HYDER WEEKLY* HERALD
Established 1924
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Gold Dearth Held
Depression Cause
Until the world learns the in
ternational rules of the game,
rapid changes in the price level
of gold will be a bigger men
ace to Great Britain than to
any other country, declares |
Sir Josiah Stamp, commenting
on an article dealing with the
gold standard appearing in the
London Economist and written
by Sir Henry Strakosch.
Sir Henry and Sir Josiah are
among the foremost econom
ists of Great Britain.
“The danger is here now/'
Sir Josiah declares,” the worst
danger that eight years age
any of us could have feared
more sinister in its possibilitie.- '
of evil, and finds us, internat
ionally, relatively helpless,
drifting, with aggravating fact
ors, such as the continual de
monitization of silver, still fur
ther into economic disaster.”
The cloud o f witnesses
against gold as a basis for cur
rency and credit has become ,
multiplied. Gold stands again
at the bar of justice arraigned
as a culprit and chief cause of
the “catastrophic fall in com
modity prices” throughout the
world, he declares. In essay,
speech and pamphlet, authori
ties recognized by the econom
ic and financial world testify
that the manner in which the
world’s gold is managed or
mismanaged, as they contend,
is inflicting distress and pover
ty upon civilization with its
1,200,000,000 of people now
handling money linked with
gold.
Gold, he says, stands specif
ically charged with “deficiency
and maldistribution.” Ameri
ca and France are charged
with being the unwitting cause
of much of the diseress, as
they “by their monetary policy,
their hoarding of gold and
sterilizing its power to beget
currency and credit, face the
charge of having unwittngl.v
imposed upon the world wide
spread depression.”
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Gamblers
If you would accuse some j
folks of being gamblers, in the
sense that the Old-Timehs were j
who made that their livelihood,
you would offer a terrible fn-'
suit. . j
Yet that is just what a good
many respectable folks are.
They study or play ‘‘Bridge’-1
seven days in the week. Bridge i
is their sine qua non.
If you would properly class-1
ify them, “Gamblers” it is the
best you could conscientiously
do. —Exc.
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Think This Over
It is a serious reflection upon
the common sense of the Amer
icr n people that they fuss and
fume over relatively unimport
ant matters, while almost ig
noring the one real national
menace—death by motor acci
dents.
Automobile accidents result
ed in more than 30,000 deaths
in the United States last year,
an increase of nearly 13 per
cent over 1928. If the present
indifference to this terrible
slaughter continues, 1930 will
see a still greater number of
victims.
We get excited over prohibit
ion and the tariff, we work
curselves into a frenzy over
politics; we are impressed with
the rantings of professional re
formers and do-gooders; we
lavish sympathy on a murderer
who justly pays his debts on
the “hot seat;” we are greatly
perturbed over the stock mark
et—and a thousand and one
other relatively trivial matters
agitate us greatly.
But if we ever think of the
30,000 killed and 80,000 in
jured in automobile accidents
each year, we only shrug our
shoulders and say, "Isn’t it too
bad?”
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Lincoln and Stanton
Lincoln’s reliance upon Stan
ton, his great secretary of war, j
is well known. They did not j
always agree, however, and j
Stanton seems to have felt en-!
tirely free to oppose his chief
upon occasion.
Some official correspondence
dug up by a writer for the Bos
ton Herald is remarkable for
its illustration of this point, as
^ well as being an indication that
| few words were wasted by
these giants in making their re
spective views known. It ap
pears that Lincoln wanted a
certain man appointed an
Army chaplain. Stanton object
ed, with apparent success, as
1 the correspondence quoted in
dicates:
“Dear Stanton: Appoint this
man chaplain in the Army.” A.
j Lincoln.”
j "Dear Mr. Lincoln: He is not
; a preacher. E. M. Stanton.”
“Dear Stanton: He is now. A.
Lincoln.”
i “Dear Mr. Lincoln: But there
is no vacancy. E. M. Stanton.”
“Dear Stanton: Appoint him
chaplain-at-large. A. Lincoln.
“Dear Mr. Lincoln: There is
; no warrant in law for that. E.
j M. Stanton.”
“Dear Stanton: Appoint him
anyway. A. Lincoln.”
“Dear Mr. President: I will
I not. E. M. Stanton.”
Just for Fun
Some go crooked as a result
of taking their liquor straight.
A movement to find new uses
for cotton is on foot, but not on
milady’s foot.
Sometimes a man puts his re
ligion, as well as his property,
in his wife’s name.
Naturally “Old Dobbin” sug
gests a horse because no horse
was ever named Dobbin.
A human skull with horns
has been found in Oregon. It
may be Old Nick is dead, after
all.
A professor declares that
married men are smarter than
single ones. But they have to
be.
Memphis policemen have or
ganized a glee club, probably
to terrorize crooks wlio have
an ear for music.
An Arkansas barber’s home
! was burned, doubtless by some
j fellow he had worried about
having a singe.
A critic declares an English
I movie actress to be without a
peer. But she is probably do
ing her best to land one.
The 70-year-old Brooklyn
woman who has invented a
new fire escape appears to
have some misgivings concern
ing the hereafter.
WHAT’S NEW?
Specially treated matches are
now made that will strike even
after being soaked in water.
Paper aprons and raincoats
that are entirely waterproof
are being made by a Wisconsin
firm at low cost.
Gas masks for horses in the
chemical warfare service are
now being used.
By a new refining process
aluminum may be produced
which is 99.98 per cent pure.
New 16-inch guns for defense
of the Panama Canal can
throw a projectile weighing
more than a ton a distance of
27 miles, making a shot every
50 seconds?
A new light bulb without fil
aments will greatly reduce the
[cost of lighting current, accord
i ing to it& New Jersey inventor.
For the benefit of students of
! surgery, motion pictures of the
instructor’s hand are thrown on
a screen as the operation pro
gresses.
As a safeguard against out
: breaks, an electric tear-gas
i system has been'developed for
i big prisons in which buttons
] make it possible to produce
tear-gas showers in any section
' of the prison. ;
A three-wheeled taxi motor
cycle that carries five passen
gers in addition to the driver
has been developed.
INTERESTING NOTES
Baby seals are helpless at
birth and are taught to swim
by their mothers.
More than 32,000 persons are <
employed in the Canadian pap
er industry.
The Brooklyn Y. M. C. A.
gives short courses for pro
spective bridegrooms.
A new instrument called the
flarimeter is used to measure
the shortness of breath, and is
described as important in de
tecting .heart disease.
M. Geeraerts, the Belgian
sluice-keeper, who opened the
dikes and flooded the Yser
battlefield in front of the Ger-;
j mans in 1914, was made a
Knight of the Order of Leopold
Unusually large shipments of
coconuts to Baltimore recently
caused an investigation, which
disclosed that the milk had
been removed and the nuts
filled with whiskey.
The Pope’s famous Swiss
Guards, who protect his per
j son and the Vatican, must be
; native Swiss, Catholics, unmar
i 1 ied, at least 5 feet 8 inches
tall and under 25 when first
enlisted.
According to the decision of
a local judge, women of a town
in Brazil must not have their
hair bobbed without permiss
ion of husbands or parents.
There are approximately 2,
770,000 unemployed men and
women in Germany, this being
twice the number of last year.
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Jewelry made to order, repair
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Crosley Radios on Hand. Come
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