Arizona republican., 1920-01-01
The New Year

We have the beginning of another year and from glimpse of it at distance. we believe that it will be good one. It appears to be full of promise We entered upon the last year, if in gloom. in the misty half light of emer- gence from the world While its terrors were behind ina gined front of and they assumed most formidable shapes. We talked of re- construction of thing to be made wholly of new materials all the old regarded debris be thrown away. And all this be accomplished by with all their feebeness and limitations. We forgot that there such thing readjustment; forgot that in the history of the world it had taken place a thousand times had taken place with surprising smoothness
 Dependent upon wisdom and conscious of weaknesses may have faced the future with nisgivings. But we went about the self-im- posed task of building world upon the ruins of the old and going avoid mistakes that the Almighty had made. going to do something that he had not fit do. We going to change nature and all human nature. And what furore created. And what have been the
 We have accomplished but little though much has been accomplished. Affairs own country which disjointed quietly slipping back into their proper places, with little aid legsla- and without cooperation of noisy reform The great work of self f-adjustment is going on and will go
 We allowed ourselves be deceived by the up- roar created by few bolshevists deceived
 
 eNterminate them We have been disturbed by the high cost of living and. running about in cir eles. we have been unable to the other side we have been living pretty we'll and have been amply able to do We have taken account of the circumstance that there probably been less suffering in this country than there had been in ordinary years
 The end of the year found us free from epi- denies, free from serious internal disturbance free from everything except the fear of untoward event, we did not know precisely And strikes we have had of them. far more than had ever occurred in single year. But they all been dissipated leaving little disturbance in their wake
 We have imagined industrial unrest be a of future disaster whereas it appears have only perhaps, uneasy settling of what had gone before. It the belated rumbling passing instead of the harbinge~ rising storm
 the business of readjustment is going We do not wish to be understood having said that it is automatic in the that have part in it. We all have a part in it and will form that part of us. perhaps unconsciously SeIf-interest alone will mpe1 do part will put and keep places.
 What we have meant is that cannot help by employing specifics, patent methods that dreams will avail nothing; that common alone. which has always restored order and stabilized things be invoked. The less sense, complicated will the task readjustment
 The new year is bright with hope the brightest in many years. We upon it with a running There is plenty of money; there is work for The fears which have held in check in past have been found be groundIess are a good old world
 the future with clear heads, rasolute courage. justice neighbor unfaltering de- termination to make of America q land true t5 the principles of those dauntess who made possible the nation