Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1926-01-01
THE NEW YEAR


as our first issue Of the New Year
therefore. with this double event,
we extend to our readers as well as
to all Of the people of Charles
County our best wishes for a
happy and prosperous New Year.
While pausing to cast a retrospect
over the past year, as well as our
past lives, we should look forward
to and during the New Year with
greater hopes for a more successful
and greater future. The lessons OF
the past should serve us in great
stead while making our plans and
engaging in activities of the future.
The past was what we made it, so
the future will be what we make It.
Our success and prosperity or fail
ure and adversely in the future is
entirely up to the individual, who
can make it what she or he will.
The year we have Just ended is
closed book the future is before us.
We must now make up our minds
to forget the past save for the les
sons it has taught, and go forward
into the future with renewed vigor
and energy that greater and better
results may be recorded in 1926.
We can one and all make the year
1926 one of achievement, prosper
ity and glowing success through
entering it with a determined will
and mind. We know not what the
future holds in store for us. 1t is
far better for us that we do not, for,
looking through the veil of the fu-
ture, some would face success and
prosperity, while others would face
unhappiness and adversely. so it is
well that the future is clouded with
mystery.
When one pauses to think and
plan for the future it is too often
the case that we look solely to per
sonal advancement, prosperity and
success without thought of Our
neighbor, our friends and the peo-
pie of our county, State and Ma
ton. We appear to forget that real
success is only accomplished by
helping one another, and not through
giving ourselves alone the credit for
our success and incidentally blam-
ing some one else for our misfor-
tune or adversely.
With the above in mind, it is our
purpose again to remind our read
ers and the people Of the county
generally that the real basis of sue
cess for one and all is through CO.
operation. We know that if the
people of this county will join in
and honestly cooperate with one an
other that greater success will toll
low us individually and as a whole.
This spirit of cooperation must be
exhibited in action and not in talk.
We can all sit around the stove in
the store and talk about this and
that being done, but this does not
accomplish results. 1t is the get
ting out and doing things. "Ac-
ton speaks louder than words.
The latter experience shows is alb
solutely true. Let's have more &C
ton and cooperative action in the
future that our people may be made
happier, more prosperous and more
successful. Let's have more active
cooperative support in farming, in
business activities and in every line
of endeavor in life, so that at the
end of 1926 we can look back at our
achievements, the prosperity and
happiness of our people with
greater pride. Our people will
have a greater and happier future
if they will make up their minds to
ignore politics, race and creed in
their various activities, but pull all
together for the advancement,
progress and prosperity of our peo-
pie, our county, State and Nation.
We have better chances for life,
better advantages for advance
ment, better conditions OF home
comfort, better opportunities for
our children, better government,
better morals. We are living in
cleaner time, with greater number
of people on a rising plane Of social
relationship. There is more charity,
there is more justice, there is more
human. sympathy.
Nineteen-twenty-sixl A year of
promise and wonderful possibilities
Let US greet it gladly and cheer
fully and confidently! And let us
not forget that in the main we make
our own year what it proves to be,
a year Of blessings or a year of sor-
rows, according as we approach our
tasks and responsibilities and OPP
portunities.
We extend our readers and the
people of Charles County our best
wishes for Happy and Prosperous
New Year, and hope that every
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