HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue,Hyder, Alaska.
Telephone No. 82
Chas. F. Sand ford . 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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This newspaper is not connected in any manner with any
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interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
rormation relative to local min ing development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
A Fictitious Issue
Among the many newspap
ers which have pointed out the
absurdity of the “power trust’
agitation by Senator Norris
and others of socialistic lean
ings is the Atlantic City Un
ion, which in a recent editor
ial sized up the situation most
concisely.
After quoting an authorative
statement to the effect that
the electric bill of the house
hold users of electricity in the
United States averages only
eight and one-half cents a
day—of which half of the cus
tomers pay five cents and the
other half pay 12 cents a day
on an average—the Union
says:
In other words, ten million
Americans receive all the ad
vantages of electric power for
the price of a daily package
of chewing gum, and ten mil
lion receive it for less than the
cost of a package of ordinary
cigarettes.
For this reason the battle
over power might be said to
be an absurdity. The country
is perplexed by abundant im
portant problems — prohibi
tion, the tariff, foreign trade,
unemployment, overproduc
tion, the rising cost of govern
ment, and the like . Any of
these problems is of vital in
terest to all citizens. They
must be solved or social and
economic chaos will result.”
Compared with the really
important problems which the
Union mentions, the question
of electric rates must appeal
to thoughtful citizens as being
an insignificant, if not entirely
fictitious issue, raised for po
litical purposes only.
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Country Awakening
To Necessity of Action
Telling the country how to
dispel the prevalent period of
industrial depression and the
best way to straighten out the
“silver question” has become
almost as much an in-door
sport or pastime as “baby
golf.” The doctors working on
the case and the pallitatives
and remedies prescribed—and
;he ailments calling for them—
have become so bewildering
that the whole world seems to
have gone “haywire” on the
ubject.
Senator Key Pittman and a
number of other clear-brained
thinkers and students of the
ituation are entitled to all
cnaise for having kept their
wires from becoming crossed
and foi having steered pretty
clear of the maze of entangle
ments that have been purpose
ly or willfully strewn along
:he battle front; so that, as far
at least as the silver issue is
concerned—and its settlement
affects the return trip to the
world’s business normalcy—
its clarification seems to be
gaining ground. In other
■.voids, the financial, economic
and industrial potentates of
'he civilized world are begin
ning to absorb the idea that
•diver’s destruction as a me
dium of exchange, on some
established basis or footing
with gold, is “somewhat dis
'urbing,” that something must
be done about it. And, it is
comforting to think of the
change that will be wrought
when the real awakening
takes place.
It is unthinkable that a great
people and a great nation like
3urs can much longer be held
in leash. When it is fully ap
pieciated that other countrfes
some of them laboring under
handicaps similar to our own
ind some which we have been
egotistical enough to believe
could never become a menace
to our industrial and financial
supremacy—are this minute
outstripping us in the competi
live markets of the world, it
seems about time to cease call
in? names and threatening
chastisement and swing into
action, industrially, at home.—
Mining Review.
Just for Fun
Batchellor: “I’ve got half a1
mind to get married.’’
Another: “That’s all you
need.”
Self control is that admirable j
quality which restrains us j
from throwing loud things at j
the loud speaker When a croon
er starts up.
I Crime Commission has almost !
overshadowed crime commis
sion as front page news late
1 New York is threatened with j
a water famine, but there is 1
little fear of a shortage of i
other liquids.
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Investigation of the peanut j
| industry now under way was!
possibly instigated by peanut
politicians.
The critter that sprouted the
first appendix never knew
I what a legacy he left to the
j surgical profession.
If Socrates had practiced a |
while with modern booze the
hemlock would have acted as
a soothing potion.
Before condemning a writ-,
er’s work because it is not j
original, think how much j
worse it would be if it were, j
Many who are rather proud
-of being considered hard- j
headed would resent the sug- j
gestion that it is bone all the j
way through.
INTERESTING NOTES
From two-thirds to four
fifths of China’s demand foi j
kerosene is supplied by the j
United States.
Chile has 2,900 miles of sea-!
coast and 69 ports, making it i
the most genuinely maritime j
nation in South America.
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When a Chinese girl gets
| married, her attendants are
: usually the oldest and ugliest
1 women in the neighborhood.
Aluminum, which now sells
for less than 25 cents a pound,
was valued at $545 a pound
in pre-Civil War days.
The longest air route with
regular plane service is from
New York to Buenos Aires, a
distance of 5,880 miles.
Workmen razing one of the
first skyscrapers in Oklahoma
City found a copper whisky
still cemented in the walls of
the second floor.
Some two billion dollars has
been invested in the pipe lines
which carry crude oil from
field to refinery and natural
gas from well to market.
j Switzerland sends more chil
, dren’s shoes to the United
’States than does any other
j foreign country.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO*
Frcm the Hyder Alaska Miner
May 18, 1921
There has been no change
in the Premier strike situation
during the week. The men
have established a mess house
in Stwart. The strike is marked
by complete orderliness and
there have been no disturb
ances. A movement is on foot
'lending toward a compromise
and it is understood that the
first overtures are to come
from the men, thereby placing
the mine management in a
position to either accept or re
fuse the olive branch.
Louis Johnson, who installed
the first electric lights and
.elephones in Valdez, and was
superintendent of the company
there for a number of years,
is planning to provide Hyder
with these necessities and has
he endorsement of the Hyder
Townsite and Improvement
Company.
While preparing to put a
hot in a log jam on Salmon
River. Bill McGrew left a box
of caps open on a stump and
a spark from a nearby fire
fell into the box exploding the
saps, painfully wounding Bili
and also Alex McPhee, who
was working 8 or 10 feet
away. One of McGrew’s arms
is badly lacerated and his side
«hot full of copper fragments,
McFhee received copper piec
es in his arms and feet.
E. E. Coffyn has completed
arrangements for the opening
of Hyder’s first moving picture
show Sunday night.
Lance Crane and Paul Mc
ger have opened the Exchange
Grill in Stewart.
Max Lepovatz has opened a
cigar store and card room in
the building built by himself
and Nick Belyin on Interna
tional Avenue.
Dan Davis has moved his
shoe repair shop into the old
quarters in the stone house on
the boundary.
Magnus Meisingseth report
ed the Howe truss of the Texas
Creek bridge, 100 feet in
length, as in place, and the
tension rods being attached.
Property owners of the town
ite removed with dynamite a
dangerous log jam on Salmon
river, which last year divert
ed the current to such extent
that a portion of the bank and
a couple of houses were wash
ed away.
In an interview with New
York newspaper reporters,
Pat Daly of local fame, gained
the front page and a column
or two of publicity by declar
ing that jazz music originated
in Ireland. Daly also claimed
credit for inventing a method
of viewing New York sky
scrapers without contracting a
sore neck by hiring a cart and
lying on the bottom of it while
being driven through the sky
scraper districts.
Historical Dates Next Week
May 10 Mothers Day
11 British Navy
Bottles Ostend 1917
12 Amundsen’s North
Pole Flight 1926
13 Jamestown, Va.
Settled 1607
14 1st Constitutional
Convention 1787
15 Mississippi Flood
Bill Signed. 1928
Abe Lincoln
Nominated 1860
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