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Show x - Resolutions? Resolve To Keep Them in '43 Resolutions by the millions will be made throughout the . United States on Fridayt for it will be New Year's day the time designated by tradition to make vows. People everywhere will register-solemn register-solemn promises to themselves to foreswear bacK habits and acquire good ones. The heavy smoker will resolve to give up the weed. The red-eyed tippler will promise to shun the flowing bowl. Bad-tempered individuals in-dividuals will vow to count ten before be-fore exploding with rage. Lazy people peo-ple will try to form habits of bard work. Selfish people will cultivate generosity. And so on. Skepticism will meet the promises of many self-reformers. "I hope he means what he says," will be heard in many instances. "Old stuff! " will be the cynical comment on others. oth-ers. But however futile previous efforts at reform have been, the practice of making fun of the good resolutions pf others should be discouraged. Why not make good resolutions, even if past experience indicates that some of them will not be faithfully kept? Why not try to improve our lives? |