Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-12-25

III
Yet it is telling sort Of picture.
The traveller in fat country may be charmed
by its beauty but after while he to expect
anything except continuation of that beauty. In
a rolling country his interest Quickens ne ap-
proaches the top of rise until experience has
taught him that nothing out of the ordinary will
meet his eye. But in country of high ridges his
imagination persists in painting the landscape on
the other side as something new Among the noun
Hains the temptation to see what the next valley
contains is always strong.
Travelling through life is much the same In
prosac times and out Of touch with the news of
the day, man loses much of his curiosity about
the future and concerns himself largely with his
immediate environment
But in these latter days there are no prosaic
times; history is making so fast that we do not
appreciate the changes. And nobody is out of
touch with the news. Telegraph, telephone, news
paper and radio thrust the news of the world be-
fore us almost the instant it happens. Not only
are great things taking place but the of them
Is spread everywhere The news sheet without
sensation is a disappointment; it must have first
page staring headlines to gain our favor.
SO the New Year of 1925 must step lively to
keep with the pace set by 1924. And 1t finds
world expectant Of great things and eager to press
on to the top of the next high ridge "for to see"
IVES, history is in the making all over the world
in 1925-from Cape Town, Picking Tokyo, OF
tawa and Washington to London, Paris, Berlin,
Geneva and Leningrad. Will the far-fung British
empire stand intact will It's English-speaking
domnions unite with the United States in new
Pacific ocean alliance-the White against the Vel
low? Will Japan continue to maneuver diplomat
1cay behind its inscrutable oriental mask will
at show its teeth? Will Germany accept its fate
and settle down to its dreary work of reparation?
Will France calm down and do teamwork with the
rest Of Europe? When will Europe show that 1t
intends to pay It's World war debts by making a
beginning of payment?
AS to the League Of Nations and the Geneva
protocol: VIII the disarmament conference sum-
moned for June lapse because enough nations do
not ratify it by May? Will the protocol itself
lapse because that conference fails to arrange for
the limitation of ornaments? And will the United
States call conference of its own?
Will the civil war in China fight itself out or
will it involve other nations? How long before
there is explosion in Russia, with its anti
Trotsky movement and it's growing between
classes? is the new fare-up in Egypt to result
In European complications?
Interesting and momentous questions these, and
questions that press for an answer. The New
Year will not see all OF them answered. of course.
But it may some of them answered And it
Is often the unexpected that happens.
NOBODY can say just what 1t will be- of course,
1 but 1925 is extremely likely to see something
in the way of scientific discovery that will
make the world sit up and take notice. Scientists
all the world are working on specific momen-
tous problems that seem all but solved. More
over the world Is literally full of scientists
gagged in pure research without thought Of utility.
The Importance of this is seen in the fact that
utility steps In where pure research leaves off.