RYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Published Every Monday
Application made for entry at the post office at Hyder, Al
aska, as secona Jass matt^f,un^®r the Act of March 8,
1879.__
Chas. F. Sandford...Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
CLEAN-UP.
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There is no “sure sign“
of spring, but spring should
be a “sure sign” of the arriv
al of that time for the com
munity clean-up. There is no
superstition or prophesying
about this clean-up dgn.
When warm weat’ier has
come to stay (until cold
weather returns in the au
tumn) every owner of propert
ty and tenant should instinct
ively feel their duty to remove
the evidences of winter’s rav
ages and to aid and augment
nature in her work of rebeaut
ification.
Every spring clean-up pro
gram should include disposal
of winter’s accumulation of lit
ter and decayed vegetation,
repairing and repainting of
buildings.
Cleanliness about the person
or the home costs nothing. A
community clean-up need in
volve no expense, except of a
moderate amount of labor on
the part of the householders.
If there ever were excuses ft>r
uncleanliness they were re
moved long ago.
What is the compensation of
a community-wide clean-up
campaign? It improves the
general health of the commun
ity by removing deposits that
are breeding places of disease
germs and disease carrying in
sects. A clean town is a better
place in which to live than one
that is unsanitary and unsight
ly. And the best community
advertising is the appearance
of being “cleaned-up, painted
up and planted-up.”
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MIRROR REAL AMERICA.
Turning from the city news
papers to the small town press
exchanges that come to the
Herald’s desk, is like stepping
from the slums, into an old
fashioned garden, sweet with
lavender and thyme and the
scent of perennial flowers. The
pages of the big dailies are
so full of murder, thievery,
immorality and selfishness,
that the better news is obscur
ed by these glaring shatter
ings of the Decalogue. The
feeling person can hardly
avoid putting the big papers
aside with a sense of depres
sion and sorrow that the world
is so full of terrible and un
happy things.
Then picking up the papers
that record the happenings of
the little cities, one gains re
newed faith in life. Here are j
set forth only that which up-'
lifts a community—the activ-1
ites of the business men, the |
church news, the civic good j
accomplished by the women, i
school items, the hapy social
gatherings of the people, the
marriages, births, and deaths,
and all the thousand and one
daily occurrences that make
up the simple annals of the
great common people, who
are really the foundation of
this broad country of ours.
Scandals seldom appear in
;tie country newspapers, bai
if it so happens tha>' decency
demands it, the -uglier details
are omitted, or given a kindly
touch that is wisely different
from the unfeeling publicity
of the city press. The offend
ers may be our neighbors, or
people we have rubbed el
bows with all our lives. They
are real human beings to their
home town paper, while to
the great city dailies they are
merely grains of a sort that
are ground out hourly in their
news mill.
Sometimes people speak light
ly of the country newspaper,
but it is one of the most potent!
and uplifting factors in our
national existence. The great
dailies have their mission, but
their scope is too big to touch
very closely the inner things
of life, as do the small town
journals.
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ADVERTISING AND
PROGRESS.
Advertising has proven itself
to be the barometer of pro- I
gress.
It has not beon long; since
business advertising was as
severely criticised and ridicul
ed as boasting of personal I
qualifications. At the same I
time there was as little faith
in the claims of advertise
ments as in the claims of the
braggart. Only the quack and
the imposter, who had every
thing to gain and nothing to
lose, then resorted to adver
tising.
Business is ever the standard
bearer and apostle of progress,
and so it was business which
discovered that advertising
was a vital factor in all growth.
When advertising was admit
ted to the fireside of business
it was not th« big business of
today. Big business traces its
beginning with its employmem
of advertising.
In its conversion to advertis
ing business was soon follow
ed by industry, commerce and
the professions. The benefits
of advertising had made them
selves manifest in each step
forward.
That was the evolution of ad- <
i-ertising, until today advertis
ing plays a part in every phase !
of life and is the working in
strument of all except the i
doctor and the lawyer, who j
still consider it “unethical” to ;
advertise for business. He may
place his “card” in the week- j
ly newspaper, but it is profes- ’
sionally forbidden for the doc- *
tor or the lawyer to inform
the public of his capabilities.
Nothing in life has attained
perfection and evolution as an
eternal, ever-continuing ad
vancement. The evolution of
advertising will not stop with
its adoption by medicine and
jurisprudence, but that adopt
ion will establish another mile
stone of progress.
Just for Fun
A bad prophet is a loss.
Soft words turneth away
black eyes.
It’s a great life if you don’t:
waken.
It would be futile to interest
the flapper in heaven by de
picting it as a place of rest, t
Rooster: The doctor says if j
I eat sweets I’ll * get worms. j
Now won’t that be delightful,
“Why did you turn down
their invitation to dinner?”
“I’m hungry, and they are pay
ing for an automobile, a radio,
and a new living room rug on !
the installment plan.”
The thing that keeps most
people broke is trying to make
other people think they’re not
broke.
Two negroes were arguing.
“You ain’t got no sense,” said
one.
“No sense. Den what’s dis head
o’ mine for?”
“Head? Dat’s no head, nigger.
Dat’s jes’ a button on top yo’
body to keep yo’ backbone
from unraveling.” .
This week's “pome:” He call
ed her Lily, Violet, Rose, and
every other flower of spring.1
§he said: ‘I can’t be all of
those, so you must Lilac every
thing!”
We used to believe that no
man ought to kiss a girl until
he is engaged to her. Now we
believe that he should at least
wait until the paint is dry.
‘‘Ah, new car. How’s the pick
up?”
“Haven’t had much chance
to try it yet. My wife rides
with me most of the time.”
Fortune Teller- “Your hus
band will be brave, generous,
handsome and rich.”
Client-“How delightful! Now
tell me, how am I to get rid
of the one I have now.”
If every man’s business was
as important as he would have
you believe, it would be a
busy old world.
At a little country school
the children were having a
lesson on animals. The teach
er had asked a number of
questions which were easily
answered. At length she said:
“Why does a dog hang out
his tongue when running?”
A boy who had not answered
before held up his hand.
“Yes, Tommy, what is it?”
she inquired.
“To balance his tail,” was
the reply.
“I suppose you are getting a
good fee, doctor, for attending
the Smith boy? His father’s
rich.”
“Well, yes. Why?”
“Well, I hope you won’t for
get that it was my little Ted
who through the brick that
hit him.”
The average family contains
5.1 persons, and most of the
the time dad is the .1.
Youth and love cannot be
bought, yet some fool is al
ways attempting it.
Some people have nerve to
go ahead and accomplish what
other people have too much
sense to attempt.
The man" who wakes up to
find himself famous has not
been asleep. ,
Rheumatism is a joint affect
ion and so is love, but rheum
atism, in some cases, can be
cured.
Many a young man poses as
hard boiled when he is on?y
half baked.
It is always a disappointment
to a man when he raises his
eyes, to find the face doesn’t
always come up to the silk
hosiery display.
If hell ever does go out of
business it will probably be
because competition on earth
will be too strong.
Not every man with a bank
account is a success.
lm
per
Some girls give us the
pression they would be
fectly at home at a stag
party. .,liM
The only time a horse
gets scared nowadays is when
he meets another horse.
When you’re caught, it
doesn’t do to get angry about
it.
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Chamber
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
“Yes. we have a couple of po
sitions open. Do you know
anything about figures?’
“I should say I do. Why, I
was life saver at Atlantic City
for two years.
Johnnie: “Mr. Jepson, can I
use your telephone?”
Mr. Jepson: “Certainly, John
nie. Is yours on the blink?”
Johnnie: “Not exactly, but
Sis is using it to hold up the
window, Ma’s cuttin’ biscuits
with the mouthpiece, and the
baby is teethin’ on the cord.”
John Hovland
Assay Office
Hyder, Alaska
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
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Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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