HYDER WEEKLY HERALD
Established 1924
Published Every Saturday at the Herald Building,
Second Avenue, Hyder, Alaska.
Telephone No. A2
Chas. F. 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
Tnis newspaper is not connect ed 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
rormation relative to local mining development that is not be
lieved to be in full accord with fact.
Piling On the Burden.
Whatever form the new Fed
eral tax measure shall take, it
is a foregone conclusion that it
will greatly increase the heavy
burden already being borne by
u long suffering public. In the
meantime the wasteful spend
ing b y government depart
ments, bureaus, commissions
and other tax-eating agencies
continues unabated.
A costly investigation of rail
road valuations begun in 1913
is still going on, although the
figures obtained during these
years are now obsolete and
worthless. An investigation of
public utilities started years
ago is still far from complete,
yet not the slightest benefit has
come to the public as a result.
The tragic waste of hundreds
of millions by the Farm Board
has brought no relief to the
farmers. Millions of public
documents containing alleged
information and advice which
nobody wants or reads have
been issued at the expense of
the taxpayers. Such examples
of useless expenditures might
be multiplied to illustrate why
he tax burden must be piled
higher and higher.
But there is revolt in the air.
At last the public is awaken
ing to the situation, and pro
tests are being voiced in no un
certain terms. This applies to
state and local costs of govern
ment as well as to national ex
penditures.
When the taxpayers become
sufficiently aroused they may
take steps to check this orgy of
tax-spending by retiring to
private life those legislators
who are responsible for it. On
ly by this means can relief
from excessive taxation be ob
tained.
Says Economics is Theory,
Guescwork and Bull
“Economists are not scien
tists. Economics is not a sub
ject on which there is definite
and accepted accumulation of
knowledge, such as exists in
medicine, astronomy, geology,
or the several branches of en
gineering. One who speaks of
the “science of economics” ut
ters a self-contradiction,” de
clares Mining Truth in a hard
hitting denunciation of the
popular belief that the econom
ic shaips proceed on some kind
of a scientific basis. The art
icle continues:
“Economics is a theory; more
precisely, perhaps, it is 70 per
cent theory, 20 per cent guess
work and 10 per cent bull.
“If economics were a science,
the world's economists would
not have permitted the demon
etization of silver, the fictitious1
capitalization of corporations. \
and the orgy of inflation which
precipitated the present world-j
wide collapse of governments!
and commercial activities.
“It is now apparent to all the j
world that economists—self-!
;tyled scientists— have been ;
using their $11 words to con-'
'use human thought rather j
than to clarify it.”
From Poverty To Power
That American boys have no
monopoly of the opportunity to ;
rise from humble origin to j
places of power is pointed out;
by a recent writer, who names ‘
several world figures who be- j
gan life in poverty.
Lloyd George, former British ‘
premier, was an orphan who
! was brought up by a cobbler.
! Ramsay McDonald, the pres-:
; ent premier, rose from abject
i poverty.
Aristide Briand, several times
premier of France, began life
as a waif.
Pierre Laval, the present
French premier, was once a.
j butcher’s boy.
President Masaryk of Czech
oslovakia was the son of an ig
norant peasant blacksmith.
Benito Mussolini, Italian pre
mier and dictator, was also a
blacksmith’s son, and himself
worked as a common laborer.
And as an American parallel
to the last two named it may be
mentioned that president Hoov
er, too, was a blacksmith’s son.
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Discriminating critics usual
ly discriminate in favor of
those whom they can use to ad
! vantage.
Just for Fun
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There is little good in having
a worthy aim if one persists in
shooting blank cartridges.
People are usually jealous of
their right to hold wrong opin
ions.
We need more judges on the
bench and fewer on the street
corners.
Folks will join any kind of
lodge or society provided it
does not require a pledge to
mind their own business.
People who do not amount to
much themselves brag most
about their prominent ancest
ors.
Bones of a camel dug up in
Montana, said to be more than
a million years old, may be
those of the original “dry.”
Peofple who delight in trac
ing their ancestry are not so
enthusiastic about the evolut
ion theory.
Those who lie about us are
hardly more offensive than
those who tell unpleasant!
truths.
It is said that grasshoppers
have ears in their legs. If pol
iticians were built like that
they would have less difficulty
in “keeping thMr ears to the
ground.”
SOMETHING LACKING
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“Shall we go to this particular re-i
sort?”
“Well 1 don’t know. The bookie!
plays up strongly on the sunset, the,
rainbows, and the cloud effects, but
contains very few specifications as to
tlie beds, the bath, and the fodder."
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On exhibition in New York is
the world’s largest washing
machine. Probably designed
for handling dirty political
linen.
The Wisconsin man who was
fined for petting his own wife
in public should have known
that such unconventional con
duct would not be tolerated.
Abie Sees.
Quite matchless are her dark
brown iiiiiiiii,
She talks with perfect eeeee:
But when I tell her she is yyyy,
She says I am a ttttttt.
One’s Enuf.
Sambo: “Hey, Rastus, Lem
me present mah wife to yuh!”
Rastus: “Naw, suh! I’se got
one of mah own!”
The “ballyhoo” people are
important, all right, but some
quiet fellow usually owns the
show.
Noel says never bawl out a
person who bums a cigarette
from you. She may be some
body’s mother.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
From the Hyder Alaska Miner
April 5, 1921
J. II. Scott has taken over the
imperial Baths on International
Avenue and put them again in
operation .These are the only
steam baths in the district.
Hyder has a “human fly,” E.
E. Coffyn, who climbed the
wireless station poles the other
day and fastened new guy
lines near the top. The poles
stand 105 feet above the
ground.
The one-half interest of Ber
nard M. Stone in the Virginia
group has been sold by him to
Messrs. Finzell and Benson of
Juneau. The other half is
owned by Mrs. Wm. Bunting of
Hyder.
S. P. Fitzgerald came down
Tuesday from the Indepen
dence and brought some fine
specimens of steel galena and
silver sulphide ore from a cut
which is being opened up on
the No. 2 ore zone.
Long, heavy timbers were
dragged through Main Street
this week for the construct
ion of a piledriver which is be
ing engineered <by Jack Suther
land. A number of the tim
bers are 50 feet long, and two
of them are 10 x 18 inches in
size. They were hewed in the
woods back of Hyder.
The Griffco, a 2,300-ton
freighter recently added to the
ore-carrying fleet plying these
waters, made her first call to
the port of Hyder, B. C. last
Thursday morning and loaded
1,000 tons of Premier high
grade ore for the Tacoma
smelter. Her schedule calls for
a visit here every three weeks.
By taking advantage of all i
the daylight hours and work
ing overtime, the Indian mine
crew was able to complete the
trail work last week and on !
Saturday will move up to the '
mine camp from their present
headquarters at Thirteen-mile.
Horses now go through to the
Indian with double- ender
sleds and supplies are being
taken in for the summer work.
C. A. McKenzie of Victoria,
principal owner of the M. C.
group, has taken an option to
purchase the Prince John
group of nine claims and the
Red Bluff group of two claims I
from James Nesbitt and Andy
Archie of Stewart. The two
properties are among the first
locations in the district and the
owners have done considerable
work there.
Bearing with them the assur
ance that the United States
Forest Service would provide
an approach for a dock at Hy
der and would also take steps
for the prevention of further
damage by Salmon river floods,
W. L. Balch and J. A. Hall re
turned Saturday from a trip to
Juneau, well satisfied with
their mission. The work to be
doen on the dock approach will
! really be an extension of the
jroad built during the past two
j years from its present southern
| end at the baseball backstop,
out to deep water. The ap
proach will be 2500 feet in
length, extending across the
j tide flats to deep water. W. L.
Balch and Fred Dorey will
build a dock 50 x 100 feet in
size on the site selected by the
highway engineer, with the
necessary warehouse accomo
dation.
INTERESTING NOTES
A recent invention is a com
pact photographic print press
for the use of traveling photog
raphers.
Twelve different speeds are
provided for a new electric
washing machine with a con
trol switch,.
An inventor has combined an
alarm clock and portable pho
nograph to awaken sleepers
with music instead of a bell.
In his 100th year, Dr. Meritt
H. Eddy of Middlebury, Vt., is
still a practicing physician and
is believed to be the oldest in
the United States.
Fur trapping, Montana’s old
est industry, is still the occu
pation of more than 900 pro
fessionals.
OUTSTANDING RADIO VALUES
The New Crosley Battery Show Boy—
Screen grid, new 2-volt tubes, push
pull output, uses new cell "A” ba'
tery, no light current, no batteries
to charge—$4!).50 complete, less bat
teries.
The Crosley Play Boy— Right tube
superhetrodyne pentode, screen grid,
moviug coil dynamic speaker—com
plete $52.25.
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U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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