs, on their leaders, not on the individual farmers. If the editor of the Sun wishes to confirm this statement, let him identify himself with any other business. What of the printers, the furniture manufacturers, or the hundred and one different industries of the country? Where are their organizations today? On paper, they may be, but in actual business conditions, we know of no great number of business institu- tions that are not out for business at any price. There never was a time when price-cutting was worse than it is now. The travellers on the road know this. The heads of the various in- dustries know it only too well. In the world of industry we do not believe business was ever more unstable, and the firm that wishes to do business is confronted with slashed prices, car- ry over conditions, and other departures that were never dreamed of a few years ago. Busi- ness conditions have become so bad that in a good many industries the busier the factory the more it loses. But still they carry on! Printers are running all over the country looking for orders for idle machines, and if a job cannot be secured in one way it is in an- other. Business generally in any manufacturing industry is much the same as on the farmâ€" you take what you can get and are thankful for it. In spite of all this, however, the Citron-1 icle simply refuses to become pessimistic. This country has weathered many a financial storm, and it will weather this one. Better times are coming if we but hold up our heads. The big trouble with us is we are working only half of that old British slogan: “Hang on and growl” We are certainly doing plenty of growl- ing, but have been so taken up with this phase that we have forgotten to hang on ' preacher: who do nothing but failure ahead. “A: a nun think oojpho,” and in times like tho-han’tmmfuflhelimm to t bib MM of his troubles. Pomon- ”memmammmbfl The farmers may be a “disunited” bunch but they have plenty of company, and are no more entitled to be told they do not stick to- gether than any other of the country’s indus- “THE DISUNITED FARMERS” The major difficulties with which we are Thursday, June 30. this heading. the last issue of the un saws: “There is no economic than dealing with the question on let someone come along with a few construc-I tive ideas and he has all our attention. We are more interested in some way of getting out of our difficulties than in tales of sorrow and ruin. Optimism may not be a cure, but it helps; pessimism only sinks us further, destroys our morale. gives as business headaches and leaves us worse off than before. THE LOST MARKET The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix hewails the fact that where once Canadian farmers export- ed agricultural products valued at $154,000,000, the tariff has reduced it to $7,000,000, and says “the desirability of recovering that market is not to be questioned.” With which we are agreed. But how to do it? The government of the United States keeps. Canadian wheat out of that country, and so long as there is grain and other farm products for export will likely continue to keep the United States market for United States farmers. No one who has studied trade aconditional throughout the world believes in sky-high tariff. Any tariff which strangles business un- necessarily is bad. But what can Canadians and their governments do about it? Nothing. In a world of tariffs Canada is perfectly justified: in holding her own markets for her own people. It would be of no benefit to Canadians under the present conditions to lower their tariffs. Taking off the tariffs and allowing the world’s! products to flow into this country would not: sell another dollar’ s worth of Canadian produce. The tariffs of the other countries must be re- moved before this could happen. Canadians may be convinced, but the trouble is to con- vince the other fellows. ,' These present-day arguments on tariffs :remind one of the story of the dog that was {barking at the stranger, who was afraid of the animal. The owner said: “He won’t bite. Don’t you see he’s wagging his tail and I thought ev- erybody knew a dog that wags its tail when it barks never bites?” The stranger agreed, say- ing: “Certainly, I know it. and I kn0w you know it, but are you sure the dog knows it ?” This is about the position of the present- day tariffs. They may be out of all proportion, and may be throttling business, but no one country can help the situation one iota. It is a world proposition, and the world is not ready for it at the present. FRIENDS VS. ENEMIES All of us like friends, and, if we appreciate them sufficiently, should stick by them. Too many of us are friendly only so long as it pays us; when adversity sets in, we desert our friends and fly to other places where the going is not so strenuous. This can hardly be called true friendship. We read a little skit the other day that ran like this: “Let us think carefully of what our enemies say about us. Our friends are kind and will lie to us.” This started us thinking along an altogether different line. Are not our enem- ies ofttimes our best friends? Generally, if there is sufficient enmity, they are at least candid. True friends too often are not. They continue pouring sweet nothings into our ears until we imagine we are as perfect as they insinuate. We fool nobody but ourselves. How many people have you met who ab- sorb all the nice things you have to say about them-and then, if you forget yourself momen- tarily and tell them some truth they ought to know. fly into a tantrum and break up a friend- ship of years? Friends, to some people, are those who never cross our ideas and, so. far as we are concerned, must become “yes-men” if they are to hold our regard. Yes, sir, we can learn a lot from our enem- ies. If they sometimes disturb our peaceful- ness with ourselves, they many times tell us what our friends are thinking; but who, be- cause of that friendship, refuse to speak. Friends and prosperity go well together. These two give us an exaggerated idea of our own importance” Enemies and depression are the other team. They bring us back to sanity, and when through with them, if we are made of the proper stuff, we should be the better for it. Too many of us develop that “high-hat” at- ,titude under prosperity. and it takes a period of depression to convince us that we are not so ; important after all. Hang on to your friends, you need every one of them, but by the same token, hearken unto your enemies. They may have something to tell you that will do you good. THE PEDDLER NUISANCE While the Chronicle is not quite so strong a supporter of the “buy. at home” movement as some weekly newspapers, it has little use for the peddler, that fellow who goes from door to door with some new-tangled gadget and in- sists on demonstrating his wares whether he is welcome or not. We had one of them in our office the other day demonstrating some sort of a squirbflnamngementioroflinxthe floor,and,llheallthei-est,hewasn’tsatisfled THE DURHAM CHRONICLE when we told him we were not interested, did not use oil on the floors, and would not consider his article at any price. Apparently we did not know what we wanted, and then followed the demonstration. There is no question he oiledl the floor. The spot is there yet, and has col- lected all the loose dust so successfully that it looks as if we shall have to use a chisel or caustic soda the next time we sweep. We don’t want oil on our floor, we didn’t buy the article, but had to yell so loud to get rid of him that for a timeye feared we had sprung a hemorr- hage. The day following there was a chap sell- :ing accelerators for automobiles, something we can buy at any garage at less money than he was charging and have it installed. Between the commercial travellers, who are as thick as cooties at an internment camp, the peddlers, and those who are collecting for this, that, and the other thing, we find it hard at times to get anything done for ourselves. Instead of open-‘ ing up the office for business nowadays, one spends his time entertaining itinerants who try to talk one into a state of coma in the hope that when the chloroforming process is com- pleted a sale will be made or a subscription col- lected. It is a great life, this being in business, and if it were not for the curiosity of findng out what kind of doo~dad the next fellow car- ries .we should get discouraged. However, we have not yet lost our sense of humor, even if !we are interrupted in our work by someone who }wants to know if we are not interested in some new idea that takes the eye for the moment ,but is soon relegated to the ash heap. Irvin S. Cobb will not write for the movies. Once, but never again, is his comment. Well, that’s something to be thankful for. The preservation of two ships of the War of 1812 is being sought by the Penetanguishene Board of Trade. More to the point would be the preservation of some of the ships of 1932, now tied up at wharves throughout the country for lack of cargoes. Great Britain has made a substantial cut in both army and navy estimates while other lands continue to talk of ambitious programmes in both respects. It has long been the habit of the people of the old country to believe as much in others as they do in themselves by carrying out pledges.â€"-Brantford Expositor. .Not so many years ago Canadian farmers ex- ported agricultural products valued at roughly 3154,- 000,000 annually to the United States. By its fiscal policy Washington has reduced that figure to a mere $7,000,000. The desirability of recovering that mar- ket is not to be questioned. It would bring prosper- ity back to Western Canada by increasing the mar- ket for grain, live stock, dairy produce and a host of other articlesâ€"Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, A SUBSIDY TO FARMERS WHO UNEMPLOYED A prominent farmer in Kent County proposes that Chatham should subsidize farmers prepared to hire men from the city to work in the fields as a means of relieving urban unemployment. He at pres- ent is employing 15 Chatham men on general work about his farm. The men we're hired through the local unemployment service. The hiring arrangement is that the men be provided with three good sub- stantial meals daily, and paid a daily wage of 50 1115 wu. ‘ The year 1930 was a bad one for United States .exports. But while April, 1930, saw the United States 'export goods to the value of $215,000,000, April at ithis year produced exports of but $135,000,000. A de- cline of about 40 pexf eent. cents. 'v--'w- The farmer claims that if the city paid a subsidy of 25 cents per day per man, the total per diem rate of 75 cents with meals, would be attractive to men in the city who are without a job. His contention is that a cost of 25 cents a day per man would be true economy to the city in providing relief to its job- less. At the same time, the scheme would be pro- viding a measure of assistance to farmers needing help, but, who, owing to present low prices, cannot afford to hire men at the regular _rate_s._ "-hv- “ vv --â€"â€" ' -â€"-â€"__ The farmer’s figment 'is plausible, and the prOposal is worth consideration in other cities which are under heavy obligations to meet the unemploy- ment situationâ€"Toronto Mail and Empire. How the foreign trade of the United States has all but collapsed is shown by figures issued at Wash- v--â€"-v v United States politicians, insisting that European countries pay up war debts to the last iarthing, yet preventing them from paying in goods, may soon be- gin to take note of this collapse of United States exports. It is easy to indulge in loose talk about can- cellation of war debts meaning higher taxes for the American taxpayer. But higher taxes 'tor the Amer- ican taxpayer might not mean so much it the United States could regain some of its lost trade, produce work and wages for its people. The United States manufacturer and farmer are bound to come to see this, even though the average congressman remains dumb; and when the light breaks. as it long ago broke for the bankers of Wall Street, there will almost certainly be a (mange in the American war debt attitudeâ€"Ottawa Journal. of the world’s gold. Its accumuhtion his probably been the greatqst Auntie new}: the primary producer in the United States as else- where, and made it difficult for t2: rest of the world tobuyAmeriungoodsttud otlntemuandtntemat mattmuledto GOLD BOARDING CONSEQUD‘CES UNITED STATES’ TRADE BRITISH SINCERITY A LOST MARKET farmers ex- ‘1 Letters _t_o__T_h_§ Editor To the Editor of the Chronicle. Deu- 8ir.â€"-As letters to the editor presentJukemypenmhmdmmm :few comments. This being our nstionu holidey, ma Durhun. u usuel. being without my sort of amusement or enterteinment, everyoneehietocetoutottownwiu most likely be spending their time end stay home 1nd be crates-tuned on ; hol- iday. The muthumpma pmdes on Queen Victorn's blrthdty. the athletic Day end en occasionul circus or other outside show on other duye, helped to mute life more cheerful. Then. too, we had music supplied by the town bend. But now, how different! If we could have a reluwmtlon of a Bill Black or a Bill Glider some life might be injected into the old munici- ptloorpse.'ma.ttswhatttisâ€"adud However it should receive the proper last rites and moment. as there are two undertaken in the council. An in- fusion of new blood or an application of the pulmotor might bring about a re- vival. Hard to say. In the meantime let us “rest in peace." Mat Be Something Wren; 1| Many of our readers remember whenl the bogey of annexation of Canada by the United States was considered a menace to the national security of our country. The great difference in ideals which existed even at that time made such a thought repugnant to practically ev- ery citizen. Since that time these dif- ferences have so greatly increased that the proposal has died a natural death. Now thinking people in the United {States are turning to Canada for safe OTHER PAPERS’ OPINIONS and sound ideals. Just recently Irvin S. Cobb, American humorist and pol- itical writer, said: “In the old days we good Americans thought that sooner or later Canada would get fed up with the British Govâ€" ernment and would be quite willing to be annexed. Now it seems like a pret- ty good idea to reverse the thing. May- be a lot of our problems would be solv- ed if Canada annexed the United Statesâ€"if we had your Canadian laws arid methods of enforcement.” Perhaps Mr. Cobb’s words are to be taken with a grain of salt, but when any citizen of the United States speaks in apologetic tones concerning his country, there must be something de- cidedly wrong with it.â€"Palmerston Spectator. End at America: thibiflon Is Now in President Hoover's new solution for the liquor problem in the United States as embodied in the Republican party’s platform is hardly less puzzling than his famous introduction to the Wicker- sham Comission's report on prohibition. Such a stalwart wet as President N ich- olas Murray Butler, of Columbia, is frankly disgusted and is on the verge of leaving his party, for the proposal, he says, is one of the worst ever made. Other wets are less outspoken. perhaps because they are still in doubt as to what the plank really means. What they had hoped for was a downright repudiation of the Volstead Act and a promise that if the party were return- ed to power the machinery would be set ’in motion at once to repeal the Eight- eenth Amendment. In other words, Congress would vote for repeal and then pass the question on to the var- ious State Legislatures as the Consti- tution of the United States provides. But the Hoover plank does not reach this far by any means. It asserts the right of the various states to settle the liquor problem according to their Counter Check Books I; Let: Us Quote On Your Next Order I Quality and Workmmhip Guaranteed. The Chronicle. We have them in all styles and sizes mucouolxmetweontthuwould simmemmmmctananuea bmenuMIuvemuedu-omwo- thepowennndhndit before promu- ummtorhtdthechtpmentot uquor mtogdrym.sothueumspec- muonutowhukmetntbythisu- sex-flan. Ahotbc tame venue de- hands, subject to ncemes and taxes. wl'nt right would the Federal Govern- ment have to interfere? party is looking move in the direction at repenl thnn in the direction at strengthening the Eighteenth Amend- ment and thnt is where it ha been looking until now. Tacitly the Pred- dent «knits thst the “experiment noble in purpose" has been In failure. but sinceitwouldonlyannoydrystouyso in so nunywordshenininstrom saying so. Much interest now attaches to the stand or the Democrats on this queetlon. If they should advocate re- peal,theycouldbeexpectedtoattract such wets as Dr. Butler. On the other hand they might expect to fortelt dry support, and “on the other hand" la a maglcphrase lnpolltlcs.0urown¢maa ls that prohlbltlon will out no such ll- gure in the approaching campaign as wasexpectedayearorsongo.What- ever happens the end of the experiment is in sightâ€"Toronto Mall and Empire. “You should join our discussion club; it is no end of benefit." “Oh no. We confine curse] elusively to bridge and tango." Son (entering officialâ€"“Well. end, I just ran up to say hello.” “To late, my boy. Your mother rm up to say hello, and got all my chance." “Do you cover a. wide range of sub- Student-“Twoi Boys’ Linen Suits. Sims 2 Glrls' Puma messes. Sizes 2 Are You Interested Large Size Glue wmr Jugs 25c nun-by. June 8. D82 The Variety Store R. L. Saundeis, Prop. IN BARGAINS? Real 0m This List