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WHY NOT PUBLICITY
An exchange calls attention
to the obvious reluctance of
some mining concerns toward
giving publicity to the progress
of development on their prop
erties. The plaint is one in
which the local press may
justly share, owing to the
presence here of a number of
companies which display a
similar penchant for with
holding information relative
to their activities. In many
cases the officials directly in
charge are not personally to
blame for this attitude; they
are either acting under di
rect instructions from their
superiors or feel it incumbent
upon themselves to withhold
information until official re
ports have been turned in. In
others it appears that those in
charge are under no restrict
ions i n this respect but are
either “too seared of their
jobs,” to use the homely col
loquialism or are imbued with
some fantastic notion that
some harm may result from
letting the papers in the com
munity in which they operate
know what is going on. The
latter view is sustained by
not infrequent evidences that
they are willing to give the
press of other communities
full details of their operations.
Under certain circumstances
the maintenance of secrecy re
garding details of mine devel
opment is fully justified. There
are few industries in which
premature announcements can
work greater detriment or in
jury than in mining. In most
cases, however, there is sel
dom a valid reason for with
holding announcements of at
least the broader details of
mine developments. If a com
pany is on the square little
harm is likely to result from
letting the public know of
such matters as the amount of
development Work accomplish
ed during a given period, the
scope'*sfhd aim of future de
velopment operations, propos
ed -improvements, and other
details of similar character.
In most cases public announce
ment of new ore discoveries
and even their probable value
will provoke no injury to the
operators. On the contrary
such announcements in the lo
cal press should be beneficial
rather than otherwise and are
assuredly more likely to give
increased prestige to the op
erators than a policy of strict
repression of local announce
ments. Followers of the re
pressive policy would do well
to recognize the fact that
news of important develop
ments in a mine is inevitably
bound to leak out. No system
has yet been devised to pre
vent the men in the drift from
telling what they see,and hear.
However inaccurate or misrep
resentitive such disclosures
may be, there is no question
of their acceptance by the
public in lieu of precise in
formation from authoritative
sources. ,
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JUST WHY MAIL ORDER
HOUSES GET BUSINESS
Any “home merchant” who
isn't awake and fails to tel)
the people about his wares,
should read this statement,
made by the manager for a
big Chicago mail order house:
“We have a bureau whose
duty it is to read the country
papers. There is not a paper of
any consequence in our terri
tory that we do not get. The
bureau looks over these papers
and when we find a town
where the merchants do not
advertise in the local papers,
we immediately flood that
section with literature. It al
ways brings results far in ex
cess of the same effort put
forth in territories where the
local merchants use the local
papers.”—Exchange.
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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 lo
cal newspaper in the United
States is each year getting on
a firmer foundation and be
coming more and more useful
to its home community.
The metroplitan daily with
its world-wide news, its comic
sheets and its magazine sup
plements, while of course es
sential in our modern civilizat
ion, cannot take the place of
the home newspaper. The
very fact that the big city
daily must cover a broad field
forbids 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 us.
We have the greatest interest
in the community in which wt
1 live, and in 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 community. It is the home
newspaper which boosts the
j town, year in and year oui,
which refuses to advertise the
city merchants in competition
with the local business men
1 and which takes a prominent
part in every enterprise which
has for its purpose the up
building and prosperity of the
; community.
We frequently hear it said
) that the old time independent
1 ipirit of the newspaper is
| gone, that its editorial 'policy
i is now subservient to the busi
! ness office. Yet this is not true.
There is more unselfish ideal
ism in the average local news
paper than in other business
ness enterprise. It frequently
ipeaks out in the way which
it believes will be for the
good of the nation and of the
community, regardless of what
the consequences may be from
a business standpoint. This is
more than the average business
man will or can do.
Of course the local newspap
er is now on a firm business
basis. This is why it is improv
ng from year to year, why it
is giving its readers a constant
I ly better service, and why it is
j increasing its influence for
I good in the community. But
the local newspaper is still the
principal booster for the com
munity, and it does its boost
ing often without any hope of
i material reward. f
EXPERIMENTING WITH
CHINESE PHEASANTS
—
W. W. Taylor, of Juneau, re
j ceived recently a coop of Chi
nese pheasants from a pheas
ant farm at Charleston, Wash.
The shipment originally com
prised enight hens and two
cocks, but unfortunately one of
the latter died in transit. The
remaining nine birds arrived
in excellent condition, accord
ing to Strollers Weekly.
Mr. Taylor is confident Chi
nese pheasants will do well in
this portion of Alaska. It is
his intention to release a num
ber of them within a year or
[ two in the vicinity of a new
hunting lodge which a number
of sportsmen, including him
self, recently complete d on
Glacier Highway, near Juneau.
Chinese pheasants are game
birds and it will be necessary
to have a Territorial law paas.
ed for their protection. The
pheasants are taking kindly iu
their new environments and
Mr. Taylor is confident he can
make a success of raising
them.
Just for Fun
You hold friends by lying
for them, not about them.
Women have a smaller vocab
ulary than men, it is said,but
it is more active,
i _
| - Don’t borrow throuble. Bor
row money and the trouble
will come of its own accord.
Unselfishness like virtue, has
! to be content with being its
own reward.
A large share of our trouble
is caused by too much bone
in the head and not enough
in the back,
i _
We have never yet seen the
man who was long on both
talk and work.
—
1 People who look upon both
| brain and conscience as excess
baggage, don’t do much to
wards making this a better
world.
If they ever find the missing
link he will probably resemble
a lot of people everybody
knows.
You may never get too old to
learn, but you can get too old
for what you learn to do you
any good.
The. Village Nut says the
way to avoid hitting youi
finger when driving a nail
is to hold the hammer in both
hands.
She: “Oh, yes, everyone
knows about it. Some take her
part and some take his.”
He: “And I suppose there
are one or two eccentric peo
ple who are minding their
! own business.”
“Do you believe in capital
punishment?”
“Certainly,” replied the walk
ing delegate for the Dumb
bells’ Union, “the working
man won’t get no justice till
capital is punished.”
“I say, old man, what’s good
for my insomnia. “I haven’t
closed my eyes for five nights.”
“Go in for boxing,” replied
his friend. “The first time I
tried it my eyes were closed
for a week.”
An Irishman was cleaning
down an observatory, and saw
an astronomer looking through
a telescope. Just then a star
fell, and the man exclaimed,
“Begorra, that was a crack
shot!
A littue fellow arrived home
from, school while the family
were at lunch. With a disgust
ed look on his face, he said:
“Mother, some of the boys In
my class didn’t know how to
spell ‘sarcastic.’ ”
“Well, dear,” replied his
mother, “how do you spell it?”
“Me?” he asked. “Oh I was
one of those who didn’t know.”
Whether you are in business
or politics you should always
remember that persistent ad
vertising will make any man
great.
An official in a certain Can
adian town, notified a citizen
that his license to keep a cow
had expired. In reply the of
ficial received this letter:
"Monsieur Bord of Kelt—I
just got your notis that my
licens to keep my cow has
xpire. I wish to inform you,
M’sieur Bord of Kelt, that my
cow she beat you to it—she
Xpire three weeks ago. Much
l~ . ;-!
Chamber
of
Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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[oblige, Yours with respek,
i A little fellow arrived home
1 _ _J_
“Father said the sharp, little
boy, as they sat- round the
table, “I saw a deaf and dumb
beggar in the street this after
noon and he had an impedl
i ment in his speech.”
Father: A deaf and dumb
I man with an impediment in
! his speech; don’t talk non
;sense!
“But he had, father,” insist
ed the youngster. “One of his
middle fingers was missing.”
He was in one of the local
1 emporiums and had talked
politics for an hour and a half.
“That’s just the situation in a
nutshell,” he declared at the
j close.
j “Heavens!” exclaimed one of
the gang to his neighbor,
“what a nut it is!”
John Hovland
Assay Office
H y d e r, Alaska
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