ISSUED EVERY MORNING BY THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO. Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday Morning, August 4, 1935. This Is Friendship Day MAN that hath friends must show himself friendly, said Soloman, who called attention to the friend that sticketh closer than a brother. He warned his followers against the kisses of pretenders, adding that faithful are the wounds of a friend. For some reason or other and by some unnamed authority, today has been designated as Friendship Day. Every day might well be dedicated to the sacred sentiment of friendship. To be lasting and genuine it must be shorn of selfishness. True friendship is one of the most ideal relationships that exist between two or more people devoted to each others welfare and advancement. The French have a saying that friendship is love without its wings. It is love without its exactions, its jealousies, its intimacies and its cloyment. Love may turn to hatred, but friendship, when allowed to wane, may pass without bitterness. Love is a fragrant flower, says Coleridge, but friendship is a sheltering tree. As a matter of fact a lifelong friendship may be destroyed by love. The great Bard of Avon recorded this opinion: Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love. The basis for friendship is mutual confidence, congenial tastes, unselfish companionship, reciprocal tolerance and generosity in deed and thought. Love may develop from such relationship, but is more apt to blossom in an atmosphere of infatuation and desire of personal possession. Rational friendship is diffusive, while love is exclusive. Yale University The School of Medicine was organized in 1812 as the Medical Institution of Yale College. First degrees were conferred in 1814. In 1884, the school came entirely under the control of Yale College, which changed its name to Yale University in 1887. Plautus, the Roman dramatist, mused and commented as follows: If I have done my duty to a friend and have advanced his interests, I deserve no praise but am merely absolved from blame. No one can be truly happy without friends, nor can he be sure of friends until he suffers unhappiness. Many poets have deplored the treachery of false friends. Those who betray are not to be classed as friends. The expression false friends is self contradictory, like a double negative. There are those who cultivate friendships for definite purposes. This is generally attributed to politicians who memorize names, profess particular interest in the domestic affairs of voters and kiss babies of mothers who cast ballots. But such pretensions wear thin after a while and most people see through them. The path of social or political advancement, Friendship resembles a well-cut diamond. There are many facets reflecting the colors of the rainbow at different angles and in divers combinations. White and clear mean worth; under certain conditions the true blue type is revealed; another slant shows a flash of fighting red; still another is timid yellow whose loyalty outshines its courage; the green may represent those who are willing to serve but never know what to do; the pink of sociability and the purple of loyal comradeship enhance the glory of the gem. Such a diamond is dependable despite its amalgamation of contradictory characteristics dependable until it becomes the setting of an engagement ring. There are true friends who never profess their fealty; admiring friends ofttimes unknown; boastful friends who embarrass by their praise; helpless friends who are pathetically grateful; vigilant and combative friends who incite enmities; foolish friends who mean well, from whom people pay to be saved; frank, outspoken friends who think they are doing a service when they stab and lacerate the hearts to which they swear allegiance. It was in reference to these latter than the poet, George Canning, wrote: Of all plagues, good heaven, that wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend. And yet, such friendship has certain uses, like a major operation in surgery, but both are enjoyable in about the same degree. Friendship is necessary to every normal life. It should be cherished, cultivated, consecrated: If you have a friend worth loving