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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PROOF OF THE PUDDING”
(From Underground)
The assumption has been pre
ponderantly steadfast that
mining is an extremely hazard
ous investment. Literally, thou
sands shudder at the very
thought of placing their hard
earned money in mining vent
ures yet fervently embrace the
opportunity to put their sav
ing in a mercantile business or
realize what chance they have
of getting their money back, to
say nothing of profits, when
once their money is in these
occupations. Bradstreet’s com
pilations of business successes
indicates that in a mercantile
business the investor has less
than one chance in ten for suc
cess. In manufacturing the
odds are almost eight to one
against him, while in agricult
ure more than five to one
against. In comparison to these
slight chances for safety in in
vestment we find MINING
with every two out of three
ventures successful.
In actual figures we have
the story emphatically demon
strated :
MINING 67%
Farming 18%
Manufacturing 13%
Merchandising 9%
Another angle to look at the
comparative industries, after
having so convincingly shatter
ed the illusion as to their safe
ty and non-safety, is the meas
ure of profit they return. And
again we find that mining re
turns a percentage of profit
overwhelmingly larger than
any other industry. Mining re
turns more than six times the
percentage of profit given in
vestors in any other industry.
Again the figures tell the
story:
MINING 186%
Insurance 31 %
Motors 8%
Rails 5i/8%
Again we say “the proof of
the pudding, etc . . . .”
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THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER.
In spite of the fact that the
metropolitan press now reach
es into nearly every town
and village in the country, the
local newspaper in the United
States is each year getting on
a firmer foundation and be
coming more and more useful
to its home community.
It may be said that the day of
the metropolitan newspaper
is at hand. This is true, but it
is equally as true that the day
of the local newspaper is here
too.
The metropolitan daily with
its world-wide news, its comic
iheets and its magazine sup
plements, while of course es
sential in our modern civilizat
ion, cannot take the place ot
the home newspaper. The very
fact that the big city daily
must cover a broad field for
bids its becoming local in any
sense, and it is in the local
field where the home news
paper dominates and where it
finds its true usefulness.
For, after all, it is the home
news which is most important
to most of us. We have the
greatest interest in the com
munity in which we live, and
n the people who are our
neighbors and friends. And it
is the local newspaper which
records the happenings of the
folks at home, and in addition
fosters the civic pride and
progressive spirit of the com
munity.
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NO “OLD MEN’S” CLOTHES.
Tailors say they have ceased
making “old men's clothes”
for the reason that there are
no old men. There has been
a decided lengthening of the
“expectation of life” in recent
years, but the men who are
old according to the reckoning
of birthday anniversaries re
fuse to wear the sort of garb
that was once the uniform of
the elderly. And it is the men
tal attitude illustrated by their
independence and enterprise
in this respect that is helping
to keep them young in body
and spirit.
One of the first outward
signs of this refusal to be old
was the cutting of the facial
foliage, which made even the
middle-aged look like patri- v
archs. Then motoring, golf and
other outdoor pastimes made
necessary retirement of the
stovepipe hat and the “Prince I
Albert." Young men today c
have no monopoly of sport
suits and knickerbockers.
Their fathers and grandfathers
are frequently just as eager to
appear “collegiate.” And so j
there are no styles exclusively
for the elderly any more. Men,
old or young, dress much alike. 1
They express in their attire the
spirit of get-there, of being on
the move and bringing things ,
to pass. If the youngsters set 1
the sartorial pace, the oldsters
will be found not far behind. 1
Just for Fun
It pays to be polite—even to
your own wife.
\ -
Ask us another: What should
a lady wear at an evening
party?
Answer: Clothes.
The only thing wrong with
any country is the people.
A new broom may sweep
clean, but it always wears
out.
The hand that rocks the
cradle doesn’t roll the cigaret.
The demand for politeness is
great; but the supply is short.
Suppose the radio wave does
travel more slowly than light.
It gets there just the same.
A scientific item says that
among those who use extreme
ly fine wires are surgeons and
dentists. And politicians.
A miss is as good as a mile”—
and a mile better than a Mr.
“Do you talk in your sleep?”
“No; my wife says I’m per
fectly exasperating—I only
smile!”
“Yes,” said Mrs. Lackpenny,
dramatically, “dear Claude is
going to set up in business of
his own. He leaves the office
next week. He has burnt his
bridges.”
“Poor dear,” said her friend
sympathetically, “I do hope
they weren’t his best ones ”
Eva: “Why don’t you and
Hank get married?”
Lois: “Because we can’t get
a house or flat.”
Eva: “But can’t you live with
your parents-in-law?”
Lois: “No. They’re still living
with theirs.”
A pretty girl lost her glove.
The finder was an old bachelor
named Page and he returned
it to her with this note:
“If from your glove you take
the letter “G”.
That glove is love, and that I
have for thee.”
To this the girl replied:
“If from your name you take
the letter “P”,
Then Page is age, and that
ron't do for me.”
Henry Ford seems to have a
assion for all old things ex
ept the horse and buggy.
Hunter (purchasing new out
it)—Do you guarantee this
:un? Suppose it bursts and
•lows off my head?
Deaer—In that case we will;
five you a new gun.
“Do you believe in compan
onate marriages?”
“No,” answered Miss Cay
>nne. “Belief is impossible.
Companionate marriages seem
o be an arrangement by which
lobody is expected to put
nuch faith in anybody.”
We can’t all be great, but
ve might keep from being tire~
jome if we’d try, which is
greater.
“Skill is in knowing what to
do and when and how to do
it.”
For changing one’s perspect
ive nothing equals a good
night’s sleep.
Of course there is no danger
in flying. It is alighting that
causes most of the trouble.
A column, much like a wife
or husband, one sometimes
likes not so much for its eru
dition as for its companionate
qualities.
She: How kind you are to
your wife, sending her away
for a rest.
He: Yes, God knows I need
one.
“Huh!” grunted old dad at
the stairway, “three generat
ions to make a gentleman and
three hours to wake him.”
“Most any poor old fish can
float and drift and dream,
But it takes a regular live one
to swim against the stream.”
People who think the Jews
have no land of their own
haven’t kept an eye on Flor
ida.
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
A boy on a date was kept
waiting for his girl. The girl’s
mother, wishing to be sociable,
started a conversation with
him. “Did your mother raise
much poultry this year?” she
asked.
“Well, she planted a patch,
but the darned chickens
scratched it all out,” he re
plied.
HE LEARNED SOMETHING.
The real estate agent was en
deavoring to interest a fair
prospect in a house of her own.
“Why not,” says he, “purchase
a home?”
“Home?” said she. “I’ll say
not. Why I couldn't use one.
I was born in a hospital—edu
cated in a college—courted in
an automobile—married in
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Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
GEORGE B. GRI6SBY
Attorney - at - Law
KETCHIKAN. ALASKA
church—we live on delicates
sen out of a paper bag—spend
the mornings on the golf
links—the afternoons over a
bridge table—the nights in a
jazz palace or at the movies.
And when I die I’m going to
be buried from the undertak
ers. Say, all I need is a garage,
with maybe a bedroom above
it.”
PROFESSIONAL
JAMES ROBINSON, M. D.
Honor Graduate University of Manitoba
Office at Stewart, B. C.
Over Burns Meat Market
Phone. 14
JUtorrog at
JSgber, .Alaska
( frank A. METCALF
! CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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John Hovland
MINING
Hyder, Alaska
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