The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-28
THERE is NOTHING NEW


nitrary divisions of time-invented for convent
ence.
Day and night are the only natural divisions
of time and these vary in duration according to
ones position on the earth and the relation of
the planets to each other at any given time.
Someone has said that there is no past o.
present in time-only eternal now.
But mans ambition has always been to weigh
and measure everything. He began by counting
his cattle and his sheep, later his money, and
finally he hit upon the scheme of numbering his
days.
But no matter how much we name and num-
her the days they come and go, that does moi
in any way change them or their relation to Us
or relation to them The succession of days
keeps on no matter how scrupulously we mark
and figure and fix with identity.
And after all what is the good Of all thi:
weighing and measuring? 1t does not add
minute to the time that we are allotted here. To
know the number of days, or groups of days
that we have lived is Of but little consequence.
1t is not the length of lfes span but its in
riusiveness that counts.
Men may live long and still live but little
and they may live but little while and yet live
much
group of days called years is not the mea
sure of life. That measure is taken in thoughts
deeds, ideals and aspirations.
s.
Unless death comes to us in the line of duty
unless we surrender life in the endeavor to realize
worthy, noble end and death thus becomes
part and parcel of our life, will consider
how when where died.
III,
mena that we call life is how we spend ito
divide it into groups of days and then study tc
assemble as many as possible of those groups is
70 live to little purpose.
The ambition of most people seems to be tc
live long-to live for a purpose seems quite sec
ondary.
To dress in fashion, to live in magnificent
house, to drive costly and to be able to say
educational mill is the alpha and omega of life
for altogether too many.
S.
1t is conventionalism that is playing havoc
with Amerca-if there is any havoc being play
ed.
People are hard up in this country because
the more they earn the they spend
Fashion and conventionalism constantly
taking their toll.
If people would be satisfied with the ordin-
airy and the average instead of demanding the
highest priced and the most fashionable there
would not be SO much want and misery and debt
and divorce in this country.
But want to be in the height of fashion,
we want to be conventional we want to be "prc
per- and correct" and so we live beyond
means and pile debt on debt in our endeav,r to
seem.
We let conventionalities ride us and thereby
demonstrate that we are intellectually little and
spiritually small-souled
We are continually afraid Of what "Mrs
Grundy" may say.
The cut of our frock, the shape of our shoes,
serious concern and our is to the grindstone
all the time in our mad endeavor to keep step
with Dame Fashion
1t is better to live in a cabin of our own than
castle belonging to the other fellow.
1t is better to walk than to ride in an auto
mobile that has cost you mortgage on your
home
1t is better to shoe of last years last
than go in debt for pair of the --latest"
-$-S-
To follow the fashion at the expense of ones
honor and ones peace of mind does not show
any special brilliancy or intellectually. On the
contrary it evidences small mind and indicates
shallow soul.
We need people who willing to set the
example of breaking with OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
conventionalities that ride people like a night
mare. We do not mean the conventionalities of
civility, culture and refinement.
We can he civil we can he cultured ga
be refined without being apes and monkeys.
What wonderful thing it would be if we
could have return to sanity in this country
1t would mean that people would try to live
within their means, would cease chasing the
bubble, fashion, and would develop character
enough to snap their fingers in the face of Style
Such a turn in affairs would be a new era
worth entering upon-a New Year that would
be more than just arbitrary division of time
in the interests of convenience.
s.
These are old fashioned doctrines to bring
to the fore at the beginning of New Year. But,
unless we fail to read Alright the signs of the
times, they are the very doctrines that the coun-
try needs to weigh and consider at this time.
Everywhere people are complaining about hard