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.
Subscription price $3.00 per
year in advance by mail or
carrier.
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An Independent Newspaper
The Russian Experiment
The great Russian experi
ment continues to go forward
to its ultimate destiny. What
that destiny is to be only
Time, that great resolver of
mundane things, can tell.
Meanwhile the voice of so
called Capitalism is raised in
'bitter denunciation over the
terrible dangers of attempting
to bring about an improvement
in the present economic and
social order; in other words
to make the world a better and
a more just place for human
ity to live in. Every visible
fault or defect of the new sys
tem instituted by the Sovi its
is generously magnified or
distorted into a frightful bogie
to create distrust and suspicion
and hostility against it.
But for the fact that Russia
is strong enough to cope with
any foreign antagonist, there
is hardly a doubt that open ef
forts would be made to to ut
terly crush and dismember it
by methods more forcible than
propaganda.
Yet, whatever its faults may
be-and what system does not
have them aplenty?- it is stilt
a most wonderful and far
reaching experiment which, in
our opinion, should be left
alone by outsiders and permitt
ed to prove itself. If it is a
wrong or impractical system it
will ultimately fail because of
its deficiencies, as all recorded
history of mankind’s projects
proves. If it measures up to
the expectations of its promul-1
gators it will doubtless mark
the beginning of a new world j
economic and social order
which would probably be an
improvement over a system
which has as its chief pillars
the bondage of the many to the
rapacity and injustice of the
few.
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Candy and Books
Excepting text-books for |
school children, the average j
American buys less than one !
book a year, while spending1
$10 for candy during the .ome
period, according to a l c • rnt
writer.
This statement is somewhat
surprising, as is the further
fact that among the lead.ng
nations the United States
stands sixth in the number of
new books 'published annually.
This refers to separate titles,
not to the total number printed.
Another strange fact in this
connection is that Russia leads
in the number of new titles pro
duced, in a recent year issuing
36,680, followed in order by
Germany with 31,000, Jap^n
with 19,967, Great Britain
with 13,810, France with 11,
992, and the United States with
10,153.
Just for Fun
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The ideal marriage is when a
man finds a beautiful girl and
a good housewife, says a phil
osopher. And we always
thought that was bigamy.
A woman we know says she
is troubled because her hus
band talks in his sleep— and
mumbles so she can’t under
stand him.
When the Hometown Pap--. -
Doesn’t Come
My Father says the Advo
cate ain’t put up just right,
He finds a lot 'of fault, he does,
perusin’ it all night.
He says there ain’t a -:,igle
thing in it worthwhile to read.
And that it doesn’t prinl the
kind of stuff the people need.
He tosses it aside and says it’s
strictly on the bum—
But you ought to hear him hol
ler when the paper doesn’t
come.
He reads about the weddin’s
and sports like all get out,
He reads the Social doin’s with
a most derisive shout,
He says they make the paper
for the women folks alone,
He’ll read about the parties
and he’ll fume and fret and
groan;
He says of information it does
not have a crumb—
But you ought to hear him hol
ler when the paper doesn’t j
come.
He’s always first to grab it and
he reads it plumb clean thru.
He doesn’t miss an item or a
want ad—this is true.
He says they don’t know what j
we want, the dumb newspap
er guys,
I’m going to take a day some
time and go and put them
wise;
Sometimes it seems as though
they must be blind and deaf
and dumb;
But you ought to hear him hol
ler when the paper doesn’t
come.
We don’t know who wrote it,
but it should do some of our
wise old birds good to read it.
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TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
December 14, 1923
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Jack Fitzgerald left Monday
on a visit to Seattle.
Gust Johnson is putting the
finishing touches on his new
building on Front Street.
Frank Nagel and Harry Ho
gan have put their autos to
sleep for the winter and have
gone teaming for the Premiei.
Billy Wing, brother of Mrs.
Harry Tanner, who has been
here several months, left Sun
day for his home in Seattle.
Peck McSwain, veteran Stew
art printer, suffered a partial
stroke of paralysis Wednesday
night that affects the whole of
his left side.
Developments on the Indian
have reached s most interest-;
ing stage, in that the property
is rapidly passing from the ad
vanced prcopect class to that of
a shipping mine, and the pres
ent winter wil', apparently
i without doubt, place it in the
shipping lists.
The old Portland Canal mine
has been taken over by a
strong English mining group. !
: according to word received in 1
Stewart. The deal is said to
embrace 12 claims of the Port
land Canal Mining Company
and Portland Canal Tunnels
Company, the latter holdings
including 8 claims.
The storm last week blew ov- i
er one of Joe Green’s houses
near the foot of Main Street, i
landing it on the tide flats. !
INTERESTING NOTES
Nearly 100 motion picture
theatres in Central America
are equipped to reproduce
sound films.
There are estimated to be j
10.000 Americans living in
China, of whom nearly one-:
half are missionaries and their!
families.
France has become the sec
ond largest producer of motor
cycles, ranking next to Great
Britain and being followed by ;
Germany and the United !
States.
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Approximately 3,750,000,
000 pennies are minted each
year by the United States l
Treasury Department.
A substance as hard as many
varieties of stone and stronger
than most kinds of wood, is be
ing manufactured from corn
cobs through a mechanical
process.
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. m. •
Evening Service at 7:30 p. in. •
Everyone is cordially invited to •
the services. •
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PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
1218
LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
D. J. McLean, Dictator
P. S. Jack, Secretary
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Second Thursday in Hyder
Fourth Thursday in Stewart
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