The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1918-01-01

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lead us safely through the appalling perils that
now beset the earth?
Or will the new year visit upon US a %continu-
ance of the whitening blight of WAR, and PES
THENCE, and FAMINE, and EXTERM1NA-
TON?
Will the sweet music of the humming wheels
of industry and the joyful notes of gladstone
voices raised in song continue to be hindered by
the roar of cannon, and the shrek of shells, and
the bursting of bombs, and the groans of the
manned, and the mutilated, and the dying?
Which will it be?
IF WE ONLY KNEW!
A New Year is born!
Nineteen hundred and eighteen!
"And what of that" you ask.
Not much-just little-and yet so MUCH!
Nineteen hundred and eighteen!
Only four words, and yet those words signify
that today we reckon our time from the year in
which Christ was born-that Christ was our
IDEAL man-our PERFECT man-the ONLY
man who was in ALL THINGS A MAN!
And in the infancy of the new year shall we
keep before us the record of the MAN whose
memory and whose deeds even time itself cannot
dim?
Shall we keep before US the memory Of the
man in whose honor we write 1882"
A New Year!
Will it reaveal to us A MAN?
Is there one among us whose life is so spot
less-whose deeds are so glorious-that the years
and centuries of time will but add lustre to his
fame?
Is there?
And if not, WHY NOT?
Will the new year produce even one man-one
REAL MAN-who will tower above his fellow
men as Christ did above ALL men?
And will that MAN come from OUR ranks
from OUR little circle?
Will it be YOU?
And if not, WHY NOT?
A New Year is born!
And what will WE be in this year?
We may not be a Christ, but we MAY keep be-
fore us the memory of his gentle humility, his
kindly deeds, of his great sacrifice that the world
might be better, and stronger, and grow in the
| enlightenment of advancing civilization.
We may take into our business lives his spirit
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our fellow men.
We may not reach his degree of perfection, but
we MAY so conduct our business dealings and
our private lives that we will not be a reproach to
one who gave his all for us.
+ 1t would cost us NOTHING to keep his glor-
ious memory before us, to follow at least slightly
in his footsteps, and it would be Of INESTIMA-
BILE VALUE to us.
BUT WILL WE?
Or will we spend six days of the week in serv-
ing the devil and expect an hour in church on Sum-
day to boost us through the Pearly Gates?
Will We be MEN?
We may be the one, or the other-AS WE
CHOOSE.
But which WILL it be?
And again, ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
: The President said: II hear criticism and the
And he could not have more fittingly described
them if he had searched the dictionary for ad-
~jectives.
Our voting sisters travel fast-they are al
ready talking of 100 Congresswomen in the next
House.
Uncle Sam will start the new year with one
humping big resolution-to win the war.
Sure, there are wordless weddings every
time a pair Of deaf mutes hook up.
Anyway, we can look back to it as a record
high-priced Christmas as the bills come in.
When it comes to conpsulory swearing off, we
favor it-for profiteers.
A fellow may talk thrift glibly and still be a
spendthrift.
Nobody's suggested . shootless battle over
there.
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