Show i The Old and the ic New ITH the seeds of death Implanted invy in j WITH VV vy 1115 ph physical Ical bony body and his heritage e et I t of commingled happiness s and sorrow man his Creator the Immortal was granted g by t C recompense of oC hope Xo No o condition is so discouraging dis- dis j hope lope cannot temper existing I I erics eries with wih expectation of better beter things to come The darkest da day is illumined b by the sun of oi hope th the dall darkest cst hour is proverbially I just before the dawn awn of brilliant promise With Ith th tho New e Year Yea annual annually recurs antici- antici will that f of n V twelvemonth of success paton blot from memory the failures and I of its s Immediate predecessor Friends wish each cach other the best of gool good J I fortune as us the they meet at the tho death of oC the old j I L 1 and the thc lh birth th of the new hut but goo good I fortune c cnn can n come caine only onh to the deserving Each recurring re year Is what we wo make it it the I new as certainly a white unspotted page paget I t upon which wo we can cnn write what story we wo woJ J choose as was the old twelve twel c months before Retrospection is a process of dl discouragement I to the successful ful a as asell ell as to the failure for forman or orI I man never nevel Is but alwa always s 's to be le blessed E Every cry life counts its is wasted aste opportunities records It Its shortcomings But ItI it itI J every el c year rear i I I I. I is S a 0 fo gospel lel of pessimism that dogmatically J I declares opportunity knocks at cac each door but butt t 4 once J I fo To each of us the New Year is g given en that j we ma may correct the mistakes of the old j The The Chinese custom of closing cosing all al obligations f with Wll the end of each twelvemonth that the j I I new ma may be h begun gun an unfettered tut fuI fu- fu f t ture seems cems but amusing mu in to the Occidental r rl l for tor the complexities of ot an intense elv- elv I t render impossible anything so j pie pIc Yet the ct custom tom has much to recommend recommend mend it it Happy Happ the Individual who can canI I I C count his ratlines es as hut incentive to reI reI re- re I I need endeavor endeavors write them off the ledger I I of or his memory and begin behIn the New Year j With ih animosities destroyed and with wih noth- noth and wilt will t ing remaining but friendships good wi t- t I I Considering the fate of the imprudent I Tacoma writer who libelled the memory of or J George Washington and has gone to jail jai Corf for Cor forit 1 f it i. i Secreta Secretary of War Val Baker Balter ma may count him him- I J self elf el fortunate hl his hh amazing description of the J soldiers of oC Vale Valley Forge was wa not uttered in inI I the state tate cf Washington |