| Show Forward ill March rp T THE HE TIE future historian will find much material in the thc record of Lh the past y year r to transmit t to generations to come It has been a year of or con confusion and strife and violent upheavals abroad and of turmoil and di- di I di-I councils at home homo While the great war was wis being being being be be- ing fought and the fate of all nIl the nations involved in in the struggle lay trembling in the tIle balance the energies r. r of of the civilized world were concentrated on the one object ob ob- ob- ob victory But when that had been attained the unity of thought and action was dissolved to a very verr great t extent nud the nations began to take inventory of their assets and formulate plans for their future safety and development Necessarily these plans ol in involved ed separate viewpoints and awakened individual national aspirations Every nation has spent the year ear struggling with obstacles of unusual magnitude to set its house in order and everywhere everywhere every every- where pro progress has bee been made The worlds world's affairs are arc I less Jess chaotic than the they were a year ear ago though far fat from t I satisfactory New nations s have been heen born others h have hc c u been freed of or oppression and still others have been relieved relieved re- re of the fear of or n invasion In Jn many ninny respects America has been fortunate Its harvests have been nb abundant and its business structure has withstood the inward strain upon it from social and and political unrest which except for its ts inherent I strength might have been attended with serious conse conse- The treaty of peace ace which has bas occasioned in its preparation and discussion a a. whole year of intense and md sensational consideration at nt Washington and at a n at t I fierce disputation in every corner of the land remains to to toba he ratified ratified but indications point to a settlement of 1 differences upon a basis that promises security for thea the tho tsa a red inter interests ts of the great American republic the national too there evidences Upon horizon are arc 7 of f a traditional sanity and common sense adjustment of or the industrial troubles which the year of 1919 de- de r. r eloped and wholesome measures arc jn n process for im- im improvement im irn- provement in reconstruction problems for return of the I r railroads railroad to private te own ownership p for summary punishment punish punish- punish ment or deportation of r radicals wh who threaten revolution re tion ion for strict curtailment O 9 of extravagance and nd waste in in government o e expenditures and generally speaking speaking- for a n return to national normality and old fashioned Yankee ce thrift anti and prosperity prosperity without prodigality v wide Nation prohibition has come to the United States tates since since the Jas last new eW year car was WIS ushered d in an and al- al its l quickening q influences are felt in In a moral 1 4 x a of the people Millions Million of dollars heretofore spent in the liquor traffic are being husbanded and applied applied ap- ap I plied to the needs of the household Suffrage for the lie I women of ot alt all the states upon on an an equality with m men n is an m accomplished fact It is th the tho reward leward of a a. long period of effort on the he part of woman which was b brought to fruition a as f a merited recompense for her I unselfish sacrifices and heroic participation in in the llio worl war 4 All 4 U signs po point nt to a period of greater progress in iii 1920 There is is enco encouragement rag written o on the horoscope t and n l it finds support un und and l optimism in the forward forwar look of all true Americans |
