HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Telephone No. 32
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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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Tnis newspaper is not connected in any manner with any
stock brokerage firm or other establishmeat 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.
Only Hot Air
Those credulous and unso
phisticated souls who take the
speeches of Senators and Con
gressmen seriously may have
been rudely jarred if they
read a statement once made
by Senator Glass of Virginia,
who said:
“In all my experience of 28
years in Congress, I have never
known a speech to change a
vote.”
While this is a rather broad
assertion, it is practically true
A large percentage of the
speeches printed in the Con
gressional Record are just so
much hot air. Many of them
are never delivered at all, but
are written out and printed for
distribution “back home,” foi
the purpose of impressing the
voters with the great states
manship of their authors.
Aside from a few notabh
exceptions, the sole aim in lift
of Senators and Congressmei
is to get reelected. Every ut
terance and every vote is di
rected to-that end.
Therefore, oratory of col
leagues does not influence
them very much. They are
thinking always about what
their constituents will say, and
vote accordingly, regardless of
anybody’s speech.
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Help For A Sick World
America, preening herself on
her “rugged individualism”
and great wealth, lags behind
other nations in cooperation
for the common good, includ
ing our own good. It required
a near-panic to make our leg
islators urge the establishment
of a national economic council,
although European nations fo*
years have had such councils,
says a recent writer.
Mussolini places the Italian
economic council on a par with
the general staff of the army.
President Von Hindenberg ha.
established a personal econom
ic advisory council of the best
minds in Germany, notwith
standing that the Reichstag al
ready has an economic council.
France's relative prosperity
today is largely due to the in
telligent guidance of her ef
ficiently functioning economic
council. Great Britain has suf
feted as she has, largely be
cause she has failed to develop
the use of her own economic
council. We blunder along
without ever having had one.
Such harmful legislation as
the 1930 Tariff Act might have
been averted by the actions of
an economic council, consisting
of the best brains of every sec
tion of our national activity;
agriculture, commerce, manu
| facturing, banking, women la
jbor, economists, welfare
authorities, and so on.
Such a council, through a
secretary at Washington, could
be kept advised of proceeding;
n Congress and the activities
>i the lobbies surrounding
Congress, and could meet oc
•assionally for brief session;
it Washington, where each
peaking with authority oi
the subject on which he is in
ormed might expect to reach
i logical and sensible conclu
ion, taking into account the
nterests of all, and not only
the interetss of one at the ex
pense of all the oth«r».
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5ays Gold Is Becoming
A Commodity
Gold is becoming a commod
ty, like salt or tin or wool,
ind will cease to be a money
netal unless silver is remone
| tized. So the Vancouver Sun
predicts in a recent front-page
I two-column editorial.
Gold alone being inadequate
o serve the world as money,
he whole fiction of metallic
! noney may vanish into thin
lit. If the Orient can’t have
ilver money of a fair value,
! ome substitute based on cred
; t will have to be devised.
“Silver is demonetized, gold
I has become impotent,” the
I Vancouver daily insists. “It
; nay shock Americans to learn
I that their $5,000,000,000 pik
of gold is as valueless as the
143 carloads of silver cart
wheels that today clutter up
the treasury vaults of Wash
ington.”
Just for Fun
Americans entry more life
' insurance than any other peo
ple .And certainly need it.
| - '
Now a cash and carry liquor
: system is proposed. The troub
I le is that so few can carry the
[stuff with dignity.
| Crime among our alien pop
ulation might be decreased by
preventing their association
with our native population.
Dr. Will Durant says men
'over thirty are incapable of
\ loving. But some of the old
boys make a bluff that gets
by.
TRUTHFUL
[ I >ol —1)0 you think only of me
Onn—I'll he frank with you. Now
and then I think of Imsebull.
A lit-up driver is a poor
1 substitute for headlights.
Latin-American politics is
cleaner than ours. They sling
lead instead of mud.
I
A judge decides that motor
; ists must not run over dogs.
Maybe in time the ruling will |
! extend to pedestrians.
A lady author recommends
letter writing as “a safety
valve for lonely farm wom
en.” But it has proved unsafe
for a lot of lonely city men.
••Well, so long, Cook, where are you 1
going to spend your vacation?” “Go
ing to spend my vacation money
the seashore, and the rest of my vaca
lion at home.”
Let us hope that radio pro
grams also reached their
worst in 1931.
Americanism: Newspapers!
raving about free publicity j
while keeping bridge book j
authors on the front page for
weeks.
“Did you like the cigar I
gave you? For 500 coupons of
that brand you get a banjo.”
i “If I smoked 500 of those
cigars, I’d want a harp.”
1st Yegg: “ I need glasses.”'
2nd Yegg: “What makes!
you think so?”
1st Yegg: “Well, I was!
twirling the knob of a safe
last night and a dance orches
tra began to play.”
Pullman sleepers have been
introduced into Switzerland.
Those mountain climbers
ought to be able to scale the
upper berth with little diffi
culty.
TEN MRS OR S01G0
From the Hyder Alaska Miner
January 4, 1922
The Pioneer’s carnival has
come and gone, leaving the
Pioneer’s poke about $2,000
fatter than it was. Pioneer Hall
was lavishly decorated and
with numerous gambling de
vices, craps, faro, roulette,
black-jack, etc., reminded the
old-timers of the early days
when dance halls ran unre
stricted and gambling was in
dulged as a respectable inci
dental. “Phony” bills of large
denomination were sold to the
players for a nominal sum and
all the games were well pat
ronized. Extreme interest cen
tered in the selection of the
carnival queen as the time for
balloting drew to a close, and
as it became apparent that the
Hyder candidates were hope
lessly distanced, the efforts
centered on making the contest
between Ila Young of Stewart
and Elizabeth Pitt of Premier
a close one. The Premier con
tingent loyally supported the
little lady, who is seven years
old and the youngest of the
candidates, as well as the idol
of the mine and mill crews,
and overcame all opposition.
When the crowning ceremon
ies took place, the Queen,
dressed in ermine robes, ad
vanced through the hall es
corted by Grand Usher Arthur
Hall and attended by little
train-bearers, June and Mona
Mehlfeld. On reaching the
throne, Prime Minister Joe
Ulmer, placed the crown upon
her head and a gold nugget
necklace around her neck
amidst the cheers of the as
sembly. The vote for queen re
sulted as follows: Elizabeth
Pitt, 34,909; Ila Young, 17,
414; Elizabeth Baynton, 1,
927; Donna Balch, 1,472. The
following night a go as you
please dance was held, and j
Monday night the carnival
came to a close with a mas
querade which attracted al
most as large an attendance as
did the opening night. Four
prizes were given; the win
ners being Miss W. H. Watson
and Owney McFadden of
Stewart and Mrs. R. A. Lund
vall and Jack Scott, of Hyder.
On the opening night, prizes
were given to those winning
the largest amount of the bo
gus money and at the close of i
he celebration Mrs. Oren F.
Hill and Geo. Mehlfeld were j
named as the lucky ones.
Drawings were also held for I
the redemption of eight $25
bonds, standing against the
igloo, and those to receive their
money back are Chas. Skon
ing, Reid and Legge, Louis
Legge (2), Dan Davis, Frank
Reichenbach, Geo. Bunn ailf
E. E. Charlton.
Plans for the construction
of a wharf in Hyder have
been completed and the work
of driving the piling will com
mence about March 1st. The
wharf will be truilt by Capt.
Ed. J. Williams, of Ketchikan,
and Fred Dory, of Hyder. Per
mission from the War Depart
ment was granted recently.
The wharf will cost in the
neighborhood of $5,000 and
will be located close to where
the Salmon Valley road con
structed by the government
will strike deep water. The
government is to build an ap
proach approximately 2,200
feet in length into Hyder. The
government work will cost in
the neighborhood of $20,000.
The Weather Bureau has
been in existence more than
40 years, but it hasn’t im
proved the weather very
much.
INTERESTING NOTES
Wheat shipments from New
Orleans during October were
nearly double the shipments
of the same month last year.
Three natural gas fields have
been found in the western cen
tral part of New York State
in the last two years.
Public typewriters in Germ
any allow 1,000 strokes to an
operator on insertion of a coin
in a special attachment.
About 75 per cent of the
talkies exhibited in Portugal
are of American origin.
Chile is the largest coal pro
ducer of any Latin American
nation and Mexico ranks sec
ond.
Tests by the Forest Service
have shown that hickory is
the heaviest wood grown in
the "United States, and western
red cedar, when green, the
lightest.
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pull output, uses new cell “A” bac
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to charge—$49.50 complete, less bat
teries.
The Crosley Play Boy—Eight tube
superbetrodyne pentode, screen grid,
moving coil dynamic speaker—com
plete $52.25.
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FRANK A, METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
CHAS .F. SAHDFORD
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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Howard Campbell, Dictator
P. S. Jack, Secretary
Meets Second and Fourth Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in 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 •
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