HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Telephone No. 82
Chas. F. Sandford. Owner and Publisher
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Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Tnis newspaper is not connected in any manner with any
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interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
tormation relative to local mining development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Inflation Not A Cure
Inflation is a much advocated
panacea for our economic ills.
It will not, however, cure the
root cause, which is unequal
distribution of the world’s real
wealth, not only among nat
ions but amongst individuals,
says Mining and Industrial Rec
ord, of Vancouver.
Inflation, this journal de
clares, lowers the real wages of
the masses without the labour
troubles accompanying wage
cuts, and this is a backward
step. The most constructive in
dustrial leaders of the world
are not talking but are putting
into effect the sensible solution
of our troubles by suiting pro
duction to consumption, by
guaranteeing employment, ar
ranging six-hour days, five-day
weeks, and intelligent unem
ployment insurance plans.
When these plans are supple
mented by international act
ion to reduce debts to a figure
that can be paid, thereby re
storing confidence, then will
prosperity return. The old sys
tem is still good, provided it is
properly adjusted to present
conditions, and Bolshevism, in
flation, and other “isms” will
pass into the discard in due
time.
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Swarms of Officers.
In re-reading that immortal
document, the Declaration of
rndependence, which recites
the grievances which impelled
.he American colonies to throw
off the British yoke, we were
struck by a paragraph which
appealed to us with new signif
icance. Referring to King
Oeorge III, it declared:
“He has erected a multitude
of new offices and sent hither
swarms of officers to harass
our people and eat out our sub
stance.”
It appears that “swarms of
officers” were distasteful to
the sturdy forefathers. What
| would they say to the army of
office-holders who harass our
people and eat out of our .sub
stance” today?
Every session of Congress and
I everyr session of the state legis
I latures enact laws creating new
offices. Seldom is an office
once established ever abol
i ished, except to create a dif
i fevent and more expensive of
j lice or offices, in its place. Of
1 iice-holders’ salaries are often
j raised, but never lowered.
Some day, possibly', a major
; ty of the voters will rebel, a*
lid the early fathers, and by
heir ballots, instead of bullets,
| rail a halt on those legislators
' whose chief aim appears to be
j to increase the public payrolls.
The American Jungle
It is not a pleasant thing to
hink about, or to write about,
but the fact is that the appall
ing increase in violent death*
n the United States is a severe
indictment of our supposed civ
ilization.
The record for 1931 shows
appriximately 34,000 dead
rom automobile accidents, 15,
000 burned to death, and 12,
000 homicides. The homicide
death rate has doubled in the
last 30 years, reaching 10.8 per
cent per 100,000 of population
n 1931. In the same year Can
ada’s homicide rate was only
1.6, while London’s was 0.8 and
Liverpool’s 0.5. In other words
population considered, the
' United States as a whole had
more than 13 times as many
murders last year as London,
and more than 21 as many as
Liverpool, and nearly seven
times as many as our neighbor,
Canada.
Although remarkable prog
ress has been made in the re
duction of the death rate from
disease, this has been largely
offset by the increase of deaths
from external violence, which
claim more than 100,000 annu
ally.
Considering all the dangers
which surroud us, it would
seem that life is less secure on
an American city street than it
would be in an African jungle.
Just for Fun
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We have heard no candidate
accused of carrying water on
both hips.
A wise woman keeps her
husband truthful by not asking
too many questions.
An extensive vocabulary en
ables us to expose our ignor
ance more convincingly.
“All the world’s a stage,”
with each actor crowding for a
place in the spotlight.
Anyway, in the high cost of
living days we had something
with which to pay the cost.
A lot of political arguing it
being done b y fellows w h o
never take the trouble to vote.
One^button union suits make
it easier for the laundry to
icore 100 per cent in ripping
them off.
Sacreligious
Sam Watkins, colored, was
seeking a percnit from a pro
hibition agent to buy wine.
“What do you want it for?”
asked the agent.
“Fo’ sacreligious purposes,
-sub.”
“For sacreligious purposes?
You mean sacramental pur
poses.”
“Dat’s it, suh. An’ the com
mittee has done appinted me to
get it.”
“What kind of wine does
vour committee want?”
“Well suh, we talked it all
iver, an’ finally decided o n
gin.”
INTERESTING NOTES
The French government is
sending scientists into Africa to
tudy the possibilities of irri
gating the Sahara desert with
he hope of turning it into the
ichest granary in the world.
Consumption of 42 pancakes,
plate size, at a single sitting
gave Herbert Leslie Buckley,
of Lanesboro, Mass., the title
of pancake eating champion.
More than 3,125 persons took
the civil service examinations
for positions a s prohibition
agents last year.
There were 2,394 automo
biles stolen in Paris in 1931,
according to statistics received
by t h e Department of Com
merce.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
May 17, 1932.
The freighter Anyox left Sat
urday for the Tacoma smelter
with 800 tons of Premier ore.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hudson
arrived this week from Rupert
and Mr, Hudson has opened a
barber shop i n the McGrew
building
Mrs. E. L. Dale returned this
week from Seattle, where she
has been visiting her mother
for several months.
Mrs. W. S. Sullivan has re
opened her clothes cleaning
and pressing establishment.
A meeting of members of the
Moose order has been called
with the object of organizing
a Moose lodge in this district,
•omposed of both Hyder and
Stewart residents.
The Hyder Baseball Club has
been reorganized with W. C.
Blanton as president; N. M.
Traversy, sect y.-treasurer;
Wylie Graham, manager;
Harry Hicks, Sam Potts and
Fred Dorey, grounds commit
tee.
Continuing the effort to have
the new roadway in the down
town section reopened, resi
dents of t h e town have for
warded to District Attorney
Shoup a petition asking him to
use his influence toward hav
ing the roadway reopened to
traffic.
Mrs. Pearl Glantz has success
fully carried out the experi
ment of hatching a canary bird
in an incubator along with hen
eggs. The potential singer now
sits up and takes nourishment
from a n eye-dropper. He is
about the size o f some of the
grub-worms the boys chop out
of old stumps for trout bait.
Dale L. Pitt, general manag
er of the Premier, made the
trip down from the mine to the
ore bunkers at tidewater last
Saturday, being the first man
to make the trip. He returned
to the mine Monday morning
in the same manner, riding a
‘‘timber hook,” instead of a
bucket, both ways.
Lee Baleh has received a
message from C. H. Flory
chief of the National Forest
Service in Alaska, to the effect
that C. W. Cheatham, senior
engineer for the road commiss
ion will leave for Hyder May 1
24 to start the river protection
work. The message also says
the Forest Service has appro- j
priated money for the constuct- j
ion of a dock approach, but!
the project still awaits the ap
proval of the secretary of the
interior.
The freighter Griffco loaded i
1000 tons of Premier high
grade ore for the Tacoma
smelter this week. The ore i s
said to be worth between
$100,000 and $300,000. The
Marmion loaded 300 tons of
Premier second-grade ore for
the Anyox smelter, worth
about $50 a ton, and also
towed away a barge loaded
with the same material.
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PROFESSIONAL
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FRANK A. METCALF
am ft MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
CHAS .F, SWORD
NOTARY PUBLIC
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