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The New York herald., 1922-04-09

ers are said to average nearly 500
words minute. There are people
who get through a 100000 word
novel in two hours, and pass an ex-
animation on what they have read.
and | once heard of a professor who
read long paragraphs at single
glance. His reading speed was
claimed to be 10 words a second,
4,200 a minute, or one novel in
twenty-four minutes. He paid a
special library subscription to be
allowed to, take out six novels a
day! In these days, when there is
so much to be read, it is a great ad
vantage to be a quick reader; but
very, very few people know whether
they are quick or slow. Try timing
yourself; it may lead to your in
creasing your speed and thus get
ting through a great deal of enjoy
able reading matter which you
would otherwise miss.-Fr0m the
London Daily Mail"
The New York herald., 1922-04-09

American Literary Expatriates.
HNHEY really departed, they want
1 ed TO live on the other side.
That was the new phenomenon:
and | am not thinking only of Whis-
tier and Henry James. There was
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What Is a Great Book?

TNEED hardly say that by great
i book / do not mean necessarily
good book or even book with the
highest qualities of human genius.
| mean rather book which makes
one feel that the author has hit the
nail on the head with a precision
which leaves no room for criticism
"a book of which it is impossible
to say that the man did not quite
know his job or was not quite up
to handling his tool. In a great
book one must never for single
instant have the feeling that the
author has cracked a weak voice
to too lofty a tune" The book must
have something thrilling, almost
awe inspiring, about it-something
that transports one and makes one
hold ones breath as does every true
success in the arts. Every one
knows the feeling with which he
closes the Book of Job or lie Pere
Goriot," Hamlet" or Shakespeare's
"Sonnets," Racine's "Berenice" or
Pride and Prejudice" Orme's His
tory" or Killing No Murder Hall
fax's Character of Charles H." or
THE Tale of a Tub" If ever there
was a great book it is the last
named. Swift was perfectly right
when he exclaimed in the agony of
approaching dementia: Good God,
what a genius / had when l wrote
that book!"-By j. st. L0e StracHey
in the Nineteenth Century"
Don Quixote" and Its Author.
THE first part of Don Quixote"
/ was published in 1905. 1t had
an immediate success, and not a
few pirated translations of it ap-
peared within the next few years,
both in French and in English. The
The New York herald., 1922-04-09
v. Where Becky Sharp Lived on
Nothing a Year."

LiI1oOprI l. iudIhtIdt VAN
~ ity Fair was written in 1916
and 1S47 and dealt with the
period of Waterloo and the ten or
fifteen years following the great bat
tie in the I.owlands, many of the
scenes of the story. are to be found
little changed or not changed at all
in the London Of to-day. A great
many American visitors in London
find their quarters in the neighbor-
hood of Russell Square. On the west
side of the square there is still stand
ing the house of the Osbornes. which
The New York herald., 1922-04-09
How Fast Should You Read?

n UICK reading leads to alert
0 ness of mind. BY increasing
your speed you will very likely re-
member more easily what you have
read. Tests have shown that the
quickest readers are the best at an
swering questions on the subject
matter. At the very least, you
should be able to read at the rate
of 800 words minute. Public
speeches are often made at more
than half that speed. Book review
The New York herald., 1922-04-09
Frances Negro Novelist.

"RAToUALA" was awarded the
II prix Goncourt, a great dis.
tinction and a wonderful advertise.
ment, and Immediately a fusillade
of articles for or against the book
began, first in the literary reviews,
then in the daily newspapers. The
GOnc0urt academicians had always
preferred strangeness to real dis
tinction: twenty years after Zola's
last successes they still affected the
literary formula of naturalism,
they were not afraid of what the
average reader still calls immoral
ity either, rather favored it; finally
their partiality- for such a book as
lie Feu," by Barbusse, at such a
date as 1917, showed that even the
war had not been able to shake off
their old belief, acquired toward
1895, that literature as well as phil
osophy ought to be above patriot
ism. Probably they would have
been less inclined to give their
5000 francs-once enough money
for a year in Rome or in southern
Spain-to M. Rene Maran, if he had
not been colored man: probably,
too, his views on the management
or mismanagement of central At
rica by French administrators had
flattered the ten academicians
taste for a little scandal. For it
was soon rumored that this negro
writer, himself employed as a
French official in Congo, had in
dulged in startling revelations con-
cerning the doings of the whites in
the regions where he had lived
From the Saturday ReUiec."
The New York herald., 1922-04-09


Literature and Russian Revolution
THAT this didactic mission did
i not affect the artistic integrity
of Russian literature is evident, il
we compare such a book as Notes
of a Huntsman" with Uncle Toms
Cabin" Whatever was best in Rus
sian literature unintentionally
served a revolutionizing purpose.
Thus, when Lermontov was killed
at the age of &c, Nicholas /. is re-
ported to have exclaimed with glee
Bon voyage!" Yet the young poet
had not written single line which
would make him eligible for the
rigidly communistie Clarte. His
danger to autocracy lay in his in
tense hatred for Philistia. The
monarchists Gogol and Dostoievsky
contributed more to the analytical
and nonconformist tendencies of
Russian youth than tons of under
ground revolutionary proclamations
and pamphlets, where all the is
were distinctly dotted and all the is
were plainly crossed. Mikhailovsky.
the narodnik critic, rebuked Chek-
how for writing TO no purpose,
yet most of the pre-revolutionary
public resolutions of 1904-5 ended
with Chekhov's verdict. "Such a
life is impossible" Even revolu-
tionary propagandists found that
the peasants and workmen were
easier to affect and convert by
fables and allegorical tales and by
such poetical prose as that OF Ger
shuni's Broken Dam" or of Gorky's
Song of the Falcon" than by all
the brochures of Engels and Kaut-
sky. .To the madness of the brave
we chant glory!'-who can gauge
the power of this early motive in
winning the hearts of Russia for
the cause of the revolution From
"The Role OF the Intellectudls." By
Alexander KaaR in the Freeman"
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1922-08-04

rosas en- parang6n con las que eavue.
We la educacion militar del recluta. En-
el ultimo case Sc ha estudiado, progre
sado y especializado de tai modo que
bajo un plan de ensefanza intensiva
Sc puede en- algunos meses tener sol
dados bastante bien preparados para
desempefiar su cometido en- la guerra.
No hay que olvidar que la ensenan-
"a del soldado es en- part,s instintiva
necanica que cualauier hombre
dotado de una mediana inteligencia y
que posea una instruction elemental
puede salir airoso en- su papel de que
rrero.
En- cambio no Sc puede improvisar
un Official eficlente como no Sc puede
improvisar un sargento nj un cabo La
experiencia es necesaria la respon-
sabilidad considerable; Sc requlere una
instruction solida ciertas dotes de
caracter para estudiar comprender
en- corto tempo 'el arte militar po-
, derse adoptar a la vida del soldado.
La question de los conocimientos po-
demos decir que es de Importance gs-
neral, pues tanto mas eficiente es un
ejercito cuanto mayor es 'el grado de
instruction de los individuos que 10
integran.
Parece l6gico por tanto la tendencia
de todas las naciones a tener un nu-
nteroso contingente de personas capa-
citadas para ejercer las funciones de of
cial de ejercito. Esta demostrado que
el ejercito regular no es suficlante pa
ra sostener una guerra y que en- nues
ira epoca la nacion entera tiens que
cooperar al exito de las distintas ope-
raciones comprendidas en- la instruc-
cion, equipo y abastecimiento de los
ejercitos.
Para ell ingreso como Official en- las
seservas por ahoJa ell Departamlsnto
de la guerra Sc limita examinar la
hoja de ssrvicio del peticionario; pero
como con Ell tempo la falta de prac
tica Sc van olvidando los conocimieu-
tos adQuiriaos, Sc ha fijado un plazo
cue expira en- Ell proximo afio para Ia
admission en- esta forma, les decir sin
pasar un examen professional.
Como las leyes vigentes exigen tres
amos de servicio en- cada grado antes
de que un Official de la reserva sea els
gible para un ascenso en- tierapo de
paz; Sc desprende que ell que Sc sienta
inclinado a formar parte Gls la reserva
Gel ejercito debe hacer su solicitud
de entrada tan pronto como pueda.
Teoflo MARXUACH
Acting Adjudant, 211th Infantry
Brigade.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1922-08-04
Organization de la reserva del
ejercito EN- Puerto Rico


Maniiestas son sin duda alguna las
ventajas derivadas del ingreso como
Official en- la reserva del ejercito. Hay
algunos que en- virtud de su exaltado
patriotismo, al estallar una guerra ofrs
cen sus servicios 10 mismo como SOL
dado raso que como Official. Pero el MI
nero de los que comulgan en- esta idea
es bien reducido. Lo natural, ha sido
siempre que todos aquellos que tfsnen
Green tener las condiciones de edu
cacion, experiencia conocimientos ne
cesarios para ser un Official del ejercito,
hayan procurado conseguir serlo po-
niendo en- juego todos los medios sl
alcance. Aun recordamos todos que du
rante la guerra mundial muchos padres
apelaron los recursos que en- sus ma
nos podia poner la politica, las reco-
mendaciones y los obgequios los je-
fes para conseguir que sus hiios llama
dos al servicio fuesen nombrados of
ciales del ejercito. para que. obtuvie
sen un ascenso una posicion de ayu
dante, y en- general para interesar a
algln jefe en- la gufa, protection
bienestar de sus hijos. NL.estro propo
Sito al traer este al case no eS crltl-
car la conducta de nadie sino hacer
palpable que todos los interesados sc
percataban de la convenience para sus
hijos de obtener ei range de Official.
Es verdad cue tanto ell general de
mas alta graduation como ell soldado
de fila son absolutamente nedesarios pa
ra formar un ejercito, pero ell hecho
de que para llegar ser Official Sc exi
ge nenar ciertos requisites, que por
desgracia no pL.eden ser satisfechos por
todos, forja una categoria para la of
cialidad que la coloca en- un plano mo
raj Y social que lie hace acreedora a
ciertas consideraciones v pequefios pri
vilegios, pesar de la tendencia la
democratizaci6n de los ejercitos mo-
dernos.
Por otra parte, esa differentiation q.
establece la jerarQuia. esa nmitacion
de atribuciones esa consecion de po
6'ares dentro de cada esfera de accion
constituyen la base de la discipline,
elemento primordial para la vida de
un ejercito.
Dejando un ladc estas cuestiones
que atafien al indiyiduo y que pode-
mos considerar como secundarias, de-
bemos manifestar que existsn otras ra-
zones poderosas para hacer una llama
Ga y tratar de conseguir un buen con-
tingente de oiciaFes en- tempo de paz.
Las dificultades que presenta Ell pro
hlema ~ consguir. oficAals efcientcs
una v'az declarada Ia guerra, son hume
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-02-15
Useful Oil.

Few industries have grown so rap
idly as the manufacture of cOttOnseed
oil. In 1867 there were only four cot
tonseed Oil mills in the United States !;
in 1902 there were 61S, and by 1920
the value of the oil and the by-prod-
ucts of it were estimated to be $685.
100000. Since then there has been q
steady increase in the production.
The increased consumption of cot
tonseed oil is due largely to the great
variety of uses found for it. 1t enters
into the manufacture of lard COM
pounds, butterine and other substi-
tutes for butter; is used in packing
and preserving fish, in making salad
oils, and in the manufacture of so
called "olive OIL" The crude oil is
used in medicine, in the preparation
of cosmetics, liniments and emulsions
as an Illuminating oil in miners lamps,
for rough painting, and for tempering
edged tools; and as soap stock, in
which field of usefulness, after treat
ment with certain alkalis, it yields
soap, washing powder and glycerin.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-02-15
ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO TREES
Writer Beautifully Expresses What
Every Lover of Nature Must
Have at Some Time Felt.

Trees are the arms of Mother
Earth lifted up in worship of her
makers; where they are, beauty dwells.
Trees are the shelter of man, beast
and bird; they furnish the roof
above US, the shade about us, and the
nesting places of love and song. They
call children out to play; they entice
sweethearts into leafy coverts to seal
their vows with fond caresses; they
console and gratefully reward old age.
They are the fttest ornaments Of
wealth and the inalienable possession
of the poor, who can enjoy them with
out having title to them. They are
the masts that fly the flags of all ma
lions and the sails of all seas; they
are the timbers that bridge forbidding
streams; they bear the wires of the
worlds intelligence; they hold the
rails that carry the traffic Of the con-
tinents; they are the carved and pol
ished furnishings of the home; they
cradle the young and coffin the dead.
Trees herald the spring with glorious
banners of leaf and bloom; they clothe
the autumn in garments of gold and
royal purple; barred to the winters
cold, they are the harp of the winds,
and they whisper the music of the in
finite spaces.-Clarence Ousley.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-02-15
Marion School
District No. II
+ X X X X Y X y
(Too late for last week

Our daily attendance has been very
irregular this week.
Agnes Safer has been absent from
school all week on account of sickness
Chester Thorsten was sick Wednes-
day and Thursday.
All the pupils received samples of
"Coleo" soap Monday.
Erwin Gallery and Chester Thorsten
made the blackboard border Friday.
For industrial work the primary
grades made valentine jumping
jacks" and the upper grades made
posters.
The primary grades are studying
'The Life of Lincoln" and making
booklets for language.
We are making preparations fol-
our Township Contest" which will be
held at District No. 7. All the par
ents are invited to attend.
VERNE Williamson is busy hauling
hay this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lindeman spent
Tuesday evening at the Fred Murset
home.
Mrs. George Tetrick has been on the
sick list this week.
Homer Clipson and Stanley Brock
enridge spent Tuesday evening at Bert
Barnum's.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-02-15
Is No National Holiday.

Christmas is not national holiday.
New Years day is not national holt
day. Thanksgiving day is not a ma
tional holiday. The Fourth of July is
not a national holiday. Neither is Me-
mortal day. Neither is Washington's
birthday. Neither is any other day.
There is no such day as a national
holiday in the United States. A
United States statute would be re-
quired to constitute a particular day
as a national holiday, and congress
has stopped short of this action, nu-
merous constitutional lawyers insist
ing that such an act belongs to the
powers of the several states and not
to the general government.
The Fourth of July is not strictly
q national holiday, though it is ma
tion-wide holiday, having been made q
holiday by acts of all the states and
by the common consent and usage Of
the people.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-02-15
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE, REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA

card party at the John Ryan home in
North Star Thursday evening.
Hugh and Margaret Evans spent
the weekend with their grandparents
at Wanda.
Peter johnson and family will move
onto the farm vacated by Frank Will
liams in the near future.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kagel visited re-
latives in Springfield a few days last
week.
The Mothers Club met Thursday,
February 2, with Mrs. Adam Henry
as hostess.
Alfred Anderson entertained his
friends at a party last Saturday even
ing. Everybody present had very
enjoyable time.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kagel, Mr.. and
Mrs. Sam Hemmingson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Otto Peterson and Mrs. Miller Jensen
were guests at the Peter Thorston
home near Rowena last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Olson of Lewis
burg were over Sunday visitors at the
Ole Olson home. They returned to
Springfield Monday.
P. O. Peterson Of Egan, South Da-
kota was weekend guest at his par
entail home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Thorsten and
family motored to Lamberton Friday
evening to visit at the Coulter home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burnham Sparks and
daughter Helen of Clements were SUM-
day visitors at the Senius Jensen
home.
John Show went to Belview Friday
to visit his friend Albert Johnson.
Ebert Meyer was Marshall visitor
Sunday.
The Ladies' Missionary Society will
meet Tuesday, February at the home
of Mrs. Albert Lamp.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Tonak and
family were guests at the Henry
Kuehn home in New Avon Sunday af-
ternoon.
Miss Luella Drewes spent the week
end at Springfield.
The Young Ladies' Aid will meet
Thursday, February 9 at the home OF
Mrs. Lars Meyer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-02-15
ASH IS NOT GENUINE TEST
Merely Shows That Cigar Is Well
Made, Not That Its Quality Is
of the Highest.

Can the quality of cigar be told
by the ash? To certain extent it
can. Many smokers take a great de-
light in seeing how long the ash will
stay on. 1t is often possible to smoke
a big Havana cigar half or three-quar-
tiers way through with the ash in
tact.
But what most cigar smokers fail
to realize is that this is the test of a
Northumberland cigar and not nee
essarily of the tobacco in it. 1t de-
ponds upon the length and neat ar
rangement of the filling leaf. A we'll
made, compact cigar has greater con-
sistency than badly put together one.
But it does not follow that the tObac-
co Is better, a tobacco expert writes.
A surer test is when the ash is
flicked off. The glowing point should
be sharp. The sharper the point the
better the cigar.
AS regards the ash, it is common
fallacy that white ash is sign of
fine, and dark ash the sign Of an in
ferior, leaf. The real truth is that
the color depends upon the strength Of
the tobacco.
A very mild and cheap cigar will
give a pure white ash. The finest
Havana of ripe strength produces a
blackish ash. It does not follow that
a cigar which burns imperfectly Is
bad tobacco. You may have lighted
it badly or it may be clumsily made
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-02-15
Could Drink a Bio Foo.

1t takes big block of fog to make
one good swallow of water, says DIR.
w. ]. Humphreys of the United States
weather bureau at Washington. The
densest fog off Newfoundland banks
contains some twenty thousand drop
lets in cubic inch, DR.. Wells and DIR.
Thuras of the bureau of standards
found. To get one gulp Of water,
enough fog to fill a space feet by
feet by 100 feet long would have to
be condensed. In fog of that size
there are 60 trillion particles of water,
or three times as many particles as
the number of dollars spent by the
United States during the world war.
ut would take about half hour to
count an inch Of fog particles" says
DR.. Humphreys. placed side by side
$500 to 5000 droplets would be needed
to ell that length"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-02-15
Publishers Have
Problems

Receipts from advertising and sub
scriptions during 1921 fell short OF
meeting the cost of producing the
Mortified News by S1,6632O.
The cost-including mechanical and
editorial expense-of producing an
average issue of The News during
1921 was S275.
The total receipts from subscrip-
tons at two dollars year would pay
the cost of producing nine issues of
The News.
Advertising receipts must make up
the balance-and in 1921 the revenue
from this source fell considerably
short of meeting the total cost of pro-
duction.
If subscribers were to pay an
amount needed to meet the cost of
production, the subscription rate in
1921 would have been $7.65.
Confronted by this situation-which
is typical in the country newspaper
field-publishers cannot reduce sub
scription rates, no matter how keenly
they might wish to do so, without
counting financial disaster. Neither
can a cut in advertising rates be in
troduced until production costs de-
cline. This cannot be brought about
quickly as trained printers are not a
drug on the market, in fact, for years
this has been an underpaid profession
to such an extent that new recruits
were not attracted to it. During the
war printers wages reached a level
somewhat commensurate with the in
telligence, and the years of training
required to become proficient in the
trade.
The only item entering into the
cost of producing a newspaper that
has shown a material reduction since
the war is paper, and in the case of
country weekly of the standard of
The News this item represents 1-27th
Of the total cost.
Farmers and merchants may have
their problems but the publishers of
newspapers have a few to worry.
about also.-Northfeld News.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-02-15
Kintire News
X X X X X X X X X
(Too late for last week.


The dance at Seaforth Tuesday
evening was we'll attended and a
splendid time was reported.
Will Peterson was so fortunate as
to shoot a large gray wolf near his
farm south of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Muetzel and
Theo. Neuman spent Sunday evening
at the VIM. Mack home.
Miss Lucy Mack spent the weekend
at home returning to Redwood Falls
Sunday afternoon.
A. H. w. Eckstein returned from
three weeks business trip to St.
Paul, Duluth and Melville, Sask., Can.
Friday afternoon to the home of his
sister, Mrs. VIM. Mack.
The Luther League of the Swedish
Church gave a chicken pie supper
Saturday evening. The regular bust
ness meeting was aso held. A fair
sized crowd was in attendance.
The Herman Muetzel young folks
spent Sunday evening at the George
Tordsen home.
Ella Hagen and brothers spent
Thursday evening at Herman Muetzels.
The snowstorm of Wednesday and
Thursday was the worst of the season
and roads are badly blocked in places.
There was no school Thursday and
Friday owning to the snowstorm.
The first Bargain Day in Belview
was a good success and large crowd
was present.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-02-15
Totally Obscured.

A certain callow Chicago swain had
IN amazingly large mouth which he
contorted into an all-pervading smile
when he wished to make a good i'm
preston. His sweetie had persuaded
him to task father" and the youth
was determined to show himself to
good advantage.
Mister JONES'" he began, stretching
his principal feature to the utmost of
geniality. II have come to ask for the
hand Of your daughter. T."
"Just moment, young man." inter.
rupted the old gentleman mildly.
"would you mind closing your mouth
for q moment till see who you are.
American Legion Weekly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-02-15

Mrs. Bert Barnum and daughter
and Edith Timgren spent Sunday aft
ernoon at the Herbert VIM home.
Mrs. Earl Fordham and Mrs. Marion
Washburn attended "Larkin Club" at
the home of Mrs. Will Flaherty Tues
day afternoon.
Miss Mabel Thorsten and Alva spent
the week at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Price of Wabasso.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar VIM spent
Friday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert VIM.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Fordham and
family spent Sunday at the VIM. Call
cry home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Friedley spent
Friday evening at Earl Fordham's.
Emil Anderson has been helping
Mr.. Thorsten this week.