It is vain to wish for happiness this year, but essential to work to construct it. Wish for nothing, but accomplish something. Do not wait for a destiny built from start to finish by others, when that destiny is still in our hands. Le Soir-Républicain does not wish you happiness, since it knows that your body and spirits are battered. But it wants you to maintain the force and the lucidity necessary for forging your own well-being and dignity.