HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
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Some Plain Talk
One of the strongest protests
that has been voiced in opposit
ion to the ever increasing ex
pense of government was con
tained in a memorial to Cong
ress by the Federation of
American Business a few days
ago. It included these plain
words:
“You have balanced your
books by borrowing. Deliber
ate over-appropriation in ex
pectation of recourse to bor
rowing for ordinary and recur-j
ring expense invites financial
disaster. Your last offering of j
Treasury notes was barely ov
er-suberibed. It is perfectly
obvious that your credit is
burning up.”
The conditions of which the
Federation complains is to be
brought home to the taxpayers
when they study the new rev
enue bill increasing their tax
burdens by both direct and in
direct levies. The imposition
of this further burden is bound
to retard, even if it does not!
entirely prevent, the recovery
cf business and industry.
But if the Federal govern
ment is extravagant and waste
ful, the various state govern
ments are even more so, while
county and municipal govern
ments are in many cases vir
tually bankrupt as a result of
reckless spending.
During the last few years the
creation and extension of de
partments, bureaus, boards,
commissions and other tax
spending agencies, with their
increasing army of employees,
has become a veritable public
menace. Worst of all, many of
these agencies are devoted
chiefly to harassing and op
pressing the very business men
and other taxpayers who have
to foot the bill.
There is an increasing de
mand for the balancing of all
government budgets. T his;
should be done, not by increas
ing taxes, but by reducing ex
penses. And the time to begin
is now.
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Scoffs At Daily Dozen
To those of us who do not rel
ish a lot of physical culture ex-'
ercises before breakfast or at|
any other time, a recent pro
nouncement by Dr. Jesse F.
Williams, professor of physic
al education at Teachers Col
lege, New York, comes as a
message of cheer.
Dr. Williams declares that
early rising to the accompani
ment of an alarm clock, going
through wearisome setting-up
exercises and enduring a cold
bath is “silly, superstitious ancl
artificial.”
Because of the mass of phys
ical culture propaganda with
which we have been deluged
in recent years, we have come
to believe that any sort of pain
ful contortions which w e
loathe must be good for us. It
Is doubtful whether those who
ndulge in these fads are any 1
healthier or longer lived than
he :e who go through life nat
urally and painlessly.
Anyway, we hope Dr. Will-1
lams is right, and as his advice
:s easy to follow, we imagine
that a good many will give it i
a thorough trial by forgetting
the daily dozen and other cere- j
monies prescribed by the fad
dists.
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Remonetize Silver
(Wallace, Idaho, Press-Times)
The production of silver in
he United States during 1931
was about 31,000,000 ounces,1
a decrease of 18,000,000 ounc-!
os from the previous year. The
value of last year’s production
was 89,000,000. I f silver j
should be remonetized at the
ratio of 16 to 1, as provided by i
he bill recently introduced by
Senator Wheeler of Montana,
he market price of silver
would be increased about one
dollar an ounce. In other words
or such a year as 1931 the i
United States silver producers
would obtain about $30,000,
)00 in additional revenue.
Suiely this does not seem a
rig price to pay for silver in
/iew of the untold benefits j
which would arise from an in
crease in the amount of hard
:ash in the country. This be
neficent and paternal govern
ment spent last year four or j
five hundred millions of dol
lars in a vain effort to stabil
ize the price of wheat and cot
on. In addition, our farmers
nave been loaned more than
pS,600,000,000 by private and
T-TTTET
semi - governmental agencies,
secured by mortgage loans on
their properties.
The proponents of silver are
rot or’cing rny direct 9id fror?
he federal trcrsuiy, that is
1 i'-com the United State's i
er. Remonetization of silver
would not take a dollar from
anyone.
Just for Fun
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| Success as a politician de
' pends largely on being able to
| recognize the band wagon at
! first sight.
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It is said that “money talks.”
But not when it is hoarded.
We hear no suggestion that
the five-day week be extended
to housewives.
No wonder poor Eve didn’t
use her head, considering what
it was made of.
Laws represent the will of
the people, but too often it is
the will of the wrong people.
The new “lame-duck” law
may enable the lame ducks to
get their federal appointive
jobs sooner.
HER REWARD
I
r
"My wife reads tlie marriage indices
onrefully every day. Wouldn't miss a
day for worlds.”
"Why not':"
‘■till, about once every six years
somebody gets married that she
knows."
There are still a few living
who can remember when there
was no Mussel Shoals problem
before Congress.
Excessive horse power under
the hood is dangerous if not ac
companied by corresponding
horse sense under the hat.
Federal and state govern
ments might raise some badly
needed revenue by taxing leg
islators for the privilege of in
troducing fool bills.
THOSE DEAR GIRLS
“fieorge asked me to marry him." i
“I'm sorry to hear It.”
"Why?"
“Poor fellow he told me only last
week that if he couldn't raise money ;
by yesterday, he'd have to do some- 1
thing desperate."
Bread may not be sold in Ger-1
many until it is 24 hours old. j
No such restriction hampers
American moonshiners in dis
posing of their product.
To Distant Parts
A grou.pi of visitors were go
ing through the county jail and !
a burly negro trusty was called
to open doors for them.
“How do you like it here?"
one of the women asked.
“Like it, ma’am? If Ah ever
gets out, Ah’ll go so fer from
here it’ll take $9 to sen’ me a
postal card, ma’am."
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
'rr'''rr\ A'srVt
Marrh 22. 1?2?
Dr. W. E. Mulhollan, for
many years the leading dentist
of Juneau, arrived Sunday and
has opened an office in Mrs.
Campbell’s rooms on Internat
ional avenue. Both Hyder and
Stewart have been without o
dentist for many months.
Twenty-five thousand dollars’
worth of Premier ore now lies
at the bottom of Observatory
Inlet, about four miles from
Anyox, where it was to have
been landed for the Granby
•melter. The loss occurred
through a scow, loaded with
ore and towed by the tug Tar
tar, turning turtle, presumably
on account of being water
logged.
L. Holtan, owner of the prop
erty left by the defunct Hyder
Water, Light and Power Co.,
j left Sunday for Seattle and
i hopeis to make arrangements
j while Outside to finance the
| project originated by Geo. W.
Nelson to provide Hyder with
a water system. The company,
n the summer of 1920, built a
dam arcoss a small creek a
hoit distance north of Hyder,
and formed a reservoir contain
ing 1,500,000 gallons, with a
reserve flow sufficient to sup
j ply the needs of a population
I of 2,000.
Months ago Captains Will
iams and Clary of Ketchikan,
and Fred Dorey of Hyder ap
plied for a permit to build a
dock here. The matter hung
fire and it seemed that no j
progress could be made in such
a simple matter. Then Dorey I
wired Delegate Sutherland
and received a wire the next1
day that he had taken the mat
ter up with Col. Steese. Later
came another wire that the ap- j
plication was receiving favor- j
able consideration and Friday
a third message that the per
mit had been granted. This
was followed almost immedi
ately by a message from the
U. S. Engineering office that
the permit was approved and 1
would arrive within the next m
two weeks.
Meanwhile Dorey has had a '
crew employed taking out pil- |
ing and now has enough for j
the dock and 300 feet of ap-!
proach in the water. He is go-1
ing ahead and getting out the j
balance of the piling and says J
he is sure that the dock will be !
finished in time to take care of
the summer traffic this year.
C. S. Baker and R. L. Cloth
ier have taken a three-year
lease on the Kansas group of
three claims o n American
creek, about 14 miles from
Stewart. The Kansas was
worked under lease a few
years ago by Jack Watkins,
who shipped about 18 tons of
high grade silver ore from a
shoot he opened up in a three
loot lead.
At present 100 tons of Pre
mier high grade ore, $100 a
ton or better, goes to the Ta
coma smelter. From 50 to 100
tons daily goes to the Granby
smelter at Anyox, B. C. This
is silicious ore assaying about
$50 a ton. About 100 to 120
tons of ore, that with the high
est pyrite content, ranging
from $30 to $60 in grade, goes
to the Premier mill. Such has
been the arrangement since the
aerial tramway from the mine
to tidewater went into operat
ion about January 1. For sev
eral months prior to the com
pletion of the tram ore rang
ing from $110 to $160 in assay
value was milled.
INTERESTING NOTES
Tt is that •or\“
hird • *f tl i. rfrplsne pos.en
I'oiv- in On*ifo«hIr or. v.viuen.
Pills are made at the rate of
3,000 a minute by a new ma
chine that mixes their ingredi
ents and turns them out with
colored coating.
About 30,000,000 pounds of
dynamite are used annually in
the construction of highways
in the United States.
A process has been developed
in Europe by which steam is
used to clean old statues and
fine stone work.
To foil bandits, a Californian i
has invented a bank teller’s
cage that permits a person on
the outside to see only a re
flection of the occupant in a
mirror.
OUTSTANDING RADIO VALUES
The New Crosley Battery Show Boy—
Screen grid, new 2-volt tubes, push-:
pull output, uses new cell “A” but
tery, no light current, no batteries
to chat ge—$49.50 complete, less bat
teries.
The Crosley Play Boy— Right tube
superhetrodyne pentode, screen grid,
moving coil dynamic speaker—com
plete $52.25.
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Jewelry made to order—repair work,
anything in jewelry at short notice.
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PROFESSIONAL
eZErrcesiit JEer
Zikwncz rii ZEIT-s
HALBER ZEIT-Am
FRANK A. METCALF
QVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
CHAS .F. SANDFORO
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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Howard Campbell, Dictator
P. S. Jack, Secretary
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Second Thursday'in Hyder
Fourth Thursday III Stewart
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* - Rev. H. R. Cross, Pastor •
* Sunday School at 10:30 a. m. •
* Evening Service at 7:30 p. m. •
* Everyone is cordially invited to •
* the services. •
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