HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford and Louise Sandford
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Chas. F. Sandford,.Editor and Manager
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1879.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
THE PROBLEM
OF BAD DEBTS.
Credit is the lifeblood of
trade. Through credit operat
ions active capital is multiplied
many times. This accounts for
the stupendous total of busi
ness exchanges. It has been
potent in creating demand for
goods by making their acqui
sition easy. It is founded pri
marily on the demonstrated
honesty of human beings, sup
ported in part by the necessity
of fulfilling obligations in or
der to keep going, and in part
by w6ll-conceived credit sys
tems through which sellers
limit the commitments of buy
ers to their ascertained worthi
ness, materia] and moral.
Yet, with all the safeguards
that have been thrown around
credit it remains one of the
major hazards of business. Bad
debts are the chief factors in
innumerable commercial dis
asters.
Some few lines of endeavor
have been made virtually proof
against bad debts. Automobile
manufacturing appears to be
one. At least, some of the great
companies have so organized
their soiling systems that they
do practically a cash business.
This is the more surprising
since it is common knowledge
that enormous numbers of
automobiles are sold on de
ferred payment plans. Where
there is much credit there must
be some defaults. But most
motor car producers have!
found the way to escape em
barraesment when these occur.!
To what extent this is true is
revealed in a degree by the re-!
port of one of the larger com-1
panies, which announced that i
since 1914, though its total!
sale price of cars and parts
(the cars sold numbered 1,
500,000) disposed of was more
than $1,230,000,000, its loss
from bad debts amounted to
only $33,000. Probably several
others could show as good a
record.
This ought to be the subject
■ of profound study in all busi
i ness circles. If credit losses
: could be materially reduced
I without diminshed distribution
and consumption of goods, the :
j common prosperity would be !
I greatly increased.
HEROES TO ORDER.
j
I There are times when events
: take hold of men and wrest
! them out of peace and obscur
* ity into duties and responsibil
ites unexpected and unsought.
i These, to be sure, are not ordi
nary men, since they have!
eyes to see the needs and ears;
to hear the call where others
passed by untroubled. They i
see there is work to be done, i
and by this knowledge are!
called and dedicated. Their
duty lies before them and cow
ardice alone can close their
eyes to it.
History shows the need of the
hour is no respecter of persons.
It calls heroes from among the j
privates of the army of the'
world no less than from its [
leaders. It makes strong men 1
of those who had thought1
themselves weak and reveals
hidden power by which men
rise from obscurity to the!
heights of leadership. Such ne
cessity, moreover, is a hard i
master, driving men onward
when they are weary for peace
and demanding their devotion
through every hazard of pain, ]
hatred and misunderstanding. ]
So long as the need is there, :
they dare not desert their des- |
tiny.
The record of the world is the !
record of its heroes. Always j
there has been a man to step 1
into the breach, to grasp the 1
torch, to lead in the path re- *
vealed. So long as there are
such men, whose courage will
not fail when their eyes are c
opened, so long will the world
push on surely to the days of
promise. t
STANDARD-BEARERS.
In the human soul and in the
larger images of humanity
which are society, strife is the
key to progress and the chief
means of turning confusion to
order. The clash of fdeals, pur
poses and opinions leads to
judgements; it reveals prin
ciples, and shows us where we
stand in relation to them. We
go forward by struggles and
victories, and such strife is nec
essary to the purpose of life,
needful as the two millstones
which grind the wheat or the
hammer and anvil between
which the tool is tempered.
In such trials at arms ignor
ance takes sides too quickly,
and allegiance often owes
more to olbstinacy and preju
dice than to judgement Yet
wider knowledge may bring a
new danger by urging com
promise and leaving no en
thusiasms or convictions for
which we will live and die.
Beyond such lukewarm caution
there lies real conviction,
where vision rises above the
smoke and dust of the arena
and sees clearly and singly
the essential goal at stake.
Such visionaries, who see not
merely both sides of a quest
ion but also the greater prin
ciples to which it refers, be
come our leaders. These lift
up standards to which we may
dedicate our strength and our
sword arm. These we must
have if strife is to find the
shortest way to peace and if
we are to be spared the long
struggles for unworthy victor
ies and the old habits of blind
hate and destruction.
Just for Fun
An opinionated man is usu
ally an opinion rated man, and
the rating is not often high.
Once it was “a rag, a bone
and a hank of hair.” Now the
rag is almost gone and the hair
bobbed, but at times you see
evidence of the bone.
In Japan, dresses are bought
by the pound. Have to buy
them by the ounce here.
Wonder if the girls who paint
and powder so freely today be
lieve in the slogan of the paint
manufacturers, “Save the sur
face and you save all.”
“You are working too hard,”
mid the doctor.
“I know it,” sighed the
aatient, “but it is the only way
[ can keep up the easy pay
ments.”
Middle age is that period in
ife when you don’t look near
y so well in your new spring •
mit as you thought you were
roing to.
The trouble with most of us
s that we postpone indefinite
y the things we ought to do
md are prompt in doing the
hings we ought not to do.
Don’t take yourself too seri
usly—no one else does.
Monuments are never erected
> uppish people who look
down upon others.
It is a little early for carrots
and vegetables to look overly
well on the hats of women.
There is always a good crop
of smooth persons who are
willing to separate a fool and j
his money.
When a reformer talks about
adopting a new measure of
values in life, he means his own
measure.
Will the time ever come when j
the race will take its calories!
and vitamines by a shot in the
arm?
Its the bone in their backs
and not the bone in their heads
that enables fellows to suc
ceed.
He—“Where will you be at!
dinner time?” ^
j She—“At dinner.”
I
! He: “And we will elope at
! midnight?”
She: “Yes, dear.”
He: “And will you have all
your things packed?”
j She: “Sure. My husband is
! packing them for me now.”
—
True Words Spoken In Jest.
‘ ‘What is the secret of suc
cess?” asked the Sphinx.
“Push,” said the button. “Take i
pains,” said the window. “Al
| ways keep cool,” said the ice.
j “Be up to date,” said the cal
; endar. “Never lose your head,” j
j said the barrel. “Make light
|of everything,” said the fire.
! “Do a driving business,” said
j the hammer. “Aspire to great
i er things,” said the nutmeg.
I “Find a good thing and stick
! to it,” said the glue
“You never bring me candy
like you used to before we
were married.”
“That so-well, you never heard
of a fisherman feeding bait to
a fish after he had caught it, -
did you?” <
rr- ' . — «j|
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
Sha was pretty, short-skirted
and pink-cheeked. As she
tripped lightly down the stain
leading from the station, manj
admiring glances were cast it
her direction.
“Some girl!” exclaimed on*
youth to his companion, ai
they trailed in her wake.
“Wonder who the lucky chaj
is she's going to meet?”
As she emerged from the stat
ion a handsome, broad-should
ered man, fully six feet tall
clasped her in his arms an*
kissed her.
“Mother!” he exclaimed fond
ly. “I thought I’d missed you!’
There are people who remin<
us of Aesop’s fly who sat up
on the axle-tree of the chario
wheel and said, “What a dus
I do raise!”
Statistics prove that a moto
car with only one horn cai
throw a man further than i
bull with two of ’em.
We’re no longer satisified t<
be paid what we're worth—w<
can’t live on that amount.
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 23 Jewel:
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewel:
Elgin 7 and IS Jewel:
Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.50 to $25.0<
Jewelry made to order, repaii
work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
Crosley Radios on Hand. Com<
In And Look Them Over.
THE NUGGET SHOP
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Secpnd Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
6E0H6E B. GRIGSBY
Attorney - at - Law
KETCHIKAN. ALASKA
j Arriving in a small western
town, an easterner was at
i tempting to start up a friendly
' conversation with a native.
“Tell me,” he said, “what is
the status of the liquor supply
! around here?”
1 “Status,” mumbled the native,
“I dunno what you mean.” *
1 “I mean is it easy to obtain
liquor and is there much of it
■ around here?”
“Wall, mister,” said the rustic,
! “all I can tell you is that a
little while back they turned
off the water supply for a week
’ and nobody knew it till the
town hall caught afire.”
I
Just Like His Mother,
t _
^ He criticized, her pudding, he
didn’t like her cake;
He wished she’d make the bis
’ cuits like his mother used to
> make;
1 She didn’t wash the dishes and
she didn’t make a stew;
And she didn’t darn his stock
> ings like his mother used to do.
* Oh, well, she wasn’t perfect,
but she tried to do her best,
. Until at length she thought her
time had come to have a rest;
, So, when one day he went the
, same old rigmarole all through
i She turned and boxed his ears
■ just like his mother used to do.
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