The Wanganui Chronicle THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1936. THE NEW YEAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 6

The Wanganui Chronicle THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1936. THE NEW YEAR

the dawn of every year there is hope. It is stimulated by the annual practice of making new resolves. People look back n the old and think ahead to the new. But some good resoluions fade like phantoms; others come too late to be of value. Ye are facing a New Year now, perhaps not as free as we might ie from holiday mood, but we are conscious that there is a new leriod of activity beginning and thoughts endeavour to pre-view liat which it holds in store for mankind. From New Zealand’s >oiut of view the New Year will certainly mean much in a political sense. Labour, long since denied the right to govern, s facing the future optimistically ivith the voice of the people ichind its ideals. Labour will be judged by its actions in lignment with the force of circumstances the year may bring, nd if those actions retain the spirit of justice which has been ndieated in the utterances of Labour’s responsible leaders, then he New Year will mean progress for New Zealand. Abroad, he outlook is troubled. Europe is still within sound of guns mi rattling of sabres, when the world should be forgetting war. itid the League of Nations, created with the splendid ideal of tiding war altogether, is facing the most severe test since its >irth. 'The New Year will mean much to the League and to he world as a whole. Signs of economic recovery are more ilentiful than twelve months ago, but the world is still at sixes md sevens so far as the cherished ideal of permanent peace is loueerned. Because of that 1936 will mean careful planning for hose entrusted with the destinies of nations. May the hope vhich every person has at the dawn of another year find fulfilnent in a discovery that that which is planned means the upliftng and not. the degradation of mankind. We welcome the New Year with that wish, aware that, what is for the good of nations iiid the good of one’s country must reflect io the good of mli-. idii.-ils.