HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Published Every Saturday
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aska, as second class matter, un^**r the Act of March 8,
1879.
Chas. F. Sandford.. Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
SYNTHETIC NEWSPAPERS.
The controversy over the
question whether newspapers
should publish crime news is
not unlike the controversy ov
er any other form of censor
ship. With them all it is a tur
bulent minority seeking t|ie
censorship of something the
majority wants, unexpurgated
and unadulterated. In this par
ticular controversy the evil ef
fects of the thing for which
censorship is sought are hard
er to detect than in many and
censorship would be even less
effectual than in some others.
With the possible exception of
the larger cities, crime news
travels faster than the news
paper presses.
The average citizen and news
paper reader is more ready to
believe that the murderer or
bank robber who blames the
crime news for his crime is only
making excuses in the hope of
persuading the judge to give
him “another chance.”
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BE BRIEF.
The world is in a hurry: the
demand of the age is brevity
in all things.
Poor terminal facilities for
authors and speakers often
nullify all their excellent wis
dom. A man may possess all
kinds of useful knowledge, but
fail in “discerning when to
have done.”
Brevity is the touchstone of
success in any field. You may
offend your customer, your
reader or your hearer in one
respect and please him in an
other. But if you tire him with
your tediousness, you lose him
altogether.
The newspaper leads the style
today in pith and cogency and
has educated the public to the
expectation of receiving much
in little. The well-executed car
toon imparts a whole philoso
phy of life at a glance, or pro
vides silent comment on cur
rent events worth a column of
words.
Brevity is the soul of wit. Yet
they who-have wit, or think
they have, are in especial dan-,
ger of saying too much. Some
one has said: “It is better to
say nothing and be thought a
fool than to open the mouth
and dispel all doubt.”
-Therefore it is well to be brief.
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THE IDEAL CITIZEN.
An ideal citizen is the one
who sees clearly and ever
something good in his town
and never loses the opportun
ity to spread that good news
abroad that others might de
rive the benefits therefrom,
whose unselfishness prompts
him to want others to share op
portunities, health and pleas
ure which his home town of
fers.
Loyalty is the first requisite
for the ideal citizen. The love
for the place and his neighbors
which dismisses the thought of
self interest or policy and re
solves itself into the knowledge
of duty when he does all in his
power to make the city a bet
ter place in which to live.
There are three distinct atti
tudes which a citizen may as
sume toward the place in
which he lives, which furnish
es him food, shelter and associ
ation for himself and family,
to boost, to remajn quiet or
to knock. The booster is that
ideal citizen who is never for
getful of the obligations which
is due the home city. He is ever
found at the front when any
movement is launched which
might tend to the advancement
of the interest of the city.
While others see darkly, to
him good is visible at all times.
The quiet citizen is satisfied to
let the neighbor do the work
and content to lull the city
asleep and let it rest. The
knocker is the man without a
country.
There i3 no room for him any
where, his presence dampens
the enthusiasm of every man
or group of men who unfortun
ately come in contact with him.
Having no faith in his own
ablity to go forward, he natur
ally lacks faith in his home
city to do so. •
You have the chance to be
long to either of the three
classes. If you are a booster,
your neighbor knows it well
and will boost you. If you are
aligned with the quiet class,
you will not be regarded one
way or the other, for the man
who selects to steer in the mid
dle of the stream, gets no sup
port from either side. If un
fortunately you are a knocker,
get ready to be knocked, for
eventually it is coming to you.
As you give, so will it be meted
out to you.
Hyder would be a more ideal
town if only there were more
ideal citizens. Let’s have them.
Just for Fun
There is no true contentment
but in agreebale work.
The false face does not dis
guise some people at all.
Distance leads enchantment to
a debt.
No woman is an old maid un
til she admits it.
A woman’s hour of triumph
is to find an electric light burn
ing in the cellar just after her
husband has made a speech on
aconomy.
Not every young lady can win
i prize at an exhibition of
spring styles but most of them
zan be complimented on the
showing they make.
MODERN STORY: “Make me
he happiest man in the
vorld!” he begged. So she
igreed on two hundred a
nonth alimony, and gave him
i divorce.
“My grandfather lived to be
learly ninety, and never used
jlasses.”
“Well, lots of people prefer
o drink from a bottle.”
“Babe Ruth walked twice to
day.”
“Gosh, she should be more
sareful whom she rides with.”
Spring and springtime rarely
ever come at the same time.
Getting along nicely in this
world is not inherited.
Travel broadens some. Others
return as skinny as ever.
Two wrongs don’t make a
right. They often get one left.
If a man wants his dreams to
come true he has to wake up.
The author who says nature
provides weapons only for ani
mals that face the enemy
doesn’t know much about
mules.
Vera says that nowadays
when a woman is tried she is
found willing.
Before criticizing your wife’s
faults, remember it may have
been those very defects that
prevented her from catching
a better husband.
When one observes certain
types of the new and perky
generation, one is moved to
repeat with the poet the line,
“Oh, for the smack of a van
ished hand on the place where
the spank ought to be.’’
There was enlightened self
interest in the time of Jesse
James, but people didn’t call
it that.
An actress has a hard life.
About the time she gets used to
her husband it is time to get
another one.
More life insurance is carried
by Americans than by the rest
of the world. Americans need
more.
A diplomatic gesture is some
thing that makes you think
maybe you will get your mon
ey.
The line of least resistance
leads downward and the line
of most persistence leads up
ward.
It is savage to sacrifice chil
dern in the name of religion;
we do it only in the name of
speed.
We certainly do progress rap
idly in some ways. It was only
two or three years ago that it
didn’t matter whether silk
3tockings had lisle tops.
Ed Reynolds says if the meek
inherited the earth today, we
suppose they would give a pa
rade tomorrow.
You can do what you like if
you like what you do.
If you’re not having’ a little
fun every day you’re missing
something.
“Why the gloom, Osmond?
Girl not coming to the dance?”
“Oh, she’s coming all right, but
she can’t even send a telegram
without saying ‘stop’ after ev
ery sentence.”
; “Thankful! What have I got
to be thankful for? I can’t pay
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my bills.”
“Then, man alive, be thankful
you are not one of your credi
tors.”
And those who are worrying
now about where to go this
summer would be happier if
they’d go to work.
Do all the good you can as
you roll along. Life is a one
way street, and you’re not com
ing back.
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