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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
VICTIMS OF THEIR
OWN FOLLY.
(From Mining Truth)
Stocks can’t go up forever.
Whether based on mines,
banks, railroads, motorcars,
they are bound to find the
ceiling in any speculative mar
ket, and often the drop is
swifter than the ascent.
Just now Mining Truth is re
ceiving indgnant letters from
non-subscribers asking why
Blank Lead and Dash Gold
haven’t kept on going up, as
the Financial Gazumpus pre
dicted. We wonder if the es
teemed Coast Banker in San
Francisco gets indignant let
ters from the eastern boot
blacks who bought Bancitaly
Corporation at $223 only to
see it hit $110 this week. We
wonder if the Railway Age
Gazette and the Chain Store
Journal and the Pacific Fish
erman are called upon to alibi
their respective industries ev
ery time a general slump hits
the stock markets.
Perhaps the comparison is
unfair. We believe that the
“tipster sheets” which help
financial pirates hook their
suckers do centralize on min
ing and oil stock issues. But
the indignant letters, be it not
ed, always come after some
10-cent stock has been bought
for $3, and after the balloon
has busted—never before.
We seldom hear a squawk
from those who have put mon
ey into the development of a
prospect in the hope or beliei
that it will make a mine. Most
of them recognize the inher
ently speculative nature of the
industry. They know that the
wisest engineers have not solv
ed the secret of mining ore
without blasting holes. They
know there’s no profit in ex
tracting ore which cannot be
milled or smelted. They know
the hazards they are taking
and they ask merely that their
funds be honestly and intelli
gently administered.
The squawks come from
those avaricious simpletons
who ask only “Is the price go
ing up?” and who then pay
dollars to a “tipster sheet’'
proprietor for a stock that cost
him pennies. They don’t know
whether its a gold mine in
Idaho or a brass band in Tas
mania; whether its a produc
ing property with a mill on
the railroad, or an undevelop
ed prospect in the wilds of the
Arctic.
The cheating of anybody is
to be regretted, but how that
portion of the public that
won’t inform itself is to be pro
tected from its own folly is
a problem that nobody yet has
solved. Blue-sky laws won’t
do it, because the high-pres
sure salesman too often con
vinces his dupe that a blue
sky certificate is a guarantee
against loss. Legitimate mining
and financial publications
can’t get their message to
those who depend on fakers’
sheets for their information.
Guardians cannot be appoint
ed for those who are capable
of earning money that they
may later throw away. Better
Business Bureaus have not suc
ceeded in teaching more than
a minute fraction of the pop
jlation to “investigate before
you invest.’’
Corporation laws requiring
he filing of complete and cor
ect information about all
companies will make it easier
:or information services, pli
cate and semi-public, to func
tion, but not one in a thousand
)f the ultimate consumer will
avail himself directly of this
crvice. Once you start sup
aressing “tipstersheets” and
'louse-organs, you’re bound to
inish by attempting to sup
press newspapers which color
rr distort news' to further the
nterests of their owners. Try
o establish “official” news
■ources and you strengthen
-he hold of an incompetent
and tyrannical office-holding
class on the long-suffering
aublic. Every additional pre
caution to protect people from
heir own folly seems merely
.0 weaken the mental and
moral fiber of those who can’t
or won’t protect themselves.
Which brings us back to
where we started. Stocks can’t i
go up forever. But why should 1
the mining and related indus
tries suffer criticism when
stocks go down unless the 1
same criticism is leveled at 1
those who operate banks,
railroads, factories, power <
I lants and mercantile estab- '
ments?
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CHARM.
I
Much talk about charm. Some
people have charm, some have
not. What is it? Robert Schauf
fler, author, says that “charm
is the result of being physical
ly and spiritually so much a
part of the life of things that
you irresistibly radiate the
concentrated essence of all
life, and personally exemplify
the same laws that whiten the
cherry orchards of April, and
kindle the volcano, and swing
the stars on their courses.”
That is a clever definition,
but rather too complex for
general understanding. Per
haps people who have charm
are the ones who listen well,
who seem very much interest
ed in what we have to say, and
who seek few opportunities to
put forth their own opinions.
To have charm is to have a
real and earnest interest in
others.
l
Just for Fun
A hypocrite is one who pre
tends to believe a person who
he knows is lying.
“What did father say when
you asked him for me?”
“He didn’t say anything. He
fell on my neck and wept.”
A successful man always
runs things; he never walks
them.
Half of what the manicurist
charges pays for the conver
sation.
The person who pines over
his hard luck needs to spruce
up a bit.
Christianity is the only relig
ion that offers a savior.
We all finally come to do the
things we swore we wouldn’t.
Its easy to get sympathy—if
you tell your troubles to the
right people.
UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
A legal document.
Directions for setting up a
piece of machinery.
What does she see in him?
How do they get by with it?
How can I reduce?
A picnic isn’t so far from war
if you take along some canned
willie and get popular with
chiggers.
No employee wants ninety
cents for each dollar he has
due on pay day—neither does
an employer want fifty min
utes for an hour. Think it cv^r
How dull business would be
if every man refrained from
buying until he could afford it.
It is easy to acquire a reputat
ion, but it takes a lot of hard
work to make a good one.
Who can remember when the
peroxide blonde was about the
nost dangerous menace to hus
>ands?
New Roomer: “When I left
ny last boarding house the
andlady wept.”
Landlady: “Well, I won’t, be
cause I always collect in ad
vance.”
Ashes to ashes and dust to
lust, ^here's the cigar that a
lug won’t bust.
Many persons jump at con
tusions and call them con
victions.
Two popular musical instru
nents are the dinner horn and
;he horn of plenty.
Children can fool the parents,
jut the parents can’t fool the
children.
“I’m never going to get mar
ried.”
“Why?’’’
“Because you have to have
sixteen wives. It says so right
in the marriage ceremony, four
better, four worse, four richer,
four poorer—and four times
four is sixteen.”
Paint makes any house look
better and any face look worse.
The lighter a man’s head the
more he has to support it with
his hand when he has his pict
ure taken.
“Who is Thomas Edison, any
way?” asked a backwoods
man.
‘He’s the man who invented
the phonograph to keep us
awake, so we would stay up
all night and use his electric
lights.”
“Now,” said the teacher, “I
want you all to write a com
position. Don’t write anything
you’ve ever heard or seen be
fore. Write just what’s in
vou.”
Here’s what Johnny wrote:
“Inside of me there’s a heart,
a liver, two lungs and a "stom
ach. Inside my stomach there’s
some potatoes, a steak, two
pickles, a piece of bread and
some strawberry short-cake,
stc. etc.”
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
The trouble with the rule
that might makes right is that
it often makes right wrong.
Mother: I can tell you dried
the dishes.
Daughter: How?
Mother: They’re still wet.
My girl was born on a rubber
plantation. No wonder she’s a
snappy kid with such elastic
morals.
The only kind of work some
folks will do for nothing is
to peddle gossip.
Here are some rules laid down
that will aid bachelors of all
descriptions in selecting part
ners for life.
1— Choose one that is neater
and cleaner than you are.
2— Choose one that doesn’t
consider you merely a meal
ticket.
3— Choose one who cannot
find the last word without a
dictionary.
4— Choose one who is not ac
quainted with first love affairs
that might spoil yours.
5— Do not expect too much. Do
not look for perfection. Re
member that perfect ones have
taken wings and can be found
only among the angels.
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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