The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-02
TUESDAY, JANUARY 2. 1912.
TURNING TUE YEAR GLASS.

olutione, Of the entering upon new
plans and embarking in new enter
prises. Those who sat out the watch
Ut tho dying year and the ushering
In Of the new one Sunday night saw
no phenomena put OF the ordinary.
'rintc knows nothing of the artificial
stations Of man in the onward rush
Of the ages . The stars move onward
In their march through he heavens;
the earth swung In its orbit as on 9TH
or days: life and death knew no
change because OF the year. Man
uionc has set the divisions in the
cycle of time and separated Its recur-
renee Into distinctive periods.
At New Years there is always that
double plan Of looking into both the
past and the future: into he past to
md the errors and failures. and into
the future to GRASP II possible Its
conditions and opportunities. Like the
pedestrian climbing the hill. we pause
vt the top to look back over the path
we have trod, and forward to that
which Yet lies before is. In the back
ward glance We may see some easier
path than the one We followed. a
path hidden. 1t is true. from our Wis
1Otl ~ VIC WAY ~ A' ~
the hill. but plain and clear from,
our position at the top. We may
be able to see where We stumbled
and where we fell. We may realize
that a step to n side or the other
would have avoided the one and saw
ed the other. But We care little il
we nave reached the top in safety.
So we look back ovcr the past year
from our vantage point which separ-
ates it from the view of the future.
In the business world tho beginning
Of the new year is a time for reckon-
Ing up the past; for taking the inven-
tor. and determining h loss or gain
OF the twelve months; for sitting out
the failures and correcting the err
rors: for readjusting financial obliga-
ions and getting the accounts squared
Notwithstanding the joyous ushering
IN of the new year, it is a time of Sc
Nous- affai1EE is a time when the
loins must he girded up for the con-
test which lies before: for prcpara-
ton for the tasks hat the future
brings.
Like the Mohammcdan who prays
each morning with his face to the
east. today is Il time for the turning
of the face to the rising SUI not of
tomorrow hut of today. and to forget
the failures of the past. only as they
may be guides to the future.
Last year the new year was ushercd
in with many lnisgivings. The tinan-
cial conditions in the country We're
not ideal. and serious men of affairs
looked with dread upon the striking
Of the years balances and the set
Ting of old accounts. They We're
unable to look far enough into the
future to see what was in store. And
not being able to penetrate the veil.
they were alarmed. But what of it:
Few failures and no disasters have
come from the condition that then
caused &C much anxiety. Prosperity
settled in a liberal measure over the
recall the dark forebodings Of a year
ago.
At this time tho future seems with
out any enveloping mist. The shad-
ows are fleeting ones n the gloom
is softened by the azure rays of hope.
Tho omens for the coming year are
propitious.
And what the new year which
came OF Monday morning in the rev.
olution OF the years? Shall we meet
the conditions with renewed hope and
enhanced courage; or shall We fall
into the rut of inaction m take
from those opportunities only the
things which lie at u hand? New
years resolutions are idlo because
made to be broken. But a balancing
Of the ledger of opportunities and
the determination to cash those which
will be due in the incoming year Is
not a resolution. but a determination.