Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 31 | Confusion at Capital Forecast, but the Year of 1917 as a Whole will be Marked by phenomenal Prosperity for the Nation

Confusion at Capital Forecast, but the Year of 1917 as a Whole Will Be Marked by Phenomenal Phenom-enal Prosperity for the Nation ing revolutions in the government and national na-tional institutions of Austria-Hungary. While the message of the heavens for the opening of the year 1917 are certainly alarming in their portents, we wish to assure as-sure our readers that the figures to follow reveal emphatically more stable conditions and really afford us the basis upon which to -confidently assert that on the whole this :, year will be a phenomenally prosperous one i for the nation. The planetary configurations at the time of the winter solstice in December and the ' three eclipses that follow are so related in . their aspects at the European capitals that " the most we dare presume to venture in the way of a prediction is to declare that a very great crisis in the terrific conflict raging rag-ing there is surely imminent. We find evidences of an emphatically pacific spirit hovering about Great Britain and Europe. Probably this will exert 1T0 greater effect than to cense a more pronounced pro-nounced cessation of hostilities over the holiday season, with many exchanges of fraternal greetings among the rank and file of the opposing armies, though the popular desire for peace will also make Itself decidedly de-cidedly manifest at this time. But the lunar eclipse on Jan. 8 will quickly produce a renewal of the hostile spirit, and, in fact, quite likely result in a train of dramatic events that may speedily bring the terrific conflict to an emphatic crisis, as a period of reconstruction or realignment appears assured as-sured following the solar eclipse on Jan. 23.