HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Tinhorn promoters, intent
upon no greater development
of the m'ning properties they
exnloit than is necessary to
extract a meal ticket from the
pockets of the gullible public,
are iar and away the worst
enemies to real development
that can afflict a mining camp.
Next to them are the cocksure
“engineers” who, because they
do not happen to find geo
logical conditions of-a type
with wlrich they are familiar,
are ready to condemn a min
er? 1 area on the strength of
sunerficial examinations.
me development of this dis
trict is retarded today by the
activities of both types in the
past. The meal ticket pro
moters have collected hun
dreds of thousands of dollars
from the outside public for
the alleged purpose of devel
oping mines in this locality.
And that was the end of their
manipulations as far as the
investors were concerned.
Engineers, eminent and oth
erwise, have time and again
turned “thumbs down” on the
district as a whole and on
properties which time is prov
ing to be bonanzas.
In most cases their verdict
was the result of pure ig
norance. Geological formations
in this section are unlike any
known mineral area. Nature
seems to have wrought with
titanic crudeness in the ag
glomeration of rock types
found in the mineralized area.
Finding conditions different
from any they had previously
encountered, they naturally
took no chances of injuring
their reputations by admitting
the fact that they knew noth
ing at all about it. As a rule
the more eminent they were,
the quicker their condemnat
ion and the more hasty their
departure.
Time, however, cures all
ev b. Development still lang
uishes as a result of the num
erous “black eyes’’ inflicted
by the“ M. E.’s” and promot
ion fakers but smelter returns
and an ever increasing range
of development are proving
how little most of the “ex
r«»j]y .kn0Wi an(j
_ tinhorns have been gradually
eliminated, as a result of their
inability to longer delude in
vestors by spending a few dol
lars for development and
thousands for spectacular
flares in the grog joints of
Canada. A few still manage to
find suckers to finance their
nefarious practices but each
year witnesses diminuation of
their numbers and the camp
is being gradually relieved of
both their presence and act
ivities. The lack of confidence
engendered by their swindling
operations in the past con
tinues to delay legitimate de
velopment, but, as in the case
of the “experts,” returns from
producing mines will ere long
remove the deterring condit
ions created by their activities.
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There is nothing that calls at
tention and draws peo
ple to a town equal to a good
newspaper. In order for a
man to make a.good newspap
er he must have the patronage
of the people among whom he
lives. If he has half-way sup
port it stands to reason that he
must make a poorer- news
paper, and in doing this every
man in the town and surround
ing country has to bear a port
ion of the loss. For this reas
on, if no other, the man who
tries to make a good news
paper, should have the sup
port of his own people, all of
whom reap fully as much
benefit from its efforts as he
does himself. •
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We are tempted to speak a
word to our merchants. We
do it however, only with the
best intentions. We are thank
ful that you have placed your
advertisement in our columns.
Our wideawake readers will
see it and they will read it.
If the merchants wish to
keep trade at home, they must,
of course, let the public know
what goods and what induce
ments they offer. The great
merchants of our larger cities
are constantly1 advertising at
an enormous expense, but it
pays them; and it was by
shrewd advertising that they
became so successful. They
cannot afford to stop, or else
they would.
Hyder merchants should not
stop advertising in their local
paper. Advertising sells mer
chandise and in the long run
always pays.
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The American flag should
fly over every school thruout
the country every school day.
Childhood and impressionable
youth should know their nat
ion’s colors, and something of
that flag etiquette designed
to express proper respect. But
true appreciation of the flag
rests on a broader foundation.
There must also be under
standing of the American
ideals for which it stands;
comprehension of the strug
gles and sacrifices that have
sustained it in emergency, and
knowledge of all the worthy
principles it symbolizes.
That is a large lesson for the
schools to teach, but it is a
part of their purpose of mak
ing better citizens.
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What this country needs
more than anything else is
men that can think straight
men that can reach conclus
ions based on intelligence and
knowledge; not on ignorance
and prejudice.
The nation is crying for men
that can neither be caught by
the glittering • spiderweb of
Bolshevism nor blocked by
the reactionary’s wall of self
ishness and stupid precedent.
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It is all right to listen to
campaign speeches, but we
advise the miners of this dis
trict to depend upon their own
I work and not upon promised
'relief measures for the devel
j ODTnent of flip diatriot.
If silence is golden Mr. Cool
idge should not have to make
any appeal for campaign
funds.
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B. C. Forbes asks: “What is
the best advertisement, the
strongest magnet, any city
can have?”
And then he answers: Aft
er traveling the country over,
I am inclined to think the
answer is an outstandingly
superb hotel.”
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When daughter comes to the
door with red hands, she has
been washing her face, not
dishes. '
A Detroit man shot his wife
because she did not have
dinner ready when he got
home. And he was probably
half shot himself.
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About 5,000 matches are
lighted every second in the
United States, of which about
4,999 are borrowed. h |
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Let these ‘‘human flies” alone
and they finally swat them
selves.
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Some people never have any
respect for gray hairs until
they have acquired a few of
their own.
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Most men would be willing
to earn their money” honestly
if it didn’t take so long/
Just For Fun
Everything comes to him who
waits—except what he waits
for.
Some folks seem to think
that if they pay up by the
time Germany does it will
be all right," says “Paddy’’Mc
Donnell.
Of all life’s sad surprises,
there's nothing to compare
with treading in the darkness
on the step that isn’t there.
An outside* journal asserts
that Luther Burbank has pro
duced prunes six inches in cir
cumference, but adds that
politics produce them much
bigger than that.
A California judge ruled re
cently that a pedestrian does
not have to jump out of the
way of an automobile—but
we’ll bet most of us will go
right on jumping just the
same.
A Hyder lady told us the oth
er day that she thought it very
funny, but she had not missed
the vice president at all.
The most uncertain thing we
know (for it is always on the
go) is milady’s line of waist,
which no longer lingers in
one place, but up and down
forever slips from the should
ers to the hips; I’m sure the
jmen would think it fine if they
could fix this changing line,
for with so many false alarms,
.they don’t know where to put
| their arms.
They had just reached the
end of a family jar.
“Well, I suppose you are go
ing home to your mother
again.”
“Not at all,” she snapped
back, “ I am going to drop all
those old fashioned ways of do
ing things. I am going right
down to the most expensive
-store I know of and buy tne
most expensive hat I can find
and send the bill to you.”
Apparently the only time pe
destrians have the right of way
nowadays is when the ambu
lance is taking them to the hos
pital.
The disabilities of living are
fierce, as Hogan says:if you
haven’t an automobile, you
are out of everything, includ
ing debt. If a friend presents
you with a watermelon, you
can’t get it home convenient
ly. If you wish to go any
where not on a railroad or
street car line, you must call
a taxi, or depend upon a friend
who owns a car, and you and
your car-owning friends are
seldom interested in going to
the same place. If you walk,
you may be run over.
For an ordinary man there
isn’t anything much more em
barrassing than the necessity
of getting rid of a dime witn
with a hole in it.
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