HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Chas. F. Sandford and Louise Sandford
Sole owners and publishers
Chas. F. Sandford,.Editor and Manager
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
Tnis newspaper is not connected in any manner with any
stock brokerage firm or other establishment associated in or
interested in the sale of mining shares and publishes no in
formation relative to local min ing development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
THE FUNCTIONS OF
A NEWSPAPER
A compilation of opinion of
citizens as to the principal
functions of a community ne\V3
paper, made recently by the
Craig (Colo.) Empire, estab
lished these functions to be:
(1) To serve the community
and its various enterprises. (2)
To inform, instruct, educate
and entertain readers. (3) To
build local pride and commun
ity loyalty. To these the pub
lisher o f the Empire added an
other:
(4) To make a legitimate
profit.
In support of his contention
he advanced the followin g:
Unless the publisher makes
a profit on his wares—which
are advertising space and
printing—how is he able to
serve his community, inform
his readers and build commun
ity loyalty?
A newspaper is the commun
ity’s first point of contact with
outsiders. If it is a down-at
the-heels, unthrifty sheet, the
prospective citizen and invest
or forms a most unflattering
opinion of the community be
fore he ever sees it. And the
chances are that he has no de
sire to investigate the commun
ity further.
SPECULATION NECESSARY
(From The Nation’s Business)
Speculation is not the prerog
ative, the privilege, or the pe
culiar practice of “high fi
nance.’’ It touches the life of
the common man in every ven
ture. Every man who insures
his house or his life buys a
speculation, and every comp
any which insures him sells
one. Every ship at sea carries
a speculation with her and
leaves another behind her at
Lloyd’s
Moreover, the farmer specu
lates when he fertilizes his
land, again when he plants his
seed, and again when he sells
his crop for future delivery, j
The merchant contracts to fill1
his shelves long before spring |
arrives; he is speculating. The |
manufacturer sells to him,
speculating on the belief that
he will be able to buy the rr. \v
material, and again on the la
bor, the looms and the spind
les essential to make delivery.
In the south, the grower of
cotton, and in Australia the !
grower of wool are likewise
•peculating on a price at which
they may sell to the manufact
urer.
Evidence is plenty that “ours;
is a speculative society.” It is
an American characteristic to
look to the individual to make
experiments, to try new vent
ures, to estimate new needs in
in old ventures.
The consequences of business
failures are severe, and cannot;
always be confined to individ-1
ual loss. Are we, then, to fore- j
go all chance of progress?
Again and again our people
have answered “No!”
Risk is the one great certain-!
ty in individual and national (
progress. To avoid risk is to i
refuse to spend ourselves in j
the advancement of civilizat- '■
ion. To thwart this spirit of
adventure by legislation or bu
reaucracy is a public injury.
We must speculate if we
would go forward.
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WOMEN AND BRAINS
Despite the fact that this is an
age wherein intellect attains
higher rewards than at any.
time in history, statistics com
piled by women’s colleges in i
England indicate brains are
below par in the marriage mar
ket. Girls with high scholar
ship records to their credit1
receive fewer matrimonial pro- j
posals than their less intellect
ually endowed sisters.
Waiving the point that brains
may be handicapped in compe
tition with superficial beauty,
it is fair comment to remark
that brains and hearts are sep
arate and distinct and often
are unrelated in Dan Cupid’s,
scheme of things. A toss of a
curl, a dimple in a cheek, a
curve of the hips, a gleam of
an eye may smite a man who
remains cold in the presence of
mere brains. Once smitten,
his own and his inamorita’s
brains, if she has any, count
for little. The poets from the
distant part till now have test
ified to the maddening effect
of love in robbing its victims
of their brains.
After all, it is not surprising
that man does not fancy a su
perior or even a rival in brains
sitting across the domestic
hearth. Most men are undeni
ably conceited and a brainy
girl has conceit-smashing poss
ibilities that are indeed fear
some.
Just for Fun
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To our way of thinking there
is more religion in a smile to
the living than an eulogy to the
dead.
They used to make love in a
buggy. Maybe that’s why every
horse has a tale.
“Jack,” she cooed as they sat
hand in hand in the moonlight,
“have you ever been engaged
before?”
“Why,” he answered, “you
don’t thing this is my first va
cation, do you?”
Again we rise to remark that
times have changed. The old
folks used to give the children
advice. Now the children give
the oldsters advice.
Some of the restaurant men
who advertise home cooking
must have had a terrible bring
ing up.
A man will blame his son for
anything except having such
parents.
“You look like Helen Brown,”
He said to Lizzie Wright;
She said,. “Ah, yes? Well you
should see,
What I look like in white.”
“I wonder why they call the
earth ‘she?’ ”
“Maybe because no one can
tell its age.”
The Blueberry Kid says peo
ple who are always talking
about what they are going to
do never do much of anything
else.
A chain may be no stronger
than its weakest link, but a
Ilyder sheik claims to have dis
covered that a woman is also
no stronger than her weakest
moment.
“Well, Bobby, how do you
like your little brother who ar
rived yesterday?”
“Aw, it isn’t a boy, it’s a girl.”
“Your father told me this
morning it was a boy, and I
guess he knows.”
“Aw, I know it’s a girl, cause
I saw them putting powder on
it this morning.”
“Sam is some fast guy. He
makes love to a new girl every
night, approximately.”
“What do you mean, approx
imately?”
“Oh, roughly.”
Angry customer: “I say, that
horse you sold me has dropped
dead!”
Dealer: “Can’t help that,
sir. He never did that while I j
had him.”
Boy (accompanied by another!
small boy) “I want a tooth
out an’ I don’t want gas, 'cos
I’m in a hurry.”
Dentist: “That’s a brave little
man. Which tooth is it?”
Boy: “Willie, show ’im your
tooth.”
Young Mrs. Brown: “I wish
to open an account here.”
Bank teller: “Very well,
madam. How much do you
wish to deposit?”
Mrs. B.: “Why, nothing. 1
want to draw out forty dol
lars.”
Last night I held a hand in
mine,
So pink and small and fine,
I swear I’d never held before
A fairer hand in mine.
It brought forth visions of de
light,
! It made my heart beat fast;
j My heart turned light within
j my breast,
| My dream come true at last.
I pressed it to my burning lips,
Kissed all five little parts
Of that dear hand I held last
night,
That Royal Flush of Hearts.
ALASKA NOTES
Culled From the Newspaper* •
Of the Territory.
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Gerald L. Church has been j
appointed as deputy Federal
prohibition administrator for
Alaska. IJe succeeds T. L.
Chidister, who has been in
charge of the prohibition or
ganization in the territory for
several years.
Peter Kaiser, palaeontologist
of the American Museum 'of
Natural History arrived in
Fairbanks recently to investi
gate and study pleistocence
mammal life as disclosed by !
fossil remains found during the
course of mining activities in 1
that section.
The increasing importance of
the reindeer industry was
shown recently by the an
nouncement from Nome that
the motorship Sierra, cold-stor
age vessel owned by the Lom
en Reindeer Corporation, had
sailed from that port for Seat
tle with more than 6,000 rein- j
der carcasses destined for con-1
sumption in the States, where
the demand for the meat is!
increasing steadily.
Lester D. Henderson, former
Commissioner of Education for
Alaska, left recently for Palo
Alto, California, where he will
take a post-graduate course in
Stanford University.
A big, brown bear recently
invaded a fox ranch on Hoonah
Island in Port Frederick and
was reported doing an enonr
mous amount of damage to the ,
foxes on the ranch. The bear
is said to have swam from
Chichagof Island to the small
er island. The big brute is
said to have destroyed feed
houses and killed a number of
of foxes belonging to the Hoon
ah Fox Company, leasees of
the island.
Mrs. Grace White McCart
ney, a resident of Juneau since
1918, succumbed to a heart
attack while visiting friends on
the Glacier Highway a few
Jays ago.
WATCHES! WATCHES!
Waltham 17 and 23 Jewels
Hamilton 19 and 21 Jewels
Elgin 7 and 15 Jewels
Wrist watches, Waltham, El
gin & Hofes, $12.50 to $25.00
Jewelry made to order, repair
work Anything in jewelry fur
nished on short notice.
Grosley Radios on Hand. Come
In And Look Them Over.
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PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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Thursdays
Second Thursday in Hyder
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V. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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