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Mail Tribune 100, Dec. 30, 1922 continued By Alissa Corman Jan 01, 2023 12:00 AM A A News from 100 years ago The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago Dec. 30, 1922, continued HAPPY NEW YEAR The best thing about the New Year is that it is new. Just as there is nothing preposterous in seeing a potential President in a new baby, so there is nothing preposterous in seeing unexampled prosperity and happiness in a New Year. The future can always be bright, for the future can always be molded to the heart’s desire. So as 1922 passes from the stage and takes its place with the departed spirits of the ages, there is a precious interval when all humanity can indulge in dreams of the happiness and contentment that is to come. Of course it may not come. No one, fortunately, can read the future. But as Apothecary Coue has demonstrated, it does no harm to feed the subconscious mind on sugar plums, for whatever befalls, the sensation of swallowing sugar plums is a pleasant occupation in itself. Moreover, there is always a certain justification in predicting a good New Year when the Old Year has been particularly bad. All human events are apparently subject to the laws of action and reaction, of ebb and flow. Nature not only abhors a vacuum, it can’t tolerate life played in one key. Just as sunshine inevitably follows rain, so fortune inevitably follows misfortune. A pendulum seems to be firmly embedded in the very nature of things. The world, as a whole, has had a sorry time of it the past twelve months. There has been a devastating epidemic of discord and bitterness and strife. No community on the planet has apparently been immune. ... So what is more likely than this bouncing new Baby 1923 should bring a change. ...So Optimism on Monday next is entirely warranted, and everyone should indulge to the full. And as an overture to that delightful performance, The Mail Tribune does once more the startlingly original thing and wishes everybody in reach of its circulation manager, a happy and prosperous New Year. [Editorial] LOCAL AND PERSONAL The public market of today was a fairly gone one, due to the rainy weather, which much lightened the usual offerings and patronage. ---- By the close of business today at the Medford post office the receipts for the past year will have gone over the $50,000 mark from the $40,000 mark reached last year, thus increasing the standing of the local post office among the first class post offices. This year’s ration of increase is the same as last year’s. — Alissa Corman; [email protected]