HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
GOLD PRODUCERS AND
FARMERS HAVE
MUCH IN COMMON
(From Engineering and Min
ing Journal)
The farmer must have relief,
indeed, irrespective of political
consideration. One must rec
ognize that the state of his
well-being has too important
a bearing on the prosperity of
the nation to be ignored. Con
tinuance of the national pros
perity is difficult to imagine
if the large agricultural class
suffers from financial diffi
culties. Everything possible
should be done to insure to it
a fair share of the wealth
flowing into the pockets of
other large units of the popu
lation. All that remains is to
find a way to do it.
Surveying the agricultural
situation of the last six years,
the National industrial con
ference board finds no funda
mental improvement; and cur
rent indications warrant no ex
pectations of such a change in
the near future, it declares.
Average prices weighted for
30 representative farm pro
ducts at the farm have in
creased but 28 per cent in 14
years, whereas the prices of
the machinery, feed, fertilizer,
and other goods used in pro
duction are 45 per cent higher
on the average; the wages paid
to farm hands are 68 per cent
higher, and the cost of family
maintenance is 58 per cent,
taxes are 158 per cent, and in
terest on farm indebtedness is
66 per cent more than in 1914.
These five items combined, ac
cording to the conference
board, represent an increase of
65 per cent in the cost of farm
operation.
The gold producer—partic
ularly the quondam producer
surveys the agitation in behalf
of the farmer with rueful in
terests He, too, has suffered
from increasing costs of labor
and supplies. Unlike the farm
er, he has received for his pro
duct not 28 per cent more than I
in 1914 but exactly the same
price as then. Unlike the farm
er in the aggregate, he has
been unable to attract the at-!
j tention of the general public to
l his plight and even if he hr.d j
| succeeded, the public, neither J
i eating gold nor understanding j
, it, would have been mystified
as to why anyone producing |
j the precious metal should not j
be in affluence. His few cham- j
pions in Congress failed to se- j
i cure the passage of the bonus \
; bill, apparently the only sug
gested remedy, and so he took
i the only possible course—he
I carried on until he could no
i longer do so. The few survivors
are those who either have
had an exceptional grade
i of oi-e, or else by means of im
proved large-scale operation
! have been able to reduce costs
i in spite of rising prices.
i The gold miner’s plight is
| the penalty exacted in periods j
■ of rising commodity prices1
from those who seek to pro-1
; duce the standard of which
wealth is measured. To recoup j
his loss, or get his revenge, he i
must wait until prices fall once |
more, if haply he can survive!
or his reserves hold out. He !
apparently has a long wait1
I ahead of him.
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! LINCOLN, THE LACONIC.
I There is a premium on brev
ity, possibly because it is rare,!
either in speech or in writing, i
Loquacity is a besetting sin; !:
! volubility afflicts a multitude;
garrulity is a scourge. Conse
quently terseness of speech is
the more favored. Then too,
it is art to be able to speak or 1
write in terse strong sentences. !
Abraham Lincoln was not es
pecially given to the epigram,
t>ut he was often laconic. He
seldom wrote long letters or
made long speeches. His fam- 1
ous letter to Mrs. Bixby con
tains 135 words. His Gettys
burg speech is composed of 1
ten sentences and 273 words.
Both of his inaugural addresses
of his inaugural addresses
were brief. His longest speech,
the one delivered at Cooper j
Union, New York City, was
not over an hour, and this was
exceptional.
Lincoln’s letters for the most
part were exceedingly short,
sometimes to the point of
brusqueness. Many of them
consisted of only two or three
sentences. To a long drawn out
letter inviting him to partici
pate in a certain lawsuit--a let
ter that was unnecessarily long
and tortuous—Lincoln replied
by indorsing the voluminous
document with these words
“Count me in. A. Lincoln.”
Just for Fun
Woman inferior? Well, which
sex clings to garments that
must/be buttoned in 17 places
every morning?
People do not believe all they
read. Sometimes the headlines
ar not large enough to be con- \
vincing.
You can tell a sport model at
a glance. It has nine colors in
stead of seven
‘jDo you think your son will
make a good business man?”
“I dunno He’s a rotten golfer.”
Be yourself—if other people
will stand for it.
A man, like a match, is of
little use without a head con
taining the right ingredients
J
The trouble with most young
chaps now is that they want to (
start in business where papa i
left off.
Mamed in error, says a head-,
line. That is often the case, but j
it is not learned soon enough.}
“I wish,” said the club bore,
“that one of you chaps would
jive me a cure for insomnia.”
“Have you ever,” remarked
one of his victims, “tried talk
ng to yourself?”
Most January diaries have
seen abandoned now.
She—I wish you were as care
ful a driver as Mr. Christopher,
fie obeys all the traffic laws,
lever goes over the speed lim
it, and * * * r*
He— Yes, and the other night
le stopped in front of a red
lantern on a gas company ditch
for seven hours, waiting for the
lignal to turn to green.
Jazz may be defined as that
.vhich was made into phono
graph records to stop the shoe
ihine machines from playing
‘Stars and Stripes Forever.”
Joe: “I have lost all confi
ience in women.’
Jim: “Why?”
Joe: “I put a matrimonial ad
vertisement in the paper and
one of the replies was from
my fiancee”
Its an unusual public school
pupil that can’t spell a word
wrong more than one way.
Modern Cinderella: “Good
God mother, do I have to be
back from the ball by eleven
o’clock?”
The way to keep your mother
from scolding you for getting
in at midnight is to get to bed
before she gets home.
Men who would raise Cain if
they found a hair in the soup,
enjoy dancing cheek to cheek.
According to Lord Deware,
there are not nearly so many
Scotsmen nowadays who tray
el down to London.
The reason is that more get
born in London to save the
fare.
Government bp the majority
divides us into classes—the herd
and the unheard.
Among the things the unde
veloped peoples haven’t devel
oped are the white man’s vices.
As to the theory that age
brings respectabilitiy, the
Christian civilization is 1929
years old.
Serfs got their names from
the men they served, like-well,
navies call the big ones capital
ships.
There are exercises to reduce
flesh, but gathering rectangles
of cardboard into books isn’t
one of them.
A joke is being told on an ab
sent-minded professor. He was
taking some students to the
country to study rocks. At the
station he said, “We haven’t a
watch. We’ll need one or we’ll
miss the train back. John, run
home and get mine.”
“Have I time before the train
comes?” John asked.
“Yes,” said the professor,
pulling out his watch. “You
have about fifteen minutes.”
No faculty of the brain is as
unreliable as memory. That’s
why man makes the same mis
takes over and over.
Chamber
of
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
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Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
In the hereafter the dumb
shall speak, bo that settles the
argument about the future of
luncheon clubs.
Mah is an animal who lets
his infant progeny alone and
! then feels mistreated because
1 it doesn’t like him as well as
j its mother.
—
' The girl who won’t stand for
everything often falls for
nothing!
A lot of men who are not ath
letes are trying to lift a heavy
mortgage from expensive cars.
I Doctor—Perhaps you drink
too much coffee. I should ad
vise you to try a substitute.
Patient—Doctor, your advice
is superfluous. I have lived in
a boarding house for 25 years.
! Still, if they manufacture
! something guaranteed to paj
for itself in six months thej
have collectors just as hard
boiled as any others.
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 23 Jeweh
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jeweh
Elgin 7 and IS Jeweh
Standard 7 and IS Jeweh
Ingersolls
Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.50 to $25.0C
Jewelry made to order, repaii
work Anything in jewelry fur
' nished on short notice.
THE NUGGET SHOP
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
i Fourth Thursday in Stewart
6E0R6E B. 6RI6SBY
Attorney - at - Law
KETCHIKAN. ALASKA
There aren’t any “fattening
foods,” however, that will fat
ten people who eat little
enough.
“Just one more glass, boys,”
said the dishwasher, as he laid
down the soap, “And then
we’ll go home.”
If you are getting fat it may
be that you are also getting
old.
“I wonder whether Jack will
love me when I’m old,’ won
dered the wife to her very
dearest girl friend.
“You’ll know pretty soon
now, dearie,’’ assured the oth
er.
If ten commandments can’t
make men decent, 1,999,999
more can’t do it.
“I had a date the other night,”
sighed the youth, “but the
woman was so homely that
when I left a policeman tried
to arrest me for leaving the
scene of an accident.”
Complaining Customer-“That
lawn mower I bought has all
rusted.”
Hardware Merchant- “Maybe
that’s because there’s so much
due on it.”
PROFESSIONAL
(JdtcnTcg at ’J&mi
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FRANK A. METCALF
am & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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