The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
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Chas. F. Sandford
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Legislative Rubbish
One of the crying needs of
the present day is the “search
ing out and repealing of the
useless, unenforcable and un
necessary legislative rubbish,”
according to M. J. Hickey, sec
retary of the National Indust
rial Council.
At a conference held recently
in New York, the Council
pledged itself to labor for the
simplification and codification
of really useful and necessary
laws, which are now buried or
obscured throughout our law
books by a mass of obsolete or
unnecessary enactments.
Mr. Hickey declared that
there are now about 2,500.000
separately enacted laws and
ordinances on the books of the
various states. More than 10,
000 more will be enacted dur
ing 1933.
It is his belief, and most citi
zens will concur in his view,
that too many of our lawmak
ers conceive it to be their duty
to make misdemeanors cut of!
trivial actions, putting absurd
restrictions on freedom, bur
dening innocent people with
undeserved punishments and
otherwise loading the state
books with unnecessary laws. !
When we reflect that most of
these useless laws not only har
ass the public but cost them
hondsomely in one way and an
other, it must be the inevitable
conclusion that Mr. Hickey’s
point is well taken.
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Why Call It Sport?
An interesting phenomenon |
in American life is the amazing
seriousness with which we take
our so-called sports. This ser
iousness is reflected in the
sporting sections of the daily
newspapers, which play up
the activities of athletes to an
extent bordering on the ridicu-,
lous.
Oi'iginated as friendly games
for the exercise and recreation
they afford, baseball, football
and other pastimes have de
generated into grim struggles 1
for notoriety and gate receipts.
A recent writer, and a sport
writer at that, has deplored the
methods whereby college foot
ball teams are strengthened
through fake enrollments, and
he relates that one Eastern un
iversity spent $250,000 on a
losing team in three months.
Fortunately, in most of the
smaller communities and in the
lesser schools there is still to be
found wholesome athletic ac
tivity, in which friendly rivalry
and real sportsmanship are the
,ule. But the events which
draw the crowds and fill the
sport pages are marked by bit
terness and frequently result
'n long-standing feuds.
So long as .the public de
mands this sort of thing it will
no doubt be supplied. But why
call it sport?
Just for Fun
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We have seen no suggestion
for a 30-hour week for mother.
As we understand it, Mr.
Scott is the fellow who put the
knock in Teehnocrarcy.
Inasmuch as teehnocrarcy ap
plies principally to defects re
sulting from machine product
ion, it might be well to see how
t will work on machine poli
ces before applying it to our
industrial mechanism.
An “electrical transcription”
is only a phonograph record
with a college education.
A writer says marriage de
pends upon a fusion of two
lives. But it often ends in con
fusion.
Anyway unemployment is be
ing relieved by employing ex
perts to compile statistics about
unemployment.
We have never seen any rad
io croonei's, and they may be
big he-men for all we know.
But somehow they don’t sound
that way.
In several countries bachel
ors pay a heavy tax. Married
men pay heavily, also, but it is
jailed something else.
INTERESTING NOTES
A novel serving tray is said
to be equipped with folding
legs that drop at the touch of a
button to enable the tray to be
used as a serving table.
Java, with an area of 48,504
square miles, is the world’s
most densely populated island.
Germany has 4,703 daily
newspapers, 976 of which are
party organs.
Out of a total of 23,728,003
bags of coffee sold throughout
the world last year, deliveries
in the United States totaled 11,
296,722 bags.
I
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
! From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
December 19, 1322.
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A bathroom has been added
to the conveniences of the
Ocean View Hotel.
A class of 23 new members
was initiated at a meeting of
the Moose lodge in the Stew
rat Hotel Monday evening.
The initiation meeting was fol
lowed by a dance.
The Delco light system in
stalled in Keith’s Hotel, besides
lighting that place, is now sup
plying light to the Ocean View
Hotel in Hyder, B. C., and the
Alaska Cafe in Hyder.
The entire pipe-fitting crew
■of the Premier, with the ex
ception of the foreman, came
down the hill this week. They
claim they quit on account of
the mine manager giving or
ders that conflicted with their
foreman’s instructions.
The Pioneers are preparing
to stage another carnival at
New Year’s time, similar to the
one that was such a success
last year It is understood that
candidates for the carnival
queen will be Miss Helen Hall
of Hyder, Miss Edith Crawford
of Stewart and Miss Stratford
of Premier. There will be two
nights of merriment, January
1 and 2, with a masquerade
ball on the second night.
Mrs. Louise Moore of the Jok-!
er Dressmaking Shop, has pur
chased from Joe Green the
property recently occupied by
Mrs. M. Vincent and will open
an Italian Spaghetti and Chile
Con Carne Parlor in April or
May.
Wm. McGrew, whose suit
against Billie LaHurr and Mrs.
Wakefield, is on the district
court docket this week, had the \
Carmen come over Tuesday un
der charter to take him and
his witnesses, Archie Patterson
and Ed. Fernald, to Ketchikan.
Albert Mayer has installed
wod-working machinery on the
| second floor of his blacksmith
| shop and will soon be turning
| out all kinds of cabinet work
and mission furniture.
G. F. Thomas, one of the
four men injured in the explos- j
ion that killed Harold Bocey at i
the Premier last week, was tak- ;
en to Victoria for treatment. 1
His skull is fractured and he is
delerious a large part of the
time.
The Alaska Steamship Comp
any has wired the Commei'cial
Association that they contem
plate establishing steamship
service to Hyder, possibly com
mencing with the sailing of the
steamer Jefferson from Seattle
on December 30.
FRANK A. METCALF ’ll
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
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