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CHANCES.
The city industrial worker has
one chance in eight of living
to be 70 years old. The farmer
has one chance in three. So
reports a committee of the
United Hospital Fund, New
York.
There, in a nutshell, you have
a graphic picture of what civil
ization is doing for us.
Health is close to the soil.
he time is not far off when
cities will in large part break
up, factories moving to the
open country and taking work
ers with them. Either that or
man heads for extinction.
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SCHOOLING.
Most Americans get their
schooling between the ages of
8 and 16, says Prof. Dallas L.
Sharp, of Boston University.
That is true. But most of us
do not begin to get our real
education until we leave
school. Experience remains
the greatest teacher.
When a school graduate
strikes out in the world for
himself, one of the first things
he has to do is unlearn much
of what he has been taught.
The delusion that takes most
time to get off the head is
youth’s inflated conception of
the possibilities of success.
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THAT’S WHAT COUNTS
In the list of what may be
called the chief characteristic!
of our present era may be
found the assertion that this i£
an age when “nobody has anj
time.’’
On this point practically al]
the observers and critics of oui
social order are agreed. Thej
draw their proof for this assert
ion from the ever-increasins
speed of our means of trans
portation. A half-hour reduct
ion in the time it takes to g<
from Chicago to New York; t
mile added to the number pei
hour i airplane travel; a hal
hour gained in a trans-Atlant
ic trip—these are vents that
our hurrying age greets with
joy. We have no time to dally.
Thus runs the lament of the
critics. But is it indeed a mat
ter of such grave concern?
True, there was a time when
men had more leisure than
they take to themselves today,
but we have yet to learn that
in those days men had a great
er abundance either in social
progress or human happiness
than we have today. We can’t
deny that we are in a hurry,
but as compared to more leis
urely periods in history it isn’t
to be denied that we get things
done. And after all that’s what
counts.
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THE ALL-REVEALING AD.
A century from now a file of
the advertsing pages of a news
paper and magazine of today
woud provide a complete hist
ory of the customs and charac
teristics of the period. These
advertisments record in most
accurate manner what the peo
ple are wearing, the problems
of the day, current thought
and most of the outstanding
traits of the present generat
ion.
Pick up any issue of the fam
ily newspaper and there in
word and picture is the story oi
the day. Preserve that issut
and posterity a century frorr
now can tell what the men anc
women of this generation wore
what their mode of transport
ation was, how they were fed
amused, entertained. Ever
their modes of thought woulc
be to a great extent revealed t<
the discerning mind. The ad
vertisments would in fact mak<
make the past an open book
Picture to yourself a man o:
2028 chancing upon a file o:
any metropolitan newspaper o:
the year 1928. Turning to thi
advertising pages he would se<
i arrayed before his eyes thi
. styles in wearing apparel foi
• men, women and children o
t one hundred years ago. xHi
would see the types of automo
biles in use and from the num
ber he would deduce that
the automobile was in great
favor and universal use. By the
same reasoning he would learn
that the radio was in great de
mand, even exceeding in popu
larity the phonograph and pi
piano player. No great acumen
I would be required for this
reader of the advertisements
of the past to inform himself
from the cancer-cures ads. that
cancer was a menace to the
generation and, from other
ads, that obesity and exceed
ing thiness concerned the pub
lic as greatly as the malignant
cancer.
The advertisements of our
time are also a record of eco
nomic conditions, revealing
prevailing market prices and
estimating thfe supply and de
mand. For the discerning con
temporary reader the news
paper advertisements afford
more interesting and valuable
information than he can pre
serve for posterity.
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THE OLDEST INHABITANT
j It might be worth while if
those persons who are always
looking for the “oldest man or
woman living” were to give a
little thought as to what it
means when they find such an
individuel.
Merely as an object of inter
est the oldest inhabitant de
serves no more comment than
the tallest man, the stingiest
woman or the most mischievous
boy. These are traits or charac
teristics which bring little cred
it to him or to the community.
It is the fullness of life we
want; not mere length. For
tunate indeed is he whose years
cover a long span of life; but
more fortunate still is he who
can make these years count for
something in service to his fel
low men. We do not begrudge
the oldest inhabitant the years
he has accumulated. But the
individuals who seek to enlist
our interest in him could more
easily get it if we could feel
that they are not unmindful of
the words of the poet:
| “We live in deeds, not years;
In thoughts, not breaths;
i In feelings, not in figures on a
dial.”
Just for Fun
Many a small boy is kept in
; after school because his father
! worked his arithmetic wrong.
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i Cement makers use 14,000,
1000 pounds of dynamte a year.
May we say their busines is
booming.
The Congressional hopper is
gradually filling up with bills,
and for most of them that’s all
that will happen.
About the hardest thing to
i cure is injured fellings.
“Money is easy,” says the
market report, but it is hard
for some kind of borrowers.
The Blueberry Kid says: This
hoof and mouth disease is a
new name for golf; hoof it all
day and mouth about it all
night.
A local business man who has
been bothered a good deal by
loafers, says he is going to
post this notice:
“If you haven’t anything to
do, please don’t do it here.’’
Nothing is ever as bad as we
feared or as good as we hoped.
Lady—“I want a nice book
for an invalid.’’
Librarian —“Yes, madam.
Something religious.”
Lady—“Er-no-not now. He’s
convalescent.”
If at 16 he thinks he looks
distinguished, his glands are
functioning normally.
Freedom: Once she made her
own frocks; now she works
and makes the money to buy
ready-mades.
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The way to get the most ex
perence for the least money is
to keep the neighbor’s chil
dren for a day.
Then there is the story of the
Scotchman who got lost and
went crazy when he begar
thinking that perhaps there
might be a reward for his dis
! eovery.
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! It Won't Do Us Any Harm.
Breathes there a man with
■ soul so dead,
Who never to himself has
said
“Just one more round, ther
we’ll all go home!”
They say Charlie Chaplin is
going to use corn starch pies
in pictures from now on, on ac
count of the high cost of di
vorce. *
You can’t kick and run at the
same time.
Some humans, like polecats,
: says Ed Reynolds, must raise a
*tink every so often.
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| The only reason some fellows
j don’t settle down and take a
| wife is because they don’1
i know whose wife to take.
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Won’t be anything after a
while for a fellow to fly ovei
to Honolulu for a few minutes
to get his ukelee strings fixed
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Chamber
of
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Infoimation
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
j Modern man may not feel
I like a bone head, but the fash
ionable hair cut makes him
' look like one.
“Can I kiss you?”
i “’Tis said that nothing is im
i possible to those who try.”
“Mother, what is that lump in
Uncle Tom’s neck?”
“Why, that’s his Adam’s ap
ple, dear.”
“Oh, now I know why he
was spraying his throat the
other day.”
“Prisoner at the bar, you are
charged with having seized
your wife and thrown her
bodily into the creek,” sternly
said the judge. “How do you
plead?”
“Guilty, yore honor,” return
ed Bill Spradlin of Pea Ridge,
“and you damn well know I—”
“Tut! Tut! You—”
“Well, I just wanted to tell
you that when a lady comes to
whur I am fishing at and
throws my can of bait into
deep water I’ll throw her in
after it, and don’t you forget
it.”
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