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
Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice at Hyder,
Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Tnis newspaper is not connected in any manner with any
stock brokerage firm or other establishment associated in or
interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
formation relative to local min ing development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Why Not a Road at Once?
The increasing importance ol
the Chickamin section as a
probable field of mineral pro
duction suggests the need ot
more adequate means of trans
portation into that at present
almost inaccessible region.
A wagon road from the head
of the Texas Creek Highway
would be an immense factor in
the early development and ex
ploitation of the entire upper
Chickamin region by giving the
^ miner and prospector cheaper
and easier transportation.
Approximately 214 miles of
road is, we understand, al!
that would be required to
give free access to both th-.
Banded Mountain and uppci
Chickamin sections and would
reduce by half the difficulties
and costs of transporting sup
plies, in addition to saving
considerable time.
Now that the forest service
has decided to delay construct
ion of its projected pack trail
until next year, why would it
not be a good plan to ask them
not to build a pack trail at all
and build a road instead?
Those who know the dist
rict declare that the wide ex
tent of mineralization so far
revealed warrants the as
sumption that a road will be
sorely needed within two years.
This being the case, why not
go after the road right now, in
stead of waiting for the gov
ernment to build first an inade
quate pack trail and then a
road ?
Would it not be a good plan
for the Chamber of Commerce
and local mining interests to
ask the forest road bureau,
whose engineer is right on the
ground, to undertake a survey
this summer for a road from
the end of the Texas Highway
up onto the glacier, which is
so smooth and flat that it can
be traversed for miles by auto*
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; mobiles?
A road of such length does
not involve prohibitive costs
and the benefitsWould be four
fold greater than from a trail.
So why not get busy at once
and try to get it?
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Tc Step War Profits
Ever since the World War the
idea has been advanced that
one of the most effective mean-;
ot preventing war would be to
make it impossible for anyone
to make personal profits out of
the exegeneies of war.
It is notorious that in every
war of the past many person:
have been profiteers, enrich
ing themselves while brave sol
diers and sailors serving for a
, pittance, yielded up their live?
or suffered from privations and
sustained personal losses in de
fense of their country.
Upon the initiative of thc
American Legion a joint reso
i lution has been passed by Con
gress and signed by the Presi
dent which provides for a com
mission to study the problem
i of taking profits out of war.
The idea is that if able-bodied
citizens must suffer loss and
lick their lives in the national
defense, capital and industry
; must also be pressed into serv
i ce without hope of any profit
whatsoever. A man rejected
i for military service for physic
al defects could not go into a
munitions plant at $15 to $30
per day, working only eight
i hours, while his able-bodied
brother served in trenches day
and night for $30 a month, as
happened in the late war.
It is to be hoped that the new
commission authorized by the
recent act will be able to
evolve a plan whereby these
glaring injustices of the past
may be abolished for all time.
In Chicago
! When the Chicago Tribune’s
I rLar police reporter, Alfred
' (Jake) Lingle, was shot down
and instantly killed by a gun
man in a crowded thorough
fare recently, that newspaper
was joined by other papers of
the city in offering a reward of
$55,000 for the apprehension
! of the slayer. It was consid
ered that Lingle’s murder was
a challenge to the press, be
1 cause of its warfare against
j gangdopi. The righteous in
! dignation felt by the Tribune
i and other new papers is read
| ily understood.
But later investigation has
; revealed a different situation.
It has been conclusively shown
that Lingle had used his posit
ion as a reporter for a ropu
| table newspaper to cloak hi:
participation in the spoils o!
I gangland. Although his sal
! ary was only $65 a week, he
| had made large deposits in
leach regularly at a certain
bank, had borrowed unusual
sums from politicians and eha
dy characters, and had in
1 dulged in extensive gambling
operations connected with the
underworld.
-The Tribune has set forth
these findings with candor
saying editorially that the in
vestigation “would indicate
Lingle was killed because he
was using the Tribune position
| to profit from criminal oper
i ations. Lingle now takes a dif
ferent chaiacter, one in which
he was unknown to the man
I agement of the Tribune when
he was alive.”
Chicago is a great city, with
perhaps as many estimable
| people in proportion to its pop
ulation as any other great city.
But its criminal minority has
! brought an unusual degree of
shame upon the whole body of
I its citizens. For the sake of the
predominant decent element oi
: Chicagoans it is to be hoped
that soon some strong leade:
may arise who can redeem the
city from the terrorism of
gangdom.
Jest for Fun
Perhaps Gandhi got his civil
disobedience idaa from om
American bootleggers. '
The lawyer’s best friend is
the fellow who thinks he can
make out his own will.
According to Pete Wilson
men put off things they ought
to do; women put off things
they ought to wear.
If the statesmen would’ stop
worrying so much about the
next war it might be less like
ly to happen.
A book entitled “Why We
Behave Like Human Beings”
has had an immense sale in
spite of the fact that most of us
don’t.
A Lincoln, Neb., girl sued a
boy friend who squeezed her
so hard as to break three ribs.
Those Nebraska boys sure pet—
and how!
A Britisher wants a course in
laughter introduced into the
schools. We used to get re
sults in this line with no more
equipment than a bent pin.
INTERESTING NOTES
Jimmy Zinn, pitcher for thf
San Francisco team of the Pa
cific Coast League, won the
first reported no-hit game of
the present baseball season.
C. C. McGonegal, who lost
both of his hands in the World
War, has been appointed post
master at Bell, Calif. In spite
of his crippled condition he
can drive an automobile and
pilot an airplane.
No one weighing less tliar
350 pounds is admitted to the
fat men’s club of Berlin. Karl
Sperling,weighing 434 pounds,
is the heaviest member.
Jack Dempsey, former heavy
weight champion, was made f
Master Mason in Kenwood
Lodge, Chicago, a few week:
ago.
The oldest hotel in Berlin i
named “King of Portugal,’
and has just celebrated tht
| 230th anniversary of its open
ing.
Cuba is creating a great nat
j ional park of 64,812 acres, ir
| which native animal and vege
! table life will be propagatec
i and protected.
Nearly two million person;
j live on houseboats and othei
i water craft in the vicinity ol
! Canton, China.
Eric Johnson and Florence
Smith made the voyage from
Bermuda to New York in a 15
foot sailboat, taking turns at
j steering their tiny craft.
—
William Green, president of
! the American Federation of
I Labor, in testimony before a
j House committee again assert -
I ed the opposition of his organ
! ization to all forms of commun
istic activity.
The 1930 class of Harvard
University numbered 1,965,
the largest class to be gradu
| ated during the 294 years of
the university’s existence.
A land tortoise on whose
back two boys, John and Her
man Riels, carved their initials
20 years ago, recently reap
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Chamber
oi
Commerce
Hyder, Alaska
Reliable Information
Relative To
PORTLAND CANAL
MINING DISTRICT
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peered near Dublin, Ala,
Culver City, Calif., a movie
j town, increased in population
j from 503 in 1920 to 5,088 in
' 1930, a jump of 1.011 per cent.
But Longview, Wash., not in
existence 10 years ago, now
j numbers 10,491—all increase.
WATCHES! WATCHES!
; Waltham 17 and 23 Jewels
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewels
i Elgin 7 and 15 Jewels
i Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.50 to $25.00
; Jewelry made to order, repair
| work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
Crosley Radios on Hand. Come
In And Look Them Over.
THE NUGGET SHOP
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Meets Second and Fourth
Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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