Show the editor comments FOR 1937 LOTS LETS LOOK OUR SELVES IN THE FACE the beginning of a new year always appeals to the individual who is easily lead into thinking that something new really starts and affords an opportunity for inaugurating better days clays for human beings governments and associations the attitude thus created is is not without value even if the illusion of beginning over again must bs be iliad e real by the labor of the person at affected the reader of this article if so minded can make the era of new events come true but it depends entirely upon the will bouer the tha slaw ina and the courage conrage of the party involved not to of fail faith in hi the undertaking since there are no doubt hundreds of people in san juan county who will look forward to 1937 with bright hopes and high aspirations it is not amiss to give them some encouragement there is no reason why individuals should not take the beginning of the new year as a time for checking up to avei weigh h progress made and to plan advances for the future I 1 every very man arid and every woman desires improvement and to dwell upon your own state in frankness with yourself is the first step forward throwing aside all of the advanced talk of mental scientists it be assumed that the first duty of the individual is self development properly understood this includes all the rest of the program the person who develops properly is able to understand others and to make himself or herself understood in a world that is complex with problems and confused with error it is an achievement that few of us realize we believe that it is a good plan to give a few hours to self analysis regularly and the be beginning inning of the new year is apt to find us in such a mood As a practical method let us suggest that you write down dawn for your private contemplation a list of vices and virtues making a sort of balance sheet of your personal qualities when you have done this study the results a bit spread out a little further and include a listing of your activities in your coar community eunity put down in ill writing if you will the names of the local organizations that you think deserve your support and also the operations in your area that do not in your opinion deserve your sanction when you finish check up your contribution in service or cash to make thi th i e agencies function it will give you an idea of what lies ahead of you you should not ta fa il to ote that you are arc a complex human being with avith threce phases intermingled to make a person what of your physical con what of your mind what of your spiritual nature are you conscious ot of recent improvement in in any line or does docs frustration register as you what might have been anyway lacok at the report frankly and make up your mind it is tile the step toward getting no personal inventory would be complete without some analysis of your use of time and money time is the essence of ife as someone has well said an and most of us waste much of it without ever thinking that we are spending life itself money a necessary commodity under p resent present civilization often ass assum tes strange forms in our thinking and therefore we fail to establish I 1 a correct personal relation to it time and money vital to every life should not be confusing but bt both will bother us unless we ve do some clear thinking anyway as 1937 gets underway there should ae some realization of the duty involved in developing our individual personalities to the h highest agh possible level a desire to u understand n der as far at we may the ta task sk as sumler and a firm deter determination minati 0 n to make progress toward the goal in days that stretch before us |