HYDER WEEKLY HERALD.
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Telephone No. 82
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Alaska, under the act of March 3, 1879.
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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 mining development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Citizens Work Two Months
Annually For Government
With deflation a dominant
factor in world affairs and
likely to continue so for a long
time to come, it is time for the
average citizen to commence to
deflate to some extent at least;
his ideas concerning many j
things. One of these is the j
idea that the government is a
sort of beneficent Santa Claus i
and the national treasury an
inexhaustible grab-bag from
which we may obtain all man- j
ner of local conveniences and j
improvements without paying ;
their price and regardless of |
whether they are necessary or j
not.
The citizens of Podunk Cor- (
ners conceive the idea that i
they want a new postoffice, !
although the one they have j
will be fully adequai.e to hand
le all the business of the town
for years to come. So they ap
ply to their Congressman, who,
to hold his job, dives into the
treasury and comes up with
a brand new, shiny postoffice
of a size and cost ten times
greater than is warranted by
the mail business Podunk Cor
ners does or is likely to do for j
a score of years to come. And
every one there is very proud
of their new possession and no
one ever gives a thought to the
fact that with almost every
other community in the land
doing the same thing govern
ment expenditures are bound
to increase and taxes must be
come increasingly greater to
pay for it all. No one stops to
consider whether there is an
actual need for the things they
ask for or whether the expend
iture is warranted by present
or prospective conditions.
The underlying idea in the
minds of most of them is that
if they can talk the government
out of something in the line of
a public improvement it means
money spent in the town and
no one considers for a moment
they they themselves will ulti
mately have to pay the bill in
taxes. And still less do
they consider that talking the
government out of something
that is not needed is a species
of dishonesty that cannot be
justly condoned on the score
that it benefits the community.
The result of such ideas is
now painfully apparent in the
high taxes imposed, and to be
imposed, on the people. We
say again, “to be imposed,”
for no one should deceive
themselves into thinking that
he increased taxes imposed
oy the 1932 Revenue Bill will
be all that will be tacked onto
-he public in the next few
years. In spite of all the polit
cal blather from Washing
ton, it will be as hard or hard
er to balance the budget next
year than it was this year. And
all because of our attitude to
ward the government in con
stantly demanding things that
are not necessary to our com
munal welfare.
Before the war, according to
a recent statement by Presi
d e n t Hoover, theoretically
every man worked twenty-five
days a year for the national,
tate and local governments
combined. In 1924 he worked
forty six days a year. Today
he works sixty-one days out of
a year.
Much as we may dislike to
admit it, one of the foremost
reason for this high taxation is
our penchant for continually
demanding that the govern
ment spend more money for
postoffices, road and street im
provements, waterways, and
I countless other things, regard
less of whether they are act
ually needed or justified by
prospective conditions.
Not only does such an atti
tude means increasing taxes—
more days spent working for
the government— but its con
tinuance is a certain road to
national impoverishment.
Just for Fun
-o
A music critic says only two
per cent of people can really
sing. A rather liberal estimate,,
we should say.
“Hey, waiter. There’s a fly
in the bottom of my cup. What
does that mean?”
“I don’t know; I’m a waiter,
not a fortune teller.”
No, no, Maudie: You’re all
wrong in thinking that a Cong
ressional Record is something
you can play on the phono
graph.
In Memphis a man knocked
a girl down, when she tried to
kiss him. She must have been
one of those whose best friends
won’t tell her.
The meanest man we ever
heard of was the fellow who
put cement in his wife’s beauty
clay to save himself a bawling
out when he arrived home in
.he early morning hours.
The man who gives in when
he is wrong is a wise man, but
the man who gives in when he
is right is married.
A Hollywood report inti
mates that the business de
pression is the eause of many
movie stars keeping the same
husbands they had last season.
“Psychologicalpharmacody
nirnics” is the name of a new
science dealing with mental
disease. And trying to spell it
may drive many a linotyper
and proof reader crazy.
INTERESTING NOTES
A new style baby carriage
hood is of glass that lets ultra
violet rays through and keeps
the infra-red rays out.
Citrus fruits, holding an im
portant part in the family diet,
were responsible for the ship
ping of 167,000 carloads, half
of which came from Californ
ia and Arizona, the other half
coming from Florida.
The population of New York
City is growing at the rate of
•375 a day.
In the first half of 1930
there were fewer grade cross
ing accidents than in any cor
responding year since 1925.
A purchaser in Elizabeth
town, Ky., paid for a new auto
moble with 580 one-dollar bills.
Illustrating how customs
change, a recent writer re
minds us that in 1790 Cong
tess passed a law that each
soldier, and sailor should be
i furnished with a quarter of a
'pint of rum, brandy or whisk
| ey daily.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
July 19, 1922.
In honor of Miss Elizabeth
Baynton and Louis Legge, who
are to be married July 28, the
friends of the young couple
have arranged a compliment
ary dance for the same even
ing in Pioneer Hall.
Word has been received that
William Talonen,, who, with
John Nikko, built the Miners’
Hotel three years ago, became
insane at Mayo and was taken
to Dawson.
The Premier Gold Mining
Company started this week to
clear an acre of ground above
the tram terminal, on which to
erect a water tank to provide
fire protection to the tram ter
minal, ore bunkers and dock.
The Sunshine group of three
claims, owned by Fred Young
and Godfrey Anderson, of
Stewart, has been bonded by
A. G. Hill of Denver, Colo.,
who was here two weeks ex
amining the property.
Harry Tanner has resigned as
superintendent of the Fish
Creek Mining Company in or
der to devote all his time to the
development of the Alaska
Premier, owned by the Alaska
Premier Mining Company, of
which he is the organizer.
Work on the Texas trail,
built by the forest service, has
been completed and the crew
is now working on the Fish
Creek trail, where foreman
Harry Crowe expects to have
five miles of new trail complet
ed before winter forces a sus
pension of activities.
Word has been received from
Juneau that the bid of Lee
Balch for the construction of
the approach to the Hyder
dock has been recommended
for approval by the Bureau of
Public Roads officials.
T. V. Wilson, who is opening
up a group of three claims on
the west side of and near the
head of the Salmon Glacier, in
tends to get out a trial ship
ment of five tons of high grade
silver ore this season. He is
driving an adit tunnel on one
of a series of high grade veins'
and is taking out 8 inches of i
solid steel galena.
No better example of the
progress of the camp could be
cited than the growth of the
Hyder Lumber Company. In
the fall of 1919, Wiliam Gray,
Pete Wilson and Bob Andrews
began operations with a small
portable mill, but soon found
that they could supply but a
small portion of the lumber de
mands and a second mill was
built in the forest reserve. But
in less than a year it became
apparent that the capacity of
the mill was hopelessly inade
quate and the plans for the
present mill, which began op
eration last Monday, were laid.
The present mill is one of the
best equipped, most modern,
and uptodate mills north of
Puget sound.
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PROFESSIONAL
Ernest |Blue
JJotarn |J«bHc
JEtg&cr, .Alaska
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
GHAS ,F, 2ANDF0R0
NOTARY PUBLIC
HERALD OFFICE
PORTLAND CANAL LODGE
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LOYAL ORDER OF MOOSE
Howard Campbell, Dictator
P. S. Jack, Secretary
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