Show THE NEW YEAR by leonard A barrett NEW YEAR means a new alenger ANEW start a fresh beginning the ledger has been opened to a new page upon which no DO entries hove have as yet been made the past is gone we ve cannot have it back again and perhaps would not if we could the to forget Is a great blessing the mind Is like the cylinder of 0 a phonograph the impressions made upun upon it are not erasable it requires the law of is to bring them back into memory these associations piss linss out of our memory anil and wd wo forget an inscription over an of old german cerman church rends reads look not mournfully into the past it comes oot dot hack back again wisely improve the present it Is thine mine there are some things lings ti however it might prove well to forget some persons cato can never learn from past exper lemes they always alays keep doing the same saine thing in the s same a me way ye year a r in nil and year out they ne neer nee e r think new thoughts Fo forgetting retting past experiences arid and not profiting by lessons which should have been learned there irom they go on repeating the same old failures it Is it a foolish engineer who knowingly drives ills his train past the red light in the tower toner ton er nature Is vocal with warnings of dangers abbad and these warnings come front from past experiences lie ile Is a wise man who ho profits by past mistakes it Is also true that the piston of 0 an en engine ine can call go forward just as far as it it goes bak backward ward the present Is what the past has made it we con c all go forward just as tar far us as the past has prepared us tor for the venture A philosophy of life fire that does not give courage to nuke make this venture Is a distressingly tres singly poor philosophy however logical may be its formulas the structure of a 0 house Is first worked out on blue prints before it Is built or of wood or brick A blue print of ideals and purposes pui poses tor for 1023 1028 new year resolutions some people call them Is nil an indispensable postulate it if we would not make shipwreck of our life this year the new year presents a new challenge clial lenge forget and begin again I 1 nor deem the irrevocable post past As wholly wasted wholly vain it if rising on the he wrecks at last to something nobler we attain MI et 1927 wo torn newspaper union |