The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-01-07
By DON ROBINSON,
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go on the wagon as soon as
the year ends.
Women who realize they are
gaining too much weight from
over-eating tell their friends OF
their determination to 60 on 6
strict diet as soon as they have
enjoyed those Christmas and New
Years dinners which they know
ahead of time will add still more
pounds.
Ard even children, who realize
they are not doing the amount Of
school work they should do, post
pone, until the New Year starts,
their plan to buckle down to more
work and less play.
TEMPORARY normally
Thus the New Year always
finds people full of resolve to
lead a better life to discard
Objectionable habits and to han
die their responsibilities and am
billions in a more adequate man
ner.
The day after New Years we
are probably the finest, most am
bilious an most wholesome
group of people we could ever
hope to be. In additions to our
resolves to give up our bad habits
many people make even more
important resolutions concern
ed with improving their re-
lationships with society and with
their families.
Married couples, who have been
getting on each others nerves,
decide to make an effort to find
new happiness with each other
Business executives determine to
show more interest in the prob
lens of their employees. Politi-
clans make an effort to give bet
ter service to the people they rep
resent, and men who have led a
life of crime probably decide to
put away their burglar tools and
seek honest work.
This all begins with the first
day of the year and terminates,
for some irresolute individuals,
on the second day. Other more
hardy souls hold to their resolu-
tons for week or even a month
and by that time we are all
about back to normal.
GOOD bad
This business of turning over a
new leaf is probably a good thing
for al lof us even though we may
revert to our old ways soon after
the glow of the New Year has
died away.
It at least improves us to the
extent of confessing our faults to
ourselves and sharpening up the
lines of distinction between good
and bad which have grown in
creasingly hazy in many of our
minds.
Our very scrapping of our good
resolutions, after our enthusiasm
over them has subsidized, serves
to emphasize the power which
our weaknesses have over us and
causes mental discomfort which
may aid for a time at least in
keeping those weaknesses under
control.
It therefore seems worth while,
in spite of our back-sliding, to
continue to start the New Year
full of good resolutions and to
renew those resolutions at all pos
Sible milestones in our lives-or
birthdays, on anniversaries and
on holidays. Of course we could
even renew them on any plain
ordinary weekday. after an at
tack of conscience, but that per-
haps is asking too much of any
one.
WAR morale
Many of the resolutions we
make this year will have to dc
with the war effort-and since
they are new type of resolution
let's hope they will have longer
life than the worn-out resolutions
of the past.
It would make life a lot easier
during the coming year if we all
resolved to play a greater part
in the war program-if factory
workers would resolve to turn
out more equipment, if farmers
would resolve to produce record
crops and if those not directly
partaking in war work would at
least resolve to accept all curbs
on personal comfort and enjoy
ment without grumbling about
it.
This war will probably be won