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
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An Independent Newspaper
Foreign Trade Not
Vital To U. S.
The contention of some of
our stuffed-shirt political and
industrial leaders that foreign
trade is essential to American
prosperity and must be re
stored or the country will go
to smash is another fine exam
ple of their methods of befool
ing the public and covering up
their own paucity of econom
ic understanding.
Unlike Great Britain, who
receives 60 per cent of her na
tional income from exports,
the export trade of the United
States represents only 6 per
cent of the national income,
according to Department of
Commerce figures.
Why then, we may ask, is
export trade such a vital
necessity to our national pros
perity? Is such a small per
centage of trade so essential
to our economic stability that
this richest and most fruitful
of all nations will go to the
bow-wows without it, as these
self-elected Sir Oracles en
deavor to make us believe?
To our way of thinking it is
a mighty poor business, or a
mighty poorly managed busi
ness, that cannot stand a six
per cent reduction in its volume
of trade without being serious
ly crippled. The best proof of
it is found in the fact that dur
ing these four years of depress
ion thousands of businesses,
great and small, have with
stood business reductions of as
much as 60 per cent and still
survive.
The truth is that the United
States could get along nicely
and enjcy a very reasonable
degree of prosperity without
any export trade whatever.
America has in her 125 mil
lion people the greatest buying
market in the world under
normal conditions and if our
production and industry were
intelligently directed to sup
plying the needs of our own
people the nation would be
prosperous and there need nev
er be any such thing as a de
pression, even though we never
sold an ounce of anything
abroad.
But it is not probable that
such a system would yeild
such vast profits and enable
the piling up of so many im
mense fortunes as has been
possible under the present ex
tortionate system during the
past two or three decades.
And that prospect don’t look
good to the stuffed-shirt gent
leman at all!
Just for Fun
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Now, children, can anyone
tell me what the sins of omis
sion are?
Yessum, they’re the sins we
might have committed and
didn’t.
Movie star (using new toilet
preparation)—“This is terrible
Why did you buy it?
Maid—“But madam—y<ou
endorsed it highly in that inter
view in the movie magazine.”
Wife: Bill, wake up. There
are burglars in my pantry eat
ing my mince pies.
Bill: Well, it doesn’t matter,
does it, so long as they don’t
die in the house?
“Why use such a high crib
for your baby?”
“So we can hear him when
he falls out.”
Do you, Mr. Stacks, think
that a millionaire could go
through the eye of a needle?
I don’t know. I will, how
ever, admit that my lawyers
have dragged me through some
very small loop-holes.
“Am I good enough for yen?”
sighed the fond lover.
“No,” said the girl candidly,
“you’re not, but you’re too
good for any other girl.”
Prof. Gudheim: The boys
were so entranced this morn
ing that they remained in my
class all through the dinner
hour.
Elsa: Why didn’t you wake
j them up?
INTERESTING NOTES
Rural free delivery of the
mails takes place over 1,?>58,
000 miles of highway in the
United States.
Warmed by electricity, an in
cubator that can hatch 20,000
I eggs at a time has been con
structed by a Canadian.
A new fire engine has been
perfected which pumps several
streams of carbonic acid pow
der that smothers flames, in
i stead of using water.
The Marconi Company has
perfected a device which
makes it possible for a traw
ler captain to tell when he is
passing over a shoal of fish and
records whether the ship is
passing over sand, mud, or
rock bottom.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
March 14, 1924
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An ore car and other mine
equipment arrived on the Gar
dena for the Dunwell mine.
Rochfort and Ralston opened
this week their new brokerage
offices in Stewart.
Mrs. Wm. Sloan and two
children arrived Friday to join
Mr. Sloan, manager of the
Daly-Alaska.
! J. J. Hilliard of Eagle,
Alaska, is relieving E. R.
Stivers, customs collector of
Hyder, while the latter is out
side on vacation.
Sam E. Wagner, Main Street
merchant, is branching out and
has established branches of his
clothing business in Stewart
and Hyder B. C.
A crosscut 50 feet north of
vhe main crosscut in No. 3 tun
nel at the Dunwell showed free
gold and native silver. Where
this shoot was encountered at
a depth of 500 feet on the dip
| of the vein, the average ore
[taken across 10 feet gave assay
returns of $148 per ton.
Old fashioned negro melo
dies, local hits, burlesque, and
excellent solo numbers feat
ured the performance of the
Hyder Minstrels' in Pioneer
Hall Saturday evening. Those
participating included Misses
Marian Johnson, Maye Coombs
Agne3 Lundvall and Dorothy
Mehlfeld; Mesdames Geo.
Mehlfield, Albert Mayer, F. E.
Reddick and Louis Legge, and
Messrs. Ernest Blue., Fred
Cameron, Earl Hinckley, H. H.
Howard and F. E. Reddick.
MENTAL NUTS
Can You Crack Them?
In how many different posi
tions can yon seat five persons
at a table?
A farmer has a fox, goose,
and a basket of corn. He must
cross a river and the boat will
carry only the farmer and one
of his charges. If he leaves
the fox and gocis'e alone, the
fox will eat the goose; if he j
leaves the goose and corn alone i
the goose will eat the corn.
How does he get them safely
over the river?
(Answers next week)
Answers to last problems
The Boy and the Ducks—
3 ducks.
The Farmers and their Corn—
Sell 49, 28 and 7 bushels at
the rate of 7 for $1; then 1, 2
and 3 bushels at $3 per bushel;
each receives $10.
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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