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COIMHiVA, ALASKA, FRIDAY, I >!■’,( 'K.M HKW ::i. 1!H:».
“RING OUT THE OLD; RING IN THE NEW.”
The awe-inspiring Miles and Childs glaciers push their
way over the precipice and are dashed into the swift current
of the Copper River at the base of precipice, the air being
filled with the deep reverberations of the breaking and plung
ing ice.
The flow of the years is much like the glacier’s flow. As
the years break off and plunge into the deep of eternity, the
clamors that rise set all the bells of all the nations tolling;
when the plunge is over the echoes set all the bells ringing,
and the quotation of the heading should have been: “Toll out
the old; ring in the new.” The bells will begin ringing at mid
night, and after the echoes, coming back, become joy bells of
welcome to the New Year.
In the old world the swaddling bands of the New Year
are made of the crimson bandages of war, in our land they are]
of the stainless white vestments of peace.
Tin* joy bells abroad struck like bells of fate on the ears of
ail; from the men in the trenches to the mothers who pityingly
held their last year’s babes to their breasts, and wondered if
they were destined to grow up to be like their fathers, only
bloody sacrifices on the red altars of ambition, commercialism
and lust of power.
In our land the New Year comes in under cloudless skies,
no menace of pestilence or war is in the air; there are no gloomy
forebodings; a hundred millions of people are chanting the an
thems of peace, and moving on to the conquest of more and
more of the desert and the forest; the doing away of what was
crude and wrong in both the physical and mental world, and
the consecration of new realms to industry, to order and peace.
With every New Year the flag above us takes on new ma
jesty; in the world’s eyes it is more and more a symbol of
peace and of power—indeed we lack but one thing and' that is
a broader wisdom to make a better use of the unparalleled gifts
which are ours. It may be added to that a more intense and
active patriotism, that we might the more exult over our bles
sings and with a more zealous solicitude prepare to guard our
country against every danger.
Hearty blessing upon and welcomes to the happy New
Year.
THE OLD AND THE NEW YEAR
Before another issue of the Daily Times the old' year will
have been rung out, the new year rung in.
The past year will be memorable as long as time lasts.
The historian will be forced to say that the enlightened
nations of Europe, through ambition for power, through am
bition for power and place; through commercialism, through
land lust and through fear of each other, for years had been
increasing their navies and their armaments and making of
fensive and defensive alliances with and against each other,
deriding all advice, heedless of experience, intent on carrying
out utterly selfish plans, and' pursued their way until the ten
sion could no longer be borne and the climax came in the most
terrible war the world had ever seen.
It is idle to split hairs as to which precipitated the cata
clysm. All had been preparing for it, all had been expecting
it; on two or three occasions in the last five years it has been
iminent. The pitiable thing is there was no holy purpose be
hind it, the most pitiable feature is that the masses of people
who are fighting and dying had no desire for it because they
were at peace; they had no enemies; they did' not want their
peace disturbed.
The war frenzy that the first shock of war awakened is
still upon them and no one can see the end.
The shadow of it all has crossed the Atlantic and covers
our country, but from beneath it can be seen that for our
country there is no present menace; that the promises for the
new year are all hopeful, that it will be right to welcome the
new year with the ringing of joy bells and to fill the air with
the new year happy acclaims.
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If u person who makes you laugh is a nut, it does not fol
low that one who makes you cry is an onion.
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Most self-governed towns in Alaska are not a bit jealous
of tlie government controlled town of Anchorage.—Juneau
Dispatch.
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Maybe President A Vi Ison hastened to pre-empt the word
militant in his definition of himself us a “militant Democrat”
to forestall the suffragists, who have shown ominous activity
at t he capital of late.
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Mayor Hiram C. Gill, of Seattle, has announced his con
didaey for re-election, having been forced into the fight by
Councilman Erickson and former Chief of Police Griffiths, old
political enemies, throwing their huts into the ring. Hi has
made an excellent executive for the Spirit City, and his many
friends throughout Alaska would like to see him continue to
hold that office for another term at least.
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