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Show fishing pond and to the evenings at sunset when we played in our rocky front yard.. Nothing that I can buy with money can add to my happines " Is the statement made by this man true? Is it possible that money cannot produce happiness? Then why all this scrambling, worrying, excitement, pushing, to get money. C. V. Hansen. NO! it is not true. In the first place, this man must have had enough money to keep him till his investment had tribled. Now it is easy for him to say what he says. I wonld have said that if I had the home. Did he get happines in doing and giving a helping hand to those in need of a home. NO! It is money that counts ,dont tell me. Mrs. C. N.Lund Editor Progressive Opinion: Sometime ago we read of a man who had by hard work and close saving acquired a home and a little farm. He was induced to mortgage his property for 5, 000 and invest it in Ford Motor stock in 1903. It was with fear and trembling that he did it, but the first years dividends brought him back his original investment. The dividends and the sale of the stock at the end of sixteen years netted him $16,000,000. A friend asked him how he felt about it. Well, he replied, we aren't any happier. A lot of money can't bring happiness. Happiness dosen't come from things we take out of life. For real, pure happiness I had to go back fifty years, back to a cornfield, back to the most wonderful mother in the world, back to the little old-fashioned home that was surrounded with pinks and hollyhocks, back to the (Continued In Next Column) -- |