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There's a New Year just around the corner, And every day of it belongs to YOU, Some days will be cloud-hung, no doubt, and dreary, But most of them will smile from skies of blue. Square your shoulders, son, and lift your chin up, Take this New Year; mould it to YOUR plan; Past is past; but say, boy, in the futur+ There's time and room, you bet, to play the man.

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-Mrs. A. M. Conner.

Now for some New Year thoughts from many directions and from many men: r r r t:8ri

Here is a little New Year resolution, or pledge, that can be taken safely in large doses: "f pledge myself for the New Year to be a better friend to all my friends than I have ever been before." Take your friendships seriously. Put them to work. Be a useful, helpful, understanding, Ioyal friend. But, above all, be an ACTIVE friend, and keep your friendships well oiled and polished.

A piece of New t""J "u1"",. ,, you discover that a friend is slipping away from you, drop everything else and go catch him and bring him back; for that is one of the few things in this world that no one can afford to lose.

A wise New Year suggestion: Never write an ungenerous thing to anyone, on any subject, under any circumstances, at any time. Such writing is just plain blundering every time.

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A good New Year's resolution and intention is sometimes so thoroughly satisfied with itself that it forgets to go further. Don't just aim; shoot!

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It's an easy thing to do a thing, tomorrow; It's a cinch for one to do it by and by; But the guy whose life is sunnyAnd the guy that gets the moneyIs the guy who says- tt*rt

"I'Il do it now-or die !"

Here is a grand New Year thought by Abraham Lincoln: "From this day on I mean to do the best I can. If I am right, time will prove it. IfI am not right, ten angels swearing I am right will not make it so." **

One man gets nothing but discords from the keys of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is that same way. The discord is there; so is the harmony. Play it correctly and it gives forth the beauty; play it falsely and it will utter ugliness. But life is NOT at fault. ***

A little bit of QUALITY will always make 'em smile, A little bit of COURTESy will bring 'em in a mile, A little bit of FRIENDLINESS will tickte'em 'tis plain, And a little bit of SERVICE will bring'em back again. :f rt< :t ri**

When an airplane strikes a bank of clouds or fog that dim the vision of the pilot, he can generally turn the nose of the plane upward, and rise above thern. So can thinking men, in most of their problems of life. There is always a clear sky somewhere above the clouds and fog of discouragement, pessimism, false beliefs, and fearful thinking, if you can get your thinking up there.

The great retail merchant, John Wanamaker, said: "Every man starting out in business will have to go over a hard road and find out its turnings by himself. But he need not go over this road in the dark if he can take with him the light of other men's experiences." What the famous merchant meant was that only a fool wastes his life trying to find out what other men have already discovered, and told. Life is short, and every ambitious man takes the intelligent short-cuts.

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Harken to the wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson: .,The day returns and brings to us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man. Help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces. Let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end, the gift of sleep." ***

The bigger the man, the more childlike his nature. He is more charitable. He is never hurt by criticism' FIe never criticizes excePt to helP.

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Some good "I WILL's" for New Year's: I will talk health, instead of sickness. I will talk prosperity, instead of failure. I will carry good news, instead of bad news.

I will tell the cheerful, rather than the sad tale. I will mention my blessings, rather than my burdens' I will encourage' instead of criticize.

I will try to be a friend to everyone I know.

I will speak of the sunshine of yesterday and tomorrow, rather than the clouds of todaY.

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Charles Kingsley left this fine New Year thought: "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank Him for it who is the fountain of all loveliness'" *** tF*:F

It was Socrates, who left us this thought: "Grant me to be beautiful in the inner man, and all I have of outer things to be at peace with those within. May I count the wise man only, rich, and may my store of gold be such as none but the good can bear."

This fine New Year thought is from John Ruskin: "The entire object of education is not merely to make people do the right thing, but to enjoy doing the right thing; not merely to be industrious, but to enjoy industry; not merely to become learned, but to love knowledge; not merely to be pure, but to love purity; not merely to be just, but to hunger and thirst after justice." !N< *

This splendid thought is from George Eliot: "'There is no short-cut, no patent tramqoad to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness, which must still be trod in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of olden times."

And then, of course, there was the absent-minded politician who kissed the pretty mother and then handed her baby a cigar. Or-wait a minute-was he really absentminded?

WITH MacDONALD & HARRINGTON

Norman Vincent, for the past several years with J' H' Baxter & Co., San Francisco, has become a member of the sales staff of MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., San Francisco'

Back From Northwest

Seth L. Butler, San Francisco representative of Dant & Russell. Inc., returned December 22 from a visit to the company's home office in Portland.