The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
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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History Repeats
Even as the prophet Jere
miah cried out angrily in the
Temple at the wealthy and
powerful of Jerusalem: “Great
have ye become, and stout and
rich. But the fatherless cry
cut against ye, and the humble
and the needy bear witness to
your transgressions,” so do the
masses of today raise voices of
deprivation and suffering
against the small aggregation
of men who have accumulated
for themselves control of most
of the nation’s wealth and re
sources, mainly through a sys
tem of exploiting the real pro
ducers of wealth by confiscat
ing an undue proportion of all
that labor and the land pro
duce.
No less an authority than one
of the great government de
partments announced a year or
so ago that tess than 700 fam
ilies in the United States re
ceived each year more of the
annually earned wealth of the
nation than all the rest of the
120-odd million people com
prising our population.
Has ever a more damning in
dictment of predatory wealth
been uttered than this?
Who can justly blame the
boilers for feeling resentment
against a system under which
a mere handful of people are
able to wring from the toil and
sweat and hardships of their
fellows the greater part of all
the wealth they are able to pro
duce, and without themselves
doing one single thing which
could even be remotely classed
as actually creating wealth?
How could such a condition
as shown in those government
al figures be achieved except
by taking unfair advantage of
those who toil, who actually
produce, and who, with the
land are the real source of all
created wealth.
Many excuses are offered by
the high priests of the great
temple of Finance, but the fact
remains that an unfair advan
tage and a form of robbery
must underlie a system which
enables a few to take from the
the many four-fifths of all that
is produced.
Time will change it all, of
course. Such a system cannot
endure in a world where men
are able to see and think and
realize the injustice of it all.
Just for Fun
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The only voice many a man
has in the furnishing of his
home is the invoice.
Many a man who thinks he
has a great aim in life is shoot
ing at a mighty small target.
It would be fine if there was
some way to drop a check on
the showcase to tell whether it
was good.
Wifie: “And if I were to die
tomorrow, you’d marry some
other woman immediately.”
other woman immediately!”
Hubbie: “Aw—not right away.
I’d take a little rest first.”
Did you hear about the
Scotchman who had only wie
of his twins'photographed be
cause he did not want to spend
the money to get both photo
graphed when they looked so
much alike.
The office boy entered the
editorial sanctum and said:
“Say, boss, there’s a tramp out
side who says he hasn’t had
anything to eat for six days.”
“Bring him in,” said the edit
or. “If we can find out how
he does it we can run this pap
er for another week.”
Johnny saw some tripe on dis
Johnny 'saw some tripe on
display in the butcher shop and
asked his mother what it was.
“Tripe, dear,” she answered.
“That’s funny/’ said Johnny.
“Dad says that’s what we get
over the radio.
“Would youmindwalkingthe
other w’y and not passing the
‘orse?” said a London cabman
with exaggerated politeness to
I the fat lady who had just paid
a minimum fare.
“Why?” she inquired.
“Because, if ‘e sees wot ‘es
been carryin’ for a shilling ‘e’U
‘ave a fit.”
INTERESTING NOTES
The shipyard in Newport
News, Va., reputed to be the
largest in the world, employs
5,680 persons, according to a
recent census.
Travel to the national parks
and monuments in 1931 broke
j all records with a combined
[total of 3,544,856 visitors.
j The total population of Can
Iada under the June, 1931, cen
sus, was approximately 10,
360,000.
One of the largest concrete
' bridge spans in the world is
being built near Stockholm,
Sweden, and is 594 feet long
90 feet wide and 80 feet high.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
March 14, 1924
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The steamer Cordova brought
in a Fordson Trailmobile and
machinery for the Riverside
mine this week.
H. A. Haywood, manager of
Terminus, Ltd.,is here making
arrangements to commence de
velopment work on that prop
erty.
Dennis Dwyer, Wm. Frazer
and Johnny Ryan have taken
in supplies to the Wire Gold
property on Marmot River and
are continuing the tunnel start
ed last season.
The case of W. S. Sullivan
vs. Chas. Carlson and Jas.
Hewitt, claiming a one-third
interest in the Ibex group on
Texas Creek, under an alleged
grubstake agreement, was dis
missed in the district court at
Ketchikan this week.
Clay Porter reported good
progress being made in the tun
nel being driven on the high
grade ore vein discovered last
summer on the Porter-Idaho
property. He expects to have
100 tons of ore ready to take
out by the time pack trains can
reach the mine.
The packers taking in sup
plies to the Independence have
been badly handicapped dur
ing the past few days by a
heavy fall of snow, but are
making good headway. Angus
McLeod, former superintend
ent of the Fish Creek and Alas
ka-Virginia, has gone up to
take charge <of operations.
MENTAL NUTS
Can You Crack Them?
The Fish Question—
Tell the length of this fish.
Head is one-third as long as the
body. Tail is one-fourth as
long as head and body. The
body is six inches longer than
the tail.
The Clock Hands—
At 12 o’clock the hour and
the minute hands are together.
When will it next occur?
(Answers next week)
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Answers to last problems
The Turning Wheel—
Turning on the ground, yes;
on a shaft, no.
The Cow And Horse—
Cow, hind legs first; horse,
front legs first.
Bargain Day—
He lost 4 per cent. f \
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FRANK A. METCALF
am & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
Hyder
* Methodist Episcopal
* Church
* Rev. F. Bushfield, Pastor.
* Hyder Methodist Episcopal Church
* 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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