Show I I I LOOKING A YEAR YAR AHEAD The editor of the Hazel Green Kentucky Herald under the above heading writes so interestingly that it is worth reproducing away out here What will the year 1917 mean to this town to this community to this people What will be your personal attitude toward the making of a better town a more prosperous community a more open hearted people The efforts of af the thc individual citizen citi zen zeu may accomplish accomplish something The operation co-operation of a collective people will produce produce- notable results Collective cooperation is only possible possible pos pos- sible where confidence and good will exist and where there is a determination determination determination nation to utilize this combination to the ultimate good of or all nil The man who holds a a. grouch against his leis neighbor can not successfully successfully success success- fully pull in harness with that neighbor so long as that grouch exists Lose the grouch The man who disparages and undermines undermines un the reputation of another can not expect the community in gen eral to think well ell of at the tor of character Sp Speak k gentle and use the soft pedal q The man who says go ahead can not expect to keep pace with the hustler who says come on Step lively and ard get there And one man who says sas I Will is worth a hundred of those who say sayI sayI sayI I Cant Can't This is the time of the year year ear when the hopper time is filled with new resolutions But it is more profitable to act than to resolute Let us make this a year of action of or deeds and of results Let us make this more than a collection of indU indr victuals Let us make it a community community community of people with one aim one ambition ambition am am- and one gr great t. t purpose in life and let us make that purpose the good of man and womankind In gen eral and of or this community in par liar If we work collectively and earnestly earnestly earnestly earn earn- estly and energetically we will achieve success but hut if it we labor individually individually in in- we will accomplish but little The road of life is long and stormy and barriers bar our way But Dut many hands make light work of the heaviest heaviest heaviest est burdens and aud collective may roll the heaviest barriers awn away We Ve may each pursue our own chosen vocations and yet et all labor inthe in inthe inthe the common cause of a better better and more prosperous town and country countryside side Two horses pulling palling in one direction diree- diree direction tion will get the load there But ButI I when one pulls and the lie other bal balks s the load stands still Will 1917 find field us a community of lo loyal al pullers or a divided aggregation aggregation gation of pullers and ers who accomplish nothing but to stand still Nineteen and seventeen will tell the story and aud you will put tho the words In the mouth of the teller Wh t are those words going to be Will wm the they bo be loyalty cohesion aggressiveness aggressiveness aggressiveness ag ag- ag- ag success Or will thc they be he disloyalty suspicion disint disintegration gration gra- gra tion disaster A year of at promise is ahead but I promise never makes good unaided and alone We Se must each each grasp the with which nature has pro provided vided us us and turn those t to individual and collective weal fo To do otherwise will be beto to stand standstill standstill still while white others march on to vl vie tor tory and and o to success s. s Shall we wo sta stand d or shall w we we march o 0 |