Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-12-28 | Page 12 | New Year Bears Burden of Resolve

, , . j Nsw Yeasr I Oir Resolve A Vn MU' thai t),- "TIlHIlk f yon" mt's are writtcu, or '. nhoiild have hrrn. Hie 'liriitt iniu V check ih dwindling. ChrislniHB ploved prowrly fitted and father iia reooTi-n-l from .the first nausea of the Christuma ei?ars ; the new jewelry , may sparkle joyoutily for many moons to the tunes on the new Vietrola, while many a dolly haa avtill to lone an arm or her topknot. The yule log ia hiiriiinir low preparatory to another holiday, ....I Kpit Yi,r' rnlnlionii are in order. Wonder where New Year 'a reaolntiona originated any-wayf any-wayf Anything ao frail and eaaily broken mint have had a rather recent origin, for old tr-ditionn tr-ditionn are niore revered and ateadfaat. The Romans in the tima of Julian chronicle no aueh killjoya, yet they obaerved the feaat of the New Year; but pcr-hapa pcr-hapa the frailties of human nature na-ture were then considered (rood form. At any rate, I have searched and searched, and nowhere no-where do I find reference to these alwaya made and always broken resolves, so they must belong to the nineteenth-twentieth century and mayhap be out of style in the neit. For many centuries the .'irst day of January was celebrated as we now celebrate cele-brate Christmas, with ' gifts, religious re-ligious ceremonies and merrymaking. merry-making. Kven in the evolution of our calendar year there has always been a first day, just as there must always be the first of anything, and thi might be a good year to cast aside useless impossible-to-live-iip-to resolutions and make it a year of effort, real, honest effort, to. do our part to make it the better world our boys fought and died for in the past great struggle.