HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Published Every Saturday
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aska, as second dass matter,un^r the Act of March 8,
1879.
Chas. F. Sandford.. Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
THE MEANING OF
THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
Christmas as celebrated to
day, has drifted away from the
deeper meaning of the birth of
Christ. To be sure, thoughts
turn more outward than in
ward; hearts overflow for the
children; memories go back
to the old fireside; sympathies
go out to the “neighbar home”
recently invaded by suffering
or death.
There is good fellowship, but
not an equal amount of genu
ine good will; there is a deluge
of friendly greeting, but insuf
ficient amendment of indiffer
ent conduct; there is much sup
erficial amiability, but not
enough true “peace on earth,”
The Christmas spirit should
be the peace spirit—peace in
the heart, peace in the home,
and “peace on earth.” Christ
mas peace brings Christmas
joy.
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..THE NEWSPAPER’S PART..
Frequently we are so closely
associated with institutions or
a commodity that we do not
appreciate their worth. This
applies in general to newspap
ers. Every city, town and ham
let has its newspapers. Even
sometimes a few houses and a
store and garage at a “wide
place in the road” provide ex
cuse enough for the starting of
a newspaper and not infre
quently that wide place in the
road becomes a real town. And
when it does one may rest as
sured that that newspaper that
seemed to have had no excuse
for beginning life had a very
important part to play in the
community’s unexpected de
velopment.
So it is all along the line of
progress. No city ever gets
very far without the sincere co
operation of newspapers. Yet
no institution in a town or city
ever gets less thanks or re
ceives more abuse.
Probably no other thing is a
better index to a town than its
local newspaper. Very often
that is about all the stranger
has to go by in making up his
mind about a community. If
the newspaper that falls into
his hands is a bright-looking
sheet, full of news, and has a
prosperous air, the stranger
is certain to judge that it was
published in a live, progress
ive town.
Those who read their weekly
newspapes and then carelessly
throw them aside, overlook
the fact that they are not doing
all that they can for their town.
If those newspapers, instead of
being destroyed, were placed
in wrappers and mailed from
time to time to friends and rel
relatives at a distance, the
good that could be accomp
lished would soon be reflected
in the town’s growth.
Chambers of Commerce are
frequently blamed for not get
ting out more “boost” litera
ture to be sent abroad. Those
who raise these complaints
could do a great deal them
selves by sending out the liter
ature that comes into their
own hands in the form of the
local periodicals.
Rest assured that there is no ;
business individual in a town
more interested in the growth
of his community than is the
editor or publisher, for as the
town grows, he also grows.
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FRIENDLY TOWNS
There are few small cities and
"owns in the States that do not
have a‘ “Welcome” sign on ev
-jry main road leading into
them. And the town that does
not have them is regarded as
“slow” and out of date.
As a rule, these signs empha
size friendliness, regardless of
whether the community has it
or not.
Once upon a time, it is relat
ed, there was a man who be
lieved in signs, and taking the
one at the edge of a strange
town literally, he drove in andr
prepared to be real friendly.
He sat on the curb for an hour
and not one person even looked
friendly, much less asked him
a question about what luck he
was having among strangers.
This is a mistake common to
all of us. We boast of our
friendliness and advertise it to
the world, but we never exer
cise our shaking arm on strang
ers, and never discommode
ourselves in order to give them
pleasant remembrances of a
visit.
We would do well to remem
ber this in the summer season
when large numbers of tourists
visit us. Some of them might
decide to stop with us for at
! least a while if we show them
a bit of that hospitality for
which real Alaskans are so
justly famed,
known.
It will unqestionably be of
benefit to our community and
ourselves if we loosen up and
act human when a stranger
comes within our gates.
Just for Fun
I if women had more sense there '
would be more bachelors.
Some neighbors will borrow i
everything, including trouble.
The best way we know of to j
' find your missing kinsfolk is j
to get rich.
Eddie Haddon says the hard
thing about making money
last is making it first.
Love makes the world go a
round the bend and park in a
lane.
Lots of people seem to think I
the world owes them five or
six livings.
Being popular doesn’t leave
much time for making real
friends.
Advice to the young— When
picking your friends be careful
not to pick them too much.
Money may not mean every
thing, but almost everything
means money nowadays.
Nothing is certain except that
it won’t happen as the experts
predict.
To our way of thinking a
great lover is one who can tell ,
whether a girl is pensive or
just sleepy.
Ted: “I heard that the -law
yers got most of the estate. Did
Marie get anything?”
Jed: Oh, yes; She got one of
the lawyers.
Don Mills suggests that the
news about rich folks attracts
people because money draws
interest.
Wife: “If I were to die what
would you do?”
Hubbie: “Oh, the same thing
that you would do yourself.”
Wife: You wretch! I always
suspected you would.”
It strikes us that beauty is the
exterior upholstery that trans
fers a lunch-counter queen
from a bathing suit into screen
material.
“Is he really dishonest?”
“Why, if he’d been born with
a silver spoon in his mouth, it
would have had somebody’ els
es initials on it.”
The high cost of living isn’t
to be compared with the high
cost of dying.
There are two sides to every
question and when two men
wager to prove they are right
one of them is a fool.
“Eat onions in the winter,”
advises a physician. Right-o.
Then if you get lost in a fog
your friends can find you.
“What can you do,” asked
the foreman of the gas works
of the Irish applicant for a job.
“Almost anything, sor,” re
plied Pat.
“Well,” said the foreman,
who was a bit of a joker, ‘Can
you wheel out a barrel of
smoke?”
“Sure,” was the instant reply;
“Fill it up for me.”
Because it takes it all to live
on in sunny days, few men can
save anything for the rainy
ones.
Civilization seems to be im
proving: We have had fewer
cross-word puzzles this wint
er.
“Permit me to present my
wife to you.”
No, thanks. I already have
one.”
“A bachelor may be easily
distinguished,” says Marshal
Martin, by his humped should
ers acquired thru long prac
tice in bending over lunch
counters.”
If a man will talk, you can
size him up quickly.
Parcel Post
A traveling salesman in a
strange town was handed a
message from his wife, which
read:
“Twins arrived to-night. More
r
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
by mail.”
j Man wants but little here be
1 low but he wants that little
long green.
Police records show that
I! londes are the most danger
: ous women. This also proves
• that gentlemen are • not cow
* ards.
A jackass is alway solemn and
serious; that proves he’s a
jackass.
“Is your husband much of a
provider, Malindy?”
“Lawdy, he ain’t nothin’ else,
ma’am. He’s gwine get some
new furniture providin’ he gets
de money; he’s gwine get the
money providin’ he goes to
work; he’s gwine to go to
work providin’ the job suit3
him. I never seen such a pro
vidin’ man in all mah days.”
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