The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford
Owner and Publisher
Entered as second-class matter
at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March
3, 1879.
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Not Their Game
Press reports tell us the big
bankers are hotly protesting
the President’s policy of “cheap
ening” the dollar.
We don’t know much about
finance, but it seems to us in
the light of recent revelations
that if the money-changers are
opposing the deflationary pro
cess it must be ,Something of a
good thing for the common
folks.
At any rate we never have
heard of the bankers kicking
about any financial situation *
wrherein the hoi polloi were
getting the worst of it. No
matter how tough things may
be coming for the common
herd financially, it’s just “too
bad.”
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High Prices Essential
To Renew Prosperity
Complaints against advanc
ing prices are doubtless natur
al, but there can be no national
prosperity without higher
prices. Merchandise has been
produced in late years at a loiss
and millions of dollars in loss
es in operation have been in
curred by the leading indus
tries, although low prices for
material and labor have been
general.
The first aim of the Presi
dent’s national recovery pro
gram is to do away with starv
ation wages and starvation
prices for raw materials. Both
the wage earner and the pro
ducer of materials must be re
stored to a basis where they
will receive a living wage for:
.heir efforts. To accomplish
this price- must go up and the
increased prices are passed on
to the ultimate consumer.
Naturally enough we grum- j
ble at the idea of paying more, I
and in many cases a great deal
more, for the things we need, !
Many of us have found it dif
ficult to meet living expenses
even when prices were at their
lowest. But we must remem
ber that prosperity cannot
thrive on low prices. Only
when producers can make a,
respectable living by their I
labor will prosperity be re
stored.
Furthermore we should never
lose sight of the fact that every
cent cf the higher prices we
pay helps to lift some unfor
tunate from dire poverty back
into the ranks of self-support
ing citizens. Unless you have
yourself known a time when
you did not know where your
next meal was coming from,
you can hardly realize just
what that means to million,?, of
our fellows who, have been
forced to eat the bitter bread
of charity during the past four
years.
Remember this the next time
you have to pay an increased
price for something and per
haps you will feel glad that
prices are going up and you,
by paying more, are helping
some poor soul back to inde
pendence and happiness. Re
member, too, that every addi
tional man or woman who is
thus made self supporting
helps to maintain and guaran
tee such prosperity as you en
joy.
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Just for Fun
We hasten to assure “Sub
scriber” that the Congressional
Record is not something he
could play on the phonograph.
If the world is purged of the
feeble minded, we wonder
who will write the words that
go with popular dance music.
Rub: “Hey! Don’t strike
that match there. That tank
is full of gas.”
Dub: “I should worry.
These are safety matches.”
Garage Man: “I think your
car trouble is due rto a short
circuit, madam.”
Lady: “Well, how long will
it take you to lengthen it?”
In her school essay on “Par
ents”, a little girl wrote: “We
get our parents at so late an
age that it is impossible <to
change their habits.”
The man who proudly boasts
that he “runs* things in his
home,” generally refers to the
carpet ■> sweeper, the washing
machine and the errands.
Flapper “I can’t get along
with my boy-friend lately. He
ignores me, and if there’s any
thing that makes me mad, it’s
ignorance.”
Hash House Repartee:
“Hey, Waiter, there’s a fly in
the bottom of my cup. What
does that mean?”
“I don’t know. I’m a waiter,
not a fortune teller.”
A Lewisburg, O., paper an
nounced recently that a pas
tors sermon .subject would be
“Fools,” and added that “all
those residing in the commun
ity are urged to be present.”
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
March 14, 1924
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Mrs. T. H. Evans returned
from a visit in Prince Rupert.
George D. Beaumont, United
States Marshall for the First
Division, was a visitor in Hy
der.
Eight feet a day with two
sihifts employed is the rate of
progress at the Daly Alaska,
where more than 350 feet of
tunnel work has been done
since February 4, making a
total of 500 feet of under
ground work.
A compressor plant, mach
ine drills, air pipe and fittings
arrived this week for the Inde
pendence and will be taken in
to the property over the snow.
Preparation for employing
a much larger crew are being
made at the Dunwell mine,
i A new bunk house is being
erected, also an assay office
and blacksmith shop, and the
! me3s-house is being enlarged.
Neil Matheson, well known
! miner, had a bad fall when he
slipped from a plank on the old
Stewart wharf strncture onto
the rocks while enroute to
| Stewart. He was badly cut on
the head and had several ribs
broken.
Joe Neary has sold his half
interest in the Joe-Joe Claim on
Texas Creek to Frank Fisher
and Joe Green. The Joe-Joe
lies in the heart of the Texas
Comstock group, in which Hen
ry Hummel and Joe Jackson
are also interested.
MENTAL NUTS
Can You Crack Them?
Find cost of a suit, of which
the coat cost as much as vest
and pants. The pants cost x/-i
as much as coat and vest. The
vest cost $1.25 more than 1-6
coat and vest.
James has 5 sandwiches, and
William 3; they sit down to eat
and are joined by Tom, who
shares equally with them, and
pays 8 cents for his repast,
j How should the money be div
ided between James and Wil
liam?
(Answers next week)
-Q
Answers to last problems
Positions at Table—
5 persons may be seated in
120 different positions.
The Fox, Goose and Corn—
Take goose over, return and
take fox over, bring goose
back, take corn over, return
for goose.
FRANK A. METCALF
aVIL ft MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA j
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the services. •
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