The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1933-07-13
The Thrill of Creative Effort

In our pursuit of material gain OF
of feeting pleasures, we sometimes
forget this bit of truth, tucked away
in the middle of Roosevelt's inaugural
speech:
Happiness lies not in the mere
possession Of money; it lies in the JOY
of achievement, in the thrill of crea-
tive effort. The joy and moral slim.
ulation of work no longer must be
forgotten in the mad chase of evane.
scent profits. These dark days will
| be worth all they cost us if they teach
us that our true destiny is not to be
ministered unto, but to minister to
ourselves and to our fellow men,"
It would be good thing for all OF
us to clip this paragraph from the
presidents talk and read it over every
once in while.
Happiness most certainly does not
lie in the mere possession of money.
The thrill of creative effort-that's
|it!-Harvard (Ill.) Herald.
An amusing twist was given to a
municipal campaign in Vancouver,
B. c., recently, when the reelection
of Mayor L. D. Taylor was opposed
by all the newspapers in the city.
Some time previous to the cam
paign Mr.. Taylor had been apparent
ly at the point of death, SO news
papers had prepared commendatory
editorials for publication when he
should shuttle off, and had them set
in type. The mayor got we'll and the
type was discarded, but proofs had
been struck, and somehow he got
hold of them.
At the height of the campaign he
read the laudatory editorials to a
large audience, much to the amuse-
ment of the public and the discom-
future of the editors.
But the newspapers had their re-
venge. The mayor was defeated in
the election.
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When the history of the depression
is written we do not believe that there
will be found business that has suf-
fered more than the country weekly,
and complained less. Practically all
newspapers have kept up the stand
ard of their publications, during three
years when their income was only
fraction Of what it had been in the
past. They had little chance to cut
expenses, although they did all they
could. They were unwilling to give
their subscribers a poorer paper than
they had been accustomed to receiv-
ing. Moral: If you have not paid
your subscription you still have a
chance to help your newspaper at
least break even.-Cottonwood Coun-
ty Citizen.
The following is two-act play en-
titled eliot Stuff" The first act takes
place in the Garden of Eden. Adam
is talking to Eve:
"Well, is it hot enough for you?"
ooh, don't mind the heat so much,
it's the humidity that gets me down."
There is lapse of few thousand
years between the first and second
acts. The scene of the second act is
any warm spot and the principals are
distant relatives of those in the first
act.
Said one: "Well, is it hot enough
for you?"
Said the other: ooh, I don't mind
the heat so much, it's the humidity
that gets me down."
The third act hasn't been written
yet, but we understand it is very
much like the first and second.-Ex.
Men who would secure the abolition
Of outmoded laws suggest that the
legal code could be kept up to date
by having each law expire, be remov-
ed from the code, after it has existed
for ten years or some other definite
and comparatively brief period. If it
were still needed, the legislative body
would repass it. Perhaps it would be
a very good idea to have every bureau
and department have tenure of life
of only ten years or so, it's continue
ton of life depending upon its reestab-
lishment by vote of the legislature
at the close Of that period.-Owaton-
ma Journal-C Chronicle.
The bachelor comforts himself with
the thought that disappointment in
love has one consolation-it may have
saved him greater disappointment
in marriage.
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