The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-10-05

i A Wesleyan University student held hi
breath for fourteen minutes and two seconds
We hope some woman goes out to beat that re
cord.
| It is reported that 207 Americans last yea,
paid an income tax totaling more than million
dollars. At least POT of us are both rich ans
honest.
Opportunity has been made responsible 70,
la lot of things. But not even Opportunity
worst enemy can claim that it ever guaranteed
something for nothing.
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Did you ever stop to think that it was be-
cause Moses displayed bad temper that he was
not permitted to go into the promised land? Try
that one on the wife the next time she throws a
fit.
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Editor Sherman of the Isle Adance is aw-
fully tired of waiting for the New Ford. His
last impatient question is "You don't suppose the
new Ford is to have runners on it and that they
are waiting for snow to bring it OUT
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Cranberries and sweet potatoes are on the
market in the very highest state of perfection
That pretty nearly offsets the fact that the corn
crop isn't just all we hoped it would be- We can
still afford to be cheerful.
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Minnesota is great state and Redwood is
a great county and the weatherman has habit
of treating them exactly alike when it comes to
weather for their respective fairs. And this
year his judgment was particularly poor for
both events.
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DR.. VIM. Root of Pittsburg says persons of
low mentality nearly always good handwrit-
ers." Come, you Palmer method experts-strut
your stuff in the face of that, if you dare The
most of us have, in this, fine testimony of an
high mental state-provided of course
that DR.. Roots rule holds true both ways
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The newspapers accounts of the matter of
the Sousa March presentation at the recent State
Fair so garbled that they scarcely retain
the least resemblance to the facts. President
Coffman was widely misquoted by newspaper
men who accepted someone ese's word for what
he actually said without calling upon him to
verify these statements. Queer how some folks
will grab at bit of alleged "news" no matter
how ridiculous and impossible it may appear up
on the very face of it! The whole account is
a weird and wild erection of a mountain out of
the most trivial mole hills. We firmly believe
that apologies to DR.. Coffman are very much in
order.
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Bishop Bennett of Duluth told Episcopal
clergy the other Gay that ''The job of the church
is to furnish a motive for the social work that is
being done today" That is as fine co-ordina-
ton of church work and social service as we
have heard given. 1t is one more big argument
for each church informing itself on the work of
the Child Welfare Boards, the Red Cross and
all the other social agencies of it's locality There
are still seven counties in Minnesota that have
no Child Welfare Boards. Is that entirely a
matter of discredit to the County Commissioners
of those Counties-or have the various churches
of those counties share in that responsibility
That word motive" goes back as far as the mes
sage of Christ and forward as far as Time itself
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For centuries men quarreled about
the nature Of the soul. Was it compos-
ed of solid matter or was it purely
spiritual? Now science shows that there
is no such thing solid matter, every
atom being only an aggregation of cleo
alive charges of electricity. And we
don't know what electricity IS.-Arthur
Brisbane.
Science may sometime discover what cleo
tricity is, but assuredly it will never discover
what the human soul is. The reason man cannot
comprehend it is because it contains the vita
spark of divinity which his infinite mind canno,
fathom. That much must be left to the Uni
versal Mind to understand and to develop. Mer
may as well recognize their limitations and &C
cept the inevitable fact that they are running
into stone wall when they try to plumb the fou1
dimensions of the SOUL
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We hope the folks back home will be aw
fully patient and awfully sympathetic and aw
fully good about writing to the Universit,
Freshman We saw them the other day-no
the whole three thousand of them, but enough
so that they looked like twice that to Us. Ant
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