The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-12-30

even the broken ones. fdLneClc Lney
are of course but not the stuff for
ridicule. Before one can "resolute, .
one must "check up on his faults
and virtues and even a most casual in
trospection of our physical, mental
and moral attributes cannot but help.
Resolutions were not made to be
broken, funny papers to the contrary
Notwithstanding; but better, it seems
ITO US, that they be made and broken
than not made at all!
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"The high standards of living en-.
joyed by the American people," said
Secretary Hoover in a recent state
ment, "are the result of steadily
mounting per capita productivity.
Europeans marvel at the wealth o.
America, and the standard of living
enjoyed by the average person here
and yet appear to miss the simple les :.
son which Americans have learned so
well; that every person can have
more of what the other fellow pro
duces if he will but produce more of
what the other fellow wants.-Morris
Tribune.
Some newspaper man with a lot
of spare time took the trouble to tab.
ulate the various religions" found
in the United States Congress and
found ninety Protestants and four
Roman Catholics in the Senate and
three hundred ninety-three Protes-
tants, thirty-three Catholics, seven
Jews, one Mormon and one non-re-
ligionist in the House. But he failed
to continue his investigation to the
point of finding just how frequently
each of these men attended the
church of his choice. Three hundred
seventy-one members of the two
bodies are Masons.
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We are an unappreciative people.
We enjoy all the rights and privil-
eyes in the way of government and
behavior that we know what to d.
with. In fact, we have more rights
ly. We are unappreciative because
we rarely stop to think that our
rights were won by our ancestors ov-
er a period of centuries in hard
fought battles. 1t was on the field
of Runnymede, in the thirteenth Gen.
fury, that King John was forced t.
promise the English people that no
free man should be imprisoned OF
fined or outlawed or otherwise pen
allied "save by the lawful judgment
Of his peers or by the law of the
land" Little by little the civic rights
which we accept today as matter
of course were won by hard-fighting
men who paid high price for them.
Grove Patterson.
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Frank Heiling of Morgan last week
received a cream check of $418.32
for thirty days business. Geo. Hoff-
beck at the same creamery and for
the same length of time received
$244.72, Louis Lawrence had check
for over $500. Altogether forty-two
patrons received in excess of 500
for the months business. The total
amount paid out by the creamery
for the month was S16,670. 1t is
quite probable that the Morgan farm
ers are not exactly keen about milk
ing, that they find it not altogether
pleasant to get up early these cold
mornings to care for cows, to take
the milk to the creamery and to re-
turn to give the cows more care all
through the day and again milk them
carefully at night. We repeat, the
owners of these herds may not have
found it pleasant but they have founl
that it pays. And we'll bet dollars
to doughnuts that this group of for
ty-two Morgan men are too busy u
stand about and gloom about hard
times! We wish Redwood County
had forty-two hundred Of them!
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In the face of the fact that mum
erous friends of the editor, as we'll
as members of her personal and Off
cial families, attended the Christmas
night dance, we rise to say that We
hope before next Christmas rolls
round that the full significance OF
Christmas will have so burst upon
this community that there will be no
dance on Christmas Night. Certain
ly the holiday week, with friends and
relatives all gathered together is a
time for jollity and merriment and
good time But there are numerous
other nights in that time beside the
two that should be kept sacred to the
celebration of Christ's birth ami.
versary. These two sacred nights Are
Christmas Eve and Christmas Night.
The dancers of this community would
flatly refuse to attend a public dance
given on Sunday night. To the
thoughtful, Christmas is more sa
cred, more completely filled with re-
ligious significance, more Goods
Day" than is Sunday. Is it too much
to hope that it may be kept so, and
that it's observance may be little
more in keeping with its origin?
Whatever may be our personal
thought of the rightness or wrong
ness of dancing has nothing to do
with the question of a Christmas
dance. What Christmas brings to US
of religious significance and The
Gift of Christmas has much to dc
with it,