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Show Lwking Forward to the New-Backward New-Backward on the Old Year JANUARY wss named for th Roman god Janus, who had two faces and looked two ways forward and backward. So January 1 is the day for rookingr two ways backward into the year which has just ended and forward into the year which lies before us. It is well for us, as citizens of this community, to look back, to review the events of the past year. Well may we take pride in such achievements as wahave helped accomplish. It is well, too, for us to cccsider our mistakes, our shortcomings, our failures to do the things we should have done ; but it is not well for us to brood over those failures, nor to dwell too long in reg-ardingr with pride our achievements. . Better it is for tts to look forward into the new year, to the new opportunities which lie before us and which we, profiting- by the Mistakes of the past,may do cur share in seizing and turning to the advantage of our community. For if there is one New Year's resolution which we should make, it is the resolution that we will cooperate during the coming year in makng our community better. Modern conditions have substituted cooperative effort for individualism as the best answer to economic questions and to the philosophical problem of obtaining the greatest good for the greatest number. But cooperative effort ef-fort is composed of individual effors, and if the greatest good for is to be attained, it can only community is to be attained, it canonly 1 be done by the individual assuming his share of the cooperative effort. " This community can be made a better community and a stronger community if we resolve to cooperate with each other in making it so. . Cooperating means more than just resolving. It means DOING ; and if we are to do things upon which we can look back with pride next New Year's Day, this New Year's Day is the biest day in all the year to begin doing them. v-. |