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
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Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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T.iis newspaper is not connected in any manner with any
stock brokerage firm cr other establishment associated in or
interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
formation relative to local mining development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Says Conspiracy Existed
To Prolong Depression
Commenting recently on the
railroad problem, Railway Age
voiced the view of many that
insofar as the United States is
concerned much of the present
business and industrial stagnat
ion is due to other causes than
those so platitudinously as
cribed by the alleged economic
experts and the equally unreli
able financial overlords by op
enly declaring that a conspir
acy existed to make the de
pression “as long and deep as
possible.. It said:
“When the depression began,
two years ago there was a gen
eral conspiracy to make it as
long and deep as possible. It
was not recognized at the time
that there was such a conspir
acy, but it has been only too
successful. The conditions de
manded numerous important
readjustments, which almost
everybody from Washington to
Podunk united to prevent, join
ing in a chorus of Pollvanna to
convince themselves that the
conditions requiring readjust
ment did not exist. Economic
forces are stronger than Polly
anna. They are more power
ful even than Pollyanna plus
the government masquerading
as Santa Claus. At last almost
the entire nation has awakened
to a realization that conditions
inimical to business must be
changed to restore confidence,
not merely ignored.”
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De-bunking the Text Books
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas
J. Dickson, who was senior
chaplain of the A. E. F. in
France, recently inspected 52
American text-books contain
ing accounts of the Great War,
practically of which he de
nounces as giving “distorted,
ridiculous, absurd and stupid”
ideas of that struggle.”
In these books our children
are taught that the United
States soldiers won the war,
and the impression is given
that they were superior to all
other fighting men engaged.
Such pretensions, he says, un
less corrected, doom us to be
come the laughing stock of the
world.”
“We have record that any
nation can be proud of,” Colon
el Dickson says, “and we don’t
need to exaggerate what we
did or belittle the others—not
even the Germans.”
Unfortunately, writers of
history text-books write them
primarily to sell, and they ap
pear to think, perhaps correct
ly, that the greater the appeal
to national vanity the better
jhance the book will have to be
adopted for school use. Hence
many of these text-books give
the impression that every
American general was a mod
j ern Alexander, and every
American soldier another Arn
old Winkelried.
The truth is that while Amer
ican soldiers have always giv
en a good account of them
selves in battle they have not
been greatly different from
other soldiers, all circumstanc
es considered. When properly
trained and equipped, the
American soldier is equal to
any in the world, and superior
to many. Without such train
ng and equipment he is at a
decided disadvantage, as our
own officers freely admit.
Much that passes as Ameri
can history is as apocryphal as
the story of Washington and
the cherry tree. Chaplian Dick
son has performed a patriotic
service in pointing out some of
the bunk that is being taught
under the gui.se of historical
fact.
Just for Fun
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A heretic is one who does not
share our pet superstitions.
Marrying parsons often come
dangerously near abetting a
lottery.
It. appears that most favorite
sons themselves father the idea
that they are favorite sons.
Even if we could see ourselv
es as others see us, we probably
wouldn’t believe our own eyes.
One disadvantage in being a
Christian nation is the high
cost of a modern army and
navy.
It is said that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place,
but sometimes the liquid kind
does.
Having the right o f way
doesn’t help much when there
is an idiot at the steering wheel
of the other car.
An exchange tells of an effic
iency expert who recommend
ed his own discharge in the
interest of economy.
It seems that Muscle Shoals
was designed to produce mun
itions in time of war and fert
ilizer talk in time of peace.
The American peanut crop
comes from the South, but the
crop of peanut politicians is
not restricted to any particular
section.
A legislator has written a
piece on “Learning to be a
Congressman.” But Congress
men are more interested in
learning how to stay that way.
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Answers To Subscribers
No, Maude; making a house
to house canvass does not mean
stretching an awning between
two buildings.
A stabilizer is not a man who
! takes care of horses, and an
i early settler does not mean a
; man who pays his bills prompt
ly on the first of the month.
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INTERESTING NOTES
Twenty-six million ears are
now in operation in the United
States.
_
More than one million per
sons visited Indiana state parks
in 1931.
The collection of exhibits in
the National Museum at Wash
ington is valued at more than
$120,000,000.
There are 138 dairy organ
izations in Illinois, where the
dairy industry is valued at
$75,000,000.
A lighted airway is to be
built between Albany, N. Y.,
; and Boston, by way of Spring
field, Mass., a distance of more
than 160 miles.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
May 10, 1922.
A. Pasco has gone into the
coal business and has built a
warehouse at the head of Main
Street on Volunteer Drive.
Dave Allan, pioneer baker of
the town, returned Thursday
and is back on his old job in
the Alaska Cafe.
Harry Comer has entirely
covered his lot in Hyder, B. C.,
with a substantial foundation
and plans t o erect a large
building in the fall.
Lee Balch took a nasty tum
ble from the roof of the Camp
bell building Saturday morn
ing but escaped serious injury.
Armed with a search warrant
Deputy United States Marshal
T. W. McDonald searched the
North Star cigar store^for in
toxicating liquor, but found
none.
Rube Miller last Saturday
morning plead guilty to a
jharge of assault and battery
preferred by his wife, and i
Commissioner Frame levied a j
fine of $50 and costs, which
was paid.
John Prosser, cook on the
freighter Griffco, died early
Saturday morning as the ship
was steaming u p Portland
Canal to this port to load ore.
The body w a s buried here
Monday, but will be shipped to
Seattle when a metal casket
arrives. The cause of his death
is not known.
Cyril Jackson and John Bernd*
gen returned Friday from
Bowser Lake, where they
buried the body of James Hol
den, who was found dead last
March in a camp from which
he had been trapping. Holden
left no written word which
would explain the cause of his
death and nothing of value was
found in the camp except two
beaver skins, which were under
the body.
In Commissioner Frame’s
court this afternoon, Richard
Bell, of the International road
house, was found guilty of vio
lating the Alaska bone dry law
and sentenced to pay a fine of
5500 and serve three months.
The jury was composed of J.
A. Hall, foreman, Jas. S. Pitch
er, E. L. Dale, W. L. Balch, F.
C. Lawrence, Clyde Hager, J.
Gunderson, P. R. Backus, R. E.
Lundvall, T. H. Evans, Ben
Oien and Chas. G. Skoning.
The new driveway from First
Street t o Volunteer Drive,
which was being built by H. H.
Howard, A. A. Frazer and M.
R. Jamieson t o not only im
prove their own property but
also benefit the whole of the
piled area by providing against
traffic cogestion at the in
tersection of First and Main
streets, where vehicles are nowr
compelled t o turn around in
order t o leave this part of
town, was closed on the night
of May 4, under instructions
from District Attorney A. G.
Shoup. This action has caused
a storm of protest from prop
erty holders.
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FRANK A. METCALF
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U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
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CHAS .F. SANDFORD
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
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