RYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Published Every Wednesday.
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aska, as second class matter, under the Act of March 8,
1879.
Chas. F. Sandford. Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
The announcement last week j
that the Riverside mine will
resume operations within a
brief season is a pleasing ter
mination to the long period oi I
uncertainty regarding the fut
ure of that property. The briei
suspension of activities has
shown that the loss of busi
ness resulting from a perma
nent shut down of the mine
would be a matter of serious
moment to the community at
large as well as to the business
interests. Although the pros
pects are that a much smaller
crew will be employed under
the new management, the pay
roll alone will place many
thousands of dollars in local
circulation, with resultant ben
efits to everyone.
In addition to the direct f«i- j
nancial benefits to be expect
ed from a resumption of ac-,
tivities, the community will al
so profit in an .inestimable
degree as a result of the ad
vertising a producing mine
provides. This cannot be meas
ured in dollars and cents but
is nevertheless of tremendous
benefit to the country. But
for the publicity provided by
the spectacular Premier mine,
the district would probably
be but little mor^ advanced
today than it was ten years
ago.
In this connection it may al
so be said that the community
as a whole is sincerely glad
that the control of this fine
property has been secured by
Messrs. J. D. Littlepage and
M. J. St. Clair. The existence
of the mine is due primarily
to the faith and persistence of
Mr. Littlepage. It is true that
others supplied the means, but
this does not in the least di
minish the fact that it was he j
who daily confronted and ov
ercame the trials and labors
and discouragement of turning
a most unstable prospect into
a valuable mine.
He has labored hard ' and
well for the reward that
should accrue from his new
tenure of the property and he
has the best wishes of the com
munity in the new venture.
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Hyder is a good town. You
will all admit that it is a better
own than most other Alaska
owns of equal size. You know
hat. Hyder can do what oth
2r towns of its size can do, it
//e think so and make up oui
ninds not to confine our ef
orts to little things altogether;
sot to “shy off” from sizabU
indertakings.
Big towns are built by doing
jig things. Big things are done
.vhen the man power and the
inancial power is thrown to
gether and made to co-operate
n a common cause. There is
jnly on thing that can keep
:Iyder from becoming a big
own and that will be failure
;o pull together toward tht
reneral welfare. When foui
horses pull together conscienti- ■
jusly, we have a genuine four i
lorse power. If one of them |
iulks, we have only thret
sorse power. If one of them
lulls in the opposite direction,
he neutralizes the efforts oi
me of the remaining three and
ve have only two going for
ward.
Let us try a few years with |
r long strong pull all together.
Nothing is gained for a towr
by any other course. It is not
lecessary that we all agret
>n politics, religion, or or
iozens of other subjects. No
body expects that and it prob
ibly wouldn’t be a good thing
'or us if we did. But we must
xgree on the one big idea of
ioing something worth while
or our town. Not individually
but collectively-all for one
rnd one for all.
Little jealousies, little pre
judices, and little dislikes are
o no purpose in a big cause.
The man you don’t like today
vill soon pass on and be in
his grave and so will you. The
next generation won’t know or
-are whether you agreed or
not but thd next generation
vill take note of whether we
builded wisely and got results
! rr whether we loafed on our
opportunities.
Shall we have them say their
: fathers were a live and willing
‘ bunch who threw their
: strength together and left
| something to show for it, or
i we have them,say their fath
i ers were a bunch " of dead
• ones--too selfish to work to
gether and not big enough to
open the doors of civic oppor
tunity alone?
A preacher of recognized sin
cerity and humility expresses
our thoughts precisely in the
following:
“The years and more of pub
lic service have brought the
writer face to face with every
kind of character. It is but to
tell the truth to say that as
between gossipers and other
moral perverts, I put the gos
siper at the bottom of the list.
The drunkard, the gambler,
the thief, the murderer, are all
white and shining angels in
my judgement, as compared
with the gossiper.
May heaven Vid us of these j
long-tongued vipers that suck !
the blood of the good names !
and pure character like some j
famished leash of torment.’’ ,
The wise man learns he
should not overwork a dollai
any more than he would a
horse. Three per cent is a j
3mall load for it'to draw; six
a safe one; when it ptill3 in
ten for you it’s like' work
ing out West and you’ve got
to watch to see that it doesn’t
buck. When it makes twenty,
you own either a blame good
‘critter” or a mighty foolish
me, and you want to make
iead sure which; but if it
draws a hundred it’s playing
he faces or something just as
hard on horses and dollars.
\nd the first thing you know j
/ou won’t even have a carcass I
:o haul to the glue factory.
Just For Fun
The Blueberry Kid says that
!ove isn’t blind. It simply
doesn’t give a darn.
Some people think we have
oo many laws in this country;
mt why worry? Only a few
}f them are being obeyed.
Every town has its steal
works--the City Hall.
• j
If you think business is bad j
:ust count the automobiles go
ng by your door.
‘‘Does your husband confide
lis business troubles to you?”
‘‘Yes, indeed-every time 1
buy anything.”
Sobbed hair is for young
girls and girls who thought
they’d look young when they
bobbed it.
Mrs. Kate Andrews of New
York, aged 64, was arrested
for speeding. These modern
girls are certainly terrible.
Conscience is a very valuable
asset for a Congressman. The
more he has of it, the more he
?ets paid for stifling it.
We like the kind of bathing I
suits worn by the sweet things
now. You no longer have to
take them at their face value.
We can stand the Ten Com
mandments and even live up
to most of them, but what gets
on our nerves is the theory
that the customer is always
right.
r
Driving an automobile would
not be so bad if the sane driv
er knew what the fool driver
might do.
An elderly bishop, a bache
lor, found his maid had been
using his private bath. He
proceeded to scold her, and !
concluding said: “What dis
tresses me most, Mary, is that
you have done this behind my 1
back.”
From the tree of useless
knowledge we learn that a ring
on the hand is worth two on
the phone.
A Hyder radio bug declares
chat he tuned in on the ice
box and got Bologna.
Ben—“What was the great
est war song ever written?”
ltolger—“Hove comes the
brirle!”
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Many girls wisely curb their!
taste for green onions until I
after marriage.
If a girl had three gentleman
friends, named respectively
William, William and William,
?ould it be said that she had
che willies?
Keeping in the lead of your
creditors by one jump is anoth
er sign of real leadership!
We think all this argument
about national defense is the
bunk. The styles in women’s
bathing attire, or lack of it,
should draw enough men to
keep the coast amply defend
ed all summer.
The only utterly efficient up
lifters are those who work on
prices.
Even mosquitos don’t seem
to us to have the punch they
used to.
HYDER M. E. CHURCH
Services Every Sunday
at 8 p. m.
Sunday School at 11 a. m.
Everyone Welcome
Rev. C. T. Hatten, Pastor ;
Chamber
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Commerce
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Hyder, Alaska
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