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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neved to be in full accord with fact.
The Six Hour Day
The struggle of industrial toil
ers for a shorter work-day and
better working conditions is a
long story that would fill many
volumes. But it has been on
the whole a successful strug
gle in most civilized countries,
and while the methods em
played to secure victory have
been at times open to question,
here is no doubt that both em
ployer and employee are better
off today because of it.
To illustrate what has been
gained, we need only reflect
upon the fact that the first
hour legislation on record was
passed by the British parlia
ment in 1802 and limited the
labo rof children working in
labor of children working in
America secured wide adopt
ion of the ten-hour day in 1835,
while the eight-hour day made
little headway until about 1886
and is yet by no means fully in
effect in the United States, al
though it prevails in trades
that are effectively organized,
as well as in others embracing
about half of the wage earn*
ers of the country, excepting
farm hands and domestics.
Recently, and especially since
we have been experiencing an
unprecedented blight caused
by unemployment, the six-hour
day has been strongly urged as
a means of relief for the work
ers displaced by machines.
Not only the six-hour day, but
also the five-day week. In
fact, such a schedule has been
adopted already in some in
dustrial plants.
Under present conditions it
seems that the shorter work
day and work week offers the
only practical solution to the
unemployment problem.
Whether this idea will make
headway and eventually lead
to a permanent policy remains
to be seen, but the trend seems
to be in the direction of less
hours of labor, especially for
those who toil with their hands.
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The Canal Project
Although few details of the
proposed Great Lakes- St. Law
rence canal project have been
made available to the general
public, it appears that most
people who know about the
proposal at all have jumped to
the conclusion that is a most
desirable scheme.
Some questions that are high
ly pertinent have been raised,
however, by Marlen E. Pew,
editor of the newspaper trade
magazine Editor & Publisher.
He asks what effect this canal
will have on Chicago’s drain
age supply and on our internal
water transportation plans.
What of the diversion of
freight from American rail
roads and American ports such
as New York and Baltimore
and the effect on the thousands
of workers normally employed
by these railroads and at these
ports.
Canada seems highly pleased
with the prospect; too pleased
perhaps for Uncle Sam’s good.
For it is estimated that this
project will cost the United
States Treasury some $700,
000,000—probably a billion
before the job is finished—and
that money must come from
the pockets of American tax
payers who are already stag
gering under a burden that can
not much longer be borne.
Maybe the canal will be a
good thing for somebody. But
it might be well to investigate
who that somebody is before
embracing the idea with too
much enthusiasm.
I
Just for Fun
-o- - ■
The mystery about j mystery
stories is how one plot can
yiek^^many.
be fine if all the nat
iouTccmid settle their differen
ces in the Olympiad manner.
The only certainties are
death and taxes, and unfortu
nately the taxes come first.
Flattery, to be effective, must
be used sparingly. This ap
plies also to other kinds of ly
ing.
Who remembers what the
Wickersham Commission found
out about prohibition, if any
thing.
Campaign managers might
get some pointers on stirring
up enthusiasm by observing
Bolivia and Paraguay.
We will be skeptical about
tho.se stock market quotations
until we get some late quotat
ions on New York judgeships.
A New Jersey steamfitter ap
plies for a job as radio announ
cer. Some announcers might
might also make good as
steam fitters, or something.
Perhaps General Smedley
Butler refused to head the B,E.
F. for fear he would be tempt
ed to march on Philadelphia.
The height of intelligence is
reached at the age of 14, says
a psychologist. Then we send
’em to high school and college.
Airplane models are tested in
a wind tunnel. They could get
a rigid test in the Senate cham
ber.
Savage people have great
veneration for their tribal,
laws, which fact indicates that
Americans are not savages.
We read that the silkworm
and honey bee are the only do
mesticated insects. But how
about the political bee.
INTERESTING NOTES
At a glass works plant !n
Corning, N. Y., a new machine
makes 442 electric light bulbs
a minute.
Sir Hubert Wilkins, British
explorer, has designed a new
submarine for cruising under
the Arctic ice.
The only country in which
regular slave markets stll ex
ist is Arabia.
In the more than 80 years of
its existence the United States
Patent Office has granted 1,
850,000 patents.
The evergreen forest of Si
beria is the largest single mass
of conifers in the world.
The number of languages
spoken in the world is 2,796,
according to the French Acad
emy.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
August 16, 1922.
The work of driving the pil
ing for the approach to .the Hy
der dock is well under way,
with G. C. Turner directing the
job.
Yael Rozenstain has laid a
new sidewalk from his store
north to connect with the side
walk from that direction and
has also put in a crossing to
the walk on the south side of
the street.
Wylie Graham, operating
foreman of the Premier tram
line, has gone out for a vacat
ion and his place will be filled
during his absence by F. W.
Fisher, terminal foreman at the
mine.
The committee elected at a
public meeting some time age
to supervise the work of clear
ing log jams from the river, to
prevent a repetition of the big
flood last fall, are anxious that
those who subscribed to the
fund produce the money they
promised.
The Rufus group, up Bear riv
er, owned by B. O. Erickson
and William Forrest, was bond
ed this week by Gustave Seif
fert. Development will start
next spring.
The Unicorn group, owned by
John Hovland and Louis Wat
kins, has been bonded to A. B.
Trites. The Unicorn is near .the
Big Missouri, which Mr. Trites
also has under bond.
Alex. Gallagher has purch
ased from J. M. Ritchie a one
half interest in 8 claims located
by the latter between the Riv
erside group and the property
of the Fish Creek Mining Co.
Capt W. J. Neill, who operat
ed the Prince of Wales be
tween Hyder and Ketchikan
two summers ago, has purch-!
ased the Carmen from Capt.
Ed. Williams and made his
first trip in command this
week.
Wm. Murphy has contracted j
to salvage the supplies and i
camp equipment at the Forty- |
Nine mine, which are scattered
down the hill below the camp
site because of the building be- i
ing wrecked by snow last win
ter.
While working at logging
down the canal from Ryder,
Frank Wiss, a timber scaler for
the Forestry department, was
instantly killed by a falling
tree.
Governor Scott C. Bone, T. M.
Reed, Judge of the district j
court for the First division, and j
Arthur Shoup, district attorn-:
ey, arrived from Ketchikan on
the Revenue Cutter Unalga
Sunday afternoon. A public
meeting was held Sunday even
ing and the distinguished visit
ors were formally welcomed to
Hyder. Among the local
speakers were Dale L. Pitt, J.
A. Hall, Dr. Chace, Pat. Daly,
and H. W. M. Rolston, editor of
the Stewart News.
PROFESSIONAL
^Ernest ^8 hie
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^gfcer, Alaska
FRANK A. METCALF
aVIL i MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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GHAS ,F. SANDF0R3
NOTARY PUBLIC
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PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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