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Editorial 



December 

 The month of peace on earth and of beautiful woods. 



Peace-on-Earih 

 For a year the world has supposed itself to be out of war and 

 busy making peace. Most of us have been forced to the conclusion 

 that it is a peace of the jungle rather than of civilization that we 

 have been verging towards, — the peace maintained by tooth and 

 claw. But let those of us who have studied Nattu-e's laws take 

 comfort from analogy. Action always brings reaction, and the 

 inertia of great force can be overcome only by time and natural 

 friction after the propelling power has ceased. Nothing can come 

 to a natural end without somehow involving the beginnings of 

 other things. For four years we have witnessed supreme effort to 

 save what seemed most worth while to the human heart; for one 

 year that human heart has seemed to be seething and bubbling 

 over with selfishness and discontent. Fighting ceased toward the 

 enemy then turned its forces inward; the inertia of war found its 

 slow stopping place in the emotions of man. It was all natural and 

 inevitable but we know that somewhere in the confusion and chaos 

 are the beginnings of peace, unselfishness and sweet reasonableness. 



December Woods 

 December has a charm all its own especially before the snow 

 covers all. The browns and the grays of the woodlands are melted 

 into a soft purple that makes a fit setting for the emerald fields of 

 wheat, the red stubble of buckwheat or the fading green of pas- 

 tures. The russet of the scarlet oaks affords harmonious relief to 



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