Sewickley Herald

              Herald
The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
Vol. XXX.   No. 7.
SEWICKLEY, PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1932
Price 5 Cents
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'BEYOND THE DEPRESSION"
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Makes a good New Year's picture, doesn't it, this glimpse
of a well-known figure gazing expectantly out in search of
more worlds to photograph and bring home to the American
people by way of widening their average horizon? How easy
to imagine it a parable of our anxious yet hopeful scanning of
the outlook for 19331
Tho near scene looks pretty arid, one must admit; not much
of "prosperity" visible, nor of opportunity for useful or profitable development—at least without a lot of "liquidation."
Not even much assurance of human sustenance for any length
of time, as most of us see it; and nobody in sight to give
"employment." But Burton Holmes looks farther ahead, as
must we; and it will be strange if lie doesn't visualize something that can he turned to use,t made interesting and even
romantic, with the help of ingenuity and probably hard work,
coupled with'"knowledge of human nature and human needs.
We can be sure the. prospect offers possibilities of which
aclyantage may bo taken somehow, given the will to find the
way and to work it out.
Those distant, mysterious hills, forbidding as they appear,
may contain gold, or more useful ore, or precious water and
glades and glens of grass and trees and food-plants; perhaps
game, or may be, just good shelter and a place to settle and
found a self-sustaining homestead. Who can tell?—But it's
worth going ahead, climbing the steeps as you come to them,
and find out. It may take determination and unfailing courage,
and there may even be risks now and then; but the opportunity
is there—it must be there-—and it's most likely far better than
ono could possibly see at this distance. Forward, then, into
tlio New Year, with purpose fixed and hopes high!
Can't we see all that, as we look at this striking picture? It
wasn't intended for this use, of course; it camo through Miss
Helen Burns, who is sponsor for Burton Holmes's series of
.Sewickley lectures whieh begin next week, and was for the
purpose of calling attention to them. But we looked at it, and
got to thinking—.
Yes, it's a good picture for New Year—this New Year.
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