HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Published Every Wednesday.
Application made for entry at the post office at Hyder, Al
aska, as second class matter, under the Act of March 8,
1879.
Chas. F. Sandford. Editor.
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
The Herald extends to its
reauers oe.it wishes for a hap
py and prosperous New Year,
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At least bad luck makes
very goad conversation.
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Wouldn’t it be great if the
Christmas spirit prevailed dur
ing the other three hundred
and srxty four days?
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Not bvains, but the use of
them that counts. A pig has
brarns but they are really val
uable in sandwiches.
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What this country needs is
shse strings that last as long
as shoes.
The greatest manufacturer of
a: tom bMes has well said that
we can’t have both booze and
meter car j and long exist. Like
v'!ee it is said by the epigram
m’ t that “Booze and Gasoline
won’t m:x.” It’s a shame that
it’s not true. They will mix
and he m’xture is often injury
or death to the mixers, or more
often it is sad to relate, to inno
cent pedestrians or fellow
m >torist3. The man w-ho at
tempts to operate so potential
17 dangerous a piece of ma
chinery as an automobile wrhile
under the influence of liquor is
a dangerous character, and
his felony-for such it is-should
be severely punished at all
times. The drunken driver
shovll be driven from the high
ways.
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It seems that almost every
thing has its uses. Static, that
bugbear of all radio fans, has
now been put to work, and is
proving of real value to naval
aviators, who are using it in
the warmer climates to detect
brew’ng thunderstorms and to
fellow their movements. They
tune in on the static to its max
imum intensity and by chang
ing ihe!r loop secure the locat
ion of the storm and the direct
ion if is going, together with its
speed. Not only for aviators
but fer seafarers is this use of
stat’c a”'1 the radio of except
ional value.
V
I With the rapid increase in
population, in the small town is
coming into its own. Small
towns can rejoice at every in
crease in population of the big
town, because with such in
crease comes pushing out of
its population into the smaller
communities, and especially is
the lesson driven home that
the small town is ideal for free
breathing and clean living.
The reason is plain. Congested
cities are not as desirable for
homes as suburban localities,
unless one is able to own a
home along millionaire row.
Again, smokestacks and tall
buildings make for efficiency
but do not necessarily for vir
tue.
The day is fast coming when
the smaller community can
provide for the needs of citi
zenship as well or better than
the great city. It has great
open spaces, while the city has
not. Its libraries, schools,
churches, are more accessible
just as efficient, and are with
out the distractions common to
more populous areas. Greatest
of them all, the small town
provides an opportunity for
friendship, for knowing and
! meeting and greeting the other
fellow, that always will re
main an unchallenged asset
over that of the city. It is the
; eternal struggle of quality over
quantity.
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Commencing with the pres
ent issue, the Herald will pub
lish a series of highly interest
ing advertisements dealing
jwth the fish canning industry
of Alaska-an industry which,
like the great meat packing in
dustry, has been the object of
much misrepresentation and
; unjust villification.
The politician, the demagog
ue, the corporaton baiter and
the opponents of all vested
wealth have for years used the
cannery interests of the Ter
ritory as a target. In a major
ity of instances these attacks
were based more upon pre
judice and misinformation
than fact.
Until very recently, mislead
by the misrepresentative tales
broadcasted by those who
were either misinformed or
who had an object to gain, the
public believed that'the meat
packing industry was extract
ing an enormous and unjust
ifiable profit from the pock
ets of the people, until it was
shown by federal and other in
vestigations that, although the
profits of the packing indust
ry were great in the aggregate
the packers, in reality, were
making an almost infinitesimal
! profit on each pound of meat
| handled. When it became def
initely understood that they re
ceived only about one-eighth
of a dollar expended for meat
and that instead of being pi
ratical plunderers of the pub
lic purse they were in reality
highly beneficial institutions
and actually saved the people
i money through the medium of
their highly developed pack
ing, storage and transportat
ion facilities, the hue and cry
against them was speedily dis
sipated.
The Alaska fish packing in
dustry-the Territory’s great
est industry-has been and is
today in much the same situat
ion as were the packers before
enlightenment and common
sense combined to relieve them
of the cpprobium cast upon
them by much the same class
as now seeks to exploit with
the same purposes in view the
Alaska packing industry. And
it is for the purpose of enlight
ening the Alaska public as to
the true facts concerning the
industry that pays in taxes
more than 59 per cent of the
total revenues of the Territory;
that provides work for a great
number of Alaska residents,
and instead of being a ruthless
and rapacious exploiter of the
Territory’s resources is in re
ality the factor that makes the
salmon in Alaskan waters of
value to the Territory and the
world, that the series of adver
tisments are to be published
in a majority of the Territorial
newspapers during coming
months.
Read every one of them as
they appear and you will not
only be interested in the graph
ic story they tell but very much
enlightened by the facts and
figures they present concern
ling this great industry.
To remedy any abuses that
may justly be charged against
| the canning industry the pub
lic must first of all have a
proper understanding of the
facts and it is with this aim in
view that the advertisments
are published.
A certain outside church
prints on the back of its pro
gram of services these words:
“I will not worry.
“I will not be afraid.
“I will not give way to anger.
“I will not yield to envy,
jealousy or hatred.
“I will be kind to every man,
woman and child with whom I
come in contact.
“I will be cheerful and hope
ful.
“ I will trust in God and
bravely face the future.”
Some will scoff and some
will laugh but they are worth
attention just the same
About all there is in life worth
striving for is suggested in
these few lines. Houses, lands,
bonds, automobiles are fine
possessions. But far more prec
jious still to anyone, in any
station, are the measures of
the mind and soul-composure,
courage, cheerfulness, toler
ance, kindness, hope-all these
and faith in something high
jer than that which the eyes
'see and the hands hold.
Just For Fun
The Blueberry Kid says it j
may be hard for a rich man to !
enter Heaven, but its just
about as hard for a poor man
to stay on earth.
There are 3,000,000 laws,
and Paddy says you can obey
all of them and still be an ass.
Sampson was the first adver
tiser. He went strong and
took out two columns.
Customer: “Have you any
Lincoln Shock Absorbers for
‘Coles?’”
Thomas: “No, sir, but we
have some Bromo Quinine for
cold.”
Fools rush in where wise men
fear to wed.
Cheap alarm clocks are the
best. Sometimes they don't go
off.
“What this country needs is
not a job for every man, but,
; Merl says, a real man for every
I job.”
: They say that if you feel |
| itchy that’s a sure sign you’re
; going to get something But it
! is not so. It means that you al
ready have it.
i One contrib wants to know if
he should enclose stamps for
return of his manuscript if we
can’t use it. Sure send in the
stamps. As a matter of fact,
:the stamps are the most im
portant thing.
; Although many men have
started in with nothing but a
shoestring we think suspend
ers are safer.
The happiest homes are those
where the piano keys are
sticky.
A teacher recently received
the following from the mother
of an absent pupil.
“Dere mum; please eggscuse
Willy. He didn’t have only
but one pair of trousers an’ I
kep him home to wash them,
an’ Mrs. O’Toole’s goat come
and et them off the line an’
that awt to be eggscuse enuff
goodness nose.--Yours with re
speck, Mrs. B.”
SO
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