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Show Our Changing- World Our present era is distinguished from all others by the rapid changes which are taking place in practically everything which pertains to our daily life. New inventions, new industries, in-dustries, new amusements and new habits generally are playing their parts in the ever-changing scenes. Luxuries of yesterday have become the necessities of today. Products only recently deemed indispensable have almost diappeared, while others unknown but a few years ago are now used everywhere. The rise of the automobile, motion picture and electrical industries has been astounding, as has been the advance ad-vance of aviation and the newest amusement, the talkies. Yet, while Americans indulge in more luxury than evijr before, savings deposits have trebled in a dozen years, and the number num-ber cf depositors have been quadrupled. quad-rupled. ; Whether thb sweeping changes we are witnessing are for better or worse is videly debated. But it can hardly be denied that the average person has more of the things which .make for comfort and enjoyment than ever be-! fore. |