The Hyder Weekly Herald
Established 1924
Published Saturday at the Her
ald Building in Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. P. 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
Can We Escape a New War?
The daily press teems with
news stories indicating that
Europe is daily edging closer
to international strife. Japan
and Soviet Russia are plainly
at loggerheads and steadily ap
proaching a situation where
very little will be required to
start a struggle of vast propor
tions in the Far East.
This time, some say, we will
keep out of foreign war troub
les if they start. The question
is, can we do so without a dras
tic change in our previous in
ternational policies and public
attitude.
The last time foreign powers
underbook to- batter each
other’s heads, and incidentally
grab all the valuables they
could lay hands on, we elected j
a p-resident because he “kept!
us out iof the war and then
were forced into it after all.
The same thing can easily
happen again and probably
will, if the new war should
last more than a brief period
and be of major proportions.
We would be foolish to kid
ourselves into thinking that we
cannot be drawn into belliger
ency just as easily as we were
in 1917. A few overt acts
against our foreign commerce;
a sunken ship our two; an un
warranted aggression on what
we maintain are our interna
tional rights, and there we are
'right into it, just as we were
before.
So Jong as we resent affronts
to our flag; so long as
we maintain our traditional
policy of not permitting inter
ference with our foreign com
merce—which in the eyes of
some of our controlling inter
est is an equal or greater of
fense than an overt act against
our flag or the lives iof our citi
zens—long as we conceive
that we have a right to profit
by war through commercial
dealings with belligerent na
tions, we will ever be in danger
cf being drawn into any for
eign struggle that may arise;
whether we want to be or not.
Only by refusing to engage
in any form of commerce with
belligerents involving the use
of our shipping for delivery;
•only by our ci'tizena keeping'
out of the danger zones
and off belligerent ships; only
by declining to jeopardize the
national peace and safety by
insisting on flinging the flag
over capitalistic investments
abnoad; only by tending strict
ly to our own affairs at home,
can we have any certain assur
ance of escaping entanglement
in a foreign struggle of major
proportions and long endur
ance.
The lessons of our last war
experience are too obvious to
permit a sensible person to be
lieve otherwise.
The whole question rests up
on our national willingness to
observe the precautions men
tioned. No doubt most of us
would. Unfortunately there
are many others to whom greed
for blood-stained dollars is a
more powerful influence than
preservation of the national
peace. This element, which
represents the controlling forc
es of ,our nation, will riot be
likely to do so unless restrained
by a popular demand for neu
trality more potent than has
ever been displayed in the past.
And in this over-weening de
sire for war profits is to be
found an almost certain assur
ance that danger of our being
drawn into the next great wart
will be rio less than in the past.
Just for Fun
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Henry Ford is not a counter
feiter, but he sure knows how
to make dollars out of'tin.
Man is made of dust, or at
least some wives think their
husbands are.
It requires sixty-six muscles
to frown and sixteen to smile.
Why not smile and save the dif
ference.
Jones: “He’s a low-down
crook!”
Smith: Who’s a low-ckown
crook?’’
Jones: The man higher up!”
A subscriber asks us what is
the difference between a
Scotchman and a cocoanut.
Well, you can get a drink out
of a cocoanut.
INTERESTING NOTES
Consumption of English wal
nuts in the United States has
increased about 20 per cent in
five years.
The total cost of railroads in
Australia up to date is estim
ated at $1,600,000,000.
The art of glass making in
the United States has pro
gressed to such a stage that the
product of famous European
glass factories is being equaled.
TEN YEARS DR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
May 16, 1924.
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Richard F.' Hill, managing
engineer for the Lakeview Min
ing Go., has sent a crew of men
to the property .to* get things
in shape for active work this
sea-ion.
Patsy Hogan, known all over
the North as the “Irish Swede,”
is back after a ramble since
1921, iof something over 10,000
miles.
For the first time in the hist
ory of the camp, Premier took
an active part in the sports
program held in Stewart on
Victoria Day, fielding both
football and baseball teams
agains't Stewart teams and win
ning both events.
J. O. Stenbraten, bettor
known as “Stampede John,”
returned to camp Sunday, aft
er spending the winter in Mex
ico.
Capt. Ed. J. Williams brought
J. A. Talbot over from Ketchi
kan on the Taku II this week.
T. W. McDonald, local rep
resentative of the U. S. Mar-1
shal, has bought Owney Me-!
Fadden’s race horse.
Next Monday, two shifts will j
be put to work on the Star and
Dandy showing by Bob Martin. I
Jack Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald
Bros., locators of the Independ
ence and Titan properties, re
turned Sunday from a winter’s
vacation in the south.
The arrival on the last boat
of 40 workingmen in search of
jobs has caused the Stewart
Citizen’s Association to insert
advertisements in the Rupert,
Vancouver and Victoria news-1
paperstellingjob-seekers there I
are more workers in camp reo'w
than there are jobs, and to
keep away for the present at1
least.
All outside work on the Glac
ier Creek property is now about
completed, including the laying !
of 1600 feet of 2-inch air line i
from the Dunwell pipe line to i
the tunnel.
MENTAL NUTS
Can You Crack Them?
Mile Square and Square Mile—
A mile square is equal to a
square mile. I? Yi mile square
equal to Y-> of a square mile?
How Many Eggs—
A lot of eggs were purchased
for 12 cents; had there beenj
two more, they would have cost;
1 cent less per dozen.
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & 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. in.
Evening Service at 7:30 p. m.
Everyone is cordially invited to
* the services.
PORTLAND CANAL LODGfc
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
D. J. McLean, Dictator
P. S. Jack, Secretary
Meets Second and Fourth Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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