Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
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CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE @ THOMAS
HAPPY NEW YEAR


yours; may the days that are before
you bring peace, prosperity and good
health. May your ideal be realized
and your life be lived on a higher
plane than last year. May you
never be a stumbling block, but may
you be a help and an inspiration,
an uplift and pilot to those about
you.
"The high places are lonesome" I
heard man say, when he was chtded
for lack of ambition or mental
energy. They may look that way,
but may be like the stars, worlds
within themselves, and all of us
know what the Bible says about the
wasted or buried talents.
Did you make number of resolu-
tions that you failed to make into
actualities last year? Then try again
this year. How many times did you
practice or try before you learned to
write or, perhaps, to swim. But the
result is compensation for all the
efforts made.
1t must be very conceited and
shallow individual that is satisfied
with the record that he, or she, made
in 1919, even though the best was.
With some of us that best
is not as good as we hope for
this year, and that we must
work for. And it's fine thing not
to blind our eyes or shut our ears
to what is going on about us. We
need not think that we are fooling
our neighbors. 1 heard group of
men making a prophecy about an
enterprise some men have lately as
sumed. I am sure they are right,
though was surprised to know that
everybody saw it as I do. It is a
thing that could be a grand success
in the time these men prophesy fall
ure, but the enthusiasm has already
begun to wane.
There is a splendid elaboration of
this idea in the January American
Magazine. Sid says: eff you expect
any miracles in 1920 you have got
to perform them" One miracle is to
make a man worth while out of a
trif1ing cuss," It's a miracle that
many a poor woman has prayed over
for many weary year, then folded
her worn hands and left it for some
other Woman's struggle. fl
DR.. Frank Crane quotes a Spanish
poet and 1 will quote him, too: Let
others concern themselves about the
government of the world and it's
kings, but as for me. give me good
bread and butter" Even those who
o,-n
world want good bread and butter,
or it's equivalent, and the question
is, Where are they going to get
it?" Some one must start at the
beginning, sowing the seed on we'll
prepared ground, seeing to the calf
that will make a good COW and never
letting one thing be neglected, not
depending on the burdened other fell
low to do the work of two. 1 have
noticed that the man who does least
is the biggest talker and can tell
more about Mexico and Cuba than
about the results Of his last years
work CD To quote Sid again: Don't
leave everything to Father Time. He
won't doNanything for you. He can't.
All that he can do is to provide you
room in which to perform. If you sit
in corner and wait for him to do
your job you will be disappointed.
when you enter the arena he may
bow and say, Good morning When
you, check out, seventy or eighty
years later, he may say, Good night"
That, however, will be the extent of
his interest in you, or knowledge of
you. He sees billions pass in and
out the gates, ounces, mediocres. and
bright boys, like Caesar and Willie
Shakespeare. But they all look alike
to him.
There is always something to be
thankful for, and the coming year
must show us how much we can
achieve if We trust in God and do
our very best. This has been a beau
tiful season. The rains ceased, the
sun shone and L hope that all of us
had a happy day. The cards that
came to me from readers of The
Journal were highly. appreciated.
How could tell, or the managers Of
the paper, whether / am saying to
you the things you appreciate or
simply letting good space be wasted.
From Florida to California and the
states between sent me greeting and
appreciatiye words. Some of the
! readers have not failed in ten years,
! md this 10 tO thank Won