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Show high walls of reserve and claim you choose your friends. Maybe those you choose care nothing for you. Maybe they don't want your friendship. Be friendly; lend a helping hand to the man or woman who has proven to be your friend, irrespective of nationality na-tionality or creed. We are all human, plodding along life's highway, and we can all be friends if we just will be. And some day, like the writer, you will appreciate the helping hand of a friend.' What Is Friendship? What is friendship? Who are our. real friends? These are age-old age-old questions. One does not know if the people whom we meet and entertain are real friends or not. We wonder if ' they would be friendly if we ( couldn't entertain them. If trouble should overtake us would these people who claim to be our friends offer their services, or would they seek someone without with-out troubles. Some time since ' we were present at a funeral service where there were only about ten persons. There was ' a short burial ritual; there were no mourners ; there was no moistened eyes; there was one spray of flowers. His friends tolerated him in life and forgot hi m in death. Still he' was a fellow human gone to meet his Maker. There are people in Bingham who do not know their neighbors. neigh-bors. Is it right? We think not. Doesn't it seem selfish on your part if you are not desirous of meeting your neighbors and ascertaining their names. No one should live apart from his fellow-beings. You can be too independent. Some time you will need help. Do you prefer paid help, or the help of a real friend? In rural communities everyone speaks to everyone else. Why shouldn't these conditions exist here. Think well of the other person and he will think well of you. Don't enclose yourself with |
