HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
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DON’T PLAY WITH FIRE.
Protection against fire -does
not lie alone in highly-trained
ho~emen, shining chemical en
gine* and inexhaustible water
supplies. Safety against fire
lies far back of that, in
straight-out, hard thinking,
in precaution, the highest
form of caution, in anticipat
ion, the highest form of cre
ative intelligence. In avoiding
loss by fire, an ounce of gray
matter is better than rivers of
water.
But the only thing that burns
these facts home, it seems, is
fire itself. That is why, in ap
pealing for preventative ef
forts during Fire Prevention
week it is inescapable that he
who would catch the public
ear must talk in terms of hol
ocausts. We can end fires,
some day, if we plan right,
build right, and utilize the
proper agencies of government
to safeguard us from new haz
ards.
In the meantime the hum
blest of us can protect our
shop, our office, our home by
using the most elementary
forms of precaution.
We can be careful with
matches. Matches and care
less smokers were responsible
for a loss of $90,000,000 in a
recent 5-year period, We can
be careful with electricity, and
avoid cheap fittings and im
proper connections. Electricity
was responible for an $85,000
000 loss in the same period. We
cn be careful with stoves, furn
aces, chimneys and flues,
which burned out $125,000,
000 of wealth from 1915 to
1920. We can remember not
to pile rubbish and litter in
our cellars. Rubbish piles cost
us three-quarters of a million
dollars a year. We can banish
the open light. We pay a mil
lion and a half every twelve
months for the privilege of its
treacherous inefficiency.
ALL WORLD’S A DIAMOND I
It seems that all the world’s a
diamond and all the men and
women merely fans when the
titanic struggle for the world’s
baseball championship comes
upon us every fall. To baseball
followers in every part of the
United States, the playing of
the world series typifies all the
superlatives of perfection in
the great national pastime,
and their interest in the series
never wanes until the final de
cision is rendered.
It matters not whether fans
live in the cities whose teams
are clashing for baseballdom’s
steller honors or whether they
have their habitat in even the
most isolated of villages, the
same keen interest is all-per
vading. Baseball truly can be
termed the great American
sport, and the number of par
ticipants who engage in the
playing of it some time or oth
er during the season is far in
excess of the number indulg
ing in any other form of athlet
ic diversion. It is a clean,
wholesome sport, and no better
finale could be given to the
season’s windup than the play
ing of the world series contests.
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COMMON SENSE NEEDED
Agitation is started periodic
ally for a standardized code of
signals for automobile drivers.
The plan is to be recommend
ed, surely. If anything needs
standardization that has not
already been reduced to that
common plane, it is signals of
automobile drivers. No two
drivers have ever b een known
to employ the same signals.
But such a code of signals,
however practical and stand
ardized, cannot take the place
of common sense, which ev
ery driver was supposed to
have been endowed with at the
beginning of his earthly career.
The “supposed to have been”
will be understood by every
automobile driver.
Laws, regulations, codes,
edicts can nevar compel an in
dividual to do that which com
mon sense ought to teach him
to do, but doesn’t. A standard
ized code of automobile sig
nals will not be hard to adopt;
it will never be used by 90 per
cent of automobile drivers.
Just for Fun
When a man loses anything
else, he advertises for it. But
when he loses his head, he
stops advertising.
Blessed are the meek, for
most of us are going to tread
on their toes.
Reading the outside papers
leads to the view that a cow
catcher nowadays is what is
put on engines to catch autos.
“Willy, won’t you have some
more ice cream?”
No, ma’m. Mother says I don’t
want any more.”
The sad thing about having ,
a wife is she is always wishing j
her husband would be more
sensible or more foolish.
A new continent is being
formed in the Pacific ocean,
scientists say. Its a little early
to plan an excursion, however,
as it will not be visible for 1,
500 years.
Working like a horse is much
better than working like a
jackass.
First thought is a product of
the mind; second thought more
frequently is a product of cold
feet.
You can’t expect a mere man
to understand a sex that thinks
a three-cornered olive sand
wich a square meal.
Teacher—Johnny, I’m only
punishing you because I love
you.
Johnny—I wish I was big
enough to return your love.
As our local Kin Hubbard
might 3ay: Pretty nigh every
husband, along in December,
promises his wife a new hat in
the spring, but its pretty hard
to revive the promises in April.
There should be a pulmotor in
every family.”
Our idea of a dumb-bell is the j
sap who tried to start the cue
koo clock by putting bird seed |
in it.
Rheumatism may have been*
Nature’s first primitive effort
to establish a weather bureau.
Ranking pretty high among
the pleasures of life, for a
while, is acting as if you had a
great deal more money than
you really have.
“These short skirts women
are wearing are beyond me,”
complained the nearsighted
Hyder man, as he adjusted his
glasses.
Men are creatures who cut
down great trees to make
room for a city, and then plant
little saplings to beautify it.
Don Mills asked us the other
day how long girls should be
loved. “The same as short
girls,” we told him, “and stand
on a chair if you have to.”
One reason there is not more
respect for law appears to be
that there are so many laws
nowadays there is not enough
respect to go around.
The honeymoon is over when
he begins to borrow from her
household money to complete
the payments on the engage
ment ring.
The mother with ambition to
have her son become president
must be sorely disappointed
when he proves to have only
enough ambition to become a
truck driver.
“Madame, is your husband
home?” inquired the book
agent, “I’d like to have him
look at this book, “What to Do
in Case of an Accident’.”
“Just wait till I look and
see,” replied Mrs. Peck grim
ly, “and if he ain’t home he’s
going to need that book.”
The main trouble with the A1
Smith boom is that it is going
to be over ripe by pulling time
next year.
The gum-chewing girl
And the cud-chewing cow
Are somewhat alike
But different somehow.
What difference?
Oh, yes, I see it now
Its the thoughtful
Look on the face of the cow!
At least that’s the difference j
as Noel M. sees it.
Chamber
of
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
Paint Saleman: “I’d like to be '
cremated, but I’m sure my :
wife wouldn’t like it.”
His friend: “Why so?”
“Oh, she’s always complain
ing about my leaving my ashes
about.”
“When a Man Knows the Val
ue of Time, He Does Not Try
to Kill It.”
“Did you ever meet a man
who made you feel as if he
were secretly laughing at
you?”
“Yes, my wife’s divorced hus
band”
A cynic is a humorist with the j
misfortune to be born with a j
smile a trifle to one side.
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