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Show Editorial As The Year Changes EDITORIAL Since man first saw the light of day each changing season has brought rc-ncwed hope; a feeling feel-ing that a bright future lay a-head. a-head. Thus it is with mankind today. to-day. The old year dies, and with it are buried the trials, and misfortunes mis-fortunes it heaped upon a struggling strug-gling humanity. Ahead is a new season a new year, re-newed hope and confidence. As 1946 dawns, a serious world awaits it. A world that has lost much a world that stands to lose more unless its seriousness is deep reflection, stemming from the firm resolve to henceforth hence-forth live in amity. A congenial civilization is not an ideal, but it can never be n reality until selfishness and the hatreds of many old years are curbed. We can look into a new year with hope and confidence, but we shall never realize that hope or see the fulfillment of our confidence, unless we ourselves understand that being the people we are responsible in a measure for much that the world has lost. Somewhere the spirit of honest hon-est rivalry has left us to be replaced re-placed by suspicion and jealousy Somewhere the principal of individual in-dividual effort for the good of the many has floundered, and only the effort for the good of the individual remains. This is the record as 1945 finishes its reign. But there is a new day ahead and the world is begging for a fresh start. If we cannot answer its pleas then we will have violated violat-ed the very blood of those who died for the promised new world. We are the people: the tools in our hands, and the strength is in our arms; the year is changing chang-ing and with the tools and strength, backed by hope and confidence, we can make of 19-46 19-46 a year when the world started to live in amity. |