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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23
THE TEST OF ENDURANCE
By NJ. L Burton, President University Of MINI.

| AMERICA must face new test in the Vic
tory Liberty Loan beginning on April 21st. Ger
many's job now is to be good loser. Our job
| is to be good winner Ours is the severer test.
During the last two years we have responded re-
markable to the call of the country. We have ev-
ery reason to be proud of our record. In Red
Cross work. in the activities of the various well
fare societies, and in the great liberty loan cant
paigns, we have wrought achievements worthy
of the gods We did all of these things under the
spur of war. We were fighting. Every one of
us strained at the leash We were determined
to do our part We shared as best we could IN
the spirit of battle. 1t was pretty difficult to
stop some people when the news of November
eleventh came They were positively lost, ii not
aggravated The game was full of zest and the
job was the biggest one they had ever tackled.
Their machine running on high, straight a.
had and every cylinder was firing. To fight
and to endure such conditions is not easy, but
every element of life does contribute to the main
tenance of morale.
We face totally different crisis 1t is
question whether feeling or reason is to dom
mate u.s. Until last November, all of the deepest
emotions and passions of life drove US on. Patri-
otism was at its height 1t was grounded in
Something more eternal than logic. Our whole
being responded to it's demands But now the
guns have ceased their firing, the trenches are
empty the German submarine can no longer
murder our citizens and destroy commerce,
the battle is won and the boys, God bless them,
are coming home. Everything seems different.
The pressure is off and it is very easy to degen-
crate into very poor winner.
So common sense must step in and insist upon
our meeting splendidly the present issue. We
still have millions of men to feed and care for.
Our government is still spending two billion dol
lars a month to defend the right of mankind.
It is easy to say 1--WE have subscribed all we cam
But have we? If the western drive were still on
we would subscribe another ski billions and still
another America would never yield. So now we
face the test of endurance under conditions which
do not stimulate and inspire us as actual war did.
But reason must control u.s. The tasks Of peace
will call increasingly for sober, quiet judgent IN
meeting our national issues. Any loyal citizen
who sits down calmly to face the facts will con-
clude that this loan must be taken just as gladly
as it's predecessors If we fail now, we shall be
guilty of superficiality. If we succeed now, we
shall give clear evidence of our real integrity as
a nation. We must now take the endurance test.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

If women get the vote land they willy and be-
come members of the legislature they will proba-
bly, ask the state to provide each desk with a
hand mirror, powder puff, polisher, gross
of invisible hairpins and box of violet talcun
as part of the necessary equipment for the
proper performance of their public duties. Which
isn't any more unreasonable than for Minnesota
to buy expensive cuspidors for tobaacco-chewing
male legislators to aim at and miss.-Billy Moo
nan.
And Billy, there is, we firmly believe, no great
probability of the desks being marred by the
placing of feet thereon-at least not while skirts
remain at their present width. And that, too,
viii be an Improvement.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

Judge Us, o Lord, in Thy pity, remembering we
are but dust,
And that though our ways be crooked, we have
not broken our trust.
For it seemed that Thy cause was chalIeged and
we saw no better way
Than the way of the brute to serve ito raven
to hate, and to slay;
So when Thou sittest in Judgment on the things
that our souls abhorred
BY Thy prayer for those that knew not, remember
Thy children, Lord.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23
FINISH THE JOB.
BY James E. Freeman, Rector st. Marks Church
Minneapolis.

TT WAS well said of old mo man having put his
hand TO the plow and looking back, is fit
: for the Kingdom of God" Just now we are
saying, mo man or nation having undertaken
consistent task, is worthy of approval or
unless he finishes it."
America went whole -heartedly into the war
in April 1917. Quickly we modified all our re-
sources of men and material, with the result
that we put in the field an army of two million
men in the incredibly space of fifteen months. 1t
is widely admitted by our Allies, that if this
ton on the part of America had not been effect
ed as rapidly as it was the Allies would have been
crushed, Germany would have been triumphan.
and her form of civilization with all its arrogance
conceit, and selfishness would have been impos-
ed not only upon the countries of Europe but ul-
timately upon the United States. We have realz-
ed this, and we are now clear that we went in
to the war, not merely to save Europe but to
save our own land people. The blow we struck
was characterized by American efficiency and
energy, and it was decisive. From Chateau
Thierry to Sedan is pathway of glory of which
we may be justly proud.
Rapidly as we have brought the troops home, we
have in Europe at this time considerably more
than a million men, and our job will not be fin
ished until these men have been returned and re-
stored to all the privileges of civil life. AS in
the Civil War, the reconstruction period presents
more problems than the war period; hence the
supreme Importance of meeting the Governments
needs by subscribing to the new issue of Liberty
Bonds. It is a poor kind of patriotism that,
standing on the curb, applauds the passing
troops as they return from service and then fails
to supply the treasury of the nation with funds
to complete the task to which the boys willingly
gave their all.
Further than this, the new Liberty Loan does
not call for those who are charitably inclined to
GIVE their money; it simply asks that they
LOAN at a fair rate of interest.
Ii we are going to secure our homes and fire
sides, our business and social interests, we must
see to it that this Government is made stable,
and ready to meet any emergencies that may
arise. dark cloud hangs heavy over Europe,
and it is cloud that spells disaster, and the ruin
Of our most cherished institutions if it is per-
mitted to overshadow our own land. govern
ment without funds is bankrupt government
spells failure for ali the interests that it is sup
posed to safeguard and protect. It is not mat
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

Paul Dehnel, erstwhile editor of the st. Paul
and Minneapolis American, who was informed at
Fl Oglethorp, Georgia. has been given his re-
lease, along with four others from this state.
Dehnel will no doubt return and pose as mar
tyr, at the same time carrying on his unAmer-
can propaganda. The government is supposed
to know what it is doing, but we in Minnesota
who knows Dehnel believe mistake is being
made in turning such man loose to excite peo-
plet to acts of unAmericanism as he has done in
the past.-Cottonwood County Citizen.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23
A PRAYER
BY Mai. Guy M. kimberley, o. B. E.

Nameless the things we have suffered, and
shameless the things we have wrought,
We have borrowed the devils weapons, we have
used the guile that he taught,
For the things that our souls have hated, and for
lies that our lips abhorred,
For the blood, the lust, and the passion, gram
Thy forgiveness, Lord
Yea, not by the things which we loathed, but by
the cause which we loved,
Not by our doubts Of Thy Mercy, but by our faith
which we proved,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

"The outstretched hands of Christ are the only
possible shelter over the world" Edwin Markham
And shall that shelter vary because of Greco
or religion, nationality or color, politics or be-
lief of the sheltered? Christ lost sight of fac
ton and feud in His search for brotherhood
What far ways present day Christianity has
come from the Christ of its origin.
90 Christ of Olivet, You hushed the wars
Under the far Andean stars;
Lift now Your strong nail-wounded hands
Over all peoples, over all lands
Stretch out those comrade hands to be
A shelter over land and seal"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23
GEE-UP OAR, MULES
By Edwin Ford Piper.

He stood UP in our khaki with the poise
OF perfect soldership beneath the praise
OF the French We caught the word,
Conspicuous courage" bringing wounded IN,
And decorated with the Cross Of War;
Black-faced? Yes, just niger. Nine month
He drove span of bony cotton mules,
And never had been out of Jasper County
In Georgia, u. S. A.
They drafted him,
Shipped him to barracks broke him into drill;
1t was changelings life saw the lad
After his first three days in cantonment;
He had Just finished polishing his teeth
Novel achievement, and he swung the brush
With beat ecstatic, chanting joyously:
'Lordy, lordy, got toothbrush,
Lordy, lordy, got toothbrush,
Lordy, lordy, got toothbrush,
And I'll go to heaven on-high!"
Perhaps he sings now Of the service medal,
Or of some other meager badge or symbol
Out of that rich and SCATTERING experience
Hurled round his simple soul. With hasty hand,
Life sweeps loaded vivifying brush
Over his old dull past.
And yet, like
To think he will come back to Jasper County;
picture him in patched and faded denims;
Over the wagon-wheel he mounts the seat,
Evens the lines so the lead team won't jerk.
Then all together the four nervous mules
Will straighten tugs, dig in their toes and pull.
She shakes, she creaks, she rolls!
"Gee-up dar, mules"
General Foch is fine old French,
He puts us niggers in a front-line trench;
The barb-wire down, and the barrage begun
Boche see a niger, and the Boche he run,
O POI mourner!
You shall be free
When the good Lord sets you free
ooh, I hitched up the mules the mules worked
fine;
/ hitched em to that Hinnenburg line,
/ drawed her back till snagged her on the Rhine,
An the boss come along, and he give me my time.
0 po' mourner!
You shall be free
When the good Lord sets you free.
GWan-n mules Gee-up dar, mules!"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

What children first learn to sing, just as what
they first learn to read, has great influence in
shaping the songs they sing and the thoughts they
think in adult life. Nowhere is there such a
collection of great lyric literature set to worthy
music as may be found in some hymn books. No
child can afford to be ignorant of these valuable
hymns.-Minneota Mascot.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

There are few stingy- souled mortals in this
part of the world who were perfectly willing to
buy bonds to send the boys across into danger,
and are now perfectly willing that having born
the brunt of this danger such boys as escaped
may walk home. The poor crabs!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

We whipt the redskins in order to gain this
country we whipt the redcoats in order to gaN
our independence therein, and we not going
to allow the Reds to mar what we have gained
Kansas City Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

The desperate straits of ex-royalty in Europe
is instanced in the case of former Emperor
Charles, who has taken refuge in Swiss castle
that is occupied by his mother in-law Kansas
City Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

Just check up the fellows who ere kicking
against the Victory Loan.
Have they ever been heard to boost for any
thing?
Don't they always kick against everything?
WE'LL That explains it!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

He who takes hold of one end of the litter on
which hurt brother is prone, must not pause to
question the name and affiliation of the man
who takes hold of the other end.-The Christian
Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

The Gazette has been accused of "harping too
much on this Victory Loan stuff. Maybe so!
We are entirely willing to quit-just soon as we
learn thai everybody in Redwood County has
bought his allotment.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

The Northwestern Chronicle says that jazz mu-
sic is "supersyncopation". We though it was
something that sounded awful but we didn't rea-
lie that it was as bad as that.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

It is said that Mr. Burleson is perfectly honest
and sincere in everything he does And that, if
anything, makes the situation worse Kansas
City Star.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

The news that $500 Yanks are still missing may
be explained by the fact that they all out hunt
ing up their mail or past-due salary Medicine
Lodge (Kan.) Republican.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23
SMALL TOWN TALK

Most bartenders will be pleased to get into
business where the best customers will not want
to kiss them d-night.-Toledo Blade.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1919-04-23

Campaign Now Opened Against the Cigaret
Headline. The next step will be crusade
against tobacco.-New York Evening Sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19

cam senators who pledged their lives,
their fortunes, and their sacred hon
or to oppose the league OF nations
But that was in Washington When
Senator Spencer reached ST Louis
the glorious thrill OF putting VIII
son in a hole had passed lie began
to discover what his felow-citizens
at home really thought and promptly
blossomed out into tremendous
advocate OF the league The incident
needs no comment, except to say that
it throws suggestive light on the
whole Republican maneuver in the
Senate. Anything more shortsight-
edly partisan and at the same time in
sincere could hardly be imagined
Lodge and his fellows appear now
like naughty schoolboys writing on
I the blackboard an impudent message
to the schoolmaster, and then scuttl-
ing away as fast as possible. The
country has pretty well sized up the
entire affair, and IL settling down to
the confident belief that the Republi-
cans will be heartily for the league
after 1t has been amended in a few
/ particulars.-New York Evening Pest.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19

The war department has changed
It's ruling relative to soldiers uni.
forms and other equipment which the
boys brought home They are not re.
CURED to return their uniforms and
equipment aud postoilce employees
have been notified not to accept par
cells containing uniforms for return
shipment. This IS as il should be.
Every soldier who has served during
the war is entitled to the uniform
and other clothing which was issued
to him. In years to come these sol
diers will take part in parades and
public functions and It would be a
disgrace to the nation II they could
not have the uniform in which they
served.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19
UNFAIR DECISION NOT BEST

During the last few minutes of the
village meeting Tuesday, resolu-
tion was offered providing that at the
next annual meeting the questions in
the warning he decided by ballot Just
the same as.-the election of village
officials. *. 'if0s
The BRIEF argument oyer the ques.
ton did not make the point at issue
Very clear. Under the present sys-
fem, with the Village meetings at Ii.
brary hall. itAe, action on the articles
in the warning must be taken by the
limited number of voters who can
crowd into the small space available
With part Of the floor taken up
by the booths and rallied sections not
many more than three hundred vot
ers can be accommodated in the hall
There are at the present time just
about two thousand voters in the vii
lage of Bennington and the present
system means that fye.sixths oil
them are DISTINGUISHED as far as &C
ton on the warning goes. by inability
TO enter the hall when there are ques
tions of public Importance up FOL
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19

one incXplicablc phase of human
nature is why people viii pay 10 cents
20 Sc" n dog.faced girl.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19
Goat Is REGIMENTS Pet.

AS Il rule, regimental pets are AMI
mails which are more easily domestl-
Gated, such as the goat OF the Royal
Welsh fusillers. who have long en-
joyed the privilege Of leading THEN
pet with a shield on its horns, at the
head Of the drums.
ON st. Dayid's day, after dinner,
the drum major, accompanied By Billy,
enters the messroom with a dish Of
leeks. He solemnly makes the round
of the table, followed by the goat, and
offers the national vegetable TO each
officer.
Even In the case of such \ pet ne
cidents, however, sometimes have hap
pened. Once a drummer's boy. light
weight, was on the goats back, when
some incident annoyed the animal and
the youngster was summarily thrown
on the mess table and killed outright.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19
In a Girls Pocket.

a great deal has been written, in
both poetry and prose, about the relics
the boys carry in their pockets. writes
the high school reporter for the To-
ronto Republican, but for some reason
they missed The girls. Recently our tn
vestiration committee heId,an inquest
upon girls pockets and found the
following one scented pocket hand.
kerchlef, one vanity case containing
powder, mirror and some small change,
one powder rag, one crochet hook, one
ball crochet thread and work. one tai
ting shuttle, one button hook, one nail
Tile. one wire hairplng oneieoat button,
one stick chewing gum. note from
her last beau, and three sen-sens, be.
sides numerous unidentified odds and
ends OF a miscellaneous nature.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19
500 Reward. SOD

Tho readers OF this paper will be
pleased 10 learn that there Ia ut least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able 70 euro In all It's stages and
that Is catarrh. Catarrh being greatly
influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment Halls
Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and
acts thru the Blood on tho Mucous Sur
faces OF the system thereby destroying
the foundation OF the disease. giving the
patient strength by building Up the con-
stitution and assisting nature In doing It's
work. The proprletors have SO much
faith In the curative power ~ Halls
Catarrh Medicine that they offer one
Hundred Dollars for any case th,t II fails
20 cure. Send for list ~ testimonials
Address y. 7. CHENEY ~ co, Toledo.
Ohio. Sold by oil Drugglsis, 7ac.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19

consideration ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS IA
II the voting on the articles in the
warning were to be decided by ballot
every voter in the village could have
an opportunity to register his opinion
fer or against the proposal
For the small number CT voters in
the hall the argument over the vari-
GUS questions has some educational
value but il is to be doubted whether
this advantage equals or offsets the
disadvantage aud wrong of disfranch.
Using more than three-fourths of the
village voters on these questions
The Bannen holds no brief on
either side of the issue but most Of
the large villages and towns in
Massachusetts,, Connecticut and
Vermont have found il necessary to
use the system proposed in the reso.
luton Tuesday
The objections offered to the sys.
tenn are precisely those which were
earnestly urged years ago against the
Australian ballot The Australian
ballot was kept out of scores of towns
for years because the voters had to
give up the privilege of discussing
the candidates on the floor OF the
meeting but after the change was
once made the voters found that 1t
was probably better to admit all the
voters to the decision rather thar
con6ne the ballot to the number that
could crowd into a small hall
The present system Is entirely con
trary to the tenets Of democracy
Bennington should either provide {
hall which will permit all the voters
to participate who desire to do so Of
else provide a system Of voting unde
which all the voters may share In IN,
decision. The present system is I'm
fair to threefourlhs Of the voters o
the village
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19
Have COLOR IN CHEEKS
BE Better Looking-Take
! Olive Tablets

IiyouS skin Is yellow--oomplexion palld
Tongue coated-appetite poor--you have
a bad taste in your mouth--alazy, no.good
feeling--you should take Olive Tablets
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets substitute
fofealomel--were prepared byDr. Edwards
after IL years Of study with his patients
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets are a purely
vegetable compound mixed with olive oil.
You will know them by their olive color
To have clear, pink skin, bright eyes.
no piinplcs a feeling Of buoyancy like
childhood days you must get at the cause.
Dr.EdwordS Olive Tablets act on the
liver and bowels like calomel-yet have
no dangerous after effects.
They start tho bile and overcome consti.
patton. = That's why millions of boxes are
s5ld annually at l0c and 25c per box. All
drugeists- Take one or two nightly ana
mote the pleasing results.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19
a hypothetIcal question.

Two business men in the same line,
equally successful and equally neces'
sary succumb to inhuenza-one we'll
insured for benefit of his business
the other without business insurance
no sentiment in this situation
which man used good Judgment
National Life ms Co. of ", (Mu'
tualD Earle S Ninsley General
Agent. Mead Building Rutland, VI
ADJ
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19
. A senator channnn MIND.

lie said that he was heart and
soul in favor Of league of nations
such a leagut was "cerlin to beform
ed" and he did not see now any one
could oppose such a league" Who
is this ardent Champion None other
than Senator Spencer of Missouri.
ono Of Lodges immortal % Rcpubli.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19

anNauANgaNN RdiNElllaEuaERsia.l,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19
STATE OF VERMONT
DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE
JOSEPH c. BROWN, COMMISSIONER
MONTPELIER


To the Owner Automobiles in vermont
circular being by tho Automobile
Company America home Office Providence, Offering
insure automobiles
This Department desires to call your attention to the fact
that Automobile Mutual Insurance Company of Aperca
recognized by this Company has
not legally qualified to do business in Vermont
All owners automobiles cautioned with reference
cepng IN this any their property
To such knowing the accepting
in company of this would
that loss and disagreement arise tho
the loss the OF the resident OF Yer
action tho compel
a company pay the loss
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19

DE man dat KANT do no work his
ownSe'f," said Uncle Eben, generally
averages mp by maxim a whole lot o.
trouble fair other neople." '7s'
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19

Speed the days when pies nre nor
NAL and doughnuts resume their pris-
tine lndigestlblityl
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-03-19
Wanted

BInCH-OAK--spnU
WOOD L0GS-WE no CUSTOM SAW
ING OF LOGs--SAWDUST $500 PER
CORD. For SRlc---Cord wood and
slab wood cut 90 steve lengths. De-
h'erea' n. II. CusHMAN MFG. CO..
North bennington, Vermont.