Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-31
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1920.
The New Year.

The New fear.
Let us enter the New Year, tomorrow
with good cheer and hopefulness such as
Will abide with us for all the other days OF
1921 and for all time. We have much
10 hook forward to that assures US con-
tinuance of the blessings that have neeh
.o richly bestowed on us all these centuries,
and we can resolve many things; but we
should adhere to the decision 70 do our iui'
nsrt toward making the world better
r,lace 10 live in We can do this II we but
strife the sense of lust for money and
selfshness that comes knocking at the
door Of our consciousness, demanding en-
,ranco. and substitute love Of our neigh
hor for love of self. which rs the greatest
curse mankind has 10 overcome.
The wear 1921 starts US anew IN our
dsiIv duties II finds the scars ana
wounds of the wsr fast healing, and each
~ the beIlgerent nations. for the hrst
time. earnestly taking op its work again.
The six wears CORY past Is all behind us
but a sr1lesome memory, and we ale PACK
again ID the paths of peace with the last ol
he war clouds dlssipating ard peace re-
stored 10 almost all nations Of the earth.
The cause of Democracy has advanced
mirbtilv and starts the year with larger
momentum than il has ever had before,
and we are finding the world safer ana
better for the purging that il has expert
enced in those long days Of travail
When the midnight bells toll out the
nd wear and hail the one new born, we
will practically be st the starting point oi
a new epoch All thought and endeavor
will be directed to re-establishine the
cviIisod world in the production of COM
Dodities 70 meet material needs, e the ao-
vanecmept Of the arts and sciences and OF
al things that make for the betterment
al mankind
We can see before Us in mental VISION
millions cf people awaiting a turn IN the
tide of industry that they may resume
their daily vocations. that our nation
may continue to 60 forward in working
out and fulfilling her splendid destiny
mere Is no ClOQG vi lAA1 OHE7l-AN@
industrial horizon that can stay our prog
ress, Il we but meet the mIsts by knowing
they are only the creations Of fear ana
false report II viii be part Of our con-
slant task TO know and understand that
there is nothing ahead to cause fear except
we become frightened at a figment Of the
mind that is but s ghost without truth
or substance.
Our greatest service 70 ourselves ano
CIT fellows in the early days OF the New
Year will be to discern that all OF the
present unsettled trade conditions Of thf
moment are only the effects OF erroneous
understanding. or lack of understanding
and that this false psychological condition
may be corrected by an understanding O.
nc tue conditions that uDderle our al
fairs
We start the New Year with the health
of our people at the highest approach Il
one hundred per cent we have ATTAINED
for many years; our people are happ,
s.ad are possessed of more Of the luxlrle
Of life than they have hitherto known
the winter is well spent and ne are almos
on the way back to the delightful sprinI
that brings rejoicing everywhere and set
all the agencies Of man and nature
theJ happy tasks 10 reproduce foods ant
the Sustaining things that are needful Z
our happiness and comfort
surely everyone living in this countr
can look forward with infinite satisfaction
ana with the assurance that the New lea
will bring them blessings that will DC ID
creased many fold over those of years tha
have gone before And when We make on
New Year resolves, let US head the list {
hose things that we should do, with IN
one command 10 love our neighbor bette
than oursel. es, and thus each one do ms
full part towards checking the food
hatred and selfshness and evil report tina
seems 70 have almost filled the world fc
the last FIVE years or more. Then we ma
head the don Is with the injunction
do not bear false witness against you
brethren do not be pessimist but a
optimist, throughout this year Of 1872
vhIcn promises an abundance Of al goo
things