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VOL.
LVI. N o . 1.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman BUI at 373 Fourth Ave., New York, Jan. 4,1913
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P goes the curtain on the New!
The Old, with its joys and its sorrows, its pleasures and disappointments, is shuffled off the
stage, and it can only be recalled in memory.
The scenes that have vanished have passed forever from Life's ever-shifting stage.
We are facing the New! May it be a glad New Year to everyone!
Surely there is plenty of gladness to go round if we only seek to find it. There is more sunshine
in life than there is darkness, if we look for it; but some are so constituted that they never can locate
sunshine. They prefer to grope around in eternal darkness.
Let us look for the sunshine which is round about us everywhere. It is a mighty sight pleas-
anter than to be forever weighted down with pessimistic thoughts.
The older I grow the more philosophical I hope to become. I try to never let disappointment
wear greatly upon me, and I try to reasonably enjoy the present.
It's a mighty good world after all, and there is a strange mystery about it which is*-i : iuscdiia*tirigJ"*". •
There is the unknown about it which gives it weird charm.
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If we knew just what we were going to accomplish during the New Year the pleasure !p£Svinr'.
ning would be lost.
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If we knew exactly to the dollar how much financial advance we would make during-the' year*''* '
to a large degree interest in accumulating would cease. It is the planning—the hoping—the striving
—the winning out against obstacles—the development of ideas—the growth and maturing of plans that
lend charm and variety to life.
It is true there is a tobasco flavor about some of our experiences, but perhaps we need a little
more spice at times.
Just about this season men in all trades are planning for the New Year, therefore it behooves
every man engaged in trade to make plans for future business carefully. It is the fine attention to
details that counts, and counts large, in the final analysis.
The prospects are such that "one is justified in making large plans, including investments in
various lines, because present appearances would indicate that a year full of activity lies before us;
and every man is interested in winning more—getting more business—getting further ahead—striving
to accomplish more—everyone wants more; and that is one of the reasons why an economic system
based on the principles of equality or anything like k can never work out successfully.
There is no standing still—no fixed position of equality.
The desire for possession is inbred in the human heart.
The desire to possess comes almost with birth, for one of the first thoughts of a child is the
sentiment of possession, and nothing is held more persistently through life than this right of owner-
ship—the law of life that distinguishes between "mine" and "thine."
Undoubtedly it is well for the human race that this sentiment is rooted so deeply in the human
heart, for the desire to possess is one of the greatest, if not actually the most powerful, force impelling the
world's progress.
The Balkan States desired more freedom. This desire resulted in the war which has annihi-
lated all fear of the Terrible Turk, and has crumpled him up in defeat.
It is the desire for more that inspires the upward trend of all material forces.
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