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The Caddo Herald

January 2, 1948

Caddo High Times

Lenora Evans, editor

Jolene Hunter, society

Paul Cannon, Joel Clark, voc. ag

Minnie Lou Thompson, library

Harold Young, Mary Choate, feature editors

New Year is Time to Shine up Your Good Ideals

By Leonora Evans

                Like a time-worn cane that, having seen its withering master glide away into another land, is laid aside to begin gathering dust, so are the memories of the old year that are stored away in the heart, making room for the new.

                Some memories of the past year will bring joy to the heart, while others will leave a lost and empty feeling to cast its gloom and utter darkness like a low hanging fog upon the world.

Hearts will ache at the thought of a world of conflict, of nations in opposition to each other, of starvation, hunger and cold.

                A determination to be more cooperative, more broad-minded, less greedy, and less self-loving would aid in making a friendly happy world. If nations would try to get along with half the force in their efforts as is put out in the battle to win a war, the world would enjoy a superabundance of prosperity. Money, labor and many of the necessities of life would not have to be used to make firearms for destruction. Half-crazed people would have no need to flee from whizzing, deafening roar of bombs; frail bodies would not suffer lack of food and clothing; inflation would not be a blight on the land or the building block which was torn away.

                The New Year is the time to cast off that which is causing a heavy fog to engulf the world and introduce co-operation for opposition, broad mindedness for narrow mindedness, and unselfishness for selfishness, and friendly folk for hatred. This will make a better person, a better school and a better world.

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