The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-12-31
GOOD ~BYE-WELCOME

Tonight, at midnight a year dies, a new year is born and a large
celebration 1t a particularly day ARBITRARILY set as a division in periods of
time isl not quite clear but since it seems to be the thing to do, it is done.
1t is a time, also, that seems a hitting one to cast a retrospective eye
over the proceeding 5O5 days-this year it has been 5oo-and to seek
to look into the future, into the Pandora box the new year brings.
The year that ends tonight, with its Joys and with its sorrows, has
been a period OF transition, a turning in the way. For some it has
mics for pinchng, of difficulty to make the ends meet. Prosperity for
one has meant hard shedding for another.
In the sugar industry, especially for employees of sugar companies,
it has been a time OF uneNamped prosperity. So for the merchants
whose trade came from such employees it has been a year of bountiful
been thoroughly satisfactory and on Maui, where the greater part of
it has been a season Of well being, of free spending, of indulgence.
In great numbers, field workers and other employees, business men and
clerks, all who shared in or prohted otherwise by the large bonuses,
spent their money as they went with little thought of tomorrow, next
week, merit year, as if conditions were to continue on as they were in
definitely, OF these many now look back with regret at their short
On the mainland, in the manufacturing industries, a similar condi-
ton existed until late in the year. Never had labor been so highly paid.
stand," But such conditions could not last, could not continue in
definitely and the halt came in 1920. Dehation had to come after in
hahon and it has commenced.
Thus 1920 has been a remarkable year in many respects. at home
and abroad, and the average American has been too busy at home to
He ""viewed with alarm the spread of Bolshevism. He regretted labor
disturbances, unrest, suffering and poverty and continuance of old and
breaking out OF new disturbances and wars in Europe. Mutengs at
home were Threatening and really the government should take drastic
A New Year comes tomorrow. What will it bring? Is it to be
one of the fat OIL one of the lean kline?
Reimbursement which started this year will have to be continued
into and perhaps through 1921. But there is nothing alarming in that.
better now than then. 1t is merely the Weakening from a wild and
hilarious dream into the life of stern reality. Panic need not be ex-
pected, it can be avoided. Hard times will not necessarily be eXpenenc-
ed. Wages and some salaries, dividends and some incomes will not be
SO large, but living costs will decline proporhonatey. They will not
decline to pre-war figures. 1t is a coming back to the normal from the
abnormal that is to be faced, coolly and inteligenhy for there is no cause
for alarm, no cause to regret the coming change which is making for a
better world and a more wholesome life. 1t means merely to live with
in the normal income.
SO it will be found that 1921 brings to each of us what he or she
looks for. If one looks for sorrow and privation, one will find IT. If
one looks for JOY and happiness, 1921 brings them also. Each will
reap in 1921 what he or she sowed in 1920, that is to be expected, and
each can, by his or her attitude, if he will, make 1921 a haPy year,
one of growth and real progress for the community and for the country,
At the year end it we're well to consider the experiences undergone
by one during that year, to inquire what such experiences teach, and
then to put into operation during 1921 the benefits derived from such
experiences, Hfes lessons, and to make them profitable throughout the
year to come.
In short, to get down to brass tacks.