Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02

huSIF souls there may be who ara die
~ posed to greet the new come wear =,
z,o somewhat the tone of Sir Peter Taa-
4 &c 60 ne looked out upon his Grabbed Iitt1a
, ociooi LOT Scandal stage: owe live in
e en M wicked world, Sir Oliver, and the few
81 we praise the better" There is mo ooin
saying the troublous aspect of the timas
Whether viewed from an internationo1 -. p
purely parochial angle Europe is sill foint
ana unsteady America is not vet at neaoa
georgia Winces under boil weeyiTs 'sixtv,
n-million-dollar bite: Atlanta foe1s az
PAINS of civic growth that is hprstio ne no
buttons. But has not every age and eyorn
year mad its besetting problems? was tbere
ever generation this side of Eden or '1ui11
cnere ever be one this side Of the Millennium
itee from Ihe shocks and ills to which flesh
y helr! Our state is essentially no diffar
ent from our grandsires', and theirs; vas
much the same as that of their own rem otect
ancestors Surely, then, we will not be fond
cnurish IN our own times tasks and strug
gles, nor once lose courage Though tbe NAV
now ana tlen seem perilously near going the
villains way the plot, let us remember is
not yet through. And new act rich in nrono
Use, has just begun.
What the year 1920 will do with us none
can say. hut at least we can say what we
snail do with it. We can determine to make
1T count our loyal best for Atlanta. for Geor-.
gla, for America; and so acting, we shall have
not unworthy part on the stage of the wide
world itself. The turns and products of his
tory depend far less upon what is called en-
Vronment and blind measurement than
upon human attitudes and human Initiative
what Atlanta is going to do and become in
this unwritten twelvemonth depends chiefly
upon what this citizen and that citizen and
every other citizen does and becomes If he
takes the way of choleric complaint and de-
structive criticism, the community will he inst
that much less happy and secure in conse-
quence OF his living in it. If he takes the way
OF pess1mlsm and close-fistedness, the COM
munity will be just that much less progress
slve and less buoyant. But if he starts the
new year and faithfully runs it's race as a.
friend to his city's best interests an admir-
er OF her resources and her spirit, a beliey-
or in her destiny, builder with her loyal
rank and file, then will Atlanta be incalcu-
lably richer and better for his presence The
Journal confidently trusts that this will be
the attitude and the conduct of the more than
two hundred thousand souls who are so for
tunate as to dwell in this good city, and that
we shall go unitedly forward in 1920 set
ting right our civic shortcomings, but above
all developing our magnificent civic resources
/ Nor is it to be doubted that the same CO.
operative and constructive spirit will pervade
@the Commonwealth. Of all regions of Ameri-
"a none is SO graciously favored today as the
nth; and where in the South can be found
ppier lot or a more cheering outlook than
Sia's? For every million dollars worth
on which the boil Weevil has devoured,
ID hundreds of millions have been add
Gr prosperity as a result of increased
luction. The Governments agricul-
lists now assure us that means for
if not indeed the determination,
kuctive pest have been discovered.
TT. from this cloud-lifting news
rm resources of Georgia are so
Industrial growth so vigorous
activity so expansive, and her
Mutually progressive that no
IS can feel otherwise than
as he scans the opening
yal to the goody enter
in progress and yet to be
II; let us prove worthy
opportunities, and we
Y in our best service
Qrld
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