HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
BUSINESS ON THE
UP GRADE
Improvement must take place
in industry before purchasing
power can gain and permit
.more liberal buying by con
sumers. Outside newspapers
tell us that from indications
in wholesale and manufactur
ing markets, this improvement
is under way. Buyers are num
erous in the various markets
and, while their operations
;; may be of the testing-out kind,
.the volume of their advance
orders is fairly satisfactory.
The key industries are furn
ishing the best evidence of im
provement at present. With
the start furnished by the auto
mobile business, the steel in
dustry has gained additional
. impetus from sales to railroads
. and agricultural implement
makers. Building specifications
.also have been good, especially
for engineering projects. If
these keylines continue to furn
•ish such favorable reports, the
groundwork is laid for the pre
dicted return in the general
economic situation.
All in all, 1928 promises to
smash a tradition" by bringing
new prosperity in a president
ial year. January saw it off to
a good start and everything
points to eleven months of
peak production.
Already the nation seems to
have fully recovered from the
brief spell of depression with
.which 1927 closed. Perhaps
that was a breati.hng spell for
a year of unprecedented pro
duction and consumption.
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GREATER WONDERS
TO COME
Television may or may not be
cohie part of the everyday life
of the present generation
Many of its sponsors make nc
promises that it will. Some au
thorities regard it as no more
than a toy with which electric
al engineers may amuse them
selves. There is a dearth ol
prophecy concerning television
and its future.
However, it was not so long
ago that a scientific journal
published a rather patronizing
article about a Mr. Edison, an
American, who had made an
electrical lamp. ‘A toy lamp”
was the description used. The
magazine assured its readers
who might be owners of shares
in gas companies that they
need not fear competition from
this “toy lamp.”
Another of these amazing
“toys” was the first telephone.
It was as patronizingly receiv
ed as the electric light and
came into practical use almost
as suddenly. Television in its
field of light transmission is
even more startling than was
the telephone in sound trans
mission. It follows along the
path of discovery opened by
the sending of photographs
across continents by wire and
under seas by cable.
The seeing-and-talking wire
:s here, and both sound and
image are now moving by ra
dio on a single wave length..
New chapters are being writ
ten in its development. Trans
mission is being lengthened
ind simplified.
Ten years ago it may have
’eemed that communication by
electricity and ether was ap
proaching the end of the chap
ter. Then came radio. That in
fant has become another giant.
Wireless telephony came with
it, and continents talk now to
continents. The transmission of
images was being developed at
the same time. A burst of new
iiscovery has broken over the
.vorld of electricity like an
ivalanche.
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SPRINGTIME.
Already there are signs of
Approaching spring, although
officially it is not due to arrive
intil March 21.
Spring is the season of rein
carnation, rejuvenation and
radiant life. It is only to man
hat January 1 represents the
birth of a new year and the
calendar year is an artificial
structure. With plant life and
that of the lower animals the
coming of spring is at once the
birth of a new year and new
life.
Humanity recognizes and
speaks of a new year as from
January 1 but nevertheless ob
serves it from the first breath
of spring. After the departure
of the drear and stifling winter
and with the coming of refresh
ing and magnetic spring there
is new life and new hope cre
ated in the breasts of men and
women. Spring brings great
plans and high resolves which
only winter can demolish or
deter.
It is not sufficient to say that
the homing instinct is conveni
ent in the spring. It is natural
and not to be gainsaid by man
or beast. Spring urges the bird
to build its nest, the animal to
burrow into its mother earth
and man to plan his home, but
neither bird, beast nor man
knows or asks why. Spring is
the one and only irresistible
force.
Just for Fun
Love may be blind but not
stone blind when it comes to
rings.
The Mother Hubbard is entire
ly out of date. Today the
women dress more like Mother
Hubbard’s cupboard.
Don’t spend the day in ad
miration of what you did yest
erday. Do it better today.
We recommend the mustard
plaster for the man who likes
smart things.
Ed Reynolds thinks it is gen
erally preferable not to be too j
radical or too conservative, but'
it is still better to be a wild
eyed prohibitionist than a red
eyed drunkard.
Sometimes a man finds he
can’t make ends meet because
they are loose ends.
Many a man calls his wife the
better half, when she is about
90 per cent of the family.
Oren F. says brevity is the
soul of the frock business.
With Mussolini running things
we wonder just what the king
of Italy does to justify him in
drawing his salary.
Paris says, “Spring will find
women discarding small hats
and short, tight skirts, as well
as sleeveless waists." Farther
down the column is the an
nouncement, “Thin silk hose
and low pumps will be seen all
summer.”
Pity every child couldn't be
born a parent so he would
know how to treat his own par
ents.
“Whither Shall We Turn?”
asks a headline. Think of Lot's
wife and go straight ahead.
How dull business would be
if every man refrained from
buying until he could afford it.
The expensive thing about a
car is the pride that makes
you want a shiny new one ev
ery year.
Consumers test a product not
by science but by use. Experts
may judge sweet corn at the
fair but most folks like to try
it at the table.
There seems to be an opinion
on the part of many who in
vested in recent get-rich-quick
schemes that they didn't make
it.
Now it is stated that medical
science has lengthened life
12 to 14 years. Somehow it
sounds just like those govern
ment reports telling how much
more money we have than we
had last month.
A school inspector said to a
pretty teacher, “Do you teach
observation?”
“Yes.”
“Then I will test your class.
Now, children, close your eyea
and sit still.”
Following this the inspector
made a slow whistling sort of
noise and followed with, “Now,
children what did I do?”
For some time there was no
answer, but ultimately a little
boy piped out, “Kissed the
teacher.”
With so many other things to
worry about some men insist
on wondering if their hair is
combed.
Jane, its eleven o’clock.
Please tell your young man to
shut the front door from the
outside.”
English women are said to be
taking to driving of cars, but
whether from the back seat is
Chamber
of
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
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not clearly stated.
WILL WISEMAN SAYS
“An old fashioned home is
one where the mother still does
her best work in the kitchen
over the range instead of in the
bedroom over an electric curl
ing iron.”
ADD PROVERBS
In all the wide border I vali
antly sought
For the woman that people
considered best dressed;
But I found her in raiment so
scant that I thought
Now to last shall be first let’s
add least shall be best.
A relative of mine I had never
seen before came to my house
last night.”
“Neverseen before, eh! What’s
his name?”
“He hasn’t got any yet, but we
intend to christen him Henry!”
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