Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-01
SPEAKING OF New YeAR's

SPEAKING OF NEW YEARS
 This is the time of year when if we are wise, and have the courage we look ourselves straight in the eye It is the time to take an inventory of ourselves what we are making of our lives and determine what we intend to make of them hereafter. At least once year every individual should take himself seriously.
 It's serious thing. anyhow this business of living. For the most part just take fife sit comes and drift along without compass or rudder. Maybe that's why there are so many wrecks suewins the shores of life The navigator who knows where he is usually gets there
 And you do you know whither you are bound? Are you living on just because you happened be born. working just because you need to living. and eH- sting day by day without purpose or system, merely because you've into the habit of living and expect to live on somehow or other until the end comes? Or are you so intent on work for works sake that you toll on blndly without thought the object of sry, ing?
 Let us not deal with such trivial matters swearing off this or chat bad habit is important enough of course that you should stop doing anything that may be harmng you hurting your happiness or growth; but these things are symptoms rather than the disease i self and we are dealing with fundamentals New Years Day is more than resoutons. and life is more t'on .he elimination of vices. And man woman big enough to face the veriHes of life ougrow such defects of character or conduct just as vigorous body throw oH disease
 So let us get down to our Fundamental questions Have you been making the most of your hfa2 It is wonderful thing this human life. We do not know whether existed before as the Buddhists holi and have been ascending rmg ruuE of the ladder of Being. through myIiads of lives. We do not know unless by fab that as ;he Christians hold there is life hereafter where our personality survives But what we do know is that we here in possession of this life and that we can do with it very largely what we will What then are you doing with this gift of life?
 There is your body. which God has made beautiful in form and motion and has crowned with gory and honor Have you made this body stronger and more beautiful as it was in your power to do or have you wasted and deformed with dissipation and neglect?
 What of the work you have been doing? It is chiefly through work that one iusufes ones right to live, A man must be- judged according the measure of his ability From him to whom much is given of him much win be required and anyone who win hold up for nim self any standard short his utmost possibility of achievement is a moral coward. Have you been don2 the fine work of which in your best moments you kno" YOU are capable? you not have fallen short of the deepest satisfaction of life.
 Along with your days work are you growing? Ono of the finest things about life is the ability to take uI ever new interests to extend ones intellectual domain farther and farther with advancing years. Your wori itself no matter what is. offers opportunities io growth If that sphere is limited, there are the endle interests in the domain of science and the vast rang of literature and the hobbies that help to develop in diyiduauty and give varied charm to life All else incidental to Che development of personality which the thing most worth developing in every man or woman Nature has endowed every individual with his own con blnaton of good qualities unlike those of anybody els
 and the successful life is continual unfolding and frui ion of those qualities. Why not resolve that from thi time on you will be a real personality }our own be' ssf2